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Comment: The aggression of schoolchildren and their parents exceeds all norms, expectations, and any rules of decency. Teachers complain that children have become completely uncontrollable, and their parents side with them. If teachers were respected in the past, now school journals are being burned, weapons are being brought to school, not to mention drugs. Teachers in Germany claim that such behavior has become possible due to the influx of immigrants.
My Response: I would not conflate one problem with another.
The modern school no longer suits children, contemporary families, parents, how parents are busy at work, how children spend their free time, or how life is structured. Modern schooling has long outlived its usefulness. It effectively ended in the middle of the last century along with the end of the industrialization era.
None of this is relevant today. Now everything can be done much more simply—with computers and in small groups of people while the rest are left out of the equation. Therefore, we should not be educating people for unnecessary professions only to later perpetuate unemployment. They graduate into the world with their diplomas, but what is next?
The school is an absolutely outdated experiment that was conducted 150 years ago and by now has long since “died.”
Question: Does the degradation of schools threaten us with a barbaric society in the future?
Answer: If schools degrade, they will indeed lead to a barbaric society. Therefore, schools need to be quickly replaced.
We need to seriously consider what is good for our children and focus on that. Society today is capable of doing this; we have plenty of resources, many people, and many idle hands and minds. We can do this if we only want to because we have nothing to do, we invent different professions for ourselves, we serve each other.
We need to pay attention to children. But not by forcing, pressuring, or over-structuring them, but by studying what is genuinely beneficial for them and within this context providing them with the right content. What kind of content? Perhaps they will choose it themselves from the Internet.
We must study human nature, the nature of the surrounding world, and how people achieve harmony. The most important human “profession” is understanding how to interact correctly with oneself, with society, and with the world around them.
Reaching such a level of integration where all these elements are balanced is the ultimate goal of education.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/31/18
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Question: I feel that it is impossible to catch the light entering the vessel. How do we work with this? How can we hold it?
Answer: None of us individually can receive the light, but only if we come together. Each of us separately does not have the receptacle, the vessel. We form the receptacle by connecting our receiving and bestowing qualities. At their intersection, we create a network, and in this network, we catch the upper light, the Creator.
Question: What do we receive from the ten?
Answer: By annulling ourselves before the ten, each of us represents Malchut. The other friends, in relation to each of us, are the first nine Sefirot, the qualities of bestowal.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Do not meet people with open arms. Why make it easier for them to crucify you? (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
My Response: Beautiful!
Question: It is beautiful, yes. He has been through a lot, and he probably opened his arms and got rewarded for it. How open do you think it is possible to be with other people?
Answer: The way knights rode the roads—with a shield on one side and a spear or sword in the other hand.
Comment: And all in armor.
My Response: And in armor, of course. This is how a person should be until we achieve correction.
Comment: So to put it bluntly, you are saying: I should not open up.
My Response: Not at all. I should not open up at all.
Comment: I expected you to say: completely or somehow.
My Response: No! Why? I cannot advise this to anyone.
Question: Is it possible to live like that, without opening up at all?
Answer: That is how you must live. All this is a consequence of evil.
Question: That is, there is this evil in us?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And what is sincerity? They say “sincerity, openness.”
Answer: Where did you find such simpletons?
Question: Then tell me, in what case can humanity come to a state where a person will be open to a person?
Answer: If everyone is corrected and wishes each other well.
Question: So, our job should be to come to the point where we wish others well, and then we can slowly begin to open up?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So a person should feel bad because they cannot open up?
Answer: Yes.
Question: To the point of prayer, of howling, to what? To what state?
Answer: To despair that I cannot open up. I want to open up to others and see that everyone is open to me, but that does not happen.
Question: Do I want this to happen?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Will it ever happen?
Answer: In general it should be, according to the plan of creation.
Comment: But that is what you are trying to do all the time. You talk about it all the time.
My Response: Yes, but I am alone. Or how many are there?
Comment: There are not many, frankly.
My Response: We will wait. The world will come to this anyway, but the question is when.
Question: But is this the ultimate plan for us to come to this?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Is this what is called that we will unite with the Creator, unite with the supreme mind?
Answer: Of course. So a little more optimism, and everything will be fine.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/9/24
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Question: In one country, researchers have observed that due to military actions, hunting and shooting of predators and other animals have decreased, leading to an active growth of nature. Predatory animals have started to turn rabid and attack humans, making people afraid to go outside or let their children out.
This creates a paradox: on one hand people are at war with each other, and on the other hand they neglect their relationship with nature, which begins to turn against them. What is the connection between people themselves, between humans and nature, and nature in relation to humans?
Answer: Human relationships define all other levels of existence: inanimate nature, plants, animals, and societal structures. And the most important is the relationship in highly developed countries because they determine all other relationships in other secondary, third countries, and so on.
If we first establish harmony in our relationships with one another, we will naturally bring balance to all other systems of nature.
However, if we fail to harmonize our relationships, the rest of nature will continue to spiral out of control, away from balance. This will lead to mutations and problems we cannot yet foresee. If we become slightly more beastly in our behavior, animals will become exponentially wilder, so wild that we cannot even imagine.
We could reach a point where we suddenly find dinosaurs appearing somewhere on Earth. Why? Because we regress to a level of interpersonal relationships that existed when such creatures roamed. This does not require any special geological period to occur.
Question: Will savagery truly increase to such an extent?
Answer: The savagery could become so extreme that humanity might resurrect the most fearsome layers of nature. Nature would come to hate us because we hate one another.
Kabbalah teaches that only through improving our relationships with other people can we fix, balance, and bring all of this into a better state.
Comment: You just gave an example that feels as if we could travel back in time.
My Response: Of course!
Question: How can we travel into the future?
Answer: To do that, we must develop correctly. Nature will not allow us into the future as we are today.
We can regress into the past through our primitive degradation, but to reach the future, we must progress by properly developing ourselves in our connections with each other. This is what the fully interconnected, integral, harmonious nature demands of us.
We must become elements aligned with it, and only then will we be able to travel into the future. We could simply sit in a little “cart” and move forward.
Question: How do we find this “cart”? How do we activate the program that will help a person discover and desire it?
Answer: This program is within us. But to activate it, we must first work for a long time to convince the Jewish nation to want it because the rest of the world depends on them. Then we must explain this to all the nations of the world so that they will compel the Jewish people to act.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/7/18
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When I experience a new desire for something, it is called a descent. In reality, there are no descents: “Holiness increases, not decreases.” However, when a new corrupted desire arises within us, we perceive it as a descent.
Each of us experiences the emergence of new egoistic desires. If we are correctly connected with one another, these desires automatically bind us together, and we instinctively respond to them.
This means that I perceive my friend’s desires as my own, and they perceive mine as theirs. In this way, we continuously pull each other up and rise together. It does not take a month or even a week for us to linger in a state of descent, to wait for the Creator’s mercy to lift us out of it. That does not happen.
If we are part of a group, each new descent, which is necessary for the revelation of the entire Kli (vessel), the entire desire, is felt by everyone as a tremendous advantage, as a great discovery. This is why it is said that an old man walks bent over as if searching for something he has lost. “Where are my desires? Where are the uncorrected intentions I can lift from the ground, elevate, and thereby elevate myself?”
But this is only possible if you are part of a group, if you rely on your friends and know with certainty that you are connected to them. In this way they support you and you support them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”
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Question: Many friends from all over the world are going to the big congress or to the mirror congresses. What should our intention be on the way to the congress?
Answer: It does not matter where the friends are: on the road, already at the congress, or staying in their places at home. The main thing is that they are all together in the same state.
Most important is for a person to be in a ten, where he can, together with his friends, implement a system of the common Kli. Therefore under no circumstances do I divide people into those who are far away, on the road, or even somewhere else in the world. The only difference is how much a person wants to be included in this common Kli.
When he comes here and participates in the congress, he works in tens, takes part in workshops, and unites with friends. We can also study at home. We see that people who come, both men and women (women even to a greater extent) absorb the material correctly, ask excellent questions, and are aware of what we are studying.
We meet these people everywhere. Many, even without knowing about the congress, listen to us and understand us. Suddenly it becomes clear that a huge number of people in the world nourish themselves from us.
Why am I saying this? To emphasize that the most important reason we gather is not to acquire knowledge, but to get the impression that it is precisely in the ten that we can see the structure of the world, the ten Sefirot.
And when we perceive these ten Sefirot in the ten and their division into the upper, middle, and lower parts (Rosh, Toch, Sof), when we feel the right and left lines and the light of NRNHY that is clothed in them, we will begin to work practically with this construction. And there is nothing else beside it. It is an atom of the spiritual world.
We cannot talk about any quality, about anything, if it is less than ten. We can say, “This is a hydrogen atom; this is an oxygen atom, something else or something else,” but we cannot speak of anything smaller than that, because there are no qualities there.
There must be a collection of some elements—pluses, minuses, electrons, protons, neutrons, and so on—that make up this object, which can be called by a certain name based on the combination of pluses and minuses. All substances are made of them. And then interesting relationships occur between them, all kinds of dynamic connections. Then this substance is called either vegetative, animate, or human.
In other words, we must gather in such a combination that would start such a life among us! That is why we come to the congress, and not to see the faces of our friends there. No! The main thing is to feel the gathering of people who can reveal the Creator and manifest the world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”
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Question: There are commandments between me and my friends and between me and the Creator. In the state of Lishma, should my intention be directed at my friends or at the Creator?
Answer: Both at the friends and at the Creator.
Question: Let us say that I love everyone, but I cannot make others love me. Does Lishma depend only on everyone and not on me at all?
Answer: It depends on everyone and on you; you just have to keep working.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/4/25, “Connecting to Lishma“
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