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Question: Should we learn to feel the pain of others?
Answer: We should learn to feel the pain of others because by doing so we create a positive field of mutual connection around ourselves. It is necessary for existence.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/23/24
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Comment: A person who condemns another will unexpectedly find themselves experiencing the same state.
My Response: And that is very good! He was given an opportunity to correct himself because in the very trait that he condemns, the saw himself. Anyone who notices a flaw in another does so because that flaw exists within them; otherwise, they would not recognize it in someone else.
The fact is that by expressing condemnation out loud, they also begin to go through this correction. On our level this triggers a feedback loop from the other person. However, if they only condemn in their thoughts without voicing it, they are less involved in the process.
Question: Nevertheless, is a thought not much stronger than a word?
Answer: Not for us! Not for those who are still at the level of our world where everything is determined by words or a person’s appearance rather than their inner essence.
Question: But in principle is the influence of thought still strong?
Answer: Absolutely! The influence of thought is absolute!
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Condemnation” 6/16/10
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Comment: Researchers are sounding the alarm that they have assessed the shortage of women on a global scale.
My Response: It was always believed that there are more women than men. Are there
suddenly less now?
Question: Yes, the deficit of women is estimated to be 23 million. On the other hand, scientists believe that the imbalance in the world such as the threat of a nuclear attack and all conflicts in general, indicates the absence of women in decision-making teams even at the highest levels. What do women bring? What component do they bring to the negotiation process and communication?
Answer: From childhood we see girls play with toys, build a house, and cook food on small toy stoves while boys play war, compete, etc. Girls play with dolls, and boys chase and hit things. This is a natural outlet of inner energy both male and female.
Therefore, it is natural that allowing women to participate more in our organizations would be much safer for peace.
Question: Researchers say that due to men being more ambitious and inclined to win, they are more competitive at the core; they want to win, which leads to conflicts and extremes.
According to a survey of women in parliaments and high positions, researchers deny that women are so innocent compared to militant men. However, they say women bring rationality, creativity, and a spirit of collaboration.
Why is this happening? Where is the trigger when both are selfish?
Answer: Women are more egoistic. Therefore, they are prone to all kinds of connections and compromises because it is better than any war. They weigh everything that happens very soberly. They have a good reserve of sound selfishness to exercise self-control and think: “This needs to be handled that way. Or it will lead to tears.”
In a woman, egoism manifests in the form of dolls and in boys in war games. But both are egoism. Which one is preferable? Female. She tends to make things easier and achieve friendship and cooperation, which would not lead to terrible, irreversible processes.
In men, on the contrary, this selfish component is rigid. He does not think about what will happen tomorrow; he is ready to break everything today. But both are egoists!
If you ask me at the level of our world, it is preferable for women to lead the world and men to work for them, just like a child with his mother.
Question: What does Kabbalah say about this interaction?
Answer: Kabbalah does not talk about this because it does not deal with a man and a woman of our world when they are both selfish and corrupt. What can Kabbalah say about them? They need to be re-educated, and only then can we work with them.
Everyone should be who they are; they only need to correct themselves to the level, practically, of the Creator. And that is it! Nothing needs to be done differently.
I am not going to talk about who is better or worse. Everyone has to correct themselves to do good work for humanity. In this regard, they will all see how much they complement each other and how necessary they are to each other—both men and women.
Question: What about the gender imbalance?
Answer: There will be no imbalance then. But to achieve this, you need to remove all the egoistic components of both.
Question: How do we do this?
Answer: It is very easy to do this with the help of the method of correction and education. There is no other way. To do this, come to our courses.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/17/19
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Can We Also Derive “Fuel” from Within Ourselves?
We can never derive strength from within ourselves. Since we are in a lower state, where would we draw strength from? To ascend to a higher level, we must receive additional desires and screens, which are corrections.
What is the difference between a small and a great one? The small one lacks additional flesh (desires) and intellect. Why are children not given much strength? It is because they lack the intellect to handle it responsibly. As they grow up, they are given more and more strength and intellect. Without a balance between the two, the system would be dysfunctional. The same applies here. The lower one receives additional negative forces and uncorrected desires from the upper one, which hides itself. Then, the lower one must also receive light from the upper one to correct these empty vessels, and align itself with the upper one.
However, if we do nothing and wait for the situation to improve on its own, nothing will change, and the correction will not happen. In moments of emptiness, we must turn to the group and to the study, and carry out any actions that might help. These actions are called “good deeds,” actions that lead us to goodness. There is no alternative. We cannot find the necessary strength within ourselves.
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We must remember that we are all in the same boat and are parts of one soul.
That is why when such a large number of people striving for spirituality gather together, as at the upcoming convention, each person must understand that this is a gift from above. The Creator has given me the opportunity to participate in such a special event where parts of my own soul come closer to me.
And if I relate to them this way, understanding that I have found myself in an assembly of the closest souls ready to connect with me, and if each of us thinks and feels this way, then it will not be difficult at all!
Everything depends on preparation. I must constantly prepare myself and tune in to think, act, and feel exactly this way when I get there.
It does not matter whether it happens today in one place or tomorrow in another, time and space determine nothing! But this exercise, where I intentionally think today about how it will be tomorrow, will help me later when all the conditions come together at the convention to reach the necessary collective effort.
This is extremely important and determines everything. After that, it will be easy. It is like preparation before a battle.
If everything is ready, and you are ready to give everything for spirituality, you will see how everything unfolds exactly as you envisioned. If you have put in sincere and great efforts from the depths of your heart, everything will happen accordingly. There will be no unpleasant surprises, everything will be good.
Imagine a gang of thieves gathering in the dark, preparing for a dangerous mission to rob a bank. Each of them feels dependent on the others and cares about the group. We have something to learn from them.
The only difference is the goal. If the goal is egoistic and obvious, achieving unity is very easy and natural.
But if the goal is to attain bestowal, to rise above each person’s personal egoistic interests, then it becomes much harder.
Yet, even in examples of our world, we see the immense benefit that unity brings. The only problem is that nothing can sustain it except the upper light. Only love can hold a connection together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/14/10, The Book of Zohar
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Question: The Riga-based writer and screenwriter Mikhail Dymov asked schoolchildren aged six to ten to ask their most pressing and important questions to the Creator.
Second-grader Sveta asks the Creator: “Is there anything I can do to help You?”
Answer: I will respond on behalf of the Creator, as though reading His reply.
Yes, I certainly lack your help. In fact I lack help from every person, but from each one individually, including you. The help I need is for you to assist Me in correcting the world.
Question: “Can childhood last a whole lifetime?” Marik, first grade.
Answer: Childhood for a whole lifetime!
That depends, of course, on a person’s character. There are people who remain children at heart, and they are truly wonderful people. They might not always be agreeable in their behavior toward others, but they are always curious. For them, the world is an endless field of discovery, and they constantly strive to reveal, create, or achieve something.
This childlike quality that persists in adults is a remarkable trait. It is truly a gift. It is wonderful when it remains, but it does not depend on the person; it is how they are born.
Question: Radik, fourth grade, asks: “People suffer so much on Earth. Is it even worse in Your hell?”
Answer: In hell, yes, it is even worse.
Hell is the torment of conscience. It is a feeling from which a person cannot escape. Even though they see and understand that everything that happens comes from the Creator, that “There is none else besides Him,” they still cannot shake the feeling or the thought about “What have I really done with my life?”
This guilt cannot be shifted onto the Creator because the person did not even try during their lifetime to rise above the Creator’s governance.
The Creator governs us, but a person must realize that everything they do comes from the Creator, not from themselves. Once he understands this, there will be no reason to worry, feel shame, or suffer.
Question: “How should I live so that everyone in the world is happy?” asks Lisa, second grade.
Answer: There is only one way, find out what happiness is and how it can be achieved. There is a method that can lead people to happiness, and it needs to be applied in life. We will grow up and make it happen.
Question: Igor, fourth grade, asks: “Are there so many hardships and suffering on Earth to make people not afraid of dying?”
Answer: That is partly true. But do not think that way. People might find it easier to die when they see that they are leaving behind a terrible world where nothing good exists, where everyone suffers, and in the end, where everyone dies.
But that is not the best solution. There is another way. Even before we die, we have the opportunity to reveal the upper, eternal, and perfect world. By doing so, we will not actually die, we will simply begin to experience the next stage of our existence, our next life.
Question: Ruslan, second grade, asks: “What if people do not love You, but fear You?”
Answer: For some that is fine; they like it when others fear them. “If they are afraid, they respect me.”
But overall this is wrong. Love requires mutual understanding where you can completely let go of yourself with closed eyes and entrust yourself to the one you love. And in turn, they will think only about you, about your benefit and your well-being. And you will think only about them. When both of you care for each other in this way, that is what love is.
Question: Lyuba from third grade asks a sharp question “Do I really exist?”
Answer: That is a complicated question. I truly exist only when I stand before the Creator, when it is Him and I stand against Him, when I oppose Him. That is when I exist.
Question: Do you think it is easier to explain this to children than to adults?
Answer: Of course it is much easier to explain these things to children than to adults. They instinctively understand it.
Comment: I see you are explaining it to them as if they are adults.
My Response: Of course! You cannot treat children any differently.
Comment: So no baby talk.
My Response: No! That kind of baby talk is the root of all evil in the world.
Question: Katya, fourth grade, asks: “When did love begin on Earth?”
Answer: Love began when people started hating hatred.
Hatred arises naturally, as part of our nature. But when we began to recognize its harm, its limitations, the horrors it brings, and started to despise it, that is when we gradually discovered love.
Question: Sasha from second grade asks: “Are we not just Your toys?”
Answer: “You are My toys,” says the Creator, “completely, absolutely. But you must realize this. And then you will ask Me to make you independent. And I will do it.”
Question: “Why, when you love, everything feels nice, even fried eggs?” asks Stepa from second grade.
Answer: When you love, everything feels nice, even fried eggs, because love covers absolutely all flaws. Absolutely everything! Even what is ugly seems beautiful, what is unpleasant seems pleasant, and what is tasteless seems delicious. Love makes everything better. So the most important thing is not to focus on what is wrong or bad in the world but to develop love.
Question: Vita from second grade asks: “Why did You make the world in such a way that when mom tears her tights, she cries?”
Answer: Yes, a person is small. A little girl cries over her problems, and a big girl, her mom, cries over her problems. Everyone has problems. The Creator made it this way so that people would seek out the perfect state, one of joy and love.
And the only way to reach that state is through tears: tears in class, at school, with friends, over torn tights, through it all.
Question: Misha, fourth grade, asks an intriguing question: “How can one become a memory?”
Answer: First of all, you need to become a good memory, not just any memory. There are people who are remembered with dread, horror, and hatred, people that others wish had never existed, along with their memory.
You have to live in such a way that you leave behind good memories. This only happens if you do good for people and leave a gentle, sweet impression behind.
Question: Alik, fourth grade, asks: “What should I ask You for? After all, You already know everything.”
Answer: It does not matter that I know everything. What is important is that you ask! Because when you ask, you grow closer to Me, and I can give you more than what you ask for. I can also give you My special care, My love, My warmth. If I simply give you what you want without you asking, you will not feel connected to Me and will miss out on the great, kind warm feelings in the world.
Question: Gosha, fourth grade, says: “Bring my parents back to childhood. I would be friends with my mom.”
Answer: If it were possible to be friends with your parents like with your peers, that would be great in one sense. But on the other hand, how would you grow and develop? Who would teach you?
It means we need to learn how to be both children and friends with our parents, to treat our peers as friends, and to learn from everyone. At the same time, we must offer a good example to everyone around us.
Question: What should parents learn in this case?
Answer: Parents should learn to be friends with their children, to be companions. This is very important. Such families exist, and in those families children feel comfortable and protected. They are not pressured or stifled in their independence. They grow up openly.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/28/24
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Comment: Dr. Yeshayahu Rubinstein, an Israeli scientist, claims that the helixes that make up our DNA are held together by a series of sulfur bonds that are in a pattern between base pairs of genetic material. The repeating pattern is 10, 5, 6, 5, which are the Hebrew letters (letters represent numbers in Hebrew) Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey, which is the name of God. From this, he asserts that God put His signature in our DNA.
Answer: The relationship between all possible properties of our DNA is manifested in a matrix called “The Name of the Creator.”
Dr. Rubinstein discovered a relationship determined in nature, which falls under Yod-Key-Vav-Key. This relationship is manifested in absolutely everything! Only sometimes we notice it, can reveal, research, and write down and sometimes not. But it is manifested everywhere because it is a general property of nature.
DNA is a human information record.
Question: Where is it located?
Answer: In our cells. Everything that we are is made up of protein structures that are built on the property of what is called “three lines” or a double helix and ladders that connect them together in Kabbalah.
This has been known from Kabbalah for 5,000 to 6,000 years. Maybe it was known before, but to whom?
Question: How can a person, in his physical growth, but also moral, mental, spiritual, and self-development, not break this spiral, but on the contrary, strengthen it? What does he need for this?
Answer: For this he needs to connect with the Creator. And then he will restore his broken connections.
That is why you need to reach a level where you can be in contact with the Creator, receive from Him that primordial force that will correct your DNA, your double helix, basically, restore the middle line between them.
Question: How does the realization that the Creator’s code is written in his structure help a person?
Answer: Of course! We all consist of these codes. All our cells, all organs consist of the relationships between various protein systems. The results of the Creator’s creation are recorded in them, how we were created by Him, “Him” meaning, an upper force, a higher program.
Question: We know that sometimes the bridge breaks. Under what conditions does the presence of the Creator, His record, break?
Answer: It breaks when we do not observe any similarity to Him at all. By this we cause problems, illnesses, even death.
Question: What is His function within human DNA? What is the role of the Creator and how should we correspond to it?
Answer: Human DNA, as I have already said, consists of two parallel protein systems, between which there are connecting bridges, like steps of a ladder. This is in a very simplified form; there are a lot of all kinds of additions. They all come down to maintaining a balance between themselves that would correspond to their complete mutual, absolutely altruistic interaction. If this balance is achieved between them, then the correct signal is transmitted along these connecting steps, i.e., along small connecting devices (after all, protein systems are very complex) that balance the right and left lines.
Comment: How can a person become better?
Answer: Better? No problem! For this, he must want to become better. And in accordance with his desire, his spiral will change for the better. It will wind in the right direction, interact with other spirals, and will be in an absolutely optimal mode.
Question: How can a person establish contact, dialogue, as if checking the correctness of his actions with this system?
Answer: For this, he must be kind. Being kind means that he must put everyone above himself and exist in order to do good to others. Then his system will work correctly. It has such an internal style, meaning, mode, a mode of correct favor for oneself and for others.
Comment: Such a complex system!
Answer: It is not complicated. The principle of its operation is very simple.
Inside it is very complex, because it must be embodied in living matter, in animal matter, in biological matter. That is why it is difficult, because to translate the spiritual language, the language of feelings, bestowal, love, and connection into the language between practically non-living elements, proteins, requires a very large transformation.
It is necessary to make many different imprints on different levels of this system of mutually correct relations, until it descends to good interactions at the level of proteins. It is impossible to imagine!
Question: And how to take into account all these smallest details?
Answer: It is impossible. I remember asking myself the same question. And then I realized that at our deterministic level we cannot imagine, do, feel, create, build, connect, and assemble like a constructor.
The only thing we can do is to tune ourselves from the other side, from the side of goodness, love, interaction, rapprochement, and affection. And then these interactions will occur in us and will correspond to our hopes, our aspirations. We align our protein spirals with our aspirations.
Comment: That is, a person only needs to wish for something.
Answer: No, not just “you only need to wish for” and that’s it. This does not happen, it is not hocus-pocus. A person must work on himself, on his correct thoughts, desires, and good interactions with others, and then he will heal all his problems in the spirals with this.
Question: DNA is often called the building material of life since it contains the genetic code that is the basis of heredity.
That is, our heredity is to be absolutely, as you say, kind and act for the good of all. Why does man act in the opposite way? Where is this spiral broken?
Answer: No, it is not broken. We are specially created this way in order to consciously tune ourselves. We are created harmful, nasty, greedy, in short, selfish in everything, in order to tune ourselves correctly from this state and thus heal ourselves and others: ourselves, our offspring, the whole world around us.
Man is given the opportunity to correct himself, but for this he must work. For this he must meet a teacher and an appropriate group. He needs many conditions to begin to change himself so much that he could even correct his protein structure.
Question: Can we change our DNA?
Answer: What does “change” mean? Man can correct it. If he behaves correctly, all these errors are smoothed out.
When he functions correctly, they function correctly. He functions at the level of “Human,” interacts correctly with the personalities around it, and at the same time, all the spirals, proteins, etc. inside it also begin to interact correctly with each other. That is, from a higher level, from the mental, psychological, and even spiritual, he forces the lower structures to come into balance.
Question: What does it mean that a person acts correctly so that his system develops?
Answer: It means treating everyone with kindness. Moreover, this is when he attains the Creator. This is already the highest level. Then he becomes equal to the Creator by his nature, by his internal actions. From the outside, this may not be visible at all. And then his entire structure also gradually becomes absolutely corrected. Which is what I wish for all of you.
Question: Why does a person need this knowledge? Let’s say he knows that the code of altruism lives in him, and he can’t do anything about it.
Answer: There is this code of altruism in a person, which he must open; he needs to find the key to it and tune himself to it. He must do it. He will do it. Every person!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/8/24
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Comment: Science has debunked the concept of death. According to science, a person’s life does not end with death. Some scientists say that consciousness persists even after death.
My Response: Where can this be proven, shown, understood, or felt?
Comment: They say the cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, emits waves for about 20 seconds after death.
My Response: So we live for another 20 seconds. Big deal!
Question: Why study the experience of death if all paths ultimately lead to nowhere?
Answer: It is very intriguing. What if I find something that tells me I am immortal? Then I would see my life in a completely different way!
Question: Is there a concept of death in Kabbalah?
Answer: No, in reality, there is no death. There is no time. How can there be death? There is only a transition between states, nothing more.
Question: How does a transition from one state to another occur in spirituality? Is it also cyclical, like life – death – life?
Answer: In spirituality there is no such thing as we see in our world! Living, biological matter has nothing to do with spirituality. It may live or die in our perception, but it is entirely unrelated to the spiritual. We do not sense spiritual matter, and it is not connected to the physical. Does the death or life of the physical body say anything about the spiritual?!
Question: Is there such a concept as a “spiritually dead person”? What does it mean?
Answer: A person is spiritually dead because there is no spirit in them. Spirit refers to the quality of bestowal to others, not the quality of receiving from others.
Our earthly life is about the desire to receive from everything around us, in every form—on the still, vegetative, animal, and human levels.
Spiritual life, on the other hand, is when we do not take from outside, but give from within, when we try to share, help, and radiate outward. This is called spiritual life. Change one life for the other and you will discover what immortality is.
Comment: Physicists say that a part of you will live on for a very long time. And that part is your energy. They say that according to the first law of thermodynamics, the energy that sustains life is preserved and cannot be destroyed. Beautiful, is it not?
My Response: Very beautiful, but it does not exist at all. This is because our world does not exist; it exists only in our imagination. Therefore, everything we perceive as bodies, our lives, birth, development, death, all this is only our imagination, within us, and nothing outside.
Everything we see around us, all this vast, solid existence, is only our imagination.
Question: Then what is a person?
Answer: A person, too, is the same. Within us is a kind of mechanism that we program in a specific way. It spins the images of our world in which we supposedly live. Just as you sleep and see a dream in which you seem to have experienced something, so, too, this life is like a dream.
And then you wake up: “Oh! Was it a dream or life?” No, it was so-called life, which is, in essence, a dream.
That is all there is. Our current life is simply a state from which we have not yet awakened.
Question: Then perhaps people in their quest to uncover the mystery of death are searching for real life?
Answer: That is exactly what they are doing. They just do not know how to find it. They are seeking new adventures within this dream.
Question: What, then, is true life?
Answer: To wake up. And you can only wake up when you start to rise above your egoism. This is what Kabbalah teaches—how to uncover the secret of life, how to wake up and truly live.
Question: What then is the secret of immortality, not of the physical body, but of the spiritual?
Answer: The physical body does not exist either. It exists only in our imagination, just like this entire world. That is why the world is called “Olam” from the word “ne’elam” (hidden), and the word “ha’alama” (concealment), a shadowy state. That is our current condition.
Question: How then can a person pass through these “holograms,” uncover this life, and achieve immortality?
Answer: To do this one must engage in the method of their own resurrection.
When a person begins to see life not in themselves, but in others, themselves in others, this is how they awaken.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/22/19
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