A person must understand that they live in a world in which they have no right to anything at all. And if they take something, consume it for themselves for their own sake, then they must pay for it, give it back, repay it, and so on.

Question: And the fact that we break everything, kill, does all that come back to a person like a boomerang? What do you think?

Answer: We will have to pay for all of that on a global scale.

Comment: Remember, Rabbi Akiva said that “the book is open, the hand writes,” and you borrow, as it were, and later you must repay all of it.

My Response: You will have to.

Question: Is that what this is about?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And is it normal to take only what is necessary for survival?

Answer: Only for survival, and if you take only for survival, then you will be able to give it back.

Comment: And it is so, blessed be it.

My Response: Relatively. It is a very complicated matter. After all, nature is closed, integral, perfect. And therefore, our existence within it, in nature, requires that we be really careful and completely dedicated.

Question: How, then, can we achieve harmony with nature?

Answer: Only if we manage to unite with nature and achieve the ability to give in the same measure that we take. Then we will regulate how much to take and how much to give.

Question: But aren’t we, in principle, constantly moving toward that in one way or another?

Answer: I hope that someday we will.

Question: Why haven’t we been given the ability to understand and feel all this? We just take things from nature without concern.

Answer: But we are moving toward it. It is a development, the gradual development of nature from the inanimate onward.

Question: So we must come to the point that I cannot just take everything as I want. And certainly not kill, steal, and so on?

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/3/25

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