Comment: A story circulating on social media shares that psychologists working with children suffering from the final (terminal) stage of cancer decided to fulfill the most cherished wish of each child and see how the fulfillment of a dream would affect their well-being.

A four-year-old girl living in a village wanted to ride a tram. An eleven-year-old boy dreamed of riding a horse, and a thirteen-year-old girl dreamed of becoming a princess: having servants and having her hand kissed like a princess.

The psychologists rented a tram and spent about two hours riding the little girl around the city. They showed her interesting sights and treated her to tea and sweets. For the boy and his father, they found a couple of horses, and father and son rode along the seashore.

They rented an old castle and beautiful antique clothing. The doctors dressed up as courtiers, and the girl was dressed in a princess gown. The little princess walked through the halls, everyone served her, and, just as she had dreamed, kissed her hand.

The subsequent medical examination results were simply astounding. In one child, the cancer completely disappeared; in the others, the disease either receded or at least stopped progressing!

This experiment confirmed a truth known to ancient physicians but often forgotten by modern ones: emotions have the strongest and most direct influence on our well-being and health. Positive emotions and good thoughts are capable not only of bringing joy and a sense of happiness, but also of overcoming the most terrible disease.

My Response: In addition to the influence of the surrounding light (Ohr Makif) in integral actions, which in general transform everything bad and harmful into good and beneficial, positive emotions that arise within the circle of integral communication also produce a healing effect.
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From the talk 10/16/13

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Question: In our world, a person is born, develops, becomes an adult, and has children of their own. But when a person crosses the Machsom, does he then build himself, his soul, beyond it?

Answer: Yes. He already chooses: whether to “eat” from the mother or not, whether to be closer to her or not; he does things independently and learns from her.

Comment: In our world, a person eventually dies.

My Response: In spirituality, he dies on his current degree in order to ascend to the next degree. There is no death there as there is in our corporeal body.

He raises himself to the next degree, and after that, his previous degree dies. It seemingly disappears from his rigid governance. He begins to work with new qualities, with new ten Sefirot. The past remains beneath him; there is no longer any need for it.

Question: So is being born and dying like passing through one point in the heart until complete correction?

Answer: In spirituality, as we pass through 125 degrees, we die at each one and are born anew on the next degree.

What does “we die” mean? I have simply completed working on the previous degree and now I am as if born as a new person. I awaken and feel that new qualities have appeared within me. I begin to perceive the world in a new way. This is clearly happening to me.

Both birth and death are desirable! I myself evoke them within me.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Birth and Death” 9/18/10

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Question: You keep talking about good connections, about the fact that people must draw closer to one another. But what if everyone says: “Here, I have a piece of clay.” And each one says this: “So do I, and I have one too. Let’s build a little house for us.” Will it work, or will it not work?

Answer: No.

Question: It would not?

Answer: You must understand what is missing in this piece of clay. What is missing is the inner connection of all the pieces, of everyone’s, everyone’s. And then, in the merging of our hearts, we return to the state called Adam, similar to the Creator.

Question: In what was he similar?

Answer: Before his shattering, before being divided into billions of parts, this was an angel. That is, an absolutely good, absolutely righteous, correct intention, which together with the Creator carried out everything necessary for a perfect world.

Question: Was this a single intention for everyone? One single soul like that? Can one say so? All souls were merged into one single soul?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You are speaking about what existed in the beginning, and then everything shattered into fragments, and the fragments of the soul fell, as they say, into this world of ours. And we must return to that state?

Answer: Yes. We must realize that we are in a shattered state and that we must return to a unified state. This is precisely what is called assembling the pieces of clay that each one has.

Question: When you say “assemble the pieces of clay,” what do you mean?

Answer: Merging, connection, the unification of hearts.

Question: So this is the material from which we must mold happiness?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And only then will there be happiness?

Answer: And then there will be what the Creator intended.

Question: And did He intend that we would be happy?

Answer: Of course!

Question: What is happiness, in the Creator’s understanding, in your opinion?

Answer: Happiness, in the Creator’s understanding, is the connection of everyone together into one single desire, into one single action, when we feel no shattering whatsoever between us. Then what we experience is called happiness. This is the definition of happiness.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/14/25

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If a person correctly organizes the three inner qualities—the “candle,” the “oil,” and the “wick”—within themselves, they come to a state called Hanukkah (from the words “ḥanu ko,” “they stopped here”), meaning a short respite in the middle of the path.

“Oil” is our material, the desire to enjoy; it is the content of the vessel (Kli). It is not capable of igniting itself from the light that we draw from outside; it is only with the help of the wick.

The wick must be immersed in the oil and also protrude from it. It symbolizes the screen that we build outside the egoistic desire (outside the oil). That part of the egoistic desire that we are able to include within the screen, that is, the oil that has soaked into the wick, only that can shine and come in contact with the upper light.

But this is only on the condition that the oil cannot merely penetrate inside the wick, but also rise above the level of the oil, the egoism, toward Bina, toward the light, toward bestowal. Only then can it shine!

The light emerges from the upper edge of the wick, where it comes out and loses its connection with the oil, with egoism.

The reflected light, the flame rising from below upward, reaches Keter in the ten Sefirot of reflected light, and there the connection between the reflected light and the force of the receiving desire, the egoism, from which the force of burning comes, almost breaks.

The oil rises upward along the wick, and only there is contact achieved, a similarity of properties between the oil in the wick and the light. Only together can they shine. The light cannot be revealed until it connects with the wick and the oil within it.

By imagining a burning candle, we can understand the inner work of a person: what we must do with ourselves so that our soul attains similarity to the light, to the Creator.

The desire does not disappear; all of it must join the screen, the wick. From it we create our middle line to the extent that we are able to bring the oil, desire, into the wick.

Only a small part of the desire can be included in the screen. The wick symbolizes that core, that thin thread by which the correspondence of our desire to the light is measured.

The screen, the middle line, is built from these two forces oil and wick, left and right. The right line is bestowal, light, and the left is reception, oil.

The middle line, which we create from the two higher qualities of reception and bestowal, is called the soul.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 12/13/09, Rabash, Letter 43

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Question: What if you make a wrong choice? I checked everything, did everything, and made a wrong decision.

Answer: How do you know it is wrong?

Comment: As a result, I did not reach my goal.

My Response: But that will be evident after you make the decision.

Comment: After that, when I had already jumped.

My Response: After implementation?

Question: Yes, that is right. I realized I had made the wrong decision. What should I do about it?

Answer: Do nothing.

Question: I eat myself up on the inside after that! I double-checked everything, jumped, and everything is wrong!

Answer: You cannot do anything. There is nothing more to do, nothing to blame.

Question: Not to blame yourself?

Answer: No, absolutely not!

Question: How do I stop myself?

Answer: Relate it to the Creator.

Question: So before I was the one who measured everything? But after it happened…

Answer: The Creator did it. For sure it was the Creator.

Comment: That is, we have now come to the golden rule. I check everything.…

My Response: I decide, I act, and the Creator does the rest.

Question: No regrets, nothing?

Answer: Nothing. That is how it was intended from the beginning.

Comment: If it were possible to live like this, you would have no regrets at all.

My Response: So live like that.

Comment: “Live like that!” I wish I could learn to live like that.

My Response: You should have no regrets about anything! Everything is orchestrated from above.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/11/25

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Comment: Kabbalah says that one should not be afraid of external factors and that what is happening around us does not really influence us, but merely creates a kind of picture of pressure or tension around us.

My Response: What does “does not influence” mean? We see how much influence Hitler had, or Bohdan Khmelnytsky, or the persecutions in western Europe when Jews were gathered from cities or small towns into synagogues and burned alive.

We see what serious reasons there were that affected the people’s attitude toward life, toward the world, and toward themselves.

Question: And why did everyone have the desire to take it out on the Jews?

Answer: Who else could they take it out on? And all those pogroms? That was the only way they “vented” it. The population was deliberately educated and directed so that they would take it out on them.

Question: But why weren’t there some other nation toward which the hatred of the others would have been directed?

Answer: In general, there is only one reason for hatred: the Jews’ failure to fulfill their mission.
Within the Jewish people there exists an inner point of light, and it cannot be explained. It is of a mystical nature and cannot be correctly understood or perceived by anyone else.

A person feels that there is something in them that is different from me. Moreover, something that I subconsciously feel is not just about oppressed people; no, they are special. They have something.

On the one hand, they gave me religion. All of their ancestors are my gods. I worship all of their ancestors. For example, in the center of St. Petersburg there stands St. Isaac’s Cathedral. I call all my priests by their ancient names. I took their entire religion from them.

And yet they still cling to it and do not want to accept what I made from it. By their very existence, they prove that they are the ones who are right, not me.

And I cannot destroy it if they do not accept me as their successor. They must accept it, not just agree out of hopelessness or simply stay away.

If they do not accept this, then my religion is worth nothing, my world is worth nothing, and the future world that I have drawn for myself is also worth nothing. That is, their mere existence confirms that everything that I have invented for myself about the future world is incorrect.

Question: The nations of the world say: “We hate the Jews.” But Jesus Christ, was he not a Jew?

Answer: It does not matter. All of this has to be justified somehow. I do not think that anyone really understands it at all. In all religions it is so convoluted. What can you do? We are already at the end of all this; there will still be surges. All of this will lead to another huge war, perhaps not only a spiritual one, but also a physical one. There is nothing that can be done about it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. External Factors, or Why Does Everyone Hate Jews?” 9/14/10

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Question: In “The Preface to the Sulam Commentary,” a system is described that seems external to humans. How can I imagine it as relating to me, within myself?

Answer: There is no soul in my animal body, no ten Sefirot of the soul. I only have a point from which I have to build them.

It arose in my egoistic desires. If I can connect to other points in the heart with my egoism, then my ego will give me material desires, and connection with other people will create a structure of nine Sefirot within me.

I myself turn into the point of Malchut, into the tenth Sefirot, and my first nine Sefirot are my attitude toward other people. All other souls, everything in front of them, the whole world, and everything around them are my nine Sefirot (Tet Rishonot).

And if I connect them to myself with love and understanding that we are one, and rise above my egoism, if I can rise above my Malchut in order to bestow, then I will connect these external properties of giving, and my soul will arise in me, a complete Partzuf of ten Sefirot.

Where do I reveal the Creator? In the very desires that I have acquired by bestowing to others.
Everything that is around a person is his own soul structure. But after the shattering, the fall into egoism, I want to use these parts of myself egoistically to get everything that is in them.

Now I need to return to bestowing to them, to connect them to myself with love, and I will reveal the light of my soul in them. In myself, in Malchut, I will never reveal the light, because the first restriction (Tzimtzum Aleph) cannot be canceled.

Therefore everything depends on how I get out of myself and connect with other souls, how I feel their desires as if they were my own. In this common desire, I will reveal the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson, 9/8/2009, Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Sulam [Ladder] Commentary,”

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