Comment: Stanisław Jerzy Lec escaped from a concentration camp twice. The first time he escaped, he was caught. The second time he escaped, he was caught again and was given a shovel and told, “Dig your own grave.” He used that shovel to kill the guard, dressed in his clothes, and escaped for good. The rest of his fate is known to us. He came to the Land of Israel, then went back to Poland where he experienced various sufferings, anti-Semitism, and so on. But at the same time, he wrote amazing things.

Please comment on his statement:

“People are lonely because instead of building bridges, they build walls.”

Question: It is so sad and accurate! Tell me, we are always looking for a cure for loneliness, ministers of loneliness, and so on. He writes: “We need to build bridges, and everything will be fine.” Why do we build walls?

Answer: We cannot tolerate each other.

Question: So it is better to build a wall?

Answer: Of course. And a wall is not just a limitation from me but for me as well.

Question: So when I am physically next to someone, I cannot adapt to them, it is hard for me to build bridges. But we should, right?

Answer: Yes. But how? I have not learned how to do this. I just see over the years that only life, as explained by the Torah, will probably lead to this.

Question: Only follow the Torah?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then can you say in one sentence what it means to follow the Torah?

Answer: Always, little by little, getting closer to everyone.

Question: To everyone? To enemies, to non-enemies?

Answer: Absolutely everyone.

Question: What happens to me then?

Answer: It changes you. It changes your DNA.

Question: Even my whole genetics?

Answer: Yes, all your genetics.

Question: So, just keep aiming in that direction?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/1/24

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