Question: People used to meet and start families. There was happiness in having a child. Let me ask you a strange question. What was the parental happiness in having a child?

Answer: To see their future in the child.

Question: Is that how it should be?

Answer: Yes, of course. Children should be born and they should continue their family line.

Question: Today it seems to have disappeared. Suddenly, for many couples, a child has become a burden. Why?

Answer: Our egoism has divided us, disconnected us, placed everyone in their own corner, and that is it.

Question: But why does egoism need that?

Answer: That is how it works. Our egoism benefits when we are focused only on ourselves and care only about it.

Comment: And concerning our egoism, which is the closest and dearest to us, we say that it is a burden to us.

My Response: It is not the closest and dearest. We say that it is a burden to us because it prevents us from taking care of our true “child,” the one inside ourselves!

Question: So this “I,” my ego, is the closest and dearest?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Look where we have gotten! I wonder what will come next.

My Response: It will get worse. We will reach a state in which everyone hides in their own corner and does not want to talk to anyone. That is it! I will only order, say, pizza and cola, or something else.

Question: And what will happen then? We are constantly leading humanity to some kind of dead end.

Answer: It is a dead end. Humanity must see its own dead end. But when it becomes clear that it really is a dead end, then an epiphany will come from this dead end—that we cannot continue like this.

Question: Do you think that there can be no awakening before that?

Answer: No, I think we must reach that recognition. In other words, there should be no wars or riots or violent outbursts, but there should be a clear awareness of hopelessness and deadlock. Then we will begin to think: “What should we do?” And then we will remember: “Wait, I once heard something from Kabbalists.”

Question: Yes, there is a book on my shelf, a clip saved, and so on. So they will look and begin moving toward correction?

Answer: I am sure of it.

Question: Do we need to keep dripping it in, putting it on shelves and into computers?

Answer: Absolutely! We have no other choice.

Question: Even if we keep coming to the same results?

Answer: It does not matter. If you have a small child who is growing and developing, you still have to tell him what to do and how to behave properly. You cannot just let it go.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 7/3/25

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