Kabbalah reveals to us that “there is none else besides Him.” The Creator is behind everything that happens around us. The main thing is not to be distracted from the thought that all this is Him, to look for Him in all the images around you and inside you.

Apart from the thought that “there is no one else besides Him,” everything else is controlled by Him. This thought is also given by Him! But you must grasp it and begin to cultivate a free, separate, opposite state in yourself from it, and to become similar to Him, a person, Adam.

Question: How can you not become religious when you start talking like many do?

Answer: No, these are all words; they have no meaning. The meaning of the words is completely different.

In religions, everything comes down to physical actions. They do not have an internal apparatus. Their internal actions are in the form of repentance and so on. Kabbalah, however, is directed in the opposite direction from religion, toward the revelation of the Creator.

Religion exists due to the concealment of the Creator and is in no way interested in revealing Him. Therefore, it says: “Be a simple kind of man, obey, and that is it.” But Kabbalah is interested in developing a person.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Global Puppeteer” 7/28/12

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New Life 453 – Wave Of Upheavals In Israel, Part 2
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

There is very little understanding as to why there is such an upheaval at this time. It is unclear what should be done regarding the violence being committed against common citizens.

The final state is determined by the initial thought. It is all part of the waves of development governed by the absolute laws of nature. We are under this system of laws whether we are conscious of it or not. The process we must go through in history begins in the chaos of the shattering of harmony on all levels. There are different periods within this process— still, vegetative, animate, and speaking.

The periods within the speaking level are of a different nature. Humanity was not conscious of the way it has developed until 5,775 years ago when Adam discovered nature’s plan. Since then, we have some kind of knowledge about what is happening to us, and we have been given the tools with which to research our internality. Our future form already exists and we need to reach it. By our participation, we can initiate an easier, more pleasant process.

When I participate, the force inside me is felt as desirable and good. We are learning how we can influence our fate. How do we hasten the process and consciously participate in our own attainment?

If we discover certain phenomena that are outside of this harmony, it means that we are not keeping nature properly. A very tiny part of humanity called Israel determines how the rest of humanity will act. Others can also join this process. If there is no wholeness, Israel is to blame. We need to understand that Intifada and anti-Semitism indicate that Israel is falling behind.

Already a long time ago, Israel began to fall short of its correct participation. We needed to start pulling ourselves and the rest of the world into its whole and perfect state. We only need to think how we can take the forces of nature and arrange the connection between us within Israel. When we connect among us, we disperse the force of wholeness and perfection, of love and connection to all of humanity.

We were once connected in the time of the First Temple and we fell from that state into the nations of the world. We integrated with them and absorbed all of their desires. It was necessary to absorb the entire human ego inside of us, and this is what we went into exile for. Now we need not wait for anyone else. It is up to us. Once we have connected among ourselves, the nations of the world will come and help us. If we do not perform our role, we can expect worse calamities to occur.

We need to understand the measure to which we are still not in a corrected place. The people of Israel must awaken and start doing what is upon us to do. Let us make of our life and the lives of all nations a good, pleasant, and beautiful life.
This summary was written and edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman
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From KabTV’s “New Life 453 – Wave Of Upheavals In Israel, Part 2,” 11/13/14

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Why is English considered an international language?“

England once fought with Germany to spread their respective influences on American territory, and the German language was set to prevail at a certain point. If it did, then today we would very likely be in a world with German as the common international language.

But human development took a different turn.

Instead, the English branch of culture—which is not far from the German one, but which is more open—became the international one.

At that time, the Germans wished to overpower and enslave others by force. The British, however, planted their own culture and language, expanding in a completely different way.

The English had a softer and more preferable attitude to the world and to the discovery of new lands than the Germans, and English thus prevailed. Due to this difference in approaches, English is closer to being corrected as an international language than German.

Despite the prevalence and spread of German culture throughout Europe, we find that the German language is not used other than in Germany and some nearby countries.

Unlike our past development, however, today’s path to unification will not be through the expansion of nations and languages. Instead, our next form of unification is one that nature is forcing on us, where we become increasingly interconnected and interdependent worldwide.

We are now developing to a critical tipping point where we will need a new method of connecting to each other above nationalities and languages. Without upgrading our attitudes to each other—to positively connect above our differences and divisions—then we will feel our tightening global interdependence as a negative phenomenon that brings us more and more suffering.

I thus hope that we undergo this major transition to new positive, supportive, considerate and encouraging attitudes to each other above our differences sooner rather than later, and realize how much better, harmonious, joyful and peaceful our lives can be.

Based on KabTV’s “I Got a Call. English Language” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on June 2, 2012. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Lesson on the Topic “Connecting the World in the Last Generation”

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Comment: You explain that nothing dies and the dead remain among us. All this is kind of a part of a common desire.

My Response: We all exist in a single information field. This has been known since the time of the first psychologists and much has been said about it in connection with psychics.

Wolf Messing claimed that he simply connects to the information layer by applying some kind of voltage he does not understand. He could carry out natural internal efforts and did not even know where they came from and what they were.

By the way, other people also have such an opportunity but they do not know how to make these efforts and form a connection channel to the higher information layer. And there are people who feel it, and they have it.

But their connection channel is very limited although it allows them to learn and feel something. To “know” means to feel because in spirituality the present, past, and future exist outside of time. There is no time, only events.

In general, the events do not exist there either; it is us who unfold them, make a time sweep, and as it were, put them on our calendar. But in the spiritual world everything is single. You connect to the energy, but being a limited consumer, you unfold this energy in a certain plane, as if cutting off certain layers from it.

Thus, you can partially perceive this energy since we can fully feel it only after the general final correction. In the meantime, there are people who can connect to this and they state, in general, some specific facts or their sequence in the future.

Such people are called “prophets” in Kabbalah. They are Kabbalists who had precisely a predisposition to interpreting the higher information layer similar to our earthly sweep.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists Versus Psychics” 7/14/12

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Comment: There is a personal, touching story on the Internet about someone’s grandfather who died. The grandfather was in the hospital and before leaving forever, he slowly removed his oxygen mask and put his hand to his mouth. We thought he did it because of pain, but it turned out that he sent three air kisses to his wife,  and he left.

How does this happen? When there is nothing left in front of us, we can perform some kind of an act so that another person feels good. Many people say that before death confessions of love are made that people  leave with such a feeling of gratitude toward someone. They pass warmth to someone. But in life, it does not happen. Why?

My Response: It is because of egoism. As long as egoism lives, prospers, and flourishes, it wants to fill itself, and you have no opportunity to think about somebody else.

Question: Can I do anything selflessly?

Answer: No.

Comment: And here egoism says that it already understands that it is ending.

My Response: But here there is no egoism anymore, you no longer feel yourself in your body; you gradually leave it, and you feel light and free.

Question: Is this a moment of freedom?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And all my life I was just a slave to egoism?

Answer: Yes. Therefore, a person who dies is called Niftar, liberated from egoism.

Question: Is it possible to live all the time as if you are leaving?

Answer: That is the way to live!

Question: Like on this border?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And then you will be able to give, to bestow, and to love?

Answer: This is what is called to constantly adhere to the Creator.

Comment: That is, I must live as if in a moment I will not exist.

My Response: Not even that you will not exist in a moment. It is as if you have already disconnected from your body, from its concerns about everything, and you only want to be connected with the Creator.

Question: Then I do not care about my future and do not care if it will return to me somehow, right?

Answer: It does not exist anyway.

Question: Is it liberation all at once?

Answer: Of course, that is why it is called Niftar, liberated. Or as they say: “The dead are free.”

Question: Can you learn to live this way throughout your life?

Answer: Surely.

Comment: Then we will learn to give, to love, and to bestow.

My Response: Of course.

Comment: And we will not live in this constant, black care for our life.

My Response: Yes.

Comment: It would be nice to learn this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/12/23

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Question: How can I personally insist that the light affect me?

Answer: You do this with the help of a group, by connecting with others by wishing to increase your yearning for the quality of connection and mutual guarantee, by wanting to be with them in one single desire, above egoism by lowering it, and by directing your aspirations to the upper world, to bestowal and love.

By creating such a common desire, when all your egoisms are lowered and all yearnings for the Light are above them, you want the upper light to create an instrument of perception similar to it in you. To the extent these egoistic desires are rejected downward, and to the extent the altruistic aspirations, meaning mutual love, connection, and similarity to the light, are raised up, you come closer to the light in terms of quality, in terms of values.

This light that constantly surrounds us, this physical field affects you all the time.  Although it is permanent, its effect depends on your effort toward it.

As a result of its repeated influences, an organ of perception of light is formed within you. That is, the difference between these two opposite points becomes such that the upper light can enter into it and fill it. As a result, the Partzuf, a system, is formed. Your desires become similar to the light since it enters into these desires according to the law of equivalence of forms.

Then you begin to understand, to feel its qualities, its program, its intentions, and its beginning, end, and purpose. Without it, you cannot do anything.

Therefore, the entire method, in general, is simple. But a person does not agree with it. Firstly, his egoism rejects everything. And secondly, he cannot believe that in this way something can change.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Making the Light Work” 6/9/12

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Question: You say that one needs to justify friends even if it seems that they neglect me.

Answer: These states are given to you on purpose; they play with you like with a child. They show you some scary faces, and you are afraid of them? You need to look deeper and treat everything that surrounds you as a game that is being played with you from above.

You must understand who you are dealing with—the puppeteer who stands behind the screen and controls everything. You need to contact Him through dolls; He will not let you near. Through them, He shows His attitude to you, you must show your attitude to Him through your attitude to the dolls, and then you will correspond to each other.

So you can only understand Him through this game. You do not have a direct language of communication with Him, you have not yet reached the degree of bare information. It must be embodied in words, in music, in feelings, in something like that.

And then everything rises to areas where all this does not exist. But first we need some kind of external shell, the so-called language, like of a computer or like our language we communicate with. The language of my communication with the Creator is the world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World Puppeteer” 6/30/12

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Question: If you do not like a friend, but you justify him and nevertheless your attitude toward him still does not change, is this the wrong process of scrutinizing?

Answer: There is an absolute setting for all elements of creation and for the entire creation in general—look at it the way the Creator looks at it,  justify absolutely, bestow, and love. The upper force proceeds precisely from that in relation to what it has created.

If I cannot treat all created beings in this way, then to the extent that I do not treat them with absolute love, egoism rules within me, which I must correct to a state of complete love for all.

Therefore, it is said, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” This is the basic rule of correction.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. To Hate, but Also to Love” 7/29/12

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