Comment: You said that if we have any material desires, it is better to realize them quickly so that they do not interfere with our spiritual development.

My Response: If your head is occupied with spiritual development, then involuntarily you will not perform any stupid, unnecessary movements in everything else.

Nevertheless, you still need to organize yourself somehow: make yourself move, eat normally. Let’s say I have a sedentary job, I sit almost all the time, so I force myself to move for an hour and a half a day.

Doctors say that even half an hour a day is enough: a little exercise, walking by the sea, cycling.

But I personally think that, although it is necessary to force yourself to do all this a little, the main thing, of course, is internal work. If a person is engaged in it, then he inevitably has a normal exchange in everything else.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Get High” 4/21/12

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The Dead Sea represents the absence of life, because Malchut, unfortunately, is still dead and cannot do anything. But when we really reach the connection of Malchut and Bina, then the earth will be filled with the upper moisture.

Question: Will the sick have nowhere to be treated and have mud baths?

Answer: Why? The Qumran heights and everything that is around the Dead Sea have always existed, it is just that the sea was 10-15 meters higher. But still it was always salty.

It almost never had life, although there is life there. We simply do not distinguish it and do not see it. It is yet to be discovered.

The Dead Sea is in the desert. The desert is not just a place where, as it seems to us, there is nothing but sand and small dunes. The desert can have vegetation, wildlife, rocks, mountains, and springs.

Exactly such a desert surrounds the Dead Sea. Previously, there were tigers, lions, leopards, and now there are only a few of them left, but they still live there. In this desert there are springs of water and very interesting caves.

Thousands of years ago, for many years, the oppositionists of the Jerusalem authorities fled there. There, in the fortress of Mossad, the Jews hid from the Romans.

Many great Kabbalists who were looking for how the correction would continue after the destruction of the Temple lived in those places.

Perhaps this place is “dead” because it was least affected by the shattering, which was mainly concentrated in Jerusalem and passed over the rest of Israel.

Where there was no life, there can be practically no destruction. Therefore, although a special force is felt here, this force is dead.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalistic Geography” 10/10/10

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson on the Topic” “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Convention”

Selected Highlights

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What can we learn from elephants?“

Elephants are very compassionate and sensitive animals. They are the only animals that hold a burial ceremony. Often the herd digs a hole, covers the dead elephant and stays near the grave for several days. Also, if the herd encounters a dead elephant that is not from their herd, they will treat it as if it were one of their own. In addition, if one of the elephants in the herd is sick, they take care of it, bring it food and help it up.

When we see such examples of sensitivity and compassion, we can raise the question to ourselves as human beings: What do we have that animals don’t, and is there anything that we can learn here?

We possess additional desire to animals, and the problem is that we use our excess desire to our detriment. We can see a clear example of this problem if we look at the endless wars and cutthroat competition we find ourselves in over history, and the way we pour money into stockpiling more and more weapons today instead of myriad other means that could benefit us. We are constantly engaged in thoughts of how to exploit, overpower and outcompete others.

Animals also show many examples of overpowering and killing other animals, but they do so out of a survival necessity, not out of enjoying themselves by feeling bigger, stronger, faster and better than other animals—as we people do toward each other.

Why do we relate to other people in such negative ways? It is in order to sustain our ego, i.e. to try and satisfy our desires for money, respect and power. We do not try to overpower others merely out of a survival necessity.

Therefore, when we consider the fact that we have bigger egoistic desires that we use to the detriment of others, we cannot say that we are at any higher degree to animals.

If we wish to maximally realize our additional desire and truly show ourselves to be loftier beings, then we need to rise above our egoistic desires—our desires to benefit ourselves at the expense of others—and reach a state of a common love for one other, a state of “love your neighbor as yourself.” In other words, instead of prioritizing self-benefit over benefiting others, we need to prioritize the benefit of others over self-benefit.

As a result, we would reach a perfect and eternal state—a state that we were put here to achieve.

Everything in nature on the still, vegetative and animate levels—outside of humans—is in a harmonious interplay, and only we humans breach that balance with our self-serving use of our additional desire.

We should thus think about how we can shift from prioritizing self-benefit at the expense of others to prioritizing the benefit of others, and to use ourselves for others’ benefit. It is because, by inverting our intention and attitude to each other from egoistic to altruistic, we would discover no less than a perfect world for everyone.

Based on the video “What Can We Learn from Elephants?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Our success depends on connection. Therefore, we must come to the congress with open hearts, ready to connect.

Imagine that the world is facing a catastrophe similar to the devastating earthquake that recently occurred in Turkey. But now, the earth will shake all over the surface around the entire globe. Scientists have already warned about this danger several times. And we are able to save the whole planet from this disaster.

Let’s try to glue all the parts of the globe together so that they do not move and cause earthquakes. We can glue them together with our desire because human desire is at a much higher level than inanimate nature, plants, and animals. And if we want to cleave to each other at our human degree in order to become as one person with one heart, then of course we will not let the globe crack.

Otherwise, it will become more and more restless, and seismic activity will increase drastically. But it all depends on us.

And we will eliminate not only earthquakes, but any negative phenomena that exist in this world. Let’s say we want to clean up the whole globe from garbage, from all waste that pollutes waters, land, and air. To do this, we need to purify our hearts. After all, it is at the highest degree, and if we cleanse the heart of dirty thoughts and desires, then the whole globe will be cleansed.

We are thinking: how can we clean up the planet? And everything will be very simple, there will be no problems. Nature has all the forces for this; it all depends only on how we use them. Let’s start purifying our hearts and see that the whole world becomes fresh, bright, and clean. Everything depends only on our desire.

In the few days remaining before the congress, everyone should try to correct themselves so that they arrive at it with an open heart. And then this congress will become a place of purification of the world.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: Where did the word “Zion” come from?

Answer: “Zion” is from the word “Etzia” (“exit”)—exit from exile.

If Zionism previously attracted Jews to Zion, today it not only does not attract, but actually repels because it is being replaced by a new form of uniting people, not around some places called “Zion” or “Jerusalem,” which have become symbols of hard Judaism.

Real Zionism, which has gradually formed and is still being formed from the past, is “love your neighbor,” which is the next step in the connection of the people regardless of their land or even their customs.

The most important custom—”love your neighbor as yourself” (the main rule of the Torah)—is what it is calling to fulfill in the first place. This is the real Zionism of today that arose on the ruins of the old one, which has simply served its purpose.

Previously there was an aspiration to the earth, to Zion, to stones, to the Wailing Wall, to something so much more understandable and in some way attractive, like stones in the ancestral cemetery. But in the end, all this disappears and is emptied of the great fulfillment that once existed, even at the beginning of the 20^th century.

By the 21^st century it has ceased to be something attractive at all. On the contrary, the call to Zionism is something inhibiting, and it manifests itself as a lack of understanding of the current situation and the movement of history.

Now Zionism has taken the place of uniting all people, not only Jews, although the Jews should be in the center. This connection should indicate the future to all the nations of the world.
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From KabTV’s “Zionism” 1/18/23

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Question: If I acquire the quality of bestowal, how will my system of perception work then?

Answer: In bestowal you begin to perceive everything as a common field and nothing else! You will begin to see everything as one single whole that shimmers with all sorts of waves of influence on you in order to change you.

In fact, these waves do not exist either. Then you will come to the conclusion that this is how your sensitivity changes inside you in terms of the quality and quantity of your 613 desires, and therefore, you feel these waves, these shimmerings, these images in the field. Then you will begin to feel that in addition to the field of your perception, there is a constant field of bestowal, love, and emanation.

Question: How will I perceive various corporeal objects?

Answer: In no special way. Like all kinds of inanimate objects, that is, imprints of your desires, the ones that have no actions of their own, like everything else. You look at everyone and everything around you, and perceive them because you see your qualities turned outward.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Other World” 4/27/12

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Question: What is the meaning of the period of our existence on Earth as if being in a dream?

Answer: This stage is similar to those periods that nature has gone through in the development of the Earth. It all began with periods of geological development when there were no plants or animals and only inanimate matter was developing. For millions of years, the Earth gradually exploded and cooled, exploded and cooled.

Baal HaSulam writes that such periods alternated every 30 million years, when the Earth ignited like a fireball and then cooled, and again ignited for 30 million years—lava and hot streams rose from below, the earth’s crust exploded again and cooled again.

This continued until the conditions for the development of life appeared. This stage lasted several billion years.

And then, for millions of years, vegetative life was born. Then for hundreds of thousands of years animal life, and then man.

Naturally, all these periods successively shortened, as they passed along the axis of the natural logarithm. From about the period of 2.67 such a reduction in time began to occur.

The same correspondence between the first (inanimate), the second (vegetative), the third (animate), and the fourth (human) development exists in any segment. If we take any of them, it will be similar to the general one, as in a holographic picture.

Now we are at the stage of only preliminary awareness of the evil of our nature. But we see to what extent time becomes more compressed, how it is being more and more compressed from year to year.

I think that over the next few years we will come close to the need for a singular transition—a leap in our understanding, awareness, sensation, and in the internal restructuring of each of us and all of us together, in the need to make an internal revolution and feel, see, and realize where we really are.

Then we will reveal a different world, which will be revealed to us as eternal, perfect, and infinite. After all, when a new vision of the world is revealed to you, everything is rebuilt in you.

Imagine that from this moment onward you begin to feel that you exist eternally, endlessly and to what extent your attitude toward yourself, toward the world, toward life, toward people, toward everything would change. We cannot not imagine it, but such a restructuring of consciousness will take place and change everyone.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Dream 400 Years Long” 4/7/12

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Question: When someone falls spiritually, we have to support each other along the way. You say a person must go through these states. What is the limit of our intervention?

Answer: There is no limit. If you are doing it with love, there are no prohibitions. To support means to help with love. If you think about the benefit of a friend and do not think that he is being punished for his benefit, then everything will be fine.

Question: Suppose a person cannot wake up for a lesson. Where is the fine line between the fact that I have to bring him to class and the fact that I will harm him by doing that?

Answer: It is necessary to treat such situations very delicately, to try to be gentle with your friends.

I was not always successful with that. I remember I got very irritated, I could not stop myself. “How is it possible not to get up for the lesson?” One day, another day, and the same every time. You wake up the friend. “That’s it, that’s it, I’m getting up,” he shouts from the balcony, and ten minutes later, it turns out that he fell asleep even more soundly. And how to wake him up? You no longer know what to do. I tried everything. Of course, it was wrong, I was still a beginner then. But all this was not simple.

Our entire path is not easy. Now it is much easier because the masses create the corresponding field, and it is already easy for every beginner, he feels that there is such an action in the world, such an opinion, such a desire, such a relationship. There are already talks about it: something is soaring somewhere.

Today it is so easy compared to what it used to be! Before, it seemed quite the opposite. It was very hard! I think the support is getting better and better every day.

Question: How can I not to give in to the misconception that I am doing good for another person to overpower what is not worth doing?

Answer: Nothing will help! Until a person is corrected, nothing will help.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Pull out the Friend“ 3/11/12

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