Comment: Nina writes: “The other day, the cat that lives with me gave birth to kittens. A few days later, it killed them. Tell me, please, is this a natural phenomenon among animals? If so, what is its root? Maybe this is a consequence of our terrible behavior?”

My Response: It is quite possible that the cat feels what is happening around, and this is how it acts with its children, with the kittens.

Question: Does it mean that this option is possible?

Answer: It is possible.

Question: So, we do not deny that there is such a natural phenomenon?

Answer: Of course there is. What is a natural phenomenon in us? People do not want to have children. In a way, it is also like a murder that I do not want to give life to another.

Question: That is, I can and I do not want to. Is this what you call practically like a murder?

Answer: How else? I do not want to give life to another.

Question: Why do we have this in us? Why do I not want to?

Answer: Because I do not see any sense in this for myself, for my egoism. Because it will obligate me. This is the first. I do not consider that I can give life and thus correct some other soul, another piece of the world. I do not think about this. I think about myself.

Comment: Going back to the cat, you say that such an option is possible, that the cat feels…

My Response: It feels the environment and thus the hatred that it feels around it transfers to its children and does not want their lives.

Question: What is the conclusion from all this?

Answer: If people correct themselves, animals will be corrected.

I am talking only about changing the attitude of man to man, which is the highest of all natural levels.

The attitude of man to man, man to animal, man to plant, man to earth, and so on—all this is included in the attitude of man to man. If we correct our attitude, then all of nature that is below these levels will be corrected, and everyone will be fine.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/22/22

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Kabbalistic methodology is based on questions and answers. What else is there in life? Question and answer, Kli and Ohr, the vessel and the light that fills it, plus or minus, darkness or light, everything around us, and we are made only of these two elements.

Question: New students have a huge number of questions, and they receive many answers. Those who have been studying for a long time can answer some of the questions themselves because they understand what it is about internally, based on the methodology itself, and it makes no sense for them to ask a question.

But how important is a question, and how do we not quench it? After all, the more a person learns, he probably has fewer questions?

Answer: His questions are more subtle, like those of any specialist. They already touch such peaks that are incomprehensible and uninteresting to a simple person. The ordinary person does not understand them, and the specialists are somewhere far away, beyond the clouds.

With a specialist, of course, you talk differently. You can talk to him about some small things, and he sees great pleasure in their disclosure, in their sensation, just like, for example, two biologists talk about some kind of bugs, worms, or systems. This is natural, because for a specialist it is a completely different world.

And beginners come with their eyes wide open. They, like a newborn, need to be given very, very measured filling; otherwise, they will not be able to perceive anything. By the way, this is not easy.

Comment: Sometimes it happens that a person dumps all his experience on a newcomer, and he is simply in shock.

My Response: No. Teachers for beginners take special courses. They know what to do: they have a methodology, books, and manuals on how to teach people, and have experience gained over the years.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. An Answer to Any Question” 1/28/12

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What are the pros and cons of a 4-day work week?“

One of my students told me that 100 companies in the UK recently switched to a permanent four-day work week for their employees without loss of pay, and that they hope to be a vanguard of a major change in work patterns by doing so. Moreover, the student told me that proponents of the four-day week argue that it will make companies improve their productivity with fewer working hours.

The more such an idea gains popularity, the more we will find ourselves questioning why so many companies insist on five or even six-day work weeks with long working hours. However, I think that the cons of the four-day work week would outweigh its pros because people in general do not know how to use their leisure time constructively. That is, if we would give more leisure time to people en masse, then we could expect to see a vast increase of problems in families: more arguments, divorces, problems with the kids, and so on.

Increasing our leisure time without implementing the learning of how to improve our relations would bring about more and more ruptures in our relations.

We thus need connection-enriching learning in order to build balanced lives between our home, family, work and leisure time. That is, we need an overriding purpose and meaning to everything we do, otherwise our engagements will end up tearing away at our relations. If we then set ourselves up to regularly improve our relationships throughout society from one day to the next, we could confidently lessen work hours and give people more time to rest and be with their families.

Based on the video “What Are the Pros and Cons of a 4-Day Work Week?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Hochma is called “light,” and Hassadim, “water.” Bina is called “upper water,” and Malchut, “lower water” (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 8, Item 29).

There are two types of light: the light of Hochma and the light of Hassadim. The light of Hochma fills the desires to receive, which have corrected their intention to bestowal. The light of Hassadim fills the desires to bestow, which have also corrected themselves, but not to reception for the sake of bestowal, rather for pure bestowal.

Therefore, the light of Hassadim is much weaker in intensity and strength than the light of Hochma. But, in principle, these two lights fill the entire universe, which is the desire to receive.

Since the correction of the desire to receive into the desire to bestow is the purpose of our work, first we neutralize reception. This is called “Tzimtzum” (Restriction), which means that we do not want to work with the desire to receive, we rise above it.

Then the Ohr Hassadim (the light of Hassadim) spreads in our desire. And then we can even rise to the level where our desires are filled with the light of Hochma.

That is, everything happens in desire, which is the only creation.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/15/23

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Question: What is the Creator?

Answer: The Creator is the one and only force of nature.

Question: What information does the Creator transmit to a person?

Answer: Only what a person needs in order to be a useful entity in this world.

Question: How can one be useful in this world?

Answer: Love.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Questions and Answers” 1/6/23

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Question: Why are so many people turning to magic, witchcraft, and Tarot cards these days? Today for example, there are a huge number of different predictors on YouTube, who, like some experts, direct the public consciousness with their forecasts and predictions. Why?

Answer: I think it’s because people need it. People don’t have answers to the questions that arise, and time is running out. Everything that happens to us puts pressure on us, and that’s why people are looking.

Question: Can they find any correct answers for themselves there?

Answer: In general, yes. Not everything and not about everything, but partly yes.

Question: Why did Kabbalists forbid predicting the future?

Answer: A person should not know the future. He himself must act in such a way as to create the future from the present.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Questions and Answers” 1/6/23

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Attempts to unite carried out in a group are always new. Like with a child who is constantly making mistakes, in the end, he comes to a decision and achieves the goal himself. But on the spiritual path, we see that we are not able to achieve the spiritual goal; we have to receive strength and explanation, help, and support from above. But this is already a decision. And then we demand and receive.

From where can a person of our world gain an understanding of the methodology, knowledge, and power? After all, it all belongs to the spiritual level, to the next dimension! It is just above his head: absolutely different thoughts, decisions, and understanding of nature, completely different brains. They work according to a different principle.

In our world, there are electronic devices that are not compatible with each other, and we need to create a commutation between them, build whole commutative systems.

And in spirituality, even this does not exist. There is a qualitative quantum leap here. We have to get an additional portion of light in order to rise to the next level.

Comment: You once explained that there is no need for heroism here. We do not need to strive to succeed because the Creator heals only broken hearts.

My Response: It is necessary to succeed in understanding that we require a portion of light from above that would give us absolutely new qualities.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Reason for Failures in the Group” 1/28/12

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Question: How should we view the suffering of a person on the spiritual path? What does it bring him?

Answer: Suffering helps to eliminate its cause. If I suffer from something, it makes me start looking into the cause of suffering and how to escape it.

Question: There is an animal-level suffering when a person wants to organize his material life, and there is an opposite, spiritual suffering, when one has everything, but cannot find himself. What is the qualitative difference between these two types of suffering?

Answer: It depends on the degree of suffering and on the level you are at; there are four levels of nature inside us: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human.

Question: You said that coming from the opposite, from feeling pain, you can feel pleasure much stronger.

Answer: Well, this is suffering of a different kind—suffering of love.

Question: Let’s say a person is on the path, and he actually realizes this is a difficult path that requires him to undergo certain things. What does the constant feeling of these waves give him?

Answer: Advancement, attainment, and the feeling of being at the very crest of life, at its very peak. He understands there is nothing else, this is the ultimate. He looks at everything around him, sees right through what is happening, and everything is clear and understandable to him. He wants to know, attain, and connect with the cause of everything that exists, and even to rise above this cause.

I don’t even know how to say it, but it doesn’t compare to anything. Kabbalah cannot be substituted with anything. Nothing! Any science or anything one is involved in this world is all inside this world: in the world of a meager consequence of the upper world.

Here you have a method of attainment, not just some story, but the attainment of the upper world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Suffer, Derive Pleasure” 1/28/12

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