One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony (Haruki Murakami).

Question: What do you think about it? Is all this really necessary?

Answer: You see this is the Japanese mentality to some extent. Naturally this is a kind of convex materialism where one thing cannot exist without the other and is the result of the struggle of opposites.

Such a saying is suitable for our world. It is one of many that speaks of an unbalanced world in which there is no perfection, but for some reason the world is striving for it.

Question: How do these mundane things that Murakami writes about apparently transfer into some other things in people at certain points of higher development?

Answer: We must reach a state in which we would become convinced that the struggle is necessary, opposites must open up, and we must bring ourselves to our starting point in which we were born.

At this point a person must attain them, come to terms with them, connect with them, and achieve true harmony. That is, harmony begins when we achieve the unity of opposites.

A person must agree that what is offered to him in the form of a world of struggle of opposites is in fact our illusory world. And if we advance correctly, then instead of these two opposite forces—for example, yin – yang—we will disclose a single force that lies inside these two opposites and gives birth to them only so that they reveal this force itself.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 11/18/22

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Question: Should our country [Israel] be strong?

Answer: It should take care of those of citizens who according to state regulations should live, exist, and be protected here.

We have no other land! We have no other place. We have no other country! We must have our own strong army and our place on this planet. And although everyone will encroach on it, we must tell everyone the truth to their face: “This is ours! It was, it is, and it will be.”

Question: Until when will there be such a position as you said?

Answer: Until the complete correction of human egoism on the whole planet.

Comment: But you are always talking about connection, about unity of people.

My Response: That is what we will do along the way.

Question: So this is how, by remaining such a strong encampment, a fortress, we will move toward unity of all mankind?

Answer: Only in this way! Only under this condition! Set an example and lead the way.

Comment: Are you not perplexed by the unification of two such poles? One pole is a strong, powerful state, ready to fight back against everyone, and so on, and on the other hand—unity and connection are such a warm state.

My Response: That is very correct. And precisely because it is a strong country.

Question: And we have to radiate this warmth one way or another?

Answer: Yes. Do not agree to any concessions!

Question: And if we say that we want to rely only on ourselves?

Answer: Yes. Isn’t that how it turns out?

Comment: But we do have help.

My Response: Yes, but we still rely on ourselves.

Question: Is this right?

Answer: We get help for all this, but we still hope to rely on forces that we have. We do not sign a contract with someone and after that we have a quiet rest.

Comment: You think that if some conditions come that we will be given help if, for example, we create two countries here…

My Response: No! It is all out of the question. Any compromises, agreements of this type are out of the question. We do not owe anyone anything, we do not have to, and we will not give it to anyone.

Question: And as a result, as you have already said, this state should radiate warmth, connection, and love for one’s neighbor?

Answer: Yes—to be a light for all nations of the world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/3/22

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Question: Do you have students who were only briefly in contact with you and you invested something in them that should be revealed in the future?

Answer: No, it is impossible to do this from a brief contact. There is no way. A student has to be annulled to a certain extent before the teacher. He must desire to annul himself and try to do it. You cannot pick a person up from the street and direct certain energy at him through glowing yellow eyes in one gaze and he becomes a werewolf like in a movie. There is no such thing.

Question: But at the same time, you yourself did not understand what Rabash was doing with you. You did not know what proper annulment and all these things you are talking about were, did you?

Answer: I did not know, but, on the other hand, I was hoping that such work was going on. And unfortunately, I was not able to appreciate it. In the end, whatever happened happened.

And today’s contact is completely different when I, together with the group, sort of come to my teacher and ask him to help me work with them—and through them with the rest of the world—to continue our common mission. I turn to him; on one hand I am connected with the group, and on the other hand, the group is connected with the world through our dissemination, and so on. That is, everything goes along the same chain.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, The Fate of the Kabbalist” 11/2/09

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Comment: You once said that students should listen to the teacher, follow his recommendations, and that if we could take this step, the spiritual field is already ready and a huge space will open up to us. And you said that you also listen to Rabash’s advice, as if he gives you something in real-time, and you, as though, overcome yourself.

My Response: Of course, after all the body has absolutely nothing to do with this.

These are the ten Sefirot that exist at the lowest level and are updated with their own Reshimo, with an information record. Therefore, it seems to you that the body is born, lives, and dies, is born, lives, and dies. Actually, the ten Sefirot change in this form.

A spiritual person is appreciated not by the low ten Sefirot, but by his altruistic ten Sefirot. In them he exists eternally, possesses and manages himself.

What does it mean that Rabash or Baal HaSulam died? Nobody dies. And in general, there is no death, just Reshimot that are renewed in us, and this is how we perceive their transformation. Therefore, contact with Baal HaSulam and Rabash remains as simple as it was before.

Comment: But you say that you, like your students, have to overcome what comes from Rabash. That is, you do not always agree with this…

My Response: Always disagree! And I must constantly change myself. And thank God that I feel it, understand it, comprehend it. and change.

My egoism never agrees with the spiritual, does it? Does not agree. Every minute it is updated and “against,” “against.” Every minute I correct it: “for,” “for.”

Question: So your work is absolutely identical to ours, even though you have understanding of the system?

Answer: Of course! And it is this way until the final correction.

But my work is performed in a larger volume of information, in the feeling of the system, in the feeling of this moving flow, interconnections.

It is a magnificent feeling! You live inside a system that breathes and controls everything. These are completely different states and forces.

A fusion of opposites happens when they connect and complement each other instead of an unbearable contradiction. And when a click happens, a correct grip between them, and from this state there is a feeling of perfection, a complementation of absolutely inconceivably opposite phenomena, characteristics, and qualities—this is spiritual ecstasy.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Universal Orgasm” 11/23/13

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What do you think of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which is conductor-less?“

It is very unique and against nature, because the conductor is the higher force and thought, the orchestra’s head, the one who unites them and manifests his will in them. I have no idea how they manage to function without a conductor.

I cannot imagine any group made up of individual egoists who have no higher guide that leads them, whether we call it the conductor, the manager, the leader, the father figure, or several other names.

How can they feel this force of leadership? They must feel each other more and more, making some internal corrections and movements, which must be very difficult. I would love to talk to them about it.

They must be united by the fact that each of them must be a conductor in some way. Through their inner desires and heartbeats, a connection of hearts, they must be willing to unite and to lead themselves together. I cannot even figure it out. Each one must see the inner feelings of the others.

Based on the video “The Conductor-Less Orpheus Chamber Orchestra – A Kabbalist’s Response” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Semion Vinokur. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Now you can understand the root of the corruptions that were incorporated promptly in the thought of creation, which is to delight His created beings.

“God has made them one opposite the other.” In that state, the turbid, corporeal body is set before us, of which it was said, “For the inclination of a man’s heart is evil from his youth.” This is so because its entire nursing from its youth is from the yeast of the Klipot. (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 4, Item 17)

The root of all the suffering and problems is only in the will to receive, in the desire, not just to enjoy, but to enjoy for one’s own sake

Question: Then why did the Creator create these desires?

Answer: In order for us, despite the desire to enjoy, to prefer the desire to bring pleasure to others so that we would rise above the desire to bring pleasure to ourselves and turn it into a desire to please others.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 11/20/22

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Question: Some researchers postulated that when a person is in doubt, it deprives him of balance and puts them in disharmony. The researchers found that when people were asked if they often doubt their decisions, most of the people answered affirmatively: either they thought a lot and had doubts before making any decision, or they had doubts but tried to rely on their intuition.

Why does a person doubt? Is constant doubt depriving him of harmony?

Answer: Doubts are a characteristic feature of a person and indicate that he really feels the present and the future and does not agree with such feelings. He still lacks additional feelings. An animal practically has no doubts, but a person lives all the time in a state of doubts and validations.

Question: Is it good that he is constantly in this state?

Answer: This is a sign of his development.

Question: Can doubt be imagined as a state in which a person can get stuck?

Answer: This is already problematic and may be a sign of a lack of information or internal disturbance in awareness, in decisions, and in feeling oneself, the world, and so on. There are many related problems here.

Therefore, there is no real harmony. But it is possible to somehow imagine it in a limited form. That is, to understand that my problem is getting as close to harmony as possible.

Question: Does it help to achieve harmony when people try to think less and listen to intuition more?

Answer: If you try not to think at all, then there will be complete harmony.

Comment: But people say, “I’m trying,” so they are probably not very successful in it.

Answer: Yes, of course, this is a problem—to think less. Many would like to since there are so many medications associated with this condition. In general, of course, this is a disease, it is part of a big problem for humanity.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 11/18/22

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Comment: Irina writes: “Can you explain this law written in the Torah from which, in my opinion, all the troubles come: “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”? She thinks that all troubles come from this.

My Response: I do not think so. How else can you bring people together and give them a proper understanding of their mutual connection?

Comment: Apparently, Irina thinks: “Do not respond.” Do not show that when you were hit, you hit back—an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. So, you hit, and I do not respond.

My Response: You simply misunderstand the nature of man. Because if a person’s nature is egoistic, then only in this way can he be taught.

The world is developing this way for a reason—in continuous wars. People are gradually learning this. I think we are close to realizing that since we are egoists, the absolute law of action and reaction can be applied to us. An eye for an eye. And so we will act until we realize that we do not need an eye or a tooth, but we just need to treat each other correctly.

Question: So “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” leads to the fact that we will abandon this law? Is that what it exists for?

Answer: Yes. Because, in fact, this is the law of absolute nature, the correct nature. The one who takes must give as much and even more in order to learn next time not to hit first, not to harm.

Question: Because he will be afraid that he will be hit back?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And this is a natural law. We went through this as children. I hit someone, someone hits me back, then I understood that next time I would not hit.

You said, “It will lead to another law.” What will this law “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” lead to?

Answer: It is already said in the Bible that people will not raise a sword against people.

Question: And what will be the result?

Answer: Everyone will limit himself to the fact that he will not demand anything from another and will not give anything to another. Everyone will try to find the right solution to any conflict.

Comment: The law of Sodom was “What is mine is mine, what is yours is yours.”

My Response: That is why it did not work.

Comment: You just said something like this: “I will not rise against you, I will not fight with you, what is mine is mine, and what is yours is yours.”

My Response: No, it was not even possible to give to each other there. Meaning, any connection was denied—both bad and good. You have no right to approach anyone else, to give or to take.

Question: Yes. Not even to a beggar—no one. Do not host anyone in your home. You live, and he lives. And there is a gap between us. Was the whole destruction of Sodom because of this?

Answer: It is necessary to teach people that this is also forbidden.

Question: Then what is the correct law that we are coming to? After all these “An eye for an eye,” “What is mine is mine, what is yours is yours,” what is the right law that we will all come to?

Answer: “What is yours is yours, and what is mine is yours.”

Comment: This is a hard rule! Impossible!

I understand; Baal HaSulam, the great Kabbalist, wrote that we will come to such a state that “What is yours is yours, what is mine is yours,” and you believe in it very much. But this is absolute fiction for a person.

My Response: This is the nature of the spiritual degree.

Question: When there is only bestowal and nothing in return?

Answer: Nothing. And I am not asking for anything because the global force of nature called the Creator stands on the fulfillment of this law. If we want it to be fulfilled, then this force, the Creator, will manifest between us. He is just waiting for this desire from us.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/13/22

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