Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Where will love take you? To what extent will it influence people?“

If you start loving and caring about everyone and everything in nature—the still, vegetative, animate and human—according to the law of love, then you will see the immense influence it will have.

First, you will receive great satisfaction through everyone and everything in nature through your loving attitude toward them. You will start feeling reality through them as your and their mutual inclusion. You then integrate with the world and discover the force acting throughout the world. You start acknowledging the force that develops, evolves and enlivens nature. This is how all created beings exist. You thus start identifying with the force that controls nature.

Why is it that a loving attitude toward the still, vegetative, animate and human levels of nature, to everything and everyone around me, can reveal the force that controls nature?

It is because this force exists in everyone and everything, only you do not exist in the same values in order to reveal and feel it. Therefore, it is hidden. You hide it because of your disparity in qualities: you have hatred within yourself, and nature is absolute love.

Love toward everyone is life’s peak. Achieving it lets us feel the perfect and eternal reality, and you also become perfect and eternal.

Based on the video “Where Will Love Take You?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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There is no redemption of the body without redemption of the soul. As long as the majority of the people are captive in the foreign cultures of the nations and are incapable of Israel’s religion and culture, the bodies, too, will be captive under the alien forces (Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar“).

Question: What does in captivity of foreign cultures mean? After all, it is good that everyone came to Israel with their own culture; it enriches the people.

Answer: But we must rise above all cultures into our culture, which is called mutual love, mutual connection. If we rise to this, then we can really move forward to the likeness of the Creator. This is the task of our development.

Question: Do you think that until now the people who live here are each in their own culture?

Answer: Even without any culture, but not in one.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/26/22

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Question: Is there any connection between the ten Egyptian plagues, the ten Sefirot and the Ten Commandments?

Answer: Yes. Everything is divided into tens.

Question: Why were there exactly ten plagues?

Answer: Because this is an absolutely complete impact, good or bad, of one on the other: the Creator on the creation, the creations on the Creator, and them among themselves.

Question: Are we talking about my desires that must receive ten portions of blows in order to get out of the egoistic intention?

Answer: Yes, at each of the degrees, in every desire, there must be a revelation of egoism. This is called the revelation of evil. Only then does a person come to the decision to rise above his ego.

In other words, my soul, my core desire, consists of ten Sefirot. And since they are all with an egoistic intention, each of them must receive a blow in order to get rid of the ego.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 5/10/22

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Question: A person has standards of perception, initial attitudes. Through development, he must somehow change them. One can tune in to a certain picture of the world and by working hard can change it in accordance with the purpose of his own development.

What are the tools that change the picture of the world in accordance with the ultimate goal?

Answer: There is only one way to see the world in a different way—rapprochement with each other. Distancing from each other will not give us the realization that we are delving into the world more. Rapprochement with each other will lead to the fact that a lot of forces of resistance to this will arise in us.

And at the junction between our efforts to get closer and the forces of nature to separate us, we will begin to feel the revelation of nature, the revelation of ourselves. There we will see a  human.

It will be a radically different perception of reality—the correct, true revelation of egoism. If we begin to strive for rapprochement with each other and feel how nature repels us from each other, but we still insist on rapprochement and nature insists on our distance, then at the junction of these two opposing forces we will discover the truth.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 4/29/22

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Question: The Creator is the force that created us, that affects each of us through the ten or even through all of humanity. Does it mean that there is no direct influence on an individual, although everyone feels it personally?

Answer: One person as such does not exist. He always has a connection with the Creator, and the Creator has a connection with him through the ten.

Even if something happens to us, it still goes through the entire system. The Creator has no connection and no relationship with each person at all, only through the system in which he exists.

It is like we consist of billions of cells, and there is no point in one cell.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 5/10/22

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Question: Today’s children are not taught correct relationships in schools. How will we come to this?

Answer: Through the blows of fate and very serious blows at that. Nature will not forgive our separation, not according to any principle whether national, religious, social, political, or economic—no matter which.

No separation! Neither into classes, nor into sectors, nor into borders; nature today will not stand it. Any of our separation, division, or rationing will be met by nature with the opposing forces. Such a society will feel its complete failure.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Europe Today” 1/26/11

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The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact) (James D. Watson).

Comment: Scientists cannot explain how or why these changes occur.

My Response: But there are things that we can really change in ourselves by making some rearrangements in the genes. It is just the inner part of our body; its higher level is where information about it is encoded. It is not beyond our reach. It is in our power to change things there because it is an egoistic part of our existence.

Imagine such a tool as a man has been created, in his animal body, with his own characteristics. It contains certain information and some kind of program of existence and development. We get access to this program because we have already developed to a certain degree and can tap into this block within us, either to do something with good intentions or, as usually happens, with bad ones.

A while back we gained access to primitive weapons, then to firearms, then to the atomic bomb. We can use them either for harm or for good. It’s the same here. We have two ways before us: either to act for the benefit of humanity or to harm it. So it will be until people come to their senses.

But it’s all a matter of technology! I don’t see anything out of reach here. We will be able to somewhat understand the causes of certain diseases and psychological and psychotic disorders.

But of course this will not solve our problem as humanity, nor the problem of our existence or the meaning of life. It is just in charge of our body.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Dissenting Opinion” 8/29/10

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is my role in my nature?“

We all live within a nature that is round, closed, whole and complete, with endless degrees and interactions and interconnections between its parts. We are parts of this immense system and cannot digest its wholeness, greatness, perfection and eternity. However, nature is a perfectly interconnected system, and as such, it is impossible for anything to move without everything else moving accordingly.

Nature is constantly headed toward a whole, perfect and complete state. Its parts belong to one of the five parts, which in Hebrew are called Shoresh (root), Alef (one), Bet (two), Gimel (three), Dalet (four) or still, vegetative, animate and speaking. They all move in a direction where they do not become one, but they connect, and through their connection, it is as if they become one.

In the relationships between the participatory parts is a law of connection that reveals itself up to a point of love, i.e. a state of complete interconnection and interdependence, where everyone is important and existing in a common love. It is as written, “the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,” i.e. everyone understands that they are parts of the same body. Accordingly, as we cannot harm our own bodies, we likewise reach a state where we cannot harm any other part of creation, not even the smallest or the most distant ones.

Therefore, when we consider people or any other phenomenon in life, we should seek to know its source in the general global system of nature, and thus seek how we should respond correctly to what we feel from experiencing a certain phenomenon or a certain person, and how we mark their place in the general system.

Based on the video “What Is Our Role in Nature?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash.

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Peace in the World”

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 2, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 5, Item 51

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