Question: It is written in the Torah that there is no witchcraft against Israel, meaning against those who seek to reveal the property of bestowal, which is the Creator. Why is it so?

Answer: The root of everything that exists is the Creator. The upper force of absolute good, which manifests itself in man in the form of absolute evil, emanates from Him. Why is he created this way? So that he understands that he is in a state opposite to the Creator and wants to make himself similar to Him.

A person who aspires directly to the Creator is called Israel (Isra – straight, El – the Creator). Absolutely everyone in our world can be like this. It does not matter what color his skin is or who he is by origin. Only one thing is important: his aspiration for similarity to the Creator.

The Creator is an absolutely good force. When a person wishes to reach the state of being good and doing good to absolutely everyone in the world, he becomes similar to the Creator.

He gradually ascends the 125 steps of the spiritual world to complete similarity to Him and then is called Israel. If he does this, then practically no forces act on him except for those he needs to overcome to ascend the steps to the Creator.

He works on this in a constant aspiration to get closer to the Creator and he reaches such a state when this is his whole mission, desire, intention, thoughts, feelings, and aspirations. And therefore nothing else can affect him; he is protected.

And if anything acts on him, it is only to provide him with the resistance to overcome to draw even closer to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 2/1/22

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In order to reach greater importance of the mutual guarantee and to be filled with love of friends, we must feel how much we are interconnected, interdependent, and responsible for each other and that we are getting closer and closer to each other.

There is me and the Creator, and all the people on earth connect me to Him. Basically, this is my group, this is the ten, which, as a central thread, connects me to the Creator. And all the others join in more and more. Thus, my connection with the Creator becomes broad, infinite, and unlimited.

The Creator gave us only one small point of connection with the group, and by this He inspires each of us to connect with Him. All the rest we have to do ourselves.

This is the meaning of mutual guarantee: We begin to feel that we are all tied together for one spiritual action, connection between us, and from between us to the Creator.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility” Lesson 6

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Question: Is there such a thing as a covenant with a teacher? Or is it possible only with friends and with the Creator?

Answer: It is the same thing. Everything that a person sees in front of him is given to him now so that he can develop himself spiritually. He must make a covenant with the teacher, with his friends, and with the entire world, in order to achieve adhesion with the Creator. This is the goal.

Question: It means that while a person has not yet attained the Creator, there are friends and other people before him, and he, of course, must make a covenant with them because he does not feel the Creator, but he feels them.

But why then, when he is already in connection with the upper force, is it impossible to make a covenant with the Creator directly? Why does he have to work with people anyway?

Answer: Because this is the state in which a person can reveal the Creator, come closer to Him, and feel Him. Therefore such a covenant happens in connection with the entire world, with the entire universe, with everything that a person can feel in his five senses, and with the source of this state—the Creator.

Question: There is no Creator without a Kli (vessel)?

Answer: There can be no feelings without this. Imagine that you would not see or feel anything that is around you. It would just be emptiness! What would you detect in it?

However, through inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature and through people, the Creator talks to you; He sends you some signals.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/28/21

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Question: Any agreement implies the participation of two parties. Let’s say I commit to do something, and the Creator also commits. What is He obliged to do in this agreement?

Answer: The Creator obliges Himself to respond to all our appeals for correction. And if we commit ourselves to asking Him to improve us in order to achieve equivalence of form to Him, then we oblige Him to help us. This is a mutual agreement.

Question: Is the whole job basically for me to understand the need for my correction and ask the Creator about it, and then the Creator is obliged to fulfill this request if it is correct?

Answer: Yes. This is the union (Brit) that was established by the first Kabbalists, Abraham and his successors. Generally, it comes from Adam.

Question: Do we make such an agreement at all 125 degrees?

Answer: It is as if we are extending it, raising it to the level of the degree that we have attained. If I have corrected myself to some extent, then this is forever, there is no turning back.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/28/21

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Michael Laitman, On The Times of Israel: “The Russia-Ukraine War: Fertile Ground for Antisemites”

Whenever there is a conflict or problem in the world, it rapidly becomes “open season” on Israel. Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, social media platforms have massively echoed anti-Israeli voices comparing the war in Eastern Europe to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Such a parallel was recently drawn by UK Labour MP Julie Elliott during a parliamentary debate on the recognition of Palestine. Meanwhile, British Conservative MP Stephen Crabb called that comparison, “historically wrong, factually wrong, and morally wrong.” But antisemites do not need rational logic to justify their accusations.. They take advantage of any opportunity to accuse Israel of wrongdoing.

Former Egyptian football player Mohamed Aboutrika slammed the Federation of International Football (FIFA) after it banned Russia from all soccer competitions, but avoided applying the same punishment to Israel, which he accuses of human rights violations.

Slander against Israel and the Jewish people is nothing new. Any piece of information can be manipulated or distorted to fit someone’s narrative. Israel is portrayed as attacking Gaza for no reason when in fact, we are only defending ourselves. People can say whatever they want, but in truth, we are not Nazis as some claim, we are not against anyone and have never assaulted others just because we felt like it.

But there are no limits for what others can say or write to incriminate Jews for anything bad in the world. Any piece of information can be manipulated or distorted to someone’s agenda or interest against Jews.

The background and history of the conflicts and wars in the Eastern European countries are in no way comparable to the history of the Jews and the State of Israel. The realities are completely different, but Israel’s haters will ignore every reasonable explanation. They will not admit it, but deep inside they think “don’t bother me with the facts.”

Antisemitism is a natural instinct in every human being. It has existed for thousands of years—from the time when Jews received the Torah at the foot of Mount Sinai (from the Hebrew word “Sina,” meaning hatred) to rise above the hatred revealed between them and from the nations of the world against the people of Israel.

The hatred against Jews will never disappear until we as a people realize and implement the mission we were given, fulfill the true reason why the people of Israel exist, carry out what humanity expects from us: to transition from unfounded hatred to unfounded love and by doing so become a “light unto the nations.”
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My new article on Linkedin “To Reduce Air Pollution, Work from Home”

A recent article by Steve Cohen from the Earth Institute at Columbia University elaborates on the benefits of preferring electric cars to cars powered by internal combustion engines. Cohen acknowledges that “Decarbonization will take decades, and … some of the opposition will be justified because these installations will have a negative impact on a community.” Nevertheless, he insists, “The argument that electric vehicles pollute too much is not persuasive. They pollute less than vehicles powered by the internal combustion engine,” and “that is the only comparison that matters.”

In my opinion, we are looking at the whole situation backwards. Even Cohen, an avid supporter of electric vehicles, admits that “We will see progress as we make the problem less bad, but we will not solve the problem.” So, instead of searching for ways to minimize the damage while maintaining our harmful lifestyle, I think we should change our way of life so that we don’t create the problem in the first place.

The current Western lifestyle encourages working many hours with often long drives to and from work. In recent years, things have begun to change, but I think we shouldn’t wait, we must shift to working from home as soon as possible and make this form of work as pervasive as we can.

In Asia, where long workdays and a long workweek were regarded as the norm until recently, there are already winds of change. “Panasonic Corp has joined a small, but growing, number of Japanese companies to offer staff a four-day workweek to encourage better work-life balance,” writes the media company HRM Asia. Panasonic is not alone; it is “part of a global trend,” the article continues, adding that in Japan, “a group of lawmakers is discussing a proposal to grant employees a day off in addition to the two break days a week, to ensure their well-being.”

Forbes magazine, too, writes that “the four-day workweek is gaining big momentum,” and other media outlets have been writing more and more about it.

In my opinion, we should go beyond the four-day workweek. I think that even the work we do should be done primarily from home. It will create less congestion on the roads, give people more free time, and flexible hours even on the days when they do work, and it will drastically reduce the environmental impact of the auto industry, whether it is powered by electric or internal combustion engines.

The automotive industry is only one example. In almost every area of human engagement, we are busying ourselves more than we should, and everyone is paying the price: we, our families, the society, and the planet. Excessive production and excessive work help no one and do not make us happier.

Think about how we would feel if we had two more hours of free time each day—roughly the time we spend commuting to work and back. Now imagine if we worked only four days a week, and from home.

In short, I think we should slow down, dedicate more time for the things we love to do and for the people we care about. It will make us happy; it will make society more peaceful; it will help the environment; and it will help the world. In these troubled times, we could all use some peace of mind.

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Why does the point in the heart awaken in some people and not in others? There is no simple answer to this because it is necessary to see the whole soul, namely, a heart with all the points in the heart.

Only then will we be able to understand everyone’s path and why one comes to it and the other does not, why such changes occur in the life of a person, groups of people, and the whole of humanity.

All this belongs to the upper governance. The Creator brings all the broken parts of the common desire, the common heart, closer, corrects them gradually, and leads to connection and correction.

The point in the heart is constantly connected to the Creator. And the task of a person is to open this point and develop this connection to such an extent that it turns into a conduit that connects a person with the Creator.

And then he will discover that he has not one pipeline but three, and through these channels he can maintain connection with the Creator, have a dialogue with Him, understand Him, and feel Him so much that he becomes an inseparable part of the Creator.

That is why the point in the heart is so important. A person can gradually correct all other desires that are initially corrupted and through them expand their connection with the Creator from one point in the heart to the whole heart. In this way, he approaches the Creator more and more until he becomes completely similar to Him, and then he is called man, Adam, meaning similar (Domeh) to the Creator. This is the goal of our development and everyone must achieve it.

The Creator created man similar to Himself and then deliberately broke him so that we could understand ourselves from the contrast of opposites. From these two opposite qualities, the oppositeness to the Creator and the similarity to Him that is obtained as a result of correction, we can understand the whole essence of the higher force, which is called the Creator, that is: “Come and see.”

After all, we approach Him from afar from the opposite form and gradually become like Him, just as kind and benevolent to others as He is.

My heart is the center of all my desires, thoughts, and aspirations. And if I correct it to love my neighbor, then thanks to this I begin to feel similar to the higher one.

The point in the heart has no width, depth, or height, no dimension. This is just one point of connection with the Creator. But if we want to stay only at this point for the sake of connection with the Creator, then little by little we begin to reveal the whole essence of the Creator through this approach.

We discover that we are actually in the ocean of the Creator’s love, feelings, and actions toward us. He created and does everything only for us. And all this comes to us through this point that has no dimensions, one point of connection like the tip of a needle.

If we want such a connection with the Creator and nothing else, then through this tip of a needle huge streams of upper light, wisdom, sensations, understanding, unity will open up to us, and turn us into an inexhaustible source too.
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From KabTV’s “Basic concepts in the science of Kabbalah” 2/6/22

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Will the United States ever go to war with China?“

While the media reports on the Asia-Pacific region as turning into a powder keg, we should remember that the media is primarily interested in its ratings, and neither America nor China are interested in serious warfare with each other. There is no point in trying to conquer other countries and regions in a world where an all-encompassing global crisis sweeps over us.

The real tension today is between us and nature. Nature is starting to work on us and our goal, which is of utmost importance, is to establish a dialog with it.

Nature will not leave us alone until we change ourselves, and it will change to the extent that we do. There are inanimate, vegetative, animate and human natures. Human nature is at the peak of all the levels of nature, and as such, the other levels depend on it.

If we can become more balanced among each other on our human level, then we can also bring calm to nature’s other levels. Kabbalistic books very clearly state in several places that only the good force exists in nature, and a human being can change everything. Humans cause imbalance in nature, and humans are also capable of bringing about balance.

Based on the video “War Between America and China? 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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The prayer must be a complete prayer, from the bottom of the heart. This means that one knows one hundred percent that there is no one in the world who can help him but the Creator Himself. (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 5, “Lishma Is an Awakening from Above, and Why Do We Need an Awakening from Below?”)

Prayer is considered real if it reaches the Creator. And it can reach Him only if the prayer comes from the depths of a person’s heart, from his most important inner desire, when he is one hundred percent sure that he can achieve what he wants only if the Creator helps him by practically doing all of it for him.

But there is one small “but” here and it is very important! The Creator responds only to a collective request.

You can shout to Him as much as you want, He will not be able to answer you. Because you have to go to Him through a common Kli (vessel)! Just as you were born and fell from the height of your spiritual level to the material one, egoistically breaking away from everyone, so now you must anti-egoistically rise again to the same place, to Him.

Therefore, the request must be collective. In no case will it help you to sit, cry, sob, and beg. It won’t do anything! Only if there are at least two people who, despite their egoism, somehow connect with each other to raise their request to the Creator, in this form it will help.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Asking the Creator to Fill the Place Between Us” Lesson 7

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