We must try to understand the principle of our connection with the genuine universe, the revelation of the Creator, which consists precisely in getting closer to the property of bestowal, love, and connection, but at the same time not in disconnecting from the opposite properties of closeness, bestowal, connection, and love.

That is, the opposite properties will also be revealed in us, the properties of rejection all the way to hatred. But these seemingly mutually exclusive properties should be together. They allow us to exist as independent creatures. Otherwise, we would simply disappear and the Creator would exist.

We cannot imagine this because the Creator would not exist in the sense in which we can talk about Him because He is the property of the connection of opposites, the unification of the separated parts. And if there were no creation, there would be no Creator.

Therefore, as the creation develops, it becomes more and more egoistic, torn to pieces, distant, and divided in all its properties. This is only so that we further reveal the unity and reveal the property of the Creator.

That is why it is written: “You created Me.” You create Me, that is, it is from the opposite; from egoism, hatred, and rejection of each other we build this property of attraction and connection all the way to love, to complete mutual inclusion of everyone in everything.

Thus, we achieve precisely this property, which one might say did not exist before us and is called the Creator. This is the goal of our development.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us,” Lesson 1

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What are some good things that we should look forward to in the year 2022?“

That people will open their eyes to understand the universal formula of nature—one of perfect connection and mutuality—to see, feel, enter into and exist in this formula.

We would then experience an opposite world to our current one. Everybody would live according to the tenet, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” and we would experience harmony and balance on all of nature’s levels.

Based on “News with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman” on December 20, 2021. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: There are disciplines involved in interpreting Bible prophecies. Is it possible to establish the accuracy of their interpretation, the single true meaning of the text?

Answer: No it is not possible. The fact is that a prophet never speaks accurately because the integration of our world with the spiritual world is very ambiguous, difficult, and happens around certain people or even one person. It is not that you would simply go out on the street and see how the world has changed, that is, what the prophet has said and this is how it would appear to everyone.

The world has many different shapes, and everyone can feel it to the extent of their equivalence with the prophet, with the prophecy. Therefore, everyone will see what he wants.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/21/21

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Question: What is the main message in the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah?

Answer: It is about the fact that our world is developing toward more and more universal communication at all levels and in all its parts, and we need to support this connection between everyone and in everything.

Therefore, we are trying to reach out to people in all languages and at all levels so that they understand that the most important thing for everyone is communication, connection, and mutual support. Only then can we achieve the correction of the world.

The whole Torah speaks about proper communication between people, which is expressed in love for one’s neighbor, in mutual guarantee.

Question: Is that why asceticism and seclusion are not encouraged?

Answer: This should all be inside a person: be ascetic about yourself and friendly with a wide embrace toward others.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/7/21

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Comment: According to the current educational system, the teacher tells the children facts that are written in a textbook and all students should accept these facts as indisputable truths without expressing their opinions, without discussing anything about them, just accept them and that’s it.

My Response: The modern school has no goal to make a Man out of a person. “Man” in Hebrew is “Adam,” from the word “Domeh“—”similar to the Creator.” That is, schools do not have the goal of raising a child to a special level in his or her inner development, of giving the fullest and perfect realization of his or her inner potential, which is called a soul.

This is completely out of the question because no one knows anything about this level, not the students nor their teachers.
Here we are faced with the fact that we need to restructure the entire educational system and most importantly the system of upbringing.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Generation” 8/24/09

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The whole globe geographically consists of parts that are a projection of spiritual forces. External spiritual forces act on matter and form their consequences in our world: continents, seas, oceans, and everything else. Since these forces are diverse, their influence on our world differs.

Therefore, there are seas, oceans, land, deserts, forests, fertile lands, and areas where a person can live and where he is unable to live.

In addition, there are places more favorable from a spiritual point of view, spiritual states develop there. There are places opposite to spirituality where egoistic spiritual states develop, such as the confrontation between Rome and Jerusalem.

Rome represented explicitly an egoistic power to subjugate, so the whole of Europe adopted this ideology and developed in egoism. But as we are now approaching the stage of correcting the world, Europe will gradually fall more and more.

In Kabbalah, particularly in the Study of the Ten Sefirot, which forces that act on each piece of land is described: first on Jerusalem, then on the land of Israel, on Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, the rest of the parts up to Babylon, and then on the rest of the world.

The whole land of Israel is, so to say, divided into ten Sefirot. From Hermon through the Golan to Lake Kinneret it is like upper Malchut, Bina. Jordan is Zeir Anpin. Jerusalem is in the middle, like the Sefira Tifferet, which then descends into the lower Malchut—into the Dead Sea.

This whole geographical picture is clearly constructed according to the projection of spiritual forces. Therefore, it is very important where a person lives. If he feels the influence of various spiritual forces, then moving from place to place, he will feel how everything changes. It is not for nothing that it is said that by changing a place, you change luck, i.e., fate.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up—Return” 2/19/10

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Question: There are prophets who received information in a dream. What is this way of communicating with nature?

Answer: These are all levels of attainment. In fact it does not mean a dream or a conversation or seeing with our usual instruments.

It is often written in the sources that the prophets received information not directly from the Creator but through angels. Angels are a level of connection with the upper force, with nature.

The highest level is adhesion with the Creator when all the forces that exist in a person are locked onto the Creator. There is no longer a division in communication into any levels, for example, vision, hearing, or sensations. Everything is included in this highest level.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/21/21

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