In the News (National Post): “A book burning held by an Ontario francophone school board as an act of reconciliation with Indigenous people has received sharp condemnation from Canadian political leaders and the board itself now says it regrets its symbolic gesture.

“The “flame purification” ceremony, first reported by Radio Canada, was held in 2019… . Some 30 books, the national broadcaster reported, were burned for ‘educational purposes’ and then the ashes were used as fertilizer to plant a tree.

“’We bury the ashes of racism, discrimination and stereotypes in the hope that we will grow up in an inclusive country where all can live in prosperity and security, ‘says a video prepared for students about the book burning, Radio Canada reported.

“In total, more than 4,700 books were removed from library shelves at 30 schools across the school board… .”

Comment: I see that humanity has recently wanted to solve the problems of equality in this way.

My Response: But it is easier than educating.

Comment: You see, schools went for it. That is, those places that are designed to educate burn books.

My Response: Nothing can replace education. Because it changes a person, in the end it sets the goal of changing a person. And everything else is different, external.

Question: So hatred of these writers, of these books, is a departure from correct upbringing?

Answer: Of course. They wrote everything correctly for their time, once they were progressive people. These people were held in reverence, as the torch of humanity.

Comment: In general, each generation destroys what was built by another generation.

My Response: This is the problem, what must be destroyed correctly in order to build correctly. And what did they build on the fact that they destroyed slavery? Everyone became slaves. All are slaves.

Question: Then what do you call correct upbringing?

Answer: When a person is taught to love his neighbor. Teach everyone to love each other and there will be no talk of slavery.

Question: By doing so, you remove the basis of inequality?

Answer: Yes. What are you doing with this? You reveal hatred for each other between all strata, estates, and so on, and you also kind of develop it. And what’s the use? Has slavery stopped? No.

This is a camouflaged slavery, it is still here today at all levels. Man in his nature wants to subjugate his neighbor. So where is this eradicated?

Question: Education should be aimed not at erasing all the pages of history we used to have? Do not burn anything, do not break monuments? Do not remember anything, and from this moment start, as you say, the line of trying to love your neighbor?

Answer: Yes. And then you don’t have to break anything old.

Question: How is the old seen if we reach this level?

Answer: It was like that. We were all small and soiled diapers. That’s how we grew up. We did stupid things, broke dishes. We’ve all walked this way of growing up.

Question: And should have passed it?

Answer: How could it be otherwise? This is humanity, these are its natural stages of growing up. Objectively, this happened, and therefore we must not forget about it. And today we have nothing to be ashamed of and accountable for the past, nothing!

We just have to realize why nature has done it to us. This is a huge egoism that we still have today. But how can you really fix it? We must get rid of the bondage of selfishness in ourselves! Each one and everyone together. That’s all.

Comment: Then we will even be grateful for these pages of history that were. They led us to this decision.

My Response: Yes! And we will definitely have to properly possess this egoism. And if we destroy it, we remain hanging in the air.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/23/21

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Comment: Wise people say that it is necessary to give, you have to restrict your desires.

My Response: And why don’t you do it? Because you don’t believe these wise people.

Comment: No, because it’s hard. We humans are trying to do this. Sometimes it works out to restrict our desires, in most cases not.

My Response: It is necessary, it is needed, it is profitable. But is this the task that we face in any case or can we avoid it? There are a lot of questions here. Why do I want to change myself, change my nature? What does it give me in the end?

Comment: Revelation of the spiritual world.

My Response: What does revelation of the spiritual world mean? To reveal the quality of bestowal and love for everyone in oneself,  that’s what it means to reveal the spiritual world.

We reveal our world in our egoistic desire and what we observe around us, we see in this desire. Everything that enters me and fills my egoism is called “this world.” Whoever has more egoism feels this world as big. Whoever has a small one, like small children or animals, plants, etc., to this extent he feels this world. So the spiritual world is felt only in the quality of bestowal and love.

We need to think about it: “What will it give me?” I must, after all, learn to respect and appreciate the spiritual qualities, the qualities of bestowal and love. And if I really see that they are so important, necessary—not for me, but for the world, others, because I should not think about myself—then I will go for it.

Love is something that does not apply to me, but to others. I fill others with my good qualities, feelings, and desires if I want to do everything to make them feel good.

To love your neighbor means to make any person in the world your neighbor and give him even more than you give yourself.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/16/21

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Question: You often say that if a person asks for himself, by doing this he harms his soul. Is it worth asking the Creator to change my destiny?

Answer: What for? Behave as you should, try to be better and better, and then the Creator Himself will change everything. To the extent that you try to obey His rules, He will obey yours.

Question: Let’s say I made a choice and acquired the quality of the Creator, am I still under His power, in His qualities?

Answer: Not in His, but in your qualities. You take His nature. It becomes yours. In this case, you get your own power and the opportunity to realize yourself. And you are already under your own power, and not under His.

Having risen above the egoistic nature, you control your destiny with the help of the altruistic nature, and thus you exist eternally in the best condition.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/26/21

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Why is anti-Semitism rising?“

There are two forces operating in the world: the force of reception, which is the human ego, and the force of bestowal, the altruistic force that we need to attract to ourselves in order to reach balance and harmony among each other and with nature.

These two forces contradict each other.

In the egoistic nature of our world, there is a small group called “Israel,” which comes from the words “Yashar Kel,” which means “straight to the upper force,” that had once detached itself from the ego’s control, and achieved a genuine altruistic nature.

The more humanity—and the human ego—develops, the more the forces of reception and bestowal endure an ongoing struggle, and this conflict becomes expressed in our world as friction between Jews, i.e., the ones who bear the altruistic quality in potential, and non-Jews, i.e., the nations of the world, which defines the opposite quality of reception.

Antagonism between the two forces of receiving and giving aims at pulling us, the people of Israel, and then the rest of the world, toward the giving force.

At this juncture, antisemitism appears as a law of nature that helps Jews realize their mission: to unite above differences and be a conduit for an atmosphere of unity to envelop humanity.

Doing so would elevate humanity to another level of existence, one of peace, balance and harmony with nature.

Based on the video “Why the Urgency to Discuss Anti-Semitism Specifically in Our Time?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: Do you believe that leaders can self-restrict on a planetary scale like is done in the Scandinavian countries? For example, in Finland, the prime minister commutes to work without security officers, and sometimes even bicycles.

It is simply impossible to imagine such a thing in certain countries of the world. No one will perceive this person as a leader. Do you think that elites are capable of self-restraint in order to save themselves?

Answer: To save themselves—yes! But I do not know whether such a time has come.

The fact that this is happening in the Scandinavian countries is explained by the special relationship between the people and the peculiarity of the national character. This is natural for them. I would say that this is a kind of frozen state, that, in general, is specific to these people.

Question: Is this possible in Israel? Is the Israeli national character capable of this?

Answer: No. This is not possible anywhere else.

Remark: But Jews are most sensitive to justice. They must be the first to achieve mutual love and equality.

My Comment: At the same time, they are the most spoiled and have the greatest egoism, which we do not see in the Scandinavian nations. There, people are very level-headed. But here, people do not feel any limitations. This is their inner state.
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From Kab TV’s “Conversations” 11/1/21

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Question: What is The Ark of the Covenant?

Answer: The Ark of the Covenant (Aron Kodesh) is the place where the main desire of all people is placed, where they gather into one single desire.

Although it consists of a huge number of different desires, they all unite above them, and such union gives rise to the opportunity to be connected with the Creator.

That is, it is the most important spiritual force of the people, its central point.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/13/21

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Question: Today, according to some researchers, every tenth married couple is unable to conceive a child without medical help. It is worth noting that in 40% of married couples, the cause of infertility is the disease of a woman, and in 45% of cases the problem is with a man.

What are the spiritual roots of the fact that today a man is not able to produce offspring?

Answer: This is a result of our egoistic development. The bestowing, life-giving part comes from a man. However, we in our egoism are so closed within ourselves that we are unable to do even this. Our inner, mental, spiritual qualities begin to manifest themselves at the physiological level.

Look at what is happening nowadays with the genders, with their interaction with each other, how much they withdraw into themselves: women are closing themselves in their society and men in their own. They find some extraneous, alternative forms of sexual satisfaction. That is, everything is unnatural, everything is very far from nature. And this will continue to grow.

Question: Why is this happening?

Answer: This is a long story that continues throughout the development of the entire human race. At one time in Ancient Greece, in the East, etc. there were entire cultures of mutual attraction between women or between men. However, this was not an absolute norm and was cultivated among a very narrow circle of people, for example, among the aristocracy or in harems.

A person feels the need for this, because due to his egoism he does not find normal contact with the opposite sex to really be satisfying, enjoyable, to find warmth, a sense of at least some mutual understanding and support.

I believe this is the cause of a great number of diseases, in particular impacting the nervous system, cardiac system and others. The correct relationship between the genders would balance human nature, would lead to a decrease in stress, psychosomatic and heart diseases.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Two-headed eagle” 1/1/10

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Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #68 “Man’s Connection to the Sefirot“

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom” 

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Question: The 83^rd year of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass,  was recently commemorated. A memorial monument of the Austrian Jews who were murdered on Kristallnacht and in the Holocaust was unveiled in Vienna.

How important is it in your opinion to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust especially these days?

Answer: I don’t relate to it either negatively or positively since the reason for Kristallnacht and other such events has not been corrected yet. I believe that such events may repeat at any moment. We haven’t learned anything, neither the Jews nor those who hate us.

No one understands and no one relates to the true reason for anti-Semitism that is growing all over the world. We always look for culprits and want to show who started it, but we need to point only at ourselves, the Jews who don’t correct ourselves and are not drawn to connection between us and to connection with the world in order to finally bring it to the good connection.

So the reason for such events is still relevant, and we are still in that same night that took place decades ago and which continues to this very day.

Question: Should we remember and commemorate these events?

Answer: Of course we should do that, because then we have a chance to tell people that we need to correct the connection between us if we don’t want such events to repeat.

If we are connected with the right internal intention between us Jews, we will draw the whole world in this direction.
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