They Raise Humanity Closer to the Creator

294.2Question: There were many athletes like Brumel or Yuri Vlasov, for example, who after terrible injuries and illnesses would get back up and overcome their fate. When the Creator tests a person for strength? What is the purpose of this?

Answer: All of this is deposited into the common treasury of the collective soul of all humanity. Such people add a great deal to humanity through their destiny.

Question: What do they help humanity understand?

Answer: They raise humanity closer to the Creator.

Question: Even though they themselves sort of…

Answer: It does not matter how they personally relate to it. I am not saying they are some kind of saints. They simply raise the bar of the human being higher toward the Creator.

But I am not in favor of suffering. There are many similar examples where people choose suffering and think that through it, they rise. This is not correct.

Question: Then the natural question in such cases, and others too is “What does it mean not to suffer?”

Answer: If you clearly understand and you have the right conditions where your suffering makes someone else’s correction or progress easier, then yes. But if it is only in your imagination…

Comment: You have raised the bar now. You said: “If my suffering eases someone’s life, and fate, and soul.” You did not say “me,” but “someone else.”

My Response: Someone else, of course.

Question: “Of course!” That is high! So, it is if my suffering serves as an example for someone and I do it for the sake of the example, to show that it’s possible, to encourage them to try?

Answer: Yes.

Question: That is lofty!

You always speak about annulling before fate, before what the Creator decides. When you say this, what exactly do you mean?

Answer: I mean that I reasonably agree with what stands before me.

Question: Even with my illnesses and so on?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Do I say: “This is from You, and it is necessary for me.” Like that?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What happens then with my pain, with my suffering?

Answer: Agreeing with it creates tranquility within a person. He agrees with his fate, he agrees with the Creator, he agrees to accept everything that is allotted to him according to his destiny.

Question: Is it like an analgesic?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this called “annulment”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And one must reach this?

Answer: I believe so.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/22/25

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633.3One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer

Question: My daughter is still very young, but I am already terribly worried about what will happen to her when she reaches adolescence. How would you advise me to raise her?

Answer: I cannot advise on a particular case because everyone depends on everyone else. It is impossible to separate one from the others. A person is a product of society and the environment, even when that environment is artificial. The problem is that we lack a program for bringing up the new generation.

Question: This is a painful question for anyone who has children. What can we do?

Answer: I do not think anyone really cares about the kids. Parents shun responsibility and don’t want to hear about the problems of young people. They won’t want to listen to what I am saying now either because it is unpleasant. It is easier not to think about anything, as they say: “The suffering of many is half the consolation.”

Everyone thinks, “My children are no worse than others. Should I raise them differently, they will not be able to live in tomorrow’s cruel world. Better that they are like everyone else.” Indeed, one family cannot change anything; as the saying goes, “One swallow does not a summer make.” We are talking about the entire country.

We need to decide globally on what to do with the next generation. There needs to be a global consensus, a common discussion of what to do. The children are still in our hands despite everything on the Internet that we have given them. This is our problem, and we must find a solution because they are under our care.

This problem should be addressed not only at the level of a single country, but at the levels of UNESCO and the UN. Let them finally stop doing all the nonsense and realize that we are losing the younger generation. Where is education? Where is culture? Nothing is left of them. These huge organizations are not doing what they should be doing at all.

A general, global education program is needed. After all, we cannot shut down the Internet or the country, so we need an international approach. This issue should receive the highest priority because it concerns the younger generation.

In 10, 15, or 20 years, they will take our place and will be in charge of life instead of us. If we want to know what will happen then, take a look at teenagers, at how we prepare them. Unfortunately, nothing good is in sight yet.
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From KabTV’s on Radio Station 103FM, 1/8/16

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A Special Gift from the Creator

198Question: A person can come to the meaning of life, reveal it, and feel it, only if he understands that he cannot do without it. That is, it should be above life and death. Does a person bring himself to such an extreme state, or is he being brought to it?

Answer: No, it is done by the soul. It is a soul that seeks to escape, to free itself from the bonds of this life.

Question: So are these special souls, and do we not know when this will happen to us?

Answer: Yes, but gradually more and more souls are approaching this state.

Question: Is that what we call a cry, a prayer?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this a gift from above?

Answer: All this is a gift. Absolutely everything is a gift from the Creator.

Question: So are my efforts to achieve this a gift?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is there no way that it can just occur to a person?

Answer: Not to anyone, ever, in any way. It only comes from the Creator and only to those whom He ordains for it.

Question: Tell me, please, is the revelation of truth the end or the beginning of the work?

Answer: The revelation of truth is the beginning.

Question: And then again do we feel that we cannot breathe, and again it is revealed?

Answer: But this time it is different.

Question: What is the truth?

Answer: It is in attaining the Creator, in attaining the entire universe through the Creator. This is the realization of the perfection of the Creator’s actions.

Question: Is this what we must attain?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Does everyone have to attain this one way or another, sooner or later?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will everyone be put through this—”I cannot breathe unless…”?

Answer: Not to that extent. There are special souls that have to go through it on such a large scale themselves. And there are those who go through it after them, in their footsteps, en masse.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/4/25

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “The Miracle of Hanukkah 7” (1987), (11.27.2015)

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The Flame of Hope Will Never Go Out

962.3Question: People cross oceans to find some land or discover something. This is hope. How can we not lose hope when everything has burned out, when all the candles of hope have flickered out—love, faith, peace of mind, everything?

Answer: It is by knowing that everything is in the hands of the Creator because a person realizes for sure that nothing is in his hands.

Question: Is this candle a hope? Everything is in the hands of the Creator, is this the next step?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why does the Creator always leave us this little step, this last candle?

Answer: To catch us at the last minute, the last second, or the last moment, and to continue on together with us.

This candle is a candle of connection between a person in this world and a person in the upper world.

Question: Does it burn all the time, this candle?

Answer: It escorts the person onward.

Question: Are there states when this candle does not burn, when there is no hope? Do you think such states exist?

Answer: No, it is always lit.

Question: Is this what we call “the Creator is good who does good”?

Answer: Yes, otherwise, such a person would not have been born, for the Creator knows his whole life in advance until the end.

Question: Why do we so often not see this candle and lose hope?

Answer: We are not so attuned to our existence.

Question: What is the right attitude?

Answer: The right attitude is that the goodness of the Creator is always before us.
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959Interaction with the Computer Screen

We need to decide how we want to see the next generation,and we should make a list of principles and behaviors, and accordingly create a program to bring them to this state. It is very important to define the right principles because we may be wrong.

I remember discussing the problem of early sexual relations with psychologists many years ago, and they said it was not a big deal if teenagers started having sex at the age of 13. This seemed controversial to me, but no one wanted to listen to me. As a result, this age has dropped to nine today.

The question remains: Is that a bad thing? In any case, this issue should be brought into a public forum.

We must decide whether this is acceptable or not, and within what framework, so that it does not ruin young people’s lives or damage their future, so they feel that an intimate relationship is more than just sex, and family is more than burdensome responsibilities to each other. If young people perceive family only as a burden, they will not want to get married at all.

We need to understand the peculiarity of the generation that we are facing because it all must change its nature. We are experiencing radical changes in technology and in our relationships, and we have moved from human-to-human connection to human-to-computer-screen connections. Through these screens we are influenced from all over the world, not just from our village, city, or small country.

Comment: Psychologists say that the younger generation lacks empathy. It is precisely because connections have become less “humanized” and more computerized that children have lost the ability to empathize. He may be a wonderful child, but he lacks empathy for those close to him.

My Response: This is a consequence of several phenomena that are related to each other and influence one another. Firstly, there is a change in the climate and in how our planet affects humans. After all, man is an integral part of the whole of nature.

Secondly, our ego is constantly growing, and in the last generation it has grown in a very particular way. We have stopped communicating directly with each other and have switched to communicating through technological means, to a completely different type of communication between people.

I am not connecting with people anymore, but with machines. Even when I am listening to the news, reading something, or talking to someone, I am talking to the car. There are computer systems between us that determine how we feel and understand each other. What I see or do not see, what I hear, and how I react depend on these systems.

Machines determine my connection to the world. That is, we exist in a completely artificial system. We must finally determine what we have come to, and whether we still have a chance to change something, or just raise our hands.
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Cling to the Upper

962.4Comment: Any system, any hierarchy, is built on a leader.

My Response: No. In Kabbalah, the leaders are different. Our leader will be the one who completely annuls himself in relation to me. People still do not understand how strict the hierarchy is in the spiritual world.

In any corporeal sciences or in any corporeal achievements, you can surpass your teacher, move forward and further, as, for example, in the development of sciences. The same applies to children: We want them to develop even more and deeper.

But in Kabbalah a very interesting process takes place. There are two paths in it—from top to bottom and from bottom to top, from the world of infinity to us and from our world to the world of infinity.

Receiving information and spiritual instruction occurs from the top down, and therefore it goes through Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph, David, and so on, that is, through all Kabbalists, and ultimately through my teacher and me to those who are my students and even those who are not.

Suppose people listened to us for a bit, picked up this contact, and they disappeared to who knows where; it does not matter. Even if they live somewhere else and study with someone else, it is not important. As a result, they will come to the same result and then, as if, return back.

What do I want to say? In receiving information from above, a student must annul himself before me. This is called the condition of learning from me “mouth to mouth” (“peh el peh“) on the common level of the screen. This is very important! Baal HaSulam writes about this in many of his works.

I cannot say this to the students, because, first of all, there are those who will think that I need their worship, or that they should completely “erase themselves.” The student must gradually understand what it means to cling to the upper, and on the other hand, he must try to be independent all the time.

Any spiritual state consists of two opposites, and the problem lies in our adapting us to it. Therefore, I am very sorry that sometimes such rejections of students from me occur. But nothing can be done.

Either they do such stupid things themselves that can only be compensated later by many years of searching and by other alternative actions of correction instead of those that they should have done earlier.

It was the same for me with my teacher. There is no such thing as going through it absolutely smoothly. There were many small, stupid distances from him: disobedience, even neglect, depending on the level at which all this is evaluated, measured, weighed.

I am absolutely certain that there has never been a student in history who could completely, from the first moment to the last, annul himself before the teacher, so that information would flow into him from top to bottom in the same way with as a fetus in the mother’s womb, when it completely annuls and therefore becomes an integral part of her body and thus develops.

I see that what happened to me happens very often to my students. I was not the most compliant student; on the contrary, there was something in me…

Question: Is it better for a student’s advancement when he is compliant or rebellious?

Answer: It depends on the root of the soul.

Comment: You know that there are students who do everything without question. On the other hand, there are those who resist.

My Response: This is not the kind of resistance and this is not the kind of submission. Submission can stem from pride, while resistance, on the contrary, from the desire to feel as quickly as possible at the junction of contact, in contradictions, where a person must change himself.
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No Need to Pray for Rain

740.01Comment: Global drought trends show increasing frequency, severity, and areas of land impacted.

My Response: We have so disfigured nature that it simply cannot make up for all that we have done in it. There is a limit to what a person can do and not feel what they are doing. It is like in a car when there are problems, but you can still drive, and somehow move forward, and there are those when it is all over.

Comment: It seems that nature teaches us hard lessons.

My Response: No, I would not say that. Nature protects itself very well, it tries to soften everything. There is a very large margin of safety in it. But we have already crossed all imaginable boundaries.

Question: We know that water is very important in the life of any organism, and humans in particular. Ninety percent of chemical elements are water soluble; the human body is all irrigated and saturated with water.

What is water in human life?

Answer: Water is the foundation. From the point of view of Kabbalah, it is the light of Hassadim, without which one cannot exist. It holds everything together. Not just water, but the very property that it communicates, dissolves and allows you to flow from one state to another. The special properties of water, freezing point and dew point, are very important properties.

Water is practically what gives life to our planet. Of course, nothing will happen without it.

We are already in a state that can be called irreversible. We have to wait until this “patient” finishes his torment and that is it.

There is nothing we can do anyway. We cannot curb our selfishness; we cannot curb our appetites. Grabbing more and more—for what? It doesn’t matter what for. We cannot! Selfishness just makes us do it, that is all. It forces us to do absolutely irrational things. And as a result, we get…

Question: If we return to water, to its physical and spiritual properties. You said that it helps to transfer from one state to another, to break down, and to dissolve. How can a person learn this flowing property of water?

Answer: This is possible only if a person rises above himself, only if he does not use his selfish desire, but cultivates the property of water. This is an altruistic desire.

The property of bestowal, the property of love, the property of connection with others, is the property of water. That is why it is so important and everything is based on it. Inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature exists only because of this. A person has to do something with himself to match the world around him. He is the opposite of it.

Question: We know that in ancient times people called for rain and prayed to the rain god. And what should they do now so that nature becomes merciful to them and gives them water?

Answer: I do not think prayer can make it rain. Let them try.

It is just that nature has to react normally. One act of man against one act of nature. That is, if man destroys nature through his actions, then nature will destroy man by her actions. That is all that is going to happen.

Comment: We see that such abnormal cases occur in southern countries. But now Europe is also suffering from the heat; temperatures are reaching more than 40 degrees Centigrade.

My Response: Europe, Russia, and Siberia will all suffer from the heat, and even more so than the southern countries.

Question: And what happens in the spiritual world? Is there a shortage of the light of Hassadim, the properties of bestowal and love?

Answer: People who enter the spiritual world must create the light of Hassadim themselves from their altruistic actions, from working on their egoism. Otherwise, they will not succeed.

Question: When they are organized in this way, what can this equivalent of water do in spirituality?

Answer: If they organize the light of Hassadim, then they will be able to receive any abundance based on it. Then life develops on its basis.

Question: How does this happen? Where does it come from?

Answer: The spiritual world has everything in abundance. It depends only on a person how to reveal the light of Hassadim and then attract the light of Hochma to it.

It depends only on the person, on his kind attitude to others and to nature.

Question: How can we connect these two entities: the spiritual component, where there is a lot of water, everything is saturated and nourished, and the depleted relationships, the depleted Earth without water, without the light of Hassadim in this world?

Answer: You cannot do anything with our world. It is a consequence of what we produce in the spiritual world. Therefore if we cannot be kind, good, and correspond to the higher world, then this is what we are supposed to do in our world. I do not see any prospects. No.

Unless people eventually realize that they need to listen to the calls of Kabbalists and actually engage in relationships with each other in order to truly become one benevolent family, then our globe simply cannot stand us and will lead to us disappearing from the face of the earth.

Question: Is there a recipe for such an acute situation?

Answer: There is. Tell all the people that everything depends only on their kind attitude toward each other. Otherwise we will die.

Question: If everyone turns around to face each other now, will it rain and the drought will disappear?

Answer: Yes, real life will begin.

Otherwise we will be forced to happiness with a stick. Otherwise you will not get anywhere. There is a certain time, a certain atmosphere, a certain behavior of people where it is possible to do all this. But if we cannot take advantage of it, then other problems happen and evil times come.

Question: What are your wishes for people who suffer from the heat?

Answer: To get smarter. We need to understand that we don’t need to pray for rain. We don’t need to do anything with nature or anything else. We need to ask the Creator to help us become wiser and begin to apply altruistic relationships between us. That is all.

Everything will depend on it because the property of rain, the property of Hassadim, is the good dependence of people on each other.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/23/19

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