My new article on Linkedin “Concerning Law and Order and the First Amendment”

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about police brutality. The issue of police brutality has always been there, but with the rising racial tensions in America, every incident seems to make headlines and stir up protest, often regardless of the circumstances.

If the current trend continues, the US will fall into anarchy and all 330 million Americans will suffer.

To be clear, assembling in order to protest is a right that is protected by the First Amendment, and so is freedom of speech. The problem with protesting begins when it is used for civilian brutality against other civilians and against private and public property.

When the First Amendment speaks of the right to demonstrate, it clearly affirms “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” But when a protest is not peaceful, when it is used in order to intimidate, abuse, destroy property and hurt people, in my view, the police must interfere, disband it, and restore law and order.

Disputes aren’t meant to be resolved because diversity is the engine of development and progress. When we embrace it, we grow. When we reject it, we wither.

In the current “open season” against the police, it loses legitimacy in its own eyes since officers no longer feel that they are representing the interest of the public. If we want chaos, that’s the way to go. But if this is what we want, we shouldn’t complain if anarchists and hooligans destroy city centers, disrupt the lives of tens of thousands of people for months without any repercussions, wreck stores and burn businesses for no apparent reason, and turn people’s lives into hell. For those who have already been affected by the maiming of police, it will take years to recover, if they do at all. If the current trend continues, the US will fall into anarchy and all 330 million Americans will suffer.

If we want to change things for the better, it has to happen through positive deliberation. But first, people have to realize that America is a country where everyone has a place; it is a country of diversity. This, in fact, is the beauty of America. Currently, instead of being proud of it, people are trying to make “their own kind” dominant. So the first thing that people must see is that they are all part of one system, one country. Every faction has its needs and wants, but the factions complement each other and not cancel each other out. Only once people have developed such a state of mind can they start deliberating constructively.

Once everyone agrees that this country belongs to all its citizens, they can disagree, argue, and even hate each other, as long as there is an overarching sense of belonging to one country, “one nation under God,” to quote the Pledge of Allegiance. With this oneness in mind, debates, however fierce, will only strengthen the unity of the nation and enrich its people with new perspectives. Disputes aren’t meant to be resolved because diversity is the engine of development and progress. When we embrace it, we grow. When we reject it, we wither.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What are the necessary skills for 21st century students and future leaders?“

Future leaders will need to know how to unite people above their differences and divisions. Of course, this does not mean using force against people’s will, as it has been done in the past. Instead, we will need leaders who will seek to unite absolutely everyone.

The primal importance of unifying all people is tough to understand, since we currently live in “us versus them” scenarios. However, with further development, we will need to reach new heights of understanding how nature works inside and outside us, and by doing so, realize how to rise above human nature and enter into positive connection with others.

Our positive connection with each other will harmonize us with nature’s perfectly connected and altruistic quality, and by achieving balance with nature, we will experience a whole new kind of life—happiness, health, confidence, and safety, the likes of which we currently cannot imagine.

Future leaders will have to be equipped with knowledge, wisdom and experience in rising above their egoistic nature in order to positively connect with others, as well as the ability to guide others to do the same.

They must perceive and sense nature’s altruistic and integral nature, its purpose and value, understand the process humanity is undergoing, and the moment in human development that we have reached: that the time has come for us humans to balance with nature by uniting above our differences and divisions.

Future leaders should be experienced in the paths that can guide people to unite above their divisive drives, and know how to draw the necessary strength to aide the process of connection with others above the cunning human ego.

Other than basic survival needs, human nature is egoistic, a desire to enjoy at the expense of others, while on the contrary, the surrounding nature is altruistic, operating to bind everything and everyone together. Therefore, in our connections, we will need to invert our nature from egoistic to altruistic, and by doing so, we will resemble the interconnectedness and interdependence of the surrounding nature.

Future leaders will thus need to be able to guide people to undergo the transformation from egoistic to altruistic, hateful to loving, and divisive to positively connected. Moreover, since they will rise above the human ego in positive connection with others, and project altruism, concern, consideration, and responsibility toward others, then they would also become concerned about the whole of humanity, not only their own country, region, city, or other grouping that they lead directly. By caring that humanity as a whole unites above its differences and divisions, and placing their own direct area of responsibility within the wider envelope of humanity’s perfect connection—like how cells and organs function within their host organisms—then the world will be on course to discovering the perfection that stems from our entering into balance with nature.

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Question: Nowadays, short tips for raising children are very popular on the Internet. Can you provide top advice on parenting?

Answer: The most important thing in raising children is to organize them correctly so that they are not squeezed into the framework of today’s school and even kindergarten, so that they are brought up more in a good connection with each other, based on the right examples from adults.

Children learn everything from their elders. If we show them the correct relationship between people in all aspects of life, then they will also begin to relate correctly to each other and to nature.

Question: A somewhat strange question is often asked online: Is it necessary to raise children at all?

Answer: All raise children, even animals, moreover, people. They are obliged to do that! Without education, a person will grow worse than an animal.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 9/1/20

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Question: What does it mean to resolve a conflict?

Answer: To resolve a conflict means rising to the next level of our development with its help, not in order to soften the conflict, but to use it rationally.

Question: Is it bad if I just keep silent in an attempt to avoid conflict?

Answer: But this will not solve the problem. So, what is the point in having it?

Question: They say that the proof that a conflict has been resolved is when both sides are satisfied. Is this is an indicator?

Answer: No. This is not right. It is not known to what extent both sides understand if they are satisfied or it seems to each side that it has defeated the other.

Conflict resolution is when they join together in their common solution and no one thinks that this solution is better or worse for him.

Question: That is, the indicator is not the satisfaction of the two sides but rising above the conflict?

Answer: It is the satisfaction of both sides with an ascent to a common new point where they are absolutely clearly connected together in the middle line.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 7/16/20

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Question: What is not worth wasting your time on?

Answer: On unnecessary things.

Question: Can I learn how to manage my time?

Answer: Yes, if you systematically assess possibilities correctly.

Question: Wouldn’t it take too much time to learn time management?

Answer: No. This goes in parallel.

Question: Do I need to set aside time for thoughts, to sit, to meditate? Or is it inseparably linked to actions?

Answer: Things like meditation are foreign to me. I can sit over Kabbalistic sources. But just sitting and meditating, I do not understand it. There must be a direction that is given to the animal body in order for it to begin to rise above itself.

Question: People in love measure time one way, prison inmates in another. In youth, time passes slowly, in old age it just leaps. Why?

Answer: This is a sensation. There is no such thing as time. It manifests itself only in our feelings, like this whole world in general.

Question: The most beautiful woman under the brush of time turns into an old woman. Why does time destroy beauty?

Answer: This is subjective. It depends on what kind of beauty you are looking at. If you live near people for a long time, you do not notice how they age. Although, of course, all this is natural. The problem is that we give certain standards to external, physical beauty and do not connect it with internal beauty.

Question: What is time? How would you define it?

Answer: Time is the inner feeling of each of us.

Question: It is said that happy people do not look at the clock. Why does time fly at an unprecedented speed for happy people?

Answer: Because when they get pleasure, they forget that time is transitory. If a person enjoys, he does not notice how time passes.

Question: Is it true that time kills love?

Answer: Time kills everything! Absolutely everything! If we do not renew our impressions, they disappear.

Question: Do you think that time changes people? Even if a person is not engaged in self-realization?

Answer: Yes, of course. The time factor itself changes a person. This is called changing Reshimot (spiritual information data).

Question: When did time appear, and is there a place where it does not exist?

Answer: Time does not exist at all, except that we feel it.

Question: Is there time without a person?

Answer: No, without a person nothing exists. Everything that exists is what a person perceives.

Question: Is time an absolute or relative value?

Answer: It is absolutely relative. That is, only relative.

Question: Is it possible to teleport in time?

Answer: Since time as such does not exist and it is only purely our perception of the universe, life, and ourselves, then teleportation does not exist.

Question: Does time have secrets?

Answer: I do not understand this question. What do time’s secrets mean? If there is no time as such and it is purely a subjective feeling of a person, then the solution of this subjectivity is the disclosure of the secrets.

Question: Is it possible to stop time?

Answer: No problem. If you rise above time, then you will stop it for yourself.

Question: Is time man’s helper or his enemy?

Answer: It depends on how you look at it. If you start measuring yourself relative to the time, then it is a helper.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 7/2/20

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Question: Many men complain that they do not understand women. What is the most important thing a man should know about women?

Answer: Please them and respect them. You do not need anything else. A woman feels it very much.

If you want to treat her nicely and with respect, then a woman will always be your friend. You will be able to gain her trust and build a proper relationship with her. Consider her more as a friend than a woman, and then everything will be fine.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 9/1/20

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Question: Sometimes we postpone making a decision. Can this also be called a solution?

Answer: Sometimes this is the best solution.

Question: What can prevent us from making the right decision?

Answer: Lack of necessary data when you clearly know what is missing.

Question: What advice can you give to a person who made a wrong decision and now regrets it?

Answer: Not to regret it. Regretting the past is not understanding that there is a leader above you who programs all this and looks ahead.

Question: Do you think that if the decision was already made it cannot be a wrong one?

Answer: In this case, you should think that you are not in the position of the leader, but rather in the position of a manager or even a performer. Then you will not have any problems.

Remark: Still, there is such a concept as a wrong decision.

My Comment: There is nothing wrong. You tried your best without looking ahead and faithfully solving a problem. Yet, you got what you got and you should say, “The Creator finishes instead of me.”
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 6/11/20

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson on the Topic of “Sukkot, Part 1″

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Selected Highlights

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Question: How are the five worlds connected to our five senses? Kabbalah, like any science, can have some applied meaning. How can the spiritual Partzufim be clothed in the human body? Where is the Sefira Hochma? Where is the Sefira Bina?

Answer: The light impacts the desire according to the four phases of direct light. The successive development of the first, second, third, and fourth phases of light comes from this desire.

The root phase is Keter, stage one Hochma, stage two Bina, stage three  ZA, and stage four Malchut.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, they are called the four phases of direct light because Keter is considered the primordial foundation. Our five senses are in the image and likeness of the four phases.

ZA is also divided into six internal parts. These six parts and the four phases add up to ten parts.

This is actually the main classification in nature into five or, on a larger resolution, into ten parts.

In our world too, everything is also divided into five or ten parts in accordance with the upper world. This is how the whole global system: all the worlds, Partzufim, Sefirot, souls are classified because this is how the upper light impacts the desire and develops it in exactly five stages.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 11/11/18

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