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My Thoughts On Twitter 8/3/20

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We need to reach a state when we understand what and why mother nature, the Creator, requires of us, and to want to fulfill its demands with our consent, freewill, and personal drive, listening to it and obeying it joyfully!

There is no other evil besides egoism. If we protect each other from transmitting evil, the virus would disappear. The Creator wants us to have an intention to bestow, or to not harm the others. We will realize the spiritual manifestation of this law within us and advance toward understanding the Creator.

In the virus we see the work of the upper force, besides which there is nothing. What can be done to combat it, where can I find a cure for such a virus? But we don’t need a cure for the virus! We need to find a cure for our egoism, then we won’t feel any viruses.

I must condition myself to be responsible for others, and they are responsible for me, my family, and all of humanity. The coronavirus is teaching us mutual guarantee from afar. We already see a connected, unified world where everyone affects all others as they affect him.

From revealing the slightest influence of the Creator, we found ourselves in a new world within 4 – 5 months. We resist and disagree with this world, unwilling to embrace it. But we are entering a new reality. The old life will not return, we will have to live a new life and the restrictions will only exacerbate.

It is simply the mercy of the Creator to bring order with such methods. The virus has already forced us to close businesses that bring no benefit, and pollute the globe. We stop doing stupid and unnecessary things. All systems built for showing off before each other are collapsing.

See what the Creator is doing! We thought that a person could get new understanding and feelings only through blows such as world war, natural disasters, volcanic explosions, hurricanes or tsunamis. But this was not necessary. Quietly, the #virus appears and does all the work.

Media: #Israel has exceeded the US in the rate of #Covid cases per population. I’ve written before that since the world’s correction depends on the #Jews, they will feel nature’s pressure driving us toward correction. Therefore, over time, COVID will hit us the hardest.
From Twitter, 8/3/20

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Team Building Guide, Part 9

Laitman_524.01Principles of Forming a Team: Responsibility for Thoughts and Actions

Question: Eighth rule: you must be responsible for every word you say in the team and remember that our thoughts and actions affect the entire group.

In other words, frivolity harms most of all. It kills all attempts to build the correct connections and interferes with the team spirit.

How can a person control their thoughts?

Answer: Through preparation. Not at the time when thoughts are already appearing in you but in all previous states that determine these thoughts.

Question: There will still be conflicts and disruptions at the initial stages. What can we do if this happens? What types of punishment can we use?

Answer: None. In nothing and in no way. We just need to encourage people to behave differently.

Question: Let’s say that a person has somehow shown frivolity and criticism toward another. The other person was offended. What to do? The team is destroyed, they do not talk to each other.

Answer: On the contrary, we need to sit in a circle and discuss this problem. Resolve it in such a way that it only strengthens the connections between them. We must look at all such excesses as necessary ones during the building of a team.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 6/18/20

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The Evil Eye Is The Power Of Thought

laitman_235Question: What is the evil eye? What is the mechanism of its influence? How does one counteract it?

Answer: The evil eye is the power of thought. Each of us has internal forces, and when we think badly about someone, as a result, a lot of bad thoughts about him have their effect on him. This is the impact of one person on another or even the whole society.

There are people who can look at someone and let’s say their temperature rises. I have seen such phenomena many times.

We influence each other because we are all in the same system, in the same desire. All of humanity is considered one. Therefore, our impact on one another is not so improbable. Being in the unified system already indicates the possibility of such influence.

Question: So it’s not something supernatural?

Answer: No, it’s just that people don’t have such special abilities right now. Once they were more pronounced, but people did not use them.

Question: Can you develop them within yourself?

Answer: Sure. But for this you need to go into reconnaissance, into certain circles. 🙂

Question: Can you resist the evil eye?

Answer: That is also taught there.
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From KabTV’s “The Post-Coronavirus Era” 5/7/20

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What Is True Unity?

laitman_943Question: What is true unity?

Answer: By true unity we create a force that is external to us. If I connect with you, a common force that does not exist in each of us appears between us.

It is actually thanks to the fact that each of us is an egoist that when we each reject our egoism, it enters the space between us and there a common force is created out of our egoistic forces, and we concentrate in it and reveal the Creator.

This is an internal action.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 8/19/18

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laitman_560Question: In an experiment, homes for the elderly were connected to orphanages and researchers noted that the daily functioning of the elderly improved with the presence of children and the fear, insecurity, indifference, and restraint formerly observed in the children disappeared and they became like ordinary children, noisy and restless. How can we explain this?

Answer: This happened because the two parties lacked these things. The elderly lacked young restless kids, and the children lacked what kind adults can give them. This is the best way that life complements itself.

The orphans acquire an accurate and clear sense of security and kindness toward the world and toward life. The elderly people soften the feeling of the world in many aspects.

Even if they don’t have a special connection, the transmission of energy, the external connection, and even the insight that such a phenomenon exists, create a totally different picture and atmosphere.

In fact, according to nature we are built to live with three generations together—kids, parents, and grandparents. Two generations are not enough.

A child needs to see that just as his parents created him and his parents were created by their parents. Thus, he sees continuity, a flow, evolution. He sees how his parents relate to their parents, and this is a model for him as to how he should treat his parents.

He has to learn a lot from his grandparents because we know that “Israel, Saba (grandfather), and wisdom” are a whole system in our spiritual connection, and it is thus very important. Here, when we speak about orphans, the outcome should be incredible.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/27/18

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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 5/10/20, Part 2

laitman_962.3Question: Do I need to love a fellow gangster?

Answer: First, the gangster needs to be re-educated and then loved.

Question: Will the understanding of my aspirations necessarily change on the part of people close to me? Should they support me? Or is it my own work?

Answer: No. This is your personal work, they may not even know about it. You can do this without them knowing.

Question: Why have great Kabbalists been severely persecuted throughout history?

Answer: Because they spoke the truth and called for love between people. And people don’t like that.

Comment: Please provide examples of bestowal and altruism from minimum to maximum.

My Response: How can I give you an example? If, for example, I give you one dollar as the minimum and ten dollars as the maximum, is this clear? How will I measure the return from minimum to maximum?

Question: Who was Mother Teresa: an altruist or was she motivated by selfishness?

Answer: I don’t know, I am not familiar with her.

Question: Does the Creator have questions or complaints about us?

Answer: The Creator has no questions for us. Why would He ask them if He Himself raises these questions in us so that we can answer them?

Question: What you are saying is not easy to understand. What can we do about it?

Answer: Listen several times. We have many conversations on different topics. Consult with the teachers of your online studies, what suits you best. Take lectures, lessons, absorb them, and you will see how much you progress.

Question: How would someone who is not an egoist be? How would he differ from an egoist?

Answer: He is different because he knows how to use his egoism correctly.

Question: How can we find out what the Creator thinks?

Answer: The Creator thinks about doing good to everyone.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 5/10/20

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 8/3/20

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Audio Version Of The Blog – 8/2/20

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My Thoughts On Twitter 8/2/20

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The world is trying to escape evil, but we mustn’t just escape, we must reach goodness, build relationships in which the Creator is revealed. Today’s crisis is an opportunity to build anew, to organize a network of connections that will be a vessel in which the Creator is revealed.

The blows received from the #Coronavirus will eventually cause all of humanity to bow, settle in, and calm down, realizing that there is an upper force at work here that will not allow us to do whatever we want: neither right nor left. We’ll have to submit to the influence of the third force—the Creator.

The longer the #Coronavirus goes on, the more unrest there will be in #Israel up to civil wars. Egoism is growing every day and will not let us calm down. Reconciliation among the Jews can only be in the middle line, above the egoism on all sides. Only the upper light will do it!

The Jewish wars were not with the Greeks or Romans, but between the Jews. And there is nothing new in today’s unrest, it is revealed again as thousands of years ago, the war of egoism that does not want to yield to anyone. Until our egoism reveals its hollowness and asks for correction.

In the uncorrected state we are the evil of the world, but in the corrected state we become the opposite—all good. Therefore, it is said that when Israel rises, it rises above all, and when it falls, it falls below all.
After all, we are the essence of the greatest desire to enjoy of all the nations of the world.

Love, awe, and faith are the qualities of the network that connects us. Above the globe, we’re connected by a single network. Let’s imagine it, and begin to feel that it really exists and has power. It is the Creator who awakens us to this connection, gives us strength, and supports us.

The coronavirus stopped our egoistic development because we couldn’t stop ourselves. We must see the guiding hand of the Creator in everything and see that all that happens is a correction, and that there is no evil in the world.
My ego does not let me to see the future as long as I am looking for its solo benefits.

Israel will feel the pandemic more than any other country, for #Israel is to blame for it according to Kabbalah. Redemption is only possible by the Jews aspiring to the good connection of “Love your neighbor.” Otherwise, it will become increasingly clearer how the Creator is leading the people to correction via the path of suffering that they themselves choose.

We are interpreting our state incorrectly. We’re like a sick person who thinks he’s perfectly healthy, with a full life ahead. All the signs of humanity’s extinction are evident. We cannot ignore them. Everything must be subject to being healed from the exacerbating ego.

The #US economy is in a sharp and deep decline, more than in the other countries. With its crude capitalism, it’s closer to the recognition of evil and true socialism. Especially with the US being the modern Babylon. Other countries are stuck, inflexible. Nature’s blow looms in the winter! The remedy is connection!

The science of Kabbalah teaches the correct use of two opposite forces of nature: reception and bestowal, hatred and love. Nothing should be destroyed! If we combine and balance them correctly, we will achieve similarity to the Creator.
There is nothing superfluous in the world, we just need to balance these forces.

The spiritual embryo floats in the mother’s waters—in the light of Hassadim with which it is born. If we unite in a healthy embryo, we’ll feel that we are in the light of Hassadim, in the sea of mercy. We, the soul, the embryo, will grow and learn to see the new world. Before we’re born there!

By uniting we’re building a body of the new-born humanity, we must unite in a way for us to be born healthy. The #Coronavirus is helping us advance toward spiritual birth, leaving only necessities. It is a cure for the crisis, not a punishment. The Creator’s blows are His remedy!

The crisis that the #coronavirus has led to is the birth of a new world. We entered as an embryo into the process of preparing for birth in the new world. Nature, the Creator, is pregnant and must give birth to us. We must help Him, agree with this process, unite more, and prepare for birth.

There may be internal enmity in other nations, but there is no such hatred as between the people of Israel because we hate the Jews within ourselves. The inner Jew is a desire to unite above the ego, to show the world that it is possible to live in a corrected world.

All our misfortunes are caused by the fact that we do not get along with each other and cannot achieve unity among the people of Israel. On the outside, it seems that the enemies are to blame for the destruction, but the foreign external force only executes the sentence; we are the ones who activate it within our people. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

Abraham taught his disciples to live by the law of loving one’s neighbor as oneself. This main rule: “love will cover all crimes” separated them from all other nations of the world who remained in Babylon, and later scattered throughout the world.

Representatives of all nations followed Abraham’s call to unite in love. They called themselves Yisra-El (aspiring to the Creator), to unity and love. This dream is still alive in people and is beginning to be realized in our time.

The 9th of Av symbolizes the destruction of the Temple, which occurred due to baseless hatred. The Jews are a nation that Abraham gathered in ancient Babylon when hatred broke out between people and he taught that there is only one remedy against hatred: rising to love above hatred!

These days, it is critical to perform a correction. The world goes through confusing situations, from state to state, without understanding what will happen to it tomorrow. This indicates a high speed of progress and our lack of understanding of where the world is going or where it should end up. Only Kabbalah will show the illuminated path.

“You stand here today” before entering into a covenant to create a place for the revelation of the Creator, a connection between us similar to the upper force, that allows it to be revealed. There is no Creator until we build the quality of bestowal between us and give Him a place where He can dwell among us.

We were connected but had to undergo a breakage in order to rebuild it ourselves. All breakage is a preparation for today’s state. For the first time, we perform an act of unification over all the previous divisions: the First and Second Temples, to build a place of holiness love and bestowal.

We are in turmoil and confusion, with no hope or strength. But through scrutinizing these states, up to the most severe, “the 9th of Av,” the destruction of the Temple, we see that we are unable to do anything. We come to the 9th of Av, when everything collapses without a thread of holiness, except a tiny spark from the Creator.

We make a covenant with the help of the Creator’s spark. From the lowest, most horrible state, we erect the perfect, corrected Kli. The 9th of Av is the day of total breakage, and this same state is the place of construction, correction. “The darkness will shine as light,” and we will thus resurrect ourselves into life.

We inherently contain a contradiction because we have two opposite qualities: our root comes from the Creator, while the entire egoism is a form opposite to the Creator. We are between these two opposites and try to connect them, but this connection occurs by way of collision.

Abraham (3,500 years ago) taught his students to live in accordance with the highest law of nature “Love your friend as yourself,” “Love will cover all crimes.” Observance of these laws separated Abraham’s group from all other nations of the world that subsequently dispersed across the whole globe. But Abraham’s group also fell back into the ego 2,000 years ago.

#Jews are a group that Abraham assembled in Babylon when hatred erupted among the people living there. He taught the method of rising above the hatred to love. The Tower of Babel represents hatred among people. Those who followed Abraham became the people of Israel and the rest remained in Babylon.

We should relate to everything that happens to the people of Israel not in the same way as what happens to an ordinary people. #Israel is a group that must undergo its own path, out of the ego, the quality of reception, and into the quality of bestowal. That is why the Creator has a special relationship with them: their shattering (the 9th of Av) and looming rebirth.

It is written that when the Creator sends blows by this He heals. For He sends blows to our ego, forcing it to yield and make space for the aspiration to come closer together. And we can only get closer together under the pressure of the blows! However, by accepting and understanding them for what they are, we’re hastening time and mitigating the suffering. The virus heals!

The birth canal is narrow, and we’re going to have to get real close in order to come out the other side. By connecting, we’re going to exit it easily. We must change our EGO-values for the things we previously deemed important to become unimportant and the unimportant to become important. Once we turn over head first, we’re going to be of one opinion.

Turning over to head first before labor means a turning over of values from personal to collective. In the new world, to which I wish to be born, the old values (food, sex, family, money, power, knowledge) are losing importance.
Connection becomes of highest priority, in which the new reality is revealed.

Nature turns the fetus upside down and pushes it out of the mother. So we must change our attitude toward the world from egoistic to altruistic. The environment helps us, but the fetus itself exerts tremendous efforts during birth. Let us labor together toward our spiritual birth that lies ahead.

Presently we’re going to have to go through labor pains, to be born in a new quality, out of the quality to receive and into the quality to bestow. But we have no choice. This is preprogrammed by nature. The process is underway! And we cannot avoid it. We can only ease the process of rebirth by aspiring toward unity!
From Twitter, 8/2/20

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