Question: What is the annulment of the student before the teacher?

Answer: In order to receive from the teacher, you have to annul yourself before him. This is a necessary condition. What does it mean to annul, not like in ordinary life that has nothing to do with spirituality, but in what relates to your spiritual qualities?

You must annul them, become zero, “enter” into the teacher, and then you will be fully at his disposal and he will create your next spiritual state out of you.

When a mother breastfeeds her baby, he sucks milk, receiving his sustenance, thanks to which he lives. It is the same here—a disciple must receive his sustenance from the teacher and therefore he is obliged to annul himself, to open his mouth and receive.

Question: Do you remember the first time you had to annul yourself before Rabash? How was this expressed?

Answer: Perhaps it was much easier for me because I wanted very much to have a teacher who would tell me everything possible. Besides, Rabash spoke very little and I had to somehow understand, guess, and extract details.

But in principle, you search for how you can become inconspicuous next to him so that everything that is in him would be automatically transferred into you.

Question: Was it hard or desirable for you?

Answer: At first it was very desirable. I wanted nothing else, only to enter his “cave” and sit next to him.

Then it became more difficult because egoism was constantly growing in order to rise above it, to reach such a coarseness of egoistic desire to annul and in it receive everything the teacher wants to give. Therefore, egoism should grow constantly, and rejection becomes stronger and stronger.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/1/17

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Question: What can I do so I will not be waiting for blows (illnesses, problems at work, in the family, and so forth), but will carry out all of the corrections and changes through my conscious personal choice, which I must do for maximal correction at every moment?

I don’t want to go against the desire of the Creator; on the contrary, at every moment I want to do everything that depends on me so that I will resemble the Light and connect with the Creator, even though various forms of suffering fall upon me constantly. Does this mean that I am doing something wrong?

In the wisdom of Kabbalah it is said that the purpose of all suffering is to bring a person closer to correction and the Creator. What must I do independently to carry out all the required corrections?

Answer: Find a group and push it to unite because that is the way you awaken the Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light) for the sake of revealing the Creator… And listen to the lessons!
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New Life #301 – Interrelationships In Nature, Part 1
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

In nature, development is based on a prey and predator dynamic since everything lives by consuming the others. Parasites, for example, consume their hosts just as a baby takes what it needs from its mother. Humans are more sophisticated predators because we have a sense of self, a “private ego” that distinguishes the individual from everyone else. Hatred only exists in humans. We depend on one another while we simultaneously want to destroy each other.
From KabTV’s “New Life #301 – Interrelationships In Nature,” part 1, 2/16/14

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#Regulation Won’t Solve the Internet Privacy Issue — Here’s What Can

My latest on @newsmax “One way or another, we will have to learn how to balance and guide the human ego toward the good of human society.” #privacy

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Question: Can diseases indicate incorrect steps in spiritual advancement?

Answer: All diseases indicate this. We must understand that above our corporeal (material) system is a spiritual system from where everything descends.

Therefore, there is not a single physical disease that is not a consequence of spiritual disorder. And treatment, too, we can cure our body as much as we like, but until we cure our souls, the bodies will not get rid of any problems. There are such diseases that cannot be cured at all on the animalistic level.

If we start forming one mutually supportive system together, then we can really become healthier. Even educators say that if we bring up children in a good collective, they become healthier. This is clear to everyone.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/20/17

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Question: When people create a circle, it is very important to be properly calibrated in order to feel confident that you can solve any problem in a circle. Where does this confidence come from?

Answer: A circle is a group of egoists, each of whom rises above himself, over his own private egoism, and together they try to create one common point of connection in which they start feeling the Creator.

They really see and can solve all problems to the extent that they discover this power.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/22/17

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Question: You write that Adam HaRishon (the First Man) was created close to 6,000 years ago. You do not explain such a huge discrepancy in dates. How do you explain the dating of artifacts (including human remains) in tens or even hundreds of millions of years?

Answer: The Torah writes that 5,780 years ago, there was a human in our world who was the first to discover the upper world. He became similar to the Creator and began to be called “Adam,” from the word “Domeh” (similar) to the Creator. Humans who have not attained the upper world are on the level of animals. The Torah speaks about spiritual levels, not about our physical world.
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New Life #289 – A Solution To The World Employment Problem
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Summary

The world is facing an economic crisis and the labor market is about to undergo far reaching changes. What is required of us socially, economically and politically and how will integral education help us?

Today, for the first time in the evolution of the human race, a person is required to change himself, to be upgraded. The modern person will need to learn how to feel happy without working for a living and without exhausting all of the natural resources. This person will learn to value relationships more than the unnecessary consumption of goods and services.
From KabTV’s “New Life #289 – A Solution To The World Employment Problem,” 1/14/14

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