Question: Would it be good for a woman to be in a leadership role, let’s say as leader of the nation?

Answer: Any leadership position requires the right interface between the feminine and masculine parts, and only together can they successfully lead. A man sees half and a woman sees half. Therefore, leadership should be carried out in pairs.

Question: So, serving as prime minister should be two, a man and a woman?

Answer: A prime minister is a puppet who has many advisers. They report something to him and he supposedly makes a decision based upon this. But essentially, he doesn’t decide anything.

To see the world correctly, it is necessary to look at it through two close-fitting elements: the masculine part and the feminine part, because a woman looks at the world in a completely different way and sees what a man doesn’t see.

After they make a joint decision, a man can say: “I have decided,” as usually happens in a family.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/4/16

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Question: What will happen in the future when vehicles will be operated without drivers or when we will be able to print any product we want on a 3D printer? In other words, does the fact that we are eliminating our egoism by filling our desires instead of rejecting them in order to attain the Creator, please the Creator?

Answer: We will be able to satisfy our needs in a new way, but we will still have to work very hard between us in order to establish the right network between us. We will switch from one sort of activity to another.

In the future, machines will sow and reap and perform other types of heavy labor without the participation of humans. Today unmanned aircraft, submarines, patrol ships, without crews etc., are being used. Imagine on the threshold of what changes we are standing. The need for people performing physical labor will disappear.

People will be needed for a totally different kind of work: working on establishing the right mutual connections between us. This is very hard work, and in it they will find a vast field of activity. The fields of art, science, literature, cinema, and educational relationships, all should be focused on this goal.

If you imagine a planet near Earth where we could fly to and create a world according to our new spiritual goal, you would see that we are building everything completely new. This is not a world of skyscrapers and all kinds of office buildings, but a brand new way of life.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/18/16

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New Life 660 – The Right And The Left Wings In Israel
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

A person’s freedom of choice is in finding his point of balance, in reaching “love thy friend as thyself.”

Are our attributes also divided into left and right? Why do opposites in nature actually support each other and how can we arrive at a point in which the wellbeing of the state is more important for us than our own personal views?
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From KabTV’s “New Life 660 – The Right And The Left Wings In Israel,” 12/15/15

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Preparation for the Congress in Kazakhstan 2017, Lesson on the Topic: “There’s None Else Besides Him”  

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Giving of the Torah,” Item 16 

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Question: Do I understand correctly that the Kabbalists’ reluctance to talk about earthly matters is due to the fact that we have to move against the mainstream and get serious “blows”?

Answer: A Kabbalist does not renounce this world in any way. On the contrary, his mission is to explain to all of humanity how to reach spirituality from this world. And without connection of the two worlds, without being together with people, this cannot be done.

My students are scattered all over the world and they are all connected with the societies in which they live.

As for me, every week I write articles on the most current issues that are published in dozens of newspapers on the Internet and in print, in blogs, and even on Twitter.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/22/17

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Question: Baal HaSulam, a man of an extraordinary height, wrote in his manuscripts about the last generation: “I have seen all that, and I can no longer restrain myself. I have resolved to disclose of my observations and of what I have found written in those books, regarding the conducts of correction of our definite future.”

What does The Last Generation mean to you? Why did you turn precisely to these manuscripts?

Answer: Because it is a vital realization of what is happening today in our generation.

We are at a critical stage of development; the previous egoistic history of humanity is coming to an end and the time has come when humanity must rise to the next level and thereby change itself and the surrounding world. In fact, our entire world is what we represent: what we see and what exists in our sense organs. When we rise to a new level, we will see a completely different world.

The material world will gradually disappear from our senses. It is even called an imaginary world. We will start to exist in the next dimension that we will imagine just as we imagine the present one.

The “spiritual special forces” will be the first to enter the upper world. The others will follow them. Moreover, the “special forces” will develop themselves in a directed, forceful way, working on their adaptation to the new degrees of nature, and all others will be pulled after them.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 5/15/17

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Question: Who is responsible for an individual’s education at all stages of life: parents, teachers, or society as a whole?

Answer: First and foremost, the parents; they are a natural hierarchical mechanism. After then there is an even wider circle, society, the entire world, really.

Question: What are the main characteristics of an educator?

Answer: An educator must have a sense of community and the complete interconnectedness of the world. This will oblige him or her to everything else.

Question: What do you recommend reading to understand how to raise children beginning from an early age?

Answer: Only the materials found on our website.

Question: I believe in education according to the wisdom of Kabbalah, but is there any hope for all of humanity or is the place reserved for only a particular chosen group?

Answer: The place is reserved for everyone on the Internet and it is offered for free of charge to all of humanity in its entire full extent.

Question: Is there a Kabbalistic expression that if repeated again and again can direct us toward the proper upbringing and a positive attitude toward those around us?

Answer: Yes. “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19: 18).

Question: What are the drawbacks of your system of education?

Answer: It is not yet fully adapted to the present time.

Question: We know that between children and parents there is an unseen connection. How is it possible to use this connection in upbringing?

Answer: When a parent begins to interact with other people, he will expressly see these connections like threads, like cables, like forces, that connect them together.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 24:8: …You shall do according to all that the Levite priests instruct you…

The priests (Cohens) and the Levites were engaged in teaching, educating, and serving the population. They did not sit and wait for people to come to receive a blessing; they traveled across the country, teaching people to read and write.

Therefore, there were no illiterate people in the nation of Israel. Since Moses received the Torah, everyone was obliged to study it. And the Jews received their literacy from Abraham after they had exited Babylon.

It was the absence of illiteracy that distinguished Jews from other peoples. It was believed that a man who did not teach his son makes him a thief.

Everyone had to know what laws are described in the Torah, how to implement them, and how to interact with other people. Jews studied the judicial system and the tax system because everyone had to participate in it.

Moreover, they had to implement the laws of the Torah not only on the internal level, but also in everyday life: the laws of kashrut, cultivation of the land, etc.

Jews knew the Torah, the Scriptures (Ketuvim), the Mishnah, and the Talmud by heart. They were inside each of them. They were taught to people without any textbooks, because only the Tanakh (Torah, Neviim, Ketuvim) were written on paper, and the rest were not.

This knowledge was a daily code of life for a person, and they knew how to interact with others. Therefore, the goal of priests and Levites was to educate everyone.

At the age of two, a child was taught the alphabet, at three – reading, at five -the Torah and the Mishnah, by nine he already knew all the laws, and by the age of 13 he had to know everything that he needs for life.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/26/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 24:7: If a man is discovered kidnapping any person from among his brothers, of the children of Israel, and treats him as a slave and sells him that thief shall die, so that you shall clear out the evil from among you.

This is absolutely forbidden and obviously can not happen because of the principle “love your neighbour as yourself.” And among the nations of the world, people were kidnapped at all times.

The Torah speaks about inner attitude: you can not use your uncorrected or corrected desires egoistically.

For example, if you’ve achieved certain success in working on yourself and suddenly egoism is manifested in you and says: “Let’s turn whatever you succeeded in into a business, or a pleasant pastime. You deserved it,” then by this, you kill everything you did.

This is called “to kidnap your brother,” and to sell him. If your egoistic desire wants to work within you this way, you must destroy it.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/26/16

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