Torah, Deuteronomy 19:02 – 19:03: You shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the Lord, your God, is giving you to possess. Prepare the road for yourself and divide into three parts the boundary of your land, which the Lord, your God, is giving you as an inheritance, and it will be for every killer to flee there.

We are talking about a person who committed manslaughter. He didn’t plan and execute it; everything happened inadvertently and came from the upper governance. The Creator set him up.

There is a difference in whether a person knew about it in advance and agreed to it.

Of course, the Creator controls everything. However, we need to distinguish clearly whether the crime happened according to the will of a person or not. Suppose, I was building a balcony on the tenth floor strictly according to the calculations, but it collapsed and killed someone. Did I do it deliberately? No. Should I go to jail now? It seems that yes, I should.

However, there is no prison in the Torah. Prisons are not a correction! We see that people, who leave prisons, are even worse criminals and terrorists. Therefore, a person who committed manslaughter should go to a city of refuge.

Three cities were built for such people. It indicates a certain governance of the Creator who wants to separate them from others. This way the Creator draws His line through them. A person should live in this city without the right to get out of it. If he violates this condition, he can be killed.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/7/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 20:19: When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them?

A tree is one’s property that grows and bears fruit. The attitude toward wild trees that do not bear fruit is totally different from that toward the trees that do bear fruit because this is your future, your next states. Such properties within you should get special treatment.

Question: What does it mean, “do not destroy trees by putting an ax to them”?

Answer: Perhaps the rudiments of a future spiritual state are starting to manifest within you, and that’s why they shouldn’t be cut down. Trees, especially those that bear fruit, require very special treatment.

The fruit tree “within me” is composed of my states that will yield results in the future, bringing me closer to the proper degree. After all, I plowed my egoism and I planted the seeds that will grow into a tree from which I will eat. A person has to realize that his future states develop only in this way.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/21/16

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Question: Why do the spiritual forces produce physical and not spiritual images within me?

Answer: Spiritual forces don’t produce anything in you, even though that is what we say. A person, a bee, a snake, like all other animals, all of them look at the world with their eyes and each of them sees it in his own way. A snake may perceive the world as fields of heat, a bee in the form of a honeycomb, and so on.

Why do people think that we see everything in the same way? It is only because we are educated together, filling our minds and memories with all kinds of pictures of this world, and we generally look at it as if produced identical images for us. But in fact, we cannot compare them.

Even a Kabbalist who begins to attain the upper world, perceives it with a personal characteristic and inclination, his individuality. Even though he compares his image with others, the images are impossible to compare, they can only be described. Therefore, we compare our descriptions and not the image itself that exists within us. This picture is completely personal for each one, and we have no possibility of comparing them with what is seen by others.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/27/16

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Question: Are spiritual attainments transmitted to the next incarnation of the soul?

Answer: Spiritual sensations are not transmitted, but pass to the next incarnation as Reshimot (remembrances) of information, and the person continues his spiritual development from the previous level.

Suppose that I was born in the 20^th century and toward the age of 40 I attained a particular spiritual level. In the next incarnation, I will attain my spiritual level toward the age of 30 thanks to having already learned the wisdom of Kabbalah. This level will be much higher because by that time there will be a general acceleration of the world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/20/16

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Question: Why should I give and who should I give to? Why do we need corporeal altruism and what does that have to do with the soul?

Answer: When we begin to engage in creating the soul inside us and attaining it, it is not corporeal altruism anymore.

No one is calling on people to walk around in the streets and to give out charity, help the poor and the miserable, and protect the wildlife and the ecology. We see that such actions do not yield the desired outcome and don’t actually help anyone.

When we speak about bestowal, we refer to the bestowal of one’s knowledge about the meaning of life.

The main thing for us is the question about the meaning of life: “What am I living for?” and this is precisely what we have to convey, to invoke in other people and to show them how this meaning is revealed.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/06/16

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New Life 824 – Democracy And The Rule Of The People
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Human nature is egoistic and everyone has his own interests, so there is no chance that we will ever reach the state in which the people rule.

States were established because strong individuals wanted to build a mechanism to help them control the people. In the past, the elite ruled directly; today they rule through the media. Everything is managed as a fixed game.

It is only by ascending above egoism that the people can become sovereign and replace its leaders and advance toward connection. In the connected state, there is no minority or majority, there are no interests, and everyone aspires to greater connection and mutual love.

Society will make sure that every individual receives all that he needs according to the rule of “love thy friends as thyself,” and everyone will contribute his share to society.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 824 – Democracy And The Rule Of The People,” 2/7/17

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Question from Facebook: You are always talking about the mission of the Jewish people. Are you certain they will be able to fulfill it?

Answer: Yes. This is laid in the basis of nature. The question lies only in how quickly they accept the job and in what manner they will actualize it in order to give all of humanity an example of connection.

This is essentially the mission of the Jewish people. They must become united within and demonstrate to all humanity how to build society and the state correctly.

It is exactly for this reason that the Jewish people find themselves on their own land again after 2,000 years, in order to once again build a state and create a unified nation, a correct society, family, and so on. This phenomenon does not exist in nature! We have to build it here, now, on this land. And then we will suddenly find ourselves in the center of the entire human community.

Everyone will suddenly look at us, but this time not with hatred, as they do now, but on the contrary, with comprehension that this is exactly what they were expecting from us, and therefore, they hated and thought negatively of us because we were not fulfilling our mission.

This is called becoming a “light to the nations”—demonstrating an example of connection to them so they too will unite.

Question: That means that the Jewish people will build a society of the future, but not for themselves?

Answer: The Jewish people do not exist for themselves. That is the problem. They need to understand that they must exist for all the other peoples. The law of altruism, bestowal, “love your friend as yourself,” is calling us to this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 2/15/17

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