Comment: Scientists have concluded that by 2050, humanity will face 10 major problems: genetic modification of humans, an increase in the proportion of the elderly population, the disappearance of cities, the evolution of social networks, new geopolitical tensions, transportation safety, depleting natural resources, colonization of other planets, expansion of the capabilities of our brain, and the growing influence of artificial intelligence.

My Response: None of this is going to happen. All of our current development is aimed at bringing us to a dead end. It seems that we can deal with multiple problems, populate planets, develop deserts, anything at all. We can build, destroy, or run amok with it all. But our egoism will not allow us to do this.

It will make our lives unbearable and lead to a state of a continuous chain of conflicts between us: between family members, children, and parents, with neighbors living in the same city or in the same borough. It doesn’t matter where or about what, we will be unable to get along with each other to the point that we will end up sprinting to the bakery with a machine gun through the deserted streets. And it is going to be a dreadful life. Egoism will lead us to this.

No inventions will help us. They will not give anything. First of all, we will use them to subjugate all people, to profit from everyone, to suppress everyone. We can see how technology is advancing and for what purpose it is being used.

So let us take a look at what prevents us from being happy!

Happiness is not about inhabiting other planets, these lifeless celestial bodies, and it is not about driverless cars driving instead of us, or that we would live for 200 years. Our 70 or 80 is enough for us. There is no need for more! It is not about how long to live, but how to live! There is no way to escape death. Pushing it away is just a foolish pursuit!

We need to make it so that while we are still alive in this world, we will start feeling ourselves eternal, existing infinitely. This is the solution to the problem, not getting caught up in solving mundane problems in our own egoism. It is going to ruin everything for us anyway.

We cannot say that today we are happier than those who lived 50 years ago. They did not have the electronic gadgets that we play with now, but that did not make them any less happy.

I see from today’s statistics that people are less happy and that humanity is in a deeper depression.

Nowadays everyone is starting to think about how and where to consume marijuana or something else to escape. Why would a person need to live for 200 years?! So that he could spend 100 of them in a narcotic dream?!

We have to create a good life for ourselves. And it is achieved very simply—through kind relationships between us. Otherwise we are destined for Armageddon.

Do you know what Armageddon is? There is a small mountain in Israel (har is mountain in Hebrew) called Megido. A couple of thousand years ago, there were some skirmishes there. Since then, this figurative expression has been used: Armageddon—the end of the world.

Actually, we do not have to wait for that. You can still climb this hill and look down from it. It is not that big, only 700 to 800 meters high. Let us not push ourselves to extreme states. Let us make our lives calm, good, and happy today, not in 50 years from now.

And most importantly, with the help of the science of Kabbalah, we can begin to feel the next life, the upper world, the transition from one state to another, from one cycle to another. It is all within our power.

I wish you to discover the eternal state of growing and contented matter for yourselves.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/26/17

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Comment: Genetic engineering has challenged the Bible and says that Adam and Eve were not created by God.

Science has come to the conclusion that even in the formation of an embryo, as well as everywhere else, we observe a certain managing component. By studying the genome and knowing that there are managing and executing cells, it is possible to not only understand, but also to manage this process.

My Response: There are no problems in managing biological processes. But that does not mean that we create them. We interfere with their work, and that is what we call management.

Question: And who creates them?

Answer: This happens on a level above the human being. For this, a person must rise above himself.

How? Here is where the science of Kabbalah appears. Do you want to comprehend the next level? Do you want to reveal it? Please, you can. But to do this, you must seriously work on yourself and the connection with the next level—the managing one.

First of all, imagine that you are under this managing level all the time, under it. It constantly guides you and holds you. You try to get into resonance with it. You are managed by it. You agree and want to be managed by it. You do not want to act on your own—neither with your desires, nor with your thoughts, i.e., neither with your heart nor mind—not in any way!

You only want to feel this level and execute everything with your desire toward it; as it wishes, let it manage you. And you will be happy to add yourself to its governance.

This is how the next step is attained. This is called “annulling oneself,” annulling one’s egoism.

If we act this way, we will begin to feel this next level—its management, its qualities, its nature, and its intention. This is called attaining the Creator, because the next step for me is my Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/20/18

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Comment: The popular futurist and physicist Michio Kaku, who has interviewed various scientists and researchers, concluded that thanks to technology, we are moving toward a super-future where new devices and machines can help us become better.

My Response: If we could hand out devices to everyone that would constantly make us better instead of phones, that would be great.

Comment: We are talking about the possibility of digitizing a person, digitizing their memories.

My Response: You can do anything you want. But if you do not improve people, you will bring humanity a terrible future.

Today we are on the brink, where if we do not start improving ourselves in line with our technical capabilities, we will lead ourselves to a world where everyone will want to take a pill and die.

There is an enormous supercomputer at work above us. It is eternal; it is true! It is the highest intelligence. It is the Creator, and we here are nothing and no one! Everything that happens to us is done by Him so that we will realize our insignificance and want to connect with Him and, from His level, will see our lives.

Question: What is a superhuman?

Answer: A superhuman is someone who absorbs the qualities of the Creator.

If I turn myself into a collection of all the world’s information, I will just become an idiot. Let us rise spiritually from this Earth! We will remain on it for now, temporarily, in our bodies, but let us begin to rise in spirit and in understanding! We will see another level of information and of actions, a level that does not pertain to our earthly matters. Today we can already imagine it.

Let us rise to our level of governance, where we are governed from, and start seeing everything in completely different definitions, in different volumes, with different limitations. There is nothing earthly there. And from there, we will see where we can go further. But that is a completely different dimension! Not this four-dimensional one, but something else.

Comment: In one of your articles, you write that infinity is an infinite number of connections between creation and the Creator.

My Response: It is unlimited, where there are no separate connections between the Creator and creations, however and whoever they may be, but where they all merge into one whole. Without wires, everything merges into one system.

Question: In neurons, axons serve as connectors. But what is the connecting element in unlimited connections?

Answer: There are none; they disappear. The state becomes a fusion where there is no difference between the controller and the controlled; they complement each other so fully that they turn into a single whole. It is called “One.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/16/18

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Very often we ask ourselves: What does the Creator respond to? The Creator responds to everything directed toward common correction, toward the purpose He expects from all of creation. Therefore, a true prayer is a prayer for connection.

Of course, everything else is also necessary, but it should be used as needed to ensure our requests are not overly egoistic.

The best way to turn to the Creator is when I pray for my friends. That is perceived absolutely clearly and aligns perfectly with His field, and thus, a connection between Him and me appears. This connection may not yet be obvious or tangible, but it is already a form of interaction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: We clearly realize that all our actions are performed from a state of Lo Lishma, and this leads us to the recognition of our own evil. Should we accompany this process with joy, knowing that we are making efforts in the work for the Creator?

Answer: A person goes through several stages in the attitude toward the nature of reception and the nature of bestowal. We need to strive to understand where we are. Of course, this is concealed from us, but gradually we can develop a feeling of it.

When performing certain actions, you must clearly understand for whom, for what purpose, and why you are doing them. Gradually, you will develop an accurate awareness of your actions, whether you are moving forward and progressing or not.

In general, we must reach a state where almost everything we do is not for ourselves, but for the Creator.

This gradual accumulation of our efforts, intentions, requests, and qualities happens, and shifts our egoism toward them and allows us to act for the Creator. That is the work of Lishma.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 20 “Lishma (for Her sake)”

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The world has entered a state where it is beginning to destabilize itself because it needs to ascend to the next degree. Its highest degree is called “Adam” (man) since all of nature is divided into four levels: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human.

We are approaching 6,000 years, the end of human history. We think that the Earth is spinning and will continue to spin. No, the Earth will not spin forever, because the world is merely our perception of ourselves and our surroundings. In and of itself, it does not exist. Without us, there is no world. This entire reality exists in our imagination.

We must understand that the time has come for us to transition from this reality to its next level, the spiritual one. That is, we must move from a world that exists based on the methodology of connecting egoistic forces to a world that exists according to the methodology of the quality of bestowal.

This transition is achieved only through the connection of people when we strive to come closer to one another and ask the Creator to give us the force of unity. But we must feel the need for it; that is, we need to create such a negative potential within the group, such a need for this force, that the Creator is truly revealed between us, and the force of unity begins to govern us. Then, through us, as the head of the Partzuf, this force will flow to all other parts of humanity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 15

Why Is it Written That the Creator “Descends” to Mount Sinai?

For the Creator, “Mount Sinai” signifies a descent. The term “Creator” itself implies descent, from the word that means “outside of the level.” The Creator is also called a “groom,” derived from the word for “landing” or “descending.” The myriad titles given to the Creator are based on His appearance before humanity, which is defined as a descent.

The Creator’s descent to Mount Sinai also has many interpretations, both in the literal sense and in Kabbalah. Essentially, it is unbefitting for the Creator to appear to humanity as a harmful force, but He does so in both positive and negative ways together in order to create correct discernments in humanity and to form a vessel. The vessel itself is formed from both the light and the lack of light.

It is impossible for only a lack or only a fulfillment to appear. A true lack always includes a Reshimo (record), some fulfillment, a small illumination. Thus, the Creator needs to reveal Himself to humanity in both forms, through suffering and fulfillment. These actions are essentially a descent on His part. The Creator’s name (“Boreh” in Hebrew) can also be divided into two words: “come” (“Bo“) and “see” (“Reh“). This all describes the descent of Godliness.

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Question: You said we need to turn to the Creator so that He shows us how to act and we need to strive to fulfill this. How do we receive this recommendation correctly from Him?

Answer: It is very simple. Just as we work with one another, so it is with the Creator. It is even easier with the Creator. We turn to Him with a desire to find out what exactly He wants from us, and then we try to fulfill His desire.

Question: How do I know that it is His desire?

Answer: If we ask the Creator a question, then it is in this very channel that we feel His answer.

Ask and you will feel that the Creator is answering you. His answer will sort of resonate within you. But it is better if the request is built through the ten.

Question: To rise to the next degree, we have to imagine it. It is illuminated to us by the Creator, but we do not know what it is. How to imagine it?

Answer: You don’t have to suffer and imagine a new degree. You just have to find out what the Creator wants at this moment and fulfill it. And so it is each time, at every degree.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Act Is What Decides”

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