Question: Many adults in Israel, particularly parents, are distressed and sad that children these days are immersed in mobile phones, computer games, and artificial intelligence and don’t pay attention to the older generation. This generation has even been called the lost generation.

And suddenly now, that war has come to Israel, the children went to fight, and suddenly they are so concerned about their parents, about each other, about the future of the country, about the unity of the people! We read their letters; these are lofty letters addressed to us! We begin to understand that it is not them, but us that are the lost generation. Us! They are 19 years old and older and are living by the ideology of unity, while we (their parents) are still embroiled in political disputes, insisting on our own, believing we are right. It is impossible to root out this spirit of being right from us.

So, the question is: Do you think that some sort of revolution suddenly took place?

Answer: I believe this generation will take matters into their own hands regarding human relationships and nature. They will force nature to change.

Question: Will they not drown in us, in our so-called “wisdom”?

Answer: No, I think they will be able to break free from this swamp in which people have languished for millennia.

Comment: But look, in our politics, for example, it is mainly the older generation that are confident in themselves, with political and military experience, and they seem to rule.

My Response: That does not mean anything.

Question: Does the country need the experience of such a politician or the experience of a nineteen-year-old who has felt what unity is?

Answer: The country needs a person who evaluates the life of the nation by its assembly, union, bonding, and connection. There have not been many such leaders throughout the entire Jewish history. I hope that such a leader will emerge among the people like Ben-Gurion and Baal HaSulam combined in one person.

Question: So, does this war help give birth to such a leader?

Answer: Yes, I think it has to happen.

Question: Do we need to make room for this?

Answer: This space will be freed up by squeezing out everything else from people, and only this desire for unity will occupy the space.

Question: Are you now talking about a leader, regardless of age or experience?

Answer: I think it does not matter.

Question: Will this combat experience of unity be instilled in this person?

Answer: Yes, I think this is how it should be. It is a kind of revolution in each person, and we are approaching it.

Comment: So, you feel that the generation…

My Response: Is not lost.

Question: Could it be that they might be wiser than us?

Answer: Yes, we live in the generation of the true exodus from Egypt. Let’s hope that Moses will appear among us and will lead the entire nation.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/12/24

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Question: Why is slander considered a very serious sin in the Torah?

Answer: Firstly, if you release a negative opinion into space, then it has no boundaries. Secondly, everyone can slander someone, there are no restrictions on this. Therefore, the person it is directed at can be struck by such a thing literally on the spot. At home, on the street, anywhere, he can hear gossip about himself, and he has no escape from it.

The Torah harshly condemns slander; it says, “Anyone who slanders his father and his mother must be put to death.”

From a spiritual point of view, this also threatens death. The thing is that if a person treats his country, his people, his relatives, the Creator, that is, everything that connects him with life in this world, in such a manner, then the judgment for him must be the strictest.

Comment: But you once explained that mother and father are the two highest levels, and if a person slanders them, it means that he does not have the importance of these levels. Thus, he simply cuts himself off from the source of life, and this is called death.

My Response: Yes, it can be interpreted that way. However, we are also talking about such cases when a person really speaks about his father and mother, and then his punishment should be public.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual states” 3/7/24

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Are the Light Mitzvot that a Person Tramples with His Heels, in the Work?”

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Question: Why does Baal HaSulam use the concept of sightly to refer to flaws rather than purity, for example? What is considered sightly?

Answer: Sightly refers to the purity of thoughts, care for one another, help, and support, everything a person reveals in their heart regarding the friends.

Question: When I conduct internal scrutiny and become increasingly convinced that I belong to this sightliness less than others, inevitable disappointment and despair come. How do I correctly present my flaws to the Creator?

Answer: Just like that, bring them to Him so He may correct you. Do not hesitate, but come to Him, ask, cry, and demand that He correct all your flaws.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Sightly Flaw in You”

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Question: Is it true that our material sufferings should lead us to turn them into spiritual ones? And how do we do that?

Answer: It depends on finding out how much you understand that, in principle, there are no material problems.

Only spiritual problems descend into our world and are clothed in various material phenomena, no more than that.

Question: If we unite, material problems will remain anyway, but we will go through them faster. How can we tune in to the fact that they will not leave, but we will be able to work with them through the reforming light?

Answer: You must imagine that all your problems will lose their negative appearance, and you, on the contrary, will succeed in your advancement toward the Creator, and material problems will gradually disappear.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And the Saboteur Was Sitting”

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Question: What will help you quickly recognize material and spiritual disturbances as help and realize that nothing is an obstacle, but on the contrary, it would awaken and give even greater striving to the group, to the Creator?

Answer: If you find out what stands in your way to uniting in the ten and turn to the Creator so that He strengthens your unity and gives you even more strength to connect, everything will be fine.

Question: How do I keep an internal connection with the ten during the day?

Answer: I do not think that is possible. You will still fall-rise, fall-rise. After all, there is no such condition in the world as to stay in one place.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And the Saboteur Was Sitting”

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Question: What are the signs of a person who feels impurity, and how can this be corrected to reach a connection?

Answer: If you want to receive for yourself rather than for the sake of the Creator or the friends, this is called a state of impurity (Klipa).

It is possible to correct the Klipa into a state of holiness (Kedusha) only with the help of the upper light. A person must raise his or her prayer to the Creator and ask to be transitioned from the degree where one feels the control of the desire to receive to the degree of the desire to bestow, to become similar to the Creator.

Only through prayer can we correct ourselves and come closer to the Creator and His revelation.

Question: Baal HaSulam writes that everything is already arranged, and all the worlds are ready to receive us, but a person holds on to their egoism and does not let go. What can we add here?

Answer: We must grasp that person and lift him or her above their state. Then, he will feel where he is and where we are pulling him. That is what we must do.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Book of Zohar”

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Question: Why are corrected flaws still called flaws and not virtues?

Answer: We cannot call them virtues because they remain the same flaws, only corrected.

A sightly flaw is a flaw that has been corrected through our efforts and has become good and kind.

Question: Do they teach us not to relax, that there will always be something for egoism to work on?

Answer: No, corrected flaws may disappear, but new ones will emerge.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Sightly Flaw in You”

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Question: What is in common between being a fool and being heartless?

Answer: A heartless person is a fool in the heart, i.e., one who lacks the qualities to sense the Creator, His actions, and to feel closer to Him or distant from Him.

Heartlessness is a lack of desire. You have to work on it, destroy it from your heart.

Question: It turns out that in one’s mind a person is not a fool, he knows what he needs, but in his heart he does not want?

Answer: Yes, but in the end, the heart is conquered. As a result of constant work on ourselves, we begin to feel how it is changing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Wisdom Cries Out in the Streets”

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