Comment: I can quiet my evil inclination only when there is the light of connection in the group. And when it stops shining, the evil inclination immediately takes possession of me.

My Response: Very good. This means that you must constantly ask to be influenced by the light of the Creator, the power of the Creator, which will keep you in the right state. Nothing else is required.

It cannot be otherwise. How do we have the strength to resist egoism? Only if the Creator will shine on us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/23, “My Heart Is Slain within Me—Selected Excerpts from the sources”

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Question: Has the possibility of unity and mutual guarantee ever been realized?

Answer: Yes, the possibility of realizing unity worldwide first emerged in ancient Babylon 3,700 years ago.

Abraham attempted to accomplish this, but was able to take only a few thousand people with him out of Babylon who, under his leadership, were able to form a mutual guarantee among themselves. The rest scattered around the world.

Today the entire world resembles a global Babylon, and we must return to global mutual guarantee on a worldwide scale. This task must be completed in a maximum of 217 years, but it could end much earlier, possibly even in our time.

Currently, the year is 5783 according to the Jewish calendar. We do not have to wait until the year 6000 as we can attract the appropriate forces and accelerate this development.

In case the world follows the path of suffering and is pushed forward by evolution, then it will continue until exactly 6,000 years. But if it follows the path of light, drawing spiritual actions, corrections, and changes in us, then time will compress to just a few years, and that is all.

After all, 6,000 years are 6,000 changes. These are no longer years as we transform them into our inner changes. However, if we will not do this, then physically on the timeline they will still have to be realized within 6,000 years under the pressure of nature. And if we add the pressure of the right environment to nature, then we will accelerate both the path and the time.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalistic Calendar” 9/3/11

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New Life 252 – The Influence Of The Residential Environment On A Person, Part 2
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

How does contact with the community affect our personal security? How can a person make good connections with his neighbors? Why is re-establishing contact with our environment especially important nowadays?

Man adapts to the environment in which he grows. The close environment in which we grow up and become adults shapes us. A person always strives to feel as safe as in the womb. The neighborhood has an impact on our sense of security. The more you are adapted to the environment, the safer you are.

A child in the neighborhood feels dependent on everyone else; they are his whole world. A child who sees other children around him must adapt to them. He feels that he wants to be with the big and strong ones. Children who grow up without community life lack warmth and bonds with others, and so they are likely to suffer from depression later. Through interactions between children in the neighborhood, we build friendships, connections and bonds of mutual help. There is a huge difference between a child playing with friends and a child playing alone or with his parents. Children who experience life through electronic screens do not develop as human beings because they have no live interactions with others.

Depression is the result of a lack of proper contact with the environment. A child growing up inside his smartphone will find it difficult to develop as a person. It is better to have school lessons that include group work. Friendships must be built between the children. Settlements and kibbutzim have a rich social life for children. Similar groups should be established in the neighborhoods of the city. All nature is linked in all its parts; only we humans are not. This is where suffering and misery grow from generation to generation.

A good residential environment is a place where people are connected, not necessarily sitting at home all the time, but together. Residents can discuss how to improve life, e.g., mutual assistance, children’s activities, and a beauty salon for women. Once a month, a big banquet can be held for the whole neighborhood. Kids and teens can perform in front of everyone, with music, songs and other offerings.

Connection to others gives a person the warmth he felt in the womb. In this way he extends his vessel.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 252 – The Influence Of The Residential Environment On A Person, Part 2,” 11/14/13
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How do conspiracy theorists come up with new conspiracy theories?“

We come up with all kinds of conspiracy theories primarily because we do not know where we live, why we are alive, where we are headed, and what is good and bad for us.

We are confused. We can think of ourselves like little children who were placed into an open store, and who then play with all kinds of objects in that store, running around and bumping into all sorts of things, but who have no clue as to why they were placed there to begin with, and what the store’s rules are in order for everyone to enjoy themselves optimally.

That is how we are in our world. Therefore, if something significant and extraordinary happens to us here, we start examining the phenomena from several different angles: Who caused it? Who benefits from it? We start looking for who to blame.

Ultimately, we cause our every misfortune, but it is not as all kinds of conspiracy theorists emphasize, that there are certain people acting in a goal-oriented manner. We can think about it similarly to a volcanic eruption, a tsunami or a hurricane: we might have caused such phenomena indirectly, but not on purpose.

No matter how rich or powerful certain people are, they cannot change humanity’s fate. It is because nature is the general collective force and it includes and sustains each particular and individual force within itself. It rules over everyone and everything, and it does not let any one person or group of people move anything even one millimeter in any direction.

If there are any individual forces that wish to break out and take control, nature simply does not let them. Every person is a small part, an individual aspect, of a general system that is governed solely by the force of nature. Therefore, the ultimate conspirator is nature itself, which governs everyone and everything according to its higher plan—”higher” because it is beyond our minds to comprehend.

Based on the video “Why Do We Conjure Up All Kinds of Conspiracy Theories?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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Question: If I see that a friend is suffering from not being annulled, how can we work with it, and where is the place of my correction?

Answer: You have to give him an example of how to annul so that he sees what needs to be done and will do the same.

Do not tell him about the problem, it is better to show an example. Maybe he will understand.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Question: The Japanese art of Kintsugi means golden joinery. It is the restoration of ceramic vessels using adhesive sap of the lacquer tree. Masters repair a broken jar and glue it together. Moreover, they do not just glue, but reveal cracks with gold paint, thereby showing the need for gluing.

Is it important to be able to glue things together?

Answer: In general, yes. If you know exactly their future purpose and evaluate them correctly, then gluing is a great correction.

Question: In Kabbalah we study the process of shattering and the need for correction through connection. Now we live in a society in which people practically do not fix anything: they buy something, use it, and throw it away. How important is it to be able to fix things, fix relationships, and fix lives?

Answer: I think, it is necessary. Man is a creature that doubts all the time, makes mistakes, and is willing to perform more and more new actions. Therefore, he must understand that besides the fact that good impulses are destined for us, we must be aware of them, check them, and try to correct them.

Question: Why glue at all? After all, you can find something new, some new vessel, a new occupation, a new thing.

Answer: No, there are things that are very dear to us, and we want them to be preserved. We want to deal with restored old things. Then the corrected thing becomes even more precious than something new or whole.

We see the same thing in our history, in nature, and in technology. Many things in nature break, and we glue them together, connect them, and give them new meaning, a new life. They serve us, and we love them despite the fact that they could have disappeared long ago, having served their time.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah in the Modern Turbulent World” 8/3/23

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Question: The feeling of the Creator’s greatness is pleasure and joy. How do we accept this state correctly in order not to receive pleasure for our own sake, but to become a giver to bring contentment and delight to the Creator?

Answer: We must be ready for this. We want to reveal the Creator only to bring Him contentment. When we reveal the Creator, it will add great strength to our work.

Question: The Creator constantly gives us the opportunity to choose. How do we choose what will delight Him?

Answer: What will delight your friends will delight Him.

Question: And if we proceed from the corporeal world?

Answer: What can you give to the Creator from the corporeal world? Nothing.

He has everything: all the necessary Kelim and means to feel you in any state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/3/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Question: To the extent that we have a desire for the Creator and connection, material desires for this world are revealed in us. How do we work with them?

Answer: Perform them sequentially. You cannot give up this world, but you must establish a correlation between it and the spiritual world. Try to see where you have to make a correction at the beginning and then at the end.

Question: Should this balance be in intention or in action?

Answer: In principle, we want our intentions to coincide with our actions.

Question: If I want something material, should I build the right intention or make a complete restriction on it?

Answer: No. You have to make a plan for yourself for when you exercise a spiritual intention and when you fulfill a material one.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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