Question: I heard about a country that paid citizens $7,000 for a newborn baby, newlyweds were given $64,000 to buy an apartment, and if you opened a personal business they gave you $20,000. Education and medicine were free, there was no rent, there was no electricity fee, loans were interest free. When buying a car, 50% is paid by the state. It’s just scary to go down the list. They were certain that it was possible to live like this forever. I am talking about Libya. I look at countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Switzerland, and Belgium, and ask, is it possible to destroy such a material paradise? Here it was destroyed. Generally, can it be destroyed?
Answer: Outside or inside?
Question: It doesn’t matter whether outside or inside. A person should hold on to it with his hands and toes. This is his material world; he is completely provided for. How does it fall apart? Please explain.
Answer: People don’t appreciate what they have. And on the other hand there are many envious people—external and internal. Therefore, they destroy it.
Question: How can something enter within a person and say: “This is paradise, you have to give it up and destroy it all, and after that there will be just ruins”?
Answer: If this is an ideology, then it can be higher.
Question: So can it be done? Even in these countries that we are looking at now and are absolutely sure that they will hold on for centuries and centuries?
Answer: Not for long.
Question: When we talked about Sodom, in principle, was it the same state as in Libya and Saudi Arabia?
In Sodom, we are talking about the fact that the Creator said that it is impossible to live like this, and it must be destroyed. At what point does such impatience come from above?
Answer: When people start neglecting what is given to them.
Question: Meaning, full financial support was given. What is the neglect of a person?
Answer: In the fact that he believes that he, supposedly, is entitled to it.
Question: Should a person say: “This is not mine and I am not entitled to it”?
Answer: I am not entitled to it, but I receive it, and I am grateful to the Creator for it.
Question: Is this the main sentence?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So, this principle that was in Sodom, “mine is mine, yours is yours,” are very close to the principles in this instance?
Answer: This principle was rigidly established. That is, if my neighbor is starving, I have no right to help him.
Comment: Well, this is too much! I don’t think it’s possible right now.
My Response: This is the other side of the same coin.
Question: In principle, these states, material goods can transform into this rigid law? “Mine is mine, yours is yours,” and I don’t help you, and you don’t help me.
Answer: Yes.
Question: Is there any logic in this?
Answer: The logic is absolute. It has a lot of adherents. Let’s say that we receive everything from the Creator. If the Creator gave to you, but did not give to me, then, even if I die, I must receive from the Creator what He gives me.
Question: So, the Creator gave wealth to one, poverty to another, and that’s how it should be? And I don’t interfere with your poverty, and you don’t interfere with my wealth?
Answer: Yes.
Question: There is logic in this. So, what is the vice?
Answer: The vice is that people don’t take it as they should. Meaning, they do not accept the absolute authority of the Creator, and therefore, it is destroyed.
We must be above this strictness of the Creator. Not just “yours is yours and mine is mine.” It is given to us from above, and we have to make an adjustment to it, that it is all ours.
Given by the Creator, “yours is yours and mine is mine,” initially, we leave it within, and from above we cover it with love.
Question: Is this what is called “ours”? So we are building bridges from one to the other?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Is this the main work? Then it is for centuries and doesn’t change anymore?
Answer: Then we are like partners with the Creator. He created evil, and we build bridges over this evil with love.
Question: And the evil that He created is “mine is mine, yours is yours”? Is that what you call evil?
Answer: Of course. This is egoism.
Question: How does this differ from revolutions? In a revolution, too, they said: “This is ours.” What wasn’t there? We say, “mine is mine, yours is yours” should transform into “ours.”
Answer: There was no such ideal—”ours.” If we have to do everything, then everything is in our hands. Then, it means there is no Creator, by definition.
I think nothing good will come of all these theories. I am sure that the world will still come to the realization that it is necessary to solve these issues by the Kabbalistic method. Meaning, to put the Creator—the one, the whole—at the head of the entire process of human development and hold onto Him. And do it only in the name of a single sentence, the phrase, Brotherhood!
Question: And will people want to grab onto this? Won’t they want to lose it?
Answer: If they will want to lose it, they will plunge themselves into such a confrontation that there will be no one to be in a showdown with.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/26/23
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