I want the ideas of Kabbalah to become the property of the masses. These are not my ideas; they are taken from nature. Kabbalists, as scientists, reveal all kinds of relationships and offer humanity a way to get acquainted with them. If you get acquainted in advance, it will be easier. If you don’t get acquainted, then you will act by trial and error.

But acting incorrectly in the scope of human society leads to years of suffering, destruction, hunger, etc. Mistakes affect people. These are not actually technical errors when something burned down, failed, or fell and crashed by itself.

Therefore, Kabbalists talk about the system and what awaits everyone: “Please come to us; learn, look, and you will come to the same conclusion!” Everything is logical! Nothing is hidden from anyone.

If there were no alternative to the rigid natural development of “by the stick to happiness,” then Kabbalists would be silent. But since this alternative exists, we can accelerate our advancement and make it softer, more pleasant, and faster. Tha’is what Kabbalah is for.

Let’s say you have to get somewhere and in front of you is a dense forest full of robbers and wild animals; you have to go through the woods with small children, elderly, and heavy belongings without any food supplies. How can you do it?!

Here you are offered a magic carpet or at least a normal road. A guide walks in front of you and leads you through a shorter way that you didn’t even know about.

Imagine that there is a globe in front of you and you have to get from one point to a point that is a kilometer away from you, but you go around the globe in a circular way to reach the neighboring point. This is what the path of humanity looks like today.

If humanity had another opportunity, then I would sit quietly and that’s it. What can you do? Scientists sit and explore; nature is nature, and that is how we have to go since there is no getting away.

But when instead of the option of the path of suffering, there is a path of light, which is logical and even in some ways already visible today, how can we leave it and not tell people about it?!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Exit to Light” 7/16/11

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Question: How can we follow the normal path of development? What is a person’s choice?

Answer: A person’s choice is only to unite over all the forces that oppose this.

There are two forces that affect us. We are given a left, evil, egoistic force, rejection from each other, and using each other. And we need to demand another force, the altruistic force, the force of connection, the force of love. We can attract it only through engagement in the highest degree.

Being engaged in the highest degree, we sort of pull ourselves up to it, play this game like a child who wants to be big and plays in this state.

Question: And how will those who do not practice Kabbalah come to this?

Answer: They will come through us. They will listen to what we tell them. They do not need to do anything special. There is enough material presented by us in an easy way: what is freedom of will, how we should be connected with each other, etc.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Is the Creator a Pervert?” 7/23/11

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is the basis of anti-Semitism?“

The basis of anti-Semitism is the Jewish people having yet to realize their true identity and role in humanity: that by uniting above their differences, they become a conduit for unity to spread throughout the world.

The Jewish people received their name from attaining a state of spiritual unity (the Hebrew word for “Jew” [Yehudi] comes from the word for “united” [yihudi] [Yaarot Devash, Part 2, Drush no. 2]). They share no biological connection as Jews, since they are a people that came from all parts of ancient Babylon, gathered into Abraham’s tent, and became united when they, using Abraham’s method of unification, set their sights on attaining the spiritual state of unity, purified from any self-centered motives.

Why is this non-biological, spiritual form of unity so important today?

It is because precisely today, the human ego has grown to overblown proportions, and humanity experiences increasing social division and other problems on personal, social and global scales, stemming from increasing disengagement among people.

Moreover, the increasing social diversity and mingling of cultures, economies and technologies into a globally-intertwined blend demands a method that can glue together the thickening tangle by making sense of it.

As people suffer more from increasing social division, they instinctively feel that the Jews are to blame for their problems. That is because, since the Jewish people had once achieved a unified state “as one man with one heart,” the nations of the world have a gut feeling that the Jews are holding back something positive from them. And both the nations of the world and the Jews are unconscious as to what that positive thing actually is: a harmoniously unified society, the key to everyone’s happiness.

The more the nations of the world feel their lives fill up with problems, the more they will unconsciously blame the Jews, pointing out any dirt on Jews that they can get their hands on—or fabricate—without knowing that there is a deeper hatred within them preceding its many corporeal manifestations. As social division and its byproducts of anxiety, stress, xenophobia and extremism increase, and as the suffering in the world rises, the Jews will be circled out more and more, and we can expect an intensification of attacks and threats on Jews.

Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) describes this phenomenon at length in his article, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar”:

In such a generation, all the destructors among the nations of the world raise their heads and wish primarily to destroy and to kill the children of Israel, as it is written (Yevamot 63), “No calamity comes to the world but for Israel.” This means, as it is written in the above corrections, that they cause poverty, ruin, robbery, killing, and destruction in the whole world.

Today, the nations of the world unconsciously sense that the Jewish people, or Israel, are failing to implement and exemplify a unity worthy of replication in human society. The natural reaction is for them to apply pressure on the Jews, which boosts anti-Semitism. On the other hand, as soon as Jews unite, it will also bring about the unity of humanity and they will feel a wealth of goodness and well-being streaming from the Jewish people.

Therefore, combating anti-Semitism at its basis means implementing a single comprehensive solution: the education and promotion of unity above division. Such education needs to focus on uniting the Jewish people under the law, “love your neighbor as yourself,” which made them the people of Israel to begin with, in order for them to become a conduit for unity to spread worldwide, i.e., to become “a light unto the nations.”

Based on the writers meeting on July 7, 2019 with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Comment: Usually people envy each other with standard egoistic envy.

My Response: What do you want from people?! They need to be educated. Today, in the 21^st century, they are at the same level of development as 10,000 years ago. At absolutely the same level! Their inner potential, their inner attitude to “I and the world” did not change, but only became worse, more egoistic.

Who do you consider to be human? A creature that can press buttons on a phone, work with text messages, or something else like that? What has changed in him? His attitude to the world? No! Only the toys he uses have changed.

But he himself is a consumer-egoist, an all-hater. His attitude to everything and the world around him became much worse.

We need to transform evil egoism into good. Good egoism is based on the fact that I envy the positive qualities of others and want to be like them.

I thank them for giving me a good example and helping me with this. I will beg them, and they will help me pull myself up.

I do not envy the fact that someone has become rich, smart, and knowledgeable. To the contrary! I want to be like them, and with the help of this, I advance.

I understand egoists who want everyone to be worse than them. But, in principle, this is the smallest, most undeveloped egoism.

Big, fruitful, and correctly implemented egoism is when you envy the good. And as much as possible!

As we say in the group: we must envy our friends. I have to think that they are the biggest, and I am nobody and nothing. Then everything starts to burn in me! Not because I want to bring them all down, criticize and erase them, but because then I can pull myself up to them.

They may be very small, as in the example of Rabbi Yossi Ben Kisma, but I can advance. This is what is important to me. Because no one knows who he is. In fact, his height is from here to the world of infinity. Each and everyone’s!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Protection from the Evil Eye” 7/9/11

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Today, society itself is everything; it is becoming self-sufficient. Therefore, the question is how to form this society so as not to let it develop spontaneously.

A lot of work has been done for a long time by special services and various organizations that sit in public networks and process an integral virtual community in all languages through thousands of methods known and unknown to them. Everyone knows and understands this.

But still, no one knows or understands what this society should be and what path it will take.

On one hand, all governments and intelligence agencies are busy working in cyberspace. But they work the same way like a pipe that enters a sphere and tries to influence it with its linear laws. It will not last long. They will see, nevertheless, that they are not achieving anything.

As we study in the second part of TES “The Interaction of a Line and a Circle,” the integrality of a sphere, with some kind of influence on it, can be when the line itself takes the quality of a sphere.

The line can affect the sphere only when it teaches or causes the quality of bestowal in this sphere. After all, the sphere itself, i.e., society, humanity, locked into an integral system, is a global, analog device working together, and is closed within itself in everything and throughout. Therefore, it will be possible to influence humanity only in this way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Spiritual Internet” 7/16/11

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Comment: You say that the entire world is within a person, but I perceive myself as existing outside of you.

My Response: Of course! I perceive you that way too, although I know with certainty that it is all within me. But I address you as someone existing outside of myself.

But I have no complaints about your external self. If I want to change something, it is not you that I should change, take a screwdriver or pliers to, to get inside you and start tinkering or rewiring. No! I should change myself. Then you, as an external reflection of some internal image of mine, will change as well.

Question: How do you change all this?

Answer: Only by rising above egoism with love can these desires be united together and directed toward a common center within me. In principle, it is done like this: I try to feel your desires and influence them so that they become better.

Question: Isn’t this just psychology where you artificially justify another person?

Answer: No, if I justify there will be nothing for me to correct. I must reveal my true actions in this.

Question: Suppose you see a desire outside of yourself and perceive it. How do you change it within yourself? How does this process happen? How do you see the changed reflection?

Answer: I simply see that there is complete internal convergence with this desire. We unite in thoughts, feelings, understanding, and decisions. We become like one entity helping each other.

These two desires, yours and mine, are different in their origin. That is, at the starting point you have certain desires and I have others, but externally in their implementation they become similar, and we work together in perfect harmony.

If two people already in a spiritual state, meaning a Kabbalist with a Kabbalist, are engaged in correcting desires, then their joint work goes against the rest of uncorrected desires. They create dipoles, tripoles, and quadripoles, and begin to function as a joint organism. And thus, it is as if they are being rebuilt.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Unreal Reality” 6/27/11

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Question: Why don’t you want to create a more university-like, classical approach to our academy?

Answer: Our studies take place through communication, uniting, a person’s experience, formation, and upbringing.

A regular university does not educate. It provides education, general information, but not upbringing.

We give information that shapes you from the inside. Therefore in the process of obtaining this information, you must be connected with the teacher and the group and work together with them, then you will go through all kinds of inner sensations.

It is not easy. Our university is very unique, unlike others.

We must create a system of world education that will be suitable for any modern civilization. Today, there are six or seven different civilizations in the world. These are Europe, Africa, South and North America, Australia, and Asia, which in turn is divided into southeast and northeast. That is, we have many applicants who need a special approach.

Gradually, we are creating a worldwide virtual education system. We have built a portal where we want to unite all the forces in the world who understand what a crisis is, that there is no ordinary way out, that it can be solved only through unification and integration, only by the fact that people will be interconnected into a common system.

This is how we prepare the base, public opinion, and scientists. We want to unite all this into one “mighty bunch,” numbering thousands of people who understand and feel it, mainly all kinds of scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and politicians. Together with them we will gradually understand that it is necessary to educate humanity, that it is the most important thing, and that we cannot solve the crisis in the same, old ways.

We cannot solve the crisis by stimulating production. Then we would completely deplete and pollute the entire earth. Besides, we cannot leave everything as is and start conserving, because if we do, the masses will rise.

What can be done? If we can neither stimulate nor cut back our life, what then?

Therefore, we need to organize a completely different society, one where everyone works minimally and the rest of the time is spent studying and going through a constant course of upbringing and education from the beginning to the end of life, studying about the world we live in.

And since the world we are beginning to enter is a world of degrees, all mankind must constantly engage in education and upbringing in order to ascend these degrees. This is the global university. In the end, this is how it should be.

We will approach this in several stages. The first stage is recognizing the crisis, the impossibility of getting out of it either in expanding or contracting, namely, in transitioning to an economy of reasonable consumption, which is what Baal HaSulam spoke about. In everything else, you fill a person with inner work.

Otherwise, nothing will work! Even if no one wants to, or if some do and some do not, it will be necessary to oblige people to take a minimum course of upbringing and education so they understand that we are entering a different system.

There is no other way. Nature will force us. Therefore, it is necessary to prevent all excesses through education and start now. I hope we can do this in the near future.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Global University” 8/11/12

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Question: Among your students there is a certain understanding of going out to the masses. Ninety percent of Kabbalistic material is intended for inner development, but many people think that they are engaged in external dissemination. How can you protect yourself from this?

Answer: All this will be formed simultaneously. A teacher cannot work without students nor students without a teacher.

Once they receive some knowledge, everything else is attained in practical work. They have to work with virtual networks, with the population. Gradually, as the virtual community develops, we will be able to speak differently and open up.

When you start working with a small child, you communicate with him at his level: toys, dolls, cubes, and so on. You are slowly pulling him up, giving him more abstract toys, more complex tasks based not on his primitive feelings, but by requiring some kind of mental work.

You need to develop him gradually from simple soft toys to cubes, from cubes to drawing, from drawing to logic, and so on.

All this must be formed! Today we have to work with “soft toys”;  we have to show people on social networks what they want to see, and to add our ideas into it a little bit, about half a percent.

Question: How can we protect this child from burning down the apartment or kindergarten?

Answer: He will not burn anything. The only thing he can do is throw you away and come back to himself again. Then the suffering will beat him until he hears you again, until you come a little closer to him and you coincide with each other.

This is how we have to go together at every level. Here everything depends on how much he feels suffering and is ready to listen, and how much you can lower yourself and become such that he will hear you.

Question: You have students who are like little children to you. How can these little children not get into trouble so as not to negatively affect other children who are even younger?

Answer: They will not mess up! Because the path of suffering is the worst path. Eventually, we will raise humanity by our own efforts and lead it upward. There is nothing worse than sitting and doing nothing.

Therefore, we should try to disseminate by all means. Something drips somewhere and breaks through somewhere. Perhaps not now, but it will still remain online, and suddenly in a few years, it will begin to manifest itself. People will start to remember!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Going Out” 7/30/11

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