Question: You have repeatedly said that you can deceive your ego and somehow learn to use it and that egoism is like a donkey that runs after a carrot. How can you deceive your nature so that it allows you to go the right way?

Answer: There is no need to deceive your nature; you will not be able to deceive it. There are many means, when you look at others and connect with them, when you learn from all of humanity how to come closer to everyone, when you examine the surrounding society and learn something, they teach you, they tell you, and you gradually become imbued with it.

But the most important thing is that in all these attempts there is nothing required of you except the desire to make yourself a global, integral community with everyone. That is all. Just make an attempt, and through it you want to become good and big. This desire is enough.

As soon as it is manifested on your part, the good attitude of nature immediately appears toward it and you begin to change. All you need is a desire, like a small child who wants to be big. You need nothing, just this kind of effort, “I want,” and that is enough.

Then you come to a completely different inner structure, to an integral community, and to a feeling not of I, but of we. You begin to perceive the world around you as your world. Previously it seemed to you that you wanted to conquer it so that it would be yours. It is in this form that you will receive it when you begin to connect with it in the form of we and not in the form of I or mine.

The world will not be mine, but ours, and you will feel this “our” world as your own, as absolutely safe, absolutely even, and open.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Deceive Yourself?” 5/28/11

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Question: Should we give money to children?

Answer: Generally, yes. It depends on what it is for, but for sure, we should. On the one hand children should understand the value of money, and on the other hand what can be done with it and how.

Question: Did you give money to your children?

Answer: Of course.

Question: How do we raise confident children?

Answer: This is a problem. The most important thing is to show them that they can be confident in themselves.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” 5/18/23

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Is it possible for a Jew to be an anti-Semite?“

A Jew can be an antisemite because being Jewish is not a nationality.

To be a Jew means to be drawn to “love your neighbor as yourself,” i.e., to host an attraction to unity. It is a special kind of perception of reality where a person thinks that everyone needs a harmonious connection more than anything else.

People who are immersed in self-love, emphasizing self-benefit at the expense of others, are not Jews.

Therefore, in order to stop antisemitism, the unifying force of love needs to emerge among the Jewish people. It can happen when we understand that without drawing closer to each other, we will disappear off the face of the planet.
Based on the video “How Can Jews be Antisemites?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 32, “Concerning the Reward of the Receivers”

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Question: When you began to study with Rabash, you were still in the ordinary perception of this world. Did it not seem strange to you that he talked about the spiritual world?

Answer: Do you think he told me a lot?! Very little! Basically, we talked at my level about the methods of spiritual work, the dissemination of Kabbalah in the world, and the ideas of Baal HaSulam. I could not speak at a level above myself because I did not understand anything in it.

It is the same as in any science! How can you tell a first-grader what he will study in the next classes if he still does not have this knowledge at all? And here one needs not just knowledge, but attainment. That is, he will talk, and you will not understand what he is talking about.

Now I also say things that do not affect you. But I say them. It is recorded. Later you will use the archive.

Comment: In principle, you and Rabash studied TES (Talmud Eser Sefirot), which can be structured.

My Response: It can be structured, nothing more. But from this structure, you begin to slowly extract some principles for yourself: how the light influences the desire, how the desire influences the light in return, what combination occurs between them, and the play of one with the other. The most important thing is the influence of the study on you.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Teacher” 4/30/11

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Question: Does jealousy have a root? Where does it come from?

Answer: In our world jealousy comes from the egoistic feeling of “I have this, it is mine, and I receive pleasure from this, but no one else does. Do not take my bone, or I will bite you.”

But as soon as I become indifferent to this object, let others grab it, take it, and tear it apart into shreds, then I am no longer interested in it. And if it does interest me, then it is only from my point of view so the other person will not feel better than me.

Spiritual states are built only on the combination and mutual participation in receiving the upper light. The female part cannot be without the male part and the male without the female one.

Question: Is there no such thing as jealousy in spirituality?

Answer: What is jealousy? Jealousy of whom or what? There is jealousy only of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What Is Jealousy?” 18/5/11

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Question: What is the power of thought and how can we use it? From the Kabbalist’s perspective, what should one think about every moment?

Answer: The power of thought is very great because with it we can bring big corrections into the universe, into its forces and their interaction with each other. This happens only if we direct the entire power of our heart to the good connection between people. Then it multiplies many times. In this way, we begin to correctly awaken all forces of nature.

Question: What is so special about the power of the heart?

Answer: The power of love, the power of kindness, the power of good connection.

Question: Can a person awaken it or generate it within himself in any way?

Answer: Yes. He can awaken this power within himself; connect it with the powers of other people, and in this way advance toward the improvement of the world.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” 5/18/23

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Question: Why is it harmful to gossip and slander?

Answer: There is nothing more harmful to people than bad thoughts, especially words. Their presence, development, influence, and interference is very harmful to the world. The most useful thing is to be silent.

Question: You said that sometimes your teacher Rabash spoke to himself and explained that his words should go out into the world. What power was there in the words he used?

Answer: The words that come out of a person, especially a person such as Rabash, have a very great power in influencing the world.

Well, for any person, including you and me, what we say flies away from us into the environment, and this affects everyone and everything.

Question: What is the best word to say more often?

Answer: Love.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” 5/18/23

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Question: Is the ordinary suffering in this world not enough for us, must we add suffering to ourselves by yearning to reach the upper world? Does it mean that by embarking on the spiritual path, a person doubles his sufferings?

Answer: Yes, you multiply your suffering in order to traverse this path as soon as possible! What else can push you forward?

However, we are not sent suffering from above, we by ourselves need to reveal the suffering of love within us.

The reforming light causes us the sufferings of love for it, and we rush forward driven by these sufferings, and not by life’s sufferings like animals who are beaten, do not understand anything, and run away from the blows of fate.

Therefore, from above they are waiting for us to start acting. But we think, well, we can wait until help comes from above and everything is arranged by itself.

But what kind of help can come from above besides the sufferings of the corporeal world that will make us move forward?!

If you are included in the group, you will get spiritual sufferings and you will start moving faster.

This is a feeling of spiritual emptiness, the sufferings of love. Then there will be no need to push you with ordinary sufferings.

If you yourself are yearning to move forward at the speed that is determined for you according to your initial spiritual data, your Reshimot, then there is no need to push you by a “stick to happiness”.

However, if you already rise so high that you connect with all the other souls, you begin to suffer for them, as a mother suffers for her children. Therefore, it seems to us that Kabbalists also suffer in this world.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/1/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

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