New Life 295 – One Emotion And One Mind
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

What is the connection between emotion and intellect? We consist of desire and emotion. Desire forces our brains to develop new capacities and to create connections between emotions to serve the emotions. This is especially true in groups. As shared emotions created in a group become stronger, collective intelligence will also be developed.

Thus, the main thing is not the quantity or quality of personal achievement, but the connection between them. Then the mind becomes integral, just as nature is integral. Nature is built on relationships. In the measure to which we adapt ourselves to the harmony of nature, that is, when the members of a group are integrated between them, the group adapts to the system of nature and becomes smarter.

The more our emotion and intellect are a result of our connection, the more we will succeed. We must develop connection above the egoism and hatred between us. We can use the friction, distance, and projection in the group as stimuli to connect above them. The gap provides the emotional intensity necessary to connect in a way that leads to greater capacity and an intellectually brilliant result.

Our goal as a team is to treat each as the closest possible people in the world, to envision each other as the most important people. I want to feel what is important to the other person and what will bring them happiness. First, I must study the other and annul myself in order to feel the other. What are his inclinations? What does he hate? What does he love? Each one needs to rise above their ego and cultivate the inclination to fulfill the other in what they want, to do good for them. Second, I must see myself as the greatest of all, someone who is able to fulfill the others and bring them positive influence.

We must then ask ourselves what we really want to do together. We want to reach connection between us, as one man in one heart, similar to the operating system of nature. The purpose of the group is to build an integral sense by which we can feel the entire, comprehensive nature. Then we will know what to advance toward in our place of work and in our family. What do we do in the world and in our life? It can only be done with an integral approach. I strive to help all of you maintain the connection and help all of us to realize our common desire together.

An integral solution is above each one’s individual nature. Our leaders cannot do anything to solve the world’s problems because they do not feel what nature is trying to do with us. We are not the ones in control here. The ego learns through suffering, but through the help of the group, through a common deficiency to solve the problem before us, we will be able to understand what is required. Our common mind evolves according to our common emotion and becomes adapted to nature.

Research has shown that a person’s emotional state has a positive or negative effect on their health. Because I am connected to others, my health is influenced by them. The emotional environment, the quality of the system of connections between people, affects the health of each individual within it. A group with balanced connections helps everyone in the group to feel better and be healthier. Living in balance and harmony—elevating the relations between us to a higher degree—will cause physical symptoms to disappear.

In summary, any decision needs to come from our common emotion, which develops a common mind and intellect between us. Only from such development will we be able to make decisions that are in harmony with the larger system of nature.
From KabTV’s “New Life 295 – One Emotion And One Mind,” 1/26/14

This summary was written and edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Is peace between Israel and Palestinians out of reach?“

Peace between Israel and any other nation depends on the Jewish people being at peace with each other.

In the past, Israeli Jews were once united in times of war. Today, even war fails to unite us.

There is no need for us to fight anyone. We will finish ourselves off with our own hands.

Until we understand that everything depends on uniting above our divisions and discovering a common love, we will have no peace and calm with our neighbors.

How does it work?

It works because we are a special nation that was established not on biological ties, but on achieving the idea of “love your friend as yourself,” and it is that example of unity that will let us function as a healthy organ in the world.

If we achieve such love for each other, then Palestinians will have no drive to fight us, and in general, the hatred against us will subside.

If we wish to be at peace with Palestinians and the entire world, we first need to be at peace with each other.
Based on the video “Is Peace between Israel and Palestinians Out of Reach?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 4, “What Is a Flood of Water in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 105

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom”

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Question: Many people who have gone through clinical death claim that they experienced vivid sensations of a world that is dominated by one force that radiates goodness, love, and mercy. And at the same time, they felt how every moment of their lives, every action and intention, was recorded with pedantic accuracy.

Is there any connection between these sensations and what Kabbalists experience when they reveal the spiritual world? After all, Kabbalah also talks about the love and mercy of the upper force.

Answer: I am afraid to answer this question directly because of the risk of being misunderstood. Of course, everything does not end with the death of the physical body. A body lives and dies, we see it very well, and we even use meat of slaughtered animals for food.

People claim that clinical death was accompanied by very pleasant sensations in complete contrast to the world they left, which was full of suffering. But it is not surprising that there is such a revolution from evil to absolute good because indeed this corporeal world is the worst of all worlds. It is completely ruled by egoism and is opposite to the positive force of the desire to bestow.

In the upper worlds the force of unification acts, and in our world the force of separation does. And it is clear that the difference between the corporeal and the spiritual world is huge.

But it is not worth talking about it because we cannot provide any evidence and cannot broadcast from the upper world into our world. Therefore, a person is so afraid of death and thinks of it as something incomprehensible and shrouded in mystery. And I do not think that I have the right to reveal this secret.

Some people claim that at the moment of clinical death they suddenly realized the huge impact of their seemingly most insignificant actions. And of course, there is a grain of truth in this.

Therefore, in this life it is still worth behaving as the Torah advises, that is, to unite with each other in order to reveal the true form of reality that awaits us in the future in a common desire (Kli). After all, after physical death, we have to discover that we are completely connected and influence each other.

The Creator hides from us what is beyond the threshold of death. And we are like curious children who want to look behind this veil and find out what is there. But in all our life there is no way to step over this barrier and reveal the form of the future world.

What should be the right attitude toward death? Death is not what we imagine. It is just a sensory transition from our world to another world. For a person who has experienced death, this corporeal reality ends and existence in new sensations begins.

Is this transition accompanied by pain? I do not think so. Should we be afraid of the moment of death? I think we should not. We are just afraid of the unknown.

And what happens after death? After it there is no more death, and there is no more this corporeal life. But what is there? We shall wait and see!
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From a conversation with journalists 6/6/23

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Just as a rose among the thorns is tinged with red and white, the Assembly of Israel contains Din [judgment] and Rachamim [mercy] (Zohar for All “The Rose,” Item 1).

When we talk about the gathering of souls, we mean people who are internally connected to each other, although they are not aware of it. And the realization of their common connection is called a “rose.”

Question: Are souls the common connection of all people in the world?

Answer: The common connection of all people in the world is “like a rose among thorns.” And this is called the soul.

And the thorns symbolize judgment, tough management. If you don’t want to be like a rose, to bloom and spread, then you will feel the control from above with the help of judgment and tough management.

Question: Speaking in Kabbalistic language, souls are our inner desires that are always subject to some kind of restrictions. Why are these restrictions necessary?

Answer: To guide us toward better development. After all, it is up to a person to determine how to use harmful egoistic qualities that are hard as thorns in him.

It is precisely because the rose grows between the thorns that we have the opportunity to correctly use the painful management that is directed as if against us, but only in order for us to be corrected and constantly correct ourselves in a good connection between us.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 6/4/23

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Comment: The ancient philosophers who studied with Kabbalists took some knowledge from Kabbalah and brought it out. From this, certain philosophies and teachings were born.

My Response: Yes, philosophers themselves state it. This was in the time of the prophets 600-700 BC and later.

Question: How can we avoid repeating the same movement among your students?

Answer: If people were interested in this earlier, today no one needs it.

I have published so many books! So what? Are they snapped up, read, researched? Everyone is only interested in mechanical toys, in how you can pick up this world in order to get out of it as much momentary benefit for yourself as possible, and that’s it. More people are not interested in anything.

Therefore, you can talk about Kabbalah as much as you want, no one needs it.

Previously, it was not possible to spread it, because there was a danger that people who began to study Kabbalah would begin to err.

It turns out that when those who could become interested in Kabbalah lived, it was hidden. And at the present time when people are generally not interested in anything except the material, Kabbalah is open.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Separate from Laitman” 5/14/11

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Question: You say that egoism forms a certain body. Then what does altruism form?

Answer: Altruism forms the soul, meaning a completely different body, a spiritual one.

Altruism is based on the fact that I perceive the feelings and thoughts of others as my own. I operate not with my own desires, but with someone else’s. I use my own desires only in order to fulfill the desires of others.

To do this, I need completely different qualities. My egoism can only fill itself. Here, however, I begin to connect, for example, to you. But you have other desires, other needs, and therefore I develop my egoism by including your desires, qualities, and all of you into myself, and become twice the size, consisting of myself and you. My part serves you, and your part consumes this service, like Bina and Malchut, like mother and child.

In this way, I attain your desire and fill it with the upper light that comes to me to a greater extent. In doing so, I feel that I am fulfilling you; that is, I feel like a Creator regarding you. By this, I attain one-seven billionth part of the Creator.

Such fulfillment, feeling, understanding, and action, all this is called “the Creator in me.” Here, I have revealed Him. Therefore, “love your neighbor as yourself” is the main rule of the Torah, that is, the entire instruction for correction. There is no escaping this! If you want to feel more than your animalistic body and live above it, you must include the other in yourself!

Question: In principle, is it also a benefit to attach the other to yourself?

Answer: Start thinking that it is beneficial, that through this you achieve everything! Think as your egoism thinks; do not resist! The main thing is to love your neighbor, even if this is uncomfortable for you. Then you will see the light will begin to work on you and will transfer this into a completely different direction.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Structure of Altruism” 5/7/11

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Just as a rose has thirteen petals, the Assembly of Israel consists of thirteen qualities of Rachamim, surrounding it on all sides (Introduction of The Book of Zohar, “The Rose”).

An assembly of people who want to rise to the Creator in connection with each other reveals such possibilities of connection between them that raise them to the Creator. There are only 13 such opportunities.

This is a special number that indicates that people use all their opportunities to become similar to the Creator in good connection with each other.

By the way, in Judaism, the number 13 is considered lucky. This is the largest number of egoistic properties of a person that he can change from a negative use to a positive one.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 6/4/23
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