Question: If I perceive the world not within myself, but outside of me, should I try to physically influence it because there are a vast number of actions available?

Answer: No. I should only help the world, that is, correct my reflection outside of me. In doing so, I am correcting myself.

The thing is, when it exists outside of me, it becomes more apparent to me what needs to be corrected. But ultimately, I should only correct myself. That is the difference between Eastern and Western philosophies.

There are two worldviews: I correct the world, subordinate it to me, or I correct myself, and in doing so, the world around me is corrected in my perception. These two orientations are completely opposite.

Eastern philosophy (Chinese, Indian, etc.) is closer to the truth and aligns us with the idea that we need to change ourselves. That is why in ancient Chinese medicine doctors were paid for keeping their patients healthy, not when they were sick. And if a person committed a crime, he had to be executed or hanged in front of everyone.

The West is horrified by this. And the East says, “Why? We are thus correcting the world so that others will not do that. And you encourage the opposite.” There is deep discord between the two approaches. And it applies not only to medicine or an attitude to a person, but to the worldview in general, to everything.

Therefore, look at how America, Europe, and Russia behave: “We need to assert ourselves in such a way that others are warned off. We will prove it! We will win!” and so on. This perspective stems from an incorrect worldview. And as a result, all these countries eventually lose.

This incorrect approach is deeply ingrained in people. And until they change their worldview, until they understand that they need to change themselves and not the world, they will suffer tremendously.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. There are Only Scoundrels Around Me” 5/14/11

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Question: When you work with students, do you invest in those in whom you see potential and do not invest in someone who does not have it at all?

Answer: This is not quite true. In no case do I rob anyone, and I do not take away the possibility of realization from anyone. I give everyone the maximum and do not prefer one over the other.

Eventually, those who are moving forward get closer to me spiritually, but those who are standing still do not.

I can be closer or further to a person in our work and in dissemination because I work more with people who translate, process, and make films than with others.

But, in principle, I have no preference for anyone even if it is my own son or son-in-law, who are also within our organization. No way! I have no right! And I think everyone can see it.

Question: Do you not give preference even when you pass spiritual information to a person? You said that Rabash gave you so much light so that in the future you could use it and reveal it.

Answer: But I worked with him, studied, served him, did everything just to get this charge from him, this strength, this opportunity to somehow change myself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman ‘s Favorites” 7/6/11

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Comment: In the article “The Rose” in the Introduction of The Book of Zohar, it is said that the rose is a cup of blessing, which indicates the extension of five Hassadim within her five Gevurot, and so on.

My Response: When Baal HaSulam writes commentary on this article, he gradually descends from the level of the Creator to the level of creation and begins to explain how the lower souls are arranged and how they perceive the influence of the Creator on them.

For example, the article says that the cup must be raised with both hands and then held in the right hand with five fingers when the blessings are pronounced. Therefore, in our world, it is customary to bless the wine.

These examples explain that the blessing with which you should turn to the Creator should consist of five qualities: Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, and Malchut. They should be connected together. As one hand connects five fingers, so you should take a cup of wine and, raise it, bless the Creator for giving you such an opportunity.

Question: Why should the cup be held in the right hand?

Answer: In spirituality, there is a right side and a left side. The right is good and the left is evil. Therefore, it is necessary to pronounce blessings while holding the cup in your right hand.

Question: What do we need these actions in our world? Why do this if we are talking about some great, inner things?

Answer: In our world, everything comes down to simple tradition. But in fact, these are very deep actions with which we awaken the upper governance.

In principle, if a person understands what he is doing, he can awaken certain forces upon his desires and thus correct himself.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 6/4/23

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Question: Walt Disney, a famous animator, considered his main work not cartoons, but the creation of the city of the future, which he was building in the last years of his life. If you decided to build such a city, what would it be like?

Answer: The kingdom of the good king, where the Creator would be the king, and people would live there according to His laws. They would come, take some kind of course, adapt to that life for a while, and then leave. That is, a kingdom in the form of a boarding house.

Question: What is a city from Kabbalah’s point of view?

Answer: A city is a limited space in which there are people who agree to exist according to a certain code of life.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” 5/18/23

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is sin in one sentence?“

Sin is to think about yourself all the time, and not about others.

Based on KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on May 18, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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In the verse, “In the beginning God created,” God, too, elicited thirteen words to surround the Assembly of Israel and to keep her: THE, HEAVEN, AND-THE, EARTH, AND-THE EARTH, WAS, EMPTY, AND-CHAOTIC, AND-THE DARKNESS, OVER, THE FACE, OF THE ABYSS, AND-THE SPIRIT” (Introduction to The Book of Zohar, “The Rose”).

Comment: At first glance, these sentences seem completely unrelated.

My Response: The fact is that when you read the Torah, you begin to understand that all the relations between us and the Creator are summarized and encrypted in it in a short form. Basically, the Torah only talks about this.

Question: What does it mean “The Creator created the heaven and the earth”?

Answer: Heaven is the upper attitude, the quality of Rachamim, i.e., the quality of mercy to each other. Earth, on the contrary, is a quality of hardness. This way, being between two forces, positive and negative, that operate within us, we can use them to move ahead toward adhesion with the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 6/4/23

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In our time, the countries are all linked in the satisfaction of their needs of life, as individuals were in their families in earlier times. Therefore, we can no longer speak or deal with just conducts that guarantee the well-being of one country or one nation, but only with the well-being of the whole world, for the benefit or harm of each and every person in the world depends and is measured by the benefit of all the individuals the world over (Baal HaSulam “Peace in the World“).

Question: Today everyone understands universal interdependence and tries to move away from it with all their might. For example, America wants to get free from China, but China produces 80% of solar panels and batteries for electric vehicles. Everyone wants to get free from Taiwan, but 80% of computer chips are made in Taiwan. And yet everyone wants to “get free, get free…”.

What is the future of this global world? Baal HaSulam saw that it was already tied up.

Answer: Nobody will be able to get away from it. They just talk, but they really can’t.

Question: Will they not break free? So are these chains, or is it everyone’s wish after all?

Answer: Of course. The desire to be independent is great in each of us and in every nation and in every part of the world. But there is no getting away from it.

Question: And if a person thinks that “I have my vegetable garden; there is my production; I make both tires and cars”?

Answer: No, we went through this 500 years ago. And now it’s impossible.

Question: So do you think that the globalization of the world and this global tie is inevitable?

Answer: It is inevitable, and even more so every year.

Question: What should it be? Forcing humanity into understanding?

Answer: Yes. But how? When you see that you are completely dependent on your neighbor, then you stop fighting with him.

Question: So do we have to come to the consciousness that, after all our breakups and divorces, I am completely dependent on my neighbor?

Answer: Of course. That’s how it goes!

Comment: But I don’t see this, and neither do you.

My Response: All this should be determined by the measure of suffering. Suffering is the foundation.

Comment: Meaning it turns out that I have to suffer almost to the limit. I have to ruin everything around.

My Response: This will be closer to final correction.

Question: Couldn’t I fix all the threads with my neighbors in advance, which I would not be able to break later? Before we suffered, by some wisdom?

Answer: What wisdom? This is stupidity. I’m sorry.

Question: The fact that I can fix all the threads with my neighbors in advance, which I would not be able to break later? Or that will I tear them up later anyway?

Answer: We can’t escape.

Question: Then what needs to happen for me to understand that I am really in a complete bundle and do not want to leave it? I want to live like this.

Answer: Awareness of the complete dependence of everyone on everything.

Question: How does it come?

Answer: Through problems, through pain, through suffering, through illnesses, in which I reveal how tied we are.

Comment: Scientists say that we are really tied up. Biologists say that.

My Response: But you have to experience it on your own skin! That’s the problem. This is how it turns out in the family, or with relatives, and so on. That’s when you feel it, and it goes all over you, like a rake on a naked body. Then I am ready to renounce it. These “rakes” will help me realize my evil.

And there really are a lot of questions. Big deal, these rakes! Why should I reveal all in this way? Am I really such an idiot? Am I really that limited? Am I really that stupid? Am I being punished as a child, like at school or at home? Can’t you be a little smarter? No, you can’t.

Question: So this experience must pass through me?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Someone drove this rake over me, didn’t they? I will never forget the pain that he caused me.

My Response: You will be eternally grateful to him!

Question: Do you understand what humanity is like today? As I am today, it’s not that I can’t watch, but I just hate it. How can I turn this hatred into gratitude?

Answer: Revelation of the great degree to which you are rising thanks to these “rakes.” And there is huge love for the Creator, who has provided for all this in advance and prepared it for us.

Question: The further we go, the scarier it turns out. I am grateful to him, whom I hate; I am grateful to the Creator who spun it all.

And to what degree must I climb to really be grateful?

Answer: This is the revelation of evil. The recognition of evil is that it is not evil, but absolute good.

Question: Which led me to what as a result?

Answer: To love! You kiss the rake.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/1/23

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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]” (Introduction of The Book of Zohar, “The Rose”).

Judgment, the quality of rigidity in our relationship, is red. But when we remove the judgment in our relationship and treat each other only through friendship, love, and kindness, this is white.

That is, a Kabbalist feels bestowal and love in the form of white light, and the rigid relationship between us in the form of red.

Judgment and mercy are two qualities of a person, according to which we invite upon ourselves the same two qualities from the Creator. As we treat each other, so does the Creator treat us.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 6/4/23

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