Question: How is it possible to correct a 60-year-old adult who had a completely wrong upbringing since birth?

Answer: The age of a person is unimportant. You don’t know how much time still remains for him to live; people today live to a hundred years or more. Let them be corrected.

Question: Is education possible without information?

Answer: Certainly! After all, information is knowledge about the fundamentals of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and other subjects.

Question: How is it possible to talk about educating parents if they don’t feel a need for it?

Answer: To raise a child, they will need to educate themselves.

Question: What can be called love?

Answer: Love is the right attitude toward others, for their benefit.

Question: How important is education through labor from the point of view of Kabbalah?

Answer: Effort is primary; work on yourself. This is specifically the real effort, and all the rest will be left for robots.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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Question: Who is responsible for an individual’s education at all stages of life: parents, teachers, or society as a whole?

Answer: First and foremost, the parents; they are a natural hierarchical mechanism. After then there is an even wider circle, society, the entire world, really.

Question: What are the main characteristics of an educator?

Answer: An educator must have a sense of community and the complete interconnectedness of the world. This will oblige him or her to everything else.

Question: What do you recommend reading to understand how to raise children beginning from an early age?

Answer: Only the materials found on our website.

Question: I believe in education according to the wisdom of Kabbalah, but is there any hope for all of humanity or is the place reserved for only a particular chosen group?

Answer: The place is reserved for everyone on the Internet and it is offered for free of charge to all of humanity in its entire full extent.

Question: Is there a Kabbalistic expression that if repeated again and again can direct us toward the proper upbringing and a positive attitude toward those around us?

Answer: Yes. “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19: 18).

Question: What are the drawbacks of your system of education?

Answer: It is not yet fully adapted to the present time.

Question: We know that between children and parents there is an unseen connection. How is it possible to use this connection in upbringing?

Answer: When a parent begins to interact with other people, he will expressly see these connections like threads, like cables, like forces, that connect them together.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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New Life 856 – Sins And Transgressions
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Why does nature generate sins? Why is the size of the sin measured by our attitude to others? And how can we operate the mechanism that corrects human nature?
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From KabTV’s “New Life 856 – Sins And Transgressions,” 5/18/17

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Question: Education is mainly coercion in one way or another. In spirituality there is no coercion. How do the two go together?

Answer: Indeed, there is no coercion in spirituality. But our world is not spirituality. We take the “beast” and turn it into a man.

The Torah says that you have to educate your child. And all the rules regarding education are very specific, including coercion and even physical punishment because you are dealing with a “small evil beast.” We know that about ourselves, and so if necessary, we need to educate a child to reach happiness with a “stick.”

But according to the Kabbalistic approach we can create such conditions for our children that there is actually no need for coercion because the environment forces a person to behave properly by providing examples without any pressure. A child is ready to imitate any environment and we use this principle.

Question: Is this the wisdom of love? “A small evil beast” that is called a child? “To reach happiness with a “stick”?” Is this called love?

Answer: Unfortunately, with corporeal love you raise a terrible “monster.” If you are convinced that you have to treat your child with unlimited love, you turn him into a miserable creature that doesn’t have any limits and thinks that he is entitled to everything.

We need to understand how to approach people, and especially children. We all need to be educated.

Education is not only about reading a certain number of books, getting an education in music, or learning good manners and knowing how to behave in society. Education is about enabling a person to properly be part of human society.

Education refers to the ability to properly fit into the human community, when everyone understands what kind of a world he is living in, how human society is built, how it is divided, how its parts interact with each other, what all develops, and the reciprocal relations between men and women, grownups, children, elderly people, and youth.

We have to be completely familiar with the nature of human society and how we can make it into a good and right system. Then everything will be much better. If we say that it is impossible to educate people this way, we will end up with what we have today: with each passing year, the generation becomes more lost. 

We see that humanity is in regression. We have passed the peak of our evolution and have reached the most egoistic state, and now we have begun to regress.

In order to break this vicious cycle, we have to implement the method of education called the wisdom of Kabbalah. It explains how to do this. A person who begins to study it gradually changes and can actually teach others.

Since a small child is a small egoistic beast, we have to learn how to educate it, which means to show a child how he can cope with and control himself properly so that he will be able to properly unite with everyone else.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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Question: Does the teacher, the educator, need to be corrected?

Answer: The educator has to be educated all the time. No one can say that he has already grown and reached the upper level.

Upbringing is a perpetual, continuous process of self-education, educating others, and self-education under the influence of others. It is about a whole integral system that includes all of humanity and absolutely everything, even the souls that are no longer with us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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Question: I am mother of four children and the issues of upbringing are very relevant to me. My two older children are already adults. Why do I raise my children and they grow up and turn into strangers with different views?

Answer: Because there is no education. I understand your pain, but this is so.

We still need to try to educate children in such a way that they won’t disconnect from us, that they would be attached to us and won’t go far as once children stayed with their parents and continued to work with them in the field or in the family business.

You must make sure that you are friends, don’t lose sight of each other and stay physically close to each other.

I hope that the small Kabbalistic community that we have created takes such a form. And everyone who study with us will find that everything happens this way in their lives, their children don’t go far away from them, not to other countries or other cities.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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Question: In what way is a human on the level of a “beast” different from a human on the level of an “Adam” (Man)?

Answer: A human on the level of a man is on a different level than that of a person on the level of a beast.

Nature created us such that on the beastly level, we behave like beasts: we think only about how to satisfy ourselves, to have a good time, and to reproduce.

On this level a person still doesn’t feel that the whole world is included within him. Whereas, on the level of a man he feels connected with all of humanity.

The fact is that all of us are egoists. When we communicate among us, instead of connection, we feel our general resistance to connection. But when we overcome this resistance and unite, a special power of creation moves through us like an electric current.

Accordingly, as much as each one overcomes the mutual egoism in the connection between us, we begin to feel the next level above the resistance, the discovery of the upper world.

If we are many, 7 to 8 billion, then a system called the upper world is created.

Therefore, it is necessary to teach people to unite over their egoistic rejection of each other, then there will not be any problems in the world. Everyone will understand each other, will be able to achieve agreement among them, and will begin to want constant convergence.

Question: We are always talking about the education of an individual person, but is there such a concept as social education?

Answer: Certainly, in any case, it comes from the individuality of each one.

We need to educate every person, bring him to a society, show him how to come into contact with people, what he will get from this, and which internal structures develop within him. Which is to say, each one must be given the understanding of the entire system.

When a person begins to feel what is happening around him within 8 billion or even within 10 people, he feels what is happening in all of nature, because through the connection with others, he becomes a sensor that understands how nature is organized.

He feels the general rules of nature, its integrality, those laws that operate around him. By himself, he discovers what is called the hidden world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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New Life 851 – A Generation Gap
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Only the soul is eternal and is not generation dependent, so if parents and children develop it together, a connection will be maintained between them.

In the future, connection between parents and children will exist only through a future common denominator, which is the development of the soul.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 851 – A Generation Gap,” 4/18/17

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Question: Does the wisdom of Kabbalah contain knowledge about how a nation should function?

Answer: In our times, a nation should be involved with the education of the population within its borders first and foremost, not crossing the borders into other nations and not bringing everyone into it in the wider sense of the word, rather most importantly, educating its citizens.

If people who have been properly educated are living within a nation, understanding the general thought of nature and knowing in what manner it operates, they will overcome all kinds of problems.

Question: So, as long as a person is uneducated, there must be borders, and as soon as education is conducted properly, the borders can be opened?

Answer: Of course, because then a person will begin to understand who to take in and who not. He would not do as Europe thoughtlessly did and now is mired in great problems. Imagine what would happen if you were to open the door of your house and brought in another family to live with you.

The problem is that the Europeans didn’t examine their nations or continent as a family that is accepting other foreign family members to dwell in their apartments. Would they be able to withstand this kind of dormitory? Suppose that the head of state decided that he could. Then why didn’t he first try to have them live with him?

Education can be summed up as knowledge about what we are going through, with whom we are working, and in what manner to evaluate such experiments. In the situation today, when there are already foreign immigrant families in your house, you don’t know what to do with them.

You must feed them, clean up after them, wash for them, supply them with everything necessary, pay them a stipend, and even love them. In addition, you must listen to them and obey their laws; in other words, they will begin to educate you and not you them. After all, they don’t intend to accept your perception of life, your education, and your social customs.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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New Life 850 – The Changing Of The Generations
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

The wisdom of Kabbalah is an eternal method that teaches a person how to perceive reality and has nothing to do with the generation a person lives in.

A person undergoes several spiritual generations, which means different levels during his spiritual development.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 850 – The Changing Of The Generations,” 4/18/17

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