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The Only Educational Principle

Laitman_112Question: We are living in an ordinary world and our children go to kindergartens and schools. How should we educate our children? According to which principles and ideals? What is the basis for the right education?

Answer: There is one educational principle for all people and all religions: “love thy friend as thyself.” It is possible to fulfill this principle only according to the method of Kabbalah, which is what the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches.

Do you want your children to be happy? Educate them! And the educational work should be “chewed” and properly served to every individual, just as you serve a spoon of food to a baby and expect him to swallow.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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The Law Of Nature Development

laitman_929Question: What is the law of development of nature? How is it formulated?

Answer: The law of development of nature says that all parts of nature must be assembled into one integral adhesion.

Nature is like a puzzle broken into pieces and we parts of this puzzle must find a correct mutual combination between us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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National Patriotism

Laitman_200_02Question: Can the state educate a person with the spirit of nationalist patriotism, of the type in North Korea? What are its implications? Is the concept not a catalyst for the beginning of world wars?

Answer: Certainly, national patriotism or any other type of patriotism is contrary to the mutual convergence between all people and nations, and therefore constitutes a negative movement.

The world is in a state where it cannot welcome narrow-minded patriotism any more. Humanity is moving toward general unity not because that is what it wants, but because that is how the forces of nature are developing it. Opposing this is like shooting ourselves in the foot.

Let’s not engage in narrow patriotism; we will only suffer from it. We see that everyone who goes around arrogantly with their noses in the air ultimately will be bound by various restrictions, and no one will want to connect with him.

Therefore, we must accept a priori that our great world is integral. It is a “small village” in which everything is interconnected. There is no place for narrow-minded individualism because a person cannot do well for himself at the expense of others and vice versa, because it will act like a boomerang against him. We have seen this, and more than once, throughout the 20th century.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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Education By Example

laitman_625_01Question: Is there a role for personal example in education?

Answer: Yes, everything is supported by personal example. Show a child an example. Say what you are doing, treat him as a friend. And then you will see how everything will flow to him.

Question: If I have to show the child a kind attitude, how can I punish him for an offense?

Answer: You must explain why you are doing this. For example, tell him: “Sitting within you is a little imp that must be limited. What will we do with it? Give me some advice about what must be done to help you rein in this demon and not let him go free.”
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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The Education Problem

laitman_245_09Question: I don’t quite understand why I have to feel all of humanity. I have no need for it. I am even ready to overcome my egoism, but I can’t say that it is for all of humanity.

Answer: You should start gradually. Can you imagine how the whole world would change if Europe were made up mainly of educated people?

What not only Europe but other countries and continents would be like? There would be mutual cooperation, mutual help, and mutual support. The world doesn’t need anything else! Our only problem today is education and nothing but that.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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Manage Your “Donkey”

Laitman_514_02Question: It often happens that a person seems to be properly educated, but his inner self still prevails. Are we born with something that cannot be influenced?

Answer: We should educate a person so that he correctly interact with his inner evil.

We shouldn’t teach him anything but how to manage the evil side—to sit on his “donkey” (egoism), as a rider sits astride a horse and controls it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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Education From The Perspective Of The Wisdom Of Kabbalah

laitman_946Question: What does it mean to educate a person according to the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, education is the most important thing we should engage in. It is actually education that creates a human being from a beast. Through education, we can turn a person into anything. The main thing is the predetermined goal that has been set.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, in order to understand what goal to adhere to in education, we must first understand and discover what we are born for, what nature requires of us;, what the law of evolution is, what it is leading us to, and consequently, how we should educate a person.

Today, the world is in serious crisis, and we don’t know what to do because everything is changing so fast. We don’t know how to plan the life of married couples, their interaction with their children, and education in schools and kindergartens. It is all hanging in the air.

Everyone is engaged in self-fulfillment. We don’t know how a modern country or the whole world, for that matter, should function; how to establish mutual cooperation between people who have different traditions and aspirations and who immigrate from one place to another, not to mention the problem of the perception of the universe, the development of industry, trade, finance, and the economy.

All this is impossible without the proper education, because at the center of all this there is man who has to manage, create, and use this. But where is this future man? We cannot imagine him because we cannot imagine our future clearly. This is why we don’t know what to prepare our children for, which professions we should teach them, or how to guide them. Nothing is understood.

These are very serious questions even for the average person, not to mention a country that doesn’t know how to develop further and does everything blindly, one way today and another way tomorrow, etc. We are all in a very unclear state, as if hanging in limbo.

Therefore, everything depends on education.  How should we prepare people for tomorrow so that nothing will take them by surprise?

This where the wisdom of Kabbalah, which has been concealed for many years, comes in and is now ready to help us. According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, nature is leading human society toward universal unity, whether we like it or not. We will reach unity in any case, whether by the carrot or the stick, because all of nature is gradually becoming one big, complex system that is mutually connected.

The automation of society will not help here. People need to engage in organizing industrial, political, and other systems of human society in full mutual harmonious cooperation between them. Only in this way will we be able to survive properly and manage the situations we will encounter, constantly changing and realizing how nature is changing us because we cannot change by ourselves.

We are trying to build something and we suddenly encounter an obstacle and cannot succeed. We try to do things differently and once again encounter an obstacle. This is why we need people who understand the mutual connection with nature and who can lead all of human society to it. This is what our education should focus on.

It should be based on the ability to gather people in groups, in communities, in different parties, but not ones that oppose and contradict each other or are against anyone.

Our method is aimed at making a person feel that he lives in an integral world in which he is connected to others by billions of invisible wires. First, he has to imagine this network in a purely theoretical manner and then he will actually feel it.

Therefore, the whole educational approach should be aimed at developing a person’s sensitivity to internal communication with others where we feel all of society as the one unique system that it really is in nature’s plan.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/16

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New Life 847 – Together And Alone

New Life 847 – Together And Alone
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

By being finely integrated we can attain the internal system of nature, together as one.

In the past we used to connect to those who were like us. Today we have to learn how to connect above any differences, above the divisiveness, in order to attain the mutual force of giving.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 847 – Together And Alone,” 4/4/17

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A Child That Has Been Brought Up To Bestowal

Laitman_511_01Question: What will happen if a child who has been brought up with building relationships of bestowal finds himself in an ordinary egoistic environment? Will he be laughed at and hurt by others?  

Answer: No, a child who has been brought up to bestowal knows how to behave properly everywhere. Such children don’t get lost. On the contrary, they get along and become mediators in society, and egoists feel they need them. Moreover, they gradually soften the society they find themselves in.

Question: Does that mean that they become leaders in that society?

Answer: No, they become the vital connecting element.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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New Life 846 – Loneliness

New Life 846 – Loneliness
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Why do we feel lonely? How can we bridge the gap between the world that is becoming interconnected and the ego that is asking to divide us?
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From KabTV’s “New Life 846 – Loneliness,” 4/4/17

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