Question: I look at the world and there are already eight billion of us. And I assure you that very few people can say that they are the ones who need to be educated. No, I need to educate others, that is the go-to formula. They are the bad ones, the selfish ones, not me. It is because of them we suffer.

How will a person understand that he is the one who needs to be educated?

Answer: Only through blows. How else? If they think they are so good, why is the world so bad?

Comment: Others are bad, that is why the world is so bad.

My Response: If everyone thinks that way about others, does it mean the world is bad or good?

Comment: The world is bad.

My Response: Except for me?

Comment: Except for me; yes, that is what people think.

My Response: And we will keep believing this until something falls on our heads and there is nothing left to think.

Question: Can we say that by doing this we are summoning trouble upon ourselves?

Answer: Of course. Instead of correcting ourselves or trying to do something, we calm ourselves down.

Question: We say: “Others are bad, but I am good.” Am I calling trouble on myself?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Not examining myself? Is it bad?

Answer: Very bad! This leads the world to disaster.

Question: Is genuine education when I learn to examine myself?

Answer: Yes, when I look at myself, at what I am like. When I look at what I owe to others, at being the only one uncorrected. That is, everything that is in me: a liar, a thief, a deceiver, a hater—I do not know what other epithets to come up with here—it is all me.

But everyone else is not. All others do not exist at all. All others are my various reflections that I see around me. That is, I look at a lot of people around me, and each of them portrays me negatively in this form and that and that.

There are eight billion people in the world, and each of them represents some kind of negative quality of mine. Eight billion! That is how I am depicted into the world. And that is how I see it.

Question: So what do I do when I see evil, an evil person?

Answer: If I correct myself, I begin to see the world as more united, as striving for bestowal, love, and connection. Eventually I realize this is all one system, one person called “Adam,” and this Adam is me. Because that is how I put it together with my actions, behavior, thoughts, and all sorts of corrections.

Question: Do I absorb the world into me and become this one soul, as we say, Adam?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this true?

Answer: It is true.

Question: And is what we see a lie?

Answer: No, we also see the truth, but it is a partial truth, torn apart by our inner egoism.

Question: Otherwise we do not pass it through our ego? Are we looking not through egoism?

Answer: Right. If I put them all together in one single image, then it is me.

Question: How can I focus on it like this?

Answer: This is our task—to gather the whole world and say, “This is me, and this world depends on me.”

Comment: Am I responsible for everyone and everything?

My Response: Absolutely everything is here.

Question: Every person?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is the simplest, most ordinary person responsible for the world, for everything that happens in this terrible world?

Answer: To the extent that he finds himself in this world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/3/25

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Question: Why does humanity keep inventing more and more?

Answer: It wants to achieve a serene, good life. But in the end, the opposite happens.

Comment: It is interesting that nuclear energy is used for peaceful purposes, and at the same time, it can sweep everything away.

My Response: Yes. Man cannot invent anything truly good or kind.

Question: What invention would you call eternal and useful for humanity that could ultimately lead it to happiness?

Answer: The correction of the evil nature of a man—only that. There is nothing else.

Comment: But man must first realize he is living with an evil nature.

My Response: That is what drives him to ultimately realize it. The world is in such a state that it does not know what to do with itself.

In the past, we thought that socialism, communism, capitalism, or something else would save us. Some kind of freedom, liberalism, and so on. Now we see that everything quickly leads to the realization of evil.

Comment: You once said that the development of humanity proceeded as  a linear development of egoism. That things would get better, and then communism would follow. Now you claim that egoism has sort of closed in, that we have become interconnected like one village, yet the same research continues, and humanity does not come to the realization of the evil of its nature.

My Response: Do you want them to shut it all down?

I think we will come to a state where humanity will say, “It would have been better had we not invented this.” Can this already be said about the atom today? And it will say the same about everything else.

It is written: “He who increases knowledge increases sorrow.” (Ecclesiastes 1:18) Or “He who increases wealth, increases suffering.”

Question: Do you think this proverb is still relevant today?

Answer: And how much more so!

Question: Can we stop increasing knowledge?

Answer: We cannot. We can stop increasing neither wealth nor knowledge. Egoism will constantly push us toward it.

The goal is to lead us to the realization of evil. That evil is in our nature when we believe that the world we live in is the one we need to improve. But it cannot be improved—we need to rise above it.

Question: That is, to change ourselves?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will we come to this realization during our lifetime?

Answer: You are already setting limitations.

Comment: Yes, I would still like to see the righteousness of your words.

My Response: I do not believe it.

Question: You do not believe it?

Answer: No, I do not believe that it will happen so quickly.

But personally, it does not bother me. What difference does it make when it happens? In whatever state we will be, it will eventually happen to all of us.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/2/25

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Comment: In principle, I understand that our reality is a dream, but it is still impossible to treat it as such.

My Response: We need to perceive this reality a little differently, in a more composite way and try to illuminate it from multiple angles that take into account other states as well.

This is what society, science, crises, and everything we are going through demand of us today. Otherwise, we will not understand our world. We must envision and comprehend it differently, not as an ordinary person does, but at a slightly higher level. Life demands this of us.

The fact is that our everyday life, even its most mundane aspects, requires us to understand this life, this world, its causes, and its purposes. We see that we understand nothing of what is happening in our world and cannot reach any solutions.

Neither politicians, sociologists, nor political analysts can offer anything. We need to rise above because we have simply lost our way like a herd that is leading ourselves to some kind of precipice with no way forward while pressure builds from behind. Perhaps humanity needs to go in a completely different direction.

That is, our present, illusory, however we define reality, forces us to wake up, change, and recognize it as just one among many in order to understand the cause and effect of our state.

It is easy to say that five billion years ago the universe emerged, half a million years ago the Earth, sometime later life on Earth, and in another million years, either sooner or later, it will all end. So what? Is that all?

If so, then we confine ourselves to an earthly animalistic framework? But what if life compels us to resolve this problem? And although in our earthly, animal existence, we only care for the body, which is why we call such a life an animal existence, we are still not allowed to remain in it. We must find the true meaning of life; otherwise, we will suffer. Nature will force us to do so.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Reality is This” 7/25/10

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We think about changing the world all the time. This is the ultimate egoism.

Comment: We do this all the time.  But these media outlets will not be destroyed, the government will not be overthrown, and the bosses will not be replaced.

My Response: None of that is necessary. What we need is to try to show the whole world that its very nature—whether still, vegetative, animate, or especially human—is absolutely egoistic. And it is this nature that we must correct. Moreover, it is corrected precisely from the degree of “human.”

Question: So I always start with myself?

Answer: You start with yourself and with others, with the connection between us, with the connection between people. And then nature will change on all levels. From the top down, it will extend to the animate, vegetative, and inanimate world.

Question: If I, an ordinary person, start with my connections with loved ones and try to make them good no matter what, despite any conflicts and so on, will I begin to change the world?

Answer: Yes, of course!

Where is the methodology for correcting the world? It is in the correction of the human being. But not by simply shouting and pressuring others, but through a methodology of education, refinement, and transformation of the person.

Question: If I start to change, what do I see?

Answer: If I start to change, I begin to see that this is exactly what the world needs. And the world will change accordingly along with this. I will see more and more goodness in this world. And so through our attitude toward the world, not just mine alone, we will bring the world into a state of proper balance.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/3/22

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Comment:: Oscar Wilde said it beautifully: “The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously – and have someone find out.”

My Response: “Someone find out” underscored.

Question: Is our world built in such a way we cannot do any altruistic acts?

Answer: Such is our nature. How can we?

We can only damage, use, break, and violate. That is all; that is our nature. We cannot be any other way. Therefore, we must think about how to limit ourselves reasonably to such an extent that we minimally disrupt everything around us. This is possible only with education.

Question: What about a good deed at the level of our world, does it exist?

Answer: A kind act at the level of our world is when we treat our world as our home, which is one for all of us, and we are like one family and we take care of everyone.

If a person has such an attitude, then, of course, we will put this world in order, then it can be returned back to some state. Not even back, but we have crossed some peak of excessive consumerism, destruction, and distortion of everything possible, and now we have to put it all in order a little. That is, we need to limit ourselves in everything that is not necessary.

Question: Can a person come to this?

Answer: His nature will force him. There is a concept of necessary and sufficient. Mutual restriction of all, voluntarily accepted by each one of us in order to make our planet comfortable for us and future generations is necessary.

Comment: But you can hear the voices that are saying: “That is what we want.” Whole movements exist.

My Response: They do not really do anything. Because you cannot do it by force, and you cannot do it by shouting in squares.

Question: And how can you do it?

Answer: By re-educating people! That is, all these environmentalists and other Greenpeace groups, they only create a lot of noise and arouse hatred and distrust.

Question: What should be the basis of this re-education?

Answer: To turn all of humanity into a family and the entire globe into one comfortable apartment for everyone; our home.

Question: It is beautiful, and I really want it to be that way.

Answer: Nature will force us to do it. We are in such a state. Maybe we will go through something else. Or there will be a world war, half of humanity or most of it will be destroyed. It is going to come to that anyway. Nature brings everything to balance anyway.

Question: Do you realize that this is a very long-term educational question considering who a person is?

Answer: It is a long process, but it depends on the awareness of the necessity.

Question: Who can be a teacher in such schools, such universities of life? The one who came to this understanding?

Answer: The one who has risen a little above his egoistic natural level can be a teacher.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/2/21

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On one hand communication between people in our world is constantly evolving; on the other we see how incapable we are of truly engaging in it. We create communication only to use one another to somehow continue our existence. We cannot truly see each other nor can we genuinely talk to one another.

I notice that people today do not even want to use phones much; they prefer sending SMS or messages that do not oblige them in any way; just throw out a printed word, so to speak, and that is it.

But to actually talk to someone, that already comes with certain obligations, and requires one to invest their soul, to form some kind of deeper inner connection. People do not want to take that step. That is why I believe that even this era of phone communication will stagnate in its development: “I do not want to be that open to others.”

The same applies to the Internet. If it ceases to be veiled, the entire communication system will begin to consume itself. People will realize that there is an electronic eye that knows everything about them and can compromise them in front of everyone—in front of a spouse for visiting certain websites, in front of family for something they said or wrote about them somewhere.

In short, if the Internet fully reveals itself as a system that prevents a person from isolating themselves from others—something that today’s egoism demands—then that will mark the end of the internet. It will remain as merely a database, but there will be no communication through it because nowadays a person is primarily seeking their own quiet corner and is willing to connect with others only from a distance.

This is a manifestation of the shattering of connection that occurred at the level of the soul on the descent into our world. I believe the future will develop in a slightly different direction. A person will be given the opportunity to remain incognito while interacting with others, yet will still gradually come to recognize themselves as a necessary element of society and society as a necessary system for them.

We must reveal our complete interdependence. It will become apparent through terrible suffering, crises, and cataclysms, through such intricate games of the Creator that we will have no place to escape.

And suddenly we will discover the first spiritual degree that nature is driving us toward, where we will perceive our interconnectedness. But I do not want this connection; I want to sit in my own corner and use it only when it benefits me.

Yet you will be forced: no, you must surrender to this connection, enter it as a fully integrated cell, and there will be no escape. Discard your personal reasoning and emotions; you must incorporate them into this system.

And what happens to them will be determined by the system itself. To the extent that it may even say, “You are unnecessary; you harm us, or you simply are not needed,” and you will agree to be annulled. Just like the cells in a body; billions die every second, and billions regenerate.

Of course, in our spiritual progress, there is no death or disappearance, but we will have to experience the willingness to be deeply immersed in the system. This is a very serious psychological barrier that must be crossed. And humanity will come to realize this, whether willingly or through hardship.

We Kabbalists try to facilitate this process through teaching and explanation. In past centuries Kabbalists understood this as well, and did the same. The method remains unchanged because we are correcting what happened before our world came into existence; we are correcting the spiritual shattering.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Breaking the Connection between Souls” 6/20/10

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What do we need to do to live in peace? How can we live in peace?

Comment: That would be a scream.

My Response: No, humanity is not screaming. I do not see anyone screaming. Humanity is only wishing to see how everyone can appear right and suppress his neighbor.

Question: So when will it ask? When will it turn to the Creator correctly?

Answer: When it feels the need to live by the laws of nature. And people do not
want that yet.

Question: What can make it happen?

Answer: I want to develop a proper, cosmic vision of the world within me. I want my mind, my feelings, and my forces to be directed toward feeling nature and wishing to agree with it.

Question: So, you want this little world of mine to open up to the universe?

Answer: Otherwise, nothing will happen. Precisely because I am only content with my little world, and everything else does not matter to me, and I do not even care if it gets worse—that is why I do not see a solution.

Question: So if my thought is “I just want to feel well, and that is why I live”—is this thought flawed?

Answer: It has already depleted itself. We see what is happening. The world can plunge into such a wild showdown that it will be, as they say, a war for peace.

Question: But it is all in the hands of the Creator. Why does He not make it so that we can ask now, right now? All the conditions seem to be there.

Answer: He is making it so that we would ask, but we do not want to.

Question: Are we resisting even at this moment?

Answer: We do not want to. We are ready to do everything to suppress everyone.

Question: Can you still explain how you see this turning point within us, so that we will suddenly want it?

Answer: It will happen gradually. It is emerging out of all this hopelessness.

Question: Do you think that suffering accumulates in humanity and in a person? Or does it just disappear like water in sand?

Answer: We need to look mainly at humanity and see how it gradually realizes that this is not the way. The Creator pressures us so that we realize there must be a correct response, and it must be contrary to our nature. But we must want to make a decision that is above us.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/5/23

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Comment: For a long time you have been saying that difficult times will come and that humanity is merely postponing them.

My Response: It’s not me saying this, but The Book of Zohar. It states that all suffering comes into the world only to push people toward their complete correction.

Since we are approaching this point in time, but we still lag behind in essence; that is, we are not correcting ourselves, this delay in becoming what we are already supposed to be triggers forces that compel us to change. By speaking about this, I do not bring these forces into action. We ourselves evoke them by delaying our correction.

At the same time, I am in no way trying to defend myself. It must be understood that by disseminating Kabbalah, we are performing the most important action in the world; we are helping humanity understand what its happiness depends on and thereby mitigate or even possibly eliminate suffering altogether.

Moreover, suffering, as we see, can take many different forms. People will soon begin to feel increasingly small and powerless. For example, suppose a volcano erupts.

Suddenly, we, so mighty, so arrogant, will feel like helpless infants, as if we are nothing and no one. What will you be able to do? Nothing. This volcano will cover the entire earth. We can’t even comprehend its scale. Just one mountain erupts, a little cloud rises, and that’s it, Mother Earth is covered, and we are beneath this blanket.

We don’t realize what cataclysms in the world we are triggering with our flaws. Everything depends on this alone. Nature, or the Creator, which is the same thing will force us to recognize how powerless we are before Him, precisely through major global crises, and serious and unpredictable upheavals.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Suffering in the World” 4/17/10

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Question: People wonder why the most unnecessary things for a person, like diamonds and gold, are so highly valued?” And psychologists answer that it is precisely exclusive jewelry that can preserve one’s individuality in this world of universal globalization.

What does it mean for a person to possess something that others do not?

Answer: It is only because diamonds and gold are accepted by people as something that brings confidence, a treasure. But what exactly is this value? It exists only because people attribute these things to it and nothing more.

Question: In the besieged Leningrad, a piece of bread was a treasure. And that truly is a treasure. So, why do we need all these shiny trinkets?

Answer: To give value to life. That is all! But this will pass. I believe we will reach a state where completely different carriers of value will emerge.

In reality, the true carrier of value is the spiritual screen (Masach). This is what matters the most. It is eternal, it is a person’s personal spiritual attainment. No one can take it away, you cannot sell it or transfer it. It gives meaning to your existence, and most importantly, eternal life, the eternal threshold of eternal life.

Question: Then all these trinkets become just trinkets?

Answer: They will be worth nothing, just like everything else in our world. As soon as we begin to master the upper world, our money and material values will immediately be replaced by spiritual currency.

And spiritual currency is Kesef (Kisuf—covering) not the fulfillment of egoism but its covering above it, the Masach.

How will we measure it? It is individual.

How will we exchange it? It cannot be exchanged; it is only possible through connection with the Creator.

Thus, I am as rich as I am able to connect everyone to myself, enter into them, and fill them. Connection with others, fulfilling others—that is my wealth.

Where is my “treasure chest” that I fill? It is within everyone else. This is eternal, perfect, it never disappears. It is mine.

Question: What is most valuable in these relationships, the biggest diamond?

Answer: The quality with which I fill other people: Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida. I do not fill myself, I only give. I am precisely the vessel of fulfillment. It is very interesting.

Question: What is the equivalent of gold, diamonds, or a simple trinket in spiritual relationships?

Answer: Power! Diamonds, gold, trinkets, whatever it may be, all represent power over others. If I am in a desert and there are no people on Earth, trinkets or gold give me nothing.

Power over others is wealth in our world. But power over oneself, which connects me to the Creator, is spiritual wealth.

Question: Is power over oneself control over one’s egoism?

Answer: Yes. That is, the screen.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/26/24

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Question: How realistic is the idea of a spiritual system in practice?

Answer: The fact is that there is nothing else beside it. It is the only true creation that exists. It only seems to us that we are separate elements disconnected from one another, like the swan, the crayfish, and the pike that pull in different directions.

This is intentional so that we can reveal unity, integration, perfection, and harmony precisely through this opposition. These “swan, crayfish, and pike” must find mutual understanding despite their differences—one soars in the sky, another lives in the water, and the third moves on land. When we understand that despite our varying natures we must unite toward a single goal, to complement each other, only then will each of us find our own perfection.

Question: But what if everyone tries to create their own system?

Answer: It is a natural human tendency to establish oneself, and this drive exists in everyone. However, as we progress the upper light will influence us more and more. It will correct us and place the greatness of the Creator and the revelation of His system above our personal ambitions.

Moreover, it will elevate the importance of all other people in the world above ourselves by developing love for them within us. When you love, the one you love becomes more important to you than yourself, just as a child is to their mother. This is what defines the nature of love.

That is why we cannot demand that beginners be completely selfless and altruistic. Gradually, the light will correct them and give them that capability.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Implementation of the System” 6/21/10

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