Question: Is it possible to live without suffering? Sometimes you say, “It is possible without suffering,” and other times you say, “It is impossible.” Yes, or no?”

My Response: It is possible to live without suffering if we will imagine how we grow thanks to suffering. And then, we will perceive suffering as an incentive to growth.

Question: So, when sufferings come, what should be my response to it?

Answer: That I investigate, analyze, and rise above them.

Question: Analyzing them means: Where did they come from, why? Is that analysis?

Answer: And that is too, of course.

Question: Does that mean that I have to respond to every suffering with analysis?

Answer: Certainly yes. Otherwise, it will pass without a trace. We’ve had this before. We have already been to Gaza and have already expelled terrorists from there. So what? It just gets worse from time to time.

Comment: It is not easy all the time. If I feel pain, I feel it.

My Response: Everything I am going to say today is not easy. Because this is the situation!

Question: In other words, if I feel pain, I still have to, even go through the pain, come to an analysis, as you say, where did it come from and why did it come to me?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And then the pain goes away? Or is it changing? What happens if I actually analyze?

Answer: I thank this pain for what it does to me. Thanks to it I feel where I am ill, in what ways, and how can I get rid of my illness and come to a healthy life. And it is indeed the path to a healthy life.

Question: So, it turns out that it is possible without suffering, right?

Answer: Of course. It is possible without suffering if we correctly depict what suffering means. And sufferings are in mutual hatred. This is what real sufferings are! And I have to rise above them to mutual love, and then everything will work out.

Question: Meaning, that I have to suffer from the hatred for another that lives in me? Is that what you call real suffering?

Answer: Yes. Exactly to that extent I have to suffer.

Question: And what about that I am pushed with a stick to happiness and so on?

Answer: No, that is not it. This is a result of my behavior, a consequence of my hatred.

Question: So, you are going back to the root again? Everything is in the root.

Answer: And what can you do?

Question: Let’s imagine if I turn this hatred around, will be able to, then the stick will no longer push me?

Answer: Obviously who would it push? It only pushes us to bring us to a state of love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/12/23

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And besides the blows we suffer today, we must also consider the drawn sword for the future. The right conclusion must be drawn—that nature will ultimately defeat us and we will all be compelled to join hands in following its Mitzvot with all the measure required of us (Baal HaSulam, The Peace).

Question: How do we teach ourselves and other people to be afraid of the “drawn sword”? After all, a person is not afraid of anything, not the criminal code, the commandments, or the Creator. People do what they want.

Answer: Yes, we are approaching a state of humanity where people are not afraid of anything at all, and they do not want to take anything into account. There are no restrictions and decrees for them. And if there is, then come what may, the main thing is that I feel good now, and then what will happen will happen.

In principle, this is very close to the governance of the Creator. But a person perceives it incorrectly.

Question: We have established the fact that people are not afraid of anything, and then it will be even worse. So, what to do?

Answer: Consciously follow the instructions of the Creator. Is it really not clear?

Question: I, who have been studying Kabbalah for 20 years, understand this. But how can we explain it to people?

Answer: This is a problem. I have been doing this for 40 years and, you might say, with the same results. But later we will find out from the Creator how He evaluates our work, efforts, and our life in general.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace”

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Question: Thousands of people disappear in Japan every year. They leave their families and their jobs; they leave it all behind of their own freewill. They change their names and start new lives in a new place. This phenomenon is called johatsu. It is a way of escaping problems in one’s personal life and societal pressures. Someone gets tired of their work, of having many problems, and runs away. In Japan, there are agencies that help a person disappear without a trace; they are called night travel services. Such is life.

What do you think of such an escape?

Answer: The Japanese overall are a mystery to me. On one hand, they have kamikazes who can go to death with their eyes open and know in advance when it will happen to them, and on the other hand, they are running away from some small difficulty in ordinary life. They just suddenly leave and change everything.

Question: In general, how do you feel about such an escape from yourself?

Answer: I don’t feel like I can.

Question: In your case, yes. But is it even possible to escape from problems? To change everything in an instant, just like that?

Answer: I do not know how far I can run from myself. And if not from myself, then it does not matter.

Question: So you even welcome escape from yourself?

Answer: No, I don’t welcome it. I’m saying if you could run away from yourself, take a pill or something else and the whole past would break away from you and let you start over as it were, that would be good.

Question: But you would still have the same character and the same habits because the person does not change. That is, he seems to invite the same problems; another wife may be even worse, and so could other problems be. What then?

Answer: It is obvious that you cannot run away from yourself.

Question: Let’s say a person sees how terrible he is. Not even with these external problems, just to see himself, he is shown that he is, as you say, a complete egoist. How can he escape this?

Answer: There is no way.

Question: What should one do?

Answer: You cannot run away from yourself in any way nor can you run away from your egoism. You can start to work on it, slowly reform it, change it, and turn it inside out, but you cannot run from it.

Question: Why do you always say we need to get closer to others and build good relations when we are the opposite, we are egoists? How can we escape?

Answer: There is no way.

Question: So why do you suggest building good relations and connecting with others?

Answer: I really do advise that you rise above yourself to the next degree.

Question: How so if you say it’s impossible?

Answer: According to the law of negation, that is, to turn inside out.

Question: How can I do this? Can I do it myself?

Answer: In the right environment you can.

Question: So I have to find a society of people who want to turn themselves inside out? Then what? I see them trying to turn inside out. What are my actions?

Answer: I want to be like them, to join them and also to try to turn myself inside out.

Question: Is it possible to turn oneself inside out?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So what is there, on the other side?

Answer: What is good will be bad and what is bad will be good.

Question: What is good will be bad, I get it. But will the bad become good? The bad thing for me was, as we say, to connect with others, to make good relations. Will it become good? Is this just what man needs by and large?

Answer: Yes. He will be in another world.

Question: Is this truly a transition to another world?

Answer: Of course.

Question: How simply you explain this! Just turn yourself inside out, form good connections, and suddenly you’re in another world?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this what is required of us from above? Is this why they beat us all the time in this world, so we turn inside out?

Answer: In principle, yes.

Comment: That is, running from yourself, changing your name, and so on—by and large, that’s all…

Answer: It doesn’t mean anything. He does not change his nature. He doesn’t change himself.

Question: This is the most important question! That is, he keeps living on the same plane?

Answer: He does.

Question: Can we not change anything on this plane?

Answer: No, there can only be more disappointment.

Question: So your main advice is to find like-minded people who turn themselves inside out, and ask together with them?

Answer: Yes.

Question: As a result, what turns us inside out, does it come from above?

Answer: The upper force.

Question: So all our requests, one way or another, are always to Him?

Answer: Even if you don’t ask. If you try a little, if anyone can change you, it is only Him.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/10/23

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Question: There have been debates about freedom of speech, democracy, and hate speech for decades.

Should we allow mean-spirited speeches of evil people?

Answer: We need this, we have to learn from this. Otherwise, we, the narrow-minded ones, may not get a clear understanding of the depths of human nature.

Comment: You are talking about human nature, and he, of course, was talking about democracy.

My Response: Democracy is one of the expressions.

Question: The question is, do the boundaries of what is allowed still exist or not? Here a malicious person makes terrible speeches, and they say, “Let him say it, do not do anything to him.”

Answer: I also think that we need this. It is necessary to verbally express everything. And then…

Question: And then, what will the authorities that hear this do?

Answer: This is their problem, how to limit and prevent the development from speeches to action. There should be speeches, we should study them, we should perceive them correctly and object to them, build our attitude on this.

Question: Do I have to work on this, rise above this, and generally build all the arguments in the fight against this? Is this how I grow?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: If only humanity behaved like this.

My Response: We would have learned something gradually.

Question: The first natural instinct is to suppress. It is natural to immediately suppress. Is it wrong?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Tell me, how in this case, if we talk about the country, should the people be educated to choose such leaders who will work with everyone who opposes them in this way?

Answer: People should be included in discussions, understand their dependence on such statements, and learn. They must have a desire to learn. But it depends on the preparation, it depends on the society.

Question: Do we need to raise such people? This is education.

Answer: Absolutely.

Question: What, in your opinion, is a true democracy?

Answer: True democracy is when everyone is given the opportunity to develop according to their natural inclination, on the one hand. But, on the other hand, he is put in a certain relationship with the surrounding society that he begins to perceive the consequence of his democratic approach to himself, and all the flaws in his perception of the world quickly become clear to him.

Question: Does a person in a democratic society understand that I started it and it was started by me incorrectly, and I need to correct myself?

Answer: Yes. A person should feel as if he is on such a lathe, which he starts, carves out some kind of block of himself, and at the same time, he understands and feels by the reaction of the machine, which is nature to him, to what extent he can continue, change himself, and so on.

Question: In other words, how should it be refined it to some kind of harmony, an ideal state?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You, in a way, said now that a person even manages society, as it were. Each person. Does it mean that his advice, his desire come in and work? Does he see where he made a mistake, where he did not make a mistake and he corrects himself?

Answer: Yes. We need to try to create such a society so that everyone can shape themselves.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/3/23

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Comment: Oksana asks “I am Ukrainian, my husband is Russian. We managed to withstand this terrible time. We moved to Georgia, we live here. Everything is fine, and we love each other. But still, I am Ukrainian, and he is Russian. I see that there is no getting away from it. We still have parents and friends there.

How do we build a warm and loving family? How can we talk openly with each other about all the problems and whether it is necessary to open up to each other? My question to you, Michael Laitman: is it possible to love, just love, no matter what? Or will my pain for the relatives and friends who stayed there win over our love?”

My Response: This is a problem. They cannot break away from their roots. What has been done now between Russians and Ukrainians is, of course…

Question: A wall for years?

Answer: Not for years! I do not think years can correct this. It will just have to be corrected by all the people in the world. To destroy absolutely all the partitions that exist between us all. Not just between Ukrainians and Russians, also between others, and so on. It all depends, first of all, on the Jews.

Comment: Here we go again.

My Response: Your reaction, “Here we go again” is the biggest mistake of the Jews, first of all, and all other nations in the world.

It is necessary to make the Jews realize that they make the world’s climate, the weather, and that the correct relationship of all the nations of the world depends on them, on their correct behavior with each other.

Through us, a blessing comes to the nations of the world. We must understand this, recognize it, and realize such connections between us that will create people who are simply loving, showing kindness, love, interconnection, and mutual assistance to each other in all of the world’s population.

If the Jews do this, everyone will be fine, including the Jews. If they do not do this, and we are already late with this correction, then the world will be worsening against them in the first place, and eventually lead them through suffering to the implementation of this project.

Comment: You have taken a personal question that Oksana asked: “Is it possible to love, just love, no matter what?” and spread it to the international level, to the world.

My Response: To the world level, yes. There are no personal questions! What personal questions can there be?

Question: Does it mean that there will be no true love there if there is no correction here?

Answer: Yes. The Creator will lead everyone to realize that the lack of love between people will not allow anyone to feel at least some satisfaction from their existence.

Question: But would it be possible to give some advice to Oksana?

Answer: No! No private advice, such a calm one as “Understand each other” and so on. No, no!

Comment: Melt into him.

My Response: No and no. It will work out, maybe for a short time. If at all!

Question: Is this really a global issue?

Answer: Yes. The Creator heats up the situation all over the world so much that just bring a match and everything will light up.

Question: But you nevertheless bring everything to this condition all the time, right? To the Jews?

Answer: Yes, the ones who do not connect into an absolutely good society will represent what is said in the Bible. There is no escaping this. “All the nations of the world will be blessed by you.”

That is, a loving nation, if they start loving each other within the nation, this will be a blessing for the whole world. Then the whole world will become the same.

Question: Why were we born like this?

Answer: We were born, no one asked us. We are told what we have to do. That is all.

Comment: This generally causes hatred toward us. Even what you say, you are kind of telling the world: “You hate us for a reason.”

My Response: Yes. Sometimes, perhaps, with unconscious hatred.

Comment: But one way or another, you say that it is also impossible to destroy these people.

My Response: They must fulfill their historical purpose.

Question: If I am not a Jew, what is my mission?

Answer: I call on the nations of the world to turn to the Jews and call them, seriously call them, to connect. And from them, through them, the upper force will act on all the nations of the world, and they will connect.

Connection means that we are completely dependent on each other. And outside of us, all the nations of the world should feel this way.

Question: What is complete dependence?

Answer: Complete dependence means that the attitude of all the nations of the world to each other will depend on our attitude to each other.

Comment: That is, if it is love, then it is love. If it is a mutual guarantee, it is a mutual guarantee. And so on.

My Response: Yes. Therefore, even now we see this hatred from our neighbors because we project our internecine hatred on them.

That is, the level of our hatred among ourselves causes such a level of hatred toward us, and in general, of everyone in the world to everyone.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/9/23

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Question: Despite the fact that we are constantly producing all kinds of medicines, why do new diseases appear all the time? Is there any solution here?

Answer: This will not be corrected until all of humanity is corrected.

After all, everything is built on earning more. What for? This question is not asked. This is a goal of society that is not judged at all. To earn more! This way I will be higher than others, more important than others, and stronger than others. What for, why, for what purpose? All this is no longer important. The main thing is that wealth is respected by society, and therefore, man chases after it.

For this purpose, millions of medicines are produced. Moreover, this is probably the largest consumption market in the world. There is a whole army of doctors, manufacturers, and advertisers who are constantly trying to fill us with all sorts of medicines. In general, we constantly poison ourselves.

I cannot imagine a quick solution to this problem except if we really dedicate ourselves to correcting the person. Then we will come to the point where we want to correct everything else. Our correction will have such an effect on the surrounding nature that we will be able to grow vegetables, fruit, produce meat, and everything we need in an unmodified form. They will not rot; there will be enough for everyone. But it will happen only when we take care of ourselves instead of chemicals.

Comment: But at the same time it is written that “A doctor is given the right to heal.”

My Response: There are no real doctors today! In practice, these are unhappy people who think that they help us.

But in fact, they deal with people who are completely poisoned and with whom it is no longer possible to do anything. They are trying to sell them some additional kinds of poison that would do something to them and somehow hold them together. This is how we live. Of course, one can object and say that 500 years ago people lived 30 to 40 years, and today they live 60, 70, 80 years and even more. This is true. But the fact is that here we face the question: “What for?”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Allergy treatment” 10/28/11

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To unfold world history along an axis, you would need to take approximately 200 axes in parallel, and on each of them draw what happened in 200 different regions of the world, and explain this by focusing on the progression of egoism, which transformed in such a way in these parts of the world, in the environment, and in the people themselves.

But to describe our entire history in this way, imagine it in myself, yet it is impossible to even begin to verbally express this entire huge picture. We need to take some fragments and describe them. But what for? We will not learn anything from them! We do not need this at all!

We now need only one thing—to understand that we are in a different world, in a different connection with each other, where all these regional and egotistically developing axes have united together into one circle, into one scheme and complete dependence on each other!

We have no idea what this system of complete mutual dependence is telling us—that we are unable to do anything! Not him, her, you, or me; nobody!

What can we do then? The only thing we must do is connect with each other, like this system, which is now manifesting itself before us and inside of us.

Connect with each other?! But can we?! No we cannot do it ourselves. We must only make attempts and then nature, which in the language of Kabbalah is called the reforming light, will begin to unite us. That is all it will do.

And everything else, no matter what we do, is completely in vain!

We must take care to feed ourselves. After all, we humans consist of an animalistic part (body, flesh and bones) and of our inner part, a spiritual part, which must be developed in connection with others.

Therefore, the animalistic part needs to be fed and properly taken care of for everyone. In this, we are absolutely equal. And in the spiritual part, we must connect with each other.

Today we have practically no other task and no other opportunity. This is it; that one-person, egoistic world is over!

We need to understand that the problem is in us; we must change ourselves to be like nature. Just as it is all interconnected, so must we enter into it consciously interconnected with all its other parts.

All previous history was the history of egoistic development. Now begins the story of our mutual development—mutual concessions, mutual support, and mutual attention, up to mutual love.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The History of Human Development” 10/31/11

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Gradually, the nations of the world will agree that we must live in friendship and cooperation, and in rapprochement between us. After all, there can be no progress in moving humanity forward otherwise.

Therefore, we are approaching a state where part of humanity will begin to understand that rapprochement between nations is necessary not only to avoid wars; it is a necessity coming from nature itself, from its source, the Creator.

The difficult situation in the country will force people to become interested in the wisdom of Kabbalah. Although they are accustomed to associating Kabbalah with some kind of miracles, mysticism, or rituals, in fact, Kabbalah teaches the structure of reality, which includes the entire universe, all people, all inanimate matter, plants, and animals, that is, the entire nature of the universe without exception.

We must understand that we live in a world that needs correction through unity. There is a lot of work ahead to oblige all the inhabitants of the world to think about this. There is no other way to reach the correction of the world and come to peace and tranquility, to a good life, so as not to be reincarnated in this world, which is falling to the lowest point of reality, unless we connect into one man with one heart.

A person must clearly realize this so that in the turmoil of this life, no matter how confused he is every day by the billions of people around him, he still does not become disconnected from the purpose of life and does not fall under the control of desires for wealth, power, knowledge or when his only concern is for food, sex, and family.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/23, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar“

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Question: Why aren’t there two separate states in people, love or hatred, so that a man can work between them, but there is also such a Klipa (impurity) when national love becomes fascism and chauvinism that unites people out of hatred for others. Why does this third form exist?

Answer: This is an extreme form of egoism. People just often confuse it with love for their people.

Question: If you ask your neighbors whether they love their people, they will say: “Of course we do, but in order for us to live happily, we need to destroy our enemies.” Why do people confuse this with love?

Answer: Because if you love someone who is against you, then you are an enemy of your people. And if you hate him and destroy him, then you are a hero for your people.

Question: It turns out that there is some kind of confusion in the world. Why did the Creator not make it so that there were simply two extreme states: hatred and love? Then you could choose.

Answer: People get confused and think that they are in love, although it has nothing to do with love at all. But if love and hatred were separate, then you could not transform hatred into love. It would be just like you tame animals, and they sell themselves to you for food.

Our goal is to transform hatred into love. That is the whole point.

Therefore, the hatred that develops among nations toward other nations must exist. It must be recognized as the wrong hatred and must be transformed into the right awareness of what I hate and what I love.

Question: Is it possible that in the corrected state your neighbors, who are now firing rockets at you, will love you and say: “We love our neighbors”?

Answer: This does not happen right away. This cannot be done in one step. But we know of cases when former mortal enemies became devoted friends.

Question: So, you see that sooner or later this will happen?

Answer: I am sure that this is the way it should be because the more hatred is manifested, the more love will be manifested. We need to explain to people that this is the law of nature.

Question: Should it be a global universal love so that a person can rise above all differences?

Answer: Yes. Ultimately, this will be so because from unity in the ten we come to unity with the Creator. And therefore, we rise above all the forces of nature in unification and love, and all the forces of nature unite within us: both love and hatred.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/23, “The Nation”

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Question: If all people felt like citizens of the world and stopped dividing into nations and countries, would it help stop wars?

Answer: No. We have to do what is entrusted to us.

Despite the fact that we are divided into nations, into individuals by gender and other parameters, we still have to connect with each other in our hearts as one person with one heart.

Only in this case will there be world peace. By the way, we are coming to this. Of course, you may not believe it, but rest assured that we are going to do it anyway. So let’s make a little more effort and find ourselves in a kind, solid, peaceful world.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/12/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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