We cannot move forward without blows that must pass over us! The whole problem is in what kind of blows they will be and at what level; will it be on a gross animal, material, sensory, or mental level.

These blows can be small and targeted, that follow one another and accurately correct me like a rocket moving through a tracking system. So-so-so—the pulse system works and leads me forward all the time.

Or these can be big blows that hit me on one cheek, then on the other cheek, and I do not know where to go.

It all depends on the threshold of sensitivity of the evil in me. I can feel it so subtly that I experience a correction a hundred times a minute and move forward in a smooth way without deviating far from the course. So-so-so—around a straight axis that leads me to the goal without deviating for kilometers to the side, and then, boom: “I made a mistake. Get back on course!”—and so on.

Therefore, we must do our best to spread the knowledge of Kabbalah so that people see that they have nothing else in their hands and begin to master it. They must understand that there is no other way out. We need to come to harmony with the world around us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What to Do in the Moment of a Disaster?“ 1/2/12

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Question: As is known in our world, fear is based on desire. That is, if I am afraid of something, it will happen. Is it possible to change fate if, with the help of prayer in the ten, all fears translate into trembling before the Creator? What kind of prayer should it be?

Answer: It should be an ordinary request that a person supports at the highest level he is able to.

Then, the Creator cancels the fear that He caused in a person and replaces it with another feeling, a more favorable one. After all, a person no longer needs to feel fear because he does everything to rise above the degree of fear to connect with his friends and the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”

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Question: A man is walking through the market, and a dealer in fighting roosters shouts to him: “Buy my rooster, he fights to the death.”

“Why do I need a rooster that fights to death? I need one who fights to win,” the buyer replies.

Basically our whole life is full of fighting: small and big fights and so on. Are we fighting to the death or to victory after all?

Answer: If we only knew. The most important thing for us is to understand what is required of us.

Question: So by and large we don’t know the purpose?

Answer: No, we don’t know.

Question: Then how should we conduct these battles? Let it be our cockfights, but how should we conduct them?

Answer: We just need to imagine what we want to win, what will happen when we, we or our rivals, enemies, win. It is only going to get worse. Along the way, we will destroy many of both. As a result, there will be devastated countries, people killed, and so on.

Question: Is this a victory or defeat?

Answer: Whether it will be a victory, I do not know.

Question: So often, and maybe even almost always, our victories turn out to be our defeats?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, what will turn out to be a victory then?

Answer: When we realize that we need to get closer, connect, and put things in order together in ourselves and in the world around us.

Question: Without capturing anyone or anything? Without threatening anyone?

Answer: No, those who capture usually lose.

Question: Do we defeat ourselves with this?

Answer: Yes, victory is a victory over oneself.

Question: Can we say that every moment in life is a fight?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You once said that every day, every moment, should be spent as if it were the last.

Answer: Yes. A person should be aware of how long he has to live, whether he will live to the end of the day or not. What will happen if he does not live; with what calculation he will leave this world? That is the way you have to live.

Comment: Usually a person does not ask such a question.

My Response: But it is not clear why. After all, for all of us there is the beginning of the day and the end of the day. So why can’t there be a beginning of life and an end of life.

Question: Now, in a moment? Do I really have to keep this up all the time? It’s impossible to live like this!

Answer: On the contrary, it is very good.

Question: I should think about what I will do because at the end of the day it is not known what will happen to me?

Answer: Yes, everyone can do it. You just need to train a person to look at it normally, and then he can do a lot of useful things in his life.

Question: And what conclusions do you think he will draw then: How am I going to live this day if it’s going to be my last?

Answer: Think about your attitude to everyone, to the world in such a way as to leave a good impression of yourself in the world.

Question: What does a good impression mean to the world?

Answer: To do as much good in the world as possible.

Question: What is the benefit to the world?

Answer: The benefit to the world is the good connection between people that remains after you.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/4/24

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We exist in a single system, and when we communicate, even just physically without understanding anything else, we still make some inclusions in this system. Constantly!

The only problem is that, usually, our connections with each other are harmful, destructive, and egoistic. We do not help each other become active, useful elements, that cause good flows in the system that would pass through us to others.

To the extent that we cause flows of goodness to others, to that extent they flow through you. People do not understand this, and when they think evil about others, they attract evil to themselves. They include themselves in an actively negative element, and all evil goes through them to others.

Such people seem to succeed in something, but they only cause harm. To feel this, we must feel the system at least a little.

Even based on the purely speculative idea that we are in an integral system, that we are its private parts that pass through flows of information and feelings, we can conclude that we know about the universe, about us, and about the global world in which we exist.

We know hundreds of scientists’ opinions on this topic that have revealed this at the biological, geological, and zoological level, from Vernadsky to the present day.

But humanity is simply spoiling the vast, kind, revitalizing environment we find ourselves in. We do the same with our spiritual sphere as we defile the globe in its pristine goodness, health, and perfection.

If a person understood what he was doing, he would remain silent and give out only such thoughts, words, and desires that move toward the goal—the complete, apparent unification of humanity in a good way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Effective Wisdom Transfer” 12/28/11

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Question: We see wars, suffering, and natural disasters worldwide. Is it possible to say that so far humanity has not chosen the path of Achishena (hastening)?

Answer: Yes, humanity has not chosen the path of hastening (Achishena). It should have, but it did not.

It is said, “What the mind does not do, time does.” Therefore, we must continue to try to reveal the Creator, reveal ourselves, and wish for better times.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Rewarded—I Will Hasten It”

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Question: In physical actions it is obvious when the repetition of a transgression becomes permissible. For example, I did not turn off my camera before, but now I do, or I did not arrive late to meetings before, but now I do. The same tendency can develop in a friend. How should a ten handle these states? Is this a common scrutiny within the ten?

Answer: Yes, it is a common scrutiny. Everyone who comes to the lesson should care about those who have not come yet. This is very important!

Every person who is late is responsible, in principle, not for themselves, but for those friends who for some reason forgot about them or did not bring them along.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/12/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘The Smell of His Garments,’ in the Work?”

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Amir asks:

Michael, the more you call for unity and good relations, the worse it gets. And yet, you continue and continue. Don’t you see that nothing is working?

Answer: What can I do? In return, I want to ask Amir: “What should be done?”

Comment: I do not know what Amir will tell you; I would say: “Get tired, enough already.”

My Response: No, I cannot get tired. Every day I see the development of evil.

Question: So why not say this: “It continues to develop, let’s leave this generation alone?” Once the phrase “generation is not worthy” was said.

Answer: Yes, but that does not mean that I walk away from it and stop everything.

Comment: But you can see that it is getting worse.

My Response: I do not evaluate good or bad, better or worse at all. I just know that I must do it and that is it. There is no possibility of getting disappointed, leaving, and so on. Whatever happens—no!

Question: So, you must continue?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Amir thinks that you are saying this, but people’s ears are closed and their hearts too. So, it goes somewhere into the sand, as he believes.

My Response: Everything has its history, beginning, and end. So I hope there will be an end to this.

Question: That is, in principle, as they say: water wears away stone. Just like that, drop by drop. You just keep going like that, right?

Answer: I must do that!

Question: Is this called above reason or not?

Answer: Yes, against reason.

Question: Will they hear?

Answer: Not soon.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/4/24

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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me (Isaac Newton).

Question: What do you think of that?

Answer: That is normal. Precisely because he explored and felt the world, he calls himself a child.

Question: Because he saw what the world is like?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And he says that he just found a few pebbles, that he was lucky. He doesn’t get proud of the fact that he is like that. He says: “All this was given to me.” Where has all this gone today? Nowadays scientists do not think like that.

Answer: Today it is no longer possible to investigate the world using such methods of internal contemplation. And this is exactly what he used. Today they use technical and technological methods.

That is why there are no more Newtons. The last Newton was in the form of, I would say, Lev Landau. There was no one after him.

Question: Then what is your definition of a scientist?

Answer: A scientist is one who wants to understand the meaning of the existence of our world. It does not matter what he is: biologist, technologist, who, or what. If he seeks to understand the nature of the existence of our world, then he is a true scientist.

Question: Basically, over time, does it turn out that the Newtons have been exterminated?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why were they brought down? Why did it all come to this current state?

Answer: Nobody likes scientists. Nobody. Not a single scientist could rise as much as he was supposed to by nature. Science is in conflict with government—any government! That is why no one respects them.

Different kinds of seminars and academies are organized for them. This is true. And shut up! Make an atomic bomb for us, space flight, all sorts of rockets, planes, guns—and stay silent.

Question: What do you think if we took Newton from that time and transferred him here—as he is, without the influence of anyone else—how would he respond to these instructions to make a nuclear bomb, a hydrogen bomb, or to create weapons? Would he go for it or not?

Answer: I think he would not. Each scientist, in accordance with the depth of his attainment, simultaneously feels the height of science and cannot connect it with those egoistic, mercantile demands that the government offers him.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/25/23

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It is even more so regarding the interior of the souls and the worlds, and how they came down to such dreadful ruin as today’s, where we have no security in our lives. In the coming years, we will be subject to all sorts of slaughter and death, and all admit that they have no counsel to prevent it (Baal HaSulam “The Last Generation”).

If humanity continues to develop through its own intellect, it will inevitably become involved in various unpleasant events and will subject itself to self-destruction. The only way to survive this and achieve the proper development and a good outcome is that we will develop friendship, love, and mutual agreement.

The question arises: why does development require pressure through suffering and bloodshed? It is to bring a person to the point where he voluntarily takes upon himself the opportunity to organize our world and bring it to a good state of balance. Therefore, nature is obliged to lead us to such a desperate state in a natural way. Without this, a person will not do anything, he must be forced.

Question: Do you think that we have already reached this point?

Answer: According to the science of Kabbalah, we have already reached a state where we can take control of nature into our own hands and raise ourselves to the level of the absolute, favorable world of infinity.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation“ 2/4/24

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Shulya asks:

Hello, dear Michael Laitman. I live in Israel. And like all Israelis, my life was filled with the news. I listened to the news in the car, the news at home, the news at work, and discussed them. And suddenly on October 7, this horror that happened, this shock that we all received! And I can’t listen to the news anymore! I listen to them and I’m stressed. Commentators, different opinions, tragic stories, criticism…

I started to settle for short news clips, just to keep up to date. And it turned out that most of the time that was occupied by the news was freed up. My question is: what kind of content should I fill myself with?

Question: This is really a question on all Israelis’ minds. They live on news.

Answer: Read fairy tales. Yes, fairy tales, not some kind of scientific literature. It can be a little bit fantastic. And even better, if you are able to read fairy tales.

Comment: Fairy tales are suitable for any age.

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why fairy tales?

Answer: Because we are living a lie anyway. We live in the unknown. So it is better to read what creates a good state of mind in you. You don’t work as some kind of minister or leader that you need to be clearly in a state of responsibility and objectivity. So keep yourself occupied with something more pleasant.

Comment: So this is advice for a person who is not directly engaged in carrying out the work necessary to govern the country, but an average citizen.

My Response: From what you will experience, you will not cause harm to anyone. And you won’t manipulate anything.

Comment: But a person simply cannot do without these short news clips; after all, our children are there, and there is a war.

Answer: It is necessary. We need to be aware and supportive.

Question: This is our prayer, that we only listen for a short bit?

Answer: Yes, but don’t cook in it all the time.

Question: So with the additional free time, is this how to live, as in a fairy tale?

Answer: Maybe not to do that. There are people who are doing something else. But the fact is that your experiences do not give anything, and on the contrary, maybe they give more negative results than good ones.

Question: Like if it leads to fear, anxiety?

Answer: Yes, there is no need for that!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/11/23

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