The world has become so small that everything is close. Wherever you go, the same hotels and the same things are everywhere: squares, towers, houses—anything else except maybe museums.

I think everything is advancing toward the fact that tourism will drop. Firstly, because there is a crisis, there is no money.

Secondly because everything is on the Internet. You can also take a walk near your home. It seems to me that all this will change. We have built a huge number of hotels. I’ve been thinking for a long time: what will become of all this? Everything will be empty.

Question: But is tourism, in fact, the pursuit of various states?

Answer: Yes. Man has already developed and he goes deep into himself. Now tourism will become more domestic. I think that people will be attracted by internal changes in themselves, changes in internal states, instead of external ones like flying somewhere, walking around a city in groups, or watching something.

People will be more attracted by the journey inside themselves. This is interesting tourism.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. 21^st Century Tourism” 11/24/12

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I hope that humanity will be able to realize the problem of its incongruity with nature very quickly. I see from the articles published on the Internet today that people are beginning to understand this.

It is still a long way for them to hear what I am saying to them; it is not easy. But they are already riding this wave. My voice does not reach them yet, but they are already somewhere out there in the distance.

I am already noticing them. They are getting closer. Maybe I will live to a point when we can really seriously talk not only about how to get out of the current state, but how to build a new one and quickly, easily reach the degree of Man.

This degree does not apply to Earth at all! It starts on Earth from our animal body, but it has nothing to do with a new world. Man ends up in the upper world, outside our universe where a spark of light broke into the material world and created it.

Through that hole through which the spark of light came to us, we need to jump back out. Then we will look at our world from afar and see: “It turns out, this was our mother! We were born and went out into that upper world!”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Treatment of Internet Addiction” 11/3/12

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Question: There is a parable in which a husband and wife move to live in a new apartment. Early one morning the wife looks out the window and sees a neighbor hanging laundry. She says to her husband: “Our neighbor is a very bad housewife. Look at how dirty her clothes are.” The husband does not pay attention and is silent. Every day she looks out the window, sees her neighbor and says, “Oh, what a slob!” Suddenly one day she looks out the window in the morning, and sees the neighbor hanging clean clothes. She says to her husband: “You see, this slob has finally learned how to wash.” “No,” says the husband, “I just got up early today and washed our window.”

This seems to be our whole life. We look at the world through our dirty window, and badmouth other people.

Please tell me why we don’t notice that the window is dirty, but instead we criticize others?

Answer: It is more enjoyable for us to see what is happening at the neighbors. That is why we don’t see what’s happening at our place.

Question: Am I afraid to look into myself?

Answer: You can’t.

Question: So I keep seeing that there is dirt everywhere else. And do I have to clean it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: At what point do we notice that the window is dirty? How will we be led to the fact that this is our dirty window?

Answer: If there is no husband, you won’t notice.

Comment: This is the root of all troubles and wars, and we want to change the world, and we want to change others. This little parable is our whole life.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Who do you call a husband in relation to us, for example?

Answer: Someone from the side, someone serious who is on the same level with you or even maybe a little higher who can point you to understand the reason the world is dirty; it is dirty in you.

Question: Who can do this? Who is the husband who will clear the window for us so we will see that it was all about us?

Answer: The husband is the one who can rise above the female essence.

Question: Are we the female essence? In general, is all of humanity a woman?

Answer: Women, yes.

Question: Can we say that we are a woman, and our husband is the Creator?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Which means until the Creator wipes the window and says “Look, it’s all about you!” will nothing move? Are we going to solve problems at the ground level, kill others, or torture and torment them?

Answer: Yes. And then we justify ourselves.

Comment: That’s a very pessimistic end to the story.

My Response: This is our whole history.

Comment: I have to see that it’s all about me. We talk about it all the time.

My Response: It doesn’t matter. Even if you were to see and hear, you still wouldn’t want to see it.

Question: Won’t I request it anyway? So where is this gear shift after all? Where? How?

Answer: It will come from above.

Question: The fact that this egoism is in me, does it prevent me from seeing others and that all the dirt, all this dirty laundry, is in me?

Answer: Yes.

Question: It can only be from above, you say. Why do you keep saying that you need to love your neighbor?

Answer: These are the commandments. We must do this in order to correspond with the laws of nature. How to do it? When we are convinced today that otherwise we will not withstand, that we will not survive, then what is left for us?

Question: So do we have to be on the verge of life and death? And then we will begin to understand that we need to treat each other with love?

Answer: You see how simple it is. 🙂

Question: But there is only one moment that we have to be brought to the edge; that is what is scary?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And what about our reason?

Answer: Reason will not help. We do not live by reason, but only by our feelings.

Question: Then the human boundary is not necessarily between life and death, is it? It may be emptiness; it may be depression or some kind of inner cry?

Answer: But this boundary is when one feels hopelessness. And then he begins to realize that it is all about him.

Question: Does the Creator give us this understanding?

Answer: Yes. Or if some group of humanity will take on watering everything with love, watering the whole humanity with love.

Question: Are you saying that we need an example?

Answer: Yes.

Question: The great Kabbalist Baal HaSulam wrote about the last generation. These were his deathbed notes. After all the incomprehensible things he wrote in his Kabbalistic works, he suddenly wrote understandable notes called “The Last Generation.” There he wrote that a group of people should appear who will take on this law of “love your neighbor” and begin to live by it and spread it all over the world.

Do you think that this is not fiction or idealism?

Answer: Time does its own thing. I think that after all humanity will agree, out of desperation to accept this principle of a new life.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/9/23

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Question: How can the light affect people who do not study Kabbalah and are not in any way on the spiritual path?

Answer: The light will influence them based on the fact that they will be included in us and will quickly come to a sensation of the next degree of existence.

This is the core of our work with the world. They must know that there is a next level, and that is why we are suffering at the current level. The forces that compel us to rise to a new level affect us in such a way, and if we act in unison with them, we will be fine. Let’s start climbing with them, thank them, and use them correctly. This is the essence of the method of Kabbalah.

It tells us what to do: reach out to each other and work in unison with the forces that compel us to rise to the next degree.

Today humanity already sees that it is becoming global. There is nowhere to run. To go along with nature means to benefit oneself or it is to one’s own detriment. But people, like foolish children, don’t want to hear about it. And what will nature do? It will punish them until they obey. And that is why sufferings are ahead.

Comment: But according to your explanations, it is not their fault that they do not hear us.

My Response: Yes, and now it is because nature has already begun to clearly manifest itself in relation to humanity and to show it which direction is correct—the direction of unity, harmony, and a correct, kind, gentle attitude to oneself, to others, and to nature, the direction of reasonable consumption, integral upbringing, education, and so on. Nature shows all of this.

You can say, “But the same nature (Creator) has given us such egoism that man is unable to cope with his egoistic impulses. He doesn’t care about what nature offers him; he doesn’t want to do anything differently. What then can be demanded from a person?!”

From a person pretty much little can be demanded. This is indeed so. But a lot has to be demanded from Jews; pressure has to be applied to them, and it needs to be done correctly with understanding the essence of the pressure and pushing them to fulfill their mission.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Medicine From all Sickness” 10/27/12

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Question: In the 60s and 70s of the last centuries, South Africa was considered one of the most heavenly places to live, and then it slipped to the level of general Africa.

My father was a marketing director of an English company and lived in South Africa for 14 years. At the end of the 80s, when he left there, he cried on the plane, because he understood that this heavenly place had come to an end: What had lasted for so long collapsed in a matter of days.

Most of the buildings built in the 70s, which were a symbol of independence, were expensive apartments that have become drug dens.
Is there anything we can learn from this?

Answer: Learn?! Humanity?! Never!

Where have you seen humanity learn anything at all? There is no more stupid creature than a human who does not learn from anything! He constantly needs to be driven forward with a stick, and he only thinks about how to dodge this stick.

If we could draw our caricature, we would depict a mischievous boy who is constantly looking around and searching for a place to run away to, and behind him, like in a Tom Sawyer story, his aunt runs after him with a big stick that she tries to smack him with, and sometimes gets him. This is us! This is us and Mother Nature.

Have we learned anything today?! Today we are more like barbarians than ever before. We take care of the body in a way that we have never taken care of it in history. We have plastic surgeries, transplants, and tattoos, we remove body parts, and whatever else we do!

Our ancestors would envy us. We have built such a cult of a body that has never existed before. Instead of rising above it and developing the spirit, look what we are doing! On television, they only show programs about food, how to cook and fry it, the Internet is filled only with sexual offers, and TV programs are about how to earn money somewhere, and so on.

If once the knowledge of literature, music, and arts was respected, today there is none of this! The degradation is complete! A person clearly shows another person that he is his enemy. This is considered right, good, and supposedly emphasizes your independence and self-sufficiency. What do we teach children at school?—To suppress the other. What are we teaching them in general?—Only to conquer, suppress, and grind down others.

Meanwhile, the means of confrontation are getting stronger. Today, we can easily “smooth out” each other and sweep them away from the surface of the Earth. Astronauts say in one voice that when they look at the Earth from afar, they have the impression of it as a fragile, very delicate balloon.

And we, who live here, are ready to tear and cut everything as if we have descended to some planet to conquer it, as if this is not our only home!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Black and White World” 11/13/12

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Question: If you imagine the picture of the world in utter chaos, can some community that would live by completely different rules jump sharply out of these sufferings?

Answer: Yes, it could. But suffering will remain to the depth of egoism that exists.

Even if seven and a half billion of the world’s population die, the remaining half billion will go through enormous suffering because all the desires and all the qualities of those seven and a half billion will flow into them.

This remaining half billion will finish the correction, but in very severe agony because the suffering will not be distributed to eight billion. This is a terrible thing!

Imagine that there are only a thousand people around you and you have to absorb all their sores, all their negative qualities, everything that is in them, and live with it now. Your egoism will be a thousand times bigger, or even more, because it is cumulative, combined.

Imagine how many illnesses, sufferings, and blows you alone will have to feel, and your good desire will remain the same—one. These blows will eventually shake you, but not immediately because you will have to realize, feel, and decide for everyone that you cannot remain in this state.

Therefore, do not expect anything good. There will not be a better state in the future if we do not start improving it quickly ourselves. In a world where everything is interconnected, it cannot be otherwise. The interconnection is such that you cannot escape.

Question: So will even those seven and a half billion suffer and leave this state?

Answer: They will suffer within you. This is called Hitkalelut Neshamot, connection of souls. They will not go anywhere, but they will be so integrated into each of us that everyone will have a larger soul.

Therefore, at the time there was a need for the shattering of souls, for their multiplication. Where does the demography come from? On the basis of what it jumps up and down in different countries throughout history? It is precisely because egoism is growing and you need to somehow cope with it.

Adam alone could not correct it. Therefore, it had to be divided into eight billion parts.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How Will Humanity Die Out” 10/20/12

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Question: Five of the largest universities studying world problems stated at the same time that the risk of using nuclear weapons in the world had reached the highest level since the Cold War.

All the countries that possess nuclear weapons continue to increase and modernize them and do not even think to negotiate or to talk about peace or reducing nuclear weapons. It was heard here and there before, but now no one talks about it at all. It seems that the number of nuclear warheads in the world has begun to increase for the first time since the Cold War.

In the past we talked and agreed, in the 70s and 80s we heard it all the time, but now it’s as if it’s been cut off. Did we realize the truth that we will not agree?

Answer: Yes. Today the world is so diverse and so selfish that no matter whom you negotiate with, it is useless because there are 20 other countries that have nuclear weapons that are opposed to your agreement with someone else and are not going to negotiate with anyone.

I think all the speculation about this will not yield anything.

Nothing will help! Everyone will hold on to their nuclear club, we will not trust anyone, and so we will exist from day to day, and so on.

Question: What is the way out of this?

Answer: This is the way out.

Question: The way out is to exist like this? Everyone holds a stick and exists this way?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So you see that the countries will increase their nuclear weapons even further?

Answer: Sure. So what? The bludgeon will no longer be 100 kilotons, but one million kilotons, and more and more.

Question: Now Iran will have nuclear weapons and someone else will also. And will everyone have nuclear weapons? Will we continue to live like this?

Answer: Of course.

Question: For how long? Until what state?

Answer: I don’t think it is going to collapse. It will be increasing all the time.

Question: Is there any way out of this situation?

Answer: Will we find a way out? Or will everything blow up?

Comment: And some two unfortunate people will start giving birth and reproducing again.

My Response: Yes. That’s it and nothing else, or there is the revelation of the Kabbalistic method of getting rid of egoism and the destruction of any egoistic weapon as a consequence.

Question: This is the alternative that Kabbalists offer. And they say that it will happen, that one way or another we will come to this. Even through wars will we come to this?

Answer: Yes, it will happen.

Comment: So you have only one conclusion: look at egoism and only to work with it.

My Response: It is eternal; there is no getting away from it. It can only be corrected within something, but it does not disappear by itself.

Question: That’s reasonable. What you say is logically clear, that we create all this with our pride and our egoism. Why don’t we hear that this is the way out?

Answer: No, people may agree with you, but they will say, “This is unrealistic.” And they will be absolutely right.

Question: When does it become real?

Answer: We need to tell all people about this. And then we will bring this state closer. But how it will develop and reveal to people that it is really possible to get rid of egoism as a universal, central evil, we need to move toward nevertheless. We must advertise and expand this education and upbringing.

Question: How does it feel for you to live with this awareness, to continue working, to continue disseminating?

Answer: It feels normal. I know that I will die tomorrow and the world will continue to exist. And a lot of people will think like me and try to do something until it eventually works out. Everything flows.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/16/22

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Comment: You say that now is the perfect time for correction. In the future, this will be increasingly more difficult to implement.

My Response: Of course. From the moment we had the opportunity for correction, we were given the go-ahead. First, it happened in the 16^th century, in the time of Ari, and then at the beginning of the last century. But at least today, when the external crises are growing all over the world, procrastination leads only to bad conditions. There will be no better conditions.

Question: “Better” in terms of egoism?

Answer: No, in feelings. In our feelings it will only get worse. Not because I speak like an evil prophet, but because this is the purpose of creation, this is its plan—to bring us to the next state by hook or by crook. Therefore, we will be beaten until we want to correct ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How Will Humanity Die Out” 10/22/12

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Question: We live in turbulent times, after all. We look back and we see pandemic and war. We have also had powerful earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. I will not even mention the death toll because it is growing rapidly. Every day they add two or three thousand unfortunate, dead people. It is also very cold there. The cold weather hit exactly at the same time. Now, probably, it is almost impossible to find people who are still alive.

When there are wars between people, then, in principle, it may be possible to come to some kind of agreement at some point when the forces are exhausted. But when war is declared by nature, what is there to do?

We are such little bugs! We have developed science and technology, but we cannot foresee what is happening. What is going on there is hell! The war that nature has declared on us, what should we do with it? How can we work with this?

Answer: I think there is nothing we can do. Nothing!

The Torah says that if you do the right thing, according to your conscience, and so on, then everything will be fine. The Creator—Nature (in gematria “Teva”) will treat you normally, and everything will be fine. You will get the sun in time, the rain in time. In general, everything will be alright. But this is on condition that you will be good.

Question: You said that Nature—”Nature” with a capital letter—is equivalent to the concept of the Creator. The gematria of these two words in Hebrew is the same. That is, we are talking about the Creator, right?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: You also say that if we are good to the Creator, then He will be good to us.

My Response: Naturally. Fulfill His commandments and you will see how He treats you absolutely in the same way! The commandments are the laws of nature.

The laws of nature are not physics, mathematics, and so on, which we know from science. The laws of nature are those that relate to the level of a person’s attitude to the world. That is, it is the relationship of people with each other, the relationship of a person with inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature. This is a person’s attitude to the universe, to the cosmos, to everything. All of this means the attitude of a person to the Creator.

In general, it should be just love, a correct and warm attitude to everything that is outside of you. To everything outside of you.

Comment: That is, I have a love for myself, there is no getting away from it.

My Response: This is your egoism.

Question: Are you saying that I do not have it for the other and for what is outside of me?

Answer: No, of course not.

Question: Or is it insufficient?

Answer: No! It does not exist.

Question: How can I exit myself and start loving something around me? Are there any steps that a person should take? We are now talking, in principle, about how to resist or how to stop this entire war that nature has declared against us. If possible, give specific advice. How can I exit myself and start loving something outside of myself?

Answer: This is “love your neighbor as yourself.” This is the most important and general commandment of the entire Torah.

Question: When you say “neighbor,” do you mean only a person who is close to me?

Answer: In general, in principle, this is an attitude to everything around you. You must develop this love in yourself and start giving it. Moreover, not just by calculation: this I love a little more, this a little less, and so on. Love! To love is when your heart tells you what your attitude should be.

Comment: The topic of the heart is also not very clear to us.

My Response: We need to work on it. This is not just to flip some switch. This is a whole process to love someone outside of yourself.

Question: What does it mean to love?

Answer: To love means to treat another as yourself. What could be simpler?

Comment: That is for sure. But we cannot make this step.

My Response: No. We do not even understand how.

Question: How to make it then?

Answer: I do not know. We need to just watch some movie first, about how a person loves himself so that I can learn from this how I should love others.

Question: Do you mean, kind of to copy it?

Answer: Yes. Go on, show me in some movie about how much I love myself, without any exceptions. Then I will see from here how I should love others. So that I always have this example.

Comment: So, I live all the time to receive something sweet, good, warm, kind, and cordial, I want everyone to treat me like this.

My Response: Mainly, to be right all the time.

Question: You are right here, yes. Do I suddenly have to give it up and say, “You are right”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: This is a serious job. Will nature calm down then?

Answer: Of course, it will calm down! Because you, the most important instigator of all this negative process, will simply remove yourself from the picture. Nature corrects us and leads us to this very decision.

And nature reacts to this. It has given the human this world, this Earth, at his mercy. Do whatever you want.

Comment: But, in principle, it is giving and bestowing.

My Response: It is giving and bestowing to the extent that you are giving and bestowing.

Comment: You put an equal sign here; if I am the same as it, everything will be fine.

My Response: A person must come to the similarity with the Creator. This is why nature is not giving up here.

Question: If we reduce everything to a short sentence, then it turns out that we must be similar to the Creator and that is it. Just how to do it?! Will it not rest until we come to that?

Answer: No! It is said about this: “Rise to the level of the Creator.”

Comment: Do you know that seismologists are already predicting that it will not stop, but will continue to shake us more and more? There is something going on with the core, something with the Earth. I will not go into the technical details. But they say it will continue to shake and there will be more and more places where it will be seriously shaking. That is what they say.

My Response: It is as if the Creator is playing with our Earth as with a ball.

Question: Is this, as you say, until we make this decision and begin to move toward the Creator?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do we just need to make this decision? Is that all that is required of us?

Answer: But we need to agree! To accept means to agree. This is not like at a meeting—we accepted this unanimously and went home. There should be unanimous agreement here, of all people to live according to the principle of “love your neighbor as yourself.”

Question: Can we say that all 613, or even 620 commandments are included in this one commandment?

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/9/23

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Question: You have repeatedly cited the metronome effect, which is the fact that metronomes moving randomly will suddenly begin to move in synchrony after a while.

There is one very important detail here, the metronomes should stand on the same base. If you put synchronous metronomes on different bases, they will loosen up after a while. There should be a single base for the metronomes.

Today’s humanity resembles such versatile metronomes. Everyone is moving in different directions. What base should be placed under all these “metronomes” so that they will suddenly begin to move harmoniously together after some time?

Answer: It is the law of mutual dependence, absolute mutual dependence. The dependence of every person on everyone, everyone on everyone else.

Comment: But now everyone, including scientists, claim that today’s humanity resembles one village that is dependent on each other. Even we see it.

My Response: But I do not see an immediate consequence that would stop me from making egoistic actions. Therefore, it does not help.

Question: So does all this remain in theory? Scientists talk, let them talk.

What should we do to come to this law? In principle, it is a logical law that we are all already really in a mutual relationship. Somewhere there is war and the whole world suffers; someone quarrels somewhere and the whole world suffers. Can some kind of dictatorship squeeze the world? You are in mutual relationship with everything!

Answer: No, this will not be the fulfillment of a voluntary, heartfelt law. In this way, you can put everyone in a row and that is it.

Question: Do you also want it to be voluntary and heartfelt?

Answer: With the realization that without this, we will be lost. It must be this way.

Question: When does awareness come? When I can no longer bear it?

Answer: Yes, probably so, with the realization that, otherwise it is impossible.

Question: So now are we being led to a dead end?

Answer: Yes. We live in good times.

Question: The great Kabbalist sages have said: “We would not like to live in this time.” Do you think we live in this time?

Answer: We are getting closer. What will happen next is hard to imagine. It will be such a study on our own flesh that.

Question: Do you directly perceive the words of the sages of the distant past that they would not want to live in this time?

Answer: Yes. Both literally and figuratively, in every sense.

Question: So difficult times await us if we do not come to our senses? And to come to your senses is again, as you say, to come to love for your neighbor?

Answer: Yes, nothing else. This is the law, and it must be fulfilled.

We will wait until the loving hand of the Creator squeezes us from above.

Question: He, being loving, is making us become loving?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And then will everything end and a completely different dimension will begin?

Answer: We will be like metronomes. This is called being on one basis.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/9/23

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