Question: How do we benefit from crisis?

Answer: You can benefit from a crisis only if you understand what a crisis is, what its real cause is, and how to cure the world of it. Otherwise, there is no answer to this.

I believe that crises are entirely due to bad relations between people that lead to wars and other problems. The wisdom of Kabbalah, which I am engaged in, answers this question in this way and encourages everyone to come closer to each other. Only to the extent that we get closer to each other will we see positive changes in the world.

Coming closer to each other means that people will trust each other more, help each other more, and harm each other less.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Questions and Answers” 1/6/23

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Question: How can one survive in the modern world?

Answer: I think we should not only survive but think about how to simply live well: freely, justly, without being afraid of anything or anyone, not being defensive, so that everyone has everything, and children to have a good future. I think it is this year that we will be able to begin to understand what the path to this should be.

Question: Let’s say a person wants to live his life normally and sees such a terrible crisis around him. How can he deal with it?

Answer: This crisis depends only on our relations. If we really want the world to change, we need to improve our relations.

Nothing more! Then everything will be different: the sun, clean air, everything will bloom, the earth will give good fruits and a harvest. Everything will be fine, but only if there are positive changes in the relationships between us.

Man is the only harmful animal in this world that cannot help but spoil it! He must recognize this and correct the world.

Question: Suppose this tiny little man walks between skyscrapers under the yoke of problems and hears the advice from you that good relationships solve everything. He thinks: “How can I influence this?”

Answer: Just influence. You do not have to learn anything. Just try to look at others in a more friendly way, and life will change. This is pure psychology.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Questions and Answers” 1/6/23

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Question: What is goodness?

Answer: Goodness is an understanding of interdependence—all the way to love. And evil is vice versa.

Question: But each side in any conflict thinks that it is doing good.

Answer: We need to rise above ourselves and start thinking only about making everyone feel good, not one at the expense of the other. Otherwise, we will not get anywhere. We must learn what mutual connection, mutual dependence, mutual restriction, mutual support, and so on, mean.

That is, we must create systems that will include absolutely all of humanity. These are systems of integral development.

We must understand that we will not be able to survive otherwise. Nature will drive us out of this planet, out of this world, if we cannot establish a system that will take care of everyone.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Questions and Answers” 1/6/23

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Comment: On October 19, 1914, the First Battle of Ypres began. The month-long battle marked the first of three destructive and brutal battles during the First World War on the Belgian Ypres Salient. More than 200,000 lives were lost on both sides. About a month later in the Flanders’ trenches what is known as the Christmas Truce took place throughout two-thirds of the 4 mile-line.

“The first signs that something strange was happening occurred on Christmas Eve. At 8:30 p.m. an officer of the Royal Irish Rifles reported to headquarters: ‘Germans have illuminated their trenches, are singing songs and wishing us a Happy Xmas. Compliments are being exchanged but am nevertheless taking all military precautions.’ Further along the line, the two sides serenaded each other with carols—the German ‘Silent Night’ being met with a British chorus of ‘The First Noel’—and scouts met, cautiously, in no man’s land, the shell-blasted waste between the trenches. The war diary of the Scots Guards records that a certain Private Murker ‘met a German Patrol and was given a glass of whisky and some cigars, and a message was sent back saying that if we didn’t fire at them, they would not fire at us.’

“The same basic understanding seems to have sprung up spontaneously at other spots. For another British soldier, Private Frederick Heath, the truce began late that same night when “all down our line of trenches there came to our ears a greeting unique in war: ‘English soldier, English soldier, a merry Christmas, a merry Christmas!’” Then–as Heath wrote in a letter home–the voices added:

‘Come out, English soldier; come out here to us.’ For some little time we were cautious, and did not even answer. Officers, fearing treachery, ordered the men to be silent. But up and down our line one heard the men answering that Christmas greeting from the enemy. How could we resist wishing each other a Merry Christmas, even though we might be at each other’s throats immediately afterwards? So we kept up a running conversation with the Germans, all the while our hands ready on our rifles. Blood and peace, enmity and fraternity—war’s most amazing paradox. The night wore on to dawn—a night made easier by songs from the German trenches, the pipings of piccolos and from our broad lines laughter and Christmas carols. Not a shot was fired.

(Smithsonian Magazine, December 23, 2011, “The Story of the WWI Christmas Truce”)

In 2014, a monument was erected there—a soccer ball. A soccer game was played in no man’s land between the Allied and German trenches.

Four months later in the same area, the Germans launched the Second Battle of Ypres and introduced a poison gas offensive.

Yet, at that moment on Christmas, they could have stopped the war if the entire front line had been aware—if everyone had found out and gone to the same meeting in the same way. The question is very timely and pressing. Was it really possible to stop the war from below?

My Response: If the soldiers wanted to, of course they could have. What would those generals do?

Comment: It is amazing. Back then, they were really killing: with bayonets, they fought hand-to-hand. It means that you see the blood. You do not just shoot guns and missiles. You see them and hate him, and yet you agree to fraternize. It means that it is possible!

My Response: That is certain! Undoubtedly, it is possible to turn over everything, even the greatest hatred in one second.

Question: Must there be some event that unites everyone? What should happen?

Answer: Nothing should happen. It is like it happens when you keep fighting with someone, and suddenly—voila!—the hatred disappears, the reason disappears, and in general, everything disappears.

Question: Where does this come from? What kind of miracle is this?

Answer: It is simply that we are controlled in this way.

Neither love nor hate make any sense. Love as well. There is no difference between them!

Question: Do you mean that there is the same outburst of emotions? Plus or minus?

Answer: Of course. Suddenly, you do not know what to do, why you loved him, why you did not love him, and now there is nothing! There is nothing left.

Question: Definitely nothing left. All divorcing couples say to each other: “Why did I love you?” Yet, they were so much in love!

But, anyway, help us sort this out. What kind of work is this—from above?

Answer: We can sort this out only by faith above reason. When we connect with each other not according to our feelings, but according to our ideas. That is all.

There is only one idea—rapprochement, cohesion, connection, and unification up to absolute non-separation, and I would even say adhesion.

Question: Is this the state we should be in? What is the root of this?

Answer: The root of it is the upper root. The fact that we come from the same upper root, and therefore, we must reach this state.

Question: Is the basis of all humanity this single root?

Answer: Only the Creator. Since He is One, Unique, and Unified, He forces us to come to Him. By hook or by crook. Either by suffering or by a slight effort.

Question: How do we come to this root?

Answer: We must be convinced that everything else is against unity, the opposite of it, that is, absolute stupidity, and that we cannot come to anything good if we are the opposite of the Creator.

Question: What about those random upsurges of reason?

Answer: They have happened at war, in many places. But what can you do? That is the way people are.

Question: What do they indicate to us, these upsurges of reason?

Answer: I would say that here, of course, it would have been necessary to play differently. But the high military command and others had to do it.

Question: So, did they have to continue this flash mob?

Answer: To join it and end the war.

Comment: But this is against any military command.

My Response: Naturally!

Comment: That is, one way or another, the war ends from above. I mean, not from Above, but from above.

My Response: The war, actually, ends from Above.

Question: How can we beg to end the war from Above?

Answer: By realizing that we understand why we needed it. We recognize it, and that is enough.

Question: But what kind of recognition is it?

Answer: That the suffering we have been through is enough for us for today, and we promise to be good.

Of course, this will not be for long. Then it will happen again.

Question: Is this a peace treaty with the Creator or a peace treaty with each other?

Answer: It is a peace treaty between us.

Question: Is this the only thing that exists?

Answer: I think we are moving toward this somehow.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22

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In the News (Science Daily): “An area of the brain specifically involved in putting in effort to help others out has been pinpointed by scientists at the University of Birmingham and University of Oxford.

“The research, published in Current Biology, shows that effortful altruistic behaviour -choices people make that help others — takes place in a different part of the brain from that used to make physically demanding choices that help oneself. …

“The area identified, called the anterior cingulate cortex gyrus (ACCg), is located towards the front of the brain. It is known to play a role in social behaviour, but has not previously been linked to putting in effort to help others. Interestingly, the researchers found that the ACCg is not activated when individuals make effortful decisions that only benefit themselves.”

Question: You always say that altruism is a consequence of correcting egoism, that we come to altruism, and it is quite a difficult job. Yet, it turns out that we can just make an altruist out of a person by surgery.

How do you feel about this? We can just activate this part of the brain and that is it, and we will live bestowing and loving!

Answer: But why live bestowing and loving? That is, the purpose of all this, what is it for?

Comment: To make me feel good about it.

My Response: Then we do not need any altruism or something else. Then you just need to inject a person with something cheering and that is it

Question: So, is this not a discovery for you?

Answer: No. There is no correction of the world and of a person in this.

Comment: Even if in this way we can turn criminals, for example, into kind, warm people?

My Response: This is not about people and not about every person. The fact is that there is the upper force of nature with which we must connect, come closer to in qualities, and participate with in the correction of all of nature.

Question: Is this such a program?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Can it not be shortened by any operations or anything at all? Humanity is coming up with different pills, looking for any opportunities to shorten this path.

My Response: Where have you seen at least one person who would change or correct himself with a pill?

Comment: No one has corrected himself. You insist on this word all the time that a person should “correct” himself. Few people want to be corrected in our world. This word, on the contrary, scares people away.

I do not want to correct myself. I want someone to do good things for me, and I want to feel good so that nothing hurts me, so that I get up in the morning and sing along with the birds and go for a walk.

My Response: To do this, you need to be a little idiot and that is it.

Question: Is this not a person’s destiny to be a little idiot? 🙂

Answer: No, we are developing, and we need more and more. Therefore, I do not know whether there is any good ahead of us.

Question: If I come to such a happy, childish state, do you think that it will change sooner or later anyway, and I will get out of it?

Answer: This is an idiotic state.

Question: Will I be taken out of this idiotic state one way or another? Will I not be able to live like this?

Answer: Nature will throw you out.

Comment: That is why we are dealing with drug addicts who, in general, probably feel good. They are sitting disconnected, and we want to take them out of this state all the time.

My Response: Because their cheerful, disconnected state is a lie. Therefore, the world does not agree with this.

Question: Even if they do not harm anyone, is it still a lie?

Answer: Of course! The cheapest thing is to distribute drugs and calm humanity.

Question: Is the path of correction always so hard that everyone shudders from this word? Or not? Can I somehow accept it and say: “Okay, I am walking it”?

Answer: I think that the path of correction is, in fact, not really difficult. But it depends on dissemination, advertising, persuasion, and explanation. This is the problem of our wisdom.

The wisdom itself is not easy. A person begins to study it and does not understand what it is talking about. It takes several years for him to start hearing and to adjust himself at least a little.

Question: Why did Kabbalists make it so difficult?

Answer: Kabbalists did  not do anything. They take nature and try to twist it in any way, just so that it gets closer to a person. Nature is the opposite of a person. Therefore, there is nothing we can do with it.

It must be turned and twisted somehow so that a person begins to see it from several sides, so that he rises above his egoism, so that he begins to see the world in a different light, in a different guise.

This is the task of the wisdom of Kabbalah—to bring it closer to a person, to tell a person that there is an opposite nature.

Question: From hatred to love?

Answer: Love, yes.

Question: What if we repeat constantly that there is such a thing as “love”? Not only can you fight, kill, hate, and live with your egoism, but you can also love, you can learn to bestow?

Answer: No, we do not know what it is yet. Love is a pure quality of the Creator. We do not know what it is. With us, it all takes on some ugly forms.

Comment: More like animals.

My Response: Yes. And all this is wrong.

Question: Does it mean that in order to raise a person to the level of this upper love, upper nature, we need to turn him over?

Answer: To turn him over. That is, to tear him away from his egoism. And to attract to him the quality of love that will remain in him after this separation.

Question: What will remain?

Answer: A small dot. But only it can be adhered to the quality of love. It will develop and grow together with it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/27/22

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Question: How can we not go crazy from the current news?

Answer: I personally listen to the news. However, it depends on which ones. In principle, they don’t drive me crazy. I understand that this is our world and today it still has to move along this trajectory.

But I hope that in the near future the world will sober up and begin to understand how to better to behave, what shape to take, and what kind of relationships to build.

I think that everything that is happening now will shake up the world and people will feel the need for mutual positive movements.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Questions and Answers” 1/6/23

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Question: Why is the situation in the world constantly getting worse?

Answer: I do not think it is getting worse all the time. We just start demanding something more from the world because we are developing. If we look at the current examples of world politics, we see that people are already beginning to understand that you cannot throw bombs, you need to somehow talk to each other.

I think the world is sobering up in some ways and starting to understand better how ugly it is and how much it needs to change.

Question: What will happen in five years? In ten? In fifteen?

Answer: I hope it will be good. People will understand that they have no other choice: they will either destroy each other or encourage each other. We live in a state where we have to decide what will prevail: good or evil. The need for this decision is already facing us.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Questions and Answers” 1/6/23

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Question: How can one overcome fear?

Answer: We can overcome fear only through friendship, by coming closer to others. Otherwise, it will overcome us more and more.

Question: What should one do about panic attacks?

Answer: It is possible to deal with them only if we create small societies in which people will support each other. This is the only way we can get rid of fears, illnesses, insomnia, and absolutely everything that imposes the anxiety of life on us.

Question: A person experiences mood swings and is afraid of everything that happens in his life: “What will happen to me tomorrow?” What kind of society does he need that will help him cope with this?

Answer: He must create a society where everyone would understand the need for friendship, cooperation, mutual support, and security. Otherwise, he will have to learn this for a very long time.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Questions and Answers” 1/6/23

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In the end, our relationship deteriorated to such an extent there was only one thing left: to agree that we respect each other extremely (George Bernard Shaw).

My Response: Yes.  🙂 That is all that is left.

Question: How is it possible to bring a relationship to this point and not to blow up, break up, or destroy it, but arrive at mutual respect and the ability to communicate?

Answer: “We respect each other”; that is, we know for sure that we should not stab each other nor get too close, but respect each other at a distance.

Question: Is this called rising above hatred?

Answer: We rise above it; we take our relationship into account. And we understand that we cannot achieve much more for now. But gradually, of course, everything can come back again.

Question: What can we do so that we do not let it happen again? We have a bad relationship, we hate each other. But here it says: “We need to sit down and start respecting each other.”

Answer: Break up and gradually start getting closer, this is what everyone generally advises. But get closer gradually so that I clearly understand the boundaries and so does my partner.

I have to see that they are not trying to hurt me, and I have to show how much I am trying not to hurt them. And then, as we start getting closer, we will feel how close we should get. This depends on inner sensitivity.

Question: Is this a necessary path toward further closeness?

Answer: Of course.

Question: What is achieved as a result? Do we connect somewhat or not?

Answer: We can connect in a way that will be even better than with those we had a good relationship with.

Question: So, from such hatred we can come to such closeness?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this how it happens that from the greatest hatred people come to the greatest closeness?

Answer: That is how it usually goes.

Question: So this is the most important way: break up and start slowly getting closer?

Answer: Yes, it is highly advisable. The whole ancient political superstructure, program, and politics were always conducted this way.

Question: Why do we not hear much about it today?

Answer: We have weapons. That is, everything has been replaced. It used to be that I have a saber and you have a saber; I have a spear and  you have a spear; horses here, horses there. But today, it is all about the number of planes, tanks, missiles, and everything else; therefore, there is nothing to negotiate about.

Question: How can the world come to such everyday simple wisdom? You have just spoken not of higher wisdom, but of our earthly wisdom. Or is it still higher wisdom to operate this way?

Answer: The world has no ideals today. Humanity has no respect for anyone. If before it was the Pope or a special king or someone else, today there is not.

Question: Why are there no ideals left?

Answer: Because force replaces all other considerations.

Question: So, it becomes an ideal for me to be strong?

Answer: Yes, I have a bomb in my pocket and that’s it.

Question: Why is that? We talk all the time about the upper providence, the upper force. Why would it bring the world to such emptiness?

Answer: So that we understand we truly do not have anything at all. We are faced with the need for some real ideals in order to judge and compare ourselves with. In the meantime, there is none of this.

Question: What is, in fact, an ideal?

Answer: In fact, the ideal is, I would say love.

In the age of nuclear power when we can break everything and leave nothing, love is the opposite of it. What else can you do? Nothing. If we could beat each other up and then make up, that is another story. But when we are on the verge of a nuclear conflict, there can only be the opposite of it—love.

That is why I believe, in our days, there is an opportunity to come to such a state, to such a rapprochement called love. Because there is no other way.

In our time, peace is possible for the first time in many millennia! Because I have all sorts of nuclear weapons and so do you. Thus, there is nothing left to do but to put it aside and try to get closer to each other in order to find the benefit.

Question: You have one simple answer: live based on love?

Answer: Yes. As Longfellow, an American poet of the 19^th century wrote: “Bury your war clubs and your weapons… Smoke the calumet together and as brothers live henceforward!” That is what you need.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/29/22

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We are in a state where, after successive exile from Babylon, Egypt, and Persia, we are figuring out the conditions for the ascent to the last degree, meaning the way out of the current global crisis of all mankind.

Now modern global plagues are manifesting in front of all mankind. They have not yet fully manifested, but we are already beginning to be a little aware of them and we feel their approach. Threatening “tsunamis” are coming at us. People are beginning to understand what Pandora’s Box they have opened with their insane, thoughtless egoistic actions.

Today we must put the methodology of Kabbalah into action. I am happy that I have something to do with this, and I can reveal and explain to people what we are obliged to do, what state we are in, what kind of world this is, and what opportunities we have.

I am glad that we can discover this technique within ourselves, like in a laboratory, and then present it to the whole world, show that it is effective, show how to work practically, become an example for all mankind, and return it to a state of upper force, meaning, to the quality of bestowal and love in a kind, quick way, as soon as it’s possible.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. History of the Jewish People” 5/4/14

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