Question: What is the difference between suffering along the natural path of development and suffering when time is accelerated? If the only difference is time, does that mean I would have to suffer a hundred times more?

Answer: There are terrible tragedies that shock the entire world. The whole world feels some blows because everyone tries this situation on themselves, knowing that it could happen anywhere.

It is possible to transfer these sufferings to the spiritual level and avoid the tragedies. To what extent did these sufferings advance humanity toward goodness, toward understanding the need to work on unity? Not more than a millimeter.

Instead, it would have been enough to make the very smallest spiritual effort—to agree at least a little that salvation lies in unity, in bringing everyone closer together in our global world, to engage the heart and the mind just a bit—and we would have neutralized these sufferings.

Both paths move us toward the goal. But what an enormous amount of suffering is required to advance by the natural path. Fourteen billion years were needed for the development of inanimate nature on Earth. A couple of billion years for the plant world to develop, another billion years for animals, and another hundred thousand years for a monkey to become a human being.

Look at the proportion between inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human development. At the high, human level, development proceeds very quickly.

The same principle applies to all modern technology: it becomes faster, more sensitive, and far more powerful. The greater the force of nature, the more concealed it is and the faster it acts. This is precisely the difference between the natural path and the acceleration of time.

Many sufferings could have been avoided, and time could have been accelerated.

Question: Does this mean that tragedies and terrorist attacks will happen more and more often?

Answer: Terrorist attacks can be avoided if we use the method of unity that Kabbalah offers. As long as we do not do this, attacks will occur more frequently because the world is constantly advancing, and our egoism is steadily growing.

The world does not remain in the same state; by learning through blows, it is moving forward. It has its own dynamic of development. Egoism keeps intensifying. That is why, twenty years ago, one major blow per year was enough to teach us something, whereas today we already need twenty blows a year.

Our egoism has grown. It is like a child who has become more egoistic, ruthless, and stubborn, and therefore must be punished more than one who is merely a little lazy. That is why today the world receives far more blows than it did ten years ago. And if we do not begin to advance by the path of light, this will continue: blow after blow, more and more.

I only hope that it will not come to natural disasters. For now, it is limited to global warming and typhoons, but if we do not engage in our correction, it could reach real natural cataclysms.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/2016, Rabash, Article No. 16, 1985 “But the More They Afflicted Them”

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Question: If everything in the world depends on people engaged in spiritual development, does it mean we are responsible for all the suffering in the world?

Answer: We do not cause suffering in the world; on the contrary, by attracting the light, we move suffering from the material level to the level of spiritual suffering. Meaning, instead of suffering from wars, diseases, and all other problems, we suffer from a lack of spirituality. This is what the science of Kabbalah gives a person.

It brings him “suffering,” but it cannot even be called that; it is the suffering of love, as if I were invited to a meal in a couple of hours, so I do not eat right now to keep my appetite strong. This is called the suffering of love; it is when I realize that I should prepare spiritual Kelim.

And even now, in the empty Kelim, I feel the glow of the upcoming meeting with the people I love, and from the meal. This is what humanity needs to be brought to, to show them that there is a solution and to develop not as a result of the blows of nature.

Now we are entering a period of ecological problems that can cause the suffering and death of thousands of people. We see natural disasters occurring all over the world, in China, Europe, Russia, and America.

The only way to escape it is to transition to preparing spiritual Kelim, not in an earthly form, not waiting decades for suffering to pass until we finally realize that there is a reason and a goal and two paths to the goal: the path of light and the path of suffering.

Why should we suffer in vain? Let us draw the light now that will show us the difference between its state and ours, so we would suffer from the fact that we want a better state, rather than from feeling bad now.
This is what the science of Kabbalah offers man—the path of light instead of the path of suffering.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/1/10, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot“

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Question: Does the science of Kabbalah allow us to predict the future?

Answer: The science of Kabbalah knows all of nature’s plans, that is, the Creator’s, the whole path we must go through. After all, the balance of positive and negative forces at all levels follows the formulas known in Kabbalah. But there is also one small factor in these formulas: human freewill.

This means that we can influence these formulas now and in the future and determine how we will transition from the present to the future.

At each moment, which instantly renews and becomes the past, I can determine how I move from state to state in the next moment or over a more extended period.

Our states must progress toward the general balance we need to achieve among us. All of nature strives for balance, including the human system, humanity.

But how exactly to move toward this state of equilibrium, which is called the final correction of humanity, depends on us. We can approach it positively or negatively, depending on our involvement.

Question: Is there a certain amount of time allotted to achieve the final correction?

Answer: The time limit is 6,000 years, and we are now in the year 5776 [in 2016]. That is, humanity has 224 years to correct itself and balance the forces at play within it: good and evil. These two forces only need to be balanced. There is no evil force and no good force; the only bad thing is a lack of balance between them. We, the people, are obliged to balance them.

But we do not have to wait 224 years; we can do it much earlier. It is possible to balance the forces operating within humanity within months. The power of evil is a vast force; it is our evil nature, egoism, which prevails in our every action. The power of good is very weak. It only softens our egoism a little, which allows us to somehow coexist without killing or devouring each other. But in essence, we are all driven by our egoism, and everyone wants to rise above the other, to be taller, stronger, richer.

First we need to recognize that egoism is our main enemy and it must be balanced. There is a good force in us that can balance our egoism; we just need to develop it.

The power of good and the power of evil must be properly balanced, and reach the what is called the “middle line,” so that we are balanced between good and evil. Through the balance of these two forces, we come to a balanced, benevolent world.

All of nature is based on two opposing forces: light and dark, day and night, plus and minus, cold and heat, electrons and positrons. There is no force in the world without a counterforce.

We just need to find a point of balance between these two forces in all their manifestations, and we will feel good in it to such an extent that if we balance these two forces, we will feel that we live in an eternal, perfect world, in the Garden of Eden.
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From Radio Station 103FM 12/11/ 15

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When you become completely disillusioned with your search for yourself, for life, for the purpose of life, and for the Creator, and so on, then you are approaching the point of finding Him.

Question: So this disillusionment has to happen?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Meaning that I must put effort into the search.

My Response: Absolutely everything you possibly can.

Question: Should my efforts be based on the idea that I can do everything myself?

Answer: Yes. And after you realize that you yourself can do nothing, you begin to determine where is it possible to connect with the Creator.

Question: You said, “I can do nothing.” Do I really not have any ability at all? Nothing?

Answer: Nothing.

Question: Not even some simple things?

Answer: No, no! Until a person raises their hands completely, fully entrusting themselves to the higher force, nothing will work for them.

Question: Today, we see wars and crises approaching, more and more intense ecological disasters, and so on. Will all of this lead us to the understanding that we can do nothing?

Answer: That is a question. What we see today, I do not think will lead to that yet. Humanity still understands its state and its dependence very little. It believes it can still do something.

Question: So we must knock out this “chair” from under ourselves, i.e., the idea that I can do something?

Answer: Yes. We can do nothing without the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/17/25

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Humanity has entered such a turbulent period that there is nothing left to do but hold on. And we must hold on to one another. In this way, humanity will be brought to unity and forced to understand that we live in a global world. This is not some kind of global politics; it is simply that we are compelled to unite.

Globalism is not about the fact that I must take everyone into account in order to pursue my own policy or somehow manipulate the world. Globalism is about understanding that this world is shared, and if I do not care about someone else, then ultimately, I do not care about myself. Even from the point of view of egoism, I am involuntarily obliged to include the entire world within the bounds of my benevolent self-interest.

Nature will force us to this. We will still see what will happen. Mainly these will be environmental problems. In addition, we have not yet finished with the economic crisis; everything is still ahead. No matter how much we try to cover it up, it will explode.

Comment: Egoism is so adaptive. After some time, a person gets used to everything and is no longer afraid.

My Response: No, egoism does not “get used to” things; it develops. A person does not get used to anything. This is a mistaken understanding of what is happening to people. They do not adapt; they simply carry out the commands of their egoism. They cannot return to the past.

If they actually returned to the past and we froze at a previous level, even with a new egoism, then that would be adaptation. But we do not adapt; we follow the dictates of egoism, we become different, change ourselves, our nature, our society, our relationships, everywhere and in everything.

So what are we supposedly getting used to? Families are falling apart. Children leave their parents. The entire former system of relationships is changing. The greatness of science, the greatness of culture—all of this is declining.

Humanity (and especially those in power, together with the mass media, no matter how much they try to gloss it over) is still undergoing a very stormy renewal of the world. We are not getting used to it.

You want to say that people still continue to act egoistically? That is correct. But this too is planned by nature in order to bring humanity, so to speak, to the edge. And there will be blows, strong blows. It is precisely these that gradually lead us to awareness.

The point is not to strike. The point is that small blows should provoke the development of thought, awareness, comprehension, and feelings: “Where are these from, for what, and why? What is required of me? Who requires it? Nature? Does it have its own authority, its own power, its own opinion, its own goal, its own plan? Am I obliged to respond to this? Am I obliged to take it into account? Me? Who am I? A human being! I am above everyone!”

No, you are small. Who are you? What can you do? Entire villages burn down. A couple of hurricanes will sweep through and knock out all the electricity, or rivers that have not yet dried up will overflow their banks. And then such cold will come that all the pipes will burst and people will freeze. What can you do?

You will start thinking and suddenly realize that it is truly necessary to somehow come to one another’s aid. You will no longer walk around with your nose in the air, as if to say that you do not care about the whole world.

In no way do I want to speak contemptuously about anyone. I am saying that the blows of nature will force us to be different. When a person is in pain, he becomes human. When a serious illness is suddenly discovered, there is no time for polite conversation; he is already thinking about how to survive. This is how nature, the Creator, forces us.

Comment: People unite only when there are misfortunes.

My Response: But there will be misfortunes all the time! That will not be a problem. From now on, it will only keep escalating.

Question: But everyone, first of all, saves their own skin, don’t they?

Answer: People will have nowhere to go; there will be nowhere to save themselves! Neither America, nor Russia, nor Europe will have anywhere to escape to. The Asians will join in as well. Just wait.

Comment: But surely there is some boundary a person eventually crosses.

My Response: Crosses to where? They will beat him down to the point where he wants to die and will not be able to.

They will not allow it! The higher governance will not allow it. Can you imagine how hard it can be?

And on the other hand, we must develop and spread Kabbalah so that people see there is salvation; there is a method for changing oneself. Then you immediately change your entire perception of nature.

The Creator, nature, no longer becomes hostile toward you. You begin to enter into unison, into harmony with Him, and you feel goodness, paradise instead of hell.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Cal  2012”

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Question: How should dissemination be expressed? Are there certain boundaries that we cannot cross?

Answer: The boundaries should be what is acceptable, decent, but without any fear, equivocation, or hints. Simply, in a direct way. Friends, look at what we have today: on one hand, the path of suffering, on the other hand, the path of correction. And you will immediately begin to feel yourselves and the world differently.

Yes, it is not easy. But it is simple if we are together. What does this mean? It means a change in social relations. It means new social relations that are built on brotherhood, camaraderie, mutual help, on the fact that we are elements of one single system. Let’s begin to build ourselves exactly as this system exists within us. This network exists between us.

Let’s first accept not to harm one another as a goal. Everywhere—at home, at work, on the road, wherever you are—let’s consider ourselves members of one family.

Comment: This instinct is characteristic of ants protecting their anthill.

My Response: What difference does it make? With the help of this, you attain the level of the Creator! And in fact, today you are an ant.

By fulfilling the laws of Kabbalah, we do not demean ourselves, but we elevate ourselves because in the correct connection between us, we reveal the upper force of nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. 2012” 8/25/10

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Question: Will nature, the Creator, put so much pressure on a person, but not allow him to die, that he will be ready to listen to the Kabbalists?

Answer: It is written in the Prophets, especially in Ezekiel, that merciful mothers will cook their children and eat them. That is one scenario. The second scenario is to take the method of correction and begin correcting oneself to resemble nature.

In principle, you understand that egoism develops. On one hand, there is the light; on the other hand, there is egoism, which gradually develops, becomes increasingly opposite to the light, and senses this opposition as various kinds of suffering: illnesses, many kinds of blows on the personal, social, political, and economic levels, at any level.

And to what extent will these sufferings continue? You will not be allowed to commit suicide; you must change your life. Nature will not give you this option; it will not allow you to succumb to drugs or something else. This is a temporary phenomenon.

You will not be able to use drugs. They will be lying next to you and you could take them, swallow them, and feel better. But “I can’t.” But you are suffering, aren’t you? “No, I cannot take it.”

Nature will force us to realize that we are opposite to it, that we are against the Creator. Like in Egypt with Pharaoh, something must be done; we must escape our egoism in order to soften this path and not climb the ladder of suffering within an ever-growing egoism.

We cannot reduce egoism; we cannot in any way limit its growth. And what can you do? You can only begin to correct it. The method of correction is Kabbalah. It shows you how, with the help of the force of the Creator, with the help of the light, to change the egoism. You have no other way out.

Only for this reason, we, those who have this method, must spread Kabbalah throughout the entire world as quickly as possible by any means. This is our task.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. 2012” 8/25/10

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Our Children Are Constrained by the Clothing of the Old World

Why is the young generation so problematic?

It is because we are meant to rise to the next level of human development.

And truthfully, even if all the parents, the government, the UN, and UNESCO engage in an educational program, nothing will come of it. I am telling you this as a Kabbalist.

We must understand that the next generation is obligated to be on a different level of development. And this does not mean being more educated, knowledgeable, or successful. It means developing new instruments of perception.

The kind of communication that exists today between people is destroying us. Children connect with one another through computers; they have no need to know anything, they freely draw any information from there. Humanity is obligated to rise above all this and reveal a new world.

And as always, when transitioning from one degree to another, every generation becomes disappointed in everything it has achieved, in what can no longer satisfy it, and wishes to rise above it. And then we trample everything we have and move on to the next level.

So now, too, we must rise to a very important and special degree, to the revelation of a new world. Therefore, first of all we are forced to become disappointed in everything we have in this world. What is most precious to us—our children, grandchildren, the next generation—we see how empty they are, and we have nothing to give them.

We have prepared death for them. Everything we built for the future generation—10, 20, 30 years ago—has turned the world into a place unfit for living. And that is why our children are as they are.

This decline will continue further and further until humanity understands that there is no choice but to rise to another level of perceiving reality and another level of existence. And then they will destroy the entire old world; they will no longer be able to bear it or live in it.

They will throw away all the computers, screens, and mobile phones when they feel that none of this can fill them. For now it still seems to them that it fills them, but gradually they begin to grow tired of these games that are imposed on them. This pain, suffering, and disappointment, the hopelessness of the present state must accumulate to the limit, and then this generation will break all former values and will desire to reveal a new world.

And the revelation of the new world is exactly what the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about. I very much hope that this will happen soon, and that I will still witness it in my lifetime. I appeal to all parents: we must think about this, and prepare this world, this foundation, from which it will be easier for the young generation to rise to the next degree!
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From Kab  Radio Station 103FM, 1/8/16

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Comment: Global drought trends show increasing frequency, severity, and areas of land impacted.

My Response: We have so disfigured nature that it simply cannot make up for all that we have done in it. There is a limit to what a person can do and not feel what they are doing. It is like in a car when there are problems, but you can still drive, and somehow move forward, and there are those when it is all over.

Comment: It seems that nature teaches us hard lessons.

My Response: No, I would not say that. Nature protects itself very well, it tries to soften everything. There is a very large margin of safety in it. But we have already crossed all imaginable boundaries.

Question: We know that water is very important in the life of any organism, and humans in particular. Ninety percent of chemical elements are water soluble; the human body is all irrigated and saturated with water.

What is water in human life?

Answer: Water is the foundation. From the point of view of Kabbalah, it is the light of Hassadim, without which one cannot exist. It holds everything together. Not just water, but the very property that it communicates, dissolves and allows you to flow from one state to another. The special properties of water, freezing point and dew point, are very important properties.

Water is practically what gives life to our planet. Of course, nothing will happen without it.

We are already in a state that can be called irreversible. We have to wait until this “patient” finishes his torment and that is it.

There is nothing we can do anyway. We cannot curb our selfishness; we cannot curb our appetites. Grabbing more and more—for what? It doesn’t matter what for. We cannot! Selfishness just makes us do it, that is all. It forces us to do absolutely irrational things. And as a result, we get…

Question: If we return to water, to its physical and spiritual properties. You said that it helps to transfer from one state to another, to break down, and to dissolve. How can a person learn this flowing property of water?

Answer: This is possible only if a person rises above himself, only if he does not use his selfish desire, but cultivates the property of water. This is an altruistic desire.

The property of bestowal, the property of love, the property of connection with others, is the property of water. That is why it is so important and everything is based on it. Inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature exists only because of this. A person has to do something with himself to match the world around him. He is the opposite of it.

Question: We know that in ancient times people called for rain and prayed to the rain god. And what should they do now so that nature becomes merciful to them and gives them water?

Answer: I do not think prayer can make it rain. Let them try.

It is just that nature has to react normally. One act of man against one act of nature. That is, if man destroys nature through his actions, then nature will destroy man by her actions. That is all that is going to happen.

Comment: We see that such abnormal cases occur in southern countries. But now Europe is also suffering from the heat; temperatures are reaching more than 40 degrees Centigrade.

My Response: Europe, Russia, and Siberia will all suffer from the heat, and even more so than the southern countries.

Question: And what happens in the spiritual world? Is there a shortage of the light of Hassadim, the properties of bestowal and love?

Answer: People who enter the spiritual world must create the light of Hassadim themselves from their altruistic actions, from working on their egoism. Otherwise, they will not succeed.

Question: When they are organized in this way, what can this equivalent of water do in spirituality?

Answer: If they organize the light of Hassadim, then they will be able to receive any abundance based on it. Then life develops on its basis.

Question: How does this happen? Where does it come from?

Answer: The spiritual world has everything in abundance. It depends only on a person how to reveal the light of Hassadim and then attract the light of Hochma to it.

It depends only on the person, on his kind attitude to others and to nature.

Question: How can we connect these two entities: the spiritual component, where there is a lot of water, everything is saturated and nourished, and the depleted relationships, the depleted Earth without water, without the light of Hassadim in this world?

Answer: You cannot do anything with our world. It is a consequence of what we produce in the spiritual world. Therefore if we cannot be kind, good, and correspond to the higher world, then this is what we are supposed to do in our world. I do not see any prospects. No.

Unless people eventually realize that they need to listen to the calls of Kabbalists and actually engage in relationships with each other in order to truly become one benevolent family, then our globe simply cannot stand us and will lead to us disappearing from the face of the earth.

Question: Is there a recipe for such an acute situation?

Answer: There is. Tell all the people that everything depends only on their kind attitude toward each other. Otherwise we will die.

Question: If everyone turns around to face each other now, will it rain and the drought will disappear?

Answer: Yes, real life will begin.

Otherwise we will be forced to happiness with a stick. Otherwise you will not get anywhere. There is a certain time, a certain atmosphere, a certain behavior of people where it is possible to do all this. But if we cannot take advantage of it, then other problems happen and evil times come.

Question: What are your wishes for people who suffer from the heat?

Answer: To get smarter. We need to understand that we don’t need to pray for rain. We don’t need to do anything with nature or anything else. We need to ask the Creator to help us become wiser and begin to apply altruistic relationships between us. That is all.

Everything will depend on it because the property of rain, the property of Hassadim, is the good dependence of people on each other.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/23/19

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Question: Statistical studies show that a person with more friends has a greater chance of feeling happy. Why is that?

Answer: It would seem that friends should bring me even more trouble than happiness. After all, they pass their moods on to me, and I worry about everything that happens to them—good and bad. So I should actually be more upset because of them, since usually a person has more problems in life than joys.

But the point is that people tend to hide their problems and talk about their successes. Therefore, it seems to me that those around me live normally and prosperously. And even if others are not very happy, a shared misfortune is not as frightening. I see that others have the same problems as I do, and I no longer measure my condition against some ideal of happiness.

I understand that I am no worse off than others and that this is simply life. I accept this as a given and lower my standards to the general level accepted in society.

In addition, I see that commercial and industrial systems are built to make life easier for everyone. This is why we unite and create cities and factories. Together, it is easier to survive in this world, and we have more opportunities to enjoy life than each person on their own. Someone living as a hermit in a forest faces a very difficult existence, if they survive at all.

Clearly, connection among all of us benefits us. When problems arise, they become shared and are divided among everyone. By living in society, we learn from each other and take example from others. Therefore, the more I am included in society, the more support and sense of stability I can receive from it.

Everything bad and good that happens in life ultimately evens out. Even though in the end society may bring me more problems than good, these will be the same problems that everyone has, and so I will agree with them.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 242 – Happiness And Social Ties,” 10/17/13

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