Question: How can humanity create the balance that exists instinctively in nature but is absent in human beings?

Answer: A human being does not have an instinct for balance with nature. That is why he is given the opportunity to build human society on his own and through his efforts to attain the force of connection and the mind that enables him to reach balance.

Therefore fighting environmental pollution is useless because the main source of pollution is the human being who has entered a new era. If he does not take care of his own correction, then even a minimal disturbance, just a gram of improper inclusion into nature, throws the entire system of nature out of balance. And this is what we are only beginning to see now.

Humanity will not disappear, but until the very last moment any kind of catastrophe is possible: nature will drown us in the sea, freeze us, roast us with extreme heat, and burn us in wildfires.

Question: For many years, the United States conducted nuclear weapons testing on two atolls in the Pacific Ocean, after which they naturally became unfit for human habitation. But nature blossomed there extraordinarily like nowhere else. As a result, scientists concluded that the harm caused by human presence is worse than that from nuclear radiation. How can that be?

Answer: Nature knows how to heal the damage caused to it on lower levels, but of course even that has its limit. If the damage is too great, the changes will become irreversible.

Question: What kind of harm does a human being cause on the “human level”?

Answer: Man caused no harm at all until the last hundred years. All his harm lies in the fact that he is not in balance with nature, which is his obligation as its central element.

The main reason is not the mechanical harm done to nature, not that man burns it or dries it up, but the fact that we should have begun to bring ourselves into balance with nature from the time of the ARI, from the 15^th century, or at least from the time of Baal HaSulam, who defined that period as the “last generation.” Our inconsistency with the integral system of nature—this imbalance—is what causes all the disasters.

Of course, this does not mean that upon reaching balance with nature we would be allowed to pollute it, but we simply would not even think of harming nature, we would instinctively act correctly.

To be in balance with nature means to attain good, integral relationships between people—in thoughts, desires, and intentions—not to harm human society and the whole of general nature, as well as the higher system.

To be integral in thoughts means to perceive the entire system of nature as one organism. And in accordance with the proper connections between people, all the other levels—still, vegetative, and animate—rise up, become included in the general system, and are corrected together with the human being. Then there will be no catastrophes, and balance will be established in everything.

A very strict condition operates: “The individual and the collective are equal.” This means that one person can cause as much harm as all of humanity.
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From the Conversation 9/6/17, “Climate Cataclysms”

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Question: In 2017, Hurricane Irma was raging over the Caribbean islands; it was the most powerful in the history of the Atlantic to that point. The hurricane was rapidly approaching Florida when the evacuation of the population from the threat of destruction and flooding was announced.

At the same time, thousands of miles to the west, the situation was exactly the opposite; there was drought and intense heat, which led to extensive forest fires. What is happening to nature?

Answer: Everyone is talking about protecting the environment, that we must protect nature in its original form, to preserve the natural balance. In nature, one devours the other, and so a certain balance is maintained. Once man comes and distorts this balance, which affects animals and plants, even the earth begins to crack and dry out.

People have always thought we must protect nature, as if man stands apart from nature and must preserve its correct shape and balance between inanimate matter, plants, and animals. Over the past 50 to 60 years, great attention has been paid to environmental protection and it is believed that this would guarantees us a good life.

But the science of Kabbalah says that this is the wrong approach. Nature gets out of balance precisely because of man, who is not in balance with it. The reason is not that he pollutes nature, burns trees, plows the land, or pumps out water.

Man must also be part of the overall ecosystem. Humanity must change and become integral, like the whole of nature, and occupy and fill the cell assigned to us between the inanimate, plant, animal and human levels of the ecosystem.

That is, we are talking about correcting man himself. But no one ever talked about that. Everyone thought the main thing was not to spoil the inanimate, plant, and animate nature, and everything would be fine. All the efforts are being made for this, all organizations are focused only on how to burn less oil and pollute the environment less. But what about man?

By our lack of an integral approach to the general nature, we ourselves cause its greatest imbalance. In fact, the only reason is not man’s negative attitude toward nature, but his lack of inclusion in the general system.

In the general system, there is a special law according to which the individual and general are equal. This means the power of one uncorrected individual, not even his destructive actions, but of the inner attitude, is enough to ruin the entire system.

The individual and the general are equal is a harsh condition for being in an integrated system where we all found ourselves against our will. After all, it is enough for me to commit the tiniest wrongful action to upset my balance with the system by just one gram, but because of the integrality of the system, I produce millions of times more harm with my microscopic violation.

After all, my gram is multiplied by what is included in every element of the system. Therefore the harm is general.

We do not yet understand that the individual and general are equal means either zero or 100%, and there can be nothing in between. But we are developing in such a way that nature hides our true, integral participation in its system.

That is why we do not have much influence on nature. Like a merciful judge, it evaluates us according to our level of development. If nature had not protected us, we would have reached the point of complete destruction, not only of ourselves, but of the entire universe.

It is only through concealment that a certain protective buffer is formed. And although I am wrong about everything, I have little impact on nature. However, nature has already begun to change, starting with the last generation, which is a sign that it is time for us to correct our involvement.

The further we go, the more nature will remove the protective shield, the buffer between man and general nature. And we will have to become integrated in consciousness, the heart, in perception, in all actions: physical, mental, internal in our relations with each other, and in relation to the whole system, until we achieve complete adhesion with it.

You can call it merging with nature or with the upper force, but we have to do it. We need to understand that we are in a classroom. Nature, or the Creator, teaches us and will teach us very concisely and quickly. This can happen through nuclear explosions, hurricanes, fires, or epidemics.

Nature has many ways to bring humanity to reason so that it understands that it must be balanced, and in full harmony with nature, like the inanimate, vegetative, and animate world.

Rocks, plants, and animals do not have the intelligence to go against nature; they act according to their instincts. But we humans, with all our evil, must act the same way animals act instinctively to achieve the same level of conformity to nature.

How is this possible if we do not have such instincts?! This is why we need the upper force to balance our evil. And the upper force is revealed only within our connection.
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From the Conversation 9/6/17, “Climate Cataclysms”

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Comment: Many insect species are declining, are endangered, or have disappeared altogether. Scientists say that their decline can lead to a catastrophic collapse. The loss of insects impacts plants, animals, and humans negatively. The number of cockroaches, flies, and other pests, they write will increase.

My Response: The Earth is gradually dying out.

Comment: Bees are disappearing. They say this is the basis of what will be bad.

My Response: Sure, because bees are necessary in the process of reproduction of the plant world. This is a problem!

Question: Is it possible to stop this by scientific methods, as they are trying to do now?

Answer: No, you cannot do that. There is no way. Make artificial bees?

Question: So you do not believe the “robot bees” or robotic pollinators will work?

Answer: I do not believe in any of the tricks of man in which they invest billions. I do not believe that that can help stop the moral decline of humanity, the decline of humanity in its relationship to each other, and help humanity survive. Humanity is moving toward a state where it is burying itself.

On the contrary, all these scientific tricks confuse us. If they did not exist, we would have wondered what we should do a long time ago.

Question: So they give hope?

Answer: Yes. We shift all this to science, and believe that we will put billions more dollars into them and everything will be fine. They will come up with everything for us, and we will continue to rest on our laurels. It will not work.

We must understand that only our changing toward the world, toward ourselves and between us will make the world integral and restore everything that is necessary for the proper integral development of nature. Nature is a closed system, and if we violate the integrity in this system, no one can make up for it.

Question: Even if we violate with our thoughts, not only with our actions?

Answer: Of course! But the thing is, we are still hoping and thinking: “We will build greenhouses. One greenhouse can replace a million hectares of land. And everything will be fine. We do not need anything in the greenhouse. We will pollinate them. We will do something.”

Comment: By the way, there are such proposals.

My Response: Yes, of course, I understand them. But it will not work! Nature acts very wisely. It has to bring us to a certain state so that we can change. We have changed! We did not just fix what we messed up, we have to change! And we do not want that.

We do everything. We continue to spread all over the world, we try to conquer nature, we try to fill our egoism in some way, and in the end no one is happy.

Comment: All of humanity respects scientists, Nobel laureates, and professors who conduct various studies and invent something. But when I talk to you, I always have the feeling that they are all like children. They do not understand the main thing.

My Response: I welcome science only in the form in which it allows us to see the integrality of nature, where everything is closed, everything is interdependent. A sense of the integrality and harmony of nature is very important for a person. Based on this, he himself begins to strive for harmony and for integration.

Therefore we need to talk about these achievements and these conclusions, and we need to take them from science, and thus bring them into human society. All other scientific achievements will not bring any happiness to a person in the end.

Comment: And are all the conclusions that it is possible to come to something scientifically untenable?

My Response: It will only eventually lead to a state where you will be forced to change yourself.

Question: What can be done to prevent insects from disappearing so that the ecology is normal?

Answer: Just explaining to people that each one is an integral being and must bring oneself to the right interaction with nature. And then we will see, as the Bible says, that everything, absolutely all animals, plants, and inanimate nature come into harmony, following man. “And the wolf and the lamb will live peacefully, and a little boy will shepherd them.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/30/24

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Question: There are people who study Kabbalah who have previously tried many paths, including drugs. But when they come to study Kabbalah, most of them automatically stop using them. Does it turn out that this is a side effect of Kabbalah? In theory, does it cure drug addiction?

Answer: Yes, Kabbalah works precisely as a side effect. After all, it affects only the person who wants to study it, who finds a purpose in life, but at the same time his body pulls him toward drug-related fulfillment. And then an internal struggle arises in him as a result of which he leaves drugs. But there are those who are unable to overcome it.

I do not keep track of my students. I am completely indifferent to what a student is like, what he comes to me with. These can be people with any inclinations, with any distortions. Today, all of this is generally considered the norm. So I do not look and do not delve into it. I am not interested in it.

It is said in Kabbalah that it is a remedy for all the problems of humanity caused by our egoism. And since it cures egoism, it should cure almost everything—from common illnesses to all kinds of distortions that exist in our time and are already accepted as the norm.

I teach Kabbalah, and to the extent that people adapt to it and are able to apply it, it affects them.

I had a severe ulcer and other problems. I suffered a clinical death, with great losses of internal organs, and saw how all this gets restored; how the more a person advances in Kabbalah, the younger, more vigorous, stronger, and more resilient one becomes, because the person is supported by the fact that one is dealing with the upper force, with the light.

This is not just some kind of personal faith, but a real upper energy. I feel it in myself. It does not let you do foolish things or strive for unnecessary achievements in this life in order to become, for example, a great athlete or someone else. But this energy gives you the opportunity to function day after day for many years, to lead people toward something exalted.

That is, Kabbalah is indeed a source of great power. I think that by studying it, humanity will see how it is cured of all problems.

Baal HaSulam writes at the end of the “Introduction to the Book of Zohar” that all the problems in the world: murder, theft, drugs, terror, diseases, mutual hatred, betrayal, family discord, problems with children, basically everything that separates us from perfection by even a single gram,—all of this is born out of our egoism. Only Kabbalah is capable of correcting it and bringing us to absolute perfection, eternity, and peace.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Kabbalah and drugs” 8/27/10

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Question: Are there any well-known scientists today who assert in their research that the upper force exists?

Answer: There are many such scientists. We are in contact with them and try to show how, through research of nature and research of the inner world of man, we come to the same result: that there is an upper force above us with certain properties, which apparently has a specific purpose in relation to us, and we should check our reactions with this.

And what is happening to us now is happening because we do not have the correct connection with this force and because we do not comply with the laws established by it in nature.

Today there are enough people in the world with education, titles, and status both in society and in science who can state this in a way that it can be heard.

And on the other hand, we who are engaged in the science of Kabbalah can add to everything they have said. We can add confirmation from Kabbalah to all their discoveries in quantum physics, in the study of biological forms of life, or in the study of the psychological nature of man. Kabbalah explains why this happens at all levels of nature: still, vegetative, animate. Kabbalah adds explanations together with them, and in opposition to them. In this way, we clarify things to such an extent that they will be easy and convincing for the general public.

This is from the human side. But from the side of the upper force, since we still do not fulfill its will, we are of course facing even worse states ahead. For it is known that blows purify a person, and then he becomes sensitive enough to understand and hear that these blows depend on something he does not understand and for which he does not see a reason. And since he wants to get rid of them, he will want to find the cause even though it is hidden.

Thus we come to a certain stage where we explain, together with scientists and with specialists who will actually be able to present our explanation, the “means to avoid blows.” On the other hand, society is already in a state where it wants to hear: “It does not matter what the solution is; just give it!” It is like a sick person who demands medicine just to get rid of the problem. This process is very rational.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: You say that there is a general law in the world. Let’s say I have never heard of it, and my own life is a mess. How can I understand and agree that there is a law behind all this? Can it be studied somehow?

Answer: We know this law “from the reverse side.” The only question is: How much longer will we have to suffer before we acknowledge it exists and that no matter what we do, nothing worthwhile comes of it.

Why is that? It means we do not see the full picture of reality; we are missing its most essential part. Our lack of understanding, perception, and connection with this part is the cause of all our failures. That is where the need arises within us to discover what we are missing.

This missing part of reality is called the upper force. If we become familiar with it, we will understand what to do. If not, we will continue to suffer even more.

The approach here is entirely pragmatic; there is no need for lofty words. It is simply about survival, about preventing total destruction.

Baal HaSulam writes that all of humanity could be reduced to just a few thousand people and they could fulfill everything that is required. This is not about bodies; that is obvious. Millions of souls can exist within a single body. All of this is highly flexible.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam, The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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The correct attitude toward reality is a much more advanced stage. After all, simply knowing that the world is structured in a certain way and that each person has their own function and their own goal that they must achieve in some form, this knowledge itself, after having come to each person, will begin to organize the entire world in the correct way.

We will see to what extent all matter, all actions, and everything that happens in the world aligns with the forces that truly operate within it. The forces acting in the world are 100% the forces of the Creator.

It is only human disagreement that causes the entire world—still, vegetative, animate, and especially speaking—to not be in equivalence of form with the intention of the Creator toward creation. This results in a terrible feeling for the human being who finds themselves in this world.

Why specifically the human in this world? Because only people in this world, and especially in our time, and particularly us, are obligated to freely choose how to relate correctly to reality.

The problem is that we view the world as a mass of matter, yet we forget that matter is merely the final, lowest, inanimate result that rests upon intention, upon attitude. You see, the more concealed the forces are, the stronger they are. If we begin to pay even a little attention to relationships, we will see how, through them, we change everything, including matter itself.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: According to statistics, a significant portion of Americans feel overwhelmed by the abundance of news. Seven out of ten Americans (68%) say: “We are fed up with the news; it is too much for us; we feel bad because of it.”

Is a person unable to just disconnect? Just turn off the news?

Answer: No, they cannot. I know this, and I feel this pressure too. One has to actively resist and turn off the news.

Question: How can an ordinary person free himself from this pressure?

Answer: Sift through the day’s news, and you will be left with, at most, two or three small pieces of actual news. Everything else is just filler.

Question: What is this phenomenon that the world pushes itself into a person and forces its way inside him?

Answer: I think this is already starting to burn out.

Question: And what will come next?

Answer: I hope it will be the question about the meaning of life because it is this question that drives this whole revolution.

Question: So will we eventually come to deeper communication with each other?

Answer: No. We will not get to this communication in a natural way. It is very threatening to our egoism; it pressures and obliges it. That is why I do not believe that connection or communication is our near future. It is our distant future. Only when we realize that we cannot go on like this anymore will we move toward connection in a very special way.

Question: Then where do you find the strength to spread the wisdom of Kabbalah even though you keep saying that one way or another, we must reach unity and connection?

Answer: You are thinking like an old-school materialist who believes that he has to lead humanity to happiness through his slogans.

I know it will happen in a completely different way. A small group of people, moved by an inner spark, will create proper relationships among themselves and through nature’s internal structure will influence all of humanity. And all of humanity will begin to resemble them, without even realizing it.

This small group will become like the head, the brain of humanity. As they change, all of humanity will follow them automatically, like a shadow.

Question: So you claim that all responsibility lies on this small group?

Answer: Yes. Good luck!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/28/24

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We are now at a point in time when the world is ready to embrace the method of spiritual correction. If such thoughts and awareness are awakening in the world( as we have seen recently), it is a clear sign that the world is indeed ready.

If, under the pressure of suffering and the question of life’s meaning, people begin to ask “What is the point of the Jewish people’s existence?”, then the answer to that can also begin to be understood.

Humanity is now undergoing very deep, powerful processes. The thoughts circulating around the world, especially in a world interconnected through modern communication, are once again leading to the mixing of Reshimot from the time of the breaking of the vessels.

What is happening today? The world will soon unite around the idea that there is a certain nation, as Haman once said, that interferes with everyone, and that the solution is simply to eliminate it.

This idea will soon become fashionable. Every “cultured” person will begin to speak of it in a respectable, acceptable way, and present himself as understanding the real structure of the world and identifying the source of its evil.

He will express his desire to fix the world, to make it better, by surgically removing the “evil” from it. This will appear very clear, very rational, very scientific, supported by historical and philosophical arguments, and it will be presented as something real and correct.

After all, the Germans were also the most cultured and developed nation at the time of the Holocaust. And that was not by chance. That is how this entire philosophy developed, though it is not new; it has existed since the time of the destruction of the temple.

So if such questions arise: “What is the cause, and what is the answer?”, it means the world is now more ready to hear.
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From the 1^st part from the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Comment: According to statistics, when someone attacks another person and sees signs of weakness, the attacker often feels an even greater urge to harm them.

My Response: Naturally, that is our egoism. When we see someone else’s weakness and we are confident that we will not be punished, we instinctively desire to suppress them even more.

We are very easily drawn to extremes, either one way or the other. It all depends on society, on the environment, which can influence us in either direction. It is an enormous force that resides within us, a terrifying force!

Right now, we are at a pivotal point in historical development where we can turn one way or the other. We could slide back into fascism, only this time, it would be far worse culminating in a world war of such magnitude that only a small remnant of humanity would survive, which is a scenario like those shown in Hollywood films: a destroyed Earth, with the remaining people living among heaps of metal and junk, the last remnants of everything that once existed.

Kabbalah says this is possible. Still, the people who remain will fulfill their task of bringing egoism to its corrected form. But this will happen through immense suffering.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Homosexuality and Kabbalah” 9/2/10

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