Question: There were many athletes like Brumel or Yuri Vlasov, for example, who after terrible injuries and illnesses would get back up and overcome their fate. When the Creator tests a person for strength? What is the purpose of this?

Answer: All of this is deposited into the common treasury of the collective soul of all humanity. Such people add a great deal to humanity through their destiny.

Question: What do they help humanity understand?

Answer: They raise humanity closer to the Creator.

Question: Even though they themselves sort of…

Answer: It does not matter how they personally relate to it. I am not saying they are some kind of saints. They simply raise the bar of the human being higher toward the Creator.

But I am not in favor of suffering. There are many similar examples where people choose suffering and think that through it, they rise. This is not correct.

Question: Then the natural question in such cases, and others too is “What does it mean not to suffer?”

Answer: If you clearly understand and you have the right conditions where your suffering makes someone else’s correction or progress easier, then yes. But if it is only in your imagination…

Comment: You have raised the bar now. You said: “If my suffering eases someone’s life, and fate, and soul.” You did not say “me,” but “someone else.”

My Response: Someone else, of course.

Question: “Of course!” That is high! So, it is if my suffering serves as an example for someone and I do it for the sake of the example, to show that it’s possible, to encourage them to try?

Answer: Yes.

Question: That is lofty!

You always speak about annulling before fate, before what the Creator decides. When you say this, what exactly do you mean?

Answer: I mean that I reasonably agree with what stands before me.

Question: Even with my illnesses and so on?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Do I say: “This is from You, and it is necessary for me.” Like that?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What happens then with my pain, with my suffering?

Answer: Agreeing with it creates tranquility within a person. He agrees with his fate, he agrees with the Creator, he agrees to accept everything that is allotted to him according to his destiny.

Question: Is it like an analgesic?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this called “annulment”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And one must reach this?

Answer: I believe so.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/22/25

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Question: Why is it easier to endure personal misfortunes when you have friends?

Answer: When I am connected with friends, my personal problem is shared among us. If there is truly a strong bond between us and they support me by sharing my sorrow, then it is distributed among all of us.

This is precisely the meaning of visiting the sick. We tend to think that people visit the sick just to check on them, to talk with them, to bring them apples and oranges, but there is a much deeper meaning. Such a visit can actually ease the illness because we share the suffering of the friend and give him our strength.

We are all connected in one system regardless of the fact that each of us exists in a separate body. If we are connected, then all our systems connect: intellectual, emotional, and many others that we do not yet know about.

As a result, we create a shared system of connections between people, and in truth it is much greater than we imagine. Illness is a kind of malfunction in my personal system that makes me feel ill. But when my friends who are connected with me come to visit with the intention of deepening the connection, they enter my damaged system and take part in it.

If two friends come to visit me, then my malfunction is divided among the three of us. It does not yet divide evenly, but it should if we are strongly, properly, and correctly connected. We will clearly feel how we take on the other’s pain, and give the sick person our own joy and happiness in return.

Question: So if someone tells me about their problem, does it make it easier?

Answer: If there is no connection between you, this has practically no effect. Yet we know that hearing good or bad news can influence a person strongly, either lift their mood or depress them.

But if this is my friend, then we are connected as if we exist within one body. Therefore when he comes to visit me during an illness, the defect in my system is transmitted to him, and it becomes easier for me.

It is precisely because we are separated by bodies, but able to connect on a sensory level, that a friend can help heal my illness, as if taking part of it into himself. He takes a portion of the imbalance from my system and equalizes it within his own.

He eases my suffering simply by performing a good and correct action, and takes this unbalanced part onto himself with love. And besides that, his healthy system can absorb this fragment of another’s illness precisely because it is not inherently his. He takes part of the illness, isolates it within himself, and heals it within his own subsystem.

Question: Does this happen unconsciously?

Answer: Usually it happens unconsciously, but there are people on a higher level who can see how it occurs.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 242 – Happiness And Social Ties,” 10/17/13

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There is a special phenomenon in the influence of society on a person. If I face a problem together with a large society, it is divided among everyone and I do not feel that I am alone with it. If I were to fall ill with a rare and severe disease, I would be terribly anxious. But if it is an epidemic and everyone around is sick, then it is not as frightening.

The trouble is instantly shared with the entire society where I am simply one among all. Therefore, my fear is no longer the full fear of the problem itself, but it is divided among everyone else, reduced to one millionth. This happens regardless of my desire, because I am connected with others in one system. So, my relative part in the common trouble is only one millionth.

This does not mean that the trouble will not happen to me, it will happen. But the feeling of fear and threat is divided among everyone in the perception of people. To the extent that I am connected with others, I worry less about hardships.

But if joy comes, it does not decrease when shared by all. Because joy is felt together with everyone. Misfortune is felt within oneself, but joy is felt outside, between us. The benevolent force that created the entire world acts on everyone and is not divided. If joy comes, everyone rejoices in full measure.

Moreover, shared joy increases the joy of each one. For example, news comes of victory in a war. That joy is not divided by a million, leaving me with one millionth of happiness. On the contrary, it is multiplied by a million, and I feel joy a million times greater! I go out into the street, see everyone celebrating, and I am filled with happiness, completely differently than if I were alone at home.

The force of unity has a unique, wondrous quality. It divides misfortune among all, while multiplying joy and happiness among all. This follows from the very source of creation, from the fact that we emerged from the point of the Big Bang, from one single force.

Therefore, today we reveal that all of nature is one system. The closer we come to this force, the more we resemble the unified system of nature, the more we gain, and we gain greatly, instead of one millionth, we get one multiplied by a million!

If, through integral education, we learned to use this correctly, we would attain the pinnacle of happiness.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 242 – Happiness And Social Ties,” 10/17/13

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Question: Is it possible to alleviate a friend’s illness by taking part of it upon oneself? And how can I transfer a feeling of happiness to a friend?

Answer: If my system is higher than yours, it is more filled with happiness because it exists on a higher level of life and balance. Therefore, when you are in despair, it can pass some of its energy to you, a measure of happiness, to the extent that an inner connection exists between us.

From that higher system, you appear like a small child; it is greater than you because happiness is higher than dissatisfaction in its level of awareness and value. It doesn’t even matter what makes a person happy; it may be something very simple.

Question: How do we actually transmit happiness to one another: through words, feelings, thoughts?

Answer: We can transmit happiness even without any of these; it all depends on the level of our connection: inanimate, vegetative, animate, or human. Happiness flows from a higher system into a lower one depending on the quality of our connection and on how much, at that moment, I am able to annul myself before my friend.

All people are connected with everyone. We don’t need to build this connection or cut it off. We are already tied into one network, like neurons in the brain or like cells in a single body.

The whole universe is one system. The only question is how much we humans recognize this and wish to reveal, enliven, and strengthen this connection between us and all parts of creation. But the connection already exists. The degree to which we become aware of this connection determines the measure of our friendship.

Question: On whom does it depend whether my friend’s happiness will flow into me—on him or on me?

Answer: It requires mutuality; it cannot be done one-sidedly. You must at least slightly open yourself to such a transfer with respect to the friend. Suppose your grief is so great that you completely close off inside yourself and separate from others, then you cannot absorb anything from them.

Question: What does it mean to open myself to the influence of a friend?

Answer: It means to love him as yourself. This is about a true heart-to-heart connection where we do not feel ourselves as separate bodies or foreign systems, but feel so close as if we were one whole.

Our two systems become so intertwined that they function as one. Our connection is limitless; an infinite flow of information, feelings, and thoughts pass between us. These are two systems, but they are linked in the closest possible way.

Question: How should I open myself to a friend for his positive influence?

Answer: In the same way an infant behaves in its mother’s arms, completely annulling itself before her. The infant knows nothing about itself and understands nothing; it is tuned only to absorb everything from its mother. This is why babies develop so quickly; we transmit everything we have to them.

We not only pass on tender words and smiles, but energy, our attitude. A baby absorbs this energy through thousands of sensors it possesses.

We must become like infants, completely annulling ourselves, with all our problems, in relation to the influence of our friends. Then they will be able to transfer their happiness to us as much as they wish. Unlike misfortune, happiness does not decrease when shared; it only grows. The more we make others happy, the happier we become.

The energy of happiness has no limits. To the extent that we can give and fill others, we will feel an even greater desire and capacity to do so in ourselves. After all, in this way we connect to the source of the Big Bang’s energy, to the upper force that created and sustains the entire universe.

Question: Then according to this, people who work in service of others should be very happy. Why don’t we see this?

Answer: Because they give against their will, and therefore they constantly feel drained. A mother, however, who loves her baby, may become physically tired, but she never tires of caring for him or loving him.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 242 – Happiness And Social Ties,” 10/17/13

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Question: Is it true that if we didn’t do harm to others, we wouldn’t get sick?

Answer: Of course! There would be no illnesses, nothing. That is the root of everything.

Question: At the same time, you say that with our nature, it is also impossible to do good to another?

Answer: Impossible.

Question: Then please, lead us out of this dead end. What should we do?

Answer: Well, let us dream a little.

Suppose we invented a virus that would somehow “bite” all of us, and we would begin to feel that we are all the closest of relatives. Like brothers and sisters who simply feel themselves as one whole.

Comment: Meaning, we ourselves can’t do anything, but if a virus came…

My Response: Maybe we can at least want it a little. That is our main task.

For this first we must see who we are today and not deny the bad that exists, not reconcile with it. We need to try to understand that there can be an absolutely opposite quality. Because in nature, all qualities exist in pairs, opposite to one another.

If we truly desire it, then this inversion might happen to us.

Question: But it must happen?

Answer: I think yes. Because nature always manifests itself in two opposite qualities. Therefore, I think that after our current state, when we reach the breaking point, as they say, there will be a reversal, a kind of phase shift.

Comment: And we will begin to understand that everything was created by love and must lead to love.

My Response: It will happen above us, that is, outside of us. It will act upon us in such a way that we will change, become absolutely opposite, loving to the extreme.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/21/25

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Comment: Extremely high percentages of employees have encountered symptoms of professional burnout, feeling exhausted and irritable, indifferent toward their work, and lack confidence in their professional abilities and some have complained of frequent headaches and insomnia caused by work-related stress.

There is a belief that if these problems were openly discussed and addressed that many of these types of difficulties could be avoided.

People who clearly suffer from burnout syndrome tend to be unmotivated and passive. They lack orientation toward results and are difficult to work with since they are not geared toward constructive problem-solving and problems only worsen when they are involved.

My Response: An unfulfilled ego can only be temporarily pacified through rewards, vacations, talking about problems, etc. because there is no real solution to this issue on the level of our world. The ego has reached its natural limit of growth, and nothing can satisfy it anymore. When we try to further stimulate it, it just spins its wheels.

In the end, there will be only one way out: to change its job from filling itself to fulfilling others.

Changing ourselves on our own is impossible, but the force that created us can change what it has made. And it is ready to do so, but only at our request so that we may thereby establish contact with it.
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From KabTV’s “Work and Health” 6/25/12

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Comment: The economic downturn is hitting not only people’s pockets but also their mental well-being. Workers are plagued with depression and severe stress. Absences due to illness is pretty high as well. Stress is a normal phenomenon of the body that is necessary for its development and protection. However, if stress becomes chronic, we have no time to recover, and exhaustion sets in. The immune system is the first to suffer from stress.

My Response: But it is stress and depression that will trigger the need for true healing and the search for a good, comfortable feeling as more important rather than profit or power. The desire for simple peace of mind will lead people to understand true values. They can be achieved only by universal rapprochement, by creating a positive overall environment.

The fatigue of competition and the senselessness of profits will manifest itself in everyone and define a new kind of existence for the sake of attaining the root of life, rising to a new level of sensation of nature, its eternity and harmony. This is how nature leads us to our goal through suffering.
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Comment: Sometimes people have bad genetics. But scientists have invented molecular scissors that can be used to cut off the bad hereditary information so that it does not affect subsequent generations. A defective gene can be cut out, and the person is different: he does not get sick, his character even changes.

My Response: I believe that all this needs to be critically checked. Naturally, we will face a lot of problems here because all diseases actually bring health. They heal, if not the person who dies from it, then at least humanity is freed from it.

Just as wolves, eating other animals, are the “orderlies” of the forest, so are the diseases that are directed at us. If there weren’t such problems, there would already be who knows how many billions of people, no matter what we do. We would only build more and more hospitals and homes for the elderly.

We must understand that nature will do it in its own way anyway, but we are trying to do it through our own means, and nature, the supreme government, does it through its own.

And all these inventions of scientists are given to us from the same natural program. But, in general, we still need to check how rational it will be.

The fact is that we do not understand the laws of nature and to what extent we are given and what exactly to correct ourselves, and to what extent nature itself will correct us in accordance with this, and instead other problems, other diseases will appear. We just don’t see the connection between them.

Let’s say there is going to be a cold snap or warming, or other problems, maybe a war, and another couple billion people will die from it. This may be due to the fact that we will tweak our genes and try to make ourselves healthy.

That is, it’s still a closed picture. That is why you can’t do what you want to do: you heal in one place, you cripple in another.

Question: If this were done by a Kabbalist who feels the law of nature, the forces governing the universe, and the connections that exist between us, how would he do it?

Answer: He wouldn’t do it. He would teach people how to influence the root of their lives, the root of their problems, so that they would correct it there and not with the help of molecular scissors at such an insignificant ancient level. Why would I cut off some chromosomes and rearrange all sorts of genes?! Why do I need this?

I know in advance that all these manipulations will come out of the way in something else anyway. You can’t mess with nature; it won’t work! She will definitely do something else. All the same, you will have to come to construct yourself in a new way with the help of an upper force in accordance with the higher government and with God’s example.

Question: What would a Kabbalist doctor do?

Answer: It would be only to reach the highest stage of a person’s inner development and from the inner development would come all the rest of the external, and as a result, human health.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/18/17

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Health is a person’s balance with nature.

Comment: From the perspective of Kabbalah, health is defined as the measure of a person’s connection with the general system of nature or with the Creator. From this, it follows that in order to be healthy, one must learn correct interactions between people in society, study the laws of nature, and bring oneself into balance with them.

This is essentially identical to the definition of health given by the World Health Organization in the 1940s: “Health is a state of complete physical, spiritual, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or physical defects.” Later, they added an economic factor.

My Response: That is, if everything is balanced, then health is also balanced.

Question: The same organization says that human health depends 10% on healthcare, 20% on heredity, 20% on the quality of the environment, and 50% is determined by lifestyle.

If we remove genetics from the equation, then everything else depends on society, which completely determines a person’s health condition, except for heredity.

In addition, they say that in 32–40% of cases, the causes of physical diseases and ailments are mental states, traumas, stresses, and conflicts.

I would like to understand the causes of this. How is it all interconnected?

Answer: In principle, Kabbalah says the same thing.

Naturally, if we achieve complete balance between a person and himself, with the surrounding world, ecology, and society, then his health will also balance.

And how does one balance oneself? It means to understand that all signals directed at a person descend from the upper force, the general force of nature. If he can correctly align himself with these forces, then naturally he will constantly feel comfortable.

Then his health will become as ideal as possible, given that there still exists such a parameter as heredity. But even that can, in principle, be corrected.

The same applies to the influence of the environment, although today we have not yet brought it into balance, into a correct state in relation to us. But overall, it is possible.

Comment: As for heredity, if today we invested money in genetics instead of in armaments, we could, in principle, easily identify all our ailments already in childhood and modify these genes.

My Response: If we stopped spending money on weapons and on the production of cosmetics, we would immediately feel like we were in paradise.

These are two enormous expense items. Humanity is simply killing itself to fill them. Because of this, we lack many of the resources needed to make our lives comfortable and successful.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah” 12/27/19

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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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