Question: Scientists have established and confirmed the following through many experiments: “When you are close to someone you care about, your breathing and heartbeat can synchronize. This is how connection is established between a baby and his or her relatives, and between those who sing in a choir. When someone you care about is not feeling well, you can just hold their hand, and it will alleviate their suffering.”

Do you believe it?

Answer: There is nothing to believe; it is so.

Question: Is that how it works?

Answer: Yes, that is how it works.

Question: What is the basis of such miracles?

Answer: Why are they miracles?

Comment: Medicine would not work, but I take a man by the hand, and suddenly he begins to synchronize.

My Response: Your inner energies begin to flow into him through tactile contact and regulate him.

Question: How does this work? Does he tune into me? The same heartbeat?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: There is a very important point here, mentioned twice: it is a “loved one.”

My Response: A loved one can be in spirit, in temperament, or in inner connection.

Question: But if he is not close to me, can I work this way with a person?

Answer: No, it is unlikely.

Question: So, closeness really matters?

Answer: Right.

Question: So, if we want to help a person who is ill, do I first need to tune myself to seeing him as someone close to me? Is it possible to tune yourself to feel close to another in order to help him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How does this system work? How do I tune myself?

Answer: You have to feel his inner world, where he is out of balance, and try to influence him to come back to a state of balance.

Question: So are you putting the main responsibility on me now?

Answer: You are the healthy one. Well then, it is on you to do this. He can only do one thing—comply. This is not easy. But the rest of it is dictated by you.

Comment: That is, if a person asks for help, my job is to feel close to him.

My Response: To support him!

Question: Is this my job? He has to do nothing but ask.

Answer: I would say so.

Question: These are tough times for humanity, difficult. It is hard on the masses. In order to help them and bring them out of this state somehow, what should we do?

Answer: This is a problem. What can we do? To bring them out of this state is hardly for the best.

If they were put into this state, it is for a reason. We need to think how to bring them to the best state, and getting out of the descent they are in may not be the best course of action.

Question: So it is not about giving a warm hug or making someone feel good; rather, it can even be an affront?

Answer: It can be. We cannot understand this yet.

Comment: Both you and the science of Kabbalah keep saying the world is suffering. The science of Kabbalah came to help people in some way.

My Response: Precisely.

Question: To help us get out of suffering or to rise above it?

Answer: It is to rise out of suffering. Kabbalah offers us the possibility to rise by reaching out to each other and supporting each other. We do not need anything else. Only by mutual help can we lift each other up and rise together.

Question: Is this the whole science? What is hard about it?

Answer: Loving your neighbor as yourself.

Question: That is it?

Answer: That is it. Here is where we close the curtain and turn off the lights.

Comment: A person still thinks he can somehow come to this in some way.

My Response: I think not. The more I live, the more I am sure a person cannot come to this on his own.

Question: What should one do to come to “love your neighbor as yourself?”

Answer: A person must at least realize that if not for rapprochement with others, not to mention voluntarily, with one’s eyes closed, and moving toward each other as in the dark—if we do not act this way, we are all doomed.

Question: Should one suppress all resistance to such an attitude toward others? All his ego, everything he lives by?

Answer: Absolutely! That is the only way.

Comment: And the science of Kabbalah seems to say that is when the moment will come, when you rise above suffering.

My Response: Yes.

Question: But will we ever reach this?

Answer: It depends on what kind of suffering we go through. We can do it sooner or later.

Question: Is suffering the main thing here?

Answer: Suffering will force us.

Comment: That is not very optimistic.

My Response: I have never been particularly optimistic.

Comment: You have been even less optimistic about humanity lately.

My Response: I am not optimistic about humanity at all.

Comment: But you always say: “Through suffering.”

My Response: Only!

Comment: So we only understand pain.

My Response: By the stick to happiness

Question: Can we not act before then, before the bullet, before the stick?

Answer: No.

Question: Then what does this science offer?

Answer: It explains the natural laws of nature and man’s role in it. Therefore, we cannot blame nature. Blame yourself.

Question: If I learn it, will it let me act ahead of the stick or a bullet?

Answer: In the measure you want it, it will let you.

Question: So it depends on me now? I have been given a tool and it depends on me. Is it still possible to act before suffering?

Answer: Even right now!

Comment: You have just changed your angle. You said that suffering basically pushes a person.

My Response: Well, if today’s suffering is enough for you already, you can run from it toward correction and achieve the best state.

Question: So the measure is important, to be able to say: “That is enough, I have had it,” right?

Answer: Right.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/27/23

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Natasha writes:

Hello, dear Michael Laitman! It is very important for me to know your opinion. The fact is that my niece, who is only 18 years old, is dying of cancer. And yesterday the doctors told us that she is to die in about one month.

Throughout her illness, the whole family supported her and told her that everything would be fine and that she would overcome everything. But now the doctors have pronounced their verdict, and she will be gone in a month. I do not know what to tell her. I really do not know. I will be standing in front of her, she will look me in the eye, and I will have to say something. What should I say?

My Response: You should say that there is nothing worse than this world, and all of us will eventually move to another world and it will be better there. A person will meet this with understanding and relief.

Question: So you think this girl already understands inside her that she will leave?

Answer: Of course she understands it.

Question: In the case that she understands it, or in any case?

Answer: She will understand it. This will remain inside her. And she will accept this departure as a good transition to a better state. It is not a lie, not at all. On the contrary, you alleviate a person’s last suffering here in this world. And let her go.

Comment: That is, this world is not the best one.

My Response: It is the worst one.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/20/23

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To reveal the Creator, it is necessary to fulfill the commandment “Love your neighbor” because thus we coincide with Him in properties.

And when the Creator reveals himself to a person, he can directly fulfill all 613 commandments on a spiritual level. These are the laws of communication because we cannot be in touch with the Creator if we do not feel Him.

Nevertheless, in our world, as a consequence of root and branch, there are also some specific actions that sometimes we can perform and sometimes not depending on the historical period.

Question: Why is it that what we must do is called a commandment and not an action?

Answer: Because these actions were commanded to us. Kabbalists who feel the upper world (the world of forces and influences on us) combine these forces into one common whole, into one system, and call it a commandment. And “It is commanded” because we, as people, must fulfill 613 commandments.

These are the laws of a higher nature.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/21/23

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Question: If I have some kind of problem that lasts a very long time, related, say, to my health, I concentrate on myself and break away from the ten.

What should I do in this case? Do I accept it as the best from the Creator and ask for the strength to cope with it? Or ask the Creator so that my friends will not have such situations?

Answer: No, get incorporated in your friends and arrange yourself among them so that you are not visible. Melt into them, and you will see how it will affect you, your problems, and everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/4/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “From Lo Lishma, We Come to Lishma“

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Question: In the 70s of the last century the problem with AIDS emerged, before that there was a problem with cancer. And nowadays, even infants get cancer. How is this possible, considering that typically there should be some accumulative period for a person?

Answer: What kind of cumulative period can we talk about if all this enters the newborn from the bodies of the mother and father and has been happening for years and generations.

Moreover, it seems to us that this occurs at some biological or even genetic level. In reality, these are problems of a spiritual nature, because we are becoming increasingly disharmonious with nature. Hence, the cause of all diseases is that we are not in balance with the surrounding nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Causes of cancer and AIDS…” 10/29/13

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Question: Benjamin writes:

As long as I can remember I have been in pain! Pain when I was beaten in the courtyard. Pain for the dog that was poisoned by neighbors. Pain that I cannot take revenge. Pain from divorce. Pain, pain… All of life is pain! Is it really impossible to live without pain? Is it possible not to feel pain?

Answer: No, it is not possible to be without it. Each of us feels pain, and everyone has their own reasons for it and their own memories. We cannot do anything about it until the full correction of the world.

Question: And why is such pain given to a person—until he screams?

Answer: It is so that a person realizes that he must break away from it. Pain helps us. Just like pain during illness. It indicates that something is wrong with you, and that is why you rush to the healers. Otherwise, you would put your hand in the fire and sit calmly while it burns.

Question: In other words, our destiny is to be in pain?

Answer: Yes. Pain is a very good quality, a sense of malfunction in a person.

Question: Are you even suggesting now that it is possible to try to love pain?

Answer: To love, I do not know to what extent to love, but to love the manifestation of pain that pushes you toward healing.

Question: And how can I come to conclusion during the pain that it is a correction, that it is pushing me? Here he talks about inner pain, and about soul pain, and about such pain… He combined everything.

Answer: Any kind of pain.

Question: Are you also combining everything into one pain?

Answer: Absolutely, it does not matter whatsoever. And then you start to feel that this pain is for your own sake.

Question: How can you draw the right conclusions during pain? When you are in pain, you only feel pain.

Answer: All you feel is pain, but you begin to understand that it is meant to remind you that you are not okay, that you have to do something to get rid of it. In other words, pain is designed to get rid of pain. And this is your salvation.

Question: Then the question is: how to actually get rid of it?

Answer: Discover the cause of the pain and distance from it first of all. And then explore and understand that maybe the very cause of pain is for you, for your benefit, and you should be content that it exists.

Question: Can you name the main cause of pain?

Answer: The main cause of pain is that a person does not want to feel pain. If he was to tell himself that I am ready to feel pain, then by moving in that direction, he would cease to feel it. It is not easy, but it is possible.

Question: It means that if you as if approach it and accept it, then it begins to subside?

Answer: Yes. Then you start to feel its opposite side.

Question: This is his second question: “Is it possible not to feel pain or to rise above it?”

Answer: It is possible to rise and it is possible not feel pain if a person wants it. Everything depends on the awareness of evil. If a person senses evil, then he is ready to endure any pain in order to get rid of this evil to the extent of the awareness of it.

Question: When you say “awareness of evil,” it is awareness of what—my nature or…?

Answer: My nature or the pain it evokes in me. I am ready to endure. And so much so that I do not feel pain.

Question: So it is like surgery, where this evil is cut out from me?

Answer: Yes, and it needs to be cut out, I am ready for it! I cannot live with it.

Question: How can one come to this sensation of evil?

Answer: It is coming. When it is necessary, it will come.

Question: But are we being guided to this?

Answer: We are being guided to a realization that pain is salvation. It indicates what is bad in us. And we must agree to the removal of the cause of pain in order to achieve good.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/19/23

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Question: When there is an illness and a person goes to a doctor, does this distance them from the Creator?

Answer: Of course, it is distancing to the extent that we do not use it as a way of approaching the Creator. There must be the right intention.

Question: How can one correctly work internally with the intention so the illness of separation from the Creator is a minimum?

Answer: Be closer to friends and all together close to the Creator. First, there must be a connection between the friends, and from the depth of this connection, you can turn to Him.

That is, you will unite with your friends one on one. And once the connection among you is restored, from it, you will turn to the Creator.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: Are physical illnesses related to spiritual illnesses, and if so, how?

Answer: On the part of the Creator, there is no difference between illnesses. Only in accordance with how far and in what form we are distant from each other, do we feel the illness.

It all follows from the distance or closeness between us, which is the root of all illnesses and cures.

Question: How can a person understand what exactly needs to be corrected with the help of the illness?

Answer: He needs to fix the connection between him and his friends; this is the basis of all problems.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: Despite the fact that we are constantly producing all kinds of medicines, why do new diseases appear all the time? Is there any solution here?

Answer: This will not be corrected until all of humanity is corrected.

After all, everything is built on earning more. What for? This question is not asked. This is a goal of society that is not judged at all. To earn more! This way I will be higher than others, more important than others, and stronger than others. What for, why, for what purpose? All this is no longer important. The main thing is that wealth is respected by society, and therefore, man chases after it.

For this purpose, millions of medicines are produced. Moreover, this is probably the largest consumption market in the world. There is a whole army of doctors, manufacturers, and advertisers who are constantly trying to fill us with all sorts of medicines. In general, we constantly poison ourselves.

I cannot imagine a quick solution to this problem except if we really dedicate ourselves to correcting the person. Then we will come to the point where we want to correct everything else. Our correction will have such an effect on the surrounding nature that we will be able to grow vegetables, fruit, produce meat, and everything we need in an unmodified form. They will not rot; there will be enough for everyone. But it will happen only when we take care of ourselves instead of chemicals.

Comment: But at the same time it is written that “A doctor is given the right to heal.”

My Response: There are no real doctors today! In practice, these are unhappy people who think that they help us.

But in fact, they deal with people who are completely poisoned and with whom it is no longer possible to do anything. They are trying to sell them some additional kinds of poison that would do something to them and somehow hold them together. This is how we live. Of course, one can object and say that 500 years ago people lived 30 to 40 years, and today they live 60, 70, 80 years and even more. This is true. But the fact is that here we face the question: “What for?”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Allergy treatment” 10/28/11

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All diseases are a consequence of moving away from the Creator, and every cure, coming closer to Him. Therefore, if the Creator shows a new distance that separates us, it is only in order to show us a new place to work to get closer to Him.

All states should be taken as moving away from the Creator because He gives us a new gap that needs to be healed and corrected, first among us, and then between us and the Creator. We heal it by asking the Creator to bring us closer so that we come to a corrected, that is, a healthy state.

The Creator purposely distances us so we get closer to Him. So each time, we move a little further away, and then we get even closer until we reach full and final adhesion.

The doctor is the Creator we turn to and ask to heal us, to heal our hearts from extraneous thoughts, egoistic desires, and separation from each other. This is the source of the disease. We ask the Creator to heal all the space between us until we are completely united in one heart.

If a person agrees with one’s distance from the Creator, then the Creator has no other choice but to further increase the distance between him or her and the Creator, so one finally feels where one is at.

After all, if a person is sick, but does not yet feel they are ill, they cannot be cured. This is why the Creator performs various actions so we feel the distance between us and want to heal this separation, that is, get closer, above it.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/13/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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