Question: Is there a difference between children who come into the world through Caesarean section and children who are born through natural childbirth?

Answer: A Caesarean section is very damaging; it is desirable to use it as little as possible and only when necessary. Birth is a serious process that a newborn goes through, a dangerous process that is accompanied by much stress, which is very necessary. In natural birth the newborn receives a kind of special immunization which he is deprived if a Caesarean section is done.

There are situations in which it is necessary to perform a Caesarean section, but in general it is certainly desirable to have a regular birth.

Comment: But now many women have Caesarean sections.

Answer: I would not recommend this. For the sake of the child it is necessary to give birth naturally, to go through the preliminary preparation, light exercise, etc. It is too bad we don’t have midwives as we once did.

It is possible to facilitate birth through massage of the birth canal, and then women would give birth without problems. In our day we rely more on drugs so this is impossible.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/24/16

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In the News (cont.ws): “Depression is sweeping the world , as a century ago, walked the plague and smallpox, cholera and the ‘Spanish flu.’ What is the nature of this victory march? Where is the trigger actuating the social springs and gears that generate this phenomenon? …

“Adolescent depression – is a known thing, described and spread out on the shelves. Its main reason – exiting the immortal condition of childhood, from the age when a child is unaware of his own mortality, the adolescent enters a world where there is a finish line, a limit to his own earthly existence.

“With the recognition of this finality, eventually the question arises about the impending outcome of life. Following, the chain continues to question, in fact, the meaning of life.

“Unable to find an answer through his own experience, the child refers to the experience of his parents. Seeing that the meaningfulness of the existence of the parents is no more (and often less) than (work-home-work-home-work-holiday), the child experiences a shock. It turns out that life is given to him as a complicated and pointless toy, like a certain artifact of unknown purpose… . Artifacts left some higher force either as a mockery of human insignificance, or simply by accident.

“Of course, by realizing that life has no meaning, there is no purpose, no direction, there is no desire to make a conscious result, as follows from the individual’s life, the child falls into a mortal terror. For absurdity, a pacifier, you still have to pay death, is not this the worst thing for a man? There is no consolation for this situation. Meaning can only be substituted by surrogates that modern human society only welcomes and encourages. …

“So the trouble of humanity is that its existence remains meaningless.

“On the one hand, the only meaning for a person’s existence in the world is development, in changing the world, and the cultivation of the universe.

“The ‘global project’ that is becoming stronger today on the face of the Earth is what is stopping human development. It is important not to confuse the technical progress and the development of the actual person . What’s the use in technological progress when it is leads Earth’s population to suicide?”

My Comment: The most complex and difficult stage is the passage from the meaninglessness of “beastly” life, from getting everything for yourself, to attaining a meaningful spiritual life, bestowing everything to the Creator. In the end of the process of development a person becomes “similar” to the Creator and stands on His level.
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Question: Do phenomena like ectopic pregnancies or miscarriage have spiritual roots?

Answer: Everything has a spiritual root. We cannot explore these things yet, but we can heal all these phenomena on the spiritual level, and the time will come when people will be able to do so. The root of all illnesses are not in our world of course. The illnesses are a result of the wrong corrections of the soul.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/24/16

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In the News (KM.ru): “Portal KM.RU as an educational project aims to acquaint its readers with the latest scientific achievements. Today our interlocutor – one of the leading Russian experts in the field of brain research, Professor, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Sergei Saveliev . …

“Expressed in everyday language, our brains are lazy, lustful and idle; that is, it wants to relax, eat well, relax and enjoy sex. The reason is simple: everything is managed through the calculation of the expenditure of energy required for mental activity. In humans, there is a special biological mechanism, which limits our ability to engage in intellectual matters. …

“What follows from all this, the main conclusion?

“Mankind is by leaps and bounds approaching beastliness. This I prove in my book, with facts and the research results. I think we should do something to stop the ongoing biological evolution. There is also the process of approaching the ‘bright’ future monkey.

“Wait, evolution is proceeding in the direction of degradation?

“Yes. Scientific evidence shows that the brains of people of our species has decreased. I emphasize that I speak not about the Neanderthals, but about our direct ancestors. Modern Europeans’ brain mass was reduced by an average of 200-250 grams compared to the Cro-Magnons. Do you know what 250 grams? It’s just the weight of the brain of Bonobo chimpanzees. So, with a decrease in the brain, the likelihood of genius is reduced.

“It may seem paradoxical, but the advent of computers and distribution systems of pseudo-information has spurred the movement of humanity back to the jungle and caves.”

My Comment: This is a process that is necessary only for recognizing the evil of our beastly egoistic nature. After humanity passes through the stage of the recognition of evil, with the help of the Kabbalists, it will discover the possibility of attracting a second, anti-egoistic force to itself, the force of goodness, bestowal, and love. It will be able to exist within the right integration of these two forces in the middle line.
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Question: The Health Department in Israel announced the removal of products from the Tahini factory HaNasich from store shelves due to contamination by Salmonella bacteria. Products of nine different brands were found contaminated with bacteria in which Tahini was used.

The Health Department determined that employee negligence led to Salmonella contamination of cereals and other brands. Moreover, the management of the factory acknowledged that it knew about the contamination two weeks before this was known to everyone and yet the manufacture of the products was not halted at the time. As reported by Ynet, in addition to halting production, the Health Department is considering the possibility of filing a lawsuit. In a case like this is it necessary to consider such a step?

Answer: There is nothing to consider here, it is necessary to act. In a case like this I would take extreme measures, because this is talking about the health of citizens. Regarding health this knowingly caused harm. Knowing of the situation, the managers of the factory could have found a way to stop the output of contaminated product. If they didn’t do this, they simply caused damage willingly and are guilty of causing much harm to people. In a case like this, they have no place in the food industry. They must pay the full obligation for the damaged caused. The nation must pay attention to this.

Comment: Contrary to your opinion, I have heard the opinion of experts. They say that such activities were never punished very severely.

Answer: Certainly! The nation doesn’t punish banks or companies like these. They are allowed to do anything, so that is also how they behave.

Question: Is it possible to solve this problem in another way?

Answer: It can be solved only through managing general integral education for the people so people will begin to understand how an orderly society should behave. It is impossible to go on like this, not because the “upper class doesn’t want it” and “the lower classes cannot” or vice versa, but because nature itself teaches us that it is up to us to change our existential paradigm regarding our attitude toward the world, nature, ourselves, and society.

From the point of view of the wisdom of Kabbalah, this necessarily must be realized, and already in our time people must understand that it is up to them to change themselves and not those around them, meaning that they must be involved with self-education and self-enlightenment. We are advancing toward a situation in which the means of production will no longer have much influence on society. Production itself will not require employees. The authorities don’t know this and cannot manage it, but only “replicate” themselves again and again.

We are found at the end of the previous paradigm of social development, governance, and management. All of this will end soon and it will be clear that nothing can be realized anywhere in any form in any nation in the world.

Society must change; it must reconstruct itself according to a completely different program of full mutual cooperation, with a good connection between us, when all of us are principally involved with connection and unity. So it is up to us to educate ourselves. This is not very easy, but against our will we are moving toward this.

Question: Does this mean that nobody will be rich and that a communistic equality will prevail?

Answer: This is not communism but a state that nature is requiring from us. We must reach a state in which all of us together will be a single integral system similar to what manages us. In a system like this, we are already beginning to evaluate people not according to the number of zeroes they have in the bank, but according to the contribution that a person makes for the sake of the unity of the entire society because nature is seriously driving us toward general integration and it is up to us to realize this call.

Question: How will this be expressed in our activities?

Answer: Only in the implementation of the method that explains the overall dependence, the general mutual connection, in what manner we must be arranged in balance with nature and between us, meaning how we must re-invent ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 8/15/16

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New Life #374 – Food: An Experience For All The Senses
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

How has food become the center of our life everywhere in the world, and how do smells, tastes, and sitting together at a meal bring people together?

Summary

The desire for food is the most basic desire. It is a basic necessity.

Today food from all over the world can be found all over the world. In different cultures the air was perfumed by certain foods. Today we eat what is advertised on the media; in the future we will eat what is good for us.

Food will serve to connect people; restaurants will be designed differently. There will be music, singing, and a warm atmosphere of togetherness.

In the animal kingdom food separates and doesn’t connect, but a culture of shared meals has developed among humans. In the past the kitchen was small, but today it is part of the living room. In the era of emptiness food still gives us a taste to life.  A lion doesn’t choose which meat to eat when it is hungry. Man has a selection of food. We have turned food into entertainment.

Food is a basis for connection between people.
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From the KabTV’s “New Life #374 – Food: An Experience For All The Senses,” 5/18/24

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Question: During the last 40 years, the number of people that are suffering from obesity grew six-fold: from 105 million to 640 million! It is said that toward the year 2025 one in five will suffer from obesity. Some claim that it comes from lack of money for healthy food and others claim that it is from excess of money, people eat more. Is it possible to explain this phenomenon?

Answer: It depends on our way of life. Today few are working in a physical labor. In addition, our nutrition obviously influences our body weight, and fat is added to food to heighten its taste.

I don’t think that a special revolution will occur in the future, but the change will occur when society gradually recognizes the purpose of creation and its main interest will be in achieving the meaning of life, entering the next level of existence, breaking the link between life and death, and between life and death finding the exit point to the next dimension. When people will understand that this possibility exists, it will also lead to a change in their attitudes to nutrition and lifestyle. Humanity will loose the taste for certain types of food.

If people will seriously deal with the system in order to achieve the upper state and exit to the next world, then they will become more balanced in their corporeal lives. As a result, all the distorted, ugly, and one-sided attitudes toward food and toward all the rest will disappear. I think that restaurants and even coffee shops will continue to exist in the same form now. They will no longer be places for entertainment.

Naturally, the custom of serving mutual treats to each other will remain, but it will be just plain food.
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From Kab TV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 4/3/16

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Comment: All over the world today, cannabis is being legalized. And now it is happening in London. It is expected that the country will gain a billion dollars for taxing the use of cannabis. In addition, they claim that legalizing cannabis will reduce crime and other negative repercussions.

Answer: Legalizing cannabis will calm people. When certain phenomena become so broad and reaches the people, it must be resolved. And to go against it is not realistic, simple, or wise.

Question: Then what kind of future awaits us?

Answer: Our future will be like a narcotic dream. Consumption of light drugs will be a partial medication for the state we are now entering. We experience strong pressure. We are in a huge crisis that has no solution on our level. Egoism devours itself like a snake that eats its tail. Nothing is left for us to do other than to calm and reduce it. Therefore, gradual restriction of the ego with relatively harmless drugs will be incented.

In addition, people who want to develop will aspire to attain upper spiritual goals and all the rest will remain in the same degree until the need arises in them.

We see that humanity naturally turns toward light drugs and antidepressants. They suppress their bad moods, elevate it a little with alcohol, football, and any means to kill their depression and somehow raise their spirits.

Question: According to your words, you seemingly call all the passions of this world “drugs.”

Answer: I don’t know where the line is here. In principle, a person needs to determine the limit him or herself, as long as it doesn’t harm others. Also, everything depends on his education and upbringing. If we begin to engage in education, then we will be able to reorganize the structure of relations of the global population in the best form where people will put themselves in certain frameworks and see a higher purpose; they will discern how to reach it and where to get calming influences.

Today, humanity is still not able to do without drugs. People cannot live with a goal that is still not revealed to them. They don’t understand that access to the upper state is now being opened before them. So they don’t do anything but something to extinguish the hopelessness.
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Comment: The number of teenagers suffering from depression in the US has risen to over 11%, yet these young people rarely consult their doctors (Healthline.com and Mental Health America).

Answer: These teenagers don’t understand that they suffer from depression and believe that it is the way of starting life.

Comment: They say that that there are three major symptoms of depression: The first is a sharp decline in academic achievements and in activities they were successful in previously, such as studies, music, etc. Second, changes in food consumption: A person may either overeat or totally lose his appetite, and Third, an inability to concentrate on a concretely on a specific activity and the desire to be alone. Teenagers at the ages or 12-17 are especially inclined to do so (Mental Health America and National Institute of Mental Health).

Answer: Young people this age begin to look for meaning in life, “I am starting my life, what should I engage in?” Then they realize that there is nothing to engage in. Not too long ago physicists, poets, musicians, mathematicians, astronauts, and navy captains were respected. There was romanticism then, whereas today all people care about is money. It is only natural that any form of bravery, achievement, and romanticism has lost its meaning.

Young people today don’t know what is the ideal for which to live or to suffer, and after all, these are years in which a person wants to make an effort to achieve a certain sublime goal since he thus develops his self-respect and is proud of belonging to something that is sublime and special. In the past youth dreamed about heroic acts and even the hippies followed the idea of purity, but now all this is gone.

It seemed that young people could have everything since traveling to India today is like going to visit one’s grandma in the nearby town, but the question is “where should I go and for what if I already know what is there?” Therefore they have nothing to aspire for, no sublime goals, and no meaning in life. I cannot imagine how one can live this way.

When I was young I was torn between different choices of what I should be. We had many options, while today this need remains deep inside and is immediately extinguished because there is nothing to aspire to. Consequently, a person feels greatly disappointed by the fact that there is a great need, a great tension, a great internal desire, and on the other hand, he develops feelings of emptiness and disrespect to what he sees in life.

There is nothing one can desire, nothing to make an effort for. Where are the sleepless nights? Where is the search? There is nothing. This is the reason that people feel lost. As teenagers, they cannot understand or know which way to go, whether to study economics in order to make money or to study a certain field of science and then live on the crumbs that the rich throw them. They cannot dream, they have not been intrigued, they have not been led forward, and nothing interests them.

Question: What will happen then?

Answer: They will feel so greatly disappointed that they will want to destroy the world that doesn’t promise them anything but simply forces them to live. This is the reason that there is a growing rate of suicide and the growing popularity of escape to ISIS and other terrorist organizations. People consume more drugs and engage in crazy games on the Internet just to take their minds off their situation and to be busy with something. It is a lost generation. We have nothing to offer them and they have nothing to offer themselves. We are basically living by the law of inertia.

Question: But can we offer them any way out?

Answer: There is only one way out. We are intentionally in this condition, we have reached the final phase of our development and there is only one thing left for us to do: to unite in order to reach the next level of our evolution. There new unlimited dimensions will open up for us, unlimited fillings, daring, romanticism, and everything!

Our job is to bring the youth to this path of development. Their disappointment has ripened, and despite the negativity, they have an inner need. We have to develop the right approach in order to encourage them to this romanticism, to the special attainment and to the revelation of the world. It isn’t about the revelation of certain swamps, forests, or even outer space in order to orbit the earth, but about a totally new world, a world we can ascend to, live in, and develop ourselves in a different direction, in different forms and attributes, to create, to dare, to be like gods.

This is what we can offer young people, but we have to find the right way to approach them and offer it to them. The problem is only in the first encounter with them. We have to find the right way. So don’t wait, we have to start now.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 7/18/16

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Question: Genetic testing allows a person to learn about one’s personal hereditary likelihood of certain diseases and the effectiveness of different treatments, his or her ancestry, and the migration of deep ancestors. A person’s genetic map can reveal all this.  What can Kabbalah say beyond genetics, beyond physical genes?

Answer: Humanity came from ancient Babylon, which was the home of many small nations. From there they spread in different directions over the entire globe. Initially they had common culture and language, a more or less similar approach to life and family. However, since every nation settled in their own place, the nature of the terrain, the force acting there, and the environmental conditions began to influence them.

Every nation received a different influence and therefore acquired their color and character, according to the place they settled, in England, Europe, Africa, or in the East – India, China, and Japan.

A place made a person different from others who settled in different places. And those people who live nearby are usually similar.

We all came from ancient Babylon, all people of the world. I think it is yet to be discovered that there was a connection between South and North America, Europe and Africa. As in the spiritual sense, we are all descendants of Adam and Eve, and in the material sense we come from one particular type of monkeys that developed and spread throughout the world.

Unlike monkeys, humans demonstrated a special ability to develop. Monkeys don’t change from generation to generation, but humans change enormously.

We see how much each next generation differs from the previous one, as if they are made from a different material. The modern generation has a different attitude to life, family, children, and to all basic life necessities. All this changes from generation to generation.

Family is not the same as it used to be; the relationships between a man and a woman, between parents and children, the concept of home, kitchen have all changed, especially nowadays.

Therefore, I don’t think that we should be surprised by the results of genetic analysis. Did all the ancestors of Englishmen live in England? Two to three-thousand years ago, barbarians inhabited the whole of Europe.

Culture began to spread from ancient Babylon to the Mediterranean, and then from ancient Greece and Rome to Europe. People were already mixed when they left ancient Babylon. We look at a person and say that he is one-quarter Indian, one-quarter Finnish, and half French. But this is only what we see, and in fact, all these genes were already mixed in him when people were leaving Babylon.

Question: How are these characteristic features passed from generation to generation? How are they transmitted?

Answer: The properties are transmitted through the Reshimot, i.e., informational genes. This bit of information enclosed within the semen gives the internal and external image developing within a person. Parents aren’t just an incubator where eggs are hatched. There is a much deeper internal connection between parents and children that is passed from father to son.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 7/12/16

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