In order to come to the state of “Passover,” (Pesach) we must reach such a level of development where we are unable to work with egoism; we need to rise above it.

The outburst of egoism happened for the first time in Babylon. Against this eruption that took place when the population was not large, Abraham, a priest of ancient Babylon, discovered the system of ascent above egoism.

Several thousand people accepted this method, and they went together with him to the land of Canaan, present-day Israel. Abraham taught his followers what it meant to be in love with each other, rising above the ego and constantly stepping over one’s ego—Pesach (from the word Pasach, to pass).

Our ego is growing constantly, and we are growing above it, covering it by the law of “… love covereth all transgressions.” Transgressions remain, but, the greater they are—up to immense hatred—the greater love appears between us.

We do not hide our hatred, are not ashamed of it, because we understand that it comes from human nature, and our task is to identify in nature the next, positive force that will give us the opportunity to cover hatred with love.

Then, we will be in a constant state of spiritual elevation. However, hatred will determine the height of the love with which we cover it.

It turns out that we can continue to grow constantly. That is, each transition from stage to stage will become Passover (Pesach), the holiday that is always with you.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations about Passover,” 3/18/15

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Question: The entire story of Purim is about Gmar Tikkun (final correction). Why do the Jews doubt again? After all, this situation has been repeated many times before; whenever they doubted and tried to receive for themselves, they ended up experiencing shattering, plagues, and similar consequences. What is different in the story of Purim that will make them stop doubting and trying to receive for themselves?

Answer: This is something we must reveal. But we understand that in order to receive the light of Hochma, the light of Hassadim is required as its covering.

Everything that happened to the people of Israel was necessary only to create a common vessel (Kli) together with the nations of the world that was capable of receiving the entire light of Hochma. That is all. In the end, that is how it will be.

Question: How are the Jews  different from the nations of the world? After all, they agree with Haman just as the nations of the world do. Does that mean they differ only because of their prior history?

Answer: No, not because of their history, but because of their obligation. They are obligated to choose a different path.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 3/12/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “An Article for Purim”

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We must create ourselves into a people that will exist in the mutual property of love and complete connection with each other. In this way we will resemble, not the nature of our world, but the nature of the upper world, which will be able to pass through us and pour into our world.

Then all the nations of the world—and subsequently all of nature: animal, vegetative, and inanimate—will receive this upper vitalizing force.

Without it the world will simply wither away until it explodes and disappears. This is true according to the true, spiritual laws of nature. By spiritual, I mean based not on egoism, but on the quality of bestowal. This is what we must pass to the world. If we do not do it, the world will instinctively demand it of us.

We cannot continue to exist in our current form. This is a people unable even to think that it must change. As the saying goes, “a stiff-necked people,” so it is.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, awakens the Jews. The nations of the world yes, but the Jews no.
Herein, perhaps, lies a certain chance for salvation through the nations of the world in a good and swift way, maybe they will still compel the people of Israel to think about their mission.

Then this will be a serious point of our correct reckoning with the Creator. We have no one to rely on but only our connection with Him. And we will have to establish this connection correctly.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/24/19

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Question: We have been hearing from everywhere that the global community is increasingly putting pressure on Israel, and on the other hand, the main recommendation for the Jewish people for the best way to protect themselves from this pressure is solidarity and unity. This is said to be our salvation in both the Torah and The Zohar. But on the other hand, there are prophecies that say if the people do not fulfill their role, all other nations will rise against them, exile them from their land, and the Creator will be angry with them.

Recently, Einstein’s letter, written in 1939 when he already lived in America when the Nazi regime was rampant in Germany, was auctioned off for $24,000. In the letter, he wrote: “The resilience that allowed the Jewish people to survive for millennia is largely based on the tradition of mutual aid.” Before the war in the 20^th century, many sages and scholars spoke of this mission of the Jewish people. Why is this not heard?

Answer: This has never been heard. Throughout the history of the Jewish people, they have never listened to the call for unity. In every generation there were sages, entire groups of sages calling for unity, but the people did not listen. But the sages did not give up; they kept calling and trying by all means to bring the people together, to at least soften the blows they were receiving.

This is our mission. Thanks to the pressure from all other nations and also through our own efforts, we ultimately must reach unity in which both the nations of the world and the people of Israel, who are driven by the nations of the world on one hand and the sages on the other, will participate.

This is the ultimate goal of our development—to bring ourselves to such unity so that we can be an example for all the nations of the world. Then they will begin to unite. To the extent that the people of Israel strive for unity, they will inevitably serve as an example and will in turn compel the nations of the world to also strive for unity.

Comment: Herzl wrote more than 100 years ago: “Decades will pass before we learn this lesson of the necessity of unity. And again, it will be forgotten, and we will neglect unity and mutual guarantee, and we will be punished with severe consequences.”

My Response: This is what is called being a stiff-necked people; meaning, they have no strong memory of what they have lived through. Just like small children who forget and repeat the same mistakes, and step on the same rake.

Question: How can these people rise up, how can Hercules break his chains?

Answer: If the people listened to the sages and did what they advised and united, then at the same time, all the nations of the world would unite with them. Do you understand what universal unity means? It is salvation from all problems.

Question: What would be the “last straw”? When they do not hear, do not hear, and then suddenly they hear?

Answer: It could only be a huge, terrifying threat. Worse than the people taken to concentration camps because those who were taken to the camps did not know, did not understand, did not want, and were not inclined to comprehend.

We want people to know in advance, at least today, that if they do not unite, they will indeed bring upon themselves the same problems, misfortunes, and suffering again. We want them to understand where the suffering comes from and what causes it.

Today, our task is to explain to people in advance the cause of their suffering and what threatens them if they do not unite. After that, nothing more is needed. Once the Jews begin to unite, all the nations of the world will unite automatically, unconditionally, and without hesitation, and the world will come to a consensus.

These people are so stubborn, and the mission of unity is so difficult for them that I cannot even imagine how it could happen. These people are a gathering of 70 nations of the world that were once in Ancient Babylon. Abraham gathered representatives from all 70 nations and united them under the idea of “Love your neighbor as yourself.” They agreed to this then.

Partially, this was repeated in the First Temple, and partially, to a much smaller degree, in the Second Temple. But today, after all the divisions and falls from this level of mutual love, mutual caring, and unity, after we have gone through all the exiles and suffering, the only reflex that has developed in people is to close themselves off, protect themselves with knowledge, money, and that is it. To live like that for themselves and their children and look at the world and life very “briefly.”

It is impossible to even describe how serious this obstacle is—to reach the hearts of the Jews and encourage them to connect with each other.

We all have different roots. These are the roots of 70 nations in one small people. They were gathered from all the nations of the world, a few million, but they are all different and cannot unite.

Comment: It is like when everything is already burning and smoking, and suddenly, a saving rain falls from the sky and puts everything out.

My Response: That rain will come if there is disappointment in the egoistic existence and a desire to unite. Then from above, this unity will come. But for this to happen, we must try to achieve it ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/14/19

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Question: Mutual responsibility means mutual care and connection. How do you connect opposing, conflicting poles in this?

Answer: Everyone can remain in their own religion, as Baal HaSulam writes, in their own faith, culture, and beliefs. That does not matter. Above all this, like the organs of a single body, we can be opposite to one another, have different opinions, and yet still unite, as our common nature compels us to do.

Question: How will this connection be expressed if we all keep our different opinions?

Answer: It is by the fact that we will strive to ensure that all our actions always lead us toward mutual responsibility and connection.

Comment: If I go in one direction and you in another, it means we are going in different directions! And that is exactly what happens to everyone today.

My Response: Why go in opposite directions? Let us connect our paths!

Question: How can we do that if I want to go one way and you another? I think one way is good, while you believe in a different way.

Answer: That is because you are built one way and I am built differently, meaning we are different by nature, completely opposite even.

But now we are giving each person an education in the spirit of mutual responsibility.

That means that we obligate ourselves, despite our differences, to sit together and find a way to use these differences for our common success, for the benefit of our common goal. And we do this until we reach a state where we see that even your actions, though they may seem to go in the opposite direction of mine, still contribute to our mutual responsibility.

It cannot be otherwise! Nature itself is built in such a way that it consists of opposing forces and actions, yet in the end, they all help achieve balance.

Do wolves and sheep act in the same direction when one eats the other? And yet why does this exist in nature? Are “plus” and “minus” not opposites, where each acts in its own direction? What about pressure and vacuum, attraction and repulsion?

Everything consists of two opposites. There is no force that does not have its counterpart; it could not exist otherwise. We will not be able to achieve mutual responsibility unless all kinds of opposing forces unite within it.

Mutual responsibility is like a sphere, inflated and held together by all these opposing forces.

We need to gather all the forces that exist in the country, in the nation, in society, and in every individual—who himself exists thanks to many opposing forces—so that they all begin to act together. And what will unite them is the common law of mutual responsibility that stands above them all.

I will say one sentence that may tie everything together and lead to agreement: “He who makes peace in the heavens will make peace among us.” Let me explain. We will not find peace, harmony, or reconciliation between us unless it comes from the law of mutual responsibility, the universal, upper law of nature.

This is what is meant by “He who makes peace in the heavens.” That is, the reconciliation that exists at the height of mutual responsibility “will make peace among us.” And then we will see how all these opposing principles, vectors, and desires come together.

Without uniting opposing forces, ideas, and actions, mutual responsibility cannot exist. Otherwise it will turn into just one narrow movement. But if you want, not a small, isolated stream, but a unified space where all branches, factions, directions, and movements within the people, including political parties, come together, then you must elevate the principle of mutual responsibility above them all.

Anyone who opposes mutual responsibility as the upper principle acts as a destroyer. And this is not a matter of right or wrong. No one is redundant, not even if they are a Nazi or an antisemite. We have seen many times how they ultimately help us, like Pharaoh, who “brought the children of Israel closer to the Creator.”

There is no absolute evil or harmful force, we just need to see how all these forces, in the end, integrate with one another. Bringing them together is our true skill.

By uniting our two forces, we become human, Adam, “similar” (Domeh), to the upper nature.

Therefore mutual responsibility is not some narrow ideology within the people. It is a universal method, as Baal HaSulam writes, that must encompass the entire world.

Question: So do we have this magic powder called “mutual responsibility”? Do we take opposing things, sprinkle this magic powder over them, and they unite, just like opposite processes within one body, like inhaling and exhaling?

Answer: People are fundamentally opposite to one another in their entire way of thinking, in their character, habits, in everything. But through global and integral education that teaches that mutual responsibility is a requirement of nature, and that we are subject to this requirement, each person will be able to realize themselves in a form suitable for them, yet all in the direction of mutual responsibility!

And because of this everyone will find the right application for themselves and achieve complete fulfillment.
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From a conversation about the new book

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Question: It is said the people of Israel are obliged to prepare themselves and all the people of the world for spirituality by studying the Torah and commandments.

I feel that we are intermediaries between the whole world and the Creator. How can we make our work better?

Answer: Every day we need to extract strength, a more precise direction, and a clearer goal from the material we read so we do not make mistakes and constantly feel that we are correcting our advancement from yesterday to tomorrow.

Question: We are constantly raising prayers, but so does the whole world. How do these prayers connect? Or do we gather together, and the whole world joins us later?

Answer: No, prayers are integrated into each other and uplift the mood. Only our unity helps all the nations of the world. We, as intermediaries, bring down MAD (Mei Dhurin) to the nations of the world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/24/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

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Question: Israel is responsible for uniting the world. What kind of unity is it? How can it be presented and explained to the whole world?

Answer: We must feel that all our friends in the world exist in one desire where everyone unites in it and are drawn to the center of their tens, and through them to the center of the world Kli.

Question: So when we say we are responsible for the whole world, we mean the world Kli and not the whole world, all people?

Answer: Of course.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/24/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

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Question: Igor asks: “Why do you Jews have everything the other way around? Why does everyone write from left to right while you write from right to left?”

Answer: Not just us, but in general, yes.

Question: Why?

Answer: The right side is the spiritual side and the left is not. That is why in Hebrew, they write from right to left.

The right side is the right, and the left is the left.

Question: In general, how do you define closeness to spirituality? What does it mean?

Answer: It is a spiritual root that exists in nature. And it is closer to the right side than to the left.

Question: What is this root?

Answer: It is the spiritual force, the quality of bestowal.

We shake with the right hand. We still treat the right side better than the left.

Question: So a person is even unconsciously drawn to this because it is his root?

Answer: Yes.

Question: “Why does the whole world celebrate birthdays, but you, on the contrary, celebrate the death day?”

Answer: We do not celebrate the death day, but simply honor it for the deceased because we believe that this is an important date for him. That he has departed from us and entered completely into the spiritual world. The death of a person, the exit from this world, the ascension to the upper world, is the correction of the soul.

Question: What ascends into the spiritual world?

Answer: The soul.

Question: What do you call the soul?

Answer: The soul is the inner essence of a person.

Question: What is it like?

Answer: It is impossible to point a finger at it. But a person ascends and becomes closer to the Creator.

Question: When you say a person becomes closer to the Creator, what do you mean?

Answer: I mean the spiritual entity, the one that does not die.

Question: “Why does the next day begin with the sunset for you and with the sunrise for everyone else?”

Answer: This is a really interesting question. The next day begins with sunset for us because everything begins with darkness. Our nature, our world, space, and everything else, everything begins with darkness. And the next day also begins with darkness.

Question: And when dawn comes, what does it represent?

Answer: It represents a person’s attainment, one’s contact with the world, with the Creator. And therefore, on one hand, the 24 hours are measured by the hours after sunset, and the days are marked by sunrise.

Question: Then he asks: “Why do Jews wear a headdress out of respect for God, while the rest of the world, on the contrary, takes off its headwear out of respect?”

Answer: I do not know how the rest of the world views it. Headwear is a sign of respect. When I honor someone, I put on headwear. I don’t think it is important. The main thing is what you feel.

Question: Why do observant Jews wear a Kippah on their heads?

Answer: A Kippah is the minimal head covering that a person should never part with and should always wear. In this way, he expresses his respect for the Creator. He covers his brain.

Question: Next. “Why do most nations celebrate the New Year in winter, and Jews do so in the fall?”

Answer: It is written in the Torah that we should celebrate the New Year in the fall. There is nothing we can do about it. This was long before January 1^st was adopted.

Comment: Christmas and so on.

My Response: Yes, none of this existed yet.

Question: But our chronology is different, naturally. We are already approaching the 6,000^th milestone. Tell me, where does this chronology come from? All years are different. Where does it begin?

Answer: It all comes from Adam. He decided everything, he initiated it, he substantiated these facts, and from here the years begin.

He revealed the Creator, the connection with Him, from which day, on which days are which holidays, which special days. That is why we continue like that.

Question: You are now saying “he.” Can we even say that there was such a person Adam?

Answer: Adam HaRishon, yes.

Question: That is, the person who revealed the Creator? And from that moment he said: “We begin the chronology”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And is this the correct chronology?

Answer: It is correct because he is the first. That is all.

Question: That is, if this is the revelation of the Creator, then it is correct?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Further. “Why do Jews bury the dead as quickly as possible, while in the world, on the contrary, it is customary to say a long farewell to the deceased?”

Answer: The Jews believe that the deceased must be buried on the same day.

Question: Why so quickly?

Answer: From the earth you came, to the earth you return. And there is nothing you can do about it.

Question: That is, long mourning for the body, farewells…

Answer: No, that is also not allowed because there is the upper mind above all of this, and it commands everything. So, we have no right to do what is beneficial or convenient for us, or what we think. No, it must be done very clearly and very simply.

Question: And quickly?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Tell me, what does placing the body into the earth represent?

Answer: Returning to the earth. From the earth you came and to the earth you will return. The spiritual root is that we are connected to the earth.

Question: And the last question: “Why does the Jewish tradition begin the new year with the Day of Judgment and not with a celebration?” Everyone celebrates the New Year, but for us it is Yom Kippur and so on.

Answer: Because this is the end of the previous year, and a person must evaluate his actions and in this way appear before the judgment as if to start a new life.

Question: So, it is judgment first?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Should I admit my guilt, or should I be declared guilty?

Answer: You should admit it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/21/24

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Question: You were asked: “What miracle would you like to see?” And you answered: “That all the people of Israel would enter into a connection with the Creator.” Whom did you mean by the people of Israel?

Answer: All those who can unite into one heart are called the people of Israel regardless of who they are and what they are.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Unity Day 12/29/24, “Miracles Happen When We Unite”

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For this reason, when Israel engage in acts of bestowal, there is a decline to the nations of the world, whose root is only reception of pleasure for themselves (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 371, “ A Ladder Set on the Earth”).

Question: What is the benefit for the nations of the world?

Answer: That all nations become closer to each other, understand each other better, strive for unity, and can also attain the Creator.

Question: How can I test myself in relation to the state of the world?

Answer: Simply wish for it to happen. That is all.

Question: There are two to three million students in our world group. Can we turn eight billion people toward the light?

Answer: Of course we can. I am sure that we will succeed; otherwise, I would not waste time on this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/2/24, Writings of Rabash “A Ladder Set on the Earth”

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