New Life 746 – The Four Phases At The Foundation Of Life
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

The four divisions in the foundation of nature are found in every detail of creation. It is very important to be familiar with them. Creation consists of a total of two forces, the force of giving and the force of receiving, which are also called Light and Kli.

Division 1: The desire to give creates the desire to receive.

Division 2: After the Kli receives the Light and has pleasure, it begins to receive the giving characteristic of the Light.

Division 3: The Kli understands that in order to realize its desire to give, it must receive the Light with an intention to give to it.

Division 4: After the Kli feels how much the Light loves it, a total desire to enjoy this is awakened in it.

This process is called the Four Phases of the Direct Light (Ohr Yashar) and is found at the foundation of creation, before the formation of the universe. At its end, there is a Kli that receives Light and feels its contrast with the Light. So it restricts its desire to receive. Every detail in reality is built from these four parts, in the technique of relationships between people in every area. In this process, the Light builds the fundamental cell of life, a desire to receive that will ultimately want to resemble the Light. It is important to understand these four phases to understand how we can bring the creation to correction.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 746 – The Four Phases At The Foundation Of Life,” 7/14/16

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New Life 745 – Spiritual Genetics
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

The whole corporeal world exists only so that we will be able to fulfill our spiritual DNA. Any relationship between people is meant to bring about the fulfillment of their spiritual DNA.

There is a system which includes all of the Reshimot (spiritual genes). This system is shattered and this world exists so that we can correct it. In this system every person has a Reshimo (informative data that defines each person’s developmental program). Every Reshimo defines a certain state of development that we have to undergo. The difference between one person’s Reshimo and another’s depends on his place in the general system.

The wisdom of Kabbalah engages in spiritual genetics and teaches us how to fulfill our spiritual DNA correctly.

Our reality is virtual. It is like a dream, and its only purpose is to enable us to fulfill our spiritual DNA by the corrected connection between our desires, so that everyone feels everyone else and complements him in every way.

The corporeal DNA is managed by the spiritual DNA and guides a person in every action he performs in life. The general system in which everyone exists called Ein Sof (Infinity), which manages everyone’s DNA.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 745 – Spiritual Genetics,” 7/12/16

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New Life 744 – Our Spiritual DNA
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

The cradle of ancient civilization originated in ancient Babylon. From there humanity scattered all over the Earth and people were influenced by the places in which they settled. In those times, religion connected people from different lands. But ultimately most people left ancient Babylon so all included everyone.

All of us contain additional information beyond the physical DNA. We call this spiritual DNA or a Reshimo (reminiscence). This spiritual DNA is the root of the soul and is part of the spiritual system called Adam HaRishon (the First Man). The spiritual DNA, the Reshimo, is the data within a person’s desire that determines how this desire will develop. For example, the spiritual information that is said to be realized in a child is what causes his parents to mate and give birth to him.

The spiritual system determines what will happen to every individual desire at every moment on the way to the completion of correction of the system. It manages us through the spiritual DNA that is implanted in us. The entire way through which a person must pass until the completion of correction, the end of correction, is recorded in the spiritual DNA. This is the state in which all desires are connected and all of them complement each other.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 744 – Our Spiritual DNA,” 7/12/16

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New Life 743 – Declining Birth Rates And Human Evolution
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Every phenomenon, including the lack of the desire to have children, is a result of our attitude for our development. Technology eliminates the need for a family.

There is an internal program in nature that advances us. The steamroller of evolution pressures us and different processes take place whether we like it or not.

In the future we will not have to work so hard in order to survive and then the question of what are we living for will arise. Nothing that happens naturally is tragic. We simply have to explore where nature is leading us. On our next level of evolution man will want to penetrate the great “computer” of nature.

The future generation will desire to reproduce through internal and spiritual connection with all of mankind. This will be a new kind of evolution. By connecting our desires and our thoughts we will become one man. This will not happen by technology such as artificial intelligence and such but by our internal development.

In the future all our needs will be provided and all we will have to do is to find out what we truly need. An internal revolution!
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From KabTV’s “New Life 743 – Declining Birth Rates And Human Evolution,” 7/7/16

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New Life 742 – World Demographics
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Since our return to the land of Israel from exile, the world has changed; we need to build a “new man” here. In general, the world takes on different forms according to the rate of advancement of the people of Israel in their correction. Our progress or our delay in building the “new man” influences every aspect of human life.

The Earth can contain tens of billions of people if they would relate to each other in a proper way. It is impossible to isolate the demographic situation from the rest of the aspects of human life because everything is linked to everything.

The more egoism grows, a person cannot stand the obligations of family and children. He wants comfort. The growing ego obliges us to invest in ourselves and not in anyone else. In the past, a man’s home was his fortress. He needed a family to survive. But today there is an alternative for everything and a person wants to feel free.

We are standing before a new level of existence that requires personal change. We returned to the Israel and the wisdom of Kabbalah was discovered to give an example of how a person must accommodate himself to nature. A truly free person is someone who clarifies what correct development is according to nature and is prepared to implement it.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 742 – World Demographics,” 7/7/16

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New Life 748 – The Attempted Coup In Turkey
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

The Arab Spring, the extremist Muslim world, will continue to grow. The world is advancing according to the plan of the creation to perfect mutual connection, and on the way we will have to recognize that all the evil that there is, is the hatred between us. There were those who dreamed about communism, others who dreamed about capitalism and then about the EU, but everything collapses. The plan of creation has always pushed us forward, but today we have to get to know it and act according to it. We have to learn what nature demands of us, to recognize the evil that is the ego and hatred, and to correct it to love.

Half of the Turkish people are inclined to Europe and the West and the other half to Islam. These are two opposite forces. The connection between all the attempted coups in the world is the revelation of evil in human nature. Evil is not a difference of opinion, but that one side wants to control the other instead of connecting above the differences.

We all have to be connected, and this is possible only by ascending above our nature. If we step on our ego, we will be able to connect above it. Everyone should have the freedom to do whatever he wants to and at the same time feel as friends. There will always be differences between people, but today nature obliges us to find a method to connect and to find the balance, to find the middle line.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 748 – The Attempted Coup In Turkey,” 7/19/16

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New Life 741 – A True Blessing
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Jewish customs stem from Kabbalists who discovered the system of leadership through which the Creator, the upper force, operates us. The blessings mean that I have revealed the upper force as good and benevolent, and therefore I bless it.

The Creator created an evil inclination in us, the ego, and He “created a Torah spice for it,” a positive force that can balance the ego. We have to reach a state in which we say the blessings not simply as words from our mouth but in thought and desire. This happens as a result of the correction of the ego.

The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us that it is possible to correct the ego through a special connection of mutual guarantee between people. Thus from the love of the created beings we come to the love of the Creator. The effort to connect summons a positive force upon us that balances the ego. Blessings between a person and his friend are meant to be the outcome of our request, asking the Creator for the power to love others. The Creator wants everyone to reach His level, and so a person’s true healing can be only as a result of correcting himself.

In spirituality a person discovers that he is a small world, which means that everything is inside him. Thus when he corrects himself, he corrects the world, and when he sees that someone suffers, he understands that he has to correct himself. Turning to the Creator is a request for the power to see reality correctly. “There is none else besides Him, the good and the benevolent.” At first there is nothing in us but the evil inclination. All the good that we seemingly do stems from our egoism. When we bless, we bless the appearance of the good force that we have been rewarded to actually reveal.

All of reality exists between two forces: the force of receiving and the force of giving, which we have to acquire. We have to ascend to a state in which we will feel the others just as we feel ourselves; the bodies will not separate us. The blessings people bless one another with symbolize the level we have to reach with the help of our efforts to connect. Eventually a person discovers that there are no other people before him but the Creator, which means that only he and the Creator exist in reality.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 741 – A True Blessing,” 7/5/16

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New Life 740 – Morning Blessings 
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

What is the origin of all the blessings? After all, no book fell from the sky? Kabbalists discovered that there is an inner more concealed part of nature that manages us, the Creator of the operating system. Feeling this system is called day. Drawing away from this feeling is called evening, and being disconnected from it is called night. Returning to it is called morning and so on.

Kabbalists also discovered that unpleasant events are also in our favor and this is from where the blessings stem. The heart of Kabbalists blesses everything by itself. They wrote the blessings for other people in order to guide them to the Creator, to be in contact with Him, connected to Him. Washing hands, for example, is an action that stems from the same Hebrew root as taking. When I wash my hands, I want to keep them away from egoistic actions.

To be in contact with the upper force means, that we feel the Creator’s presence every moment in our life. Kabbalists tell us what we should do in order to raise ourselves to the recognition of the Creator. We are actually inside the upper force although we are not aware of it, but we should be aware of it and not detach ourselves from Him. We have to reach a state in which we feel how the Creator manages every thought, every desire, me managing myself.

In the past people performed the rituals that Kabbalists determined in order to reach the revelation of the Creator. The revelation of the Creator raises a person above time, motion and place. When a person discovers the Creator he connects to eternity and to wholeness, and the internal meaning of the blessings recited upon arising in the morning are meant to help us hasten the revelation of the Creator in practice.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 740 – Morning Blessings,” 7/5/16

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New Life 739 – Does Choice Exist Or Is Everything In The Hands Of Heaven?
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Where does freedom of choice exist in our lives, from what do we try to be freed, and what will bring us to attain true freedom?

The first profession in which I specialized was bio-cybernetics. According to bio-cybernetics, a human is a biological system that lacks choice with data it is born with and data absorbed from the environment in the course of life. A human thinks that he chooses and decides, just like a small child feels that he chooses when his mother leaves the room. But this is due to a lack of knowledge of the natural system, divinity. So according to the Torah, there are no punishments but correction in the direction of life.

We are like components of a system, completely operated. But there is a particular action in our lives that is considered to be a free choice. Whoever carries it out becomes a free person. When we investigate nature, we see that everything in it is linked, except for humans who are individualists with the tendency to separate. Nature requires us to be linked with each other, in good connection, but basically everyone runs away to his own corner. It is specifically the contrast between human nature and the nature of the overall system that makes it possible for us to choose to emulate nature at the peak of our development and climb to a new level of existence, the speaking level.

A person who reaches this level is a free person; he includes two opposing forces, egoism and altruism, and the link between these two forces is within him. The ability to choose is developed in a person when he hears about this possibility. From that moment on, it is up to him to choose an appropriate environment for development. Through choosing an environment for spiritual development, the person begins to learn about his nature and the nature of the world. A person who realizes the choice of an environment is a free person because in the right environment he becomes free of his egoistic nature. When we realize freedom of choice, we attain a good and secure life, and endless possibilities will be open to us.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 739 – Does Choice Exist Or Is Everything In The Hands Of Heaven?” 6/28/16

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New Life 738 – Decision Making
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

How can we make the right decisions? What motivates us to reach a certain decision and why is it easier to make rational decisions when we have an important goal in life?

People find it difficult to make decisions because generally they have no clear guidelines in life. Our mind helps us decide where there is no room for emotions, but a person must balance the two.

A person needs to make major decisions when he tries to find out the meaning of life and then he has to listen to his inner voice. At the peak of his development, a person has to reach a point in which he critiques his decisions from above. In order to do so, the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches a person what his nature is and what the nature of the world that surrounds him is, and where he is headed.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 738 – Decision Making,” 6/28/16

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