New Life #359 – The Effect Of Music On People
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Music is a universal language that directly strums the strings of our emotions. What makes it affect us so strongly and how does it create the feeling of harmony, elation, and connection between us?

Summary

Music is a language that expresses our innermost feelings,; it can change our mood.

Music immediately reminds a person of something and arouses certain feelings as if it skips the mind. Music is an emotional language. It is different from ordinary language that requires understanding, a mind, memory and the ability to compare.

When I hear sounds, my feelings begin to operate to the rhythm of the sounds, they control me. We have an understanding and feeling. Our sight operates on understanding; our hearing operates on feelings,

In order to hear better we sometimes close our eyes so that our sight will not interfere with our attempt to focus on the music. Hearing belongs to our insight.

The sounds that we perceive give me a sense of harmony and balance. I enjoy the wholeness of the sounds.

There is something in musical harmony that is similar to the upper wholeness in nature. This is the reason that music elates us. There is nothing threatening in music and it brings quiet joy, tears, and something that is very internal, personal, and deep.

All of nature plays music and music can heal.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #359 – The Effect Of Music On People”, 4/27/14

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New Life #569 – Israeli Society: Hatred Of The Rich
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

Society changes according to the development of the human ego. Once the rich were respected, after that they hated them. The hatred of the rich is often led by educated people among the upper ten percent. In Israel, the situation is unique because we haven’t lived together as a single society for the past two thousand years. We haven’t gone through the entire process in Israel that Europeans have gone through, for example, with all of their revolutions and changes.

The social phenomena that are occurring in Israel have not been typical for the Jewish people at all. In the Diaspora, the Jews supported each other, helped each other, didn’t steal and lie to one another.

In this country, we are passing rapidly through processes that have happened in Western nations over hundreds of years. Economic disparities will only worsen until we begin to re-educate ourselves toward connection. Education for connection among the general public will radiate new values even among the rich on top.

The nature of education for connection will permeate the entire nation since all of us are connected in a linked network. Only education for connection will initiate a real revolution, a standard forceful revolution will not be beneficial in any way.

Today, the public feels that the rich are stealing from them and exploiting them, so they hate them. As a result of education for connection, the wealthy will themselves want to contribute more to society as a whole.

Through the tendency to connect, the public will recognize a new benefit, a new fulfillment—the discovery of the upper force, a new life. This is not just a fulfillment through the clothing of wealth, property, or honor; this is fulfillment through Light.

To gain this exalted fulfillment, fulfillment through Light, a person must be connected correctly to others. Hatred of the wealthy will stop only when they work together with the poor to build a united society.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #569 – Israeli Society: Hatred Of The Rich,” 5/14/15

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New Life #568 – The Socio-Economic Gap In Israel
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

Wise people have always been respected and wealth was not as valued as wisdom. In the past the most important thing was to be wise in the Torah and only then came the acquisition of professional knowledge and expertise. That’s the way it was when the nation of Israel was in exile.

In Israel, knowledge and wisdom are less appreciated today. We have to change our social-value system and respect expertise and wisdom instead of wealth.

Growing egoism has led to social destruction and people don’t see the person anymore but how much money he has. On the other hand, we can see that people are getting tired of chasing money. The widespread depression and drug abuse is an indication of that.

We should take not only wealth into account but also happiness, joy, a sense of security, and peace in the family. We need a new approach to life so that a person should feel encouraged, that he has support, and that he is loved, secure, and connected.

An egalitarian society can only be built by educating people to connect so that people will feel close to one another and care for each other.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #568 – The Socio-economic Gap In Israel,” 5/14/15

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New Life 559 – Holidays And Festivals: Lag Ba’Omer
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Meaning of the Lag Ba’Omer holiday.
And the fire of love burns all the transgressions one meets along the way (Rav Baruch Shalom Ashlag, Letter 40).

Lag Ba’Omer is the 33^rd day of the counting of the Omer.

The counting of the Omer indicates the 49 levels of hatred that are inherent in us. The goal is to move from hatred to love, and this is called correction.

The essence of correction is to develop a link of connection and love above the hatred. In this way we become similar to that single force that animates everything and connects all the opposites in nature.

We begin from self-examination. First of all, it is necessary to identify that our relationship to others is egoistic and it destroys life for all of us together.

It is possible to bring the correcting force into our lives with the help of the method of connection of the Kabbalah.

And where is Lag Ba’Omer in this whole story? It is an important stop on the way where it is possible to celebrate because we are sure to succeed. After we have located and corrected 33 layers of hatred in us, we can be sure that we will also successfully contend with all the rest.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 559 – Holidays And Festivals: Lag Ba’Omer,” 4/30/15

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New Life #358 – The Good Life Channel: Humor And Mood
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

What makes us laugh, what will we find if we learn to laugh at ourselves and how will the ability to laugh at human nature help us create a connection between us?

Summary

Humor leads us to dress up as all kinds of characters, freeing us from our seriousness. Through humor and jokes it is possible to educate and learn in a way that will be remembered by the learner.

Laughter is contagious; it lowers tension and relieves stress. We laugh because of unexpected phenomena. Humor and laughter must always come from love; otherwise, it hurts someone. An example is the use of gentle humor in relationships between couples.

It is worthwhile for a person to laugh about his weaknesses sometimes. Don’t “play” at being perfect.

As a society, we can laugh at our egoistic nature that prevents us from connecting with each other.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #358 – The Good Life Channel: Humor And Mood,” 4/24/14

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New Life #352 – Controlling Time
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

We feel that time “flies.” What causes this, and is there a possibility of changing our perception of time and our feeling about it and to learn to manage it?

Summary

We are going through a multitude of internal changes, so it seems that today time moves faster than in the past. The pace of life was once like riding on a donkey, and today it is like flying in an airplane. There are remote places in the world where people have no sense of time.

The more the desire for pleasure develops, the perception of time develops. We want pleasure every fraction of a second. I should learn to manage time, it shouldn’t manage me. We are stimulated by the program of desire for pleasure. If we rise above it, we will become masters over time.

There is an “I” and what is outside of me. According to nature, I am more important. If I succeed in reversing this, I will control time. Someone who learns how to control the definition of who is more important, whether it is him or something outside of him, gains control over reality.

Transforming the senses transforms desire – from a desire only for my own pleasure, to a desire to give pleasure to others.
Transitioning from being a receiver to giver gives you the ability to control time.
From KabTV’s “New Life #352 – Controlling Time,” 4/17/14

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New Life #567 – Everyone Is Corrupt
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Summary

Anyone who reaches a position of power may become corrupt; this is a general social phenomenon. Corruption is the outcome of the state the Israeli society is in. Each of us would do the same in that position.

Everyone is a small thief, the grocer, the taxi driver, everyone. Those in higher positions have more options. The time of idealist leaders is over; Menachem Begin was probably the last. Today everything is corrupt. Everyone is infected by his egoism. See the situation on the roads, at workplaces, at the supermarket, everywhere. Very few would behave differently.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, 10% of the world population behave differently. They are altruistic from birth. Their desire to receive is built differently. They receive egoistic pleasure from helping others, and so they don’t need to correct the ego.

In the past religion restrained a man’s ego, it promised him heaven. Today nothing helps. In the modern world the ego has no inhibitions no matter if a person is non-religious, religious, Ashkenazic, Middle Eastern or anything. The growing ego will bring the collapse of Israel; our only hope is a revolution in education. We have to re-educate ourselves. We have to build a new human being together. We need to learn that there is also a positive force in human nature and that there is a method of connecting to it and correcting everything.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #567 – Everyone Is Corrupt,” 5/12/15

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For The Sake Of Our Common Future

Question: How is it possible that while having such great strength and an important mission, the people of Israel can’t even think about its fulfilment?

Answer: Only the wisdom of Kabbalah can explain their mission to the people of Israel. However, unfortunately, Israeli society so far has formed a hostile or at least, an indifferent attitude to the wisdom of Kabbalah. People don’t want to listen and understand what happened.

Therefore, I am so worried about the future of people of Israel and the Jewish people all over the world in general due to the threat of these evil forces that are ready to be revealed. After all, we ourselves are giving them this opportunity and creating a basis for their manifestation.

Question: It seems to me that a Holocaust is not possible today when Jews have their country and army.

Answer: This is a misconception because we see how all of Europe is taking up arms against Israel. UNESCO, the United Nations, and all of the nations of the world oppose us, and no one wants to deal with us.

So far, they still are keeping some contact with us in order to receive new technologies from Israel, but this is a temporary phenomenon. Once, the nations of the world decided to allow us to create the state of Israel, but today they can review their decision and declare that this state shouldn’t exist. If they consider it a thorn in the body of humanity, then they should liquidate it if it brings no benefit.

Indeed, Israel today is in the center of all problems and is creating headlines in the news. Therefore, we must act so that we become an example for all of the nations of the world and give them what they expect from us: the method of connection.

If we don’t want to do it, perhaps we already should disperse in different directions and scatter between other nations and not to wait until we are thrown out of here or until the biggest concentration camp in the world will be built in the territory of Israel.

We need to see this situation in its true light and not delude ourselves the way that national leaders did eighty years ago, when they reassured everyone that there was no danger and everything would be alright. This caused to six million Jews to stay in Europe and die.

We have very little time left to decide what to do. If we don’t accept the wisdom of Kabbalah as the method of correction, we don’t have a future on this planet. Moreover, then the question will arise as to whether there is any future for humanity.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 4/28/16

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Adam And Eve Return To The Garden Of Eden

Question: What weapon would a man and woman use in a war against each other?

Answer: In this war, a man and woman use a wide range of weapons, starting with the courts, prisons, police, and public censure, including relatives and children, until they reach the last resort: clarifying the relationship in the bedroom.

But the fact is today we are running away from this war, and we don’t want to engage in it. Therefore, young people don’t want to have a family, or they marry at a very late age. We aren’t dependent on the family as much as before because the government and society provide support to families and partially compensate for things that a man was supposed to give.

A woman with modern household appliances requires less of a man’s physical strength and depends on him less, and the man depends less on the woman because he has a microwave and ready-to-cook food. Men and women are drifting apart more and more.

Therefore, if we still want to save the family and the correct form of human existence, we must reach such a connection between a man and a woman when the Shechina, the upper force of the nature, is revealed between them.

For this, we need a special education that would teach us to connect or at least to begin getting closer to each other. Nowadays, a physical gap has emerged between men and women, and precisely here, integral education must intervene, begin reducing the gap, and bring the opposite sides closer.

We need to explain to men and women how much they are losing because of their separation and how much they can gain through the correct connection, and teach them how to reach it. When we are connected correctly the Shechina is revealed between us, which is absolutely a different level, a sense of life that is called heaven. Adam and Eve return to the Garden of Eden!

If we don’t do it, we will miss not only the opportunity to live in heaven, but all of this life in general because no one is satisfied with it.

Question: Would couples that live as if in heaven still wage war with each other?

Answer: They will not fight because they will complete each other above all of the evil revealed. Love will cover all transgressions.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 3/31/16

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New Life #597 – From Destruction To Flowering
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Connection brings blossoming on all levels of nature. The essential difference between hatred and love is in our attitude toward the environment.

Summary

Connection brings blossoming on all levels of nature. The essential difference between hatred and love is in our attitude toward the environment.

Hatred—pleasure from harming others. Love—pleasure from benefiting others.

Feeling others develops in a person through education and the environment’s influence on him. Love for others begins developing as a result of the feeling of dependence, that love depends on something. We must teach that we build a good life through connection between us.

The force that can build true love for others is called the upper force, the power of love.

The social disintegration of today has come to build a need for the upper force in us, the power that connects. If we correct the hatred to love, we will cause all parts of nature to be connected and corrected.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #597 – From Destruction To Flowering,” 7/9/15

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