New Life 619 – A Good Teacher Is A Teacher Of Life
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Rav describes how he feels about being a guide for a multitude of students all over the world.

The role of the teacher in a school is to build a person. A professional teacher must also be this way somewhat. The teacher’s role is to prepare children for life, to teach them about the systems of relationships in the family, work, and society. The teacher should teach a child the reason he was born. Children ask about it and get no answer. It simply isn’t talked about it.

If a child knew how to answer this by himself, what he is living for, he could make the right decisions during his life. Since it seems that there is a unique role for an entire generation, the teacher must teach the children what their role is in the world of today. To do this, a teacher must know what nature requires from us because we are living within the system of nature.

The parents at home and the teacher in school must play the same “tune” for the child and should complement each other.

The teachers must learn how to help children achieve balance and harmony with the world that surrounds them. It is up to the teacher to develop the ability in a student to feel the entire system of nature in which we are living and learn to be in balance. Ultimately, the teacher must teach his students to connect with each other correctly, as a single system.

The essential motivation that must move a teacher is first of all to build the child into a person. The children will relate with respect and awe to a true teacher.

Parents entrust to the hands of the teacher the most precious thing that they have; they must be connected with him. If they truly want to build a generation that knows what it is living for, the entire society must change.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 619 – A Good Teacher Is A Teacher Of Life,” 8/30/15

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New Life 564 – Jerusalem Is Sacred To Three Religions
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

The wisdom of Kabbalah has nothing to do with religion. It is a method of revealing the Creator to man in this world. According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, the term “faith” has a different meaning than in other religions. Faith means the revelation of the Creator.

The meaning of “Jerusalem” according to Kabbalah is complete fear, the city of Shalem (wholeness). It is a state in which we feel wholeness and peace. The wisdom of Kabbalah is the universal method that everyone will need in order to discover the Creator.

Jerusalem is a spiritual concept that has nothing to do with the city itself, the stones and the walls. It is a spiritual attribute that means love and bestowal, exiting yourself for the sake of others, acting in favor of others.

We fell into unfounded hatred during the destruction of the Temple. Spirituality disappeared, the wisdom of Kabbalah was concealed, and religions were formed. Discovering the Creator means reaching the corrected attributes, reaching love and bestowal, and this is Jerusalem. When a person builds Jerusalem in his heart, when all people behave like brothers, it will be the city of Shalem, the whole city.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 564 – Jerusalem Is Sacred To Three Religions,” 5/7/15

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New Life 689 – Where Do Our Thoughts Come From?
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

There is no stronger power than the power of thoughts. Animals live according to an instinctive operating plan, which man doesn’t have so that he can develop unlimitedly. Where do our thoughts come from? They come from the general computer of nature, from the upper force.

Every state we undergo in life is meant to help us advance to the recognition of the upper force. If we paid attention to every thought we have, we would begin to identify the upper thought.

This is exactly what the wisdom of Kabbalah engages in, in how to perceive the upper leadership and how to identify it. Thus we begin to follow every thought and desire that awakens in us with intention of discovering their source in order to be adhered to the upper thought, to the upper force, that there is none else besides Him. The only way to identify the upper force is by using the formula of “love thy friend as thyself.”
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From KabTV’s “New Life 689 – Where Do Our Thoughts Come From?” 2/9/16

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New Life 630 – Overcoming Terrorism in Israel
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

We are very weak because we have made it possible for our enemies to be among us, to move freely everywhere. We are not prepared to control the situation and we cannot act aggressively because the world will rise up against us. Our hands are tied.

Everyone is screaming: Where is the security? Yet when we reach the government we understand the problem. The world hates us more than it hates them, so there is nothing to build on any improvement in the attitude towards us.

There is no army that can stand against terrorism; anyone can buy a knife and we are finished. We invest a lot in intelligence in order to prevent things before they break out. Without this, our situation would be much worse.

The world will resolve many of the problems that are bothering it now, and it will be freed to engage in anti-Israel conferences immediately after that. The world hates us without even knowing why; it’s because we hold the key to world happiness.

Bad relationships between us cause bad relationships between all people in the world. The method for the correction of human nature from evil to good is in our hands, but we don’t use it. To the degree that we correct ourselves, the relationships between us, the wave of terrorism will immediately calm down. Until then, we are existing by supreme grace, which is giving us a little time to understand what is happening and to correct ourselves.

Our powerful army will not save us this time, only correcting the relationships between us can calm the world down. Peace among the Jews in Israel will bring peace to the whole world; we will feel like a single unit, a single family.

Our correction will correct the whole world. Why? Because there is a network of connection between everyone, and we determine what happens in it. We are the smallest and determining part, like the brain of a large machine that determines everything that the machine carries out.

In today’s world, terrorism is becoming a government, it is derived from a deep and well-organized politics.
If we correct ourselves, if we connect between us, with this we will compel the entire world to unite and reach comprehensive peace.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 630 – Overcoming Terrorism In Israel,” 10/8/15

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New Life #638 – The Good Ones
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Summary

The wisdom of Kabbalah obliges us to reach love thy friend as thyself. Mutual guarantee will fill our country with a good spirit. When the connection between us is good, we are compatible with the general good force of nature and can bring it closer.

Once we were as one man in one heart, and when unfounded hate broke out we were destroyed. Now we need to rebuild ourselves. Our good future depends only on the connection between us through which our sense of security will improve and our enemies will be neutralized. Our spiritual leaders explained that if we are connected, no one will want to harm us.

Beyond mutual help, the project of “The Good Ones” also includes a PR campaign, discussion circles, in home meetings, and more. If we stop wanting to kill one another in potential, our neighbors will no longer want to kill us in practice. We will be good to one another and the whole world will be good to us. It is an equation that everything works by.

We have to radiate a spirit of connection and set a good example with our neighbors, at work, on the road, and in the media. There is the potential of goodness in every Israeli; it is in our DNA, and this is how we gathered around Abraham. The “Good Ones” is a positive wave meant to awaken the dormant love that is concealed in us. Mutual help in addition to a PR campaign about why it is important to connect will build a zone of security around us. If we connect, we spur the good force in nature and it balances the evil in us.

We tell our children that they should behave nicely to others, but we actually forget that. Let’s create good waves of connection between us, and they will spread like ripples from Israel to the world.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #638 – The Good Ones,” 10/25/15

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New Life 618 – The Status Of Teachers In Israel
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

In the past a teacher was never called by his first name but as “teacher” and was spoken to in third person only. In order to improve the teacher’s status in Israel we need private schools; the state cannot address this issue.

There should be a correlation between the teacher’s salary and his students’ achievements. We [Israel] have lost the title the “nation of the book” long ago, and all we care about now is money. A teacher’s wages should be the same as a doctor’s and even more. The future of the whole society is thrust on the teacher’s’ shoulders.

Why do people leave their job in high-tech in favor of education? Because they feel that they are building something real in education. A child today isn’t not only influenced by his home environment like in the past, but also by the screen that is in the palm of his hand.

If a teacher taught the art of the relations between people in different aspects of our life, he would be greatly appreciated. Parents should be allowed to register their kids in the class of a teacher of their choice. Parents should know everything that happens in school; they should know the teachers and choose the best, etc.

Teachers build the person; they build the next generation. They should be appreciated by all of society.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 618 – The Status Of Teachers In Israel,” 8/30/15

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New Life #637 – The Power Of The Media In Shaping Reality
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Summary

For generations, communication between people continued to develop. Today the young generation is fed by what they have in their smart phones, so we have lost contact with them. The media controls everything today, and those who control the media control the world, period.

Money runs the media, which runs the world. The anti-Israeli world media coverage stems from the natural inclination to hate the Jews in addition to money. It is impossible to stop what is happening on the Internet since the Internet today is the real means of communication between people.

If the Jews were investors who felt responsibility for the PR on the Internet, we could cope with what is happening there; if we connected around the PR on the net, the connections between us could greatly contribute to our success.

We have to reveal the truth through PR instead of the lies that are spread about Israel. What is more, we have to show everyone how connected we are and thus bring goodwill into the net. We should show that true Islam speaks about “love thy friend as thyself” and that we want to connect with them; we should show the world that the Israelis are connected and that this is where our power lies, and if they learn from us, everyone will benefit from that.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #637 – The Power of the Media in Shaping Reality”

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New Life #640 – Israel and the Storm
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Summary

We have taken the balance out of nature, thus from time to time some natural catastrophe occurs. It’s not always possible to identify what is coming, neither the intensity nor the kind of catastrophe.

The correction of human relationships will balance all of nature’s systems because man is at the highest level. Man has the strongest influence on nature, and also is the most delicate and vulnerable.

The conflict in the Israeli electric company demonstrates decay in the general society of Israel. We see bad relations everywhere. It’s senseless to blame the electric company workers, since actually the entire Israel society needs correction.

What we need is a general educational process for society in the way of consideration and mutual help, mutual responsibility, and that’s what we do here in our organization.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #640 – Israel and the Storm”

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New Life #636 – How To Be A Good Person
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Summary

When people will see that it is impossible to continue living as we do today, the situation will change for the better. Recognition of the evil in our situation can come from life itself, and this will be painful, or from a development of awareness. A good example of the development of awareness sparing one from suffering can be seen in the global campaign against smoking.

Latent in nature is a hidden, positive power that can balance the evil inclination in us, and the wisdom of Kabbalah is a means for discovering it. The good power is called Light, and it makes it possible for a person to control his evil nature, to reach balance. If we want to bring the hidden positive force into our lives, it is worthwhile to approach the wisdom of Kabbalah.

In the discussion circles that are made according to the method of Kabbalah, 10 people together become a detector of the good force. The conversation circles of Kabbalah are a means for awakening the positive force latent in nature and achieving balance.

If we build connection and love in Israel, nobody will be able to harm us; this will acquire true security for us. Why? This is like a body in homeostasis that illnesses cannot approach, for it has a natural immune system. If we balance ourselves internally, the haters of today will become friends; they will feel that it is good to be with us.

A person experiencing a conversation circle through the television or the Internet or who listens to our conversations, approaches balance. The good force balances the evil in us and brings health, tranquility, protection, a good attitude, and wisdom on all levels.

In conclusion, we are facing difficult situations; it is obligatory to learn to balance the evil in us. Kabbalah is the method for doing this.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #636 – How To Be A Good Person,” 10/21/15

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New Life 688 – Levels Of Thinking
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

The desire to enjoy is the matter of creation and it is divided into 4 levels: the still, vegetative, animate, and man. The more the desire to enjoy grows, the more power of thought it requires in order to be optimally filled. The power of thought serves the desire and it is especially evident in young children, while grownups hide their aspirations.

We can study creatures that are on a lower level than we are with our mind, but we find it difficult to study ourselves since in order to learn who I am, I have to rise to a level that is higher than me, to the level of Godliness, and I can do that by using the wisdom of Kabbalah. The power of thought that is greater than that of man is called the power of the Creator, which is the upper thought that connects everything. When a person discovers the upper thought, everything changes: his accounts, his values, and his plans, and he begins to discover that reality is actually himself, and then the desire to bring everyone to the same recognition awakens in him.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life 688 – Levels Of Thinking,” 2/9/16

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