Question: There were many athletes like Brumel or Yuri Vlasov, for example, who after terrible injuries and illnesses would get back up and overcome their fate. When the Creator tests a person for strength? What is the purpose of this?

Answer: All of this is deposited into the common treasury of the collective soul of all humanity. Such people add a great deal to humanity through their destiny.

Question: What do they help humanity understand?

Answer: They raise humanity closer to the Creator.

Question: Even though they themselves sort of…

Answer: It does not matter how they personally relate to it. I am not saying they are some kind of saints. They simply raise the bar of the human being higher toward the Creator.

But I am not in favor of suffering. There are many similar examples where people choose suffering and think that through it, they rise. This is not correct.

Question: Then the natural question in such cases, and others too is “What does it mean not to suffer?”

Answer: If you clearly understand and you have the right conditions where your suffering makes someone else’s correction or progress easier, then yes. But if it is only in your imagination…

Comment: You have raised the bar now. You said: “If my suffering eases someone’s life, and fate, and soul.” You did not say “me,” but “someone else.”

My Response: Someone else, of course.

Question: “Of course!” That is high! So, it is if my suffering serves as an example for someone and I do it for the sake of the example, to show that it’s possible, to encourage them to try?

Answer: Yes.

Question: That is lofty!

You always speak about annulling before fate, before what the Creator decides. When you say this, what exactly do you mean?

Answer: I mean that I reasonably agree with what stands before me.

Question: Even with my illnesses and so on?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Do I say: “This is from You, and it is necessary for me.” Like that?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What happens then with my pain, with my suffering?

Answer: Agreeing with it creates tranquility within a person. He agrees with his fate, he agrees with the Creator, he agrees to accept everything that is allotted to him according to his destiny.

Question: Is it like an analgesic?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this called “annulment”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And one must reach this?

Answer: I believe so.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/22/25

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Question: A person can come to the meaning of life, reveal it, and feel it, only if he understands that he cannot do without it. That is, it should be above life and death. Does a person bring himself to such an extreme state, or is he being brought to it?

Answer: No, it is done by the soul. It is a soul that seeks to escape, to free itself from the bonds of this life.

Question: So are these special souls, and do we not know when this will happen to us?

Answer: Yes, but gradually more and more souls are approaching this state.

Question: Is that what we call a cry, a prayer?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this a gift from above?

Answer: All this is a gift. Absolutely everything is a gift from the Creator.

Question: So are my efforts to achieve this a gift?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is there no way that it can just occur to a person?

Answer: Not to anyone, ever, in any way. It only comes from the Creator and only to those whom He ordains for it.

Question: Tell me, please, is the revelation of truth the end or the beginning of the work?

Answer: The revelation of truth is the beginning.

Question: And then again do we feel that we cannot breathe, and again it is revealed?

Answer: But this time it is different.

Question: What is the truth?

Answer: It is in attaining the Creator, in attaining the entire universe through the Creator. This is the realization of the perfection of the Creator’s actions.

Question: Is this what we must attain?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Does everyone have to attain this one way or another, sooner or later?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will everyone be put through this—”I cannot breathe unless…”?

Answer: Not to that extent. There are special souls that have to go through it on such a large scale themselves. And there are those who go through it after them, in their footsteps, en masse.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/4/25

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Question: People cross oceans to find some land or discover something. This is hope. How can we not lose hope when everything has burned out, when all the candles of hope have flickered out—love, faith, peace of mind, everything?

Answer: It is by knowing that everything is in the hands of the Creator because a person realizes for sure that nothing is in his hands.

Question: Is this candle a hope? Everything is in the hands of the Creator, is this the next step?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why does the Creator always leave us this little step, this last candle?

Answer: To catch us at the last minute, the last second, or the last moment, and to continue on together with us.

This candle is a candle of connection between a person in this world and a person in the upper world.

Question: Does it burn all the time, this candle?

Answer: It escorts the person onward.

Question: Are there states when this candle does not burn, when there is no hope? Do you think such states exist?

Answer: No, it is always lit.

Question: Is this what we call “the Creator is good who does good”?

Answer: Yes, otherwise, such a person would not have been born, for the Creator knows his whole life in advance until the end.

Question: Why do we so often not see this candle and lose hope?

Answer: We are not so attuned to our existence.

Question: What is the right attitude?

Answer: The right attitude is that the goodness of the Creator is always before us.
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Comment: Global drought trends show increasing frequency, severity, and areas of land impacted.

My Response: We have so disfigured nature that it simply cannot make up for all that we have done in it. There is a limit to what a person can do and not feel what they are doing. It is like in a car when there are problems, but you can still drive, and somehow move forward, and there are those when it is all over.

Comment: It seems that nature teaches us hard lessons.

My Response: No, I would not say that. Nature protects itself very well, it tries to soften everything. There is a very large margin of safety in it. But we have already crossed all imaginable boundaries.

Question: We know that water is very important in the life of any organism, and humans in particular. Ninety percent of chemical elements are water soluble; the human body is all irrigated and saturated with water.

What is water in human life?

Answer: Water is the foundation. From the point of view of Kabbalah, it is the light of Hassadim, without which one cannot exist. It holds everything together. Not just water, but the very property that it communicates, dissolves and allows you to flow from one state to another. The special properties of water, freezing point and dew point, are very important properties.

Water is practically what gives life to our planet. Of course, nothing will happen without it.

We are already in a state that can be called irreversible. We have to wait until this “patient” finishes his torment and that is it.

There is nothing we can do anyway. We cannot curb our selfishness; we cannot curb our appetites. Grabbing more and more—for what? It doesn’t matter what for. We cannot! Selfishness just makes us do it, that is all. It forces us to do absolutely irrational things. And as a result, we get…

Question: If we return to water, to its physical and spiritual properties. You said that it helps to transfer from one state to another, to break down, and to dissolve. How can a person learn this flowing property of water?

Answer: This is possible only if a person rises above himself, only if he does not use his selfish desire, but cultivates the property of water. This is an altruistic desire.

The property of bestowal, the property of love, the property of connection with others, is the property of water. That is why it is so important and everything is based on it. Inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature exists only because of this. A person has to do something with himself to match the world around him. He is the opposite of it.

Question: We know that in ancient times people called for rain and prayed to the rain god. And what should they do now so that nature becomes merciful to them and gives them water?

Answer: I do not think prayer can make it rain. Let them try.

It is just that nature has to react normally. One act of man against one act of nature. That is, if man destroys nature through his actions, then nature will destroy man by her actions. That is all that is going to happen.

Comment: We see that such abnormal cases occur in southern countries. But now Europe is also suffering from the heat; temperatures are reaching more than 40 degrees Centigrade.

My Response: Europe, Russia, and Siberia will all suffer from the heat, and even more so than the southern countries.

Question: And what happens in the spiritual world? Is there a shortage of the light of Hassadim, the properties of bestowal and love?

Answer: People who enter the spiritual world must create the light of Hassadim themselves from their altruistic actions, from working on their egoism. Otherwise, they will not succeed.

Question: When they are organized in this way, what can this equivalent of water do in spirituality?

Answer: If they organize the light of Hassadim, then they will be able to receive any abundance based on it. Then life develops on its basis.

Question: How does this happen? Where does it come from?

Answer: The spiritual world has everything in abundance. It depends only on a person how to reveal the light of Hassadim and then attract the light of Hochma to it.

It depends only on the person, on his kind attitude to others and to nature.

Question: How can we connect these two entities: the spiritual component, where there is a lot of water, everything is saturated and nourished, and the depleted relationships, the depleted Earth without water, without the light of Hassadim in this world?

Answer: You cannot do anything with our world. It is a consequence of what we produce in the spiritual world. Therefore if we cannot be kind, good, and correspond to the higher world, then this is what we are supposed to do in our world. I do not see any prospects. No.

Unless people eventually realize that they need to listen to the calls of Kabbalists and actually engage in relationships with each other in order to truly become one benevolent family, then our globe simply cannot stand us and will lead to us disappearing from the face of the earth.

Question: Is there a recipe for such an acute situation?

Answer: There is. Tell all the people that everything depends only on their kind attitude toward each other. Otherwise we will die.

Question: If everyone turns around to face each other now, will it rain and the drought will disappear?

Answer: Yes, real life will begin.

Otherwise we will be forced to happiness with a stick. Otherwise you will not get anywhere. There is a certain time, a certain atmosphere, a certain behavior of people where it is possible to do all this. But if we cannot take advantage of it, then other problems happen and evil times come.

Question: What are your wishes for people who suffer from the heat?

Answer: To get smarter. We need to understand that we don’t need to pray for rain. We don’t need to do anything with nature or anything else. We need to ask the Creator to help us become wiser and begin to apply altruistic relationships between us. That is all.

Everything will depend on it because the property of rain, the property of Hassadim, is the good dependence of people on each other.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/23/19

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Comment: Several studies have been conducted about the search for meaning in life with varying conclusions about it being beneficial or stressful.

My Response: The main thing is to find your natural point that you already live in. It may still be in development, but you are in it, not floundering about, not knowing where to go.

Comment: But you always say that searching for the meaning of life is good.

My Response: I’m not talking about a state where a person doesn’t understand what the meaning of life is. He must determine what this meaning is and move toward it. Moving toward the meaning of life—when you understand and know how and what, this gives you enormous fulfillment, pleasure, and calmness, together with enormous dissatisfaction, inner imbalance.

Comment: With falls and rises…

My Response: Yes! But you receive tremendous delight from all of it. You enjoy the process. This is the “proud Stormy Petrel.”

Question: And what if you have a fall, despair, when you suddenly think: “Did I choose the right point?”

Answer: But that is still better than being a non-living element, working in some office and sitting at home watching football. Or not? It depends on the person.

Question: Do you trust only the research that you yourself have gone through and verified?

Answer: First of all, I don’t trust anyone in the world. Because there is no one to trust. We see what is happening in the world. Therefore, I rely only on myself. On my own experiments. On my universities.

Question: And they say that after long searches you find the meaning of life, adhere to your teacher, and go? With falls and rises.

Answer: Only this way.

Comment: I remember you once told that you had such descents that you couldn’t even get out of bed.

My Response: That is natural. This is the path of searching. There is no way around it.

Question: And you call this a happy path?

Answer: Of course! Absolutely! “The exhilaration of the battle,” in the fall.

Question: What would you wish people who enter the path of searching for the meaning of life?

Answer: I wish people to enjoy the metamorphoses taking place within them. Everything happening inside them, everything boiling—that is life! Don’t grow old ahead of time. Or at least try not to, internally.
I can’t climb mountains, I can’t struggle with the waves in a raging sea. No. But inside me all of this exists, and all of this gives the sensation of life.

Question: And then a person remains young regardless of age?

Answer: Of course!

Question: Do you yourself feel young in this sense?

Answer: In two ways. On one hand, everything inside me is boiling. On the other, I know how to balance it. Meaning, my ship is still holding steady on all the waves.

Comment: Yes. This I can testify to.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/23/19

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Question: You always speak about annulment before fate, before what the Creator determines. When you say this, what exactly do you mean?

Answer: I mean that I consciously agree with what is placed before me.

Question: Even with my illnesses and so on?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Meaning that this is from You, and it is necessary for me. Like that? And what happens then with my pain, with my suffering?

Answer: Agreeing with it creates serenity within a person. He agrees with his fate, he agrees with the Creator, he agrees to accept everything that is allotted to him according to his destiny.

Question: Is it like an anesthetic?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And this is called annulment?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And one must reach this?

Answer: I believe so.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/2/25

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I do not believe at all in a positive change in the world. I believe only that humanity will bring itself to such a state, I hope not to the final one, where it will understand that it must change, and seriously.

Question: So are you saying that humanity will change only when it is horrified?

Answer: Yes, it must see its own end.

Question: But you surely have some hope? After all, you are conveying something, one way or another. Many, many people watch you.

Answer: I hope people will see that they are heading toward a quick and inevitable end. And then, perhaps, they will understand that there must be some way out. But they do not see this way out.

Tell people today: “Let’s treat one another well.” And what then?

Comment: For them, this sounds like something childish. And for you it is something very high.

My Response: It is a very high approach, but unfortunately, it sounds unattainable. Although I do not laugh at it, and I understand that, in principle, it must happen. But how much suffering must humanity still endure before it says: “Enough!”?

Question: But one step before the abyss, what thought will suddenly come to humanity or to a person? What thought? One step before the abyss.

Answer: I believe that when people understand that they are losing everything, for example, their children. Something so terrifying that there is nowhere left to run, nowhere to turn away, and they must make a decision.

In such a case, perhaps they will agree to change something. Because change will still come from above, but only when we are ready for it. And readiness, it looks like this: when children and grandchildren are under the threat of death, disappearance, extermination, then we will be able to do something with ourselves.

Comment: I see. But this is a formula where I cannot stop along the way, but must reach that point.

My Response: Yes. We are moving toward this, and we cannot stop.

Comment: So neither my reason nor my logic will work.

My Response: There must be a feeling, the deepest inner feeling, that a dead end is inevitable.

But let us hope that, on one hand, through our dissemination we will accomplish something. And on the other hand, humanity must see its own end and decide.

There must be a way out. Otherwise, our entire existence is meaningless. But how can we make this happen quickly, smoothly, and perhaps even somehow in a controlled manner? That is the problem.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/14/25

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Question: Professor James Tilley, a political scientist, identified five lessons that human politics can learn from the power struggles and social dynamics of chimpanzee groups. 

Keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer.

Answer: Friends are friends. But you have to watch out for your enemies. And you can’t keep watch over them if you push them away. It’s best to keep them “in a cage” right next to you.

When building your alliances, pick someone weak, not someone strong. 

My Response: So that you can command them.

Question: And for humans, should it be exactly the same?

Answer: That is how alliances are made. We would like to create them that way too, but it doesn’t always work out.

It’s good to be feared, but it’s better to be liked.

My Response: Of course, it is more peaceful when you are loved. There is nothing better than that, it is the clearest protection. But at the very least, let them fear you.

It is good to be liked, but it is even better to be able to hand out goodies.

My Response: Of course, because then others become dependent on you.

External threats can shore up support (if they are real…).

My Response: An external threat can bring support because it forces you to realize all your internal capabilities, and then you seek partners.

An external threat mobilizes and helps; you can’t move forward without it.

Question: These are five chimpanzee principles. Could you name a few human principles?

Answer: A human has no principles; he is unprincipled. All his “principles” last only for a moment.

Question: Why do chimps have principles but humans don’t?

Answer: Chimpanzees act according to nature. Even their reason, whatever they have, comes from nature; it is the accumulation of various results.

But humans don’t have that because everything in them is constantly developing. Egoism develops, and that is why a person cannot solve today what he decided yesterday using the same method. Because the circumstances are completely different, the ego is different, the view of the world is different, the environment is different.

Question: Then what is “humanity”? People always say: “Be human, be kind,” and so on.

Answer: I believe it is a stance dictated by weakness. It can’t be otherwise, if our nature is egoism. What kind of “humanity” can there be? Only if I want to appear good, or want others to treat me well.

Question: So they are all just masks?

Answer: Only masks. If a chimp’s egoism is natural and everyone understands each other because of it, then a human wraps himself in so many forms that it is very hard to understand him. And on top of that, he uses kindness, reason, and everything else to rule over others, to control, to elevate himself above everyone. So in that sense, he is much worse than any monkey.

Question: What should one do, then? How can one come to light, to goodness?

Answer: There is a method of correction, but for that, a person must understand that he needs to be corrected.

Question: He has to feel that he is like this?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And if a person comes to realize that he is completely egoistic, that this is his nature…

My Response: Then he must come to Kabbalah. He must study his nature and go forward from there. There is no other way; everything leads to this, and the sooner, the better.

For me, to become “human” means to become like the Creator. It is when a person begins to realize that connection with others is his personal, essential need, one that overrides all others.

Only by developing this completely anti-egoistic, meaning anti-natural, quality within himself can he not only survive, but rise to the stars. Only in this way. It is extremely difficult, impossible, unless you come to the right method.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/13/24

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There is a current, there is a boat, and I am in the boat. I must agree that I am floating along with the current. I cannot go against the current. I cannot get out of this river. The only thing I can do is to agree with where the current is carrying me in the boat.

Question: Are my friends also floating in this boat?

Answer: If we put it this way, then yes. We are all floating in the boat along the current of life, in the river of life. It is best to understand that this is the case. You lived one day, you lived it. Another day, again, And so on, and so on.

Question: So you are not in favor of making plans?

Answer: No! These plans will not come true anyway, and we just get upset because of them.

Question: Are you worried that we will be disappointed?

Answer: It depends on what goals we set for ourselves in life.

Question: That is the question. What goals should we set after all? I am floating in this boat, do I want to get somewhere or not?

Answer: If that is your goal.

Question: If the goal is to reach somewhere, then what?

Answer: Then yes, you need to examine it, is it worthwhile? Is it possible? Can you achieve it? If you can, then yes. And if not, then slowly row at least a little closer to it. But still, calmly. Don’t rush.

Comment:: That complicates things a little.

My Response: Why does it complicate things? Should we rush?

Comment: We are used to rushing. We are used to striving toward a goal.

My Response: I do not think that is reasonable in our time. There are periods when you are simply carried along, and that is it.

Question: So in our words: “There is none else besides Him”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And that is how I should live?

Answer: The Creator constantly creates new conditions for us, and whether we want it or not, we will still realize them.

To agree with where the river of life carries us does not mean giving up. It means perceiving the river’s flow realistically and going along with it, understanding that you cannot go against it. There are no heroes who can walk against the stream.

And of course, we would like to change something, but that “something” can only be very, very small in our life.

Question: And where is the joy in this? We still want something joyful.

Answer: Joy is not in the act of throwing yourself into the water and trying to block the river, and so on. Joy is in finding special points of movement along your simple, ordinary life path and trying to move through them.

Question: What do you mean? Are special points, joyful points? Is that what you are saying?

Answer: Whether they are joyful or not, you still must pass through them.

Question: And what we are used to and received joy from was in going against the current, going against nature?

Answer: That is your inner feeling. In reality, no one can go against it anyway.

Question: We have repeatedly said that human nature is egoistic and that a person must somehow rise above this nature. Can you connect this?

Answer: Yes, to rise above your nature means to realize that you are still carried by the current of the river. You may wish to get out of it, but you do not even know where or how, or who is waiting for you on the shore if you suddenly appear there with your boat, etc. So I do not know if that is reasonable.

Question: Does one need to know or at least sense what awaits at the end? Rivers flow into the sea after all.

Answer: You need to choose a goal that seems realistic and matches your abilities, and try to reach it somehow. That is, we must understand at some point that we leave the river of life, get out of it, and somehow sailing further on.

Question: So there should be some stopping points along the way?

Answer: Yes, but honestly, in the end, even though a person may want to become some kind of revolutionary in something during life, in the end, he agrees that this is life, and it ends with death, and afterward, it is what it is.

Comment: That doesn’t sound very optimistic. One still wants to set goals so that are not about conquering death, but at least to somehow overcome it internally.

My Response: On the contrary! When you accept this, you gain a special calmness and a special perception of life, and you perceive it realistically. I am not talking about death. I am talking about how you perceive this flow realistically.

Question: If someone who studies Kabbalah for many years sits in this boat, should his behavior be the same, in your opinion?

Answer: His behavior should be what anyone’s behavior is—striving toward his goal.

Comment: So if the goal is to rise above one’s nature…

My Response: If the goal is to rise above your nature, then it is in the boat with you. You should not jump anywhere or swim to the shore; you should not shout: “Hey, who is there on the shore?”—maybe someone is. You should not call anyone. It all depends on your mood, on your attitude toward what you are going through. And in the end, you enter another dimension.

Question: How does that happen? How do I get pulled out of my nature? I am just sailing in the boat, with my idea, our idea let’s say.

Answer: You are not pulled out, you do not go anywhere. It is just that the illusion in which you existed is simply replaced little by little by the second one, then by the third one, and so on

Comment: And I stop paying attention to the hardships of life, age, illness.

My Response: No, that no longer interests me. I think about how to live through it peacefully and then enter a new life.

Question: How can you be above all this? Above this life that presses on us with illnesses and suffering?

Answer: The best thing is to surrender to it and not resist. Because resistance gives nothing, we know this. Everyone around us goes through such stages and ends the same way. Have a benevolent attitude to both life and death.

Question: And this is what it means to “relate the same way to the Creator”?

Answer: Yes, agree with Him, with what He has done to us, that He has placed us within certain bounds and given us this vector of development.

Question: When they say that each person has his own path, what do they mean? His own path to the Creator?

Answer: Yes, nothing else. And there is nothing especially new here, except as it relates to the individual.

Question: So each person has his own path to the Creator?

Answer: Yes, if a person understands this, then it is called that he is acquiring wisdom.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/18/25

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Comment: Winston Churchill is a symbol of an era—calm, confident, determined, with his ever-present cigar. He was not only a great statesman, but also an artist and writer. His aphorisms are still well known today. It is worth listening to his principles of leadership.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

My Response: I do not think we need to sacrifice. It is not sacrifice; it is a rational distribution of strength and destiny when you give everything to the upper governance and, in accordance with it, flow toward it at every moment.

This is not a sacrifice but a very wise, correct, and true decision. Because in this way I lean upon and cleave to the upper governance. What else could there be? Would you suggest that I act according to earthly logic or some philosophy?

Comment: So if I acted for myself, for my ego, that would be a sacrifice: “I sacrifice.” But if I lean on “there is none else besides Him”…

My Response: I believe this is the only choice a person has. And therefore for me it is not a sacrifice, but quite the opposite. To discover that this is how one should act, that is a great gift.

Question: They say: “Relax and enjoy.” Is this in that same realm?

Answer: Yes. Every moment, no matter what happens. You understand how everything is arranged! Everything is for a person’s good—but with this condition.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

My Response: In truth, there are no unfavorable ones. Some are better, some worse, some threatening, some gentle that make you relax.

Question: But from your approach, are all of them favorable?

Answer: All are favorable, all are necessary, all stem from the root of your soul, and each one corresponds to the next moment that you must correct. Therefore you must accept them as proper and necessary, and respond accordingly.

Every moment is right; it is what you need to receive in life.

Question: Do you receive what you are meant to receive?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And is it precisely because you are aligned with the law that only the upper one leads you?

Answer: Yes. You work together with Him, like in a tango.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it… But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

My Response: You should pay attention to them in order to turn them into prosperity, to see in them the hidden help and love of the Creator.

Question: Even if someone threatens your life?

Answer: It is said: even if a sharp sword rests upon your neck, you must still believe it comes from the Creator’s benevolent intention.

Question: Is that even possible?

Answer: I have not tested it myself. But one can come close. In truth, at that level, I do not know. Yet we have gone through many operations, and I felt even in those moments that it was an expression of love, when we were literally on the edge between life and death. I love such moments.

Comment: That is a great love! I was with you then, so I can appreciate how one can suddenly feel that it is an expression of love.

My Response: That is right.

All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope.

My Response: Cling to them, constantly develop them, raise them, and reevaluate them.

Question: What is the most essential value for you?

Answer: The most essential value for me is to be myself as I am written in the Creator’s book of fates—to realize myself. That is all. Nothing else is given to a person.

Question: In what way to realize yourself?

Answer: It is by transmitting through myself, in the most optimal and complete way, the influence of the Creator upon the world, as each person must do.

I try to do this through myself, to convey to everyone in this world the existence of the Creator, His plan, His attitude, loving and bestowing.

The revelation of the Creator to people in our world is the subject of the wisdom of Kabbalah.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.

My Response: For that, one must first rise to the level of Bina, the quality of complete bestowal. And from bestowal and love for all, one acts accordingly.

Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.

My Response: The challenge is to yourself, to no one else. Because besides you, there is only the Creator. You play only on your own side.

Everything that appears before you is a challenge sent to you, and you must lower or elevate yourself to the correct realization of this challenge, since it comes from the Creator.

Comment: For an egoist, “challenge” means to challenge others.

My Response: But there are no others! Whom to challenge? There is only the Creator. This whole worldview is false and deceptive.

Comment: So everything I see, everything that comes to me from the world…

My Response: Everything before you is a play, staged perfectly. And you must play your part correctly, and turn through all the actors to the director Himself.

Question: And through all these actors, is the Creator addressing me?

Answer: Only that.

Question: So that I may turn to Him?

Answer: Yes. And that is all. In this way the whole world becomes an intermediary between you and the Creator. It is that simple—all problems are solved.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

My Response: Exactly, that is how it is. Regard difficulties as opportunities because all difficulties that arise are opportunities for our egoism to elevate itself to the next level.

We cannot afford—we have no right—to look back. We must look forward.

My Response: That is necessary—otherwise you cannot advance.

Perspective means the complete revelation of the Creator to a person.

Priorities mean making the entire world into the link between me and the Creator, between us. The whole world! This is me, this is Him, and the whole world is between us.

Comment: Beautiful, but not very clear.

My Response: In your attitude toward the world, you must reach a state in which the Creator is revealed to you in the world, in every detail of it. And to each detail you relate accordingly.

Never, never, never give in, in nothing, great or small, large or petty, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

My Response: Be unyielding toward your egoism. You must set yourself so as to be steadfast in the struggle, to rise above your animal nature. In Kabbalah this is called “to make a restriction, a screen, and reflected light.”

There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.

My Response: A person needs a small surrounding society—people he can rely on, at least somewhat. Because even on himself he cannot rely. But on them, if he builds the relationship correctly, he can.

Such a society is essential because the Creator deliberately pushes him, throws him off balance, and he sometimes needs support.

No case of this kind can be judged apart from its circumstances.

My Response: Naturally, what else to act according to? To rise above the situation also means to act according to it.

Question: So is it very natural?

Answer: Yes, that is the right thing.

You ask, What is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

My Response: It is not a wish, but a necessity—to win.

Kabbalah is the science of victory: to conquer oneself, and through oneself all of reality, so that you compel the Creator to reveal Himself within it.

That is victory.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/1/25

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