Question: You have said more than once that a person is given only what they can endure. What do you mean by this? We see that people are given things they cannot endure. Or can they still endure it?

Answer: They can. What is it that people cannot endure? It only seems to us that they cannot withstand something or cannot survive it. No, a person survives everything, bears everything, and can work on themselves to such an extent that no other creature could withstand such things.

Question: What does to endure mean? Does it mean to agree with this blow? What does it mean to come out of it?

Answer: Even to agree, even to understand, to realize, and to go through it is called coming out of a descent.

Question: What should a person’s guiding principle in life based on this be?

Answer: The principle of life must be very simple: instead of feeling myself, I must feel others; I must live not within myself, but within others. That is it. Essentially, this leads to the correct result.

Question: So, are you saying that if I close within myself, then a descent is inevitable? But if I am always open toward others and live for them, then I quickly come out of these states.

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why are descents given?

Answer: A descent is given in order to empty a person from the past, so that they will be ready to be filled with the future. Each descent and each ascent is an inner renewal of a person.

Question: Until when can a person be renewed? What peak must they reach?

Answer: It is until one completely renews oneself. This is a state where one returns to the root of one’s soul. And from that point on, one no longer needs to change internally, as it were.

Question: Do they return to their permanent place?

Answer: They return to their place, to their original point in the soul of Adam.

Question: “The soul of Adam,” do you mean that it is one single soul?

Answer: Yes, a person returns to their point in this soul. Every human being must go through this path of ascents and descents in order to return to that point. We cannot escape it.

Question: Do we know this point in advance? Do we know where we are heading?

Answer: We cannot know it because we cannot yet feel it.

Question: At what moment do I begin to feel it?

Answer: To the extent that you truly draw closer to it.

Question: Why is it given to us not to feel it?

Answer: Because we do not yet have the qualities of bestowal, love, and connection with others, with other souls, and so on.

Question: Am I moving toward that very connection that will unite us into a single whole? Is that where I’m going?

Answer: Yes, therefore, the commandment, the main condition, is: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/11/25

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Question: You said that Nature, with a capital “N,” is equivalent to the concept of the Creator. The Gematria (numerical value) of these two Hebrew words is the same. So, we are talking about the Creator, right?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And you say, if we are good with the Creator, then He will be good with us.

My Response: Naturally. Fulfill His commandments, and you will see how He relates to you in the very same way! The commandments are the laws of Nature.

The laws of Nature are not physics, mathematics, and so on, what we know from science. The laws of Nature relate to the level of a person’s attitude toward the world: how people relate to each other, how a person relates to the still, vegetative, and animate nature, how one relates to the universe, to everything. That is what is meant by a person’s attitude toward the Creator.

In general, this should simply be love, a correct and heartfelt attitude toward everything outside of you.

Comment: So, I already have love for myself, there is no getting away from that.

My Response: That is your egoism.

Question: And love for others, for what is outside of me, are you saying that it doesn’t exist?

Answer: No, of course not.

Question: Or maybe it is insufficient?

Answer: No! It does not exist at all.

Question: How can one come out of oneself and love something around? Are there any steps a person must take? We’re basically talking now about how to resist or stop this war that Nature has declared on us. If possible, please give some concrete advice. How can one come out of oneself and love something outside of myself?

Answer: That’s exactly what “Love your neighbor as yourself” means. That is the main and general commandment of the entire Torah.

Question: When you say “neighbor,” do you mean another person?

Answer: In general, it refers to everything around you. You must develop this love within yourself and start giving it. Not just rationally “love this one a bit more, that one a bit less,” and so on. Love! To love means that your heart tells you how to relate.

Comment: That is exactly the problem. We don’t really understand what it means to love with the heart.

My Response: You have to work on it. It is not like flipping a switch. It is an entire process to love someone outside of yourself.

Question: What does it mean to love?

Answer: To love means to relate to another as to yourself. What could be simpler?

Comment: That’s true. And we can’t make that step.

My Response: No, we don’t even understand how.

Question: So how can we do it then?

Answer: I don’t know. Maybe we should first watch some movie about how a person loves themselves so I can learn from that how I should love others.

Question: Do you mean to copy it?

Answer: Yes. Show me, in some film, how I love myself without any filters. And from that, I will see how I should love others, so that I will always have this example in front of me.

Comment: So, I’m constantly living wanting to receive something sweet, good, warm, kind, heartfelt, that is how I want others to treat me.

My Response: Mainly, you always want to be right.

Question: Do I suddenly have to give that away and say, “You’re right”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: That is serious work. Will Nature calm down then?

Answer: Of course, it will! Because you, the main initiator of all this negativity, will simply remove yourself from the picture. Nature corrects us and leads us precisely to this realization.

Question: Is Nature really like that?

Answer: Yes. Nature responds to us. It gave the world, this Earth, into human hands: “Do as you wish.”

Comment: But in essence, Nature itself is giving, bestowing.

My Response: It is giving and bestowing to the extent that you are giving and bestowing.

Comment: So, you’re putting an equal sign here, if I become like it, everything will be fine.

My Response: A person must come to equivalence with the Creator. That is why Nature will not yield on this.

Question: So, in short, we must correspond to the Creator, is that it?

Answer: Yes. What else?

Question: Only how can we actually do it! Will Nature not calm down until we reach this?

Answer: No! That is exactly what is written: “Rise to the level of the Creator.”

Comment: Understood. But you know, seismologists are already predicting that this won’t stop, that it will keep shaking, shaking, and shaking. Something is happening with the Earth’s core. I won’t go into technical details, but they say more and more places will open up where it will shake seriously. That’s what they’re saying.

My Response: The Creator seems to be playing with our Earth like with a ball.

Question: So, will this continue, as you say, until we make this decision and begin to move toward the Creator?

Answer: Yes.

Question: We just have to make the decision? Is that all that is required of us?

Answer: To agree! To accept means to agree. It is not like at a meeting where they reach a unanimous decision, and then everyone goes home. Here, there must be unanimous agreement among all people to live by the principle “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Question: Can we say that all 613 or 620 commandments are included in this one?

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/28/25

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Question: Do we need to seek out happiness or not? Or is it also in the hands of the Creator?

Answer: I do not think it is possible to find it. I do not think happiness can be found. Happiness must be created. That is, you need to put yourself in a state where you know exactly how to force it to be revealed, then you will see it.

Question: A very important question is: “What do you mean by the word ‘happiness’ when you say it now?”

Answer: By happiness I mean a feeling that one’s life has been a success.

Question: Does one have such a feeling toward the end of his life, or throughout his life: ”I am living the right life; my life is a success”? How is it?

Answer: No, I think it happens toward the end.

Question: So is it always a work in progress? Does it follow that our life is a constant work in progress?

Answer: Yes, it is when a person is still looking for more and more, to rebuild his life over and over again so that it brings the happiness one envisions. Let us say that ii is making people happy, making his family happy, whatever a person can imagine.

Question: So are you now directing the vector “away from me”—to make others happy. This is what you keep talking about. Is this how I discover the meaning of life? So in a way, do I come to the conclusion that this is what brings me happiness?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this constant work?

Answer: It is a constant job that can never stop. And a person should clearly understand how to do this.

Comment: But along the way, one gets disappointed, climbs up again, and so on.

My Response: I do not know about getting disappointed. He just has to imagine his path. And then “the traveler will master the path.”

Comment: That is, in order for happiness to follow you, it does not mean that you are happy; you have to work all the time to make others happy. And it is not easy, as we understand it.

My Response: It does not matter that it is not easy. Is anything easy in life? Nothing is easy.

Question: But is this the path? This particular path?

Answer: Yes.

Question: When you say “the path of light” and “the path of darkness,” what do you mean by that?

Answer: The path of light is when you bring light to people. And the path of darkness is when you cannot do it.

Question: Cannot or will not?

Answer: I believe that “cannot” and “will not” are the same.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/31/25

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A person must understand that they live in a world in which they have no right to anything at all. And if they take something, consume it for themselves for their own sake, then they must pay for it, give it back, repay it, and so on.

Question: And the fact that we break everything, kill, does all that come back to a person like a boomerang? What do you think?

Answer: We will have to pay for all of that on a global scale.

Comment: Remember, Rabbi Akiva said that “the book is open, the hand writes,” and you borrow, as it were, and later you must repay all of it.

My Response: You will have to.

Question: Is that what this is about?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And is it normal to take only what is necessary for survival?

Answer: Only for survival, and if you take only for survival, then you will be able to give it back.

Comment: And it is so, blessed be it.

My Response: Relatively. It is a very complicated matter. After all, nature is closed, integral, perfect. And therefore, our existence within it, in nature, requires that we be really careful and completely dedicated.

Question: How, then, can we achieve harmony with nature?

Answer: Only if we manage to unite with nature and achieve the ability to give in the same measure that we take. Then we will regulate how much to take and how much to give.

Question: But aren’t we, in principle, constantly moving toward that in one way or another?

Answer: I hope that someday we will.

Question: Why haven’t we been given the ability to understand and feel all this? We just take things from nature without concern.

Answer: But we are moving toward it. It is a development, the gradual development of nature from the inanimate onward.

Question: So we must come to the point that I cannot just take everything as I want. And certainly not kill, steal, and so on?

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/3/25

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No one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them (Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning).

There is a universal law, and therefore, at any given moment, you must treat everyone as a person who has fulfilled their higher purpose.

Question: Even an enemy?

Answer: All the more so. Then you will act correctly, survive, and reach your goal.

In other words, you create it yourself through your correct attitude toward everyone—toward the enemy, toward the friend, toward all.

By doing so, you shape yourself internally, constantly correct yourself, and in this way come closer to the final goal, to the form that you must ultimately attain.

Question: Is that even possible?

Answer: This, generally speaking, is our path.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/4/25

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Comment: A person wants to dress nicely. It is in his nature.

My Response: If he is not forced to do so by external circumstances, then in his inner circumstances he can continue to live as he lived before.

Question: In an old robe?

Answer: Of course.

Comment: Then there is no progress.

My Response: Well then there will not be progress of that kind.

Comment: Now you are going somewhat against nature. Look around, everything is built on buying a house, dressing beautifully, fashion. Everything today is like that.

My Response: Everything is needed only to live comfortably for the sake of your goal so that you will not be a slave to things, a slave to time, and a slave to the environment. That is all. And all the rest of your free time, dedicate to your beloved self.

Question: So is that how one should live?

Answer: Yes, why should I work, as you say, for a robe, for a table, or for something else?

Question: What do you mean when you say “take care of yourself”?

Answer: Do what you truly want, what you consider important. What you consider important, not what the environment dictates.

Question: So your advice is to stop?

Answer: Not even to stop, but not to enter into it in the first place. Do not get involved; do not dive into it.

Question: Even if I am internally spinning and restless?

Answer: That should be the aim of such a low level of human development, the animal level of man, so that he does not get carried away into other goals or niches. Live for yourself! Even if it seems egoistic.

Comment: You just gave a very egoistic formula: live for yourself, not for others.

My Response: Choose a goal and live for it. A person must examine his path and direct and arrange it in such a way that he harms no one, including his own life. That is all.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/16/25

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Question: You keep saying not to look back into the past, to cut it off and not look back. How can we do that?

Answer: I think it is just a conviction, a self-persuasion, that I have no connection with the past. The past falls off, is cut off, disappears, vanishes, and fades away like a haze.

Question: Do I have to master the present?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/19/25

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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it (Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning).

Question: Is this how we should look at ourselves and others? Is this how we should see people?

Answer: At each person, yes, that they are someone unique.

Question: Does this mean I cannot take their life, nor force them, etc.?

Answer: You cannot do anything.

Question: What kind of relationship should I have if we are unique? What is that, that my life and his are unique?

Answer: That you are in exceptional circumstances at every moment, and you must take advantage of this according to the rules of absolute interaction, that is, the absolute balance of you and the surrounding world.

Question: What do we do during war when there are countless casualties?

Answer: Even more so such feelings become more acute then.

Question: So the person who kills and the one who defends themselves somehow come to this state?

Answer: Not everyone. But if one thinks about his actual, genuine realization, he comes to the conclusion that every life is inimitable and unique.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/7/25

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Even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself (Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning).

When a person stands before the absolute, before the realization that he cannot change anything, he understands the necessity of changing himself, that the only possible way to do something, to continue a correct existence in the world is to change himself, from this very moment, to the next, and the next, and the next. And so, step by step, live your life in such a way that in every moment you change yourself.

Question: So do you actually welcome dead ends?

Answer: Of course! How could it be otherwise? If a person does not feel a dead end…

Question: So is a hopeless situation the way out for you?

Answer: Yes, it is like a little toy car. It bumps into something and starts to turn. It bumps again, and turns again. And so it keeps trying until, out of all possibilities, it discovers that there is a way out.

Question: So will a person who moves from one dead end to another eventually find a way out?

Answer: Of course, everything is programmed.

Question: So in principle, as a person, should I sing a kind of hymn to the dead end?

Answer: Certainly! That is the very force of our formation.

Comment: But I always want to avoid dead ends. A person wants to avoid them.

My Response: Can you truly make the right decision without reaching a dead end?

Comment: It isn’t likely.

My Response: Not at all.

Question: What correct decision should humanity make today? It is an essential global question.

Answer: The answer is the same in all cases: to annul oneself.

Question: Is this “annul oneself” understandable to your students?

My Response: It must become understandable to everyone else as well.

Question: So what do you mean by “annul oneself”?

Answer: It means that I do not decide what to do, I do not determine the goal, and I do not imagine it for myself and then try to achieve it. I can do only one thing: annul myself before others in such a way that they can achieve their goal.

If I set any other goal for myself besides helping others, it means that I am standing in their way. If I annul myself, then I help them move toward their goal. And as a result, everyone should be busy in precisely this way—helping others achieve their goal.

Question: What then happens to my “I”?

Answer: That is when this “I” is revealed as a collective common self within which the upper force of nature, the only one existing and guiding force, is revealed.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/15/25

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The question was not just survival, but there had to be a “why” of survival. The question was survival for what? Unless there was something or someone, a personal cause for whose sake to survive, there was survival scarcely possible. (Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher, survivor of Nazi concentration camps)

Question: If I look to the future, do I not notice what is happening around me?

Answer: No, you look at everything around you as conditions for achieving your goal.

Question: Are you saying that this is given in order to me to achieve my goal?

Answer: Yes, and all this is necessary for me in order to formalize the end goal.

Question: So at some point, can you even be grateful for the most terrible thing?

Answer: Of course. You feel, and eventually reveal, that everything that happens is only for you, you personally, to achieve your goal.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/29/25

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