People understand that they cannot find the meaning of life in marriage. They cannot find the meaning of life in work either.

Comment: And, it seems, not in friendship either.

My Response: And in friendship, of course. Meaning—nowhere. So what is the point? I’m lying in bed, why should I get up? There is no reason, simply no reason to move, to think, to speak, to do anything at all. That is how a kind of world-freezing happens.

Comment: And today, more and more so.

My Response: Yes, of course.

So what is the point? It is only if we reveal the meaning of life, which is above this state. And if at least somehow, we can talk about it, show it, and shake people up, stir them. Otherwise, of course, it will all end with someone eventually starting to sell pills that put you to sleep forever.

And people will buy them. Oh yes, they will! They will happily throw them in their mouths, wash them down with a glass of water, lie down peacefully, and that is it. And what happens to them afterward, what difference does it make?

Comment: But that sounds illogical. If a person feels really bad, in theory he should be looking for how to…

My Response: But what can he do if he sees no way out? What is there to live for?!

Comment: In connection, at least in some kind of connection with someone else, some kind at all?

My Response: That exists. So they gather in some clubs. But in general, even that comes to an end.

Question: That isn’t a solution, you’re sure?

Answer: No, of course not.

Question: So not until a person breaks through to the meaning of life. Is such a breakthrough happening, and that is why this trend is here?

Answer: Yes, a person must break through such a barrier, which is absolute unwillingness toward anything at all. And only afterward does one discover a completely different life. In a certain sense it is death. After crossing this boundary, one discovers that there is life, but it is different, and now I can begin to exist in it.

Question: So you’re saying that a person really must go through death in order to start living?

Answer: He must understand, agree, and want to renounce this life, the egoistic life, the chasing after something and somehow. When he agrees to that in some form, it can be done in different forms, then he will be ready for the next life.

Question: What is your advice to a lonely person who is so lonely that his soul aches with despair?

Answer: My advice is to go to our website and read. Nothing else. Truly, I really don’t want to say this, but I have nothing else to suggest.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/23/25

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Comment: Empathy is the ability to feel emotions that correspond to the emotions of another person and compassion is the sympathy for someone else’s suffering.

My Response: It is as if you relocate into another person and feel their experiences.

Question: How can one develop this within oneself? As I understand it, if this feeling were cultivated, we would live differently.

Answer: Yes, then we would educate people accordingly. I believe this is possible. We simply do not engage in this. In general, from the age of 13 to 14, people are already capable of deeply sensing another person’s suffering. And they need to be educated for this.

Comment: This would absolutely, completely change the world.

My Response: Of course, without a doubt.

Question: So compassion can be cultivated in a person?

Answer: One can cultivate the understanding of compassion for another person and give a person the ability to comprehend how to perceive it to the point where in their compassion, a person will be able to share in another’s suffering, partially take it upon themselves, and thereby neutralize the suffering of the other.

Question: And will you not burn out from doing that?

Answer: No, because by neutralizing their suffering through your participation, through your empathy, and through your compassion, you gradually divide their suffering into many smaller parts, and in this way, the person calms down. And in doing so, you can lead the entire world to balance, to an inner state that can already be called bliss.

Question: So if compassion were shared equally among all the inhabitants of Earth, would it bring bliss to the world?

Answer: Yes, this is precisely what we must achieve in our unity. Because, in principle, we are certainly facing very serious problems ahead. After all, egoism is growing, and the upper light is being revealed more and more in relation to our egoism. That is, related to our egoism, we will feel increasing pressures to such an extent that if we cannot unite and share it all among ourselves, we will not be able to endure it.

Question: Now I understand the essence of what you always say: “Unity, connection, good thoughts, and good relationships.” The foundation of all this is compassion, is it not?

Answer: Yes, but it is practically not even compassion. It is the sharing of the enormous suffering: the opposition between the enormous desire and the enormous light that is meant to fill that desire, and the lack of intention “not for oneself,” which would allow the light to fill the desire.

Question: So fulfillment is only possible if it is for the sake of others?

Answer: Yes, that is why we need balance here. This can only happen through understanding how to learn compassion, how to share the opposition between absolute fulfillment and absolute emptiness among everyone.

Naturally, it will turn out neither less nor worse. But if we want it to be shared in this way, then the contradiction itself disappears. This is the special property of unity.

Question: And then, this bliss comes?

Answer: Yes, at that point, the sensation of opposition, impossibility, and inner cry transforms into satiation, into something higher, into pleasure. There is no longer any difference between enormous pain and enormous pleasure. They merge into one.

Question: And what, then, does pain become in this case?

Answer: It turns into pleasure because you have balanced them with one another.

Comment: That is something truly elevated.

My Response: That is how it happens, on a higher level.

Question: So pain is given to us in order to turn it into pleasure?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: And the greatest pain ultimately becomes the greatest pleasure?

Answer: Yes, if you know how to reconcile these opposites, you receive pleasure.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/15/25

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The Creator Himself does not exist.

Comment: Well that statement shocks everyone.

My Response: But it is true! How a person reacts to this, if one does, is his business. I must set things straight. The Creator Himself does not exist. What exists is the feeling of closeness with others that arises through mutual effort to reveal the quality of love and bestowal.

Question: So this feeling, you call it the revelation of the Creator?

Answer: Yes, the Creator is love. And this has nothing to do with what is between a man, a woman, children, it does not matter who or what. It is simply a relation to everything that, I would say, I perceive as outside of me.

Question: And outside of me, you say there is only love?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Within me, there is none. But outside me there is love?

Answer: Within me, it is egoistic, predetermined, over which I must rise and feel true love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/18/25

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The Creator suffers greatly without us. He has a desire to give, to saturate, to emanate, and there is no one, no one who wants it.

Question: But we want to be satisfied, to receive, don’t we?

Answer: But we do not want to be satisfied from Him or by Him! Therefore, here, I would say, it looks like a war of nerves; who will be the first to give up and say: “I love you!”

It is, of course, a game of exhaustion, really.

Question: And what is our identity when we complement the Creator, as you say?

Answer: In the fact that we become necessary for the Creator in action; we are necessary as it is, but in action, in the fact that we draw closer to Him, unite, merge with Him, in the fact that we complement the universe. We evoke a filling in the entire universe, the supreme light that fills the entire creation. And without us, it would be empty, cold, and dark.

Question: What kind of addition does He expect from us?

Answer: So that we turn on the light. Turn on the light in this world so that the universe may be filled with the light of the Creator, love, goodness, unification, and perfection in all forms.

Comment: At the same time, you say this today when you do not know where to run with these crazy wars…

My Response: You do not have to do anything. We just have to wait calmly, with confidence that this is going to happen.

Question: And still want it?

Answer: Yes, want and ask, quietly ask the Creator.

Question: Is that all that is required of us?

Answer: Yes, without unnecessary noise, statements, or arguments, without anything.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/10/25

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Comment: Elon Musk once said: “I want to be part of what changes the world. Making mistakes is not scary. The main thing is to make new mistakes each time.” I would like you to comment on this.

My Response: That is correct.

Question: So we make mistakes all the time?

Answer: Without that, it is impossible.

Question: It has always been said: “We learn from mistakes.” Do we really learn from them?

Answer: Not everyone does, but mistakes come precisely so that we may learn from them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/30/22

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Comment: “School doesn’t teach you to be happy.” That is what an eleven-year-old boy wrote.

My Response: That’s right! In school today they simply demonstrate that dullness, obedience, and the suppression of happiness are normal conditions.

Question: But in principle, the slogan of the school should be: “We must teach children to be happy”?

Answer: Yes, we must raise people who are happy.

We need a school that teaches the correct attitude toward the world, toward life, toward friends, toward teachers, and toward parents, and this does not require grades that someone else gives you, but rather that when you are taught, you yourself give yourself the grade.

Question: Can make such demands even of a little child?

Answer: That is what we must aim for. Explain this so that they themselves can grade subjects, textbooks, their instructors, and so on.

Comment: So the child can say: “Today I was not in shape. I should have read this, and worked on that a bit.”

My Response: That is good.

Question: There is a fear of making mistakes. School doesn’t teach that it’s possible and necessary to make mistakes. By the way, that is what the eleven-year-old boy says. Do you think one should make mistakes?

Answer: I agree with him.

Question: So is a mistake an important thing? And one must make mistakes?

Answer: It is inevitable.

Question: And what if I make a mistake?

Answer: It is okay. I’ll fix it, I’ll learn from it even more than from something I did without a mistake.

Question: So it is even more important than if you move forward flawlessly?

Answer: We constantly make mistakes and correct ourselves, make mistakes and correct ourselves.

Comment: Trolling, classmates’ mockery in this often the fault of teachers who expose children to ridicule.

My Response: To live in such a society, a child must be taught how to relate correctly to society, to the environment, that this is possible, that this is and will exist until we correct our nature. That it is the nature of man that compels him to be above others at any cost.

Question: And the fact that they put me down now, is that just human nature?

Answer: Yes, that is their nature, nothing can be done. But I must understand their nature and somehow, in some way, forgive them, accept them as they are. And maybe even correct them in this way.

Question: And I should feel that this is also my nature; it is the same, and I can do the same?

Answer: Naturally, yes.

Question: So, you would like to introduce the words “human nature,” “human egoism” almost from the first grade, so that a child would feel it?

Answer: Even earlier.

Comment: The amount of homework. “I think homework does not affect children’s performance and education,” says the eleven-year-old boy.

My Response: I think homework causes disgust, hatred toward school. And therefore, it is not needed. What is needed is simply that a child goes there (whatever they teach him and however they teach, better or worse, more or less interesting), but he comes back from there, and he doesn’t have this homework hanging over him.

Question: So that he doesn’t have this burden, that “I urgently need to do this, how will I go to school tomorrow!” And instead of homework what should there be?

Answer: Instead of homework there should be absolutely free time, somewhat structured, but felt as free, what he himself would like to occupy himself with.

Question: Himself? So that he finds his own niche?

Answer: Yes, everyone in something. We had a lot of clubs back then. I don’t know they probably do not now.

Comment: I don’t think so. There were Pioneers Houses, clubs.

My Response: There was such a huge House of Pioneers! And there were a huge number of clubs, and all were free. You went, signed up wherever you wanted. Even in several if you liked! And went, studied.

Comment: Do you remember the modeling club, radio.

My Response: Yes, and you didn’t pay for anything. I went, among other things, to a photo club. Photographic paper, chemicals, everything was free. Absolutely everything free! That is so amazing!

Comment: And how warmly the club teachers treated the children!

My Response: Yes, people with a character like that worked there.

Question: Where did it all vanish? What was so bad about it?

Answer: The time! The time is not the same. We fell into such a bad streak.

Comment: “We fell into it, ”that should be the name of this story.

My Response: Yes.

Comment: “School doesn’t prepare you for adult life,” this boy thinks.

My Response: I actually think that nothing can prepare you for adult life. We just plunge into it, like into a whirlpool. And that’s it. And then each swims out in his own way.

Question: What is preparation for adult life, if we’re speaking about it?

Answer: Here it is necessary to create special, absolutely clear, realistic pictures from life.

Question: In school? Right for the children so they learn to get out of them, to deal with them, and so on?

Answer: Yes, to discuss and so on. On the other hand, to give them some patterns, but realistic ones. For example: “How would you act if you…” and you give them a story.

Comment: You know, this boy’s conclusion is very interesting. He says: “I think that the main subject in school could be a subject where we are taught to understand one another. After all, the ability to communicate is the most important thing.”

My Response: That’s exactly right!

Comment: It’s as if he’s listening to you.

My Response: Make him Minister of Education. And that’s it. ☺

Comment: No knowledge is needed, only such conclusions.

My Response: And put all these ministers into school.

Comment: Exactly!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/13/25

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Comment: Social networks love touching stories. Recently, there was a buzz with the story of a female soldier whose mother could not pay her electricity bills.

While traveling on a train the girl was explaining over the phone to the electric company employees that her mother is disabled, receives a small pension, and cannot pay for electricity until her pension money is deposited into her bank account. Crying, she asked that electricity not be cut off for her mother.

Suddenly, a man approached her, found out what was going on, called the electricity company, gave his credit card number so that 2,000 shekels could be withdrawn from his account to pay off the soldier’s mother’s debt, and then he disappeared. But someone managed to snap a photo of him. It turned out that he was a former military man.

My Response: Such extraordinary actions are very touching. We need more such insightful examples to encourage everyone toward kind interactions.

On the other hand, the electricity company’s policy is business, and there is nothing you can do about it. At the same time, it is necessary to consider that there are special consumers, such as pensioners, who should be treated differently, possibly through redistributing the burden among others.

Question: Do you like such stories?

Answer: No, I do not want these stories to be tearful exceptions to the rule. I want them to be consistently carried out in real life by a correct society that deliberately and systematically cares for all its citizens so that there would be no such cases that are good for a movie, but not for life.

There are still many such cases, but we do not hear about them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/21/16

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Comment: I lived normally, worked normally, was passionate about my job, and then suddenly, bam, I was empty. Suddenly, there is no point. There is work, there is a job, there is money, but I see no meaning in it.

Answer: This is natural. This is a person’s growth. This is gradual human development.

One’s egoism is no longer fulfilled. It is still the same egoism, which is our foundation. But there was a time when it was fulfilled; it enjoyed work, honor, fame, knowledge, money, the opportunity to somehow realize all this. And today, no. The opinion of others does not matter; climbing some ladder does not matter.

You could say there is a kind of fatigue, maybe like in any metal or material, it is the same here.

Comment: It is called “burnout.” There is even such a term.

Answer: “Burnout,” nicely said, yes.

Egoism has switched to the next operating mode. It is no longer enough for it that it is given everything, the things that used to bring satisfaction, fulfillment, the gratification of vanity, and so on. Now, it is not. What should I do? I don’t know why I should do anything. Why I should live or work? I don’t know! I am simply not interested in it at all.

There is just no satisfaction, no fulfillment, no saturation. Why work? Why live? There is no reason. That is it. Give me a pill, and that is it. People will get to this point!

Comment: Yes, I feel that they will, for sure.

Answer: Why not? It is a way out of suffering. I would like to forget and fall asleep.

Question: So you hand out the pill. You have now, let us say, brought us to this dead end. I even clearly feel that this will happen. I am almost certain it will. So what should a person do in such a situation? You keep saying that there will be such a universal cry.

Answer: Yes, but that cry is the awareness of the true desire to understand the meaning of life. In other words, why do I need all this?

To such an extent that even children, which is the most important thing for a person, and especially for a woman, will no longer bring joy.

You will have everything, absolutely everything, but you will not even be able to mechanically carry out your work or do something for them. Nothing! This is the real despair from the emptiness of the egoistic Kli.

Question: So when will deliverance come?

Answer: Deliverance from this state will come when there is an immense wail to the heavens, and humanity begins to understand why it really exists, and not before.

It is only when a true need arises to understand the meaning of life. We will live to see it!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/8/2025

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Question: There are many stories about men who lived, quiet, grim lives. Even though they have families, they are grim and remote. They never speak a kind word to anyone, but on their deathbeds, they turned to their wives and finally utter, “I love you.”  What can you say about this?

Answer: A person, before death, begins to sense something from the world of truth.

Question: So it is like something is illuminated for him?

Answer: Not only is his future illuminated, but he is freed from the egoism of the past. What is death? First of all, it is the death of our egoism. And whether he gains something after that is another question.

Question: So it is like a boundary between caring only for oneself and stepping into a completely different space? And there is a small truth there?

Answer: It is small, but that is where we begin to grasp it, and a new world opens.

Question: And is this “I love you” the truth?

Answer: Yes, that is where it begins. With the realization that until now you have not loved and what it means to truly love.

Question: So at that moment I feel that I have lived for myself, loved only myself?

Answer: Very much so!

Question: And what is in this final confession, cry, prayer?

Answer: A person realizes that his whole life in egoism was, essentially, wrong. But there are also people who say the opposite: “Drink, smoke, have fun, take everything you can from life.” I am serious. I have heard it: “Do not take anything into account! Fulfill your desires.”

Comment: That is quite a twist, suddenly from the romantic “I love you” to this…

My Response: It is not a romantic “I love you.” It is what a person truly feels. It is not the romantic “love–do not love” feeling.

Question: Is this really the truth shining through?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And what you just said, the opposite…

My Response: That is also the truth, but the other side of it.

Question: What is behind “I love you”?

Answer: Depends on who says it.

Question: But in general, truthfully, what is behind the phrase “I love you”?

Answer: “I love you” means that I want to feel as though I have no self of my own and existence is only to fill you and rejoice in your fulfillment.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/4/25

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Comment: Sometimes people have bad genetics. But scientists have invented molecular scissors that can be used to cut off the bad hereditary information so that it does not affect subsequent generations. A defective gene can be cut out, and the person is different: he does not get sick, his character even changes.

My Response: I believe that all this needs to be critically checked. Naturally, we will face a lot of problems here because all diseases actually bring health. They heal, if not the person who dies from it, then at least humanity is freed from it.

Just as wolves, eating other animals, are the “orderlies” of the forest, so are the diseases that are directed at us. If there weren’t such problems, there would already be who knows how many billions of people, no matter what we do. We would only build more and more hospitals and homes for the elderly.

We must understand that nature will do it in its own way anyway, but we are trying to do it through our own means, and nature, the supreme government, does it through its own.

And all these inventions of scientists are given to us from the same natural program. But, in general, we still need to check how rational it will be.

The fact is that we do not understand the laws of nature and to what extent we are given and what exactly to correct ourselves, and to what extent nature itself will correct us in accordance with this, and instead other problems, other diseases will appear. We just don’t see the connection between them.

Let’s say there is going to be a cold snap or warming, or other problems, maybe a war, and another couple billion people will die from it. This may be due to the fact that we will tweak our genes and try to make ourselves healthy.

That is, it’s still a closed picture. That is why you can’t do what you want to do: you heal in one place, you cripple in another.

Question: If this were done by a Kabbalist who feels the law of nature, the forces governing the universe, and the connections that exist between us, how would he do it?

Answer: He wouldn’t do it. He would teach people how to influence the root of their lives, the root of their problems, so that they would correct it there and not with the help of molecular scissors at such an insignificant ancient level. Why would I cut off some chromosomes and rearrange all sorts of genes?! Why do I need this?

I know in advance that all these manipulations will come out of the way in something else anyway. You can’t mess with nature; it won’t work! She will definitely do something else. All the same, you will have to come to construct yourself in a new way with the help of an upper force in accordance with the higher government and with God’s example.

Question: What would a Kabbalist doctor do?

Answer: It would be only to reach the highest stage of a person’s inner development and from the inner development would come all the rest of the external, and as a result, human health.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/18/17

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