Comment: In 5 to 10 years, CEOs will have to focus on issues of happiness. The positions they will be hired for will have various names, such as “Dream Manager” or, conversely, “Destruction Manager.”

But the essence remains the same: a person who must constantly drive the company toward change, and in doing so, dismantle the established order.

My Response: We need to work proactively.

The thing is, a person must feel happy, or their work will yield little benefit. That is why we need to ensure that they feel happiness, fulfillment, and connection with others, because happiness depends entirely on the atmosphere they exist in.

They must feel they are in an environment of kindness and mutual support where they can completely rely on their company and team.

This is perhaps the most important thing. To achieve this, we must work with the team. We need to create a communal, positive dependency within the workplace where people feel support and inspiration from their colleagues, where they feel proud and understand the happiness they gain from being part of this team, where their spouses, children, or other family members also understand and approve of this. It means a great deal.

I believe that if we fail to create such an environment in the future, employees will not stay. Their productivity will drop, and they will become indifferent to the company’s fate. Ultimately, you will not be able to “buy” them, not even with money.

What matters is not just money, but the atmosphere of joy, happiness, flexibility, and mutual help they feel. This requires education, a completely different approach, and a new organization of production and hierarchy, nothing like what existed in the past.

A person is an individual being, and they must feel both unique and entirely supported by the collective when needed.

In relationships among people, everyone must be equal. These are relationships between individuals, not between citizens or employees.

But the most important thing is for people to have a shared, grand goal—why they are doing this and what they are achieving through it.

We need to gradually help a person feel that this methodology brings them to an absolute state—absolute happiness and a sense of something vast, eternal, and perfect. This allows them to see a completely different world and to shape themselves, their children, and their families in an entirely new way.

This must be done gradually. And then they will realize that it is not just the company playing nice to extract more productivity from them, but an effort to transform them into a master of life, to help them feel the integrity of existence.

Question: What should a CEO, who is a professional dreamer, be it a “Dream Manager” or a “Destruction Manager,” aspire to in their dreams? What should they want to destroy and what to build?

Answer: One cannot exist without the other. They must first present a dream, a direction, and explain what they aim to achieve so that everyone begins to connect with this dream and embrace it as a truly desirable state. Then after having deeply understood its necessity, they would be ready to destroy the present for the sake of a bright future.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/17/18

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Comment: Currently, society faces a growing trust crisis in the media, the government, and among individuals. We see a lack of understanding of what trust is and how to nurture it.

My Response: This happens because our egoism has grown and demands entirely new relationships: clearer, more connected, rougher, and tied to each other. Each of us has significant egoism, and everyone desires greater independence from others. That is the first reason.

Secondly, this coincides with societal, technological, and lifestyle development. Today I can live independently and provide for myself without worrying about others. But to bind oneself through family ties, friendships, workplace relationships, or otherwise, requires effort, sometimes considerable effort.
Thus, in today’s world it is challenging to compel people to connect with others. They only do so for tangible rewards or when absolutely necessary.

Question: What is trust?

Answer: Trust is when I rely on another person according to an agreement that we have mutually established.

Question: What underlies trust?

Answer: Trust is based on the hope for another’s perspective, assistance, or support.

Question: Can you depict an ideal state where trust exists?

Answer: This is only possible when people realize that they are part of an interconnected system and fully interdependent. They need to uncover this complete interconnection. Only then can we discuss a society where individuals feel unity, exchange efforts, and work and care for one another.

Right now, this does not exist. Even our systems—healthcare, finance, everything we have built—serve to divide society.

Comment: Decades ago for example, in the Soviet Union, there was a certain level of trust—people could leave a key under the doormat, and not lock the door when they were at home.

My Response: It is not about whether the door to an apartment is open or closed. The point is that people are closed off from one another by their internal door: “I do not want to hear what is happening to another person. It does not matter to me at all.”

But we acknowledge that without a universal, correct approach to our nature—aimed at its correction—we will not progress. Superficial fixes will not help.

Question: How do we achieve this?

Answer: We must recognize that egoism is at the core of our nature and learn to work with it so it becomes a helper rather than a hindrance. This is a long-term upbringing of society.

Question: Is it possible to restore trust between one person and another, independently of the macro-world?

Answer: No, that is impossible. Everything is one system. We have reached a stage where the world is integral, and in an integral system the particular and the general are equal. Therefore we will not be able to fix relationships even between two people, even between a guy and a girl who want to build their relationship on some level of trust. No, they are part of society and will relate to each other in the same way as it happens in society.

That is why everything is falling apart on all levels simultaneously.

Question: What will be the turning point? What will trigger some other process?

Answer: The turning point will come with the recognition of evil. To achieve this, widespread dissemination and explanations are needed to make people aware that we are leading ourselves to the brink.

Question: What is the formula for trust?

Answer: Trust is the realization and sensation of inner connection among us. Its manifestation at every moment and in every state is what defines trust. Otherwise, it does not exist.

Trust is a profound force, the foundation of any state or society. It bonds all members into a single system where they need nothing more than the sense of being part of one network, entirely dependent on one another. That is where the concept of “trust” originates.

Question: What about confidence?

Answer: Confidence stems from a sense of connectedness among us.

Question: Is it akin to faith in another person?

Answer: Faith is a property of bestowal, which also arises from my sense that we are interconnected.

Trust is when I use the system of connection between us, which exists and reveals itself to me. To the extent that it is revealed, I am in mutual connection with others. This is trust. It is not something that does not exist, which I supposedly create. This is completely incorrect. I make use of purely psychological and physical elements for this.

Comment: Suppose one person says to another, “I do not feel like you are doing anything, so I cannot trust you.”

My Response: Right. He does not feel it, but someone else does. We need to make it so that everyone feels that we are in one connection, one dependency, one network, and then, inevitably, we will treat each other differently.

I do not need to know what each of them feels! I only need to know that in this way, I depend on them, and they depend on me, and everything I do toward them comes back to me. This needs to be taught, shown, and explained, to open people’s eyes.

If we want to do something serious, this requires serious desires, serious foundations. People must understand that if they begin to delve into the meaning of life, into the origins of life, into the reasons for life, why a person exists, how he was created, and what drives him, then this is serious work on oneself.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/28/23

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Comment: The world is gripped by an epidemic of fear. People are losing trust, and they no longer listen to each other. As a result, they are driven not by greed, as before when we wanted to achieve something, but by fear, which has real causes. How can we get rid of it? After all, we are actively moving toward a dead end.

My Response: I think this is very good. This is not a dead end. When you approach a dead end, you suddenly see that there is a door in it, and it leads to the next world.

Once this was covered by faith. A person believed in various gods, it doesn’t matter what, and it was easier for him. Today, this faith is disappearing, it is not kept up, and therefore, a person cannot compensate for his fears, anxiety, and various problematic feelings. He cannot correlate them with the desire and the government of the upper one, with the upper force, and everything falls on him. It is hard for him!

Fear blocks a person. He wants to close his eyes and crawl under a blanket like a little child, as if nothing is happening.

Question: How can he get out of there?

Answer: He needs to be educated. But not through mechanical toys, as scientists are trying to do.

Comment: Scientists are still asking questions.

My Response: Asking questions is good. But this is connected with the meaning of life. Such questions are already beyond our understanding. How do we exist? For what purpose? What is life? How does it begin, and how does it end? What is the meaning of the existence of nature itself?

But to simply relate everything to God does not calm a modern person. This was good enough before the age of Enlightenment, but from the 17^th to 18^th centuries and onward, this approach no longer works.

A person will still be forced to see that he faces the question of the meaning of existence: what is it for, why, what is its meaning?

Fear exists at the basis of our life because if it were not for fear, why live at all. Why do I need all this?
Scroll through a person’s entire future life—it already exists, there is nothing else—and he would not want to live.

If he sees what he is going through, and all this in order to enjoy something and immediately fall into depression or suffering, and also work hard. He has two weeks of vacation a year, if he spends it well at all, children who take advantage of him, a wife who does not let him have fun, a favorite football team that loses, fishing which no longer exists because these places do not exist anymore, and so on…

Even in ancient sources it is written that if a man could see his life in advance, then he would naturally not want to be born and live.

We forget ourselves, therefore, our whole life is built on this oblivion. Look what we are doing with our lives today! We are trying to dumb ourselves, all the time more and more, more and more. Advertising, competition … For what?

After all, if you leave a person alone with his thoughts, he will either become a terrorist, a murderer, or kill himself, or start using drugs, which is the same thing.

Question: But they say that a person must have a goal and by striving for it, he can overcome any difficulties. What is the right goal for a person?

Answer: This question should not be aroused in people. You must first prepare yourself well for this. It is written that if you put an obstacle in front of a blind person, by doing so you commit a terrible crime. If you put a stone or a tree in front a blind person, he will stumble and fall. How is this possible? And people are all blind. How can you talk to them about the meaning of life?

They do not have an answer to this, and they will only become depressed. Therefore, gradually revealing the question about the meaning of life, you must know in advance how to simultaneously provide them with the correct answer which will be acceptable and desirable for them. Then they will see joyful horizons expanding for them, and not dark ones.

Comment: It turns out that from birth, education should be gradually integrated into communication.

My Response: This is what education is about. And everything else fills a person with completely unnecessary information.

Question: How can an adult person who has lived his life get to the question of the meaning of life?

Answer: If he has lived his life, there is no point in it. If, during this life, he receives information about its meaning, and begins to change his life in accordance with the meaning he has acquired, then he rises to the next level of existence. He becomes a human to the extent that he can answer the question about the meaning of his life.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/6/18

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Question: It is said that whoever controls information controls everything. But in recent years, with the advent of new technologies, information has not only become abundant; it has become excessively abundant! Managing it has become incredibly difficult. Psychologists argue that people are now experiencing information stress.

What is information? Why do we crave it so much? And why, even understanding that it’s “garbage,” are we afraid to lose it?

Answer: We feed on this “garbage,” these “wastes.” For us, losing this “waste” means losing our nourishment. And humanity is terrified of that.

It cannot absorb proper, truthful, natural information, information that speaks of relevance, necessity, or truth. It thrives on yellow, gray news, on airing “dirty laundry.” This is what sustains it.

This is how modern society has raised humanity up. And we can see the consequences. Of course, if you remove all this fake content and leave only the truth, people would howl. What would they consume then?

Question: Why is humanity so drawn to information? What is it looking for in information?

Answer: Modern humans cannot live without it. It is the environment in which they exist. Taking it away would be like separating them from home, family, work, or anything else. But separating them from information would be even more devastating because it fills them from within.

Without a flow of information, a modern person would simply lose their mind.

Question: What is “correct” information?

Answer: Correct information is that which reveals my role in this world to the extent that I can bring positive influence to it and, in turn, receive positive influence from the world.

Question: You say that correct, truthful, and genuine information would be completely unpalatable, undesirable?

Answer: People don’t want to hear the truth! Truth is painful. Truth is unpleasant. They want to hear what pleases them: a bit of gossip, a bit of sex, a bit of fear, a bit of joy, all in measured doses, carefully controlled by specialists.

Question: What does information mean to a Kabbalist?

Answer: For a Kabbalist, information means something entirely different. They are not interested in what people argue about via cables or other communication methods. They are interested in a connection with the upper force, from which all actions, conditions, and events in our world originate. When a person has this connection, they need nothing else. It allows them to be everywhere and in everything simultaneously, in both worlds.

Question: Suppose you were given control of all media outlets. How would you present information,  what kind?

Answer: I would leave everything as it is now and gradually, in small, controlled doses, introduce “medicine”—more correct information. Information that supports positive changes in a person, develops a sense of truth, self-control, and so on. This way, people would begin to adapt correctly to their surroundings, understand their nature, the nature of the world around them, and their ultimate purpose.

We, Kabbalists, are waiting for humanity to reach the revelation of evil—the revelation that it exists in evil, in lies, that it feeds on substitutes. To the extent that we realize this is all trash, literal poison, we will gradually be able to replace fake information with correct information that nurtures us.

Why do I need information? To form my understanding of the world and transform myself in alignment with a new world. This information should be correct, truthful, and, most importantly, caring.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/29/18

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Comment: The aggression of schoolchildren and their parents exceeds all norms, expectations, and any rules of decency. Teachers complain that children have become completely uncontrollable, and their parents side with them. If teachers were respected in the past, now school journals are being burned, weapons are being brought to school, not to mention drugs. Teachers in Germany claim that such behavior has become possible due to the influx of immigrants.

My Response: I would not conflate one problem with another.

The modern school no longer suits children, contemporary families, parents, how parents are busy at work, how children spend their free time, or how life is structured. Modern schooling has long outlived its usefulness. It effectively ended in the middle of the last century along with the end of the industrialization era.

None of this is relevant today. Now everything can be done much more simply—with computers and in small groups of people while the rest are left out of the equation. Therefore, we should not be educating people for unnecessary professions only to later perpetuate unemployment. They graduate into the world with their diplomas, but what is next?

The school is an absolutely outdated experiment that was conducted 150 years ago and by now has long since “died.”

Question: Does the degradation of schools threaten us with a barbaric society in the future?

Answer: If schools degrade, they will indeed lead to a barbaric society. Therefore, schools need to be quickly replaced.

We need to seriously consider what is good for our children and focus on that. Society today is capable of doing this; we have plenty of resources, many people, and many idle hands and minds. We can do this if we only want to because we have nothing to do, we invent different professions for ourselves, we serve each other.

We need to pay attention to children. But not by forcing, pressuring, or over-structuring them, but by studying what is genuinely beneficial for them and within this context providing them with the right content. What kind of content? Perhaps they will choose it themselves from the Internet.

We must study human nature, the nature of the surrounding world, and how people achieve harmony. The most important human “profession” is understanding how to interact correctly with oneself, with society, and with the world around them.

Reaching such a level of integration where all these elements are balanced is the ultimate goal of education.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/31/18

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Do not meet people with open arms. Why make it easier for them to crucify you? (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)

My Response: Beautiful!

Question: It is beautiful, yes. He has been through a lot, and he probably opened his arms and got rewarded for it. How open do you think it is possible to be with other people?

Answer: The way knights rode the roads—with a shield on one side and a spear or sword in the other hand.

Comment: And all in armor.

My Response: And in armor, of course. This is how a person should be until we achieve correction.

Comment: So to put it bluntly, you are saying: I should not open up.

My Response: Not at all. I should not open up at all.

Comment: I expected you to say: completely or somehow.

My Response: No! Why? I cannot advise this to anyone.

Question: Is it possible to live like that, without opening up at all?

Answer: That is how you must live. All this is a consequence of evil.

Question: That is, there is this evil in us?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And what is sincerity? They say “sincerity, openness.”

Answer: Where did you find such simpletons?

Question: Then tell me, in what case can humanity come to a state where a person will be open to a person?

Answer: If everyone is corrected and wishes each other well.

Question: So, our job should be to come to the point where we wish others well, and then we can slowly begin to open up?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So a person should feel bad because they cannot open up?

Answer: Yes.

Question: To the point of prayer, of howling, to what? To what state?

Answer: To despair that I cannot open up. I want to open up to others and see that everyone is open to me, but that does not happen.

Question: Do I want this to happen?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will it ever happen?

Answer: In general it should be, according to the plan of creation.

Comment: But that is what you are trying to do all the time. You talk about it all the time.

My Response: Yes, but I am alone. Or how many are there?

Comment: There are not many, frankly.

My Response: We will wait. The world will come to this anyway, but the question is when.

Question: But is this the ultimate plan for us to come to this?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this what is called that we will unite with the Creator, unite with the supreme mind?

Answer: Of course. So a little more optimism, and everything will be fine.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/9/24

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Question: In one country, researchers have observed that due to military actions, hunting and shooting of predators and other animals have decreased, leading to an active growth of nature. Predatory animals have started to turn rabid and attack humans, making people afraid to go outside or let their children out.

This creates a paradox: on one hand people are at war with each other, and on the other hand they neglect their relationship with nature, which begins to turn against them. What is the connection between people themselves, between humans and nature, and nature in relation to humans?

Answer: Human relationships define all other levels of existence: inanimate nature, plants, animals, and societal structures. And the most important is the relationship in highly developed countries because they determine all other relationships in other secondary, third countries, and so on.

If we first establish harmony in our relationships with one another, we will naturally bring balance to all other systems of nature.

However, if we fail to harmonize our relationships, the rest of nature will continue to spiral out of control, away from balance. This will lead to mutations and problems we cannot yet foresee. If we become slightly more beastly in our behavior, animals will become exponentially wilder, so wild that we cannot even imagine.

We could reach a point where we suddenly find dinosaurs appearing somewhere on Earth. Why? Because we regress to a level of interpersonal relationships that existed when such creatures roamed. This does not require any special geological period to occur.

Question: Will savagery truly increase to such an extent?

Answer: The savagery could become so extreme that humanity might resurrect the most fearsome layers of nature. Nature would come to hate us because we hate one another.

Kabbalah teaches that only through improving our relationships with other people can we fix, balance, and bring all of this into a better state.

Comment: You just gave an example that feels as if we could travel back in time.

My Response: Of course!

Question: How can we travel into the future?

Answer: To do that, we must develop correctly. Nature will not allow us into the future as we are today.

We can regress into the past through our primitive degradation, but to reach the future, we must progress by properly developing ourselves in our connections with each other. This is what the fully interconnected, integral, harmonious nature demands of us.

We must become elements aligned with it, and only then will we be able to travel into the future. We could simply sit in a little “cart” and move forward.

Question: How do we find this “cart”? How do we activate the program that will help a person discover and desire it?

Answer: This program is within us. But to activate it, we must first work for a long time to convince the Jewish nation to want it because the rest of the world depends on them. Then we must explain this to all the nations of the world so that they will compel the Jewish people to act.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/7/18

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Comment: In Japan, there was a case where a little girl was growing up in a single-parent family. After she started school, she became withdrawn. It turned out that she was being bullied because her classmates teased her for not having a father.

The mother was deeply concerned. The teachers did not help, so she turned to an agency that provides “rent-a-hero” services. She chose one candidate—a kind, positive, and caring man. As an actor, he fully embraced the role of a father and played it for the girl for ten years.

On weekends, they went to the movies, parks, and walks, talked together, and even attended parent-teacher meetings. Over time, it was clear that the girl, once shy and withdrawn, blossomed and became more confident.

Thus, a new trend emerged: “fathers for rent”—fake fathers who, by taking on the role, provide both children and adults with a sense of security and supportive surroundings.

My Response: We understand how important this is for a child. At the same time, it can also be deeply significant for the woman—the mother of that child.

Interestingly, these relationships can sometimes be deeper and closer than natural family bonds. When something is “yours,” it can often lead to complacency and neglect. Who really pays attention to one another? You come home, kick off your shoes, sit down at the table or in your favorite chair, and life goes on.

But here, the emotional distance fosters a special closeness, one that is not just monitored, but actively nurtured and strengthened. This dynamic can be far more meaningful than relationships in a typical marriage.

As a result, a very interesting relationship can develop between them, not even intimate, but purely internal support, precisely due to the fact that they are not husband and wife, but simply “collaborators” to create a special family relationship.

Comment: The fake father told the girl he loved her, although inside he understood it was a conflict, that it really wasn’t the case. But what he told her emotionally, by getting involved at this state, helped not only their relationship,  but also the child’s development.

My Response: Do we have the right to treat a child this way? To lie to them?

Comment: Yes, because the consequences can vary. He said, “Ten years have passed, and I understand what might happen if the truth comes out. Eighty percent of me believes the girl will be grateful for all the care and attention I gave her. Twenty percent of me fears she will feel devastated, lost, and broken.”

My Response: He must stay with her until she gets married and he is “replaced” by her husband. He has to support her until she has another man in her life because, at the moment, he is filling the roles of father, man, and husband—everything. He cannot just leave her.

Comment: There is another trend where elderly men are hired as mentors. They are invited to accompany young people because they can pass on experience and wisdom.

My Response: I support this. It is something our society needs because no one in childhood receives proper guidance from their parents. This is a methodology, a philosophy of acceptance of life and the proper adaptation to it. Modern children do not have this. They have no source for it, not from TV, not from computers, not from school, nor from anywhere.

Question: What institutions should surround a person to help them grow into a well-rounded individual?

Answer: They need a clear and consistent educational program conducted by capable teachers, mentors, and educators.

When family, society, the peer group, and the media all work in harmony, only then can a person be raised properly.

Question: What values should they instill?

Answer: The right behavior within the “human pack.” Ideally, this should be taught at the instinctive level.

Question: What rules should exist in a “human pack”?

Answer: Homo homini lupus est, “man is a wolf to man,” only the other way around.

Teach people to live as a pack where everyone supports each other and understands the importance of each individual. Each person carries a social or family responsibility that makes everyone significant. Wolves, for instance, live exceptionally well within their packs.

Question: Could we conclude by saying, “Be a wolf to be human”?

Answer: Yes, being a wolf is great; you will know how to behave in a pack. It is a wonderful dynamic where there is a clear hierarchy, parents at the top, children below, grandchildren further down, and so on. But everyone takes care of one another, from the bottom up.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/22/18

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Comment: Well-known coach and business consultant Erik Bertrand Larssen developed a methodology based on his military experience and wrote about it in his book called Hell Week: Seven Days to Be Your Best Self.

Larssen believes there are three models of highly effective cultures: the military, business, and sports. The military teaches us to push beyond our limits to discover we are capable of more. Athletes demonstrate how to set and pursue goals systematically. Sports also teaches us that victory is not achieved under the spotlight on the final stretch but through daily, painstaking training.

However, in your view, the mind merely serves the desires.

My Response: We should not go against desires. A person cannot truly change them. What I can do is split my desire into smaller parts: one becomes two, two become four, and so on. There will be a chain reaction. The only real option is to prioritize one desire over another, higher one. And that depends on the society around me.

Therefore, if I am in a group that values higher desires over my personal ones, I can easily let go of my bad desires and adopt their good ones.

Military, sports, and business, all involve self-coercion. But I do not want to coerce myself. I am weak. Why should I subject myself to such extreme states? The body does not like that.

Question: There are different approaches. What is the key to the Kabbalistic method in order to say: “Guys, you are looking in the wrong place”?

Answer: The key or secret lies entirely in the environment around you. Nothing else! If I join the right environment, and this environment knows how to motivate and influence me, tempting me with hints and exercises like with a child, it can shape me however it wants.

Kabbalah, first of all, calls for building a correct society where everyone can progress further.

Question: Can you name a few principles that such a society follows that others could take as a model?

Answer: A Kabbalistic society is very simple. It is built on the principle of gradually bringing people closer together by rising above their small, narrow, personal egos.

Members engage in specific exercises called workshops where they discuss these ideas and attempt to connect and open up to each other. This path involves rising above the natural egoism of a person despite his inherent tendencies.

A person begins to feel like they are entering a kind of elevator, lifting him beyond our nature. It is as if they detach from the Earth and enter a “cosmic elevator” that rises higher and higher, beyond our universe into an entirely different, anti-egoistic universe. In this realm, everything is based on the qualities of bestowal and love, as opposed to the qualities of reception and hatred inherent to our nature.

This gradual transformation occurs under the constant and increasingly changing influence of society.

This model is lifelong and spans all lifetimes because it elevates a person beyond life and death.

A person begins to perceive, see, and feel this! He rises above our egoistic nature and therefore transcends the level of biological life and death. He no longer identifies with his physical body, but starts perceiving himself as an energetic entity called the soul.

I am speaking about a methodology that allows a person to rise above himself and transform into something eternally existing and non-egoistic. It enables him to become acquainted with the Creator, reveal the upper world, and break free from the confines of the small, narrow space in which we exist.

If someone has not just idle curiosity, but a deep, inner yearning, it is possible to work with him.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/10/18

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Question: What is money? What is striving toward a goal? How can one change habits? What does Kabbalah say about this?

Answer: It is very simple. Money (Kesef) is a covering. “Kesef” comes from the word “Kisuf,” which means covering, that is, a covering over my desires.

Money is not just paper or something stored in a bank. If I can cover my desires and aspirations for what I want with a screen, it is considered that I pay for my desires. Through this covering, I can rise above them from the desire to receive to the desire to bestow, and thereby achieve any fulfillment according to the strength of my desire.

Question: With money, I can satisfy my desires. But what does it mean to cover desires with a screen?

Answer: To cover means that a desire is truly fulfilled only by its covering, which is the transformation of the intention behind the desire from oneself to others.

If we want to earn correctly, to truly earn life, then we need to understand what money is, what covering means, and what the transformation of intention is. It is about a screen that covers egoistic desires and transforms them into altruistic ones, and in this altruistic light, we begin to receive upper fulfillments. This is true wealth.

Question: Do a person’s thoughts shape their life?

Answer: In general, yes.

Question: What are thoughts, and how can one change the course of thoughts to shape and improve life?

Answer: A person’s thoughts shape their life, meaning their attitude toward who they are, what they are, what surrounds them, and their purpose. All of these are called their thoughts.

One must answer questions such as: “Why do I exist? What is happening to me? How will my life end?” Initially, these questions may arise purely in an egoistic form, but one must start answering them. They must understand that if they focus only on satisfying their egoism, they will end up in portions and eventually finish the same way. And then what? Until they die. Because our physiological, animalistic body defines our life.

If I want to rise to the next level, to exist not in the animalistic body, but in the spiritual one, I need to rise and begin to exist according to entirely different values, not to fill my physical body and see that as the purpose of life, but to fill myself with qualities of bestowal and love, qualities that resemble the Creator. This is a completely different value system.

Here, a person faces a significant challenge. It feels as if they are in a vast field meant for them to explore asking why, for what purpose, and how to break away from past values, from wealth, money, notions of happiness, and egoistic success. They must begin to reposition themselves entirely differently regarding their existence.

Question: “We are slaves to our habits. Change your habits, and your life will change.” But what should we change them to?

Answer: They need to be replaced with some kind of spiritual actions and relationships. First, I must study them, understand where they come from, how they form, and how I can make these changes.

Question: What are truly good habits for a person?

Answer: There are no good habits. A habit, by its nature, cannot be good. Habits are always bad.

What can be good is when we rise from one positive action to an even greater positive action. But that is not a habit; it goes against our habits. This requires great effort and work on oneself.

Question: But for this, we need to have a distant goal to consistently overcome our habits, right?

Answer: Yes. In addition to having a distant goal, you also need a small group in which you can implement this.

Comment: “The main obstacles in life are self-doubt and fear. Our doubts paralyze us.”

My Response: Our doubts and fears drive us forward, and these are very good qualities of our nature.

Without doubts and fears, we would not move anywhere. We would dig into our current situation trying to minimize the feeling of evil and barely experience any good just to avoid triggering doubts and fears.
Let doubts and fears arise! Let them push and pressure us forward!

If I am in the right environment, all my doubts and fears will be directed correctly in my interactions with that environment, and together we will move forward. Nothing in nature is created in vain! Under no circumstances should we diminish, suppress, or erase anything!

Comment: “Goals should be clear, simple, and written down.”

My Response: A person who is truly developing has no clarity. They are constantly in turmoil and engaged in clarifications. As soon as they resolve something, new turmoil immediately arises.

A true human being is constantly in a state of turmoil and clarification, turmoil and clarification. Greater and greater desires, doubts, and thoughts arise in them. They continually ask themselves: “How can I truly find the purpose of life? What is worth living for?”

Comment: In one of your talks, you drew a coordinate system where a person moves along a sinusoid line, progressing toward the goal through increasing ruptures. I shared this example with a friend, and she said: “So do we have to hit rock bottom to rise again?”

My Response: Yes, of course! Even the greatest Kabbalists, before reaching complete correction, find themselves at the lowest point! Absolutely!

Question: What lifts a person from this rock bottom?

Answer: The environment and the upper light that one receives through it.

Comment: And here is one of the latest quotes: “Find the courage to go against the flow and get rich.”

My Response: This means going against egoism. It is possible. But keep in mind that you are weak, that you cannot do it alone! There is no need to fight stubbornly and go against everything if you are on your own.

You must build a system that will help you reach the goal. It should be a system within a group of like-minded people who have a clear goal. Only together, by constantly strengthening their connection, can they achieve the goal.

Comment: To conclude: “Poor, unlucky, unhappy, and unhealthy is the person who often uses the word ‘tomorrow’.”

My Response: Yes, of course. We have no right to postpone anything until tomorrow.

But that is not the only issue. Weakness is not just about procrastination. Weakness is in closing your eyes and refusing to connect with others.

To delay until tomorrow or not? The problem lies in this: all human actions depend on their interaction with others. If a person is in the right environment, they will not postpone anything until tomorrow. They will not even delay today, they will act immediately. The environment will compel them to move.

The most important thing is to establish the right connection with the right environment. There must be a group. Only then will they progress. The group determines everything. Find the right group, and you will find happiness.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/3/19

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