Comment: I read seven tips that someone gave for a person to have an easier life.
“The ability to wait is the best thing one can master.”

My Response: If it is not about spiritual work, then yes; however, if it is about spiritual work, then no. When it comes to spiritual work, one has to constantly move forward.

Comment: “The first step is only the beginning.” It means that once you make the first step you are already halfway to victory.

My Response: The first step is not half the way to the victory, but it is still an entrance. Whether it is the beginning of the victory will become clear from the rest of the steps.

Comment: “If it is difficult, means you are advancing.”

My Response: I do not think that difficulty is a sign that we are moving forward correctly. No.

The evidence that we are moving forward is our ability to summarize all problems, information, and opposites into one whole. They all complement each other and add up in an absolute precise way into one single perfect picture in our root that we are moving toward.

Comment: “Break the chains that constrict your thoughts and you will break the chains that constrict your body.” At times we are standing still because of the thoughts that prevent us from moving forward. We have to remove the negative thoughts that slow us down and instill fear in us.

My Response: We move through both negative and the positive thoughts together. Both of them are necessary. It is like a wheel where some part is moving forward and some part is moving backward relative to the center of the wheel.

Comment: “Calmness is a condition for success.” When we are calm we are capable of doing much more than when we are possessed by emotions.

My Response: No. All of Kabbalah is based on opposites, on the combination of opposites. We have to be calm in complete endless movement. There is no other way. We cannot be calm and rely on the will of a flow of life that we will end up wherever it carries us.

These are Eastern methodologies. They do not include the left line and therefore I cannot equate them with Kabbalah or give any comment.

Comment: “Judgment is darkness for a person.” We should never insult and lower the individuality of a person in any way. The only thing we can do is to condemn him for his actions, but not the person himself.

My Response: We should not condemn anyone. Absolutely no one! We have to correct ourselves. When you correct yourself, you correct the world in a way that there will be no one who would condemn you.

Comment: “Belief in one’s rightness is a limitation.”

My Response: Belief in one’s rightness has a place only when it is based on the absolute upper knowledge, not by you, but by the masses. When you are moving together with the masses and reveal the Creator in connection between you, then you find the true rightness. An individual person cannot have any correctness.

In order to have some overall orientation in life, it is necessary to have nine more friends together with you. In this way, in a ten, like in a laboratory, you will be able to create a mini-system, a mini- society, where you can clearly project the entire nature, entire humanity, and all the worlds between yourselves.

You would create such a magic balloon from your ten desires and intentions and would see all universes, all worlds, all their inhabitants, and the Creator in it like in the mini-image, in the mini-model. Then by working on this model you would clearly understand who you are and where you are going.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/25/19

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Question: The most talked-about name today either excites, terrifies, depresses, or inspires hope in people: Trump. How do you view today’s Trump? What is this phenomenon?

Answer: In general, it is not a new phenomenon and is quite known in America. He enjoys making all kinds of grand gestures.

Comment: To be in the spotlight.

My Response: Exactly. I think we will quickly get used to him, and people will realize that it’s like “letting a child play around.” That is his style, his hallmark.

Question: Why has the world reacted so strongly? How has the world changed to respond this way?

Answer: Every politician primarily thinks about how to attract as much electorate to their side as possible.

Question: So does he clearly understand that he stirs people up and wins them over in this way?

Answer: Of course. He is no longer young; he understands how this game is played.

Question: So do you think this is his strategy, that everything is calculated?

Answer: Definitely. Would he have been allowed to stay otherwise?

Question: To rule?

Answer: No, he would have been just killed.

Question: Is there a larger agenda behind this, and does someone benefit from it?

Answer: Absolutely.

Question: You said, “He is just like that.” What trait in him is necessary for the world today to be shaken up?

Answer: The need to show off.

Question: Is it that simple?

Answer: Not entirely, there are deeper layers, but fundamentally, yes.

Question: Is this what fulfills him? If we are talking about his fulfillment.

Answer: Yes.

Question: Are people celebrating him like this?

Answer: Yes, they are excited to have a presidential candidate who can “show who is the boss,” slam a fist on the table, and do something outrageous and unpredictable.

Question: Let’s be honest, he has accomplished things in the past. He did quite a bit for Israel: moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and recognized the Golan Heights. He has, in a way, proven himself as a man of action, has he not?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: I remember you said a true leader is someone who feels a sense of responsibility, as though they are caring for their own children, and who could come to the principle of “Love your neighbor as yourself”—or at least approach it.

My Response: I don’t think anyone expects those kinds of words from him.

Question: Do people expect direct decisions from him tough? And he will likely meet those expectations, will he not?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: He is also promising to stop wars.

My Response: I do not believe that. That does not depend on Trump.

Comment: Trump is known for unconventional decisions, his ability to take risks, and so on. But being President of the U.S. is not a gamble. Still, it feels like he is taking chances.

My Response: No, I do not think it is a gamble.

Question: So is he taking risks, bluffing, or not?

Answer: No.

Question: You still see calculation in his actions?

Answer: Everything is calculated.

Question: Many criticize Trump; that is well-known. What helps him ignore the criticism, the constant attacks from all sides?

Answer: What else can he do? He has to play the same game, accept their moves, and learn to respond. This is a high-stakes game.

Question: Do you think he still pays attention to the criticism?

Answer: He has a huge team of people monitoring everything, analyzing it, and explaining to him what in fact is happening, each from a different perspective. And what happens next, we will see.

Question: What would you personally, sincerely, want Trump to do?

Answer: I think the greatest thing he could do is stop the hatred between the left and the right across all countries.

Question: Do you mean worldwide?

Answer: Yes, he should try to address it. And then we will see.

Question: So you are thinking globally. Do you see this division as the root cause of all problems and conflicts?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What does the leader of such an influential country, one that the entire world watches, need to do? He cannot simply say: “Stop hating, love one another.” What foundational steps should he take?

Answer: I am not sure he has the strength to do it. But the time, the place, and the topic are precisely this: will the world continue trying to circumvent the opposing side…

Question: The right circumventing the left and vice versa?

Answer: Yes. Or will the world strive for greater balance after all? That is hard to predict.

Comment: So if he managed to lay this foundation, you would say: “This is what I would want.” To stop this hatred between people.

My Response: I think in his previous term he was more realistic. What he will bring this time, I do not know.

Question: What do you think the Creator is trying to convey to our world by placing someone like Trump as a world leader (essentially a world leader)? After all, “The hearts of ministers are in the hands of the Creator.” What message is being sent to humanity in your opinion?

Answer: That we need to learn how to live under leaders like him. I am not criticizing Trump; on the contrary, I am pointing out that we are in a unique period where we can come closer to solving our main issue. I think it is possible. Beyond that, I do not know.

He does not have any major obstacles! He can step forward and truly feel like a leader. I believe he should seize this opportunity.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/18/24

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Comment: Scientists have concluded that by 2050, humanity will face 10 major problems: genetic modification of humans, an increase in the proportion of the elderly population, the disappearance of cities, the evolution of social networks, new geopolitical tensions, transportation safety, depleting natural resources, colonization of other planets, expansion of the capabilities of our brain, and the growing influence of artificial intelligence.

My Response: None of this is going to happen. All of our current development is aimed at bringing us to a dead end. It seems that we can deal with multiple problems, populate planets, develop deserts, anything at all. We can build, destroy, or run amok with it all. But our egoism will not allow us to do this.

It will make our lives unbearable and lead to a state of a continuous chain of conflicts between us: between family members, children, and parents, with neighbors living in the same city or in the same borough. It doesn’t matter where or about what, we will be unable to get along with each other to the point that we will end up sprinting to the bakery with a machine gun through the deserted streets. And it is going to be a dreadful life. Egoism will lead us to this.

No inventions will help us. They will not give anything. First of all, we will use them to subjugate all people, to profit from everyone, to suppress everyone. We can see how technology is advancing and for what purpose it is being used.

So let us take a look at what prevents us from being happy!

Happiness is not about inhabiting other planets, these lifeless celestial bodies, and it is not about driverless cars driving instead of us, or that we would live for 200 years. Our 70 or 80 is enough for us. There is no need for more! It is not about how long to live, but how to live! There is no way to escape death. Pushing it away is just a foolish pursuit!

We need to make it so that while we are still alive in this world, we will start feeling ourselves eternal, existing infinitely. This is the solution to the problem, not getting caught up in solving mundane problems in our own egoism. It is going to ruin everything for us anyway.

We cannot say that today we are happier than those who lived 50 years ago. They did not have the electronic gadgets that we play with now, but that did not make them any less happy.

I see from today’s statistics that people are less happy and that humanity is in a deeper depression.

Nowadays everyone is starting to think about how and where to consume marijuana or something else to escape. Why would a person need to live for 200 years?! So that he could spend 100 of them in a narcotic dream?!

We have to create a good life for ourselves. And it is achieved very simply—through kind relationships between us. Otherwise we are destined for Armageddon.

Do you know what Armageddon is? There is a small mountain in Israel (har is mountain in Hebrew) called Megido. A couple of thousand years ago, there were some skirmishes there. Since then, this figurative expression has been used: Armageddon—the end of the world.

Actually, we do not have to wait for that. You can still climb this hill and look down from it. It is not that big, only 700 to 800 meters high. Let us not push ourselves to extreme states. Let us make our lives calm, good, and happy today, not in 50 years from now.

And most importantly, with the help of the science of Kabbalah, we can begin to feel the next life, the upper world, the transition from one state to another, from one cycle to another. It is all within our power.

I wish you to discover the eternal state of growing and contented matter for yourselves.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/26/17

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Comment: Genetic engineering has challenged the Bible and says that Adam and Eve were not created by God.

Science has come to the conclusion that even in the formation of an embryo, as well as everywhere else, we observe a certain managing component. By studying the genome and knowing that there are managing and executing cells, it is possible to not only understand, but also to manage this process.

My Response: There are no problems in managing biological processes. But that does not mean that we create them. We interfere with their work, and that is what we call management.

Question: And who creates them?

Answer: This happens on a level above the human being. For this, a person must rise above himself.

How? Here is where the science of Kabbalah appears. Do you want to comprehend the next level? Do you want to reveal it? Please, you can. But to do this, you must seriously work on yourself and the connection with the next level—the managing one.

First of all, imagine that you are under this managing level all the time, under it. It constantly guides you and holds you. You try to get into resonance with it. You are managed by it. You agree and want to be managed by it. You do not want to act on your own—neither with your desires, nor with your thoughts, i.e., neither with your heart nor mind—not in any way!

You only want to feel this level and execute everything with your desire toward it; as it wishes, let it manage you. And you will be happy to add yourself to its governance.

This is how the next step is attained. This is called “annulling oneself,” annulling one’s egoism.

If we act this way, we will begin to feel this next level—its management, its qualities, its nature, and its intention. This is called attaining the Creator, because the next step for me is my Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/20/18

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Comment: The popular futurist and physicist Michio Kaku, who has interviewed various scientists and researchers, concluded that thanks to technology, we are moving toward a super-future where new devices and machines can help us become better.

My Response: If we could hand out devices to everyone that would constantly make us better instead of phones, that would be great.

Comment: We are talking about the possibility of digitizing a person, digitizing their memories.

My Response: You can do anything you want. But if you do not improve people, you will bring humanity a terrible future.

Today we are on the brink, where if we do not start improving ourselves in line with our technical capabilities, we will lead ourselves to a world where everyone will want to take a pill and die.

There is an enormous supercomputer at work above us. It is eternal; it is true! It is the highest intelligence. It is the Creator, and we here are nothing and no one! Everything that happens to us is done by Him so that we will realize our insignificance and want to connect with Him and, from His level, will see our lives.

Question: What is a superhuman?

Answer: A superhuman is someone who absorbs the qualities of the Creator.

If I turn myself into a collection of all the world’s information, I will just become an idiot. Let us rise spiritually from this Earth! We will remain on it for now, temporarily, in our bodies, but let us begin to rise in spirit and in understanding! We will see another level of information and of actions, a level that does not pertain to our earthly matters. Today we can already imagine it.

Let us rise to our level of governance, where we are governed from, and start seeing everything in completely different definitions, in different volumes, with different limitations. There is nothing earthly there. And from there, we will see where we can go further. But that is a completely different dimension! Not this four-dimensional one, but something else.

Comment: In one of your articles, you write that infinity is an infinite number of connections between creation and the Creator.

My Response: It is unlimited, where there are no separate connections between the Creator and creations, however and whoever they may be, but where they all merge into one whole. Without wires, everything merges into one system.

Question: In neurons, axons serve as connectors. But what is the connecting element in unlimited connections?

Answer: There are none; they disappear. The state becomes a fusion where there is no difference between the controller and the controlled; they complement each other so fully that they turn into a single whole. It is called “One.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/16/18

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Question: Second grader Stasik asks the Creator: “Did You give me my own soul or someone else’s?”

Answer: No, you received your own soul. But if you are not satisfied with it, you can work to correct it.

Question: What kind of soul should one aim for?

Answer: One that loves everyone.

Question: Do people have this desire?

Answer: I do not think so.

Question: But what about children?

Answer: Personally, I think children are more inclined toward correction than adults.

Adults have already settled into their ways and believe that things will not and cannot get better, and they simply should accept what they have.

Question: Do children still hold on to hope?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Ideally, with experience, we should…

My Response: But we do not. Where would we get the patience, experience, or determination to resist what we have? We just accept it as it is.

Question: Is this because of the blows? Because we constantly experienced setbacks and received blows?

Answer: Yes, it is because we are too lazy to correct ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/4/24

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Question: Can a teacher be a friend? When does a teacher become a friend, and does he become a friend?

Answer: It depends more on the student, on whether the student can understand that his teacher is his friend. It is not easy.

Question: So the teacher is ready to be a friend on his own?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it the student’s effort?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And then the second part of the question is: who was your teacher to you?

Answer: Today, of course, I can say that he was the person closest to me, a friend, a teacher, it doesn’t matter how you say it. But it is true on his part.

Question: What kind of life wisdom do you consider the most important thing to live by?

Answer: In general, the wisdom of life, according to my belief, is that a person desires the revelation of the Creator and agrees to accept Him as He reveals Himself to him.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/28/24

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Comment: From a letter: “You always talk about kindness and love, but in reality, people treat each other like parasites.”

My Response: Of course.

Question: “And the kindest people in this world take the most blows from others and from fate. So the choice is either to be a parasite in life or to suffer from parasites. Please explain why one should be kind in this world, and why do you advise it?”

Answer: Because if we are kind, we become like the Creator. Then it will be better and easier for us both in this world and in the next.

Comment: But this person believes it is better for the parasites, those who use others and live that way.

My Response: That is just how it seems to him. In small, limited circumstances, he might be somewhat right. But overall in life, no.

Comment: So you are saying that we should still raise children with good relationships, with concepts of friendship, decency, and so on. And looking at the bigger picture, you say that this is correct.

My Response: Yes.

Comment: But if we narrow our focus, as he says, parasites just…

My Response: When you narrow your focus, you are limiting yourself to isolated cases. And then, of course, it seems better to be an egoist. But if you look at life as a whole, at what a person is left with, and where they end up after, then it is clearly better to be kind.

Question: Tell me, does this kindness ever come back to a person?

Answer: It does not exactly “come back.” It gives you the ability to understand why everything is made this way and how it is still better to act kindly.

Question: Is that important?

Answer: It is important.

Comment: Right now, you are not even saying that kindness will return to you as good.

My Response: We do not see that.

Question: But if we look at it globally, does it still return?

Answer: Not in our world.

Question: You are being so definitive: if you do good, good does not come back to you?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But we should not conclude from this that we should not do good? We should continue?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You started by saying that the Creator is good and does good and we must be like Him. Will this ever come back to me? Or should I not think about that at all?

Answer: The fact that you think this way and can act this way is already the Creator’s bestowal. This is already the reward.

Question: What about those who, as he says, are parasites, what happens to them? I would like to ask about them.

Answer: They calculate their dividends and believe they are happy.

Question: And you think they are not?

Answer: No.

Question: Can we say, as an egoist asking, that after they finish their life, in another world, will they be punished for being parasites? Or not? Will there be punishment?

Answer: Yes, without a doubt! And it will be in such a way that they will even not understand it at first.

Question: But it comes? Is this how the Creator teaches a person?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Through suffering like this?

Answer: It is not the Creator teaching the person; it is a general law of nature: everything a person does must be compensated for—good with good, evil with evil.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/12/24

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Question: You said you could not rest; you were always looking for something. Did you understand what you were looking for? This is a personal question for you.

Answer: Not quite. The meaning of life. What is going on with me? How should I act to find answers to the questions? This type of questions.

Question: So something did not satisfy you?

Answer: Sure, I was dissatisfied with meaninglessness.

Comment: Scientific work is pointless, as is…

My Response: Of course, all that is…

Question: Was there some kind of premonition that it had to be somewhere, that you must seek it?

Answer: In general, it is somewhere because nature itself does not tolerate this emptiness. It screams outright, screams there is a goal and there is truth, and it is for everyone although each person may have their own, but one can find it.

Question: Did you feel this inner cry?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: Did you reach a point where if you could not achieve your goal, there was no point in living?

Answer: Definitely. For many years it was meaningless.

Question: How did you come out of these states?

Answer: It is not easy, but I think a lot of people are still in such a state.

The most important thing is to understand that it does not depend on you, it is given to you from above, it is a gift from nature. And you must keep looking for answers to the question of your fate.

Comment: That is, on a positive note, you keep going, you are not stopping.

My Response: Absolutely, yes.

Question: How long do these states last: “If I do not find it, life is not worth living”? Are these statements internal?

Answer: I have had it for decades.

Question: What is the most important moment in your life?

Answer: The most important moment was when I found my teacher. I realized that a great happiness had befallen me now.

Question: In all the time that you have been studying Kabbalah, have you ever regretted it?

Answer: No. How could it have happened?

Comment: Probably the person asking may have doubts.

My Response: Doubts, meaning to forget and fall asleep?

Comment: I do not know, maybe there is something else.

My Response: I am not hiding from anything, and I am not turning a blind eye to anything; there simply is nothing else.

Question: You have been studying for a long time. More than forty years, nearly fifty. Was there no moment of doubt? Have you ever regretted it? Or were there some doubts like if you were in the right place?

Answer: No, such depth and horizons are revealed to you that you have nothing more to look for. Either you give it up, or you stay with it.

Question: So you never had any doubts, and you went along with it. But you did go through different states, right?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Why are these states given on the path?

Answer: To test yourself.

Question: So, you were questioning yourself?

Answer: Yes. “Do I need it?”

Question: “Am I in the right place?” Did you ask yourself this?

Answer: “Am I in the right place?” Not really. Whether I have the right sources, whether the methodology is correct, whether I should behave this way—all such questions were there.

Question: How did you answer these questions?

Answer: My answer was that I did not believe in anything, and therefore—to check.

Question: Is there anything in life you regret most and would like to take back and do differently?

Answer: Yes, I would like to take back and redo absolutely everything except my choice in life. That is, the choice itself is correct, but its implementation could have been more intense.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/24

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Question: When you feel that you are hated, what is your internal reaction?

Answer: I need to look at why I caused such a reaction.

Question: So you think about why you triggered that reaction?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Let’s say you find the reason. What is next?

Answer: I must correct myself.

Question: What does this correction mean?

Answer: Correction means improving myself so that next time there would be no reason to hate me for it.

Question: Is hatred actually a reaction of egoism?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Fully, absolutely?

Answer: Definitely.

Question: So today you have a different conversation with your own egoism?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You often say that the Creator is jealous. Are you jealous? What do you feel when your students leave you for another teacher?

Answer: Completely indifferent!

Comment: That is hard to understand. You invested in the student, watched him grow…

Answer: I did everything I could to bring him closer to the truth. And if he ultimately feels his place is not among my students, that is his right.

How could I turn a student into a slave? That would be far worse than any wrongdoing, it would be stealing his freewill! That is it! It is almost like removing him from the pedestal of being a human.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/21/24

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