Question: There is a joke about a man asking God: “Lord, what is the best way to make You laugh?” God answers: “Tell me about your plans.”

Why do our plans make the Creator laugh?

Answer: Because when a person makes plans, he considers himself above what is happening, as if he can plan the future. This is not justified at all. Therefore, of course, it makes Him laugh.

Question: Let’s be realistic. A person makes plans for the summer, for a vacation. I write down a plan for the day, what I have to do today, and so on. Is this called making plans?

Answer: Remember what Woland said? That a person cannot program himself for the future. To do this, he must know what will happen at least 1,000 years in advance.

I would not say that we can program anything.

Question: Is it possible to live without plans?

Answer: It is possible to live without plans if you put your plans aside and accept the plans of the next, higher level.

Question: What kind of plans are these? By what plan do I live then?

Answer: You live by the plan of the upper nature, the Creator.

Question: And what kind of plan is this?

Answer: This means that all you can imagine is that you only want one thing: to be in close contact with Him.

Question: And this no longer makes Him laugh?

Answer: This does not make Him laugh. You only want to achieve this, and what will happen is unimportant for you. The main thing is that you want only these plans to be realized in you.

Question: Are you not even interested in knowing what the Creator’s plans are? Do you just completely devote yourself?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can a person live like that?

Answer: Are you truly going to check His plans?

Question: I really cannot. But still, it may be scary for someone to even pronounce it. What if He has such plans that…

Answer: Whatever they are, these are already the upper plans.

Question: So it is about my complete annulment before the upper one?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Does this make the Creator laugh?

Answer: The Creator rejoices.

Question: Can you tell why He “bends” me like that?

Answer: So that you would want consciously to change your plans.

Question: So, I take my soul and stifle it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can I say that this is all my pride, that we are now talking about pride by and large?

Answer: Of course.

Comment: And the Creator wants him to…

My Response: Remove it by himself.

Comment: The operation that He performs on us is practically without anesthesia.

My Response: A person must realize that this is what is bad in him and interferes with him.

Question: And there are no painkillers here? Is it necessary to go through the pain?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is more important: the result itself or the planning process?

Answer: I would say both, of course. But the main thing is still the result.

Question: And when the plans fall apart, for example. Many people’s plans fall apart, and today many of those have fallen apart. Can a person react to this differently than he reacts? In a calmer way somehow.

Answer: It depends on his preparation. If he is already prepared in advance for the fact that all his plans will not come true and he will have to change them to the plans of the Creator, then he will survive this calmly.

Question: That is, I plan, but what will happen is what the Creator wants?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this the correct beginning of the phrase: “I plan”?

Answer: It is necessary that a person plans. But he must convince himself that what will come true anyway are the plans of the Creator—not his.

Question: So I do what I want, and it will be as the Creator decides?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this how we should live? Is this the right message?

Answer: Yes. You always add: “If the Creator wills.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/24

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Question: Following the war that began on October 7^th, people in Israel began coming to cardiology departments with heart problems, not with heart attacks or blocked arteries, but with what is called “broken heart syndrome.” In Hebrew, it is tismun et lev shavur.

Its symptoms resemble a heart attack, but it is not a heart attack. The shape of the heart changes, its function is impaired, and instead of contracting, it expands. This condition results from adrenaline being released into the blood during prolonged grief or stress.

Doctors recommend maintaining a healthy lifestyle, getting exercise, reducing stress, lightening work demands, pursuing hobbies, takingvacations, etc., but for a modern person who is always on the go, stressed, and trying to find their place in life, these recommendations do not seem realistic.

How can we not “break” our hearts amidst everything going on around us?

Answer: To do that, we need to understand that everything happening is nature’s response to our behavior. We cannot help ourselves unless we act precisely according to nature’s laws.

Question: What if I knew that my behavior and relationships with others affect all these stresses and wars? What would result from this?

Answer: Then I would behave differently. I would avoid stress and conflicts with others. Meaning, I would behave normally so that there would be no clashes.

Question: It is interesting that there is physical pain like torture, suffering, and imprisonment, yet people come out of that alive and sometimes live to be 120 and remain healthy. But here, emotional stress ends life. What is this, why is that?

Answer: Our bodies are adapted to physical suffering but not to emotional or moral suffering. We cannot endure that.

Question: Why not? After all the body is healthy?

Answer: Because such suffering goes beyond our natural life, our body.

Question: So a higher function is disrupted while the earthly one remains intact?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So even with a healthy body, roughly speaking, I can pass away?

Answer: Yes, people lived in conditions beyond our imagination.

Question: And then, bang, it is all over. Does this mean we have some higher component within us?

Answer: Yes, you can survive life if you have a goal. If you can elevate that goal above suffering and limitations, you can endure anything.

Question: So you grasp this spirit and survive, but your body can give up?

Answer: The body will not give up if you hold on to this force above life.

Question: So you connect these ideas?

Answer: Of course. A person must see a purpose ahead of him, a reason for enduring suffering.

Question: Then the body will hold on?

Answer: Yes. The problem is that in today’s life, people do not see that purpose.

Question: Does this apply even to a simple goal? For example, centenarians often seem to have a simple goal, they hold on to it, and their body follows. Does this also apply to simple goals and not just lofty ones?

Answer: Yes, they may have their sheep, goats, or a dog.

Comment: Yes, the fresh air, nature. And they live.

My Response: Exactly.

Comment: There are many movies now about elderly people living to 100 years or more in remote places like forests and mountains. You wonder how they manage—and yet they do. They live without hospitals or doctors.

My Response: Right. If they wake up knowing they need to do certain things, that is enough to keep them going.

Question: Even just feeding themselves?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Should we also learn to feel another’s pain?

Answer: Yes, we must learn to feel others’ pain because that creates a positive field of mutual connection around us, which is essential for survival.

Question: Can one find meaning in emotional suffering?

Answer: People often find deep meaning in suffering. But suffering should lead to a result whether it is creating literature, music, or other expressions. Much of art is rooted in suffering. A person must change their attitude toward life and develop a new life philosophy.

Question: You attribute all this to suffering?

Answer: Suffering drives humanity forward.

Question: Is it possible to accept suffering?

Answer: Most people accept suffering; they cannot resist it. But some individuals suppress their suffering and reach the next level.

Question: Do we ever reach the root of suffering, why it happens?

Answer: The root of suffering is actually quite foolish: it lies in the rejection of suffering itself. When I believe that what I am experiencing should not be happening to me, I suffer.

Question: So if I accept it, I will not suffer?

Answer: Exactly, then you will adjust to that level of life.

Question: Why am I given all these sufferings?

Answer: They are given to make you reflect on your life. You need to see whether you are the source of your own suffering and how you can rise above it. Once you transcend the cause of your suffering, you can free yourself from it and gain a new perspective.

Question: And what will I see?

Answer: You will see that your suffering is purely philosophical. Where suffering exists, there is a philosophy tied to it, a belief that suffering is undeserved. But if you accept it, you can rise above it.

Question: At the same time, understanding that these experiences are part of a divine plan is essential?

Answer: Yes, that is what the Creator wants you to understand.

Question: Should this understanding be both in the heart and the mind? And is that when you…

Answer: I agree with Him and I follow this path.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/23/24

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Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs (Chrissy, age 6).

Question: Is this love?

Answer: Yes, it is love.

Question: Why, can you explain as if you were to explain this to the child?

Answer: Because he is giving away something he himself likes. It feels good for him to have it, but he gives it away.

Question: Is that a simple answer? I really want to eat it, but I give it to my friend. And this is called love?

Answer: Yes, that is love.

Comment: Another answer from the group of children who were asked what love is:
Love is what makes you smile when you are tired (Terri, age 4).

My Response: That is also love. Because by doing that, you uplift another person, elevate them, make them feel good against their will.

Question: So you are associating this with smiling for another person?

Answer: Yes.

Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it every day (Noelle, age 7).

My Response: This speaks more about the love of the boy who wears the shirt toward the one who complimented it.

Question: Why is that love?

Answer: Because the boy who wears the shirt wants to please the one who likes it.

You shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget (Jessica, age 8).

My Response: I don’t think such behavior should be taught to a child.

Question: But this is the child’s answer, an eight-year-old child. So if you do not love, should you say that you do?

Answer: No, you should not lie.

Question: And if you love, should you say that you do?

Answer: Probably, yes, but I think even in that case, not entirely.

Comment: The winner of the contest to find the most caring child judged by Leo Buscaglia was a four-year-old boy whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the neighbor’s yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his mother asked the boy what he said to the neighbor, the boy replied: “Nothing. I just helped him cry.”

My Response: These are somewhat unbelievable stories for a four-year-old child.

Question: But helping someone cry, what do you think about this moment of compassion?

Answer: It is good.

Question: Does it really help?

Answer: Of course!

Question: So the child sits down, looks at you, and cries with you?

Answer: Yes, but that is too much. It is somewhat unreal.

Question: I see. So here is a question: where does all this go afterward? Even all these answers—they contain such childlike purity. Where does it go? How do we become haters, warriors, killers, criminals? Where does the child inside us go? This child who grew up like this?

Answer: Egoism grows and consumes everything there is.

Question: And that is it?

Answer: That is it.

Question: Does this child remain in us or does it also…?

Answer: There is a possibility to start developing anti-egoistically, to suppress this ego within us.

Question: Can we return to this child even a little?

Answer: Yes, but it will not be a child anymore.

Question: Is it an adult child then?

Answer: Yes.

Question: When you say that an old man is like a child. A wise person is like a child. What do you mean when you say that? That the child does not die in us, that it remains?

Answer: Yes, the child does not die in us and remains because we desire to experience nature and life directly, like children.

Question: Is there this spontaneity in these answers?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/25/24

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Question: A fish asks God, “Lord, can you make the ocean smaller?” “Why?” God is surprised. “Because I don’t know how to swim.” God replies, “Learn to swim, and the ocean will seem smaller to you.”

We live in this world and often complain about life. Essentially, we do not know how to swim in this ocean of life. How can we learn to swim?

Answer: We do not have any natural abilities for it. We were created in egoism. We can criticize each other, but we rarely think well of one another. Achieving a state where each person is a friend, companion, and brother to others is, in essence, a fantasy.

Question: Then, why did the Creator fill this “aquarium” and place us in it like fish without teaching us how to swim?

Answer: He gave us the opportunity to learn on our own.

Question: What does this give me?

Answer: It gives us the chance to be the creators of our own lives.

Question: So, I am essentially a human with “fins” and “gills,” equipped for this water, but I do not know how to swim?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do I need to develop these “fins and gills”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How and when do we come to understand this?

Answer: We understand it when we have no other choice. Either we line up and march toward the cliff or learn to swim.

Question: So do we need to be brought to this dead-end?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How should we correctly perceive this ocean of life?

Answer: It is open before us. It all depends on how we relate to each other. That is still a problem. We always think that if others do well, it will somehow be worse for us.

How can one convince a person that this is not the case? On the contrary, let us work on ourselves so that everyone feels good and you feel good with everyone, and everyone feels good with you. But people resist this idea.

Question: So even here, the fish asks God, “Make the ocean smaller.” It does not say, “Give me the ability; teach me to swim.” So, we are not asking, “Teach us to swim in this ocean.” We are not asking this of the Creator, or are we?

Answer: No.

Question: Are we asking for the ocean to be different?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this also inherent in us?

Answer: Of course it is inherent in us! We cannot change ourselves. Our egoism is truly the opposite of nature.

Question: What does it mean spiritually to learn to swim?

Answer: Spiritually “learning to swim” means feeling the sea of the Creator’s love around you and knowing how to remain in it.

Question: In this love?

Answer: Yes, and when we finally learn to move our arms and legs a little, we will start to understand that we know how to swim.

But we can truly learn to “swim” only when we turn solely to the Creator. Because the sea, the ocean, the waves, the sky, the earth, everything, is Him. We need to learn to be within Him. And to be within Him means to exist in the qualities of bestowal, love, and connection with everyone. That is what it means to learn to “swim.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/14/24

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Comment: The nightingale sang to a rose every night. One day, the rose asked: “Why are you singing to me?” The nightingale replied: “Because you are beautiful.” The rose thought about it and said: “But I am poking you with my thorns, with my spikes.” “Such is your beauty,” said the nightingale, “Without thorns you would not be so lovely.”

My Response: Clearly, the nightingale…

Question: Is in love?

Answer: Yes, he can sing and whistle.

Question: Please tell me, why do thorns add beauty? Why do they enhance beauty for the nightingale?

Answer: Because he loves.

Question: Does he love being pricked?

Answer: He loves and therefore loves even the thorns.

Question: So love is blind?

Answer: It is not blind, it evens everything out.

Question: Do you think marriage without thorns, in constant love and friendship, is possible?

Answer: If two idiots come together and somehow decide between themselves how to live, then, of course, they can fantasize.

Question: But will life proceed with thorns?

Answer: Yes, absolutely.

Comment: So you think it is impossible to live like…

My Response: No, of course not. What do we live for? We live to learn how to live with thorns. If everyone is an egoist, then what can there be? They should have a special wisdom to understand that it is better to force themselves to live peacefully and wisely.

Question: Above the thorns?

Answer: Above the thorns.

Question: But must there be thorns?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Please tell me how to love a wife with thorns? She has spikes, she humiliates you. That is how it is for you. She brings you down, and makes fun of you. How can this work? But you say it is still possible.

Answer: You must understand her. She had a certain childhood, a certain upbringing and qualities of character. I think you should not concentrate on being pricked like that.

Question: What will this understanding of the reasons give me? I am in pain.

Answer: No, you will begin to understand these are all her natural reactions that she has no control over.

Question: Can I cover it all with love? Is this what they call “covering with love?”

Answer: Yes, love covers all flaws.

Question: Tell us please, can we artificially create “spikes?” Take a couple, that is, as you say, “thornless.” Can I act out “spikes”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: In order to increase love?

Answer: For this you have to be wise.

Question: Do you call this wisdom?

Answer: If one uses the weakness of another in order for these weaknesses to lead to even greater contact between them, then this is wisdom.

Question: So if I want to introduce some kind of “thorns” in order for us to have more contact, so love would somehow increase between us—is all this necessary?

Answer: Sure.

Question: I will ask a general question. We usually reveal everything up to the global level. I wonder if a person lives in some country. This country is pricking people all the time with taxes, wars, poverty, all kinds of humiliation. But one continues to live there and says it is beautiful, and he loves it, and this is his homeland. What is it?

Answer: So he loves it. That is, even if it is all seemingly so, he feels this way.

Question: Does he feel it?

Answer: Yes, he feels it is all bad, disgusting, cruel, and so on; all the same, deep down he is attached to it and loves it.

Question: Then can you reveal the concept of love again? Now you said “he loves.” What does it mean?

Answer: Love is when, despite everything, in all the relationships between one and the other—it does not matter if it is a man, a country, a woman, a family, no matter what—love is when you value another person’s modulus. It is like in mathematics when you do not take into account whether it is a plus or a minus.

Question: Is it possible to live like this?

Answer: I see it is possible sometimes. And this is called love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/12/24

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Question: There is a parable about an old man who used to sit and fish by the river every day. One day, he caught a goldfish which promised to fulfill one wish. The old man asked: “Let every person in the village be happy.” The fish fulfilled the wish.

The old man returned to the village and saw that everyone was busy with their own happiness and forgot about him. The old man realized that true happiness is not in desires for others, but in the ability to be happy yourself. Do you really agree with this?

Answer: Why not?

Comment: Still, he wished happiness for others. There was a case that I could wish happiness to others, and suddenly I came to the conclusion that I should be happy myself and not wish happiness to others.

My Response: If you do not picture what happiness means, your own happiness, then what can you do for others? It is not easy.

Question: So first I must understand what happiness is?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then, can I ask you what happiness is?

Answer: Happiness is when you do not feel any limitations. It can be from above when you are a billionaire, young, etc.

Comment: Full of energy.

My Response: Yes. And it can be the other way around, when you understand your limitations, but they do not restrict you.

Question: That is, I come to terms with them. You are as if saying: I enjoy what I have. Is this called “without limitations”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And can a person wish this for himself?

Answer: Of course.

Question: And then can he wish others the same kind of happiness?

Answer: In general, yes.

Question: And can we say that in this case the old man wished happiness for others and missed his own happiness?

Answer: No, this cannot happen. He automatically builds himself up in relation to others.

Question: That is, he somehow perceives what happiness is?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You know, we get a lot of letters in response to all our videos. Parents write: “We have done so much for our children’s happiness, and as a result, we are left alone, and our children are busy with their own happiness and not with us at all.” What would you answer these parents?

Answer: There is nothing to answer. This is human nature. And it is unreasonable to reproach parents for reproaching their children now.

Question: I see. But can parents reproach their children for leaving their parents? Or is it better not to do that?

Answer: This is also unreasonable.

Question: So in this case, if we are talking about restrictions, is it better to live with it as is?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And is it right to live with it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You once told me that your teacher used to say about relationships with children: “Shut your mouth and open your pocket.” Give the children what they need, and leave them alone. Is this the right approach?

Answer: Yes.

Question: At what age should you treat children like that?

Answer: At about 14.

Comment: Even at 14, leave a child so that he…

My Response: Yes, don’t leave him completely but gradually distance yourself.

Question: Then another question, based on all this. Should one want to make other people happy? Should one have this thought?

Answer: I think this is a very egoistic question. You start meddling in other people’s lives and there is no way out of it.

Question: So what is the conclusion from this?

Answer: Do not meddle with others.

Comment: Do not meddle with other people’s lives.

My Response: Do not meddle.

Question: And how should one live?

Answer: Just live. Live simply, and that is it. Why do you need to compare your life with other people’s lives and direct yourself toward other people’s achievements? “I will be happy if they are happy.”

Question: Yes, this formula is well-known. Do you think it is egoistic?

Answer: It is the most egoistic one.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/23/24

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Question: You are often asked personal questions like have you ever experienced real fear? If so, how did you feel about it then, and how do you feel about it now?

Answer: I have probably not experienced real fear. I have had fear of death, and I have had fear of failure.

Question: And any primal fear?

Answer: It is the fear of suffering. I have had that too, but I would not say those are the highest forms of fear.

Question: How did you get out of these states?

Answer: I would retreat into my activities, into Kabbalah, and try to find their root. And when I would find it, I would realize I was creating these sufferings myself. And the fears would disappear.

Question: Perhaps this is exactly what people want to hear in response, that they need to go inward, search for the root?

Answer: That is a problem. If a person feels that they have enough strength to fight such visions of suffering…

Question: What brings on fears?

Answer: Yes, that is a problem. A person first needs to understand that they are heading toward suffering. They will have to endure it, accept it, rise above it, and so on. It is not an easy task.

Question: So, you are talking about suffering and, by extension, talking about fears?

Answer: Yes, it is the fear of suffering

Question: So I should go toward it like in the movie “Into the Storm”? I should face it head-on, and then I can reach the root?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But what if I am just afraid? What if fear just overwhelms me? What should I do? People are full of fears nowadays.

Answer: Then all the more so, you must immediately break out of that state.

Question: How?

Answer: Under no circumstances should you remain in it. I believe the best thing for a person in this case is serious exercise like cycling. Go forward, forward, and pedal for an hour a day.

Question: But if you recommend your science, Kabbalah, is not for everyone?

Answer: No, it is not for everyone. It is only for those who can place their mind above their emotions. Otherwise, it will not work.

Question: Another question: “You write that you were constantly with your teacher. Does that mean your wife raised the children? As a woman, it is very important for me to know her feelings, please forgive me.”

Answer: Yes, that is how it was.

Question: What were your wife’s feelings? A woman is asking.

Answer: At least she had the children, participated in their education, and so on. Meanwhile, I was only focused on my teacher.

Comment: That is a heroic life on the part of the woman.

My Response: For her, yes.

Question: And you fully acknowledge that?

Answer: Absolutely! She has earned everything the Creator can give.

Question: And you could not have done it differently?

Answer: No.

Question: And today you understand that you could not have done it differently?

Answer: I understand that, of course.

Question: And does she understand that?

Answer: Yes!

Question: One more question: What do you think about when you are teaching your regular students? And what do you think about when you are giving a public lecture to people who know nothing at all?

Answer: When I am giving a public lecture and no one knows anything, I have to teach them the most basic, most understandable fundamentals of Kabbalah so they feel they understand, accept, and adapt it within themselves.

Question: So you practically have to come down to their level?

Answer: Yes, of course. But with my regular students, I try to structure the lesson so that it consists of two, maybe even three levels. So that they rise through them and start looking a little higher than the perspective they had before the lesson began.

Question: What should a student leave a lesson with?

Answer: With the feeling that they have risen above what they came with, and that this satisfies them, lifts them up, and makes them feel worthy.

Question: So they should leave with a mental checkmark that they have achieved something?

Answer: Yes, absolutely.

Question: Does this fade away during the day, and then the next lesson again, right?

Answer: Relatively, yes.

Question: And what should a beginner leave with after your introductory lecture?

Answer: That they came, got filled, and left generally satisfied.

Question: And do you need them to feel drawn to your wisdom, for you to awaken that in them?

Answer: Of course, I worry about that and think about it, but it depends on the person.

Question: Another question: What does Israel mean to you? Do you consider yourself a patriot of Israel?

Answer: Israel means a special place to me, a truly holy place in the world where all Jews can and will live.

Do I consider myself a patriot? I do not think about it. I just have a practical, and I believe, correct assessment of this country.

Question: Then the question is: What is that assessment?

Answer: That this is the place for us. And we must cling to it by all means.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/23/24

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Question: There is a parable about a strong wind blowing at a tree, bending and almost breaking it. The tree told the wind: “You’re going to break me.” The wind answered: “No, I will make you stronger, your roots will strengthen, and you will become even more powerful after the storm.”

How can we realize that life is like this right now, that we are being broken precisely to strengthen our roots?

Answer: This must be realized. If we say that the Creator is good and does good, then we have no choice but to understand all His actions as good that bring only good.

Question: That is, those strengthen our roots?

Answer: Yes, we have lived through such upheavals throughout our history, such changes, that we must believe that special, good days are ahead, which we must accept with love.

Question: Do you really think that everything that has happened to us has strengthened our roots?

Answer: Undoubtedly!

Question: Among our people and other nations in general?

Answer: Yes, undoubtedly.

Question: But when one still feels broken, he is on his knees. How does he get up from his knees?

Answer: A person must think. Think about who I am, what I am, what I am for, who controls me, and what I am meant for. The person will see that all this prepares him for real correction. When he rises above his nature, the Creator awaits him there.

Question: We were just talking about a tree strengthening its roots. The wind and the storm strengthen the roots of the tree. What do you call a person’s “human roots,” which are strengthened by all suffering?

Answer: I call a person’s roots his connection with like-minded people. What else does he have? Only this. If these roots are correctly connected, then we have a really strong tree.

Question: In other words, we can say that we, who came out of this unified state, should return to it, but after going through all the suffering, winds, and storms?

Answer: Yes. There is nothing you can do about it.

Question: Is this the plan?

Answer: Yes, because otherwise, we would be unable to find out our essence or the Creator and direct ourselves to Him.

Question: Summing up everything, you say that our roots are the connection between us, and the goal is to direct ourselves to the Creator. What practical advice do you have for strengthening the roots?

Answer: It is hard to say. A person should think about the essence of his life: What it is given for, what is exciting and special about it, and to whom can he bring salvation and correction. A person should be aware of all this.

Question: Is this our training?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this how we train our muscles, with thoughts of where do I come from, what do I live for, and so on?

Answer: Yes, all the time.

Question: Is this your advice to absolutely anyone?

Answer: To any person. Think about it continuously.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/7/24

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Comment: Can our brain communicate with the brain of the person next to us without us noticing it?

Scientists have found that if people spend a lot of time together, the activity of neurons in their brains becomes similar and sometimes nearly identical. Both brains start working synchronously.

After two weeks of watching the same movies, reading the same books, experiencing similar life situations, and talking only to each other, people begin to use almost identical language constructs, experience similar emotions, and share a common point of view.

Professor Moran Cerf from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois says people close to you somehow influence your perception of reality, and in such a way that it is difficult to notice or explain.

My Response: In reality, our brain communicates with the universal mind of the Universe. We are connected to it, like modems. There is an immense system between us, and through it, each person receives information.

“Direct” communication is often an illusion. What I say and what reaches a person I am talking to are not the same thing. The main influence of the environment passes through other channels.

That is why I am interested in my students studying according to the single system, from the same sources, reading my blog, and so on. Only in this way do we come closer to each other.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/3/18

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Comment: There is a war in Israel. We are focusing heavily on technology: defense technology like the Iron Dome, laser technology, attack technologies like bunker-busting bombs, advanced aircraft, and so on.

I keep thinking that sooner or later, the other side will also acquire these technologies.

My Response: Of course.

Comment: They have plenty of funds; they will buy advanced technologies somewhere. It will be a battle of technologies.

My Response: That is the future, yes.

Question: When will there be a turning point where we start thinking about the root of the problem?

Answer: The root of the problem is unsolvable. That is why people focus on the consequences, on ways of delivery and defeat in various forms.

Question: You say it so definitively, is there no point in continuing?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: Why are you so certain we won’t reach the root? We won’t want to reach it, as I understand?

Answer: Do you mean the egoism of a person?

Comment: You said it yourself just now, egoism of a person is the root of all problems.

My Response: I have yet to see any method in the world that can somehow limit it. What we need here is the recognition of the evil of our egoism and an understanding of how we can be healed from it.

Question: Tell me, how does this egoism draw wars toward us? Egoism essentially wants us to feel good on the inside, right?

Answer: Yes, but the problem is that when things are good on the inside, they can be bad on the outside. We don’t understand how to control our egoism so that things are good.

Question: You have often spoken about unity among the people of Israel, unity within the nation, one heart, and so on. When you talk about this, are you addressing the root of the issue?

Answer: Yes, I am speaking about the root, about what the people can do in our time and generation to ensure that the world knows no more wars.

Question: Are you even saying “no more wars in the world”?

Answer: Yes, exactly.

Comment: You are not just saying wars will end for us.

My Response: No, that is beyond our control.

Comment: So our focus should be…

My Response: Peace worldwide.

Question: Does this depend on us?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How can we reach that?

Answer: We need to study the Torah. It is explained there in simple terms. If we want peace, we must actively make it. We have to bring peace into action ourselves.

Question: By uniting?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is that the entire issue?

Answer: That is the issue.

Question: So when you say the root is unreachable, what do you mean? On one hand, you are calling for it; on the other, you say it is unreachable.

How do we understand that?

Answer: It is unreachable by human forces or intellect. But it is completely reachable through our inner efforts, when we can cry out to the Creator and show Him that we are ready for peace, for peace between us. From there, peace can spread throughout the world.

Question: How many wars, disasters, or sufferings are needed to reach this point?

Answer: It does not matter; maybe none at all.

Question: Can we get ahead of all this suffering?

Answer: Of course.

Question: What brings about this understanding? You say “we can get ahead of suffering.” So an inner or outer understanding can come sooner. Where does it come from? You often say that suffering moves a person forward one way or another. But here?

Answer: We have already experienced enough suffering to envision a world filled with suffering and a world without it, which allows us to choose which world we want to belong to.

Question: So is that the root of all our problems and the world’s problems?

Answer: Yes, all of them.

Question: A follow-up question then. Can we combine technological development with an understanding of this root problem? Suppose we understand the root problem and, at the same time, continue developing technology. Or is understanding the root problem enough, so everything else falls away?

Answer: Once we begin to understand the root problem, we won’t feel the need to advance technology. Right now, we think that developing various technologies can convince others worldwide that we have the strongest military and so on. But a completely different approach is needed. Everyone must realize that peace can’t be achieved through war, but only by agreeing to peace. And then peace will come from above.

Question: Agree to peace between us?

Answer: Peace between us, among all nations and countries. We can agree and achieve it without specific conditions or efforts, without any of this. We only need to recognize the difference between peace and war until we fully grasp what these concepts mean.

Question: What does peace mean?

Answer: Peace is when everyone lives together in harmony.

Question: But who among ordinary, normal people wouldn’t want this? People want to live this way!

Answer: People don’t realize that the start of a war is so far removed from anything resembling war that it seems entirely peaceful. And that is how it begins. Then suddenly everything unravels into a full-fledged war.

Question: What is this beginning like? You say the start of war is far from war itself. What is it?

Answer: It is when I disagree with someone else.

Question: That is the start of a war?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So I don’t agree, I’ve cut off ties, I don’t love them, I’ve distanced myself, is that all part of it?

Answer: Yes, small moments like these.

Question: Even between one person and another?

Answer: Even between one person with another. We need to pay attention to every one of these details.

Question: So war, in all its horror, is built from these bricks?

Answer: Yes.

Question: The outer, terrible one we know?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So peace, first and foremost, is in these connections?

Answer: Peace is a complete connection of hearts.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/14/24

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