Question: Should our country be strong?

Answer: It should take care only of those citizens who according to the state policy must live, exist, and be protected here.

We have no other land! We have no other place! We have no other state! We must have our own—our strong army and our place on this planet. And although everyone will encroach on it, we must tell everyone the truth directly: “This is ours! It was, is, and will be.”

Question: How long will this position hold, as you have described?

Answer: Until the final correction of human egoism across the entire planet.

Comment: But you constantly speak about connection, about the unity of people…

My Response: That is what we will achieve along the way.

Question: So by remaining this strong camp, this fortress, will we still move toward the unity of all humanity?

Answer: Only! Only on this condition! Set an example and lead the way.

Question: Are you not bothered by the combination of these two poles? One pole is a strong, powerful state ready to fight against everyone etc., and the other hand there is unity, connection, and a warm state?

Answer: That is correct, and it is precisely thanks to being a strong state.

Question: Should we radiate this warmth, one way or another?

Answer: Yes, without concessions whatsoever!

Question: And what if we declare that we want to rely solely on ourselves?

Answer: Yes. Is that not exactly what is happening?

Comment: But we do receive assistance.

My Response: Yes, but regardless, we rely on ourselves.

Question: And is that right?

Answer: We accept the help, all of it, but we still count on the strength we have. We do not sign any agreement and then sit back and rest.

Question: So you think if some conditions come like, “We will help you if, for example, you establish two states here”?

Answer: No! That is all entirely ruled out. Any compromises or agreements of that type are excluded. We do not owe anyone anything, we are not obligated, and we will not concede.

Question: And must this state, in the end, as you said, radiate warmth, connection, and love for its neighbor?

Answer: Yes, a light for all the nations of the world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/13/23

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Question: A year has passed since the catastrophe on October 7^th when the war began.

Terrorists from Gaza broke into Israeli territory and killed 1,432 people including 341 women and 36 children, one of whom was a 10-month-old baby.

251 people were taken hostage and transported to Gaza and 97 of them are still in captivity.

The phrase that had been said before: “Quiet for quiet”—if you’re quiet with us, we will be quiet with you did not work. On October 7^th they started killing us.

A year has passed. What should we understand about ourselves and our society after these events?

Answer: We need to understand that we must not fear anyone. We must not show anyone that we can forgive when they come to kill us. We should not do that.

We must clearly understand that our salvation is only in our own hands, only in our weapons, and in nothing else.

Question: Do you think the events of October 7^th changed how we perceive ourselves as a nation?

Answer: I think they did. They changed us.

Before October 7^th we had hoped for some semblance of mutual, humane relations with others. After this we understand that such a thing is no longer possible, not in any way! Therefore, we now have greater confidence that we will not be dragged into another mess of egoism, bloodlust, and so on, as we were on October 7^th.

Question: How can we ensure that the pain from these events stays with us? And should it?

Answer: It should. It is forever! For as long as we live on this Earth, we must remember that our neighbors are our most bitter enemies. We must never allow ourselves any weakness in this regard.

Question: How will we achieve peace?

Answer: That is when peace will come.

Question: So when we talk about peace, at the same time, do we always know that they do not want it? Is that how it works?

Answer: Yes, that they do not want it and do not even think about it. But when you think about war, then they will strive for peace.

Question: So if I ask you what steps we should take toward peace, are these the steps you are talking about?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Think about peace but at the same time?

Answer: Arm yourself.

Question: You always talk about unity, the unity of the people, and you say that this is our main weapon. It is clear to most people that unity is probably the most important thing. So why can’t we unite? Please explain.

Answer: Because we still do not truly understand within ourselves how necessary it is.

Question: Do we not have that understanding yet?

Answer: No.

Question: Does it come through suffering or what?

Answer: Gradually, through blows, we begin to realize that unity is in fact the most important thing.

Question: But through blows?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So if we do not realize it now, do you expect more to come?

Answer: Definitely.

Question: How can we realize this in a peaceful way, as they say, through light and not through darkness?

Answer: We must become such a strong light that they will fear us.

Question: When you say “we must become a light,” what do you mean?

Answer: That in our desire for peace, we are willing to do everything necessary so that those who oppose it cease to exist.

Question: When you talk about our desire for peace, do you mean peace with our neighbors? Or peace in general?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And at the same time, you say that we must always be preemptive.

My Response: Of course.

Question: So Israel should always have a policy of preempting strikes.

But how did it happen that for 20 years we lived knowing that in the south they were digging underground Gaza and in the north Hezbollah was arming itself? We knew all this, and yet we somehow lived on. Can you explain this to me? I am trying to understand the mindset of the leadership or even of ourselves.

Something terrible was brewing nearby, and we did not act. Why? Can you tell me what this kind of complacency was about?

Answer: We wanted to appear kind, good, and peace-loving to each other and to the whole world. But this is a terrible delusion.

Question: Really? Should we not care about the world, about the world’s opinion?

Answer: Not at all!

Question: What should we care about?

Answer: Only about the necessity of our existence as the people of Israel because our existence is aimed at achieving the highest state of humanity.

Question: So you call our position, even a corporeal one, the center of the world?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Today this is becoming more and more apparent. You have always said this actually, that this is the central problem, the central point of the world.

My Response: Yes.

Question: What healing process must we go through?

Answer: We must explain to everyone that the world exists for the purpose of bringing all nations together, uniting them around the most important thing in the world, which is to love your neighbor as yourself.

Question: Are you saying that the whole world should somehow push us toward that?

Answer: Yes.

Question: The world should constantly signal to us that we need to do that?

Answer: Yes.

Question: For them?

Answer: For everyone. This is the central point of the entire existence of the universe.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/7/24

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Alexander writes:

Today is a very foggy time. Everything that we once thought was understandable is incomprehensible. It is unclear if it is a man or a woman, if it is real news or if everything is rigged. It is unclear whether this is the leader of the country or his double. It is unclear whether this is being said by a human or an artificial intelligence, whether it is true or false. Everything is mixed up.

What is all this for? Why are we being driven to complete disbelief in what I see and hear?

Answer: This is really a serious matter. It is so that we would need in the Creator.

Question: Is it His doing to confuse everything for us?

Answer: These are His actions so that we would feel ourselves in a state of confusion so we would have no possible reasonable, correct action left except to grab hold of Him and cling to Him like a child.

Question: So we must be brought to such a state that we will turn to Him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is there any other way we can turn to the Creator? There are prayers, prayer books, religions. Aren’t these appeals to the Creator?

Answer: No, they don’t save you.

Question: Alexander asks another question: “Who should I believe today?” Is there anyone on this earthly plane who can be trusted?

Answer: Of course not.

Question: Is it possible to live without believing in anything, in anyone?

Answer: That is how we get used to it.

Question: So you think that the whole of humanity will be brought to such a state?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If such a request, a prayer to the Creator, were really raised, what would happen? Would He answer?

Answer: The Creator answers anyway, but we do not understand His answers. He tells us that if we go the right way, that is, give up our selfish goals, then we will raise ourselves to the next level of development.

We will be completely different there. First of all, we will not be immersed in ourselves, in egoists. We will strive to make it so that it is the same for everyone. And the most important thing for us will be to act in a way that we feel the need to hold on to each other together.

This is what the Creator wants to lead us to.

Question: Are you talking about the whole of humanity now?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is the relationship between people, between countries, between everything like this?

Answer: Yes., this is our next step.

Question: Why don’t we want to move toward it? It sounds very attractive, with all our reality.

Answer: Should I think about others? I cannot and I do not want to. This is what every person feels.

Question: And will the Creator give us this opportunity if we can turn to Him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But should I want this particular next step?

Answer: I have to come to it, to the fact that I must want it.

Comment: It seems that one can want it coming from something very bad.

My Response: So we are gradually getting down to it.

Question: That is, we will be brought to something very bad so that we ask: “Give us the opportunity to be together”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Alexander also has this question: “Is it necessary to break through to the truth? And how to get to it if necessary?” He says, “Everything around us is untrue, everything is a lie.”

Answer: And we do not know what the truth is.

Question: That is what he is asking: “What is the truth?”

Answer: We do not know that. So what are we going to fight our way to? Just because we do not like our current state does not mean we know how to get out of it. And it turns out to be what it turns out to be.

Question: He is asking you: “What do you personally call the truth?”

Answer: The truth is that in my eyes all people are exactly the same.

Question: Do you mean equality, equals?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, all people are equal?

Answer: All people. If I want to see it that way and go for it, then it is considered that it is true.

Question: Am I the same as them?

Answer: Absolutely! That is when we will find out what kind of truth it is, what kind of taste it has.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/24

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Question: Andrey asks: “I read it somewhere, but recently I became convinced that the Creator is jealous. You have said it more than once. But I had no idea He was so jealous. He allows you to follow the path you choose, but it is clearly against His will. But He lets you. He even seems to bless it. And then He sends such falls that you do not know how to pull yourself out of them. Why is He doing this? He could have prevented me from going down the wrong path. What does He give it for?”

Answer: What would you learn in that case?

Comment: That He is good that does good.

My Response: Then you would remain in kindergarten.

Question: Am I being educated the whole time?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Educated with the wrong paths?

Answer: With their help. How else?

Question: Andrey says He is the one pushing you there on this wrong path. Is all this to teach you?

Answer: Sure.

Question: What does He want to bring up in me?

Answer: Understanding life, understanding yourself, understanding the world, and understanding your correct attitude to the world.

Question: Andrey felt he was even being blessed on this path: “Go on!” Even when you are going down the wrong path?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So he asks: “Why does the Creator bless man to take this path?”

Answer: Because in this way He teaches a person; otherwise, one cannot be taught.

Question: When does a person realize he is on the wrong path? The Creator Himself begins to create further obstacles for him. Right?

Answer: Yes. After a while a person begins to feel he is on the wrong path. But he cannot turn away and continues on it, receives all sorts of suffering until they accumulate to the point he is forced to run away from them.

Question: Tell me, is there some road sign from which suffering begins? And until then, you walk easily, freely, and happily.

Answer: Yes, it depends on the growth of egoism in a person. Because then he begins to understand this is a wrong path that is to his detriment. And he wonders: what should he do? From this moment on, suffering begins, and his demand to the Creator begins.

Question: So while he was walking along the egoistic path without thinking about it, was everything all right for him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But at some point, he is pushed to the idea that he is an egoist, which is bad. And the suffering begins. What for? What should he do with this ego?

Answer: He should realize all this comes from his ego and consciously turn to the Creator for correction.

Question: So one way or another, everything is a path of correction. Absolutely everything.

Then the question is: “How can you prepare, is it even possible for such falls and to make the most of them?”

Answer: You can prepare for falls if a person initially understands what he chooses may be wrong and there is no escape from mistakes. He will receive all sorts of negative feedback from time to time, consequences of his actions. But on the other hand, it will teach him the right path in the end.

Question: What is the maximum benefit from this?

Answer: That he will take the right path. Although he will make mistakes every time, correct himself, and take the right step.

Question: Is it possible not to reach suffering but to calculate correctly in advance?

Answer: How can he do it in advance?

Question: Is it not possible?

Answer: No.

Question: So, you have to go through it one way or another?

Answer: Absolutely.

Question: Andrey’s next question: “What do you personally understand by the jealousy of the Creator?”

Answer: By the jealousy of the Creator I understand such states when a person wants to avoid mistakes with the help of some particular method and as if circumvent the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/12/24

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Question: Perhaps the most important day for Jews is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It unites religious Jews and secular ones who do not follow any laws or commandments. This day brings us together.

Before this day, there are ten steps known as the Ten Days of Repentance. Please tell us what these steps are leading up to Yom Kippur.

Answer: These are gradual realizations by a person about how they live, how they have lived, and how they plan to live moving forward. Essentially, it is when a person reflects on themselves: who they are, what they are, and why they are.

Therefore, Yom Kippur is a special day. Everyone observes it in some way. Even if it is not outwardly observed, inwardly, a person still reflects on it.

Question: We ask for forgiveness on Yom Kippur. I might not even know exactly what I am asking forgiveness for, but I ask. How does this affect my life, even if I do it automatically?

Answer: The thing is, asking for forgiveness is hard work. It forces a person to think about his life, what he thought a year ago, and how he lived this past year. Essentially, it is a day when a person judges himself.

Question: Yom Kippur is also called the Day of Purification. What are we purifying ourselves from?

Answer: From egoism, from the things that spoil our lives and prevent us from being a united nation, striving toward the Creator. It is a very challenging day.

Question: Why is it important for us to ask forgiveness from other people before Yom Kippur? This is called Selichot.

Answer: Because it is said that if you are not forgiven by other people, even the Creator will not be able to help you.

The most important thing is to reach a level of connection with others where you ask for them and they ask for you.

Question: Should I ask forgiveness from others with the thought that they will forgive me? Or is it just because it is a tradition for this holiday?

Answer: No, you need to reach a state where you genuinely ask others to forgive you because no matter how strictly we judge ourselves, we often overlook things.

Question: What about when others judge us?

Answer: We must be sensitive and show maximal politeness, as every person in the community is completely equal to others. No one can escape their egoism or the harm we might cause each other.

Question: This is very interesting. It aligns all of us, right?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Whether it is an ordinary worker or a prime minister?

Answer: There is absolutely no difference.

Question: Is this through the act of asking for forgiveness and judging ourselves?

Answer: Yes, all members of society and the nation are neither higher nor lower. We understand that just as each of us stands before this great call from above, so must we act.

Question: We have been progressing step by step, and now we have reached the point where we fast on Yom Kippur. There are five prohibitions, things we cannot do on Yom Kippur. Could you please explain the essence of the fast? What is the meaning of these prohibitions?

Answer: The prohibitions on eating, drinking, and so on are all connected to the idea that people should humble themselves a little to realize that there is the upper force, and they must stand before it, completely detached from their egoistic desires, impulses, etc. This is the main point.

Question: So is this an external attempt to restrict oneself?

Answer: Yes, it is an external attempt, but it greatly affects people. When a person refrains from eating or drinking, reads specific texts, or participates in certain actions with others, such as praying, he elevates himself to a different level.

Question: Could you please explain what it means to be inscribed in the Book of Life? We often hear about being inscribed in the Book of Life. What does it mean?

Answer: The Book of Life is a book with blank pages where our deeds, whether good or not, are written down.

If you act righteously, then your name is inscribed in the Book of Life. There is the upper will, a hand that (as if) writes your name in this book.

Our actions are recorded, meaning they leave an imprint on the surrounding nature. We illuminate this nature with our deeds, and everything depends on how we understand which actions are good and which are evil and how we treat others—with good or evil.

Question: Could we imagine that all of nature is like a blank page, and we leave an imprint on it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is desirable? Should we enter it with white letters, or…?

Answer: Ideally, with white.

Question: Why is sincere repentance before oneself as important as repentance before others?

Answer: It is an important act that a person can bring himself to—genuinely repenting for his actions and misdeeds over the past year. In this sincere repentance, he can ask not to be judged harshly for his actions.

Question: What is a person afraid of when he wants to be justified, not judged, as you say? What is he afraid of?

Answer: The most important thing is if the person wants the Creator to forgive him because he does not want to be distanced from the Creator. That is the main concern. Everything else is secondary.

Question: So is my fear of being distant from the Creator what I fear most?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And everything else—health, money, whatever else….

My Response: Those things come and go.

Question: When we talk about being inscribed in the Book of Life, is this what it is about?

Answer: Yes, it is about not being distant from the Creator and constantly trying to get closer to Him.

Question: You mentioned that people judge themselves—whether they have the right goal in life and so on. Yom Kippur is just one day a year. Does it help a person find the path to the purpose of life and how he should live?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Comment: But it is just one day!

My Response: It does not matter; it is 24 hours. If a person spends them in contemplation, he can correct many things he has done.

Question: In just these 24 hours?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You made a correct clarification here, 24 hours gives me a completely different feeling. And if we break it down further into minutes and seconds, it is even more profound.

Tell me, we try to cleanse our hearts on this day, just one day a year. What prevents us from doing this every day? Something is preventing us.

Answer: Our egoism! It pulls us in different directions toward different goals, and we lose focus. But on this day, the entire nation around us is doing the same thing. People gather in prayer houses and read special prayers, and thus, there is a greater opportunity for people to delve deeper into themselves.

Question: Is it possible to take the feelings we experience on Yom Kippur and somehow carry them into every day of the year, extend them throughout the coming year?

Answer: Yes, there is a part of our actions that we experience as a kind of “small Yom Kippur.” In each daily prayer…

Question: After Yom Kippur? Daily?

Answer: Yes, there are elements present when we judge ourselves, feel that we are in the wrong, and ask for forgiveness.

Question: So is there a “small Yom Kippur” in every day?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this the way a person should live?

Answer: That is the way a person should live, of course.

Question: So should we judge ourselves every day?

Answer: This is present in our daily prayers, though not as intensely as on Yom Kippur.

Question: Indeed, the prayers of Yom Kippur carry such power! Can the prayer on Yom Kippur change a person’s destiny if he engages with it wholeheartedly?

Answer: I believe it can. It is a special state of the world, of nature, of the person, and the nation. Therefore, Yom Kippur can change everything.

Question: So, if we truly invest ourselves in Yom Kippur, could we even stop wars?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Does Yom Kippur help a person begin to live in a new way?

Answer: Possibly. How much it helps depends, but fundamentally, if a person wants to change, he should not wait for Yom Kippur. He should begin now. Then he will see that everything can truly be changed and that any day of the year is suitable for that.

Question: We have not spoken about Yom Kippur like this in a while. Tell me, you were talking about Yom Kippur just now, but there is a feeling that you were not just talking about a Jewish holiday, but about the entire world. Is that how you see Yom Kippur?

Answer: Absolutely! It is a day of atonement for the entire world. If a person treats the prayers as a kind of self-judgment, then in principle, it will cleanse him.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/7/24

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Question: A viewer asks: “You recently answered my question that when the Torah mentions birth, it’s not about physical birth, and when it says a child was born, it refers to spiritual birth. What does it mean to be born spiritually?”

Answer: To be born spiritually means to rise above egoism and ascend to the quality of bestowal.

Question: Is this what is meant when it says: “Isaac was born to Abraham, Jacob was born”? Is this a gradual process of birth?

Answer: Yes.

Question: “Why isn’t it clearly written that a soul was born to a person and it was named, for example, Abraham?” asks our friend. Why isn’t it stated directly?

Answer: I think for those who wrote and read these texts, it was all clear. They were at a degree where they understood what needed to be written and what did not.

Question: So today we read it as an historical story, but in reality, they read it as a path of the soul?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Another question: “I have also heard that there is the concept of a miscarriage, not in corporeality, but in spirituality. What does that mean?”

Answer: A miscarriage occurs when instead of overcoming egoism and progressing toward altruism, the opposite happens—altruism is suppressed and egoism prevails. Therefore the person falls back into egoism.

Question: The increase of egoism? So this is where the miscarriage occurs?

Answer: Yes, it is already a miscarriage at that point.

Question: What do the nine months of pregnancy mean in the spiritual sense?

Answer: These are the nine Sefirot that we must pass through from Malchut up to Keter. Only then are we ready for spiritual birth.

Question: This movement from Malchut to Keter—what does it represent?

Answer: It represents moving from the desire to receive (where one starts) to the desire to bestow. It is not that the person suddenly desires to bestow, but rather they want to merge with the Creator’s quality.

Question: And this is what is meant by passing through the nine months?

Answer: Yes.

Question: In spiritual terms, what does it mean when the embryo does not turn with his head down before birth?

Answer: That is a problem. It must be turned.

Question: What does it mean when it does turn?

Answer: It means the person changes their attitude toward the world and is ready to exit with a new perspective. Initially, they are head up, focused on themselves, but now they turn head down, and are ready to enter the world.

Question: Why is being head down a sign of readiness for birth?

Answer: It signifies that the person considers all their previous qualities unsuitable for further spiritual development.

Question: Egoistic qualities?

Answer: Yes. That is why they end up head down. The person must pass through a narrow passage, as we see in our material world, and then gradually spiritual birth occurs. There are many stages in this process, but we will not go into detail now.

Question: Does turning head down mean some kind of submission?

Answer: It is a reversal in their relationship to the world.

Question: So it is like going from “the world exists for me” to “I exist for the world”? Can we put it that way?
Answer: Yes. And thus, the person is born head down.

Comment: This correlation between the spiritual and material always amazes me. You said it is very dangerous if a baby does not turn in the material world either. They must turn.

My Response: Of course.

Comment: It is such a direct consequence.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Does a spiritual cesarean section exist?

Answer: There is no such thing in nature.

Question: Nature does not interfere?

Answer: No.

Comment: So that is our invention, purely of our world.

My Response: Yes, of course. It is violence, and humans have been practicing it for many, many years, hundreds of years.

Question: Can birth be called the next spiritual degree of man?

Answer: Birth is the next spiritual degree of man, which is born in him, and he ascends to it and begins to function at that degree.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/15/24

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In the News (BBC): “Dr Caspar Addyman from Goldsmiths, University of London is an expert on why babies laugh and author of The Laughing Baby.

“At Goldsmiths’ InfantLab, he leads an exciting branch of child development research designing laughter experiments, talking to parents around the world and even monitoring viral social media trends. …

“It’s actually in the second month that you will likely see your baby’s first real smile. …

“By about 3 or 4 months old, you may find that your baby starts to smile at the sound of your familiar voice. …

“Most of us think the starting point for laughing is a funny joke or action, but actually it’s a way of connecting to the people we’re with.”

Question: What does this indicate?

Answer: Children want to receive positive stimuli from their environment. Therefore, if people around them are smiling and laughing, it excites them in a positive way.

Question: We grow up, and all this fades away. We start to take pleasure in the misfortunes of others.

What happens to us? Where does that baby, that infant, go? Where does all of it disappear?

Answer: We sense the state of another person and rejoice in their problems. This instantly reassures us. We understand that it is not happening to us, and so we feel happy.

Question: At what point does this absolute and complete shift in thinking and consciousness?

Answer: When our egoism is aroused. We immediately start to orient ourselves around it.

Question: Now many would disagree and say they are not such egoists, but are quite the opposite. Many write to us saying this is not true, that they are giving, loving people, and so on. When does a person start to recognize this critical view of themselves? What is that moment?

Answer: This is already the next stage.

Question: So the first stage even for an adult is: “I am not an egoist, others are.” And the second stage is?

Answer: Is when they look at themselves.

Question: Will we ever return to that infant state when we are happy for the happiness of others?

Answer: If we create such an atmosphere among our friends, in a group, and so on, then we will return.

Question: So in principle a person should seek friends who look inside themselves?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/8/24

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Comment: Some say that suffering and pain are contagious.

My Response: Yes, we can transmit our suffering. People tend to suffer when they see the suffering of others. And this is generally a very wrong attitude.

Question: Is that selfish?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So when I share my sufferings with others, I can infect others with them?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is the epidemic of suffering that is going on in the world precisely because we share our suffering?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But how can you not share when it hurts?

Answer: There is no need to multiply it. The best thing is for everyone to live in their own suffering; one can internally talk to themselves and to a higher power, and thus everything gradually changes.

Question: So, this is what you call proper parenting? I endure suffering in myself, I talk to the Creator, I try to fill everything with harmony, and I thus as if transform into harmony myself, and transform the world?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: That would be nice. But it is very difficult.

My Response: This is how it should be.

Question: Is it possible to teach this?

Answer: No, a person must come to this by himself. This is called “karma.”

Comment: This is the first time you have used this word.

My Response: You can do it once.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/6/24

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In the News (NPR):

“On March 27, 2013, John Sweeney, a plumber from Ireland, started a Facebook page called Suspended Coffees. His message was simple: Buy a cup of coffee for a stranger, because an act of kindness can change a life. Eight hours later, the page had attracted more than 20,000 likes.

“Suspended coffee, or caffe sospeso, is a tradition that comes from Naples, Italy, and dates to at least the turn of the 20th century. When customers buy coffee, they also pay in advance for a cup to be given to somebody else — usually someone who otherwise couldn’t afford it. …

“One challenge to making kindness through coffee a staple of American culture is that ‘we’re a society that isn’t very comfortable, culturally, with asking for help,’

Question: Is it possible to come up with such harmony for humanity so that those who have money and opportunity would present something without their names and others would use it without humiliating themselves at the request? Would it bring us closer to harmony or not?

Answer: Partially, yes.

Question: What is the most important element here? That it is offered up and is anonymous?

Answer: That is natural, no last names, nothing. Neither who gives nor who receives. That is how everything exists incognito.

Question: Is there harmony in this?

Answer: Sure.

Question: Does the fact that I give something of mine away without demanding anything in return make the world warmer, better?

Answer: Partially. Our egoism will not allow us to do this every day. You can do this for a week or so but not all the time.

Question: So it cannot be a process of upbringing that leads to this and we would live like this all the time?

Answer: No.

Question: There must be ups and downs?

Answer: Otherwise it will be like some kind of tax and so on.

Question: It would no longer be an effort?

Answer: Yes, and there must be an effort.

Question: It is clear that this is a process of education more for someone who suspends, that is, for a rich person. And for the one who accepts, what is here? Is there any kind of upbringing for him?

Answer: He must understand that someone has thought of him. And therefore, when he gets the same opportunity, he will have to do it too.

Question: It is beautiful! Is a mutual upbringing process taking place?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it possible to do this?

Answer: This is a mutual agreement. This can, of course, be done.

It is possible to come to this through education. A person becomes educated and then it becomes a habit. And he thinks about it, does not forget, and does it. Or it could be under pressure, like some kind of tax.

But there is no other way because egoism in us is constantly growing and requires that we feed it.

Question: So a person will somehow adapt to these efforts?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can we say what the final way to harmony is?

Answer: The final approach to harmony is when we do not feel our egoism would force us to do something. It is when we rise above it and are truly free. This is, of course, aerobatics! But it will happen.

Question: You slowly lead into a mini-dead-end, and then suddenly you say: “But it will be.” Do you want to calm us down or will it happen?

Answer: I am sure this will happen, and humanity must come to this. It is written in our genes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/13/24

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Question: A man who was upset came to a sage and complained, “Today I thought why even pray or ask the Creator for this or that? Doesn’t He already know what is best or worst for me?”

“The Creator certainly knows,” the sage replied. “The question is, do you?”

Do we know what is better or worse for us?

Answer: This is a complex question. We need to understand that the best state for us is to be similar to the Creator. How do we achieve this? That is what we study. And how do we implement it? We also study that. The task is simply to implement it, but that is the problem.

Question: What does it mean to be similar to the Creator?

Answer: To be similar to the Creator means following the laws of the Torah. These laws are: love your neighbor as yourself and do not do to others what you do not want done to you. These fundamental laws bring us closer to the Creator.

Question: Do we know this is better for us or don’t we?

Answer: We know, but we do not want it. It is like with children. You tell them what is good for them, but they do what their egoism tells them.

Question: Is it better for the ego?

Answer: Yes.

Question: As a result, do we end up doing what is worse for us?

Answer: Yes in the end, there is a constant struggle between these two forces within us.

Comment: I see. But still, the idea you mentioned is attractive. It sounds good: do not do to others what you do not want for yourself.

My Response: It sounds good until I start seeing what is more important to me.

Question: Meaning, what is more important for oneself, for one’s egoism?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is the correct request? What if we wanted to ask: “Let us do what is better, not worse”? What is the right request: “Help us choose the better” or “Help us accept everything that happens to us”? That is, we believe that You give us the best.

Answer: Help us realize where in our world there is a greater similarity to You.

Question: By doing so, do we choose the best?

Answer: Yes,  in our attributes, in our desires, etc.

Question: Does the Creator indicate where? Does He guide a person in this way if the request is truly deep and sincere?

Answer: Yes, if we truly desire it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/15/24

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