Who understands life is no longer in a hurry,
He relishes every moment and watches
As a child sleeps, an old man prays,
How it rains and how snowflakes melt … 
(Omar Khayyam)

Comment: Even at the moment I was reading, a sudden calm came over me.

My Response: Of course.

Question: Is this understanding life? Just observing?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What does it mean to just observe life? After all, I am living it.

Answer: It means seeing how everything in it passes, moves, develops, fades, and dies.

Question: So, I just observe? But I am a participant in all of this. These are my loved ones.

Answer: You can be a participant depending on how you perceive it.

Question: What does observing mean to you? You still perceive things, that there are problems and everything.

Answer: I would say that I perceive life as a slowly flowing river. Only our absurd actions disturb its state of smooth, good balance.

Question: How can a person become the observer of their own life?

Answer: Look from the side, and most importantly, do not accept everything that is about you and for you.

Question: How?

Answer: Understand that it flows next to you, then everything will be simpler and more accurate. I do not think life should be perceived as if it always wants to tell you something personally. This will cause such internal disturbances that a person will not be able to relate to life correctly.

Question: It is said that everything exists for man. What does that mean in this context?

Answer: It is for them to see themselves in this stream of life. Just as we attend the funerals of others so others will attend ours. And so on. There is nothing unnatural about it; everything flows.

Question: So is that how I should live?

Answer: Yes, this is not indifference; it is just a way of perceiving life.

Question: Is this the right way to perceive life?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But we are always looking for the meaning of life. It would be good to find a higher meaning of life to strive toward. Where does this simple observation you talk about fit in? Does it disappear and some kind of drive begins?

Answer: No. What can drive achieve? On the contrary, if we want to see meaning in life, we must immerse ourselves in it and flow along with it.

Question: When it is said that everything is within a person, what does it mean that everything is within me?

Answer: It means that both the correct and the harmful attitude toward the world, people, and oneself are within a person. A person should still attune himself to the fact that everything in the world is indeed flowing. This is a vast river. And if they want to throw themselves into it, I do not think that is right. It is better to observe.

Question: Where does this river flow? It is known that rivers flow somewhere.

Answer: This river, yes. As written in the Torah: Gihon, Pishon, these rivers flow into the system of the upper world, to paradise, to hell, and so on.

Question: But one would still like to flow into paradise. Or does a person have no such thoughts?

Answer: Throw yourself into this river, close your eyes, and let it carry you. And do not think. Because the one who created all this determines everything.

Comment: I remember a simple example. When I eat, I eat quickly. And I eat an apple the same way. But you once described how Rabash would sit down, peel an apple, and eat it slowly. I remember this somehow gave the impression of a certain attitude toward life.

My Response: He had a very serious attitude. He took every minute very seriously. Very seriously!

Comment: For some reason, that example stayed with me. I would like to live like that.

My Response: Take an apple, a plate, a knife, sit down, start peeling it, and cut off pieces.

Question: And live like that?

Answer: And live.
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Question: A knight was walking. Along the way, he lost his horse and armor and only his sword remained. The knight was hungry and thirsty.

Suddenly, in the distance, he saw a lake. But right by the lake sat a three-headed dragon. The knight drew his sword and with his last strength began to fight.

He fought for a day and for a second day. He cut off two of the dragon’s heads. On the third day, the dragon fell, exhausted. Next to him fell the exhausted knight. And then, with his last strength, the dragon asks: “Knight, what did you want?” The knight replied: “To drink some water.” The dragon said, “Well, you could have drunk.”

I want to ask you. We are constantly in a struggle: for honor, for freedom, for our homeland, for whatever we want. I have a feeling that all these enemies we fight to the death are all made up. Is that so or not?

Answer: Yes, all of this is the product of our empty egoism.

Question: So you can simply drink the water? Why are you fighting?

Answer: Of course.

Question: And tell me, what is not made up? What struggle is not made up? They always say: “The struggle for life.” Is a person born for struggle or not?

Answer: A person is born to find work and peace in it, as well as to provide for himself, his loved ones, and family, naturally. And in this he should see his primary purpose.

Question: And after that? Should there be something more?

Answer: After that, he should develop.

Question: What do you mean by develop?

Answer: Develop his egoism, which pulls him forward, and thus gradually delve into nature.

Question: To what end?

Answer: To the meaning of life.

Question: So in any case, a person must move toward the meaning of life?

Answer: It will always be there in a person. It will always stand before him as an unresolved task.

Question: And why will it always be unresolved, unresolved, and unresolved?

Answer: To pull him out of this world.

Question: “Pull him out of this world,” what does that mean to you?

Answer: To pull him out of this petty egoism, to understand where the goal ends that nature or the Creator wishes to lead him to, to let a person master it and find peace.

Question: And we, in principle, exist at the level of petty egoism?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Does the Earth exist at this level?

Answer: Of course, yes.

Question: And great egoism, is it the desire to get out of this state?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But you still say it is egoism?

Answer: Of course.

Question: And there is still this three-headed dragon. If you say that a person must always develop egoism, you do not need to constantly chop off its heads or do you?

Answer: Egoism—the more you chop at it, the faster it grows.

Question: So more and more heads grow in its place?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Should you still chop it off or not?

Answer: You should.

Question: And the heads will keep growing?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And chop again.

My Response: But each time they will be more complex, higher.

Question: And you will need to develop in order to chop off the heads again?

Answer: Yes.

Question: I see. And at what point will the dragon say, like in the parable: “Well, you could have drunk. Why are you fighting with me?” Will such a moment come?

Answer: No, we will not have that.

Question: We will not? We will have to keep fighting?

Answer: Yes.
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Sergey writes:

Is communism bad or is it good? I see how my parents yearn for the old times. And I, looking at today, am not very joyful either. Why couldn’t we build communism? We really wanted it!

Answer: Communism cannot exist without the prior education of society as a whole. Therefore, it is just an illusion, a dream, but quite achievable if people want it.

Question: What was the mistake?

Answer: The mistake was that people were forced to live as if under communism.

Question: How should it have been? What is preliminary education?

Answer: People need to be educated first. And when people want it, then it can be gradually introduced.

Question: How many people need to want it so that it would not be a bloody revolution?

Answer: It does not have to be a revolution at all. It could be a small group of people, like a Kibbutz, that shows it is possible to live this way.

Question: And if they start living this way and suddenly it works, what happens next? Does it start spreading across the world?

Answer: It depends on those in the group.

Question: But do they want it to spread across the world?

Answer: Yes and no. They might want it, but they understand that on a large scale it is still impossible.

Question: So it is not time yet?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What determines if the time has come for equality to spread across the world?

Answer: It is the moral level of society. How society itself desires to bring all its members to unity, to a common level, and so on.

Question: So, here you say, not by force? Everything should be by consensus?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Someone who lives well, earns well, and lives well under capitalism, for example, will he really want to come to this society of equals and so on? What do you think?

Answer: It depends on education.

Question: So he might have such consciousness?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So in conclusion: first education, then non-revolutionary transition?

Answer: Of course. Absolutely!

Question: You have already answered a bit, but still Sergey asks this question: “Still, will communism happen, or is it utopia?”

Answer: I think it will happen, let’s call it communism, but it will not be what we think. It will be a special, wise society where everyone will understand that in such a state it is better for them.

Question: And still, will it be a society of equals, or is it not correct to call it that?

Answer: Equals, yes. But in what?

Question: Yes, that is the question. And what is true equality?

Answer: True equality is that each person is given the opportunity to achieve their dream.

Question: So, you move toward your dream.

Answer: Yes. And what dream he wants to fulfill depends on the education.

Question: That is beautiful! So, you move toward your dream, everyone does that, and then you are kind of equal with them?

Answer: You hold onto it and move forward.

Question: Sergey also asks you: “Dear Michael, what would you say to elderly people who really believed in the ideals of equality, fraternity? Was that correct?”

Answer: It was correct. It was such a time. So there is no need to worry that you were forced or taught some nonsense and you believed in it, and life went on. No. We will still come to this gradually. I think people will come to it.

But communism must be based on education, mutual respect, love, and connection with each other. That is what is said in the Torah: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” And all problems are solved by this.

Comment: Just come to this point, and then everything will roll on.

Answer: Yes.
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Question: An elder was asked: “What is sadness?” “Being sad means always thinking about yourself,” the elder replied.

How simple it really is, and how complicated it is at the same time. Can a person not be sad?

Answer: I do not know; I keep myself occupied.

Question: You keep yourself occupied, but not to avoid sadness, right? Not for that?

Answer: No. Even if I did nothing, I would not be sad.

Question: Do you ever feel sadness at all?

Answer: No.

Question: Why? Everyone feels it, but you do not.

Answer: I do not let this feeling develop within me. That is the first thing.

Second, I find more information about development than I can absorb or encompass. Because of that, I do not feel sad.

Comment: So you always have horizons—more and more.

My Response: Yes, you could say that.

Question: The opposite of sadness is joy. Can one be joyful all the time?

Answer: No.

Question: So one way or another, should such a movement be there?

Answer: Yes, it is natural for a person.

Question: To reach joy, do you need to feel sad?

Answer: To reach joy, you need to realize that what you have is just ordinary life. Therefore, you cannot be in constant joy or some kind of euphoria. But, in principle, you cannot be sad either. You can be in a neutral state and thus feel that you are floating.

Question: And then there will be joy, and then all these states? Joy will come, and then you float again, and so on?

Answer: Yes, in small doses.

Question: Why does the Creator give us these states, including joy and sadness? Why does He give us all this?

Answer: Without this, we would not be able to notice time at all. Only through these opposing feelings: from joy to sadness, from fear to happiness…

Question: Is that why we feel that time is passing?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So what is time?

Answer: It is the alternation of such feelings.

Question: So is time the alternation of these states?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is that all?

Answer: What else could there be for a person?
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Question: You are asked about shame: “You always say that shame is the most powerful means.” Is that true?

Answer: Yes.

Question: The writer asks: “In what way? To convince a person that they are wrong? To shame them?”

Answer: Shame is an assessment of a person much lower than he considers himself to be, and this is an assessment with which he cannot agree.

Question: Someone else evaluates them that way, right?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: It is such a blow to a person’s “self.”

My Response: Of course!

Question: What are they ashamed of?

Answer: The fact that they receive this message from their surroundings.

Question: What if they come to this conclusion themselves? Does it change anything?

Answer: Then they usually forget about it. If it is not under the power of others, then it is forgotten.

Question: So when I am shamed, that is a very heavy state. Does it bring something? Do I change because of it?

Answer: A person must change. Either he’s hiding or hiding himself, or he has to do something about it.

Question: And why does he get this? It is all one way or another from above, through someone obviously, but why are they shamed?

Answer: It is to change them.

Question: And when a person understands this, then?

Answer: Then it is a correction.

Question: Why do we blush when we are shamed?

Answer: It is the sort of animals we are; we blush when we are ashamed.

Comment: Animals do not blush especially. True, they have all sorts of movements showing shame.

My Response: We do.

Question: Why do I later hate the person who shamed me?

Answer: Not only do I hate them later, there were times when such people were killed, and so on. That is, the one who brings me some negative feelings, I am ready to annihilate.

Question: Shame and humiliation are they similar forms?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If a person has no shame, what does that say? There is probably not such a person. But suppose.

Answer: Usually it means they do not understand what it is about.

Question: This person?

Answer: Yes, they are undeveloped.

Question: So developed people live with shame?

Answer: Of course. There is a certain threshold. If you push them beyond this threshold with your statements, they cannot agree with it.

Question: So every person has this threshold. What does it mean that a person covers their shame?

Answer: Every person. Their main concern is to cover themselves from shame.

Question: In principle, that is how a person lives. Then there is another question. In the Bible it said that “they covered their shame with clothes.” What does that mean? They ask: was it normal for them to walk naked and exposed?

It was all normal until a certain point. And suddenly, as you say, some threshold happened. What was this threshold for them, for these first people? According to the Bible, and if possible, even the Kabbalistic meaning?

Answer: When the feeling of shame appeared. The feeling of shame is when a person feels naked before others, uncovered. And that is very difficult.

Question: And if we touch on your constant theme of egoism, we are one way or another covering it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What happened with Adam and Eve that they suddenly became ashamed?

Answer: I do not think it is a problem of Adam and Eve; it was the first social problem manifesting that they had such inclinations they could not be proud of, but rather they were ashamed of. And they covered themselves. And when you cover yourself, that is it, no one knows or understands what you represent, what you are hiding from, and whatnot.

Question: Suppose they covered themselves even materially, with clothes. Over time, these clothes from covering shifted to an element of pride. They adorned them with gold, couturiers appeared. Clothes became not just a cover of shame but on the contrary, a demonstration of wealth. What is that? Can you explain?

Answer: It is a natural inversion, because what needs to be covered, if you cover it with something that hits the other’s eyes, it is clear that it is not covering you, but on the contrary—revealing.

Question: So, in principle, what does it say about a person when they look at clothes like that? Not seeing clothes as simple covering, but when they view them as “I am beautiful, I am this…”—what is it? Why do they do that?

Answer: To eliminate any possibilities for the other to somehow belittle them and so on.
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The one who learns to tread the spiritual path must become as an empty cup in order that the wine of music and harmony may be poured down into his heart (Hazrat Inayat Khan).

My Response: Yes, he expresses it well. That is true. If a person’s heart, meaning his main egoistic vessel, is empty and can be filled with the world’s harmony, then it is good.

Question: Does one need to empty one’s heart?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But it is full right now. What is it full of, and how can it be emptied?

Answer: If it is, it is full of selfish desires. We can empty it only if we accept all our desires as empty and unable to fulfill us and lead us on the right path.

Question: Can I do this psychologically, or is it more about education?

Answer: It is much more complex. But people will come to this eventually because there is no other way.

Question: So is this the will from above one way or another?

Answer: Yes, the Creator holds us in a way so we gradually understand who we are, in what world we exist, and how we can bring ourselves to the proper state.

Question: Does the Creator have a concept of time: “I will hold them a little longer”?

Answer: Absolutely not.

Question: But what about the fact that we have been held for so long, gone through so many years, suffered so much?

Answer: If we did not feel we were dying, we would be different. The fact that we die drives us into various thoughts, into a dead end, and so on. But, in principle, we are moving toward understanding that there is no death.

Question: And then what?

Answer: Then we will start relating to ourselves, the world, and the Creator differently. It will all be different.

Question: How?

Answer: I do not know if I can express it. It will be all free and simple.

Comment: Let it be so.
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Igal writes:

I wake up in cold sweat. I was 100% sure it was really happening to me, but it was a dream. If that is the case, maybe I am still dreaming? Maybe this whole life of mine is a dream? My wife, the children, my job, and the war—all a dream? If that is the case, I want to wake up. I am not happy with too many things in this dream.

My Response: His fears overwhelm him.

Question: His fears are overwhelming. He does not like this dream. Here he asks, “After all, is our life a dream or not?”

Answer: Our life is a dream but actually on a different level, meaning, not at the level of suffering or not-suffering, but at the level of existence in general. We do not understand or feel this world correctly.

Therefore you can call it some kind of dream. But, in general, we can get rid of this dream and wake up.

Question: So he asks: “How do I wake up?”

Answer: How? This is the method of Kabbalah.

Question: He continues: “When I wake up, will reality be better or worse?”

Answer: Reality itself may not change. You, your outlook, and your feelings will change, for the better.

Question: Does this mean I woke up?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So there could be the same war in reality, you say?

Answer: It does not matter.

Question: What does it mean if there is a war and I wake up? What are my feelings? The reality is that there is a war.

Answer: On one hand, you see a war going on, people are killing, dying, and so on. But on the other hand, in this you see the necessary action of armies, nations, and so on, which enter into such relationships with each other. And in the end, it leads to the best outcome.

Question: So, I see that no matter what happens, everything leads to the best outcome. Is this called waking up?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is the best in this case?

Answer: The best is closeness with the Creator.

Comment: You are unshakeable in this.

My Response: Yes, there is nothing to add here.

Question: Another question from him: “Could it be that I am sure I woke up, but it turns out to be a dream again? And so on endlessly.”

Answer: Yes. So what? How do you know if you are awake or not?

Comment: This is the question: how will I know that I am awake?

My Response: There is no way to know.

Question: Is this how we are destined to live?

Answer: No, we are not destined to live like that at all. But there are states called reincarnations when we exist this way.

Question: From dream to dream, from dream to dream?

Answer: Yes, some such actions. But in fact, we come completely out of the boundaries of our world. And then we see it from the outside.

Question: So what do we see?

Answer: We see that everything is controlled by a single Creator, and we are around Him.

Question: What kind of force is the Creator?

Answer: It is a force that by gradually teaching us, leads us to a state of complete harmony.

Question: And the last question: “Is it better to wake up or not?”

Answer: We must wake up in order to achieve a more and more true state and so that all dreams, fantasies, and everything else would disappear from our world.

Then we would not fight, we would not exchange bad words, bad deeds, or bad actions.

Question: Do you mean in the relations between us?

Answer: Yes.
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Igor asks:

You once said that the hour of death is not the hour of death but a new birth. How should we take this? I do not believe in afterlife. So what is it about?

Answer: It does not depend on you whether you believe it or not. It is just the beginning of a new cycle.

Question: When you say “the hour of death,” what does it mean for Igor?

Answer: You part ways with this life, with what you have made of it, how you have lived it, and move on to the next cycle.

Question: Does that mean somewhere a child suddenly screams, some boy is born, and so on?

Answer: No.

Question: Then what does new birth mean to you?

Answer: A new birth is, of course, the act of a child being born. But generally, it is the beginning of attaining the upper world and the Creator by what is called man.

Question: Is the hour of death necessarily my physical death, or is it not necessarily so?

Answer: No, not necessarily. It means everything old dies, all that I’ve lived through, all that I considered important.

Question: Can something be born that I did not consider important?

Answer: Naturally, in the next stage.

Question: Can you tell me what I did not consider important in my past life?

Answer: Typically, it is connections with people, love, and relationship with the Creator.

Question: Even though I always talked about love?

Answer: Regardless.

Question: When you say that another love arises, what kind of “other” love is it?

Answer: It is more natural, closer, one that cannot be explained otherwise than simply by opening your heart.
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Arina asks:

Why are people not ashamed today to be wealthy and even flaunt it; they build palaces, villas, buy diamonds, cars, and do all this ostentatiously? How can people have a clear conscience when there is so much poverty and sorrow around?

Answer: It has always been this way, at all times. There are those who hide it. There are those who show it.

Question: So you do not think this is indicative of the present time?

Answer: Yes, today of course people are not ashamed of anything.

Question: Why did this happen? Why is one not concerned that someone has nothing to eat while he builds…?

Answer: It is a lack of upbringing, actually. Great people, though they may have immense wealth are not focused on that; what matters to them is inner wealth.

Question: Please tell me, what kind of upbringing should there be to address all this?

Answer: A person should be taught, first of all, to be content with their destiny, whatever it may be.

Second, to not consider themselves above others in wealth, knowledge, or anything else. Only in wisdom concerning the Creator, in modesty. That is the main thing.

Question: Can this be cultivated in someone?

Answer: It can.

Question: Is this not a natural quality?

Answer: No, this can be cultivated, and it must be cultivated.

Question: In principle, will a normal society, even let’s say the society of the future, follow such upbringing?

Answer: Yes. People will not flaunt their cars, houses, and wealth.

Question: So this will not be so valuable to a person?

Answer: It will say a lot, that perhaps he has earned something, but in principle, it will not be as important to a person.

Comment: You said that it is important for a person not to look at either the rich or the poor, but at his own destiny—this is my destiny.

Answer: He should focus on his connection with the Creator—that is what he should look at. A person will only delve deeper into himself: me and the Creator.
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Leonid asks:

Dear Michael Laitman, I recently learned that many great Jews were not originally Jewish. For example, the most famous Rabbi Akiva was not born Jewish, but became the leading teacher of the Jewish people.

King David, the greatest king of Israel, had a grandmother Ruth, who was not Jewish. The well-known Torah commentator Onkelos was a Roman who converted to Judaism and translated the Torah into Aramaic; his translation is the most famous. My question is: how is this possible, and is there an explanation for it in Kabbalah?”

Answer: I do not know the explanations. I just know that it does not matter. A person who wants to be closer to the Creator accepts all the laws stated in the Torah, and thus becomes Jewish.

“Yehudi” comes from the word meaning “connecting with the Creator,” “drawing closer to the Creator.”

Question: Does “Yehudi” mean more like “Jew”?

Answer: Yes, so it doesn’t matter.

That is why we welcome, respect, love, and honor these people.

Question: So it is like there is a navigator—if I want to be closer to the Creator, I get closer to the Torah?

Answer: Yes, of course because the Torah speaks about how to be closer to the Creator.

Question: So initially there is this desire “I want to be closer”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Who instills this desire in a person?

Answer: The Creator.

Question: So it turns out that He is the one who calls upon a person?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Are these selected individuals? Leonid mentions selected individuals like Rabbi Akiva, Onkelos, Ruth?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So there are certain people whom the Creator calls and they come to the Torah?

Answer: Yes and they come to the laws and conditions stated in the Torah.

Question: Next Leonid asks: “What does it mean to go through the conversion process and become a Jew?”

Answer: It means accepting the obligation to fulfill the conditions for drawing closer to the Creator.

Question: Is that what it means to “go through conversion”?

Answer: Yes.

Remark: He asks: “Why is it so difficult to go through conversion today? I know from my own experience.”

Answer: It depends on the time, of course. But mostly, it depends on bureaucracy.

Question: So there are such barriers?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it good that there are barriers?

Answer: Yes, it is good.

Question: So it is good that they initially push you away and make it difficult?

Answer: If it is within reasonable limits, then yes, of course.

Comment: We know that it was easier for King David’s grandmother. She said, “This is my people; I want to be with my people.” And that was called conversion.

My Response: Yes.

Comment: Today that would not happen.

My Response: A lot of time has passed, and people have become much more complex.

Question: It turns out that someone who goes through conversion can even become a leader of the generation, higher than those born Jewish. Doesn’t this offend Jews?

Answer: Not at all. This person who has gone through conversion is 100 percent Jewish and even a bit more. Because he came from outside and made an effort.

Question: So in principle, it turns out that someone who truly goes through conversion and becomes a Jew is even higher than a natural-born Jew?

Answer: Of course.

Question: So a true Jew, who is that, what is that, and how is that? If you could summarize it once more?

Answer: A Jew is a person who desires to draw closer to the Creator. That is it.

Question: Such a simple formula?

Answer: Yes. “Yehudi” comes from the word “Yichud“(bringing together).
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