One of the worst blunders is to think that pedagogy is the science of the child; no! It is the science of man (Janusz Korczak, How to Love a Child).

Janusz Korczak’s ideas and practical pedagogical achievements permanently went down in the history of Polish and world pedagogy. They have become a unique source of knowledge, ideas and inspiration in the quest for new educational solutions… .

For Korczak, his social and educational work with the child firmly at the centre was a way of showing reverence for what is human in the figure of the child. It was also a way of recognising, through action, the child’s full human worth. …

The company of children can indeed be tiring, Korczak conceded. But this is not because we have to strain to lower ourselves to their level. On the contrary: the exertion lies in our having to raise ourselves to their level, to their feelings, so as not to hurt them. Once we have learned to know children we realise, Korczak claimed, that we have no reason for boasting.

“As to feelings, they outdo us with unbridled power. As to intellect, they are our equals, lacking only experience …” (Topicality and Relevance of Janusz Korczak’s Pedagogical Approach to Children and Their Upbringing).

Question: In your opinion, is pedagogy for children or for adults?

Answer: It is to understand the children.

Question: So, it turns out that it is for parents, for teachers, and not for children?

Answer: Yes, and what is there to teach a child? How can you teach him?! He will gradually learn on his own from life.

Question: So, all these institutions where they teach, teach, teach, in fact …?

Answer: They don’t teach anything. The child has his own conceptual apparatus; he is constantly in it and processes all the data received from the outside world. And it all happens very rapidly for him.

Question: Does the child process it on his own, as you say? Is he studying precisely by himself?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then why does the whole system of upbringing, education, all this huge system, exist?

Answer: It is spinning around us on its own and that is it. There is nothing we can do with it. You cannot put anything into a child, but just the environment, friends, teachers, also partly. But all this creates the inner world of the child, who then enters into life. And then he begins to take from life.

Question: What do you think parenting is? You have pushed education back a bit now.

Answer: First, education and upbringing are not the same thing. Education is filling a child with all sorts of wisdom, and parenting is an example of an adult to a child of how to behave in certain circumstances.

Question: Is an adult a teacher, a parent, an environment, and so on?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, it turns out that the right upbringing is to put the child in an environment that gives the right examples. What examples should be shown to a child so that this child grows up correctly and is brought up correctly?

Answer: It is impossible to say. The child selects these examples himself and assimilates them.

Question: I’m showing an example, but maybe he takes something of his own from this and only understands that?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How do you penetrate into this child’s world?

Answer: There is no need to! Let him develop on his own.

Comment: But I have to guide him somehow.

My Response: I don’t think it is necessary. Let him run down the street, communicate with his peers, and thus he will develop.

Question: Should there be an ideal environment for a child to grow up in?

Answer: Children and animals.

Question: To have children and animals around. And where is the place for an adult?

Answer: There is no place for an adult there. Adults will impose all sorts of behavioral laws on children, and this is not necessary. Gradually, the child will grow up, and he will discover these laws for himself.

Question: Should an adult get involved in the children’s battles?

Answer: No! I think there should be no teachers here.

Question: And then what grows out of a child if, as you say, he is surrounded by children, animals, nature?

Answer: In accordance with his inner world, he soaks in and absorbs everything that can be obtained from the world.

Comment: There is also drawing, dancing, and natural history. There is a place where an adult comes and says: “Let me teach the child.” Things like that.

My Response: There is no need! He will learn by himself. And all these disciplines imposed on him, on the contrary, will limit him.

Comment: I’m already talking about simple disciplines: dancing, drawing. Will he master even that?

My Response: Yes.

Question: Is there any conclusion to be drawn?

Answer: The conclusion is very simple: leave children alone with your great thoughts and instructions, pedagogy, everything-everything-everything that is in you.

Question: What about the parents then? Parents, adults, somehow still exist. How should parents raise their children properly?

Answer: I do not see in any generation, and we have lived for many, many, many hundreds of generations, that some generation took something useful and good from their parents and achieved something useful and good. Every time we just relearn.

Question: So, you learn from your mistakes, you learn from your life, you learn everything yourself. And it is necessary to leave, you say, a person with this “himself,” to leave him to go?

Answer: Yes. I hope that we will come to a state when we understand how we should treat children in general. I hope that this will be understood and realized in the near future.
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Question: One boy had a very bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and said: “Whenever you offend someone, hammer one nail into the fence.” On the first day, the boy hammered 37 nails. Then he began to learn to control his anger, and the day came when he did not hammer a single nail.

His father said, “Now for every day that you have managed to restrain yourself, pull one nail out of the fence.” One day there was not a single nail left in the door, he pulled everything out.

The father said, “Son, you have done a great job. But look at how many holes are left in the wood. It will never be the same again.”

The moral is this: Every time you offend someone, it leaves scars. You can take back your words later, but the scars will remain forever.

The question is, is it possible to resist offending another? After all, you say that we are egoists anyway. Can we do it?

Answer: No, every moment we try to lower others; otherwise, I do not feel that I am living!

Question: You see and feel it, but you do it anyway?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And by this we, as if, leave scars.

My Response: This is the principle of existence of our world.

Question: It means it is all covered in scars, by and large. Are the scars in me or in the one I am lowering?

Answer: In fact, it is in you.

Question: So, these scars remain in me. If we cover our transgressions, the fact that we offend someone, as you say with love, what happens to these scars?

Answer: Then they heal! There are no traces left!

Question: So, is the assumption that it is possible to heal scars so that no traces remain true?

Answer: None of the traces.

Question: This is the most important advice! If you cover all this transgression with love.

Answer: It is said about this: “Love covers all crimes.”

Question: How can you cover with love? How can you do it?

Answer: Selflessly. That is, just love. That is all.

Question: You just now humiliated him.

Answer: No, not just now, it cannot happen right away.

Question: You felt that you humiliated him, and it made you feel bad. Is this the case in stages?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do you have to somehow evoke love for him? Can this love be evoked? It does not exist in me.

Answer: Yes, love can be evoked. From where? Because there is hate. This hatred, from the opposite side, manifests itself as love.

Question: So my hatred for this person is what causes love. At what point? Is it when I feel like I am wrong or what?

Answer: It is under the influence of the upper light.

Question: But do I need to feel something? That I want to make it up somehow, it hurts me, I feel bad, I have scars! Should I feel this?

Answer: Yes. It has to be present.

Comment: Then, this is a man before us.

In most cases, we do not feel it. Basically, we justify all the scars we inflict.

My Response: It means that we will have to check ourselves and correct ourselves a lot more.

Question: Why are we not hurt by these scars, we have so many? We have already “massacred” many people.

Answer: But we do not feel it. Our egoism erases it all carefully.

Question: When do I start to feel this, and what is it to “cover with love” hatred or dislike for the other?

Answer: I cannot say any more. Imagine that you are writing on a blackboard and then you start gradually erasing every word you say and writing the opposite.

Question: Do you mean “I hate” – “I love”? “You” – “myself,” like this?

Answer: Yes.
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Question: When the great Newton died, his relatives wanted to sell his writings. Naturally, they wanted to get hundreds of thousands of pounds for it.

Buyers came from the Cambridge Library, from the British National Museum, bishops, and so on. They would open Newton’s writings, start reading them and pushed them away as if it were a plague. His work remained untouched for many, many years.

The fact is, Newton believed in one God. Among other things, he quoted Rambam and followed the Jewish sages.

He wrote about the uniqueness of God, who created everything, who transmitted knowledge about the system of the universe to the first man—Adam, and then to the chosen few up to Abraham, and then to the Jewish people. This is how Newton defined the role of the Jews in the world history.

However, in a direct way, the secrets were accessible to very few. That is, they were accessible to Moses and carefully encrypted in the structure of the Jerusalem Temple. So, Newton began studying the Jerusalem Temple. In every turn and corner, he saw the harmony of the universe and wrote about it.

I do not know if it is possible to make such a comparison, but Abraham and Moses got such access to the Creator, so Newton wanted to get it too. That is, he wanted to break through to the Creator by means of science. Is it possible or not?

Answer: Through science? I think not. Many people wanted to break through science to a vision of the upper world, the upper governance, but no one was allowed to do it that way.

Question: Can you tell us why? Basically, did he take the first steps?

Answer: On the outside, he took external steps toward this in his discoveries.

Question: Yes, and he also studied Hebrew. But why is it not allowed?

Answer: The fact is you cannot reveal it that way. One must discover new instruments for attaining nature and make it so that nature would reveal itself to him. That is, from the side of man to the Creator and from the side of the Creator to man. I do not think this is possible except through Kabbalah and the science of Kabbalah. In fact, many have tried to accomplish this, but encountered such restrictions that they could not achieve this.

Question: So, after such attempts, is there no opening appearing in the heart or somewhere inside a person?

Answer: It opens up a little and it is opening, in fact, in science.

Question: And then one goes back to science?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: So, this fulfillment of the scientist—shuts everything down.

Answer: You can see how it happens. From generation to generation science somehow moves forward in small steps, but it is in fact not allowed to go further.

Question: You have been doing this all your life, and you say, “Only through Kabbalah.” You seemed to have tried to break through both the scientific method and the method of Kabbalah. And you still say: “Through Kabbalah?”

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Here we have one point you keep talking about called “faith above reason.” That is, the scientist follows the mind. The Kabbalist follows faith above reason.

My Response: Yes.

Question: For regular people, can you explain again what is it, what is the difference between the other sciences if faith is above reason?

Answer: I cannot explain it. A person should seriously engage in self-education, but not from other methods or sources.

Comment: Not psychology.

My Response: This is not psychology. One must position himself in relation to nature so nature will let him in.

It lets you in when a person is ready to serve it in everything for the sake of attaining nature. That is, for the Creator to be above all else for him. This is not a religious attachment to the Creator, but rather a devotion to the Creator in the idea, the adhesion to the Creator.

Question: What is the difference between religion and the science of Kabbalah in this case? You said: “This is not a religion.” Religion too has a direction, it has a specific aim. But here?

Answer: Here one must follow the commandments of the Creator in order to attain Him.

Question: But not there?

Answer: No, religion does not offer a direction to attain the Creator; no.

Question: So why do I follow the commandments?

Answer: To follow His external instructions, external laws.

Question: But this point of attaining Him is missing?

Answer: Yes, although you cannot explain it at all. You need to study and little by little begin to understand what is required of you.

Question: So it still requires me to change?

Answer: Yes.

Question: At what point do I realize I have to change? I keep studying and studying—at what point?

Answer: When complete self-annulment is required.
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Question: We have a holiday on March 8^th—International Women’s Day. It started as a struggle for women’s rights and then turned into a warm international, global women’s holiday. I remember buying my mom Queen of Spades perfume and a bouquet of tulips. We also bought flowers for the girls. And for special girls, beloved ones, maybe Bird’s Milk cake and something else. How was it for you? Do you remember?

Answer: No, I never gave anyone anything except for my mom.

Question: What did you give your mom?

Answer: I sent her a telegram.

Question: Although you were living together?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But when you were little?

Answer: Yes, when I was little, I went to the post office and sent my mom a telegram.

Question: What did you write?

Answer: Congratulations on March 8^th, wishing you health, and that is all.

Question: What would you like to wish for our women now?

Answer:
Dear Women!
From the bottom of my heart, no twist, I love and respect you very much for your huge contribution to fixing the world that your men distort and disfigure.
So let’s continue our work together until the world is fixed. And then all men will understand how much they owe to their women—mothers, daughters, wives. And the world will become calmer and better.

Question: How do women fix the world?

Answer: With their gentle attitude, by not wanting suffering.

Question: Do they intuitively think about their children, that is, this thought immediately arises?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then why do troubles continue and continue?

Answer: It is all because men do such things to the world.

Question: All these games?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So women are not inclined to play games?

Answer: Absolutely not! Women are ready to forgive everything just to have peace. But men are not ready for that. They do not feel like they are achieving anything unless it is through fighting.

Question: What should women do now to come together and raise such a prayer, a cry to stop all of this?

Answer: If women could, then they would make men leave their childish games of war, become more thoughtful, and compel everyone to focus on peace, nature, humanity, and children. But for now, I do not see it.

Comment: But still, you say that women are involved in correction.

My Response: They are involved in correction, but it is very small. They are afraid to step forward.

Question: Do you still have a desire for them to step forward?

Answer: Yes, definitely! They should start governing the world, and the world will become a better place. Exactly then.

Question: Is it due to the fact that they have motherhood in them?

Answer: Yes, They give birth, they want everything to grow, to move forward. But men do not have that.

Question: But still, we both think. A thinking man, a thinking woman.

Answer: A man does not have that deep need for peace in the world. And a woman, she feels with her womb.

That is why this holiday, March 8^th, is truly a special holiday. A holiday of hope for correction.
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Comment: Again and again in Israel, over Israel, the words of parents about their fallen children are heard. Sergeant Yehonatan Luber died in battle in the south of Gaza. These are the words of his father. Listen, it is poignant!

“Luber’s father Hagai … had just one request after his son’s death: He asked for one day of unity in his memory and requested that journalists refrain from publishing items which cause contention and instead focus on the beautiful aspects of our nation.

“Luber prefaced his message, stating ‘From the great power of the Jewish nation, from perceiving the great hour in which the people of Israel are eradicating the essence of evil from the world, and from great and deep personal pain, we announce the falling of our beloved son Yehonatan Luber HyD… .

“’We have no grievance to Hashem, no grievance to the Israeli government and no grievance to the IDF and to the decisions of its commanders in the field.’

“‘May we merit to see a swift victory and the return of our hostages whom Yehonatan so much hoped and prayed for their return.'” (VINnews)

My Response: It is amazing  that parents were able to say such things under such circumstances!

Comment: On the most tragic day of their lives.

My Response: Yes, I have nothing to add.

Question: You know, I feel like I am reading the Torah. Do you feel this way?

Answer: Yes, certainly.

Comment: It is as if a call comes from there.

My Response: But in general, this is a great atonement, this is a great action of the Jewish people who pay with the most precious things they have and want it to serve as such great forgiveness and unification of the people.

Comment: You once said about a mother who spoke about her fallen son that it was instilled from above.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Do you believe and do you feel that such words are not spoken by a person?

Answer: Yes, it is what the Creator instills in the soul of a person, and then the person already transmits the Creator’s words through himself.

Question: Does this not diminish the merit of the parents?

Answer: No, on the contrary. To the extent they can nullify themselves, that is how elevated they are.

Question: To nullify—does that mean not to blame anyone?

Answer: No one! Just convey what they feel from above.

Comment: He even says there: “I do not blame either God, the Israeli government, the military, or the commanders, no one. Just give a day of unification.”

My Response: Yes!

Question: There is a sensation at this moment that these parents feel the root of the nation?

Answer: Yes, undoubtedly.

Question: Is this precisely the moment of truth?

Answer: This is indeed the moment of truth, the reason for all that is happening.

Question: Perhaps it is scary to say that these victims are calling only for this purpose?

Answer: Yes, but I would not say they are victims. Thanks to them our world is rising, is being cleansed.

Question: In your opinion what needs to be done for these sprouts, these requests to fall into soil worthy of this?

Answer: We must constantly live with the words spoken by people who feel these great losses. It is necessary to live with their feelings.

Question: Unite with these parents, and then we will perhaps break through?

Answer: Definitely then! And not just break through; we will simply become different and will live differently: in unity, in love, in forgiveness, in understanding, in striving toward each other. We will begin to feel others in our heart and not through words that are trying to penetrate the eardrum.
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Question: “The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered “Man! Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

How can you learn to live so that when you die you have no regrets?

Answer: I think it is about a person striving to be ready to die. That is, I live as I believe I should within my limited capabilities. And when the time comes to die, I will have no regrets.

Question: Is this the formula we need to follow? But do I still invest in every day, in every minute of my life?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What do you call life?

Answer: The connection of a person with the thought of the Creator I call life.

Question: But I do not know the thoughts of the Creator.

Answer: I try to understand and implement what the Creator wants us to know and attain.

Comment: So life is about constantly learning this. And along this path, we have all sorts of ascents and descents.

My Response: It only helps us to unite and attain the depth of the Creator’s wisdom.

Question: Can you say what the main thought of the Creator is?

Answer: The main thought of the Creator is for a person to want to connect with all people, with all of nature, into one single whole, and to reveal the Creator in all of this.

Question: If a person has a feeling and lives with the feeling that they can be immortal, is it good or bad?

Answer: I can imagine what it means to be immortal, but at the same time I can imagine how a person can suffer if the Creator does not allow them to escape from the limitations of the mind, from the tasks that constantly circulate in person’s mind and heart.

Therefore let’s hope we have that choice ahead of us.
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Question: In the Talmud, an ancient source of Jewish wisdom, it is written:

There was an incident involving King Ptolemy of Egypt, who assembled seventy-two Elders from the Sages of Israel, and put them into seventy-two separate rooms, and did not reveal to them for what purpose he assembled them, so that they would not coordinate their responses. He entered and approached each and every one, and said to each of them: Write for me a translation of the Torah of Moses your teacher. The Holy One, Blessed be He, placed wisdom in the heart of each and every one, and they all agreed to one common understanding. Not only did they all translate the text correctly, they all introduced the same changes into the translated text.”

This is how the Torah was translated into Greek.

My question is, can this source be trusted? Can we say that this happened exactly how it is written?

Answer: Where is it written?

Comment: In the Talmud.

My Response: So, why are you asking?

Question: What is considered a miracle: the fact that the 72 elders translated the Torah as if done by one translator, or that God placed in them a single wisdom, one intention? What is the miracle here?

Answer: The miracle is most likely that they all translated it as one person. The root of this was, as it is written, that God placed in them a single wisdom and one thought.

Question: How does this happen? 72 different people write the exact same text without the slightest error. How does it happen that God places this in each of them?

Answer: Because it is God. And because these are 72 special sages at the highest level of knowledge (therefore 72). The number itself is the level of the highest knowledge. That is why they were able to do it.

Question: Can we say that if God instills one intention and a single wisdom, then God wants this source, the Torah, to be spread in the world?

Answer: This has been said many times and also directly stated that these laws should be for the entire world.

Comment: It is said here that they were able to reach one common understanding.

My Response: Yes, that is the miracle.

Question: Reaching one common understanding is a miracle. If in the past, 72, 120 people, the Sanhedrin, made one decision, today two people cannot make one decision. Two! They must clash, each asserting their own opinion.

How can ordinary people, politicians, leaders, or just individuals and families come to one decision, to one opinion?

Answer: There is a lack of understanding that we are under the authority of the Almighty, and everything comes from Him. Therefore, by agreeing with others, you, in principle, come closer to the Creator.

Question: Do you mean to say that I am somehow agreeing with the Creator who is expressing Himself through another?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If I can go this far, suppress and nullify myself, can I also hear what is being said to me from above?

Answer: You will hear the Creator.

Question: Does this apply to both disputing parties, and families, and generally to any states?

Answer: It is not about hearing what the other person is saying. Through them, you will hear the Creator. This is important.

Question: Specifically through my nullification?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: You attribute such great importance to nullification.

My Response: A person nullifies their egoism, the most important thing within them, and desires only to work with receiving from outside. And “from outside” comes to them from the Creator.

Question: Are you saying that the miracle here is precisely this nullification?

Answer: Yes, that is the miracle. If we could nullify ourselves before each other, we would hear the Creator. But He is concealed behind what we say to each other without listening to others.

Question: Is he waiting for us to be able to do this, to nullify ourselves?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/28/23

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Question: Birds have a very clear goal: to fly south, to arrive into warm lands where it will be comfortable, warm, and plentiful. And when you observe the laws of a flock of geese, you see that their task is not just to fly, but to fly and not lose a single friend. That is how nature works. These are pure laws of nature. And the flock instinctively follows them.

The laws for geese are as that the shape of the flock should be like a wedge. Ornithologists who study bird flight say that this allows almost doubling their flight range.

What does it mean for a person to align themselves correctly in pursuit of a goal? What is this wedge?

Answer: Geese understand that if they arrange themselves like this, they will save energy and not deviate from their path. These two parameters determine their structure.

Question: And for a person? How should they structure themselves like this wedge to reach their goal?

Answer: If people were defined by such parameters, then we would also, as Napoleon said: “Wise men in the center, and the whole army around them.”

Question: So, is this essentially moving like a wedge?

Answer: Yes. It is some serious organization that plans its future. That is, the brain should be at the center.

Question: Moving on to the second law. The wing beats of each goose create an updraft of air, which supports the birds flying behind.

So people move toward a goal. Let’s say people understand that they need to move together. What are these wing beats?

Answer: It is the movement that birds make for themselves and for others.

Question: And what are the wing beats for people?

Answer: For people, it can be when they define a higher goal for themselves and understand how to achieve it.

Question: It is said here that this updraft of air from the beating of the wings supports the birds flying behind. How does this manifest in people, how do they support it? What do they support?

Answer: Just like in battle those who lead the way set an example for those following them. So beating wings are the example that you show.

Question: Moving on. When a bird breaks formation, it starts to experience sharp air resistance, which quickly forces it back into formation and allows it to continue flying with less effort.

Suppose people set high goals and falter, deviate, or drop out. How can you make sure that they have the thought in their minds and hearts that a loner won’t break through? What should be present in the group for this?

Answer: They all must be obsessed with the same goal together. And then some will move forward and stick together, while others will cling to them, and in this way, they will all reach the goal together.

Question: Do those who cling to them understand that they are weaker, so they hold onto their friends, and they will have the thought, “I won’t break through alone”?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Is this if the importance of the goal is constantly emphasized?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Moving on. When the leader gets tired, it flies to the rear of the flock, and another bird takes its place.

In life, leaders, politicians, and those leading people and states don’t feel the responsibility.

They only step down during elections. There is no such thing as feeling tired and giving way to someone else. What must a leader have in order to have this thought?

Answer: The importance of the goal of the entire flock.

Comment: The importance of the goal, it is the most important; it is the foundation.

My Response: Yes. A leader must understand that they are responsible for ensuring that the flock continues the journey and reaches the goal.

Comment: Even if he’s not there…

My Response: It doesn’t matter.

Comment: So his thoughts are all about the flock, not about himself.

My Response: Yes.

Comment: That is the most important thing! In Israel, there was such an example. Begin left like that on his own. Suddenly, he stood up in the middle of a meeting and said, “I’m tired.”

My Response: Yes. It was a great decision.

Question: And then he remained quiet for ten years, he hardly gave any interviews. That is how he left.
Also geese in a flock encourage those flying ahead with their cries to increase the flying speed.
What does it mean to inspire others? What do the “cries” of friends mean?

Answer: So that everyone feels, especially those lagging behind, that we are flying, thinking about them. And they must show their zeal to be behind us.

Question: So each one thinking about the others is what the cries are?

Answer: They all have the same thought collectively, and they feel it. It is like they have a a kind of transmitter, a receiver, I don’t know how to call it, but it’s pounding inside them, like one, common heart.

Comment: We are talking about friends, about the group.

My Response: Like with geese, geese feel each other, feel the common heartbeat, the common thoughts. And in general, they feel each other. That is how it should be among friends. In other words, thoughts replace any cries. Thoughts are movement, support.

Question: There is another very interesting law when one goose in the flock loses strength and falls down, two birds follow it. They try to help the one in trouble and protect it. The escorts stay with the friends until they either perish or regain strength to continue flying. After that, the geese join another flock and continue flying.

Now the central question, what is mutual guarantee?

Answer: Mutual guarantee is when I commit to, as much as I can, to follow the flock, and the flock commits to support me as much as it can.

Question: Is that similar in a group of friends moving toward a goal?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: With birds, it’s clear, it’s instinctive. It’s nature saying, “I have this law, and you must follow it.” And birds follow it. Humans don’t have such an instinct. Does mutual guarantee need to be cultivated? How is it cultivated?

Answer: Partly, it is done in organized societies, like the army, for example, or a group of travelers, pioneers, and so on. But in general, it is a problem; it needs to be taught. Humans do not understand this.

Question: So it doesn’t come naturally; it takes effort?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But can we consider it one of the most important rules? There is a goal and there is mutual guarantee. Can these two points be placed at the forefront?

Answer: Yes. Only if they support each other, will their bearer reach the goal.

Question: Why can’t we learn, for example, from nature? We understand that it’s instinctive, but at the same time we can understand that nature requires this from us.

Answer: We are created precisely contrary to this principle. Therefore, only if we all together accept commitments can we then bow before these two principles. But I don’t see how this can be done under normal circumstances without the threat of survival and without upbringing.

Comment: So this alliance that we form simply cannot be made. You know, how they did it, they sealed all alliances with blood.

My Response: No, it requires spirit.

Question: At what point will I be able to form an alliance?

Answer: When people cross the threshold between life and death, then they can sign their spirit for going together with the group. I’m crossing the threshold between life and death.

Comment: Life, death, it all merges.

My Response: Nothing matters except maintaining the connection.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/4/23

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Question: A man is walking through the market, and a dealer in fighting roosters shouts to him: “Buy my rooster, he fights to the death.”

“Why do I need a rooster that fights to death? I need one who fights to win,” the buyer replies.

Basically our whole life is full of fighting: small and big fights and so on. Are we fighting to the death or to victory after all?

Answer: If we only knew. The most important thing for us is to understand what is required of us.

Question: So by and large we don’t know the purpose?

Answer: No, we don’t know.

Question: Then how should we conduct these battles? Let it be our cockfights, but how should we conduct them?

Answer: We just need to imagine what we want to win, what will happen when we, we or our rivals, enemies, win. It is only going to get worse. Along the way, we will destroy many of both. As a result, there will be devastated countries, people killed, and so on.

Question: Is this a victory or defeat?

Answer: Whether it will be a victory, I do not know.

Question: So often, and maybe even almost always, our victories turn out to be our defeats?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, what will turn out to be a victory then?

Answer: When we realize that we need to get closer, connect, and put things in order together in ourselves and in the world around us.

Question: Without capturing anyone or anything? Without threatening anyone?

Answer: No, those who capture usually lose.

Question: Do we defeat ourselves with this?

Answer: Yes, victory is a victory over oneself.

Question: Can we say that every moment in life is a fight?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You once said that every day, every moment, should be spent as if it were the last.

Answer: Yes. A person should be aware of how long he has to live, whether he will live to the end of the day or not. What will happen if he does not live; with what calculation he will leave this world? That is the way you have to live.

Comment: Usually a person does not ask such a question.

My Response: But it is not clear why. After all, for all of us there is the beginning of the day and the end of the day. So why can’t there be a beginning of life and an end of life.

Question: Now, in a moment? Do I really have to keep this up all the time? It’s impossible to live like this!

Answer: On the contrary, it is very good.

Question: I should think about what I will do because at the end of the day it is not known what will happen to me?

Answer: Yes, everyone can do it. You just need to train a person to look at it normally, and then he can do a lot of useful things in his life.

Question: And what conclusions do you think he will draw then: How am I going to live this day if it’s going to be my last?

Answer: Think about your attitude to everyone, to the world in such a way as to leave a good impression of yourself in the world.

Question: What does a good impression mean to the world?

Answer: To do as much good in the world as possible.

Question: What is the benefit to the world?

Answer: The benefit to the world is the good connection between people that remains after you.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/4/24

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Amir asks:

Michael, the more you call for unity and good relations, the worse it gets. And yet, you continue and continue. Don’t you see that nothing is working?

Answer: What can I do? In return, I want to ask Amir: “What should be done?”

Comment: I do not know what Amir will tell you; I would say: “Get tired, enough already.”

My Response: No, I cannot get tired. Every day I see the development of evil.

Question: So why not say this: “It continues to develop, let’s leave this generation alone?” Once the phrase “generation is not worthy” was said.

Answer: Yes, but that does not mean that I walk away from it and stop everything.

Comment: But you can see that it is getting worse.

My Response: I do not evaluate good or bad, better or worse at all. I just know that I must do it and that is it. There is no possibility of getting disappointed, leaving, and so on. Whatever happens—no!

Question: So, you must continue?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Amir thinks that you are saying this, but people’s ears are closed and their hearts too. So, it goes somewhere into the sand, as he believes.

My Response: Everything has its history, beginning, and end. So I hope there will be an end to this.

Question: That is, in principle, as they say: water wears away stone. Just like that, drop by drop. You just keep going like that, right?

Answer: I must do that!

Question: Is this called above reason or not?

Answer: Yes, against reason.

Question: Will they hear?

Answer: Not soon.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/4/24

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