Comment: Igor asks questions about Baal HaSulam’s article “The Freedom.”

Somehow this quote does not quite match with what you are saying. It is written in the article: “It turns out that there is no such thing as selfishness in the world, since no one here is free or stands in his own right.” How is there no egoism? You are saying we are all egoists.

My Response: No, this egoism is not ours, it is not our choice. It is our nature that is imposed on us. And of course, we have to seek ways to get rid of it and correct it.

For this, the science of Kabbalah exists. And if we gradually correct our nature, we will see that there is a way to rise above egoism and live according to different laws.

Question: So, when it is said that there is no egoism in the world because there is not a single free person here, does it mean that we should want to approach freedom? Otherwise, if you stop a person on the street, as you’ve been saying all along, and say, “You are an egoist,” he will say, “What do you mean, I am an egoist?” He has no awareness of evil.

When does this awareness come?

Answer: To achieve this, you have to start studying Kabbalah. And gradually, over the course of just a few months, a person begins to understand that selfishness guides him and he cannot escape from it anywhere, he is enslaved by it, and therefore the only one to blame is the Creator.

Question: Not myself, but the Creator?

Answer: Yes! Who created the ego?! So, it is said:”I have created the evil inclination, I have created the Torah as a spice.” So, the only thing we have to do is to reveal our nature as selfish and to reveal the method of correcting our nature as Torah.

Question: Meaning that when I feel bad and I understand that this is because of my egoism, I blame the Creator for this and not myself?

Answer: You can blame the Creator. But, in principle, the Creator does not run anywhere from this responsibility. He says: “The light in the Torah reforms him; the Torah is the light of Torah, which reforms a person,” and why I have made you egoists; and for you to correct yourself, you must study yourself and agree that it is precisely this attitude toward the world as evil and the opportunity to correct the world that are in your hands.

Question: Why does it take millennia for humanity to get to this form?

Answer: It does not want it. It does not want to look in this direction.

Question: It does not want to look within itself? And millennia of wars, suffering, blood, everything, everything are needed?

Answer: All of this is part of the correction process. It is us who count everything by days, hours, weeks and so on, but the Creator has no time.

Question: So, you are saying that there is no history as such? History does not exist?

Answer: There is, but all of it eventually is connected to the general correction nonetheless.

Question: Meaning, it is a force that accumulates? And only for this one solution: The evil is in me and I should correct it?

Answer: Of course, and nothing else is needed besides that.

Question: It is amazing of course! All historians and archaeologists are engaged in history, archaeology, and sciences digging out how we came to be: the Big Bang.And, in essence, it turns out that everything converges to one point.

Are all these sciences necessary, in your opinion?

Answer: No. If we had right away engaged in what is necessary, correcting ourselves and uniting, then we would not have needed all of this.

Question: In other words, we don’t really need all the knowledge?

Answer: No. We would have learned everything from nature itself.
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Question: Vlad asks a lot of questions.

I know that the Torah is the greatest miracle that has happened in the world. Thanks to the Torah humanity has learned what morality, ethics, and humanism are. The Torah has become the source of life for the whole world.

And I was surprised when I suddenly heard that the Torah could be the elixir of death. It is written that it can be either the elixir of life, which is understandable, or the elixir of death, which is absolutely incomprehensible.

Could you explain how this is possible? I think something else is implied here. It cannot be death! I am sure of it! 

Answer: It depends on how you use this methodology. You either come closer to the Creator, and then it is the elixir of life. Or you can move away from the Creator, become more and more opposite to Him, and then it is the elixir of death.

Question: How can one move away from the Creator?

Answer: Man does not want to come close to the Creator! He does not want any rapprochement with the Creator at all.

Question: Meaning that initially, when beginning to study, or read, or go through this methodology, I have to set a goal: I study and read this in order to get closer to the Creator. What is rapprochement with the Creator?

Answer: Getting closer to the Creator means constantly awakening the desire for bestowal, love, and connection with others in oneself.

Question: In what case does the Torah become death?

Answer: It is if I do not think about others, about anyone, only about myself, and I egoistically perceive everything around me.

Question: So it is if I study the Torah while thinking about myself. Could it be in order to become famous, to know everything by heart? Does this all lead to death?

Answer: Yes.

Question: “Everyone reads the Torah in their own way,” says Vlad. Someone sees laws in it, someone sees the history of the nation. You are talking about forces, that there is power behind every word and name. Why does everyone see something different in the Torah?”

Answer: Because it is based on themselves. Everyone has their own special, personal spiritual root. Everyone reads it in their own way. You see how it is being interpreted.

Question: Yes, there are many different interpretations. And I, an ordinary person, read this interpretation but interpret it on my own? Or am I already proceeding from this interpretation?

Answer: You interpret it the way you were created. If you want to interpret it differently, you have to work on yourself, make yourself more giving, more loving, and so on.

Question: Then will I accept, for example, the Kabbalistic interpretation?

Answer: Then you will have to take it upon yourself.

Question: And will I interpret it in my own way or how the Kabbalists interpret it?

Answer: There is no other way, only as the Kabbalists say. You will see that this is the only way it works.

Question: Is this the elixir of life?

Answer: Yes.

Question: “When will the Torah become the elixir of life for everyone?”

Answer: This is a problem. It is when the Creator shows everyone how the world really works.

Question: You mean when there will be a revelation for the whole world?

Answer: Yes. Then, involuntarily, all people will come, agree, bow down, and want to master the Torah.

Question: Even if I held completely different opinions, lived in a different way, suddenly the Creator will reveal Himself to me and everything will turn upside down?

Answer: Everything! It is not you who turns it upside down, everything is turned upside down in you.

Question: As if all these lives and years did not exist?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How does this happen?

Answer: We will find out soon enough.
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Comment: Please comment on a verse by the ancient Persian poet Sa’adi. It is written in gold letters and adorns the pediment of the building of the UN headquarters in New York.

Sa’adi writes:

           All human beings are members of one frame,
          Since all, at first, from the same essence came.
          When time afflicts a limb with pain,
          The other limbs cannot at rest remain.
          If thou feel not for other’s misery,
          A human being is no name for thee.

It feels like he was a Kabbalist too.

My Response: Did you and I together visit a Sufi in England?

Comment: He made a serious impression then. Do you mean that he is an Iranian Sufi after all?

My Response: Yes.

Question: “All human beings are members of one frame,” what does this mean?

Answer: One frame is one person.

Question: The entire world?

Answer: The entire world, yes.

Question: Is it all like the organs of one person?

Answer: The Creator created a man, one man, Adam. This is how it is in reality. What we see is our egoism that separates us.

Question: So, is it all, in fact, a lie? Is the truth that we are all connected?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then he writes: “Since all, at first, from the same essence came.” What does this mean? What kind of essence is this?

Answer: All was created from one single egoism. This is the essence.

Comment: That is, our nature is definitely the egoism of everyone.

“When time afflicts a limb with pain, The other limbs cannot at rest remain.”

My Response: Yes. Even if one part of our body is affected by egoism, our whole body, the whole person, is sick. This is like a cancer cell.

Comment: In fact, now the whole body is really affected.

My Response: Now all of humanity is affected. But this is good.

Question: What is good about it?

Answer: The good thing is that this is very close to the complete recognition of egoism. That is, if we recognize that we are all affected by this, let’s say, cancerous tumor, then we will look for a cure for it.

Question: But, in fact, it is written that at least some small part. Does it mean that we are not talking about some kind of cure for one part? It does not seem to be possible.

Answer: No, no, we are talking about the cure of all of humanity.

Question: Does it mean that one part cannot be cured? Should this be the cure for all of humanity?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Then he writes: “If thou feel not for other’s misery, A human being is no name for thee.”

My Response: Yes. If you do not feel the other’s misery, then you are not human.

Question: Do you perceive this directly?

Answer: Yes. People will see, recognize, and understand that you are like that.

Question: It does not look easy either. Today, the earth is covered with misery by and large.

Answer: Yes, but what is happening now is not the end! I can see by the “holy people,” as they say, how far they are from all this.

Question: But they should carry only one thing, by and large. This is why you call them the “holy people.” What should they carry?

Answer: That the Creator is one.

Question: Is this the message that we need to spread around the world?

Answer: Yes.
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Question: One day, a woman had a dream that there was the Creator behind the counter of the store. “What can I buy from you?” The woman asked. “You can buy everything from me,” the Creator replied. “Then give me health, happiness, love, success, and a lot of money.”

God went into the back room and returned with a small paper box. “Is that all?” the woman exclaimed. “Yes,” God replied, “didn’t you know that my store sells only seeds?”

So, we have everything we need to grow? Seeds are given to us. The main question is: how can we understand this and how can we grow them? Watering, caring for, and so on?

Answer: This is the meaning of life. It is not easy to understand what the Creator requires of you and how you should behave every moment.

Question: Is this “growing seeds”? To understand what He wants from me and how I should behave?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But this initial one, that I do not need anything around, that everything is in me, how can I come to this?

Answer: You just have to believe in it. Everything is built into me; I just have to try to put myself in the right environment.

Question: Is it called “like seeds in the soil”?

Answer: Yes, and then everything that is necessary will sprout in me.

Question: What do I water these seeds with?

Answer: With your sweat.

Question: So my efforts and in general everything that I go through is what I water these seeds with?

Answer: Yes, and they will germinate.

Question: What would you ask the Creator if, say, He was standing in front of you?

Answer: In principle, the maximum wisdom is to agree with Him in everything. Cancel yourself completely before Him so that no thoughts and feelings arise in addition to what I get from Him.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/13/23

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Igor writes:

Now I am reading the Baal HaSulam’s article “The Freedom.” Cool article! It is as if he wrote it today. And a lot of questions arise.

Here, for example, it is written: “…we must be watchful not to bring the views of people so close that disagreement and criticism among the wise and scholarly might be terminated, for the love of the body naturally brings with it proximity of views. And should criticism and disagreement vanish, all progress in concepts and ideas will cease, as well, and the source of knowledge in the world will dry out.”

Question: But isn’t it because of disagreements that all these wars are happening today? Wouldn’t it be better if there were no disagreements?”

Answer: No. Then everything would be very unilateral, one-sided. Without contradictions, humanity would not be able to move forward and develop.

Comment: So, in principle, all these wars are necessary?

My Response: I am not talking about wars. Everything can be settled by other methods. You do not have to fight right away!

Question: Why do we always want to resolve disagreements with wars and drastic decisions?

Answer: Like little children, this is what humanity looks like today.

Question: Baal HaSulam is talking about completely different solutions?

Answer: Absolutely about all disagreements! We need to decide everything when we sit together and discuss.

Question: Igor writes further: “But there are no people who would like criticism. People lie when they say the opposite. Is it possible to educate a person so that he will want criticism?”

Answer: Of course. Contradictions are where truth is revealed.

Question: So you can accept criticism?

Answer: Without criticism, how can a person develop?

Question: You even want it, it turns out?

Answer: I do want it, of course.

Question: And you do not resist it?

Answer: I do not resist at all. On the contrary. The more criticism, the more opinions and disagreements, the more can be revealed: who, where, how, and why in this way did the Creator create society, man, and us in such a contradictory form. And only in this way is the truth comprehended.

Question: So you are saying that what a person should desire is a result of criticism?

Answer: Truth is learned through argument.

Question: Next. “Why, having declared at the beginning that criticism is creative, we later come to the point of destroying it?”

Answer: Because everyone likes to put pressure on the other until he agrees. And if he does not agree, I will kill him.

You see how everything is done in the world. Our egoism prevails over all other opportunities to discuss and grow.

Comment: But on the other hand, we say that egoism is our nature. It must stick out.

My Response: After all, we have to correct it somehow.

Question: So our task all the time is to saddle it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: When is criticism constructive and when is it destructive?

Answer: You can see it from here. When it leads to mutual discussion and ultimately agreement, it is positive. And when it leads to contradictions, even to the point of war and destruction, then of course, it is harmful.

Comment: But humanity always comes after all the wars…

My Response: And that is egoism, which we do not work with. There is nothing you can do about it.

Comment: But after the wars, it comes to the conclusion that it is advisable to sit, talk, discuss.

My Response: This is because war still gives some kind of awareness of evil. But then again.

Question: “If you come to internal criticism, does the external one disappear?” asks Igor. “So we can say that external criticism is an indicator that internal criticism is absent? Is this true or not?”

Answer: Yes, yes.

Question: And the question: “What happens in a corrected world full of goodness, love, as you say? Is there criticism there?”

Answer: It all depends on a person’s upbringing and how he educates himself.

Question: Here we have come to a world that is full of love and kindness. We are heading there. Are there any criticisms there?

Answer: There is criticism, of course. Necessarily. There are a huge number of opinions and contradictions, but all this is discussed and constantly brought to some common denominator along which all of humanity advances.

This is what is called that everything is decided at the level of love.

Question: “Love will cover everything”—is this what they say? Is this how things work in a corrected world?

Answer: Of course. And only over disagreements, disagreements remain.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/6/23

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Question: In the book of the prophet Isaiah (Yeshayahu in Jewish tradition) there is a well-known phrase that everyone repeats, “And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore” (Isaiah, Chapter 2, 2-4). It sounds like fantasy and completely unreal. If this is a prophecy, should it come true?

Answer: Of course.

Comment: It is said that this prophet has never been wrong.

My Response: No prophet makes mistakes because he sees the future as if it were the present.

Question: But it sounds fantastic, do you agree?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then the question is what time period does this refer to?

Answer: The time when the entire true picture of the universe will be revealed and it is known that the Creator controls absolutely everything.

Question: Is the main thing to reveal it? Must everyone understand and accept this?

Answer: Everyone must understand, feel, see, and reveal it.

Question: And then “they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.” So, will all wars be overturned?

Answer: Of course. There will be no need to fight, nothing.

Comment: And there will be a need for creativity, like using pruning hooks, building gardens, being at peace with each other.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Under what circumstances will this happen?”

Answer: This will happen when people reveal the Creator.

Question: Under what circumstances will He be revealed?

Answer: I would say this: He will reveal Himself to people when people wish for it.

Question: When will they wish for it?

Answer: When they wish for it, then He will reveal Himself. I am answering you absolutely accurately!

Question: What needs to happen to them? What needs to change? What cry needs to arise for Him to be revealed?

Answer: They must feel that they cannot do without the Creator! Because that is the only thing they lack.
Everything in the world is available to us, but we wish only for His revelation to us and that is it.

Question: Can you say, slowly but surely, people’s view is turning in that direction today?

Answer: I wish I could say that, but it is not in sight yet.

Question: Only suffering can make people turn to the Creator?

Answer: I think only suffering. I hope it will happen quickly. The main thing is quickly.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/30/23

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Arkady writes:

I have never heard such an explanation of the Torah as you explain it. Everyone talks about human laws that are described there, and you say that this is instruction on how to get out of egoism. Everyone says that Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses were people, but you say they are powers.

I beg you to explain, what is this story with Cain and Abel? I am sure it is important for everyone to know what happened there because it was the first murder in history, and it gave impetus to all the murders on earth.

As you know, Cain and Abel were the children of Adam and Eve. Cain was a tiller of the soil and Abel was a shepherd of flocks. The Creator liked Abel’s sacrifice more than Cain’s. And then it is said that out of envy one killed the other. Cain killed Abel. It is even written: “And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and slew him.”

Can you tell me what this is talking about?

Answer: It is about the fact that a person follows his egoism and fulfills all its demands.

Question: Who is Abel and who is Cain? What is it in a person?

Answer: These are two directions, two forces, in our development. Abel is a relatively good path. And Cain is a tougher path, one who believes that everything can be achieved by force. So they quarreled among themselves. All this is inside a person.

Question: So this strong path, Cain, prevailed? And is this what humanity has become as a result? Is what we see today all the consequence of Cain in us?

Answer: Yes.

Question: It is said everywhere that this happened because of envy. What is this in us, Cain as envy?

Answer: I would say that they both have envy. The only difference is in the implementation of this envy. Cain’s implementation is forceful while Abel’s is diplomatic and peaceful. That is, envy also came to us from the collision of two forces. That is why all these periods are called forefathers.

Question: The story about Cain and Abel says that the Creator, before this murder, said to Cain: “Why are you so vexed, and why is your face downcast? After all, if you do good, you will be forgiven, and If you do not do good, sin lies at the entrance, and you are attracted to it.  You rule over it.” These phrases have become known worldwide, everyone repeats them. What is it like when they tell you: “Come to your senses. Sin lies at the entrance. You must rule over it.” What does this mean?

Answer: It means to rule over your sin, over your impulses, over the Cain in yourself. And, of course, it does not work out.

Question: And what is it that the Creator says to man? Where does it come from? How does this manifest itself?

Answer: This is the inner conscience, this is the inner strength of a person which, in principle, tells him that this is not the right thing to do. But, as you can see, this does not help to this day.

Question: Yes, this does not help yet. Does everyone have this inside?

Answer: Everyone has it, of course.

Question: So the very last scoundrel has an inner conscience?

Answer: It is much easier to kill and bury.

Question: Exactly! This is so relevant!

Why was this done? Why was this released into the world? This is about the basics.

Answer: It is so that a person can be convinced that the only correct path is the path of love for each other. But it is very difficult!

Question: So the foundation is still love?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Does this show us that this path is wrong? But humanity has followed this path.

Answer: This is our nature.

Question: How can we return to the path of love, which is at the foundation of everything?

Answer: Realize it. Now we need to realize that the path we have taken in our development over thousands of years is wrong.

Question: To do this, it was necessary to go through suffering, murder, and now everything continues?

Answer: Of course. But we do not know how deep it is. How much of a revolution this must be within a person’s entire system, his relationship with himself and with others.

Question: So what should happen between Cain and Abel?

Answer: They should understand how to treat each other. And they should correctly divide among themselves what they received from the Creator.

Question: So, if the Creator preferred Abel, then what should Cain have done?

Answer: Break himself. But I cannot imagine how it is possible.

Question: Although, this phrase is said: “Sin lies at the entrance. You must rule over it.” So this is the main phrase here?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And we cannot do this?

Answer: No.

Question: How can we do this? We could not to this day!

Answer: I don’t know. Killing the root of evil in you is impossible. This is how the Creator created us. But we still have to ask Him.

Comment: This is an instruction from Him, “You must rule over it.”

My Response: I want to rule over myself, over my original sin, but You must help me with this. This was practically Cain’s mistake.

Question: And now it is the mistake of humanity, which does not find Cain within itself, by and large?

Answer: Yes. Look how everyone justifies themselves.

Question: What should we do to find the Cain, the murderer, the envious person in us?

Answer: Our most important task must be the truth! Rise above our nature, above egoism. Today, this is absolutely a fantasy!

Question: Why is it getting worse and worse?

Answer: Man is developing. These are all layers of development; they accumulate and cover each other, and eventually become…somewhere there, in their depths, even their original cause is not visible.

Question: Yes. We do not see that we are like that. We do not see that Cain is at our core.

What needs to happen so that love and truth suddenly prevail in a person?

Answer: This is called awareness of evil.

How can we get there? I don’t know. To do this, we need the Creator to reveal to us that we, all people are relatives to each other, so that like my little child, or grandson, anything, let’s say that is as the most precious thing I have, I can see that it is in a stranger. Somehow we need to understand this.

Comment: That is, I can still somehow see this in my child, but I need to see it in a stranger.

My Response: In someone else’s child, in a stranger, you should see something so close, so dear and beloved that is higher than you. Then maybe it will work out.

Question: Is this possible?

Answer: If the Creator shows our connection between us, our dependence, where truly a stranger becomes closer to you than you are to yourself.

Question: Anyway, we should come to this prayer?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And then, perhaps, He will show. But will He show?

Answer: I am sure of it!

Question: Do you have hope only in Him, generally?

Answer: Of course! Certainly. There is no hope for anything anymore. Only if the Creator does it for us. Let’s hope.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/19/23

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Question: In our lessons we study a very deep topic: silence. In the treatise Masechet Avot,: 1:17, which was written 2,000 years ago by our sages, it says: “I grew up my whole life among sages, and have not found anything good for the body besides silence.

Why is silence so lofty: “..and have not found anything good…?”

Answer: Because a person should actually talk to himself. And when one talks to himself, he starts to switch to the Creator too.

Question: Is this how the system works?

Answer: Yes. How can it be that I talk to myself? I talk to the Creator.

Question: What are all the hundreds, thousands, and millions of people around for? They say: “For communication.”

Answer: Not for communication. Communication should be through feelings, internally, particularly through silence. Why talk?

Question: Why are we given speech then?

Answer: This is for extreme cases, I would say. When you sit and figure out some issues with the sages, then it is another matter. But if there is no such opportunity, the best thing is silence.

Comment: But quite often it is uncomfortable to be silent. You feel that someone is waiting for you to engage in a conversation, thinking: “What is going on with him? He does not like something, he is silent.”

My Response: It depends on who and how. If this person is close to you, especially in spirit, you can be silent.

Question: Is the silence you are talking about a conversation with the Creator?

Answer: Silence is precisely a conversation with the Creator. It is good when a person chooses to turn to the Creator this way so that it is always from the heart.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/21/23

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In the News (Exploringyourmind.com, “The Most Common Regrets of Older People”): “It’s a curious fact that, when we reach maturity, most of us experience certain regrets. What are they? …

“1. Not doing what they really wanted…

“2. Being more honest about their feelings…

“3. Not having spent more time on what really mattered…

“4. Worrying excessively and forgetting to live…

“5. Missing out on opportunities.”

Question: Most regretted was having spent most of their lives doing something they did not like, and they not having enough strength and intention to change anything.

In your opinion, is this their worst regret?

Answer: Of course. It generally makes life very difficult if a person is doing something he does not like and cannot get used to what he is doing. I cannot imagine this. And a person does not have the strength to change anything.

Question: Is it possible to turn a job you do not like into a job you love?

Answer: In order to do this, you need to go deeper into your job and dedicate yourself to it. And then it may possibly become the job you love.

Question: It means that at some point I can say: “I cannot quit, but my goal is to make it loved”?

Answer: Yes, you can do it if you enter into mastery.

Comment: But it is still unloved!

My Response: It is because you did not engage in it with dedication and from the heart.

Question: Why did not a single person respond: “Unfortunately, I did not look for the meaning of life?” What do you think?

Answer: They are looking for it very quietly, but it is in second, third, or who-knows-what place.

You should just calmly try to find the meaning of life in your circle. This is what you must do. Without this, life is meaningless. But whether you find it or not, and what kind of meaning you find, depends on you.

Question: Can everyone find their own meaning in life? Small, big, high or not so high, but it should be? This is what it is, and this is what a man’s life is?

Answer: Yes. But it does not mean to give in. This is not giving in; no. It is looking for the meaning of life.

Question: But after all, you are saying this to the fact that we have reached some meaning in life, haven’t we?

Answer: We have reached it; we will get there. And we will keep getting to it. A person cannot live without this; this is not existence. But we must understand that this is what we have been given.

Question: Do you personally regret anything in life?

Answer: No, even so, I should have regretted a lot of things.

Question: And you do not? How can you live like this, without regrets? How do you cut them off?

Answer: I cut them off very simply. “The right to forget the years, the right to choose the hours. The right to choose how to live, throwing life on the scales” (Evgeny Klyachkin, Song about Rights).

So there is nothing you can do about it. I personally take this very philosophically. And this is not what makes it easier; although, in fact, it does make it easier too. But on the other hand, this is how it should be.

Question: Is this what you came to: “This is how it should be”? This very phrase, did it begin to define everything?

Answer: This phrase began to define my attitude toward life, toward the world: “I will do what I can, and I will give what I can.”

And I hope that by giving to the world I am improving it in some way. I am not indifferent to the world, and I am not indifferent to people. I want them to open their eyes a little more.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/31/23

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Olga writes:

I was struck by your statement that nothing belongs to a person. You also said that if a person has two desires. On the one hand, he believes that the whole world belongs to the Creator, but on the other hand, something also belongs to a person, then this is a problem.

On the one hand, I understand that if only it were so, then there would not be these terrible wars – nothing belongs to me and that’s it. But is it really true that nothing belongs to a person?

Answer: Yes, nothing belongs to a person. What can belong to him?

Comment: Then she writes: “But still, my life, my family, my apartment, and so on is mine!”

My Response: This is yours. For just a couple more years and that’s it. You will leave all this, just as they, your family will leave it in due time. Nothing belongs to a person. He came, visited, and left.

Question: You said that if a person has two desires, then this is a problem. On the one hand, he believes that the whole world belongs to the Creator. He does believe this, after all. But on the other hand, something belongs to a person. Is this quirk a big problem?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: This means that everything belongs to the Creator, this is your formula that you hold on to.

My Response: Or vice versa, nothing belongs to a person.

Comment: Either everything belongs to the Creator or nothing belongs to a person.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Then the question is: to whom does everything belong?

Answer: What is the difference?

Question: Is there no difference? Does it mean that I can live with this formula: nothing belongs to me?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Then would there be no wars or borders at all?

Answer: What can I say about it? There would be no wars… As if people live according to this formula. Everyone wants to live for his own sake, for himself, and so that everyone else obeys him.

Question: Then there is this question, and she asks it: “Why then are we given the feeling that something belongs to us?”

Answer: So that you would fight it, correct it, cut out everything that you think is yours, and give it to the Creator!

Question: So, are you saying here that there is a host of everything?

Answer: Of course, there is a host. He was, is, and will be.

Question: Tell me how to come to this state that everything is not mine?

Answer: In general, it is very good and very simple. One just needs to tune in to it. Then from morning to evening, from evening to morning, a person lives as if this all is not his.

Question: In principle, is this the feeling of the Kabbalists who wrote this quote?

Answer: This is their feeling; they live and were living like this. What is wrong or hard about it? Nothing.

Question: That is, in principle, if you come to this state, does the lightness of being appear?

Answer: No! I would not say that this is lightness. As if they are doing this because of the lightness! No.

Question: Do they not recommend it because it will make life easier for you?

Answer: No, of course not! These are not the conditions; these are absolutely not the reasons. These are reasons for a person to change himself to reach this state.

Question: What should disappear in me? What should I kill, crush, or turn over in myself?

Answer: Egoism. That there is nothing of yours in you, including yourself.

Question: Is this my egoism saying: “Everything is mine”? Is this the basis of all the troubles, by and large? That “Everything is mine” is egoism.

Answer: Yes.

Question: It is our nature—egoism. When I say “everything is mine,” is it our nature?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why complicate the work so much?! To this extent?!

Answer: So that, from this point onward, you would work on yourself and understand that you do not belong to yourself in any way either. When you come to this, you cross the border between life and death calmly and easily.

Question: Do you mean that death is the result of something belonging to me?

Answer: Of course. Life belongs to you.

Comment: My life belongs to me.

My Response: Yes. They take it away from you. This is called death.

Comment: And if my life does not belong to me, then there is no death either.

My Response: There is no death.

Question: Have you and I come to the formula of immortality?

Answer: Yes. So far. There is even further, but at least this.

Question: I want to summarize. Do you think that it is possible for a person to come to this state where nothing belongs to me?

Answer: It is in the person’s power to come to a state that nothing belongs to him, and he does not belong to himself either.

Question: This addition “I do not belong to myself,” why do you add it strenuously?

Answer: Because this is the most important thing.

Question: Do I not belong to myself?

Answer: No.

Question: Do I belong to someone?

Answer: To the upper force.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/30/23

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