Question: We are at war. Terrorists, Hamas, have entered Israeli territory. They captured the border kibbutzim and even entered our cities.

There are a lot of tragedies around. We hear blood-chilling stories—both stories of courage and stories of killing. All this is filmed on phones and posted on the networks. It is terrible!

There was a festival where 3,000 young people gathered in the south. Hundreds of them were killed. The number of deaths is already approaching a thousand. I am afraid to name numbers. There are thousands of wounded, and what is even more scary for Israel is that there are lots of captives. Once the whole country was talking about one captive. Now there are a huge number of them.

How should we relate to all this?

Answer: This is terrible! This is terrible. I understand the grief and the feeling of those who are now in captivity in the hands of those who hate us. They really do hate us. I felt this hatred. Of course it is terrible!

Question: We are talking with you on the third day of the war. There are still terrorists there who are fighting, and our guys are dying. Their names are published; they are from our most elite special forces, real heroes. Why do the best die first?

Answer: It is like that always and everywhere.

Question: What kind of law is this?

Answer: The fact is that war reveals the true structure of society. Therefore, those who belong to its best parts find themselves ahead. It is they who are sent first, who go and die.

Comment: That is, this is the hope of the country; these are the best ones.

My Response: The best ones that we have.

Comment: Just imagine! It takes years to raise such soldiers. And they go and die. This is, of course, very frustrating!

My Response: It is impossible to put it in words!

Comment: What we see now is all being filmed: how they kill and how brutally they do it all. They came to kill us, and it feels like they are animals.

My Response: Yes, of course, they are animals. They have been prepared for this, and they are fulfilling their “national duty.” That is what they think.

Question: That is, for the other side they are heroes?

Answer: Yes, definitely!

Comment: For all of them.

My Response: For everyone.

Question: Is it possible to kill and be considered a hero?

Answer: Absolutely all residents of Gaza are prepared to kill and in general sweep Israel away from its place.

Comment: And not just kill—kill like that! Just like that in a totally merciless way.

My Response: They do not consider it at all.

Comment: There are such ruthless, cold beings demanding our destruction in front of us.

My Response: Animals.

Question: Animals. Then what should our attitude be? What should we do? Now we understand this. What should we do?

Answer: We must totally destroy this territory because it will remain the source of all problems. There is nothing to be done about it!

Question: You said “destroy this territory.” What do you mean?

Answer: I mean that the several million people living in this territory simply need to be resettled. Not to allow this territory called Gaza to exist anymore. To keep such a flammable, explosive mixture at your side, and to provide for it, and to feed it above all. There is no such thing anywhere, and it is not acceptable anywhere.

Comment: If we leave it as it is and play our game again somehow…

My Response: Nothing will help, and in the future we will have to deal with this on an even larger scale.

Question: And what is going on in the north! There we have Nasrallah, Hezbollah, and Iran. What can we do with all this, with these instigators?

Answer: There is only one thing that can be done about all this—we Israelis need peace, unity, and understanding among ourselves, and then we will not have any problems with our neighbors. In general, all the problems in the world will disappear.

Question: Does it mean that you see this basis of everything to such an extent?

Answer: I am constantly talking and warning about this. Personally, I believe that this is the only way to deal with it.

The reason is that Israel exists within such a framework, under such terrible pressure from the outside world in relation to the fact that we are not bestowing to the world what we should bestow.

We must bring the world an example of unity between us in the first place. And if we choose all kinds of mutual hatred, internal demonstrations and other things happening with us, if we, in principle, are ready to kill each other internally, then naturally we will see a reflection of these relationships from the outside.

Our internal hatred, which flared up before the war, led to this war and to the way our enemies behave with us.

Question: To this ruthlessness toward us?

Answer: Yes. In principle, they are not enemies. We set them up this way through our attitude toward each other. So we do not need to talk much here. We only need to convince ourselves that we must love each other and then everything in the world will calm down, and there will not be a single person nor a single nation that would be against us.

Comment: Today the world sees these horrors, and all this is posted on the internet. These images are being sent everywhere, and yet I am sure it will not be long before everything is erased from the world’s memory.

My Response: If we forget about this within Israel, then we will have to feel how it is to be reminded of this again.

Question: So we should not forget about this?

Answer: Not only not to forget, we must correct it completely.

Comment: For this we must understand the basis of everything you are talking about.

My Response: The basis of everything is our hatred of each other.

Question: The question is whether we should rely only on ourselves or whether we should rely on some kind of help and regret on the part of the world? What should our attitude be?

Answer: We must not rely on anyone! Only on ourselves and on the Creator! Only in this case can we see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Question: In 1973 there were regular armies standing in front of us. They say that what is happening now is similar to the Yom Kippur war 50 years ago. By the way, it started almost the same day.

Then entire armies opposed us, but we won. Now these are terrorists who have entered our land. What has changed in us since then?

Answer: We neglected the opportunity to unite, to build ourselves, to build a normal state and a normal society. Everyone thinks about themselves. Everyone wants to have more and better than their neighbor. This is the difference between us today and what used to be before.

I do not think that everything is lost, but the point is whether we have achieved the kind of connection between us that will give us a feeling of the right attitude toward each other and security—that we are a single people and not one that is divided and is simply breaking into many different pieces.

Question: Can we say that at that time we were still, as it were, children of kibbutzniks—was there such a state then? And today are we already children of rich parents?

Answer: Yes, definitely!

Question: Terrorists easily penetrated the security structures on the border with Gaza. We built this wall, invested a billion dollars, and installed cameras and sensors.

In the end none of this worked, and there are a lot of questions about this both on the Internet and in interviews with people. How could this happen?! How could our intelligence forces, which are considered the best intelligence forces in the world, miss all this?

Why was the army so slow? Only six hours later, as it was reported, they entered the kibbutzim, and began some kind of action. For six hours people stayed there, hid, and locked themselves in their houses.

Where does all this come from? How could intelligence screw this up? Tell me, please, even in just an earthly way.

Answer: A war begins when it is clear that we do not know how to defend ourselves, that we have lost our strength. Then enemies begin the war.

Question: That is, then intelligence and vigilance are put to sleep, and war begins?

Answer: Yes, it is already coming from above. It is our problem, and there is a big showdown ahead. Unless it makes it still worse for us. Our internal enemies will dance on the ashes.

Question: Do you want to say that in this matter the Creator is, as it were, against us?

Answer: Of course, the Creator is against us. This is what the Torah says. If we are not united between us, then we are absolutely naked in front of the enemy, he will do whatever he wants with us, and the Creator will guide him. He will lead us to the next correct state not through ourselves, but through our enemies.

The fact is that almost everything we are doing does not bring us anything. We can create a fence only from our unity. Of course, I am not in favor of not building fences, but they are castles in the air. This does not help us at all. Neither intelligence nor the army, nothing can replace the nation’s unification. If this unification does not exist, the nation is naked. It faces its enemies without a weapon in its hands, without an ounce of courage or intention to hold on.

Question: What will happen to us? How do we build a real, warm, and safe world?

Answer: It all depends on how those several million Jews who live here can build themselves into a correct society. This is what the Torah says. I have been convinced of this for decades.

Question: So you cannot be moved! How can one hear this in this case? Should we expect more and more blows, or can we draw a conclusion from this? Such a thing has practically never happened to us, even during the Yom Kippur war.

Answer: Of course. Each subsequent war will be even worse. It will be even worse because, in principle, all this is happening to us in order to teach us how to live among ourselves. And this will give the world a new path of development.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/9/23

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Comment: Technical progress, especially artificial intelligence, is designed to free people from routine work. But some scientists say that man has begun to degrade intellectually. They say: “The brain, between “working and not working,” chooses “not working.”

The new generation has stopped thinking and analyzing. All information is on the phone. Your viewers claim that such a person is easier to manage. It all seems like a conspiracy to make us not think.

My Response: I think that this is a person’s natural attraction to non-action, to such a half-asleep state.

Then the person turns off his mental and other types of various abilities and lives with his eyes half open. And this is natural.

Question: So today we have come to such a naturalness. We used to struggle somewhat, but today we come to this?

Answer: We have become “wiser.”

Question: Please, tell me, if some brain function stops like this, then what function should open?

Answer: We will “sleep with our eyes open.”

Question: How is this different from drugs? Take it and sleep with your eyes open.

Answer: This is what we subconsciously strive for.

Question: Is this good in your opinion?

Answer: No. This is neither good nor bad, but it is where it is all going.

Question: So, what then? What future does such humanity have with its eyes half open and half asleep?

Answer: The fact is that we do not control our states.

Question: So there is still some kind of conspiracy from above?

Answer: Definitely!

Comment: We have an answer to the first question: there is a conspiracy.

My Response: It is not a conspiracy, but a program for our development to lead us through this state.

We must go through this state, maybe in this half-asleep and half-fainting state in order to agree with the upper management and not be too stubborn. And it will lull us all the time because it should lead us to new heights, to new heights of knowledge, and agreement with the higher force. And then we will be convinced that we are going the right way.

Question: So our goal is to come to an agreement with the higher force? And that is why it plays such a trick on us along the way? With us like that—somewhat half-asleep and calm—is it easier to reach this goal?

Answer: Of course.

Question: But the goal is to come to an agreement with a higher power?

Answer: Yes. We must accept its unconditional power over us.

Question: That is, that it exists and it owns us, and that is all. And it is like I am not there?

Answer: If I think about it correctly, then I am not. And this is the right way out.

Question: And do you think it is a good achievement that it exists and I do not?

Answer: Of course.

Question: What is next? What steps do I take? Here, You exist, but I do not exist; what are the conclusions from this?

Answer: You exist, You do it.

Question: I tell him: “You do it”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, everything I do is done by You, and I agree with this? And is this good?

Answer: It is wonderful when a little egoist, a little man who is in the lowest of the worlds, cancels himself and does not want to interfere and ruin this world.

Question: Revolutions, coups, wars, and so on?

Answer: Yes, this is the best.

Question: That is, such a peaceful state of humanity that has cancelled itself before the highest is the best state?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can you tell where He is leading us, the Supreme One? We have been canceled, where does He lead us?

Answer: He leads us to surrender to the upper force and not want to do anything ourselves. Only according to its advice.

Question: What is its biggest piece of advice?

Answer: We should feel like we belong to it unconditionally.

Question: So you are now all about this?

Answer: Of course. What else is there?

Question: That is, we correspond to it. Can we say that this corresponds to it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then the last question: what is it like, so that we can match it?

Answer: Absolutely kind! And that is how we should become.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/31/23

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Comment: The Day Of Atonement is coming, Yom Kippur. I would like to talk about it precisely this year when we see what is happening in the world.

My Response: I think the world should already at least feel the need for this.

Question: So is the Day of Atonement in some way special this year? It is considered one of the most important holidays in Judaism when people read prayers of repentance, ask for forgiveness, and generally prepare for the fact that the inscription will be made in the Book of Life. As I understand, you are now going to say that this is so for the world too, right?

Answer: For everyone.

Comment: This holiday is always perceived with some awe. At least here in Israel everything stops.

There is silence, and both believers and non–believers, everyone is somehow afraid, and even trembling before this day. Tell us a little about this holiday.

My Response: Actually, it is hard to call it a holiday, because a holiday is something fun, light, and bright. I think this is actually Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when we can really rejoice that we are able to redeem ourselves.

Question: So, is there still joy?

Answer: Yes, this is a day of joy. But then, I do not know how people actually celebrate this day. It seems to me that they should, of course, be aware. It is said that a person should think about the way he lived this year, the way he tried to be kind, to do good, to be a conduit of the good Creator in the world.

Question: Is this what a person should think about on this holiday?

Answer: He should, yes. I think that ordinary people, in principle, are not so immersed in evil and therefore there is nothing to fear for the Day of Atonement. What can they be judged for? Evil was born before a person, evil, envy, and other negative properties. So a person is just human. What else can be said about him?

Question: What is this holiday for?

Answer: I think that this holiday is most likely for a person to think about why he was created this way. How he would like to correct himself a little. Although creation is the creation of the Creator, let us assume that a person has the opportunity to correct himself a little. How would he do it, in which way?

Question: Is his intention one way or another for good, for warmth, and for love?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then why does he ask for forgiveness? There are many prayers, called Slichot. He says, “I am sorry! I am sorry!” All the time “I am sorry!” What is there to forgive if he was created this way?

Answer: I am sorry that You made me so nasty, mean, insignificant, harmful, bringing only evil and misfortune to everyone. I ask You very much, to help me straighten up, improve, and be at least a little better.

Question: Are the aspirations of a person not to ruin another, but on the contrary, to become better?

Answer: I think that if a person seriously thought about everything that happens to him, how he was created, and what he could be at all, then he would ask for correction of what the Creator created in him.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/18/23

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Question: This WhatsApp quote went viral: “When TV entered my home, I forgot how to read books. When the car pulled up to my doorstep, I forgot how to walk. When I picked up my mobile phone, I forgot how to write letters. When the computer came to my house, I stopped valuing time. When the air conditioner came to my house, I stopped looking for a cool breeze under the trees. In dealing with banks and credit cards, I forgot the value of money. With the smell of perfume, I forgot the scent of fresh flowers. By always running, I forgot how to stop. And finally, when I got WhatsApp, I forgot how to talk and communicate with real people.”

Please tell me why all progress leads to this. After all, these are meant to achieve something different—to help a person out and make our life easier.

Answer: Progress doesn’t do anything by itself. It opens opportunities for us. But when we start using it, we use it egotistically for ourselves. And this is the result.

Comment: So you’re saying this technological progress could have been used differently?

Answer: It could not have been used differently. Our egoism would not have allowed us to do anything differently. Nothing! That is, reason is given to us in order to develop this technological progress, but then it all gets stolen by our egoism.

Question: Is this too done by the ego? This is some kind of a completely closed circle.

Answer: This is called “the recognition of evil.” We are led to the fact that these opportunities will grow and become endless. Eventually we will become their slaves.

Question: Is that why we like what was written? A lot is found on the Internet that makes us say “Indeed, this is true.” Do we like this quote because we understand that this is true, that this is how it is, that our lives have in fact been damaged?

Answer: Of course. This is a train that cannot be stopped. This is what we are faced with.

Question: Are we damaging ourselves?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is there a way to turn it around?

Answer: There is no way. Our egoistic nature will not allow it, will not permit it.

Question: So what is your conclusion? Should we stop technological progress, or do something about it?

Answer: We have to balance it with internal moral progress. Then everything will be fine.

Question: So should we be given weapons only to the extent we can use them?

Answer: To the extent we can use them for the good of everyone.

Question: Then one last vital question: why are we given weapons if we are unable to use them for the benefit of all?

Answer: To realize the evil of our nature and demand the opposite force, the good force. Then everything will be corrected.

Question: So you are saying that we will be given weapons of destruction, the most terrible and vile. Will we keep getting them and will we not be stopped until we stop ourselves?

Answer: Right.

Comment: This doesn’t sound too optimistic.

Answer: Everything is ahead of us.

Question: I see. But the Creator, the upper force, can He not say: “Enough! I cannot give you these toys anymore. You use them for self-destruction.”?

Answer: Then why did He even start giving them?!

Let us learn how to live correctly before it’s too late. Otherwise, our learning will take place in very unpleasant states.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/30/23

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Question: What is special about today’s Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, for you? What do you feel?

Answer: We see that the world is not getting better, that is for sure. People are not getting better; they are just tired. They are tired of this world, of this life, of what is happening to them, and of the fact that there is nothing good in the future for the children. Therefore, you cannot slander a person. This is the way he is, this is how he was created—an evil, indifferent man.

Comment: And you do not slander a person.

My Response: I do not slander either a person or the Creator. It is just a given that we must clearly understand and after that begin to ask—ask for correction of man and the whole world.

We need to recognize that this evil is a consequence of our relationships with each other. We cannot rise above ourselves so that we wish good for everyone. We just cannot. This is the reason for our impatience with each other and everything that happens to us.

I hope that these latest events and the fact that we are now in a discussion of what is happening with the world, with people, and with each of us, I hope that they will ultimately lead to the understanding that we need to correct this world. It depends only on our desires.

I think that the Creator specifically plays all this out in front of us in this way so that we realize the need for changes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/18/23

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Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself (George Bernard Shaw).

My Response: This is not an easy task.

Question: Let’s say “finding yourself” is more or less clear: finding myself in a profession, for example. What do you mean by the term “creating yourself”?

Answer: Creating ourselves is what we are facing. In fact, this is not such a sky-high thing. This is the requirement imposed on us by our life—to make ourselves similar to the Creator.

Comment: I do not know what the Creator is, I do not know who He is.

My Response: This will be explained to you in detail. Write it down: the first condition is to love everyone.

Question: So, the first point is: I should learn to love everyone? Does this mean to be similar to the Creator by and large?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it a prayer if I write it down and look at it all the time?

Answer: Yes, it is a prayer. Imagine that you are like a parent, maybe strict, maybe kind, no matter which, but loving. As such a parent treats his children, so you should treat people.

Question: But at the moment when I read this daily and realize that I cannot, is that a prayer: “I cannot!”?

Answer: This is not a prayer, but a state when you check yourself and see how much you need to be corrected. Then you have already prepared some complaints or requests for correction. Therefore, you wait for this day of atonement and present them.

Question: Is this really the prayer of the day of atonement?

Answer: Yes. You judge yourself, you come and demand that the Creator corrects you because you cannot correct yourself. The only one who can is Him. But only according to your demands, requests, and prayers. So, hurry up!

Question: You started by loving everyone. Is this, in principle, the basis of Yom Kippur?

Answer: Yes, it is called “Ahavat Olam“—love of the world.

Question: So this is what I want to come to, but I cannot, and I ask?

Answer: Absolutely! So, get ready.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/3/22

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Question: Today Israeli society has become divided between those who are for judicial reform and those against judicial reform, those on the right and those on the left. Demonstrations that demand a change of government are taking place, and so on.

I am concerned about the issue of the army. We have reservists who are essentially the backbone of the army. There are special units and pilots, those who continue to serve with consent and willingness after completing their regular service.

And now for the first time, certain incidents have started happening where they refuse to serve. They say they don’t want to serve under a dictatorship. It’s all related to judicial reform with which they disagree.
In your opinion, do they have the right to do this or not?

Answer: I think this is a problem in all armies around the world.

Comment: But still, I’m considering the fact that we have a unique army. After all, it’s a defensive army. We are a small piece of land where every person is important and has his or her place, and suddenly they expose the front.

My Response: Yes, I believe that the army should be above everything because life is above everything, and then we can deal with the rest.

Question: So do you mean that a person’s life comes first?

Answer: Yes, and the life of the state as well.

Comment: And we are specifically here to protect the lives of people and the state. And if they revolt from within and say, “This is a dictatorship. I don’t want to serve under this regime. I want a change.”

My Response: They are obligated to protect people’s lives!

Question: Another question is if an incident were to occur, and considering that we are still in constant wars, from the government’s or the army’s perspective, do you think they should call these officers back or not?

Answer: They should call them back. There should be no leniency, no postponement, nothing! Everyone has their place, and everyone should be in their place.

Question: What do you think a person feels when he exposes the front? Why can he do it today? In the past I would never have thought of such a thing. In the past they all served willingly; it was a duty. But today they can suddenly say such things and suddenly expose the front. What do they feel when doing that?

Answer: I can’t even say. I have a very clear opinion about it.

Question: Do you remember how it was in your time? I know you served in the technical support units of aviation. That’s the most serious part of our army.

What was the feeling then? It’s called miluim, those who serve after the army until the age of forty and beyond. Did they have a strong sense of duty?

Answer: Of course. There was no question about it.

Question: What do you think has changed over the years?

Answer: Decline! Simply a decline because personal interests have become more important than national interests.

Question: Is this what you constantly say, that egoism is growing?

Answer: Yes, and it is even worse. It means that a person starts to prioritize their own opinion over the existence of the state.

Question: What do you think awaits us if this continues?

Answer: I think that in this way society will find a new worldview system.

Question: So do you see a positive aspect in this as well?

Answer: Where else can it go? If this weren’t going on with the Jews, we could talk about a civil war. But here I think it won’t come to that anymore.

Question: In your opinion, what kind of army will protect and see this as a great privilege? What should there be?

Answer: There should be an internal restructuring of society—the army, political parties, and the entire state.

Those people who consider the state their own should understand that they are mutually obligated here. There is no escaping that.

Comment: It’s interesting that our enemies, who in principle surround us and do not wish for the state to exist, do not force us into a rigid position where you cannot leave the army—it’s your post, you are obligated! Something has happened.

My Response: Their concept is different, new. They believe that gradually over time we will disintegrate on our own.

Comment: Yes. Hezbollah, our neighbor to the north, says that they can calmly deal with us now that we have internal discord and instability.

My Response: Yes. Today, thanks to our neighbors, the army should be strong, and everyone understands this more or less. And to some extent we can allow ourselves to argue and debate. But we must understand that there is a border and our life is within it. So thanks to our neighbors who keep us on our toes!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/30/23

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In the News (Voice of Europe): “A unique retreat in Edinburgh, Scotland, known as the ‘Big Kid Kindergarten,’ has opened its doors for adults seeking to relive their childhood days. This establishment allows grown-ups to immerse themselves in a world of building blocks, arts and crafts, sandbox games and story sessions, offering them a temporary escape from adult responsibilities.

Can I do that? Or will we, burdened with our whole life, not be able to do this; will we not be freed like this?

Answer: I would not be able to sit in a sandbox.

Comment: Most likely I would not either, but I would really like to.

My Response: No. I am satisfied with my life and what the Creator has brought me to. I want only one thing—to achieve what I must according to His plan and that is it. I would be completely satisfied with that.

Question: You are a lucky man! You have discovered everything perfectly and you hit this point precisely.

But for people who are tired, exhausted from searching and being under the burden of responsibility and worries, to be able to go to this kindergarten, sit and play with each other, do you think this is good?

Answer: I cannot imagine how to live in Edinburgh. I know this city well.

Question: This city has reached kindergartens. So can they do this? Do you think there is a type of person who can leave everything behind and go play for a day?

Answer: Yes, this is for them. This is good.

Question: For a person who needs some kind of therapeutic practice to relieve stress, is it good to be able to do this?

Answer: Why not? If this satisfies a person and gets him calmer, we must guide him to terrible questions of existence so that he does not know where to turn to, and only after falling from this height to find himself with the right answer to the question: “What do I live for?” No.

Question: So you would put him in the kindergarten? If he feels good there, let him be in the kindergarten?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Children usually make contact with others easily. Children play, sit in the sandbox, and new kids join in. Can this lead to establishing more contacts between us if we put adults, conflicting individuals, in kindergarten?

Answer: It will no longer be called “kindergarten,” but some kind of psychological institution.

Question: We play adult games now—wars and so on. If we somehow manage to change to children’s games, to make it happen with the same passion, is it possible or not? Maybe there is a solution in this?

Answer: This is the game, what we are doing with wars and such. This is the very game.

Question: Can it be shifted into children’s games so that there are no victims, no blood, no hatred?

Answer: It would not be exciting.

Comment: That is the whole problem.

My Response: What can you do?

Question: Is there no way to put them in kindergarten and let them fight it out there?

Answer: No! You cannot make grown-ups children completely.

Question: You just called them adult children. Is it not a slip of the tongue? Do adult children grow up like this?

Answer: Yes. They have to grow up, but they can only grow up if they cover themselves and each other with serious bruises.

Question: How can these adults be calmed down?

Answer: There is no need to calm them down. We need to exhaust them so they do not know where to run or find any kind of reassurance. We need to wear them out until their heads spin, they wobble as they walk, constantly feel like they are about to fall, and they do not know what to do.

Question: What would that achieve? We are talking about adults playing games.

Answer: This is fear of the next moment of your life. This is an important point.

Question: Do you mean that fear should be instilled in an adult?

Answer: We must even impose it so everyone is afraid for their lives.

Question: What will come of it?

Answer: One will reason more sensibly and plan the next step. This is better than being calm.

Question: Can this be done at the state level?

Answer: On the global level. That is, from one person, to many people, to the whole world.

Question: Can this stop all the madness that exists?

Answer: Certainly. I think we will come to this.

Question: But how can we do it? How can we wear someone out?

Answer: With horror stories, but only good ones, that is, with smart stories that explain where one is, what he is in, and how this leads him to a state where he will not find peace neither today nor tomorrow, before death or after death. That is the main thing. Because he thinks: “Well, at most I will die.” No, it does not end there. He will want to rise above death.

After all, we will explain to him that it does not end there. Therefore, you need to find a way out, how to deal with this situation. That is the main thing.

Question: And then one will think of how to take the next step?

Answer: Then, yes. I believe that without the fear of death, an ordinary person will not be able to live correctly. But there are those who do not care, who even before their death, before all this, want to know, learn, and reveal. For such people, everything is open. I am all for it.

Question: Is this how a person should feel?

Answer: It depends, of course, on the root of the soul. I don’t think this is for everyone, but it should be open to everyone.

Question: In that case, what game should we play?

Answer: We must understand that revealing the meaning of life is the most important thing we need in this life. That is all.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/24/23

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Comment: The Day of Atonement is coming—Yom Kippur. I would like to talk about it precisely this year when you see everything that is happening in the world.

My Response: I think the world should at least already feel the need for this.

Question: So, after all, the Day of Atonement is special this year? It is believed that this is one of the most important holidays in Judaism. It is when people read prayers of repentance, ask for forgiveness, and generally prepare for the fact that the seal will be placed in the Book of Life. And, as I understand it, you are now going to say that it is an important day for the world too?

Answer: For everyone.

Comment: This holiday is always perceived with some awe. At least here in Israel everything stops. Silence, religious, non–religious, everyone is in some way afraid, let’s say trembling, facing this day. Tell us a little about this holiday.

My Response: Actually, it is hard to call it a “holiday” because a holiday is something fun, light, and bright. I think that Yom Kippur is precisely that: a Day of Atonement, when we can really rejoice that we are able to redeem ourselves.

Question: So it is still a joy?

Answer: Joy, this is a day of joy. And then, I do not know how people actually celebrate this day. It seems to me that they should, of course, be scrutinizing themselves. As it is said that a person should think about how he lived throughout this year, how he aspired to be kind, to do good, to be a conduit of the good Creator in the world.

Question: Is it desirable for a person to think about this on this holiday?

Answer: One should, yes. I think that ordinary people, in principle, are not so immersed in evil; therefore, there is nothing to fear from in the Day of Judgment. What can they be judged for? Evil was born before man, evil, envy, and other negative qualities. So, a man is a man. What else can be said about him?

Question: Please tell me then, what is this holiday for?

Answer: I think that this holiday is most likely about a person thinking about why he was created in this way. And how he would like to correct himself a little. Although creation is the creation of the Creator, let’s assume that a person has the opportunity to correct himself a little. How would he do it, in what way?

Question: That is, his intention is in some way for good, for warmth, for love?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then why does he ask for forgiveness? There are a lot of prayers; this is called Slichot. “I am sorry! I am sorry!” All the time “I am sorry!” To forgive what if man was created this way?

Answer: I am sorry that You made me so nasty, mean, insignificant, and harmful, that I bring only evil and misfortune to everyone. And I ask You very much, help me straighten up, improve, and be at least a little better.

Question: That is, man’s aspirations are not to ruin another, but on the contrary, to nevertheless become better?

Answer: I think that if a person would seriously think about everything that happens to him, how he was created, and what he could be, then he would ask for correction of what God created in him.

Question: There is such text in the prayer of the Day of Atonement; it is very vivid. “And all creatures will fear You, that is, the Creator, and all created ones will prostrate before You, and they will form a single union to do Your will with all their hearts.”

Explain please, is it still necessary to be afraid?

Answer: The fact is that it is very difficult for us to understand this imbalance between the absolutely good Creator and the absolutely evil person created by the same good Creator. Why? It is in order for a person to realize the reason for such creation and to want to be like the Creator.

Question: What is the reason?

Answer: The only thing is to want to be like the Creator.

Question: So I am so far away from Him and I want to be like Him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Am I intentionally far away from Him?

Answer: Initially.

Question: And then “they will be afraid of You”—what does that mean?

Answer: This is already an appeal to the Creator. When people feel that all this comes from You so that they will be afraid and beg You for correction.

Question: And when it is said “and they will prostrate themselves before the Creator,” what does it mean?

Answer: They will wish to subjugate to the good inclination of the Creator.

Question: “And all created beings will prostrate before the Creator and form a single union to do Your will with all their hearts.” What is this—this last part?

Answer: This is when everyone will help others so that everyone together will be in goodness and in love for the Creator and for everyone.

Question: What is the peculiarity of today’s Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, for you? How do you feel?

Answer: We see that the world is not getting better, that is for sure. People are not getting better; they are just tired. They are tired of this world, of this life, and of what is happening to them; they see that there is nothing good in the future for children, and therefore, it is impossible to slander a person. This is him, he was created that way: an evil, indifferent person.

Comment: And you do not slander a person.

My Response: I do not slander either the person or the Creator. It is just a given that we must clearly realize and then begin to ask—ask for the correction of a person and the whole world.

We still need to realize that this evil is a consequence of our relationship with each other. We cannot rise above ourselves in order to wish well for everyone. We cannot. This is the reason for our impatience with each other and everything that happens to us.

I hope that these recent events, the fact that we are now discussing what is happening to the world, to a person, to each of us, I hope that they will eventually lead to the realization that we need to correct this world. And it depends only on our desires.

I think that the Creator deliberately unravels all this in front of us so that we realize the need for changes.

Question: Can we not wait for this Day of Atonement, but do it during the day, do it now, suddenly decide and do it? Is it possible?

Answer: Of course! We do not have to wait for anything.

Comment: But people usually wait for this day, prepare for it.

My Response: They postpone, it is not good. We should consider every day as a day suitable for apology, for redemption, so that we change our attitude toward everyone and everything. It all depends on us.

Question: One more question: what is this holiday for the world? We started with the fact that Jews have such a holiday, a very special one. And what does this holiday mean for the world?

Answer: It means nothing to the world. Most people do not know what it is about at all. And it doesn’t mean much to Jews either because they think they are afraid, they each care for themselves and not for everyone.

Question: Should there be a thought for the whole world, for everyone?

Answer: Absolutely for everyone! Good, bad, all people. Not even just people, but for the whole world, for everything that exists. It should be a universal thought and a universal prayer of everyone and everything. This is the Day of Atonement.

The Creator has specially given us such conditions so that we feel the need for our change toward the world.

Question: What would you wish people on this day?

Answer: Only to realize that they can change this world for the better through their appeals to the Creator, to each other. I do not wish anything else for them. And I hope that they will eventually understand.

Because, in principle, such serious actions are coming, sensation that the world will have to realize the personal participation of each and everyone in why the world is like this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/18/23

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When your child earns his first money for ice cream, do the following:
1. Before he has a chance to lick his ice cream, snatch it from him and bite off 20%.
2. While your child stares at you in amazement, take another 30% bite.
Then give him the rest of the ice cream and explain that this is what the state does with all the money someone earns. And this will be the case with every ice cream he buys for himself. And that the percentage of the bite can be reduced by grabbing the biter by the hand and demanding to know why they are taking so many bites.

If every parent does this, there is hope that a generation of people will grow up in this country who will understand that the government does not have its own money—it only has taxpayer money. And that taxpayers not only can but should, monitor how government officials spend their money. (Unverified attribution to Margaret Thatcher)

Question: What do you think about this way of educating a citizen? That from a childhood prepare to be robbed: distrust—verification—control. What do you think about a child being brought up this way?

Answer: The words are right. It is good when the child feels such stress.

Question: Is it good that he is already ready to be robbed by the state?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Actually, this is a child. Let us say 10 to 14 years old.

My Response: No, that is already an adult.

Question: Do you think this is a possible option to educate like this?

Answer: Yes, it is good for the child and good for the person in general, for parents, and everyone.

Question: So he does not go out into the world with his arms open. He knows that the world is anxious and will bite them off. Do you think this is a good entrance?

Answer: Yes, it is quite good.

Question: What do you think about a prime minister who insists that a citizen should monitor him and his employees and subordinates? Margaret Thatcher, they say, was like that.

Answer: Yes! She was tough! She did not dismiss the criticism, but on the contrary, listened.

Question: Then what is trust in the government?

Answer: When I know, I am sure that the government is acting correctly. Then I trust it.

Question: Is it when I understand that it correctly takes a precise amount of money from me? Will it be only after some kind of check by me?

Answer: Absolutely.

Question: Is the person also being educated if he lives like this?

Answer: Naturally. He checks others for everything and checks himself, and sees that it all fits into the right system.

Question: Is this self–control, and control in general, mandatory?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then in general, what is the correct education of a citizen?

Answer: The correct education of a citizen is that he knows his political economy well: where the money comes from, where it goes, and how he manages it.

Question: That is, how he would have done it himself. Does he become a citizen who knows this and understands all this?

Answer: Yes. At least, he should understand that in his business, in his work, and in his house, he should be a businessman, a master.

Question: Is this the correct education of a citizen?

Answer: Of course. Then this is correct at the level of the house and the family, and the state in general.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/24/23

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