Dear Michael Laitman,

You have been a replacement for me for radio and TV for a long time. I have been with you for three years. I want to ask a question, Where do desires come from?

Moreover, such desires are shameful to admit. And sometimes you cannot get rid of them. They were not in me, generally, I have a completely different character. Please tell me how to deal with such desires that are not good? 

Answer: I do not know what “bad desires” means.

Comment: A person is somehow uncomfortable with the desires that suddenly arise in him.

My Response: Well, desires arise. Man is a complex animal after all. He consists of an animal part, a human part, and possibly a spiritual part.

Question: Meaning, desires from all degrees come to him?

Answer: Yes. So there is nothing to worry about. All desires have the right to be revealed and to exist in a person.

Question: Any desire?

Answer: Absolutely any. And a person can have all kinds of relationships to this.

Question: What does one need to do if bad desires arise, even those that shake a person?

Answer: I see. What to do? Shake yourself, shake them off, and continue to exist. You need to engage in something else, and then the desire will change.

Comment: Please answer the question “where do they come from and why?”

My Response: From above! Why? In order for a person to develop. In order to develop him.

Question: When you say “develop,” what does it mean? So that some specific desires arise in him?

Answer: Desires, emotions, intentions, and so on, such that will match the more developed person that he will become.

Question: You said “from above.” Is there a bank of desires that one needs to go through?

Answer: Yes. There is a bank of desires that we have to go through, each of us and all of us together.

Question: And when this bank is emptied, desires pass, what happens next? When all the desires have already passed through me, what does it mean?

Answer: The end of the world. We have worked out all our desires and are at rest.

Question: The end of the world, what is that in your opinion?

Answer: The end of the world means that there is no one to live onward, there is no need, and there is no goal.

Question: So I will not be coming back here?

Answer: No.

Question: Where will I end up? This world has ended. Where do I end up?

Answer: In the next world.

Question: And what is there in the next world?

Answer: Happiness, peace, and all good things are waiting for you in the next world.

Question: I already like this. That is, in principle, this whole chain of desires should lead me to the world where there is happiness, peace, everything?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How should I work out these desires in order to come to this peace and happiness?

Answer: You will come to it anyway. So, do not worry. The only thing you need is to agree that you will be brought there. And therefore, in accordance with this, live calmly, breathe calmly, and be peaceful toward the upper force that will lead you there.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/20/23

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Dear Michael Laitman,
I live in Israel. You can see what’s going on here, right? Confusion and discord. I will not ask what to do, who to vote for, whether to be right or left. I want to ask only one thing: What should the prime minister of our country, namely Israel, be like? What qualities should he have? What laws should he adopt? How to rule our country wisely, where every Jew is the prime minister, everyone has their own opinion? If you can, describe your Prime Minister to me.

My Response: I don’t think it’s even possible nowadays. I believe that we are at a stage of development when there are no “sacred cows” and it is impossible to elect anyone. Nobody!

Only some minor internal squabbles occur and thus give us the opportunity to exist for one day, and then again for another day, and again for another day. And only in this way do we, in principle, exist.

We have no program of creation; we have no program of life. Each of us has nothing at all. Each of us lives only from what we can acquire, earn, calm ourselves, eat, relax, and that’s it.

Everything comes from us. I think that in this way, even at such a low stage of our development, we will still come to the point that we will need an intelligent person who will be accepted by almost all citizens.

And he will only care about giving us the opportunity not to tear each other apart. And we will understand that this is how he fulfills his most important task.

And what will happen next, I think the upper force will take care of it. I do not see the possibility of surviving in such a state as today, the state, the people.

The people of Israel have no base, they have no power, they have no truth. There is nothing to fight for.

There is just nowhere to go, and that is why he fights. And this is a very small incentive to defend your country, land, people, state.

I think this is a very bad state, and it can also get worse. But let’s hope that people will understand that they need to artificially raise themselves to some higher ideal. And the artificial highest ideal can only be that we rise above our egoism.

Question: So, we somehow come to this point?

Answer: Yes.

Question: My question is this. You said “smart leader.” And then it seems they said what the mind is so that we don’t tear each other apart. This is his main mind. That is, the one who will compromise and do everything so that there is no fight in the people. Is it the mind?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is there anything else you can add there?

Answer: Nothing is allowed because no one knows what the truth is. And the ultimate truth is that everyone should continue to exist.

Question: Are we talking about our country now?

Answer: Yes. So that tomorrow you can get up, as you got up today, and continue this life of yours, although it is full of mistakes and harm to others.

Question: So, you are saying that perhaps there will come a moment when you will not be able to get up and continue your life tomorrow, and therefore this smart leader is needed?

Answer: Yes.

Question: This is the first question. And the second one is very sharp, you said that we have no goals.

Answer: There is no goal.

Question: The protection of the land, the protection of children, the state – is this not the goal?

Answer: No, nothing! We do not have a divine goal, which many peoples in the world still have. Despite the fact that we live in such a terrible age.

Question: What should be the goal?

Answer: The goal should still be divine. That is, without accepting the upper force that governs us, and to which we must give some kind of account, without this, a person both lives meaninglessly and dies meaninglessly. Therefore, as it is said, “If there were no God, he would have to be created.”

Question: So, you’re saying it’s impossible to just live here in Israel? Just live, I just live.

Answer: No, it is impossible. This is such a country, this is such a land, this is such a part of the earth’s surface that does not tolerate the “godless,” as they say.

Question: Are we under supervision? It’s us.

Answer: Yes, everyone is.

Question: Who is an “atheist”? What do you mean?

Answer: That there is no higher power that would be above man.

Question: Just this thought: There is an upper force over me, and I have to live and work with it?

Answer: Yes. Somehow establish a connection and live in accordance with its plan and desires, and so on.

Question: What is its plan and what is its desire?

Answer: This you must understand yourself and reveal, and behave toward it.

Question: And if the people begin to exist like this, then there will be a leader, a ruler, and so on?

Answer: Yes. Then it will be for what. And the most important thing is that we don’t have it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/3/23

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Question: There is a very famous story that is possibly from the oral Torah about when there was no rain and people came to a disciple of a great sage and asked him to pray for rain. He prayed for a day, two days, and three days, and there was no rain. Then they went to the sage. The sage prayed, and it immediately began to rain.

They said, “Now we see who the real sage is: you, not him.” The sage answered: “No, on the contrary. This disciple of mine is great because the Creator wants to stay connected with him. And with me: “Do you want? Please, receive.””

The question arises that when everyone is waiting for an instant response from the Creator, maybe it is precisely the fact that He does not answer means that He is taking care of this person?

Answer: We do not know. Nothing can be clear here. We just have to do what we have to do. And what we get, we must understand that this is exactly what we should get.

Question: Is the formula pray and immediately receive an answer or pray and the answer comes in a year comprehensible?

Answer: Yes, it is incomprehensible. Time interferes and upsets everything for us.

Question: It is the time, the year that is passing?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So we are absolutely entangled in this world. But all the same, when the answer is not coming, at that moment there comes, as it were, complete disbelief, disbelief in the upper force, disbelief in the Creator. Well, there is no answer, it is not coming! How can you hold on here? You have been in this request for years and years on.

Answer: You do not need any Creator. And you do not need any answers at all. Just love your neighbor as yourself. The Creator does not ask you to respect Him, to love Him, and to treat Him as something great. No.

On the contrary, He is telling you: “Pay attention to what is next to you. Start treating them well. And then everything will be fine.”

See what He requires of you. He requires just an attentive, kind, cordial attitude toward people from your side. This is the Creator. Is that not, right?

Comment: Now a person will hear this and soften. He feels good about it, really. He wants to say “Yes, I can.” But he will not be able to.

My Response: He will, slowly. He will be able to if all of us, in all our systems from which we affect a person, will constantly calm him down, tune him in, relieve him of tension, and only lead him to this.

Question: To have a warm attitude toward others? To “love your neighbor as yourself”?

Answer: Yes. Give him an example about everyone and everything, that this is exactly the law of life.

Question: You have also said a very interesting, sharp phrase here: “Do not look for any Creator.” Right? That is, look for this connection, and you will find the Creator because this is exactly what the Creator wants?

Answer: Yes.

Question: When I look for this connection with others, for a warm relationship and try to understand what “love your neighbor as yourself” means, I must keep inside myself that this is what nature, the Creator, wants?

Answer: You must keep yourself absolutely clean inside. And only from this point speak with yourself and with others.

Question: Then what is this purity you are talking about?

Answer: You do not deviate from this straight line in anything as much as you can.

Question: And if all kinds of thoughts and of desires come up, what do I do with them?

Answer: You keep yourself like a tightrope walker. You must guard yourself so that you do not deviate an inch in any direction. Just follow this path.

Comment: Thank you! God bless!

My Response: You will succeed in it!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/31/23

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Question: I heard about a country that paid citizens $7,000 for a newborn baby, newlyweds were given $64,000 to buy an apartment, and if you opened a personal business they gave you $20,000. Education and medicine were free, there was no rent, there was no electricity fee, loans were interest free. When buying a car, 50% is paid by the state. It’s just scary to go down the list. They were certain that it was possible to live like this forever. I am talking about Libya. I look at countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Switzerland, and Belgium, and ask, is it possible to destroy such a material paradise? Here it was destroyed. Generally, can it be destroyed?

Answer: Outside or inside?

Question: It doesn’t matter whether outside or inside. A person should hold on to it with his hands and toes. This is his material world; he is completely provided for. How does it fall apart? Please explain.

Answer: People don’t appreciate what they have. And on the other hand there are many envious people—external and internal. Therefore, they destroy it.

Question: How can something enter within a person and say: “This is paradise, you have to give it up and destroy it all, and after that there will be just ruins”?

Answer: If this is an ideology, then it can be higher.

Question: So can it be done? Even in these countries that we are looking at now and are absolutely sure that they will hold on for centuries and centuries?

Answer: Not for long.

Question: When we talked about Sodom, in principle, was it the same state as in Libya and Saudi Arabia?

In Sodom, we are talking about the fact that the Creator said that it is impossible to live like this, and it must be destroyed. At what point does such impatience come from above?

Answer: When people start neglecting what is given to them.

Question: Meaning, full financial support was given. What is the neglect of a person?

Answer: In the fact that he believes that he, supposedly, is entitled to it.

Question: Should a person say: “This is not mine and I am not entitled to it”?

Answer: I am not entitled to it, but I receive it, and I am grateful to the Creator for it.

Question: Is this the main sentence?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, this principle that was in Sodom, “mine is mine, yours is yours,” are very close to the principles in this instance?

Answer: This principle was rigidly established. That is, if my neighbor is starving, I have no right to help him.

Comment: Well, this is too much! I don’t think it’s possible right now.

My Response: This is the other side of the same coin.

Question: In principle, these states, material goods can transform into this rigid law? “Mine is mine, yours is yours,” and I don’t help you, and you don’t help me.

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is there any logic in this?

Answer: The logic is absolute. It has a lot of adherents. Let’s say that we receive everything from the Creator. If the Creator gave to you, but did not give to me, then, even if I die, I must receive from the Creator what He gives me.

Question: So, the Creator gave wealth to one, poverty to another, and that’s how it should be? And I don’t interfere with your poverty, and you don’t interfere with my wealth?

Answer: Yes.

Question: There is logic in this. So, what is the vice?

Answer: The vice is that people don’t take it as they should. Meaning, they do not accept the absolute authority of the Creator, and therefore, it is destroyed.

We must be above this strictness of the Creator. Not just “yours is yours and mine is mine.” It is given to us from above, and we have to make an adjustment to it, that it is all ours.

Given by the Creator, “yours is yours and mine is mine,” initially, we leave it within, and from above we cover it with love.

Question: Is this what is called “ours”? So we are building bridges from one to the other?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this the main work? Then it is for centuries and doesn’t change anymore?

Answer: Then we are like partners with the Creator. He created evil, and we build bridges over this evil with love.

Question: And the evil that He created is “mine is mine, yours is yours”? Is that what you call evil?

Answer: Of course. This is egoism.

Question: How does this differ from revolutions? In a revolution, too, they said: “This is ours.” What wasn’t there? We say, “mine is mine, yours is yours” should transform into “ours.”

Answer: There was no such ideal—”ours.” If we have to do everything, then everything is in our hands. Then, it means there is no Creator, by definition.

I think nothing good will come of all these theories. I am sure that the world will still come to the realization that it is necessary to solve these issues by the Kabbalistic method. Meaning, to put the Creator—the one, the whole—at the head of the entire process of human development and hold onto Him. And do it only in the name of a single sentence, the phrase, Brotherhood!

Question: And will people want to grab onto this? Won’t they want to lose it?

Answer: If they will want to lose it, they will plunge themselves into such a confrontation that there will be no one to be in a showdown with.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/26/23

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Comment: Mark writes:

Dear Michael, how do you feel about Dostoevsky’s famous phrase “The happiness of the whole world is not worth one tear on the cheek of an innocent child”? We all learned this at school, we were brought up like that. And the result is that we do not care about children’s tears. Why are we so terrible? There is so much pain around children!

My Response: Because we are like that!

Question: Why doesn’t even the fact that we bring children so much pain not stop us?

Answer: No one stops us!

Comment: Children played quietly in the sandbox, went to all sorts of clubs, and suddenly there is no sandbox, no clubs, nothing. This is what we did. For what? What did we want?

My Response: What do we want? Power! It does not matter at the expense of what. This is the law of nature!

Question: Will we treat our own children the same way if power were taken away from us? Is it all from the same foundation that you keep talking about? Is everything from there?

Answer: Yes, from the same egoism that the Creator created, which we must constantly feed.

Question: That is, our attack and resistance should go to the point of egoism. Why do we not come to that?

Answer: We cannot get to it. Only the Creator can reach it.

Comment: But we can at least understand that this is the basis of all troubles!

My Response: No, we also cannot recognize it to such an extent.

Question: So what are we going to attack all the time? Just something around? Will we be trying to change someone?

Answer: Yes, we will be appointing someone responsible, someone guilty.

Question: Will we be changing someone, executing them, putting them in prison, and so on? Until when?

Answer: Until when? As long as the world exists, while the Earth is still spinning.

Question: How will I see this?

Answer: I do not know if you and I will see this. I am very realistic about humanity, its nature, and its capabilities to rise above nature.

Question: Are there very few of these capabilities? Should some kind of miracle happen?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is a miracle something that is not in our power at all? Is this called a miracle?

Answer: Yes. That is, it is only in the power of the upper force.

Question: How can we ask it?

Answer: Want it. We only have desire. If we wish to change the world, the world will change.

Question: The world around me?

Answer: Yes, the world we are in.

Comment: In principle, everyone wants to change the world.

My Response: No, they do not want to! They do not understand that in order to do this, you need to want, really want, to support each other, so that together, with our joint desire, we would force the world to change.

Question: Would it actually force the Creator to change the world?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do you think that a person’s desire to have a warm, good, kind, and loving surrounding is not that desire yet?

Answer: No, it is not even a desire at all. One does not desire in this direction.

Question: What is the desire? Should I have the recognition that I am bad?

Answer: No, not even the fact that you are bad. We do not even have to “draw and quarter” ourselves. We just need to understand that we can change the world if we want to.

Comment: But we want to!

My Response: We do not want to. We do not know what we want. We must imagine a joyful, complete, interconnected world, which wishes everyone good, connection, and love, and ask nature itself for this.

Question: Do I have to ask, as if, for others? Is this my main message?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Am I, instead, asking for myself all the time?

Answer: Of course, I am asking for myself.

We need to explain to people that if we ask nature to change the world and improve the world, then this will happen. Only if we ask together.

Question: Is this request really about changing me or about changing the world?

Answer: I believe that these are related things, they are the same thing. By changing ourselves, we change the world. If we want to change the world, we have to change ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/12/23

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Comment: There is a prayer for rain that is said in the autumn after the Sukkot holiday; great importance is attributed to it. This request for rain is included in many other prayers.

The prayer begins, “And answer us, Who created the world with the property of mercy.” Can you explain this first sentence?

My Response: It is because it is possible to feel another property of the Creator, the property of judgment, sharpness, and so on, and here is the property of mercy.

Question: What is the property of mercy?

Answer: This is initially a property of a good attitude to the world and to people.

Question: Are we asking that this particular property be pointed out?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then it suddenly appears: “He chooses His people, Israel, so that it knows all Your majesty and the splendor of Your glory.”

What does it mean that Israel was chosen to know Your greatness? The nation of Israel was chosen.

Answer: This is a group that should inform the whole world about the Creator, His greatness, His abilities, His intentions, and so on. This is what this nation was chosen for.

Question: And this should be included in the prayer and repeated all the time?

Answer: So that we ourselves rise and set an example.

Comment: It further reads: “He who listens to prayer, send dew and rain on the earth and fill the whole world with Thy bounty.”

That is, suddenly there is a request for the whole world.

My Response: Of course, because everyone depends on water.

Question: Why do we ask for the whole world? Not for ourselves, and not for the place where we live?

Answer: Because we are dependent on the whole world. And therefore, if you ask, you must ask for everybody.

Question: Is this the correct request to ask for the whole world?

Answer: Yes, and in the prayer, it is said that we ask for ourselves in the last turn. First for the world and only then for ourselves.

Comment: Then it goes like this: “Purify and free this year from all evil, all harm, and all misfortunes.”

My Response: Yes. What else does a man need?

Question: When you say “purify and free this year from all evil,” what does it mean?

Answer: Because everything was initially created in its opposite form: good – evil, heat – cold, love – hate. That is why we ask this way.

Question: What does purify mean? Purify what?

Answer: Remove it from my way, from our way.

Question: And what is meant by all evil and all harm?

Answer: Things that can harm our life that should be aimed at rapprochement with the Creator. Everything that moves us away from rapprochement with the Creator is evil and harmful.

Question: Further it reads: “And give him hope and favorable completion.” What should hope be like?

Answer: So that everything will be good for us, for people, for His creations.

Question: Is the whole world included again here?

Answer: The whole world, absolutely.

Question: That is, you think that here all the time has been laid down before for the world?

Answer: Man’s relation to the whole world.

Question: “Have mercy on us and all our crops and fruits, and send us blessed and generous rains, bringing life and peace, as in good years.”

And toward the end, it suddenly talks about rain. It is clear that rain is good for the earth and so on. What is meant by the word “rain”? What does it mean for a man?

Answer: The word “rain” means the basis, the root, the beginning of all corporeal life. Because practically rain is a blessing that descends from heaven to earth. And it embodies the benevolent attitude of the Creator to His creations.

Question: It is said “bringing life” and immediately added, “and peace.”Life is more or less clear—it gives life. And when it is said “peace,” what is that about?

Answer: This refers not only to rain as water, H₂O, but also to goodness, to the correct attitude of the Creator to His creations with which He fills them.

Question: It goes on, but this is, as it were, the main thing. Tell me, please, what does it mean in the inner work, in the spiritual work of a man, to send rain? What is this?

Answer: Rain is a great, good blessing, spirituality that descends from above and manifests itself in our corporeal world in the form of rain, in the form of water descending from above.

Question: And what is this great blessing for my heart, for my soul?

Answer: This is what keeps us alive, what revitalizes us.

Question: Is it rain?

Answer: Yes, it is precisely water. It also means spiritual water, upper water, and lower water. It is the force of nature, the Creator’s kindness to us which descends and is transmitted precisely in such a corporeal way through His actions on us.

Question: But a person says, as it were: “My soul has died, I am dry. Everything is dried up inside me.” Is this precisely a request for rain?

Answer: Yes. In general, this condition can be terrible. Just as we are in the water in our mother’s womb and come out of it with the water. These are quite complicated things.

Question: That is, practically we always ask for rain when we feel bad?

Answer: Yes. Rain, water, means Rachamim, mercy. That is why we ask for it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/8/23

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In the News (Inc.com): “‘64 Years of Data Proves That the Bigger Kids Dream, the More Successful They’ll Be, A new study shows that how big kids dream matters as much for future success as IQ or family background’
“A recently published study analyzes surveys of 17,000 children conducted 10 times from 1958 up to the present day and finds that when it comes to how much kids achieve in life, big dreams matter as much if not more than IQ or the family’s socioeconomic situation. …

“The scale of kids’ dreams helps determine their future circumstances–and adults have a big role in shaping those dreams. …

“The study found that when kids harbored unrealistic goals in their teenage years, they did end up unhappier in early adulthood when reality set in. …

“The data shows that when parents and teachers push kids to dream big whatever their current circumstances, kids elevate their expectations. And the result is greater career success and happiness in adulthood, no matter where kids start out in life.” 

Question: The question is very simple: to dream or not to dream?

Answer: If a person does not dream, then one will be an animal.

Question: And if these are completely unrealistic dreams? The dreams of a child are somewhat…

Answer: Even if they are unrealistic, it is still necessary to dream. You don’t have to live in dreams and by dreams, but, in principle, it is necessary to dream.

Question: What is it? What does this dreaminess develop in a child?

Answer: This develops a lot of qualities in a child. Firstly, he begins to imagine his life as he would like to see it, what he needs to change in himself and change in general, what he would like to change in life and in the world. And all this puts him face-to-face with the world. That is, he is no longer just some weak-willed and accepting individual, but he really is what he would like to create in the world.

Question: So this reality that the child sees, he wants to improve and live in it all the time?

Answer: Yes, of course, at least make it for yourself, maybe it’s not better, but it is for yourself.

Question: Why is it that when children dream unrealistically, many become unhappy at the age of 18?

Answer: It depends on how much he understands, how much he is in criticism of his dreams. Here it is necessary to take it reasonably after all.

Question: So at some point the thought comes that this is just a dream?

Answer: Yes. It is necessary to train him, it is necessary to tell him, explain. And he must understand that there is a long way from a dream to its realization. But, in principle, he can implement part of it.

Question: At some point, do dreams begin to leave a person, or does a person have to dream all the time?

Answer: No, the fact is that a person goes through many different stages during his life, mainly in his youth, in adulthood. The main stage is hormonal development when he is already drawn to creating a family or connection, and so on. And then there are a lot of questions that contradict his earlier dreams, ground him. But this is not a stroke of fate for him, on the contrary. All this is a form of development.

Question: Does a person need to continue dreaming like this until old age?

Answer: Absolutely!

Question: Do you have a dream?

Answer: Yes, there is a dream.

Question: You have kept it that long? Were you going through life with this dream?

Answer: No, it has changed over the course of a lifetime. It is getting more and more sober, realistic to implement in life. It remains, but it is far from the dream that I had in the beginning.

Question: If a person is cut off, stops dreaming, and everything is gone what is this?

Answer: I feel sorry for him. What is left for him in life then? Just a pension.

It is necessary to dream, to realize your dream, at least in a partial form. Choose from it what is real and implement it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/17/23

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Comment: Famous chemist Fritz Haber was a Jew and a German patriot. It is believed he saved at least a billion people. When the world’s population increased as harvests began to decline, in 1909, he came up with a way to produce ammonia fertilizers from nitrogen and hydrogen. It was considered one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century dubbed “bread from air.”

War broke out (World War 1), and Haber wanting to prove his loyalty to Germany, experimented with and chlorine (mustard) gas that was first tested in Ypres in 1915. He watched as 3,000 to 5,000 French soldiers died an agonizing death right before his eyes. Soon after, his wife committed suicide from shame and his son committed suicide many years later.

In 1918, Fritz Haber received the Nobel Prize for his work on ammonia (fertlizers). Then he headed the institute where the Cyclone Bet gas was created. At a certain time, millions of people were poisoned with this gas in gas chambers in concentration camps. His relatives and loved ones were killed. In 1933, Hitler came to power, Fritz Haber was thrown out of his institute, and died a year later of a heart attack. Such was his fate.

How does the desire to feed the world and invent a suffocating gas coexist in a person?

My Response: I believe he didn’t think about the consequences of either. Simply, as a man of science, he was driven by the opportunity to create something effective. But for what, plus or minus, I think he did not realize.

Question: Can one live like this? Thousands are being destroyed before your eyes with your invention.

Answer: You can say this about anything. Einstein is also the father of the atomic bomb. What can you do?

Question: But he later renounced it.

Answer: To renounce it makes little difference. You can come to renounce anything, but they have already used it.

Comment: That’s interesting. Sakharov is the father of the hydrogen bomb, etc., and later they become generally righteous.

So, you believe a scientist is driven by discovery, a desire to create?

My Response: Of course, this is what interests him. He is not really aware of the consequences.

Comment: It is not too good to realize people have no principles they won’t cross, regardless what is done to them.

My Response: Not with a true scientist; they do not sense life at all.

Question: Is life a desire to create for them?

Answer: Yes. And what it gets used for does not interest them at the moment. That is, whoever takes on this scientist, will squeeze out all they want from him.

Question: Can we draw some conclusions from this for how not to fall under such an environment, not to take part in such inventions?

Answer: No, a scientist cannot. He has an inquisitive mind, his only interest is in discovering something new.

Question: But is this how one is led from above? Is it known in advance he will be like this?

Answer: Yes, of course, it is the upper governance.

Question: So you don’t condemn Fritz Haber in this case?

Answer: I don’t blame anyone at all. I can’t do anything about it because it is out of our hands.

Question: Everything has boomeranged back into his family. His wife committed suicide, his son committed suicide, his relatives were killed by the very gas he invented. Tell me, does a boomerang law exist or not?

Answer: In general, all the good and all the bad we do comes back to all of us and our loved ones, of course. And we have to somehow make a connection between these things. Maybe try to draw some conclusions for the future.

Question: So is there such a simple formula where the evil done returns to you in one form or another? Is there such a law?

Answer: Yes. That is, you have to constantly discern very carefully what you are doing, what you are engaged in, and where you are headed.

Question: Will my bad thoughts about others come back to me?

Answer: It is the same; they will surely come back to you.

Comment: If a person felt this, he could be more careful.

My Response: For this, he must be constantly on guard. Every person should restrain himself and control his thoughts, desires, and intentions in general.

Question: Is it right to restrain yourself? Meaning, one says to himself: “This is a bad thing, I’m not going there.” Like this?

Answer: Yes, even in thoughts.

Question: Even in thoughts? But it is very difficult.

Answer: We call it intention.

Comment: But I’m not free in my thoughts.

My Response: It doesn’t matter. What is sent to you, you are not free in. But what you do with it is your choice.

Question: The third question is patriotism. What kind of disease is it when one is capable of doing anything, that is, he can give himself completely? Even more so than in any other area.

Answer: He sets himself a goal that he can justify and be proud of.

Comment: This is my motherland. I am ready to kill for it, do anything, etc.

My Response: Indeed. All this is found in the worst atrocities by the way. Look what Hitler wrote.

Question: Is it a disease or is it in each of us?

Answer: In every person.

Question: So you can even pull it out of and facilitate it in a person? And push him to the most terrible things?

Answer: Undoubtedly.

Question: So this patriotism was revealed in people who did not expect to be capable of this?

Answer: Sure. We see it directly in their notes, works, letters.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/8/23

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Question: Whenever I make a decision, it seems like I have weighed everything, all the pros and cons, but almost always, the opposite happens. If I want to save money, I lose it; If I want to save time, I lose it; If I want to please my wife, everything comes out backwards. I’m getting desperate. How should I make decisions?

Answer: Do not make them, and you’ll see how everything works out. Calm down and don’t make decisions. I do not know what decisions you need to make, but generally, you should let go of the reins and let the horse drive you. Let it take you where it feels you need to go. An animal is never wrong. People are wrong.

Question: Is this animal our body?

Answer: Yes, so everything will be fine.

Question: Let us say I have a desire to save money and I keep spending as before; is the outcome the same or am I saving? Have I put anything away and started saving?

Answer: Give the money to your wife; that’s all. If you try to hoard it, it won’t work. Better give it to someone in charge of it anyway.

Question: I see. So along the same lines, what if I want to save time, to generally make better use of my time?

Answer: Nothing will happen. Live quietly with the questions that arise. Deal with them as they come up and do not stress over it.

Question: Is there a higher wisdom in this?

Answer: Of course.

Comment: So is it like entrusting myself into His hands, as in, you created me like this, and this is how I come? If only we could yield like that! How many mistakes would we have avoided!

My Response: “If youth only knew, if old age only could.”

Question: This means, all our actions in this world: to save time, or money, to be someone, to make something, etc., are all somehow corrupt?

Answer: Yes, because we are rooted in egoism. There is nothing you can do here.
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Comment: From a letter:
Dear Michael Laitman, I am asking for your advice. We raised our children, gave them everything, and they disappeared and do not even call. They are not in our life. My husband started developing dementia. I take care of him by myself, I literally fall down  from exhaustion. I have no strength anymore. Our children are gone, our children have abandoned us.

Why are they so ungrateful? What did we do wrong? Why couldn’t we instill some basic respect for us in them?

My Response: We are not talking about basic respect. Maybe children are somewhere far away, busy with something, they have families, they have everything. But old people demand care and attention. I mean, I understand both parents and children.

The modern world is not made in such a way that we live together as several generations under one roof. Even children do not get attention, let alone the elderly. I do not expect anything else from the world. In no way.

Perhaps it will happen so that people will work half a day, and they will have a lot of time and will really devote part of it to parents, part to children, and part to themselves.

Question: Are you saying that we need to understand our children who are distancing from us with their families?

Answer: We ourselves have prepared such a life for them.

Comment: But this is not exactly how we lived; I remember that.

My Response: We did not live like that because we were in a different world.

Comment: By the way, you yourself have always said that it is good when three generations live together.

My Response: It was so, but now it is impossible. So, let’s stop talking about fantasies.

Question: Then the question about the future is: what will we come to in this way?

Answer: We will come to the point that we will have to really rebuild this world in order to make it more human.

Comment: You are still in favor of these good human relations one way or another.

My Response: Everyone should understand what they have to create, what kind of world they want to see. But, of course, this will not happen today or tomorrow yet.

Question: What should enter a person? What kind of world should he want to create?

Answer: A person must be imbued with desire, compassion, love, and concern about others. About others in general and not only about their relatives.

When he understands this whole system we all have to participate in, then together with others, with strangers, he will be able to create such systems of interaction, support for infants, children, youth, and so on, up to the elderly and all others where everyone feels good.

Question: You have just said a key phrase. You said that a person should understand in general this system in which we exist. Then will everything start falling into place for him?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Comment: This is the most important moment! We do not understand this strategically.

My Response: No, we cannot depict this picture for ourselves.

Comment: We can say that the world is interconnected, but we do not imagine this picture. But the world is like that.

My Response: The world is like that.

Comment: And these connections are good ones.

My Response: These connections are good, and they do not end in this world! They continue in the next world! Therefore, in addition, we must understand where we are and how we are included in each other, where such a combinatoric takes place between us that we cannot escape anywhere, we need to have a good attitude to each other all the time.

Question: I am leaving and coming back, I am leaving again and I am coming back. Does all this take place in this system?

Answer: Yes, everything is in this system. This is called that there is no death, as it were,  and everything is infinity.

Comment: This is beautiful! I wish people would understand this!

My Response: There is no need, this is very hard.

Question: But will we come to this understanding?

Answer: Yes. But we have to be ready for it, and on the other hand, we have to be ready to do it and understand that it will be better for us. We should not look at it as a huge responsibility.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/31/23

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