Comment: Max watched your video and wrote to ask: “So is it all about me and not the world ?!”

My Response: Of course it is all about the person. And what about the world? What is the world? The world is a reflection of you.

Comment: But a person cannot imagine that there are no people, there is no world, there is no bad. This is very difficult for him.

My Response: I understand this because for any person, including a Kabbalist, there are periods when he is enclosed in himself and feels everything through himself and does not give an account of this. He is especially shaken so well. The upper force is working on him. And then it gives him the opportunity to return to the correct perception of reality.

On the opposites of these impressions, his inner and outer, he can determine what this world that we perceive in our senses means and what the real, true world that we perceive above our senses means. Faith is higher than knowledge.

Question: You say that he perceives everything in himself. Does this mean that he perceives everything in his feelings? Is this a wrong perception of the world?

Answer: This is incorrect, incomplete, and wrong. He must complete this by rising higher, above the senses.

Question: But it is impossible to give an example of this, right?

Answer: No. This person must reveal himself.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/17/22

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Question: In the future we will be able to control our brains using a computer or smartphone. Does it mean that we ourselves will become robots?

Answer: There will be such a connection perhaps partially. At least, it will be possible to give signals and commands through a smartphone or through a computer, and to extract information from ourselves and print it.

After all, what is a person? Just an interface.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/17/22

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Question: What do you think about the phrase “do not carry insults in your heart”?

Answer: This is important. But this is natural. If we accept everything as coming from the Creator and everything that is being played between us is the picture of the world that He is playing, then the attitude toward this becomes correct and businesslike.

Question: Is it not an insult anymore?

Answer: It is not an insult. It is attracting you to the correction of the world, to the absorption of the world, and to the reification of the world.

You, together with the Creator, begin to engage in this system. You do not just look at everything, absorb it, and are horrified by it; rather you realize that this is done for you, this is the way this is processed in you, and this is how it seems so to you. This picture is individually, absolutely personally yours, and you have to do everything in order to justify it. This is where the work is, and this is where our problem is.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/17/22

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Question: What does it mean to live one day?

Answer: This is correct, live one day. But this is in the sense that today is my day; I make it; I fully receive my impressions from what the Creator gives me and I process them within myself. I constantly adjust myself, my impression, and my reflections of the world in myself, and I do it all in order to justify the Creator at all levels of my perception.

Question: Is this called living one day?

Answer: Yes, this is a very difficult condition. You see the world in a certain way and you have to process it in yourself as if it is perfect. It seems to be impossible.

Question: You are given certain evil, and you turn it into good, as it were. Is it as if good has come to you even though it is complete, absolute evil?

Answer: Yes. And you have to bring it to such a state that you will not even see and feel that there is so much evil in the world and that it is all absolute evil.

After all, when you are engaged in correcting your perception of the world, every step you take forward will show you the world as more terrible, and even more, and even more terrible. The pictures will be scary. The Creator has such a film factory and the scariest tapes will be spinning in front of you, and you will have to justify all this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/17/22

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Question: Some psychologists believe that there are five main neuroses of the 21^st century. They classify this as the epidemic of narcissism, in which the pronoun “I” is used more often than “we.” Personal success is placed above caring for others. Is this neurosis?

Answer: This is self-love. It exists in every person.

How does a person love himself? I look at the other and I don’t like it. I look at myself; I have the absolute same thing! But mine is better than his. Why? Because it’s mine. That’s all. There’s nothing else. As in the joke, “But mine is still better.”

Question: Psychologists consider this a neurosis. Should something be done about it or should the “I” be transformed into “we”?

Answer: Kabbalah does not advise doing it the way it is done by psychologists, neurologists, and so on. Kabbalah says this should be explained to us as a process of becoming a mature person.

This process is not about suppressing my “I,” this function, and so on, which will all still come out. It will come out somewhere else! It is like a tumor or something. You don’t want it to grow and it will come out in another place and get even worse. Therefore, this is not the way to handle it.

In no way should you force anyone! Gently teach a person to see his emphasized “I” not as a positive quality but as something negative and the person will gradually heal himself.

The most important thing is not to put pressure on him. He is already self-conscious and it is all so stressful. By pushing him more, you can break him.

In such cases, what should be done? If you are great, you are big, you are strong, and you are smart, go into sports. Apply it in such a way in society where you can stand out and have it accepted properly. Such is sport. There, they will put you in your place. Especially if it is a group sport, it is very good.

Question: Another neuroses is called “Fear of Missing Out.” This is about: “I could have been somewhere else, become someone else, lived better, succeeded more…” What to do about it?

Answer: Don’t start!

Question: But it’s gnawing. I know it myself. It’s like a worm sitting there and gnawing at you: “What have you done?! When you could have…!” and so on. How can a person fight it or work with it?

Answer: I believe that, firstly, everything has its own fate. Therefore, everything that is, everything that was, and will be, let it all come.

Question: Can I do anything about it?

Answer: You should not! A person should live in a state where he can be told at any moment: “Lie down and die.” Thus, I lie down and die. So what?

Question: If only it were possible to let go of yourself like this. Can I actually let go like this?

My Response: Absolutely!

Question: Is this how it should be? To never look back?

Answer: Do not control your life or the world and, in general, nothing and no one. Just go along with it. If they stop you, they stop you.

Question: Then it ceases to be neuroses? I instantly calm down.

Answer: Sure. I have lived and I have done something; I hope I have done something good in life and I’m thankful for that.

Question: Psychologists say: Fear of Better Options neurosis or “the problem of the ideal choice” is when you stand in front of three roads and each one seems to lead you to the ideal place, to your dream and the person is bound by thoughts: “How can I make a choice? What to choose?” How to choose where to go?

Answer: I don’t think it’s a choice at all in this case.

Question: A choice between three options. You think, “somehow one is better than the other or this is even better.” Then you are driven by thoughts that: “No, this is better and this…” and so you stand and agonize. How should one act in such cases? Cast lots?

Answer: In general, yes. And the Torah says so—”Pur”  – “lot.”

Question: If you had to make a choice, what would be the main thing you would establish in order to choose?

Answer: To break away from myself and only then make the right choice. Only then will this choice be correct.

Question: So I have to stand before making this choice and try to break away from myself? Before these three paths. So that my “I” is not in control?

Answer: Of course.

Question: How is this done?

Answer: Break away.

Question: So you don’t want to listen to your inner voice here?

Answer: No. You can’t rely on anything here.

Question: What about examples? Let’s say others tell you: “Look, I went there. I am already a scientist, a PhD. I’m already a Nobel laureate. Follow this path.” While the other says: “But I’m already a businessman.” There’s a lot of noise all around you. Should you not listen to this environment?

Answer: Actually, it is better not to choose anything. As they say, you should rely on God’s will. Don’t do anything and just sit and wait. As it says: “Better sit and do nothing,” and then God will send it your way.

Question: Can I rely on Him?

Answer: No, you have to work and do everything you can. Although such fundamental fateful decisions are always difficult to make.

I used to be frequently asked for advice on the choice of profession, university, or something else, and I usually would not give advice. A person must figure out where his soul or hand is leading him.

Question: I still want to follow in your footsteps and learn more about you personally. How do you make a choice? How do you decide?

Answer: I always decide for the maximum benefit of society because I know for sure this is what the Creator wants.

I do not know if I am right or wrong. Usually we do not know whether we are right or wrong.

Question: Perhaps we are more often wrong?

Answer: It doesn’t matter. You never know what the alternative would be. Thus, I try to think: where does the greatest benefit for the Creator lie? What the Creator would like me to do. And this, as a rule, is what’s best for the society, for the people.

Question: Next is the need to adapt. A very common situation nowadays is when a person barely finishes studying for a profession and it is getting replaced by computers or artificial intelligence. He was studying this and he invested five years! Now he doesn’t know what to do.

What should one do in such cases? Today this happens all the time. Unnecessary professions! While colleges and universities go on. You are being taught, but when you graduate, no one needs this profession anymore.

Answer: A person should still understand that the baggage he has accumulated is not in vain. Society still needs educated people. Although they might not be able to apply themselves in the specialty they dreamt of working or advancing, these people with higher education, these serious people, are still of value. It means a lot.

Question: You mean, even if you have studied something random that will never come in handy, for example, like higher mathematics?

Answer: It doesn’t matter. He was still learning something and absorbing information. He also took exams and took part in educational processes. He possesses different information and has a different filling in his brain and heart.

Question: So you want to say there are no wrong professions?

Answer: Any profession shapes a person and makes him a proper part of society after all.

Question: And is it possible to re-make yourself later into something different?

Answer: Of course, he is already used to learning, hearing, listening, reading, and writing. He has developed a need for it. The hand reaches for pen and paper. It’s not like the tramps who sit in a pub not knowing what to do with themselves and only strum the guitar.

Question: So it turns out that it is not all neuroses?

Answer: These are not all neuroses. All of this needs serious revision, understanding by society, and adaptation.

Question: That is, if I direct myself toward society and not to myself, then all this ceases to be a neurosis?

Answer: Yes. You instantly eliminate a lot of societal problems, diseases, and so on.
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From KabTV’s “News With Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/14/22

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In the News (CNBC): “Of the estimated 828 million people globally who were affected by hunger in 2021, around three-in-five (59%) were women, according to a report released earlier this month by humanitarian organization Care.

“That’s equivalent to 150 million more women facing food insecurity than men.

“And the gap is widening. …

“According to the U.N.‘s 2022 ‘The state of food security and nutrition in the world’ report, women have poorer food security than men in every region in the world. That disparity is especially pronounced in developing countries and specifically in the Global South. …

“‘Women are very heavily socialized to pull that burden on themselves. And everyone around them is socialized to assume that they will,’ Janoch said. …

“Indeed, even when both men and women are technically food insecure, women still tend to bear the bigger burden.

“In Somalia, for example, men reported eating smaller meals while women reported skipping meals altogether.”

Comment: In many places in the world “women eat last and eat least.” You keep giving the example of a woman and a child as an example of bestowal in our world.

Could you say a little about a woman in this perspective?

My Response: Responsibility. After all, a woman feels her family, her children, her husband, and all her surrounding space. For her, this is herself. Therefore the Torah says: “A woman is a house.”

Question: Are these not the greatest qualities for our world?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Why can we not give the reins of power and everything else to a woman?

Answer: No, she cannot do that. But when a man does everything for her sake, then it will be good because we have to create such conditions for a woman, with the help of which the world will actually be corrected.

Question: That is, will the world be corrected through a woman?

Answer: Yes. This is true.

Question: Why does a woman have all these qualities? Is it because she can give birth?

Answer: Because she can give birth. Because she feels nature through herself, through the heart, through the uterus. That is what is written in the Bible. Abraham was told straight away, “Listen to what Sarah tells you.” This is not simple.

Question: Can we see this as a piece of advice that you need to listen to what a woman tells you?

Answer: This was the Creator’s instruction to Abraham!

Comment: Is this mainly about the natural wisdom of a woman?

My Response: Yes, precisely about natural wisdom. Not an artificial one, like in a man.

Question: Do you perceive nature as female?

Answer: In general, yes. A man is made for correction to the extent that he can earn the quality of correction, the power of correction. A woman, however, on her own is already inside nature.

Question: Does it mean that if we listened to a woman, if we treated a woman correctly and worked for her, there would be no wars, suffering, or troubles?

Answer: In general, of course.

Question: Is it possible to lock everything on a woman?

Answer: It depends on how to turn it. But in general, yes. If we listened to a woman, then of course there would be more order in the world. This is clear to everyone.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/22

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Comment: There is a famine in Brazil. People lost their jobs during the pandemic and found themselves without means of subsistence. They call it the “hunger pandemic.” More than 100 million Brazilians will no longer have meat, dairy products, and vegetables on the table, that is, in very limited quantities.

Brazil is one of the largest exporters of products in the world, especially meat. How can a country remain the biggest exporter while over 100 million of your own people, almost 50% of the population, have nothing to put on the table?

My Response: It is very simple: this is how we created the world. It is not nature that does this. Nature provides us with everything we need. Yet, we turn it over as we like, divide it, mold it in such a way that on the one hand we throw food away and on the other hand, people starve.

Question: But this is not a good world. Let’s say I am the leader of the country, I am developing exports, and at the same time, my people are starving. How is this even possible? Why do you say that our world is like that?

Answer: It is egoistic. You have to correct egoism for this. If you do not correct it, we will always have situations like this. There will be small black and white periods. But mostly they will be dark, black.

Comment: I am well-fed and I feel that I need to develop the economy and revenue and I am not interested in what is next to me.

My Response: It is a big problem to put the country in order. To do this, it is necessary to educate people, raise literacy, and create special conditions for proper interaction between people. No one will do this.

Comment: This is my wrong view. Let’s say the country’s leaders should see that their people are starving and stop half of the exports.

My Response: And what will happen? If they stop exporting, there will be no money. If there is no money, they will not be able to produce weapons or something else. Everything is attached one to another. Then they will eat you.

The egoistic world cannot be in another form.

Question: Do you think that even further the egoistic world will show itself more as a monster?

Answer: In any case, it will find a solution, a way for egoism to celebrate. There will be a ball of egoism all over the Earth.

Question: What would you do as a leader of the country if you had such an opportunity? People are starving in your country and you export a great amount of everything. How would you regulate this?

Answer: In principle, this problem has no solution. It can only come down to one thing: educating the population so that it is prepared for a paradigm shift, that is, to change the value in life from egoistic to altruistic; moreover, change to a very serious altruistic system where schools, institutions, and relations between people, everything would be subordinated to altruistic social relations.

Question: Do you think that because of this there will be no famine in the country and so on?

Answer: Then there will be nothing like that. But this is a gradual, long-term transition system. Basically, this is, of course: awareness, development of consciousness, and development of states between people and social relations.

Question: Do you think that this leads to mutual guarantee and to the fact that no one can starve next to me, that there is no such thing at all?

Answer: This is a fantasy. I understand that this is a fantasy. But, on the other hand, we need any way to come closer to this. I understand that this sounds unreal today, but nature will force us nevertheless.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/27/21

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Question: Well-known psychologist Mikhail Labkovsky shares that shame is a discreet emotion, an emotion that a person tries to hide, and therefore it is toxic and harmful. He  gives the analogy of shame as a potted plant that given the constant feeding and fertilizing and resources a person gives it (the shame), it grows into a huge tree. He advises that you need to work with shame or it will consume your entire personality.

How can a person work with it?

Answer: Only the relationship between a person as a flower with other flowers, with other people, in mutual restriction, in mutual assistance, etc. will help everyone organically develop and collect a good flower bed.

Question: Where is the place for shame here?

Answer: It is inside between them. There is shame, pride, joy, sadness, and everything else.

Question: Should I relate to it somehow? What should I do with shame?

Answer: Manage it! If there were no shame, who would we be? We would be animals.

Shame is what distinguishes man from an animal. This is the difference between these two degrees. If I am not ashamed, then I am like an animal. It does not matter why and how.

Shame is from the fact that I am not like him, not so smart, etc. Shame is what keeps me from losing at least the degree I am at.

Question: Do I need to nourish it?

Answer: It is absolutely necessary. It is imperative to make sure that shame corresponds to the degree I want to rise to each time or it will not hold me.

Question: So, it turns out that it is shame that pushes me to this degree?

Answer: Yes, it is a restraining force and a pushing force. It restrains from falling and pushes to rise.

Question: Why do psychologists usually say don’t nourish it, crush it?

Answer: I don’t know. For them, there are qualities in nature that they consider negative. And for me, there are no negative qualities; they are all positive, and everything must be used correctly.

Question: So the correct sentence here would be, “We need to properly use this shame that exists”?

Answer: Of course!

Question: And to know that it is a positive quality?

Answer: Yes. I asked about it and talked about it a lot with my teacher Rabash. And he said that shame is a special creation of the Creator. A special invention of the Creator to make people ashamed. This is like an indicator for them that they are moving away from their path.

You imagine you have a compass guiding you to a goal that you cannot see, which is far away, and you are in the dark, in bad weather. How do you advance? Shame keeps you in place, you can always direct yourself to the Creator, and shame will help you in this. Neither to the right nor to the left, it will hold you.

Look at how a person even in our ordinary world can be so egoistic, pragmatic, rude, and so on. They are still trying to keep themselves relative to each other in some decent condition. It is a shame! Moreover, it is at every degree, at every moment. That is what keeps us going.

Can you imagine how different we are from animals! They have this state disabled altogether. They only act according to what makes them feel better at every moment. And we have another system enabled: how I behave and how I show myself to the outside.

And that is what sets us apart. This is what we call a human in us. Shame is what molds a person from an animal.

Comment: Nice, you have created such a monument to shame.

My Response: Therefore, we must use this in schools and in education to tell, explain, show, and psychologically develop a sense of shame in humanity.

There is none of this. On the contrary, the more shameless I am, I can brag about it, flaunt it, and it will be considered that I am special.

This is the difference between an intelligent upbringing, the correct approach to life, to the world, to people, and such a purely open, egoistic one.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/30/22

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Comment: We know that empathy is the ability to feel the world of another as our own. We are literally capable of feeling someone else’s pain. Psychologists claim that if we experience empathic pain for a long time, we often become emotionally exhausted.

This happens to firefighters, those who work in emergency services, etc. They say through empathy we come to feel the pain of someone else. However, we also feel the pain of someone else through compassion, but in that case, we can handle it. That is because compassion comes with love. That’s the whole difference between the two.

My Response: Correct.

Comment: The official definition of empathy is the ability to identify with the emotions of another, but compassion is defined as sympathy for the suffering of another.

My Response: It is like stepping into the world of another and feeling his experience.

Question: How can we facilitate this within ourselves? As I understand if that feeling was fostered, we would live as though in a different world.

Answer: Yes, we would nurture it. I think that it is possible. We are just not involved in this process. Generally, people at the age of 13 – 14 can fully resonate with another person’s suffering. And they would then need to be further educated on it.

Comment: That, of course, would drastically change the world.

My Response: Of course, no doubt about it.

Question: So, is it possible to nurture compassion in a person?

Answer: The understanding of compassion for others can be taught so a person may understand how to handle it. So much so that through this compassion for another, he may share another’s suffering by taking it partially upon himself and in this way neutralize their suffering.

The fact that you neutralize it by engaging with him, sympathizing, and being compassionate, you gradually break up his suffering into a number of smaller parts and by doing so, bring him relief. Similarly, you can bring the whole world into balance and to an inner-state-of-being you can call blissfulness.

Question: So, shared compassion among all the people on earth will lead to a state of blissfulness in the world?

Answer: Yes. That’s exactly what we have to achieve in our connection. Otherwise, we have some very serious problems ahead of us. This is because the ego continues to grow and the upper light is revealed in relation to the ego even more. Meaning, we are going to feel greater pressure in relation to our ego such that if we don’t find a way to unite and share all of that among ourselves, we won’t be able to tolerate it.

Question: Is compassion essentially the basis of what you mention all the time: unity, connection, positive thoughts, and good connections?

Answer: Yes. Practically speaking, it’s not even compassion. It is the division of all the huge suffering, the opposites of a huge desire and a huge light that should fill this desire, and the absence of an intention “not for yourself” that allows you to fill the desire with light.

Question: So it can only be filled if my intention is for the sake of others?

Answer: Yes. This is why we need this balance here. All this can only be realized if we learn to be compassionate, to divide the difference between absolute fulfillment and absolute emptiness amongst every person.

Obviously, nobody will be worse off in this case. But if we want to divide it this way, the difference itself will disappear. That is the whole point of this remarkable quality of unification.

Question: And at this point, is it correct to say that the state of blissfulness will come?

Answer: Yes. Then this feeling of the contradiction, impossibility, and an inner cry turns into a quenching, into something beyond corporeal, into pleasure. At that point, there is no difference between great pain and great pleasure. There they connect.

Question: And what does the pain become in this case?

Answer: Pleasure, because you have balanced them out.

Question: That is very elevated.

Answer: That’s how it works at a higher level.

Question: Is the pain given to us to turn it into pleasure?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: And the greatest pain, as a result, turns out to be the greatest pleasure?

Answer: Yes. If you know how to balance these opposites, you get pleasure.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/6/22

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Question: During the Second World War, pilots said that the aircraft was so responsive that while operating it, it felt like an extension of the pilot’s body.

A communication system is already being created today, artificial intelligence, by which aircraft will be able to secure the pilot, hear him, even replace him, and read from his brain everything the pilot thinks. You can say a lot of technical terms here, but what I am interested in is, without this technology, is it possible to establish communication with the machine? Is it possible to establish connection with the inanimate?

Answer: When a person works with a machine, feels it, and it enters his sensory organs and gives such a reflection of itself in his brain, in his feelings that he begins to be with it on an instinctive level, on such an instinctive connection it is as if it were he himself.

And then, without even realizing his actions, he controls the machine and the machine controls him. There is a mutual connection. But these are special cases.

Comment: I remember you told me that a carpenter, if he is a real professional, feels wood and even hears it.

My Response: Of course. It is natural.

Question: So this state of unity is possible?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You usually say: “To become one heart with another person.” But is it possible to become one heart with a car, with your business?

Answer: Maybe, because it is not with the machine, but with the image of the machine itself.

It is when you absorb the machine into yourself and start working with its image inside you; then you can really fully control it, and it responds to you.

Question: And you do not need any artificial intelligence? Is it your effort that is needed?

Answer: Yes, it is simply a merger. But it depends on which machine, of course.

It is easier with an animal. It is even easier with people. With plants somewhat too, partially. By the way, I even observed that when a person works on a plant, talks to it, the plant feels it.

Question: You are saying that natural materials are closer to working with. And if it is some kind of manufactured, processed piece of iron?

Answer: It is hard.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 8/18/22

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