Question: Do you believe that the Jews of Israel will eventually bring about the correction of all of humanity?

Answer: It is precisely the circumstances in which they find themselves that will compel them to do so. Why does the world around them bristle against them?

This is eternal antisemitism; the perpetual feeling that you are hated and that you must defend yourself and justify your existence in the world. When all this passes over a person from generation to generation, it is transmitted through the genes; it leaves behavioral layers in one’s character, in one’s perception of the world, in one’s attitude toward everything. There is nothing like this in any other nation.

The Jews are not like the Gypsies, who are simply despised, nor like people who impose their culture, manners, way of life, or religion on other nations. In those cases, it all stems from a sense of superiority. But here, on the contrary, it comes from a sense of inferiority, smallness, and worthlessness.

This complex has developed very strongly over the last 2,000 years. It has already produced secondary and tertiary consequences, which gradually evolve and merge with all other philosophies of life.

All this has left a deep imprint on their attitude toward everything and has generated enormous internal stress within the people, especially among the European branch of the Jews who were forced to develop in order to elevate themselves above the surrounding nations in some way, to protect themselves.

We see, in the Middle Ages, how they suddenly experienced a leap in special character traits and intellectual abilities; it is not even clear why. Previously, nothing like this existed anywhere, not even among other branches of Jews in other countries where they lived more or less peacefully.

There is a great deal of research on this topic. And indeed, we see how many scientists, artists, and thinkers they produce. All this is the result of their defensive reaction.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call, The Jews of Israel,” 9/13/10

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Question: Can we consider the revealed Torah as a desire to receive, and the hidden Torah as a desire to receive for the sake of giving?

Answer: No, we cannot. The “hidden Torah” is what we reveal in the process of learning Kabbalah. And the revealed is what is revealed to us as children.

Question: Does the iron wall get broken on both sides? How can one feel the other side?

Answer: You can feel the other side only when you strive to unite with what is outside of you, on the other side of the wall.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/5/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: You keep saying not to look back into the past, to cut it off and not look back. How can we do that?

Answer: I think it is just a conviction, a self-persuasion, that I have no connection with the past. The past falls off, is cut off, disappears, vanishes, and fades away like a haze.

Question: Do I have to master the present?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/19/25

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Question: If we take the upper governance, the Creator, and look at the human world, at these eight billion people as the Creator does, is there a specific place a person should be, and what is his place, in general? Or is there nothing that specifically belongs to a person?

Answer: That is pure psychology. It is possible to throw a person anywhere, and he will get used to it and will consider it his home.

Question: Does it mean a person can make this step and say, “This land is my home”? Can he move from place to place and live this way?

Answer: Yes. As soon as I realized that I had to move to Israel, I immediately moved from Belarus to Lithuania. I found myself in a different atmosphere.

Question: To make it easier to leave?

Answer: Yes. The first question was “When are you leaving?” In Belarus they were afraid to say this. That is all. Everything was quite simple.

Question: Meaning, a person has to accept what already currently exists and embrace it?

Answer: Yes, cut off his past.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/17/25

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Question: Is it possible for relationships between people to be built only on good things? Between friends, between husband and wife, without quarrels, divorces, and suffering— only good relations, is that possible?

Answer: No, everything is attained only from destruction. Therefore, a person who has not gone through all these periods of “ups and downs,” rises and falls, is unable to appreciate it. He will not cherish such relationships.

Question: So you even support the feeling of destruction in the connection between people? As if everything is falling apart?

Answer: Of course. It is necessary for them to experience these feelings too so that they guard their relationships and do not allow them to reach such a state.

Question: But those feelings would hang over them, right?

Answer: Absolutely. How could it be otherwise? Two egoists! Could they perform some kind of operation, cut their egoism out of themselves and become sweet, harmless little idiots?

Comment: That would not be good.

My Response: It is impossible! We meet, we bump into each other, and then, having despaired, we begin to understand how life can be built when you strive only for good relationships. You no longer need, as in youth, to be sometimes in bad relations and then in good ones, and so on, but only in good ones.

Question: But that comes through the ups and downs at a young age?

Answer: Of course. Without that, nothing can exist. You must accumulate this arsenal of all kinds of negative feelings and states, and then you will avoid them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/14/25

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Question: Can you give any principle ordinary people should live by?

Answer: The principle is very simple—do not worry. That is all.

Question: So all these career ladders are worthless?

Answer: We can see it all crumbling before our eyes.

Question: And the search for the meaning of life?

Answer: The search for the meaning of life is to find a point of balance with the Creator where you understand that everything must go according to His plan. And you ultimately resign yourself to His plan  and float along calmly.

Question: Basically, this whole life path, everything, everything should come down to what you just said? Is it the search for this point of contact with the Creator?

Answer: Yes, find that current, join it, and sail along it.

Question: And when does the kind of calmness that you radiate now come? After all the running, searching, or after touching something, some kind of truth? When?

Answer: I think it might come after 20 years of studying Kabbalah. And if you are in the right environment, even sooner. Because you will hear from everyone, from there and from here, and so on.

Question: And then we return to all these principles, then they become real? Calm, unhurried, do not make God laugh with your plans.

Answer: You do not interfere with any of your plans and actions. You simply live, trying to grasp the flow of life more deeply.

Question: What do I grasp, anyway?

Answer: You grasp what comes from the Creator and carries you away. This is actually time. The river of life.

Question: Time, what do you interpret it as? For me, it can be the ticking of a clock, the passing of time, or aging.

Answer: No, no. It is just a current. A flow. And you feel like you agree with it, are ready to fall into this current and let it carry you.

Question: And is this the right principle, the right way to live your life?

Answer: Yes, you cannot do anything else anyway. Conversely, wisdom lies in submission.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/20/25

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Question: What is the point of listening to someone asking you a question? What is the purpose of asking questions anyway?

Answer: It is written, “The timid cannot learn.” Questions should be asked, but at the same time, you should follow the answers and delve into them until they are completely clear, i.e., until they enter you. By listening to a friend, you connect with him in his desire toward a goal, which is important for unification in a group.

After all, your desire alone is never enough to achieve the goal and for Ohr Makif to evoke a new intention in desire for the sake of others. It was only for the sake of this connection with others that the worlds appeared, that Adam’s soul was created and shattered, that this world was created so lowly to create a place of freewill for man, which is the only thing we do, and this freedom of will is realized only in an attempt to absorb the desires and goals of our friends throughout the world group.

In the same way, all of humanity will be forced to solve its common problem. The crisis and the revelation of mutual hatred will be revealed as the cause of the threat of destruction of an empty, worthless, yet unique and therefore precious, life. They will begin to listen to questions, i.e., the desires of others, until they all unite in one question “What is the meaning of our existence?” (Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot) and will come to Kabbalah!

Question: You often say that spirituality is beyond time, motion, and space. What do you mean?

Answer: You need to clarify this. There is nothing you can do, you must study. Those who wish to evade it with questions do not understand that only studying the writings of Baal HaSulam (in any language) attracts the upper light of correction. While the questions and answers are only a prelude for beginners. Clarify this in The Study of the Ten Sefirot, “Inner Observations” or at least go through this entire blog. Perhaps this form of learning is more suitable for you now.
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From the ‘”Questions and Answers” 6/22/08

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In Kabbalah, there is essentially no such thing as past or future, only the present.

Question: Do you ever regret something from the past? Does a memory ever flash something before you that makes you flinch?

Answer: Everything has passed.

Comment: So this conversation we are having right now, this is this life. And everything that was and everything that will be no longer matters?

My Response: None of it depends on us in any way.

Comment: Teach me to live like that. I can say that, but a moment later, I will be tested, and I will be weak.

Answer: No, I am not worried about the past. Although if I were to count how much time I have wasted and on what, well, of course.

Comment: It is a a lot.

My Response: But that is how it must be. Agree that everything is done by the Creator, and when it comes to the past, that is especially true! You fully support Him, trust Him, and accept it.

Comment: And yet, about the future. Everyone dreams of the future, everyone hopes for something that will come. That cannot be taken away from a person.

My Response: You see, if you think about the future, you are taking it away from the Creator. That is not allowed either.

Question: Is that also His prerogative?

Answer: That too, yes.

Question: So if I define this formula for myself, then what?

Answer: In that very moment, I am connected with the Creator, merge with Him, cleave to Him, and I want nothing else, like a child clings to its mother, that is what he wants, that is all! That is how we should be.

Comment: So the essence of this formula is to cling to the Creator?

My Response: Yes.

Question: The past is His, the future is His. But this present moment, is it mine? Do I still exist here?

Answer: I exist. In the present, there is “I.” And only I determine that I want to be with the Creator, to hang onto Him.

Question: Right now?

Answer: Yes, that is all. There is nothing else. Nothing.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/21/25

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Question: Why is fear given to a person?

Answer: So that he will correct something—his attitude toward life and death.

Question: What should it transform into? If it is given from above, what should this fear flow into?

Answer: It should flow into absolute submission to the will of the almighty, the Creator, and in understanding that he still has something to do in those moments, and there may still be a great many of them until he truly completes his earthly path.

Question: So in principle, a person must do something one way or another? What must he do?

Answer: He must calm down. What else is there to do? Nothing else.

Comment: I do not even know what to add here.

My Response: There is no need to add anything. That is what a person must do. Is he really planning to do something in this world? How will the world continue without him? What will he leave behind for the world?

Question: That phrase: “calm down.” Once you said that the Creator is at rest, and a person must come to the same rest.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Then can you give us a definition of rest?

Answer: Rest is when the next moment does not bother you. Absolutely does not trouble you! You have no worries; not that you live in it. If you live in it, then it does not trouble you because you live in it. But simply, It does not bother you. That is what you need to reach.

Question: Then am I living in this moment? Or you do not want that to be pronounced?

Answer: This moment does not exist either. You should not think that you exist at all.

Question: So I just float along a river, and that is what I do?

Answer: That is also an attitude toward life and not a good one. “Raise the oars” and “float along”—that is not good either.

Question: This point is not very clear to me.

My Response: It is not clear to anyone. This is precisely the point where we attain absolute rest.

Another way to put it is that I rely on the Creator’s governance. He governs everything, including me, every moment of my existence, and in fact the entire universe and everyone in it. So I have nothing to worry about. Do I want to interfere in His correction, in His governance, in His control over all this? No.

If not, then sit quietly and go on with your life.

It is that there will be no difference between your existence now and after you decide in what way you should exist.

Question: Is that the point of rest?

Answer: Yes, it speaks of agreement. It speaks of the fact that you agree with the Creator. And this is not simple. After all, we always want to grab Him by the hand, check what He is planning, and argue that perhaps it should be done a little differently.

Question: And here we do not need to grab anyone? Just like that, and that is all?

Answer: Let it go.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/26/25

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Question: Everyone has their own abilities: someone is a designer, someone is an artist, someone else writes well. How do you discover these qualities in yourself?

Answer: If you work properly on developing the quality of giving, inclusion in others, which will help you develop a sense of absolutely complete interaction with the whole world, then you will see very clear tips on how to realize your abilities. They will definitely open up in you, and exactly in the way that you can use them to promote yourself.

For example, I teach, draw, write, and depict in a certain way; this is how I express myself. You express yourself in a different way, and someone else expresses themselves in a different way.

Question: But will it complement the overall system of understanding?

Answer: If it comes from the soul, it will definitely complement it, since all souls are a common system. Therefore, the more you express yourself through your soul, the more you are an integral part of the common soul, Adam.

Question: Does an outside person feel it more when it comes from the general system?

Answer: Yes. Therefore, in accordance with a person’s ability to work on himself in an anti-egoistic way, it is necessary to let him develop, that is, to manifest himself in art, literature, painting or in cinema, photography, video, even in leadership; this is also a type of creative activity. But at the same time, you need to make sure that it is not at the level of selfishness, but above it.

Question: How can you determine this?

Answer: It depends on what is important to a person in the first place: to move forward or develop in art, to move up or to lead.

Comment: But sometimes it can overwhelm a person so much that he thinks he’s doing it for a purpose…

My Response: There is an environment for this, a leader who can protect him and not let him fall.

Comment: In Kabbalah, a person, in principle, must work against his will, take on some kind of work that he does through force. But in this case, it just won’t work. Let’s say a person has the ability to write, but they give him something to chop in the kitchen.

My Response: He’s going to write anyway, and he’s not going anywhere. He still has to express himself. The soul is eternal and will break through itself. Life is the greatest force that will always find some kind of loophole and manifest itself.

Comment: You know how strong a person’s selfishness can be.…

My Response: No! It doesn’t matter! All the same, development and evolution are moving toward the fact that the soul will manifest above the body, because this is the highest source. Our body is just a small animal part. This gradually manifests itself over the course of evolution. Animals don’t evolve, but humans do.

The “man in us” grows from generation to generation and gradually comes to the point where his human part grows out of this animal man more and more. And now it is undergoing a revolutionary transformation, a leap. A spiritual component begins to manifest itself in us, which is higher than this life. On the one hand, this life becomes visible as a global catastrophe, and at the same time we have the opportunity to reveal the spiritual part of ourselves. This is our generation.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Creativity in Kabbalah” 10/5/10

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