Question: You are not a sentimental person, so why is it that when we speak about your teacher Rabash, I often see your eyes suddenly become moist, as if you become a different person. A really different one!

Answer: There is nothing to be done because the root of my soul is in him. That is why I become different.

Question: You found your soul that way, right?

Answer: Yes, that is, somehow, millions of years before I met him, the root of my soul was there, and little by little, I was as if digging for it there until I found it. I do not know how to put it in words.

Question: So your journey through this life, all of your search was leading to this root of your soul in one way or another?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Then you are a happy person; you found the root of your soul. Everyone needs that.

Answer: Everyone has it, and everyone must search for it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/16/25

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Question: What is your opinion on the claim that there is a suicide gene? They say American scientists have identified 22 suicide-related genes. Does this gene really exist? Do you believe it has an effect?

Answer: As far as a gene, I do not know, I am not an expert in that field. But a predisposition to it certainly exists. The Japanese have it, and there are other peoples and tribes, or historical periods when it appears, and so on.

Question: And how can one supposedly overcome this predisposition or gene?

Answer: With the meaning of life.

Question: Meaning? Only the search for meaning?

Answer: Only that. What else is there? The meaning of life and its correct realization are leading you to a new life even now. You do not need to die or imagine anything. You can see your future world already in this life. It is right in front of you; it only depends on the correct realization.

Question: Can you tell us what the meaning of life is?

Answer: The meaning of life is to change one’s nature from receiving to bestowing, from hatred to love, from rejection to rapprochement with others. Then within these qualities, you will feel an entirely different form of existence. It will be an opposite world.

You will find fulfillment in the act of fulfilling others. And in that, there will be no disappointment.

Comment: It would be wonderful if a person could really live like that!

My Response: We will reach that.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/3/25

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Question: Are the desire to want to bestow and the desire to bestow two different Kelim, or is it the same Kli? Can the Creator also be revealed in the desire to want to bestow?

Answer: Yes, all of this will become clearer, more defined, known, and attainable for us.

Question: Outside of our circle, how can we influence what is happening with us now, in Israel? Is there any possibility?

Answer: I do not particularly see what can be corrected in those circles of the Kelim that are not yet engaged.

I think this requires further work on our part. Then we will feel precisely what we are missing.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/15/2025, “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”

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Question: For you, does God exist?

Answer: There is a Creator for me. It is the one who created everything, including you, and wants you to fulfill your purpose.

Question: What is it?

Answer: Your purpose is to reach His level, to become similar to Him. That is why a person is called “Adam” from the word “Domeh” – “similar” to the Creator.

Question: Then again, similar to what?

Answer: To the Creator.

Question: And what does that mean? What is that quality?

Answer: It is the quality of bestowal, the quality of creation, the quality of governing all the worlds. This is the state a person must attain.

Question: Anyone in our world?

Answer: Absolutely everyone!

Comment: It is mind-boggling!

My Response: But you will come to it, whether you want to or not.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/19/25

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Question: The God that many people think of, does He exist?

Answer: He does not exist.

Comment: But there is a God, as you say, who is called…

My Response: The Creator, the upper force.

Question: And what is that really?

Answer: It is the supreme force of nature, which includes all of nature. The Creator Himself is God. Nature itself is God. Not the nature of our world, but the general one, which we can already begin to reveal to the point that we can unite with it, with this nature. We can even govern it. The Creator wants us to be at such a level in order to become partners with Him.

Question: And when you say the word “nature,” what do you mean by that?

Answer: I mean all the worlds. Of course, our world does not even count. All the worlds, including five worlds in total, which are all included in and governed by one single force, one single law, this law of unity is the Creator.

Comment: I see, but this is quite elevated.

My Response: Not really if we are talking more or less about some kind of approximation to the truth. And that is why, naturally, I seem…

Comment: Like an atheist, a non-believer God, and so on.

My Response: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/9/25

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Question: Let’s say a ten is working to reach a state of faith above reason. What is the correct path: to reach a state where faith above reason becomes absolutely perfect or to strive to attain upper reason?

Answer: In principle, both are necessary. That is why I cannot say specifically what exactly this ten needs. To answer that, one would need to know them more closely.

Question: If I see my friends as great, corrected, loving, and helpful, does that bring us closer to the Creator?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Lesson #2 World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/2025, “Believing that the Creator Is Good and Does Good”

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Comment: When you transmit Kabbalistic information in Hebrew and in Russian, it seems like there are two different people. It is as if you are translating some things from Russian.

My Response: No, I practically do not translate from Russian, although sometimes it happens. In Kabbalah, after all, what I felt was lived through in Hebrew.

And if I want to express myself sensorily and then convey it in some Kabbalistic forums, then, of course, I translate, because my sensory language on the earthly level is still Russian. But it also depends on how; it is very conditional.

I am adjusting from language to language, although my pronunciation leaves much to be desired, and my vocabulary is not that great. But if it is close to Kabbalah, then I think it is more in Hebrew.

If I am teaching a lesson or lecture in Hebrew, I am thinking in Hebrew, and I do not have any Russian words inside me. It happens sometimes that I somehow do not find the appropriate expressions. But when I search for words, I search based on my feelings that have not yet been put into words, and therefore, there is no such thing that I first put feelings into Russian, and then into Hebrew.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Kabbalistic language” 8/25/10

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Comment: According to statistics, when someone attacks another person and sees signs of weakness, the attacker often feels an even greater urge to harm them.

My Response: Naturally, that is our egoism. When we see someone else’s weakness and we are confident that we will not be punished, we instinctively desire to suppress them even more.

We are very easily drawn to extremes, either one way or the other. It all depends on society, on the environment, which can influence us in either direction. It is an enormous force that resides within us, a terrifying force!

Right now, we are at a pivotal point in historical development where we can turn one way or the other. We could slide back into fascism, only this time, it would be far worse culminating in a world war of such magnitude that only a small remnant of humanity would survive, which is a scenario like those shown in Hollywood films: a destroyed Earth, with the remaining people living among heaps of metal and junk, the last remnants of everything that once existed.

Kabbalah says this is possible. Still, the people who remain will fulfill their task of bringing egoism to its corrected form. But this will happen through immense suffering.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Homosexuality and Kabbalah” 9/2/10

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Question: Do you know how many elderly people feel unnecessary? Neither their children, nor their grandchildren, nor anyone else needs them. There are so many like that. They feel that nobody needs them. How can a person learn to feel needed?

Answer: I believe the key is not to look for someone who needs you on a personal level but rather to ask: What can I do that would be good and useful for a large number of people, for all of humanity?

Question: Really?

Answer: Of course. Today, everything is designed to make us as independent from each other as possible. And when someone tries to step in and help, we do not want that.

Question: So you mean that a simple grandmother can open herself up to the world and can be useful to the world, to people?

Answer: Absolutely! If she understands what true benefit for the world and for others means, she will find her place in it.

Question: Can you gently suggest what kind of benefit she might bring to the world?

Answer: She can teach herself and others how to be properly interconnected with one another; that would bring an enormous positive force into the world and make the world better.

Question: That is, she should just think about this connection every day and try to build it in some way?

Answer: She can do it this way, yes.

Comment: Especially in the age of the Internet. That could give her a sense of being needed.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Is the desire to feel needed the meaning of life? Could that be the meaning of my life?

Answer: No, that is not the meaning. It is only a means. The meaning of life must be something higher than that.

Question: Is the meaning of life in establishing good, kind connections with others, as you said?

Answer: Yes. Absolutely!

Question: And that meaning will fill a person?

Answer: It certainly will. A person will begin to feel that he has this meaning. Through this fulfillment, through the connection between us, we rise to the next level, and we can fill ourselves for another hundred years ahead.

We enter a system in which we are all connected. It is an entirely new sense of life. We live as if in a single body.

Question: Could there be a “second youth” after 70 or 80 in the sense that you are describing?

Answer: Absolutely! A person opens himself up to the society that he is in, that he is helping to build.

Question: And his thoughts about good connections, new connections, are those thoughts renewing?

Answer: That is exactly what we need to do.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/6/25

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Question: What has happened to humanity? We used to want to study, get degrees, become directors, and earn money!

Answer: But why? We are aware of the uselessness of all these tensions.

People still play sports. They climb mountains and do other things, hold competitions in fashion, in sports, and in everything else. That too will pass.

The most important question is why?

Comment: He will kill everything.

My Response: Yes, and humanity will calm down. And what will happen? Nothing. We will simply relate to each other.

Question: This is unclear. What does it mean “simply relate to each other”?

Answer: Simply, meaning in such a way that you do not cause anyone any negative feelings.

Question: Not to evoke hatred toward yourself?

Answer: Calmness! Just get your salary and spend the day as you wish. You will have enough time and desire to get used to this world and learn how to behave in it.

Comment: So the demand for more money, a bigger house, a pool in the yard…

My Response: There will be none of that. A person will begin to understand that he must live within his sensations, in a movement toward the correct attitude with others, an internal movement. And then a person who care about one’s specialty, salary, or anything.

If I have such an attitude toward others and I feel that others have the same attitude toward me, this mutual good network of forces between us, I feel it, I live in it. That is my work, I exist in it and so do all the others.

We only develop these mutual sensations of ours, without any effort. It should be without effort! This is how I treat others and others treat me, and everything freezes. And only that is the only feeling you perceive.

Question: And when you say: overcome our egoism, rise above egoism?

Answer: It is all inside. Just calm down.

Question: And it will be so calm? I always have the feeling that a person must make enormous efforts.

Answer: No, no, nothing! Quite the opposite. Why? If we relate to it correctly, then the upper light, which is in absolute rest, it will do everything. Just don’t worry. Just don’t interfere. “The Creator will finish it for me.” It is that simple.

Question: Harvard University, Princeton, etc. will not be needed?

Answer: No, nothing at all is needed.

Question: And studies, higher education, second, and third degrees?

Answer: No, not needed.

Comment: Humanity built all this for so long.

My Response: It was in order to define its mistakes.

Question: What will humanity come to?

Answer: To a peaceful, inner mutual balance. And in it, the connection between us will be revealed as complete and peaceful. In the stillness of these waters, we will come to the point that we will see through them the Creator.

In the Torah, this was formulated thousands of years ago: “It is preferable to sit and do nothing.”

Question: What does “do nothing” mean?

Answer: Do nothing! Do it so that from doing nothing, you have everything. You will see it is possible.

Question: So I will have food, something to feed the family with?

Answer: To the extent that it is necessary for you, you will work. But it will not be labor. It will simply be an occupation.

Question: It is not like I go to work suffering, hate it, and still go?

Answer: You will not be rushing around and suffering in traffic jams, none of that will happen.

Question: Will this thought penetrate? “What is enough is enough for me, and I do not need more.”

Answer: It will come gradually, but it will also come quickly.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/7/25

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