Question: What should a person do to be happy?

Answer: Make others less happy. This is what is being done now with the help of wars. If others are less happy, I already feel happier. Everything is attained in comparison.

Question: So, artificial intelligence, in theory, is supposed to program everything in such a way that you will be happy when you see that others will be inferior to you? Will I do everything possible for you to see this?

Answer: Yes. If only we had such glasses that would make us feel that way, it would be great. Everyone would walk around looking down on each other and not understand: “Why are others looking down on each other? Why are others smiling? I am above them in everything.”

Comment: That is an excellent patent for our world! That is what they need to understand.

And ideally, in a higher sense?

My Response: And ideally when you take care of others, that will be your purpose and sense of happiness. And then no one will interfere. You can make everyone happy. And so, each of them can also make others happy.

That is, I feel good because I do good for someone else. Only in this way can it be realized.

Question: Can artificial intelligence reach such a turnaround?

Answer: It will break down along the way. The machine will break.

Question: Yes, it will not be able to contain this. But one way or another, is humanity heading toward this?

Answer: It is moving toward the awareness of evil but not toward the solution of the problem itself.

To solve this problem, they will have to come to Kabbalists. And then, by inspiration from heaven, they will discover that there is such a solution, such a teaching, that elevates them to another level, to another nature—the quality of bestowal and love! And they do not need anything else besides that. With the help of this new nature, they will build absolutely everything!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/18/22

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Question: If I interfere in some state of a friend and seem to prevent him from going through it, does this mean that I myself will have to go through it instead of him?

Answer: The passage of your states has already been mutually calculated. You and your surroundings are together in the same harness. You were brought in your generation, in your time, to a specific place, into specific conditions, because this is how the spiritual system in which you exist is materialized.

In your spiritual system there is me, close friends, distant friends, this entire world, all the surroundings, all of nature, the cosmos, and so on, and around that, there are also all the spiritual worlds.

And all this is relative to you; you are at the center of this influence, and you cannot exist without something or someone, it only depends on the extent. But in general you are connected to absolutely everyone, and the more you develop, the more you will begin to feel dependent on an ever increasing number of various sources.

You will feel more and more tied to an immense system with numerous parameters. They all influence you, and you influence them. How do you manage all of this? Only with love. There is no other way to find contact and control the situation except through love, through accepting others as a part of yourself. Then there are no problems.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. In One Harness” 6/12/10

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Question: You said we are attracting much more light than desire (Hisaron). Can this really happen?

Answer: Of course, we attract a negative amount of light. There is a continuous connection between the Reshimot (spiritual information data) created as a result of the descent of souls from the world of infinity to our world through the 125 degrees of the worlds. As a result, we are at the bottom, and we have information records of all the past states that we parted with when we descended into our world.

Now each of us must make the same journey from bottom up just as was descended from top to bottom, but only on our own accord. This is the difference between descent—fall and ascent—rise in that we must stock up in advance, find, form, and create a desire for bestowal, a desire for love, and a desire for connection between us.

Initially, when we fell, we did not have this desire. It is unnatural because we do not want to rise in attributes of bestowal, love, and unification. We want to receive, grab, dominate, and be filled. In our world, we imagine a spiritual ascent, a connection with the Creator, in an entirely opposite way of how it happens. These pictures are presented to us in an egoistic way as, for example, Muslims think that 72 virgins are waiting to dance for them in the world to come.

That is, people have taken the greatest pleasure in the material world, sexual pleasure, and made a paradise out of it. A person in our world cannot imagine anything more. There is nothing to laugh about. Clearly we have nothing else. Food, sex, such eternal fun, this is paradise.

But we cannot imagine this is about bestowal, absolute love, and connection between us, where on one hand you remain as a person, but on the other hand you completely give yourself, dissolve into everyone else, and work only for their desires. We avoid such thoughts; we dont’ want it to be like that.

Therefore, the return ascent is so difficult because every ascent, every small step, has to have an underlying desire. We must want to rise to this degree in advance, that is, to become more giving, more connected to each other, and more dependent on others.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Virtual Community, Part 1” 5/16/10

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Question: Some people who have heard you sing say that the depth of your voice makes them feel that you are in spiritual attainment. How does spiritual attainment influence the development of human qualities?

Answer: Personally, I do not like my voice. And it is not penetrating, not velvety, not convincing, and it does not envelop the listener or enter them against their will and take hold of them.

If anything ever speaks within me, it is the strength of the connection with what I am saying. There is, after all, a certain depth of connection with the qualities, objects, actions, and events that I describe.

People feel this, and it does not depend on my voice at all. If someone else were to listen to this, they would hardly feel anything.

When a person has some kind of connection with us, they perceive a deeper wave that goes beyond the voice, beyond sound frequencies. It is the desire, the force emanating from the person who is deeply connected to what he is saying.

Sometimes, after conversations with people, I hear their feedback about me. It seems that I was not talking to them about Kabbalah, and they knew nothing about it, yet they suddenly began to feel that some kind of power, some very strange effect has manifested within them as a result of our interaction.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Power of the Voice” 5/24/10

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Question: What should a person do if he reveals that he is a “complete wretch”? He did something wrong and feels it.

Answer: Be grateful for the revelation! It was the Creator who showed you your true nature. And now comes the next stage, whether you want to correct it or not.

If you are going to sit and worry now, that is completely wrong. When, as it is said, “a fool sits and eats his own flesh,” he is engaged in self-torment. This must not be done!

On the contrary! Relate everything to the Creator, including the manifestations of evil in yourself. Like a doctor, you have determined your diagnosis. But the doctor is the Creator. He has now given you a diagnosis, you have felt the illness, and now ask Him for remedy. And so it proceeds stage by stage.

This is the very best. As Baal HaSulam writes, “I rejoice in those revealed corruptions and the ones that are being revealed,” because the next step, if you only ask, is the correction of any bad quality into good, that is, for bestowal.

And maybe in a split second, in the next corrected quality, you will begin to feel the upper world, or at least you will be closer to it, and you will begin to understand more.

Comment: And you say: “Ask for the remedy.”

My Response: The remedy is the correction of evil into good. Correction is carried out by the upper light, which initially created good and then deliberately turned it into evil so that you would now ask to turn it into good again.

Just as a child is given a puzzle or some broken toys to put together so that he can assemble them and learn from that, we were given a broken soul so that by assembling it, we become similar to the Creator who created it.

Question: Does the request occur only during the lesson, or not necessarily?

Answer: In any place, at any time, and it is even unpredictable where and how. In the most remote states from spiritual search, such thoughts may suddenly arise. And for that you should also thank the Creator, that He gives them to you at the most unexpected moment.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Correcting Evil into Good” 6/17/10

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Question: Many of your students are at an ordinary level, meaning they do not sense spirituality. Their sensations are no different from those of the public to whom they want to convey information.

How can they better receive the information they wish to obtain in their egoistic feelings, as well as incorporate some informational message into it?

Answer: Yes, this is a problem. They should try. There is nothing else. Try.

By the way, such a person has an advantage because he is in the middle.

On one hand it is a problem. On the other hand, this problem is not artificially created by nature, but is a natural problem that is solved along with our correction.

We need to receive information precisely in its heavy, uncorrected form, and try to make it more accessible. It is this effort that causes our correction. And the correction leads to a different type of information, and so on.

We should understand that all of this is a part of one common solution, that is, a part of one common equation that includes the consumer, the source, the Creator, the teacher, and the students. We all engage in our common self-service together.

Therefore I do not think there is anything that needs to be changed here. We just need to go on this way and keep in mind that our state is a correct one. Accept it as it is and act from it. Do not try to break something in it as you must work within this framework. Then you will see how justified it is.

Question: Should we still sometimes mix with our clientele’s desires?

Answer: Yes, otherwise nothing will work. How can a mother not feel her child? First of all, she feels him with all her soul. And then she begins to feel what else could she add. Only in this way, naturally.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Try and Attempt” 6/1/10

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Question: Why am I given all this suffering?

Answer: This is given to me so that I can take a proper look at my life, make sure that I am not the source of my own suffering, understand how I can rise above the suffering, above  its cause, and thus free myself from it and look at suffering from above.

Question: And what will I see?

Answer: I will see that all my suffering is purely philosophical. Where suffering exists, there is always some kind of philosophy behind it where I refuse to accept suffering as something meant for me. But if I accept it, I can rise above it.

Question: Is the understanding that this is how I am being guided necessary?

Answer: That is what the Creator desires.

Question: Should this understanding be in both the heart and the mind?

Answer: I agree with Him and follow this path.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/23/24

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Question: There is physical pain, torture, suffering, solitary confinement, and still a person gets out of prisons, out of these tortures, and can live up to the age of 120 as a healthy person. And then there is this mental stress, and that is it, life ends. What is it, why is it so?

Answer: Because our body is adapted to physical suffering, but it is not adapted to sensory and moral suffering. We can’t stand it.

Question: Why? After all, the body is healthy.

Answer: Because it is above our natural way of life, our body.

Question: So some higher function is disrupted, but the earthly function remains in order?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So I’m leaving with a healthy body, roughly speaking?

Answer: People existed in conditions that we cannot imagine.

Question: And then bam, that’s it. Is there some higher component in us?

Answer: Yes, life can be lived if you have a purpose; if you can raise this goal above suffering and limitations, then you can exist.

Question: So you’ve grabbed hold of this spirit and hold on, but your body can give up?

Answer: The body will not give up if you hold on to this power above life.

Question: So you connect it?

Answer: Sure, a person should see a goal ahead of him and what he is suffering for, in short.

Question: Will the body hold up then?

Answer: Yes. The problem with us in our lives is that we don’t see this goal today.

Question: Does this also apply to a simple goal? For example, centenarians live somewhere, they have some simple goal, they hold on to it, and the body holds together with them. Does this apply to a simple goal, not just a high one?

Answer: Yes, he has his sheep, goats or a dog.

Comment: The air, nature.

My Response: Yes and all that.

Question: And does he live?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: There are a lot of films about old women, old men who live to be 100 years old, living somewhere in a forest, in the mountains, who knows where. And how do you think they’re holding up? And they’re holding on. And somehow, they work that way.

Amazing! And there is no need for hospitals or doctors.

My Response: No, if she gets up and knows that she definitely needs to do different things, then all this overlaps.

Question: Even to feed yourself?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/23/24

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Question: The Riga-based writer and screenwriter Mikhail Dymov asked schoolchildren aged six to ten to ask their most pressing and important questions to the Creator.

Second-grader Sveta asks the Creator: “Is there anything I can do to help You?”

Answer: I will respond on behalf of the Creator, as though reading His reply.

Yes, I certainly lack your help. In fact I lack help from every person, but from each one individually, including you. The help I need is for you to assist Me in correcting the world.

Question: “Can childhood last a whole lifetime?” Marik, first grade.

Answer: Childhood for a whole lifetime!

That depends, of course, on a person’s character. There are people who remain children at heart, and they are truly wonderful people. They might not always be agreeable in their behavior toward others, but they are always curious. For them, the world is an endless field of discovery, and they constantly strive to reveal, create, or achieve something.

This childlike quality that persists in adults is a remarkable trait. It is truly a gift. It is wonderful when it remains, but it does not depend on the person; it is how they are born.

Question: Radik, fourth grade, asks: “People suffer so much on Earth. Is it even worse in Your hell?”

Answer: In hell, yes, it is even worse.

Hell is the torment of conscience. It is a feeling from which a person cannot escape. Even though they see and understand that everything that happens comes from the Creator, that “There is none else besides Him,” they still cannot shake the feeling or the thought about “What have I really done with my life?”

This guilt cannot be shifted onto the Creator because the person did not even try during their lifetime to rise above the Creator’s governance.

The Creator governs us, but a person must realize that everything they do comes from the Creator, not from themselves. Once he understands this, there will be no reason to worry, feel shame, or suffer.

Question: “How should I live so that everyone in the world is happy?” asks Lisa, second grade.

Answer: There is only one way, find out what happiness is and how it can be achieved. There is a method that can lead people to happiness, and it needs to be applied in life. We will grow up and make it happen.

Question: Igor, fourth grade, asks: “Are there so many hardships and suffering on Earth to make people not afraid of dying?”

Answer: That is partly true. But do not think that way. People might find it easier to die when they see that they are leaving behind a terrible world where nothing good exists, where everyone suffers, and in the end, where everyone dies.

But that is not the best solution. There is another way. Even before we die, we have the opportunity to reveal the upper, eternal, and perfect world. By doing so, we will not actually die, we will simply begin to experience the next stage of our existence, our next life.

Question: Ruslan, second grade, asks: “What if people do not love You, but fear You?”

Answer: For some that is fine; they like it when others fear them. “If they are afraid, they respect me.”

But overall this is wrong. Love requires mutual understanding where you can completely let go of yourself with closed eyes and entrust yourself to the one you love. And in turn, they will think only about you, about your benefit and your well-being. And you will think only about them. When both of you care for each other in this way, that is what love is.

Question: Lyuba from third grade asks a sharp question “Do I really exist?”

Answer: That is a complicated question. I truly exist only when I stand before the Creator, when it is Him and I stand against Him, when I oppose Him. That is when I exist.

Question: Do you think it is easier to explain this to children than to adults?

Answer: Of course it is much easier to explain these things to children than to adults. They instinctively understand it.

Comment: I see you are explaining it to them as if they are adults.

My Response: Of course! You cannot treat children any differently.

Comment: So no baby talk.

My Response: No! That kind of baby talk is the root of all evil in the world.

Question: Katya, fourth grade, asks: “When did love begin on Earth?”

Answer: Love began when people started hating hatred.

Hatred arises naturally, as part of our nature. But when we began to recognize its harm, its limitations, the horrors it brings, and started to despise it, that is when we gradually discovered love.

Question: Sasha from second grade asks: “Are we not just Your toys?”

Answer: “You are My toys,” says the Creator, “completely, absolutely. But you must realize this. And then you will ask Me to make you independent. And I will do it.”

Question: “Why, when you love, everything feels nice, even fried eggs?” asks Stepa from second grade.

Answer: When you love, everything feels nice, even fried eggs, because love covers absolutely all flaws. Absolutely everything! Even what is ugly seems beautiful, what is unpleasant seems pleasant, and what is tasteless seems delicious. Love makes everything better. So the most important thing is not to focus on what is wrong or bad in the world but to develop love.

Question: Vita from second grade asks: “Why did You make the world in such a way that when mom tears her tights, she cries?”

Answer: Yes, a person is small. A little girl cries over her problems, and a big girl, her mom, cries over her problems. Everyone has problems. The Creator made it this way so that people would seek out the perfect state, one of joy and love.

And the only way to reach that state is through tears: tears in class, at school, with friends, over torn tights, through it all.

Question: Misha, fourth grade, asks an intriguing question: “How can one become a memory?”

Answer: First of all, you need to become a good memory, not just any memory. There are people who are remembered with dread, horror, and hatred, people that others wish had never existed, along with their memory.

You have to live in such a way that you leave behind good memories. This only happens if you do good for people and leave a gentle, sweet impression behind.

Question: Alik, fourth grade, asks: “What should I ask You for? After all, You already know everything.”

Answer: It does not matter that I know everything. What is important is that you ask! Because when you ask, you grow closer to Me, and I can give you more than what you ask for. I can also give you My special care, My love, My warmth. If I simply give you what you want without you asking, you will not feel connected to Me and will miss out on the great, kind warm feelings in the world.

Question: Gosha, fourth grade, says: “Bring my parents back to childhood. I would be friends with my mom.”

Answer: If it were possible to be friends with your parents like with your peers, that would be great in one sense. But on the other hand, how would you grow and develop? Who would teach you?

It means we need to learn how to be both children and friends with our parents, to treat our peers as friends, and to learn from everyone. At the same time, we must offer a good example to everyone around us.

Question: What should parents learn in this case?

Answer: Parents should learn to be friends with their children, to be companions. This is very important. Such families exist, and in those families children feel comfortable and protected. They are not pressured or stifled in their independence. They grow up openly.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/28/24

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My teacher, Rabash, passed away in my arms. I did everything I could to keep him alive, but what is beyond our power is simply beyond our power.

We must help a person because we never truly know the final verdict concerning them. That is why we are obligated to make every effort to ease their life. But the moment they are gone, that is it.

After his passing, I shut myself away for several months, dedicating myself completely to the study of Kabbalah, cutting myself off from everyone except him. Though, to be honest, I was always only with him anyway.

I didn’t feel, and still don’t feel, a significant difference whether he is physically near me or not.
When I was a young student, it was very important for me to be physically close to him, to listen, to see, to ask questions, to feel my connection to him. It gave me a sense of security, a way forward, confidence in myself “at his expense,” so to speak.

But over time, I became more or less independent, relatively speaking, of course. Still, I have no illusions about the fact that even today, we are in contact. I feel it absolutely clearly, just as one can feel a close person nearby, perhaps in the next room or standing behind you.

The thing is, there’s an image you form inside yourself from his physical presence, impressions, and expressions toward you. And then, there is his spiritual presence in relation to you when you create his spiritual image. In this way, you remain connected.

Question: But when people say, “I’m still in contact with my teacher,” it immediately brings to mind an image of a ghost hovering around, whispering, “Tell him this… Let him do that…”

Answer: That’s all just human nonsense.

Your next level, where you connect with him, exists within you just like everything else.
You cannot connect with him unless you yourself rise to the level of souls, unless you reveal the collective soul from within your own point in the heart. In it, you feel all other souls, absolutely everything!

To what extent depends on your level, but you do begin to feel it, like a small child feeling the world around them. There is still some contact.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Death of Rabash…” 4/10/10

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