Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How do you find a soul mate?“

It depends on you and not on who you find.

If you like someone as a person and see that they are serious and responsive, then it all depends on you.

Try to treat them as gently as possible, and see if they understand you, and if you begin to feel and support each other. What matters most is mutual support and the need for each other.

You can understand whether or not you are with the right person if you try to be kind, helpful and supportive of them. Then, you will see how that person accordingly reacts, i.e., whether they sincerely and wholeheartedly wish to support and preserve such states or whether they take them for granted, as if they do not matter.

Based on KabTV’s “Blitz of Kabbalah Tips” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on May 18, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is sin in one sentence?“

Sin is to think about yourself all the time, and not about others.

Based on KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on May 18, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What are we made of?“

Creation consists of two forces: bestowal and reception, plus and minus.

These two forces exist in every person.

By connecting the adducting and rejecting forces between us, we discover them more powerfully and clearly, and we can then use them and incorporate in them.

The force of bestowal underwent a process of shattering within us.

Why? It is so that we would piece it back together and reach the perception and sensation of that very force. In the process, we play out our connection to each other similar to how children play with Lego.

Whatever we discover without the inner connection between us is called “this world,” i.e., the world we perceive and sense through our five senses, and which we process in our minds. That is how we perceive reality when we view ourselves detached from the force of bestowal and from each other.

When we start connecting to each other and to the force of bestowal as we had once existed before we shattered into our detached perceptions of reality, then the various views will incorporate and connect with one another.

We will then start discovering their integrality, a single and whole system with no division into galaxies, stars, planets, vegetation, animals and people—one system with a single force guiding it.

When we reveal this system in its entirety, we will then start feeling the thought that fills the world, reality, the universe and all the worlds. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, that thought is called “the thought of creation.”

Based on the video “What Are We Made Of?” with Kabalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What do you expect in 100 years based on what we have and are now?“

In 100 years, I hope that we become wiser and have new relations in human society that influence nature’s other levels—the animate, vegetative and still—which would calm down nature’s various influences over us.

Many people think about the different kinds of science and technology that we would develop in the future, but they really do not matter.

What matters is that we use science and technology for humanity’s benefit.

What does that depend on?

It depends solely on the love that we build between us.

Moreover, I hope that we do not have to wait another 100 years to see a world of love, but that we live in such a world much sooner.

Based on the video “What Would You See if You Were Born 100 Years from Now?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Is suffering and depression a result of bad past life karma?“

In the wisdom of Kabbalah, we discuss Reshimot, which are records of the past or information about past actions that are engraved on our soul. Reshimot pressure us and determine our present and future.

However, our behavior can change the influence of these records from the past, making it so that they become perceived positively in the present.

It all depends on us.

Based on KabTV’s “Blitz of Kabbalah Tips” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on May 18, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What’s the difference between the terms ‘god’ and ‘creator’?“

PhD in Philosophy & Kabbalah, Russian Academy of Sciences (Graduated 2005)Thu
The words “God” and “Creator” evoke different feelings.

Religions, beliefs and people in general more readily relate to the word “God” as a certain power that fills the void around us, existing outside of us.

The Creator, however, creates the world, us and everything in us at every moment, which evokes a need for us to react to such an influence on a moment-by-moment basis. By calibrating our reactions in a certain way, we can come to perceive that we are the Creator’s creation, and that the Creator is a single, eternal and perfect bestowing force that created us for a specific purpose.

In Hebrew, the word for the Creator is “Boreh,” which is a combination of two words, “Bo” (“come”) and “Reh” (“see”). That is, the Creator is an extensive name that involves our dynamic participation in order to reach the Creator’s revelation.

Therefore, “Creator” is a more obligatory term than “God.” The Creator expects something from us. What does the Creator expect from us?

It is that we discover our complete dependence on the Creator, that only the Creator can make us equal to Him, and that we will start demanding corrections from Him—to invert our egoistic nature into His bestowing nature.

We can ask the Creator to do something and He does it. That is, on one hand, we are powerless like characters in the Creator’s script, but on the other hand, we are in control: that without our request and demand, we could never reach a revelation of the Creator’s eternity and perfection.

How can we ask the Creator to do something?

It is like how small children demand something from their parents, they stubbornly stick with their demand no matter how many times the parents tell them “no.” This ongoing demand from the Creator leads us to a state that Kabbalists call, “My sons defeated me.” We then start feeling that we are His children and that He created us precisely in order to develop such a relationship with Him.

Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on April 28, 2022, and on May 22, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Why did the orchestra stay on the Titanic until the end?“

Various accounts of togetherness and nobility during the time of the Titanic’s sinking show us how crises enable people to support and look out for each other.

For instance, while the Titanic was sinking, its orchestra kept playing until the very end, while people were being put into boats and panicking onboard.

There is also a story about a billionaire who chose to remain on the ship until the women and children were saved first, and accounts of women who chose to stay with their husbands and end their lives together as they had lived together.

It is natural for men to suddenly feel obligated to save women and children under such circumstances.

As for the musicians who played together until the end, their connection in one place evoked the force of connection that dwells in nature to hold them together.

If we sought to connect with the force of connection dwelling among us, then it would bring about such togetherness that would alleviate much crises and suffering that we experience in our lives. All it takes to evoke this force of connection from its concealment is that we hold onto one another. It then appears among us.

It is also the solution to fear. If we each focus on the benefit of others, we then do not feel ourselves. We feel others in place of ourselves, and leave fear behind by doing so. It is because fear emerges from self-concern, and when we replace self-concern with concern for others, we then leave no room for fear to surface.

If we strive to positively connect with each other, we then start feeling as parts of a common and higher entity, which is filled with goodness and peace.

Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michale Laitman.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Is it possible for a Jew to be an anti-Semite?“

A Jew can be an antisemite because being Jewish is not a nationality.

To be a Jew means to be drawn to “love your neighbor as yourself,” i.e., to host an attraction to unity. It is a special kind of perception of reality where a person thinks that everyone needs a harmonious connection more than anything else.

People who are immersed in self-love, emphasizing self-benefit at the expense of others, are not Jews.

Therefore, in order to stop antisemitism, the unifying force of love needs to emerge among the Jewish people. It can happen when we understand that without drawing closer to each other, we will disappear off the face of the planet.
Based on the video “How Can Jews be Antisemites?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Do dogs help autistic children?“

Autistic children tend to withdraw and find it difficult to communicate with people around them. They feel lonely, and dogs are indeed one way to help them.

Autistic children often develop special relationships with their dogs, patting, hugging and taking care of them with patience and devotion.

What does a dog give an autistic child that human beings do not?

When a dog gets used to a person, it is willing to accept them as a superior, both as owner and as friend, without considering whether or not they are autistic.

The dog is no friend at the level of empathizing with the child’s distress, but there is a common feeling and sensitivity between the child and the dog.

It is this sensitivity that human relations are greatly lacking in our present-day world.

We can thus learn from dogs the importance of increasing our sensitivity to each other. Dogs feel a lot, demand a lot, and they want to be loyal. The latter, however, is the main trait we can learn from dogs: loyalty—to our friends and to our owner, i.e., to the laws of nature that guide our every desire, thought and motion. The more loyal we become to caring about others and developing an attitude of giving, similar to nature’s giving force, the more we would balance ourselves with nature and experience more harmony, peace and happiness fill our lives.

Based on the video “What Do Dogs Give Autistic Children That Human Beings Don’t?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
Photo by Vitaliy Zalishchyker on Unsplash.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is your view on unemployment due to AI?“

The more AI will develop, the more people will become jobless.

It is indeed a major problem, and it will increasingly show us that we do not know what we should do with ourselves. People will go crazy if they have nothing to occupy themselves with.

We will thus need to create fictitious jobs. We have a big planet, so we should start arranging it so that it becomes more and more pleasant to live in, like a big garden.

Another area of utmost importance that we will regularly need to engage in is education.

The more unemployment will rise, the more we will need to upgrade our learning about the world we live in, to know why we are alive—the meaning of life. We currently neither ask nor answer the question about our life’s meaning.

Why are we here?

We are here in this world so that we rise above our egoistic nature, which pits us up against each other in an ongoing friction and competition. By rising above our egoistic nature and developing new connections of mutual love and care, we will then come to understand who we really are, what life is, and what is life’s ultimate meaning and purpose. We will then also discover how to truly live happily and peacefully. I hope AI will also help us move toward our finding the meaning of life.

Based on the video “Will the Job Market Collapse Due to AI? – A Kabbalist’s Response” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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