Question: You once said that a Jew and a Roman are simply two forces trying to clarify the third force. That is, they develop not without purpose. Is the third force born independently or from these two?

Answer: The third force is intermediary between them, which we must now restore and bring into existence.

Everything that has happened up to this moment has only been preparation for what we must do now: correct the world. Not the Jews and not the other nations, but specifically us, which we do by taking Kabbalah as the source of correction.

Question: Does this third force already exist or do we simply not perceive it?

Answer: We must create this third force together because it does not exist; it does not descend from above. Only two forces come from above: the force of the Creator and the force of creation, the property of bestowal and the property of reception.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Truth About Reality” 10/8/10

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Liars are those who say that idealism is either inherent or a result of education. Rather, it is a direct result of religion. As long as religion did not sufficiently expand throughout the world, the entire world was barbaric, without an ounce of conscientiousness.

Only after servants of the Creator expanded did the posterity of the agnostics become idealists. Thus, the idealist is only so because of his ancestry’s commandment. However, it is an orphaned commandment, meaning without a commander (Baal HaSulam, “The Writings of the Last Generation“).

Initially, Baal HaSulam speaks about the spread of primitive idol worship in the world where people worshipped trees, stones, and the sun. Much later, the three major world religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) emerged; all of which arose from Kabbalah. If it weren’t for Kabbalah, from which all of its adherents, with the exception of a few, rolled down the hill and began to convert it into ordinary earthly practices, then today there would be neither the three main or all other religions.

Question: So when Baal HaSulam speaks about religion, does he mean the one that existed before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?

Answer: The Torah states that before the emergence of Kabbalah in ancient Babylon, there were various beliefs; each person worshipped his own family idol, and this was purely a psychological practice.

Later, King Nimrod wished to unite all the tribes that inhabited the state (the so-called seventy nations of the world) into one nation. For this, he needed something unifying, a single supreme spiritual image.

This is what Abraham, a resident of Babylon, began to work on. Abraham’s father, Terah, not only worshiped idols but also manufactured and sold idols. Abraham, unlike Terah, came under the influence of King Nimrod and understood that a single force was needed to unite people since egoism was growing, and dividing and increasingly alienating them.

To create a state and a single nation, a consolidating force was required. Nimrod stood for state authority, while Abraham fulfilled these functions as a spiritual priest.

But when Abraham began to develop the concept of a single spiritual creation and a supreme force that would govern everything, he came to the conclusion that this force already existed. He discovered it by trying to harmonize the many totems to one common source.

By generalizing this idea and turning all the deities into a single force, he understood that it has no image. It is so universal that it is devoid of any form.

Thus, the single idol they wanted to create suddenly “came to life” and became real. After discovering that one good force of nature exists that contains everything, unites everything, generalizes everything, and governs everything, Abraham began to teach this to the people.

This suited Nimrod because now he was the single ruler, king, and authority on earth, while God was in heaven. Practically all rulers used this model up until our time.

But Abraham gradually began to annul Nimrod’s authority: “Who is he? We must worship the Creator and deal directly with Him.” A strong confrontation arose between him and Nimrod, and Abraham was forced to leave Babylon with his followers who understood him and agreed with him.

Those who had not yet reached this understanding and wished for a normal, secure, egoistic existence decided to remain with Nimrod. But they could not do so because without the single unifying force that Abraham preached, egoism began to separate them, divide them, and set them against one another.

They realized that they had to disperse, otherwise they would destroy each other in an internecine war. This was a rational decision. Thus, they scattered throughout the world with their idols, while the servants of the Creator left with Abraham.

Question: What did Abraham and his like-minded followers teach? Was it the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Yes, a method for uniting people, for enabling them to rise to the level of the Creator.

Question: Do Kabbalists call this a religion?

Answer: In principle, what Abraham revealed is called Daat (“religion”).

Therefore, Baal HaSulam writes that the meaning of the one true religion is the attainment of the single force of nature that governs everything. A person can reveal this force if he follows the correct path toward its attainment, through which he acquires absolute knowledge of all the laws of reality.

Baal HaSulam does not pay attention to anything else.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 7/3/17

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Question: When a mother wolf goes hunting, caretakers watch over her pups and play with them. The attitude toward the pups in the pack is the most tender. Any adult is always ready to share food with them, play with them, and teach them the rules of hunting or hierarchy. This is exactly why the wolf pack is so united and effective.

Is this a process of upbringing? It is where the entire society comes to care not only for their own children? How can I detach myself from my own child? Here it is said that I care for someone else’s child, that the whole pack cares for him. In what case is this possible?

Answer: It is when you understand that all of you are one common whole. These are Kabbalistic principles.

Question: Absolutely! That without this I will perish, right?

Answer: Yes.

Question: A neighbor’s child is just as important to me as my own child?

Answer: Yes.

Question: This looks very unrealistic for a person. But it must be this way, right?

Answer: It must be this way, of course!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/1/26

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You will not break natural egoism with artificial means such as public opinion or education. There is no cure for this but a natural religion (Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation).

Baal HaSulam believes that neither education nor public opinion will help humanity, only religion will, that is, enlightenment, which is absolute and unlimited. By religion, Baal HaSulam means the science of Kabbalah, which reveals the upper force, a system through which this force, from its highest point in the world of infinity, governs all the worlds, the system of governance, and us in our lowest world.

Without understanding how this system works and adapting to it from our side, from the bottom up, we will not be able to attain the meaning of life. At the same time, we do not attach any philosophical connotation to the concept of “the meaning of life,” because without an understanding of life’s true essence, we cannot function normally.

We are moving to a state in which any of our actions that align with the direction of development toward the goal of creation are beneficial to us and yield positive results. If the action is not directed precisely toward the goal, if it does not move us closer to it, it yields a negative outcome, and we suffer. Moreover, we may not know which actions produce which outcomes, as we are not familiar with this system.

In order for us to know exactly what to do at this point in our development, to stop standing still or going backward, falling, getting bumps, and moving from crisis to crisis, we must understand what the science of Kabbalah says.

It explains which system a person lives in and which worlds surround him, how the upper force, the Creator, governs us through these worlds in the lower world, how we should respond to the Creator’s governance, and what we should come to, which is complete similarity, alignment, and adhesion with the Creator.

Nowadays, the science of Kabbalah is becoming very relevant because we see that today, none of the global rulers, neither philosophers nor scientists, have a good idea of where we are, how we conduct ourselves, or how to manage ourselves to ensure a more or less tolerable “tomorrow,” rather than head toward destruction.

Today many are increasingly aware of this, but people still do not understand that there is a system of knowledge known as “Kabbalah.”

In general, we call religion the study of the upper force, not just faith in the upper force, but the study of it. That is, the science of Kabbalah is the science of the upper force. If the upper force governs us through a system, then we can study that system. It may be impossible to study the upper force itself, but at least its effect on us can be understood, investigated, and applied.

Kabbalists, those who have mastered this system in the past, write to us from the depths of time that the desire of the upper force is for us to reveal it, understand its goodness, eternity, perfection, and strive to be like it.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation,” 7/3/17

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Just as we expect actors in the theatre to do their best to make our imagination think that their acting is real, we expect our interpreters of religion to be able to touch our hearts so deeply that we will perceive the faith of religion as the actual reality (Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation).

Kabbalists should be closer to people and approach them so that their words would speak to the human heart and the heart would understand them. There is still a lot of work to be done here because the egoistic human heart is used to being receptive only to certain cliches. People are far from what we are saying. It is incomprehensible, alien, and repulsive to them.

There is a vast gap between the science of Kabbalah and the modern, crude human consciousness, especially regarding the perception of reality, freewill, and the realization of mutual love, that is, things the mind does not agree with. After all, we should perceive as an existing reality, not our material world that we see through the five animal senses, but a completely different dimension.

We must understand that people are unaware of this. They cannot see or feel what we Kabbalists see and feel. Here we encounter our own weakness. We cannot blame people for not understanding us. We need to blame ourselves for not understanding people.

Comment: Why does Baal HaSulam make a clear comparison with artists?

My Response: Parents play with their children in the same way. What does being an artist mean? This is a person who stands at a higher level than others must regress and act at a lower level for the viewer to feel it as reality.

A Kabbalist, just like an artist, must talk about everything correctly, and use examples so that others understand how this method is implemented.

Usually people come to us looking for us to lift them up, rather than for us to come down to their level. And if we go out to the masses, we must understand that 90% of people on Earth, if not more, are incapable of mastering the methodology.

Therefore we must explain it to them at their level so they will join us like a small one clings to the great, and thus ensure that they are going in the right direction.

Question: Aside from acting for the general masses, should we, first of all, act for each other?

Answer: Of course, in order to be more connected with each other, each of us, by absorbing the properties of others, would become integrally assembled.

Question: Then why do we need an outer circle of people who follow us like a child holding onto his father’s little finger?

Answer: The fact is, we exist for them. The Creator wants them to become closer to Him. And we are the intermediate link, His messengers and His workers. That is why we are called the workers of the Creator. And they are the address He wants to send Himself to; He wishes them to adhere to Him because of us.

Question: After we fill them, does anything remain of us as transmitters?

Answer: Nothing, zero, and we are very pleased with this.

Question: Why do transmitters have to be actors?

Answer: Acting is a descent from the level of the Creator, to which you are attached on the one hand, to the lower level of people on the other hand, and the transformation of this through yourself. You have to take the role of the Creator, play Him in such a way—with His methodology, management system, and everything else—and gradually lower the levels so that everything is clear to the little ones.

Question: What if I lack acting skills and cannot act?

Answer: You can! Many scientists, including Kabbalists, have been thinking about the future of humanity. They thought about how to convey their thoughts to the masses, and wrote clever things. But no one understood anything!

And some of them wrote novels. They were not just writers, but great philosophers and teachers who expressed their thoughts in an artistic form. Those who wanted to convey their philosophy of life in an accessible way presented it in the form of a literary work because it is more accessible to the masses who associate with the characters of their novels.

This is the only way people perceive and absorb everything; otherwise, they cannot. If you start telling them the same thing in scientific terms, everything immediately dries up.

Question: So our art, as Kabbalists, is to evoke people’s empathy?

Answer: Absolutely. You organize all kinds of seminars, and this gradually brings them to a new state.

Question: Can every culture and nation organize something suitable for them?

Answer: Naturally. In its own way, national in form, Kabbalistic in content.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation,” 7/3/17

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The world must not be corrected in religious matters before economic correction is guaranteed for the entire world (Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation).

A state that decides to adopt an altruistic system must understand what to do and how to influence its citizens, i.e., how to adjust itself in one direction or another in order to demonstrate the desired path to everyone through this variation.

Baal Sulam emphasizes that this economic component is so important that it will become the foundation without which it is impossible to move forward in ethical principles.

As a result, until a person reaches a certain economic condition, he will not be able to think about spiritual matters, as his material needs will occupy his concerns.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that the foundation for the future society will not be education and public opinion but something more serious. After all, education and public opinion only will not be able to convince egoists to become altruists. What can it be?

Answer: It will not just be education and public opinion. In such a system, everyone must consider what contribution they need to make to the common fund and receive from it only what is absolutely necessary for them.

Entire organizations will work on this, ensuring that each person gives their share into the so-called common pot.

Question: Baal HaSulam also says that a higher value, the upper force, can become such a basis. As we know from Kabbalah, the upper force is the quality of bestowal and love. It will become the highest ideal for humanity, and everyone will agree with this. How can this happen?

Answer: It is very simple, because people who feel that they are bestowing because they want to help others, to fulfill them, they will in turn receive a spiritual fulfillment, which will bring them to a higher level of existence.

And so, society will gradually elevate itself with all the controlling bodies, all the calculations, and will reorganize itself in such a way that there will be no need for police, overseers, or anything of the sort. Instead, there will be voluntary and honest accounting by each individual.

In other words, humanity will reach a state where it will feel the upper force. Working for it, manifested through working for others, will essentially become the fuel for a person.

Question: You are talking about some ideal state when people feel this. But what if a person does not feel that?

Answer: If a person is on such a level that he does not feel spiritual actions at all, then he needs to be engaged in them. Society must embrace him and show him: the more good he does, the more goodwill society will show him; the more evil he does, the less society will tolerate him.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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They are all savages, and there is no tactic they will accept unless through religion (Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation).

Question: Baal HaSulam calls egoists (people who think only of themselves) savages. How can the Kabbalistic methodology change egoists into altruists?

Answer: This is only possible if we start to attract people to us with all sorts of enticements. Otherwise, I can not imagine what else could be done to make every person feel that by approaching an altruistic society, they are entering a zone of absolute confidence, peace, calm, and can live no matter the conditions because everything will be balanced for them.

Question: And yet, what is the unique feature in the Kabbalistic methodology such that it can lead to an ideal society?

Answer: It must be understood that attracting people to the society of the last generation means attracting them to the correct similarity to nature. Therefore a person will feel that he has suddenly entered a state where he is in harmony with the surrounding world, with problems of weather, health, and everything. All of this will begin to approach a normal state.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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It is forbidden to nationalize property before the public reaches this moral level. Before there is a reliable moral factor in the public, the collective will not have fuel for work.

The whole world is one family. … However, the actual process is gradual (Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation) 

Comment: Baal HaSulam points out several prerequisites before people can move to an altruistic society.

My Response: If I am not sure that 90% of what I have made with my own hands, have extracted from the ground, and so on, goes to society and ultimately to me, then I will not be able to work.

Question: So is this process likely to take hundreds of years?

Answer: I would not say it would take hundreds of years, but a couple of generations, yes. About fifty years.

The realization should be in steps: first in the form of knowledge, then in awareness, and then in the realization itself.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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Question: In the 1920s, before Hitler came to power, Baal HaSulam predicted the Second World War. The scary thing is all his predictions came true. In his writings “The Last Generation,” he talks about the possibility of a third and even a fourth world war after which only several thousand people will remain.

Do you also believe that out of eight billion people on Earth a few thousand will survive and complete the universal correction?

Answer: I do not think this is how it will happen. I feel events will unfold in a much gentler and smoother way.

Question: Why has the number of people worldwide increased to eight billion? Only 100 years ago, the world’s population was about two billion. There were periods in the development of mankind when only a few thousand human beings lived on the planet. Why is there such growth? What is the reason for this?

Answer: It depends not on us but on how these people can perceive and implement the spiritual methodology.

In other words, the number of people somehow helps in correcting the ego, which is distributed among a huge number of people.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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