Comment: Scientists report that the Gulf Stream is weakening and some project that Antarctica will likely be the only habitable continent by the end of the century if climate change continues its trajectory.

My Response: There could be an ice age for Europe. It would be worse in England than in Siberia. That is, Europe will practically freeze. And they won’t be able to do anything, no gas will save them. Terrible climate change is coming!

It is not about greenhouse effects, it is not about an oil slick or ocean littering. It is our common absolute opposite of nature—spiritual.

There is only one solution: stand up kids, in a circle, take each other’s hands and be good children. Then gifts will immediately fall from the sky. A bonbonniere for everyone!

If you don’t want to be in true inner friendship with each other, in balance with nature, and come to agreement and reveal the Creator, then rain and snow and then the scorching sun, floods, and floods mixed with fires will fall on you.

There will be nothing to eat, nothing to drink. You will walk around with sticks and fight each other! This is what Kabbalah predicts if there is no normal correction of our nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mass Death” 1/9/11

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Question: Hundreds of Israelis opened their mailboxes and found envelopes with money, 400-500 shekels, and a note: “Use this money to your heart’s content.” It turned out it was homework in abundance courses.

The idea of the courses is simple: If a person shares his wealth with others, then the wealth returns to him many times over. The course aims to change the mindset for the sake of attracting money. One of the tasks is to hand out envelopes with money and expect it to return in large amounts.

Is this formula supposed to work? What do you think of it?

Answer: No. Man is egoistic and he thinks only of himself. Even if he gives something to someone, he still thinks that it will return to him with benefit many times. Well, he can try it once.

Comment: But you say that one way or another we must develop this quality of bestowal in ourselves or receive it somehow.

My Response: We cannot develop it because we do not have any data or any properties for this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/30/23

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Question: What is the difference in conveying Kabbalistic information in Hebrew and in Russian?

Answer: Kabbalistic information can only be conveyed properly in Hebrew because words and definitions in this language originate from spiritual states.

The fact is that Hebrew emerged from the attainment of the upper world. This language, as such, did not exist before, just as the people of Israel did not exist before the group of Abraham started to reveal the upper world, because it was due to its revelation that everything started to develop below. All this appeared from the contact with the upper world. From there came numerous religions, philosophies,
sciences, and so on.

Hebrew is the language that emerged in Adam during the revelation of the upper world. He began to write, explain, and teach his students in it. Twenty generations from Adam to Abraham studied according to his book Angel Raziel (Raziel HaMalach) and other sources. Mainly, all information was conveyed not in writing but orally.

Then gradually, according to the attainment of the upper world, it entered written sources. In such a way, the horizontal and vertical lines of the letters express combinations of the qualities of bestowal and reception, and the dots form vectors of the connection of these two forces. Therefore, each letter in Hebrew signifies a combination of both forces in the spiritual object it expresses.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Voice Telepathy” 1/23/11

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Why do we have to have natural disasters?“

We receive major blows from nature ultimately in order to shake us out of the state where we live according to an egoistic paradigm—with exploitation, manipulation and hatred dwelling in our connections—to a state where we positively connect, as described by the words, “as one man with one heart,” i.e., as a single well-oiled interconnected and interdependent system.

In other words, if we shared a harmonious and balanced connection to each other on the human level, then the balance at our level would ripple throughout nature and we would experience nature harmoniously and peacefully, and natural disasters, as we call them, would become a thing of the past.

We would be wise to pay attention to the future states that we can achieve out of such blows: that the blows come to shake us out of our current dreamlike state in our egoistic attitudes to each other, and wake us up into an opposite harmonious and peaceful world.

In fact, we live in a world that is all good, and only we human beings give the world a negative form in our egoistic attitudes to each other. The time is nearing when we will awaken to the need to stop relating to each other through egoistic lenses—where we each prioritize self-benefit at others’ expense—and instead relate patiently to each other with positive, kind and caring attitudes.

If we made such a switch, we would bear witness to a good life, the likes of which we have never before experienced. We should thus try to reach such relations as quickly as possible.

Based on the video “Why Do We Receive Major Blows from Nature?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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Question: What are letters?

Answer: Letters are “Otiot” in Hebrew, which means “signs.” That is, these are signs with the help of which certain spiritual forces are designated.

We know that there are several possibilities to describe something: on paper, on parchment, on stone, and so on; it does not matter, even on sand or water. The main thing is that this record should be clear, that is, with clear roots.

The letters spoken of in The Zohar are special letters that denote the extension of the upper force to the lower form of life, which is desire. Light, the upper form of the government, affects the lower form, desire, and thus constantly changes it and forms it for itself.

Therefore, we can say that everything in the world consists of the upper force. This is the power of light, like a ray of light that shines on the form, on the desire, and transforms it in one direction or another in accordance with itself, as it decides.

In other words, every time light enters matter, it takes on a certain form. And letters, that is, signs, comprise this form.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 4/23/23

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Question: You say that we are “up to our ears in the donkey,” meaning that we are in our egoism. If we associate ourselves only with it, then how can we find our spiritual form? How can you find yourself to get out of this donkey?

Answer: This can be done only by attracting the upper force. When you start working with a group in which everyone strives to get out of their donkey, then a point in your heart awakens in you, which begins to ask: “Why should I live in this donkey? What kind of life is this?” Then everyone helps each other and through combined efforts, you develop in yourself a real desire for everyone to get out of your common donkey into existence outside of it.

This desire arises in you while studying Kabbalistic sources. And it doesn’t matter that they are written in a complicated and unattainable way. It doesn’t matter. After all, when you read them, you connect with the next degree, with the next sphere, from which the upper light influences you; the state that exists there pulls you to itself.

On the one hand, your suffering pushes you forward like a cherry stone. And on the other hand, it’s the force that pulls you out. In this way you get out of your donkey and begin to feel you exist independently. The donkey does not disappear, this world remains, but you begin to feel that you also exist in the next, upper sphere.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Head Over Heels in a Donkey!” 1/9/11

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Comment: The main problem in the development of fascism was that it is written in the Torah, “Use a non-Jew.”

My Response: If the Torah is interpreted within the framework of our world, then it will be worse than Mein Kampf because it says that non-Jews should be killed, deceived, neglected, and anything can be done with them.

If this is not interpreted as “my egoistic desires, which I have to deceive, change,” and so on, then it is quite obvious that this can be used as the basis for hatred of Jews.

But who can even think about it correctly? Those who benefit from it politically, no more than that.

Because you don’t see it anywhere in history. Do Jews earn money? That is correct. Do they know how to settle better than others? That is also correct. But, in principle, they do not harm anyone. It is invented by those who benefit from it. And this is natural.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Nazism and the Jews” 1/9/11

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Question: What is the best way to study Kabbalah: in your native language or in Hebrew?

Answer: It is desirable to perceive Kabbalah in your native language, but at the same time, you need to know a couple of dozen, maybe a hundred or two hundred words in Hebrew. It is impossible otherwise.

If you say “face” instead of “Partzuf,” and “head,” “legs,” and so on instead of “Rosh” and “Raglaim,” then you will be confused. And so you, on the contrary, take these words as artificial to define the soul.

They are, in principle, taken from there. It does not matter that in our world we use them to refer to body parts. But in this case, it is simple.

Therefore, I think it makes no sense to translate these words. No one translates special terms in any language, in any specialty. For example, Latin is used in medicine, Italian is used in music, and all kinds of expressions in German and English are used in international technical languages.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Language of Kabbalah” 1/23/11

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