Become Like The Creator

610.2Question: What does it mean to be like the Creator? It sounds like a slogan: “I want to be like the Creator.”

Answer: To become like the Creator is possible through those manifestations of the Creator in us when we feel the oneness of all His desires and intentions, His absolutely kind attitude toward us.

We must reveal this and try to be like Him because everything that we can feel in our world, in any state, and in the upper worlds, can be felt only to the extent of the similarity of our properties to something that is outside of us. And then we will begin to open this source of sensations in us.

Therefore, our method is called the science of Kabbalah, which gives knowledge of how to reveal the Creator. That is, to reveal such thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions that are characteristic of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/14/21

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What To Do When Resentment Suffocates?

49.01Question: Many people write to us that they live with resentment: “I cannot forgive my parents for destroying our marriage.” “I was in trouble, and my closest friend did not help. I will never forgive him.” Teachers are resentful toward ungrateful students, parents are resentful toward children who abandoned them; there are a lot of grievances and offenses.

How should we deal with resentment?

Answer: Frankly speaking, I will say that I cannot be offended by anyone because I know human nature. As much as I know the nature of man, I understand that I have no one to be offended by. If you really want to be offended, then, as it is written: “Go to the craftsman who made me.”

This is the truth. How can a person have any thoughts, feelings, qualities, and actions? Nothing about him is his own. He is completely wrapped up in what nature does to him, meaning, the Creator.

Question: This is an elevated state. Let’s go back to men on this earth. Children do not help their parents; they have practically abandoned them. There are some who have truly betrayed, cheated a friend, and so on. There are a lot of reasons. How should we deal with resentment?

Answer: I think you need to reach such a degree of your development when you realize that all other people around you are puppets controlled by the Creator in order for you to correct yourself properly in relation to these people, to justify them, and to wish them well.

Question: Is it possible?

Answer: In general, yes. Not always and not immediately, but…

Question: It is a lengthy work, but should it be in this direction?

Answer: Yes! Otherwise, you are slandering the Creator. And this is a completely different matter. The calculation is completely different. How do you embrace the universe as if it exists by itself or do you control it? If everything comes from above, we have no other choice but to be absolutely submissive, agree with, and change to be in likeness to this upper force.

Comment: It is beautiful. I will carefully assume that our whole world is a world of sinners. We are all in a state of hatred and constant resentment.

My Response: Like little kids in a sandbox.

Question: Why are we played with like that?

Answer: So that we really get disappointed. It is not about why the Creator created us like this but how stupid we are not to guess why He made us like this. There is an answer in front of a man and he does not want to see it. But this is all in order to accumulate, break through, and explode.

Question: If there is such a direction and we slowly walk in this direction, what will our world turn into?

Answer: Our world will turn from today’s mental hospital into a world where people are engaged in self-examination, self-healing, and self-building. To the extent of this, the Creator will be revealed in them.

Question: And what is the “revelation of the Creator in man”?

Answer: The quality of bestowal and love that elevates us to a completely different level of feeling the world.

Question: Are you sure that there is only one path, there is no other?

Answer: No there cannot be any other path.

Question: There are no haters, only the Creator is in front of me?

Answer: Of course!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/29/21

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Open The Upper World Here And Now!

527.02Question: Religions do not talk about the value of this life. Follow more commandments and you will go to heaven. In principle, does this approach completely cancel both mind and all questions?

Answer: No, this approach is good for the normal social scheme of society. But they really do not say that there is value in this life, only beyond its borders.

But Kabbalah says something different: You must attain your world in this world. Open the upper world here and now, and then you will find that you are in eternity, infinity, perfection.

This spiritual world is here. We don’t feel it. Expand this sense organ in yourself, open it, and from it you will see the upper world. It is yours. And when your body dies, you will not even feel that you are dying.

By developing a higher level, we automatically stop feeling the previous one because we begin to feel the flow of life on a different level.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up—Mystery of the Sphinx” 2/5/10

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The Convention And My “I”

942Question: Being at the congress means being integrated with everyone. But on the other hand, I want to do it quickly and run away, sit in a corner, and observe from the side what is happening. But one came from far away, overcame so much, and must integrate with the friends. How can we work with this state?

Answer: I think you need to detach from your “I.” Leave everything that arises in you for later, for when you go back home.

Do whatever everyone else does and try to feel what everyone else feels. You should not run to a corner and plunge into reflections and different thoughts. Participate as much as you can in the general common motion, in the common game, in the common action.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/13/19

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No Need To Fear, The Creator Will Pull Us Forward

232.1The Creator constricted Himself inside a black point to make room for us. This empty space is filled with the anti-Creator, the lack of light, which we reveal as an egoistic force.

The Creator inverts Himself inside out like a garment and shows us His inverse side. When we feel this inverse side of the upper force, we call it darkness, evil spirits, and all kinds of negative epithets at the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human degrees.

That is, against every good state on the rungs of the spiritual ladder there is a bad state. In the contrast between these two states, we have the opportunity to develop sensations to evaluate the advantage of light from darkness.

Everything is revealed only from its opposite. Therefore our advancement must happen in this way and we should not be afraid of negative states. Every time we fall, we have to understand that we lack a stronger connection between us. The Creator, who is concealed inside this connection, will pull us forward.

Every time, we need to equip ourselves with the support of the Creator more and more, depict Him between us, and make sure that He is present in all our thoughts and actions. The most effective means to attract the Creator is our prayer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/3/22, “Asking the Creator to Fill the Place Between Us”

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Forecast For 2022: Where To Go?

229Comment: Some political scientists, scientists, and various specialists recently gathered to provide and economic forecast for the coming year, which included the following points. The gas crisis in Europe will worsen; Europe, as a whole will be torn apart by contradictions; the immigration crisis in the EU will intensify; hyperinflation in the United States will intensify; the confrontation between Democrats and Republicans will worsen; the pandemic will continue; military conflicts in Syria, Libya, Donbass, Karabakh, and the situation around Taiwan will not be resolved; America’s confrontation with China will be intensify, and so on. There are many more points.

What is your view on all this?

My Response: There is worldwide discord.

Question: Where to go? Look what is going on!

Answer: There is no need to go anywhere. Nowhere. There are no other planets, no one is waiting for you anywhere.

You have made a mess of one planet and now you are going to fly to another? If you would observe the Earth from space, you would see how much garbage, to put it mildly, swirls around this Earth. The Earth itself is completely covered.

Question: So what about all these forecasts? Specialists, political scientists, they should at least suggest something.

Answer: They cannot offer anything. This will continue all the way to the end. On the contrary, they are beginning to realize that they have nothing in their hands. There is nothing in the head, in the soul, and in the heart. This is where the real crisis begins.

Question: So, do you think it will appear in their heart and soul?

Answer: No. This requires huge disturbances and great suffering. They would not survive that. They would consent to lie down under an atomic bomb and that’s it.

Comment: But they used to offer something, something was built before.

My Response: It was because they were more naive. They are smarter now. They realize they have nothing to offer.

Question: Do they suddenly feel that the human mind can no longer grasp all this?

Answer: The human mind can only ruin, spoil, break, and make the future dark, black.

Question: Why were we given such confidence in our minds?

Answer: So that we get completely confused and realize that our mind is worth absolutely nothing. After all, what distinguishes man from all other creatures? The mind!

It sounds so dignified! Well, now be proud of who you are. You have such a mechanism in your head, such a huge amount of feelings in your heart, but they are all egoistic, narrow, and fixated on the mundane, on our petty egoism. And that is why nothing works.

Question: Is this the way, really? Is that the only thing a person has to realize?

Answer: Yes. Only that, that there is nothing in his hands, it is either death, or…, but death is not an option either.

Question: What do we have in our hands then?

Answer: Only to go toward getting closer to each other to reach such heights in the relations between us that your neighbor will be dearer to you than you are to yourself.

Question: So we can come to such a state that I set my brain aside and go only for feelings?

Answer: Yes. Because our brain today can only lead us into even deeper egoism and expose us to even greater blows.

Question: Do you mean that this is not about the mind but about the heart?

Answer: Yes. “The heart understands,” as it was written. The mind has to follow the desires. To the extent man’s desires are corrected, to that measure his mind can work with them. And it will be the right symbiosis.

Question: So this is how the higher mind plays with us?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Is our mind a part of this higher mind or not?

Answer: Our mind is not. But we will come to it, we will come to uniting our mind and our feelings with the higher mind.

It will be a good year.

Question: Do you have any advice on how to do this?

Answer: We can accelerate the maturation of the rational-spiritual or rational-heart if we try to understand this path.

We must realize that we have no other way to preserve ourselves as a species but to change to opposite properties. That is what we need to realize—there is no other way out.

We can’t say: “This is unrealistic, this is impossible.” It doesn’t matter what is possible or impossible! It is simply the only way out. So we are going to jump over the abyss from the fact that we are absolute egoists to the fact that we must be absolute altruists, from hating each other to loving each other. Nothing else is needed. And in this quality of love for each other, we will begin to feel the great power of the universe permeating everything and everyone, all matter, above time and space. And then we will enter a completely different level, a different dimension.

Only this is required of us. It is impossible with our own forces. When we think about ourselves now, everyone refers to their own strength. But we can overcome only by collective forces.

Question: So, let’s achieve this together?

Answer: Yes!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/29/21

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“30 Years After The Soviet Union Dissolved, Did The World Benefit?” (Linkedin)


My new article on Linkedin “30 Years after the Soviet Union Dissolved, Did the World Benefit?”

30 years after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, it is still looking for a new path. Its disintegration has rocked the world, but it has not made it safer or more stable. Humanity is still in the midst of a global change.

30 years ago, on December 26, 1991, to be exact, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), aka the Soviet Union, dissolved into the states that comprised it. The republics left the union and Russia’s subordinate states became independent and began to fight against each other or joined their former arch-rival, NATO. Thirty years later, Russia is still looking for its way, and still craving world dominance.

I cannot say that the disintegration of the USSR has made the world a better place. Although it was a poor superpower, it was a superpower nonetheless, and the member-nations in it knew where they stood.

Although it was not a democracy, it was solid, and in today’s tumultuous times, that, too, has merit. It may be good that the countries that comprised the Soviet Union have become independent, but until they reap the benefits from their independence, they will continue to be perilously unstable.

No one knows what the future holds for Russia, but it is clear that the situation is becoming increasingly precarious and threatens its stability. At the same time, the US is also losing steam. Despite being a democracy, and having economic superiority, America, too, is falling.

So, on the one hand, the Russian economy is unstable, and on the other hand, the American democracy does not meet the demands of today’s world. As a result, China is stronger than both America and Russia.

The European Union is completely out of the picture. The “union” has become a composite of thirty or so countries that cannot agree on anything. As a result, the EU has lost its status as a significant player in the world arena.

This leaves the world with many question marks. If we add to it the Middle East, which is a snake pit, there is not much to look forward to, despite the temporary quiet.

I cannot say that the world would be any better had the USSR not been dissolved. Nevertheless, it is clear that while it was intact, it had advanced science and industry, and it sustained itself, even if poorly, and toward the end very poorly.

Still, times are changing, and there are always fluctuations between states. The new state will bring with it rejuvenation. In the meantime, however, the world is at a loss. It does not know where to go economically, politically, or in the military sense. People and countries are simply trying to hang on.

It may be an unorthodox view but I think that by and large, the Cold War was a good thing. At least people knew where they stood and how to conduct themselves. It was good for the superpowers, the rules were clear, and when the rules are clear, it is easier not to break them and cause horrendous accidents.

Today, there is nothing but confusion. If the stress continues to build up within and between countries, they will have no choice but to release it the way they always release pressure: by going to war.

Now that 2022 has begun, I think that we are starting the new year in great bewilderment. Russia is in a terrible condition, so is America, and although China seems like it is on top of the world, it is completely dependent on America’s purchasing power. The whole world is in a state of collapse. The ideologies that had kept countries going are all manifesting their irrelevance and weakness, and cannot offer humanity an appealing way of life. Indeed, the world is ready for change.
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The Main Outcome Of The Past Year

962.3Question: It is time to summarize the results of the past year. What happened? The UK completed the exit from the European Union; Joe Biden took the office of President of the US; Naftali Bennett became Prime Minister in Israel; the use of disposable non-degradable tableware and plastic was banned in Europe; serious flooding occurred in Western and Central Europe; there were numerous volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in Indonesia, Haiti, and so on; fires blazed throughout Europe, Russia, and Australia; and many tornadoes caused damage in the US.

The Summer Olympic Games were held in Tokyo; Kabul fell and control transferred to the Taliban; same-sex marriage was legalized in Switzerland; Angela Merkel resigned from her duties; the coronavirus continued and continues, and has resulted in nearly 270 million people falling ill and the deaths of 5.3 million people.

How would you sum up the results of the past year?

Answer: It was a year of exacerbations. That’s what I’d call it.

And the most important escalations are between Israel and the United States. It is very serious, to the point that soon we will be at odds with each other. We are already in opposition to each other. I think there are even some who disagree with our existence.

The only thing I still hope is that the Jews in America will slowly come to their senses and will not be in such solidarity with the Democratic Party, with left-wing movements. They still need to realize that, although the government is called “left” and “democratic,” it is not democratic, it is not for democracy, it is not for the people.

But with regard to Israel, we must say it will be worse, much worse. There was nothing better for Israel than the Trump government. And we didn’t appreciate it, no matter how much I wrote and talked and shouted about it. It did not register. The Jews betrayed him. We pushed him away. And it hurts a lot, and we will still suffer a lot because of the fact that it turned out this way.

It will take a long time for the Jews to learn from this, but the lessons will be very serious, lengthy, and, I’m afraid to say, bloody.

Question: Is this the main outcome of the past year for you?

Answer: There is no other outcome because it is tied to the goals of the development of the world.

Question: Summing up the past year, what were you thinking about, yourself, Israel, or us?

Answer: No. I was thinking about the realization of the program of creation in our time, about which way it will be realized. And, unfortunately, we are turning this whole path from a kind, brief one into a bloody one, which in the end will be tragic, long, and painful. Especially for us, but, in principle, and as a result, for the whole world.

Question: You said “the path.” Then explain, please, why these two countries, or one, stands as if in the center of the world?

Answer: Israel is at the center of the world. Not because I’m in it, but because it is so for objective reasons. We have seen this throughout history. And, in principle, most people agree with this, those who see the situation and view the whole of history through the lens of time and events. It’s all tied up this way.

We are in the center of events, and our task is to lead the world to unity and connection by showing an example and dragging others after us.

And we don’t do that. Therefore, of course, it is our fault that the world is in the state it is now. We will have to fix this, and keep on fixing it, maybe, in very, very unpleasant ways. This is called the “path of suffering.”

So there will be no connection, there will be long separations, there will be long term problems, skirmishes, wars, and misunderstandings, but in the end we solve all this. And when we, meaning the Jews, go on the wrong path, not on the path of connection, then, of course, it’s bad.

Question: Does this formula work: bad for us, bad for the world?

Answer: The world will not be better off. The world will be the same way as us, only in a different form. If they deport us, destroy us, force us to vacate our territories, and so on, then the world will eventually also be covered in wounds bleeding. It will just be like a hunted animal.

Well, what will you do? We are to blame for this. I have written about it, talked about it, and in the end we are coming to this now.

Question: What’s more important for you, that the Jews will hear you more or all the nations of the world?

Answer: The nations of the world is good, of course, but the main thing is the Jews since everything depends on them after all. At any moment, if they change and understand that they are the central point and that the state of the whole world depends on their condition, if they unite among themselves, the world will begin to unite and it will be possible to prevent war.

No one will help us. The Americans are already openly declaring that we are not participating in your plans. They don’t even want to supply us with tanker planes. Which means, we won’t even be able to attack. We cannot attack Iran, its nuclear facilities, which they openly say are intended for us. They don’t hide it.

And the Americans also do not hide that they are stopping all help to us. And there’s nothing left for us to do. Are we going to sit here and wait for the atomic bombs to fall? And this is quite likely.

This is what we have brought upon ourselves by ourselves both physically and spiritually. We do not seek connection. We do not seek solidarity. We do not seek solidarity among ourselves. We are an example of such mutual rejection that does not exist in any other nation.

No nation in the world can show an example of such separation and division as we do. We are practically repeating all the same Jewish wars that have been waged throughout history within the Jews with each other.

Comment: When the Temples collapsed.

My Response: It’s the same now.

Question: What is your conclusion from all this?

Answer: Conclusion: Beware, Jews! That’s the conclusion. Just this. And that’s why I’m very pessimistic about the future! Everyone in the world is becoming more and more convinced that Israel and the Jews are just a problem, a malignant tumor on the body of the world.

Comment: But in this case you are not offering to remove the tumor, you are offering to cure it.

My Response: I don’t know how to cure it. I think that people, the nations of the world, the countries, will have the same thought again: “Why did we create this Israel? And what does it even exist for? It’s like an eyesore to us.”

Comment: Let’s say this thought arises. The action is not about destruction I hope.

My Response: There will be such actions that we will be banished from all international clubs and organizations.

Comment: Judged in all international courts.

My Response: It’s already happening. And we will supposedly reassure ourselves that this is not so, that it is all temporary, and so on. Just like the Jews did in Nazi Germany before they were all taken to concentration camps.

Comment: But you have said that it is impossible to destroy this nation.

My Response: Well, there will be a few people left. I’m being completely serious!

If a large number of people can only be in such discord among themselves, then in order to bring them to some more or less logical, correct relations, there will be nothing left but to reduce their numbers. Let them feel how dependent they are on each other.

Question: Let’s say I hear it. Here I am, a Jew, or I am a representative of other nations, I hear it. What are my actions? You’re not talking just for the sake of talking.

Answer: Your actions will be dictated by what will happen to these nations.

Question: If I am a Jew, what are my actions?

Answer: To throw everything off and engage only in connection: to gather all the Jews as much as possible into one single feeling, one awareness that they are one single whole and must connect with each other, overcome mutual hatred, and achieve a state almost like love.

All this is done so that after connecting together, we can do our real work, not only on our own connection, but on the connection of the whole world. Then we must be a light to the nations of the world. And we will have to spread the methods of connecting and uniting all people in the world with each other.

And they will ripen by this time because there will be so many more cataclysms, so many problems, that we would hardly have time to explain to them that it can only be stopped by our kind mutual relations should that come from the Jews.

Comment: You are not talking about the advantage of Jews. You’re talking about the pretty hard work they have to do.

My Response: About their duty to all mankind.

And they don’t feel it. Humanity feels this in its claims to the Jewish people, and the Jewish people themselves do not feel it. And that’s the problem. How can these stiff-necked people, such stubborn ones, be shaken so that they wake up. It turns out that inside they are just frozen, still, preserved for many, many centuries.

I do not know how to do this. And therefore, on the eve of next year, I am in a state of anxious expectations. And I don’t see what good can happen next year. There are no prerequisites for this.

Comment: And if I, a representative of any other nation, hear this, and it even annoys me.

My Response: If you don’t belong to the Jews, then I ask you to put pressure on the Jewish people, explain to everyone what I explained to you. And try to make them, the Jews, understand their necessity, their real role in this world, especially in our time, and immediately begin to implement it, to connect between themselves, to show an example to all the nations of the world of how to unite. And then the world will calm down and come to its correct state.

This should be explained to everyone.

Comment: Still, it amazes not only me, but everyone that you put this to the forefront, at the forefront of everything that is happening in the world! In the world!

So much is happening in the world and you put this at the top of everything.

My Response: There is a free fall of all mankind happening in the world into a moral, technological, ecological pit.

Comment: And you say it is because of us.

My Response: Yes. Because we don’t raise the value of connection. Only it matters!

Question: Connection in a simple sense?

Answer: The connection of people among themselves, because in this case they can reveal the upper force, bring it closer to themselves. As we unite, we bring the upper force closer to ourselves and thus reveal to all of us the existence of all of us in a certain new world. We begin to see the forces that control us. This is very important! And then we understand where we live, what for, how to live, and so on. Therefore, when we begin to unite, we begin to reveal the manifestation of the upper force between us.

Question: Does this revelation really have to come to every person? To absolutely everyone?

Answer: It will come to every person. Sooner, later, depending on one’s internal qualities, but it will come to every person.

Comment: We are entering the next year, what are your wishes, please.

My Response: To be heard!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/13/21

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