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Prophets, Yeshua, 9:9, 9:11: And they said to him, “From a very distant land have your servants come, because of the Name of the Lord your God, for we have heard of His fame, and all that He did in Egypt.”
And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go towards them, and say to them, ‘We are your servants; and now make a covenant with us.’
After the capture of the cities of Jericho and Ai, everyone began to fear the Israelites, and the kings who were nearby gathered together to fight the Israelites.
And only the inhabitants of Gibeon acted cunningly. They pretended to be poor people who came from afar, and Joshua entered into an alliance with them that he would not touch them. Therefore, when he entered the city of Gibeon, he did not destroy it.
And then ordinary Israelis murmured: “Why didn’t we destroy this city?” To which they received the answer: “We have entered into an alliance with them.” That is, they mistakenly determined that these desires, their intentions are not hostile.
Question: Why if someone comes from afar they are not to be touched? What do you mean by near and far?
Answer: Near and far are determined not by distance but by ideology, by the anti-egoistic higher desire. The ideology of the Israelis is drawing together and worshiping one God, one power, the property of bestowal and love—“love your neighbor as yourself.”
All other kinds of forces, and there are a great many of them, are egoistic. Naturally, they are opposite to altruistic desires, they cannot be corrected, and they must be destroyed. First and foremost, the closest ones.
And the fact that the Israelis were mistaken and did not destroy the inhabitants of Gibeon who deceived them is only because they entered into a treaty with them. This is sacred: you promised, you must fulfill it. And although the inhabitants of Gibeon achieved this by deception, they thereby protected themselves from destruction.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/26/21
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Question: Why does everything repeat itself in the Torah? First Terah saw how his son Abraham was burned, and then Abraham had to kill his son Isaac.
Answer: This always happens. To rise above the next stage, you must destroy the previous stage inside yourself. Therefore, the parents, so to speak, die in a person, and the next degree arises inside him.
Abraham was not supposed to kill his son. He only had to restrict him in his movements. After all, Abraham is the right line, complete bestowal, and it cannot rise and do something if there is no next, left, egoistic force against it.
This is why there must be a restriction, the thing that is imposed on egoism, from the right line to the left one. Thus, the totality of the forces gathering inside him begins to manifest in a person.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #17
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Comment: This letter is a cry of the soul. “I am writing to you as the last resort. I am a long-term drug addict. Please help me get off!”
Answer: I do not have such a capacity to do something like this easily. The ability is only in you. You must get into an environment where this does not exist and cannot be. You must do things that will completely cut you off from this state. And then, after a fairly long time, you will be able to completely break away from this disorder.
Question: Psychology also says that it is necessary to find such an environment, sit down together, talk about it constantly, and so on. Practically, you are in favor of this materialistic psychology?
Answer: Yes, there is nothing else.
Question: Does the environment affect a person to such an extent?
Answer: Absolutely! If the environment can take him in, there is no escape for a person. Nowhere! Or he can then voluntarily enter this environment himself and expose himself to their influence.
Question: So, in general, he has only one way out?
Answer: Yes. Only to expose himself to the influence of the right environment.
Question: And what should a person do when he has such heavy withdrawal symptoms? Ups and downs, one way or another he will have them because he is already clearly trying to quit and not succeeding for a very long time.
Answer: There are things that I cannot imagine how humanity can fight against. Only if it were some kind of global or national program.
Question: But is it coming to this?
Answer: I hope so! It depends on the governments and they are not interested. It is better for them—let people smoke or do whatever and they will be doing their own stuff.
Question: Is the idea for people not to have social activities?
Answer: They do not need them. It is better to spend these billions on making people swallow drugs. Let them sniff, chew, no matter what they do.
Question: Now is the time of drugs, a person wants more and more to get away from this reality. Is this happening precisely in order to bring people to something?
Answer: To bring them to a state where they understand what kind of world they live in, to see, learn, and feel that this world needs them and they need it, that there is an opportunity here, like Pinocchio, to open the door and take a peek into another world, to get there behind this hearth.
A person must make sure that his nature is absolute harmful to himself and to others and decide voluntarily to change himself. And then everything will change.
Question: If this guy slowly comes to this idea with the help of the environment, then will he come out of this state?
Answer: Yes. Then he will come out. Otherwise he will not find anything. Of course, in my dreams I would like to create such societies, large groups, that would help each other, spend time together from morning to evening and from evening to morning.
In principle, humanity can do this very quickly. Can you imagine a huge number of people do not need any work? They only need to be trained and they, in turn, will teach others. We can go through this very quickly.
Question: With the help of these social circles? Even virtual ones?
Answer: Of course!
Question: And this is how humanity will move forward all the time—helping each other. And what are they moving toward? What would you direct all these circles to if this is your dream?
Answer: To the fact that they connect more and more with each other, and in the right connection between them, they begin to reveal the true meaning of existence, of nature.
They discover in nature a single inner force, connection, love, mutual integration, connection. Apart from that, there is nothing else. All of nature merges into one single force—mutual bestowal.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/1/21
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Prophets, Joshua, 10:12-14: Then Joshua spoke to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still upon Gibeon, and Moon in the valley of Ajalon.”
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. So the sun stood still in the midst of the heaven, and it did not hasten to go down exactly a whole day.
And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened to the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel.
Question: For the first time, Joshua commands the Creator and the sun stops. What does it mean that the Creator listens to a person?
Answer: This is a spiritual state when a person feels that he can command his desires in such a way that even the upper force goes along with him, as if obeying him, listening to him. This happens at a certain stage, for example, when the desire of Zeir Anpin rises and Bina fulfills it.
The phrase “My sons have defeated Me” also relates to this. This happens throughout history if we act correctly.
Question: What does it mean to defeat the Creator?
Answer: The Creator as if is saying, “I have created in them the will to receive, and they wanted to use it in order to bestow, in order to be like Me. It turns out that they have defeated Me, and I am very happy about it. After all, the desire to bestow is My true, deepest desire, my quality. I am pleased with the fact that they rejected the opposite quality (to receive) and want to be like Me (to bestow). After all, they have defeated the nature that I created in them and proved that they are devoted to Me, that they love Me more than themselves. Thus, they raise Me above their nature, and truly put Me as the Creator over themselves.”
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/26/21
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And it was when they brought out those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war that went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon their necks.
And Joshua said to them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage, for thus shall the Lord do to all your enemies against whom you fight. (Joshua 10:24-10-25)
“Putting your feet upon the necks of these kings” means mastering these desires for the sake of bestowal, for the sake of serving the Creator. This means that you put yourself above others because you can control egoistic desires, and this is not easy. In this way you conquer the egoistic steps.
Question: Is this close to what Kabbalah says that the upper extends his part down to the lower?
Answer: No, there we are talking about cooperation in order to raise the lower one to the next level, and here it is about suppressing egoistic desires.
There are four types of mortification of egoism, which depend on the level of egoistic desire, and each of the four levels needs to be corrected.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/26/21
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How does spiritual awakening take place?
Question: According to what principle does a person awaken so he begins to change his properties from receiving to bestowing?
Answer: It depends on the soul. A person gets a desire for this and in some incomprehensible way he suddenly finds himself in the group. It is created this way by the network of forces. You, I, and we are all in it.
And then a very serious work will be required from you in order to realize your initial desires and through the correct interaction and training in a group to bring it to a state where, in addition to the properties of our world, you will begin to feel in yourself the property of the upper world.
This attainment will give you completely different properties and sensations of the Creator. It is then that you will begin to feel your soul filling up.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 6/23/19
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And he brought near the family of Judah; and He took the family of the Zarhites; and he brought the family of the Zarhites near man by man; and Zabdi was taken.
And he brought his household near man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give, I pray you, glory to the Lord, God of Israel, and make confession to Him; and tell me now what you have done; do not hide anything from me.
And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus have I done.
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. (Prophets, Joshua, 7:17 – 7:21)
Question: They found all of this in the tent of Achan so they seized all his possessions, cattle, tent, sons, and daughters and took them to the valley of Achor. What is Achan’s fault that he should be executed now?
Answer: There is no fault. A person acts according to his qualities. That is, not now when he has to decide how to act, but much earlier when he was given the opportunity to prepare and to be in connection with these, and not with those people, to study something, try to understand and embrace the laws. Then he still had a chance to prepare himself correctly for observing the commandments. However, now it is no longer possible.
When the Creator says: “Do this, and do not do that,” it is already clear that the period of preparation is over and now a person will act according to the qualities that are speaking within him.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/12/21
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Comment: The world has now become a world of clips; people watch clips, listen to audio books, and read less.
But according the World Literacy Foundation: “Reading is found to decrease blood pressure, lower heart rate, and reduce stress to significant degrees. According to a 2009 study at the University of Sussex, stress is reduced up to 68% just by reading! Only six minutes of reading can slow down the heart rate and improve overall health! It calms the mind and relaxes the body. This will not only help prevent potential conditions caused by stress, but will also set a person up with a clearer mind.”
My Response: I think that reading allows a person to deepen himself, to examine himself in relation to what he is reading, to develop internally. But for the new generation, this is unrealistic.
They will not read. They cannot. We have left them such an environment that kills them completely. This is clip-thinking, only these tik toks and so on. All of this, of course, simply kills the person within a person.
Question: So where is this leading us?
Answer: Through evil, we always come to something, to the realization of evil.
Comment: But you say that we will practically not read any more.
My Response: There will be other books, other things to read. There will be more questions, more answers, more of something purposeful in nature. These will not be volumes of solid text like we used to read. I remember how I would go to the library in the fifth, sixth, seventh, and other grades: I would take three or four volumes home and read them. You return them, take the next three or four volumes, and so on.
Comment: Reading was introduced in your home was the main thing.
My Response: That is all, this is the main thing. Where else can you draw anything from?
Comment: I see that you have gone through a lot of literature and not only technical.
My Response: Mostly what was available, that is, world classics. That was all we had of course.
Question: And if we still take on and develop children today, teach them to read?
Answer: I don’t know. They would be very disconnected from modern life, from their peers.
Question: So you do not especially advise this to push the child to read?
Answer: No. Society, the environment, still shapes a person. It is just that these children grow up in such times and they should exist in it.
Question: So you cannot say it is bad or that it is good?
Answer: You cannot take them to the jungle. That is how it will seem to them with all these writers. Imagine taking them back 50 years.
Question: To read there? When they read?
Answer: In general: in culture, in communication, in all that they get from books. Therefore, they are now detached from books because of the previous society, like another language. I believe that everything will be fine and there is nothing for us to worry about. It is none of our business.
Question: Is this how nature leads and develops?
Answer: Yes, of course.
Question: What does it lead us to as a result of this generation?
Answer: Each generation grows up in the environment that generated it and shaped it, and it should develop in this way. Do not disturb it. It is just that there are a few “dinosaurs” left in the modern generation and they are preventing the modern generation from living a normal life.
Comments: And they point out: read, read, only read.
Answer: Yes.
Question: What is education then?
Answer: It is if you, along with what they know and have learned from their social networks and so on, give them an educational program: that there is a special mechanism in the world, nature, that still guides us and leads us somewhere. It would be good for us to master this mechanism. We cannot get away from it, we exist in it.
There is a science that talks about how this mechanism works and how you can master it. You cannot change it, but finding out how to adapt to its nature, learning its algorithm and how to interact with this mechanism is good. It is useful.
Question: Is this what education will be like—to interest them in the study of nature?
Answer: Yes. Today, we have more and more such questions that we dismiss because we cannot do anything about them. So, to find out why, how, for what reason nature does something to us and what we can do about it ourselves, what is in our power—this can be learned only from those states that we find in the science of Kabbalah and nowhere else. This, I think, they should add to today’s worldview.
Question: So you think that this science will come to life one way or another, sooner or later?
Answer: Instead of all the millions of volumes and everything that humanity has collected, accumulated, discovered, written, and designed for us, we need only one science—the science of Kabbalah to learn what nature wants to do with us, how it affects us, and how we can respond to it correctly, adequately, all in order to achieve pleasure, to achieve happiness, knowledge, cognition, and live our years in this state as fruitful as possible.
Each generation requires a different approach to the world.
Question: And this generation will demand the science of Kabbalah?
Answer: I hope so. I hope that this generation will not fall into a trap, will not lose itself and wake up after a couple of generations. And so that already today we will begin to understand the plan of nature regarding us.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 12/04/21
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