Michael Laitman

Founder and president of Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education & Research Institute. Content is based on Dr. Laitman's talks, and written and edited by his students.

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When We Begin to Seek the True Source of Fulfillment

A time is coming when the love we know in this world will disappear, when there will be less reciprocity and attraction between people. We can already see signs of this developing in the new generation.

Eventually, we will begin to feel that we have nothing left to live for and nothing with which to fulfill ourselves.

Then we will begin asking for a different kind of love, a different kind of fulfillment. After all, man does not live by bread alone. We will begin to feel that we need the true source of all fulfillment.

This will be a moment of immense disillusionment, but at the same time, it will bring about a key revelation. Humanity will begin to ask: How can we fulfill ourselves? How can we exist? Where is the source that can indeed satisfy us?

This is how we gradually disconnect from familiar sources of pleasure. It is as though we are being led through a passage to the true source.

And that source is the general system, force, and law of nature, a quality of love and bestowal, also called “the Creator.” There is no other source. Eventually, a person will come to feel: “This is the Creator of my life and of all my aspirations. He is everything I truly want. I want only Him.”

Throughout our egoistic development, too, everything we have ever desired has ultimately been a search for Him. We simply did not recognize the true source toward which all our desires were directed. Eventually, however, we will. Then, humanity’s search for fulfillment will become a search for the Creator.

Based on KabTV's ""News with Dr. Michael Laitman"" with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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How Do You Change the World By Changing Yourself?

We keep waiting for positive changes to happen outside of us. But they will not. We have to reach the conclusion that changes for the better can happen only if we change ourselves from within. Then we will begin to see our world differently.

Our egoism, i.e., the desire to enjoy for self-benefit alone, currently depicts the world for us. But egoism has essentially finished its development. It has shown us the world it is capable of giving us, which is a dead-end world that leads us to emptiness, disappointment, fear, discomfort, and the feeling that we can no longer continue in the same way.

This happens so that we understand that there are no more changes to make on the outside.

Our egoism has done its job. It has brought us to the realization that we cannot continue existing according to the same paradigm.

So what should we do?

We have to correct ourselves, and through correcting ourselves, we correct the world.

This requires an entirely different method of development. Instead of trying to change, conquer, and reshape the nature surrounding us, our development needs to now take place within us. And as we change ourselves, the world will change accordingly.

What does it mean to change ourselves? It means changing our attitude toward everything around us, from an exploitative and egoistic attitude to a kind and altruistic one.

Then we begin to see the world differently. Through this new attitude, we start to perceive a different system of governance that was previously hidden from us. And what do we receive from such a change? We begin to bond with the world and attain its eternity, infinity, and perfection, qualities we cannot presently perceive because we view everything through my limited egoistic eyes. Such is the change that lies ahead of us all.

Based on KabTV's ""News with Dr. Michael Laitman"" with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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How Do You Think People Will Change as the World Changes?

Until today, we have built our sciences and industries according to our egoistic nature, where we each prioritize self-benefit over the benefit of others.

Our era, however, is marked by a fundamental shift that we still have yet to process properly. The shift is that we are now operating according to an integral principle, rather than a linear one.

The integral principle is a new attitude to the environment and to the world. The world itself operates according to this integral principle, and we will end up working solely according to it.

We are currently at an evolutionary stage marked by a revolution in our perception of reality. We are on course to perceive reality fundamentally differently, not limited to this world. Instead, reality extends and expands until it has no limits, and, together with that, we begin to live within our consciousness, thoughts, and desires, rather than in this physical world that is vanishing from our senses, with its outdated egoistic modes of conduct.

Tomorrow's world will be led by the idea that positive human connection is key, that we will feel so tightly connected that each person's self disappears, and we integrate, as it is written, “as one man with one heart.”

What would we feel then? We cannot describe new feelings that we have yet to feel, but in general, it will be good. It will be a world without corporeal limitations, without the Earth and the universe, a completely new world.

Taken from New Life episode 1255, The Evolution Of Employment, Part 2

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The Meaning of Life Is Between the Rungs

As I move from one dead end to another, I actually ascend. These rungs gradually create within me the desires, qualities, intellect, and feelings that let me discover the meaning of life.

The meaning of life exists, but initially I cannot see it, feel it, or even formulate what it is.

I am like a small child crawling on hands and knees from one step to the next, constantly trying to climb higher. Through these efforts, I develop until I begin to understand the meaning of the ascent itself. Suddenly, I discover that the meaning is found between the rungs.

Is there an end to this ascent? Practically speaking, there is not. And why should there be if I begin to feel that the process itself is life?

Life is precisely in encountering disappointment at each step and then finding the strength, aspiration, and goal to continue. I have to continually scrutinize, what for? Why? For what purpose? What is the correct goal? What is the right decision?

Through these questions and the effort to rise, I begin to feel myself growing and creating.

Eventually, I no longer feel such a strong need to reach some final rung. I begin to receive fulfillment from traversing the rungs themselves. Between them, I discover wisdom and clarity.

This is the meaning of the principle, “From Your actions I will know You.” From the rungs themselves, from the way they are prepared for me, and from discovering that I was created specifically to rise above them, I gradually begin to attain the One who created these rungs.
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How Do I Build My Future?

How can I know what nature has in store for me and where it is leading me?

Nature leads us to realize that we have the possibility of changing our future. The future depends on each person’s participation in building it.

We should therefore want to discover how we influence our future. We must build and create it ourselves. The laws of nature are given to us, and from them, as from a construction set, we assemble what our future will be.

What is the main law of nature? It is the law of universal bestowal and love, universal unification and mutual complementation, until the ideal picture of the entire system of the world is revealed before us. This is the direction in which a person must move. Nothing more is required.

Our struggle should therefore be only for the fulfillment of this law. And with whom are we struggling? With ourselves.

There is no reason to blame others or the world around us. We have to look at ourselves and work with what we find there. As the saying goes, do not blame the mirror.

What we make is what we will receive.

If each person directs the work toward themselves rather than trying to correct others, then we can change the picture of our future. The extent to which we truly want to do this determines how much we will be able to achieve.

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Based on KabTV's "News with Dr. Michael Laitman" with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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How Can I Turn from Hating into Loving?

Is it really possible to move from hatred to love? Can we clearly hate one another today and, after some time, suddenly shift to love?

Yes, we can. In fact, we are reaching such extreme states, so opposite to love, that this very contrast can lead us to it.

We are beginning to see where our present way of life leads us. All our efforts and achievements eventually vanish, everything slips through our fingers, and despite everything we do, we cannot achieve anything lasting. We live like blind, foolish puppies, without understanding where we are going.

But if we reach the point where we ask for a change from the general system, force, and law of nature that constantly operates on us, then a transformation can take place. Our forces, feelings, and qualities can change in ways far beyond anything we could expect.

The transition from hatred to love is therefore not a fantasy. We do not have to create love by ourselves. We have to recognize the state we are in and ask for our nature to be changed. This is because the general system, force, and universal law of nature is love, and it stands ready to respond to our request to become like its very loving force.

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How Could One Truly Show That They Love Their Neighbor as Themselves?

We hear the principle “Love your neighbor as yourself,” but most of the time it does not truly enter us. We might agree with it in theory, admire it, or repeat it, yet still not feel that it is the one gate we need to pass through.

So how do we finally come to it?

By exhausting every other possibility.

A person searches in many directions. We try success, knowledge, power, money, relationships, ideas, ideologies, different methods of self-improvement, and countless substitutes for true connection. We keep walking along the wall, looking for another opening.

But eventually, we discover that there are no other gates. There is only emptiness. This is why disappointment is necessary. Not a small disappointment in one thing or another, but a deep realization that nothing else can provide the answer. When every substitute loses its power, only one direction remains: adhesion and brotherhood.

We do not yet truly understand what brotherhood means. We use the word, but usually we mean some pleasant social relationship, mutual sympathy, or shared interests.

Brotherhood in the spiritual sense is much deeper than any such concepts. It is when people come into one desire and one intention. It is a state of complete connection, where everyone is included in everyone else. Instead of living as separate individuals who happen to cooperate, we begin to feel ourselves as parts of one system.

Kabbalah calls this system “Adam.” Adam is not simply a single person who existed in history. It is the image of humanity connected as one body, one heart, one desire. Every person remains unique, but all incorporate into a single living whole.

This is the future state toward which humanity is evolving.

It should not appear to us as a fantasy or a distant ideal. It should rather be positioned before us as a necessity that is real and attainable.

Why, then, do we need all the wandering, mistakes, and disappointments?

It is precisely so that we will arrive at this conclusion ourselves.

If the gate were obvious from the beginning, we would not choose it. We would follow it because nothing else was known. But after seeking everywhere else, after becoming tired of substitutes and false solutions, we begin to understand why this gate is the only one.

Then “love your neighbor as yourself” is no longer a slogan. It becomes the answer. And what seemed hidden was there all along.

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

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