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Morning Lesson June 29, 2024.
Part 1: Baal HaSulam. The Last Generation.
Reader: Hello, we're reading in the writings of Baal HaSulam, the writings of The Last Generation. We're continuing with Part One, title, Israel is Qualified to Set an Example to All the Nations. You can find the study materials on our website and ask questions also. Anyone asking a question in the study hall is asked to stand up, hold the microphone close to his mouth and speak loud and clear. The writings of Baal HaSulam, the writings of The Last Generation , title, Israel is Qualified to Set an Example to All the Nations.
Reading Item 15: (00:54) Israel is Qualified to Set an Example to All the Nations
Altruistic communism is seldom found in the human spirit. Hence, the nobler nation must take upon itself to set an example for the entire world.
Reader: Again, title, Israel is Qualified to Set an Example to All the Nations.
Altruistic communism is seldom found in the human spirit. Hence, the nobler nation must take upon itself to set an example for the entire world.
M. Laitman: We see that actually the first organizations in humanity were also closer to some communal settlements or gatherings, but not because they wanted to be such, but because life obligated them to band together and care for their mutual possession or protection and so forth. And in contrast to that, in the correction of humanity, in the connection to altruistic communism, humanity will not want to gather and come to some connection in order to protect something, rather in order to be close to some altruistic ideals and closer to the Creator. Therefore, we should understand that altruistic communism cannot grow in undeveloped countries in the sense of the people. But actually, the other way around. That where there are people who are developed and they sense the development that needs to take place in humanity, they'll be the first to enter those frameworks that will be closer to altruistic communism.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:31) Developed in what?
M. Laitman: Developed in experience of connection, of collaboration, all sorts of forms of connection between them.
Student: But right now, all the forms of connection that develop are completely egoistic.
M. Laitman: Correct.
Student: So, they just become further away from this form of altruistic communism?
M. Laitman: No. What we go through are stages, stages of development, the present stages, and we still have to go through them.
Student: In what the development that we see today brings us closer, brings humanity closer, or specific nations closer to altruistic communism?
M. Laitman: We are increasingly capable of understanding that the future can't happen through disconnection but specifically through connection between human beings. We're able to understand that the best possible state is that everyone will want to get closer to and help the other. Because there's no other choice at first, in the beginning of development, and at the end of development we come to a state where the connection is necessary by nature. So, in order for us to guard ourselves from falling into great suffering and suffer blows that human nature and nature in general that surrounds us, will prevent that from developing negatively against us, we have to be connected.
Student: This connection, won't it also be a connection in order to guard or protect something?
M. Laitman: To protect us against our nature.
Student: Yes, but you said before that we will have to reach a state where the connection will be in order to get closer to the ideal of resembling the Creator, getting closer to the Creator.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And if humanity will develop in connection because of the necessity by nature, there is oppositeness here.
M. Laitman: No, it will always be that way to begin with. The stages will be first stages that necessitate people to get closer and develop so as to avoid blows and avoid troubles. And then, afterwards, even just from understanding that their closeness gives them a sense of accord with the upper force, with the forces of nature, being in equivalence with nature, or call it the Creator, it doesn't matter. That's how we'll advance. Surely, there are stages on the way here still, but that's how it needs to happen. Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:05) We know, you told us that Baal HaSulam met with Ben-Gurion when the State of Israel was established and also talked to him about spiritual development.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Here, when he says that Israel should be an example of all the nations, is that a corporeal Israel or the Israel that develops spiritually, like our world, Kli or now, according to their direction?
M. Laitman: No, no. No, it's just, there was an opportunity, like he says, in those days, where it was also possible to achieve the correction of the world, but it didn't happen. Therefore, there are opportunities sometimes in history where a shortcut can be made.
Student: Here, does he refer to the nation of Israel?
M. Laitman: He's referring to the people of Israel, yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:23) He says that the most noble nation should give an example to the rest of humanity. What does it mean, noble?
M. Laitman: Noble in the sense of spiritual development. There's nothing else. There's no other definition for him, for this word.
Student: Can you explain to me what noble means in terms of spiritual development?
M. Laitman: Yes, it's a result of great pressure and great history, long history, where this people was suffering and being pressured by all the nations more than others, and in such a way where it always has to as if escape the small troubles all the way to big troubles. It comes to a point where it is evolved. All right.
Reading: Item 16, title, The Country Is at Risk. Altruistic Communism Will Assist with the Ingathering of the Exiles
The nation is at risk since before the economy is stabilized, each will flee to a different place, for not every person can endure the test while there is a way to live comfortably.
In the altruistic communism, the ideal will shine upon all people, giving them satisfaction that will make the suffering worthwhile. Moreover, it will draw the ingathering of the exiles from all the countries because the worries and survival wars everyone experiences overseas will motivate them to return to their land and live in peace and justice.
M. Laitman: Good. Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:16) It's amazing that Baal HaSulam writes here exactly what our greatest haters say.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: If you listen to the speeches, they say this is not even a nation, it's just an ingathering of the exiles connected by spider webs, there is no connection between them, and therefore they also have no right for the land. He says that many years ago and he is really telling us that without altruism communism,we have no right to exist here. It's not something that will be in the future. One day, he brings it down to a very practical level.
M. Laitman: Yes, we look at other nations and we want to try to calculate when we will be like them. But it's completely not our path. It's a different path. That's true.
Student: So, it's not so clear to me, because we're always talking about the fact that he's talking about some ideal society, when humanity will be mature, and then we will reach that, etc. But here, from what he says, if you open the news, this is happening right now. It's like there's a gap here between...
M. Laitman: No, the stage we're going through, we have to go through it. It's clear that the world that is developing has to develop through all the negative forms. Until from them, like a melting pot, the people of Israel arises, and the state of Israel, and ultimately, it will move in a direction where our nation will be seen as an example for development. But it's not right now. Of course, this is in the future. Baal HaSulam thought that these things will happen fast, close to his time. But on the one hand, on the other hand, just like Rabash sometimes spoke, these are stages we don't understand, because some of them happen above attainment and above nature, above man's sensation, and a part of it suddenly appears in our society.
Student: What I'm saying is that today, if let's say, 20 or 30 years ago someone would tell me that most Israelis who have a little bit of money, not much, but will buy apartments outside of Israel, I would tell him, you're delusional. After 2,000 years, we came to this country to be here. But today, this is the situation. Anyone who has a little bit of money, really even a little bit more than what they need, they buy an apartment in Cyprus or some other country, you know, to be safe. Who knows what will happen?
M. Laitman: This is natural for people.
Student: He writes about it here, that if there will be no stability from the spiritual aspect, people will not stay here, they'll go elsewhere.
M. Laitman: Yes, that's clear. We are still in the beginning of our development, the recognition of evil.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:25) I don't have a specific question.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:33) Rav, hopefully you will allow me. I'm simply also looking at the situation, and it seems like what is happening here is illogical. And it feels like what is written about Pharaoh, that He hardened his heart, because what is happening simply doesn't make sense.
M. Laitman: Very well. To the extent that it doesn't make sense, it actually means it's closer to a solution.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:10) I'm trying to understand what is the ideal that we can describe to a person today, that he can be drawn to it and come here to the land of Israel, or even not to live here, not to get out. Can you define it?
M. Laitman: I don't know. I know that when I was young, let's say at the age of a little bit before or after 20, I had a great passion to leave Russia and come to Israel, in all sorts of ways. And afterwards, still, as I told you more than once, when I came to that state and I left Russia, then from every train that went out of Russia to Europe, to Vienna, only my family and some other family from Bukhara or something in the area, we came to Vienna, and all the rest scattered. We scattered, we went to Vienna, and from there no one continued with us. We had to wait more than a week in Vienna until we went on a plane. Meaning, we somehow filled up a plane and we were taken to Israel. So, that's true, there's a big difference between what happens in reality, and what appears in man's mind, and how man depicts to himself the states that he's going through. I, now still, have no answers to many questions. However, we know that whatever happens doesn't happen according to our intellect. And we'll see, we'll see. But what Baal HaSulam writes, in any case, is something that somehow has to manifest before us. Yes.
Student: I still didn't understand, how can we define this ideal with a few words so that you can tell that to a person and he is drawn to it? He doesn't actualize it, but he just says, I guess this is worthwhile.
M. Laitman: The ideal that we learn is that a person prefers inner development, inner connection in a special society, and that is what attracts him more than any other social form.
Student: I guess we need to find the words. I'm also looking for a process. I work a lot about phrasing, the vision, and really every word that you write or say, it's not suitable, it's not attractive.
M. Laitman: True, of course it's unattractive, and of course we're still not on the right track and we don't see, feel, or understand it before us. But along with it, we have to have faith in some way in the Kabbalists who see the future. They can make mistakes in terms of whether it's closer or farther, but ultimately it happens. They're telling us about laws of nature, and when you bring the laws of nature closer to our state, you could make mistakes in terms of several good years.
Student: On whom does it depend? You're describing such a state where we will put together a certain vision, we will try to suggest it to the people of Israel or to the world, and people will be drawn to it. What needs to happen? Does this phrasing depend on us or on the people?
M. Laitman: Rabash said more than once that troubles are missing. Meaning to our beast if we can give it fulfillment, then it settles for it and it doesn't move. That's how we're built, that's our fundamental ego. And so you can't demand of a person who takes on such a form of development to wish to achieve some communist form because it's a completely opposite form to human nature. You have to think of everyone while having no need for it, feeling the life of society as your own, as your family life. That, of course, is still not our situation, and how to get there, even to get close to that, we still don't feel. Even theoretically, you can't say except for just some crazy people we could say, that thought about it in history. That's something you can think about when you go through great suffering, troubles, problems, wars, but when we are developing more normally, when a person is not so afraid for his life, when he has a house, a job, and an opportunity to study, and do shopping freely and so on, it's difficult for a person to see that he's running into...it's hard to imagine a person like that running to some other place that is governed by communists. It obligates me, it forces me to think about others, to care about society, to care about building the society in partnership with each and every one. If I don't see the compensation from the upper force in a clear way, how will I go for that? Clearly that's impossible in a normal way, it's not possible. So, if it happens during great wars and troubles, that's understandable that people prefer this to that. However, in a nice, beautiful way, to move towards it, meaning to prefer the communist ideal, mine is yours, what's yours is yours, to care for that around the clock, that does not seem to us at all as something normal.
Student: I'm talking about the phrasing itself, even externally so that you can tell a person. Let's say now you were given a channel and you can say a few sentences that people might be drawn to you or maybe not. Like in history, there were many leaders that opened a certain agenda before the people, an agenda, not something deep, and people followed them. So can such a thing happen too? That every word that you put in, that you try, communism doesn't work, religion also bad, mutual guarantee, it's also bad, meaning anything, humanity has tried it already, every word you write, it simply doesn't stick. What can we replace it with, what can you say?
M. Laitman: There's nothing to replace it with, there's nothing. And we saw it, that the method of Kabbalah talks about the future, where humanity wants to rise from its degree. Even though it's against nature, humanity will prefer that. Why? Because they will discover internally that otherwise they're suffering horribly, that the egoistic, competitive connection between us that exists today between all the countries and all people, even in such a relatively latent, in-disguised way, it still can't be acceptable. So in the meantime, I agree with you that communism, as we study it in such an open way from Baal HaSulam, it repels us and seems completely unrealistic.
Student: In short, right now, if you have a stage and 8 billion people would listen to you, you can't even say one sentence so that following this sentence people will follow you, there is no way to phrase it like that.
M. Laitman: No, because in all the previous stages to communism, I can turn to their nature and say that I'm going in accordance with nature, not really the upper nature, but with regards to communism, I can't say that it exists in nature, our nature is completely opposite. Well, we'll continue and see. I understand you, that you can say whatever you think, and, however, I don't think that we'll gain a lot from this besides waste time. Let's see what else he writes, maybe there's something there. So far, it's clear to us that we don't have anything to do with what he writes about the last generation. We completely are not ready and don't understand that state.
Reading Item 17: (32:36) Title, The Philosophy Is Ready, Meaning Kabbalah Based on Religion
Every practical method also requires a renewed idealistic nourishment to contemplate, meaning a philosophy. Concerning our matter, there is already a complete and ready-made philosophy, meaning Kabbalah, though it is intended only for the leaders.
M. Laitman: Well, that too is not clear, that it's already prepared and that it's there. Of course if Baal HaSulam was here, we would address him and pressure him to get some explanation, because what he wrote here is seriously unrealistic. Friends, I'm not allowing you to ask because there's nothing to ask here. It's clear to us that these things raise a lot of questions and they don't come from our reality.
M. Laitman: Next.
Reading Item 18: (34:01) Title, Why Are We the People Chosen for It?
We must set a good example to the world because we are better qualified than all other nations. It is not because we are more idealistic than they are, but because we suffered from tyranny more than all other nations. For this reason, we are more prepared to seek counsel that will end tyranny from the land.
M. Laitman: Okay, well that's what he believes.
M. Laitman: Next.
Reading Item 19: (34:54)
Ownership and control are not identical. For example, the owners of the railway are the shareholders, and the control is in the hands of the managers, though they have only a single share, or nothing at all. The same applies to the shipping company, whose shareholders have no right to control or advise.
Take warships for example. They are owned by the state, yet no civilian is permitted aboard them. In addition, if the state should be in the hands of the proletariat by way of ownership, the management will ultimately be in the hands of the same managers as now, or others of likewise temper. The workers will have no greater foothold or benefit than they do now, unless the rulers are idealists, caring for the well-being of every single individual.
In a word, with respect to the government, it makes no difference whether the ownership is given to capitalists or to the state. In the end, it is the managers who will control them, not the owners. Hence, the correction of society should relate primarily to the executives. “The Taming of Power,” 214 [“The Taming of Power” is a chapter in Bertrand Russell’s (British Philosopher, 1872-1970) book, Power.]
Likewise, Avniel said in the Knesset (Herut, date ...) [Benjamin Avniel (1906-1993) was an MK (member of Knesset, the Israeli Parliament) from the second elections to the sixth and was part of the Herut party]. In Israel, the gap between the lowest functionary to the highest one is times 1.7. In England, it is times ten, and in the rest of the countries it is more or less the same. But in Russia it is times fifty. Thus, in a proletariat state the functionaries and the managers waste their energy much more than in capitalist countries. This is because the government is oligarchical, and not democratic. In simple words, because the communists control anti-communists, there must be oligarchy. This will never change since a communist means an idealist, which is not the majority.
M. Laitman: Next. It's okay, let's go.
Reading Item 20: (39:12)
Such a state, where the communists rule over anti-communists is obliged to be in the hands of a group of autocratic executives in absolute dictatorship. All the people in the country will be in their hands as though they are nothing. They must always keep the sword in their hands for killing, incarceration, concealed and revealed punishments, food deprivation, and all sorts of punishments, according to each executive’s arbitrary decision. All this is in order to keep the anti-communists in dreadful terror and fear so they work for the state and not ruin it inadvertently or maliciously.
Reading Item 21: (40:18)
In such a state, the executives must make sure the citizens cannot choose a democratic management, since the majority of the country is anti-communist.
Reading Item 22: (40:43)
In such a state, where communists rule over anti-communists, the managers must see that the citizens have no possibility for propaganda, or to disclose the dreadful injustice that is done to the people of the state or to the minorities in the state.
In other words, the printers are not to print, and the administrators of the lecture halls must watch over the speakers so they do not criticize their deeds. They must punish harshly anyone who plans, or even thinks of criticizing their acts. Thus, the government will have full control to deal with them arbitrarily, and there will be no one to detain them (Power, ... 21).
M. Laitman: We see that, that, there are no parties that contradict the communists in socialist or communist countries, rather they completely destroy them and remain with one party which is in power.
Reading Item Again 22: (41:34)
In such a state, where communists rule over anti-communists, the managers must see that the citizens have no possibility for propaganda, or to disclose the dreadful injustice that is done to the people of the state or to the minorities in the state.
In other words, the printers are not to print, and the administrators of the lecture halls must watch over the speakers so they do not criticize their deeds. They must punish harshly anyone who plans, or even thinks of criticizing their acts. Thus, the government will have full control to deal with them arbitrarily, and there will be no one to detain them (Power, ... 21).
Reading Item 23: (42:39)
Ethics cannot rely solely on education and public opinion, because public opinion necessitates only what is in the public’s favor. Hence, if one comes and proves that morality is harmful to the public and vulgarity is more beneficial, they will immediately discard morality and choose vulgarity, as Hitler demonstrates.
Reading Item 24: (43:23)
The egoistic communism, based on waves of envy and hate, will never be rid of them. Rather, when there are no bourgeois, they will cast their hate on Israel. We must not be mistaken that egoistic communism will cure the hatred of Israel from the nations. Only altruistic communism can be expected to heal it.
M. Laitman: Well, this is what he was able to write, something. Certainly a part of it we don't understand and a part of it we don't even see that there is any foundation for it, but this is what Baal HaSulam writes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (44:37) Baal HaSulam writes that all of humanity will advance towards egoistic communism and then to altruistic communism. Are the people of Israel on the same track and they're only a pioneer or the nation of Israel has a specific route of their own?
M. Laitman: I don't think that we have a special channel but rather the speed, the pace and the clarity might help us to advance in a different way.
Student: How does the example that Israel serves for the world matter? What example do they need to give if ultimately humanity comes out of suffering and trouble to agree with cooperating, so why do we need that example if nature will already beat up humanity until they get there?
M. Laitman: I don't know, there's so much that is missing here.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (45:55) There are two things here, first we have to understand, it's like the Sage's Fruit, it's just notes he wrote to himself, it's not an article that is well, you know organized and it's notes to self and the letter of the newspaper The Nation is already organized for public dissemination. You can see how all the ideas are organized there and he saw an opportunity to present it to the leaders of the nation and it dresses very nicely on Marxism. His main claim was that Marx didn't complete his process and left it incomplete and people tried to realize it incorrectly and what he offers here is the continuation. He also offers himself as a continuation in the newspaper The Nation, and here he says that the pioneer that needs to bring a change to the world is the people of Israel and not the just the proletariat of the world because they're egoists. And so he is speaking to leaders who still spoke about communism as the story that was still in fashion, in vogue back then. So he dressed into that kind of dialogue and said those who need to lead like in the Marxist approach are the proletariat, but who are the proletariat in the language that he tried to communicate, it is the people of Israel. The way I see it many times he turns to himself with notes to self for a future article that he wants to write or a future lecture in order to ultimately make this new connection, like there were other other ideas in the past. So this is Baal HaSulam's ideas about the corrected society.
M. Laitman: Yes, makes sense. Okay, is that enough for today or do we want to continue?
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (48:22) Is it correct to say that maybe if Baal HaSulam was here today he would write this article with some ideas of today that you hear in today's politics, in today's society?
M. Laitman: Possibly.
Student: Maybe we also need to think about how to take what's existing today and bring it closer to the wisdom of Kabbalah and the right connection.
M. Laitman: Each one can see himself how he brings what is happening closer to the ideals of Baal HaSulam, to his future teachings, but I don't think that we need to talk about that because it's without a framework, without direction.
Question (USA Midwest): (49:33) How close are we to be a society that can set an example for all nations?
M. Laitman: Completely not, completely not, and I think that, as it occurred more than once in history already, we have entered a greater ego, a totally different perception than Baal HaSulam, and we still have many stages of development ahead of us, between us and within us.
Question (Internet): (50:22) It's written that the concerns and the existential wars that people have in various countries will cause them to move back home. What is that uncertain state that Baal HaSulam describes?
M. Laitman: I don't think I can see that state. Of course you see that nations move from place to place, and they perform all kinds of actions in connection and distancing between them, but all in all the situation is completely unclear. I don't know, I don't have anything that I can add and say, but rather whatever he wrote, maybe it will become more clear later on in the future, but in our time, we're still in darkness.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (51:42) You said before that because we don't realize what he writes here, we have no right to exist in the land. The question is, anyone who doesn't live in Israel, and their point in the heart will develop, they'll feel a need to come live here, be here in Israel?
M. Laitman: When it comes in waves it's still hard for me to explain it. Like I said, that I was one of two families that came from Russia through Vienna to Israel. So today, more people come, or fewer people come, it's not the way that it was once, when they would invite an airplane especially for us. They took us in the evening, it was dark, to a small airport, not the main Vienna airport, and from there we flew. It was something special. Seemingly, we were fleeing the third world, or maybe vice versa, I can't really say.
Student: Can there be a state where a person with spiritual attainment will be overseas and not in Israel?
M. Laitman: This is how it was always, except for our generation, that Kabbalists who lived overseas later came to the land of Israel. I don't know, it seems to me that we don't understand what kind of period of time we're living in.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (53:54) What is this phenomenon that there is an opportunity and then it's closed?
M. Laitman: I don't know. He writes that during…
Student: Yes, he writes it even about the time of Bar Kochba.
M. Laitman: Yes, so there are such things in history, where history repeats itself, I don't know.
Student: But why does it exist in nature?
M. Laitman: If we do not implement it, the question is about us. If we do not realize our destiny, then some inversion occurs.
Student: Did it also happen in our time? Like for instance, I hear that we're in a very dark time.
M. Laitman: Yes, we're in a time of darkness, but I can't say that this resembles what happened back then. Our time is very special, we do not lack power, or the power to exist, to survive, or nothing else, except for one thing. This ideal, our future, is truly hidden from us.
Student: And I heard that Kabbalists, because they tell us about laws of nature, there can be a gap of many years.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Between how it happens. Why does that happen?
M. Laitman: Because it is clear to them that this is how it needs to be. They see what is coming, and therefore they don't have a problem to live in one period of time and think about another period of time, a different one.
Student: They're writing about it as if it can happen right now?
M. Laitman: Yes, at the same time, yes.
Student: Why?
M. Laitman: Because it is clear to them that everything is in the hands of heaven, and seemingly humanity cannot add anything at this point.
Student: In the time they write about it, like say the writings of the last generation, he writes it like it can be realized right now.
M. Laitman: Yes, this is how it is in his eyes.
Student: So why is it like that in his eyes, because what?
M. Laitman: Because it only depends on the human agreement.
Student: Meaning it's a window of opportunity that opens?
M. Laitman: Sometimes it can be a window of opportunity, sometimes it can be a result of a prior development.
Student: What is then the approach we need to hold on to?
M. Laitman: We are just learning. I don't think we have to be so directed towards the future because we don't know what form it will take, we do not manage it. It seems to me that these things will simply transpire before us and then we will see what we belong to.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (58:07) Rav, if I heard correctly, the friend asked you about a name we could advertise that will attract people and I wanted to offer from Psalms. It says a man will be a tree that will be planted in water and will never wither and so on. I think that's kind of the state that we're aiming for or the picture we describe for people, I think it describes it well.
M. Laitman: Okay.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (58:49) You spoke about how the method that Baal HaSulam offers is based on mutual guarantee and the heart, and Baal HaSulam also mentions that the whole world needs to become one family. So it feels like the world lacks some group that will provide that feeling of family, like a mother and father who are caring. If I think about ourselves, I don't know how we can move towards a place of leadership or being the mother and father of society. What should we do so as to place ourselves as leaders, as mother and father that aim and direct everything?
M. Laitman: We talked about it a few times in previous lessons. I don't think that we are capable to really speak openly about it. We haven't yet reached a state where such a state can appear in us, can become clear through us.
Student: But as an inspiration to be leaders, to be in that degree?
M. Laitman: This is childish.
Student: So what's our first step towards this direction that Baal Sulam gives?
M. Laitman: To aspire towards those goals that he establishes before us, and that's it, not more than that. Let's not be like little children that jump and cry out like they're adults.
Student: That exactly feels like that, so what should we internally radiate to the world even in our current state?
M. Laitman: We just need to learn and advance towards the implementation to some extent of what we're reading about our future, and we will see, we will see. I hope it will be revealed soon.
Question (Women Turkiye 10): (01:02:25) Yes, we've learned that the more we change ourselves, reality before us will change as well. Now with this article of Baal HaSulam, we're talking about our responsibility to influence the reality around us. Everything in our reality comes from the Creator, so how can we take this responsibility as equals to the Creator? What should we pay attention to in order to also agree with the Creator, with all the suffering that we're seeing and also be part of the change?
M. Laitman: This needs to occur in us, such a change, because we realize that we create reality, we build the present reality and it's not that it comes from above in some way. We take part in building reality for ourselves and for the whole world, and we are responsible for it, and we have to care about the future. That's it, this is what we need. Now, what we learn from everything that Baal HaSulam has written for us, I understand from that that we just need to accept it, to take it as knowledge, as a general education for us, not to jump to immediately implement it and all over the world, clearly not. I heard it from Rabash more than once, that we are not living in a state where we can allow ourselves all kinds of such big steps that might confuse people. So let's wait, let's wait. Soon it will become clear, it will become clear for sure, even in our time.
Question (Kavkaz): (01:05:32) In the beginning of item 17 it writes, the philosophy is already ready, meaning Kabbalah based on religion. What religion Kabbalah is based on, what is it talking about?
M. Laitman: Well, it is called love your friend as yourself. Kabbalah that is based on religion means Kabbalah based on this condition of loving people, love your friend as yourself.
Student: How to conduct yourself in such a society if in every society there is like a monopoly over the Creator in each and every religion? Can we explain how, what's the correct way to do this?
M. Laitman: We can't explain anything to people, but only this condition of love your friend as yourself, that's it.
Student: But still, Kabbalah is related to Judaism.
M. Laitman: It's not about tradition, but rather these are the laws of nature, the laws of nature.
Student: Is it worthwhile for people who are far from Judaism to also carry out these laws of nature?
M. Laitman: Under no circumstances. No, absolutely not, there is no need for it.
Student: So it's only for Israelis?
M. Laitman: Not only for Israelis, but those few who actually are in that, they live it.
Student: Is it something we should aspire to, to live like that?
M. Laitman: No, life itself will not be significantly different than any other kind of life. Okay, what are we going to do next?
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