Doomsday Clock: The time left until midnight symbolizes how close we are to a nuclear catastrophe •A Sufi Parable: A frog got stuck in a rut, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t get out, friends tried to help and nothing worked. So he was left to the hands of fate. The friends came in the morning expecting to find him lo alive and to their surprise they found him jumping around on the grass. What happened, how did you get out of the rut? Well a wagon was coming and I simply had no other choice but to get out of there as soon as possible. •A follower writes: I analyze different conflicts in different historical periods and came to unexpected conclusion, that the closer the people feel each other, the greater the hatred. Strangers can agree, but those that are close can fight each other until complete destruction. •Wikipedia’s Definition of “Kabbalah”- Is the wisdom of Kabbalah mysticism? •An anecdote of a man who prayed every day to win the lottery

From a letter: "You consider the main thing that the Creator is good. But it's not like that, He is not kind. Look around. Even if I repeat like a mantra that the Creator is good, this horror will not stop anyway. Why is He so unkind to us? Innocent people suffer." • Supercomputer World One predicted the collapse of human civilization as we know it in the 2040s and 50s. •From a letter: “We are immigrants. And everything seems to be fine, but we can not get used to a new life. How to break with the past and start a new life?” •From a letter: “I am 13 years old. Six months ago, I started losing my hair, I lost all my hair. I refused to go to school because I was sure that everyone would laugh at me. But 12 of my friends came to me with completely shaved heads. They did this out of solidarity with me. They are my best friends forever!” •From an article “Where are we heading?” talks about Israel becoming a violent country – 55,000 cases of physical violence, 32,000 of domestic violence, lawlessness on the roads, violence in hospitals, in ambulance, where doctors are beaten... What is happening to Israel?

•Miriam Webster named the word “gaslighting” as the word of the year. It's the psychological manipulation of a person which makes him doubt the truthfulness of his own thoughts, perception of reality, which leads to loss of confidence and dependence on the manipulator. •Antonio Stradivari lived to be 92, he created over 600 violins. The latest technology cannot come even close to the sound of a Stradivarius violin. What’s the secret to these kinds of experts? •A woman fell into a coma after a car accident, of course the children and relatives believed in a miracle and came, were at her side, but eventually they lost faith and only her husband stayed next to her and just talked to her all the time. After 11 months, she came out of the coma and the first thing she said to her husband was, “Thank you for being here and telling me all these wonderful stories”. What does a person hear with? •Erich Remarque, author of Arch of Triumph, wrote the following: “He lived and that was enough. He lived in an unstable era. Why try to build something if soon inevitably everything will collapse? It’s better to go with the flow without wasting strength, strength is the only thing that cannot be restored. Stand through, hold on, until the goal reappears, and the less strength you spend, the better, let them remain in reserve. Do you think it’s true, in difficult times, to stay low and not to waste your strength and to survive that way? •Book Dogs in Finland: How do we become tolerant towards others like these dogs? A dog sits in a library and listens attentively while a child reads to it. It turns out that this liberates the child. Dogs don’t criticize, don’t interrupt, they won’t laugh if a child makes a mistake. It turns out in such an environment a child learns to read quickly and confidently

Anthony Hopkins: “Be calm, don’t rush. Don’t make God laugh with your plans. Don’t be so eager, driving your truth into the heads of others. Remember, your good fortune and death will come to you at their proper time, you can’t do anything about it.” •Conan Doyle once joked and sent telegrams to 12 of the largest London bankers and the most honest ones, as claimed. He wrote the following: “Everyone knows everything, hide!” What do you think happened the next morning? They hid? Yah, all 12 bankers disappeared from London. •One morning a street violinist played Bach at a Washington subway station. Forty-five minutes and 1100 people passed by, only 6 stopped, about 20 people gave him money, he made $32, barely anyone applauded. Then he turned around and quietly left. It turned out that the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best violinists in the world. He played on a 3.5 million dollar violin, that evening he played a concert to a packed house, the tickets were sold long in advance. •We really like this story, this joke, a person falls from a cliff, he grabs a ledge and hangs by it. And he’s growing weak and he yells out, God help me, and suddenly a voice from above, I’ll help you, let go. And he is hanging by the cliff, and he says, I'm here, don’t worry, let go. And he looks up and says, is there anyone else up there? Today, mankind is like free-falling, but we already hear the voice of the Creator, that you are doomed, why don’t we hear anything?

Wishes to the graduates of MAK- the International Academy of Kabbalah •The region of the brain that determines whether a person will grow up to be an egoist or an altruist has been discovered. Is it possible that in the near future, by activating this part of the brain, we will be able to live in giving and loving? • From a follower: "How should one educate, love, warm a person so that he would not want wars, would not want to kill anyone?" • William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in Star Trek, actually went into space. After the flight, he said that "we should not dream of some flights to Mars, but unite people. To live means to love others. This is the whole harmony of the universe." How can a person in our difficult time of wars and hatred come to understand the need for unity and love between all? • An elderly couple was asked: "What is the secret of their long marriage?"

A follower writes to us: I feel such tragedy, such things happen in the world, and for me, it’s all someone else's pain, and that’s how everyone I know, feels, and I know that is the reason for all the problems. How can I make it so that the other person’s problem is mine? I see that the main questions about happiness, about how not to worry, how to arrange your life correctly? 80% of these questions come from women, will a women ever be really happy in this world? • In China, a 10-year-old boy, became a bone marrow donor, for his sick mother that has leukemia. The boy donated blood 30 times, he underwent 7 injections of a special drug, and he says,“I don’t feel any special pain during the last injection I got because I feel that I am saving my mom.” On the one hand it sounds like a simple story, on the other hand, where does this depth come from, this understanding of what is the meaning of life, saving the life of another at the age of 10? • A follower writes: You explain the law of the Torah, that all problems come from, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. • A well-known parable about our nature: Once there was a poor man who had a rich neighbor. The poor man prayed to the Creator, I want to be as rich as he is. The Creator said, Please, I’ll give you everything. Only I will give him double, you will be rich, he will become twice as rich, you’ll have a house, he will have two. Than the poor man said, then poke out one of my eyes so that two of his will be poked out. Humanity invented many such slogans.

Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and forgiveness. It has many names. In Israel, the streets are empty, the kids ride their bikes, and people start to examine the year, all the deeds from the past year and receive a stamp of approval. What does that mean? • Protests in Iran Continue: A 22-year-old girl was killed and people took to the streets. It seems that man is a slave to fear, and Iran fell under oppression, and now the Persians are waking up. How can we work with fear and oppression? • Bernard Shaw said that “Eventually our relationships deteriorated to such an extent that there is only one thing left to do, to agree that we extremely respect each other,” and he also said, “Life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.” What is a Kabbalist’s opinion on these statements?

Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year 5783, well back then there were no Jews when everything just started, right?! But its called the Jewish New Year celebrated by Jews. My question is more global, is it the Jewish New Year or is it a Global New Year? It’s unclear what kind of year we will have, we are facing such questions, really terrible ones, existential ones. • The Belgium Ministry of Justice decided to conduct an experiment, 55 prosecutors and judges sat in the new Brussels prison for a while to test the conditions of detention and feel like prisoners. It's expected that after that, they will issue more reasonable sentences. What do you think about this? • The Sufi Mansur, Al- Hallaj, was asked, how to become free from one’s attachments? • Darwin spent a long time explaining his theory of evolution to one lord. The lord listened deeply to the scientists logical explanation and at the end, Darwin said, “So now you agree that man descended from an ape?” The lord replied, “Maybe you did, but I didn’t.” What I want to say by that is that everyone agrees that everyone is selfish, but, not me, I’m not selfish. My neighbors, but I’m giving, etc. etc. Why can’t a person look at himself and say, this is how I am. • A letter from a follower: I really want to talk about the world, the Creator, the inner state of man but when I look outside the window there is war. It really touched me. How can a person in such a situation think about the world, the Creator, connection, when there is war all around? • Nina writes: “The cat that lives in my house gave birth to kittens and a few days later, she killed them herself. Tell me please, is this a natural phenomenon? If so, what is its root, is this a consequence of our terrible behavior?”

The UN report says that there are more than 150 million women starving than men, and in general, 60% of the starving people in the world are women. What astonished me the most, is that tens of millions of women around the world eat last and least. Suddenly they are in the spotlights, women. We always give an example of a women and a baby as an example of bestowal in our world. Can you comment a bit about women in this regard. • It’s always difficult to make a critical decision. Jeff Bezos, he was the vice-president of some company in 1994 and he was thinking how to invent a start -up how to ship books through the internet. He told his boss he was quitting, his boss offered him more salary and to think about it. Bezos sat and thought, he imagined himself at the age of 80, and at that age he would not regret if he would fail or something like that. Now this system is called The Golden Question-it uses 5 questions in one method. How will I feel about this in a day, a week, a month, a year, in 5, 15, or 20 years? What do you think about this? • A quote by Adolf Ferrier: “And they made the school as the devil commanded. The child loves nature, so he was locked in four walls. He cannot sit without moving, so he was forced to remain motionless. He loves to work with his hands, and he was taught theories and ideas. He likes to talk – he was told to keep quiet. He wanted to know; he wanted to learn by heart. He would like to explore and seek knowledge, but he was given them in a ready-made form. And then the children learned what they would never have learned in other conditions. They learned to lie and pretend.” • Micro-Dosing-Small portions, its like eating a little bit of magic mushrooms, a bit of LSD, it . Micro-dosing increases productivity, creativity, the main thing is to use one to ten, one to twenty micro-doses, and it has an immediate effect. On YouTube, There are hundreds of thousands of views on how it broadens and expands conscientious, without consequences, it’s like micro-dosing is like becoming a micro drug addict, but not a real drug addict. My question is, what does a person need to turn himself on all the time for? Why? • Scientists kid around and make laws, which suddenly become real and accurate. How do you relate to this, law and lie. For example, All great revelations are made by mistake, do you agree? • During the pandemic, the main problem was you can’t hug. Relatives, parents with the kids, and then, in the Netherlands, they returned to the old idea of hugging cows. They even created farms on which the cows are calm and people came and hugged them for 30 minutes. The body temperature of a cow is higher, the heart beat is slower. They said that after the people hugged the cows, the cows had to rest for 2 or 3 hours. And now in Finnish Lapland, they have a new tree hugging competition. They compete for hugging speed, the most sincere hugs, creative hugs. The idea is the same, connecting with nature, improves your mood, reduces stress. I really liked when you said, for sure, a cow needs to rest after a person hugs them.

Every time something happens, disasters, elections, coronavirus, inflation, etc. Jews are to blame, and antisemitism spreads all over the world like wildfire. How long can we talk about this? How long can we continue? • A great letter from one of our students: I have a request, can you please teach me how to speak to the Creator. I've been studying Kabbalah for over 12 years. My husband passed away 2 months ago, he was not engaged in our studies but he supported me, helped me study, disseminate. He died, it’s very hard, my heart is breaking, your articles and videos help. I talk to my husband very often in my heart, ask for his help, advice, etc. But it’s not normal, he doesn't exist, it’s only the Creator. How can I turn directly to the Creator instead of to an image. Thank you very much for your time and your answer, although I know you have no time for personal issues. Sincerely, Ilena • Benjamin Libet, a pioneer in neuroscience, research proves that a decision occurs in a person before he makes the decision himself. That the brain proceeds the consciousness by one to two million milliseconds. It turns out that whatever comes from the outside comes along already with the reaction to it. And this is like a turning point, like there is no free choice, no free will, no freedom. I get some blow and immediately my response to this blow is embedded in me, everything is premade, so where am I in it then? • Japanese authorities will hold a sake viva contest on how to better distribute alcohol among young people. Sake is like a 20% kind of vodka, but not only sake, they are talking about distributing alcohol to young people. They want to increase the demand for any type of alcohol. It's believed that liquor sales among young people are far below their parents. It seems like they have gone mad, to increase revenue, what do you think? • Today, we live in a world of everything here and now, i.e. if you order something you want it to already arrive, you can't stand waiting in lines, traffic jams. Remember how it was way back when, how pictures were developed. You clicked and asked no one to move, until you use up the entire film, you don’t send it to be developed. In short, life was different. You know there was this expectation, and you participated in the process.

A follower writes: “Tell me please, I watch your clips all the time, why do you always say that only the Jews, can change, or will change the world. Why take upon ourselves, upon the nation such a responsibility, and who gave you the authority to say so? Just don’t say that it’s written in the bible.” • A young lady is suing her parents for appearing in the world without her consent, as if she could agree or whatever. At first, she won the trial, and I’m quoting “Check this out, a few months ago I sued my parents for bringing me into the world without my permission, and get this, I won. The court obliged them to pay me 5,000 each month, to pay my expenses, now they appealed and they don’t have to pay me anything. And me, I need to find a job, where will I find the experience, higher education, how am I going to pay my bills? In short, what the hell are you bringing children into this world for if you are not willing to help them?! • Recently, I read this beautiful story. The author is Shifka, I don’t know who he is. Death with a scythe came to the blacksmith and asked him to sharpen the scythe.While hes sharpening it, he’s horrified and thinking, wow, I can’t believe it, that death came from this, the weapon I’m holding in my hand, the weapon that killed so many people. And suddenly Death comes up to him and says, I did not kill anyone, not even a single person. It wasn’t me but it’s you who kill each other. Blaming me, I was previously a pretty girl, I met the souls of the people and took them to their place of rest, now I’m wearing black so as not to see the blood on me. I’m wearing a hood so you don’t see the tears that I’m crying, because I can’t stop this horrific hate of yours, the wars and bloodshed, etc. And today, I’m an old woman, you made me such, said Death, took her scythe and turned around and left. And he quietly asks, then what do you need the scythe for? And she says, the way to heaven is covered with tall grass. • American psychologists write about shame and guilt and say the following; These sensations have to do with social norms, norms change, the sensation of shame and guilt change too. That which was previously shameful is no longer shameful today, shame is the result of not meeting a certain ideal. One of the most terrible forms of shame is constant self-condemnation. • During WW2 pilots said that the plane was so responsive that they said it felt like an extension of the pilot’s body. Today an AI communication system is being created in which the aircraft will be able to secure the pilot, even replace him, reading signals from his brain, etc. What interests me, is it possible without this technology to establish a connection with a machine, with something still, can you establish a connection? • We know that birth is a very emotionally powerful event for a child and after a while he can see and hear, smell and feel, but no one remembers this event, and we not only have no memories of the birth itself, but also the first two years of our life. When we learned how to walk, got to know mom and dad, our family, and spoke our first words. It’s like this time is cut off from us. Now we remember all those emotional surges in life, feel them, but this one, we don’t. It’s like this memory, this period is completely cut off from us, why?

Kabbalists knew about the importance of the environment’s influence on people for over 4,000 years, and more recently, it has become clearer to scientists—that If you want to predict a person’s behavior, look at his environment and not at the person himself. So why aren’t we using this in order to improve humanity? • 50 years ago, an experiment was conducted to view what a person is capable of doing. Serbian artist, Sara Abramovitch, stood in front of a long table on which 72 items were placed, matches, knives, spoons, wine, honey, a piece of cake, a box of blades, and a scalpel. Spectators were allowed to do whatever they wanted. By the third hour, all her clothes were cut by the blades, by the fourth hour, the blades had reached her skin. 50 years later a similar experiment was conducted with two young ladies who stood near a table on which there was cosmetics, jewelry, food, and paint. Spectators approached, one placed a necklace on one of the ladies, others made them up with makeup and eventually one splashed on them scarlet colored paint representing blood, the second one's dress was torn, etc. How do we get a hold on that criminal that resides deep down inside of us? • According to psychologists, a person can only have one friend, and even then, not always, it is easier to endure the stab from an enemy than a pinprick from a friend. How does one define betrayal?

There is this parable, joke, in heaven they are choosing who is going to heaven and who is going to hell, and there is this famous preacher who is constantly sent to hell. And he said, how, before me was this get away driver, and he was sent to heaven. So they said, what did you think? At your services, everyone slept, and when he was driving, everyone was praying. And I saw here great depth, and so it's much more important that what brings a person to prayer. So how do you relate to this, there is great depth in this I feel. • Patience is a tree whose roots are bitter, but whose fruits are sweet. Why are the roots bitter? • An Israeli reporter broke in, broke the rules and caused a big disgrace in a closed off city, designated only for Muslims. Saudi Arabia reacted in a very negative way, and an Israeli channel said it was a good journalist investigation. In one way or another, it's always in order to raise the ratings. What is it all about when we enter something that we are not allowed to do? • Students from Rockefeller University conducted a study on the reaction of ants during extreme temperatures. When one ant feels heat, it does not move until all the other ants feel the heat, and then they all move together. There is like complete trust towards the collective mind. How would you apply this to humans? • From day to day we need to make various decisions, the Romans used to toss a coin, heads or tails to make decisions. So how do we make decisions?