•A Replacement for Everything: How does one hold onto a broken relationship when there is nothing to hold onto? • "I'm surrounded by a lot of people, but I feel completely alone. I really want to communicate with people, but I can't find contact. What should I do?" •Evolutionary Biologist, Daniel Riskin’s research suggests that everyone has the murder gene. Is it true that by killing, a person kills a part of himself? •Who are you following? •What is the depth of the word of the name of The Creator that contains the entire universe?

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?”