When human beings discover the true essence of
Creator and behaves according to the nature of the grantor or giver, that approach is so intense that he realizes that does not need the religion, it remains only as part of their cultural and social environment in this world.
Question: Why do children play naturally and wholeheartedly, but for an adult, playing a game feels like a lie? We, adults, do not really like to play.
Answer: But we play all the time!
Comment: Maybe unknowingly. But if you tell me now: “Let’s play some game.”
My Response: You will answer: “I don’t have time. I am busy with serious matters.” Even though all serious matters are totally make-believe.
For children, the game is a clear and conscious necessity for them to develop, to fill their time and thoughts. They feel the meaning of their existence in it. For them, the game is very important. Look at a young child who is sick and has a fever, but he still plays. And an adult is no longer able to play.
Therefore, this game that the Creator started with us needs to be seen as the most important thing. Then we will see that every moment in our lives is valuable because we can take it as a game with the Creator.
In fact, everything we see around us is played out by the Creator. He engages us in such a way that through this whole setting, through the entire world (world, Olam, from the word Haalama, concealment), and through this disguise, we will be connected with Him. [261017] From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 3/25/19
Question:You say that now qualitative connections should prevail over quantitative ones. What characterizes a qualitative connection? What are its properties and characteristics so that we can easily enter it?
Answer: Qualitative connection is when we prefer emotional, cordial relationships between us, mutual assistance. When we understand the goal as one common element and universal connection as a means to achieve this goal.
We need to build such a state between us that it would be like a network in which we would find the Creator. The creation of such a system of relationships in which according to the equivalence of form the Creator is revealed should be our work. [263673] From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 3/22/20
New Life 1223 – A Time For Soul Searching Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi
Today, everyone is required to do some soul searching in light of the universal human blow we have received. Each one and all of us together have not adapted to the laws of nature and so now nature is responding by releasing paralyzing viruses like the coronavirus upon humanity. The terrible connections between people are opposite to the integrality that exists in the rest of nature. Nature wants all of us to feel like one person with one heart. We should ask ourselves every day, “Did I hurt anyone? Do I love humanity?” We must ask for the power of love and communicate with the upper force in nature, which will cause us to feel love in our hearts. If we take care of the world like a family, everything will be okay. [263338] From KabTV’s “New Life 1223 – A Time for Soul Searching” 4/16/20
The economy needs a major impact because it has been failing to provide for our needs. Instead, we have been providing for the economy’s “needs.”
The coronavirus pandemic has illuminated the question about what is essential and nonessential in life.
In the face of crisis, life’s essentials—food, housing, healthcare and education—were extracted from the dark alleyway we had them in before the virus struck us, while we focused the spotlight on growth, production, consumption and trade surplus or deficit.
The coronavirus then came along and reminded us about what is essential in life.
During this period, we have a chance to revise the way our lives are headed, and in the process, upgrade our economy to make it suit our needs.
The irony of our era is that the modern work force works more hours than slaves did in the past.
Today, we think that we have more freedom and security than the slaves of the past, but the coronavirus highlighted that, in a moment, our entire infrastructure can overturn.
A period of social distancing and stay-at-home conditions put the housing and even food that many take for granted into question.
Today’s office jobs, which provided many with a sense of security, showed themselves to fall short when it came to providing many people with the safety net that they envisioned.
While we still try to recover from this blow that the coronavirus struck on the economy, we have some time to revise the idea of work in general.
As we head into a future where technology is expected to replace much of the work force, and we will discover that we need not work all the hours we currently work in order to provide for what we need in life, then we can expect that:
Governmental allowances, such as Universal Basic Income, will become the way most people will receive their income.
Job titles will lose their value as markers of social status.
In order for society to not stagnate and grow in an age where our job titles cease to mark our value in society, we will need to mark social status according to the contribution we make to society.
Such a change would be possible if we provide basic income in exchange for participating in programs that let people develop and express their contribution to society.
In other words, the economy we are headed toward, and which the coronavirus period has hinted at, is one where we will need our life’s essentials covered, and one where we will shift our focus to strengthen and grow human society—social happiness, health and well-being—instead of each of us trying to build our personal empires.
In such an economy, we will place much higher importance on cultivating positive human relations than we do today.
As more and more of today’s professions will show themselves to be unnecessary for the world we’re headed toward, we will need to replace all the effort we place into educating and training ourselves into such professions, with education and training of a different kind: one where we will train ourselves to relate positively to each other and contribute to others above our growing divisive drives.
Question: How should regular people who have lost their livelihoods behave? Should they work on connection or search for a new job?
Answer: They should never break ties with the group if they have one. If not, then it is best to explain to them that such connections are beneficial for them and will bring solutions to their problems.
People who feel that they can soon return to their regular jobs have to still check themselves. To do so, we have to explain to them which actions of men are beneficial and will provoke a positive result from nature. But if they bring harm to nature or its integral quality, this will not work. Such occupations and businesses will not be restored.
I think that many months later, after the virus, we will be completely different people. We will stop rushing about, flying from one end of the world to another as if we’re missing something. Of course, it is interesting to see new places, but what’s the point? Each of us has flown all over the world. And what qualitative contribution have we made to ourselves, others, or the future? Absolutely nothing! Just the opposite.
So let’s sum up our attitude toward the world and relate to life differently. In accordance with this, we will see that after the coronavirus has passed through us, many professions will disappear. People will work only for the sake of the tangible benefit, earn as much as is needed to support themselves and their families, and will draw satisfaction from forming a deeper connection with nature.
The coronavirus is not really a virus but a program that penetrates us. For some people, it enters them on the animate level and kills them. For others, it enters and reprograms them to have a whole new sensory perception. But most of us will not feel this sensory reprogramming. It will be just a natural breathing through the nose and feeling its effects.
Once it enters us, it begins to reconfigure us, making us think, consider, and evaluate ourselves and others in a whole new way. The world will become different. Give the coronavirus another few months and you will see. Perhaps we will be unable to compare ourselves to the way we were in February, March, or April, but we will have a totally different approach to the way we deal with things in this world. [264572] From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/5/20
Answer: Because it must necessarily correct us and bring us to a perfect state. We are its only offspring that are butchering, damaging, breaking, and causing harm to ourselves and nature. Therefore, the protective reaction of nature is expressed in this form. [264505] From KabTV’s “Meetings with Kabbalah: Victoria Bonya,” 3/29/20
The world is still learning from the coronavirus pandemic a hard lesson in how much we all depend on each other.
It has shown us how much our health depends on other people maintaining personal hygiene and social distancing conditions.
It has also shown us how much we need and miss each other when we are faced with prolonged stay-at-home conditions, and how our economy is ill-equipped to deal with such a situation.
Many people find themselves out of work, out of business, and see no future in sight, on one hand, and on the other hand, a financial elite that continues profiting in the billions at the expense of such people.
I hope that the world will continue learning from this pandemic, as I think there are many more takeaways that society has yet to realize.
For instance, we would be wise to learn that our definition of success is in dire need of revision.
Instead of equating wealth to success, as we have done until today, we will need to start equating positive contribution to society with success.
We can see some signs of such a motion during the pandemic in the praise that health-care workers receive for their efforts to help the often-unmanageable amount of coronavirus cases.
However, we need to further internalize this redefinition of success, as our social connections, life engagements, work and social values all stem from it: There is nothing successful in being individually successful and wealthy at the expense of others. Success lies in creating a positively-connected society, where its members take responsibility and care for each other, contribute to each other’s well-being, and promote to each other the need for centering everyone’s focus on benefiting others instead of benefiting our individual selves.
The world is learning about the need to be more considerate of everyone, as we all depend on each other. However, I think that an extra “push” on our behalf to further implant this understanding will serve to better balance us with the tighter interdependence and interconnectedness that the coronavirus era has revealed to us.
Remark: During the 6,000 years of the existence of civilized humanity on Earth, wars have been constantly waged. In total, they’ve only been gone for 200 years. Historians distinguish five main wars: the First and Second World Wars, and three more wars in China, during which hundreds of millions of people died.
My Comment: This is an amazing state of the world when people simply annihilate each other. They give free rein to their egoism, which cannot tolerate others, and come up with all sorts of reasons to kill.
Remark: War is like an expression of egoism. Every story is a story of war.
My Comment: On the other hand, we do not even imagine what would happen to the world if war had not been waged. Over the past 70 years, there have been no wars on such vast continents as Europe and Asia, and look what happened to humanity. The world’s population has grown from two million to eight.
We see that with uncorrected egoism, wars become necessary, because only in this way humanity restrains and purifies itself. [263732] From KabTV’S “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel” 7/8/19
Question: Why do children play naturally and wholeheartedly, but for an adult, playing a game feels like a lie? We, adults, do not really like to play.
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