Comment: Humanity is plagued by illnesses and many are incurable. Everyone searches for advice that might suddenly help them navigate life.

My Response: Relax and do not try to change anything. Drift calmly with the flow of life. Accept what is. Everything that happens is done by the Creator. So, do not contradict Him, but feel connected to Him at every moment.

Question: What can we do with the fears that constantly spur a person?

Answer: There will be no fears! Because fear stems from wanting to secure a specific future for yourself. But that doesn’t exist here.

Question: So fear arises when you do not agree with Him?

Answer: Yes. But here that isn’t the case. The future vanishes; it simply isn’t there. In other words, every moment is like passing away and leaving nothing behind. There is peace. What has been, will be. You know, like the inscription on Solomon’s ring?

Question: Yes. So you think that if a person gets used to this formula, if he lives it, exists with it, then it will free him from fears and even from pain?

Answer: It is not just about being free from fear and pain, but also about being properly connected with nature, with the Creator.

Question: What is the result of it?

Answer: This will give you a connection with the Creator, peace, closeness, and simply connection.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/23/26

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Question: All our thoughts and intentions come from the body. What is the best way to take care of the physical body? I know from my own experience that if I have gotten enough sleep, I am ready to engage in things connected with spiritual work.

Answer: Of course, the healthier a person’s body is, the better prepared they are for inner work. This is well known. We are obliged to give the body what it needs. The ancient Romans said: “A healthy mind in a healthy body.” By “mind” they meant the animal soul, but nevertheless, the principle remains. Therefore it is necessary to sleep, eat, wash the body, and take care of it.

When I lived in Rehovot, there was a young man that lived nearby who was raising a very expensive horse. The way he was caring for and cherishing it was unbelievable! It was his whole life. This image remained vividly in my memory. That is how one should care for the body. Of course, our entire life should not be focused on it, but we must give it what it requires.

This is how we should act. Let the body work for us, for the human being within us! For that purpose, I am ready to take care of it.

Rabash took great care of his body. I bought him all the necessary groceries—vegetables, fruit, and chocolate. He regularly took blood tests, and paid close attention to maintaining his health.

We used to go to the sea together. Until he swam 600 strokes, he would not come out of the water. And if we did not go to the sea, then there was walking, an hour and a half at a time. I had to sing something fast-paced, and we would walk to that rhythm for an hour and a half. In the middle of the walk we would stop for ten minutes, during which I was allowed to ask a question, and then we continued. At that time he was already 80 years old.

We also attended swimming or gymnastics sessions with a membership pass. My wife remembers that we used to spend three to four hours a day doing sports and physical exercises. Some people can sit all day long, but Rabash could not; his body required physical activity. I bought him a bicycle, and every evening he exercised on it doing 400 revolutions. That was not easy at all!

Once I was going through a terrible spiritual descent. At that time a yoga instructor used to come to us, and he taught us, not philosophy, but exercises that helped develop the body’s flexibility. I was in such a state then that I said, “I am not capable of doing this.”

“All right, then do not,” Rabash replied. “I will continue alone.”

He continued practicing with the yoga teacher at home, and in a few days I returned.

Rabash did everything according to a schedule. He assigned time to eat, time to drink, and so on. He never drank while eating, and never ate while drinking. His attitude toward the body was always very precise and disciplined. There were also things that I found very hard to endure.

For example, he did not allow the air conditioner to be turned on.

“This is natural heat; there is nothing to be done about it,” he would say. And we endured it.

“If you want, turn on a fan. It is like the wind; that is acceptable.”

My blood pressure would rise terribly. I felt as if I were about to explode. The temperature all around us was 40°C (104°F). Rabash tried to behave in relation to nature in the simplest possible way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/7/26, Rabash, “What Are the Times of Prayer and Gratitude in the Work? ”

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To be young means always striving forward.

Question: That is what youth is?

Answer: Yes, that is youth. It is not a matter of years. You could live to be 200 and remain young. Or you could be an old man at just 20, completely burnt out.

So, it all depends on striving! If you have a drive to attain the meaning of life, then you are always young.

That is the most important thing. It depends on you and on the society you are in, on the environment.

But under no circumstance should you allow yourself to be extinguished or let your inner fire go out. This is crucial.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/7/26

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Question: Do you have a fear of suffering? Suppose you get sick or something else happens to you.

Answer: No, there is no fear. It is unpleasant of course, because it involves pain and disagreeable sensations; in other words, the absence of light within me is expressed in the same way as in others. There is nothing to be done about it; like everyone else, I would prefer to avoid it, but I understand where it comes from, and I do not fear it.

A Kabbalist believes that the plan of the Creator must be fulfilled, and I do everything to align myself with that plan. As for what is intended for my soul, whatever metamorphoses it is destined to undergo, it will undergo. The main thing for me is to prepare myself so that I can be with the Creator in all these transformations even if He performs very unpleasant “surgical operations” on me.

Question: Are you talking about the suffering of the physical body or inner suffering?

Answer: By “surgical,” I mean internal operations. Of course, this could include physical and physiological ones here, naturally.

When Baal HaSulam was asked: “Surely you could make it so that you do not have to suffer before death?” He answered: “I would never allow myself that.” And he indeed had a very painful death. He suffered from cancer, heart conditions, and various other ailments. He endured great suffering. He did not pass away at such an old age, he was around 70. What kind of years are those?

If a person truly understood the extent to which even these sufferings, which serve as a vessel for spirituality, move him forward, and realized that he has the capacity to rise above them, he would not remove them, he would rise above them. But what is meant here is not an ordinary person who simply suffers like a small beaten animal, but a Kabbalist.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Sufferings of the Kabbalists.” 10/8/10

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Question: If a Kabbalist absorbs the illnesses of all people into himself and corrects them within himself, then where is the joy of his life?

Answer: You cannot imagine how much joy that is for him, because by this, he corrects a great deal. He does not simply suffer like a little man in our world who does not know the cause, reason, or purpose of his suffering, through whom suffering simply passes as he moves forward mechanically. A Kabbalist does this consciously; he senses these sufferings, understands their source, and corrects them. Internally, he is happy.

Question: So all the Kabbalists who died tragically were happy?

Answer: Yes, undoubtedly. My teacher passed away in my arms. The point is that all these sufferings come at the level of our world in the form of all kinds of illnesses. The illness runs its course by itself as in any animate body, and he corrects the world by his attitude to the source, to the Creator, to the light, by rising above this.

He does not become healthy, nor does it make him immortal. He still falls ill and dies. But during the course of this illness and death, he carries out enormous corrections and perceives himself as existing within the upper world; that is what it means to be a Kabbalist.

Question: So he must go through sufferings?

Answer: No, in our time, that is absolutely not necessary. All this was in past centuries, when Kabbalists simply performed corrections and thus prepared all humanity for its present state.

Today we look at ourselves and at the world in a completely different way, and we together take part in the general correction. Therefore, a Kabbalist does not need to correct billions of people but only to disseminate Kabbalah and help them so that they will correct themselves. In this way, we will carry out corrections together with them in one group.

Question: How did the method change? If earlier a person had to suffer…

Answer: This was still before the start of our era when the general egoism developing in humanity was at such a level that sufferings themselves pushed a person toward spirituality. And now this can be done by attracting the light through the study of the primary sources and working in a group. The path of light is not the path of suffering.

Question: On the other hand, a person engaged in Kabbalah goes through difficult states, does he not?

Answer: Naturally, these are unpleasant states. But the point is that they are not so much physical as ethical, moral in nature. Serious work and strong nerves are needed here, although in a group, all this happens relatively smoothly.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Sufferings of the Kabbalists.” 10/8/10

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Question: Why is it that all Kabbalists who were attained high spiritual degrees suffered from severe illnesses at the end of their lives?

Answer: Because they suffer for the sake of society and not for themselves.

After all, in our world, we are used to viewing a person as a solitary, separate individual, and therefore we pass such judgments on them: this one is bad, that one is good, this one is such‑and‑such, that one is so‑and‑so, and so on. We fail to take into account the system surrounding the individual that undergoes transformations alongside them that he exists within.

With ordinary people, this perspective is understandable. But a Kabbalist goes through everything not for his own sake. He operates outside of himself, within the surrounding society, and he exists “inside” it. Therefore, the calculation he carries out is a calculation of how to advance society forward.

All his sufferings are also for the sake of society. That is to say, his illnesses and his problems, all of this, does not stem from his own personal nature, but because he gathers all the desires of society within himself; He acts like Bina who gathers all the aspirations from below, from Malchut through Zeir Anpin, and begins to correct and give birth all this. Like a mother who suffers when her children are ill even more than they do and bears the burden of all of them collectively.

Therefore, we cannot interpret a Kabbalist’s sufferings as an indication of his personal problems. These are not his problems at all. Look at what happened with Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Shimon, and at how young the ARI was when he died! However, in our time, everything is changing; we are advancing forward en masse; so everything can change.

But in past centuries, Kabbalists took a great deal of suffering upon themselves. These were sufferings not for faith, not for God, but for humanity. A Kabbalist absorbs into himself the illnesses of all the other people and corrects them within himself, and therefore, for the time being, they go through him. This must be understood. There is nothing religious here!
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Sufferings of the Kabbalists.” 10/8/10

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Comment: In 1938, a Swiss scientist accidentally developed LSD, a drug that supposedly shows a person a different reality. Those who tried it began to look at the world differently and allegedly felt a state “beyond time.”

My Response: I cannot be an expert on this question because I have never taken drugs. I have always believed that they are false, a disconnection from reality. With such means it is impossible to break beyond our world, to rise above time, space, and movement into a different dimension. They are simply various psychosomatic sensations. We disrupt the proper functioning of the brain and therefore supposedly soar in some other space.

It is clear that this has nothing to do with Kabbalah because a person does not acquire the quality of bestowal and love for the surrounding world. A person can somehow be tuned to this with the help of drugs, and be convinced that he will, so to speak, begin to love others, be cheerful, happy, and inclined to communicate with others. But all of this is only because we tuned him in that way and gave him means that suppress the feeling of egoism in him.

It is the same as if a person received some emotional wound or, on the contrary, a great gift of fate, but did not change himself and did not acquire new qualities.

It is clear that those people who take drugs do not become obvious altruists, and they do not see the world as kind, good, and purposeful. They see all kinds of distorted pictures within themselves.

Therefore, this has nothing to do whatsoever with the world that a Kabbalist reveals to the extent that his egoism is transformed into bestowal and love, into a quality opposite to the nature in which he was born.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalah and LSD” 10/1/10

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Question: One of my patients had diabetes and suffered from depression. She was lonely, so she ate whatever happened to be around, never cooked for herself, microwaved ready-made meals, and ate on the go. I asked whether she had a friend, and after receiving a positive answer, I advised them to cook for each other. They followed my advice and both began to recover. Why is it that a person cannot do something for themselves, but does it with pleasure for another?

Answer: In a woman this is expressed especially strongly, because she has a maternal instinct of care, a sense of duty. A person is too lazy to cook just for themselves. It is well-known that if a woman lives alone, she will never cook. But if she has a family, she cannot allow herself to let things slide.

Why do we become healthier when we care for others? Not even because our systems balance each other, but because we enter into balance with nature, with the vast surrounding world in which powerful forces circulate that strive toward equilibrium. We exist between each other like a dipole: plus–minus, minus–plus, which begins to interact with this enormous field, with this enormous force. And since we strive to resemble it, we draw its positive influence onto ourselves, an influence that heals us.

It doesn’t matter on what level we interact with each other. Suppose two people exchange small pleasant things; it doesn’t matter what. The main thing is that an action occurs that places them in correspondence with this vast field, and then both begin to recover. And it doesn’t matter that one sent the other an apple and the other sent back something equally insignificant; that is not the point. The point lies precisely in the correspondence with the surrounding environment, with what you align yourself: either with corrupt humanity, from which you receive only negative influences, or with the positive influence of the great force of nature.
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From KabTV’s “Medicine of the Future,” 4/7/13

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Comment: A story circulating on social media shares that psychologists working with children suffering from the final (terminal) stage of cancer decided to fulfill the most cherished wish of each child and see how the fulfillment of a dream would affect their well-being.

A four-year-old girl living in a village wanted to ride a tram. An eleven-year-old boy dreamed of riding a horse, and a thirteen-year-old girl dreamed of becoming a princess: having servants and having her hand kissed like a princess.

The psychologists rented a tram and spent about two hours riding the little girl around the city. They showed her interesting sights and treated her to tea and sweets. For the boy and his father, they found a couple of horses, and father and son rode along the seashore.

They rented an old castle and beautiful antique clothing. The doctors dressed up as courtiers, and the girl was dressed in a princess gown. The little princess walked through the halls, everyone served her, and, just as she had dreamed, kissed her hand.

The subsequent medical examination results were simply astounding. In one child, the cancer completely disappeared; in the others, the disease either receded or at least stopped progressing!

This experiment confirmed a truth known to ancient physicians but often forgotten by modern ones: emotions have the strongest and most direct influence on our well-being and health. Positive emotions and good thoughts are capable not only of bringing joy and a sense of happiness, but also of overcoming the most terrible disease.

My Response: In addition to the influence of the surrounding light (Ohr Makif) in integral actions, which in general transform everything bad and harmful into good and beneficial, positive emotions that arise within the circle of integral communication also produce a healing effect.
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From the talk 10/16/13

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Question: It would seem that the greater the number of people a person comes into contact with, the higher the risk of catching something and falling ill. Yet studies show that a person living in isolation from others has a much higher chance of dying from disease. Why does this contradiction arise?

Answer: There were periods in human history when terrible epidemics raged in Europe. Because people lived densely in cities, these epidemics led to real catastrophes and claimed millions of lives. If a person lived in a remote village, they had a better chance of escaping an epidemic.

But today humanity has already passed through this era of major epidemics. Recent studies show that in our time, a sense of connection and happiness has such power that it can overcome all problems and illnesses. After all, we live in a different era.

I read about a study conducted at some university involving three teenagers suffering from extremely severe forms of cancer. They were asked what they would like in their lives, and they were promised that any wish would be fulfilled. One boy wanted to fly in an airplane in the pilot’s cockpit, and one girl wanted to be a queen. All these wishes were fulfilled.

For the girl, a royal reception was organized at the university. Students dressed in historical costumes paid her royal honors. After this, it was discovered that the patients’ conditions improved by 80%.

Of course, it is impossible to treat all diseases in this way alone. There are diseases of different levels—inanimate, vegetative, animal, and human depending on which systems of the body are affected. But cancer in particular is very susceptible to such influence, and it retreats in the face of a feeling of happiness. Happiness heals even in the most hopeless conditions.

In such cases doctors advise patients to do what they enjoy: travel, drink wine, enjoy life. And the most healing thing is the support of one’s surroundings—love, help, and protection. The problem is that people often act in exactly the opposite way, and begin to pity the sick person and cry together with them. By doing so, they immediately bury them.

The further we develop and attain connection with the force that sustains all our life, the entire universe, and all levels of our existence, the better we will learn to heal all problems through the feeling of happiness. And we will understand that happiness is attained only within connection.

That is, first and foremost we need unity. By uniting we reveal the connection between us, within which we feel the force that unites us and gives us a feeling of happiness. And through this feeling of happiness we heal all problems.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 242 – Happiness And Social Ties,” 10/17/13

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