Question: How is it possible to convert to being a Jew in your understanding?

Answer: In my understanding, to become a Jew means becoming a person who yearns for unity of all people in the world under the umbrella of love for others.

The Jews are a people founded on the basis of the concept, “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18). There is nothing else in Judaism. It is written in the Torah that the great general and essential rule is “And you shall love your friend as yourself.”

The term “Jew” is created also from the word, “Avar” (Hebrew, to pass). When the person passes from an egoistic perception of the world to an altruistic perception of the world, he becomes a Jew. So each one can be a Jew even if he is German, French, Spanish, etc. It makes no difference whom. Being a Jew is the ideological affiliation, not biological.

Question: Does this mean that you don’t attribute significance to innate Jewishness or affiliation with Judaism?

Answer: Congenital Jewishness obliges us to immediately proceed to carrying out their mission in the world.

And all the other people will reach this to the degree that we Jews awaken them. This is called being a “Light to the nations.”
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From the Webinar 5/8/16

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Question: Lately, many Russian-speaking Jews are leaving Israel to Europe, Canada, and America. How is it possible to make life in Israel more secure?

Answer: Leaving the country will not help us. We must unite. I am not saying that all the Jews should move to Israel, but they must unite where they are living. A method exists for this purpose that we are explaining and striving to implement. It is called the “wisdom of Kabbalah.”

It is the wisdom of how to discover our higher state within the unity between us and to show it to the whole world. Once the nations of the world feel that we are implementing the method of unity, then subconsciously, with the sixth sense, they will understand that this is specifically what they were expecting from us and will immediately stop blaming us for all their suffering. On the contrary, they will begin to relate to us with respect and concern.

Only in this way can we be saved and bring the world to the correct state.

Question: Does this mean that we don’t need to go anywhere?

Answer: This will not help. Today, with the general state of anti-Semitism, with everything that exists in the world, you will not find a corner on the surface of the Earth where it will be possible to hide.

It is not wise to hide behind another family name, to go somewhere that they don’t know who the Jews are, to hide in an isolated quiet secluded place, and so forth. There is no such thing! Because the spiritual force is at work. It will find everyone and bring them all together in one place.
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Question: What is the difference between the way you teach the wisdom of Kabbalah and all the other ways of studying this wisdom?

Answer: The difference is the purpose for which a person studies the wisdom of Kabbalah. In our organization, we study the wisdom of Kabbalah in order to unite and in order to bring the Creator contentment by the unity between us, to delight Him. This is an altruistic yearning.

There are those who study the wisdom of Kabbalah not in order to delight the Creator, but in order to reveal Him. This is the intermediate phase in our development between the egoistic intention and the altruistic intention.

Much of the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah is as a method of uniting in order to live a better life, to escape from sufferings, or to gain life after death, etc. These are purely egoistic intentions, but it is commendable because it is directed at demanding from the Creator.

Any other aspirations below that have nothing to do at all with the Creator.
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Question: Has the Russian-speaking population in Israel that have successfully integrated in Israeli society become a basis for the nation’s unity?

Answer: No. The hope that many had did not come true; the Russian-speaking population have not become the foundation for a new Israel, although the state’s ideologists who came to Israel at the end of the 19^th century and even later were of Russian origin.

But 20^th century Kabbalists believed that the Russian Jews would form the basis of a new Israeli society, which in turn, would be the basis for a new humanity. In other words, the way is open for the Russian Jews in this direction.
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From KabTV’s “A Talk About the Independence Day” 4/30/16

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New Life 711 – What Women Want
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

A man and woman are like plus and minus; they must eventually reach a balance, the correct connection between them; the man must give and the woman receives. She must want the right thing and he must fulfill this desire correctly. We cannot fulfill ourselves, only others, so the right connection between right and left is through finding the middle line between them.

In our day everyone is “out of order”; women want the incorrect fulfillment of false substitutes for their desires. The natural desire of a woman is first of all a family, but in the last century we have lost our direction regarding this matter. We have built an artificial world for ourselves in which life is difficult, the family unit is collapsing, and children are neglected.

The solution depends on an education for attaining the spiritual goal within relationships and family, as a gift that will uphold, “When husband and wife are worthy, the Shechina abides with them” (Sotah 17a). Fundamentally, a woman wants connection with the upper force through her husband. Throughout our history we developed through our desires until we felt an inclination for discovery of the inner essence, the supreme power, unconditional love.

The goal of alliance between partners is the discovery of the one supreme power that controls nature, our source, to which we must return to in unison. A woman wants that same power of love to dwell in her family because this is a safe, complete and eternal state. Through love between us we reach the revelation of the higher power of unconditional love.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 711 – What Women Want,” 4/7/16

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Preparation for the Lesson

Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder,” Article 15

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 110

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of Religion and It’s Purpose”

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Question: Why should we believe you?

Answer: You shouldn’t believe me since you cannot actually perceive me and whether what I say is true or not. If a person understands the wisdom of Kabbalah he knows what I am talking about and if he doesn’t understand, how can he express his disagreement from the perspective of not understanding?

The wisdom of Kabbalah is not a system of information that a person is served and taught, but a guiding system and a set of instructions that lead a person to the revelation of the upper world. Then he can study and understand independently and this is the reason that I cannot tell you about it.

A person does not have the right tools or vessels which means the compatible senses and attributes to perceive the upper world because it is attained only when one resembles it and is equal to it. Even when a person reads Kabbalah books he doesn’t understand anything.

I can only explain the method of attaining the feeling of the upper world and how we can advance towards it, how to enter it by the connection between the friends, by drawing the Surrounding Light unto us, etc. A person will begin to feel and to attain this when he becomes a Kabbalist.

Question: Can we call it the hidden part of the Torah? Is what Kabbalah books describe the revealed part and what is attained the hidden part?

Answer: On the contrary, the hidden part is the part which the books describe, the levels, the ascents, the revelations, etc. Because when a person reads he doesn’t understand what he reads, but when he attains and feels the upper world, it is revealed to him, while it remains concealed for everyone else.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16

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Question: When is the uprising of the Muslims in Europe, or the Europeans’ crusade against the Islamic overtaking of Europe expected?

Answer: In the past Europe opposed Russia. An image of an enemy is vital for every country and even for every person because our nature is pure egoism.

Before Russia, Europe saw the Ottoman Empire as its enemy, and only during the Livonian War (1558-1583) did it choose Russia as its enemy. It makes sense to assume that Russia and Europe will see radical Islam as their common enemy.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, things will be different. Europe and Islam will actually unite against Israel because instinctively they feel that Israel is their common enemy.
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