My Articles In The Media, May 2017

In English

The Jerusalem Post

Comment: Is Judaism Racism?
The Israeli Campfire
A Memo to President Trump
Things That You’re Liable to Read in the Torah — They Ain’t Necessarily So

Haaretz

What This Means for Jews When Austria’s President Says All Women Will Wear Headscarves
Independence Means Independence From Mutual Hatred
The Fire of Hatred, the Fire of Love
The Fundamental Flaw Behind the Cyber Attack
A Few Words to the President
What Our Ancestors Knew That We Don’t, and Why This Is Important Especially Today

Jewish Business News

Michael Laitman: The Fundamental Flaw Behind the Cyber Attack
Michael Laitman: What Our Ancestors Knew that We Don’t, And Why This is Important Especially Today

In French

The Times of Israel

La deuxième révolution française
Est-ce que le judaïsme est du racisme?
On ne doit pas nécessairement se fier à l’apparence de ce qu’on peut lire dans la Torah
Michael Laitman: Lettre ouverte au Président Trump

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Alors Que Chavouot la Fête du don de la Torah est tout près souvenons nous que la vraie signification de la torah est l’amour d’autrui” 
L’autriche s’ouvre sur le monde (islamique)
Lag BaOmer: le feu de la haine le feu de lamour” 
La faute fondamentale derrière la dernière cyberattaque”
Le temps est venu de démystifier les idées fausses sur la Torah”
Alors que Chavouot la fête du don de la Torah est tout près souvenons nous que la vraie significa

In Spanish

BlogActive

La fogata israeli
El presidente de austria dice que todas las mujeres llevaran pañuelo en la cabeza. Qué significa esto para los judíos?
Mensaje para el presidente Trump
El gran fallo detrás del ataque informático
Las cosas que uno puede leer en la Torá no non necesariamente así

United With Israel

La fogata israeli
Las cosas que uno puede leer en la Tora no son necesariamente así

In German

Huffington Post

Feuer des Hasses, Feuer der Liebe
Eine Notiz an Präsident Trump

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Wonderful Balance

laitman_232_06Question: How can we balance our world and the attainment of the spiritual world?

Answer: It is wonderful when everything is balanced because there is no contradiction between the two worlds. We will all have to attain that.

The main thing is to try to do everything we can in order to attain the upper world and then we will see that everything is connected into one unique system. We will see one picture; it will be wonderful, with such harmony that will fill us and give us the feeling of perpetual motion. In this state, we will feel everything that is above us while living in this world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/21/17

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Earth Can Be Heaven

Laitman_715Question: Stephen Hawking continues to popularize himself. Now, he proposes to build colonies on the Moon and Mars where we would need to resettle as a result of climate change on Earth or the fall of a meteorite.

What do you think about these statements? Are we going somewhere?

Answer: I did not expect such a stretch of imagination from such a serious scientist who is the head of Newton’s department.

Of course, it is good to build laboratories on the Moon or on Mars to “saddle” some kind of a comet or a meteorite. The fact that he calls for resettlement elsewhere is no good at all. People do not know how much they are connected with the Earth.

We are connected with the Earth with all of our properties! We change even when we move from place to place on Earth. Facial features, character… everything changes. Compare, for example, the Jews who lived in Russia in the European part and those who lived in Central Asia. This is the power of the Earth! It is said that changing place changes fate and luck.

I believe that scientists do that to get good funding, create laboratories, and learn more about the universe. It is good. In fact, I do not think that someone thinks about moving somewhere else seriously.

If there is no life on Earth, will it be in another place? Here, we have excellent conditions, but we have already polluted the Earth so badly that we do not want to live on it anymore. And what will happen in another place? Is this how we will deal with all celestial bodies?

Comment: Once, you said that the garbage orbiting in space will be the monument to humanity.

Answer: And it is already so. If someone watched us from outer space, they would understand that they shouldn’t do business with us just by looking at the rubbish. They would say, “Look what they did to the nearest space!”

Question: I want to ask you as a Kabbalist: how can we master the Earth so that there will be no desire to move anywhere else?

Answer: People who have polluted the Earth must correct themselves. After all, the Earth can be heaven.

Question: So, will there be enough space and the ecology will be better?

Answer: This is not about that. The fact is that according to the parameters of inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature, the Earth is an ideal place for us because we grew and developed on it.

But when man on the Earth began to develop egoistically, he began to oppose himself to nature and the Earth, and as a result, systematically and consistently spoiled the environment. And here, we must correct ourselves.

Therefore, we need to take care of our own development along with financing scientific development.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 6/28/17

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My Thoughts On Twitter, 7/18/17

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Why Jews Are Increasingly Unwelcome in Progressive Circles by @Kabbalahinfo host Tal Mandelbaum @UniteWithIsrael

Open Letter to Mark #Zuckerberg: How Facebook Can Actually ‘Bring the World Closer Together’ @UniteWithIsrael

From Twitter, 7/18/17

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Alone In A Crowd Of A Billion, Part 7

laitman_947One For The Sake Of Together And Together For The Sake Of One

Question: Do you like to be alone or surrounded by other people?

Answer: I like to be alone. But I have a goal that is very important to me, and for its sake, I leave my room and come to people. As a result, it turns out that throughout a year, I fly around the globe.

Question: What is the use of being alone?

Answer: Alone I can develop individually: read books and articles. I absorb the sources, work on the material, and analyze the phenomena personally, so that no one interferes.

But beyond that, I have to go outside to communicate with other people because there is a goal that obliges me. The more I give them and help them, the more I can absorb from them. It is written: “I learned from all my students.” In fact, to the extent that I want to convey my knowledge and all the good to them, through the same channel, I get their impressions that teach me.

It turns out that mutual communication begins between us: I teach my students and I learn from them; that is, I become a student. This approach is possible with respect to any area of human life. The time has come when we must communicate with each other in such form; this is called the era of the Messiah, the last generation.

Question: What is the correct relationship between being alone and interconnected with other people?

Answer: Everyone should feel the right relationship individually, as the saying goes: “The soul of man will teach him.” He will feel that he is obliged to go outside, spread his knowledge, help others, and also receive from them. A person realizes that he needs a new kind of connection.

Question: Where will mankind of the 21st century go: to solitude or to be together?

Answer: In the 21st century, there will be both. Above all individuals there must be another layer that covers everything, where we are together. That is, there will be complete harmony: loneliness for the sake of unity and unification for the sake of individuality, one for the sake of together and together for the sake of one. Between these concepts there will be no contradiction, only mutual support.

Now we see that these concepts are in contradiction—a man secludes himself and does not want communication. That is, the one principle still collides with the principle of together. But when we get to the critical state in this matter, humanity will start looking for a way out, a method for uniting people, which nature requires of us.

Otherwise, nature is out of balance and we await climatic catastrophes and wars. People will be unable to build families and live together. The face of the generation will become very cruel because it will be incapable of uniting the two principles together: individuality and unity. And then, people will want to learn the methods of unification that Kabbalah offers.

Question: How can a person check what is at the point of equilibrium?

Answer: Balance is a harmony between these two areas in which a person will feel how nature is revealed before him. He will open his eyes to a new dimension. Inside the combination of these two layers: individuality and complete unification, a new world is revealed to him where all opposites unite and replenish each other.

Question: Will a man of the future be an individualist?

Answer: The whole individuality of the future man will be designed to support one man, that is, a common system united as one man. The individuality of each will be expressed in that it will include everyone.

Question: That is, he will not care about personal benefits, but about the benefits of society?

Answer: The personal benefits of each will be inseparable from the benefits of society. We will all feel like one man, as the supreme power that unfolds within all of us, filling us with mutual bestowal and love and revealing the higher reality to us.

I wish for us to achieve this kind of life as quickly as possible!
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 4/4/17

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 7/19/17

Preparation for the Lesson

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Preparation for the Italy Convention 2017

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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 

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Lesson on the Topic: “The Period of ‘Between the Straits'”

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My Thoughts On Twitter, 7/17/17

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Just published on @Medium “AN OPEN LETTER AND PROPOSAL TO MARK ZUCKERBERG” #Facebook

“An Open Letter & Proposal to Mark Zuckerberg” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-letter-proposal-mark-zuckerberg-michael-laitman … by @laitman on @LinkedIn

Inspired by my letter (http://bit.ly/zucknote ) to Mark #Zuckerberg about bringing the world closer together.

From Twitter, 7/17/17

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Three Times About Love

laitman_527_03Comment: You said that a person is given the feeling of love in his youth and each of us has, indeed, experienced first love. The second time is when a person has a child, and as for the third time, he has to develop it himself, consciously in relation to strangers.

Answer: The first case is not love but a natural internal hormonal call that is described in many sources. In the second case, when a person has a baby, he feels that he is part of nature and that he is taking some high part in it. This action is similar to the Creator’s action and so it gives a person a special feeling. In the third case, if a person begins to truly resemble the Creator, he can already feel what love is.

Question: In the first two cases I can somehow imagine what love is. Can I relate to these two cases as an example in order to understand how to love others?

Answer: No! In the first case it is merely a hormonal discharge and that’s all. Forgive me for speaking about love and romance this way, but there is nothing else in it. You can ask any psychologist. And as for the love of a baby, it is a beastly emotion.

Nature did not let us feel all that for no reason but to develop the next level in us, which is above nature. You begin to love another not because you like him or because you fill up some of your desires, but because you are bringing the Creator pleasure by that, and this is called altruism.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/26/17

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What A Name Is

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What is a name?

Answer: A name is an indicator of a specific characteristic or action.

The combination of letters symbolizes in what manner the name is created in creation.

Suppose that I have a desire that takes shape under the influence of a particular Light.

There is a special structure in this desire, a collection of forces and characteristics. Together they form a name.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/5/17

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