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My Thoughts On Twitter 1/4/20

Dr Michael Laitman Twitter

The development of #Antisemitism: fractions and parties will emerge in the world and infiltrate politics. Nations will form alliances based on hatred of Jews, demanding that #UNESCO, the UN and other international organizations cut off #Israel from international deals and trade with sanctions.

Why is it that for the nations of the world, assimilation usually leads to good consequences, whereas for the nation of Israel, assimilation always has negative consequences? It’s because #Israel is being corrected, going back to the roots, whereas the nations advance forward toward the goal of creation!

What if it was your son? What if it was your father? Your grandfather? Brother? Friend? #Antisemitism is growing in the US & around the world. We don’t feel what they’re going through, but our connection can protect them. Think about the connection & them. Because we’re all one.

Is it correct to understand that the nations of the world are willing to accept the nation of Israel only when it preserves its foundation? Only if the nation of Israel is the head of the soul, an example, leading the nations to the goal of creation, will the nations accept it and help it in every way to attain the general correction of the body of the soul.
From Twitter, 1/4/20

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“The Next Holocaust In America?” (Times Of Israel)

The Times of Israel published my new article “The Next Holocaust in America?

As the topic of anti-Semitism fills more and more Jewish people’s hearts with fear, as well as the news headlines day after day, we read some parts of my new book The Jewish Choice: Unity or Anti-Semitism with my students today. It was notable how the pace of anti-Semitism’s rise is as has never been before.

Unprecedented Speed of Anti-Semitism’s Rise

Due to the fast acceleration of anti-Semitism’s expansion, two examples from the book that I mentioned about the rise of anti-Semitism in the US, dating back to March and April 2019, already sounded outdated. That is, the examples we have at the turn of the decade, are already far more aggressive.

In a letter dated December 29, 2019, of the New York State Senator, Simcha Felder, New York State Assemblyman, Simcha Eichenstein, and two New York City Councilmen, Chaim Deutsch and Kalman Yeger, addressed to New York City Governor, Andrew Cuomo, they described how:

“Anti-Semitic hate crimes have grown to frighteningly high numbers over the past several months. During the past several days in particular, identifiably Orthodox Jews in and around areas we represent have been targeted with a rash of violence unseen in modern history. Orthodox Jews are being regularly assaulted, menaced, stabbed and murdered in increasing numbers. This has been appropriately described as a ‘slow-rolling pogrom.’ We are writing to ask that you declare a state of emergency. … Simply stated, it is no longer safe to be identifiably Orthodox in the State of New York. We cannot shop, walk down a street, send our children to school, or even worship in peace.”

Moreover, former Democratic New York State Assemblyman and radio show host Dov Hikind mentioned that “If you were to ask Jews 20 years ago if a Holocaust could happen in America, you would get a uniform answer: ‘it’s impossible, not in America.’ Well, that’s not the case anymore. What will happen next?”

In the 2000s, I spoke about anti-Semitism in the US as a forthcoming problem, and was laughed at.

In the 2010s, when anti-Semitism began its exponential climb in the US and around the world, and started becoming acknowledged as a problem, I then talked about the next Holocaust taking place in the US.

Today, at the turn of the new decade, we can see how the awareness of the possibility of the next Holocaust taking place in America is coming to light.

Indeed then, as Dov Hikind asked, what is next?

The Fateful Shift from Division to Unity

The laws of nature are bringing human society to tighter connection, and the Jewish people, whether knowingly or unknowingly, host a method to make a key shift in realizing such connection positively—the ability to unite above all the fiery social division, as is written in the words, “love will cover all transgressions,” in order to pass such an ability to all people of the world, i.e., to be “a light unto the nations.”

Nature is demanding us to cease being a destructive and divisive force, and start becoming a positive and unified force.

If we fail to initiate the beginning of the Jewish people’s correction, by starting to implement unity above our differences, we will feel increasing pressures. The pressures would not only be in the US, but everywhere in the world, including the State of Israel where we could expect more and more sanctions and constraints. We would then continue strengthening our security until we would feel stuck in our little fortress with enemy forces surrounding us from all sides.

And if that would fail to prod us to unite, then we could expect such events as even an elimination of the State of Israel, and such disasters where, as Kabbalists have written, only a small group would remain to unite above our divisive drives.

“If the total ruin that they are destined to bring upon the world is still not evident to the world, they can wait for a third world war, or a fourth one … and the relics that remain after the ruin will have no other choice but to take upon themselves this work, where both individuals and nations will not work for themselves more than is necessary for their sustenance, while everything else they do will be for the good of others.” – Yehuda Ashlag, The Writings of the Last Generation.

The sooner we realize that our unity causes the unity of human society as a whole, and that by so doing, we will experience a wholly different positive, harmonious, peaceful and appreciative response from the world, then the sooner we can reverse the foreboding trend of anti-Semitism and find ourselves in a harmonious world. By uniting, we carry out our role in the world, and establish a newfound balance of forces between humanity and nature.

The First Step toward Unity

The first step toward unity is that we understand the need to save ourselves from destruction together with the need for adaptation with nature’s connecting tendency. If we do so, then we will see incredible phenomena unfold before our very eyes: a complete inversion of anti-Semitism to its opposite—a love and appreciation for the Jewish people who bring unity and light to the world. There would simply be no reason for anyone to hate Jews since people would know how to unite, and united people do not hate each other, nor the ones who teach and encourage their unity.

We need no long painful paths to reach such a state. By starting to think and act in a direction of the unity of all Jewish people right now, we can start pioneering an epic and historical positive transformation.

My new book, The Jewish Choice: Unity or Anti-Semitism is now available at Amazon and Laitman Kabbalah Publishers.

New Life 1117 – Can We Control Our Lives? Part 2

New Life 1117 – Can We Control Our Lives? Part 2
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

In order to truly clarify what we can and cannot control, we need to study the wisdom of Kabbalah in a group. Kabbalah provides a complete method for correctly connecting with others, transcending human egoism, and discovering the upper force through love of others. Working in a group of people studying Kabbalah, a person surrenders himself to the power of love that is revealed in the group’s connection, and finds how it provides complete security and guides us all regarding when to take control and when to surrender. In the future, humanity will organize itself into a group like this: a higher power will be revealed, and control will be handed over to it.

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From KabTV’s “New Life 1117 – Can We Control Our Lives? Part 2,” 6/4/19

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My Thoughts On Twitter 1/3/20

Dr Michael Laitman Twitter

By virtue of an outside factor, I can become human. But this is against all of my desires and my nature. This is why I need an environment: it will help me overcome the laziness and difficulties, and prove to me that this endeavor is worthwhile.

If we feel darkness gathering for us, it means the light is here and that is exactly why we are seeing #darkness.
#kabbalah #quotesaboutlife

The external factor cannot affect a person directly, but indirectly, in a roundabout way, it exerts a very serious influence.

External factors have enormous impact on a person: we transmit thoughts, desires and values to people, and receive the same from them. That is how all of humanity develops under the influence of society. The influence of the media is particularly apparent… as it destroys man.

Only man has freedom of will—by using the external factor, he can choose the direction of his development. We have an opportunity to turn to the spiritual factor, which will develop us—this is our freedom of will.
#kabbalah #freedom
From Twitter, 1/3/20

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