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Lesson on the Topic “”The Jewish Choice: Unity or Anti-Semitism,” Chapter 3
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom”
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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.
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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book that I mentioned about the rise of anti-Semitism in the US, dating back to March and April 2019, already sounded outdated.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
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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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
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As a result of correction, a friend and the Creator merge into a single image for me. I see no difference between them because my egoism has been corrected and I cannot tell them apart. All the differences that I perceive are depicted inside my corrupted ego.1
It is written that “From love of friends one comes to love of the Creator.” We don’t change one goal for another, one simply leads to the other: love of the Creator is born out of love for the creatures, while the love of the Creator obliges us to love the creatures. Thus, they take turns changing on each degree until we stop distinguishing the creatures from the Creator, and all become one.2
The person wants to know why he was born in this world, for what purpose? He wants to reveal the upper force that arranged his entire life with all its problems. But we can only reveal the Creator on condition that we undergo a change and become similar to Him. Change part of our egoism for bestowal, and in this reverse part we will feel the actions of the Creator.
Let’s say that I corrected 1/1000 part of my desire. Now I am able to feel that the Creator exists and has a purpose different from mine. From now on, I will consist of two parts: the part of the Creator in 0.1% of my desire and the desire to enjoy in the other 99.9%. From these two I am able to choose which is greater: my egoism or the Creator inside me.
With the help of the reforming light, I keep adding strength to the corrected part at the expense of the corrupted one. All this is on the condition of being connected with the right environment that allows us to advance.3
We keep hatred and build the cover of love above it. We need them both, as it is written: “Love will cover all transgressions.” Specifically cover, not destroy, hatred or turn it into something else. The difference between love and hate must remain, only then will it fuel them both like oil, wick, and flame.4
Our disagreements with a friend have to remain; each one remains with one’s own opinion. But at the same time, what is most important to us is to achieve unity, and we rejoice at having done that and that the Creator giving us an opportunity to be together. We seek the quality of the Creator between the two of us: two opposites in one.5
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/22/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Love of God and The Love of Man”
1 Minute 8:40
2 Minute 10:00
3 Minute 11:15
4 Minute 51:50
5 Minute 54:00
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Rabbi Akiva was Rashbi’s (Rabbi Shimon) teacher, and naturally knew everything that would be written in The Book of Zohar. He knew even more than Rabbi Shimon, but he could not reveal it. In order to reveal this knowledge, Rabbi Shimon united with ten other people and created a system reflecting the state of final correction. Therefore he was able to give an explanation in a form that previously nobody was able to articulate.
He adapted Kabbalah to the “last generation” that we live in today, which is the reason we value The Book of Zohar. Rabbi Shimon took the science of Kabbalah and clothed it into the correct Kli for final correction. Therefore, we can use the light that reaches us through his group.1
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot”
1 Minute 57:20
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Question: Have you personally reached the understanding of the laws of the spiritual world? Has it helped you reach a personal relationship with the Creator?
Answer: I cannot talk about this; none of the Kabbalists will answer these questions for you. This is the personal secret of the Kabbalist.
What good would it do to you if I said “yes” or “no”? It will give you nothing. So it is better to try to achieve everything yourself and see how it happens.
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