Two Trends In The Life Of The Jewish Diaspora, Part 5

laitman_962.1Jews are the Driving Force of the World

Question: At the beginning of the 15th century, Jews of Spain adopted Christianity in mass and took important posts in the social and economic activities of the country.

From 1871 a process that gave Jews rights on an equal basis with others began in Germany. And a little later, in the 20s of the 20th century, the Jews of America also began to gain power.

The same processes, only in a slightly different way, took place in Russia. The bulk of those who made the revolution were people of Jewish origin.

Naturally, anti-Semitism immediately appeared in these countries. Baal HaSulam wrote that the system to follow the collapse of capitalism would be fascism, which occurs when people feel disconnected and strive to unite at any cost, but since they are not able to unite in the pursuit of the meaning of life and good, they are forced to unite against someone, exalting opposing yourself to another group of people. Why does that happen?

Answer: If we do not correct the social and economic foundations of the system, then it leads to even greater hatred toward those who find and support it. Thus, it turns out that the world is moved by hatred, or at best, competition. In principle, this is not competition, since competition is some small stage, which then grows into hatred. It already clearly defines who we can hate: the driving force of the world. But the driving force of the world, whatever one may say, has always been the Jews. And therefore, a negative attitude toward them is one of the great forces of human development. Where anti-Semitism develops, there is always a forward movement: either positive or negative.

This movement can be positive only at a certain, concrete phase, when society should recreate itself, literally be reborn from the ashes, from the previous broken state. Naturally, then Jews are included in this development as the most dynamic part of society.

While they build this society and its following outlines become more or less visible, it then seems that they have done their job by pulling this huge mass out of the garbage, from the breakdown, making a society, a state, and affecting all areas without exception: science, culture, technology, education, etc. Therefore, a small group of Jews is engaged in the uplifting of society due to their inner receptivity to it.

But as soon as society begins to flourish, anti-Semitic forces rise and destroy everything that the Jews have done. Why? Because what the Jews created, they did without a spiritual purpose. And so we need to destroy everything again and build anew.

Question: An example is Facebook, a social network designed to connect all people. But can you call it a connection?

Answer: I completely agree. What is created by the Jews without the direction of correcting humanity brings only evil to the world.

For more on this topic, read my books Like a Bundle of Reeds: why unity and mutual guarantee are today’s call of the hour, and The Jewish Choice: Unity or Anti-Semitism, Historical facts on anti-Semitism as a reflection of Jewish social discord.

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From KabTV’s “System Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel,” 7/29/19

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Getting To Know Ourselves

laitman_627.1Question: What does self-realization mean for most people? What potential do they have for moral, cultural, and spiritual development? What can really be done?

Answer: First, we must understand that if we do not work with a man, he again turns into an animal because labor has made man out of a monkey. This is actually so.

But in our time, we are going, as it were , on the way back. Therefore, we need to create conditions for a person so that one can develop not in manufacturing new material objects to sell, buy, and do something with, but in the production of a spiritual complement to one’s limited, material life.

For this, it is necessary to organize all of humanity into groups in which we will teach them and they will develop not only in culture, music, and literature, but in attaining ourselves and building a society, i.e., human psychology and human society: how we can improve ourselves, what is the best condition for us, and so on.

Besides this, if people are interested in some exact sciences, then let them study this as well. Therefore, training should be our main occupation.
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From KabTV’s “Unemployment Post-Coronavirus,” 5/30/20

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The Coronavirus Communist Plot

laitman_527.03Question: What should society be like? Should it be communist?

Answer: Yes, but not the kind of communism that was once in the former Soviet Union or that we read about from Karl Marx. It is a society of equal free people.

Nature demands us to be similar to the Creator. We cannot achieve similarity with the Creator by any other type of connection besides the one we call communism. But we are not talking about the kind of communism that was propagated in the Soviet Union, but of a totally different society of free, correctly interconnected people.

The most important thing is education. A lot was said about it in the Soviet Russia back in the day, but nobody did anything about it, it was all done for show. So, we, the global community, must organize education in a way that is congruent with nature. Not because it is good or bad, but because this is the only way we can protect ourselves from natural disasters and blows caused by our unreasonable behavior.

It is not that we pollute the environment. We see how quickly nature has begun to recover, even in the few weeks that we have shied a little from our reckless production and overproduction.

The most important thing is that nature will still force us to treat each other correctly, i.e., to feel like one common human community, not animal, but human. We cannot escape it.

I am sure that this virus will not just go away, although now they are saying that it is about to disappear. I do not believe so. I am telling you directly It seems to me that it will be months before we can start a normal life and return to normal in all the ways. Therefore, we have to think about how to achieve the right interaction. This is our only problem.

All of nature is an integral, enclosed system. As long as we, the people, do not correlate to it with our qualities or connections, nature will keep bringing us blow after blow, squeezing everything possible out of us. After all, the more advanced we are, the more it mocks us and forces us to react correctly to it and create kind, mutual human relations between us.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/12/20

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To Always Be Spiritually Alert

laitman_962.2Question: What five actions do you take after waking up in the morning, before the coronavirus and now?

Answer: Nothing has changed, they are the same actions. I usually wake up a few hours before the lesson. Since the lesson starts at three in the morning, I get up at midnight and study Kabbalah. Therefore, I enter the lesson on the ball, warmed up like an athlete before a competition.

I don’t know why you mention five actions. In principle, in order to teach correctly, I must be spiritually alert.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/19/20

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From The Initial State To Complete Wholeness

742.03Question: The Creator created us as existence from absence and we were in a perfect state. Now, in order to feel Him again, we have to bring ourselves once again to the feeling that I am no one and nobody, is that true?

Answer: No, it is nothing like that!

We were created by the Creator in a perfect state, and then we were lowered from this state downward. We have lost this perfection so that we will attain it independently now so it will be felt in us 613 times stronger than the wholeness that we were in initially when it was artificially created in us by the Creator.

If we reach this state now as a result of our efforts, we will perceive it in a totally different manner in our feelings, understanding, and thoughts. So the difference between what was and what will be is huge.

An embryo in his mother’s womb, for example, is in a state of absolute pleasure. Nothing pressures him, he feels good and comfortable, he does not think about anything, and everything is done for him by his mother’s body, but this is not a whole state.

So, when a person is born, he begins to develop by himself. We are the same. Once we were in the state of Adam, in the initial primary state of the soul. But it was felt like a very small light, the light of Nefesh, whereas now, we have to attain the state by ourselves. Then we will feel it as the highest and most sublime connection with the Creator in the form of the five lights, NaRaNHY (Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, Yechida), which means on the level of the Creator and not on the level of a small Ubar (embryo).

This is the whole difference between our initial feeling, which was part of us according to the thought of creation when we were as an Ubar and what we have to attain by ourselves because this will be the whole and complete state.

We ascend from the level of a small Ubar who does not feel anything by himself, because he has nothing and he knows nothing, to the level of the Creator, and then we will see, understand, and feel the whole creation.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 12/8/20

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Why Unite On The Level Of Earthly Feeling?

laitman_557Question: If we are one hundred percent connected in one system from the point of view of the upper force, which we do not feel perhaps, why do we need to unite on the level of our earthly senses? Maybe it is enough to do this only on the internal level?

Answer: We will not be united with the upper force until we unite on the earthly level. The Creator manages us only from top down and manages us in accordance with our condition.

But as soon as we begin to connect with each other, we immediately acquire equivalence with the Creator, and then we become truly equal and correctly interconnected with Him.

We must reach this state. Then we will begin to feel it as eternal and perfect, we will rise from the level of our world, in which we now exist as animals, to the level of Man (Adam). And the level of Man is already infinite eternal existence. We must reach it.

Question: Sometimes you say that people unite between themselves. And sometimes they unite with the force that connects us. What exactly is this unification?

Answer: Reaching correct, integral, equal, and friendly unification, we reach the state when we can unite with the upper force. It exists exactly in the unity between us.
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Form KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/12/20

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Lesson Preparation

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Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 174 “Concealment”

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Lesson on the Topic “Concerning Above Reason” 

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Dissemination of The Wisdom Of Kabbalah

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Selected Highlights

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