Question: Why did the Nazis pursue a policy directed against Jews?

Answer: The fact is that after the Weimar National Assembly, which adopted a constitution that equalized the rights of all the peoples of Germany, in particular Jews with Germans, it suddenly became clear that Jews occupied high positions in industry, science, and culture for several decades. According to the studies of political scientists and psychologists, this caused great envy and increased anti-Semitism.

Before that, everything was relatively quiet, although everyday, anti-Semitism has always existed because it is in the blood of mankind. This is the realization by the peoples of the world that the Jews have something secret, and supposedly they rule the world, they know something, they hide something.

Indeed, these people have a method of correcting the world. And now, when he offers it to everyone, no one wants to hear about it, because it is an anti-egoistic technique. But the feeling that the Jews have something is true. This attitude has always been with them.

After all, the main thing is the struggle for whose God is either yours or mine; it cannot be both is what Christians believed.

The Jews did not have this at all. God is the general force of nature. He is one!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Why Did the Nazis Hate the Jews?”

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Question: What is the difference between the beginning of the 21^st century and the beginning of the 2o^th century, which was marked by the First World War and the need for changes in society?

Answer: At the beginning of the 2o^th century, there was a fight for division, governance, and influence in the world. And today, at the beginning of the 21^st century, there is a struggle for survival.

It is clear to everyone that it is impossible to rule the world, as it was thought before.

The world is governed by other forces, not ours, and we must comprehend them and enter them. The 21^st century is the century of comprehension of the upper collective governance, the upper mind, and our common “I.”

Until the 2o^th century, we developed in the search for knowledge, science, literature, and culture. The 2o^th century is the century of integration when we were obliged to communicate with each other through mutual trade, separation–connection, war, and peace. People began to move, relocate, and understand that the world is round. They lost the sense of the flatness on which they live and developed a feeling of a sphere. This is very important and is the result of the 2o^th century.

And then we began to experience huge problems with integration. It happened very quickly and imperceptibly because we are entering a state where changes occur much faster than we can realize with our feelings and mind. It turns out that today we are in a state that we do not understand at all.

There was a time when rulers would say, “It will be so,” and it was so. Then they would look at the world around them, consult their advisors, and say, “It is better to do this or that.” Today neither they nor their advisers understand anything. The time of kings has passed because it is impossible to follow whatever pops into the king’s and his advisers’ heads. Besides, there are no wise advisers left. So, we don’t know what to rely on and what to do with ourselves. That is the problem.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference between the 2o^th and 21^st Centuries” 2/11/12

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New Life 257 – Interdependent Relationships In The Neighborhood
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

How do we elevate relations between neighbors to a higher level?

A person of today generally wants to close himself off in his apartment and not be disturbed, but this doesn’t happen. Instead of building more walls and further isolation, one must begin to build relationships and connections. The only remedy for any problem, neighborhood problems included, is to build good relationships and connections between us. If we hire someone else to address problems, it will not help. Nature is pushing us to connect and integrate with each other.

Neighbors should gather socially to get to know each other better. Then they can share their mutual concerns and think together about how to address problems through building good relationships between them.

Games and activities that connect children can be an effective approach to also begin to connect their mothers. Ask “What do we have in common? What don’t we have in common?” Such discussions can lead neighbors to explore how they can improve their situation together. Shared classes, a shared picnic, or a shared barbecue will fill everyone with good feelings.

But above all, we need to change our attitudes to each other. In a perfect neighborhood everyone feels like one family: close, connected and concerned about each other and the fulfillment of each individual’s needs and our common needs together.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 257 – Interdependent Relationships In The Neighborhood,” 11/19/13
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Preparation to the Lesson

Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Tenth Commandment,” Item 237

Lesson on the Topic “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Are the Jewish people still in exile?“

Being Jewish means attaining the sensation of two contrasting forces in nature, the egoistic force, which is our human nature, and its opposite altruistic force, which is the force of nature itself.

The attainment of these two forces define the people who, first under Abraham, developed this feeling of reality. They became known as the people of Israel, and later, as the Jews.

At a certain point, around 2,000 years ago, they lost the sensation of the two forces and lived solely in the egoistic force. That is the meaning of being in exile.

Exile has no geographic connotations, i.e. leaving some geographic Land of Israel. It is rather a matter of an inner exile, that we lack the sensation of the altruistic nature—the quality of love, bestowal and connection—in our relations. When we departed from this sensation, we then entered our period of exile and ceased to exist as the people of Israel.

Based on the video “What Is the Exile of the Jews?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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What changes should a person go through in order to disconnect from the corporeal perception of reality in parameters of time, movement, space, and move on to the feeling of spiritual reality?

We perceive reality in our desire to receive. What we feel inside this desire is called this corporeal world. If we rise above the definitions of time, movement, and space, we will reach a new perception—the spiritual world.

We are so trapped inside the corporeal axes of space and time that we cannot even imagine what could be outside of them. That is why there is the wisdom of Kabbalah that teaches us how to receive (Kabbalah = reception, a new perception, that is, a feeling of the spiritual world revealed in our new, spiritual sensory organs) and how to move from corporeal sensations to spiritual ones. This is the work of man.

Life in this world is designed to move from corporeal perception to spiritual perception. Kabbalists advise us on how to make such a change within us in order to move from the corporeal world based on reception to the spiritual world of bestowal.

To the extent that we manage to replace the egoistic sensory organs within us with altruistic ones, to this extent we will be able to experience the upper world, that is, the reality perceived in the new sensory organs built on bestowal and connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/27/23, “Perception of Reality”

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Spiritual worlds are built upon connection of opposites: light and darkness, plus and minus, bestowal and reception, that is, all kinds of inverse qualities in all their forms.

If we can ignore these differences so that it is not the change of qualities that is important to us but the connection, which means that we raise the connection above the oppositeness of qualities, then we will reveal their common upper root inside them. In this way, we will reveal the Creator, the common upper force, and we will reveal the upper reality in this form.

The upper world differs from the lower world in that it is all altruistic, giving, uniting, and loving. The lower world, on the contrary, is rejecting and hating.

Therefore, it is said about the spiritual world that we must turn darkness into light and connect as one person with one heart so that there are no contradicting qualities between us that deny each other. On the contrary, we are always yearning to unite according to spiritual law and to complete each other.

If we do not succeed, then we understand that we were born with such qualities and must live with them, and we just need to strengthen the connection between us. We do not change our nature from reception to bestowal, but we change it to reception in order to bestow.

This is the entire patent. Nothing changes except the intention that we need to correct. And if we cover all crimes and our desire to receive and enjoy at the expense of someone else with the intention for the sake of bestowing to the other, then by this we correct our desire. Although it remains a desire to receive, it works with the intention for the sake of bestowal and connects us into one whole.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/27/23, “Perception of Reality”

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If we understand the history of our development and its tendency, and realize that nature is pushing us toward harmony so that a human being would re-establish balance in nature rather than causing the opposite effect, we will see how we have to treat nature at its inanimate, vegetative, animate, and mostly important human levels, i.e., the social level. Thus we have to build our society in the way that it would influence all of nature and would bring it into harmony.

When we begin this movement, everything that surrounds us and exists within us will suddenly begin to come into balance—a person’s health, psychology, and physiology, and his relations with family, children, other people, the government, and the world. At the same time, all laws of the world, including the ecology and climate will start to come into balance.

We will begin to feel the general movement of nature above the matter, time, and space. Today, even physicists are talking about the fact that everything depends on each one of us, meaning on the observer.

If we change the observer, give him one more property opposite to hate, which is love, he will be able to control these two properties within himself according to the middle line, he will rise above our nature, and will begin to sense the state of eternity and perfection.

Then we will really understand where our nature has been pushing us toward since its plan is much higher than something that our small mind is capable of perceiving. We will come to this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Make a Revolution” 2/10/12

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Today the world has become unmanageable and is leading us to the next state—the attainment of our unity, that is, the thing that actually controls us. Previously, we allegedly controlled ourselves; our mind was enough for this because we were individuals. But when the world has closed, we can no longer control ourselves, the world no longer acts according to our minds.

All our movements, plans, and decisions do not affect nature. We cannot sit, think, come to a conclusion, and implement it.

Even if we do it with great difficulty, we still do not succeed because something interferes with it, some extraneous force. It intervenes between our attainments and decisions and interferes with us. This leads us to the need to discover what really controls the world, if not us.

Is the world moving somewhere? It does. Look at what is happening to the climate, the economy, and everything else. It seems to us that there is great discord, the greatest crisis, which is primarily a crisis of control. Actually, this is not a crisis. Everything is going according to plan. But for us, it feels like a crisis because we do not understand what is going on. In fact, there are no problems, we just need to sort things out.

When we sort everything out, we will see that we can enter into this very smoothly and calmly, and we will feel and understand how we can connect with the upper governance. After all, if we are isolated between ourselves at our level, this means that we are controlled by the upper mind, the upper force, and we fall under its influence.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, The Difference between the 20th and 21st Centuries” 2/11/12

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