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Posted on October 23rd, 2023
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Michael Laitman, on the Times of Israel: “Global Support for Israel: Does it Strengthen or Weaken?”
Indeed, more than 80 countries expressed their support for Israel following the tragic events of the 7th of October, but as to whether such support encourages us, I’d have to say the contrary: it weakens us.
The strength and the future of the people of Israel does not depend on how others relate to us, but on how we relate to each other.
I do not feel any assurance from an upsurge of global support for Israel. We need to secure our future by ourselves through building relations of love, closeness and mutual consideration among each other. It is this construction of positive unifying relations that made us a nation in our very beginnings. We were originally not a nation, but a group of people who gathered under an idea to achieve love above our differences, and it was this form of connection that made us a nation. If we realize such attitudes to each other today, then no one will have any complaints against us.
Moreover, it is incorrect to think that the global support for Israel following the initial Hamas attacks on Israel’s civilians will help the world better understand and feel Israel’s side in the ongoing conflict. People can empathize with others when they can incorporate in their feelings, but the quality that made the people of Israel a nation is beyond our inborn nature, and thus nobody can incorporate in it. I thus also have no criticism on how people in the world relate to the people of Israel.
In order to truly receive a favorable response from the world, it is written, “When the Lord delivered them from Zion, it seemed like a dream. Then they said among the nations, ‘The Lord has done great things for them’” (Psalms 126:1-2). In other words, our unity draws a special force that comes to protect us, and when this force dwells in our connections, we draw a supportive response from the world.
We thus need to unite in a way where we are always there for each other. Such unification will draw a force that will protect us, and we need not be concerned about anything other than uniting and drawing this unifying force.
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Question: In the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” it is said that the strengthening of the external nations depends on the internal nations of the world. How can we imagine a state where the internal nations of the world agree with Israel? Is it possible that the will to receive will agree? Usually, we overcome it.
Answer: They will agree. Parts of the nations of the world will gradually agree that there must be friendship, cooperation, and rapprochement with each other; otherwise, humanity cannot make any progress in its historical movement.
Therefore, we are approaching the point that eventually some part of humanity will begin to understand that rapprochement between nations not only prevents wars, but it is a necessity emanating from nature itself, from its source—the Creator. This is how people will begin to develop an understanding of unity.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Book of Zohar“
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Question: True suffering is when a person condemns the upper governance. How can we use this state and come to awe of the Creator?
Answer: Connect in the group, get out of your private state, and exist within the group in a common state. And then you will advance correctly.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/10/23, “Growing Stronger in There Is None Else Besides Him”
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The soul is a person’s inner desire. And if we want to help each other, then we connect, get closer and imbued with each other’s desires, and become as one person.
The Creator shattered the desire He created into pieces in order to give us the opportunity to feel how much we lack connection, to connect, and thus achieve 620 times greater connection than was originally there.
With our correction, we add to the system of Adam HaRishon all its force, all its height. This common soul was born very small; it had no internal volume. But due to the fact that the Creator broke the soul He created and shattered its inner power and distanced its parts from each other, He gives us the opportunity to grow.
Each of us is a piece of the broken soul. If we unite back into one soul, then to this connection we add the force of separation above which we have risen. Therefore, it is said that the power of the soul has grown 620 times. Thus, if we join together and build a single system, we grow to the height of the Creator.
Through connection we attain ever higher spiritual states. After all, we combine everyone’s desires to bestow that were received from the Creator, and then the upper force is clothed in us, and reveals itself many times more than at the beginning of creation.
We attain the Creator in an ever more genuine, inner form. Thanks to our correction, all parts of the upper worlds are increasingly connected and bind into one whole, which allows us to attain them in the full measure.
The purpose of creation is to unite all the upper worlds so that there is no difference between them, and they all turn into one world—the world of Keter.
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From the 1st part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 10/01/23, Lesson 3 “Overcoming the Burdening of the Heart”
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Question: We have had a lot of conventions recently and really successful ones. But why does it happen that after each convention we get either Covid or some other blow? Now there is a war in Israel or an earthquake in Turkey. What did we do wrong?! What do we need to change within us?
Answer: We need to change our hearts so that we really reach out with our hearts to each other and feel each in his heart the heart of a friend.
Now, after the convention, the Creator wants to give us a new condition. If we rise above it, we will really move forward. How? Very simply. The connection of hearts!
Question: Is it correct to say that war and death are also a correction?
Answer: Yes, but this is an undesirable way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/7/23, “Current events in Israel”
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Question: We notice that after each convention we get undesirable states because the Creator gives us a lot of light of Hochma. How can we produce more light of Hasadim? What is the difference in our work?
Answer: Our work depends on the aspiration of our hearts to each other. The light of Hasadim is the light of a correct, heartfelt rapprochement. This is what we are lacking.
Question: At the hour when the judgment falls, as it is now, and at the hour when, God forbid, it will be the darkest before dawn, what feelings and sensations should we experience?
Answer: That all this is being done for our sake, and we must move forward in a greater and greater connection of everyone with everyone, and thus we will overcome all obstacles.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/7/23, of “Current events in Israel”
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During these difficult days when the people of Israel are in a terrible crisis and broken hearted, we can have only one desire: to forget about all the differences between us and unite above all of them, precisely in spite of them. This is what will lead everything to correction.
We can still hear mutual accusations about who is to blame for what is happening and where it all started. But the fault lies with all of us. Everyone should feel this catastrophe happened and is still ongoing because of themselves. Everyone is obliged to feel this way and not blame others, but only oneself, because each one is guilty of not acting with all one’s might to reveal the connection between us.
Therefore, we, the people of Israel, must connect as one man with one heart.
There is only one way to change the situation for the better; it is through our connection. In the end, all of humanity must connect into one system, one person called Adam.
It seems there is no way we can talk about connection when there is such hostility and differences of parties and opinions. But inside each person, there are enemies, different parties and opinions. We include everyone within ourselves, and each person contains everything that exists in the world. But despite all this, we all need to connect and feel responsible for world peace for everyone.
As a result, we need to reach a state where our connection will be above all restrictions and above all the disturbances.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/9/23, “Growing Stronger in There Is None Else Besides Him”
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It is very important to feel confident on the spiritual path. We can only rely on our great teachers who have already walked this path and paved spiritual steps for our ascent. It is like a group of climbers making their way to the top where the strongest go first and cut the steps for those behind them.
This is how we should follow the great Kabbalists, learn from their books, and do what they advise. And if we follow all their instructions exactly, we will definitely succeed.
They do not hide anything from us. If they do not write about everything, it is only so as not to confuse us who are like little children that are too young to read adult books. Therefore, Kabbalists reveal this wisdom gradually, more and more, until we attain all the perfect creation in full.
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From the 1st part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 10/01/23, Lesson 4 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Does the global support for Israel following the start of the Israel-Hamas war encourage the people of Israel?“
Indeed, more than 80 countries expressed their support for Israel following the tragic events of the 7th of October, but as to whether such support encourages us, I’d have to say the contrary: it weakens us.
The strength and the future of the people of Israel does not depend on how others relate to us, but on how we relate to each other.
I do not feel any assurance from an upsurge of global support for Israel. We need to secure our future by ourselves through building relations of love, closeness and mutual consideration among each other. It is this construction of positive unifying relations that made us a nation in our very beginnings. We were originally not a nation, but a group of people who gathered under an idea to achieve love above our differences, and it was this form of connection that made us a nation. If we realize such attitudes to each other today, then no one will have any complaints against us.
Moreover, it is incorrect to think that the global support for Israel following the initial Hamas attacks on Israel’s civilians will help the world better understand and feel Israel’s side in the ongoing conflict. People can empathize with others when they can incorporate in their feelings, but the quality that made the people of Israel a nation is beyond our inborn nature, and thus nobody can incorporate in it. I thus also have no criticism on how people in the world relate to the people of Israel.
In order to truly receive a favorable response from the world, it is written, “When the Lord delivered them from Zion, it seemed like a dream. Then they said among the nations, ‘The Lord has done great things for them’” (Psalms 126:1-2). In other words, our unity draws a special force that comes to protect us, and when this force dwells in our connections, we draw a supportive response from the world.
We thus need to unite in a way where we are always there for each other. Such unification will draw a force that will protect us, and we need not be concerned about anything other than uniting and drawing this unifying force.
Based on “An Inside Look” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi on October 15, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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