New Life 117 – We Are All In The Same Boat
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

The world is becoming round due to the economic crisis. Life is becoming more even and connected for all of humanity regarding culture, education, use of the Internet, cellular networks, and even the consumption of junk food. Organizations and individuals share resources to save money. The crisis is forcefully bringing us closer to each other and requiring that we learn how to use the human ego properly. While it is forbidden to limit or suppress a person, we need to learn how to construct ourselves as people who radiate goodness so that everyone will accept us gladly. We need to build the right kind of environment through which we will learn how to be more open, outgoing, and connected with one another above our differences. People will learn, through workshops in which people sit in a circle and discuss issues such as the human egoistic nature, how our development is influenced by others through the environment, and our mutual interdependence. We will build a common desire and a common brain between everyone so that we can effectively look ahead and plan our next moves together.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 117 – We Are All In The Same Boat,” 12/24/12

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Lesson on the Topic “The Hardening of The Heart – Opportunity For Ascent”

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “One Commandment”, Title “The Necessity to Observe the 613 Commandments”

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Since the adoption of European Convention on Human Rights, it became clear that the migration issue is a religious, economic, and political issue. Europe has become wiser and today wants to withdraw from the global migration pact. Egoism explains to us that it won’t let us live together!

Instead of solving society’s and the world’s problems, we multiply them, since we don’t see the source.
Yet, it’s programmed in the development of our egoism—to force us to correct it, not its outcomes, which we are constantly engaged in.
Naturally, we can’t rid of them fast enough.

Turning global, the world turns to Jews with a claim—the Jews must assume their role in the development of the world that needs to know how to unite. This method is in the Jews’ hands and only in Kabbalah.
If it’s not learned, the world will face global wars and Jews will be exterminated!

Henry Ford: International Jewry is the main problem of the world.
Jews kept to themselves thanks to the fact that they obeyed the laws of nature, and violation of such led to disintegration of many nations.
This people is a symbol of ancient wisdom, the source of our spiritual wealth.
#jewish #jews

The growth rate of egoism and, accordingly, the emergence of problems is increasing. There’s no solution but to recognize that we must turn to the root of the problems —the egoism growing in man and in society. And we can work with it only by using the method proposed by Kabbalah.

We must realize that Kabbalah doesn’t expect us to know things or even understand the Creator, but to spread the goal of creation and its program—among the Jews, then among the nations of the world and do this not to reduce suffering in the world, but to fulfill the Creator’s desire

I must constantly awaken the friends’ hearts, and by doing so I engage the Creator to fill everyone with love. If I inspire the friends towards love for the Creator, He can fill their hearts with love. This is my duty to help the friends turn to the Creator and receive His love.

In the formation of my soul I must imagine that I am alone in the world and all I see is a reflection of my consciousness. Including my ten. I am surrounded by my qualities. When I reform them into bestowal and love, the whole world will become only a ten, Malchut of Infinity, HaVaYaH.

In our aspirations for the Creator we must always imagine the system HaVaYaH, nothing more. After all, only 4 stages of direct light emanate from the Creator—to the Malchut of Infinity, followed by TZA (Tzimtzum Aleph – the first restriction) of Malchut, and all other actions emanate from this Malchut, the creatures.

To love is to know how to provide another with what he is lacking, while he can fill my lack. This is an integral mechanism of all mankind.

Europeans are developing a critical attitude toward Israel as a state of the white power over religious and ethnic minorities, with the use of force to resolve a conflict. The media forms a negative attitude towards Jews, and the population shifts the acts of Israel to local Jews.

What’s left for the EU to do is to start common Brexit of the entire EU. Or, they will soon face war and discord. There’s another solution: to educate Europeans in the spirit of mutual tolerance and communication. But the EU government is incapable of making such a decision due to its narrow egoism.

December 15-16, 2018 we held the second International Virtual Kabbalah Conference.
Over 3,500 students at 180 Kabbalah study centers and thousands of men and women who connected individually, gathered around the world to unlock the power of unity at a new level.

“Israel became the guarantor of the correction of the whole world by the power of the Torah. Everything depends on the people of Israel: when they correct themselves, all creatures follow them.” (Book Sefat Emet (Language of Truth), Shemot, Yithro)

“In this generation nations desire #Israel’s destruction. As per Talmud “All sufferings come into the world only for Israel” & Tikkunei HaZohar. ” After all, their actions cause poverty, humiliation, murder, and robbery all over the world.”
(Baal HaSulam, Preface to the Book of Zohar)
From Twitter, 12/19/18

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Medium published my new article “Why the European Union Needs a Good Marriage Counselor”

The wedding took place on May 9, 1950. French Foreign Minister Robert Schumann initiated a program for France and Germany to collaborate in the production of coal and steel, which were important resources for conducting war. Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands joined the “marriage contract,” and 6 years later the same countries signed the Rome Treaty, creating what we now know as “the European Union.”

On the face of it, the connection was strengthened with the declaration of a common currency and the establishment of the Eurozone in early 1999. And so, countries who had massacred each other in two world wars were now good friends.

The honeymoon was perfect. Countries with developing economies oriented towards growth, who were not very wealthy and established, enjoyed the confidence of the EU’s strong economies that agreed to lend them money at low interest rates. But when Greece began to stumble, the fear of a domino effect put the strong countries on high alert.

Wealthy Germany, who could have collapsed immediately, provided a cash flow along with the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and thus the European Union rescued Greece and the entire Eurozone from a terrible crisis. Second in line for rescue was Portugal, followed by Spain, Italy and Ireland — countries that were given the acronym “PIIGS.”

Thus, the first few years of the successful marriage were over. Each country began to be more concerned about its own interests, its own plans, its own calculation of whether being part of the EU family is profitable or not. In many ways, what used to be an asset, was now becoming a dangerous burden.

These days, the loudest alarm bell echoes in Britain. The United Kingdom’s departure from the EU began on March 2017. And today, right before pulling away, EU leaders are toughening their positions and planning to charge astronomical figures from Britain. Their animosity to anyone who reveals their loss is growing. The Brexit affair, however, reveals a more important truth: the EU is currently divided, broken and will not hold for long.

Today’s EU needs a good marriage counselor. Someone who will explain to the European leaders and their citizens that connection between economies starts from connection between people. When two people get married only due to economic convenience, it is a matter of time until they realize their marriage is bound to fail. The same holds true for Europe and this is what Europeans must recognize today.

The first step is to prevent the family members from finding themselves in a bad divorce process that takes a big financial and emotional toll on everyone, and may even lead to violence. Instead, Europeans should be reminded of the nature of the human ego that resides in them, as it does in every human being. Whether it’s at the individual level or the national level, when the human ego erupts between people it engenders division, hostility and hatred. And when that happens, no agreement will hold water.

The concept of the European Union was a good idea in theory, but in order to make it work in practice, it is mandatory to understand how the laws of nature operate on the human level.

As the wisdom of Kabbalah explains, the growth of the human ego is expected when people try to connect and form some bonds between them. It is a natural process that is happening in order for human beings to elevate their level of connection.

The EU should set up an emergency council to educate all citizens, and devise a continent-wide plan for forming balanced, considerate and positive human relations among all people, just like in a giant family with 500 million citizens. This will necessitate the active and continuous participation of every European and the involvement of political venues, media channels, universities, and workplaces.

If the Europeans learn to how to strengthen their connection above the growing ego, without erasing the uniqueness of each nation, they will be able to save their failing marriage.
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New Life 116 – Integral Course, Part 2
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Can we build a new environment for ourselves that will cleanse us of all the influences that we have absorbed and that will bring a new life? So far our egoistic desire has led us to exploit and trample upon others in order to succeed. We invent into more types of business but become doubly empty since a person cannot be fulfilled. Science and technology have led to the development of destructive weapons in the service of human egoism. People have felt emptiness in the air and a loss of direction since the 1960s. We want to swallow the whole world and cannot tolerate anyone near us. Today, the development that began with the Big Bang has reached a dead end. The good news is that nature gave humanity free choice regarding how we use our human desires. We can change our attitudes toward others and develop a positive connection between us. This is not merely a philosophical or moral idea, but without the development of this new, connected environment, we will all collapse.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 116 –  Integral Course, Part 2,” 12/23/12

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Lesson on the Topic “Israel Is Responsible For The Correction Of The World”

Talmud Eser Sefirot,  Vol. 6, Part 16,  Table of Answers for the Meaning of the Words, Item 168

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “One Commandment,” Title “Speech, Thought, and Action”

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Israelis and Israel are no longer seen as victims of the past—the pogroms, the Holocaust. It is distant history. Instead of the Jewish victim—the image of an Israeli soldier with a machine gun. Natural hate doesn’t require justification. It can be corrected only thru Jewish unity.

Thru pain the world will understand that the correction method must be as described and implemented according to the teaching of Kabbalah. The world knows its salvation is unification. It’s implemented in a ten and develops in practice according to the works and advice of Kabbalists.

There’s no time in spirituality, but change of states. So, “Israel” is one who aspires for similarity to the Creator. One may be in a state of “Israel” and in a state of “Nations of the World,” according to one’s yearning, if one’s life is arranged towards the Creator.
Otherwise his state is an animal.

The EU no longer has a leader to lead it, which gives place to populist crises. It’s the end of #EU I have been describing for 20 years. But it’s not late to introduce explanatory and educational work among the EU population. This will make a soft landing and radically change the EU’s course.

Although all 27 #EU states voted against the UK’s exit, this only speaks of their hatred towards the one who demonstrates their loss. The EU has not worked on unity. The result is a collective #Brexit . Uprisings and crises will reveal the absence of a united #Europe.

The #EU idea was good, but it turned out not one of the leaders of selfish states has any idea how to continue to lead the community. After all, unification can be egoistic—against external egoism, an enemy, or altruistic—against the ego. But how does one go against oneself?

Israel can’t take a step towards the Creator without pulling others along. First attract and attach others and ask the Creator to advance you together. Israel is the channel of the Creator’s force into this world. Alone it will achieve nothing, unless it pulls the whole world along.

Israel isn’t external attributes but the heart’s desire for the meaning of life.
Israel is who feels responsible for correcting the world, aware that he’s part of the common soul, and if the Creator gave him an awakening, he’s obliged to pull the rest of his soul w/him, all mankind.

It’s clear that English politicians degraded with the EU, that time equally works on everyone. #Egoism, as the basis of what is happening, leads everyone into #crisis. Information technology and the media have been hiding this, but isn’t it time #England took an example from Trump?

The West is degrading.
#Migration Agreement: Unlimited entry for everyone, with encouragement; criticism prohibited.
#Climate Agreement: The West will reduce #CO2 emissions and pay $100B/year to 3rd world countries.
#Egoism, seeing no further paths of development, consumes itself.

After a job done well, new ego-layer emerges. We should take it with joy and gratitude, and try to overcome. The unity achieved during the congress allows us to reveal a new layer of egoism in order to rise above it and advance towards the goal. This is the dynamics of the recovery!

There’s always a fall, rollback after unification. But there’s no return! It’s an emergence of a new egoistic will: “There’s no descent but only ascent in holiness.” We’re always progressing in the left and right lines, by turns. We must tie them together—remember the new attack.

Instead of falling into despair, losing strength and hope, you need to use reasoning to understand that this is the Creator playing with us, in order to advance us to truly spiritual work. So, instead of losing heart, we should rejoice that we are being raised to a new level!

Self-love is constantly evolving. Hence, there is no fall but a rise in the left line. Ego is growing, so we feel dissatisfied, confused, tired. But that’s because you’ve done work in unification, which resulted in another layer of the collective, broken egoism being exposed.

Responsibility for the world’s correction is on everyone yearning to merge with the Creator, and on the group. The Creator awakens a person to bring the whole world to Him. The correction begins when a group of “Israel” disseminates the method of collective correction in the world.

Created desire—“Nations of the World,” Malchut of the world of infinity. It feels being opposite to the Creator as shame, makes restriction and gets intention to bestow/the screen and Ohr Hozer. Result—decision to receive in order to bestow—the head/Isra-el-plan to reach the Creator.

#UN World Pact for #Migration undermines sovereignty of EU states. Without prior education how to unite, nations will destroy each other. #EU doesn’t need migrants; there are 17M unemployed in the EU. Reduce production to reasonable levels—and even Europeans will be too many.
From Twitter, 12/18/18

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Question: Life is a game. Do we play with the Creator too?

Answer: The game with the Creator is in the fact that I agree to do anything He wants in order for Him to advance me in this game. That is why I want to do it His way. I do not control the Light, but I agree to play by His rules.

Question: Why is it called “a game”?

Answer: It is because I do not have the strength to realize anything, and only by expressing my desires can I cause the Creator to act. I pretend, but not really, knowing absolutely clearly that this is what will lead to His actions.

Then, what is the meaning of prayers and requests? I am in one state while I imagine another. This is already a game. I play as if I am already in the next degree, in the desirable state. I want to change into it.

Question: At the current stage of our group’s development, what should we adhere to together?

Answer: To play the right kind of group.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 5/30/18

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