A sinner is one who doesn’t ask for others.
A person is judged only by how much he invests in promoting the souls toward the Creator.

Ego isolates a person from his soul, Adam.
The souls are connected with each other, while ego closes a person off like inside a cocoon or mummy. By coming out of it, in the connection with all other souls you discover the Creator—your upper, spiritual, eternal life.

We demand of the Creator to correct us, we compel Him to correct the connections between us. This is called “My sons have defeated Me.” We must constantly be in that demand to the Creator, as long as we’re discovering egoism. Don’t be afraid or ashamed—ask like children do.

We must discern that we can’t come closer to each other, we’re unable to overcome ego alone, we’re weak and don’t want this. But in spite of it, to ask the Creator, “Although I don’t want it, You correct me. Ego is nature, You created it. Therefore I can ask You to correct it.”

No one is bad. One is bad not inside himself, but only in that he doesn’t want to connect to others. Only this constitutes ego’s, our nature’s negative quality -only rejection of the connection between us. What matters most is to think of connection instead of yourself personally

Mutual guarantee is connection between souls and the Creator is light in the connection. Mutual guarantee: you leave your ego and gain a common spiritual body
In our world we’re pushed apart by ego; in the spiritual one we harmoniously connect by mutual guarantee and reveal the Creator

Mutual guarantee is the #1 quality of an integral system—unity of particular souls into a single soul, the unified system of Adam, like in a living organism.
We’re all interconnected, each one with each one. The net of forces that’s between us, connecting all of us is the Creator

One person can’t create an integral system. But if he exerts to gather people together, he’ll discover that this system is already there, ready.
As we come closer to it, we reveal the conditions for matching qualities and unity between us into one organism—the Soul.

We support each other so each one of us won’t forget that he faces “the field blessed by the Creator.” We enter this field, where each one of us can achieve—on the condition of mutual guarantee!—his entry into the spiritual world.

When upholding mutual guarantee, I must be guided only by myself—I shouldn’t wait for the same thing from the friends.
They can even obstruct me from upholding the mutual guarantee.
Because this is the condition the Creator has set for me.
Because there’s None Else Besides Him.

There’s just one problem in mutual guarantee: realizing that connection between us is the Creator. All “other” problems are there to push us toward identifying and correcting our connection with Him. It solves absolutely everything. I build the connection, and that’s the Creator!

Every person is how the Creator made him! Correct not yourself, but connection with others. Finding the right connection between us is our entire spiritual work—scrutinizing it ourselves and asking the Creator to show us how He created these connections, in bestowal (Hassadim)
and reception for the sake of bestowal (Hochma).

The law of general mutual guarantee determines our liberation of one another from egoism’s prison.
The friend will save me from egoism if I save him.
But I don’t depend on others if I uphold the mutual guarantee.
Others are the Creator—the condition for upholding mutual guarantee.

The Creator is the quality of bestowal and love revealed in mutual guarantee, in the connections.

The quality of the net of forces connecting particular souls into one common soul of Adam is mutual guarantee (Arvut).
How does Arvut differ from the Creator?
Arvut is the law of mutual guarantee, connection of #souls.

Inasmuch as we’re opposite in our ego-world, can’t stand and constantly clash with one another—to the extent we reveal Mutual Guarantee, spiritual mutual connection between us, where everyone’s superimposed with one another, we reveal that we all complement one another!

Your attitude to the friends, the way you see the friends—this is the Creator’s image in you.
Can you imagine how you imagine Him…?
You depict the Creator in you the same way you relate to the world!
From Twitter, 10/28/18

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Rabash, “Love of Friends – 2”: By which substance can one be brought to acquire a new quality that he must bestow, and that reception for self is faulty? This is against nature! Though at times, one receives a thought and desire that he must abandon self-love, which comes to us by hearing of it from friends and books, it is a very small force, which does not always shine for us…

A person, making timid attempts to get away from the power of the ego, may desire, scream, and pray, but this is all within the ego, inside his own cell. I remember how I wept from despair and Rabash laughed in my face. There are various challenges and moments.

This is all given to a person so that in the end one will realize that nothing is solved by the person alone. Everything is solved only by revering the group, and this is possible only with the help of the upper Light.

When joining the group, you do everything that it needs, you realize all your strength, and you do so in order to gather your friends together and make a vessel of them for the revelation of the Creator.

Question: It turns out that the influence of Kabbalistic books and sages are insufficient; we also need a group?

Answer: Of course. In the individual form, nothing happens. The influence of books on each of us is only necessary to awaken a person.

This is the preliminary information, the preliminary pressure on the person, which pushes him to the goal. Realization comes later, at a “mature age,” when a person is already in the group for several years, studies, communicates with his friends, and acquires some concepts and contacts. He masters the lexicon, a certain literature, because he must absorb it all.
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From TV Program “The last generation” 4/12/18

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Question: Nowadays, when concepts of self-defense and humanitarian intervention have changed their meaning, how can we tell the difference between a “holy war” and just a war?

Answer: I would make such a differentiation: a justified war is a war of people fighting for their existence and for their territory, for their land. If somebody comes to them and wants to kill them, then as it is written: “forestall by slaying him.” (Tractate Sanhedrin, 72:1, Gemarah)

On the other hand, a country shouldn’t be going to war when it is not on its own territory, even if it does so under certain “humanitarian” guises. It should only use help from international powers when seeking peace and some kind of dialog, but not for war and military operations.

Therefore, only one thing is justified: If someone from the outside rises against a person, or a group of people, or a whole country, then in response, you can fight him and kill him, or even start this war first. However, if nobody from the outside rose against you, you should not attack him and fight with him under any pretext, even the most incredible one.
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The Round Table of Independent Opinions, Berlin 9/9/06

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New Life 1060 – Critical Thinking And The Wisdom Of Kabbalah
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Accurate critical thinking requires measuring one unit of falsehood against one unit of truth. The intensity and depth of my criticism depend on the strength of my connection with the principle force of nature. I must detach myself from the still, vegetative, and animate forms of life and adhere to the inner force that is at the foundation of nature. When I discover this force within myself, I can then test my thinking against it. In the past, humanity engaged in critical thinking in an incomplete way due to egoism and self-absorbed interests and opinions. In order to overcome doubt and find out what nature really requires of us, it is necessary to continue to ask, investigate, and clarify the truth within a special group of people who want to acquire new qualities.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1060 – Critical Thinking And The Wisdom Of Kabbalah,” 9/20/18

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It seems like one must wait for all group members to consent to the Guarantee
But since there’s only man and Creator and everything else is a system of connections between them,
you don’t have to wait for anyone for the Guarantee. Consider everything ready for it, for man’s action!

Only by annulling yourself to the group can you evoke its influence on you, which will pull you away from ego.
This act depends only on you alone and not on them.
Because besides man, there’s only the Creator
And there’s None Else Besides Him,
and He shines upon you from the group
From Twitter, 10/27/18

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In English

Medium:

“10 Years to the Financial Crisis: What Now?“

BlogActiv:

“10 Years to the Financial Crisis: What Now?“

Newsmax:

“Trump’s Moves Better Suited to Our Interconnected Globe in Our Times“

The Times of Israel:

“15 Rosh Hashanah Insights You Don’t Know About”
“What Has Changed This Jewish Year?”
“Sukkot: How Humanity Can Live in Harmony Under One Roof”
“Why Is There Anti-Semitism?”
“The Meaning of Our Personal Yom Kippur and Its Connection to the World“

JNS (Jewish News Syndicate):

“‘Tikkun olam’ in the New Year 5779“

Jewish Boston:

“What Has Changed This Jewish Year?“

Linkedin Article:

“Global-Political Disruption: Germany’s Response to Trump Cutting UNRWA Funding”
“Escalating UK Anti-Semitism: The Jewish People Must Unite to Fulfill Their Spiritual Duty“

“10 Years to the Financial Crisis: What Now?“

Algemeiner:

“‘Tikkun Olam’ in the New Year 5779“

Blitz:

“Tikkun olam begins with tikkun adam“

In German

BlogActiv:

“Was hat sich in diesem jüdischen Jahr verändert?”
“Wie Trump die gekürzten 200 Millionen Dollar aus der palästinensischen Hilfe anderweitig nutzen kann”
“Was hat sich in diesem jüdischen Jahr verändert?”
“Warum gibt es Antisemitismus?“

In French

The Times of Israel:

“Les défis d’aujourd’hui pour les Juifs et le manque de direction”
“Qu’est-ce qui a changé cette année juive?”
“Souccot: comment l’humanité peut vivre en harmonie sous un même toit”
“Pourquoi y a-t-il de l’antisémitisme?”
“Qu’est-ce qui a changé cette année juive?“

Dreuz.info:

“Bouleversement politique mondial : la réponse de l’Allemagne au retrait de Trump du financement du fonds de l’UNRWA“

In Spanish

Huffington Post Spain:

“La tormenta de Corbyn y la raíz del antisemitismo”
“Sucot: La humanidad en armonía bajo un mismo techo“

BlogActiv:

“Huracán “Florencia”: su poder depende de la relación entre las personas”
“Sucot: La humanidad en armonía bajo un mismo techo“

In Italian
Huffington Post Italy:

“Evento: il nome in codice per la prossima crisi globale“

BlogActiv:

“‘La sopravvivenza dei più ricchi’ dipende dal fatto che dovranno cercare di salvare tutti noi”
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Entry into the spiritual world, crossing the Machsom, is a special stage. It’s like the eye of a needle that one squeezes into. I must restrict myself to a state of wanting only spirituality, bestowal to friends. With this desire I can pass through the needle’s eye into the upper world

The main thing about the Guarantee is to start feeling a need for mutual action.

Mutual Guarantee is mutual support of friends in the group to evoke the general light of correction OM (Ohr Makif) from the center of the group.
Together we sprinkle ourselves with the life-giving rain of Hassadim and each other’s example.

At the World Film Fair in New York—a major event in the film industry held in October 2018, the movie The Social Network in the Age of the Third Reich by my student Michael Rozenshtein, was awarded Honorary Laurels.

From Twitter, 10/26/18

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Newsmax:

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The Times of Israel:

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In German

BlogActiv:

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“Die Verbindung zwischen Israel und 2,3 Millionen Flüchtlingen aus Venezuela“

In French

Medium:

“La crise migratoire en Europe: un autre symptôme de la crise mondiale“

BlogActiv:

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The Times of Israel:

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“¿D”esde cuándo la lactancia materna se ha convertido en moneda de cambio?”
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