In the News (The Hill): From President Trump’s inaugural address:

“Count On Me, I Will Do It, I Will Not Retreat!”

“We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength.

“I will fight for you with every breath in my body – and I will never, ever let you down.”

My Comment: Trump is, of course, a tough man and his attitude to the world is far from sentimental, so he will try to keep his promises in very serious and decisive ways. His policy will be mitigated, but the people behind him are basically greatly interested in making America great again. Even the billionaires already understand that otherwise their money will be worthless and they will lose everything.

Question: Does this mean that this is actually a carefully calculated move?

Answer: Of course. The Americans don’t give or do anything for no reason! Behind Trump there are the Rothschild, Rockefeller, and Baruch families that have had the world in their hands very tightly for the last 500 to 600 years. There are such forces that agree on and know what should be done since otherwise they will be lost!

There are many unemployed people in America today, drug abuse is widespread, people are perplexed, families are falling apart, robots are filling the world, and industry is disappearing, no one knows where to, which means that there is no future. Obama let millions of radical Islamist immigrants into the US, and this is the reason that Trump will have to clean up all that. It seems that he is ready to start doing so, and those who have elected him realize that they can bet that he will.

Question: What does the election of a president such as Trump indicate?

Answer: That we have to urgently change the world! The time has come! Even those who are at the top realize that otherwise it would be impossible to do anything. We have to give the reins to serious people, and Trump understands what he is doing. Such practical people do not underestimate anything.

Question: Do you think that we are living in good times?

Answer: We are living in wonderful times when the world is becoming aware of the despair and the dead end it has reached, but no one knows what should be done.

Trump is determined and says: “I will fix things, I will do it and everything will be done!” but people will soon discover that the only way to correct the world is by educating people! We have to build plants for “correcting people.” There robots are manufactured, while here we are manufacturing human beings. People should be educated and robots should work since that is what they were made for. We are entering a spiritual world and we will engage only in spiritual work, only in our correction. There is nothing we can do beyond that.

Comment: Let’s hope that your words will enter people’s hearts.

My Comment: This is desirable, of course, but if it doesn’t happen now, it will happen in a couple of years, and after some more blows. So it is better that it happens as soon as possible.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 1/23/16

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New Life 658 – Beyond Right And Left
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Today both the right and the left are capitalistic approaches. Only after we learn how the system of nature is constructed, how the left and the right are integrated and how the balance between them develops life ahead, can we prosper.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 658 – Beyond Right And Left,” 12/8/15

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The Torah, Deuteronomy, 23:08-23:09: You shall not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not despite an Egyptian, for you were a sojourner in his hands. Children who are born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the Lord.

This refers to the nations where the Jews lived during exile. Despite the fact that the peoples of the world oppressed them and organized pogroms, the Jews should treat them well.

It is interesting that when Jews leave the place of exile, they do not feel hatred, gloating, or any negative feelings towards the native population living there. This has never happened throughout history. And regarding the peoples who were in the Land of Israel and had to be conquered, the attitude was simple: destroy them.

Question: Why do the Jews who returned to the Land of Israel from different places experience a nostalgic attitude toward the peoples of the countries from which they came?

Answer: It’s because the Light is passed through the Jew who “fell” onto someone’s land and connected to another nation. By this he becomes responsible for their correction and has to attend to them. Therefore, he feels certain attraction, a special relationship toward this nation. This doesn’t exist in anyone but the Jews.

Question: It is written, “In the third generation they may enter the assembly of the Lord.” Meaning, the places where Jews lived during exile are sacred?

Answer: The Jews came out of Babylon and created a separate nation based upon a certain ideological principle. The nations of the world can do the same. Nothing needs to be changed other than the ideology. And the entire world will be this way.

Connection above egoism – this is the whole ideology.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/19/16

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Question: Does not having a husband, children, and a family affect a woman’s spiritual development?

Answer: No. If it didn’t work out for her to have a family, it doesn’t not affect her spiritual development, but if she can do it, why not seize the opportunity?
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/4/16

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Judaism obligates Jews to follow many commandments: blessings, Kashrut (keeping kosher), Mikveh (ritual bath), prayer, in addition to multiple other actions. Judaism is considered the most complicated and an extraordinarily difficult religion.

All of it is in order for us, day by day, moment by moment, to remind ourselves by these action about the connection with the upper force and the need to constantly maintain it.

Question: Are you saying that this connection, love between people, guarantees us protection from above?

Answer: “Love your neighbor as yourself” is a great law of the Torah and represents the height of human development. There is nothing higher than that because this is how I include myself into the other person and do whatever he or she needs. Love is the law of an integral system, by which all its elements have to be connected.

Question: How does that protect me?

Answer: This is how I, or rather the single element of the system that I represent, follow the laws of the integral system. Naturally, this provides protection for me. I can never protect myself. I safeguard myself only through my ability to correctly unite with others because in reality I am connected with everyone and receive sustenance from them. In essence, they determine all my states because we are interdependent.

I am joined by connecting bonds with a multitude of others. If these connections are negative, then I suffer until I finally die. However, if from my side, these connections become positive, then in return, I receive a positive reaction from the system. Even if other people toward whom I act with kindness do not intend to respond to me in like manner, the upper force, functioning within the system, will influence them in such a way as to make them relate to me correctly.

In this way my actions begin to be in harmony with the force filling the entire system. My attempts to love my neighbor make me similar to the upper force. I tune into this force and by doing so, obligate the system to protect me. Resembling the upper what can be safer? I enter the upper almost as if I am entering a mother’s womb; is there a safer place than that?

The upper will protect me because I annul myself, my egoism, and become similar to it. I don’t think about myself, but act only according to the wishes of others. As a result, I become similar to the upper and enter it in the most minimal form. But even in this minimal form, nonetheless, I am within it as an embryo inside the mother. Where else can you feel more protected?
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From KabTV’s “A New Life,” #819, 01/26/17

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Question: Are you happy in your life?

Answer: I am happy to the extent that my students allow me to be happy.

In principle, what is happiness? If the Creator gives me an opportunity and I realize it in my life, feeling that it comes from Him and that it returns correctly from me to Him, then this is indeed happiness.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/11/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 23:2: [A man] with injured testicles or whose member is cut, may not enter the assembly of the Lord.

A person can’t enter the assembly of the Lord if he doesn’t have such a correction as “Mila”—that is, when he had cut off three impure Klipot (desires). He can’t work with the remaining pure desires and get closer to the Creator.

The interaction of a man and a woman is the interaction of the Masach and desire. It is at the confluence of man and woman, between them, that the revelation of the Creator is present.

This is possible only when there is the right man, the right woman, and the right relationship between them. Therefore, there can be no strange women (desires). Then, the system is destroyed. Nor can there be a person who has some kind of damage in the Masach when the desire and intention occlude. The damage in the Masach is the “injured testicles” or “severed member.”

More details on this can be found in the six volumes of the Talmud Eser Sefirot (The Study of the Ten Sefirot). It explains how the seed emerges, how its heating occurs, and so on. In general, it describes the work of a huge, complex system. Then, perhaps, it will become a little clearer why everything is born around this, both new life and the revelation of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/10/16

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Comment: According to the laws of physics, there are active particles of light, photons, that convey electromagnetic effects and bind the atoms and the molecules of which man is composed. In fact, the light (the photons) make us whole. If it weren’t for the light, our bodies would disintegrate into atoms.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, the Light also sustains the whole system.

My Response: Nothing would exist without the Light. The general Light is the Creator.

It is the same in physics. If the initial Light had not appeared, everything else could not have developed: waves, matter, etc.

From a Kabbalistic perspective, the Light ties our desires together. The Light gradually disappears and seems to fade away to the extent that our desires begin to gradually retreat, and so everything begins to fall apart.

This is the reason that we see that everything is divided into different parts in our world, although it is all one common whole.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/25/16

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