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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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “He Who Hardens His Heart”

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The horrors of this war have revealed how unhealthy the state has developed within our people, and our separation is the reason for what happened. Our duty is to correct ourselves and the whole world together with us, that is, to direct it toward unity.

The understanding must come in every heart of the people of Israel that unity is above all other calculations, above who becomes the head of government and what demonstration to attend. We have received a terrible blow, but it will quickly turn into mutual accusations, litigation, and disputes, and will provide plenty of food for the press.

Therefore, it is impossible to return to the same state that was in the people. We have already seen what this had led to and we do not want this to happen again; we want to enter a new world, that is, a new relationship, as it is written in the Torah: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

All sacrifices that accompany the long-suffering history of the Jewish people must not go in vain. Let them become the payment for our unity and correction of the whole world, and let them help all people understand that everything depends on their heart.

Our main weapon is our heart. If this heart unites with the hearts of friends, and if we direct this common heart to the Creator and give Him a place where He can enter, we will turn the whole world in the direction of complete unity between everyone. We just need to start, and then the Creator will finish this work for us.

We cannot blame each other and push each other away. On the contrary, we must feel that we are one person, one heart, one people, one group. We are together in one shelter from which we can leave only if we have reliable weapons. And this reliable weapon is our unity, with the help of which we can expand the walls of refuge to the entire width of the globe and turn all of humanity into one person with one heart.

We are talking about internal and not external unity. That is, not that we are on the same territory, in the same country, but in the same heart. And as far as this heart becomes a common one, the Creator enters it.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Book of Zohar“

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Question: What should be the preliminary preparation in order to come to the prayer that will be a real weapon?

Answer: It should come from the heart. The power of prayer depends on the strength of the connection between us, on how much we will be as one man with one heart, on how much your friends will enter into you, join your heart, and from this common heart you turn to the Creator.

Question: Should we convey to people that hatred should not be for the enemy, but for the war?

Answer: Hatred should not be toward the enemy or the war but toward our egoism. Only toward it.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/15/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘Calamity that Comes Upon the Wicked Begins with the Righteous,’ in the Work?”

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Question: If a person unites with one’s friends, then in this he or she reveals the single force that acts throughout the world?

Answer: Yes. Exactly. We must draw closer to each other so that the Creator, as a single force, can reveal itself in our unity.

And then we will see, learn, understand, and feel everything that is really happening in the world: the causes, consequences, and our actions.

Question: When a Kabbalist connects with the Highest through his group, how does he look at what seems to be happening in the outside world outside the framework of his connection with his friends?

Answer: This happens outside the framework of his unity but together with his unity with his friends because we have not yet reached a state where the power of our unity can change everything for peace. And that is why we work in this way.

The power of our unity can change the world. It is the strongest! Through the power of unity we can convince the Creator to do whatever is necessary. After all, we reach unity, and from unity we cannot do wrong.

Then we turn to the Creator in a completely different way based on our new circumstances, from what we feel in the unity. And so we will move forward. We will as if guide the Creator as a common universal force, and He will fulfill our desires although, in principle, they will be the same as ours.

Question: If we can control the Creator from the point of unity, then we will be able to cancel His control, such as, for example, bombs or some other unpleasant things?

Answer: Yes, it is said that the Creator as if designs, and man cancels. And we will be able to cancel all the bad, unnecessary, harmful influences on our world from above.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: We must correct our corrupt properties. For example, I feel pride, envy, fear, and feel corrupt. At the same time, when we study The Study of the Ten Sefirot or Rabash’s articles in the group, we feel the unification and the strength of the group. How can I combine the request to the Creator and the work in my group?

Answer: Constantly ask the Creator for connection with the friends, for the correction of this connection, and to yearn to positively influence the friends. This is what we have to do.

As a result, we will see that we are getting closer to each other. By getting closer we mean our understanding that only through our common properties and connections can we convince the Creator to correct us. It is very important.

It is important to know that by connecting together in the ten we can convince the Creator to correct us.
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From the 1^st 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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When each one pleases his friend, there is no disparity of desire among them, and all are incorporated in one desire, by which they are incorporated in the upper desire (Likutei Halachot [Assorted Rules]).

This is done gradually, simultaneously, since to the extent that we come closer to each other, we fulfill the law of mutual guarantee.

By correcting ourselves, we correct all of nature. We begin to see from the inside how nature is transformed in accordance to this. We do not need to correct anything else except for the mutual connection between us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/03/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: What does our global group have to do to really become an independent nation and feel like the true people of Israel?

Answer: To do this, the only thing we need is to unite among ourselves. We are the ones who have an inner movement to attain the Creator, so we must become one in order to create conditions for His revelation.

Question: What does independence entail? Is it that we always support this flame of love out of responsibility within the group and everything external should no longer be a reason for us to unite?

Answer: Sure. The more we unite internally, the less we will pay attention to the external. So much so that for you, uniting with another person with a different mentality or other external signs will not play any role at all. It all depends on where we are headed.

The Creator gives us all kinds of new external signs so we can understand the interdependence of the whole nature through them, and so its external and internal parts would be absolutely enclosed in our understanding.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/23, Writing of Baal HaSulam “The Nation”

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Question: We study what the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels of development are. At what level will we be able to fulfill the commandment “Love your neighbor as yourself”? If we are on the animate level, what level are those who kill and rape today at, and how should we learn to love if the Creator is everything?

Answer: We must accept everything that is happening as coming from the Creator and try to imagine above everything that what we see and feel that all these actions are His; He does them on purpose so that we rise even higher and treat each other with love, and from this stage of love between ourselves we would move to love for the Creator.

It is impossible to understand it just like that, but when you start working on it and delve into it, then the entire thought of the Creator is revealed to you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/11/23, “Growing Stronger in There Is None Else Besides Him”

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