Question: How is it possible to give up the production of unnecessary goods if all resources and plans are concentrated in the powerful in this world and they cannot be reached? Ordinary people must work in production to provide for themselves.

Answer: Today, 80% of the products we manufacture are not needed at all. According to statistical calculations, 3% of the overall population of the Earth would be sufficient to work to provide humanity with everything it needs. All of the surplus products we manufacture are intended only to extract money from others to keep it in our “piggy banks.” And then the money loses its value, as is happening today.

Now banks have introduced interest-free loans and even negative interest rates. Suppose you take out a loan of $1,000. You only need to return $900. Is it clear where the economy is moving? It is beginning to work in the opposite direction. We don’t understand that we have created an artificial world for ourselves. Everything is already living in it according to spiritual laws and only humans live in the old way! Therefor we don’t succeed at anything. We must simply open our eyes and sober up.

Those who hold positions in the government in every nation want things to be good for the citizens, but they don’t succeed! This is because on one hand, we cannot work today with our egoism and the egoistic system that is tearing us apart and making us reject each other, and on the other hand, we are discovering that we are completely interconnected.

So it is possible to say only one thing here: before anything bad happens to us, in a good way or a bad way, we must understand the world we exist in. We see how the powerful people in this world are really powerless. They don’t have enough knowledge of how to manage the world, how to manage an economic and production systems. Everything is “running through our fingers,” everything disappears somewhere! This indicates we don’t know the system that manages us today. The world has changed. In the last thirty years it has become different and we don’t understand what kind of a world we are living in.

So the wisdom of Kabbalah has been revealed in our time. It was concealed for thousands of years specifically to be discovered in our day to explain to us what that system of forces is that manages humanity and the world today. If we continue to behave in the same form as today, then human society will go down the drain, in a free fall because this will have an influence on those strata of nature that will actually lead us to annihilation. We already see today what is happening with the climate.

The wisdom of Kabbalah reveals to us the general system of management through which we see that such a possibility is not excluded that only a small fraction of the population of the Earth will remain. And this part will bring the mini-humanity to unity in any case.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/17/16

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The sin of the first man with the tree of knowledge of good and evil was that Adam tasted what great pleasure can be received by bringing contentment to the Creator and couldn’t resist receiving it egoistically. He could receive this pleasure on condition that he would lead the entire world to connection, and in this way he would have created a screen on the egoistic reception. However, he didn’t have such screen and therefore sinned.

The revelation of this huge egoistic desire is called the original sin, and all of us, our entire world, are the result of this sin. The first time it was revealed was in the ancient Babylon. Once they discovered that egoistic union leads us to crisis, some of the Babylonians simply decided to disperse. The same thing is happening now in Europe and will soon begin in America.

And the other part of the Babylonians said, “No! We have a teacher, Abraham, who says that it is possible to find a force that will be able to unite us.” Since then humanity split and went in two different ways.

Those that went with Abraham and called themselves people of Israel also fell into the same egoism as other nations of the world. And yet they couldn’t become the same as the others due to the division that occurred in ancient Babylon that has run throughout the entire history of humanity. And to this day the same fight is going on.

Once a new egoistic desire was revealed in Adam, he couldn’t think about anything else apart from reception. Our entire world is a materialized consequence of this action, and therefore it is built entirely on material success. In it everything is measured by money, which is an equivalent of all a person’s actions.

We can’t evaluate people according to their psychology and achievements in culture and education. In the end, everything is converted into money. That’s the way it is organized all over the world, but nowadays this model of measurement is beginning to collapse. Soon it will be impossible to measure anything with money and it will disappear, no longer being the sole criterion.

The destruction has already begun in the United States, where previously there wasn’t any other way of payment except money. After all, this country was created by people from all nations and all cultures. They didn’t pay attention if your skin is black, white, or yellow, nothing about you worried them apart from money. Money has been a major force.

And now the force of money is disappearing and eventually there won’t be any model of measurement left. However, for the three hundred years of existence of America, it was very helpful that it didn’t take into account any values other than money.

It was different in Europe. America is one country where many nations live, but in Europe there are many countries and many different opinions, ideologies, ideals of freedom and equality, and the long history of mutual relations and conflicts between all the countries. Therefore the union wasn’t easy for them, and instead of connecting they started to fight.

After the wars, the Europeans attempted to unite following the US example, they wanted to realize the American dream for themselves. However they had to become a United States of Europe for that and this isn’t simple. They didn’t have one government and one nation. Therefore it didn’t work out. And besides, they were prevented by disagreement in psychological principles. In America there was only one principle, money! And in Europe there were many other principles, after all, this is a special ancient culture. Although, no matter what, one collapses from one side, another from another side, but in the end they both will be destroyed.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/8/16, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: What should one do to make more money and not suffer?

Answer: The best situation is when a man has a steady job, gets a fixed salary, and in his spare time engages in things that aren’t related to profit or wasting money.

Then his mind breaks away from thinking about monetary problems. It suddenly becomes clear to him that he can get along well, because in principle, a person doesn’t need much to live: clothing, food, housing, and to pay taxes. And everything else should be in a completely different area: spiritual needs, perceptions, and so forth. A person should specifically direct himself this way because things won’t be any better later on. People in the world will never be able to make much of a profit. The worldwide “Golden Age” and its bourgeois habits are over.

We have the ability to provide everyone with an income necessary for existence: food, clothing, housing, education for children, and so forth, everything required for a person to function normally without luxuries. Modern technological development makes it possible for us to provide for all of these needs.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/3/16

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In the News (Quartz): “The most recent US jobs numbers masked a dark story. Unemployment held steady at 5.1%, but only 59.2% of Americans have a job. The difference is the unemployment rate only counts people who don’t have a job and are actively looking for one. The labor-force participation rate is perhaps a more accurate gauge of the economy. It includes people who’ve given up, don’t want to, or can’t work, and it fell to 62.4% last quarter. …

“Most of the decline in participation came from fewer young people working. Older Americans are more likely to be working, while everyone else is working a little less. Why are younger Americans not working? …

“Older American workers are more likely to be working these days. That’s probably because early retirement is no longer a viable option for many of them.”

There are also people who, according to their psychology, want to work, feeling that they must work. There are those who have no need such as this, and it is becoming clear that humanity is getting along very well without them.

Question: Does it follow that those who need to change are not the ones who don’t want to work but those who believe they have to work?

Answer: Yes, it is not necessary to pressure those who don’t want to work. In any case, there are no jobs for them. We artificially create workplaces and produce absolutely useless products, taking natural resources from nature, throwing them out, and polluting the planet!

So, we need to let time take its course and leave the children alone, and don’t lament: “We don’t understand how this could be.” Children don’t want to work and don’t need to! They have a different perception of life.

Do they get along? They get along. They aren’t going to be lost.

Question: Do we need to be involved with the education of children? There was a time when you spoke about the educational process that must exist now.

Answer: The educational process is essential, but not for acquiring a profession or making money, where you do work that is absolutely unnecessary and is even harmful to the world.

The educational process is necessary for making an Adam (Man) out of a beast. It is written this way in The Zohar: “…[from] a wild donkey a man will be born” (Job 11:12). So, he is another evil beast! You can see how children relate to each other.

So, we must convey a process of education to each and every one, and this is what will occupy humanity.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 6/19/16

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Question: What is the spiritual root of money?

Answer: Money in Hebrew is called Kesef. It has a double meaning: It refers to silver (Kesef) and cover/coating (Kissufim). If I have enough to cover my needs, it is called money (Kesef). According to the degree that we can cover (Kissui) our needs, we can fulfill our desires. The word “Kesef “ is of Eastern origin (Kesef, Tanga), coming from the southern periphery of Russia.

In our times, money can be virtual, and Jews once paid only with silver. In the Torah, it is mentioned that Abraham weighed out 400 Shekels of silver for the Cave of Machpelah in which he buried his wife.

The Torah speaks specifically about silver and not gold because silver is considered to be the property of Bina, bestowal, while gold is considered to be the property of reception. In itself, gold symbolizes greed and avarice, while silver symbolizes Atzilut, generosity, giving, and bestowing.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/3/16

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In the News (stoletie.ru): “The phrase ‘economic growth’ – one of the most commonly used in the lexicon of liberal economists. At the same time it is cleverly used by politicians and statesmen of the West to give out for the black white and vice versa. The term ‘economic growth,’ as well as the statistics used to measure it, have long been the means of manipulating public consciousness. And also the means of covering destructive and even suicidal policies of the “golden billion” in the economy. …

“Can you trust indicators of gross domestic product (GDP) and other similar indicators, measuring economic growth? – Definitely not. First, there is the widespread practice of statistical fiddling and fraud. Particularly successful in this statistical service is the USA. …Second, changing the methodology of the calculation of GDP, as a ‘product’ it includes all sorts of dubious ’services’. As a result, the structure of the US GDP, the real economy (industry, agriculture, construction) accounted for a little more than 1/5; the rest – services. Yes there is, of course, vital services, for example, transport and communications. But at least half of the total US GDP, according to our estimates, – ‘air’.

“By ‘air’ and all sorts of additions, the statistical services in the US and other countries of the ‘golden billion’ manages to ‘paint’, ‘positive dynamics’ of their economies. …

“Anyone, even a novice economist, knows that companies, corporations, other business entities have assets and liabilities. Assets – property and various requirements (e.g., requirements on loans, goods delivered, etc.). Liabilities – above all, the various obligations (for example, service obligations and repayment of loans, payment of the goods, etc.). Even people who are far from economics and accounting are well aware that if the commitments (in other words, the debts) begin to outweigh assets, then a company faces bankruptcy.

“Surprisingly, in relation to countries, such a simple and intuitive approach of the assessment of their economic situation is rarely used. Especially the so-called ‘economically developed’ countries. And they, in the meantime, either are already bankrupt or are on track to bankruptcy. But very few people notice it. The problem is very simple: increases in debt of the ‘economically developed’ countries have over the years exceeded their GDP growth. In other words, the increase in debt business in an entity called an ‘economically developed country’ far exceeds the growth of its assets. The phrase ‘economic growth’ in relation to these countries looks more than strange. This ‘economic growth’ is with a ‘minus’ sign.

“Now specific data. I borrow them from the famous Finnish economist, businessman and politician Hellevig Jon (Jon Hellevig). He is one of the few foreign economists, who exposes the falsification of Western economics and statistics and shows that the US, EU countries and other countries of the ‘golden billion’ – are complete bankrupt. The most generalized picture of the western economy through 2013. Hellevig gives in his work “Awara Group is Study on the Real Growth of GDP Net-of-Debt”. It contains calculations of real GDP, adjusted for changes in debt. ‘The adjustment is very simple: the official measure of annual real (i.e., inflation-adjusted price changes) GDP growth is subtracted the country’s debt growth for the same year. This will be ‘the most real’ GDP growth. However, soon it will be a ‘very real’, or the present decline in GDP. …

“In all Western countries, the annual increase in the national debt is several times higher than the annual growth rates of GDP. Hellevig gives the following figures for the period 2004-2013 gg. Increase in the US national debt for the decade was 9.8 trillion. USD, and GDP growth -.. about 2 trillion dollars thus exceeding the growth of debt on growth in US GDP was five times. …

“Judging by the figures, which are listed in Hellevig’s work, countries such as Denmark, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain and several other countries have long been actually bankrupt. And countries such as the USA, France and Italy are already close to it.

“Their bankruptcy and parasitic existence due to the ongoing alignment of the country’s debt pyramid ‘golden billion’ are fig leaves used to cover the official GDP statistics. …

“The illusion of ‘well-being’ and a ‘high level’ of economic development in the ‘golden billion’ countries, is supported not only by a sly statistics. The main means – is massive and constantly growing borrowing from the rest of world.

“To carry out such borrowing is due to the fact that the Western countries have the ‘printing press’, creating astronomical amounts of money. Converging with this, the ‘printing press’ money is used not only and not so much for the operation within the countries of the ‘golden billion’, but for the purchase of goods, services and assets all over the world.Ultimately, the money accumulated in the international reserves of the countries of the world capitalist periphery. The undated and almost non-interest bearing promissory notes of the West will not be paid. …

“In conclusion, we can cite some statistics, revealing the secrets of “economic prosperity” countries of the “golden billion”.

“The US Central Intelligence Agency to regularly keep records of the external debt of almost all countries in the world (about 200 countries is taken into account).

“According to the CIA’s latest data, in 2012 the world’s foreign debt was equal to $ 70.60 trillion. (Roughly comparable to the size of global GDP).

“That country in the first line of the table of the CIAis : US – US $ 18.85 trillion; the European Union – 17.95; Japan – 3.02; Switzerland – 1.54; Australia – 1.48; Canada – 1.33. The total external debt of these ‘golden billion’ countries was 44.17. That is 62.6% of the world debt. …

“One gets the following picture: the higher the country’s level of external debt, the less are its foreign exchange reserves. And vice versa: the more foreign exchange reserves, the lower the level of external debt. All this clearly reflects the parasitic nature of the countries that we used to refer to the category of ‘economically developed countries.’”

My Comment: Everything is depending upon a future world war that will “erase” everything or the recognition of the need for a true reconstruction of the individual and society, and not the economy. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah offers.
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In the News (Lenta.ru): “The exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union … became a sensation. Experts talk about the special relationship of Britain to Europe, the revolt of the people against the elites, and the impact of the migration crisis. But few people pay attention to something else: the collapse of the European Union in many respects is similar to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The fact of the matter is that both geopolitical entities were formed based on ideology. And the collapse resulted from a radical divergence between the proclaimed ideological objectives and reality.

“The Soviet ideology promised equality, justice, a higher level of economic development and living standards compared to the ‘world capitalism.’ In fact, Soviet citizens got shortages, unfair distribution, corrupt government, and a level of development and living standards greatly inferior to the West. …

“The ideology of ‘democracy’ promised Europeans the highest level of well-being and freedom for all, a world without borders, wars and conflicts, justice and equality in rights and democracy, that is, the decisive role of the people in political decision-making. But in reality, EU citizens have seen a huge income gap between the handful of the wealthiest entrepreneurs and the poorest segments of society, the influx of immigrants taking the jobs of the indigenous people, war in the name of democracy instead of peace, the solving of essential political issues by unelected Brussels bureaucrats instead of democracy.

My Comment: When folding uncorrected parts together, we get an even more uncorrected system. It is written that when the wicked gather together, it is bad for them and bad for the world, meaning that it is better not to gather.

And it is written that if altruistic Tzaddikim (righteous) gather, it is good for them and good for the world.
If first they had re-educated the egoistic-wicked into altruistic-righteous, everything that the masses dreamed of would have been realized, as it happened is a result of management by the bankers.
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Question: There are those who believe that money lending is the invention of Kabbalists in Babylon. Is this true?

Answer: I don’t think so since there were no Kabbalists in Babylon. They came from the group that left Babylon and there were certainly no moneylenders in that group. Money lending was forbidden until the destruction of the Temple, which led to the general fall into egoism and to the dispersion of the Jewish people all over the world and to its exile.

Money lending began when the Jewish people fell from the spiritual world. Money lending and the interest that was charged were based on complicated mathematical calculations by which the moneylender stole from decent people.

Today every banker can explain this complicated calculation of interest rates. If I lend someone money, he has to repay me plus a certain percentage of interest, and if he doesn’t repay me the money on time, he has to pay more. That is, there is interest charged on interest, because it takes into account the damage that I have suffered from not having received the money I had counted on, and could not recirculate.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/27/16

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Comment: James Traub, member of the American Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), Harvard graduate, and member of one of the richest families in America, wrote an article entitled “It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses” (Financial Policy). In it, he claims, “The Brexit has laid bare the political schism of our time. It’s not about the left vs. the right; it’s about the sane vs. the mindlessly angry.” In support of this view, he cited “the Brexit vote was the utter repudiation of the bankers and economists and Western heads of state who warned voters against the dangers of a split with the European Union.” He contends that “Extremism has gone mainstream.” And that “Today’s citizen revolt — in the United States, Britain, and Europe — may upend politics as nothing else has in my lifetime.”

Answer: Many today are uneducated, poor, and unemployed, but who is responsible for that? It is the elite, isn’t it? Who controls the right buttons, the cables, and the connections? Is it the masses? Who twists and manipulates them? Of course it is the elite along with the police, the military, the media, journalists, television, and the radio. Therefore the coming war is the war of the elite against their own people.

Lately, we have been witnessing a growing gap between the elite and the masses because the middle class has been totally erased and there is nothing left of it. The masses are becoming increasingly impoverished while the elite are getting richer with totally unnecessary wealth. But egoism tells them to grab, take, and deplete the masses. The result is that 90% of the people fall and 10% rise sharply. How will it all end? It is hard to say and even frightening to think about, because egoism encourages  them to destroy the masses, leaving 15-20% of the population in order to provide services to the elite. And all the rest, in line with fascist theory, will be destroyed because today the world is truly gravitating to fascism.

Question: Do they have the means to exterminate people?

Answer: They have everything. They are developing a unisex approach, thus decreasing the birth rate. They are diminishing people’s desire for a family through advertising and the media. We will soon see the great damage that modern medications are causing and what happens with the health care services, with drugs, and with every aspect of our life.

The most important thing for the elite is to disconnect the masses from active life and bring about their gradual disappearance in order to rid the world of all the “extra” mouths that have to be fed. There are very serious efforts made in this direction. I believe that they will add biological factors that have been especially developed in the form of different bacteria. We are yet to see a certain illness that has no vaccination. It is all done gradually, but it is starting to work and we will see that during one generation humanity will be reduced by two or three billion people.

Question: What is your opinion on what is happening?

Answer: There are many different options, one of which is the path of suffering and the other the path of general unity: both of the elite and the masses.

The path of unity is possible only if we manage through the help of the upper force to convince most of the people in the world, that we need to realize the dead end all the other methods bring us to. The path of suffering can take on different forms, like Fascism or a world war, and at the same time, civil wars and general hatred. Moreover, the elite will spur the immigrants in Europe through the media channels or in other ways—they know how to do it—and thus incite them against the local populations. Thus, a couple of million immigrants will erase Europe. Then it will not be a problem to get rid of the immigrants. We are about to witness very interesting events.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 6/30/16

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Question: Is the spiritual source of money connected to the concept of truth?

Answer: Yes. Spiritual money, the Masach (screen) is equivalent to truth because it is the characteristic of bestowal and love, the characteristic of connection with others. The more spiritual wealth a person has, the more just he is because he is in a greater connection with the Creator, which means that he is closer to the truth.

Money is a Masach and the compensation is not the Masach but the bestowal that we realize with its help for the sake of the Creator and for one another.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/27/16

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