New Life 664 – 2015: World Review
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

What are the reasons for the upsurge in acts of terrorism in the world? Where has the sense of belonging gone that kept us going so far, and how can we use the connections between us to build a safer world?

In 2015, terrorism intensified in the world. Weapons became available and easy to obtain while the tolerance level continued to diminish. Industry moved from heavier manufacturing to new, easier technologies, releasing masses of the unemployed into the labor market; idleness is pushing toward terrorism.

I predict that, in 2016, terrorism will strike international trade and tourism. People will be afraid to leave their houses. The world is run by power groups. The wave of immigrants that recently inundated Europe is only beginning; their will be more from Asia, China, Japan, and Africa. The strong decline in the value of oil is causing Russia as well as the Gulf states to lose their power. People are losing connection to their countries and nationalities and thus weaken countries.

Soon the world population will reach eight billion, with seven billion becoming superfluous. Society will need to employ them somehow, supply them with their vital needs, and educate them so that they will not become wild and destroy the planet. Although there are reports that water has been discovered on Mars, we cannot live anywhere other than planet Earth.

There is no escape for us. We will be forced to understand that all of us are connected to each other and we have to correct our nature.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 664 – 2015: World Review,” 12/22/15

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New Life 663 – 2015: Summary And Lessons Learned
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

A decline in the state of the world began in 2015: climate change, humanity not knowing what to hold on to anymore in order to prevent the outbreak of world war, borders have broken down between countries have disappeared, Europe is becoming Muslim, individuals are miserable, hurt, and fearful, and young people are ending their lives using drugs since they have nothing to enjoy. From an evolutionary perspective, the ego has grown and doesn’t let us enjoy things we enjoyed before such as studying, work, the family, etc. It doesn’t allow us to live the way we used to do. A person doesn’t want to belong to a nation or anything anymore, but wants to simply live as comfortably as he can, and that’s it.

Let’s hope that in 2016 we will manage to digest all of the changes we have undergone and learn from them that our ego has developed to a level that is endangering our very existence, and only if we learn to control it will we be able to survive.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 663 – 2015: Summary And Lessons Learned,” 12/22/15

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Opinion (George Friedman, American political scientist and author and former chief intelligence officer): “There are many American views of Europe, but my view is that the EU has failed, but there is no clear alternative.And we see the failure in the immigration issue, which we do not regard as a major issue because it is less than 0.5% of population shift, but Europe cannot make a decision on how to handle it.

“This is not an unmanageable problem. You can decide not to let anyone in, and then you take measures to prevent that, or you decide to integrate them and you do certain things to make that happen. It is Europe’s inability to make a decision that is, from the American point of view, the most problematic….

“I don’t see Europe collapsing. I don’t think there is a will to vote it out of existence. I don’t think there is a will to change it. There is a will to ignore it….

“The EU will exist, and will happily sink into irrelevance.”

My Comment: I’m pleased to see that my opinion which I voiced 20 years ago is confirmed today: Any unification without preparatory education won’t stand a chance and will fall apart. Unification is necessary, but it is possible only if the society is ready for it. Meanwhile, the American capitalism greedily destroys old, naive Europe.
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Question: Should we accept social inequality as a reality? For example, in India, some accept the fact that they are born to a certain caste that will never be higher. Or should we aspire to wealth and wisdom?

Answer: If a person is smarter or richer, it will not make him equal to others. With such an attitude toward life, we would go only downhill, and indeed the world will now begin to slide sharply downward.

We actually have almost completed the era of capitalist development, and therefore will not be able to use natural resources properly to continue our egoistic development. Everything we have built will crumble before our eyes.

Question: But there are not enough resources in our developed world to feed the poor and hungry.

Answer: Who lacks resources? There is a surplus of goods in our world, and it all depends on the right connection between us. Is there a global shortage of cars? Do you know how many new cars come off the assembly lines and are stored in warehouses because there is no one to sell them to. Do you know how much oil there is in the world?

Resource distribution depends only on the connection between people.  Yearning for wealth will lead to nothing, and will only further divide us. We need to teach people how to connect properly, and then they will be able to establish a more equal society.

The problem is that society needs a production system that needs to be capitalist while according to the connection between people, it must be socialist.

The Kabbalah can lead people to this. Only in this will we be able to develop properly so that we will all be happy.
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From the Webinar on zahav.ru 1/13/16

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Comment: Renowned British physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has been warning that progress is liable to lead the human species to its end. He suggests establishing colonies in space where people could live.

Answer: Scientists today realize they have reached an impasse. They have no solutions to offer for the problems that humanity is facing, and they are continuing to develop technology that will take us off the Earth, to the stars, into the depths of nature, and nothing more.

In the past, we thought science would redeem us from all problems and that the development of technology, culture, education, and information would make it possible for humanity to be elevated above everything, but we are beginning to understand that this is not what will bring us happiness.

Today science is beginning to show us that everything depends on the man, on our development, not on our intellectual development because we use our intellect egoistically, for our personal benefit, for the enslavement of others, and are annihilating our own achievements. Fifty years ago we couldn’t imagine that we would reach this situation.

In the 60s of the 20^th century, space flight began; the American dream appeared—everyone would have a house, a car, work, social benefits, etc. What is happening today? The middle class is being destroyed; in fact, it no longer exists; students in families with average incomes are forced to work part-time to pay for their education.

The ego has developed such that one percent of the world population holds and controls most of the wealth while the remaining 99 percent, the lower classes, are left without the ability to develop, existing only on the crumbs necessary for survival while serving the needs of the upper percentile.

Question: In your opinion, will scientists succeed in breaking through to a new way of thinking in the future?

Answer: The future doesn’t depend on the scientists but on a change in a person’s psychological perception of the person. Today humanity doesn’t have the power to implement this change because the world is managed only according to egoistic inclinations.

This is evident on all the levels of development in nature: the animate, the vegetative, and even the inanimate, and all the more so the human who is helped by science and technology to egoistically manage all of them only for his own benefit.

Question: The eternal question arises: What can be done?

Answer: This is not an eternal question. It stands before us only today because it is rises from the depths of despair of a tired, disappointed humanity that lacks the ability to do anything. And the answer is in Kabbalah, and we are obliged to bring it to every person. This is our task.

Help us in this! I am sure that we will succeed in this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 1/20/16

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New Life 671 – Where To?
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Where is nature pushing us to through the climate problems and terrorism that is spreading throughout the world? How do we behave as a society as if we are united under a common goal and how can you use the ego for the good of connection and not against others?

Celebration of the beginning of the civil New Year has begun to take on a ritual nature: fir trees, fireworks, and so forth. Marking the beginning of the year is considered in the eyes of people as an event of great importance, even though this really is not talking about any scenario of a new beginning on the face of the Earth.

Rather, there is a continuing process in which humanity is advancing toward new situations. Changes in climate are placing our planet in a very dangerous situation. The causes of climate change are more internal that we think. We don’t understand the reasons for what is happening: increasing terrorism and the various factors that cultivate and encourage worrisome phenomena like the Daesh organization; advances in technology the ejects unemployed and unclear what their fate will be. There is a feeling that the Earth doesn’t require that many people to continue to exist, which may lead to a world war.

After having experienced socialism and capitalism, humanity is beginning to understand that integration between these approaches is required. Competition is required in the labor market, in trade, and in industry while equality is required in the system of relationships between us in the family and in society in general. We can attain this only with the help of a unique general social education, and the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches how to do it.

My hope for the New Year is that humanity will understand that we are compelled to correct our human nature. Materially, we don’t lack anything thanks to developments in technology. The problem is only in our relationships through which we cause symptoms like Daesh and allow them to exist. Today, we are not prepared to unite and react correctly to phenomena like these.

Therefore, as stated, general social education is the solution that will help us understand the world that we are facing.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 671 – Where To?” 1/5/16

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Question: Will Europe be able to cope with the influx of immigrants? How will it be able to do this?

Answer: No, for Europe, there is no chance of uniting, even when faced by the threat of annihilation. They don’t have a common goal or a common system of universal education. To bring Europe to unification, it is necessary to educate the population. And they have only engaged in unifying the banks. What sense is there in that?

Question: Does this mean that economic union is not enough for them?

Answer: This is not union, but a hidden where America seems to stand on the sidelines while Germany puts pressure on everyone and harvests the yield.

The European nations were placed in such a framework without the option of refusing entry into the European Union. If Greece had not joined the union, they would have been trampled economically. That is, it was not a voluntary connection, not for a common goal.

I used to live in the Baltic region and I am very familiar with that area. They are in shock and disbelief over what Europe did to them after they entered the Common Market. They were forbidden to produce dairy products and had to slaughter their cows. Can you imagine what this prohibition meant for the Baltic region? They don’t have anything to sell and nothing  to make a living from.

They same was done to Portugal through banning fishing and to Greece in regulating olive growing. That is, the EU does what is convenient for the top, destroying the traditional industries of many European nations.

Question: But wasn’t there some kind of cultural exchange between them?

Answer: There is no cultural exchange. There is no common language training, etc. This is not union, but coercion. Therefore, in the absence of joint action, the Union decays.

Question: Does this mean that, in 2016, the black and white flag of Islam will rise over Europe even higher than in the year 2015?

Answer: This is without a doubt. The ideology of Islam will continue to seep into there, and millions of Europeans will accept Islam.

Question: But there are more powerful nations, like the UK, for example.

Answer: The British and the Poles will cope with this. But it is unlikely that the rest of the peoples will,  including the Russians.

Question: But Putin has not ruled out using nuclear weapons against ISIS.

Answer: There is no concrete power against ISIS because it is an ideology. It is not a physical force or an army so it is impossible to defeat it just like that.

Question: How will these changes influence the attitude of Europe toward the Jews living there and to Israel?

Answer: It will be for the worse. The fact is that all the problems that appear in the world are still interpreted by all mankind as ostensibly emanating from the Jews. And indeed it is.

Question: So, what will happen to Israel? Could a refugee situation similar to what is happening in Europe occur here?

Answer: This really depends on the Jews living here, on the union between them and how much they can overcome the economic, political, physical, and military barriers on the way to this.

Question: We have fences with a height of four meters.

Answer: Everything depends only on the union of the people. This is the true barrier. If there is no union, fences will not help.
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From the Webinar on zahav.ru 1/13/16

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Comment: American Bran Ferren over four years built a “mansion on wheels” for several million dollars. He claims that it can save a person from the apocalypse.

He is convinced that the apocalypse is approaching and he built the “mansion” for his four-year-old daughter. On the basis of a Mercedes, he built a gigantic vehicle that can travel on any terrain.

In fact, humanity is engaged in preparation for Judgment Day, and entire forums exist that are involved with the end of the world. But they don’t try to understand how it might be possible to stop or avoid this situation; instead, they are searching for methods of how to exist in it.

Answer: Where does this inventor intend to travel? Where would things be better if there is an apocalypse? This person has a very strong survival instinct. He is like an animal that is concerned first and foremost about its survival. He doesn’t understand that nothing will happen to him anymore because it will not be him.

Question: Will an apocalypse happen?

Answer: No, it doesn’t have to happen. According to the program of nature, humanity must rise to the next level of development, which is existence outside of bodies.

There are three levels in nature: still, vegetative, and animate. We belong to the animate nature, and the next level is called Adam (Man). Adam doesn’t exist in our physical world but in the field of forces. The physical world will disappear and we will exist only in a world of forces.

In this world we exist with our mind and feelings, but are connected to each other in a single system. This system is constantly developing. Just as we develop in this world, so we will develop in the next world in 125 levels that are characterized by coming closer to each other until we unite into a single whole, one single integral humanity. We must complete this development.

On the next level of existence, time doesn’t exist, so it is impossible to speak about the time it takes to attain this development according to our usual form of measurement.

The wisdom of Kabbalah explains this. It describes how to rise through the 125 levels and what will happen to us.

Question: Does the wisdom of Kabbalah say unequivocally that there won’t be an apocalypse and that all of humanity will rise to another level?

Answer: As they say, there will be peace, but before that the struggle for peace, which will not leave a single stone unturned.

So before us is another problem; can we move to the next level through goodness and our own desire, by understanding that it is imperative and preferable to attain this with little blood, or we will have to go through these levels under the influence of the great and merciless forces of nature?

The wisdom of Kabbalah describes how it is possible to move to the next stage easily and in song. Good luck to us in this!
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 1/19/16

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Question: How does the wisdom of Kabbalah relate to the inequality in Israeli society? For example, one person works very hard and does not earn much, and another does nothing and earns a lot; he lives very well.

Answer: Very simply, we need to know the system by which the world and our society is spinning, and our society, the Jewish people, need to know even more so. Otherwise it seems that all of this is happening chaotically while there is a very strict order here. It is not the people who determine it.

Human society operates according to precise and clear laws of nature that are similar to the laws of physics in the world. It is simply necessary to know them.
We don’t know them and so we cannot manage society, and even if we find out about some of these processes, we use them egoistically.

Nature is pushing us toward a single integral system. We are discovering this on the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate,; and even beginning on the human level, it is being revealed in our world more and more. This means our world is truly becoming a small global village.

Question: Social networks are very helpful for this integration. Could it be that this is what we have been waiting for and they will move humanity to the next level of development?

Answer: Certainly not. Of course this is a blessing in disguise. There is no evil without good. We are shortening the time of our maturation by means of this.

Today, social networks are working to ensure that we quickly realize how much we are unfit for anything as far as we are, how egoistic we are, how we cannot be in the correct connection, and how hatred repels from each other. Social networks are gradually revealing this, and in principle, must lead us to the conclusion that in this way we are approaching extinction. Society cannot exist like this.

If we reach this awareness more rapidly, before deteriorating into all out war, it will be good. The possibility of a nuclear world war exists as long as we don’t understand that we urgently need to do something about ourselves.
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From the zahav.ru webinar 1/13/16

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Question: In what way can the wisdom of Kabbalah help the citizens of Russia who are worried about their workplace because of the crisis in the nation and live in fear because of an anticipated war?

Answer: I am not afraid of war and I don’t think its threat will be realized soon. Although the ISIS organization is undermining the security of Israel, Europe, and Russia and is causing tension in everyone, we don’t need to fear it and try to fight against it directly; rather, we must understand where it comes from. It is a certain level of human development: egoism, which has grown to such dimensions that it wants to conquer the world and enslave it.

Therefore, it is up to us to set an ideological force against it, not a military force. But in the meantime, humanity doesn’t understand this, and ideological power is not  in the area of the military and the nation.

So today, for the first time in two thousand years, the wisdom of Kabbalah is being revealed and declares that it has a solution to this problem, which is found on the ideological plane, not on the military plane, because the terrorist organizations are specifically winning through ideology.

The terrorist organizations attract people to them due to their consolidation around an idea with particular principles, and this is what makes them attractive and inspiring to young people.

We still don’t know how much support they have in all the western nations, in North America, and in Australia. Many of them come from good families. This is happening because humanity has ended its former paradigm and cannot continue existing according to its former small egoism.

Comment: The impression is created that humanity is bored with the cultured world so they want to try something new.

Answer: The cultured world in our day doesn’t provide fulfillment to people. People don’t want to marry, don’t want to have children, and don’t want anything at all. And this is a problem. They simply exist due to the power of inertia because they cannot die.

Many consume drugs, suffer from depression, and so forth. Why? Because they don’t have an answer for the meaning of life. Imagined wellbeing summed up by work, family, and raising children doesn’t provide a person with anything anymore. What can you give them? What can you feed them? 

Therefore, the young are going to ISIS.  And they are stronger than anyone. They are not afraid of anything because they would rather die than exist without meaning.

The wisdom of Kabbalah opposes them with the idea of good connection and unity, which raises us all up to the next level of development, and does not engage in mutual destruction. This is idea is not built on egoism and mutual hatred, but on good and cohesion.

Question: If all of us were to follow your advice and the ideas of the wisdom of Kabbalah, how rapidly could we defeat terrorism in the Middle East?

Answer: I am sure that within a few months we would see amazing changes in the world. We do we have to lose? We are talking about the need for people simply to get closer to each other.

This direction is justified economically, politically, and socially and is linked to the general trend of nature, which mutually connects us to each other and makes all of humanity a single small global village. We are not going against anyone’s principles here.

Comment: If everyone were to come closer and unite into small groups and everything were to sort itself out, it follows that the nations would no longer need political leadership.

Answer: The world will reach not having borders between nations. When people will begin to approach each other, they will see for themselves that there is no difference between them and there won’t be any need for borders.

Without preparing the population for this, without educating it in the spirit of mutual connection, nothing will succeed. For example, Europe created a common market instead of unity between people; indeed, there is a common bank, but where is the unity? The alliance between leaders is made for their own profit and not for unity and balance. Europe is not united by a common ideology and common education.

Question: If we defeat ISIS and the borders between nations fall, will all of humanity live happily?

Answer: It is impossible to defeat ISIS without counterbalancing it through the good force, the power of Light. The ideology of this organization is very strong and is controlled by a force that is not balanced by the good force.

We grant it the right to exist and breathe life into it as long as we don’t counterbalance it through closeness and connection between people. If we begin to implement the ideology of goodness of unity, they will come to us themselves and will work in partnership with us for unity and good.

It is up to us to thank them for those forces that are compelling us to unite. After all, that is why they were created. It is nature showing us who we are through the negative force that we ourselves created through our inaction.

But I am sure that we can counterbalance this negative force with the method of correction of Kabbalah. It laid the groundwork for the principle, “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) around 3,500 years ago. This is the primary law of nature. And we will reach it together. Preferably this will be done as quickly as possible and with little bloodshed.
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From “The Echo of Moscow” Radio Program 11/25/15

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