Currently our world is going through a unique process of rethinking everything that has been achieved through the course of human history and we see what a deceitful society man has made. We are deceived and lied to from all the sides.

The media is bought by the rich elite and doesn’t broadcast a word of truth. The rulers of the world run their personal business without any concern for others, doing nothing for the good of the people but only for their own good.

This is beginning to unfold now, in our days. Humanity has grown and is passing through a very difficult realization, a revision of the entire human society. This is a call of the time.

That’s why I supported Donald Trump so much in the elections and after them.

There is nothing special about him, but he is a symbol of a new time, a new revision. We see how one extreme line in the world gives birth to another extreme line: extra liberalism gives birth to the ultra-right-wing currents, Nazism. And scrutiny happens in the middle between them.

That is why media and governments are subjected to such criticism, mutual accusations are pouring from all sides. The people will understand who is controlling them, whom they elect for the leadership of the country, and will see all the deceptiveness of the mass media and large public organizations. In fact, everyone cares only about himself, and uses the ordinary person.

This is a recognition of evil that the people couldn’t achieve before. Previously, they still believed in the beautiful words and remained more or less calm.

As a result of this revision, we will understand that the entire human society has sunk into lies and is unable to build the right state. After all, it itself generates such governments, organizations, unions, educational systems, and media.

Therefore, society itself is in need of education.

Only after integral education will society be able to give birth to such organizations that will act for the benefit of the people. And without this preliminary preparation, society will always create either ultra-left or ultra-right alliances, in other words, ultra-egoistic ones in one direction or another.

Kabbalists explain this to the world in order to gradually bring this to people’s consciousness. This doesn’t relate to politics. The wisdom of Kabbalah is now being revealed to all of humanity in order to pass the method of correction to it. Therefore, the direction of the world’s development is very important. I see in Donald Trump’s coming to power a sign for good development, compared with Obama’s course.

Soon, the ultra-liberal leaders will be replaced in Europe as well. It is about the stages of the revelation of evil that humanity undergoes. Personally, I do not have any preferences for any parties. I look at the situation from the point of view of its usefulness to the necessary corrections that human society must undergo.

People think that Kabbalah is a theory that talks only about the Creator and the distant upper worlds. But this isn’t so because it is known that Baal HaSulam wrote an article “The Last Generation” about the structure of the future society and met with Ben Gurion.

We live at a time when the wisdom of Kabbalah is already intended for the entire generation, and therefore it is very important in which direction the development will go. Therefore, it is worthwhile to help people to find out. In fact, Kabbalah has no connection with politics. If I give any assessments, it is not from the political point of view, but only from the point of view of Kabbalah, that is, from the way upper forces act in human society and move the world to correction.
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Question from Facebook: On one hand, you say that humanity will unite one way or another and that there will be no borders, and on the other hand, you say that everyone needs to live within their own borders and educate the people. Which political views do you side with, the left or the right?

Answer: None. I understand where nature is leading us and I advise everyone to study and to explore this inclination and to actually adhere to it because it is impossible to go against nature.

Comment: According to the person who is asking this question, nature is on the extreme left because the world is advancing toward unity in any case…

My Response: Nature cannot be on the extreme left. It unites us above all the differences since it operates according to the principle that “love will cover all transgressions.” This means that opposite parties need to discover, understand, and appreciate all the transgressions correctly and to work seriously despite the negative attributes each side has, and thus, build between them the right system of connection until they reach actual love.

Our original nature is to hate each other. If we dig a bit deeper, we can identify this problem. Each of us is an absolute individualist who originated and descended from a special separate root of the general system. Therefore we are totally different and opposite from each other. We have to learn to establish a connection above all the differences and disagreements between us, as if we build a second floor above us. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us these rules.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 1/30/16

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Question: You said that the corporeal world doesn’t interest a Kabbalist at all. Can a Kabbalist be indifferent to what is happening in the corporeal world that he is living in temporarily?

Answer: The fact is that the physical world is an absolute consequence of our behavior. And we can change our behavior only with the help of the spiritual world.

Therefore, all of humanity’s attempts to do something in this world are useless. Everything goes back to the way it was before and we keep making the same mistakes and receive the same blows as a result. It would be better if we did nothing.

It is best for a person to engage only in his spiritual development. That is why this world does not interest Kabbalists. It is a kind of a reflection of their advancement.

Baal HaSulam writes that we will become a communist society, not the kind we have heard about from those who adopted the methods of Lenin and Marx, but a truly egalitarian and just society.

This society is not the actual goal, but is simply a reflection of the internal state of people who will continue to live in this world in the future. They will be in an internal state and the relations between them will enable them to establish a society in which people are more equal and closer to each other because the upper Light will impact them more and more and will connect them into a unified structure.

Marx accurately foresaw this; humanity will inevitably return to this. He wrote about a new society and did not refer to Russia or any other country, and he believed that such a society would be established in the future since this is the natural course of our evolution; evolution leads us to that. It turns out that he was right. You don’t need to be a prophet; you but simply need to understand the course of our evolution correctly.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/1/17

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In the News (New Direction): “Hans-Olaf Henkel MEP [member of the European Parliament] Vice President of New Direction – The Foundation for European Reform To The Honourable Wolfgang Schäuble, Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany and The Honourable Yanis Varoufakis, Minister of Finance of the Hellenic Republic:

“Due to the significance of the challenges facing the Greek government, I have resolved to address you personally. The Greek government is absolutely right in arguing both that austerity has had disastrous effects on Greece, and that debt write-off is necessary. The scale of damage to the social fabric of Greek society wrought by austerity has been vastly underreported in the Western media. As someone with a deep affinity for the cultural heritage of Greece, I find the state of economic misery in Athens – which I consider a humanitarian crisis – truly heart-breaking. …

“The membership in the European Monetary Union has turned out to be a trap for Greece.  The euro has been too strong a currency for Greece and austerity was never the right answer. The only way for Greece to return to the road of recovery is leaving the euro. The desperately needed devaluation would follow, which would need to be coupled with a debt write-off, so that the Greek economy could have a new start. Thus, the economic conditions for necessary reforms would finally emerge.

“In consequence, I would like to propose that Greece should be offered a write-off to its debts to Germany, if the Greek government decides that it is time to break the vicious cycle created by the European Monetary Union, and leave the euro. Greek society has suffered unimaginably, and does not deserve to endure any pain more for the sake of a failed monetary union.”

Answer: He is right that it will be better for them. The right tendency is beginning: all dissolving and wiping out all the debts. The problem is that many nations in the Eurozone have suffered greatly. In Latvia, the entire meat and dairy industry were destroyed by the ban on producing these products. In Portugal, the fishing industry was destroyed through a ban on fishing! This is in a nation that had been involved with only this for its entire existence.

As a result, these nations are in debt to the European community. If they are cut off from the common market now and are told, “That’s it, you are free! Starting tomorrow you will live the way you want!” What will they have to live on?

This applies to the small countries in the eurozone. And the remaining nations of the Eurozone, even if they don’t suffer economically, they will be very strongly harmed politically, socially, and internally.

A fundamental law is operating here. They must disperse to engage in the education of the peoples, and only then to unite together to the degree of their upbringing, which will give them an understanding of how to work among themselves in a common Europe, in a common house. This is the goal of the education.  

Question: So you are convinced that they will separate?

Answer: Yes, but I would want to be sure that this will not lead to war. There is a problem here because Trump doesn’t want to allocate money to strengthen NATO, but in order to keep the whole of Europe together, a common military organization is needed. But the United States doesn’t want to support it.

So, they need to think carefully about how to part. I would have spelled out the strategy of parting differently: start to separate a little from each other with certain obligations, but at the same time, start to create a system of education together. It is necessary to educate Europeans in the same spirit, in a single understanding what to do. And then come to unification.

Europe must begin to be involved with something very simple. It needs to pluck out all the immigrants who experienced difficult conditions in their own countries as a result of the “American spring” made by Obama. It is necessary to arrange conditions for them in their nations and not destroy them. After all, for example, everything is completely destroyed in Syria.

It will be necessary to consolidate a “Marshall Plan” for these nations. And this must be done by the United States and Europe. Only in a this way will they eliminate emigration and create the right relationships between peoples. There is no other way.

It is necessary to make a person into an Adam (Man). Otherwise, just as he was born as a wild animal, he will remain that way for his entire life.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 2/15/17

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New Life 830 – The Reason For Hatred In The World
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

The basic matter of creation is the desire to receive, which develops the levels of nature: still, vegetative, animate, and speaking.

The human ego develops since there is a spark of light in it, which means the force of bestowal that drives it. In the past, Abraham explored the hatred that erupted among the people of ancient Babylon and discovered the method of reaching love. Then he taught a group of people who wanted to attain how to ascend above the ego. Those who joined Abraham later became the nation of Israel and were internally different from everyone else.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 830 – The Reason For Hatred In The World,” 2/28/17

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From “The Crisis and Its Solution” (Arosa Forum 2006)

How does humanity realize the need to become similar to nature? They will come to it from hopelessness and from the realization of egoism as evil! One can advance toward the realization of evil by choosing the path of suffering or the short path of correction.

However, the path of suffering is not the path; this is just an amount of time that is needed for the realization of all the horrible consequences of one’s stubbornness and egoism.

Nevertheless, one can choose a short and easy path of correction: if a person receives knowledge about the world’s structure, causality, and purpose, he accelerates his realization of evil and does not need to realize egoism as evil under the influence of sufferings.

Humanity is gradually advancing to the understanding that it is necessary to adhere to the middle line. Today, it is clearly evident from the clashes that occur between the left and the right in human society. An example of this is the United States after the recent elections. In Europe, too, will soon begin a ruthless struggle between the ultra-right (Nazi) parties and the ultra-left liberals.

We won’t reach peace this way because each one wants to defeat the other. Both don’t understand that there must be a middle line between them that is based on their connection and common goal. The world doesn’t have this method yet, and therefore, it will lead either to war or to continuous struggle.

The struggle won’t end until both sides realize that throughout the general structure of creation, there have to be the right and the left sides and the middle line between them. And it is necessary to know how to build it.

Until this happens, they will continue to fight with each other. This struggle between the right and the left resembles the period of formation of the planet Earth. At first, the forces of fire were winning and everything was burning, then the forces of cooling were winning, and the glaciation began.

So the periods of warming and cooling alternated every thirty million years until the Earth finally stabilized and reached the middle line, or the middle state.

Today, we still live on the volcano because inside the Earth, everything is burning, there is tremendous energy. Yet, we live on the thin layer of the Earth’s crust that covers all of it from above. The same thing happens everywhere; any life appears as a result of the interaction between these two opposite forces.

Therefore, we need the recognition of evil and its correction through balancing it with the good forces. However, the good and evil must be balanced and equal, and must complete each other because this is the only way to reach the middle line. After all, only in the middle line is it possible to advance from one degree to another, from the beginning to the end of the spiritual path.

In essence, the difference between all the degrees is in the greater and greater revelation of our egoism, the desire to enjoy, which obliges us to build the right line against it in order to reach the middle line.

The long way is when we learn from our own mistakes, without the help of the wisdom of Kabbalah and without knowing how to build the middle line and how to organize society in advance so we would learn, as in the laboratory, how to create a correct mutual connection between all.

If we try to do so, we can take a short, perfect, comfortable, and kind path with the wise leader ahead. If we don’t, we face a path of great sufferings. Baal HaSulam said that we’ve entered the era of Mashiach.

Now we discover that humanity is seeking its path and doesn’t know where to advance further. These are the clear signs of the era of the Mashiach (the Messiah) that will become more and more clear.
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Question: The crisis of 2008 showed that people don’t learn from weak blows. Could a global ecological catastrophe or even a nuclear winter already be embedded in the program of nature? And if they can’t be avoided anyway, is it best not to think about them?

Answer: If we are facing some kind of terrible catastrophe—biological, ecological, financial, climate problems or a nuclear war—it doesn’t relieve us from the need to act in order to avoid the blow. We cannot just wait calmly until it happens.

We have no right to think so, because we understand that it doesn’t end there. In his short-sightedness, a person thinks, “Well, if I die, then I’ll die.” But it isn’t as simple as that. We can’t die and disappear because we are in an eternal process inside the cycles of life, living and being born again and again.

All these births and deaths are, in effect, the renewal of our small animal desire to enjoy that gradually grows and develops, taking on new forms.

This circle can end only when we begin to build our soul from two opposite forces, egoism on the one hand, the negative force, and nature on the other hand, the positive force that we need to acquire and add to our egoism.

Midway between these two forces, we will be able to advance, and we must do it with understanding and awareness. There is a way of natural development—the path of suffering by which nature urges us forward.

There is also a way of hastening time (Achishena), to which we must move. After all, we need to rise to the degree of a man (Adam), meaning similar (Dome) to the upper force of nature, the Creator, who understands, feels, and realizes according to His desire and free choice the entire purpose of creation.

Therefore, we won’t be able to just bury our heads in the sand and say, “Well, in the worst case, we will die, but for now we’ll just live and have fun.” This is a childish approach to live, not suitable for an adult.
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New Life 829 – Religions And The Development Of Man
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

What does the return to religion today indicate? How did Abraham discover the upper force? What was the impact of this revelation on humanity and why did popular religion emerge?

There is a trend of returning to religion today as a result of the growing egoism. People are looking for meaning of life. Religion tells us that there is a force that manages us above nature, that we should believe in it and obey its commandments. We don’t need to “believe” in order to reveal the Creator; we need to work and to acquire the attribute of love of others.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 829 – Religions And The Development Of Man,” 2/14/17

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New Life 828 – Between Religions And The Wisdom Of Kabbalah
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

What does religion provide us with? How does the wisdom of Kabbalah teach us to get to know the upper force and what is the goal that people of all religions have to reach according to this wisdom?

We don’t know what we are living for, and religions offer a person something that is beyond this life. The wisdom of Kabbalah is the internality of Judaism. It is the method of revealing the Creator to man while still in this world.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 828 –  Between Religions And The Wisdom Of Kabbalah,” 2/14/17

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Question: A few weeks ago, a father in the village of Migdal near the Kinneret killed his wife, their small children and the neighbors’ son. This is the third incident since the beginning of the year in which parents murdered their children. In Jerusalem, a mother killed her four daughters and in Acre a mother killed her five-year-old son. How can we explain the fact that a parent who is supposed to protect his child becomes his murder?

Answer: People find themselves under such pressure, such circumstances that pressure them on all sides, until they begin to think that it is actually their children who are the main liability in their life, and thus they sentence them to death. They believe that if they had no children, they wouldn’t be under such pressure and would not have to care for anyone and would be relieved.

These are exceptional tragic incidents. I believe that the cause for such incidents is the fact that life has become too stressful for people and there are those who cannot take it and are willing to free themselves from it at any cost.

Question: How does that happen, because we always use parental love as the closest example of true, unselfish love?

Answer: Love of parents for their children is a natural emotion that is typical of both humans and animals, but when parents find themselves under pressure and don’t know what to do, they lose their mind. If someone had stopped them at that moment, and then told them what they had intended to do, they would of course have been shocked. This is a situation of temporary insanity.

Question: So who is insane, humanity?

Answer: Today, people undergo very strong pressures and so, unfortunately, such cases will reoccur.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 1/30/17

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