New Life 831 – Anti-Semitism In The United States And Europe
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-HarelSummary

The wave of anti-Semitism that has appeared today stems from Jews hating the Jew within them. The role of the Jews is to show everyone who comes into the world how to connect with love, but they are not doing this.

Jews are the only ones who can lead the world to a life of love and connection between all. Only then will anti-Semitism cease and be replaced with sympathy and support.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 831 – Anti-Semitism In The United States And In Europe,” 2/28/17

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The crisis of modern society is a very real problem; it announces itself every day announcing through newspapers, radio, and television. It began with Europe and now is spreading to America.

The entire world is entering a new era and on the verge of large changes. The hope is that these changes will be realized through governmental and financial reform and not through world war.

For the first time in history, the wisdom of Kabbalah is being revealed and is entering the process that is taking place in the world because Kabbalists are the only ones who understand what is happening, unlike all others who are in turmoil. The world acknowledges that it cannot understand not only the present situation, but also what prospects are available for the future or what means are possible for future progress and development.

All this is very difficult to come to terms with, especially when we realize that we are talking about such huge masses of people, so different and distant from each other. All of Babylon, where Abraham once began his work, today begins to be more and more connected in all possible egoistic ways, one more explosive than another.

Babylon is a symbol of huge egoism, the “anti-Creator,” revealing itself between all creatures. Therefore, it is very hard for a person to understand how this egoism can be subject to any correction. But as the wisdom of Kabbalah is revealed, it explains that it can be corrected, and we are obligated to do so.

If not willingly, then by the path of suffering, but humanity will need to return to the state where it is once again as one body, one soul, one system, like the first man, Adam. This system will draw the entire Upper Light of Infinity and all of creation will reach adhesion with the Creator.

This final state cannot be changed; there can be no compromises. The only difference lies in how much of its own effort humanity will put into achieving this, how much it will understand the essence of the process, and how much will it desire to participate in it.

Some people should lead this process and this part is called “Israel,” which means “Li Rosh” – “I have a head.” And all the others act in relation to the head as a body and receive from it what has already been prepared for them; that is, they aren’t obliged to perform such difficult work. Of course, during this process there will be many questions and problems that will need to be resolved with the help of integral upbringing.

It is impossible to make a single change through force but only by an internal change in an individual. There is nothing to change in the world—no external changes outside of a person will help because the external world is a reflection of our inner qualities.

Therefore, the only thing needed is to correct the individual and by doing this we correct the world. This is our entire work: building such systems through which the Reforming Light will reach to the last human being. At the head of this system will be the Kabbalists who have a connection to the Creator and can make themselves a channel for passing the Light to all of humanity, to all the nations.

This process is beginning to be realized in the world, and therefore the world is quickly adopting new contours. Whether we want it or not, the upper governance is preparing humanity to receive integral upbringing. It is the call of the times.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/2/17, Lesson on the Topic: “Mismah Arosa (Arosa Document),” “What Is to Be Done?”

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Question: What is the spiritual root of typhoons and hurricanes?

Answer: These natural disasters, like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and so forth, are the result of an imbalance in nature. And we are the ones that arouse them. Nature must always be in complete harmony. If we were to behave correctly, we would see a completely different picture of the world: four seasons per year, one after the other, everything in balance, and everything functioning in complete harmony.

Just as we have opposite characteristics, like summer and winter, there are variables between them, spring, and autumn. In principle, summer and winter are not seasons in the year but the transition between plus and minus. If we behaved correctly, all of nature would be in balance and we would not feel any damage from nature, no surprises from its side.

All the natural disasters are a result of negative relationships between people that upset the balance and influences nature. We greatly influence it!

As humans, we are at the top of the evolutionary chain, and nature is at the lowest level, so even a small deviation in a bad direction causes great consequences on the inanimate level.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/14/16

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In the News (The Washington Post): “The White House blocked a number of news organizations from attending an informal briefing Friday, a rare and surprising move that came amid President Trump’s escalating war against the media.

“White House press secretary Sean Spicer banned reporters from CNN, The New York Times, Politico, The Los Angeles Times and BuzzFeed from attending a ‘gaggle,’ a non-televised briefing, but gave access to a number of other reporters, including those representing conservative outlets. …

“The unusual ban came the same day that Trump, appearing at an annual gathering of conservatives, launched another round of complaints about the news media. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Trump called reporters ‘dishonest’ and ‘fake’ and denounced the use of anonymous sources in reports about his administration. …

“‘It’s not acceptable,’ CNN anchor Jake Tapper said on his afternoon program. ‘In fact, it’s petulant … This White House doesn’t seem to value a free press. There’s a word for this. The word is “un-American.” ’”

Comment: According to the White House, a ban on CNN has been declared. President Trump does not intend to give any interviews to this network. On his Twitter page, he called the network a terrible network that publishes fake news. He also refers to The New York Times and The Washington Post in the same manner, saying that he believes they cover his actions unfairly.

My Comment: Of course. We all know that this has been going on for many years. These newspapers are biased and cannot claim to be the least bit objective.

All these media channels are owned by Jews and so all these newspapers are extremely liberal and democratic. The newspaper owners have forgotten that unlimited democracy leads to Nazism.

This is what will happen if Trump doesn’t limit them. If he does, they will have to be very grateful to him because it will actually be thanks to him that they will be able to exist in some kind of framework, otherwise they will arrive very soon to Nazism.

Question: Can media channels today be humane?

Answer: Certainly not. We are all bought and are subordinate to certain forms of behavior controlled by the elite, so all the information is written and rewritten in advance; there is nothing new or objective about it. Today there cannot be objective media in our world, not even news about science and sports.

Our world is managed by selfishness, so it is only natural that the immense influence on people, which the media enables, cannot remain outside of human egoism.

You have one ego, I have another ego, and someone else has a third. Each of us has his own newspapers, television channels, and Internet sites,  and we are fighting among ourselves or bring to party members or presidents, etc. to power.

This is all very natural. The media takes a very active part in this, but today they are revealing their absolute lack of objectivity. In principle, this was known before, but people still consume the information they publish.

Personally, I refer only unquestionable data, like something happened somewhere. Here too there is a question: whether it happened or not, as a fact, that is, the bare information, if it can be gleaned from somewhere.

But analysts are tied to reality, but only to the intentions of those who pay.

Question: What do you think about our mass media? After all, both you and I comment on the news and answer questions.

Answer: The media is totally dependent and biased. How can the media be objective? What in this world can be objective if the one who produces everything is a person, and his ego dictates to him what to do, whether consciously or subconsciously.

Question: Are you and I the same?

Answer: Of course! But we are aware why we are doing this, and we are trying to act only for the sake of a higher goal—to bring humanity closer to unity and to attain in this unity the upper level of its existence.

This is a huge difference. We are interested in achieving a goal and I seize every opportunity to pass to the masses this idea, this ideology and goal.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 2/1/17

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In the News (InoSMI): “Let’s be honest: no one understands what is happening in the global economy. …

“Since there are virtually no longer any applicable macroeconomic tools remaining, it has become commonplace to talk of ‘structural reform.’ But on the question of what this means, too, there is no agreement. Meanwhile, half-witted leaders excite disaffected voters. It seems that the economy has escaped from the hands of those who should manage it, and now politics follows it.”

My Comment: The problem is that experts in economics and politics and their students don’t see the whole picture, which is the general evolution of society and humanity. When the world operated only according to a simple egoistic principle, economists and politicians managed because they generally operated by this principle.

But as soon as society reached a new level of development, which is above egoism, the economics and politics of the past ceased to work. People need to study the wisdom of Kabbalah, which tells us about the transitional process we are in today, in order to understand what is happening in our world.
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From the “Crisis and its Solution” (Lecture in Arosa 2006)

Only by interacting as a single whole can cells exist, develop, and multiply. The law of altruistic interaction functions in every created being except man. Man is given freedom of will to realize the need for altruism and to observe this general law of nature.

Seeing how animals devour each other, it is hard for us to call them altruists. Everything created: inanimate matter, plants, animals, and humans are complete egoists. So, where do we see that altruism is a program of nature?

But when it comes to the internal program embedded in every creature, we can say that all of nature is built according to the law of mutual help and support between everyone. We just look at nature through our egoistic eyes and because of that we blame it to the extent of our own depravity.

If we assess nature not from the negative side, from our egoism, but from the side of a positive systematic approach, we will see that all its systems work properly. Instead of asserting that “all devour all,” we can say that “each exists for others.”

Due to the fact that one becomes food for another, as it usually happens in nature, each degree exists in order to sustain the degree above it, and it continues for the higher degrees. And for whom was man created? His mission is to make his desire to enjoy “food” for a higher degree, for the desire to bestow.

It is difficult to realize that the law of nature is altruism, because it doesn’t manifest itself openly. We don’t see kind, altruistic connections between all parts of nature. On the contrary, we see egoistic connections where each one cares only about its own benefit and devours others.

It happens this way on all the levels: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human. It could be concluded that overall, total egoism, the desire to enjoy, is the law of nature, rather than the desire to bestow and altruism.

But with the development of science, intelligence, and human society, we gradually begin to discover that connection between all parts of nature is more important than the existence of each of them. That is, the central points of creation are not the clumps of matter, but the spaces between them. Exactly in these spaces the most important things happen, but we don’t know about it.

Connections between separate elements of creation are more important than these elements. After all, the elements consist of the simple desire to enjoy, and inside the connection between them is all the energy and matter. There actually is the true reality that we are not yet able to comprehend.

A man, who is at the center of creation is the most important part, that is, the connections between people. Through our unity, we assure all of nature and lead to the fact that all other parts of nature are pacified and establish good connections between them.
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From the 3d part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/12/17, Lesson on the Topic, “Mismah Arosa,” (Arosa Document)

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Question: According to the media, a known Kabbalist congratulated Trump on being elected president a day before the outcome of the elections was announced. How can you explain that in the light of prophecy, spirituality, and corporeality?

Answer: There is nothing to explain. I was sure that Trump would win and I supported him the entire time because Obama’s policy hurt the country.

The outcome of the elections is the best of all possible options. I hope that it will help the world feel the point from which it is possible to change the world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/1/17

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We are inside the special system that is called “nature” or “Creator,” which is one and the same. This system is closed, perfect, and constant, and humanity receives reactions and influences from it and develops more and more.

The system works on us, trying to bring us into conformity with it, so that we would feel, attain, and become similar to nature by becoming its active integral parts consciously, according to our decision and through our work.

A person should become a master of this system—all people as one creature. In order to become as perfect as the system of nature, we must connect as one man.

Bestowal to each other, mutual connection and support, up to loving your neighbor as yourself, is the law of the single system in which we exist. This system works on us in order to bring us to its state.

Therefore, the law about loving the neighbor is a mandatory law of development that acts upon us regardless of our desire or reluctance. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to fulfill this law so that the advancement will go by a good way, according to the mutual consent of the Creator and creature. Then our development will be fast and enjoyable.

Through a good or a bad way, sooner or later we still advance getting closer to the qualities of the system of nature. We see that the world is changing all the time, each time revealing more advanced states in order to finally fulfill the compulsory requirement. Altruism, a general connection above all the differences, is the basic law of nature, so it should be carried out among the people as well.

Inanimate matter, plants, and animals exist without freedom of choice, but a person must understand this law and agree with it, so much so that even if he has an opportunity to choose something else, he nevertheless prefers this altruistic law of complete connection with others.

Altruism is the final state of the evolution of nature to which we shall come. Along the way, we always pass through two states, two lines. We enter the left line, sufferings and troubles, and then we understand that it is necessary to connect and rush to the right line.

Humanity moves this way: sometimes brutal regimes arise, and other times more kind and merciful ones. Again and again evil and good replace each other, until finally, after all these sufferings, we would say, “enough!” and will be able to unite completely.

Question: Why is the reaction of the system on human behavior so nonlinear and complicated? One nation doesn’t act in an integral form, and the system hits another nation. Everything is so confusing it is difficult to advance.

Answer: Indeed, advancement is not carried out according to our understanding and feeling, but in accordance with the reason and the sense of the higher degree called “faith above reason.” After all, we advance due to the higher forces of nature. Why did it organize so we can’t see anything on this path?

The Kabbalists explain that if we had an opportunity to see everything, we would never ascend to the higher degree. We would only extend the material horizons on our degree.

However, in order to ascend to the next level, it is necessary to change our internal work program, our desires, intentions, and thoughts. This is impossible to do while staying in the same sense and reason. We need to receive strength from above and constantly improve ourselves with its help.

We can’t receive additional spiritual development with the tools we currently have. It is possible to receive material development though because it happens at the same level. There are smart and stupid people, strong and weak, successful and losers, but all of this doesn’t relate to qualitative development.

Qualitative development is the transition to the next level, like the difference between inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels, or between a fish, a beetle, a dog, and a man. It means this is a qualitative development in the perception of reality, or to be more precise, in the approximation to the upper force that controls everything.

Such a development assumes the renunciation of one’s current degree in order to be included each time more and more in the upper degree. Therefore, we can’t perform the qualitative ascent by ourselves. We can’t understand the upper degree before we rise to it because it is above us. We don’t feel it.

A stone can’t feel how a plant lives. There is a connection between the degrees, but not in the sense and reason. Precisely by annulling my sense and reason, I can receive some kind of foretaste of the next degree.

The way a stone can’t feel a plant and a plant can’t feel an animal, so too a person can’t feel the upper force. Only if we work in order to get closer to it do we cause its reaction and eventually will be in contact with it.

For the first time in history human begins to climb the ladder of nature, from our world to the upper world. The difference here is not the same as between a stone and a plant, but much more qualitative.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/12/17, Lesson on the Topic, “Mismah Arosa,” (Arosa Document)

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Question: How do we reconcile the two camps American society has split into because of the new president?

Answer: They can’t be reconciled. The part that has currently received power and strength will create a new system and begin to govern. The second part that calls itself Democrats will have to comply with their governance.

We shouldn’t regret it. After all, what good has Obama done during his entire presidency? He arranged the Arab Spring and blew up the entire Middle East so that crowds of refugees flooded Europe.

Look what Obama did with Europe. Show me one place where he brought a benefit—there isn’t one. However, the huge lie that media channels were spreading about his activities led to the fact that he was re-elected for a second term. This only shows that the world is susceptible to any lie.

Now the situation will change slightly. It’s a miracle that Trump was able to come to power, and the opposition, the ultra-liberal force, demonstrated the impossibility of continuing in the old way.

Of course, Trump is still very far from the corrected society of genuine democracy and pluralism. It’s just the tendency toward correction of the people, society, and the world. The governments of Obama and Hillary Clinton intended to destroy the world and dominate through the destruction, but this will never work.

They also destroyed America, it has lost all of its industry. Even a small change in law could have produced dramatic improvements, but they acted in the opposite way and were pushing the country into the abyss.

We can say that the part of the population that voted for Trump managed to come round at the last moment and say, “Enough!” These are the people associated with the work, with the earth, and with religion and they understand how dangerous the current situation in the country is.

It is only called democracy and liberalism. Democracy means the power of people, but where was this power of people? Liberalism exists only as a philosophical concept, but in practice it translates into total anarchy where everyone does what he wants.

In the Torah, a system where everyone does as he pleases is defined as the most vicious. After all, this means that egoism unfolds without any restrictions.

We have come to this state in all fields of human activity, in food, sex, and family. It is impossible to leave egoism without any reigns.

Question: In Europe, the right-wing forces are meeting at the moment and they plan to follow Trump’s example. How do you see the future of Europe?

Answer: It would be good if these changes will happen in the middle line, otherwise Europe awaits a fascist regime. Baal HaSulam warned that further development can go either toward the correction of the world or towards fascism. And we see that his predictions are coming true.

So goes the recognition of evil; slowly people recognize the evil of human nature and the necessity to correct it somehow. At least they are coming closer to the truth. The correct direction becomes revealed a little.

So far no one talks about the correction of a person because there is no method that makes it possible to do this. Therefore, they only think of how to correct the system that controls egoistic people and not about correcting a person.

Yet, Kabbalah says that it is pointless to correct the system, only a person has to be corrected because he is the root of the entire evil. This is the whole difference.

Gradually, they will realize that it is impossible to build a good system. Who could create it? Trump is certainly better than Hillary Clinton and Obama and this is a step toward the correction of the world, but the correction can’t be realized through him.

Question: Presently a congress of the European right-wing forces is being held in Germany. All right-wing leaders were unanimous in their desire to return to the care and strengthening of their own countries.

Answer: This is understandable because the integration is over. It was wrong from the beginning. Twenty years ago it was clear that it was destined to fall apart. Therefore, it is time to finish with it before it collapses completely and to save what is still possible to save. The world was on the brink of an abyss, facing a new world war, but stopped at the last moment.

Although it is not clear how much of his program Trump will be able to implement. He will not be able to separate America from the world and return industry to it. Most importantly, it is an internal problem that split America into two parts. After all, the new generation is very spoiled and accustomed to live on welfare. It is necessary to undertake the education of a large number of people.

What kind of work can be given to people who have been unemployed for twenty years? They don’t know what work is. They have led a free lifestyle and have done nothing else. It is impossible to make them work. We have to start with education.

Trump should give Americans an integral education and make them an example for the entire world. Let’s hope that he will suddenly get this thought in his mind and the desire in his heart.

The world shows every day that it is more and more ripe for correction. It is obvious that the world needs change, but no one yet knows where to make them.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/17, Lesson on the Topic, “Mismah Arisa,” (Arosa Document)

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New Life #408 – Corruption
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Summary

In recent years, we have seen increased corruption in high level government officials. How is the development of the ego related to the growing corruption and what can correct it?

In the past there was no corruption, by definition,  a king or ruler could do whatever he wanted. Suddenly concepts like equality, freedom, and justice emerged, a government by the people, the establishment of law and order. An ordinary person who breaks the law is punished, while the corrupt people in high positions do whatever they like! This is infuriating!

Corruption is not only with regard to money. It is any use of power, of the media, of the education system, and of the culture for one’s own purposes.

We have reached a dead end. The problem is that we don’t know how to reach a better state. Therefore, we need an educational process that includes all of society to gradually upgrade man’s egoistic nature. A corrected person who comes to power will act only by caring about the well being of others and not about himself. A person should be allowed to govern only according to the level of his correction.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #408 – Corruption,” 6/17/14

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