Question: The wisdom of Kabbalah is a method that teaches us how to build the right connections between people. Didn’t we need the right connections a hundred years ago or even a thousand years ago?

Answer: No, because humanity did not think that there was a need for it and did not want to hear about it. In the past people were not mutually and integrally connected around the globe, whereas today the countries in Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe, and Australia are all connected.

We see how Britain’s exit (who was already the least connected) from the European community has made everyone anxious as to where it may lead. It is much more difficult and complicated to break ties than to build them. It is like a divorce in a family that is connected by blood ties.

Question: Why was there no need to build the right connections in the family and in a nation in the past and thus balance the negative force by the positive force?

Answer: In the past the ego was not developed enough so there was no need for the integral method, whereas today the ego has become global and so it needs to be connected in a system. This system is the wisdom of Kabbalah.
[198915]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/3/16

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Question: When I spoke with you last year, I assumed that two major conflicts in the world were becoming more serious: the conflict between Russia and the West, and the conflict between the Shiite Muslims and the Sunnis. At the time, you emphasized that if we don’t begin to unite, all of these conflicts will sooner or later be turned against us and we will not be able to do anything about that.

Can we say that in a certain sense, the UN members have united and voted against us?

Answer: In a certain sense, yes. After all, they voted against Israel unanimously. How it is all arranged is interesting, but it is not important. Everyone realizes that the UN is like a puppet that can be twisted as they wish.

Question: Will the ramifications of this resolution impact our lives in Israel?

Answer: There will be no ramifications. We shouldn’t pay any attention to it. We don’t depend on the nations of the world. It is actually they who depend on us. If we begin to seriously unite, they will do everything in their power to get closer to us.
[199943]
From a webinar “The Year in Review” 12/26/16

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Question: Is there anything useful in this treasure of the wisdom of Kabbalah for young couples who, because of the growth of the ego, encounter problems sustaining their relationship?

Answer: Let’s adapt the wisdom of Kabbalah to our world and use it! After all, egoistic competition happens in the world from childhood to adulthood. For our entire lives, it is hell, a continuous struggle from which we have no benefit, only the gloating of our ego when we revel in our superiority over another.

We must use our earthly life that has been given to us to try to balance it, change it. We give birth, raise, and educate a child not to gratify his own ego, but to transform children into people who can enjoy life in peace and not constantly be defensive.

The wisdom of Kabbalah explains how to do this.

To do this, we must use a system of connections between people, and above all of our egoistic rejections and contradictions, we can build bridges of mutual connection toward love.

We can do this while being egoists as nature created us; above this nature, we can build mutual altruistic connections. It depends only on education! If we educate a generation like this, it will be happy and strong indeed.

It seems to us that altruism could weaken us and that, ultimately, we could be eaten, annihilated, or devoured, but it is precisely the opposite. Love is the most powerful feeling in the world, and it provides the people who realize it with immense inner strength.

The United States can serve as an example of how the growth of the ego and pitting oneself against others weakens and leads to crisis.

If our method of unification were in Europe, today it would be stronger and more advanced than everyone else.

An aspiration toward unity, toward mutual attraction, lies in nature and we should take advantage of this power. It creates more and more new forms of matter and of everything that exists, while separation only destroys and kills.

Therefore, the wisdom of Kabbalah is imperative for us.
[199420]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/2/16

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Comment: The newly elected president of the United States, Donald Trump, is bypassing the media and turning directly to the people through Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks.

According to the latest reports, he wants to separate the United States from all agreements signed with Asia, China, and other nations. He intends to deal with the United States and only with the United States, giving the citizens a new and different education than the one that developed during Obama’s term.

Answer: Obama wanted to turn the United States into a Muslim nation; this was his main goal. He brought several million Muslims into the United States and wanted to give them citizenship, yet this was not enough. He even succeeded in introducing some radical Muslims into the political apparatus. Trump is promising to “cleanse” the United States of them.

Question: Do you consider this to have been a planned and premeditated scenario?

Answer: Certainly! There is no doubt about it. Trump understands this and is taking a completely different course. Now everything will gradually begin to be cleared. US policies will no longer be aimed at burning all and conquering in the name of Islam.

After all, the entire Middle East went up in flames so that as many refugees as possible would flood Europe. That was Obama’s policy. That is how he worked in Libya and in all the nations of the Middle East.

Trump’s situation is difficult since he is contending with the existing neoliberal policies that he must completely replace: production, the financial system, banks, everything. It is difficult to imagine how he will succeed in this because he cannot return production, and in particular heavy industry, to the United States.

Trump must understand, that the future global production system will be built on the “production of people.”

Most people who were unemployed for a long time voted for him and he will have to justify their votes by providing them with employment and ensuring they are satisfied with their lives. The satisfaction doesn’t depend on their wages, it depends on the opinion of society.

He should transform the vast American space that was formerly dominated by the steel industry and is now called the rust belt. It will be transformed into a vast factory for the “production of people” through education.

What this means is that they will be given work in the form of training and education. They should be involved with this for most of the day, it will be counted as work. 

When people learn how to be connected with good connections and aspire to this, then at the same time, they will stimulate the good influence of the environment. Society will become good, strong, and mutually connected. American society needs this like no one else because there is no solidarity between different parts of society where every man is for himself, everyone is an individualist. 

They just need the opportunity to be shown this and have explained to them that this is what they have to produce, like a coal miner or ore miner extracts material that later produces machinery, cars, etc. What this means is that all of today’s effort will be on a different level, the level of “human processing.”

In other words, we need to go “inside” a person, extract the rudiments of a human being, purify, refine, collect, and assemble them into one uniform society. And people will be satisfied with the $1,500 they receive for their studies, which actually work on creating a new person and new society. This is what the United States must do.

The era of capitalism and neoliberalism has ended; now the next stage is coming, the stage of creating people out of the animal, living in cities with their various problems, including drugs.

If we begin to rebuild society, we will discover vast sources of goodness, public and national wealth, and at the same time, we will avoid all the problems that exist today in the world.

So we need to enter everyone into integral education studies in state programs. Only those engaged in these courses in people’s universities will receive a stipend. Thus, they will be compelled to work, this will be their work, working on themselves.

Humanity has no other choice. All of the solutions that they are trying to implement in the banking system, the financial system, and especially in the industrial sector, will not succeed. We must go in a different direction and not go “head to head” with those who hold money and weapons in their hands. Rather we must proceed only through introducing a single educational system that obligates everyone.
[198516]
From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 11/23/16

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In the near future, the unemployed throughout the world will total 80% of the world population. In order to somehow reassure them without bringing this critical situation to the point of a new world war, it is first necessary to provide them with an adequate income, which must be done in any case.

Secondly, we need to provide them with integral education. Let them sit down and learn to unite. The world today doesn’t need anything else. And so it will rise until it reaches a spiritual level, and then physical sensations in general will begin to fade.

Question: But shouldn’t change come from the top? Would the elite want to listen to this?

Answer: Those at the top will be interested in these changes because the fear that riots might begin will force them to listen.

After all, each unemployed American keeps two or three guns at home. They can start rioting tomorrow. Therefore, the elite should be very interested in organizing a system of integral education and providing an adequate income to the entire population of the American Rust Belt.

The egoistic fuel has burned out completely. The world has stopped getting egoistic pleasure from life and is looking for new opportunities. In the end, it will lead us to the need for integral education.

Spreading integral education is the most accurate realization of the wisdom of Kabbalah in the last generation. There is no other work that would be more accurately directed to the purpose of creation and to the upper force.

All of the abstract theories are nothing compared with this practical work to organize people on a massive scale so that they will unite at least a little bit and begin to reveal a positive force between them. This will cause huge, positive changes, not just in human society, but in the upper system that affects the entire world.
[198987]
From KabTV’s “A Talk About the Current Situation In The World” 12/2/16

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New Life 803 – The Illusion Of Liberalism
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

“Liberalism” and “democracy” are nice words, but in practice, they don’t really exist. The elites have always been “siphoning” everything for themselves while the lower classes starve. The time has come for us to sober up!

In other forms of government, the truth was at least clear and the illusion of equality wasn’t sold to the people. We cannot call our development progress because people today are much more cruel. Today there are many unemployed. This trend will only increase due to technology. Society stands at the crossroads.

A person will seemingly be free, yet he will not actually have anything to feed his family. Even a fascistic approach, which is intensifying in the world today, will not bring a solution. We are modern slaves, told by the media that we are free.

The connection between the individual and society needs to be corrected, like in a family with warm, secure, mutual, loving connection. In Russia they tried to build communism by force, through oppression. Society and those who stand at its head must particularly be concerned about this, ministers and government officials today are concerned only about themselves.

Society must relate to the individual like a child in the family and must take care of his needs to benefit him. A society that is conducted like a family will be able to be built through an education for connection; the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches how to do this. There is a special force in the wisdom of Kabbalah that can change a person’s egoistic nature. If we don’t learn the method for correcting human nature from the wisdom of Kabbalah, fascism and world war are in our future.
[198735]
From KabTV’s “New Life 803 – The Illusion Of Liberalism,” 12/13/16

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The wealthy elite should understand that they are creating a time bomb of at least half of the population, and every day this number grows. The bomb is the unemployed that are becoming desperate.

They aren’t students that go to the streets in the big cities to create an uproar in support of Hillary Clinton. These are serious citizens and heads of families.

The elite, in fact, is sitting on the detonator, because the unemployed have nothing to lose. They are silent to a certain limit, but at some point they will explode. So far everything happened through the Trump and Clinton election race. But tomorrow everything could change; after all, every household keeps two to three guns at home.

A person who has lost all hope for a normal life for himself and his children is very dangerous. Therefore, I advise investing in these people to make them good citizens and to teach them to connect. This will cost much less than suppressing disturbances and restoring order.

We must realize that half the country does not agree to continue in the old way, and it must be appeased somehow. It is possible through integral education for a few billion dollars, which is nothing compared to the costs that would be required in the case of a riot.

Today it is necessary to spend money on police and security agents; none of this will be needed. We will have a good, peaceful, quiet population that doesn’t endanger our future life and allows all to live quietly in our country.

This education will be like a soothing lozenge for them. Otherwise we won’t be able to do anything with them. It is impossible to provide them all with work places. Every day the number of unemployed will increase. And what will the elite do? Today people voted for Trump, but tomorrow they might begin to act more firmly. In fact, the Ku Klux Klan could rise, start making a terrible mess and burning everyone.

Therefore, I offer integral education: a good way that will cost almost nothing. It must become a national program to improve the health of society and its lower and weaker sections. I don’t encourage them to rise for a revolution and to build communism, liquidating the upper class. But it is necessary to calm the unemployed that are out of work because of the technological revolution.

It happens in every country, even in not very developed ones. Today nobody needs a workforce. So what is to be done with the excess labor? These people are a heavy burden and a real threat for the country. They must be maintained at a certain level so that they remain human beings. Otherwise, all of America will be filled with abandoned ghost towns.

Who voted for Trump? Former hard workers, heavy industry workers of the “Rust Belt” of America that are left without jobs. But what can he give them? Nothing, since obviously of all his plans nothing will work out. What factories can he bring back to the US? None! It means that he will create fake workplaces in order to keep people busy; they will produce something and then dispose of it.

Today there already are many companies operating on this principle. Huge warehouses are filled with useless products. Our world has taken on an absolutely marred form. So it will be better to calm people and give them integral education so that they will be satisfied with their lives.
[198747]
From KabTV’s “A Talk About the Current Situation In The World” 12/2/16

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New Life 802 – What Will The Next Form Of Government Be?
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

As of today the world is a “small village,” but the problem is that human nature has remained egoistic.

A person has a natural urge for social life. He also needs a society to support himself, so he developed the economy, but we cannot succeeded in satisfying ourselves because the ego is constantly growing.

The family is an example of the kind of social relationships we must move toward. Philosophers have long understood that it is necessary to correct human nature, but they don’t know how to do this. Today relationships between people are so bad that even the family unit is falling apart. Only by constructing all of society as a family will we succeed in restoring the family unit.

There is a special power that we can bring into our lives to correct our nature.
It is our duty to move toward familial relationships because the world is in crisis. “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) will be the next form of societal connection. We have no other choice.
[198689]
From KabTV’s “New Life 802 – What Will The Next Form Of Government Be?” 12/13/16

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Question: 2016 was a time of great turmoil in Europe. In Britain, the “Brexit” referendum resulted in the decision to exit the European Union, after which British Prime Minister Cameron resigned.

Italian Prime Minister Renzi resigned after the Italian people rejected his proposed constitutional changes. Are we facing a new world order or, at least, a new order in Europe?

Answer: It is obvious to everyone. The world is disappointed with neoliberalism. The European Union was not a unification of people, but a union of banks, industry, and billionaires around the world. They pretended that the connection between financiers is the connection between everyone.

In fact, there was no connection. The oligarchs bought the media, and they, during past twenty years, brainwashed all of humanity so much that it doesn’t know where it is. The government is also in their hands, as well as the army. People who don’t belong to the financial elite live by the facts the TV channels impress upon them. Therefore, we see the world in such a state.

On the one hand, human society is developing in the direction jointly defined by the ruling elite. On the other hand, there is a natural development of the world according to the program of nature. The gap between the two paths has become so large that it is impossible to withstand it further. Then this state explodes and a revolution or a war occurs in order to somehow restore the order.

Today, such a revolution is happening in the world. However, it is no longer private, as it was once in France, in England, and in Germany. That is, it isn’t a cultural, political, or commercial revolution, but a global revolution, covering the whole world, because the whole world has become interconnected.

I think the governments will be, to some extent, replaced all over Europe, and then much more profound changes will follow. The world must bring itself into equivalence with nature, and if it delays this, the balance will be restored by a civil or world war.
[199760]
From a “Talk About 2016 Results,” 12/25/16

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Comment: A few weeks have gone by since the victory of Donald Trump in the presidential race. Everyone has already gotten used to it and cooled down. Only the Jews still continue to attack him, claiming that he is like Hitler, that at any moment he will institute anti-Semitic policies and will expel them from the United States.

Answer: They will have “earned” this on their own.

Question: But didn’t 80% of them vote against Trump?

Answer: They did, they chose. Everything is explained very simply. It is possible to say that what has been happening in the past 30 to 40 years in the United States was done by the Jews. They are fully engaged in the neoliberal economy, the dollar transformed into merely “blank green paper,” and they walk hand-in-hand with those who increased the American national debt.

Question: Does that mean that they destroyed the middle class?

Answer: They even had a part in that believing it was possible to continue like this, and this led to the people, the middle class no longer being able to sustain themselves. Still, it is good that the Americans had a relatively unbribable electoral system, and despite the fact that votes were bought, it is still works.

So Trump is the spokesperson of the views of most of the army, the police, the middle class, a lot of people who have become disappointed about what the United States has become. And it has become a poor nation. Today, there is nothing left, no industry, not much else. It simply distributes empty green paper everywhere.

It is no secret that the government could have gone to the far left—Sanders, or the far right—Trump, which is what happened. Now the Jews need to understand what they caused. But in principle, this is better for them.

It always turns out that when the Jews abandon Israel and their identity, wanting to become the same as everyone else, to dissolve among everyone, as has happened in the last few decades in the United States, the anti-Semites rise to power. So even now they have brought them into power. I am very happy because the anti-Semites are helping the Zionists: the moment the wolves attack, the sheep immediately gather together. This is what had to happen.

I turned to the Jews in my lectures in the United States and saw how much they are directed against Israel, how much Israel is an empty place that means nothing to them. The United States has become the battleground for American Jews, where they intend to build the “Third Temple.” In fact, they have already built it.

I hope that Trump and his supporters who will replace Obama will be able to turn the United States and its attitude toward Israel in an entirely different direction, and that the new president will remove from the United States those millions of extremist Muslims that Obama moved there as illegal immigrants. We hope that this will come to the correct state and we will understand what kind of a dream we have been in for the past eight years!

I very much hope that Trump will understand what is next for the United States. It will be impossible for the United States to return to the industrial strength that it had. American laborers were famous for working with steel, metal, and machinery, and none of this exists anymore! It doesn’t make sense because everything is produced today by automated machinery that doesn’t require manpower.

Two hundred million people are poorer due to the transfer of manufacturing to China and other nations. It is impossible to bring industry back; work cannot be found for these people. It will never be possible to do anything about it. But it is possible to involve the unemployed in only one thing—they must be organized in a new system of work, which will be the creation of a new person. Not the creation of machines with all sorts of metals; that is a robot, and we are talking about the creation of man.

It is necessarily educational work on ourselves, which Trump should engage American society with so that every person will be involved for half a day in work on himself in special groups, circles, on television, in universities, and in schools.

It will be necessary to open obligatory people’s universities without which the person cannot be a full member of society. Everyone should have a student card and journal where all his activities and evaluations are recorded. Only in this manner will the people and the nation be brought to the new state, because this is what we lack and that is what we must be involved with.

Question: Do you suppose if Trump does this, he will become an example for the whole world and Europe will support it?

Answer: Certainly. It will be only thanks to this that the United States will be able to pull itself together, otherwise the entire nation will soon become one big Detroit.

Question: Will the attitude of the Jews toward Trump change?

Answer: They have no choice, they will adapt to everything.

Jews are at the center of the neo-liberal economy, which is fading in the world today. It must exhaust itself because it is just built on paper, it has no gold backing it. Jews must understand that all of this is disappearing! They will specifically be forced to begin to engage in their own interests.

Likewise, they will understand that they have only one promised land, not the United States but Israel. They must think about who they are, what they are, and draw their attention here [Israel]. They must not despise this country and its people, and therefore themselves, and through themselves they must awaken the respect of everyone else.
[198266]
From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 11/21/16

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