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Environmentalists In A Panic

Laitman_702_01Question: At the North Pole recently one degree below zero was recorded instead of the 30 degrees below zero that is usually recorded there. The ecologists claim that Storm Frank, that caused heavy rains and storms in Britain, brought a stream of warm tropical air to the North Pole. Why is this happening?

Answer: The Earth is out of balance because we humans are completely out of balance with each other.

Until the First World War nature and humanity were not global. A short time after the First World War, the Second World War began, and following the war and the destruction, the reconstruction of the world began, and the development of the Internet began. All this led to the fact that humanity has become truly global, but functioning and connecting incorrectly in our small village.

This development created a terrible mess, a state of complete universal contradiction; on the one hand, there is opposition between one another and, on the other hand, absolute dependence upon each other. It is like in a family where each one depends on everyone, but they don’t love one another, and criticize each other.

Question: Would you compare the conflict between people with what happens in nature?

Answer: Certainly, after all, humanity is at the highest level of nature! We think that nature is composed of only the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate, but isn’t humanity a part of nature?

We are locked together in a terrible mutual aggression, and all of nature – with us. We all become one single instrument, a system that is completely broken and cannot find the possibility to come to internal equilibrium.

We have already been in this kind of state for 40 to 50 years; it is a huge problem that continues to grow. The year 2015 was a demonstration of our imbalance, and the year 2016 will become a year of testing; will humanity understand what is happening to it, why this imbalance exists, and how to get out of it.

That is, it is up to us to recognize the problem and understand that the most important thing is that all of us together must hasten to save nature because if people do not begin to restore the harmony that is imperative in an integral system that is mutually connected, then our world will simply crumble.

Question: What would it mean to hurry to help and save nature?

Answer: First we need to unite among ourselves, and secondly, to do everything we can not to overthrow the balance of nature. We don’t have time; we have already crossed the red line.

Question: Do you think the year 2016 will be the turning point?

Answer: No, we have already crossed the turning point, but because this is happening gradually, we have the possibility from the human level of balancing the rest of the levels of nature, because the human level is the highest.

If we all begin to align ourselves in our thoughts, unite into one whole, complementing each other, if it is our task to sustain everything that happens, and survive on this planet, then we will be able to restore everything.

Question: What would compel an egocentric person to behave like this?

Answer: It would have to be an unavoidable threat to the life of all of humanity and the person himself as well!

We need to reach a state where the UN will truly become the United Nations, an organization concerned with the survival of humanity and preventing the narrow policies of a limited number of nations.

That is, everything depends upon humanity. The question is, how much blood will this cost? Either this will happen rapidly and with little bloodshed, or there will still be many years of wars, suffering, and additional problems until humanity will come to its senses and begin to achieve inner balance. The balance of humanity will also balance nature, and then, where necessary, gardens will blossom, and where it is not necessary, there will be snow and ice.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 1/1/16

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Where Can We Hide From The Onslaught Of Refugees?

laitman_430Question: You once said that refugees will start coming from the East towards Europe and that this will have severe consequences. I live in Germany and I would like to know what I should do, and whether I should flee back to Russia?

Answer: Russia will not be safe from these forces! There is only one way to escape them and that is by drawing the positive force into our world without running away anywhere.

Humanity exists only in the negative egoistic force, which leads to clashes between us. However, we can create the right motion forward but only by drawing the positive force into our world that will balance the negative force and make our world a harmonious place. This is the only free choice we have and the only way to correct the present situation.

Comment: But many young people enter Germany every day and behave as if they own the place and not as people who need help.

Answer: Of course! It would be naïve to think differently! These immigrants believe that they should be provided with shelter and money, and the Europeans don’t understand yet who they are dealing with so they measure everyone according to their standards.

But from the immigrant’s’ perspective, Europe owes them; their attitude is “serve us; do everything for us and then get lost and we will take your place.” It is very simple! They are carefully and specifically guided as to how to bring this about.

What I said many years ago is now being manifest, and so in the next decade we will see how Europe changes, voluntarily,  in a democratic way.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/15/15

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A Trap For Europe

Laitman_408Opinion (Washington Post, H. Gambhir, Counterterrorism Analyst)“The Islamic State’s strategy is to polarize Western society — to ‘destroy the grayzone,’ as it says in its publications. The group hopes frequent, devastating attacks in its name will provoke overreactions by European governments against innocent Muslims, thereby alienating and radicalizing Muslim communities throughout the continent. The atrocities in Paris are only the most recent instances of this accelerating campaign. Since January, European citizens fighting with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have provided online and material support to lethal operations in Paris, Copenhagen and near Lyon, France, as well as attempted attacks in London, Barcelona and near Brussels. Islamic State fighters are likely responsible for destroying the Russian airliner over the Sinai. These attacks are not random, nor are they aimed primarily at affecting Western policy in the Middle East. They are, rather, part of a militarily capable organization’s campaign to mobilize extremist actors already in Europe and to recruit new ones.

“The strategy is explicit. The Islamic State explained after the January attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine that such attacks ‘compel the Crusaders to actively destroy the grayzone themselves. . . . Muslims in the West will quickly find themselves between one of two choices, they either apostatize . . . or they [emigrate] to the Islamic State and thereby escape persecution from the Crusader governments and citizens.’ The group calculates that a small number of attackers can profoundly shift the way that European society views its 44 million Muslim members and, as a result, the way European Muslims view themselves. Through this provocation, it seeks to set conditions for an apocalyptic war with the West. …

“The continuing influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa creates a perfect environment for the Islamic State’s campaign.

“Europe must avoid the trap that the Islamic State is setting by focusing its responses to the Paris attacks and other outrages against the perpetrators and their supporters.”

My Comment: In any case, the Creator will drive us into a trap so that we will achieve the only solution possible, only a course to balance our egoism through the characteristic of bestowal and love; otherwise all of us will dive into the most profound suffering.

That is how we perceive and understand our way toward the higher goal and the goal itself, through balancing the two opposing forces, elevating ourselves to adhesion with the Creator.
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Why Marry?!

laitman_627_1Comment: British scientists have conducted sociological research in the field of family relations and noted that since 1990 fewer people marry, preferring to cohabit with one another.

In addition, they also discovered that compared to the last century, when girls usually married in their 20s, women now marry when they reach the age of 30.

Answer: Egoism is constantly growing and naturally adapts to what is most beneficial for it. Therefore, such changes occur.

If in the past women devoted their lives to their families in their 20s, got married and cared for their children and the home and found that satisfying, today most want to see the world and be free of the commitment to one man.

The same goes for most men today. They don’t think about marriage but want to live under their mother’s wing. Most men between the age of 30-35 are satisfied with an interesting job, friends with whom they spend their spare time, and when they want a woman, they go out to a nightclub, meet a woman, and for him that is enough for one night. This way they are much more relaxed and free, so what’s the point of getting married?

Today, the attitude toward this issue is quite different than what it was in previous generations. Egoism today is transforming. A person demands less of the environment and from himself, and thus experiences fewer disappointments. And because he wants a rapid succession of big, fleeting pleasures, he doesn’t need a serious relationship with one partner. Let me enjoy now and what will be tomorrow—it does not matter.

At the same time there is growth in the use of drugs and antidepressants and an increase in divorce rate, etc.

A person doesn’t need anything anymore but his cell phone or captivating movies that blur his senses and cut him off from reality. He can satisfy all his needs with that and is ready to pay for it. In the future perhaps they’ll invent something else and he may be connected to an electrode while he can lie down most of the time feeling good.

When a person realizes the situation he is in, it is a sign that he is developing properly and he begins to acquire the right attitude to life.

Question: Will the same changes take place in our nutrition?

Answer: It will happen in every aspect of our life. Most of the world population will be unemployed and the way to feed everyone will be by substances and drugs that will be injected into people’s bodies that will blur reality, thus bringing the world to its end. The ego establishes a clear and accurate attitude in us regarding what is happening in the world today.

If we want to establish a different attitude, a person will have to undergo a change and to change his worldview and then he will receive different pleasures and impressions from life. But in order to do so, we need a different method for operating the ego.

First a person has to undergo the phase called the recognition of evil, in which his life is reflected to him as a short and temporary pleasure. Because the ego needs an infinite filling, the best way will be to transcend it and to use it in a way that is opposite to human nature: from the direction of one’s own sake to the direction of love and bestowal. Then the ego will gradually be filled eternally and wholly.

We are going to reach this state.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 12/8/15

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Cyber Monday

Laitman_409Question: Cyber Monday has ended, the day when everything that you want is sold on the Internet with a discount of up to 90%.

This Monday follows “Black Friday,” which begins the sales period. Last year, in one day, two billion dollars of products were sold, and this year three billion. People sat glued to their computers. How would you characterize this phenomenon?

Answer: I would characterize this as a commercial event of inflating the populace because, in principle, it is the sale of emptiness, mostly things that people don’t need. But the hype around it is heated up by everyone: neighbors, the cities, advertising, and the media.

Imagine how an ordinary person is stunned by the general insanity of buying. He cannot resist it; he thinks he will miss something. He runs to do what everyone else is doing.

It is impossible to resist the temptation! It is pointless to resist! And this is what the media is trying to achieve.

The problem is that the world is in great oversupply! It would be possible to feed and fully inundate another two or three additional human populations with the products that are now manufactured. Given another planet with barefoot and naked people, they could be clothed and fed and served the full program! Just bring the money.

What would the money be for? This is also not understood. The main thing is that everything will go around. Specifically it is feared that trade will stop, forcing manufacturers to sell their products at cost and even below cost. After all, today it doesn’t matter; more money is simply printed.

Today we have gone on to a completely different level of development, where it is not money that determines how much a product costs, but the value of goods is determined by people. Do they have a need for this or not? So we are departing from being dominated by money. The game is over. The accumulation of a mass of money no longer works; we are moving on to a new system in which money will be completely eliminated!

So what will be the engine of trade, communication, and manufacturing? In what way and how will they be measured? This is the problem. It must b measured according to a different value, a value that replaces the paper that we are familiar with.

First true value was gold. Then it was changed to banknotes with no backing, and a nation could print ten times more! That means their value is completely conditional. And now it has disappeared. And what is next?

A person will simply go to work, and in exchange receive coupons for personal provisions, or won’t even receive anything at all because they will supply him with everything without any “Black Fridays.” We are moving toward socialist labor where everything operates precisely according to the principle of “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

Question: Do you see this sign from Cyber ​​Monday?

Answer: Yes. The overproduction of goods, the value of zero and the disappearance of the money supply leads to the fact that we work not for money but for the idea that for each and everyone it is equal, as otherwise there will be none.

Comment: You are saying communist slogans now!

Answer: There is nothing to be done about it! Nature will bring us to this by force. We see that a socialist nation is more profitable than a capitalist one! It will begin to normally begin to take care of the welfare of the citizens and everything will gradually equalize. Whereas capitalism allowed for a small growth of the middle classes and then destroyed it, leaving only the poor and the rich and terrorism was squeezed in between them.

Question: Are you basically talking about what a Soviet person felt in his time?

Answer: No, that was an economically ugly and unjust regime! It seemed to justify itself ideologically: it was apparently worthwhile to pay for equality, friendship, and brotherhood. But it wasn’t! And now these are gradually appearing and pulling new social relationships after them. We are reaching this through natural development! It is even possible to begin to develop ourselves correctly now, to advance forward, not by means of a club and suffering, but through self-education. And then we will achieve this in a better and smoother way.

Question: Does this mean that money will disappear and everything will be based upon connections between people?

Answer: Only connections between people will provide our world with the release of good energy which will balance all of us and really transform our next state, literally miraculously. You will be investing a penny and getting a million! This is because you will no longer adding egoism to your actions, which slows everything down and causes competition. On the contrary, there will be a merging with nature.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 12/1/15

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The Collapse Of The Climate Conference

laitman_272Question: Last month at the conclusion of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations called it a triumph for the people of the planet Earth. He stressed that the countries agreed to hold the rise of global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius. He also said, “The agreement must go through a very important test, the execution, and that work will begin tomorrow.”

The entire world saw how the participants of the committee stood arm in arm in great spirits.

Answer: Everyone agrees that there is no turning back from the Red Line. All of their beautiful words don’t say anything, especially as they aren’t put into action. Humanity never learns from its previous mistakes. Thus, the optimistic speech of the Secretary-General of the UN remains hanging in the air.

Question: Aren’t you optimistic?

Answer: I have no basis for optimism. I am a realist and look at things in a realistic way.

According to all of the calculations, if we continue with our way of existence as it stands now and do not change ourselves from egoism to altruism, then we are sentenced to a fast, sharp, unpleasant end.

No half measures will help. Through all the history of development, humanity has never learned anything and transitioned from bad to good, but only from bad to worse. This is not pessimism, only reality.

At the heart of our world we really find egoism, and if we don’t change it, it will continue to bury us.

Question: For the simple person, it is difficult to understand that we must turn from egoists to altruists.

Answer: Whether one understands it or not, reality doesn’t change. We exist in the framework of the laws of nature, and if we don’t change through our inner correction from egoistic hatred to relationships of love and mutual integration with one another, then everything will continue to run as usual. Then we are heading toward the end of civilization.

This future is not far away. I think that in the next 20 to 30 years, we will witness destruction, not only of the environment, but also self-destruction. The only way out is to change man’s nature, which is the core of all problems. Each person lives not only for himself, but to the detriment of others.

When we were not so connected to each other, when we weren’t an integral civilization and connected as a small village, then everything was more or less all right.

But we have reached a state where we are locked into one, unique system that must be mutual and altruistic. Otherwise, it very quickly swallows itself like a cancerous growth that devours itself at an incredible rate.

If we needed an example, given 100,000 years to evolve until now, then only 100 or 150 years would be enough to destroy everything.

There is only one reason, the human ego. Since it is scattered, it locally damages the body of human civilization, and the disease manifests sometimes here and sometimes there. However, when it all is connected together, the ego, united, has become global, integrated, and simply devours everything.

Question: However, in any case, the participants of the climate committee came to some decision together. Doesn’t that mean something?

Answer: Of course not, it’s evident that nothing has changed. They have gathered more than once. Can egoism decide on something?

A correct decision can be made only if we exist as in nature, as one integral system, and stop swallowing each other, and begin to heal each other mutually and complement one another. Only then can we hope for some kind of future.

So, the solution is in our hands. I am very happy that we have reached the finish line. Certainly, the world will need the revelation of the wisdom of Kabbalah in full force so that humanity will see that there is salvation. Otherwise, humanity will be in darkness. Here, it is necessary to give humanity a light at the end of the tunnel.

We will not be able to do anything with the ego. We have one system, the wisdom of Kabbalah, which explains how to overcome egoism, how to transform it to its opposite property of communication, love, unity, and togetherness.

If humanity rejects the wisdom of Kabbalah, then it will continue to decline. Do not do it!
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 12/13/15

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The Execution Of A Shiite Cleric

laitman_538Comment: The execution of the Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia led to a great scandal in the Arab world. In response, the enraged public totally destroyed the Saudi embassy building in Iran. Consequently the two countries severed diplomatic relations and the hatred between them is now greater than their hatred toward Israel.

Answer: The infighting is the toughest and this conflict has been going on for ages! It is not the fundamental differences between the Sunni and the Shiites but the grievances that have accumulated over the centuries: who has done what to whom and who killed whom. All of this applied layer by layer results in a huge pile of hatred.

Comment: You often say that the reason is the disappearance of the Sufi movement.

Answer: In Judaism there is also a split into different religious streams because the human ego, which doesn’t yearn for one unique Creator, is involved, and it makes no difference whether you call Him Allah, God, or the Creator. The point is that the Creator is one and you should yearn for Him and not for clarifying our relations.

If we aim our thoughts at the one Creator and only seek connection with Him and His attainment, everything will be very simple. All the religions will merge into one wisdom called Kabbalah, which is the revelation of the Creator in our world.

But in order to do so, we have to work against the ego. We can only reveal the Creator in the attribute that is opposite from our nature and no one wants that. We would rather fight and quarrel for centuries than change our nature. It turns out that the most important thing for a person is to remain inside his ego, and this is the root of all the conflicts and disputes. This is the reason that we have to teach the wisdom of truth and to disseminate it, publicize it, and allow people to gradually receive this wisdom and teach them to strive for the single unified force.

There is another way of reaching the truth, but it is a path of terrible afflictions and wars. How long will it take for humanity to grow wise along the path of its internal development? After all, this has been going on for thousands of years.

We need to bring this wisdom to the world, to demonstrate, and bring all to a common denominator because we all have one Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/4/16

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By The Re-Birth Of The Old World

 Question: The current economic system does not meet people’s needs. More than half of the world’s population lives in dire economic conditions and only about a billion people enjoy the affluence and richness of the world.

Moreover, economic development, which is the basis of capitalist civilizations, has practically ceased to function.

At the same time there is another type of economy such as robotics, artificial intelligence, etc. Can we say that the alternative economy will be the basis of the new economy? And what it will be like after the transformation of humanity into the new humanity?

Answer: I think it will be a transition from a qualitative perspective. It isn’t about the economy, not about ecology, but about humanity existing according to different principles, on another level.

It will live in the attainment of another external dimension. The new perception will not be revealed in our five corporeal egoistic senses, as we feel the world around us now.

When we unite on the new level, we will begin to develop feelings that will depict the picture of the world external to us, but it will not be through our corporeal senses which make us feel this world in such a narrow, blurred, and limited way.

The new world will be totally different: a world of forces and properties, not objects and phenomena that are depicted in our egoistic imagination. Then our economy, our culture, and all our life will take on a totally different meaning, an “extra-corporeal” meaning.

We will turn into creatures that will not need any material things, properties, attributes, environment, etc. We will be nourished by energy that is based on synergy, on mutual cooperation, on the balance between the positive and negative forces of nature and will exist between them.

The next level of humanity will not be a corporeal level but a level of thoughts, intentions, and energies. So I don’t think there will be anything left of our economy or our ecology, or our society. We need to be reborn, and this rebirth will be expressed in exiting ourselves into the new perception of the world external to us.

Comment: If that’s the way it will be, then there is no point speaking about the future technological advancements.

Answer: No. It will all die and become meaningless. Even today we are not particularly limited in our abilities. And what do they tell us?  The only thing humanity succeeds in is suffering.

Therefore, all the good things we could gain through economic or technological capabilities do not make us happy. We don’t feel a need for them. People today use drugs mainly in order to distract themselves; they don’t want to get married or have children; it is as if a person screams inside himself: “Leave me alone with all your technologies. I’m not interested in this life!”

I hope we will provide people with the answer to the question of what this life is really about. First humanity has to listen to and understand this and then think about how to reorganize life, since otherwise people will not want to live.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 11/29/15

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2015 – The Year Of Online Hatred!

laitman_959From the News (BBC news): “A social networking CEO is subjected to racist attacks on her own website. A cartoonist’s life is trashed by trolls. Women get rape and death threats. There’s a case to be made that online, 2015 was a year of increased hate.

Those of us who watch social media for a living – or who are long-time users of sites like Facebook and Twitter – realize that nastiness has always been a part of life online. But over the course of the past year or so, it seemed to some of us at BBC Trending that the steady background beat of online anger gradually turned into a pounding 24-7 drumbeat of angst, impossible to ignore.

“So we set out to see if levels of hate speech did rise on social media this year. …

“A recent analysis by the think tank Demos found that on average around 480,000 racial slurs are tweeted every month. Compare that figure to just 10,000 three years ago. The researchers admit that the vast majority of those uses won’t amount to hate crimes. But the numbers are still significant.

“‘A 4800 per cent increase is astonishing – far greater than the general increase in tweets over that time,’ wrote Demos research director Carl Miller. …

“Other experts agree – something has definitely happened over the past year.

“‘2015 saw a greater normalisation of hate speech in society than in previous years,’ says Andre Oboler, chief executive of the Australia-based Online Hate Prevention Institute. ‘Where previously a person might make a vague negative allusion to race, religion, gender or sexuality, by the end of 2015 the comments on social media were blatant and overt.’ …

“Oboler warns that young people will be turned off from social networks if abuse continues to increase. …”

My Comment: There is no doubt the Internet will rise above the period of bullying and will throw the bullies out. But this could take more than a decade naturally because its hosted merchants sell sensationalism and hatred.

The salvation will come from another side, not from the individual and society, but from the side of nature that develops the ego within us, and the new ego will prevail over new middle-class hatred, so that arrogant and hateful reactions will stop being interesting, and all these scoops will disappear by themselves, meaning they won’t have a buyer.
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Forecast For The Year 2016 According To The Clairvoyant Vanga

Laitman_083Comment: The newspapers and Internet have been full lately with the predictions of the Bulgarian clairvoyant named Vanga. Among other predictions, she said that the 44th president of the United States would be a black American and that he would be the last. She predicted in the year 1989 that “iron birds” would bring down the “American brothers”; and indeed on September 11, 2001 the terrorist operation happened which shook all of America.

Also in 1996 she predicted that in the year 2016 Europe would be occupied by refugees from Syria after a war began there in the year 2010. In her words: “Europe would become the place for the Muslim Caliphate, the Europeans would leave Europe, and Rome would be the capital of the Caliphate.”

Answer: What is written in connection with all of these predictions makes sense to me. Throughout all of history there have been fortune-tellers, and from the point of view of Kabbalah this is absolutely natural. I spoke about this with my teacher Rabash and he related to fortune-tellers completely naturally.

These people can be from different religions and even not religious, like Wolf Messing, for example. They simply feel time and historical events according to how they need to happen. After all, the past, present, and future exist only in our perception, in fact, they are found in a single space, which the fortune-tellers see.

Question: What can you say regarding the prediction of Vanga for the year 2016 that worries everyone?

Answer: Everything is correct, and this was even written in the Kabbalistic sources about 2,000 years ago. But I very much hope that this year will be a year in which the Kabbalists will be able to explain to the world where things are going, where general evolution is leading us, and how with the right connections between us we will discover the upper world and move to the next level of existence.

Vanga prophesied according to the system of suffering because humanity has two ways that it can ascend to the next level, the way of suffering or the way of Light. Even the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about the path of suffering, but at the same time, says that if we want, we can use the upper force that will pull us forward, and we will go through all the states of development rapidly and comfortably, and within a short period of time we can attain the new level.

Question: Is it possible to go through the year 2016 in moments?

Answer: As for the moments, I don’t know, but consciously it is possible in days or a number of weeks and thus even pass through everything that human development must pass through until its complete connection within a single system and the discovery of the upper world within it.

So the future by the way of Light or by the way of suffering depends upon us, but in any case we will get to it. Understandably it would of course be preferable if it were not according to the predictions of Vanga but according to the advice of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 12/30/15

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