In the News (IlGiornale.it): “Mini bombs and radioactive cesium. The innovative weapons of jihadists are the new nightmare of Western intelligence agencies.

“This scenario, revealed by the Associated Press investigation suggested a sale to Isis of smuggled radioactive material to make bombs for the use of the Caliphate of Al Baghdadi. It would be Saudi engineer Al Asiri, the man, who provides the lethal technologies to ISIS.

“In fact, if these weapons ended up in the hands of Islamic terrorists in large quantities, there would be no limit to the terrorist threat. And because the jihadists are people without any moral conscious, and because the explosives hidden in this mini bombs can be hidden, even in printer cartridges, in briefs, luggage, and even transplanted surgically in the body of a selected bomber selected …But not only, even in flash drives that only by inserting into a computer could trigger a bomb capable of killing many more people than regular bombs. …”The alarm about the micro bombs caused Americans and British to introduce body scanners at all airports at risk.”

My Comment: Nothing can limit terrorism; millions are invested in it. When we oppose it on the national level, we try to get closer to its beginning, not in order to discover the terrorist act itself, but to discover it even when it is being planned in its earliest stages, in the ideological and practical stage. And if we want to go back even further, to the beginning, we realize that it is possible to reign it in only if we rise to a higher level of development. This means that through connection with the general system of all nature, as its central part, we can balance the system of forces and bring them to a balanced state that will completely negate the creation of higher negative forces.

This is when we already understand that nature is forcing us through threats to rise to the level of the higher anti-egoistic forces of connection.
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Question: What is the root of racism?

Answer: All the positive and negative motivations, characteristics, and qualities of individuals and society are based on our egoism. The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about how to change egoism and transform it into a characteristic of bestowal and love so instead of taking things in and absorbing it, the ego will engage in giving and bestowal.

The perception of creation as a positive and desirable movement from us towards others reveals a paradigm of completely different sensations in us. When in a person everything is directed towards himself, when he doesn’t feel, he checks himself: is this good or bad for me? It means that he automatically chooses: He accepts what is good for his ego; he throws to the side what is bad for his ego. And when there is no harm or benefit for the ego, it doesn’t enter into our senses; we don’t feel it at all. This is the way we perceive our world.

And when a person changes himself, turns in the opposite direction, meaning towards the good of others, he begins to perceive that part of creation that surrounds him that he previously could not feel because he perceived everything through his egoistic impulses.

Now he begins to feel everything in the light of altruism, and this is an absolutely different method of perception. Instead of sight, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching, five new senses are created now, which are called: Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, and Malchut. With them he perceives what is called the upper world, but not within the receptive characteristics as in our world, rather within the characteristics of bestowal.

The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about this; it is a wisdom about the correct perception of creation. However, our world doesn’t disappear from us; we see it; we exist normally within it, but the main thing is that we are involved with the development of our perception of the other part of creation that was previously closed to us.

So the wisdom of Kabbalah is wisdom about discovering the world. When we begin to feel the two worlds, we can even decide in a more or less logical manner where we are, why we exist, how we should behave, and so forth. This is what we must reach.

And in the meantime, our egoistic perception filters and classifies what is good for us, and everything that is good for others doesn’t interest us. As a general rule, we automatically choose what is useful and pleasant for us and we reject everything else; we don’t perceive it at all.

Racism is a state in which a person’s senses are not directed only towards having things be good for himself, but also that he enjoys it when things are bad for others. This is a problem of humanity. To this day we see how people relate to each other. We constantly develop according to an evolutionary axis: the ego grows constantly and therefore each one doesn’t just work for his own benefit, but also works to harm others. We constantly compare ourselves to others: the worse it is for them, the better it is for us.

With animals this doesn’t exist. With them, jealousy, envy and hatred don’t exist as they do with humans. It is comparison of ourselves to others that produces all kinds of racism. It seems to me that either I am suffering because of others or they have more luck than I do and so forth. In addition, each one of us is interested in appearing better in the eyes of society. This is typical only of humans because in us there are both beastly and human parts. The beastly part requires food, sex, and family, and the human part demands wealth, respect, and knowledge. When we yearn to fill ourselves with the sources of these emotions, we gradually come to jealousy, envy, and hatred.

It follows that it is better for us when it is bad for others. That is how our ego was initially arranged. If it is not developed, then as with the animals, it is not so important. But if I am a developing person, this won’t give me rest because I measure my status in relation to all people, or at least judge according to my neighbors. And the grass is always greener with the neighbor.

As a result, on the one hand, we are moving to a state of mutual hostility and hatred, on the other hand, the disclosure of our universal integrated independently of each other. And then we need the wisdom of Kabbalah in order to balance these two forces are mutually exclusive.

This leads to racism. In addition, a no less important factor in the eruption of racism are issues of nationalism or races; after all, we are not alike, we are different. dissimilar. As a result, on the one hand, we are moving to a state of mutual hostility and hatred; on the other hand, to the disclosure of our overall integral dependence on each other. And here is where we require the wisdom of Kabbalah to balance the two mutual forces that mutually reject each other.
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From the Video Conference 6/7/15

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Question: Why do you think the European Union accepted the refugees so politely?

Answer: Europe fell into its own trap: a natural historical anti-Semitism pushed Europe into an alliance with the Arab world against Israel. The main thing—being against Israel. In addition, it allowed access to oil, markets, and security from Africa and the Middle East. Europe adopted the conditions for recognizing the PLO and the legitimacy of Jihad against Israel.

This made it possible to disguise its anti-Semitism through defending the just demands of the Arab peoples. So, out of their hatred towards the Jews, they got closer to the Arabs who have transformed Europe into the East.
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Opinion (Alexander Auzan, Professor Moscow State University): “The period of rapid growth has ended, and now has come the longest phase of difficulties associated with the failures of globalization. The economies of individual countries are closely related, dependent on the Federal Reserve, fluctuations in the yuan, but they do not have total control.

“Now, even theoretically, the example of the EU can prove that it is impossible. The EU carried out an incredibly difficult task of constructing a four-tier management system: municipalities, land, nation-states, and itself. The bureaucracy drains its efficiency and a fifth level is impossible. If the global government that Einstein dreamed about is unrealistic, what can be done? Divide into regional blocks. …

“There is another problem: if such an innovation center of the world, like the US, competes with the world’s industrial center, as China, what happens? All this seems as a fight between the lungs and kidneys in a human body. Therefore, we have a poor economic background, and that background may be a different crises.

“Military orders can really warm up the economy, but that is how the First World War began. …

“The division into friends and foes is easy to start, but it will be difficult to stop. What is happening in Ukraine may be the prelude to a major war, and thus the need to untie the knot, and it is important to understand that no military solution to the situation there. When unleashed, it turns out that the military way of solving economic problems is more costly to the parties than restoring the broken down national economy and burying the dead.”

My Comment: The low point of globalization is only an indication that there is no ordinary (egoistic) solution to the problem. We don’t see a solution of bringing egoistic blocks of nation and states closer into one whole in the frameworks of our sciences and our methods.

But there is no low point of globalization, it continues. The natural closeness of the nations continues. It is inevitable and independent of our desire or our ability to establish the right relations between us.

The crisis of Babylon is recurring: all of humanity is in a small space and it needs to start destroying itself and thus postpone the solutions of unity a little or we can begin to unite above our universal ego.

Such unity is possible only through the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is ready for implementation both theoretically and practically. We have to make every effort to show the world that we have this option before the next world war breaks out.
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Comment: Tonight in Israel they banned the Northern Faction of the Islamic Movement. Officials were arrested along with their money, communications, and computers. Everything that belongs to this movement was seized. The actions of Israel aroused a great storm in the Muslim world.

Answer: I believe that the nation took these means as a last resort. On the one hand, it is natural that the reaction of the Islamic movement would be stormy and unpleasant. But on the other hand, it seems clear that they had plans that had to be stopped immediately; otherwise a disaster would have been inevitable.

No other choice remained for the nation. According to the laws of the Torah, “”If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first” (Bamidbar Rabbah 21:4). So we must defend ourselves without paying attention to what the world will say! And in any case the world will still be enraged in sending warnings here and making all kinds of decisions. We don’t need to pay attention to this; that is all! All kinds of declarations and reactions shouldn’t come from us: neither good nor bad.  

The time has arrived for us to get involved because we are the ones who are the ones responsible for these adverse reactions, and the situation in the world is the result of our shortcomings, meaning the lack of connection between us.

We are the stopper that closes the passage of the good higher energy into our world. Therefore humanity only develops in evil, within the ego! The second wing, the positive second power, cannot be found; it isn’t being revealed in our world. It must be revealed; it must be taken out from concealment, and the ego must be balanced through it.

And only the Jews can do this through their connection and union. And then through our union, as if through a lens, the higher energy will transmit goodness to the world, balancing the evil forces, and the world will come to peace. This sums up the role of the Jews in the world, the cause of anti-Semitism, and the correction of the world.

Let us hope that we will correct the world specifically this way, and not the prohibition of various organizations. After all, we have the possibility of transforming them into something good! It depends only on us!
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From KabTV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 11/17/15

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In the News (The Washington Post): “’Mysterious “gash” forms on Wyoming ranch, unleashing fears of hidden volcanoes and earthquakes’

“When a pair of hunting guides noticed a crack in the ground in a remote ranch of central Wyoming last month, they didn’t think much of it.

“When they returned to the location in the Bighorn Mountains a few weeks later, they were shocked by what they found… .

“‘There it was, this huge slide or crack or whatever it is,’ Sy Gilliland, owner of SNS Outfitter & Guides, which offers guided elk, antelope, deer, moose and bear hunts, told KUSA. ‘I don’t really think anyone knows what happened out there, all of a sudden it was just there. I think the reason it’s so fascinating is it’s so big. And it doesn’t make any sense, where it happened it’s just like the ground opened up, and the size of it is just huge.’

“How huge?

“About 50 yards wide and the length of six football fields, SNS reported on its Facebook page. Two posts about the crack generated widespread curiosity and were shared nearly 10,000 times. …

“The gash’s size was impressive, but so was the speed at which it formed. Social media users speculated that the formation represented an impending volcanic eruption or an earthquake, but experts were quick to allay their fears.

“On its Facebook page last week, SNS provided an update about what might have caused the ground to split open:

Since so many people have commented and asked questions, we wanted to post an update with a little more information. An engineer from Riverton, WY came out to shed a little light on this giant crack in the earth. Apparently, a wet spring lubricated across a cap rock. Then, a small spring on either side caused the bottom to slide out. He estimated 15 to 20 million yards of movement. By range finder, an estimate is 750 yards long and about 50 yards wide.

“‘Amazing what Mother Nature can do and is still doing,’ one Facebook user commented. …”

My Comment: We cannot comprehend the amount of trouble that has been prepared for us, all of which is derived from the violation of spiritual balance that determines the natural balance – and all of this has been made by us.

The solution to this problem and all other problems is in the overall balancing of the natural system on its highest level, in human relationships, in implementing the Biblical law, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18), such that it brings us into balance with the system of nature.
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Opinion (about the book by the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, “Xi Jinping – Political Management”): “Jinping presents quite an ethnic-national version of Marxism.

“The Chinese people are the inheritors of a unique civilization, fate prepared them to take a unique position in this world, a position that embodies human kindness. In the opinion of Jinping, China will become strong, democratic, and harmonious with a developed culture. Poverty, corruption, a polluted atmosphere and ethnic conflicts will not remain there”.

My Comment: I think that the Chinese dream seems idealistic, like its prototype—the American Dream. Jinping still sees China behind the Great Wall of China, where Chinese successes don’t depend upon the world situation. This is completely opposite to the trends in development in all of nature, and especially human society.

So all the elements of such a policy have no foundation. China needs to show itself as a good rallying point for all of humanity, and only then will it have a great future! It will leap over the Great Wall of China that is between it and all the nations of the world, showing an example for all peoples!
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Opinion (Vladimir Kerees, political analyst): “Decision makers are guided by a picture of the world that exists in their imagination and is not based upon actual reality. This is possible because of the lowering of the level of the consciousness of the masses. It makes no difference what fantasies they promise us about ‘fresh spring air coming in through the window’; it is impossible to open the portholes in a submarine.

“People don’t understand the consequences of their actions. There has been no ideology in society since the collapse of the Soviet Union. We are living in a world of principles from the victorious period of the Enlightenment; this was an idea of progress in science and society, individual freedom, quality of life and security. There are no other ideas. But the old liberal principles work badly: The economic crisis is liable to grow into a super-crisis, fanatics are destroying civilization, half of the population of the Earth lives in poverty, and ecological problems are taking on a global nature. We must let go of the fantasies of people and realistically evaluate what is happening, without illusions.

My Comment: But how is it possible to realistically evaluate what is happening and make the right decision if the future is hidden? After all, in the past there was no need for consciousness because everything moved only according to direct (egoistic) development. We, the egoists, were like our world.

But today the world is becoming global, instead of a straight line; it is a round sphere in which everyone is mutually dependent. In such a system with many unknowns, we cannot find the right solutions.

Kabbalah advises us to transform ourselves to be like our own world, meaning integrally interconnected, and then we can find the correct solutions to the problems that arise. But to become voluntarily connected, we must want it. Or else problems will arise until actual wars will force us against our will.

In any case, the world is becoming closed globally, and we will be obliged to come to the same form of connection between us.
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Comment: There is a lot of talk now about the terrible bureaucratic situation in the healthcare system in Israel.

Answer: Doctors are generally the weakest organizers and business managers.

So, the treatment of people becomes a problem too because everything depends on proper organization. The healthcare system must administer the business, then everything will be better. A free or semi-trade union for the healthcare system is not effective.

Question: Won’t paying for medicine cause a public uproar?

Answer: Instead of general population paying for their healthcare, I would charge healthcare system for every shekel invested into it, so that they truly work for the benefit of people and treat them the way they should. This would be much more effective.

Today, our world is organized according to egoistic principles, and the healthcare system must be reorganized precisely according to that. Otherwise, we won’t achieve anything. If we were to introduce socialist principles into an egoistic world, they immediately would devour the entire system.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 11/18/15

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Question: In an article published in the media it stated that ISIS and Al Qaeda have created a sophisticated network platform that is capable of identifying weak points in every nation. In contrast, the Western nations are struggling against terrorism separately and don’t coordinate their activities.

How can Israel and other nations contend with the terrorism that is encompassing the entire world today and defeat it?

Answer: It is only through unity! You cannot do anything against this force if you don’t connect and unite with others. Every nation will lose separately. The terrorists will choose targets to blow up in every nation and attack the central cities of Europe, and we cannot do anything about it.

A spiritual force must act against them. After all, in material terms, we are very weak. Today, taking into consideration their armaments and their communications media, we cannot deal with them.

We must search for how to neutralize them through the inner forces of nature, meaning only through unity. They are working with the force of hatred, so they can be overcome only by the force of unity.

If Europe were truly united—through education, the rapprochement of individuals and peoples, through the union of hearts, not through a common market and the control of the banks, if they were to give an example to the entire world of how to truly connect and unite, then no one would cause harm there, and the world has been attracted to them for the best for quite some time.

Question: So, how would you suggest that the nations of Europe struggle against ISIS?

Answer: They cannot deal with ISIS if they don’t begin to unite so that unity will become their highest goal.

Question: How will this influence ISIS?

Answer: According to the nature of things, on the inner plane, ISIS would begin to weaken from this. They suddenly would feel that they have no power to do anything. That is how they would feel!

In nature, there are forces that activate us. Do you want to intervene in all these forces? Please, you have the opportunity! However, this is only on condition that you come out with the positive force, with the force of unity. This is the force that is capable of defeating them!
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM 11/15/15

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