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About Anti-Semitism In America

Laitman_408Question: What is your opinion about the growing blunt anti-Semitism even on university campuses in America?

Answer: There is only one thing I can suggest: study the wisdom of Kabbalah, which will explain the reason for what is happening. They can at least read my article in the New York Times published on September 20, 2014. The path of our development is predefined and predetermined and we only have to try to be compatible with it in order to feel good.

I advise and wish the Jewish students to explore and study the development of humanity (see our site) and to follow the frameworks of our nation in fulfilling its mission. Just like everyone, both the Jews and the other nations each have the path that was designated especially for them by nature, and by following it we avoid great sufferings, which are nearing us at an alarming speed.
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The Three Weeks (At Bay)

laitman_293We are in a special time now called Bein Hameitzarim, the three weeks from the 19th of Tamuz until the ninth of Av. This period is known throughout history as difficult times for the nation of Israel, but let’s hope that, this year, we will be able finally to correct it so that this period no longer will bring about different disasters as in the past.

Question: How can unfortunate events be related to a certain time?

Answer: Everything that happens in our world stems from the hidden of forces of nature that we don’t feel. We only feel the outcome of their actions, but we actually don’t reveal these forces.

If we speak about electricity, for example, it means that we see how different electrical appliances work or someone gets an electrical shock. Thus, we find that the network has power.

This is also how we discover the force of gravity, according to the outcome of its actions. If an apple falls on my head, I can say that there is a special force that is called the force of gravity.

We never discover the actual forces. There is an entire network of forces around us, starting from subatomic forces inside tiny atoms and molecules and ending with cosmic forces that operate between the stars and the planets in the universe. Everything that we see is a result of the actions of different forces. Every force can be discovered only according to the outcome of its influence on matter. Why does the earth revolve? It means that there is a force that revolves it. All of the planets revolve as a result of a network of forces that set these cosmic objects in motion.

However, we need the wisdom of Kabbalah in order to discover the actual forces because it tells us about the forces that are behind matter, including the forces that are behind man, forces that manage the calendar. We can see all of the forces behind each day and behind each revolution of the earth on its axis and every revolution it makes around the sun. Humanity has accumulated data from different experiments and has made tables as in any scientific field, according to which this period is considered especially unfortunate.

However, the wisdom of Kabbalah is called the wisdom of truth because it tells us the reason for everything that happens. It tells us why the calendar is arranged this way, why the earth revolves around the sun, and why man was created this way and how he is related to others.

If we discover a certain phenomenon, we investigate it through ordinary scientific tools. The wisdom of Kabbalah, on the other hand, tells us about hidden phenomena and forces, and therefore is called the concealed wisdom, the secret wisdom, since it tells us the secrets of creation.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 7/14/15

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War: A Search For Connection

laitman_624_06Question: Is war a search for connection between people?

Answer: When people cannot reach agreement between them, they don’t just distance themselves from each other, but begin all kinds of conflicts. This means that if there is not a good connection, it becomes a bad connection.

So, both civil wars and wars between nations are a search for some kind of connection, either good or bad, but all of us are egoists. We cannot determine some kind of defined general rules between us, some kind of connecting formula. and war helps us with this.

The fact that in the 20th century wars became international indicates that the entire world is searching for union because it must reach a global state, back to its roots.

Question: But humanity assumes the opposite, that war is a severing of connection.

Answer: No, along with this, some kind of particular transformation of order happens. We Jews, unfortunately, are a type of egoist such that we still are not ready to move from ego to union immediately.

The connection between all of the peoples who are in conflict must be discovered as a result of our work. If the people of Israel won’t show an example of connection and union, then only one thing is left: war. Then, all of the people blame us that all of the wars in the world happen because of the Jews. And this is correct because we aren’t making it possible for them to unite among themselves. This is because the glue that connects all of humanity together, which is the characteristic of bestowal and love, is only found with us.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 6/23/15

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“Wisdom Among The Gentiles, Believe It”

Laitman_167Moses’s arguments persuaded Jethro to leave his children in the camp of the Jews. The grandchildren of Jethro entered the land of Israel, and as Moses promised, they received the fertile lands of Jericho and its surroundings.

Ultimately, they became prominent masters of knowledge in Torah. The descendants of Jethro became famous as the leaders of the Sanhedrin, teaching Torah to the entire community of Israel (Midrash Mesaper, Parshat Beha’alotcha).

Those among the nations of the world who had the greatest egoistic desires and succeeded in correcting them became the greatest of the generation. They became higher and greater than the leaders of the tribes, as in the example of Rabbi Akiva.

According to its root, Israel is Galgalta ve Eynayim, the easiest and purest desires that cannot absorb the Light of Hochma into them, whereas the nations of the world, when they receive this method from Israel and correct themselves, they discover a very great Light of Hochma. So, it is written, “If someone says that there is wisdom among the gentiles, believe it” (Eicha Rabbah 2:13) because it exists in a stage of correction.

The nations of the world who attain the concept of “Israel” join the people of Israel to become a bridge for their people. Israel itself cannot become such a bridge since to do this it would have to become AHP de Aliyah, which is an ascent from below to above.

So, it is imperative to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah to the entire world.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/11/15

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The Customs Of Jews And Other Peoples

Laitman_167Question: Why are the customs of the Jews so different from those of other peoples?

Answer: The reason is in the attitude, the meaning of existence. With the Jews it is the discovery of the Creator, the upper world, eternal movement.

And from here is derived the amazing difference in burial. With all the peoples the person continues his earthly existence after death, so together with him are sent all kinds of things from his earthly life to the world after death: tools, clothes, money, jewelry, servants and so forth.

With the Jews burial is simple, only simple white clothes, the same for everyone, for the poor and for the rich. The person doesn’t take anything with him except the deeds that he did. This shows the attitude in Judaism towards life and death, and from here also are the reasons for differences in the rest of the customs.

This is because the Jewish people were created and appeared for spiritual reasons, motives, and goals; they were created artificially, taking upon themselves an “unearthly” law of love of others. The rest of the peoples were created and appeared naturally, from families, tribes, with their natural egoistic development.
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Long Way To The Temple, Part 4

laitman_740_03Moses and the Receiving of the Torah

Babylonians who rejected Abraham’s methodology spread around the earth, to all countries. Abraham’s group left Babylon and went to the land of Canaan. Then, they descended to Egypt and then again returned to Canaan, which later became the land of Israel.

Abraham’s group underwent numerous troubles. The main mission of the group was to transfer the methodology of connection when the time comes to the Babylonians, i.e., to the entire world.

After Abraham, several generations of Kabbalists emerged: Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and finally Moses. They revealed the ways of the practical implementation of the methodology. Moses elevated Abraham’s group to a new level of unity called “the receiving of the Torah.”

They had to unite at a higher level to reach a “mountain of hatred,” Mount Sinai, instead of the Tower of Babel. For that, they had to refer to a much more powerful force. Should they succeed, the methodology named “the Torah” would be disclosed to them.

The Torah is the wisdom of Kabbalah that pursues the Creator’s revelation to the creations in this world. The Torah discloses the connecting network that unites us with each other through benevolent relationships, warmth, and mutual affection. The main principle of the Torah, “love thy neighbor as thyself,” should lead us from loving the created beings to loving the Creator.

Moses disclosed the methodology to the people of Israel who went through Egyptian exile and gained tremendous egoism from being in the exile. Their selfishness reached a much higher degree than of those who were associated with the Tower of Babel. The Tower of Babel plus egoism accrued in Egypt transformed to Mount Sinai (hatred), thus they got a chance to work on Mount Sinai by improving connections between them.

After revealing the enormous system of nature, the people of Israel realized that their mission was to correct the reality and humanity including the Babylonians from whom they once ran away.

Correction happens in two steps: the first step is to elevate the people of Israel to the height at which they become one man with one heart. This work is called “forty years of wondering in the desert.”

After this phase, the people of Israel reach a state of such a great unity that building the type of connection called “the Temple” becomes possible. The Temple stands for the vessel of sanctity for the sake of bestowal and mutual love.

The vessel is called The Temple (the house of sanctity); divinity is bestowal and love. However, the people were unable to maintain a level this high for more than one instant; they immediately fell from this level.

The great love and unity they attained for one short moment collapsed. People split into hostile groups that confronted each other.

They continued to fall even lower until Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the Temple. This is not about ruining some building in Jerusalem; rather, it was about hostile egoistic forces that smashed unity among the people of Israel.

They reached a wonderful state of unity. Inside it they revealed the system of the higher governance that rules the entire universe. All of a sudden, the beautiful rounded structure started rotting, deteriorating and exploding. Big groups detached from the people of Israel: the Sadducees (Tzdokim), K’tzinim (nobility), and others.

As a result, unity collapsed. The Jews became strangers to each other as if they were already spread among other nations, as it is written in Megillat Esther. However, they remembered that they were united at some point in the history, but this fact vanished and wasn’t important to them anymore.

The situation worsened. Historic process, i.e., the system of the upper governance they were previously familiar with, didn’t let them stay at the same stage forever. The first man Adam, together with Kabbalists who followed him, discovered that the world has to reach unity again.

It is written in the Prophets: “Everybody will know Me; My house will become the House of Prayer for all nations. Everybody will unite. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb.” The world should attain unity and harmony that includes all these states. This level is called the Third Temple.

To be continued…
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From KabTV’s “A New Life,” 7/5/15

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In The Name Of “Love” For Jews

laitman_433_02In the news (inosmi.ru): “Within a single day the Hamas organization was removed from the list of terrorist organizations and the European parliament adopted a declaration in support of a Palestinian state. By blaming Israel, the people of Europe are released from feelings of guilt about genocide. Such is the process of ‘purification.’

“If the nation of Israel is implementing ‘Nazi’ activities regarding the Palestinians, then the German and European crimes are no longer so monstrous. Two types of service for the price of one: ‘Purification’ from guilt and old anti-Semitism.

“Simultaneously the weight of a group possessing several million Muslim immigrants has grown in Europe, having become an electoral resource for local politicians. They dictate anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli politics to the parties of the Left, who are interested in their voices.

“And the Leftist Israeli politicians, who are suffering from an exile complex, take upon themselves the guilt that is imposed by the European anti-Semites, and that is how they justify European evil, by creating an alibi for it.”

My Comment: And yet, the Jews are guilty! Because everything that is happening in the world depends only on them! This is because only they have the freedom of choice to change the direction of human development. The Jews must understand and evaluate correctly what is happening; they are still able to change the development of the world from a direction that leads to world war to a direction that leads to a world that is good for everyone.
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Time Of Judgment

Laitman_119The period of time between the 17th of Tammuz and Tisha B’Av (the 9th of Av) is considered to be the most difficult period of the year. There is no mysticism about this. There are simply “forces of judgment” and “forces of mercy” in nature. These three weeks until Tisha B’Av, which are called “The Three Weeks” are a time in which the forces of judgment are particularly at work.

These are forces that place before us particularly great demands for correction, clarification, and introspection. But since we are not ready for this and are unable to transform these forces of judgment into forces of kindness and mercy, we feel particular pressure at this time, many problems and all kinds of punishments.

Question: There are people who are afraid to go to the sea with their children at this time. Is this fear justified?

Answer: There are pleasant, good, and desirable periods, and there are unpleasant, bad, and undesirable periods. The best time is Purim. This is the symbol of the completion of correction, which is called the “coming of the Messiah.” However, when we correct ourselves, the unpleasant and bad three weeks before Tisha B’Av become the most successful period.

Tisha B’Av is considered to have been the worst day for Jews throughout all of history because on specifically this day the First and Second Temples were destroyed, the Jews were expelled from Spain, and a multitude of other disasters happened, and in spite of all this, we can transform this day into the best day.

Question: Couldn’t it be that this is simply a self-fulfilling prophecy because we expect their unpleasantness?

Answer: It is not a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is talking about the activity of forces that existed even before the appearance of humans on the face of the earth.

These forces prepare themselves for such activity, even in the upper worlds, that later becomes materialized in our world, the lowest and worst of all the worlds. The forces of judgment and forces of mercy were created in nature from the start. These are the left and right lines, and the person is in the middle. If we can tilt the world in the direction of compassion and kindness, then we correct all these bad forces, all the judgments, all the unpleasant situations, into good situations.

But this is possible only on condition that we connect and unite. Otherwise, we have no possibility of doing this. So, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” is considered to be the general and essential law of the Torah, which includes within it all of our corrections, all of the actions that we must carry out in this world.

We cannot only stop the forces of judgment, but also transform their action into something good. They will become forces of good, much better than those forces that now seem to us as good that spoil and pamper us.

Nature is preparing terrible disasters for us for the next ten years. This summer Europe has been damaged by terrible heat that reached 50 degrees centigrade. At the same time, scientists predict a decrease in solar activity and the arrival of a new ice age.

If man himself corrects the forces of judgment and transforms them to good, he can use them to direct their action, with the help of all of humanity to correct all of humanity, the entire world, ranging from relationships between people to the climate, all natural disasters: typhoons, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and more.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 7/14/15

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Jethro’s Return

laitman_740_02The Midrash “Behaalotcha,”: Jethro, however, insisted on a return to Midian. I have an urgent reason to go back there – he explained to Moshe. – Not only did I leave in Midian all my possessions but I want to teach the Torah to all my family and those friends that I left at home, and to convert them to my faith.

In addition, the year when I left was a year of drought. I borrowed money from different people in order to support the poor. If I do not return, my debtors will think that I’m trying to avoid retribution.

Think about the fact that I am needed in Midian, not here.

If we interpret the above paragraphs in the language of correction, it will mean that anything one ever consumes egoistically has to be corrected. Everything happens inside us and we are the ones who make calculations only with ourselves.

Only because we once already used certain types of desires do we have a chance to refer to them again. However, this time we have the Torah with the help of which we can correct our ego, otherwise it’s impossible to return to the prior states.

Jethro’s trip to Moses was necessary because he had to take Moses’s energy and then go back. By doing so, Jethro corrected the way the people of Israel were arranged by splitting them in tens, hundreds, and thousands.

Jethro knew where and why he was going since his mission was to correct the place where he was a leader (master). In other words, anyone who comes to an understanding of what Israel is acknowledges the reason why they aspired to reach this understanding: to acquire the knowledge for the sake of bringing it to the people and correcting them. Then, through Israel, the knowledge spreads to other nations of the world from above.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/11/15

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Tisha B’Av, In A Vise Between Plus And Minus

laitman_558Question: Why is Tisha B’Av (the 9th of Av) considered to be the worst day of the year?

Answer: We are under the management of a system of forces that operates on us and influences us—sometimes in a good and comfortable way, and sometimes in a bad and unpleasant way—to awaken us and make it possible for us to integrate these forces correctly and reach the middle line.

If we balance these forces, we reach a state of absolute good. This is possible! The entire year will be a comfortable temperature of 25 degrees, and everything in life will be good, regarding any topic. The person is ready to balance all of the forces of nature in that he brings everything to balance.

On Tisha B’Av, the forces of judgment act with particularly strong intensity. However, essentially, they are not negative, but aspire to awaken us to reach balance, balancing all of nature.

Question: Are these forces stronger than a person?

Answer: Certainly, these forces are stronger than a person. They force him to carry out what is required of him. The forces of nature work on us and influence us to begin to change. We see what a mess is happening in the world. The world is withdrawing and gradually slipping lower and lower, but this awakens us to action.

Specifically now, there are opportunities to reveal the wisdom of Kabbalah to everyone and show that it makes it possible to arrange our lives, because everything is in our hands. Let’s calm down, look at things rationally, and all of us together will decide how it is up to us to bring our lives into balance.

The forces of judgment only seem to us as bad temporarily, depending on how we are feeling, but essentially there is nothing better than them after all they push us toward correction.

It is possible to reach balance only with the help of the wisdom of Kabbalah. We don’t have the power for it ourselves. We must get an additional, unique power from above, above our nature, the power of bestowal, love and union. This power can balance the positive and negative forces, the plus and the minus.

All technological advancement is built on this. Every engine works because we know how to connect plus and minus correctly so that the positive and negative forces will activate it and require it to do useful work for us.

We exist in nature in which positive and negative forces are operating. However, the entire problem is that, in the middle, we don’t know how to use the plus and minus correctly and transform it into a mechanism that acts on the difference between the potentials in the best way for our benefit.

This is specifically what the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us: how to use the two opposing forces that exist in nature correctly.

These forces are called the evil inclination and the good inclination, hatred and love. It is not necessary to annihilate anything! If we integrate these two forces correctly and use them correctly, we will get wonderful results.

However, a unique wisdom is required for this, because in normal life we don’t know how to balance plus and minus. We either love or hate, whereas we need to integrate both this and that by using the internal forces of a person, our attitudes, to rise above these two forces, above love and hatred. Then we can manage them and balance all of our lives through them.

Imagine that we do something like this in a family, with the children, at work, with friends, even just in the framework of our small physical world—how much happier would we become. Love and hatred must exist together and balance each other.

There is nothing superfluous in the world. Rather, it is only necessary to balance these forces. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 7/14/15

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