Resist Egoism

Question: After the suppression of the Bar Kochba rebellion, the Jews scattered all over the world. Didn’t the great sage Rabbi Akiva know about this?

Answer: Naturally, he knew that this would be so. But one does not interfere with the other. Jews should resist this and try to correct themselves all the time, even though they are in a free fall.

Question: Rabbi Akiva knew that after going into the fourth exile, the people would have to unite and, as a result, build the Third Temple. But he did not know when this would happen. He thought that this would take place immediately, but it took 2,000 years. Was he mistaken about the time? Or is it wrong to interpret these events?

Answer: I do not know. I cannot speak for Rabbi Akiva.

I know only one thing: the spiritual law is such that when you have the opportunity to do something good for connection between people, you must do it. You have no reason to start this process because we are still under the authority of the development of the laws of nature.

Question: So, was there still some possibility?

Answer: Even if it did not exist, we are still obligated to resist the egoism that develops, grows, and controls us. Resist it at any stage and in any condition.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel,” 7/8/19

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Where do all the troubles come from?

Remark: In the newspaper The Nation, which Baal HaSulam published in 1940, he wrote: “Jerusalem was ruined only because of unfounded hatred that existed in that generation.” At that time, the nation was plagued and died, and its organs were scattered to every direction.

Also Naftali Berlin wrote in Introduction to the book of Bereshit: “The generation of the times of the destruction of the Second Temple was stubborn and depraved. Therefore, because of unfounded hatred of each other in their hearts, they believed that every person acting contrary to their opinion should be killed. And all the troubles ensued from this, until the Temple finally fell.”

But on the other hand, the Jews kept the outer commandments.

My Comment: No. This, in our time, is considered keeping commandments. At that time, keeping commandments was considered to fulfill the basic principle of loving your neighbor.

Everything else is just etiquette, customs that have nothing to do with the internal state of the people. Therefore, the destruction of the Second Temple occurred only because of unfounded hatred, although the people observed absolutely all the laws.

Rabbi Akiva was calling only to one thing: “Love your neighbor as yourself. Nothing else is needed.” Still, the Temple collapsed precisely because people said: “But we follow all the customs.” However, the most important thing was missing—closeness of hearts.

Remark: But we can say that they could not observe the principle of love your neighbor, as nature led them this way.

My Comment: On one hand, this is a natural process, and on the other hand, we are obliged to do this. Indeed, even now we do not know what nature is preparing for us.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel,” 7/8/19

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When a Common Root is Missing

Remark: At the beginning of our era, Judea was ruled not by kings and spiritual leaders, but by Roman governors. At that time, the people were highly polarized, and a huge number of sects based on ideological differences appeared. Nevertheless, the desire to regain sovereignty among the people did not fade.

In the year 66, the country rose in a riot, which became the First Judean War. It is interesting that, in fact, the rebels tried to restore the lack of spirit by force of arms. We know how strong the Roman and Greek armies were, but the Jews almost constantly won the wars.

My Comment: Yes, they could fight. Although, of course, they mostly fought in spirit.

Remark: In one of his letters, Baal HaSulam writes: The sages claimed that the reason for the destruction of the Second Temple was not idolatry, but unfounded hatred, because they could not fulfill the basis of the Torah love your neighbor as yourself.

My Comment: Exactly this unfounded hatred became the basis for the destruction of the Second Temple.

Unfounded means that people did not put the connection between them at the top of their existence. You cannot rise above any cause in your hatred of the other, to be together with him in unity. That is, unfounded hatred is equivalent to the concept of causeless love.

Remark: But this is already the opposite side.

My Comment: Yes. This is how it should be seen because the reason for hatred can always be found.

Question: Still, what does unreasonable mean?

Answer: It means that you do not even need to look for reasons to hate, you still do not love him, do not want to live with him, be friends, and communicate.

Question: Where does this come from?

Answer: From human nature.

Remark: The most interesting thing is that this was observed only among Jews.

My Comment: Yes. The fact is that other peoples have a common root. So, their hatred for each other always has a reason. At the same time, they still consider the harm doer one of their own, as a brother hates a brother: Despite the fact that I hate him, he is still my fellow native.

The Jews do not. Here the hatred between people is such that they do not feel a brother in the other. They do not feel it! He is not mine, he belongs to another, completely alien tribe, the opposite of me.

Remark: That is, if there is no ideology that Moses described in his laws, then, in principle, the people do not understand what they have in common.

My Comment: They have nothing in common. And so, there is no reason to be together.

Remark: Flavius Josephus in The Jewish Wars puts the following words into the mouth of one of the generals: “God is a better General than I am. He will give the Jews free of charge into the hands of the Romans, and give victory to our armies without difficulty or danger. While our enemies are slaughtering each other because of the terrible curse of brotherly war, it is better for us to look at them from afar and sit quietly instead of interfering in the conflict of people who are going to their death, fighting madly among themselves.”

My Comment: First, Josephus Flavius, being a Jew himself, understood their nature very well. It was obvious what was really going on.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel,” 7/8/19

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War is an Expression of Egoism

Remark: During the 6,000 years of the existence of civilized humanity on Earth, wars have been constantly waged. In total, they’ve only been gone for 200 years. Historians distinguish five main wars: the First and Second World Wars, and three more wars in China, during which hundreds of millions of people died.

My Comment: This is an amazing state of the world when people simply annihilate each other. They give free rein to their egoism, which cannot tolerate others, and come up with all sorts of reasons to kill.

Remark: War is like an expression of egoism. Every story is a story of war.

My Comment: On the other hand, we do not even imagine what would happen to the world if war had not been waged. Over the past 70 years, there have been no wars on such vast continents as Europe and Asia, and look what happened to humanity. The world’s population has grown from two million to eight.

We see that with uncorrected egoism, wars become necessary, because only in this way humanity restrains and purifies itself.
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From KabTV’S “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel” 7/8/19

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The Confrontation Between the Maccabees and the Hellenists

Question: What was the ideological conflict between the Maccabees and the Hellenistic Jews?

Answer: The opposition was that the Maccabees were in favor of uniting the people under one common principle so that all were like brothers who felt the inner unity of each other.

And the Hellenists were for proclaiming each person free, independent, not worshipping the one God, i.e., the one force, nature, and, accordingly, the one uniting principle. Each person chose from a large host of gods to worship, as in ancient times when people worshiped trees, stones, celestial forces, stars, etc.

As a result, there was a huge difference between them in their ideology, behavior, and attitude toward each other. In principle, the Hellenists existed each by himself. Their state was held only by bayonets, despite the fact that later they were guided by reasonable methods borrowed from the Jews after the conquest of Israel.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel” 7/8/19

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Question: Jews are a special group of people. What distinguishes them?

Answer: Jews are the carriers of the method of bestowal, love, and unification of all the peoples of the world.

They are carriers of the method even today, only they themselves do not know about it. But they have a hidden spiritual gene.

Everybody hates the Jews because they do not implement this method between themselves and do not pass it on to others.

Question: But is this all unconscious, not because they don’t want to?

Answer: Yes. But the presence of this method within the Jews still makes them special in other activities.

Question: Is there a formula that everything bad in the world comes from poor connection between people?

Answer: Naturally. But in particular from the bad connection between the Jews.

Question: Does everything bad in the world happen because of Jews?

Answer: This is an axiom. It means the world must force the Jews to unite. And then humanity will unite in a good connection, and everything will be fine.

And we, the Kabbalists, should improve the methodology, bring it closer to everyone.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel,” 4/22/20

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Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation & The Nation: It is a fact that Israel is hated by all the nations, whether for religious, racial, capitalist, communist, or for cosmopolitan reasons, etc. It is so because the hatred precedes all reasons, but each merely resolves its loathing according to its own psychology.

Question: You claim that Jews consciously or unconsciously unite the nations. And if they do not perform their key function, then pressure from the peoples is activated, which manifests itself as anti-Semitism?

Answer: Yes. Only no one understands this. That is why there is a subconscious demand of the peoples of the world: “Why don’t you unite us?” This is expressed in the form of hatred.

When I see anti-Israel, anti-Semitic processions on the streets of New York, Paris, anywhere, I feel their inner cry: “Why don’t you reveal the unity of the world to us, the supreme existence?”

Remark: You know, I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t become acquainted with the sayings of many famous philosophers and wise people.

In particular, the English publicist and politician Addison Joseph wrote about the Jews: “They are like the pegs and nails in great building, which, though they are but little valued in themselves, are absolutely necessary to keep the whole frame together.”

My Comment: This feeling is in every human being.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel” 7/22/19

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Remark: Throughout history, there have been several types of irrationality about the existence of the Jews.

The first irrationality: Jews brought the world a lot of great ideas and discoveries; they are the founders of religions. 27% of all Nobel Laureates are Jews, 37% of Oscar-winners—Jews, 40% of leading philanthropists who subsidize all sorts of humane projects—Jews. But no one pays attention to it.

My Comment: No one appreciates it.

Remark: Irrationality number two: No matter how the Jews try to dissolve into other nations, they do not become Germans, Poles, or French.

My Comment: They cannot dissolve in the peoples of the world, despite mixed marriages, no matter what.

Remark: It turns out that in Germany during the First World War, about 100,000 officers were Jews. That is, they tried, as far as possible, to assimilate. It did not help.

Irrationality number three: The crazy accusation of using the blood of children for Passover, thrown by someone, exists from the time of Democritus to the present day.

My Comment: A glaring irrationality. Jews generally do not consume blood for food. The most irrational things are the most tenacious.

Remark: The fourth irrationality: Anti-Semitism is not the refuge of uneducated, wild people, but namely the most advanced part of humanity.

My Comment: Yes, as a rule, anti-Semites are educated, advanced, cultured people.

Question: The last (irrationality): It is irrational that for centuries an exterminated people continueד to live.

How can you explain these phenomena?

Answer: They are irrational from the point of view of the earthly approach. If you look at it from the point of view of the structure of the universe and its forces, then there is nothing irrational in it. There is a group, which in its internal structure, its mission, should lead humanity to the property of bestowal and love, to communication, to complete integration.

This group cannot be destroyed because, first, it contains a common rational kernel—the future of mankind.

This so-called Reshimo is an informational record about the final state of humanity when all of humanity becomes one, perfect, and turns into one common system called Adam. At the same time, everyone absolutely clearly and internally understands the properties of each other and, despite the fact that they exist separately in their bodies, they feel each other so much that they do everything in general agreement.

This is connected with the Torah, with the technique that they received. It leads a person to such a state where he begins to feel everyone as himself.

Each is in his body, in his egoism, and outside of his body, outside of egoism, as if with a skin he feels everyone else and begins to understand how he needs to act in order to work together with them for the common good.

Remark: This is similar to the synchronized movement of a flock of birds or fish, only not instinctive, but conscious.

My Comment: Conscious, with great efforts over one’s egoism, which counteracts this movement. Due to the fact that a person consists of two opposing forces—receiving and bestowing, hatred and love—he begins to reveal between them their source, the root, which is called the Creator.

Remark: On one hand, there is natural selection, and on the other hand, there is co-evolution, when for the sake of a common goal, all the cells of one organism are ready to sacrifice some personal interest.
There is personal interest, but the community is more important. It is hard to even imagine such a state.

My Comment: But this state exists in nature at the inanimate, plant, and animal level. We should only add our human level to it, communication between us.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel” 7/22/19

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After Entering the Land of Israel

Question: After entering the Land of Israel, a good period began for the Jewish people for some time. As Philo of Alexandria writes in the 3rd century BC: “Thousands of people from different cities come to the Temple to cleanse their hearts, make connections with other people and find evidence of eternal unity.”

In The Book of D’varim (Deuteronomy), it is written that the sages speak of the nations of the world who were shocked by such relationships between people and asked to join the people of Israel.

What did the nations of the world see in the relations between the Jewish people, and how was this manifested externally?

Answer: Externally, this was manifested in the fact that, first, there was favor on the part of nature, on the part of the world, on the climate, in all that a person needs to exist correctly and happily on earth.

Second, the Jews were in good connection with each other, and this did not require strict decrees, coercion, and prodding. Everything worked in harmony.

Therefore, this was also reflected on Earth, in society, in raising children, and so on. It was, indeed, a very favorable period between the time when the people returned from the exile and the time when they again began to quarrel with each other.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel,” 7/8/19

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Question: You say that there is a natural hatred of the peoples of the world for Jews, the carriers of the unification methodology.

Now, if any person from the peoples of the world joins this group of people, will he automatically start to be hated too?

Answer: No. Today, everything is so diluted that no one notices, sees, or knows.

This is a completely new state that we are only introducing into the world. But gradually, people will begin to feel that something is wrong with these people. Americans, British, Europeans, Russians, no matter who, will look at this person and say: “Something is wrong with you.” They will see in him a spark of something Jewish.

Question: Do you mean that this will manifest itself in people of the ten lost tribes?

Answer: No, absolutely not necessarily. Just in any person from the peoples of the world, a point in the heart, which is in everyone, can appear. A point in the heart is an aspiration for the unity of the world, for its single strength, i.e., for the Creator. Awakening, it begins to bother a person. He wants to understand how the world exists, where this unity is, etc. It is this spark that makes him a Jew.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel” 7/22/19

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