Demonstrations, party struggles for power, screams in the streets, and hatred that split the nation—this is the situation in Israel on the eve of the war.

We must fight against our disunity. And the problem is not that people belong to different parties, have different opinions, and demonstrate, but that they want to cancel each other, and thus weaken each other. After all, if I argue with someone, I am obliged to respect him to the same extent, and recognize his right for his own opinion, which may be correct.

Now, in wartime, it seems that hatred has disappeared, and the people are united in mutual support. The pain is so strong that we have forgotten about our hatred. But we have not gone far away from the state that was before the war, and a few days may be enough for us to return to it.

While we are united by common pain, we present one front and have put aside our mutual hatred. But it has not gone anywhere. We see wonderful examples of mutual assistance and self-sacrifice, but all this is a consequence of the blow we have received. And as soon as the external threat weakens and moves away, all the hatred will again spill out from within.

After all, everyone remained devoted to their own opinion. Unity means that I am ready to cancel myself in order to unite with the other—and so we are all among ourselves. Meanwhile there is no such unity and mutual guarantee among the people, but there is a state that Baal HaSulam calls “brothers in misfortune.”

We see many examples of how people are now canceling themselves for the common good, and are ready to help each other, donate, and defend the country. But we should not delude ourselves because this is happening under the pressure of a common tragedy, and we cannot transfer this unity to another level in order to continue correct development.

We need to reach absolute zero where there is no external influence obliging us to unite, and from this zero point begin to build our unity, not because an external threat is pressing on us, but because we ourselves decide to live this way in good connection with each other and want to get closer, feel, and love each other. This requires a change of consciousness, and not external pressure.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/17/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Exile and Redemption”

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “If you could talk to the people taken hostage on October 7, what would you tell them?“

My heart is with you and I’m willing to do anything in order for you to return safely to your homes.

Also, I will pray with my full strength to the Creator so that He will help you.

Let us hope that we will be able to get you out of there until our very last friend, and that it will never happen again.

I hope we will all understand that only our unity—and the Creator from above—will protect us. We can then be certain that this will be the last war.

Based on “An Inside Look” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi on October 15, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Michael Laitman, on the Times of Israel: “How Can We Help the Families of Hostages in Gaza?”
Ultimately, what can help the families of the hostages, as well as the families and friends of the dead, the injured, and the hostages themselves, is the connection between us.

Why? It is because our connection draws us closer to the upper force, the Creator, i.e., the all-encompassing force of love, bestowal and connection that created and sustains us. We can then ask this force for forgiveness, correction, and afterward, to return us to the corrected state where we connect harmoniously and peacefully.

We need to ask for forgiveness in that we broke the conditions that the Creator placed before us, where instead of connecting above our divisions, we let our egoistic and divisive drives pit us up against each other leading up to the tragic events of October 7. We thus need to make a major self-introspection in this regard, to ask for forgiveness from everyone, and I very much hope that the Creator will forgive us.

Afterward, the correction that we need to ask for is so that the Creator will help us connect. It is because, again, leading up to the tragic events on October 7, there was so much hatred among the people of Israel that only the upper force can organize our relations in a way where they will switch to mutual support and care. The upper force did not organize our connections in a corrected manner beforehand because we had no request for positive connections. Instead, we let our divisions continually increase and expand the distance between us.

We need to reach a state where we ask for the Creator’s help to connect us above our divisive drives. If we reach a genuine request in that regard, then the Creator will respond accordingly.
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Question: If women put pressure on the world and demand connection from men, would such a demand replace wars for us?

Answer: Maybe such pressure would help both men and women. But this does not free women from working among themselves. They must come to the connection with each other to the connection with the Creator, and in addition, from their connection, turn to the men, and oblige them to unite too.

If women raise their common MAN, prayer, it will be a huge force. Huge!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/11/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: Is connecting in order to bring contentment to the Creator and connecting against an external enemy ultimately the same thing?

Answer: In general, yes. There is an action, and there is a consequence.

If we had connected before the action occurred, we would have canceled the action. There are many actions that are ready for us, but we do not receive and do not feel them. They are not revealed because we change and correct them even before they materialize in this world.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: If all people felt like citizens of the world and stopped dividing into nations and countries, would it help stop wars?

Answer: No. We have to do what is entrusted to us.

Despite the fact that we are divided into nations, into individuals by gender and other parameters, we still have to connect with each other in our hearts as one person with one heart.

Only in this case will there be world peace. By the way, we are coming to this. Of course, you may not believe it, but rest assured that we are going to do it anyway. So let’s make a little more effort and find ourselves in a kind, solid, peaceful world.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/12/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How can we help the families of Israeli hostages in Gaza?“

Ultimately, what can help the families of the hostages, as well as the families and friends of the dead, the injured, and the hostages themselves, is the connection between us.

Why? It is because our connection draws us closer to the upper force, the Creator, i.e., the all-encompassing force of love, bestowal and connection that created and sustains us. We can then ask this force for forgiveness, correction, and afterward, to return us to the corrected state where we connect harmoniously and peacefully.

We need to ask for forgiveness in that we broke the conditions that the Creator placed before us, where instead of connecting above our divisions, we let our egoistic and divisive drives pit us up against each other leading up to the tragic events of October 7. We thus need to make a major self-introspection in this regard, to ask for forgiveness from everyone, and I very much hope that the Creator will forgive us.

Afterward, the correction that we need to ask for is so that the Creator will help us connect. It is because, again, leading up to the tragic events on October 7, there was so much hatred among the people of Israel that only the upper force can organize our relations in a way where they will switch to mutual support and care. The upper force did not organize our connections in a corrected manner beforehand because we had no request for positive connections. Instead, we let our divisions continually increase and expand the distance between us.

We need to reach a state where we ask for the Creator’s help to connect us above our divisive drives. If we reach a genuine request in that regard, then the Creator will respond accordingly.

Based on “An Inside Look” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi on October 15, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Michael Laitman, on the Times of Israel: “Global Support for Israel: Does it Strengthen or Weaken?”
Indeed, more than 80 countries expressed their support for Israel following the tragic events of the 7th of October, but as to whether such support encourages us, I’d have to say the contrary: it weakens us.
The strength and the future of the people of Israel does not depend on how others relate to us, but on how we relate to each other.

I do not feel any assurance from an upsurge of global support for Israel. We need to secure our future by ourselves through building relations of love, closeness and mutual consideration among each other. It is this construction of positive unifying relations that made us a nation in our very beginnings. We were originally not a nation, but a group of people who gathered under an idea to achieve love above our differences, and it was this form of connection that made us a nation. If we realize such attitudes to each other today, then no one will have any complaints against us.

Moreover, it is incorrect to think that the global support for Israel following the initial Hamas attacks on Israel’s civilians will help the world better understand and feel Israel’s side in the ongoing conflict. People can empathize with others when they can incorporate in their feelings, but the quality that made the people of Israel a nation is beyond our inborn nature, and thus nobody can incorporate in it. I thus also have no criticism on how people in the world relate to the people of Israel.

In order to truly receive a favorable response from the world, it is written, “When the Lord delivered them from Zion, it seemed like a dream. Then they said among the nations, ‘The Lord has done great things for them’” (Psalms 126:1-2). In other words, our unity draws a special force that comes to protect us, and when this force dwells in our connections, we draw a supportive response from the world.

We thus need to unite in a way where we are always there for each other. Such unification will draw a force that will protect us, and we need not be concerned about anything other than uniting and drawing this unifying force.
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Question: We have had a lot of conventions recently and really successful ones. But why does it happen that after each convention we get either Covid or some other blow? Now there is a war in Israel or an earthquake in Turkey. What did we do wrong?! What do we need to change within us?

Answer: We need to change our hearts so that we really reach out with our hearts to each other and feel each in his heart the heart of a friend.

Now, after the convention, the Creator wants to give us a new condition. If we rise above it, we will really move forward. How? Very simply. The connection of hearts!

Question: Is it correct to say that war and death are also a correction?

Answer: Yes, but this is an undesirable way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/7/23, “Current events in Israel”

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During these difficult days when the people of Israel are in a terrible crisis and broken hearted, we can have only one desire: to forget about all the differences between us and unite above all of them, precisely in spite of them. This is what will lead everything to correction.

We can still hear mutual accusations about who is to blame for what is happening and where it all started. But the fault lies with all of us. Everyone should feel this catastrophe happened and is still ongoing because of themselves. Everyone is obliged to feel this way and not blame others, but only oneself, because each one is guilty of not acting with all one’s might to reveal the connection between us.

Therefore, we, the people of Israel, must connect as one man with one heart.

There is only one way to change the situation for the better; it is through our connection. In the end, all of humanity must connect into one system, one person called Adam.

It seems there is no way we can talk about connection when there is such hostility and differences of parties and opinions. But inside each person, there are enemies, different parties and opinions. We include everyone within ourselves, and each person contains everything that exists in the world. But despite all this, we all need to connect and feel responsible for world peace for everyone.

As a result, we need to reach a state where our connection will be above all restrictions and above all the disturbances.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/9/23, “Growing Stronger in There Is None Else Besides Him”

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