New Life 551 – What Is True Independence?
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Why isn’t anyone truly independent? How can we attain true independence and what is the connection between independence and love?

The term “independence” doesn’t actually exist in nature; after all, everything is made of at least two parts that are related. Even the US is not independent since they have to worry about preserving their control all over the world…

The wisdom of Kabbalah tells us that there is a force called the Creator and that He is good and benevolent. He created a force that is opposite from Him called the created being, which is not good and benevolent. The goal of the created being, of man, is to balance the two forces of nature, the positive and the negative forces, by building a middle line. This is true independence.

All peoples aspire for freedom and independence, but only Israel has the method of balance, the middle line. The UN gave us a state [Israel] because they were guided to do so from Above by the plan of the creation so that we will balance the world. The world is expecting us to set an example of a balanced society that exists in mutual guarantee and perfect love.

The army will not provide us with security; only the connection between us will bring security. It will also calm our neighbors and all our enemies.

Kabbalah tells us how to awaken the positive force in nature and how to reach a state of balance and independence. The positive force will awaken in us an urge to connect with others and an urge for love and giving. We need to explain and teach that it is only by adding the positive force that Israel can reach true achievements.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 551 – What Is True Independence?” 4/12/15

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Question: The Israeli Deputy Minister of Regional Cooperation Ayoob Kara said following the terrorist attacks in Brussels that they still have no answer to those who still challenge the State of Israel.

Europe understands that the hypocrisy regarding Israel has returned to them like a boomerang. Brussels has received Islam with silk gloves, and in another ten years the mayor of Brussels will be an Arab. Does it actually return to them as a boomerang?

Answer: It doesn’t return like a boomerang. It doesn’t work this way.

The same people who think about division and not about connection and unity put themselves in a position where they might receive a blow because the movement through them is along the path of suffering, while those who tend to soften things, to bring people closer and guide the two sides to reconciliation without any pressure, will advance in a smoother manner.

If we call for peace without violence or pressure on the two sides and take measures to help the two sides get closer, we will be able to do something. Actions that bring people closer are better than identifying with one side and then receiving a blow from it.

I don’t see any other natural way than by bringing people closer and certainly not by dominating everyone as today’s Islam declares that it does. All of the nations of the world should adopt the one and only principle that love is above everything. Love is a state of creative integral unity when everyone adapts himself to others like parts of a giant machine.

In that case, Belgium is the source of the entire global dispute, and this is becoming apparent now in European society. It doesn’t know how to contact others properly and intervenes in everything. Therefore, the hatred that stems from it toward the general love for the correct inclusive unity above the ego eventually returns to it like a boomerang, and the blow will be hard.

Belgium is actually the symbol of egoistic Europe that has placed the bank union as its uppermost value and not the unity of the hearts.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/28/16

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Question: How do you explain the claims of the Palestinians and terrorists that are appearing lately, according to whom it is the Jews who are planning and carrying out acts of terrorism and other lawlessness?

Answer: All of the allegations that Arabs make against Israel—that Israel is killing unarmed Palestinians, pushing them to terrorism against the whole world, digging underneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and burning the homes of wretched Palestinians in spite of international treaties—are all a continuation of aggressive anti-Semitic acts that naturally have existed in all times among the peoples of the world against the Jews.

To the degree that the Jews have “robbed” the peoples of the world by not giving them the method, the means for attaining happiness, the peoples of the world feel the loss and damage that the Jews have caused them and the world, and their anti-Semitic behavior is the reaction to this.

Therefore, the Europeans and the peoples of the world increasingly will support the Palestinian side, even though they are destructive. Because the Jews are not repairing the world, they themselves direct the Palestinians toward acts of terrorism.

In this way, the Arabs are puppets on strings in the hands of the Jews, whereas the Jews are refusing to know the true cause of the hatred toward them from the peoples of the world. On the contrary, they believe that they have been giving the world more than any other nation and all of the nations together. This is correct, but it is not what is demanded from the Jewish people. Instead, their only role is the revelation of the method for achieving happiness, eternity, paradise, fulfillment!
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Comment: More than 60% of people who left Israel were immigrants from the former Soviet Union. According to the latest statistics published by the Central Bureau of Statistics, about 150,000 young people who came to Israel from the CIS have left Israel because of the high cost of living, and have moved to Canada and the US. It is a trend that has been on the rise especially in the last couple of years.

According to statistics, in the 25 years that have passed since the last repatriation,  150,000 -200,000 people left the country due to their inability to prosper financially. The bulk of the people who went to Canada and the US, are specialists in the field of hi-tech.

Answer: Of course, because it is easier to live there. But I want to point out another attribute that is typical of newcomers. People from all over the world, who belong to different religions, both Jews and non Jews, for example, aspire to reach our organization Bnei Baruch. If we could absorb all those who are interested, I believe that about 5,000 – 10,000 people would come to Israel. And they wouldn’t be worried about where to find a job and what to do, but would mainly care about being here together in the Land of Israel in order to build a new united society.

It all depends on a person’s goal. A person who comes to Israel not knowing what the right goal is, will certainly prefer to be better off abroad, and it makes no difference where.

Comment: They know the purpose of their coming to Israel. They simply want a bigger house, a good car…

Answer: That’s right, but you don’t need to come to Israel in order to fulfill the same goals people have everywhere else. We should understand the difference between members of our Bnei Baruch organization who live all over the world, and everyone else. We are managed by a spiritual goal that gives a person clear direction about what is important in life.

When the importance of the spiritual goal and the spiritual ideology awakens in a person, everything else becomes less important. He truly wants to come here and agrees to any condition as long as his soul can advance, develop, and be filled, while the body is provided with its basic necessities.

Question: Are you saying that the future of Israel is mainly spiritual?

Answer: The future of Israel is only spiritual and only those who are connected to spirituality will be able to live in it. There is no other reason for Israel to exist. No matter how much the Jews are pressured in other counties, they will always find a quiet place to live there. I have met many of them in different places in America. I have been to conventions that Israelis who left Israel organized. I have lectured there and have learned what characterizes these people. They don’t care where they live, whether it is in Phoenix, Arizona, in desolate places with terrible climates that are even worse than the climate in Israel. They don’t care, as long as they live as far away from here as possible.

They believe that the atmosphere of fear is growing in Israel, and they feel there is less pressure and threats where they are, and that they have a greater sense of security. But in fact, statistically there are many more violent events there per resident than here. Therefore this isn’t the reason, but the point is that in Israel they have no filling. This land was meant only for people who are correctly and ideologically aimed at the meaning of life. Therefore, the future depends only on us!
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/21/16

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Question: Operation “Magic Carpet,” under which the last 17 Jews from Yemen have been brought to Israel, has come to an end. Will all of the Jews who are still in the Diaspora come to Israel?

Answer: No, not all of them will come here, and there is also no need for them to do so.

We are in the last phase of the implementation of human society in which we must attain resemblance to the Creator, which means that we must ascend to the next level of our existence.

This is the reason that all of the corporeal sciences and arts have reached a dead end, which is not actually a dead end, but a wall that we must climb, and the ladder to climb that wall is in the wisdom of Kabbalah.

There is no need for all of the Jews to come to Israel in order to fulfill this ascent. We don’t even know where the ten lost tribes are, and therefore it doesn’t really matter who, where, or what you are.

The last ascent must be fulfilled by a small group of Jews whom all of humanity will gradually join. Therefore, although the ten lost tribes must be found, it will not necessarily happen the way we expect it to.

Question: Will it happen when the representatives of the ten tribes realize that they are Jewish?

Answer: Perhaps, but basically I believe that it will not happen in an introverted manner, but in an extroverted way. This means not by the gathering of all of the Jews in Israel, but by the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah all over the world because the Jews are not a nation and not a religion, but an ideology of the connection between all of mankind, by being one unique whole. New spiritual points will be ignited in the world, and increasingly bigger circles will be formed around them.

I welcome the last 17 Jews who came here from Yemen that closed the 70 year-long bridge. Now, everyone must look for their real component in this world and in the spiritual world, which means who we are, why we are special, and in what way—both on our part and on the part of the nations of the world, and especially on the part of the upper force, of nature.

The phenomenon called a “Jew” or “Jewish nation” refers to a special part of nature, to a special attribute. No one else has had such an influence on religion, culture, general development, or anything because no one has an internal connection with the upper level of nature.

The Jews, on the other hand, do have this inclination, but we must aim it correctly in order to bring ourselves and the world to the right state.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/21/16

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New Life 550 – Longing For The Land Of Israel
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

We have returned to the land of Israel from all the ends of the Earth because we have a special role within the entire system of creation. After generations of yearning for Israel, today half of Israelis want to leave the country. Why? Because they are disappointed….

The Land of Israel is said to be a special place; specifically there we can fulfill the most important Mitzva (commandment), “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18). It is “a land flowing with milk and honey” (Exodus 3:8). A land flowing with milk and honey, the land that has corrected relationships between people that makes everyone feel abundance ,flowing with milk and honey.

The wisdom of Kabbalah provides a method for building connection above the differences that exist between us, “…love covereth all transgressions” (Proverbs 10:12); it is a method of love above everything.

The beautiful Israeli, the ugly Israeli, who are we really? We are both this and that. It is up to us to learn to rise above all the differences, above everything, and cover everything over with love.

The feeling that we are about to devour each other is a very good feeling; it clarifies the need that all of us have here in the land of Israel for social correction.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 550 – Longing For The Land Of Israel,” 4/9/15

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New Life #603 – Social Self Searching
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Summary

How should we relate with the growing incidence of expressions of hatred in Israel? What makes us a nation and why will only educating people to love others as themselves help us live in peace with one another?

It isn’t clear what all the commotion is about, after all hatred has been part of every aspect of our daily life in every sector of society. We are the worst because we have to set an example of love of others and we don’t do so.

If we don’t keep the basic rule of our nation of “love thy friend as thyself,” we are not considered Jews or the nation of Israel. We are in complete darkness today and we need to reset ourselves and redefine what it means to be Jewish.

We are in great trouble: there is no nation or State of Israel since there is no connection between us. We are advancing toward a point in which we will literally devour one another, as the prophets say. The whole Torah is only about “love thy friend as thyself,” period. This is also what the wisdom of Kabbalah tells us.

We need to start a general social educational process teaching love of others and set it as an example to the world: in schools, universities, workplaces, the media, for pensioners, for the unemployed, for families, for everyone. We should reach appoint in which the state doesn’t give anyone anything unless he studies what “love thy friend as thyself” means.

It is not the time for speaking nicely now, it is time to act! We should engage in what happens today so that it will not happen again tomorrow.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #603 – Social Self Searching,” 8/2/15

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Comment: The world is in a constant illusion regarding Israel. For example, during the last series of terrorist attacks in which an American tourist was killed and a number of people were injured that took place during the visit of the American Vice President Joe Biden in Israel, the American site International Business Times wrote: “three Palestinians were killed during Vice President Biden’s visit.”

BBC said that a Palestinian was killed and several were wounded in Israel in military actions, and NBC added that an American tourist was killed during Biden’s visit in which talks about the violence in Israel were held. This is how the illusion of distorted reality regarding Israel is created in the world media.

Answer: Personally I see the Creator’s wise guiding hand in all that.

Comment: Here is another thing that the Creator arranged for us: the Irish paper The Irish Times wrote: “an American died as a result of a Tel Aviv individual who butchered ten people.” Here you cannot understand anything and it seems that Jews are attacking people in Tel Aviv.

Answer: The problem is that when such a lie falls on a general anti-Semitic bed it is immediately perceived in the most natural way by the whole world. Just as the world media is spreading slander about Israel, so do those against the wisdom of Kabbalah spread slander against Bnei Baruch and about me personally. It would be better if they examined the effect of their actions and realized that to the same extent that they defame us, so do the world media defame Israel. There is a certain correlation here since these things are mutually related. The more the nation of Israel wants to eradicate the wisdom of Kabbalah, the more the world is against us.

If we began to reveal the wisdom of Kabbalah to the whole world and said: “We have the method for the correction of the world, and we will tell you why you hate us, why you treat us the way you do, what is special about us, what the method of correction is that we should come to,” everyone would follow us holding our hands like obedient children.

If the State of Israel declared that we exist for this purpose and therefore should not turn Israel into another small America or its branch, the whole world would immediately understand internally that what we say is true.

Basically the world is subconsciously expecting us to do so, but people simply cannot understand why they hate us and why they treat us the way they do, why they keep focusing on us as they do, and what they expect of us. It happens because they don’t understand the process of evolution and the goal of our life. The Jews in Israel don’t understand that either and are only against the wisdom of Kabbalah.

It is time to wake up and to find out what the cause for anti-Semitism is, but first the Jews must find out the reason they hate the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is the exact same reason, the same root. It is the ego the pushes us away from the goal of creation. The role of Kabbalah students is to bring this message to the Jews and through the Jews to the whole world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/10/16

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New Life #609 – What Will Replace Cannabis?
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

Supporting the use of drugs or being against it is merely a spiritual issue. Tranquility doesn’t provide an answer to the question of what we are living for, and so the only replacement for cannabis is spiritual development that provides an answer to the meaning of life.

When a person develops in spirituality, he can break through the border of this world and discover the upper world. There is method by which you can fill yourself unlimitedly, in a complete and eternal way, and that is the wisdom of Kabbalah.

The Upper Light brings us much more than the positive things people find in cannabis. By studying Kabbalah a person doesn’t calm himself, but opens himself to an upper consciousness.

We have desires for food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge, and existential questions arise later.

Kabbalah opens new desires in a person, new cells in his brain and heart, the actual upper reality. In contrast to all the methods man has developed, the wisdom of Kabbalah comes from knowing the upper mechanism.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #609 – What Will Replace Cannabis?” 8/9/15

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New Life #607 – Relations Between Israel And The World
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

Israel doesn’t depend on the United States or Russia; the truth is that they depend on it, as does the entire world. These powers and others, and in general all changes in the world, are designed to bring Israel closer to its historic role.

If Israel were to function correctly, the people of Israel would be on top, the entire world would respect us and would be happy to help us and learn from us. Only Israel can offer the world a method for unity among everyone above egoism, above the differences.

In the future, technology will solve our material concerns and we will engage in developing good relationships between us. Today the world hates Israel because we are not functioning correctly, and they explain that this is due to our attitude toward the Palestinians. Yet the inner truth is that they hate us because Israel is holding onto the “heavenly valve.” If abundance doesn’t come into the world through us, it is bad for everyone.

Specifically today, when every day reveals more corruption here, this is the time to investigate our roots. It is up to us to achieve connection between us until all of us feel that we are like a single body, like an improved family.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #607 – Relations Between Israel And The World,” 8/6/15

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