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“Calls For Anti-Jewish Terror”

Laitman_182_02In the News (9tv.co.il): “Sweden is advancing in its anti-Semitism and hatred towards Israel. The Swedish government was the first to acknowledge the Palestinian state, which doesn’t even exist, but has not yet issued any condemnation of the Palestinian wave of terrorism that swept Israel in the last three weeks. …

“The Swedish media took an openly biased anti-Israeli stand and do not mention the word ‘terrorist’ when they relate to the Arab attackers. Almost no one dares to speak to the press in support of Israel. A report of a terrorist attack on October 3rd in the Old City, where two Jews were killed, the biggest Swedish news agency TT used the headline: ‘Palestinian Shot and Killed in Jerusalem,’ referring to the fact that the terrorist was neutralized.

“Despite the Israeli ambassador’s note of protest, the agency hasn’t honored him with any reply yet. About the attack in which the Henkin couple was murdered in front of their four small children,the Swedish media chose to keep completely silent. And in a radio interview, the host asked the Israeli ambassador whether it isn’t the Jews who are actually responsible for the growing anti-Semitism. …

“The Swedish airline SAS has announced the cancellation of flights to Israel because they are ‘unprofitable’.

“The Church of Sweden also takes a frankly anti-Israel stance.”

My Comment: We see how the people of the world have consistently demonstrated their understanding of upon whom the peace in the world depends. Shouldn’t we find out the reason for their accusations?

After all, our Torah tells us the same thing: we and we alone are the ones who are the cause for the suffering or happiness in the world, according to our closeness to the Creator. We should understand and change this trend in the time we have left, which is running out, to prevent a reoccurrence of the Holocaust!
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A Struggle With Internal Terrorism

laitman_253Question: It used to be that when the situation in Israel worsened and military actions began, the people would always come together. But with this current rising wave of terrorism, in the streetit is felt that everyone is more concerned and anxious about himself. Why isn’t this fear uniting us?

Answer: The threat of terrorism isn’t bringing us together because we feel that it is not coming from outside the borders of Israel but really is in the heart of the nation. So, it apparently is tearing us apart inside. It is compelling each one to hide in his corner.

This is not a war where we know where the enemy is and we could oppose it with all means. Military power will not help against terrorism—that’s the problem.

We need to understand what is happening. We are beginning to receive more internal and qualitative blows that have a more meaningful influence on us. When missiles fall, then we understand that there is a danger of injury, but it is something definitive.

Terrorism sows fear in us, and most importantly, a sense of powerlessness. We know that we have the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system, aircraft, and army. If they shoot at us, we would strike back with a more powerful response.

But against terrorism you can’t do anything because it is hiding inside. But if we, the people of Israel, free ourselves from our “internal terrorists,” from the hatred between us, from the desire to terrorize others, then nothing would be left of the Arab terrorists on our streets either.

The only way to will destroy terrorism —is an internal correction of each in relation to his neighbor. After all, if we do not change, the next hit will be even more significant. We feel that a developed, efficient, well-organized system of terror is operating between us. This system begins to rule over us, instilling in us the fear, the horror, the feeling that the terrorists are hiding everywhere, lying in wait for us at every step.

Does this description remind you of the selfish network of relationships between ourselves? This is exactly the same system—its external reflection. So far we have not seen such terror in the street, but we can come to it if we don’t begin to deal with the internal “terrorists,” with our egoism now.

The physical terrorism can accurately reflect the inner, spiritual terrorism, so terrible times will come. We hope that the Creator will not allow this to happen and that we will take care of ourselves.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/19/15, Baal HaSulam, “The Mutual Guarantee”

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Program of Life, Part 6

Laitman_001_02The Man of the Future Invented in Israel

Question: Israel is a leading country in terms of new technologies. What is its role in creation of the man of the future? Will this person be “invented” in Israel?

Answer: There is nothing to invent, this kind of man has already been among us for thousands of years. Israel is the only country that “patented” this type of human species. Everybody will learn from us and pick up the methodology of correction from us. We’ll share it with the world for free!

Question: If an altruistic person shows up in Israel, he would immediately be “swallowed” since all around him are egoistic.

Answer: So these people hide themselves, but they are among us.

Question: Today’s Israel looks like the complete opposite: there is lots of isolation and mutual hatred among its residents. Why is it that the man of the future who has an open heart should emerge particularly here?

Answer: Israelis are the most selfish people in the world. That’s why first they have to understand and acknowledge before any other nation how terrible the state of selfishness is and realize that it needs to change.

This explains why the entire world presses on Israel. The pressure from Arab countries, Europe, America, Russia… will strengthen. New powerful waves of anti-Semitism are still ahead. We will experience more problems until we decide we have suffered enough and we implement a new program and send it around the world.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 9/8/15

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How Can We Change The Situation In Israel: Who Has The Key For The World’s Happiness?

laitman_259_01Question: What is the mission of the Jews?

Answer: Kabbalah, the science of the upper governance, teaches us that we are under the control of the upper system of forces that operate on us and influence us to come to a state of integration, the more and more close these forces become, the more tightly we are locked together,

Accordingly humanity develops not only outward and upward, but also in the connection between each other. Therefore, in our world there is not only the sciences and culture, but also the Internet. Economic, trade, and political systems developed in our world in order to tie us together, but this connection has to be good and mutual and in everyone’s benefit.

In the law of the integral system there is only one option that the whole system should seeks—its maximum overall health, just like a healthy body, in which all the systems operate in coordination with one another.

Although these systems are opposite from one another by nature, as, for example, the lymphatic system differs from the circulatory system or the nervous system, they operate in full coordination, complementing one another, thus determining the body’s health. In our world, we cannot balance these two systems. The still, vegetative, and animate levels in nature automatically exist in such symbiosis.

But human nature has raised man above this system. We need to understand it, to perceive it, to incorporate in it, and use it correctly. Nature forces us to learn and to control this system, but we don’t want to.

Because the people of Israel don’t want to unite for the common good, we are the reason for all the problems in the world. Humanity feels this instinctively and therefore accuses us. Thus, as the sufferings increase, the pressure the world puts on us will also grow.

Question: But why is this happening today?

Answer: You have to study the system that governs the world in order to understand that. It is like going to the doctor who finds that I have dozens of problems. In principle they exist.

But in order to understand them you really have to learn the system. You may not always be able to explain even to a patient what he suffers from. He is simply prescribed  pills and sent home. Here, however, the pill we can give the ill society of the world is of a different character, of an ideological character.

The problem is that we should use this pill consciously because each of us has to ascend to the human level and not remain on the level of animal existence, although we don’t really want to leave it. But nature pushes us to a reasonable perception of its essence, and so we have no choice but to discover the general system that governs us.

It tells us about very simple things: If you want to attain the right unity between you according to the principle of “love thy friend as thyself,” you will balance the whole system.

Then the right and the left forces of nature, the positive and the negative, will mutually complement one another and be balanced. We must reach this. You will change human society and all the other parts of nature will calm down and we will come to harmonious relationships between nature and man.

But in order to do that, man has to change. He has to be educated and taught everything. Until we do that, until we establish an integral education system so that people will complement and get closer to one another, nothing will happen!

You may ask how it is possible to change eight billion people. The wisdom of Kabbalah tells us how this can be done. It says that all of humanity is built as a pyramid, with the people of Israel at the apex.

If you begin to engage in integral convergence between them, it will necessarily affect the whole world, which means that the nation of Israel will become”a light to the nations of the world.”

Then everyone will feel good; the anti-Semitic attacks will stop and the hatred people feel towards the Jews will disappear. They will see how the whole world, including our closest neighbors, will suddenly begin to treat us nicely because they will see that the nation of Israel brings the world goodness instead of evil.

This is the only thing the world is expecting of us! This is the reason that we are always accused of something. The whole world engages with one small nation, one single small state, Israel.

We keep complaining: “How is that possible! What is the UN doing?” This is the only thing the UN does. What is UNESCO doing? UNESCO keeps attacking us. All the newspapers in the world are filled with articles against Israel. Is there anyone in our favor? If we pay, someone may say something in our favor, but he doesn’t really think so!

This means that every nation and every person in the world, according to how developed he is, begins to feel that Israel has the key to the world’s happiness. This is what all the Kabbalistic sources tell us.
To be continued…
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From KabTV’s “The Current Emergency Situation In Israel” 10/14/15

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On The Threshold Of A Third Intifada – Part 11 “Do We Only Need To Wait For Everything To Calm Down?“

laitman_547_06Question: Why are people taking the wave of terrorism so passively, saying that it we only need to wait and everything will calm down?

Answer: A person doesn’t see the overall picture, the internal processes that are happening within nature, how we constantly prepare new problems for ourselves that are about to happen in the future. We invite everyone to come and learn the wisdom of Kabbalah, to understand how everything is arranged. Love of others is the main law of the Torah and the wisdom of Kabbalah. Everything addresses only that.

In Sefer HaTodah, it is written that we must strengthen our unity so that enemies will have no control over us, and if we see today that enemies are rising up and overcoming us, it means that there is no unity between us, even the minimal amount that we now require.

Question: So, what must be done practically?

Answer: First of all, it is necessary to learn or at least to turn on our channel, Channel 66, to understand what the wisdom of Kabbalah is talking about. This will have a positive influence on everyone and will make it possible for the upper force to begin to unite us.

I want to emphasize that we do not unite ourselves through our own power. We only make it possible for that power that is already found in nature to connect us. If we want it to do this work on us, it will realize our connection and unity.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM 10/11/15

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Terrorism In Israel Is Leading Us To Unity

Dr. Michael LaitmanIn the News (svoboda.org): “To carry out attacks in Israel, 13-year-old children are organized through social media networks. The main reason – the Palestinians are desperate due to not being the central focus of the media in the Arab nations.

“All of the Arab nations are in conflicts, with many of them beginning to look at Israel as an ally in their struggle with Iran, paying less and less attention to the Palestinian question that they became fed up with long ago.

“The Palestinian leadership wants to attract attention to itself somehow, since the Palestinian security forces aren’t participating in the campaign of violence against Israel and are cooperating with Israel. And that is how the game continues.

“The position of the United States matches their position. The Secretary of State blames Israel for the Palestinian oppression because Israel is building settlements in the West Bank and is trying to change the status quo on the Temple mount.

“Peace is imperative, but the maximum concessions that Israel is ready to make are far from the minimal demands of the Palestinians. Netanyahu is concerned about the presence of Hezbollah and more, the Iranian army within our borders. This is because Iranian military forces have already entered Syria to fight alongside Assad. Netanyahu has a better relationship with Putin than with Obama, even though there is no doubt that America is still our main ally.”

My Comment: We can rely only upon ourselves. We have no allies. But we have the most powerful weapon in the world, which is our unity, and if we attain it, we are invincible and can lead the whole world to that same state in which the Creator will be revealed.
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Dr. Michael LaitmanIn the News (russian-bazaar): “Europe has in fact accepted its fate and doesn’t try to stop the Islamic wave that threatens to drown it. The borders between the European states are like torn down fences. Closing the borders would be considered an act of racism and asking the Muslims to become part of their new homeland will lead to growing xenophobia towards them. When we speak about numbers, probably many thousands are terrorists according to foreign media sources.

“This is the start of the fulfillment of the prophecy of Egyptian cleric Salem Abu El-Puticha: ‘the Islamic nation will return to power despite the West’s arrogance. The West will undoubtedly be destroyed. Allah destroyed the Byzantine and Persian empires and he will also destroy the West through the Muslims. These countries will convert to Islam, Islam will reach them.’

“The Muslims see themselves as those who have the absolute knowledge that enables them to rule the ‘heretics.’ Therefore everything the Arabs conquered in the 7th and 8th centuries belongs to Islam, including Spain, Sicily, the land of Israel and more. This isn’t only the view of the fundamentalists, but also of the level-headed Muslims. The main message of Islam is ‘the Muslims need to believe that Islam will eventually win and will replace the constitution of Sharia.’

“One of the problems of the modern world is the hatred that radical Islam feels towards the West. There is no sustainable solution to this problem. The world prefers to engage more in Israel, thinking that all of the modern world’s problems stem from Israel. Rabi Yohushua Ben Levi said: ‘He who is merciful to the wicked will eventually become wicked to the merciful.'”

My Comment: According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, Islam will flood the whole world except for Israel, and when it swallows the world, it will turn everyone against Israel, but this will be its end. It is impossible to blame Europe of turning a blind eye to the current Islamic wave that is flooding it. Everything evolves according to the plan that is described in the wisdom of Kabbalah. Only the unity of the nation of Israel into one whole will help the world attain its greatest, most sublime future without any bloodshed.
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The Situation In Israel: Balancing Two Forces

laitman_232_06Question: Today many people accept the fact that only the good connection between us will save us from all our troubles. But at the same time, they realize that man is naturally against connection and unity with others. How can we solve this problem?

Answer: There is a method that Abraham developed. He didn’t invent it, but simply studied nature and saw that there is a negative force in it that constantly grows between us and in each of us, our ego; however, at the same time, there is also a positive force in nature that counteracts it.

We need to summon the influence of the positive force to us so that it will balance the negative force and thus enable us to be in a balanced state.

It is impossible to manage the negative force, get rid of it, destroy it, or subdue it, except by adding the positive force to our world. This is the method that Abraham discovered.

Since then, the people of Israel have been using it. Indeed there were good times in our history when we could use the positive force to balance the negative force within us and bring ourselves to a balanced, good, and peaceful life.

But this wasn’t always the case throughout our history. It hasn’t been since 2,000 years ago when we didn’t manage to keep the balance between the two forces; the negative force, our ego, grew which led to the destruction of the Temple.

Today, we are in the same situation. The laws of nature haven’t changed. We need to learn how to draw the positive force in order to balance the negative force. We wouldn’t be able to survive without the negative force because, after all, the entire world exists as a result of opposites: plus and minus, hot and cold, pressure and vacuum,etc.

There are always two opposite forces, and perfection depends on the balance between them. The problem of humanity is that we operate by the negative force only, while the positive force can be attained only through the wisdom of Kabbalah, the method Abraham discovered. We, his descendants, can spur this positive force to balance the negative force and thus bring peace, tranquility, prosperity, goodness, perfection, and wholeness to the entire world.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM 10/18/15

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On The Threshold Of A Third Intifada – Part 10 “How To Awaken The Stiff-Necked People?“

Laitman_002Question: You call for people to unite, but I see that no one is interested. What can be done if no one wants to hear about it? How can we wake people up?

Answer: It is not for nothing that the people of Israel are called a “stiff necked people” (Exodus 33:3) in the Torah. But there is no choice, we need to continue because if we don’t unite voluntarily, then we will be pushed through suffering. And we don’t want to invite more suffering to obligate us to open our ears and hearts.

Let’s try to persuade people to listen before then. The science of Kabbalah says that unity is the foundation of the formation of our people, the secret of nature and its primary law. Every time that we hear about another terrorist attack, we need to think that it is specifically we who aroused it and caused it through the separation between us.

Kabbalah teaches, “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) and “What is hateful to you, do not [do] to your neighbor” (Shabbat 31a), and “All of Israel are friends” (Talmud Yerushalmi Hagigah 3:6), and these are not just nice words.

It is difficult for us to carry them out because separation, distance, and mutual revulsion reign between us. But specifically because of this we must work on it, correct it in ourselves and the entire world.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM 10/11/15

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How Can We Change The Situation In Israel: A Universal Problem

laitman_254_03Question: I look at what is happening around me and see that people are in a quiet hysteria, not understanding what to do. How can we convey the essence of what is happening to an ordinary person?

Answer: The explanation must be practical: what can we do to eradicate the root of this problem because it is growing, becoming more elusive, and we cannot deal with it. It may disappear for a time, and then flare up again, but at another level.

Question: It is important that a person understand that everything that happens is global, not a local Israeli problem.

Answer: Indeed, this is a worldwide, universal problem. So, we need to solve it on the level of higher management. And it says everything is in our hands.

If we take the Kabbalistic sources, it is stated very clearly in them the people of Israel are the cause for all the suffering in the world. This is written in The Book of Zohar. It is impossible to argue with it. Over the years, the world is becoming more anti-Semitic.

The Book of Zohar was written thousands of years ago, and it said very simply that all of the troubles come into the world specifically because of Israel! Israel is to blame for the suffering of the world.

Here, it is very important to clarify that, if the greatest and most sacred book speaks this way about our people, it seems we need to clarify this, especially in this troubled time.
To be continued.
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From KabTV’s “The Current Emergency Situation In Israel” 10/14/15

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