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American Universities Promote Freedom of Antisemitism

448.9Comment: These days, only an indifferent person avoids talking about American antisemitism, about what is happening at universities there, and so on. I would like to talk about it.

My Response: This was already happening 15 to 20 years ago when I was still visiting universities.

Comment: I know the foundation was laid and money was invested there. Significant sums of Arab money were invested in order to promote it. It amazes me that the script was written then for many years to come.

My Response: They understood what they were doing.

Question: They quietly invested money in universities and promoted this hatred. And now it has manifested itself very clearly.

We know Congress called for a meeting with the Presidents of three top universities: Harvard, Univeristy of Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

They were asked the same question over and over. Their video went viral on the Internet. They were asked: “Do calls for the genocide of Jews violate the code of conduct at your university?” It was the exact question: “Do calls for the genocide of Jews violate your university’s code of conduct? Yes or no?”

And they would not answer yes or no. They tried to avoid answering. Do you think they are afraid? Or is this antisemitism already deeply ingrained in them?

Answer: I think they are not just afraid, although there is also something to be afraid of, even physically.

Question: If they were defending the Jews, then they or their relatives would be threatened physically?

Answer: Yes, but there is nothing you can do about it anyway. This is the natural development of the world.

Question: So do you think it is already a part of them? And nothing can change it?

Answer: It will only change if the Jews change! So it is said in the Torah, so it is said everywhere, and so say the antisemites.

Comment: We see heroes always find an indirect path. And you say we need to sort things out within ourselves.

My Response: Why should we hate them? It all comes from above.

Comment: Well, they want us to disappear.

My Response: Then disappear in a spiritual sense in your attitude toward the world, toward yourself, and others. Rise to the level of giving, bestowing, and loving. And you will see how the world will change.

Question: Is this your call to the Jews now?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Specifically to the Jews? Will it continue until there is a revolution within the Jews themselves?

Answer: Yes.

Question: It seems we are now approaching this revolution after all?

Answer: I hope our people will be able to realize it, come to their senses, and turn around.
This is our task.

Question: At the same time, all three presidents of the three universities stated the need to protect free speech. Here is the phrase they used to hide behind—”freedom of speech.” What do you personally understand by this phrase? Is there a place for it?

Answer: We need to educate generations to the point where free speech in itself intentionally remains only in calls for rapprochement.

Question: Are these calls free speech? To be free to call for rapprochement?

Answer: Yes and everything else will just disappear.

Question: Well of course, for now it means something else—saying what you want, whatever comes into your head, and calling it free speech. You do not call this free speech?

Answer: No.

Question: What do you think it is? Saying whatever they think?

Answer: Considering the nature of man, this is just propaganda of hatred, mutual rejection, and calls for mutual destruction.

Question: Is that because we are in such a state today? Is this what comes out of us? What then is freedom of speech?

Answer: Free speech can only be called as such when it promotes mutual dependence and rapprochement.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/11/23

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The Miracle of Translating the Torah

963.1Question: In the Talmud, an ancient source of Jewish wisdom, it is written:

There was an incident involving King Ptolemy of Egypt, who assembled seventy-two Elders from the Sages of Israel, and put them into seventy-two separate rooms, and did not reveal to them for what purpose he assembled them, so that they would not coordinate their responses. He entered and approached each and every one, and said to each of them: Write for me a translation of the Torah of Moses your teacher. The Holy One, Blessed be He, placed wisdom in the heart of each and every one, and they all agreed to one common understanding. Not only did they all translate the text correctly, they all introduced the same changes into the translated text.”

This is how the Torah was translated into Greek.

My question is, can this source be trusted? Can we say that this happened exactly how it is written?

Answer: Where is it written?

Comment: In the Talmud.

My Response: So, why are you asking?

Question: What is considered a miracle: the fact that the 72 elders translated the Torah as if done by one translator, or that God placed in them a single wisdom, one intention? What is the miracle here?

Answer: The miracle is most likely that they all translated it as one person. The root of this was, as it is written, that God placed in them a single wisdom and one thought.

Question: How does this happen? 72 different people write the exact same text without the slightest error. How does it happen that God places this in each of them?

Answer: Because it is God. And because these are 72 special sages at the highest level of knowledge (therefore 72). The number itself is the level of the highest knowledge. That is why they were able to do it.

Question: Can we say that if God instills one intention and a single wisdom, then God wants this source, the Torah, to be spread in the world?

Answer: This has been said many times and also directly stated that these laws should be for the entire world.

Comment: It is said here that they were able to reach one common understanding.

My Response: Yes, that is the miracle.

Question: Reaching one common understanding is a miracle. If in the past, 72, 120 people, the Sanhedrin, made one decision, today two people cannot make one decision. Two! They must clash, each asserting their own opinion.

How can ordinary people, politicians, leaders, or just individuals and families come to one decision, to one opinion?

Answer: There is a lack of understanding that we are under the authority of the Almighty, and everything comes from Him. Therefore, by agreeing with others, you, in principle, come closer to the Creator.

Question: Do you mean to say that I am somehow agreeing with the Creator who is expressing Himself through another?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If I can go this far, suppress and nullify myself, can I also hear what is being said to me from above?

Answer: You will hear the Creator.

Question: Does this apply to both disputing parties, and families, and generally to any states?

Answer: It is not about hearing what the other person is saying. Through them, you will hear the Creator. This is important.

Question: Specifically through my nullification?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: You attribute such great importance to nullification.

My Response: A person nullifies their egoism, the most important thing within them, and desires only to work with receiving from outside. And “from outside” comes to them from the Creator.

Question: Are you saying that the miracle here is precisely this nullification?

Answer: Yes, that is the miracle. If we could nullify ourselves before each other, we would hear the Creator. But He is concealed behind what we say to each other without listening to others.

Question: Is he waiting for us to be able to do this, to nullify ourselves?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/28/23

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Why Didn’t Alexander the Great Destroy Jerusalem?

200.01Question: Alexander the Great, the great commander, marched on Jerusalem. He was already great then, he had conquered half the world. And it is written in the Talmud that the high priest Shimon HaTzadik came out to meet him, and with him the elders.

It is written as follows: “They moved all night by torchlight, and at dawn they met with the advance detachments of the Macedonian. We stood in their way. The squad stopped. Alexander the Great descended from the chariot and knelt before the high priest. The assault on Jerusalem has been canceled.”

From that moment on, the name Alexander was included in the list of Jewish names.

The question is very important for today, what does force gives in to? You are equipped, you have got half the world behind you, you have conquered half the world, and you give up!

Answer: There is a higher power, and Alexander felt it. After he conquered the whole world, he was not blinded by it. He felt the power in this elder and therefore got off the chariot and bowed before the great wisdom that he felt in this man.

Question: Still, how to emanate it? I understand, this is a great High Priest, this is a connection with a upper force. But still, now, today, when all this is happening, is it possible to stand up against weapons like this and win? Is it possible or not?

Answer: It depends on who you are going to talk to.

Comment: After all, you see nobility behind Alexander the Great.

My Response: Not only that. He is a smart man, he is a great man who did not just go out to conquer the world. He came out to fill this world with science and enlightenment. And first of all, he wanted to leave it in those cities through which his troops passed.

He wanted to make this world, of course, Hellenic, but it was enlightened. That is, to raise this pagan world to the level of enlightenment.

Question: What is the spirit that a person radiates that conquers everything? I am asking about the high priest now.

Answer: The high priest is obligated to stay in Jerusalem; he has nowhere to go. He has a completely different mission. He must fill the earth with spirit.

Question: And if he came out now and met the Macedonian, what does that mean?

Answer: It means that two great men, strength and intelligence, came together, each understanding the other, respecting each other, and decided to save Jerusalem based on this.

Question: Was the high priest’s idea to save Jerusalem?

Answer: Yes.

Question: When you say “spirit,” do you necessarily mean an upper force in this concept? Is there no spirit without a higher power?

Answer: No, it does not exist. The spirit is the upper force, which, by the way, exists generally in any person. It only depends on how much a person wants to elevate this spirit above him. Let’s say Hitler could not do it, but Alexander the Great could. Therefore, to this day, Jews often call their children Alexander in honor of Alexander the Great.

Comment: There is no other case like this in history.

Answer: There is no such thing, in any way.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/25/23

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For the Light to Shine on Everyone

938.02Question: It is written “precisely when the righteous of the generation extends illumination of Hochma, his mind shines in the whole of Israel.” Who is Israel?

Answer: Israel is all those who yearn for spirituality, absolutely everyone. At the same time, neither nationality, gender, nor anything else matters. The main thing is to have a desire.

Then, as is written in the sources, a general light shines on society and reflects on everyone without exception. The whole society can perform actions in the quality of faith. Therefore, we must be more responsible for our deeds, actions, and thoughts.

Question: What kind of faith and actions are we talking about?

Answer: We are talking about faith above reason and about actions of complete bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/16/24, Writing of Baal HaSulam “Why We Need to Extend Hochma

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We Can’t Be Left Alone

963.4The eagle was sitting on a tree, resting, doing nothing. The little rabbit saw the eagle and asked: “Can I sit like you and do nothing?” “Of course, why not?” he answered. The rabbit sat down under a tree and began to rest. Suddenly a fox appeared, grabbed him and ate him. Moral: To sit and do nothing, you have to sit very, very high (Fable, source unknown).

My Response: Yes, but I don’t think this is the solution to the issue. And the eagle has problems; it has enemies, and it also must defend itself and imagine other conditions.

Question: So it still needs to keep an eye out?

Answer: Definitely. No living being can exist like this, without caring about anything.

Question: When can I allow myself to be at peace?

Answer: Only if, heaven forbid, you are dead.

Question: Is this peace?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: But you always say that the Creator is at rest. And we must move toward peace one way or another.

My Response: For us, this state is death, because we must kill ourselves, our egoism.

Question: Is this state what you mean?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So I have to kill my egoism? And my whole path is to kill it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But we are all “rabbits”? We can’t be at rest. There is danger everywhere: on the right, on the left, everywhere?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, you say that danger exists precisely because we are, as it were, attached to this egoism. How can we not be a rabbit?

Answer: To do this, we need to know exactly what awaits us, what we must sacrifice, and how to be free. That is, we must study the nature of our world, the nature of the higher world, and the paths of transition from one state to another.

Question: This, in principle, is education?

Answer: Yes. It is not simple. I must remake myself, become a person of the upper world.

Question: How does this peace begin?

Answer: With love your neighbor as yourself. And this is already the height of an eagle.

Question: That is, we can allow ourselves some initial, minimal repose if we come to this rule: love our neighbor as ourselves?

Answer: If we accept it at least theoretically.

Question: Do you think we do not even accept it theoretically?

Answer: No, of course not!

Comment: We talk about it all the time.

My Response: We are talking.

Question: Then what does it mean to accept it, at least theoretically?

Answer: Accept it, that is, begin to look for ways to master this law, this condition, look for how to get out of your egoism, and how to rise above your nature.

Question: To love and not to hate? Peace instead of war, good relationships instead of evil. Although you always say that human nature is different.

Answer: You can’t do anything. Especially in our time, we are already approaching this. We still have to somehow prepare ourselves to move to the next level.

Question: In your opinion, is humanity already at this stage and has lingered on the previous one, or not yet?

Answer: No! We are not at any stage yet!

Question: Have we not realized it, but maybe we are there?

Answer: No, on the contrary, we are beginning to realize what stage we are at and that it is far from ideal.

Question: So since our nature is different do we need to take a step into the abyss?

Answer: This is not a step into the abyss. These are rash actions; they are not welcomed by anyone. On the contrary, we must clearly understand what is in front of us and take an absolutely rational step forward.

Comment: So I know that in front of me is “love your neighbor as yourself,” and that is the only way I am going.

My Response: Yes.

Comment: There will be a lot of interference from all sides, naturally.

My Response: We can overcome them all if it is we.

Question: If it is not me, but we?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Could humanity make this decision at some point from great suffering or from what?

Answer: I have no idea.

Question: Then a small group can?

Answer: A small group can. And I cannot imagine that humanity can.

Question: Is it contagious if a small group comes to this?

Answer: This is the mission of the Jewish people: to become such a group and show all humanity that this is possible.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/30/23

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The Enemies Will Retreat before Our Unity

961.2The war reveals to our people [Israel] that everything depends on our connection. Everyone says that the enemies will retreat in the face our unity and that our separation gives them strength. Let us hope that the unity of the nation will only increase until complete correction without wars.

It is encouraging to see how the people of Israel have suddenly united, how people have begun to appreciate each other. No one needs to explain anything anymore. Every soldier on the front feels that he is in his place and wants to stay there. He feels better among his friends there than among ordinary people in the center of the country.

It is such a difficult path, but we are going through huge corrections, the whole nation is, and are honored with unity. When soldiers come home on leave, they say that real life is there, at the front, and they want to return quickly despite all the danger.

This is a huge lesson for all of us, and let us hope that it will leave an indelible mark in our hearts that will never be forgotten. The main thing is to be with all your heart and soul with those soldiers on the front line and pray for them.

At a time when unity and brotherhood are growing on the front, the discord that existed before the war is beginning again in the rear. But this contrast will help us realize how undesirable disunity is and will help us make the right decision.

To anyone who is fighting against a real, obvious enemy that wants to destroy us and throw us out of our land everything is clear. But there is also an inner enemy, and each of us will have to feel that he is standing against his egoism and must grab it and strangle it.

How can we recognize this inner enemy? It is very easy. Everything in me that helps me get closer to others is my friend, and everything that alienates me and awakens hatred for others is my enemy.

This war has softened the hearts of the people. But the nation of Israel has experienced such terrible catastrophes in its history and still has returned to separation. Let us hope that this time there will be no return to the old habits.
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From the 3rd part of  the Daily Kabbalah lesson 1/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Writings of the Last Generation”

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 202Comment: Today the state of the world is such that the Creator, the Creator, who created this entire universe, increasingly seems to need a lawyer. Why did He create this? Why did He do this? I have divided the entire history of human relations into ten stages and would very much like you to act as a lawyer. Or in the role of the Creator: Why did You create this? How did it all happen?

Chapter One—The Primitive World

Question: Let’s start with the primitive world. We are interested in examining relationships that have already arisen. Everyone lived as one family. I killed a mammoth and brought it to the fire; everyone ate and everything was very good. There were simple relationships, and there were simple concerns. They lived, and it didn’t matter how long they lived. They didn’t bother with high philosophy. Man and nature—what could be better?

Tell me, please, how did nations appear with their own characters, with their own territory and borders? What was the Creator’s intention?

Answer: The Creator’s intention was to bring humanity to a state where it consisted of many opposing peoples, distant from each other internally and externally, so that they would begin to gradually realize as they developed that they needed to overcome their animal nature.

Question: Is it more comfortable for you, perhaps, to speak from the Creator?

Answer: I can speak from the Creator. I need to raise creation to the level of the Creator.

Question: Is this Your thought, the Creator’s thought?

Answer: This is my thought. And this was done gradually so that people would begin to realize themselves and their opposition to the correct nature and coexistence with each other.

Question: So you created these good “children” who sat around the fire, and everything was fine with them, more or less normal, man and nature. And you wanted to set them apart, right?

Answer: Yes. So that they confronted their nature, so that they counteracted it.

Question: What was their nature?

Answer: An egoistic nature.

Question: These people sitting around a campfire?

Answer: Yes. Little by little they tried to overcome each other, to resist, and to fight. What is mine is mine, and yours is yours.

Question: Did you introduce all this? You, the Creator? Intentionally?

Answer: Yes.

Chapter Two—Wars

Question: Nations, borders, character, clothing, music—differences appeared. In general, all this appeared. And wars.

Again, You, the Creator, why did You pit the nations against each other? Was it impossible to live within borders? We have already separated them. Why was it necessary to bring peoples and countries together?

Answer: It didn’t all start with nations. It started with wild animals, with all kinds of bugs, cockroaches, everything.

Question: Did you also put these wars in them?

Answer: Of course! Into all living things! Every living thing must fight for its life.

Question: Why did you decide that it should be this way?

Answer: Egoism was growing. This is mine-mine, yours-yours. And then mine is mine and yours is mine. And thus development continued. Wars, countries, walls, and fortifications arose. I take everything from you. And from here egoism continued to develop within a different framework.

Question: What was your plan? Was this how to pit nations together, destroy borders, and so on?

Answer: It was so that they would consciously make sure that they could not be against each other. So that they would come to the conclusion that they must coexist in peace and unite with each other. And this must be achieved through increasing egoism.

Question: Was it impossible to immediately determine this point?

Answer: No, you can’t. Otherwise you won’t have an equilibrium system. You need one and the other, two opposing forces. And the person between these two forces would have to control them.

Comment: That is, You, as the Creator, placed man as a yo-yo. The toy that moves up and down.

My Response: No, not a yo-yo! A person must always choose for himself the highest level, which is the overcoming of altruism over egoism.

Chapter Three—Strange People

Question: Wars, showdowns, and deaths began. Things went well; history started unrolling. And at this moment 4,000 years ago, the Creator, that is, you, decide that another nation should appear in the world. Another nation whose fate was determined from the very beginning. Subsequently, this nation will be called Hebrews, Israelites, the Jews.

Tell us about this plan of yours, the plan of the Creator. Why is there suddenly a need for this nation?

Answer: A group must appear that would understand that it is imperative to prefer peace to war.

Question: But it was possible to take some kind of people because nations already existed at that time. Was it possible to identify these people?

Answer: They all existed in continuous wars. It was necessary to find some people who would realize that other principles of human existence are possible in the struggle over hatred in oneself and toward others, without wars.

Question: So there is hatred toward others?

Answer: Yes, it is natural. And in this case, by rising above this hatred, nations would develop by looking at this nation. Therefore, a nation appeared that should have been an example.

Question: So there are nations that arose in the territories thanks to language, geography, and so on. Are you now talking about a nation that arose from an idea?

Answer: Yes, the idea of rising above hatred. These were the Jews.

Question: Did other nations also join it? Was it so composed?

Answer: Yes, gradually a collection of people gathered who called themselves Yehudim, from the word “Yehud—connection. And then they called themselves Israel, from the direction of movement toward the Creator—IsraEl. “Isra” means directly (straight to). “El” means the Creator, that is, directly to the Creator. And thus the whole story began to develop around them.

Chapter Four—And the Nation Began

Question: So, the Jews appeared. As you know, they appeared in Babylon and followed Abraham. It was his idea.

They entered the world and went to the Land of Israel where the Creator indicated to go. Along the way, they had to experience what slavery was, emerge from this slavery, and receive the Torah.

Please tell us about these stages: movement to Eretz Israel, slavery, and receiving the Torah. Why did you, the Creator, need to lead these people through all these sensations and states?

Answer: In order to bring them to full awareness and acquaintance with the Creator.

Slavery makes man dependent on man. And at the same time they must come to a state of only dependence on the Creator.

Question: That is, if I am a slave, I depend on the master. And did the Jews need to feel what that was? Precisely these people?

Answer: Yes. That is why they were in Egypt so they would feel that they depended on others and to get in touch with the supreme, with the Creator.

Question: Then they left Egypt and received the Torah. For what?

Answer: They received a clear list of instructions about what people should be like in order to rise even further to the Creator.

Question: So this was a list of laws, instructions. Did they demand it? Did they need to get this list?

Answer: They guessed that there was some kind of, if not a written list or a list carved on something, then at least a set of laws.

Question: Did they know that there was a set of laws?

Answer: Yes, of course. This is natural human behavior in society.

Question: What does it mean that the Torah was given to them?

Answer: Through several people, the knowledge was received that one must live exactly according to this code, to this principle. And they accepted it and moved toward the land of Israel.

Chapter Five—Temples Rise and Fall

Comment: The Jews entered the land of Israel, in which seven nations already lived. They seized this land, built a country and its capital, Jerusalem. King David, King Solomon—all these are well-known stories.

My Response: In principle, there was a capital. There was Jerusalem.

Question: Yes, that is, they conquered Jerusalem and made it their capital. Temples were built: the First and Second Temples. It is said, by the way, that the time of the Temple was the happiest time both for the Jews and for the world. But the Temples were destroyed.

What was the Creator’s intention? After all, the Temples were built at the height of love for one’s neighbor, at the height of this whole idea.

Answer: In a continuous struggle with oneself. Thus, they still developed and moved forward.

Question: Let them conquer the land, give them a capital, build temples and suddenly start destroying them! For what?

Answer: Building and destroying is generally the only principle of moving forward. It is impossible to move forward without destroying the old. We can see this from the time of the first king, King David, who fought for 40 years.

Question: Such a pearl was built. It may have been a struggle, but it was built. Temples were built. Why did You need to destroy them? Let everyone, as You said, begin to be like this; everyone began to build temples for themselves. After all, what You wanted had already been done.

Answer: Yes, but the principles of the existence of people in this state were, in general, built on love your neighbor. And in other nations it was on the terms of the reign of some family.

Comment: I see. It was, on the contrary, on other terms: I rule over others. Well, that’s good. Let them start to be like Jews.

You said that these people included the idea of love, and all nations had to become like these people, little by little. Why not…?

My Response: How could they perceive this idea?

Question: So could they not accept this idea? They were not able to look and perceive that “Oh, we want to live like this.” They were not able to?

Answer: No, this is all very difficult.

Chapter Six—Exile, For What?

Question: What happened is what happened. The Second Temple was destroyed, the Roman Empire began to rule, cleared this area, and the Jews were sent into exile for 2,000 years. The world at this time was pagan, one might say barbaric, with wars and the same thing, hatred.

Why was it conceived by the upper force to scatter the Jews, to lead the Jews through the world? They had their own state, and now they were led through the world.

Answer: It was to absorb this idea of ​​monotheism, love your neighbor as yourself, and so on, so that all of this can gradually come closer, enter, and take root in all of humanity.

Question: So You say that when there were temples and humanity saw that there were temples there, it could not perceive it. And was it necessary to destroy the temples in order to let the entire mass of people, Jews, through humanity? So that they would bring this idea there?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How did they carry it? There is a record in them that there were temples? Was there such a law among the Jews? How did they carry it?

Answer: When people mixed with each other, some kind of connections were formed. And the Jews began to create the Bible and their own books. And these books and this teaching gradually penetrated into other nations and took on all sorts of other forms in them. Those who, in principle, were perhaps far from ideals.

Question: Are You now hinting at the emergence of religions and spiritual movements?

Answer: Yes, of course. That is why.

In principle, other nations passed through this instruction, the Torah, and gradually became closer to the ideals of human love, connection, rapprochement, and so on.

Question: But did these religions still correspond to the characters of the nations?

Answer: Of course. We could see it.

Comment: But the source was the instruction, the Torah. The commandments were the source.

My Response: But they didn’t deny it; it was natural.

Question: No, no one denied it, everyone referred to this source. And was this the Creator’s idea?

Answer: Of course. Today, the whole world has, of course, altered all the conventions of the Torah to suit itself, but somehow it still more or less orients itself according to them.

Chapter Seven—Hatred and Expulsion of the Jews

Question: Jews would enter a certain country, begin to settle there, and lived in their own community, even tried to assimilate, or did not. The most famous period was the Middle Ages. This was Spain, and at a later time, Poland and Germany.

Why did the Creator need to lead the Jews through the nations, so that they would not be loved, so that they would be kicked out, so that all this would happen? To take the best from these people, for example? But why were they always being persecuted somewhere?

Answer: Yes, this is a very serious question.

Because according to human perception and human nature, hatred is perceived faster and closer than good relationships. It turns out that if you want some of your principles and rules to be internalized, they must go through rejection and hatred.

Question: Do You think resistance and hatred is first? No matter how high and good an idea is, at first I hate it? Why don’t I feel like this would be good for me?

Answer: Because everything comes from egoism. So there is nothing you can do. That is, human egoism began to resist this idea. And since the bearers of this idea were the Jews, they suffered from it.

Question: How did they justify the Creator, may I ask You? Burned in public squares, killed by hundreds of thousands—how did they hold up?!

Answer: What were they supposed to do?

Comment: They remained people who believed and had the Torah.

My Response: This is where it becomes clear how the Creator held them. On the one hand, hatred, on the other hand, strengthening of faith.

Comment: I understand the connection when they beat you and you stop believing. This is a direct connection. But here, on the contrary, they beat you, they burn you, and they kill you, but you believe, believe and carry this standard.

My Response: It is all the Creator.

Chapter Eight—Catastrophe, Creation of Their Own State

Question: So little by little we approached the Second World War. The Catastrophe of European Jewry. On the one hand, this was a huge tragedy, naturally. On the other hand was the push for the creation of the state of Israel.

It is known that the great Kabbalists Baal HaSulam and Rav Kook accepted this state. What did this mean for the world—the creation of this small dot, barely visible on the map—the State of Israel?

Answer: It doesn’t matter that it’s a small dot. The main thing was that this was again an indication in the world that this was the spiritual center of the world.

Question: So the world felt it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And this strange vote at the UN. Was all this in general the feeling of the world that this place should be created?

Answer: They raised their hands and created it. I think it was done instinctively from above.

Question: But did the world need this place? And again it became a place of struggle and clash.

Answer: Naturally.

Chapter Nine—The Central Problem of the World

Question: Almost immediately with the creation of a state, wars began the next day. And these wars were for the existence of the state. That is, the Jews were fighting so that they had the state of Israel.

Why did the Creator not give the Jews this piece of land and let them live? Why was this place becoming almost the central problem of the world?

Answer: According to the state at that time, the opposition between the Jews was such that they naturally created hatred of the surrounding nations toward Israel.

When they clashed with each other, the Jews themselves aroused hatred from outside nations.

Comment: As You say: “We won’t be able to live in peace as long as we hate each other.”

My Response: Yes. We ourselves create such hatred between us. And by doing this we call upon ourselves the corresponding external forces.

Question: So, do you think that it was impossible for Jews to live here peacefully?

Answer: No! They could not live peacefully among themselves! They argued with each other all the time. This is your synagogue, this is mine! These are the left, these are the right, these are the Moroccans, and these are the Yemenis. And so on.

Comment: But you said that this was a people in which an idea lived. These people were coming with this idea.

My Response: These were people who were not yet ready for this idea. They were not ready to rise above themselves, above universal egoism.

Chapter Ten—It Is Not Simple

Question: This war, which began on October 7, 2023, is the murder of Jews, barbaric and terrible. Please tell me, can it become some kind of turning point in the life of Israel and the world?

Answer: I don’t know. It all depends on how the Creator wants it.
I’ll be honest. I do not see forces in Israel itself that can change it. We hate each other; we are in constant disputes within society.

Question: So do we have to understand this? Is this what should come into us?

Answer: Yes. This problem still remains. Look what happened before the war. Where were all the generals?! Where were all the border guards who cleared the way for all the Arab crowds?! And so on. What is it?! This speaks of the general demoralization of society.

Question: After all, we started with the fact that 4,000 years ago a nation was created who followed an idea. They passed through time, passed through countries, came here, and as you say, continue to hate each other and so on.

Please tell me, when will this point work, what is this idea that these people followed? After all, it exists somewhere! How to grab onto this point?

Answer: That is not known yet. I’m not pessimistic. I just look ahead and do not see this point.

Question: The great Kabbalist Baal HaSulam said that a nuclear third and fourth world war are possible; do you suddenly feel that this is possible?

Answer: I agree with that, yes.

Question: If yes, then what is all this for?

Answer: So that, in the end, Jews and all humanity as a whole will realize the need for a complete correction from egoism, an ascent above this hatred.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/2/23

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All the Nation Involved in the Spiritual War

961.1Internal war and external war are both parts of one single whole. Each spiritual root must clothe in a corporeal branch. It seems that the spiritual root has already touched the corporeal branch and the nation of Israel has already conquered the land of Israel. Why is there a war again?

The point is that the root and the branch must completely grow into each other and exert mutual influence. The root comes in a form that is completely inappropriate for the branch; it must receive a restriction, a screen, and reflected light in order to gradually clothe in the corporeal branch.

War is always caused by a mismatch between the branch and the root. The war that is going on now is the war for the conquest of the land of Israel described in the Torah! This is a process that takes time. We need to internally accept it, agree with the upper government, and believe in salvation.

Only with the help of the army, the force acting from below, and the force of the Creator from above can we build ourselves in the correct form and win. We have no other forces than these two. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are truly a holy army.

In Israel, it is customary to treat the army with sacred respect. But in the Israeli army there really is a spiritual force that raises the people of Israel to the level of the Creator.

Even soldiers who are far from studying the Torah and Mitzvot are eventually included in this system that leads us all to the holiness of the Creator. That is, they, perhaps without knowing it, are waging a spiritual war in Gaza.

And everyone’s duty is to support them with everything possible. It means not just material support, but connecting our hearts, and from our common heart to help them succeed in everything they are doing. And thus, the entire nation will be involved in this spiritual war.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/21/23, Writing of Rabash “And It Shall Come to Pass When You Come to the Land that the Lord Your God Gives You”

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So as Not to Pay for Life with Blood

294.3The mother of one of the hostages killed in Gaza wrote a letter to the Israeli soldiers who tragically shot her son when they mistook him for a terrorist.

In this letter, she says that she loves them and justifies their actions because they have an obligation to protect themselves from terrorists, they are not to blame for anything, and only Hamas is to blame for everything.

Where does a mother get the mental strength to support soldiers fighting for their country in such a way? I have no words to express my attitude to her action because it is truly beyond human strength.

The Creator will reward her entire family and give them peace of mind. Let us hope that such a tragic mistake will never happen again.

The whole nation needs to learn from the heroism of this mother how to meet the blows of the Creator and blind fate. We have to pay for our lives with our blood.

But you can also replace this payment. If we get closer to each other and unite with our entire nation, then we will not have to pay such a high price.
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From KabTV’s “Sight Inside” 12/24/23

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Protect Every Soldier

963.4There is an inner force of holiness in the people of Israel. It comes from the root of every soul connected with the common soul of the people of Israel.

This inner force of ours, the desire to get closer and unite as brothers, will certainly reveal itself and bring us victory. The force of unity will break through from within our people and bring us so close that it will help us reach a common victory and get out of this whole situation.

A soldier who fights for the people of Israel and gives his life for them is called a righteous person, a hero of Israel; he is a great soul connected with the upper force, and he is under the wings of divinity.

Therefore, along with deep sorrow, we can also envy the one who ended his life with such a heroic deed, such a great action.

Israel has a magnificent army. We only need to be closer to each other within our nation, and then all the forces hidden in us will be revealed, and we will be able to defeat all enemies and be stronger than any other nation.

What force allows a soldier to give his life so that others may live? There is a very deep inner spiritual root in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) that will yet unfold and reveal that, in fact, we are all in the deepest and strongest connection with our inner soul. If we unite, then no one can defeat us.

If we want to win this war as quickly as possible and with minimal losses, then we only need to think about connection. We can protect every soldier by enveloping him and her in our prayers—the personal prayer of each individual and all of us together. If we are not yet completely successful in this and there are losses, it is only because we still lack unity.

War comes only to bring us all closer to each other. The people of Israel are obliged to unite so that there is no distance left between us, neither internal nor spiritual and physical. I believe that we can understand and implement this.
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From KabTV’s “An Inside Look” 12/24/23

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