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How We Can Change The Situation In Israel: The Point Of Universal Balance

laitman_933Question: The main role for which we were born is to reach the state of “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” It turns out that the terrorists who go out to the streets can be called “angels” who push us to fulfill our role.

Answer: Angels are not cherubim with wings, but forces that carry out orders from above, nature’s orders.

The force of gravity also can be called an angel, just like other forces in nature: electric, magnetic, etc. They stabalize the general balance in nature that constantly shifts and changes to the positive or negative sides of the common center.

This is the point that reveals these forces and others in every aspect. From the positive side, we can offer someone a helping hand, a hug, give a piece of bread, or help in other ways through culture, science, and so on.

It is the same from the negative side. One can kill, slaughter, humiliate, and harm others using the same science, art, and so forth. This means that these are all angels, forces through which the good and the evil are revealed in human society, and not only in society but in nature, too.

Israel is in the center between these two systems of forces and is the central point that can balance the whole system. We don’t destroy evil, but only balance the world and constantly keep this balance. This is the role of Israel and of the Jews.

Therefore, when anti-Semites say that we cause all the evil in the world, they are acknowledging the fact that they depend on us.
To be continued.
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From KabTV’s “The Current Emergency Situation In Israel” 10/14/15

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The World Crisis

 Dr. Michael LaitmanFrom the News (radonezh.ru ): “The world is in a difficult situation, problems are everywhere and the situation is becoming more severe. Whoever is managing the Earth is playing cunning tricks on us to continue to hold us in bondage. It is too late to discuss the problem of developing stability while conducting a war. The world requires a new consensus.

“We are living in a fragile world that is developing rapidly, with stability decreasing, with this becoming the new norm of our lives. Globalization has stopped providing its dividends. The United States is joining with 40 nations and negotiating trans-Atlantic free trade with the European Union. Russia is making its own Eastern-European union. China is also interested in it, and these blocs will compete. There is nothing good for the individual. The world is on the verge of the destruction of the basic economic paradigm of development. In the history of Europe there have been two cases like these in the past 2,000 years. These are the destruction between the 9th and 11th centuries, when the ancient economic model was replaced by a feudal model, and between the 16th and 17th centuries, when the feudal model was replaced by the capitalist model. Today the mechanism of capitalistic development is exiting. But as happens every time, this will continue for a few centuries and bring severe disasters. The peak of the crisis will be in the middle of 2016, with the possibility of the collapse of the financial system.”

My Comment: The collapse of the existing society with all its egoistic connections and forms must happen, and the sooner it happens, the better it will be for all of us. Because in that case, the collapse will be softer. The existing systems are based on the egoistic nature of humanity, and it must be understood that it has completely broken down.

We ourselves must want to change our nature, because that is precisely the locus of each against all, compelling everyone to build his own happiness on someone else’s misfortunes, causing a collision between nations and entire continents. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to move to the new world rapidly and happily, for the good of everyone.
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The Situation In Israel: The End Of The Infitada

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: When will the Intifada stop?

Answer: It cannot stop by itself without our involvement; it is up to us to bring the positive force, the force of unity, among the people of Israel, and in this way, we will disseminate this good force throughout the world, since we influence everything.

If we don’t do this and assume that the situation will calm down, then after some time, a much worse negative force will be revealed to us. Clearly, we would like the Intifada to stop immediately. But we must understand that the situation will become more severe if we don’t help reveal the positive force in our world.

Question: What can the Israeli society do today to solve this problem at its root?

Answer: First of all, the Israeli society must know what its good future depends on. It depends only on us, not on any other people or any negotiations between politicians. We don’t depend on anyone, only on ourselves. It is apparently a very good thing that the ball is in our hands and we determine everything. But specifically because the ball is in our hands, the eyes of the whole world are turned towards us and other peoples are demanding us to bring good to the world, instead of bad. They talk about this very seriously, claiming that Israel determines the entire state of the world, and if it is bad, Israel is to blame.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, the people of Israel are found at the center of creation, and we possess a method that makes it possible to correctly organize connections in all of humanity, all of nature, and in an ideal way, calm down all levels of nature: the still, vegetative, animate and human. We have this knowledge and the ability to realize it. You don’t want there to be terrorist acts? Invest effort and do what depends on you! Don’t just sit at home in front of the television and count how many acts of terrorism there were today. If it depends upon each one of us, let’s begin to approach each other and ask, “How is this possible?  If we don’t do something, then this will continue.”

You ask, “Will the Intifada stop?” It won’t stop as long as the right connection between us hasn’t been found, especially among the people of Israel. And then everyone will understand how they need to organize themselves—all over the world, with everything that is happening in Europe, America, and in other nations. They will suddenly begin to understand how to establish relationships with each other.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 10/18/15

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What Is The Measure Of A Nation’s Strength?

Laitman_200_01Question: What helps a country to remain strong and stable in this chaotic world in terms of maintaining its economy and security?

Answer: There is nothing that helps—not army, wealth, industrial power, scientific potential, nor highly developed medicine or religion.

These things might support or slightly change to strengthen a country’s industrial, trade, and technological rating, but attaining real stability is unfeasible in this modern world. It seems to us that some countries are stable. But in fact, we cannot test their stability since it can be blown up in a moment. So far, nobody has attacked these countries and tried to destroy them.

That’s why it’s hard to evaluate how strong they really are since we can test their stability only under the condition that they oppose somebody’s hostility. South Africa is a vivid example of how easily  a strong and prosperous country can be destroyed.

Question: Is Israel in your opinion a strong country?

Answer: Israel is the weakest nation because there are too many factors that constantly undermine its stability. Israel can be destroyed by one explosion at an electric station or by poisoning the water supply in the lake Kinneret. Actually, it applies to any country, but Israel is much more prone to casualties and is vulnerable to numerous factors that can destroy its solidity.

Israel can be strong only on the condition that it uses its unique force—connection with the overall global system. The Israeli nation is a part of the upper governing network that can be influenced solely by the people of Israel.

Only unity among us will lead us to strength and sustainability. If the Jews connect with each other correctly, they will impact the entire world in a positive way. Our detachment unconsciously produces negative influence on humanity.

Question: Does it mean that Israel can become the strongest nation?

Answer: Yes, it’s possible, but only on condition that the Jews unite as one man with one heart. Our unity is the unit of measurement of our country’s strength. The power of the world is defined by Israel’s strength.

Israel is the only nation that can decide on its own whether it chooses to be strong or weak. Not a single country except Israel is capable of it; all other countries depend on Israel, on its decision.

Should we choose to be strong, we will have to unite. Only our unity will provide safety. When we unite, other countries will follow our example and join us of their own free will.
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On The Threshold Of A Third Intifada – Part 12 “Why Doesn’t Anything Help Stop The Terrorism?“

Laitman_049_01Question: Why don’t any measures from leadership to stop the terrorism [in Israel] help, but only worsen the condition?

Answer: Because it does not depend on leadership. Even if all the leaders of Islam and the leaders of all the major powers suddenly wanted to do something good for the people of Israel, and even if our Arab neighbors wanted to live in peace with us, it would not resolve the conflict.

After all, it doesn’t depend on people but on the failure to implement the law of nature. The people of Israel must bring all parts of nature to unity, so that through them they will disseminate this to all of the nations.

Question: Why does a paradox like this exist, that the more that acts of terrorism are directed against Jews in Israel, the more the media condemn Israel?

Answer: Because both are derived from the same source: the people of Israel haven’t attained unity to the degree that it was obliged to date. We already should have united the whole world into a single system.

And as long as we don’t, we get a negative reaction from our internal and external forces. One only has to look at what hostility appears in Israel among the Jews themselves, and likewise among the Jews and Arabs, and in the attitude of all the nations against Israel.

Question: How is it possible to confirm that “love of others” will help us solve all problems?

Answer: Love of others is the general law that unites all parts of nature. Just like the laws of physics, it cannot be changed. All of us came out of the Big Bang, and later everything began to extend from this single point, from a single spark of energy that fills the entire universe.

It follows that all of us are connected with each other, for we are connected to that tiny spark of energy that empowered the existence of the entire universe, all the stars and systems around the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking on the surface of our tiny planet in the vast space.

All of this is one single system. Let’s open our eyes a bit and we will understand that we exist within a vast system of nature and can influence it in a positive direction.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 10/11/15

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Abu Mazen, The Roots Of Hatred

laitman_272In the News (inosmi.ru): “At first glance, the thesis that Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) defended in 1982 at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, examines the relationship between the Zionists and the Nazis after the signing of the Agreement Haavara in 1933 between the Zionist movement and the Nazi regime. But a closer examination of this work shows that it contains a typical poisonous Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda.

“In his book The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between the Nazis the Leadership of the Zionist Movement and Zionism published in 1984, based on the thesis (which any Palestinian can read online Abbas) he writes that the leaders of the Zionist movement, including David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett, were ‘key partners’ and responsible for the Holocaust and the crimes committed during the Second World War. According to him, they are guilty of the murder of Jews, since they supported anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jewish people in the hope of increasing the flow of immigrants. …

“Abu Mazen goes even further and states in his book that the Holocaust was Zionist conspiracy against the Jewish people and that its entire goal was to establish a national home in Palestine. And all those who aspired to expose that plot, especially after the establishment of the State of Israel, were killed by Israeli entities. And here Abu Mazen pointed to ‘poor’ Adolf Eichmann, who tried to expose the conspiracy between the Jews and the Nazis, and for this reason, according to Abu Mazen, the Israeli ‘Mossad’ kidnapped him from Argentina and had him killed. …

“Today, Abu Mazen’s book is on the table of the Israeli Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. The legislators and members of the committee would do well to initiate an urgent discussion of the Palestinian incitement, which is relevant today as ever. The incitement and blood libel contained in Abu Mazen’s book are stronger in its destructive impact than any terrorist attack. …

“Abbas seeks to falsify history, but its main task – to cover up the real accomplices of the Nazis, for example, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini and his entourage, who lived in Germany from 1941 to 1945. This Mufti incited violence against Jews in Europe and the Arab countries, and is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people during the Holocaust.”

My Comment: It is unwise to wait for changes in the behavior of people; they are all managed. The only ones who have freedom of choice are the Jews who are prepared to unite with each other (through mutual guarantee – Arvut), and cause the appearance of the positive power (the Creator) in our world, and with this lead the world to goodness and happiness.

After all, due to the fall from mutual love to unfounded hatred, the Temple was destroyed 2,000 years ago. As long as we don’t restore that same love, we cannot be considered a people and a nation. Instead of anti-Semites, let’s engage ourselves, and then they will disappear!
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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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“Capitalism Is Devouring Its Own Tail”

Dr. Michael LaitmanIn the News (inosmi.ru): “The world may soon enter an era in which it will be possible to be rich only because of one’s birth. Modern capitalism is increasingly resembling feudalism. 

“According to the calculations of the British charity Oxfam, in the next year 1% of the richest people on earth are to amass more money than the remaining 99%. 

” If the average growth of world production is 1-1.5%, while income from capital investment comes to 4-5%. Speculating on the market, you can earn much more than producing something useful for the economy. The greatest chance of enrichment are for those who have sufficient capital and can afford to indulge in financial speculation. So they accumulate more and more money and are more and more alienated in property terms from the rest of society and its problems.

“‘Therefore, the circumstances of birth are more important than talent and effort,’ – wrote American economist and Nobel laureate, Paul Krugman.

“The new aristocracy – is not so much the aristocracy of industry, as it is a circle of people holding money. Many economists have long pointed to financial speculation as a source of growing stratification.

“Much of this paper wealth can evaporate as a result of the financial turmoil, just as in a few weeks in June and July 2015 2.8 trillion (the amount is close to the nominal GDP of France) evaporated with the Chinese exchanges. The problem is that the large financial speculators did not become poor from the collapse. It is the small punters who, losing their life savings in the markets, can not count on any support. Banks in these situations also can count on assistance from the state.

“Increased stratification also leads to a decrease in social mobility, limited access to education. In the long term, the less ‘equal’ economy also suffers from the greater likelihood of senior positions being taken by not really talented people, but by those who compensate for the lack of talent by birth in a rich family or acquaintances in high places.

“Growth of the disparity in income in the long term may also lead to dire political consequences. On the one hand, it leads to oligarchic mode, on the other hand, increases sympathy for the radical movements that seek to eliminate the existing socio-political order.

“It is possible to observe a harbinger of countries lying in the periphery of the eurozone. There is growing a generation that has never had a chance at a normal job. “The level of financial stratification in Europe have threatened social equilibrium. When the unemployment rate, which among youth in Greece and Spain, more than 50% of the younger generation has no prospects,” – indicates Janusz Shevchak.

“‘Piketty writes in his book that if the level of return on capital will consistently exceed the level of economic growth (which he predicts in his works), this can lead to the destruction of the foundations on which to build democratic capitalism, that is, the idea that work allows one to get rich, and its material effect depends on individual skills and effort. As a result, a phenomenon exacerbated delegitimization of capital and that this is followed, activated movement “angry” and start coming to power of populist parties (both left and right), cleverly finding access to public discontent, “- recalls Sobochinsky.

“…in Europe support formed for radical formation during the Great Depression of the 30’s: the Communist Party, the German Nazi Party, fascist, radical socialist and national-radical movements. History shows that the radicalization of society can be accelerated if an economic crisis imposed an identity crisis of the nation and the immigration crisis.

“‘The response to the crisis 30s was the introduction of very high taxes in the framework of the policy New Deal, so that in the post-war period managed to establish relative balance between labor and capital, as a result, income inequality decreased significantly.'”

My Comment: Capitalists are not brave enough to raise their own taxes. Today there is no longer a clear and accurate correlation between hard work and the outcome of labor. Countries are not locked within their borders and business has become global.

Therefore, people don’t feel that they depend on capital within their country and international corporations don’t feel that they depend on it. In order to feel it, they have to feel the environment, the attitude towards others. The world has come to an economic dead end and the only way out is through new social relationships. See “The Last Generation.”
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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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