Question: HaTovim (The Good Ones) a grassroot movement from Kabbalah La’Am, already have been widely recognized. Hundreds of volunteers are protecting kindergartens throughout Israel in order to restore the sense of security in children and calm parents in the midst of the wave of terror we are facing.

Thousands of people already have responded to this initiative and expressed their readiness to take part in it.

In addition to that, more than a million people have learned about the Good Ones on Facebook, and the news is spreading quickly like a virus of goodness. How does a ray of light suddenly spread throughout our society that is totally divided?

Answer: This initiative brings the upper force into the system because it stems from love, and love is the upper force.

It brings the connections between people to life, and they feel a vital spiritual energy of holiness. This holiness is love, connection, mutual thoughtfulness, and a non-egoistic desire to make everyone feel good.

It all depends on the nice and good relations and connection between us. If the whole of the Israeli nation joined such activities of mutually helping one another, we would not only put an end to this Intifada, but we also would attain complete peace with our neighbors.

We need to see the conflict with the Arab states and the Arabs living in Israel as an example of the inner conflict between us and the division between Jews. This is the only reason, and the Torah tells us about it. If you read it correctly, you understand that it is only by correcting the connection between Jews that we also correct the connection between Jews and Arabs.

All the holy books speak first and foremost about love of others, and this love should be first among the nation of Israel. This is the precondition for our correction. If we begin to fulfill it toward one another, we would immediately feel how all the evil forces in the world calm down.

It is because we produce them by the division and the bad relations between us. A positive attitude toward one another, on the other hand, is the remedy for all the problems and will lead to the world to peace and tranquillity. It simply works.

The Torah speaks only about the relations among the nation of Israel. If we corrected our relations for the good, they would affect the entire world, which would align with it. After all, “Israel” means “Li Rosh” (my head), and the rest of the world is the body, and whatever is in the head spreads throughout the body. This is the law of the spiritual system.

And so everything depends on the Israeli nation that determines the state of the entire world. This is the reason that the peoples of the world blame Israel for all of their troubles, and these accusations are justified. The whole Torah verifies that when it tells us that everything depends on the relations between the Jews who determine the state of the world.

We should internalize what the Torah says and what the peoples of the world are telling us, and decide that it is time to start our correction. All we must do is to attain love among the nation of Israel. The love of Israel is connected to the love of the created beings, which is connected to the love of the Creator.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM 10/18/15

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A new movement called HaTovim, the Good Ones, sponsored by Kabbalah La’am, started last week in Israel. This movement has a Facebook page and call center in Israel.

Question: This morning, my friend and I went to Afula to guard a kindergarten, according to the instructions of the Good Ones. Is this the fulfillment of mutual guarantee?

Answer: Of course! These are actually the actions that we should perform, every individual for the sake of others and all the people of Israel.

Through such actions we get closer and care about one another in mutual guarantee, in unity and connection between us. That is how we summon the good force that undoubtedly neutralizes all of the evil forces. Then not one individual in the world would rise against another.

Question: What would happen, theoretically speaking, if all of the Israeli citizens joined the HaTovim movement?

Answer: The entire world would be peaceful, beautiful, and good. This is what the Torah and the wisdom of Kabbalah promise us.

Question: Hundreds of volunteers joined this movement on the first day, and dozens of kindergartens called the Good Ones, asking for volunteers to guard the kindergartens and to restore their parents’ sense of security.

Answer: Even not too many people (according to the sources 600,000) making these actions will have a great effect, the world will become paradise.

The problem is that we don’t have enough volunteers to guard all the kindergartens because people work. Therefore, we invite all those who can dedicate even a few hours to join this initiative.

Question: The phone number of our headquarters is 1-700-509-209 (Israel), but the easiest way is to go to  HaTovim Facebook page, enroll,  and you will be contacted.

Answer: It is such actions, although performed under the pressure of sufferings, fear, and problems, that help us greatly and bring us closer to one another. So, let’s begin to unite more! Unity and connection between us is the war against the Intifada.

Question: As it is written, “All of Israel are responsible for one another.” This means that when we are together, we see only good. The process that began this morning inspires hope.

Answer: We depend only on ourselves! You join the Good Ones now, and that’s it! It is enough for you to participate in such activities like protecting babies and small children. What could be better?

With this you already create good relations between people—parents, educators, and among the whole Israeli nation. It is a wonderful, warm, and good example for everyone. Let’s begin!

Question: So, you go to the HaTovim – הטובים (Good Ones) Facebook page, and there are two options there, either to ask for help or to offer help. If you are educators or parents of kindergarten children and don’t have the money or the municipal resources to hire a guard, you can call us, and we will send our volunteers to guard the kindergarten.

If you want to help and have a couple of free hours on the way to work or during your break, we really need you. Register on the site or call 1-700-509-209, and you will be connected with those who need your help.

You cannot do it alone—but only together! If each of you finds the point of the nation of Israel inside himself, the point of goodness, we would be able to connect all the good forces and get rid of all the evil.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM 10/18/15

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Question: If the third intifada arises, does this indicate that there are bad relationships among the Jewish people?

Answer: Our relationships with each other remain bad and tension is accumulating all the time until it overflows its banks and hits us. After that it again begins to accumulate until the next time, until it again overflows its banks. How long can this go on?

The Kabbalists say that it will only be for a limited time, and after that we will need to leave this country if we haven’t adapted to it. In the land of Israel we must live like the people of Israel, meaning with love and unity. The moment that we become closer to each other, we will immediately see changes in the world and in the air itself. Even the sun will begin to shine in a special way, the birds will sing, and everyone will begin to relate to us with love, for this is relevant to the entire system of nature. We won’t feel any negative influences, even in the nature of the still, as the rain, wind and sun will only be pleasant and gentle.

Question: Suppose that I now begin to create relationships with my closest neighbors who are Jews like me. How do people in an Arab village who are preparing for the next attack know about this?

Answer: It’s very simple. After all, we are  in a single system in which all of its parts are mutually connected. You are at the peak of the system, so you are carrying out the key function. And everyone is pointing at you because you are not meeting your obligations and are harming everyone with this. If you act correctly, meaning that you unite, then everything will be okay. It is enough for connection and unity between two Jews for the whole world to calm down.

Question: But how will they know about this in the Arab village?

Answer: They don’t need to know about it since they will be influenced by the system, the structure that connects us inside and makes us dependent on each other. It is like a root system that is deep underground connecting all the plants. And an identical root system exists that connects all people.

Question: Does it connect us now with the terrorists?

Answer: It connects us with all of humanity. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us. It explains how the world works and how it is up to us to integrate into this system to manage it. All troubles occur in order to require us to manage the world correctly.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 10/11/15

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“The Good Ones” (HaTovim) are a community of people who believe in mutual guarantee, in giving in unfounded love—“love thy friend as thyself.” We have recruited 150 volunteers recently to guard kindergartens all over Israel.

Due to the current situation in Israel, we have decided to increase the sense of security of parents and children all over the country. Rav Dr. Michael Laitman, the founder of Kabbalah La’am says: “Due to the recent events in Israel, we feel a growing need to increase the sense of personal security of people all over the country. The Kabbalah La’am organization sees mutual guarantee as the most important value: the more people help one another, the more peacefully and safely we will be able to live here. This is the reason we have decided to do everything in our power for this cause. We are delighted to have so quickly recruited over 150 volunteers who will guard kindergartens throughout the country throughout the entire school day. Although we were the ones to initiate this move, we are happy to receive calls from volunteers from all the sectors.”

The volunteers will guard the gates of kindergartens during the school day, from 7:30 in the morning to 2:30 in the afternoon (in two shifts).
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 10/18/15

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Question: What should a strong country of Israel look like?

Answer: Israel needs to know just one thing: We all must come to love and mutual help, mutual guarantee and oneness, without doing to another what we hate and loving the neighbor like ourselves.

These are the conditions for the people of Israel to exist as a positive force in the center of the universe, which determines the good future for the whole world.

Then terrorists simply will have nowhere from which to appear. We will not need to think about how to get rid of the Intifada. The force that we will generate with our good attitude toward those like us, the Israelis, will affect the whole world and bring it to a wonderful state.

Accordingly, the world will begin to treat Israel like a force of goodness: everyone will guard, help, and take care of it in all possible ways. Like it is written, the nations of the world will pick up the sons of Israel onto their shoulders and bring them to Jerusalem.

Question: Do you believe that this quote from the prophet Isaiah and all other prophecies about a harmonious and wonderful world will be realized practically?

Answer: Of course! Although it seems that we might be moving in the exact opposite direction, this is precisely the most appropriate time to begin to realize these prophecies.

This is why the science of Kabbalah was revealed as the method of correcting our relationships and allows us to do just that. I wish us success in achieving it!
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 10/8/15

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Baal HaSulam wrote in the article, “Exile and Redemption”: Hence, I hereby propose to the House of Israel to say to our troubles, ‘Enough!’ and at the very least, make a human calculation regarding these adventures that they have inflicted us time and time again, and here in our country, as well. We wish to start our own policy, as we have no hope of clutching at the ground as a nation as long as we do not accept our holy Torah without any extenuations, to the last condition of the work Lishma, and not for oneself, with any residue of selfishness…. As long as we do not raise our goal above the corporeal life, we will have no corporeal revival because the spiritual and the corporeal in us cannot dwell in one basket, for we are the children of the idea.

The people of Israel were created from an idea, from the yearning to emulate and reach equivalence with nature, adhesion with the upper force. And so we must exist in unity, in this lies the method of Abraham.

Why is he considered our forefather if we don’t maintain his principles? While living in separation, we don’t fit their nature, and this cannot continue for long.

The Kabbalists wrote that close to a hundred years ago we received permission to return to the land of Israel only on condition that we would realize the law of Arvut (mutual guarantee), of unity, here. In this way we create a connection between the internal force of nature, the unity that is laid in its foundation, and all the nations of the world, all of humanity.

These are not just nice words because we see how these laws operate within human society, summoning attacks on and hatred for no reason toward Israel.

There is no logical explanation for the negative attitude towards Israel from the whole world. This is such a strange thing that obviously some kind of special law is operating here and the hatred will not disappear on its own.

When I was twenty years old, I, too, tried to solve this riddle: Why do the anti-Semites hate me so much for no reason? I thought that I would come to Israel, to be among my people, where nobody would hate me and where good attitudes dwell. But when I arrived in Israel, I discovered relationships between people that sometimes seemed even worse than abroad.

This hatred is against the nature of our people, and so we cannot exist until we fulfill the conditions of our father Abraham and unite as one person with one heart.

Question: Does it follow that the relationships between Jews in Israel determine how the Arabs who are living in Israel relate to us?

Answer: In The Book of Zohar it is written that if we relate to each other with love, nobody can cause us any harm. No external enemies will remain.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 10/11/15

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Question: Life in today’s world is changing rapidly. Terrorist forces are starting to come to power. The former difference between stronger and weaker countries is fading. A terrorist organization can come to power in a very strong country, and the lives of all its citizens will be in danger. This can go on indefinitely, and a strong power will never conquer the weaker one. What does it mean to be a strong power in the modern world?

Answer: There is an inner engine of humanity’s development called “time.” With time many things change. Geological periods change, and they pertain to the development of inanimate nature, followed by periods of development of the vegetative and animate nature. Humanity develops as well, and one social formation replaces another.

Everything changes with time, and there is nothing that arises once and stays stable and inviolable. A certain inner program acts within nature, and accordingly we develop from one state to another.

All parts of humanity sway, like waves in the sea: one rises, another falls. Moreover, we all are dependent on each other, and this dependence  becomes stronger from the twentieth century onward. Therefore, we cannot decide anything for the future.

There are about fifty main instrumental countries in the world, each of which affects the others. It is just as impossible to make any prognosis as it is to foresee a hurricane, tsunami, a volcanic eruption, or an explosion at a nuclear power plant.

Who could have imagined that Europe would face a wave of immigrants? All phenomena are connected with each other, we just don’t see this connection. The world develops according to our inner program, which is unknown to us.

And we are surprised that there is no stability or proper connections. Everything changes suddenly. Over the past ten years we witnessed so many rises, ascents, falls, and crises—more than over the course of the whole millennium before.

Therefore, we cannot say which country is strong and which is weak. A country may be strong for some very limited period of time, and also it is quite relative. After all, strength implies an ability to guarantee our safety tomorrow. But tomorrow is uncertain for everyone. Time is compressed and hastened so much that it is impossible to foresee anything.

We see the countries that once were powerful fall and crumble. The Soviet Union is falling to pieces and Europe is overcome by crisis. And the intention was so great: to create a common European market, to reach unity in Europe. It would seem that this was the beginning of a good future for humanity.

At first people were so inspired and had so much hope for this unification. People thought that they were building an amazing new world. But just look at how the situation has changed over some twenty years or so.

My friend, who worked with the Committee of European Unification in Strasburg, said back then that at the basis of this unification were simple economic calculations. It was a market transaction, not a union.

No matter what unifications we try to create (Russia, China, Brazil, the European Union, America-Canada-Mexico, or the Trans-Atlantic Alliance, etc.) we just fall into further despair of our inability to reach unity on any scale: small or large.

Even the institution of marriage is falling apart. Once people had an inner aspiration to at least unite with close ones: spouses, parents, children, neighbors, inhabitants of the same village or town, work colleagues, or citizens of the same country. But today it has vanished completely.

One leaves his family with ease and moves to another country without feeling any nostalgia for his homeland. He lives in a foreign country where he also cares about nothing except his own well-being, as though he is living in space.

All of the previous connections between people that existed throughout history and gave a certain form to human society fail to work today.

We wander around the world like shadows, without noticing each other, sticking our noses into our cell phones. What powerful country can we talk about if nothing draws a person to his homeland and people only are guided by their pragmatic calculations.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 10/8/15

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Question: How is the separation of the Jewish people connected to today’s intifada?

Answer: Unity is found at the foundation of the Jewish people; so we can exist only in unity. And if we don’t, then an intifada and other misfortunes begin.

It was written in the Babylonian Talmud two thousand years ago, “Calamities don’t come into the world except for the sake of Israel” (Yebamot 63a).

And today this is becoming much more current. The world wasn’t round then; a closed integral system that connects everyone together had not yet been revealed.

These connections have been revealed in our time, and it has become clear that all of us depend upon each other: all peoples, all nations. So we must find the solution to correct this connection so that it won’t be forced, imposed forcefully upon us through nature, from which it is impossible to escape, and so it will be desirable and good.

Imagine people who strongly hate each other are put into a single room and the door locked. This is exactly the way human society looks today. Today we exist on the surface of a small planet that has become very crowded for us and we hate each other, but we have nowhere to run away to.

Comment: In the same way two peoples have been closed together in Israel!

Answer: But it is only the people of Israel who have a choice; no one else in the world has a solution to correct this situation. It is as if they pushed us into a jail cell with twenty criminals who immediately began to plan how to lynch us, cut us to pieces, hang us, or just beat us from morning to evening.

What does a person who finds himself in a situation like this do? He goes crazy from fear because he has nowhere to hide. This is our situation, and gradually we are getting closer to really feeling this way.

Comment: Today people are afraid to go out into the street, children are afraid to go to school on the bus.

Answer: Nature will organize problems like this for us so that we really will not know what to do. It will even be impossible to just sit at home without going out into the street. It will even be impossible to hide at home. It will be impossible to find a quiet place.

If we, the people of Israel, are the element that is able to change its influence on the entire system, we can not run away from our mission, like the prophet Jonah. We are obliged to implement it, i.e., we must bring the whole world to the right and good unity. We are to blame for the world being as bad as it is.

In the Midrash it is written that the salvation of the people of Israel will not come as long as the Jewish people haven’t completely united.
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Question: Two peoples live in the land of Israel: Jews and Arabs. So, it is like a time bomb that explodes once every few years. We are precisely in such an explosive period now. What must we do?

Answer: You should always do the same thing. The laws of nature don’t change, they are permanent, as it is written, “For I, the Lord, have not changed” (Malachi 3:6) as well as, “And He set them up to eternity, yea forever, He issued a decree, which will not change.” (Psalms 148:6).

We cannot change anything. You can try to run away from our task, our mission, like the prophet Jonah. But we know that he did not succeed, and he was forced to return to the city of Nineveh with the mission of the Creator to convince the inhabitants to be corrected.

So also, all of the Jewish people will not succeed in hiding from their role. It is not by chance that we read the story of the prophet, Jonah, on Yom Ha Kippurim because we must realize our destiny. The world is waiting for this. Anti-Semitism will continue to grow; problems will continue to increase.

Baal HaSulam wrote that there could be nuclear wars, a third and a fourth, and the small handful of people that survive the wars would be forced to carry out and maintain the general rule of “you shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18). Everyone would be obligated to reach an integral connection in a circle.

Question: Does this mean that I must travel to an Arab village and convince its inhabitants that they must love me as themselves?

Answer: First of all, we need to convince our Jewish brothers that we need to achieve the general rule of “you shall love your neighbor as yourself”.

In the end of the Introduction to The Book of Zohar it is written that if the people of Israel maintain this law among themselves—even still without loving others, but at least uniting a bit and attaining normal relationships among them—then to this degree, the nations of the world immediately will see how the Light is streaming to them through Israel, and this indicates to us what it is to be a “Light to the nations” (Isaiah 42:6, 49:6). They will begin to relate well toward us. We will see how they suddenly will change. Let’s try it. After all, it won’t cost us anything.

Let’s begin to connect and unite among us. No one ever tried to do this correctly. Let’s try! After all, our people were born precisely from this unity, from the call of Abraham who wanted to unite all of those who were interested around this principle.

From the people who joined him in ancient Babylon, Abraham created the group that over time grew and became the people of Israel. However, in principle, the people of Israel are determined by their ideology, according to the desire to be connected. Complete strangers from various peoples and small communities that lived in Babylon entered this group.
To be continued.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM 10/11/15

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In the Talmud it is written that “All calamities come to the world only for the sake of the people of Israel” (Yevamot 63a), to force us to realize our freedom of choice, to choose the good way and to draw the whole world after us.

This is because we must be a “Light to the nations” (Isaiah 42:6), but according to our behavior today, we are not bringing any Light and are not considered the people of Israel at all. Israel are those who maintain the general rule, “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18)

Comment: But our people try to behave most humanely!

Answer: We are within a system of the laws of nature, and we must clarify precisely what we need to do to be compatible with them. The wisdom of Kabbalah is the wisdom of the world and “God” is “Nature”; therefore, we must examine nature and understand exactly what is required from us, and not just try.

It is necessary to examine precisely: have we conformed to the requirements that are imposed upon us or not? We must achieve unity between us, the general rule “Love your neighbor as yourself.” If we achieve this, then we solve our problems.

In the book Maor VeShemesh, it is written that “The essential defense against all calamities is love and unity. As long as love, unity and friendship dwells within Israel, no troubles can dominate it, and all the evil defamations and suffering move away from them.”

Question: How is it possible that due to our unity we protect ourselves from trouble?

Answer: The idea is that our world is “round,” closed. All of the parts of nature: still, vegetative, and animate, and humanity are connected together in a single system that is revealed from generation to generation as a network of strict connections.

Our success is determined by our degree of accommodation to this system, and all of our problems can be explained as a lack of accommodation to it. Today we find ourselves in a world in which no leader understands according to which laws the world operates and how it is necessary to manage it to attain some kind of success.

A number of decades ago, in the time of Churchill and Truman, there was nothing like this. So it was still possible to manage the world through aggressive authoritarian systems like Stalin.

Today a method like this won’t work anymore; what will work is only the same “identical” attitude towards the world, as all of it is itself. This is because the general network has been revealed, and in this situation nothing will help if the people of Israel who have the method of association don’t bring the entire world to unification.

A circle is association. We are discovering that all of us are connected with each other, whether we want this or not. We are living in an integral, global world that is mutually connected. There is nothing to be done about this connection except to unite and connect people; this is the main thing.

This secret, which is the foundation of the wisdom of Kabbalah, is the possession of the people of Israel. It makes it possible to connect and unify people; without it nobody will succeed in doing this, and through this connection and consolidation, all problems are solved. Therefore it is written, “All calamities come into the world only for the sake of the people of Israel” to show us that we have not yet united and haven’t brought the entire world to the long-awaited unification.

To be continued….
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 10/11/15

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