A Jew is a person who choses transitioning from this world, the lowest step of the Universe, to a higher degree as his purpose in life.

“Jew” derives from the words “Laavor” and “ever” which means “transitional.”

In my opinion, not all representatives of our people are “Jews” even though historically they possess a special, inner potential, which has not been implemented. They are “sleeping” Jews.

But judging by the conscious actions, it is possible to say that our students belong to the category of Jews. Others are still in a “stand-by” state. They have to be awakened.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 5/13/15

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Comment: Historians began to speak about the appearance of anti-Semitism not long before the destruction of the second Temple. But even before then a particular hostility toward the Jews existed. But true anti-Semitism appeared specifically at the moment that the Jews began to scatter all over the world.

Answer: Anti-Semitism appeared when the Jews shattered the good connections between them. Hatred towards them appeared precisely at this moment because they stopped being the source of good in the world.

As long as they were connected, the good force reached the world through them. The moment that they lost this connection in the time of Rabbi Akiva, in the period of the destruction of the second Temple, the world began to sink into darkness, and simultaneously hatred towards the Jews began to increase.

And rightly so, because when we don’t carry out our role, we convey a force to the world that unites them in common hatred towards us. But if we connect and unite above all the contradictions between us, we guide humanity towards the good.

To be continued…
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From KabTV’s “About Our Life” 6/4/15

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Unconsciously the nations of the world demand the Kabbalistic method from us. This even began in ancient Babylon when we disconnected from the rest through our method of existence and seeing the structure of the world and its purpose.

We began to perceive the system of nature from within ourselves as it truly is, and we began to feel that there are two opposing forces found in nature: positive and negative. Both forces come from the same source, but awaken relative to us as different. Thus, we can work with them,  and with their help learn about the part of nature that is concealed from us called the upper world, the system of management, and enter into it so that we are influenced by it through our mutual action. And it already is influencing the entire world.

But there is a problem. If we influence the entire system of management correctly and it influences the world, we seem to bless all of humanity. But if we influence it incorrectly, not connecting between us sufficiently, then ultimately we have a bad influence on the world. In other words, it appears that we are to “run the world”.

Comment: So the influence of the Jews on the world is not done directly, but through the influence of the higher power?

Answer: It is not important how it is implemented. The main thing is that the nations of the world feel their dependence on the Jews, and this is what they cannot tolerate! And if things are bad for them, then we are to blame! This is the source of hatred, because the world is in a terrible condition. And the Jews are always guilty because they have the possibility of influencing the world through a higher power that they don’t understand: It has no image, it is impossible to perceive, it is impossible to appease, it is impossible to bring it a sacrifice, it is impossible to do anything with it.

So how is it possible to at least get along somehow? There is no way!

To be continued…
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From KabTV’s “About Our Life” 6/4/15

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In the News (russian-bazaar.com): “The times when the Jewish community in the US was Israel’s supportive shield are gone. From now on,  they side with ‘liberal values,’ which are in contrast to the existence of the Jewish state.

“The voice of the American Jewry was unheard during the heated debate about the agreement with Iran. They voted for Obama, who is the embodiment of the liberal ideology and the positive outlook, twice. The Jewish organizations are at the forefront of Obama’s lawyers, and are involved in everything regarding the ‘peace process.’ Some of them do not settle for simply supporting him but also support the New Israel Foundation that subsidizes dozens of ‘human rights’ organizations that engage in defaming the IDF and Israel.

“They argue that Israel shouldn’t object to the agreement with Iran, so as not to subject the American Jews to accusations of double loyalty. The leader of the American Jewish community, Rav Steven Wiess held the same position during WWII, when he didn’t want to bother president Roosevelt with complaints about the sufferings of the Jews in Europe!

“Although the left wing sector, J Street, presents itself as the protector of the Israeli interests, it always sides with the Palestinians thus demanding Obama to put pressure on Israel. The founder of J. Street, Daniel Levi, called the foundation of Israel ‘a step after which everything began to go wrong,’ while at the same time J. Street supports anti Israeli activity on campuses.

“It is hard to believe, but it is actually people who have an Israeli nationality who are behind the crusades against Israel. The dispute in the Jewish community is already spreading among those who argue for a compromise and those who negate the right of Israel to exist. Young Jewish people on campuses are poisoned by the atmosphere of hate towards Israel, just like their peers. It is all because Israel today is challenging the liberal values of American Jews.

“The American publicist Jonathan Rosenblum wrote that for most American Jews Israel has become a hazard and a liability that stands in their way of living peacefully and they would be glad to get rid of it. He says that if the American Jews woke up one day and discovered that Israel has disappeared from the world map they would feel great relief and satisfaction.”

My Comment: I believe that the American Jews want to bury their heads in the sand, but as we have already seen in the past, we will be beaten indiscriminately, regardless of any opinions one might have. Only unity and connection can save our nation and the world.
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Question: Why is it that throughout history the Jews have been hated so much?

Answer: In different times, various excuses have been cited. After all, the Jews weren’t always accused like they are today for running the world, manipulating everyone through the banks, and enslaving humanity this way. In the past, it was rumored that they were starving people, sending all kinds of infectious diseases, causing corruption and the evil eye, etc. In general, to every normal person it is clear that the Jews had some kind of secret that is impossible to grasp in any way, even if you were to grab them and strongly shake them. It isn’t clear, but they have something of the source that is unusual, and what is unusual is the fact that the Jewish people have succeeded in existing for so many thousands of years.

There are even various theories about their creation. They are different from the rest in that supposedly they came to Earth from a distant star or were created from a different type of ape, etc. There are a multitude of reasons for not liking Jews, and if some kind of negative event happens in the world, then it is always possible to pin this on them. On one hand, it is easy to make them a scapegoat, but on the other hand, there is really something about them that makes people feel that they are to blame for everything.

Among the nations of the world, this is a natural feeling. Suppose that I am not a Jew. I look at them and feel that they have something that we don’t have. It is not clear what it is, but it is there. How can one fight against this? What can one do with it? I don’t know.

The Jewish religion, even though it is the foundation of all religions, is directed against them for some reason. Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Confucians, all of them, are centered on themselves, whereas, for some reason, the Jews have a relationship with everything.

The Inside Information of the Jews

Question: All people who become dispersed among other peoples must disappear after three generations according to geopolitical laws. Only the Jewish people have held onto their position for not only three generations but for 2,000 years in exile. On one hand, for the length of their existence itself, and on the other hand, the hatred of humanity toward them makes the Jewish people something illogical. Where does this irrational hatred come from?

Answer: From the point of view of the wisdom of Kabbalah, it is because in some way we truly are the source of evil for all of humanity. We have a remedy through which we can make everyone happy, and we not only don’t give it to others, but we also haven’t discovered it ourselves because we don’t know that we are the ones who possess this remedy. The idea is that the method for acquiring happiness is concealed within us and is kept as inside information, as something that could be revealed to the world.

This method has been latent in us from the beginning. We became a people based upon it. Around three and a half thousand years ago in ancient Babylon, we became detached from all of humanity and gathered together to the call of Abraham, “Whoever wants to understand the meaning of life, the essence of what is happening with us, what stopped us from understanding each other and why we built the Tower of Babel, whoever feels that salvation can only be through connection and consolidation, come with me!” That is how we consolidated around him. Moreover, Abraham gathered representatives of completely different tribes who didn’t understand each other and didn’t know what to do. But he explained what was happening to this mixed audience, and he showed them how it is possible to rise above the separation, above the hatred, above all the differences, and connect into a single whole, and this single whole became the Jewish people.

Question: Now, do we carry a genetic memory of this unity within us?

Answer: This is not just a genetic memory. It is a program that plays within us. We are connected to each other according to a particular algorithm, and from our connection, we have understood somehow that it is necessary to continue to develop the idea of mutual connection even though, at every moment, we really want to get out of it.

Question: So were those people who followed Abraham drawn toward this unity?

Answer: They understood through their inner sense that there is a method for salvation here because all of Babylon was in a terrible state and humanity dispersed throughout the world. In his historical writings, Flavius Josephus described in which directions all the various tribes (clans) scattered. Some went east, others to the north, to the south, and so forth, becoming the foundation for the present civilization. However, Abraham gathered tens of thousands around him who had the same outlook and actively showed them how to connect based upon the method of connection circles.

These were practical lessons that included all of the nuances of their common life within them. Abraham took them out of Babylon and led them to the land of Canaan (present day Israel), and with their adaptation to this land, it also was called the “House of Abraham.” They were engaged constantly with connection because, every day, every moment, the aspiration to scatter again appeared in them. After the ego grew in them, rejection constantly flared up between them, and they needed to connect again. So, their method constantly became more sophisticated, despite and thanks to the development of the egoism within them.

To be continued.
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From KabTV’s “About Our Life” 6/4/15

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Opinion (Aristarh Rabinovich): “A year or two ago a political revolution developed in the communications media about the involvement of the police in many ‘scandals’ regarding the use of unnecessary force, sexual harassment, excessive violence and so forth. And so naïve people believe all of these slanders, and as a result, the population is beginning to support the ‘revolutionaries’ who are destroying the nation. A few months of riots in the streets and there will be no nation.

“And suddenly it became Israel’s turn. As if on command, in the Israeli news appeared about ‘police lawlessness.’ They had seen that it was not okay to apply pressure on Israel from the outside. Shooting attacks only consolidate the society against an external enemy. So the United States went in another direction: the United States is preparing a diplomatic coup in Israel, dividing and splitting the society through national disputes and differences. The Americans very much need to oust the rebellious Netanyahu, who is leading Israel towards independence from the United States.”

My Comment: I think that whether this is correct or not, we can stand against any threat and win only if we are united. When we unite, the unique power of unity appears among us, the Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light), the Upper Light, which shields us and transforms enemies into friends. Everything depends on us!
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Question: Recently Israel celebrated Unity Day. The government announced it and people went out to the streets, sat in circles and discussed the current state of the nation. These discussion circles took place in universities, various organizations, and city squares. It seems that we are working in the right direction, so what is the problem?

Answer: The problem is that unity shouldn’t last only one day. Unity has to be our constant state. We need true internal unity when people feel close to one another and warmly connected. We will have to work hard on our egoism, but without that we will not be able to live as a nation, even without the international boycott. We can live in this land only if we fulfill our true essence as the nation of Israel.

If we give in to external pressure and accept the demands imposed on us, the outcome is predetermined. After all, those who initiate them basically want to destroy the state and the nation and send us in every which way and take over the space that will be vacated here. Taking this into account, Unity Day is certainly better than nothing at all, but it can also have negative implications if it confuses people and leads them to believe that they have already done it and that there is no need to unite further, after all, they spent a whole day on it.

On the other hand, we have simply polished our pride for the time being by demonstrating a noble initiative. Unfortunately, I don’t feel any unity and I don’t feel that our nation is soldered into one whole. On the contrary, people are submerged in alienation, distancing from one another, hating each other. We don’t need one day in a year but a whole education system that deals with that. We need to regard our divided state as a national problem. We should use all the media channels to guide the nation in the right direction and to show people how to actually unite.

Even if we don’t have any spiritual aspirations, we are trying to resemble the spiritual world through our unity. But first and foremost, people must understand that we will not survive if we are not united.
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From KabTV’s “About the Boycott of Israel” 6/3/15

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I am sure that all of our efforts in dissemination under the conditions of the growing external threat will spur the Israeli nation to find out what nature demands of us and why the entire world regards the Jews in such a negative manner.

People will feel that what’s important isn’t merely to escape their problems but to know the reason for them. But only the wisdom of Kabbalah can explain the reason for all the evil, and it also can provide the means for its correction.

There is no other method to overcome evil except the internal connection and unity of the Israeli nation. A person shouldn’t simply hear that, but should feel it in his heart. We must spread this message to every individual and to the entire nation, uniting everyone together. Then, all the sanctions and boycotting of Israel will come to an end, otherwise the whole world will engage in just that.

People will not be able to understand why everyone picks on us and focuses on us, although there are so many other problems in Japan, in China, conflicts between India and Pakistan, between Russia and the Ukraine, Europe is falling apart and cannot sustain the common European market, and there is a terrible crisis in the US. The entire world will be in a crisis, but at the same time, everyone will focus on Israel and blame it. Infinite conventions, assemblies and congresses all over the world will deal only with the issue of Israel as if it were the greatest problem for everyone.

Indeed, the upper forces and the upper providence focus all the nations in the world in this direction against Israel, and soon they will not let us breathe. It will not be a mere boycott anymore, but a real blockade. And this can only be opposed by the connection and unity between us.

The moment the nation of Israel connects and unites, everything suddenly will quiet down. The moment we cease to unite and disconnect, the problems immediately will restart. This is how our world advances, by continuous ascents and descents from one level to the next, until we attain the correction.

This process is described in allegorical language by the prophets as wars in which one side is winning and then the other, but eventually the outcome depends only on the connection of the Jewish people in the land of Israel that will bring about a change in the entire world. Thanks to that, the Jewish people will be the first to get close to the upper force, and then the entire world will follow them.

All of this will unfold right before our very eyes. Therefore, it is so important to disseminate the method of correction among the Jews in America, all over the world, and especially in Israel. Everyone must know why and how everything happens.

The major work will take place in Israel in order to connect and unite the nation and explain our special role to the people. This connection is the remedy for all the problems in Israel and in the entire world. The only problem is that we are distant from the Creator, from the upper force that created us. By connecting, we get closer to Him so we should do anything that is in our power!
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/10/15, Writing of Baal HaSulam

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Question: Why do you popularize the spreading of the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: As a result of our development, we are beginning to ask about the meaning of life, about its purpose, and about the nature of suffering. So, we must give the common man, far from attaining the meaning of life and the nature of the suffering, the possibility of knowing about this. This is because the depression, sadness, and lack of understanding of the purpose of existence appearing in our time brings aggression, violence, hatred, and wars. We see how peoples and nations clash in a mad, wild “sword dance,” and all of this is because they don’t understand the meaning of life.

Look at what is happening in politics, in the economy, everywhere and in everything! Ignorance and stupidity—people puff themselves up like turkeys, harming others and annihilating each other. Today, many internally ask this question, but don’t express it out loud. Subconsciously, it presses down on them. They would like to find the answer to it, but they cannot, and so it depresses them even more. Instead, they begin to occupy themselves in “games” with bombs, airplanes, terrorism, etc, which end in terrible events, especially these days.

So, we must invest maximum effort so that people will understand how and what is truly carried within the question about the meaning of life, the meaning of the universe, the meaning of our existence here and in other states.

We must make it possible for our people to become the people of Israel, meaning that they yearn for a goal, because they don’t have the right to hide from their destiny. They are obliged to discover the characteristics, foundations, and qualities that exist in them, and thus save humanity from great suffering that would otherwise await us on the way of development.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 6/1/15

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Question: If the Jewish people are in the land of Israel to carry out spiritual work, why is it so difficult to live here? Every small thing that is resolved easily somewhere else in the world becomes a terrible and intolerable war in Israel.

Answer: The reason is that everything happening in Israel belongs to spiritual correction. Therefore, it is so difficult to correct even a small step, because the spiritual correction is made here. We are correcting the spiritual system through which the Light and abundance descends to the entire world.

The changes that happen with the people of Israel influence the higher system that manages all the higher worlds, not just our world. There is no chance of influencing the higher system through the nations of the world. Only the people of Israel influence the higher system. Jews can disagree with this task and try to live a simple life like everyone, but no one asks them what they want. This role was imposed on us and it is impossible to refuse to carry it out, just like when we are born we don’t choose our father and mother.

So, there is no reason to discuss whether we like this role or not. Let’s talk only about how to carry it out now when we have freedom of choice, and, if we don’t choose this role of our own freewill, then we will get blows until it seems that there is no choice, and we need to advance in a special way. What can one do? We were born with this destiny.

There is no other way for the upper management to agitate and arouse us. We don’t understand what we’re doing and through what corrections are made. Constantly negative influences are acting upon us from above, and we try to run away from them, but we cannot escape. So, gradually, but correctly, we advance and reach correction.

The Jewish people have existed like this for the last two thousand years. It is useless to rebel and protest; we are faced with a very simple choice. Either the people of Israel will fulfill its mission and truly become the people of Israel living according to the principle, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” and in this way influence the higher system positively through which all of the positive changes will spread through the entire world, the rest of the seventy nations of the world, or we don’t carry out our role, and the indignant nations of the world will come to us and beat us until we agree to carry out our obligations.

Around seventy years ago, the Holocaust broke out because we were not ready to accept our role. I hope that now we will be ready for the role so a new Holocaust won’t come, the shadow of which already can be seen over the horizon. We can refuse to accept this role, but this won’t help. We are in a network, in a system, that connects the entire world, and this network will find and pull us everywhere, wherever we try to hide.

The time has arrived to carry out our obligations regarding the entire world, and they will require this of us. A boycott of Israel will begin from all sides. This will become a complete blockade that will strangle us until we carry out the role that was assigned to us by the general system, and the sages explain to us how to transform all the evil to good. We must only stop being so stubborn and listen to their advice a bit.

Question: Is there any promise that everything will turn out well?

Answer: The promise that the end will be good is on condition that we begin to change and correct ourselves.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/10/15, Writing of Baal HaSulam

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