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When Will Antisemitism Disappear?

448.3Antisemitism will disappear only after the final correction that should happen in the world. But it is still more useful for the peoples of the world to follow their natural impulses as little as possible, which will eventually turn against them anyway.

In the future, we are to see that everything they have done against the Jews (after all, the Jews are a completely spiritual structure) will indeed become a horrible experience for them.

However, this is necessary for correction. As far as you go down, you go up, and at the same time you go through such opposing forces.

Thus, there are no winners here. Therefore, I would recommend being very careful with these things.

This is not because I am talking about my people, but because in the future (according to Kabbalah, and we see it from the structure of the upper world), all the evil that you have caused to others, you will have to pass on yourself.

Comment: In general, the classic approach is do not do bad things to others and you will not invite this negativity upon yourself. In essence, people are afraid to do something bad to others since it might be reflected in their future life or reincarnation, it does not matter in what.

My Response: Although this is a purely egoistic approach, because a person is doing it out of fear, it is still justified in the framework of our world. He is afraid of punishment, but still believes in the Creator, in some upper force, and in some governance.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hatred of the Jews” 5/14/11

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Respect from Enemies

937Comment: In ancient times, even during the Roman Empire, Jews were treated with more respect than they are now.

My Response: At that time there was a very big difference between other peoples and the Jews.

The Jews were on a spiritual level; they attained and felt the Creator, and lived according to the principles of the Torah: love your neighbor, do not kill, do not steal, etc.

The rest were barbarians: they killed, stole, subjugated, and raped; it was not possible to travel along the roads. Several centuries ago, this was the case even in the very cultured France. They threw slop out of the windows, and so on.

In ancient Israel, there was nothing of this; everything was conducted in a completely different way. Therefore, although people were in contact with each other, the relations within the peoples were too different. Therefore, each nation developed within itself.

But many were interested in knowledge and received it from the Jews. Everything was open. Even the Romans who wanted to conquer them were well aware of all their holidays and customs. This cannot be hidden in any way.

Question: Why did Rome finally suppress Jerusalem? Why could they not live together?

Answer: The fact is that there is a course of history that had to be manifested. The Prophets said in advance that this would happen because the Jews fell from the spiritual level. Therefore, the one who was opposing it had to put this into action.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hatred of the Jews” 5/14/11

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Surviving while Surrounded by Enemies

549.02Comment: At one time, many people from different countries of the world came to Israel: from Morocco, Yemen, Russia, and so on. But those who could not settle here began to leave for America, Germany, and other countries.

My Response: That’s right because only a person who initially has some justification for living here can be in this country. Any other country in the world is able to create more comfortable and safe conditions than here [Israel].

Where have you seen thousands of missiles aimed at a piece of land like Israel? It is surrounded by haters with knives in their hands ready to kill everyone. Everyone! Without any feeling! With only one feeling, a feeling of joy.

Despite this, people live here. Subconsciously they are kind of dismissive of this fact because otherwise you will not survive it.

Comment: But at the same time, there is a feeling of greater security in Israel than anywhere else. It is the feeling of security that nobody is going to come up to you and give you a blow on the head.

My Response: It is natural for the Jews. They can be very big thugs, but intellectual thugs. To use street banditry is not acceptable for them, they are not this kind of people.

Throughout their history, Jews received too many educational injections. Therefore, there are no internal movements in them to display brute force, to approach you and push, stab, or something else. Children can walk alone in the street in the evenings without any problems. In general, it is safe. But this is because people are like that originally.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hatred of the Jews” 5/14/11

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Life Built on Stress

417Comment: Since childhood, I was indifferent to anything that concerned Jews. I never even considered coming to Israel. I traveled to many countries and got certain feelings from them. But in Israel, there is a particular sense of something still not being completed here.

My Response: Israelis have their own special little pride, but it is characteristic of a young country. Jews know nothing about being chosen by God and in no way feel it in themselves.

Israel is as young a country as, say, the Wild West was in the US at one time when people cultivated its deserts and prairies; they were proud of it and still feel pride to this day. After all, it was a period of pioneers, first settlers.

In some ways, the same thing is happening here based on the fact that people live in danger, in a state of war. They adapt to this in very difficult conditions.

When I come to Canada or America and look at the life of Jews there, it makes me sick to see people who only care about themselves, about their own pocket. Moreover, they are open about it: “I do not care about anything else.”

It is a purely animalistic existence. Take care of today and tomorrow, and the rest can burn in hell! Their desires do not rise above a comfortable material existence.

But in Israel, life itself is different. It revolves around stress. Those living here must constantly feel close to danger, with questions about life. And this leaves a mark.

Naturally, in egoists this is manifested as some kind of pride: “Yes, we are like that.” But this is a specific pride that comes from their spiritual aim, from their eternal goal that they must achieve and deliver to humanity.

Comment: But there is a sense of indifference toward each other here.

My Response: I think it is a defense mechanism, a survival instinct. It is too hard otherwise.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hatred of the Jews” 5/14/11

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Connection with the Habitat

740.01Question: What is the basis for the creation of countries? Why are there a lot of different countries and not one common country?

Answer: Everything comes from Ancient Babylon, in particular the settlement of people according to their egoistic qualities.

In Ancient Babylon there were 70 spiritual roots of 70 tribes. But they were all connected by egoism, by one aspiration for the Tower of Babel.

When this system stopped working, everyone started to hate each other, and in order to not unite and not fight, they scattered all over the world: some to the east, some to the west. Later, the great migration of peoples happened again but after many centuries.

Question: If this phenomenon has roots, then why is it happening this way?

Answer: Every nation is drawn to a certain place! Let’s say, the Eskimos went north. It would seem that there is nothing to do there! Yet, they stuck to that earth and besides digging out some roots from under the permafrost and breeding deer, they have nothing else. But they still live there and do not want to change their habitat. That is it! They are simply stuck to it!

But when a person moves from place to place, he as if loses connection with his land, with his juices.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Dominance of America” 5/15/11

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An Anti-Semitic View of the World

961.1Question: Why is there an attitude toward Jews as if they are doing something that annoys the entire world? Having lived in Israel for some time, I see that, in principle, they do not accept each other. It seems to me that nationalism is much stronger here than in other places. Is that what causes the anti-Semitism?

Answer: I understand that you are trying to find the roots of anti-Semitism. With your anti-Semitic view, you see the problem in the Jews. I agree with that.

But you cannot see in any other way. After all, you will never be able to walk in a Jew’s shoes, to feel the millennia of exile and the attitude of the whole world toward you, and your attitude toward the world. It is impossible to describe.

All studies of this paradox of anti-Semitism will lead to nothing and will give nothing. It is impossible to investigate it at the philistine level, but only if we rise to the root of these problems. In order to rise to it, you need to feel this root.

I basically do not see any point in talking about it because such an attitude lies deeply within people in their sense of the world and in their nature, which is absolutely opposite to the nature of the Creator.

In the Jews, however, there is a point that comes from the Creator. I am not saying that it is good. On the contrary, it is negative in them, broken, and inverse to the Creator. But, nevertheless, it is in them.

Therefore, there is a special prejudice against them on the part of other nations. There is nothing you can do about it. Nothing.

Only those individuals who have a point in their heart and are working on themselves to understand their nature, begin, at the same time, to feel its source, including the root of anti-Semitism.

From a spiritual point of view, anti-Semitism is directed by the upper force at Jews through other nations in order to lead this historical wave in the world and bring it to a certain decision, to the goal.

Therefore it is useless to try to figure it out. I just want people to state it as a fact and that is it. You cannot do anything and you cannot prove anything to anyone. You are an egoist and anti-Semite. This is how you were created. This should be accepted as a given.

You will not be able to jump out of yourself and think differently. There are some things that a person cannot figure out yet. So there is no need to be confused with them. I recommend this to everyone except people with a point in the heart.

Those who really develop a point in the heart gradually begin to feel a different universe, the one from the Creator’s side. Then they see why the world is divided in this way and what is happening here. A paradoxical picture of all this is being revealed to them.

It is not about the Jews, but about the separation of nations throughout the entire huge human movement toward reaching the purpose of creation.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hatred of Jews” 6/3/11

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What Did the Creator Offer Us

931.01Question: One of the biggest celebrations for Jews is the holiday of Shavuot when the people received the Torah at Mount Sinai.

In general, it is a great event for the world because it can be said that everything began with this. How do you define this celebration for the world?

Answer: For the world I cannot define it in any way because the world does not know anything about it, has not taken it, and does not take any part in it to this day. People of Israel, also, I would not say that they especially celebrate this holiday. It is just a celebration of the giving of the Torah.

But receiving the Torah is a completely different matter. It comes individually to everyone when each one, if they understand what it is, agrees to take upon themselves the instructions and the advice that the Torah gives to a person. Then, indeed, a person gradually begins to organize an inner understanding of what the Torah is and what it gives him. And then he can celebrate it.

Comment: It turns out that I was wrong when I said “receiving.” You corrected me. It is the giving of the Torah. Receiving is a whole process that will continue.

My Response: This is from below up. The giving is from the top down. Meaning, giving is something that the Creator does, so to say. And receiving is what I have to come to, to get it.

Question: Then tell me how to do it. I know the sources say that the people stood as one man with one heart, this was their state, and at that moment they received the instruction of life, so to say.

Do we have to get to this state in order to start revealing something?

Answer: Of course. All this is said not about the past, but about the future.

Question: Can today’s shattered, scattered world not even imagine what is there at all?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Your constant phrase that we should come to these good ties, to connect with each other, is this precisely so that we can begin this process of receiving the Torah, by and large?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What will we get then? The set of laws is clear to me.

Answer: This is not just a set of laws. We will get a completely new attitude toward relationships between people and the relationship of each person toward the world. This is love. “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Everything that is placed there consists only of this.

Comment: It turns out that you reduce the Torah to one thing practically. You said: “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”

My Response: Yes. This means coming to a state where we are completely connected by love, care, and mutual complicity with each other, all the people together.

The Torah represents the upper force, the upper light, which, to the extent of our efforts and our diligence to get closer and unite, affects us and helps us to achieve such a state of connection.

All that is required of us is effort and diligence, i.e., striving for it. Then we will be able to attract this upper light, the upper force. And it will correct us and connect us with others, with all the people of the world.

Question: Does it depend on us, on me? Or is my effort a gift from above?

Answer: From above is an offer: if you want, you will get it. But it depends on us to accept it and implement it.

Question: What do you think is the current stage of the Jewish people and the world in this process of receiving the Torah?

Answer: I would say not so far away because we have passed the path of the revelation of evil, which is the extent of our nature being opposite of the nature of the Torah, love, connection, mutual assistance, and so on. That is why we do not have much left to do. We just need to draw a conclusion from what we have gone through and with the revelation of the evil of our nature, take upon ourselves the law of mutual love.

Question: We approach, as they say, this mountain, Mount Sinai.

What is Mount Sinai?

Answer: Mount Sinai, the mountain, this is clear, and “Sinai” is from the word “hate,” a mountain of hate that we must rise above.

Humanity must approach this huge mountain of hatred and rise above it. Then they will be able to connect with each other in one single system, in one single nation, and achieve absolute happiness.

Question: Are you saying the whole of humanity into one nation?

Answer: Yes, because the Torah generally speaks about all the people on Earth.

Question: When you say Torah, does everyone imagine a book?

Answer: No. The Torah is a system of correction of all people, up to their complete connection with each other.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/18/23

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The Inevitability of the Recognition of Evil

504Question: Do Jews understand why there is pressure on them from all sides?

Answer: They understand perfectly, but what can you do? This is the law of nature, the forces of nature, which direct the uncorrected people in this way to hate those in whom there is a spiritual germ, the source of the upper soul.

We cannot agree with that, we hate ourselves. We, Jews, do not like ourselves for this because we are uncorrected.

Comment: But in fact, the Jews themselves do not know this.

My Response: What difference does it make if they know or not? This is the law of nature; this is how natural forces work. Anti-Semites do not know why they do not like Jews, they invent all sorts of excuses, and Jews do not know why they hate them, and they also invent all sorts of reasons. It comes from two upper opposing forces, just like everything in our world.

In the corporeal world, the representative of spiritual forces is a Jew. In order to make myself a representative of the spiritual forces instead of him, I must destroy him, not destroy completely, but to leave him as an example: “Look at the state he is in, it means I am right, I won, I am higher.”

Question: Will the Jews ever understand their destiny? Or will they realize it only when they are slaughtered?

Answer: No, this cannot happen. They will realize their mission, demonstrate it, and offer it to the whole world. Then, to the extent that everyone participated in the beating of this tribe, he will have to overcome this whole process within himself, because the recognition of evil must pass through all the Kelim (Vessels), through all the phases of egoism in the opposite direction.

The great tragedy of humanity is that for many millennia they have shown their hatred of the Jews for being representatives of God on Earth.

Now we need to roll this in reverse in all nations to the same extent that they resisted, destroyed, and burned Jews. They will have to experience all this for themselves in order to be corrected. I do not know in what form it will be, morally, spiritually, or even physically, but it is not at all easier. After all, we do not go through anything directly from end to end. We have to go through the recognition of evil.

It is said in The Book of Zohar that my inner non-Jew (Goy) strikes at my Jew inside, that is, my egoism strikes at the quality of bestowal and love. Therefore, everyone will have to accept this and go through this as the recognition of their own evil in great internal suffering, and only after that begin their correction. This is the law of nature, there is nothing we can do. So, all this is still ahead.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman’s Teacher” 1/23/11

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Egoism Versus Spiritual Forces

431.05Question: Why were Jews previously forced to live in shtetls in Europe or driven into ghettos? Why were they treated in this way?

Answer: Because if you feel that I am the bearer of spiritual values and I prevent you from proclaiming yourself the bearer of these values, you must destroy me.

You must constantly show yourself, your children, and everyone else that I am low, insignificant, and worthless: “Look what the Creator allows me to do with him because the truth is with me!” This is a purely egotistic attitude toward one’s ideological opponent.

What did Europe do? Entire Jewish cities were slaughtered and burned there. When I was in England, they showed me the places where all the Jews were herded into synagogues and burned alive.

Anti-Semites are not aware of their actions. They are subconsciously driven by the source of our egoism, which is actually spiritual. They cannot agree that there is a representative of spiritual forces in the world. Anti-Semitism has no rational roots.

Anti-Semites can justify their actions in any way, but in the end, this source is suspended in the upper world. It comes from the opposition of Jacob and Esau. There is no getting away from this, and it will be so until the end of the correction. This will escalate further in future confrontations between Islam, Christianity, and Judaism until Kabbalah takes over.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman’s Teacher” 1/23/11

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What Does the Wrong Interpretation of the Torah Lead To?

533.02Comment: The main problem in the development of fascism was that it is written in the Torah, “Use a non-Jew.”

My Response: If the Torah is interpreted within the framework of our world, then it will be worse than Mein Kampf because it says that non-Jews should be killed, deceived, neglected, and anything can be done with them.

If this is not interpreted as “my egoistic desires, which I have to deceive, change,” and so on, then it is quite obvious that this can be used as the basis for hatred of Jews.

But who can even think about it correctly? Those who benefit from it politically, no more than that.

Because you don’t see it anywhere in history. Do Jews earn money? That is correct. Do they know how to settle better than others? That is also correct. But, in principle, they do not harm anyone. It is invented by those who benefit from it. And this is natural.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Nazism and the Jews” 1/9/11

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