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From Babylon To Rome, Part 7

Laitman_931.02After Entering the Land of Israel

Question: After entering the Land of Israel, a good period began for the Jewish people for some time. As Philo of Alexandria writes in the 3rd century BC: “Thousands of people from different cities come to the Temple to cleanse their hearts, make connections with other people and find evidence of eternal unity.”

In The Book of D’varim (Deuteronomy), it is written that the sages speak of the nations of the world who were shocked by such relationships between people and asked to join the people of Israel.

What did the nations of the world see in the relations between the Jewish people, and how was this manifested externally?

Answer: Externally, this was manifested in the fact that, first, there was favor on the part of nature, on the part of the world, on the climate, in all that a person needs to exist correctly and happily on earth.

Second, the Jews were in good connection with each other, and this did not require strict decrees, coercion, and prodding. Everything worked in harmony.

Therefore, this was also reflected on Earth, in society, in raising children, and so on. It was, indeed, a very favorable period between the time when the people returned from the exile and the time when they again began to quarrel with each other.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel,” 7/8/19

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Sparks Of Aspiration To The Creator

laitman_942Question: You say that there is a natural hatred of the peoples of the world for Jews, the carriers of the unification methodology.

Now, if any person from the peoples of the world joins this group of people, will he automatically start to be hated too?

Answer: No. Today, everything is so diluted that no one notices, sees, or knows.

This is a completely new state that we are only introducing into the world. But gradually, people will begin to feel that something is wrong with these people. Americans, British, Europeans, Russians, no matter who, will look at this person and say: “Something is wrong with you.” They will see in him a spark of something Jewish.

Question: Do you mean that this will manifest itself in people of the ten lost tribes?

Answer: No, absolutely not necessarily. Just in any person from the peoples of the world, a point in the heart, which is in everyone, can appear. A point in the heart is an aspiration for the unity of the world, for its single strength, i.e., for the Creator. Awakening, it begins to bother a person. He wants to understand how the world exists, where this unity is, etc. It is this spark that makes him a Jew.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel” 7/22/19

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36Remark: One of the reasons for anti-Semitism is cosmopolitanism and globalism, which is supported by Jews.

My Comment: This is in Jewish nature because the very approach of Jews to the world has always been integral. The world is an integrated system that is interconnected at all levels. It comes from their spiritual root.

Remark: There is another interesting statement that anti-Semitism is like a virus in humanity, like a cloud of hatred that overshadowed the consciousness of people.

My Comment: As soon as the Babylonian state was organized in which people began to unite and selfishness began to manifest between them, the technique for correcting it immediately appeared. Everything went from there.

The unification technique is called Kabbalah. A group that agrees to connect is called Jews from the word “Yichud” (union). All the others who are against this are the nations of the world.

Remark: You often claim that this has nothing to do with nationality.

My Comment: Indeed, there is no such nationality as Jews. According to Rambam, Abraham gathered his group from all over Babylon.

Question: Suppose, if someone now joins the methodology of unity, will he become a Jew?

Answer: Yes, anyone. People of different nationalities who joined this group throughout history, as a rule, became very great Jews. For example, Rabbi Akiva, Onkelos, and many others. Even the grandmother of King David was a Moabite.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel” 7/22/19

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Anti-Semitism In Social Networks And Beyond

laitman_293Remark: Jews are a group of people who have united on an ideological basis and stayed in such a connection.

My Comment: This was back in ancient Babylon at the time of Abraham. People felt that they wanted to be united because in this movement they could find themselves, answer the question about the meaning of their existence.

Remark: At first, this group developed within itself. Then, according to the plan of creation, as it is written in all the sources, they were to pass this method to all the nations.

If for some reason, they did not do this, then another law was activated—the law of anti-Semitism, some counteracting force that separates people, in order to forcefully unite them later.

There are many manifestations of anti-Semitism. Nowadays, it is actively displayed in social media; it is anonymous, and remains unpunished. You can also see this in the comments under your videos. Human nature is evil, and when people also encourage each other, it naturally takes a different turn.

My Comment: I never read these comments. Why should I be soaking in their hatred? I already know human nature. I know they have nothing good to say about anyone but themselves.

Anti-Semitism is within them. It is not from them, but from above. This is a reaction to our incorrect behavior, to our failure to follow the method of correction, to the fact that we are lagging in implementing it.

To the extent that we are late in correcting and spreading the methodology, they hate us and therefore write such comments. To the extent that I am hated by everyone in the world, I see that I am doing my job correctly.

I do not take offense with them. I think that this is mine! Here I work from two sides. Their reaction to me depends on my behavior, on my success in spreading the method of correction to mankind. If they are so angry with me, it means that I still cannot cope with my responsibilities.

Question: Does that sort of reaction from their side suggest that you can’t explain the method in a clear way yet?

Answer: Yes. It is not their fault. They react automatically, they are controlled by nature. So, I look at everything calmly, expecting nothing else from them.

On the contrary, it is all natural and comes from the Creator. I do not relate it to any person, I always relate it directly to the Creator. In other words, I have to test myself to see if I can somehow further disseminate this method of correction, show the world that it is necessary for everyone, and then maybe they will change. But it is unlikely.

Remark: I specifically gave an example of anti-Semitism on the Internet to show just how hatred can become global. If earlier, people were limited to pogroms in some villages, and it did not even spread throughout the country, today, due to the development of the Internet, hatred can be cultivated and grow very quickly.

My Comment: It is global, it is in all continents, it is in all nations.

But in the end, we will overcome the Jewish inertia, and we, Kabbalists, will be heard. Perhaps under the blows of fate that await the Jews, but they will fulfill their historical mission.

In accordance with this, to the extent that the whole world is now soaked with anti-Semitism and will become even more so, humanity will begin to understand and perceive this method on the same scale. Therefore, the whole world is preparing for this, but still in a negative sense.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel” 7/22/19

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From Babylon To Rome, Part 6

167Turning Kabbalah into Philosophy

Comment: German humanist Johann Reuchlin, in his book On the Art of Kabbalah writes: “Nevertheless, the superiority of Pythagoras did not come from the Greeks, but again from the Jews. After long wanderings, he brought home something worthy of admiration, and was the first to rename ‘Kabbalah’ into ‘Philosophy’—a Greek word previously unknown.”

There are many facts that confirm that the ancient Greeks learned from the sages of the First and Second Temples. You can tell that the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle are permeated with their ideas.

My Response: Greek scholars did not hide it. Communication was quite easy in those days. Today, there are many civilizational barriers.

Although there seems to be a connection between modern universities; nevertheless, internal egoism repels one scientist from another. In ancient times, learning from each other was generally accepted. Therefore, many philosophers and scientists learned from the Jews during the time of the prophets, meaning in the time of the First Temple.

Comment: The Rabbi of Sochaczew wrote: “The Greek science of philosophy, derived from the writings of King Solomon, emerged after the destruction of the First Temple. However, these writings were corrupted with additions, omissions and replacements to such an extent that false knowledge got mixed into it. But, one way or another, the basis of the science is good although parts of evil got mixed in with it.”

The modern day Kabbalist of the 20th century Baal HaSulam similarly writes: “Sages of Kabbalah observe philosophical theology and complain that they have stolen the upper shell from their wisdom, which Plato and his Greek predecessors had acquired while studying with the disciples of the prophets in Israel. They have stolen basic elements from the wisdom of Israel and wore a cloak that is not their own.”

My Response: The truth is that the ancient Greeks acquired the general approach to cosmology from Kabbalah and proceeded to derive their own conclusions from it.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel, Part 6,” 7/8/19

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On What Basis Do The Jewish People Exist?

laitman_933The Torah was then given specifically to qualify the Israeli nation, to qualify itself.

However, by this the Israeli nation was to be a “passage.” This means that to the extent that Israel cleanse themselves by observing the Torah, so they pass their power on to the rest of the nations. (Baal HaSulam, “The Love of God and the Love of Man”)

Question: Does it mean that the Torah was intended for all the nations?

Answer: Yes, and we are a passage for them. Our mission is to bring the Torah to this world.

Altruistic Communism is a rare thing for the human spirit. Hence, the nobler nation, namely the nation of Israel, must take upon itself to set an example to the world. It is so not because we are better qualified than all other nations, and not because we are more idealists than them, but because we have suffered from tyranny more than all other nations. (Baal HaSulam, “Building the Future Society”)

Question: So, does it mean that the Jews have a spiritual gene and that they are the first to implement this connection among themselves?

Answer: Yes. If they connect between themselves, then the upper force of unity, mutuality, and love will manifest among them. Then they will also be able to pass it to the nations of the world.

These loose ties—language, religion, and history—are important values, and no one denies their national merit. However, they are still completely insufficient to rely on as a basis for the independent sustenance of a nation. (Baal HaSulam, The Nation)

The Jewish people can exist only to the extent of their state of existing above egoism. Otherwise, they fall apart. The connection that binds them together is only manifested above egoism.

If this is not the case, then either other nations hold them together with their hatred so that they do not scatter like nuts in a bag, or they dissolve within other nations as the ten tribes once did.

Question: So, does the connection between Jews exist only because of external pressure?

Answer: Yes. Therefore, many thanks to the anti-Semites because of whom the Jewish people exist.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel,” 7/22/19

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laitman_937Restoring the Spiritual Information Base

Remark: Russian Journalist Vasyli Shulgin in the book What We Don’t Like about Them wrote: “These people possessed a wide variety of abilities, great will, amazing endurance; their nature is characterized by great ability to work, an insatiable love of activity … But nevertheless, the Good Shepherds … in a word – into Spiritual Teachers, I would not take modern Jews. ”

My Comment: Naturally. After all, they completely fell from their spiritual level. In them, of course, the rudiments remained of the so-called Reshimo, informational genetic data, but they are not yet ready to be spiritual teachers.

Remark: So like all peoples, there are good and bad Jews, but the special thing that once was in them is missing today.

My Comment: This must be developed! The last exile almost completely erased the entire information base. It must be raised, developed, pulled out of them. It is very difficult to work with modern Jews.

Remark: As I understand, people with a special predisposition to rapprochement and proper communication between them were selected from all of humanity in order to then transfer the method of unification to all of humanity. And if they do not, then a law called anti-Semitism is included, which drives them to this action.

My Comment: This is a law of nature.

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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel,” 7/15/19

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laitman_933Ezra and Nehemiah: Restoring the Nation

Question: Upon returning to Judea, discord continued to surface among the people. At this time, two spiritual leaders appeared: Ezra and Nehemiah.

They took various measures to restore Jewish society, which had already begun to disintegrate, assimilate, and adopt the ethics of their neighbors. Therefore, mixed marriages were banned, instructions were given to abstain from work on the Sabbath (Saturday), and general education of the Torah was introduced, etc.

What is this about? Are these external laws somehow connected to the unity of the people? Surely we are talking about more internal things?

Answer: It speaks about preserving the people. It was necessary to create a society that would be guided by its principles, not the principles of the surrounding nations.

At that time, Jews were surrounded by fairly powerful nations: the Romans, Greeks, Persians, and Egyptians. In our time, these nations and regions fell into relative decline, but then, they were great civilizations that clashed, invaded each other, and competed among themselves. Therefore, the Jews were faced with a problem of how to create a framework for preserving the nation.

The institution of Cohens and Levites (priests) was re-established to train the teachers. This was prior to the construction of the Temple. This is how the education of the whole nation began. Children learned the laws by which their ancestors existed back in the time of Abraham and even Adam.

Question: Were these laws not observed before that?

Answer: They were observed, but gradually everything was forgotten, swept away by the invasion of Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian captivity, etc. It was necessary to restore them again.

But the most important thing was the rebirth of closeness between the Jews. If any nation lived on their own were left without any authority, they would still know how to exist. But the Jewish people do not because the 70 roots of the ancient Babylonian nations that they come from began speaking through them. Therefore, a method of connection between the people had to be introduced. This is what Ezra and Nehemiah were doing.

Naturally, everything was no longer in the form that it was during Abraham or Moses, when he led the people through the desert from Egypt to Israel, or Joshua, when entering the Land of Israel. Everything was on a different, lower, more simplified level.

But still, they taught the people these very laws, literally from the very beginning, since the transmission of spiritual knowledge from generation to generation was disrupted due to Babylonian and Egyptian exiles.

Also, the nation that went into exile was no longer holy. There was discourse and fighting among them, they did not want to observe any social rules, even somewhat “loving your neighbor.” Thus, the exile occurred.

Therefore, they had to be educated all over again, which is what Ezra and Nehemiah did. This was a practical resurrection of the nation.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel,” 7/8/19

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laitman_747.04A Special Place on Earth

Comment: After Haman’s execution and unification of the Jewish people, the King of Persia Kir came to power. He gave the Jews of Persia an opportunity to move to the land of Israel and he supplied them with the means to build the Temple.

The land of Israel (Eretz Israel) seems to be a special place on Earth.

My Response: Indeed. But living in Israel is not easy. If people who live there, in any historical period, do not obey the laws of this land, meaning the laws of unity, “loving the neighbor,” helping each other out, then this land has a detrimental effect on them. They cannot live here in peace and continue to develop, and they feel a certain antagonism toward this place, and thus it seems to spew them out.

A long time ago this land was very fertile. If there is water and a correct attitude toward this land, it bears fruit. But everything depends on the people.

This is a special land, it senses the relationships between the people. And if they are not kind toward each other, the land is not kind toward them.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel,” 7/8/19

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laitman_527.01Fasting—Restriction Of The Egoism

Question: During the second Babylonian exile, the Persians conquered Babylon and created a vast Persian Empire. It is interesting to know what happened to the Jewish people there.

Baal HaSulam, Shamati, #144, “There Is a Certain People”: “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples.” Haman said that in his view, we will succeed in destroying the Jews because they are separated from one another; hence, our force against them will certainly prevail, as it causes separation between man and God. And the Creator will not help them anyway, since they are separated from Him.

Haman, the embodiment of the egoistic force, put everyone on their knees except Mordechai. Mordechai declared that he was Yehudi [Jewish], from the word Yichud [unity/union], meaning striving to unite with the Creator, and thus refused to obey Haman. Enraged, Haman decided to destroy all the Jews.

Then Queen Esther asks everyone to fast, and the Creator helps them and they win.

What is fasting? And how is it related to connection or separation?

Answer: Fasting is a certain rejection of all the values that people are used to in their lives. This is not the same as on the corporeal level: I am fasting today, so I am refusing to eat or drink.

Fasting means that everything that represents my life becomes absolutely prohibited for me. I see it as completely unnecessary, non-existent; I refuse everything I used to live by, all the values that I held high; I completely distance myself from my previous ideals. I re-evaluate my whole life.

During this time, I must transition to a completely new level of existence. If I were used to enjoying life and all it has to offer, now it is to the contrary, I immerse myself into internal scrutiny: Who am I, what is all this for, etc.? Meaning, I restrict my egoism.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel,” 7/8/19

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