Question from Facebook: The Jewish youth in America are the major supporters of Bernie Sanders and democracy. They have their own definition of the concept of unity, and you will never be able to impact their world of imaginary socialism, of liberal-democratic lies.

As you are an intelligent person, why don’t you understand that very often the Arabs are closer to unity than those who are so-called Jews?

Answer: I don’t disagree with that. The problem is that it is actually the Jews who should unite. If they would unite, they would establish good relations between people in the world and bring nations closer to each other so that peace and tranquility and nice behavior will prevail all over the world.

Question: The person who is asking the question emphasizes that those who support Sanders are not Jews.

Answer: The way I see it, a Jew is a person who has a bud of spirituality in him from which the soul can develop the attribute of love and bestowal. He is a descendent of the people who Abraham gathered around him and called Israel (Yashar El), aimed straight at the Creator.

We cannot get rid of this. No matter what we do, we will be obliged to bring the Jews to do it in a good way, the way I try to do it, and not in a different way, God forbid. No matter how it happens, they will still reach the understanding that they must unite and set an example to all of humanity, which means to be Light unto the nations of the world so that the entire world will be able to unite.

Question: Do you believe that it is possible to reach the American Jews?

Answer: There is no other way. It is like a baby in the family. Is there anything you can do about it? Can you give him up, abandon him, and not take care of him? You must take care of him!

I believe that it is possible to reach them. When I began to teach twenty years ago, I had ten students, and today, I have a couple of million students and, in addition to those who listen and read, there are many more.

So, there is progress. If I don’t manage to do it, my students and their students will complete the mission, but things will expand because we have no other choice. The point is that nature itself will force us to do so. This is the reason that I do what I must and don’t ask any questions about anything else.

Question: Don’t you think that American Jews’ ears become even deafer when they feel that they are pressured by you?

Answer: I am not pressuring them. I simply explain to them the reason for anti-Semitism and how they can get rid of it.

Perhaps the Jews who are supporting Sanders are still young and don’t really feel it today, but when they have kids of their own who will not be able to go to school because of anti-Semitism and all the more so to university, they will think about what they must do and will think that perhaps it is a good idea to listen to what the wisdom of Kabbalah says about unity.

Question: American Jews are divided into camps today: those who support Trump and those who oppose him.

Answer: If these two camps united, the entire world would unite! What would I do about the world now? I would pressure the Jews so that they must unite! This is the best thing the world can do for the Jews and for the entire world, too!

Question: You have always said that that the Jews in Israel are in the center of the process, but now you are speaking about the American Jews.

Answer: The hatred is there. It is very evident among the American Jews. I hope they will come to their senses by themselves, or otherwise, it will be under great pressure. I am not losing hope of reaching better times in a good way or at least of preventing war.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, it is not inevitable that there would be two more world wars, but I hope that by bringing hearts closer, as we are doing, we will prevent that.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/13/17

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Question from Facebook: You keep saying that education is the answer to all the problems both of the individual and the world. But people have been saying that for decades, and despite the many organizations that engage in education, life goes on according to its own laws.

Answer: Life goes on according to the laws of egoism. And we must act so that it will flow according to the laws of altruism: love, bestowal, and unity. No one does this and no one can.

The only one who succeeded in this 3,500 years ago was Abraham when he called all those who wanted to overcome the universal social humanitarian crisis that broke out in Babylon. He founded a group of people who joined him and clung to him, and he called it Israel or the Jewish nation.

Abraham became the first father of the new system of education of unity. This group has existed since then for 3,500 years, and cannot be divided or disappear! It stands against all the other nations of the world, the same Babylonians who spread and settled all over the world, and everyone feels that there is something special about them.

All we have to do is to start teaching this method to the entire world because the world already understands that there is no other choice and that the main thing is unity since, otherwise, people will destroy each other.

Question: Are you referring to the entire Jewish nation when you speak about a group that knows this method?

Answer: No, all the Jews have lost this method, except for Kabbalists who have been leading and implementing it from one generation to the next based on their own experience. If they lead this education system and supervise it, humanity will reach its good end. It will reach complete unity.

Question: Do you believe that people will listen to that?

Answer: If they don’t, there will be several serious wars that will involve such sufferings that they will have to listen. But the wise foresee these sufferings from afar and does not enter them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/13/17

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Question: Where does the tradition of having a special meal on the first night of Passover (Seder) come from and what does it mean?

Answer: The Passover meal is a beautiful tradition that symbolizes the greatest landmark in the history of the people of Israel, the birth of the nation. Everything that was before it we can call a state of an embryo.

This can be compared to the drop of semen that gets into the womb, into a correct and safe place, where it begins to develop. During nine month of pregnancy, it undergoes various stages of growth until suddenly it begins to feel not very comfortable.

The same place that was so safe, good, and that protected the embryo that was developing from the drop of semen suddenly becomes threatening, pressing, wishing to push it out of itself, rebelling against it.

The same thing happened to the people of Israel in Egypt. At first, when the Jews descended to Egypt, everything was fine and wonderful, the so-called seven years of satiation. However, then their condition began to deteriorate quickly; the tension and threat began to grow rapidly. And they didn’t know where and how to run away from it.

This is how an embryo feels in the uterus before birth, and this is how the Jews felt in the Egyptian exile according to what the Torah says. Today, we feel the same way in the modern world, when nature becomes so hostile and threatening to us. Humanity has been developing all the time, but nowadays we feel for the first time that we’ve reached a dead end and have nowhere to develop.

Nature as if begins to clench us in a ring. We are locked on this Earth with poisoned ecology and can’t find a place for ourselves. These processes are very similar: the development of an embryo, the history of the development of the people of Israel, and the evolution of the whole world.

Many secular people who don’t celebrate any Jewish holidays, nevertheless celebrate Passover Seder because it unites us within each familyand as a people. Together we celebrate the birthday of our nation.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 4/12/16

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Comment: America is experiencing a new wave of anti-Semitism. In one of the schools in Texas, pamphlets with anti-Semitic content were being distributed. Notably, the school principal was silent, didn’t show his attitude toward this, didn’t condemn it. This is what it has come to!

Answer: The school principal sees that everyone either approves or sympathizes with this and feels that all Zionists (Jews) are an undesirable foreign element that stands against society.

Question: As a Jew, I look at a swastika, and do you know what I feel?

Answer: You feel horror because you come from a place where this symbol is associated with extermination, danger, death, hatred, and torture. But for them, apparently, these associations do not yet exist, as we see that they do not run from it. They think that the rest are just mistaken and don’t understand that the Jews are good.

Question: Where are all the Jews who split up into two different camps: Trump supporters, Clinton supporters, et al. with respect to this?

Answer: They are the ones that gave rise to anti-Semitism! As soon as hostilities among the Jewish people arise, anti-Semites appear and begin to put pressure on them. And all in order to unite them! If the Jews only listened and understood that they need to unite…

Even before the WWII Baal HaSulam urged unification! They did not listen to him and walked into the Holocaust. Had they listened, the Holocaust would not have happened.

The same thing is taking place today: If the Jews that side with Sanders and the Jews that side with Trump listen and begin to unite, then anti-Semitism will immediately vanish! It works by a simple principle: The more united the Jews, the less anti-Semitism; the more they fall out of their unity and hate each other, the more anti-Semitism rises. This is how it works in history.

There exists a law: Separation between the Jews elicits anti-Semitism, unification of the Jews removes anti-Semitism. We went through this recently, during the holiday of Purim.

Haman says, “Jews must be destroyed.” Why? Because they are scattered all over the entire country and are not uniting among themselves.

Then Esther and Mordechai started to call the Jews to unite. And as soon as they started to unite, it was possible to hang Haman, end anti-Semitism, and furthermore, rise to the head of society with a clear direction toward general, world-wide unification. This is exactly what is demanded of us today.

Everything depends on us. We are the only ones who have the freedom to choose: either to unite or to war.
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From KabTV’s “News With Michael Laitman’, 3/13/17

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New Life 840 – Israel’s Enemies In The Bible
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

The goal of creation is to bring all of mankind to the revelation of the Creator. Abraham wanted to fulfill the goal of creation, and the people from the nations of the world who found this idea appealing gathered around him and became the nation of Israel.

All of humanity operates as one mechanism. When those who have to lead the world to connection don’t fulfill their role in this mechanism, it invokes hatred against them.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 840 – Israel’s Enemies In The Bible,” 3/16/17

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New Life 839 – Assimilation, Connection, And Anti-Semitism
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

We are the root of connection in the world. If we are not connected, the world will not be able to receive the force of connection through us. It is only the connection between the Jews, who have a special spark, that can bring the force of connection to the world.

If we don’t connect by ourselves, then anti-Semitism will force us to do so.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 839 – Assimilation, Connection And Anti-Semitism,” 3/14/17

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New Life 838 – Anti-Semitism And Anti-Israelism
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

The state of the Israeli nation depends on the connection between us. This stems from the way the nation was founded in the days of Abraham—it was a group of different people who connected around the spiritual idea that Abraham revealed.

Being Light unto the nations of the world means setting an example of how the nation of Israel lives in connection and love above all the differences.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 838 – Anti-Semitism And Anti-Israelism,” 3/14/17

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New Life 836 – The Attitude Of The Torah Toward Gentiles
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

The wisdom of Kabbalah relates to a person as a small world and talks about the interior of the person, which he must correct.

The desire that is called a “Jew” is someone who yearns for unity, for connection with the Creator, bringing everyone toward love.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 836 –The Attitude Of The Torah Toward Gentiles,” 3/9/17

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New Life 835 – The Relationship Of Israel And The Peoples Of The World
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

The right of the people of Israel to exist is only in contact and connection above differences!

The people of Israel are not a people like all the nations; they are a collection of representatives from all the nations that gathered around Abraham in Babylon and from there spread throughout the Earth.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 835 – The Relationship Of Israel And The Peoples Of The World,” 3/7/17

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New Life 834 – The Uniqueness Of The People Of Israel
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

The uniqueness of the people of Israel stems from its role toward humanity.

Their obligation is to teach humanity how to build connection on the basis of the general rule, “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18).
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From KabTV’s “New Life 834 – The Uniqueness Of The People Of Israel,” 3/7/17

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