New Life #598 – Greece And The European Union
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

Why isn’t the European Union suitable for the weaker nations; how is it possible to reach a good and stable union between nations, and what does the wisdom of Kabbalah offer as a solution to the crisis with Greece?

From its beginning, there was no unity, there was no equality in the European Union. The strong exploited the weak for their own good. In general, the world economy is based on exploitation of the weak by the strong.

The solution can only be in a paradigm shift, when the goal of life will be equality and connection and not competition. We must begin educating people for a new life, a study of the trend in evolution toward which nature is leading us.

Connection between differences means that each one remains how he is in his nature, and everyone complements each other. Only after years of education and connection, will it be possible to establish a true European Union.

The European Union of today was built on a completely opposing view, the strong exploiting the weak. If we don’t teach Europe to advance toward true connection, anti-Semitism will become stronger and war is already on the horizon.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #598 – Greece And The European Union,” 7/12/15

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Question: What is the component in the people of Israel that makes them eternal?

Answer: What makes these people eternal is the connection with the Creator, called the “point in the heart.” The Jews have a desire to connect to the upper force. When it binds to the Creator, it activates the mechanism by which Light can be brought to the nations of the world.

Now, we have no means to give Light to other nations, therefore, they don’t believe that the Jews have something good. Subconsciously, they feel that the people of Israel bring them misfortune. Therefore, the nations of the world don’t like the people of Israel, ostensibly for no reason. This hatred is above their nature since, in fact, it comes from a higher degree than ours.

The eternal point in the heart is a desire to reveal the upper force and connect with it.

Question: What if I am a Jew, but I don’t feel the desire to connect with the upper force? Am I connected with eternity or not?

Answer: So, I am going to receive blows until I feel this point within me. It is a desire that leads to the question about the meaning of life: “What do I live for? What is happening in this world?”

This is not a philosophical question because it is about the relationship with an upper force from which come all of the desires and all of the disclosures. I am asking about something that is above my success in this world. This world and my success in it doesn’t interest me because I am asking about the eternal process that happens in the universe and above it, beyond time, motion, and space, about happened before our birth and what happens after death.

I discover that our stay here is not limited by the animalistic existence that depends on whether the body is alive or dead. I develop a craving, an aspiration, to the upper degree, to eternity.

The point in the heart is the connection with the upper force, the general force of nature, and it exists in all people, not just the Jews, because the Jews mingled with the peoples of the world during the years in exile. However, the strongest points exist in these people who once came with Abraham from ancient Babylon, then built the temple, went into exile after its destruction, and exist to this day.

Question: Does the fact that the Jewish people survived and continue to exist prove that they indeed are chosen by the Creator?

Answer: It is a historical fact that the Jewish people went through the centuries, despite all attempts to destroy them. Although these people are not numerous, this mere fact is not proof.

The proof comes from the revelation of our connection with the Creator, which offers the connection of the Jews with all of humanity as well as their duty to connect with the upper force so that, through them, this force would pass to all of the nations of the world.

From the animate level, where we exist today in our biological bodies, engaged only in servicing them, we rise to the degree of man. A man, Adam, means similar (Domeh) to the upper force in love and bestowal. In order to do so, we connect as one man in one heart and become included in the desires of each other, reaching the love of our neighbor as ourselves.

If there is at least a little more love for each other inside the Jewish nation, then this nation, as well as the rest of humanity, will begin to feel themselves as living in the upper dimension together with the Creator. On the one hand, the people of Israel connect with the Creator and, on the other hand, with all of humanity, and the upper force fills all of us with its Light. In this way, we become eternal and perfect as it is.

The upper force is the fulfillment that transmits its energy to us and gives all of the inhabitants of this world an infinite and beautiful existence. Today, the Jewish people are eternal only by virtue of their mission, and then the entire world will become eternal according to the final result of development.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 10/13/16

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New Life #605 – Where Are Israeli-American Relations Headed?
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Summary

The US needed Israel in the past in order to balance the forces in the Middle East, but today the US has lost interest in this area. The general attitude in America is: “We don’t need Israel anymore.”

We have to get used to a new reality and not look back. The only aid and weapon we have is the connection between us. The Americans will do everything in their power in order to crumble Israel from the inside and to sic us against each other. They will drain all the brains from Israel with money.

Israel will either collapse and disappear from the map or unite and turn into the world spiritual superpower. No other country will want to be in contact with us. We will not be able to travel abroad. We will be totally isolated and then we will have to decide where we are headed. The connection between us will show us what we actually have to give the world.

The world is nearing an economic, cultural, and educational crisis. Different systems will collapse because of the lack of connection. Only we will be able to heal the situation and to revive the world. We have the method of connection, and this is what the world needs like the air we breathe. This is an Israeli product.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #605 – Where Are Israeli-American Relations Headed?” 4/8/15

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In the News (Israeli National News): “Leaders of one of the groups of the Satmar anti-Zionist hasidic sect have told their followers to vote for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton next week. …

“According to those Satmar leaders, Republican candidate Donald Trump is pro-Israel and works to strengthen the Jewish state, and it is therefore forbidden to vote for him.”

My Comment: Where does so much self-loathing stem from in a small persecuted people? It is because the birth of the Jews as a people was based on the idea of love, equality, fraternity —above the egoistic nature.

This is the reason that in each and every generation there is always a small group of Kabbalists who are ready to cling to the spiritual ideal and the goal of the people to resemble the Creator by attaining love and bestowal for others. And a group that is opposite from them hates this idea, and as a result, the Creator. They also hate the State of Israel.
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In the News (The Atlantic): “The foreign minister of Luxembourg has said in an interview that Hungary’s treatment of refugees, and the state of its judiciary and media were violations of the European Union’s fundamental values, and suggested the country should be ‘excluded’ temporarily or forever to protect the bloc’s values. …

“’We cannot accept that the fundamental values of the European Union are being massively violated,’ Asselborn said.

“He cited fences erected by Hungary to keep out asylum-seekers fleeing civil war in Syria and unrest elsewhere, as well as reported violations of the freedom of press and the judiciary by the country’s right-wing government. He said because of those steps, Hungary should be ‘excluded temporarily or if need be for ever from the EU.’ It’s the only way, he said, to ‘ensure that the values of the EU are preserved.’ …

“But both Asselborn’s remarks and Hungary’s response represent the debate at the heart of the EU’s future identity. …

“More than 1 million asylum-seekers have entered Europe since 2015, in the largest migrant crisis facing the continent since World War II.”

My Comment: Countries like Poland and Hungary understand only too well that absorbing foreigners who are filled with radical religious ideals and a completely different worldview opposed to the “landlords” receiving them will eventually lead to the “suicide,” especially for the small countries. The western European countries, on the other hand, don’t understand because their countries are large, have populations of tens of millions of people, have strong economies and different internal policies. They are immersed in internal political conflicts and use the refugee problem for the good of their party. This isn’t pluralism, of course, and neither is it love of others; it is a struggle for power. Every party is trying to be relevant by using the refugees as a bargaining chip in an attempt to raise its ranking.

I don’t think that the solution to this problem is near because the Jews have not said the last word yet. They have to feel that only by their method of unity is it possible to absorb the immigrants well, so that they will properly integrate in society and contribute to society. There must be a middle line between those who are against the wave of immigration and those who support it, according to which the immigrants should be received in a way that will make them citizens of the state and not a fifth column.

Question: Are you referring to the Jews in Israel or to those who are in Europe?

Answer: I am referring to the Jews all over the world. This is a general problem since the immigration will spread to every country in the world, whether in a negative or positive manner. No one will be able to stop it, and it should only be put in order so people will understand that they arrive in a certain country in order to live in it under universal terms.

All the countries in the world should gradually take on a common form, no matter which country it is! It makes no difference which nationality it is! We have to make people understand that the spirit of cooperation is the one that will win and that historical differences will not divide us, but unite us and add a good spirit to the right communication between us.

If this happens things will be fine; if not, the huge migration of peoples will invoke mass discontent, wars, and protests. The refugees will not only settle in the suburbs of Paris or London, but will also become a strong organization all over Europe, which will lead the immigrants to a general rebellion.

We must understand the importance of the unity between us.

We are all aliens on this Earth. It wasn’t given to anyone. We all came out of ancient Babylon and settled all over the world. Therefore, the people of the world have to gather once again on the basis of the method of unity, which is actually neutral and allows us to attain love of others.

Thus, we will discover a new form of life, which is perfect, eternal, above religion, and does not destroy the uniqueness of any nation and enables us to live in absolute pluralism.

If people understand the need for unity before the mass destruction begins, they will benefit from it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 9/14/16

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The secret of eternity of the Jewish people is in their connection with the Upper Light. Throughout their history, lasting 5,777 years, starting from Adam, they are connected with the upper force. When these people don’t implement their connection and, therefore don’t draw the Upper Light in a sufficient quantity, they receive blows from it.

If the Upper Light isn’t revealed enough in the people of Israel, they are bombarded by miseries and troubles and are attacked by haters and enemies. Conversely, if the people of Israel strengthen their unity, the Upper Light comes closer to them, giving them a good life.

All other nations come and go, replacing each other in history. No other nation was preserved in its original state from ancient Babylon, and only the people of Israel are eternal. Nature is arranged so that if the Jews fulfill their mission, the Light emanates from them to the other nations, and everything calms down due to it.

However, if the people of Israel don’t obey the instructions of nature; in other words, they don’t work on their connection according to the conditions given to them, the Upper Light moves away from them. Then, the illumination of the Upper Light doesn’t go through the people of Israel to the other nations, and they blame the Jewish people for it.

The nations of the world are “consumers” of the Upper Light. The people of Israel must be a channel for it, and the Light itself comes from the Creator. Therefore, all three of them work together.

The Creator strikes the people of Israel, urging them to unite and receive the Upper Light from Him in order to pass it to the nations of the world, and the nations of the world relate to the Jewish people either with friendliness, with kindness, or completely the opposite, depending on their efforts to bring the Light to them.

This is how it works. The Jews stand between the Upper Light and the nations of the world, and therefore, they suffer from the blows from above and from below. However, even in the most difficult times, even after the Holocaust that was intended to destroy Jewish people completely according to the Nazi plan, these people have still remained.

They can’t disappear. After all, without them, all other people would not be able to reveal the Creator. This revelation can come to them only through the people of Israel. Therefore, the entire world blames the Jews, and the Creator also raises a claim to them because they are not fulfilling their mission.

The secret of the eternity of the Jewish people is in the fact that they are engaged in the realization of the program of nature. Material immortality means that this nation exists, hasn’t disappeared, and hasn’t been replaced by another nation.

However, this is a temporary immortality since our entire world is temporary and given to us for a period of 6,000 years that will be over soon. Until then, we must unite as one people. At the end of this process, all the nations will achieve eternity, not the material, but the spiritual one.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 10/13/16

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New Life 777 – The Spiritual Revival Of The Nation Of Israel
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Through Israel, the abundance should move to all of creation— the still, vegetative, and animate nature and mankind—filling them with the knowledge of the Creator.

The main points of this plan:

• A Jew is a person who has a greater desire than ordinary people, which is expressed in different ways.
• Our spiritual revival means connection. We undergo a four phase process of connection and separation.
• During the last exile, the nation of Israel split up into two major streams: the Orthodox and the non-religious. Today the assimilation in the US and Canada is immense. The Jews who have drawn away from religion are disappearing so the religious Jews are becoming even more Orthodox and more extreme.
• The wisdom of Kabbalah, the internality of the Torah, speaks about connection. The wisdom of Kabbalah leads to the revelation of the Creator in the connection between people, to the love of Israel, and to the correction of the soul.
• When we connect to each other and are as one bundle, we will feel how the upper force dwells among us, the force of love. Then we will draw all of humanity after us, which is called being a Light unto the nations of the world.
• If we want to ensure that our children remain Jewish, we have to teach them the method of connection according to the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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  From KabTV’s “New Life 777 – The Spiritual Revival Of The Nation Of Israel,” 10/13/16

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Comment: UNESCO has decided to deny the Jews’ ties to Temple Mt. and to Western Wall.

My Comment: On the one hand, UNESCO is an organization that depends on the UN in every sense, and on the other hand, it is hard to understand how it makes decisions that are opposed to all the values it is established on, although the Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova disagrees with the decision. How can someone deny the Jewish ties to the Temple that was built there in the past and to the Western Wall when everyone is aware of it. After all, it is not a new discovery that has only lately been revealed by some recent archeological findings.

What happens in UNESCO is a sign of what the Torah says: that if the nation of Israel does not unite and doesn’t convey the method of unity to the world, the world will be conquered by Islam and Europe will be painted in green, the color of Islam. The Arab immigrants are not asking to be accepted; they behave as if they own Europe, without any negotiations with the European governments. Their goal is to convert all the nations and peoples to Islam. Since everything happens exactly according to the plan of creation, Europe simply lends itself to this conquest. All the decisions are taken automatically until Islam will join Christianity and together they will conquer Jerusalem, just like in the days of the Crusades.

Question: But we will not move from the land of Israel. Will they manage to throw us out of here?

Answer: They can certainly throw us out, because if we are not compatible with this place, which means if Israel is not united, nature’s forces will naturally force us to leave our land. According to the Torah, if the Jewish nation connects, it sets an example of unity to the world, and unity is the salvation of all of mankind, not only from Islam but from the general crisis and from world wars.

This means that we will ascend to the next level of our existence or we will destroy ourselves, Europe, and the whole world in another world war. Basically only the Jews lead the world and we are the only ones responsible for its wellbeing and for the correction, and this means we have a choice. The rest of the world doesn’t have freedom of choice, only we do, so we are the ones who have to use it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 10/19/16

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New Life 776 – The Secret Of The Eternity Of The Jewish Nation
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitza Mazoz

Who is the Jewish nation? Why does it seem that they have received greater blows than any other nation and how is its eternity related to the role it has to fulfill with regard to the world?

The nation of Israel was founded on Abraham’s ideal, on the connection between people in order to discover eternity. When the people of Israel are connected, they serve as a conductor for the Light to all of mankind. It says that we are the eternal nation, that we have to be Light unto the nations of the world and to bring humanity to its goal.

The highlights of the plan:

• We have to be a nation whose members connect above their individual egoism and attain Godliness.
• Being a Jew is an ideology, an ascent above nature in the direction of uniqueness and unity. It is in the connection between people who then discover the Creator, Bore, stemming from the Hebrew words “come and see,” and so we are called Jews.
• Our forefathers were attracted to connection, and this is how the nation was founded. Every time we drew away from each other, we encountered problems.
• The secret of the eternity of the Jewish nation is its connection to the eternal Upper Light, to the upper force. We are the transition between the upper force and all of the created beings, and this is the reason we feel pressure on both sides.
• The eternal component in us is the point in the heart, the desire for a connection with Godliness. This desire invokes questions about eternity in a person, about the meaning of life, about the reason for our life and its goal. The point in the heart exists in every person. It is the point of connection with the general force of nature.
• The abundance we have to convey to the world is expressed by the feeling of love, by the connection between everyone as one unit. This is how mankind can ascend to an upper dimension, to a connection with the Creator, to whole and eternal life.
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  From KabTV’s “New Life 776 – The Secret Of The Eternity Of The Jewish Nation,” 10/13/16

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Question: What will happen to the nations that don’t develop spiritually and don’t attain the Creator?

Answer: They will all gradually attain spirituality, but there are different levels of spiritual development. Just as there are nations that are more advanced technologically in our world and there are those that are more advanced physically, every nation is on a different level and develops in different directions. But eventually they all have to develop spiritually. In addition, the nations that advance faster have a smaller egoism, although it is expressed in the most overt manner. On the other hand, the nations that will attain spirituality later, like the African nations or Oceania, have a greater egoism, and they will attain a higher level of spirituality.

In fact, the Jews who are advancing at the head of mankind will reach the lowest spiritual level. Their duty is to convey the Upper Light through them, and this is why they are closer to it. But it is actually the nations that today are far from the question about the meaning of life and who will be the last to start the correction, that will receive the strongest and most powerful Light.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/9/16

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