Question: What is this union that the Creator concludes with the people of Israel at Mount Sinai?

Answer: One shouldn’t imagine the events at Mount Sinai through Hollywood movies. We are talking about the laws of nature. The Torah is eternal and it means that now we also live inside this system. This is not a situation that arose once and disappeared.

It is said that the giving of the Torah happens every day. This refers to a special force hidden in nature that is called the Creator. It is a good force that is revealed on the condition that a person wants to reveal it. Everything depends on the desire of a person.

We are created by the evil egoistic force, as it is said that “The Creator created the evil inclination.” The upper force created us opposite to itself, as evil egoists, and each one of us thinks only about himself and is unable to think about others.

The force of egoism that acts within us is our entire nature. We are not capable of being different. It is necessary to realize and accept this fact in order to see everything in the right light, to check our nature and to decide that that which was originally given to us is defined. Therefore if a person doesn’t correct himself there is no point to expect him to have a good relationship with others, meaning with either inanimate nature, or plants and animals, and even more so, with people.

And if he does something good for others it is only because he expects to receive some benefit for himself from it. In such circumstances he can be seemingly kind, but this is not a kindness to another but a more cunning use of him.

This is the way we live, and it doesn’t matter what type of connection we are talking about, either love between parents and children, mother to the baby, boy and girl who connect in order to create a family, or a nation united by common borders and native land.

Whatever it is, everyone always thinks only about his own welfare. And when we build between us systems of connections they always must be organized so that each one receives some benefit from them.

It is especially typical for a human, as we have the biggest egoism that isn’t balanced by anything. At the lower levels of nature such as the still, vegetative and animate there is a balance and minus is always balanced by plus.

But people don’t have it and therefore from generation to generation our egoism grows more and more. We have to bind ourselves by all sorts of laws, dependencies, and obligations to somehow live together and not to kill each other.

5,777 years ago one man, whose name was Adam, discovered that there is an additional positive force in nature. It is possible to extract it from nature and to balance a negative force in a person with it and turn him into a perfect system, where negative and positive forces act together. And then a person’s eyes open, giving him a different look at the entire reality.

He looks at everything not only through one negative force, but through the positive force as well, and through the interaction of both. By this he discovers a completely different dimension, a reality located above our world because the positive force acts in it.

He sees how the positive force of nature influences from above downward the negative force that acts on the level of our world and how these two forces can interact. A person understands how much he is controlled by these forces, positive and negative, and learns to control them by himself. He becomes a master of these two forces.

From this moment onward an opportunity to rise above this life is revealed to humanity, above our nature, above our miserable and even dangerous condition, above eternal enmity, and above a fleeting life, full of suffering and problems.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 6/2/16

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Question: Why didn’t the Jews leave Europe before the Holocaust?

Answer: First, the Jews didn’t believe that the attitude toward them could become so negative, and that is what they believe even today when they are on the threshold of another Holocaust.

Second, the spiritual leaders convinced them that everything would be okay, that it was up to them to wait for the Messiah where they were. So, three million faithful Orthodox Jews, Poles who heard the voice of their leaders, met their death in the gas chambers.

It must be pointed out that the Kabbalists warned them before the Holocaust and tried to convince them to leave Europe, but in response they received only curses. The Kabbalists managed to escape in time.
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From the Webinar 5/8/16

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Question: Why were the Jews scattered all over the world?

Answer: This happened for two reasons. First, as egoists who brought the people to destruction at the time of the first Beit HaMikdash (Temple) and then at the time of the second Beit HaMikdash, they couldn’t get along and live with each other so naturally they became distant from each other and were scattered throughout the world.

Second, as it is said in the Torah, i.e., in the wisdom of Kabbalah, they were scattered throughout the world to transmit “sparks” of attraction toward a higher state to all the peoples of the world.
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From the Webinar 5/8/16

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In the News (Jewish World): “It has been 115 years since the death of one of the brightest and multifaceted (Solovyov was not only a philosopher but also a poet, literary critic, publicist, public figure) individuals of the nineteenth century, but some of his thoughts and philosophies are relevant and, at times today, seem to me, a message from the future.In the notes I want to talk briefly about the three postulates of Vladimir Sergeyevich,…

The goal of the Creator is a universal union of mankind,

The world develops according to laws of goodness, mercy, and justice.

Earthlings expect a future without anti-Semitism, which is one of the worst and most vile diseases of mankind …

“…universal association will be realized through the world soul…This soul is in every human being and it is the link, both between nations and religions, as well as between individuals. It is the world-soul, its volitional impulse, its divine power, that will ultimately unite the world. …

The Jews, according to Solovyov, God’s chosen people. .. Solovyov’s third important postulate follows from the previous one: if the good will conquer evil, in the future there is no place for hatred between nations, and therefore, for anti-Semitism.

My Comment: The laws that were set down at the foundation of the world are sometimes revealed to people through a “sensitive soul” even without preliminary study of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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Question: In Orlando, there was a massive terrorist attack. A young Muslim of Afghan origin shot fifty people in a gay night club, making it the deadliest mass shooting in the US. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.

Answer: Most people in our society lack a sense of love of others, including of gay people. The only question is how society determines its attitude toward those who are different and whether this attitude is determined by the laws of society according to the level of its tolerance or whether it stems from understanding this phenomenon. On the other hand, there is religious intolerance.

In principle, Islam in this respect has never been too fierce. These phenomena have been part of humanity since the beginning of time, but Islam today has become so militant, narrow-minded, and fanatic that it does not tolerate any deviations, no matter how people may interpret them. This is especially true when there is a desire to conquer, oppress, or exhibit, and elevate one’s ideology. Therefore, we are yet to see many such incidences, and no one can do anything about it.

I went to America recently, a year after my previous visit, and I am amazed each time by the rapid growth of the Muslim population there. They feel at home, that they own the place, and they put pressure on others openly, and not taking anything into account.

In other words, they intentionally behave the way that they do and are not afraid of the police. They feel that the police seemingly will be on their side. And so the Americans behave very cautiously toward them and move quietly aside. Consequently, we are sure to see very rapid changes in every aspect of American society.

Question: What can you say from the perspective of the upper scenario?

Answer: The upper scenario is very simple. Islam must conquer the modern world, especially Europe and America, in order to grow very strong and rise against Israel.

Question: Must they conquer the entire world because of a tiny ball like Israel?!

Answer: They will be suffocated by Israel if they don’t conquer Europe and America, and together with them, fight against Israel. However, according to the upper scenario, they will be suffocated anyway afterward!

The question is whether we can act today so that they will be suffocated now in order to prevent more victims in Europe and in America so that there will not be great wars, violence, and the provocations that they are planning against the people in those continents.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 6/13/16

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Question: What should we do so the Holocaust will not be repeated and so all the Jews all over the world will feel secure, not only those in Israel under the protection of the Israeli Defense Forces?

Answer: For the last 40 years I have been writing and saying that we will not feel secure in our country [Israel] unless we begin to fulfill our goal. It is all deeply embedded in nature and there is no point thinking that everything will somehow go away. If we don’t fulfill our goal, things will only get worse. So I don’t see any alternative for a brighter future. The prevention of a second Holocaust or a third nuclear world war is not guaranteed. We should look at the world realistically and not let the world flow aimlessly in an unknown direction.

Comment: Not all the Jews can intensively engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah…

Answer: They all must! And not only the Jews but the peoples of the world as well, because it is only by this method that we can ascend to the next level of our existence. Humanity has reached the ceiling of its evolution. And so the general global crisis is a crisis of the egoistic development of all of humanity that has exhausted its ego and cannot develop in it any longer. This is the reason that the ego is taking on such ugly corporeal forms now.

And the next level of development is anti-egoistic and exists in balance, in harmony between plus and minus, between the forces of nature. In our present nature is only the evil force.

We have to learn how to uncover the positive force and use it properly along with the negative force. We should not destroy the ego but add the positive force to it. This is the correction that we have to implement.

At the time of the Temple, people lived according to spiritual laws. They revealed the positive force in the connection between them, the force of mutual cooperation, love, and mutual help, and thus they lived by covering their ego through the connection between them, as it is written, “love will cover all transgressions.”
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From the Webinar 5/8/16

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Question: Currently anti-Israel Jewish organizations are appearing, like the Jewish Voice for Peace. Actually, they call for the destruction of the State of Israel and they don’t see it as anti-Semitic. Why are so many Jews beginning to want the destruction of the Jewish state?

Answer: It is because we have reached such a state in history where we must create the central part of humanity, to be an example of unity and lead the world after us, since it is exactly this that the nations of world expect from us!

If they blame us for something, it means that they claim that they are dependent on us! And if they hate us, it means that we are really a force, that we are like a bone in their throats, and they cannot ignore our position in the world. From their attitude we can understand that they recognize that we are a negative force, and a big one! And we must understand what the reason for anti-Semitism is and not bury our heads in the sand.

First of all, when Jews refuse to carry out their mission (although most of them don’t even know about it), they look for ways to survive; one of the ways is the same grotesque anti-Semitism where they come to hate the State of Israel even more than the anti-Semitics of other nations.

Secondly, they really are against the State of Israel! I follow them and have seen this during the last 10-15 years. At least once a year I visit the United States and give lectures to various audiences. I feel and see that the Jews have gone through a very serious transformation from support, love, commitment, and faith for Israel to the exact opposite state of being totally against. They are convinced that in this way they can survive in a safer way, justify their existence, and hide in a place that is far away and isolated so that no one will see and blame them. Lately, it has developed to the point of Jewish anti-Semitic organizations hiding under the slogan “anti-Israel” instead of anti-Semitic.

Nothing will help! They will continue to pursue, hate, and destroy, as well as Israelis. Anti-Semites don’t differentiate if you are a good or bad Jew. If you are a Jew, you are already bad.

Question: As it turns out, a Jew can also be anti-Semitic?

Answer: Even bigger ones! The most distinctive example is Tomás de Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor of Spain. Throughout the entire history of humanity there was no one more cruel than him; he so persecuted the Jews, expelled them from Spain, and caused them so much harm! He was worse than Hitler although he was himself of Jewish origin.
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From the Webinar 5/8/16

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Question: The security of Jews in Israel and throughout the world is often tied to a strong Israeli army. Can we expect the Israeli Defense Forces to not abandon the Jews throughout the world and can the Jews sleep in peace and quiet?

Answer: I believe that only people who are “hiding their heads in the sand” can think like that. I served and then worked in the Israeli army for four years and I assure you that something like that cannot be. Just as completely hermetic borders don’t exist, so an army that protects completely doesn’t exist. As far as we are concerned, if we don’t carry out our mission, the situation will become such that we will not be able to stand against any threat that is facing us.

We will need an army as long as we haven’t taken hold of our mission and haven’t begun to realize it. By refusing to carry it out, we lose the right to remain on this land, to protect ourselves, and to exist not only as a nation and as a people, but also throughout the world as Jews.
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From the Webinar 5/8/16

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Question: Everything begins and ends with Israel, how is it possible to explain this?

Answer: It is very simple. If not for the Jewish idea that unity is derived from the foundation of the world itself, which was discovered by the Kabbalists, then the world would exist only in the states of the still, vegetative, and animate because a human being in our world is basically a beast and no more.

He has nothing that raises him above this level. Apparently by improving everything, he is just destroying the world he lives in. So he has no advantage or preference over the beasts.

But specifically through connection and unification with others, he can rise and attain the anti-egoistic characteristic of bestowal, which balances his ego. Through a shared life and mutual connections between the two opposing characteristics, he can attain a higher nature, creating a system of mutual balance, mutual cooperation, a system of exchange, as between any two different parts, plus and minus, electron and positron.

As of today there exists only one negative characteristic in the world. The wisdom of Kabbalah makes it possible for a person to discover and also insert the positive characteristic into it. If we begin to place them one against the other, then a system will appear between us through which, as if through a magnifying glass, we will see the exit to the upper world. In this way we attain the possibility of managing all of creation.

Incidentally, it is specifically for this that the anti-Semites blame us, that the Jews run the world. Unfortunately they haven’t run it, even though they could have attained this state.
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From the Webinar 5/8/16

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Question: How can we stop envying those who live much better lives but refuse to listen to the wisdom of Kabbalah or about spiritual work?

Answer: I can’t imagine living a peaceful life. I am already about 70 years old, I am retired, but why calm down…?! What then? If someone is about to die, there is nothing to be done about it, but what if you want to live more, what then? Should you forget about the meaning of life, not develop, not attain anything, not grow as a human being? A person should have a certain degree of self-respect. Am I a human being or a beast?

Question: Does this mean that life for you is a continuous search?

Answer: I think this that is not only for me. A person needs a good environment that will lead him to that, support him and agree with him. Then life will be interesting and pleasant and he will really do something meaningful in life.

Question: It seems that you are not going to be a fishing enthusiast who fishes all night until dawn.

Answer: I once tried to join a friend who really loved fishing and we went out fishing a couple of times, but I couldn’t find anything that filled me in that.

Question: Is it possible to combine activities?

Answer: You can combine anything. The question is whether a person finds peace in it. I didn’t. I really love music, good cunning comedy films, and good jokes. I love to learn new things. I have visited many places all over the world and found it interesting, although on the other hand, this world is like a point that disappears on the background of the wisdom of Kabbalah. The main thing is that a person has a goal that leads him forward and he grows. A person should do that since we will have to fulfill the plan of creation in any case.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/13/16

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