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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Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 02:25: Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the nations that are under the entire heaven, who will hear reports of you and shake and be in trepidation because of you.

Egoism is afraid of the connection with the Creator, like a snake is afraid of a human, but out of fear it attacks him and by this causes its own death. It can hide but prefers to attack. And in this we can sense the help of the Creator because the fact that the nations of the world hate Israel shows their weakness and a recognition of their impotence. You can destroy and oppress the people of Israel, do whatever you want with them, but it is impossible to kill such a quality of nature as the connection with the Creator.

If the nations of the world would have succeeded in this, they would have immediately disappeared themselves. What would enliven them if the thin tube through which they receive a livening force would disappear?

The only connection between the nations of the world with the livening force called the Creator is the nation of Israel. That’s why it is called “Isra-El – straight to the Creator.”

The nations of the world can’t block their oxygen; it contradicts the program of creation and the structure of the enormous system. Therefore, they perform these spasmodic actions, they oppress, crush, and destroy Jews, then they release them, and again begin to oppress and destroy and then release them again. However, in this generation we need to stop this process.

It is known that after the Second World War all the nations recognized, approved, and encouraged the creation of the State of Israel. But after some time, everybody began to feel that at this stage Israel is a hindrance, it doesn’t bring he necessary good to the world that humanity needs so much, and the world is entering a crisis. Naturally they now look at Israel as the apparent source of this crisis.

All the nations don’t have any way to influence Israel other than demand from it, and in our world this demand is revealed as hatred and a desire to destroy Israel. And even among Jewish people, to the extent that a person is detached from his root, there is the same tendency as well, i.e., to destroy Israel.

We see it in American, European, and Russian Jews. To them, especially to American Jews, it seems that the fact that they don’t have any connection with Israel is their salvation. They don’t identify themselves with the idea that should manifest itself in the world. The natural reaction of self-defense arises in them, “I know nothing, I have nothing to do with it, and leave me alone.”

They don’t understand that nobody will escape it. It is written in the Torah, “I shall find you on the edge of the earth.” This is a universal law from which there is no escape and so we need to look at the world soberly and strive to fulfill our mission.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/3/16

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Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 02:26 – 02:28: So I sent messengers from the desert of Kedemoth to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying, “Allow me to pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right nor to the left.” You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give to me water for money, that I may drink; I will only pass through by my feet.”

Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 02:30: But Sihon, king of Heshbon, did not wish to let us pass by him, for the Lord your God caused his spirit to be hardened and his heart to be obstinate, in order that He would give him into your hand, as this day.

Israel doesn’t want to get involved in the war, in a clear correction of Malchut with the help of Bina, but the Creator is forcing them to do so.

In fact, we see this in our world too when we want to avoid various problems, collisions, and encumbrances in life, but it doesn’t work, and it won’t work until we begin to follow the instructions of the Torah strictly.

The complete correction of egoism to love and bestowal is required, meaning the maximum movement in connection with each other where all degrees of the ladder of spiritual ascent are revealed gradually until the complete unification of all nations—in other words, all parts of universal egoism into one single unit. Then, the system will be filled with Light.

Question: Despite the fact that the people of Israel said, “I will go along by the highway” and that they would pay, King Sihon wouldn’t agree to let them pass.

Answer: He wouldn’t agree purposely because egoism (the nations of the world) clearly performs its function because it was programmed by the Creator this way, and the people of Israel are the only part of the common egoism in creation that have freedom of choice. In this case they are inclined to use it in order to escape, and here they are taught that they will be punished twice for escaping because they are obliged to conquer egoism and in much worse conditions.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/3/16

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New Life 732 – The Two Tables Of The Testimony
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

The “Tablets of the Testimony” are the basis for the connection between the created being and the Creator. There are two phases in the development of the created being: the first is instinctive and the second is conscious.

The goal of the conscious phase is for the created being to resemble the Creator. The created being equalizes his form to the Creator’s by a special developing program—the Torah. The essence of this program is written on the “Tablets of the Testimony.” The program operates by the Light, which is the attribute of bestowal that controls all of reality and has developed the desire to receive in 10 levels.

The wisdom of Kabbalah explains the Ten Commandments, which have nothing to do with our life in this world. It is about the correction of the ten Sefirot, ten conditions, according to which the desire to receive acquires the Creator’s form of love and bestowal. The expression of love is giving. These ten conditions are also explained by the wisdom of Kabbalah as 125 levels. Beyond that the Tablets of the Testimony became the foundation of human morality, even in communist Russia. Without the Ten Commandments humanity would have remained absolutely barbaric. They have developed the human race.

The real Ten Commandments are revealed in the second phase of the development of the created being, in the conscious part, and are about forms of bestowal that a person has to adopt on the advanced levels of the ego. When a person first begins to correct the desire to receive from egoism to bestowal he doesn’t know what the Ten Commandments are, the ten Sefirot. The word “Sefira” stems from the word “sapphire” as it illuminates when the desire to receive becomes a desire to bestow. Today “thou shalt not steal” doesn’t even exist. There is no other way to correct a person except by drawing the Light that Reforms.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 732 – The Two Tables Of The Testimony,” 6/9/16

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Comment: Many Jewish organizations in the state of New Jersey have joined their efforts in the struggle against discrimination against Muslims. In addition, the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists filed a lawsuit demanding the construction of Mosques be allowed in the city of Basking Ridge. More than 70 members of the House of Representatives in the US Congress, among them representatives of Jewish organizations, believe that it is impossible to ignore the opinions and religious views of people.

My Comment: That is how it always has been in America. Catholics, Jews, Orthodox, and Muslims have studied together and served together in the American military. Moreover, in the American military units there are chapels in which everyone prays together, including Christians, Jews, and Muslims. That is how it has always been. The problem is that the Muslims have begun to take on a different character; their religion has been left somewhere on the side and instead they have begun to impose a Fascist approach with demands, claims, and rigid pressure. Their behavior has gone beyond all limits, and clearly it is difficult to tolerate.

Many Jewish organizations in America agree with the Muslims and think that in this way they are expressing their support for the Muslims. They show the world how good they are, but they will be the first to be exterminated. If we delve into history, we see that initially the most enthusiastic helpers of the Nazis and Fascists were Jews.

Question: What is it about the Jewish people that we prepare our own noose?

Answer: The fact is that we cannot be in the middle. Either we protect ourselves, our faith, our spiritual work, our advancement toward the Creator, or we prepare a noose for ourselves. We are a stiff-necked people, polar; we can advance in one direction only or precisely in the opposite direction. Unfortunately, for the meantime, the balance is swinging in the opposite direction.

Nobody wants to hear what the Kabbalists in the world are saying as they warn about the danger of annihilation of the Jewish people just as Baal HaSulam warned in the 20s of the last century. When he was a judge in Warsaw, Baal HaSulam called the Jews of Poland to emigrate to the land of Israel, claiming that in another twenty years they could expect great danger. But they decided not to listen to him and in this way they condemned themselves with a death sentence.

I certainly am not putting myself in the place of Baal HaSulam. But I am appealing to all Jews. We must protect Jews, Muslims, and Christians who support cooperation, friendship, and good mutual connections, and not those who preach Fascism in all its forms.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 5/15/16

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New Life 731 – The Giving Of The Torah On Mount Sinai
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

What is the Torah that Moses received on Mount Sinai, why did its reception depend on the connection of the people of Israel, and how do we return to being a “Light unto the nations”?

Making a covenant is the first condition from the upper force, and the lower will feel that its nature is evil and will want to balance it. The second condition is that a person will seek to know what the goal of life is. Many people ask this, but they have no answer. We have developed an entire culture in order to suppress this question.

The evil inclination, the evil desire, is divided into 613 individual desires. Corresponding to them are the 613 Lights of the Torah. We receive the Torah on condition that we are ready to connect. Then there are two forces in us, negative and positive, in order to reach balance. Only one characteristic in us, “Moses,” can rise above the ego, above “Mount Sinai,” above the evil inclination that is revealed.

The revelation while standing at Mount Sinai is an internal revelation, within a person. It is the discovery of great “Gevurot” (heroism). After receiving the Torah, the people advance toward love of others. They feel that they belong to a single system. Three forces are included in the chosen people: negative, positive, and we in the middle between these two forces build the third force. The chosen people are people who draw upon the good force, the Upper Light, and transmit it to all the nations of the world. With the correction of all the evil, Mount Sinai, the Beit HaMikdash (Temple) is built on the “holy mountain.” Everything comes to correct the connection between us, but human development does not end with this because everyone from Babylon must reach this.

In the past, the connection among the people of Israel was destroyed, so they were dispersed among the nations. In our generation, it is up to us to correct this fracture, meaning ourselves and the world. We are the spiritual descendants of those people who felt divinity and it is up to us to receive the Torah again.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 731 – The Giving Of The Torah On Mount Sinai,” 6/2/16

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In the News (IsraelHaYom.co.il): “In a few days the Association of American anthropologists, the world’s largest academic body, is expected to decide whether to boycott Israel. 20 Israeli academics sent a letter of support: ‘encourage protests’ ‘if you will’: ‘They cut off the branch on which they sit.’”

My Comment: This is not surprising; some Jews are against anything Jewish because it puts them below their non-Jewish colleagues. Some of them are against their own people because their objection conveys their rejection of their people and they justify themselves in the eyes of the peoples of the world, even though contempt toward them remains in the nations of the world.

Hatred of their people and its history is natural because Jews are not a nation but a worldview that must be accepted by any person in the world by choice, just as in ancient Babylon they gathered around the idea of Abraham.
This worldview is anti-egoistic, meaning it is contrary to the nature of our world, against its egoism. So there is nothing more opposite than the idea of the wisdom of Kabbalah about the unification of everyone and the idea in our world about separation between everyone. Only suffering will compel humanity to understand the necessity to realize the method of Abraham.
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