New Life 668 – Money And A Good Life
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Money symbolizes the covering force, which means that a person can take something on condition that he can pay for it. Unfortunately, we don’t regard nature this way and don’t pay for using it, so we pay a very high price later. It is the same when we treat or think about someone badly. By this, we harm him and so we must pay him compensation.

We all are living in a closed global system that is connected to all the other parts in the universe. So, if a person receives something from the world, he must pay for it; he must pay his debt and be balanced with all of mankind and with nature. A person who covers the debt of his existence in the world lives an ideal life, and no one can harm him.

Money can ensure our children a comfortable corporeal life, but not happiness; that happiness depends on our ability to acquire something eternal and stems from the recognition of the rule that manages reality. The goal of life is to break through everything that limits us and feel the whole world here and now. This balance brings a person to happiness, showing him his place in the bigger picture.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 668 — Money And A Good Life,” 12/29/15

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New Life 681 – The Role Of The Three Religions
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Part of humanity has a passive ego, like in the Far East, and the part that has a developed ego created the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

The ego began to develop from Judaism in ancient Babylon. Abraham discovered the upper force and invited everyone to learn how to discover the upper force in the connection between them. The nation of Israel was united with the upper force until the destruction of the First Temple, until the connection of love between the children of Israel was ruined, and since then, Judaism has turned into a religion of external actions without the attainment of the Creator.

Popular Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are the three lines that are supposed to lead humanity forward and prepare it for the revelation of the Creator. Christianity has taught a big part of the world about the existence of the upper force and has assimilated concepts like prayer, reward and punishment, this world, the next world, and more.

Christianity even has developed culture, art, science, and higher education in universities. Later, Islam began to spread, and the Christian sages who underestimated the Sufi sages forced the Muslims to convert to Christianity by rape and by sword.

Today, Christianity is growing weaker and Islam is rising. Later, the two religions will unite against us Jews, and we will be forced to repent, which means to return to love of others and the revelation of the Creator between us. Then, the upper force will fight for us so that we will be able to change all of mankind for the better and spread love among everyone.

In fact, none of the religions actually engages in love of others and doesn’t set it as a goal, including Judaism. Only the wisdom of Kabbalah explains to humanity how to return to the connection between us and thus pull the entire world out of the crisis it is in. This is the correct meaning of being light unto the nations of the world.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 681 – The Role Of The Three Religions,” 1/21/16

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New Life 680 – Islam Is Taking Over Europe
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazuz

In the wisdom of Kabbalah, it is written that, in the end of days, Islam will spread to Europe and everyone will unite against Israel. The immigrants of today, unlike in the past, are radical Muslims whose goal is to conquer Europe. Aging Europe is unable to contend with the young and radical Muslim force, and the governments in Europe are preventing the media from covering what truly is happening on the street.

Ultimately, everything is directed at us the Jews, as the goal is to awaken us to realize our purpose. However, the Jews in Europe aspire to assimilate into European culture, whereas the Muslims aspire to keep their identity and convert everyone to Islam at a time when European culture is collapsing and the European Union is on the way toward breaking apart.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 680– Islam Is Taking Over Europe,” 1/21/16

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New Life 669 – Wired For Connection?
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

The wisdom of Kabbalah is not involved with the study of brain phenomena. Rather, it is the desire that causes the phenomena, and everything is expressed in our emotions. In competition, for example, when we compete against each other, the intensity of emotion multiplies and reaches a peak. A loss in competition produces the strongest emotional reaction because it is a direct blow to one’s pride and self-esteem.

This reaction is stronger than in victory because the basic instinct is not to be harmed. Shared loss is less painful because the injury is distributed among others, and after all, misery loves company.

It would be interesting to conduct a study among people who study the wisdom of Kabbalah regarding their attitude toward members of the group under conditions of victory or loss. Human nature is egoistic so one only enjoys someone else’s loss and one’s own betterment. These values can be changed with the environment through education; the environment influences us the most. The height of human development is the general state of love where everyone feels as if they are a single system.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 669 – Wired For Connection?” 12/31/15

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New Life 679 – Transforming Into People Of Light
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

To understand what Torah and Mitzvot (commandments) are from a spiritual aspect, we must disengage the subject from our previous knowledge. Kabbalah explains that the entire substance of creation is egoistic, the desire to receive, exist, and enjoy. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us a unique method for developing the “speaking” level, the level of Adam (from Domeh – similar), that is similar to the upper force through using the positive force to correct the negative in us, and this is called “studying Torah.”

The desire to receive is comprised of 613 desires—248 are more refined and 365 are denser—and with correction of the desires, a person becomes a person of Light, a person of bestowal and love. Our development brings us to the understanding that the ego is destroying us, the recognition of evil, which leads to correction.

Since the intention to act for the good of others is concealed, it is impossible to know with what intent a person is acting. When we work in a group according to the method of the wisdom of Kabbalah, the 613 desires that we must correct are gradually revealed in us, and to identify these 613 desires within us and correct them, we must attract 613 Lights on us. In the beginning we identify only one egoistic desire, and after that we clarify the rest of the details.

Like a drop of semen that enters the uterus and develops into a fetus, the person also enters a special group and grows in it, and through communication with a group according to the special method, a sense develops in him that identifies the desire to bestow. The 613 Mitzvot are the 613 desires, each one of which, we must work with for the sake of others, with the intention of bestowal.
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From KabTV’s “ New Life 679 – Transforming Into People Of Light,” 1/19/16

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New Life 678 – 613 Mitzvot (Commandments) And The Perception Of Reality
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

There are forces underlying reality that even precede the creation of the elementary particles. A scientist cannot perceive forces that exist before matter while a Kabbalist, who is changing his perception of reality, can. In studying the forces before the creation of matter, we find answers for the purpose of our existence and its goal.

First, there was Light, one upper force, that wanted to bestow and created darkness, which is the desire to receive its abundance. Light and darkness—the desire to bestow and the desire to receive—are two attributes that created five worlds through connecting.

Our world was created so that man would feel that he is not satisfied by the force of receiving alone and wants to bestow also. Today as we develop, we see that the ego is a destructive force, and therefore, the wisdom of Kabbalah comes to teach us how to summon the positive force, the force that is awakened by special relationship exercises between us that draw the Light that Reforms to us.

The ego is built on 613 internal levels in a person; they are 613 desires that we must correct from receiving to bestowal. Through the desires that are corrected to bestowal, we begin to perceive the upper world, which is the network of forces that operates on our world and controls every detail in it.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, observing the Torah and the Mitzvot refers to the correction of the 613 egoistic desires through the power of the Light.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 678 — 613 Mitzvot (Commandments) And The Perception Of Reality,” 1/19/16

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New Life 677 – The Meaning Of Tu Bishvat
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Tu Bishvat represents a special state in which a person sees the fruit of his work of planting himself in the right environment. Having performed the 39 labors, he is rewarded with fruit: the fruit of the tree of knowledge and the fruit of the tree of life.

The impression from the spiritual life of the past still remains in the Jewish people so they can renew it today. But in order to develop properly, the society has to help us advance toward the spiritual goal and we will grow like the tree of the field in it.

The first phase in the growing process is the recognition of good and evil. We have to accurately define what is good and what is evil and perform self-checks, internal scrutiny, of ourselves and those around us.

The goal is to reach the attribute of love and bestowal. In order to do so, we have to ascend above our egoistic nature, which wants to suckle everything for its own sake, and acquire an opposite nature, which wants to give everything to others, to fill them, as it is written: “I have seen an opposite world.”

The more we want to ascend, the more we have to connect to people below because our attitude toward all of creation and especially to people is what connects us to the upper spiritual forces.

If we change our attitude from receiving to giving, we will discover the upper world and suddenly see a new reality in which everyone is in perfect love and wholeness, loving one another. To do so, we don’t need to correct others, but ourselves, and then we will feel love, the Shechina, peace, and pleasure that fill this world. This is the fruit we will eventually reach.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 677 – The Meaning Of Tu Bishvat,” 1/14/16

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New Life 676 – “For Is The Tree Of The Field Man”
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

It is written, “for is the tree of the field man” (Deuteronomy 20:19); but it must be precisely understood from what field a person is born. Human society was built from our natural drives, not our knowledge from the level of Adam (Man). The Adam in us was born from a drive for internal development that exists within us. And its success depends on its ability to approach the useful, to avoid the harmful, and to be exact about the definitions.

A person doesn’t want to feel limited. He feels that he has everything, but he has nothing. This world has become too small for him and he wants to escape to eternity, to see true reality. When he wants to know the reason for everything that happens and to understand the general law of nature, then he is linked to a higher and eternal field of knowledge in which he grows like a tree of the field. He draws from his upper roots and discovers the perfect law of connection between everyone.

Our roots are on a level higher than we are, which we must penetrate in our development.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 676 – For Is The Tree Of The Field Man,” 1/14/16

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New Life 664 – 2015: World Review
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

What are the reasons for the upsurge in acts of terrorism in the world? Where has the sense of belonging gone that kept us going so far, and how can we use the connections between us to build a safer world?

In 2015, terrorism intensified in the world. Weapons became available and easy to obtain while the tolerance level continued to diminish. Industry moved from heavier manufacturing to new, easier technologies, releasing masses of the unemployed into the labor market; idleness is pushing toward terrorism.

I predict that, in 2016, terrorism will strike international trade and tourism. People will be afraid to leave their houses. The world is run by power groups. The wave of immigrants that recently inundated Europe is only beginning; their will be more from Asia, China, Japan, and Africa. The strong decline in the value of oil is causing Russia as well as the Gulf states to lose their power. People are losing connection to their countries and nationalities and thus weaken countries.

Soon the world population will reach eight billion, with seven billion becoming superfluous. Society will need to employ them somehow, supply them with their vital needs, and educate them so that they will not become wild and destroy the planet. Although there are reports that water has been discovered on Mars, we cannot live anywhere other than planet Earth.

There is no escape for us. We will be forced to understand that all of us are connected to each other and we have to correct our nature.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 664 – 2015: World Review,” 12/22/15

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New Life 663 – 2015: Summary And Lessons Learned
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

A decline in the state of the world began in 2015: climate change, humanity not knowing what to hold on to anymore in order to prevent the outbreak of world war, borders have broken down between countries have disappeared, Europe is becoming Muslim, individuals are miserable, hurt, and fearful, and young people are ending their lives using drugs since they have nothing to enjoy. From an evolutionary perspective, the ego has grown and doesn’t let us enjoy things we enjoyed before such as studying, work, the family, etc. It doesn’t allow us to live the way we used to do. A person doesn’t want to belong to a nation or anything anymore, but wants to simply live as comfortably as he can, and that’s it.

Let’s hope that in 2016 we will manage to digest all of the changes we have undergone and learn from them that our ego has developed to a level that is endangering our very existence, and only if we learn to control it will we be able to survive.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 663 – 2015: Summary And Lessons Learned,” 12/22/15

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