Comment: The chairman of the opposition Itzhak Hertzog demands the complete separation of Israel from the Palestinians: “I want to separate from as many Palestinians as possible as soon as possible,” he asserted in a speech he gave at a convention in the INSS in Tel Aviv, “They are there and we are here; let’s build a big wall between us.”

Hertzog presented a new plan in which he suggests building a fence around the big Arab settlements declaring that “only the separation between them and us will guarantee a Jewish majority in the state of Israel. Only the separation between us and them will prevent the penetration of terrorists and increase our sense of security.”

Answer: I don’t think this will prevent the penetration of terrorists since there is actually no barrier against terrorists and no border can be absolutely sealed.

My belief based on the wisdom of Kabbalah is that we should actually focus on unity between us that will draw all the nations of the world to unite around us! And first and foremost the people who are closest to us historically, mentally, and linguistically because Arabic is very close to Hebrew.

Therefore, we should change our attitude toward Arabs in Israel and the surrounding countries. Our teacher, the great Kabbalist Baal HaSulam, Rav Yehuda Leib Ashlag, wrote about it.

Personally I regard such expressions about the issue very carefully and doubt whether they have any practical meaning at all.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 2/8/16

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Question: According to recent data, Aliyah (immigration) to Israel is expected to rise significantly in 2016: 10,000 Jews are expected to come from France alone, 3,000 from the US, 7,000 from Russia and 7,000 from Ukraine. The country is getting ready to absorb them. What is the right way to do it?

Answer: Every individual first needs a place of his own where he can live normally. This is what the country should engage in, not by contractors who for a fortune build horrible homes, but a national program to build simple, assembly line model houses that can be built quickly in the desired way. People will be happy to live in them. I am for giving the newcomers a key to an apartment and a minimal allowance that they can live on so that they will gradually become part of the work force.

People who come from these countries are highly skilled and experienced professionals who have many ties and know how to work. Israel needs to remain the world technological center and has to prepare everything needed in order to achieve that so the newcomers will be able to continue working in their profession, hi-tech, etc., regardless of their place of residence. This is possible today thanks to the Internet and in many cases it is possible to operate from Israel so that the newcomers will be able to continue their work they did in the countries they came from, keep their business going, continue their studies in universities, etc. as if they have never left. This will give them a sense of security and a person will feel that he can work and communicate in his mother tongue.

Question: What can you say about the newcomers from the Kabbalistic perspective?

Answer: People who are about to make a change should listen carefully to the advice of Kabbalists. They are forced to leave their homes and thus begin to understand that there is a special dependency here, a special force of nature, a plan of nature, a destiny you cannot escape from. They have to realize that it is predetermined not only for them but also for their children, and if they wish to stop the chain of anti-Semitic hatred, they have to find out the reason for it and understand how to turn this terrible problem that seems to have no solution into the revelation of the most sublime secrets in the world, in the transitions of all of humanity to a new dimension.

Then it will be revealed that the essence of the religion that the Jewish nation brought the world in all its forms: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc., all the faiths and everything there is, is only the preface of the great depths of the wisdom of Kabbalah, of the attainment of the upper secrets of nature, and on the basis of this knowledge, the transition to the next dimension.

Question: Do you believe that the ordinary people who come to Israel will be able to acquire this wisdom?

Answer: The have to, everyone has to, not only the Jews! We can do it very quickly because the force of nature only waits for the slightest attempt to be activated on our part, for the push of the start button, and then everything will begin to move.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 2/4/16

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Question: The Swiss government is about to vote on monthly payments to the citizens of the nation in the sum of 2,500 Swiss Francs, which is about 2,500 Euros. If the proposal is approved, Switzerland will be the first nation in the world to provide its citizens with a monthly income without any conditions. Furthermore, there is an intention to allocate 625 Francs to every child.

This nation has the opportunity to ensure the well-being of its citizenry. Now they can work, not work, or work less. Is this a good decision?

Answer: The decision is good when everyone without exception has an identical income, and everyone will work according to their ability without concern about their position, investing maximally in the development of the society and nation. For example,it is possible to work, let’s say, for half an hour in the morning in their workplace if they are not needed there anymore, and then they can volunteer somewhere for another two hours. The idea is not about how to occupy a person but his aspiration to give what he can to society.

After instituting monthly payments, the Swiss will not have such aspirations like. They will profit from banking securities and interest. Their banks have accumulated a fortune since the days of the Second World War and all of those investments have never been opened or returned to anyone. The nation became fabulously wealthy and that is how it has existed, in the best image in the world of egoistic existence.

Comment: But nevertheless they will distribute money to their residents; they are concerned about the welfare of the citizens.

Answer: I cannot say that this is bad, but in our world today such a situation in a nation like Switzerland cannot be used as an example because they have something to distribute whereas others don’t. So there is nothing to talk about; we must strive for all people on the face of the Earth to have the same normal level of well-being. and to educate people so that every person in the world will understand that he must give maximally to society.

Question: Nevertheless, everyone has different needs. What does equal to the level needed mean?

Answer: There are no different levels of needs. Suppose that they chose a standard of 2,500 Francs in Switzerland, making it possible for a person to be engaged in a normal and relaxed manner with home economics, himself, his family, children, and so forth. But along with this, the main thing is what he gives to society. The main thing is not just to receive minimally but to give maximally as well.

Comment: But one can be involved with giving for 12-14 hours per day; they would have no energy after that.

Answer: Everything depends on education. Each one will want to give maximally because when he is paid for maximal giving, he will feel his connection with eternity, with wholeness. Then the world will truly become different.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 2/2/16

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Opinion (The Guardian): “There has always been a tension at the heart of capitalism. Although it is the best wealth-creating mechanism we’ve made, it can’t be left to its own devices. Its self-regulating properties, contrary to the efforts of generations of economists trying to prove otherwise, are weak.

“It needs embedded countervailing power – effective trade unions, law and public action – to keep it honest and sustain the demand off which it feeds. Above all, it needs an ordered international framework of law, finance and trade in which it can do deals and business. It certainly can’t invent one itself. The mayhem in the financial markets over the last fortnight is the result of confronting this tension. The oil price collapse should be good news. It makes everything cheaper. It puts purchasing power in the hands of business and consumers elsewhere in the world who have a greater propensity to spend than most oil-producing countries. A low oil price historically presages economic good times. Instead, the markets are panicking.

“They are panicking because what is driving the lower oil price is global disorder, which capitalism is powerless to correct. Indeed, it is capitalism running amok that is one of the reasons for the disorder. Profits as a share of national income in Britain and the US touch all-time highs; wages touch an all-time low as the power of organised labour diminishes and the gig economy of short-term contracts takes hold. The excesses of the rich, digging underground basements to house swimming pools, cinemas and lavish gyms, sit alongside the travails of the new middle-class poor. These are no longer able to secure themselves decent pensions and their gig-economy children defer starting families because of the financial pressures.

“It’s clear what needs to happen. There needs to be wholesale change in economic thinking. Forces in world labour markets – new forms of 21^st-century trade unionism – need to be strengthened. The power of financial markets needs to be constrained. Credit growth needs to be managed by direct controls on the growth of bank balance sheets and banks need to be weaned off the financial casino they have built. Great companies need to be allowed to purpose themselves around creating value rather than dancing to the interests of disengaged shareholders.”

My Comment: Capitalism cannot restrict itself—we see it in the way it is destroys the middle class, from which it is powered. Human greed has no limit because instinctively inherent in his nature, a person wants to exploit others down to nothing. He can stop himself only when everyone will become his slaves; their number will be reduced to a minimum, and he will annihilate the rest. After all with the technology of today there is no reason for the existence of 6 out of 7 billion people. That’s what he will seek.

Salvation will come only with the education of the population in a manner that doesn’t arouse antagonism and prohibitions, but awakens a higher positive power that will influence the human mind and will transform it into inclusion of two forces, the “old” negative egoistic force and a “new” positive altruistic force, the power of bestowal and love. Otherwise we can expect the first scenario.
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Question: There have been several anti-Islamic demonstrations in Europe lately, but they were not very effective. 2,000 people went out to the streets in Dresden, Germany and 5,000 in Prague. Thousands also demonstrated in Britain, France, Ireland, Poland, and Holland, but hundreds of thousands were expected. It seems that people in Europe do not object to the massive immigration.

Answer: Europe has grown old, is exhausted and inclined to fascism. Today, there are several streams of fascism in the world that deeply penetrate modern ideology.

Question: Why don’t the fascists go out to the streets?

Answer: They do. For them, the current demonstrations in Europe are a kind of push to go out and show themselves. Different streams of fascism are forming all over the world now: ordinary fascism, Islamic fascism that is forming specifically in Europe now, and different streams of homophobic fascism. There are streams of fascism that are changing their form based on the principle of the rule of the minority over the majority and they take on clear fascists forms.

This process also is taking place in America. Europe is responding very mildly to the rise of Islam, and here much depends on the media, but most Europeans are naturally inclined to be under the influence of America. Therefore, it turns out that America cools off the European response through the Internet and the media.

Question: Could it be that the masses in impotent Europe will suddenly go out to the streets?

Answer: Europe isn’t united enough to do that. It is disintegrating because of its attempt to unite on an economic basis. In fact, an economic basis only leads to division and doesn’t unite people. The very idea of the EU connecting on the basis of the economy was a big mistake!

The economy only separates people. There are many more examples of people who drew apart and became hostile to one another, even when the economic signals were positive, than instances of a uniting economy. This is the reason that Islam can penetrate Europe so easily, like a knife cutting through butter.

The EU has grown very weak in the attempt to unite on an economic level and has allowed itself to grow so weak that Islam can now easily rape it, and it can do nothing against it.

According to recent reports, about 15,000 Muslims are gathering on the border of Turkey every day, and Turkey, of course, is allowing them to pass. It has no choice. What is more, it is taking advantage of the situation and demanding to be paid two billion dollars a month in order to stop the flow of refugees. No one is going to stop it, of course, and Turkey will not do it because it would create a jam that would tear the entire country to pieces.

This problem basically has no solution. Europe already has lost this war, and the question now is what kind of fascism will rule it. Ideological fascism will rule America and although all this already exists in Europe, there will be Islamic fascism there.

Question: Do you believe that there will be more massive demonstrations against fascism?

Answer: No, because the demonstrations will be suppressed by the authorities who don’t know how to deal with it. When there is a serious program of action  with the forces and means to implement it, they can bring the people to the streets and encourage it. But when the governments have nothing to cope with this phenomenon, they will not allow it because they will not want to show their powerlessness to oppose the people. Therefore, the governments will quiet down everything the moment that it begins.

Today the world needs a new ideology that will withstand global fascism and will be revealed in different forms and by different forces since fascism is beginning to take on certain forms in Latin America too, and gradually will appear as well in China and India but in different forms. The only solution here is a new ideology, and that is the method of unity that the wisdom of Kabbalah offers. Nothing else.

Question: But fascism is also a form of unity.

Answer: Fascism is a very powerful form of unity based on hatred, while the method of unity that the wisdom of Kabbalah offers is the unity of goodness above all differences, and that doesn’t exist in the world.

Fascism is fueled by a big ego, by hatred, and eventually brings the world to mutual annihilation. Humanity needs to internalize that and acknowledge the fact that only an ideology of unity that is opposite to fascism can save the world, and this is where they will realize that there is such an ideology.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 2/7/16

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In The News (Open Economy): “By the beginning of the new era, there were only about 250 million people in the world. On the eve of the XIX century, the world population reached a billion, and in the XXI century – already 7 billion people. By the end of this century, as the UN predicts, the world have be 10-11 billion inhabitants. …

“The fact is that that the ‘third world’ will bring an ‘unprecedented human tsunami’ scientists said in the middle of the last century.Today, the problem is obvious -. Six of the seven billion people are living in developing countries, and of them – 1.6 billion are men aged 15 to 50 years. ‘Is it any wonder that they are trying at all costs to change the world order?’ – Asks Anatoly Vishnevsky. …

“… according to UN experts, the global population explosion may be completed by the middle of the XXI century, although by that time humanity will increase by three to four billion. And most importantly, per Vishnevsky, ‘the demographic ratio of the masses of large regions of the world will change much.’ People in developing countries constitute a huge ‘overhang’ over-developed – the population ratio in them is approximately one to ten in favor of the former. Actually, today Asia’s population exceeds 60% of the world, and the area occupied by them is only 23.7%. …

“Mass migration from developing countries is already provoking social upheaval in the European Union. In the long term, according to Vishnevsky’s forecast, large-scale migration in general can change the political, ethno-cultural and religious map of the world.”

My Comment: War will not stop this phenomenon; the only option that remains is the equal distribution of wealth, standard of living, etc., which will be achieved only through the re-education of the entire population of the world. Developed nations must think about the future about how to bring the world to a single form, which is the only means capable of preventing chaos.
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Opinion (from hbr-russia.ru): “Scientists have discovered that throughout history of mankind, humanity has undergone different phases of evolution and in every phase there was a leap in consciousness, morality and psychology.And every time, when humanity rose to a new level, it has devised a new way of co-operation, a new model of organization.”

Opinion (Frederic Laloux’s book and talk Reinventing Organizations): “On the new level of our evolution all the plants are divided into teams of ten people. The teams are managed and organized independently and coordinate and decide what their wages will be and even take decisions regarding the absorption of new workers. If there are misunderstandings they turn to a central office for advice. The manager’s only role is to represent the company in the outside world.

“The teams operate collectively and there is no hierarchy of personal achievements, since there is a rotation of offices and people serve as marketers, employers, and sometimes as their colleagues’ mentors. There is no strategy that the management brings here or slogans that are forced unto them. Each one understands the responsibility he has. The main goal is to make the world a better place.

“Profit ceases to be a goal in itself and is the outcome of good teamwork. Despite the paradox, companies remain competitive and have considerable profits. These are not theoretical calculations or a utopia but a concrete new method of managing organizations and it is the prototype of future organizations.

“We can see such examples in Patagonia, the developers of Valve games and the power company AES.”

My Comment: The search for organizational models will continue, but will lead to even greater disappointments in the end because without changing the nature of man from selfish to altruistic, and the reward from our world to revelation of the Creator, we will not find any solutions.

Therefore there will be no positive outcomes if we don’t disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah and fulfill it.
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Question: The international media constantly lies when they cover events in Israel. When a border policewoman was murdered and another was wounded, CBS reported that “3 Palestinians killed as daily violence grinds on.”

Israel immediately protested and the headlines were changed to,“Israeli police kill 3 alleged Palestinian attackers.” When Israel protested again, it said, “Palestinians kill Israeli officer, wound another before being killed.” This has been going on for quite a while, and nothing can be done.

Answer: Nothing will help, either. On the one hand, this angers me, but on the other hand, I understand where it stems from. There are conflicts all over the world, and the reason is the terrible relations between people. At the same time, the reason for the conflict itself is that Israel isn’t fulfilling its mission of uniting people in a good way. Therefore, the more conflicts there are in Europe, the worse our life will be here. Israel will be responsible for every clash or breakout anywhere in the world.

The Jews always will be blamed for all of the troubles in the world. This is true because every conflict and clash, or every feeling of pain, is an indication that a sufficient portion of the Upper Light that can balance the pain and turn it to pleasure has not been received. It is the Jews who aren’t supplying this portion of Light.

Question: How do you relate that to the fact that the media are constantly lying about Israel?

Answer: They cannot do it any other way. From their perspective, if we are attacked, it means we are to blame. We must think about this in a spiritual manner, not a corporal manner. We are to blame according to the laws of nature because we have not provided the right portion of goodness and have not balanced the evil with goodness in advance. This is the reason that it was born, developed, and united against us.

If we don’t wake up in time, the nations of the world eventually will declare war against us and want to destroy us. If the Jews don’t begin to listen to what Kabbalists say and continue to think that someone else is to blame, the same genocide we have witnessed in the past will be repeated, but this time on a much larger scale.

Question: Does this mean that you believe we should shut down Israeli public relations since it will lead to nothing?

Answer: Absolutely, nothing.

Question: Should we also shut down the Israeli foreign office?

Answer: We don’t need anything but a Ministry of Education implementing the method of uniting the nation. It must be the great educational project of Israel. This is what we must produce, and the world will buy it.

This is the mission of the Jewish nation. We need only one office, a kind of a Sanhedrin, a spiritual leadership, and so we need Kabbalists who understand the real laws of nature. These laws teach people how to unite so that there will be peace in the world and among us, so that the connection between us and the Creator will be revealed in us, and flow from us to the entire world. We don’t need anything more than that. We don’t need to wait for the Western media to push us forcefully in this direction or wait for them to love us. It will happen only when we perform the correction.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 2/5/16

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Opinion (from lenta.ru): “The term ‘middle class’ has been in use over the course of two and a half thousand years – the first time it was used was around 420 BC, when the ancient Greek playwright Euripides put into the mouth of Theseus, the hero of the comedy ‘Beseeching,’ the following words: ‘It is only the middle class support who the city; he submits to its laws and authorities.’ In the following century, the idea was developed the great philosopher Aristotle, who pointed out in his treatise ‘Politics,’ that ‘the state, which consists of average people, and will have the best system of government.’ In this sense, the term originated in 1913, when the Statistical Office of Great Britain marked the term middle class as segments of the population who are between the ruling class and the proletariat. … Since then, Western sociology sees the middle class as the main support, and political and economic stability of the state – in full accordance with the precepts of Aristotle.

“But last year, American sociologists have sounded the alarm. Although the world-wide share of the poor is steadily decreasing (from 25 to 15 percent in the first 10 years of the century, according to the World Bank – the percentage of people in low- and middle-income countries during the same period increased by 6 percent and 8 percent, respectively), the USA marked a clear tendency to ‘shrinkage’ of the middle class. Some of its members are moving into the category of the rich, but much more are those who descend to the bottom bracket of income. … If in 1971, 80 million American adults, or nearly 61 per cent of the working population (131.6 million people) belonged to the middle class, in 2015 their number has increased even though in absolute terms to 120.8 million, but now of less than half of the total number of able-bodied citizens of the USA. Also the structure of the distribution of aggregate household income changed. In 1970, the middle class earned 62 per cent of money in the country, by 2014, this figure dropped to 43 percent. Wealthy Americans have increased their share from 20 percent to 49 percent. Apparently, a similar pattern is observed in other developed countries.

“This process affects the consumer goods market. The tendency to ‘wash out’ traditionally middle class products – high quality and moderately expensive – was observed at the beginning of the decade, … ‘In Paris, a lot of stores went bankrupt and closed. … On the Place de Victoire all the fashion shops closed. … Nobody is interested in fashion, no customers,’ …

Commentary: The richest people in the world who are merely 1% of the world population own more assets and property than 99% of the population.

62 people own the same amount of wealth as 3.6 billion people who are the poorest half of the population. Since 2010 the wealth of these rich people grew by 44% and that of the poor population decreased by 41%.

My Comment: The ego is pressuring every individual to a point that he must fulfill his needs. It makes no difference how rich a person may be, he will feel increasingly more “unfilled” and will continue to aspire for more until all the wealth in the world belongs to him and then the whole universe too.

So I hope that the upper class will come to their senses and stop and leave something to the lower classes. Inequality in the world is moving towards 1% wealthy people and 99% poor people with no middle class. This is the law of our egoistic nature.
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Question: Several influential rabbis strongly condemned the campaign in support of the mobilization of the ultra-Orthodox youth in military and alternative service.

In particular, the rabbis in Jerusalem said that the campaign should be considered sinful and deserves condemnation. They even signed an Halachic ruling.

It is a long struggle that is now gaining momentum. More recently, police detained a group of ultra-Orthodox on suspicion of incitement against the supporters of the mobilization. What do you think about this?

Answer: This is a big problem that has to be solved. I can not imagine any of the Orthodox Jews that are surrounded by the Arab population, not being protected by the Israeli army. On the one hand, they understand that perfectly. On the other hand, do not wish to participate.

There is no doubt that the Arabs don’t differentiate between non-religious and religious Jews and don’t really care who is who. Today, they are the spearhead in the attacks to destroy Israel and the Jews.

And the ultra-Orthodox Israelis must defend themselves from third-party influence. They protect themselves, the “ghettos” in which they live: Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, ultra-Orthodox areas in all the cities of Israel, because otherwise they can not exist. They are afraid of dissolution in the secular community, and therefore I understand it.

Question: Don’t you see a solution?

Answer: There is no solution. It is a serious schism that has been going on for a long time. There must be a division between the general religious population and the Orthodox sector because there are other religious sectors who serve in the army, and many of them even serve in combat units.

This is basically a political game because from the non-religious perspective, the Israeli Defense Forces don’t need them. We simply must leave this issue and not deal with it. It is a political squabble before elections when each party takes pride in being for or against it, and thus tries to make a political gain.

Generally speaking, this issue isn’t worth discussing since it will lead to nothing. I don’t side with any of the parties. I simply am stating a fact.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 2/1/16

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