Question: We have been hearing from everywhere that the global community is increasingly putting pressure on Israel, and on the other hand, the main recommendation for the Jewish people for the best way to protect themselves from this pressure is solidarity and unity. This is said to be our salvation in both the Torah and The Zohar. But on the other hand, there are prophecies that say if the people do not fulfill their role, all other nations will rise against them, exile them from their land, and the Creator will be angry with them.
Recently, Einstein’s letter, written in 1939 when he already lived in America when the Nazi regime was rampant in Germany, was auctioned off for $24,000. In the letter, he wrote: “The resilience that allowed the Jewish people to survive for millennia is largely based on the tradition of mutual aid.” Before the war in the 20th century, many sages and scholars spoke of this mission of the Jewish people. Why is this not heard?
Answer: This has never been heard. Throughout the history of the Jewish people, they have never listened to the call for unity. In every generation there were sages, entire groups of sages calling for unity, but the people did not listen. But the sages did not give up; they kept calling and trying by all means to bring the people together, to at least soften the blows they were receiving.
This is our mission. Thanks to the pressure from all other nations and also through our own efforts, we ultimately must reach unity in which both the nations of the world and the people of Israel, who are driven by the nations of the world on one hand and the sages on the other, will participate.
This is the ultimate goal of our development—to bring ourselves to such unity so that we can be an example for all the nations of the world. Then they will begin to unite. To the extent that the people of Israel strive for unity, they will inevitably serve as an example and will in turn compel the nations of the world to also strive for unity.
Comment: Herzl wrote more than 100 years ago: “Decades will pass before we learn this lesson of the necessity of unity. And again, it will be forgotten, and we will neglect unity and mutual guarantee, and we will be punished with severe consequences.”
My Response: This is what is called being a stiff-necked people; meaning, they have no strong memory of what they have lived through. Just like small children who forget and repeat the same mistakes, and step on the same rake.
Question: How can these people rise up, how can Hercules break his chains?
Answer: If the people listened to the sages and did what they advised and united, then at the same time, all the nations of the world would unite with them. Do you understand what universal unity means? It is salvation from all problems.
Question: What would be the “last straw”? When they do not hear, do not hear, and then suddenly they hear?
Answer: It could only be a huge, terrifying threat. Worse than the people taken to concentration camps because those who were taken to the camps did not know, did not understand, did not want, and were not inclined to comprehend.
We want people to know in advance, at least today, that if they do not unite, they will indeed bring upon themselves the same problems, misfortunes, and suffering again. We want them to understand where the suffering comes from and what causes it.
Today, our task is to explain to people in advance the cause of their suffering and what threatens them if they do not unite. After that, nothing more is needed. Once the Jews begin to unite, all the nations of the world will unite automatically, unconditionally, and without hesitation, and the world will come to a consensus.
These people are so stubborn, and the mission of unity is so difficult for them that I cannot even imagine how it could happen. These people are a gathering of 70 nations of the world that were once in Ancient Babylon. Abraham gathered representatives from all 70 nations and united them under the idea of “Love your neighbor as yourself.” They agreed to this then.
Partially, this was repeated in the First Temple, and partially, to a much smaller degree, in the Second Temple. But today, after all the divisions and falls from this level of mutual love, mutual caring, and unity, after we have gone through all the exiles and suffering, the only reflex that has developed in people is to close themselves off, protect themselves with knowledge, money, and that is it. To live like that for themselves and their children and look at the world and life very “briefly.”
It is impossible to even describe how serious this obstacle is—to reach the hearts of the Jews and encourage them to connect with each other.
We all have different roots. These are the roots of 70 nations in one small people. They were gathered from all the nations of the world, a few million, but they are all different and cannot unite.
Comment: It is like when everything is already burning and smoking, and suddenly, a saving rain falls from the sky and puts everything out.
My Response: That rain will come if there is disappointment in the egoistic existence and a desire to unite. Then from above, this unity will come. But for this to happen, we must try to achieve it ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/14/19
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Comment: Scientists surveyed over 1,300 people aged 21 and above. Those who had a clear understanding of the meaning of life were happier and healthier than those still searching for it. In other words, those looking for the meaning of life aren’t well.
