Let’s Reveal What A Soul Is About

Question: Why is a person so attracted to conversations about the soul?

Answer: It is because the soul is the source of life; it is our essence, what we in reality represent through ourselves. We exist infinitely in spiritual space. We are very close to the start of our revelation of the soul in our time.

Question: What parts does the soul consist of?

Answer: The soul consists of ten Sefirot. When you connect in a ten you will gradually reveal the structure of the soul within it. A sensation of fulfillment will appear between you. It is called the Light of the soul or the Creator.

Question: People often say “My soul is tormented.” What does it mean?

Answer: Let’s instead reveal what the soul is. The soul is a part of the Creator in us, the property of bestowal and love, the property of connection between us.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian 9/16/18

The Request Must Start From The Group

Question: For thousands of years, billions of people have been praying for their unfilled desires to be filled. Where are their answers and what is the sense of praying to an unknown Creator?

Answer: First, they ask egoistically. We are trying to reach requests for altruism, the property of bestowal and love—this is the most important thing.

Second, in order to really ask correctly, we try to bring this request through the ten so that it is the same for everyone, collected and coordinated with everyone. From this Minyan(the ten), all ten people rush with one request to the Creator.

The ten is one spiritual unit. If you do not ask from the ten, then you are not a spiritual unit and the Creator does not feel you.

You often ask: “And if I myself ask for my relatives?” …Ask. In the end, you will see that the whole world does this, but nothing happens.

The request must originate from the Kabbalistic group that clearly understands that the system in which we exist is created as an egoistic one on purpose in order for us to ask only for our correction and raise this request correctly.

Question: Do the friends in the ten have to hear my words, know about them, or is it my personal inner state when, from our connection, I appeal to the Creator for them?

Answer: They do not need to hear your words. But in principle, if you ask, it is best to appeal to the Creator with the desires that have been agreed upon in the ten. Not at the moment, but in general when the ten agrees with this and would also like to participate in raising this desire to the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/4/18

The Difference Between Corporeal Fear And Spiritual Fear

Fear can be the fear of death, or the fear of uncertainty. What is the difference between fear and trepidation?

When I work with my desire to enjoy out of fear for myself, for my egoism, that is called fear. If I work with my desire for the sake of bestowal to the Creator and I doubt whether I bestow to Him or not without thinking about myself, that is called trepidation.

Fear is where my egoism (for me) is, and trembling is where the Creator (for the Creator) is. Fear is a consequence of the lack of faith.¹

Corporeal fear shows that we lack spiritual fear. If I have fear of the Creator, then there no room for corporeal fear; I will elevate it to the spiritual level. It is important why I am doing this: do I want to get rid of the corporeal fear or I am joyful about it because it is an incentive for me to reach trepidation toward the Creator?

Fear is a sensation in the will to receive, and trepidation is in the desire to bestow. Therefore, it is necessary to use fear in a very prudent, minimally possible form since it does not correspond to the good desire of the friends and the good desire of the Creator.

It is necessary to elevate the greatness and the importance of the Creator to the maximum in order for it to be the driving force that pulls us forward, and not fear that pushes us from behind.

I imagine the greatness of Creator, and therefore, I strive toward Him, not in order to hide from the problem but to strive toward the source of goodness. That is, we must steer close toward bestowal to the maximum.²

You only need to be afraid that you will stop thinking about the Creator, that there is none else besides Him who is good and does good, falling into this world and neglecting the Creator instead of appreciating Him, and about disconnecting from the ten and forgetting about your friends.

I am ready to be connected to the Creator, but my connection with Him through the group is constantly disrupted. The Creator is an unchanging force, but the soul, that is, the ten, changes all the time, and because of that I lose it every second. Therefore, I am in fear of losing my soul (Kli), the ten. Suddenly, I will fall and get carried away in the turbulent stream and they will be unable to save me or they will not be able to dig and extract me from my egoistic prison.

If I break away from the ten, it means that I break away from the Creator. If I am separated from the ten but think that I am connected to the Creator, it means that it is not the Creator but a completely opposite direction and I have lost all 180 degrees, as it is written: “Thou hast not called upon Me, O Jacob.”³
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/19, “To Increase The Greatness of The Creator In Our Eyes”

A Request Is An Expression Of Inner Aspirations

Question: How can I ask for the ten if I have no words, where no words are suitable?

Answer: You do not need words. You can just sigh or cry. This is also a request.

A request is an expression of your inner aspirations, of what you think is missing in the ten. Try to put your common desire together as if you were creating some form from clay. Collect it together. This will be your request to the Creator.

Question: Can one just say one of the names of the Creator?

Answer: No names, no mantras, no memorizing of conversational patterns—nothing is needed. You will continue to make mistakes.

You can just sit quietly, each one asking the Creator from their hearts, as you have agreed. Try to do this at least for a couple of minutes; this is a good exercise.

As for the names, when you are already at the upper levels and begin to gather the ten Sefirot, representing some qualitative and quantitative meanings, and you put together a spiritual Partzuf, form your soul, consisting of ten Sefirot, then the general force that is created from such arranged desires will be called the name of the Creator.

There is a certain set of such names, that is, states of the ten that are interconnected. These are the names of the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/4/18

Hear The Revelations Of The Creator

Question: You often say: “The Creator said.” What do you mean? Who did He speak to? When did He speak?

Answer: Naturally, the Creator has neither a mouth nor a tongue, nor vocal cords. We simply express ourselves in earthly language.

The Creator is a force. A force not even in the physical sense of the word, but in thought. There is nothing but thought. We constantly exist inside it. And the fact that it seems to us that we have physical bodies, properties, and qualities—there is nothing of that.

There is only thought.

Question: When I hear something from someone, can I say that through him the Creator speaks to me?

Answer: Yes. This is a different matter. In this way, He communicates with us.

But for this, you need to have a repeater, a re-transmitter, in you; when listening to a person, you begin to understand what the Creator wants to tell you. You must translate his speech into spiritual language. Then you will hear divine words from people, even from a street sweeper. He will not know what he is saying, and you will listen to the revelations of the Creator through him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/14/18

New Life #160 – The Bible And People Of The Book

New Life #160 – The Bible and People of the Book
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

The Bible is the foundation for human civilization and is eternal in its unfolding wisdom and power. It teaches us how to approach the upper force through the system of relationships between people and God. It is a well of living water to those who want to be in complete love and are willing to demand help from God. The People of the Book are a group of people who want to be in complete love, and they demand help from God for this These people embrace “And you shall love your friend as yourself” as the goal of their existence as a society. The Light of the Torah and the discovery of divinity must be realized daily in the loving relationships between us.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #160 – The Bible and People of the Book,” 3/19/13

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A Month of Jew-Hatred

From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 2/27/19

A month of hatred has landed on world Jewry: swastikas and graffiti throughout the United States, anti-Semitic slogans in every European city, desecrated graves in Eastern Europe, and the horrible attack on Argentina’s chief rabbi. These are only some of the cases reported in the media.

How is it possible that in 2019 anti-Semitism is erupting in every corner of the world? How are Jews still persecuted? How is it that the same hatred reigns in Argentinians, the French, Americans and Russians? How could it be that the brilliant Jewish mind, which had just flew a spaceship to the moon and picked up an Oscar, has not managed to defeat the thousands-of-years-old hatred towards us?

The problem with anti-Semitism lies in our lack of understanding its root cause. Since we never treat the root of it, it keeps coming back to haunt us wherever we go.
Kabbalists, on the other hand, have always pointed to the root of anti-Semitism as well as the solution for it. For them, the resurgence of anti-Semitism in our time is neither surprising nor is it a passing fad.

The anti-Semitic hostility towards the Jews is an expression of an inexplicable feeling, an inherent demand that lies in humanity. This is why Jews are typically blamed for all the evils in the world. While very few anti-Semites can articulate their claim, a deep-seated demand towards the Jews is subconsciously brewing in every person in the world.

We Jews are deluding ourselves. We believe the hatred stems from envy: Jews are smart, successful and innovative, they control the media, banks and commerce. But these are no more than superficial justifications that both we and our haters use in order to rationalize the hatred.

This is precisely what the greatest Kabbalist of the previous century, Yehuda Ashlag, wrote about: “Israel is hated by all nations, whether it is due to religion, race, capitalism, communism, cosmopolitanism, and so forth. This is because hatred precedes all other reasons, and yet each one resolves his hatred according to his own psychology.”

Kabbalists describe anti-Semitism as a law of nature. It stems from the inherent connection between Israel and the nations of the world. The role of the Jewish people is to pave the way for unity above all differences between human beings. Human unity is the only solution to all the evils in the world, and nature directs the whole of humanity towards unity.

Hence the forecast: anti-Semitism will continue and intensify until we internalize and fulfill our function in the world – to serve as an example of unity for the rest of humanity. This is how we will become “a light unto the nations,” since “the Israeli nation had been constructed as a kind of gateway through which the sparks of purification will flow onto all of mankind throughout the world, until they can perceive the pleasantness and serenity that exist in the kernel of love of others.” (Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag, “The Arvut“).

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Fall Into Reason And Rise Into Faith

Question: Why does animal fear come back from time to time although I have already made sure and felt that no evil comes from the Creator?

Answer: It does not matter. I can understand that everything comes from the Creator, He plays with me like that. And then—oops! I’m shaking like a rabbit under a bush again.

Question: What is the way out of this?

Answer: Move forward rising by faith above reason. Only this. Thank the Creator for leading us through such animalistic fears. In this way we will be constantly moving.

Everything depends on the group, on how much a person rises in faith above reason.

Question: Is a Kabbalist afraid too?

Answer: A Kabbalist has even deeper fears. Especially during the descents. He cannot be in faith above reason all the time. He must fall into reason and then rise into faith. And he agrees to everything.

He goes through states that are much sharper and more controversial than a common man. His states of fear and devotion to the goal literally throw him from the abyss to the peak.

Question: Is it true that a Kabbalist is not afraid for himself, but is only afraid not to harm the Creator.

Answer: How could he not be afraid for himself? If he does not experience such states, in relation to what will he measure himself? As it is written: “When you hid your face, I was terrified.” The Creator gives him such states.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/14/2018

New Life #158 – Mount Sinai And Love Of Others

New Life #158 – Mount Sinai and Love of Others
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazo

Summary

Mount Sinai symbolizes a mountain of hatred (Sinah) and mutual rejection above which we must connect. The revelation of divinity at Mount Sinai is the discovery of the characteristic of mutual bestowal between people. Kindness and love for others, taught by Abraham, is at the foundation of the people of Israel. The people of Israel are destined to become a “kingdom of priests” (Exodus 19:10) and bring all of humanity to connection and love.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #158 – Mount Sinai and Love of Others,” 8/21/12

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Bnei Baruch As A State Of Transition

Our group, Bnei Baruch, is a transitional link between the Creator and humanity. This is our mission, and therefore, we should not be impressed by the ups and downs that should not affect the overall correction process and the personal condition and mood of each of us. We must ensure that the connection between the Creator and the people of Israel, the Creator and all creations, is a connecting channel, thinking only about the fulfillment of this role.

The deeper we understand this role, the more clearly we feel that, on one hand, we are the Creator’s workers, and on the other hand, we serve all creations. This is a permanent job, which was given to us forever.¹

It is said: “Make your desire,” that is, the desire of the world, “as the desire of the Creator.” The Creator wishes to give the world a blessing, and we need to arrange the world so that it would want to accept the Creator’s desire, the bestowal from above. Therefore, we need to absorb the desire of the whole creation, properly adapt it, and elevate it to the Creator by combining two aspirations: the Creator’s desire to bestow to the creations, and the creations’ desire to receive what the Creator gives.

In essence, our desire should be corrected to the likeness of Bina, where Keter and Hochma rule in the upper part, and to the lower desire, Malchut, in the lower part. Therefore, we would not have helplessness, descents, and disappointments, just a permanent state defined by the desire of the Creator and the desire of the creations that fill us and oblige us. And we are the point of choice in the center of Bina, which decides that it is obliged to combine these two parts: the highest part is the Creator and the lower part, the creations.²

We have no other desire or any other duty beside the fulfillment of the Creator’s desire for the creations, that is, the creations should get closer to the Creator. And we ourselves are a zero, only an adapter. There can be no swings and falls in such a state, only the constant fulfillment of its mission.³

If we look deeper inside, we will see that there are no people of Israel and people of the world, and this is only the game of the Creator with us from two sides: above and below. There is no one but the Creator, and I am in the middle, between these two forces as a connecting point.

The Creator presents Himself as a supreme force, as a creator, and He presents Himself as the creation. I am placed in the middle between them, and I have to do everything to connect with both forces, absorb the desires of all creations, and include all fulfillments, that is, screens, the power of overcoming from the Creator. Therefore, I perceive the creation as my own soul, which I have to bring to merge with the Creator.

And then I will not despair and be upset that the creations do not want to listen to me and blame me. It does not matter to me because I execute my mission and will not retreat. But the Creator will arrange different states for me: He will light up a little more from above and do something nice, then He will push me from below with blows, and this is also good. I see everything as an aid toward advancement, and therefore, I am not affected by the results. It does not matter how many years it will take, I execute my role, which obliges me to act. It is said: “Anything but leave.”⁴
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/4/19, “Bnei Baruch as a State of Transition” (Preparation for the Convention in Arava 2019)

World Kabbalah Convention 2019 Photos

From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 2/14/19

Trade Fairs & Convention Center – Exhibition Grounds (גני התערוכה – מרכז הירידים)

Crown The Creator

The main spiritual work is to increase the greatness of the Creator. Only the creation decides whether the Creator is great or small. The Creator made a concealment, egoism, which conceals Him from the creation. And the creation must, above this concealment, crown and raise the Creator’s greatness, establish the kingdom by forcefully overcoming all egoistic screens that the Creator covers Himself with.

Everything that happens to us in this world is depicted by the egoistic mind and heart and is an invitation to remove the concealment by increasing the greatness of the Creator with each step. We want to reveal the power of the upper force, beside which nothing else exists.

The Creator conceals Himself in our desire to enjoy, and we must reveal His power from this concealment, declaring that He is the only reason for everything that ever was, is, or will be. That is how we build Him, as it is written: “You have made Me.” Behind all the concealments, we discover that the Creator is the only force in the world.

The more we annul our egoism and attain the qualities of the Creator, His program, the more we can rise and succeed in this work, according to the degree of our annulment.¹

We are trying to establish the Creator’s rule despite the complete concealment and lack of taste in the work. And we are trying with all our strength to detect His governance, as if we are trying to peer through the fog or see in the dark. That is how I try to detect that the Creator orchestrates every state, opinion, and desire for me. And I resist this concealment and try to see the Creator through it, to understand that it is Him who is creating this state.²

The main thing that determines our perception of reality is not the situation but it’s cause: “Did my child do this or did someone else? Is the Creator behind it or somebody else with quite opposite intentions?” When we reveal that we live in a completely integral reality where only the single force of the Creator, the purpose of creation, is at work, naturally our perception changes.

It does not mean that we see different images before us; simply, the reason, the source of all that is happening, changes. We reveal the network controlling this whole game: the one who controls all the puppets behind the curtain of this puppet theater.

And He is doing it all for me! But who am I? I am a point in the heart. My puppet is also there, among all the other dolls in this theater of life. But I observe this play from my point in the heart.³
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/19, “To Increase The Greatness of The Creator In Our Eyes” (Preparation for the World Convention 2019)

New Life #157 – Judaism And God

New Life #157 – Judaism and God
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

The Creator is the general power of nature. The force of love and bestowal in nature is the foundation of everything. Developing love for others is called Creator lives in me, which I reveal within me. Believing in God is to “love your neighbor as yourself,” to be similar to the force of love. The people of Israel are basically a group of people who have agreed to have a relationship of love and bestowal.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #157 – Judaism and God,” 9/2/12

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Practical Kabbalah: Attribute Everything To The Creator

The science of Kabbalah is meant to teach us how to reach the revelation of the Creator, not just to reveal Him in the mind, but to merge with Him so that “All my bones shall say,” which means to reveal the upper force in all of one’s perception: in sensations and in the mind, in each sensory and intellectual cell.

The study of Kabbalah occurs in three stages. In the first stage, we study what the science of Kabbalah is about: about this world, about human nature (egoism), about how egoism arranges our whole life in this world historically and geographically.

We then study the upper world, starting from the very top, from the first point where all the creations originate. This is a spiritual reality cut off from us. There is a desire to enjoy and the opposite force: the restriction, the screen, and the upper Light, the Creator, the desire to bestow. These two forces can get close and interact with each other, reaching connection and adhesion at different levels called the spiritual ladder. The spiritual steps show how the strength to overcome lets the desire to enjoy resemble the Creator’s power of bestowal.

At first, these two worlds seem to be completely unrelated to each other. There is this world, ruled by primitive egoism, controlling all parts of creation: inanimate nature, plants, animals, people. There is also the spiritual world in which the desire to enjoy armed with the strength to overcome and the upper Light operate.

However, at the third stage, devoted to the work of the Creator, a person studies how from this world he can gradually rise to the upper reality and resemble the Creator. It is already about Him.

Meanwhile, he is still at the level of this world, only approaching similarity to the Creator, organizing a group, a ten, not yet knowing what the spiritual world is about; this is called the preparation time. Next comes the period of entering spirituality—practical spiritual work. At this stage, we begin to work not on how to organize the work within the desire to enjoy, but how to overcome it, that is, to rise above it toward the desire for bestowal, the power of Bina.

For this, we exercise faith above reason, referring all our states to the upper force, to the Creator. This is how we try to separate ourselves, detach from the stage of the desire to enjoy, from feeling and understanding within egoism, and elevate ourselves to the next level, to faith, to the desire for bestowal.

In our attempts to jump above the desire to enjoy to the desire to bestow, we are like baby birds learning to fly: jumping, trying to fly, but failing. In the end, they succeed and begin to hover in the air. And so are we trying to jump above ourselves. The exercise is simple: everything I understand and feel, in my sensations and mind, I should relate to the Creator as coming from Him. This is how I change the power of Pharaoh to the power of the Creator.¹

Without collecting the external public around us and attaching it to us, we will be unable to rise. We must be connected with everyone, as it is written: “I dwell among my own people.” It is through the AHP, the outer circles, that the Creator is revealed if we do not neglect them out of pride and egoism, but take care of them. After all, caring for people is equivalent to caring for the Creator. The Creator dwells within the people and if we treat the people as the abode of the Creator, we will be able to achieve the upper world, faith above reason, and all the spiritual levels.²
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/11/19, “To Increase The Greatness of The Creator In Our Eyes” (Preparation for the World Convention 2019)

Connection With The Upper World

Question: When a person attains the Creator and becomes similar to Him in qualities, does he stop dressing into a physical body?

Answer: There are a number of Kabbalists in our world who are with us in the same sensation of this world and we can have a connection with them.

At the same time, they exist in the spiritual world and allow us to be connected with it. There are few such people, but there is no need for a large number of them. This is unnecessary because we have little need for spirituality in our world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/7/18

New Life #156 – The Vision Of One Family And The Jewish Root

New Life #156 – The Vision of One Family and the Jewish Root
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

What kind of atmosphere will we create here if we all try to relate to others as a family and how is this connected to the roots of the Jewish people? Judaism is based on the principle taught by our father Abraham: “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18). Abraham taught how to overcome the coldness that separates us and to activate the power of connection. The foundation of Judaism is unity and connection. Building a society here as one family is the connection to our Jewish root. Connecting as one person with one heart, we unite with all of nature, all of reality, we contact eternity, and we feel wholeness. We must reach this lofty state today and bring Light to the world!
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From KabTV’s “New Life #156 – The Vision of One Family and the Jewish Root,” 3/14/13

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Does The Creator Have His Own “I”?

Question: Does the Creator have a personality, His own “I”?

Answer: The Creator has His “I” and this “I” is the only one that exists in the entire universe. There is nothing else besides the Creator, or rather besides the thought, the plan of creation! And we exist in this thought, in this plan.

Question: If the Creator governs everything and gives life to all that exists, what does it mean to reach His level? Does it mean to become a source of life for everybody and govern everyone?

Answer: You are just a pipe, a conduit through which the thought of the Creator passes to the whole of creation.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/7/18

Is There Benefit From Prayer That Does Not Come From The Heart?

Question: We know that a correct prayer is the prayer for others. But when I do not have strength to truly pray, but despite this I make an effort, does such a prayer bring a positive result?

Answer: It actually does not, because this is not a prayer but an incorrect request.

The Creator is a general force of nature that receives only one’s true, not artificial, desires. This is like dropping onion juice in your eyes and weeping. Is there any benefit from this? It is the same here.

There is no need to pretend. We should study Kabbalah trying to understand our relationship with the upper force and how and what to ask it for. We must make sure that our requests nevertheless follow the path of our development and ask for our next, more elevated states.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/4/18

New Life #153 – The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part 2

New Life #153 – The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part 2
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

There is an inner connection between Israel and the world and healing the root, Israel, will solve all the global problems. The UN should push Israel to fulfill its fateful role and lead the world to perfection. If Israel would build a model society, then all nations would feel this and would understand how to connect as well. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be resolved through the connection between us, which will bring a good force to the world. We should arrange a connection like in a family when the husband and wife connect above all the gaps for the sake of the children.
From KabTV’s “New Life #153 – The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part 2,” 3/3/13

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“Anti-Semitism an Ominous Presence in US Politics” (Newsmax)

My article in Newsmax: “Anti-Semitism an Ominous Presence in US Politics”

How many times do freshman lawmakers from the Democratic Party need to apologize for anti-Semitic remarks until we understand what truly lies in their hearts and minds toward Israel and the Jews?

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar allegation that the Jewish lobby and money are buying American politicians seems to be only the tip of the iceberg of a larger anti-Semitic problem of a vociferous and growing radical wing against Israel within U.S. Congress and political circles.

Only after a strong condemnation and ear pulling from her own party, Rep. Omar stepped back from her comments, sort of. It was certainly not the first time she sparked controversy with inflammatory remarks. Back in 2012 she tweeted that Israel had “hypnotized the world,” among other accusations during her political career.

Meanwhile, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a firm supporter of Israel’s boycott, has been busy taking pictures with a pro-Hezbollah activist and accusing American Jews of “dual loyalty.” Both lawmakers have been warned by Republicans that “actions” will be taken if their incitement against the Jewish nation continues.

Extreme Minds Think Alike

Jew-hatred appears to reach consensus regardless which side of the coin the anti-Semites belong to. Holocaust denier and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has weighed in on this controversy, aligning with Omar’s conspiratory views toward Jews.

He didn’t miss the opportunity to add more fuel to the anti-Semitic flame. Since Jews, Israel, are blamed for anything and everything in the world, this time Duke brought Trump’s wall to the public discourse, no less, demanding Israel pay for it.

One of the ways the nations of the world blame the Jews is by stating that Jews control the world and all evil comes from us. By saying so, they imply that changing the world for good depends on the Jewish people.

From Nature’s perspective, meaning the inner forces that operate our world, this is, in fact, what we are destined to provide humanity. This is also the underlying reason for the growing hatred and demands toward us if we fail to fulfill this mission.

Jewish thinker Rav Yitzhak HaCohen Kook made this principle clear on his seminal work Orot [Lights]: “The construction of the world, which is currently crumpled by the dreadful storms of a blood-filled sword, requires the construction of the Israeli nation. The construction of the nation and the revealing of its spirit are one and the same, and it is one with the construction of the world, which is crumpling in anticipation for a force full of unity and sublimity, and all that is in the soul of the Assembly of Israel.”

An Outcry Against Israel Is An Outcry Against All Jews

There is no fine line between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.

Simply put, there is no line; they are the same. It is just easier and more comfortable for anti-Semites to hide their true colors under virulent criticism against Israel. When the Jewish nation is attacked from all sides, it is clear that we are the only ones we can rely on. Our good future depends solely on our unity.

Our nation was forged precisely through that unity, when individuals of different descents pledged to be “as one man with one heart.” Once our ancestors made that vow, they were tasked with passing unity on to the rest of the world, thereby becoming “a light unto nations.” When Jews disassociate from one another — and thereby abandon their commitment to humanity—they cease to be a light unto nations, and in so doing, invoke hatred toward them.

As it is written in “The Book of Zohar,” “Because they are of one heart and one mind … they will not fail in doing that which they purport to do, and there is no one who can stop them.” Our sages also stated, “Although the bodies of the whole of Israel are divided, their souls are a single unity at the root. . . . This is why Israel are commanded to unity of the hearts, as it is written, ‘And Israel encamped there,’ in singular form, which means that they were corresponding below, meaning they had unity” (Rabbi David Solomon Eibenschutz, in “Willows of the Brook”).

Unity above differences is the true commodity of the State of Israel and what Jews in general have to offer the world, because this is our foundation as a people. We possess the method for bringing people together. Once we reach this unity, it will reverberate around the world to neutralize anti-Semitism. As the Midrash Rabbah writes in “Song of Songs,” “Israel bring light to the world.”

New Life #150 – Patching Together The Religious-Secular Divide, Part 2

New Life #150 – Patching Together the Religious-Secular Divide, Part 2
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

Israel is the vanguard of the world. Israeli people are unique in that they have an impression from the connection and brotherly love, which dwelled among them in the past. Israel includes representatives from all cultures and is like a mini-world. All the diverse segments of society are in crisis since the ego has reached gigantic dimensions. Just as the socioeconomic problems in Israel are happening all over the world, the solution for Israel is also universal and will heal the whole world. Either the whole world will consolidate against us with tremendous pressure, or we will educate ourselves for connection. Our situation is very dangerous. We are playing here like children in a sandbox while our situation is deteriorating. Waves of fascism and Nazism are again beginning to threaten the stability of the world.

We need to create a wave of healing here that will inundate the whole world. Do not become involved with quarrels between the different factions; rise above them. All of us have a common enemy—the ego. Each faction will receive an allotment for its true needs only on condition that it approaches connection with everyone. How do we deal with points of contention? The same way we do at home, with our partner. We first rise above the argument, connect, and then solve the problem together. That is how an argument can increase mutual connection. We transform the bad that is discovered between us into good thereby strengthening the love.
From KabTV’s “New Life #150 – Patching Together the Religious-Secular Divide,” Part 2, 2/26/12

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