The Solution To Terror, Part 5 – The Condition For Attaining Peace

Comment: You say that the solution to terror should be to strengthen the foundations of the Jewish nation. But I think that terror will stop only when we create two countries between the sea and the Jordan River.

Answer: This isn’t a feasible solution. Even from a perfectly corporeal perspective we see that there is no one we can talk to about peace agreements, not to mention the fact that it is not a solution if we look at things from a higher spiritual level.

We have to take into account that the world is advancing towards unity whether we like it or not. We will eventually have to connect with our Arab neighbors either along the path of the Light, called “I will hasten it,” hastening time, or along the path of sufferings, called “in its time.”

Suppose we were given twenty years along the time axis in order to reach complete peace with the Arabs. Let’s assess our chances realistically: Is it possible to do it in this time span or not? Is there anyone with whom we can reach a peace agreement? Do the Arabs agree to that?

They don’t agree to any of the conditions except that we will also become Moslems and that the Caliphate regime will govern all of the Middle East and the whole world too. Only then will the Arabs put an end to terrorism.

No other solution will satisfy them. We will soon see how this takes place in Europe: Christianity will disappear and instead of the cathedrals and churches there will be mosques.

Therefore, consider whether you want this to happen in Israel or not. If you don’t, we have no other choice but to start implementing the method of the wisdom of Kabbalah. After all, from the Arab’s point of view there cannot be two states here but only one Caliphate.

We should carefully assess whether we have another means to oppose that besides the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/5/15, Lesson on the Topic: “The Answer to Terrorism — Strengthening the Foundations of the Nation”

The Solution To Terror, Part 4 – A Spring Of Goodness

Question: The nation of Israel has never been and never will be united. It is time to wake up from these childish dreams. Your call to unite is nothing more than propaganda. The nation of Israel is so divided that there is no turning back.

Answer: Of course, because the separation of the people has been going on for two thousand years. The Temple was destroyed because of unfounded hatred.

There is no connection between us, only hostility and estrangement. And we don’t even feel how terrible our division is, because our hatred has been so disguised over the past two thousand years that we don’t even feel we hate each other.

The hatred stems from the fact that we come from different peoples that lived in ancient Babylon. This hatred was revealed among the Babylonians in its most extreme, critical form, but then we realized that there is no other choice and that we must unite. This is the reason we gathered around Abraham who taught us the method of unity.

The same thing is happening today. We must fulfill Abraham’s method together, but I am glad the nation of Israel has recognized this inner hatred and can see its true state. We hate one another, and we feel distant from one another. There is no mutual care among us, and there is no power in the world that can correct our situation.

It is a good thing that the truth finally has been revealed to us. We finally have stopped deceiving ourselves, talking enthusiastically about the extraordinary friendship among our people.

I can bring much more convincing evidence to show how unrealistic it is to attain any form of unity among the people of Israel with the means at our disposal. All of our dreams about such unity are baseless, and it is a good thing that there are people who understand that.

But there is another means to attain unity that people don’t know, and I am happy to tell them about it. If we establish a certain unity according to the advice of Kabbalists, we will feel how effective it is and how such actions generate the force of unity.

We spur the source of unity from the inside because, after all, it exists in nature. The positive force exists in nature! We only need to be like it, and then it will burst into this world and gush from the ground like a spring of goodness.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/05/15, Lesson on the Topic “The Answer to Terrorism — Strengthening the Foundations of the Nation”

Our Strategy Is The Unity Of The Nation

Question: I understand that, when you speak about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, you reveal the root of the problem, but if I’m attacked with the intent to kill me, what am I supposed to do?

Answer: You should kill the assailant first, but that doesn’t help solve the conflict. You only temporarily get distance from the problem, but don’t get out of the situation.

After 2,000 years of exile, we were returned to the land of Israel in order to unite and become a single people. Only in this way can we change the world in giving it a new system, a new paradigm, a new view of humanity.

Today, humanity has become integral, global, connected, and completely closed around this small planet. We are experiencing a single system that is mutually dependent, and only our good, mutual relationships can save humanity from destruction.

The correct relationships are found within the Jewish people, and we must reach unity and connection, as it is written, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” It is possible! Only in this way can we become compatible with nature and reach a normal, calm, and good life. Nature doesn’t agree to less than that, and it pushes us to this.

Question: But man who is on the level of this world demands death to the terrorist! He wants to stop the conflict with force because the terrorists are only afraid of force.

Answer: It won’t work! Because the world has its own laws, which are more internal! We see that America, Russia or any other country is able to do what it would like to do.

Moreover, no one will come to protect us. To the contrary, everyone is ready to trample on us, and we have no friends in the international community. However, they will appear if we begin to realize the system of integral, mutual cooperation between us. Then, everyone will change their attitude toward us immediately! We are not dependent on anyone else for this.

Question: As much as I understood, our tactic is as follows: If someone comes to kill you, kill him first.

Answer: Yes, this is because if you are killed, you won’t be able to realize yourself, you won’t be able to begin to unite and connect with others. So in this case, you need to get ahead of the attacker.

But our strategy is to unite the nation.
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From KabTV’s “Confrontation. How It Works in Reality” 10/28/15

Sorting Desires

The Torah, “Numbers,” 17:12 – 17:15: Aaron took [it], just as Moses had said, and he ran into the midst of the assembly, and behold, the plague had begun among the people. He placed the incense on it and atoned for the people. He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague ceased. The number of dead in the plague was fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died because of the matter of Korah. Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague was checked.

The Torah doesn’t speak about people and their physical death, but about our desires and attributes we think that we can correct on the current level but suddenly discover that some of them cannot be corrected. The ego is divided into 613 attributes, which together are called our ego, characterized by hatred between people, rejection of one another, and directed against our unity. No one wants to get close to anyone else and if he does, it is only in order to dominate others.

These attributes usually appear when we begin to get close to someone. But this level is yet to be reached. When we learn to get close to others and connect to them in one common heart and one common mind, we begin to feel how the forces that oppose this unity arise in us. These forces are revealed in a person as 613 attributes, desires, called Mitzvot (commandments). A Mitzva is the correction of a certain attribute we have, and the Torah tells us how to correct the forces that divide us to forces that bring us closer, connect and unite us.

But before that, we need to feel that such desires for connection and unity do exist. This is exactly what happened to Korach: he aspired for unity but believed that it was possible to reach it in a different way. When this and the other 250 desires that clung to him manifested themselves, it became clear that they were impossible to correct.

This is the reason that he fell from the level he was on, which means that the attribute of Korach in a person fell. That is, it cannot yet be corrected on the current level of the spiritual ladder. Later Korach will be born on an higher level where there are other, stronger and more accurate forces of correction that will be able to correct these desires with his method and they will be moved from their place.

Question: Does this mean that he becomes righteous?

Answer: Of course! Everything reaches the correct form. People also undergo the same “inventory”: some of the desires, attributes and intentions called people can be united with the Creator and some cannot yet be connected

At the same time, everyone takes his specific place and so some desires die because of a plague, others just suffer, and others feel that they are in a more or less normal state. This division between the attributes is necessary since without it a person will not know what is inside him and which of his attributes are focused on the goal of creation. After all, everything is measured according to the ultimate goal: which attributes I have to correct in myself in order to get close to others and reach complete adhesion with the Creator.

Everything in the Torah is described as terrible actions in which thousands of people seemingly die in a plague, but at the same time, the numbers are gematria (numerology) by which the same volume is calculated, the same density of the desires in the general soul that are put to death at the moment. This means that they are neutralized now and are not taken into account for the time being. These desires fall to the bottom, and when the time comes, they rise. This is how the sorting of desires takes place, and only those that can be corrected under the influence of the Upper Light advance.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/27/15

How Were The Twelve Tribes Created?

Why was the nation of Israel divided into twelve tribes? The fact is that there is a four-letter (Yod, Hey, Vav, Hey) or four phase development of the desire. The Light that generates the desire leads it through these four phases, the last of which is egoistic.

It turns out that there are four phases in our soul, and if I feel something, it means that I have been through the previous phases of development, and I already feel their revelation inside me.

Moreover, the spiritual work is done in three lines: right, left, and middle.

The right line is altruism, the attribute of love and bestowal. The left line is egoism. And I am in the middle line because I must take out of the left line only the egoistic desiresthat can be corrected and incorporated in the right line and put them together in the middle.

The four phases multiplied by three lines make twelve parts, which are the twelve tribes, twelve major attributes that make up the general soul.

None of us has a soul because the soul can be only general and common, one for all. If we connect in it, we will acquire it, one and all.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/27/15

The Solution To Terror, Part 3 –The Concept Of National Unity

Question: The concept of national unity and the revival of the people has the smell of fascism.

Answer: If a person cares about himself, his family, his party, or his people, it is always possible to accuse him of fascism and nationalism.

But everything depends on the intention, that is, what goal he wants to achieve: to control other people who live outside of his nation or within it, or to bring good to them.

According to this criterion, it is necessary to examine the intention and not stick a label on it. If I call for the unification of our ranks and unification of the people, then first and foremost, it is necessary to examine the goal of this unity. Is it for the benefit of the world or to harm it? Otherwise, these are baseless accusations.

Not all unity is fascism. Can the Kibbutz movement be called fascism? Everything depends on the answer to the question of for what are we uniting? I don’t intend to cause harm to someone through our unity, including harming the Arab population inIsrael.

Every people must protect its uniqueness, its characteristics, its views and inclinations. We attain unity above all these differences, and this is what acquires all the richness and diversity of unity.

It seems to you that unity will make everyone into robots with identical faces. This is certainly not talking about unity of this kind.

However, we see, on the one hand, that the world is becoming more and more mutually linked, but on the other hand, each people is becoming more and more developed and isolated. So, how is it possible to connect these two tendencies together? Each one aspires to stand out, but all of these individualists must connect, be inserted under one umbrella.

We must attain unity like this without damaging the individuality of any person or any people.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/5/15, Lesson on the Topic: “The Answer to Terrorism — Strengthening the Foundations of the Nation”

“The Answer to Terrorism – Strengthening the Foundations of the Nation” Published On Ynet

Published recently in my column on Ynet, “The Answer to Terrorism—Strengthening the Foundations of the Nation.”

In these difficult and pressing times of “daily attacks” there is only one answer to those thirsty for blood who rise up to annihilate us—strengthening the foundations of our nation.

Even a talented screenwriter would have difficulty writing a more complicated scene. Within a radius of a few hundred kilometers, a collection of the most extreme terrorist organizations of humanity has gathered, and they surround us from every direction. The terrorist attacks are turning into a daily routine, and with them difficult scenes. Bloodthirsty murderers try to injure, stab, and ruthlessly eliminate everything in their path. It is impossible for us to reconcile ourselves to this situation.

We can only stand against this wild, frenzied hatred and extremism if we can revitalize our nation’s roots—unity. Only our unity will make our country, again, a safe home. If we miss the opportunity to come together and stand as one against those who hate us, the ring around us will ignite and we will lose the ability to be a free people in our land. This is exactly what our enemies wish.

Despite the severity of the sights, and in the worse case events, we experience daily, we continue to fence ourselves off from each other, each confined to his own world, and each party crouches in its corner and continues to advance only the narrow interests of its constituents.

With the danger that is lurking in every corner, we must take advantage of the benefit of a broad process that would lead the nation to unity, above all separation.

Harmony in a Single Body

Interactions in a nation are similar to the interrelationships between the various organs in the human body. Harmony exists within the human body: the brain is responsible for thinking, the eyes for seeing, the legs for carrying us, and so on. The nation is also made up of leaders, advisors, managers, and workers who must operate in complete harmony as a necessary condition for maintaining normal life.

The weakening of the nation is the result of impaired relationships between its “organs.” Our sages said, “Jerusalem was only destroyed because of unfounded hatred” (Yoma 9b). Hatred and division are an illness that weakens the body of the nation, disintegrating it from within, like a deadly disease, which is the result of a lack of harmony between the organs.

Unity in a Nutshell

The only way to reinvigorate into the Israeli nation these days is to create a sense of connection, a mutual bond and Arvut (mutual guarantee) between us. We must pull ourselves together and understand that the personal happiness of each one of us depends on the happiness of the entire nation. And personal weakness also depends on the weakness of the nation; so strengthening the network of social connections between us and cultivating our social capital will give us strength, and in a period of crisis like this, they are in our psyche.

During the years of exile, we lost the feeling of natural nationalism. The threads of love that bound us atrophied and detached from our hearts. Unlike every other nation in the world, the nationalistic feeling that still remained in us stems from the common suffering we experienced and still experience. The wars, hardships, and disasters are what consolidate us—we are brothers only in a time of trouble.

Unity whose source is in common external suffering is not true unity; it is “unity in a time of emergency” and it doesn’t have the power to build a nation that will be strong even in routine times. We are like a collection of nuts with hard shells put together into a single sack. Within the sack each one is closed within his shell. The sack creates an artificial unity between the nuts and doesn’t consolidate them into a single body. When the sack disappears, the unity disappears.

Strengthening the National Muscles

There is only one way to stop the horrific wave of terror and ensure our future as a strong nation—to start a nationwide social and educational process aimed at uniting people. We need to once again revive those national muscles that have been inactive in us for these two thousand years.

Social capital is our strength. Unity is the basic condition for the rebuilding of the people of Israel in the land of Israel. Without unity, we cannot ensure the welfare and future of the State of Israel. Without it we are like a building without a solid foundation, which is threatened to collapse with any vibration.

Our concern for the revival of the Israeli nation must have priority over every other concern. Only an educational process whose goal is to instill unity among the people of Israel will lead to success, prosperity, and security. We can no longer turn a blind eye our eye. Our unity is the foundation of the building; it is the only thing that will determine the stature of the State of Israel and the attainments that we will achieve.

This article was written according to the newspaper, The Nation published by Baal HaSulam, Rabbi Yehudah Ashlag, June 5, 1940.
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Published on Ynet 11/04/15

The Blossoming Of Aaron’s Staff

Torah “Numbers,” Chapter 17: 21 – 17:23: Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and all their chieftains gave him a staff for each chieftain according to their fathers’ houses, [a total of] twelve staffs, and Aaron’s staff was amidst their staffs. Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the Tent of the Testimony. And on the following day Moses came to the Tent of Testimony, and behold, Aaron’s staff for the house of Levi had blossomed! It gave forth blossoms, sprouted buds, and produced ripe almonds.

Twelve staffs stand for twelve parts of the common soul (four stages of three lines). So, Aaron’s staff is above the others.   

Dry staffs symbolize unpromising routes of advancement and a budding staff symbolizes the path that leads to life. Therefore, all should aspire to follow Aaron and pick up their staffs under the condition that they follow him.

The common soul consists of 12 major internal properties called the tribes. Everything is built on a symbiosis, a mutual connection among them.

Twelve tribes can be connected with each other only if they are tied to Aaron of the house of Levi. This is why the Torah directs us who to follow.

Only Aaron can serve as a connection of opposite qualities. The tribe of Levi never did anything for their own sake, they work only in bestowal and the education of the people. Therefore, people advance in accordance with the degree of the self-correction that is possible as a result of the Levites’ governance and teaching.

The entire Torah speaks about faith above reason, which is a state of complete self-annulment. When we approach the revelation of the Creator, we naturally arrive at the complete annihilation of selfishness. Enlightenment is the understanding that our egoism is not us. This makes it easier on us.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/27/15