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Why Is There So Much Evil In The World?

Posted on January 8th, 2010

Two questions I received on unfortunate circumstances in our world:

Question: It really does seem that even as the computer/technological age affords us the ability to be with each other across many miles, to connect with all our friends no matter where we are in the world, there is a huge lack of soul connection between us! Why is that?

Why are we feeling so much fear, needing to grab whatever power or space or whatever it is that we need at such an alarming pace? Why is there so much anger, and mistrust in the world? Why are there so many despotic leaders with power gone awry? I’m sure that influence has always existed, for there has always existed those who “have” and those who “have not.”

My Answer: It’s because we follow the principle “Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.” Egoism forces us to close our eyes to tomorrow because people see no way out of the situation.

Question: Dear Dr. Laitman, I especially liked the way you described to us the way children should be educated in the future (but really now, as it is urgent). My question is: How long will it take for the kindergarten schools up to the universities and colleges around the world to catch up to the idea? Maybe 5 years? I am worried that it will be more than 5 years.

My Answer: I hope it won’t take longer. Otherwise, things will get worse.

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Is True Equality Possible?

Posted on January 8th, 2010

Until today humanity has been advancing by three policies:

1. Mercy, justice and peace, which it somehow managed to maintain;

2. The pressure of dictatorship, which didn’t ask people for their opinion and simply told them how to live; or

3. People were divided into slaves and masters and accepted this inequality out of hopelessness.

Those were people’s previous ways of development, but now they have reached a demand for global equality. People feel that “Everyone must be equal!” And on one hand, this really expresses their internal vision of justice; we feel that equality is right. However, our definition of equality is wrong – we are seeking external, instead of internal equality.

Therefore, we aim for equality between everyone in the external form, but over the last two centuries we have been finding out that external equality is a complete delusion. What we need is equality that is deeper, more internal.

To attain it, we will have to gain awareness of the entire system of our inter-connection and return to the principle of truth, where truth means that each person obeys the laws of reality due to people’s common, global and deep knowledge of Nature.

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Another Disappointment With Global Warming Research And Prevention

Posted on December 27th, 2009

In the News (from Political Lore): “Why is “Climategate” Getting Little to no Coverage?” In 2008 Dr. Roy Spencer wrote a book entitled “Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor.” Dr. Roy Spencer is the former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. In this book he argues that the programs congress creates to “combat” global warming are rushed into law. Laws and policies are easily made when there is a “fear” that needs to be taken care of. Fear is a lawmaker’s best friend. Fear makes passing bills easy, with little opposition.

Why is “climategate” getting little to no coverage? It is all about the money. There is so much money to be made on account of the fear caused from global warming, just ask Al Gore. The more fear, the greater the reward, for congress, for anybody. Newscasters NEED apocalyptic stories to survive. It gives them this story they can add to here or there, whenever they need something to talk about. The people who are promoting global warming just want to put fear and guilt into the American people, and business. Fear produces money, and rushed legislation. How many scientists are funded due to the need to figure out why this “warming” is happening, or the need to figure out how to combat this “warming.”

My Comment: This is another sign of how people are gradually getting frustrated with all their efforts to make life better. Meantime, things are getting worse, and as a result, people are more prone to begin hearing Kabbalah’s perspective.

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Equality Is Based On Knowing Each Person’s Inner Nature

Posted on December 10th, 2009

It is impossible to achieve equal and fair distribution without knowing the inner nature of each person. This cannot be achieved in any other way, such as through different social support systems and other “crutches.”

Social systems might be effective for some time, but eventually the entire system collapses as soon as society becomes more interconnected. We have lost the ability to regulate it, since we need to establish equality and fairness on a global scale. Here the desires of mercy, fairness and peace cannot replace truth, and it is then that the crisis emerges.

The crisis in economics is a result of people wanting to receive without limit. They inflated financial bubbles beyond rational limits, neglected the formula that balances giving and receiving in a reasonable proportion, and forgot that it is necessary to give and do something for others.

It is now being revealed how much the situation is out of our control and how we are powerless to balance society. This is how Nature pushes us to the revelation of the truth and attainment of souls.

A soul is the inner part of a person, the basis of life. If it is possible to attain another person’s soul, one will attain all the properties of that person, and then will naturally relate to him knowing what he is capable of and what can be reasonably requested from him.

We are now coming to the great principle of the Torah – “Love your neighbor as yourself,” which is a means for us to connect together. We can then understand and feel each other and are are able to share fairly. Humanity will not solve the problem of its survival without learning and acting by this principle!

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A Phenomenon Of Connection In The 21st Century

Posted on November 28th, 2009

For the first time in human history, now in the 21st century we have come to the point where we feel ourselves in opposition to Nature, the Creator. We have come to be connected into one global system of humanity.

Before this, the Light affected each of us individually so that each of us would grow within his own egoism. Today however, we have developed to the point where the Light has connected us together and is causing a different kind of development within us that will correct the connections between us.

Prior to this, we weren’t opposite to Him, even though He is one and there are billions of us. Today we are connected together, but involuntarily and not by our own desire; it is for this reason that we are opposite to the Creator.

We have finished our individual egoistic development and therefore we have lost the desire to develop further. The world has reached a point of presenting unprecedented opportunities, but people have lost interest in them because the desire has become different; the desires are no longer personal desires of an individual to fulfill his own egoism.

Humanity’s egoism has reached its maximum limit and cannot find any new voids to fill, nor do we feel the need to fill those voids. The Light has stopped developing us and is now pressuring and forcing us to connect correctly with others and to become equivalent to Him (the Creator).

This is a different kind of Light that is aimed at our unification. We have therefore come today to the global crisis, which is the crisis of connection between us due to our non-conformance to the Light, the Creator.

We are experiencing a new phenomenon of the 21st century; one that has never happened before. Today all problems occur on the scale of the common system and the whole of humanity. That’s why we all feel we are all together in one boat.

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Will We Need Innovation In The Future Society?

Posted on October 22nd, 2009

A question I received: What will be the place of innovation in the future society? Will all acts of creativity and inspiration be dismissed as excessive or surplus because they are innovations and as such, are frowned upon, or is there a place for innovation, entrepreneurial spirit and even creativity in the future society?

I give you the example of the mobile phone, an innovation no more than 25 years old. Would the attempts to create a similar product such as the mobile phone in the future society be seen as excessive or as a good thing? The reason for my asking is that my grandfather believes that the mobile phone is not necessary, while I could not live without one.

The elders of a future society could forbid the development of wonderful products and innovations based on their views of what is excessive, and possibly cause a state of oppression.

My Answer: In the future, only spiritual elevation will be a person’s primary work, since there currently is nothing for 90% of the world’s population to do. All they do is make up occupations for themselves and pollute the world. Aspiration towards the Creator will by itself determine what professions will remain and how one will care for oneself within necessity.

Either everyone will work for an hour or two a day, or only some will work and the rest will be busy attracting the Upper Light for the benefit of everyone.

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Organizing Our Lives In The Changed World

Posted on September 27th, 2009

A question I received: It is becoming increasingly clear that population surplus is a problem not only in the Third World, but also in the developed countries of Europe and North America. There are not enough jobs to go around. What do you think the job market will be like in the future?

My Answer: The crisis is bringing to light the type of production that is excessive. We must come to a state when we produce the essentials for a normal existence, but nothing more. When this happens most of the Earth’s population will be left with nothing to do.

We are already witnessing forced reductions in working hours in all the developed countries, with many companies switching to a four day work week.

The rationale is that this will reduce maintenance costs, as workers would be taking less vacations and sick days, while being motivated to work harder.

Let’s remember that it was the Great Depression of 1929 that led to the emergence of the five-day work week. Before that people worked six days a week, 12-14 hours a day.

By reducing work days and hours we’ll be able to provide work to twice as many people.

Question (cont’d): Either way one question still remains – what will one do in his free time? By increasing peoples’ leisure time, will we not disturb the balance with Nature that we must come to? After all, this imbalance is the reason we’re in this crisis.

My Answer: Nature is freeing us not so that we can have a good time, but so that we’ll achieve equilibrium with it by attaining the quality of love and bestowal.

Therefore, we must organize the free time we are given to study the Nature of man and our world, so as to equalize their qualities.

Therein lies the essence of the science of Kabbalah. We must establish national universities and other such education centers, which will serve to educate the people in their increased free time about their likeness to Nature.

We must explain that humanity’s increased free time is part of Nature’s plan, and is specifically intended to help humanity come to the realization of this plan.

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Acting In Accordance With The Principle Of Truth

Posted on September 17th, 2009

We always try to act in accordance with principles that replace the principle of truth. Truth is possible only when I attain the whole of creation and reveal the Nature of all creatures, the entire interconnection between everything and am able to see that the entire system is no longer concealed from me. At that point, I will have reached the revelation of the system of all worlds, meaning, the connections that exist between us.

I come to a state where everything is clearly revealed, I come to truly understand everything, make the correct decisions and manage everything correctly.

As yet, I still don’t have the opportunity to treat everyone and everything in the correct manner. Since society can’t demand true justice from a single person, in its place, we have created social systems based on the concepts of “mercy,” “justice” and “peace” in an effort to somehow compensate for all the differences between us.

To make up for our incorrect actions in society, humanity has invented all sorts of artificial entities, which is much like having prosthetic rather than real legs. So, in order to be able to live, we have created national welfare systems for the poor, pensions for the elderly, health care insurance and various social service and charitable funding agencies.

In our lifetime however, all these systems have stopped working, since the interconnection between people has been revealed. We have been stricken by the global crisis and it is impossible to maintain the existing systems if we don’t come to know the global system of connections between us.

At the moment, we are only seeing the external manifestations of the crisis in industry, culture, education and the mass media. However, we are connected internally and it is precisely this connection that we have to correct. Once we achieve this, then all other external systems will be corrected. After all, we did build them all based on our egoism.

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Learn To Live Long And Live Happily!

Posted on September 13th, 2009

The most distressing development in health care reform is the formation of a commission that is to make decisions regarding the level of health care provided to a patient during the last stages of life.

Statistics says that the cost of providing care during the last years of life is equal to the cost of care for all previous years of life. Most of us start off healthy in the beginning, then as we age, problems begin piling up until, at the end of our life, many of us are very sick and our health care costs skyrocket.

The main question being asked is: How to save money? From here, the solution has come in the form of a commission that will decide what conditions to treat and what not to treat.

Who are we talking about? Who needs these old people? When we are young we work, pay taxes and fund the government treasury depending on how much we pay in taxes and how much we spend as consumers. When we retire, we become deadwood for the state. We don’t produce anything, but become dependent on the government for our needs.

The commission is to decide how much money to spend on this deadwood, and the judges will be those who receive dividends from this process.

Here are some ideas for consideration by the commission: Can we create a society where people live longer, are happier and at the same time also cost the government less money? What if we teach people how to eat correctly, to move and stay active, learn to love others and think of their neighbors, be in harmony with Nature and come to understand that we are one family?

We don’t need to decide whether we need this commission or other types of reform. If we begin to feel ourselves as one family, then we won’t need any reforms. We will be able to make accurate, correct decisions and learn to live long and live happily!

Written by Doctor Alex Angelov (Bnei Baruch, Boston)

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There Is No Good Without Evil Or Evil Without Good

Posted on September 12th, 2009

A question I received: In Israeli society, there are various charitable events as well as donations made to help the poor. In the end, do these actions hamper the development of this part of the population or is this just another example of mutual guarantee?

My Answer: There is no good without evil or evil without good. We live in the period following the shattering of the common soul and this why in any piece of it, in any of our actions, there is some bad that consequently yields a positive outcome and there is some good which at some point leads to a bad outcome. And this goes on forever. Either in the beginning or in the end, it will be either good or bad. Good and bad go together until the end of correction when all evil turns to good.

When speaking of donations, helping others, volunteering in hospitals or wanting to help starving people in Africa or other countries, we see that there is absolutely no benefit from any of these actions in the end. There are billions of dollars being spent on such things and there are thousands of people working in charitable organizations who enjoy their work. But the benefit is zero. I would even go as far as to say that it has the opposite effect.

Before people started seemingly to care and therefore began handing out food in Africa, the country created, produced and traded a huge variety of goods. Now that foreign countries are providing Africa with food and weapons, the African nations are only rebelling against each other.

In order to break a person, you only need give him the necessities so that he stops thinking and worrying about his own life. This is exactly what happened in Russia. They found oil and gas there and started to sell it, which led to the country’s collapse. Why do people need to work if they have money?

The same is happening with national insurance in Israel. If you are entitled to benefits you won’t want to come out of your house. “What do I need it for? I can buy a bottle of beer, watch TV and watch the time go by. Today everything is fine.” A person makes a sandwich, goes to the beach and spends the entire day there.

Nothing can be more destructive than these seemingly good works and care for others. It is better for a person to endure blows, as then he will be obligated to work or to study!

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Why Is There So Much Evil In The World?

Is True Equality Possible?

Another Disappointment With Global Warming Research And Prevention

Equality Is Based On Knowing Each Person’s Inner Nature

A Phenomenon Of Connection In The 21st Century

Will We Need Innovation In The Future Society?

Organizing Our Lives In The Changed World

Acting In Accordance With The Principle Of Truth

Learn To Live Long And Live Happily!

There Is No Good Without Evil Or Evil Without Good

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