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'Unity Movement' – a global not-for-profit association of people who adhere to mutual principles and values, shared by all of the movement members and supporters.

It was started in February 2012 by students of modern Kabbalah teacher, Dr. Michael Laitman, also known among Kabbalah students as the RAMLAN.

Origins of Unity Movement
Unity Movement is based on ideas of another Kabbalah teacher, Rav. Baruch Ashlag (the RABASH), the elder son and successor of Baal haSulam, the most notable Kabbalah teacher of XX century and author of the Sulam (Ladder) Commentary to the most acclaimed Kabbalah book in history, the Zohar.

Unity Movement is headquartered in Petah-Tikvah, Israel.

Michael Laitman on the Unity Movement
Dr. Michael Laitman is cautiously optimistic about the movement prospects, saying that the current initiative is only a humble start. He also explains that the Unity Movement is the initiative and responsibility of his students and supporters and himself or the organizations he has founded are not patronizing the movement in any way. This is different from other public movements: no official head, no structure, no ideology, no political or public aims other than the spreading the message of unity and implementing this message into everyday reality of persons interested to take a part.

Unity Movement: Scale
According to the Unity Movement, the movement has over 2.000.000 supporters worldwide (the people associated with Bnei Baruch Kabbalah studies groups and affiliated organizations), and up to 10.000.000 of friends, who although not actively participating in the movement, share or support its values and ideas.

Unity Movement: Basic Ideas
Unity Movement’s values and principles, although of crucial importance to Kabbalah students of Ancient and modern times, are less familiar to those not studying this spiritual method.

They are centered on mutual guarantee principle, which means agreement among the people to support each other in every endeavor and need. This mutual guarantee agreement is paramount for success in studies of Kabbalah. The same mutual guarantee, its proponents are saying, is needed to attain a more worldly, materialistic goals, such as to overcome the financial crisis or cure the social woes in education or prevention of crime. Although this cannot be proposed to every member of a modern society, Unity Movement aims to assist at least those who accept the Unity principle (based on the idea of Mutual Guarantee agreement).

The Unity principle is simple: In order to succeed in life’s pursuits, one needs to get united with the others, which is a step absolutely necessary if one wants to attain a safe, prosperous future, full of discoveries and joy. In the meantime, one helps create an environment that supports him in his pursuits.

The ultimate pursuit of the Unity Movement is to achieve comprehension of meaning of life, which in other words is called the goal of creation.

Whether to aim at this higher spiritual goal or to limit oneself with comfortable living is up to individual person, the basic principle needed to achive those goals remains the same.

Membership
There are no pre-requisites, conditions or duties, other than symbolized by the movement’s name, the Unity Movement.

To join the Unity Movement, the only step is to understand and agree on the movement’s ideas, there are no memberships or papers to sign.

The Charter, Documents and Publication
In development.

Events
Unity Movement organizes gatherings of friends in Israel, as well as Eastern and Western Europe, North and South America (there are also members in Asia, though no gatherings were yet based in that region). Last event is Arava Desert Convention convention in Arava Desert, Israel (February 23-25, 2012).