The Illness Is Clear: It’s Time to Treat It

Dr. Michael LaitmanSoon, we will encounter resistance around the world. So far, we are not very noticeable, but resistance is awaiting us in the future. After all, the world does not understand that evil becomes revealed so that we would rise above it.

The world simply wants to eliminate this evil, while we, conversely, have to correct it. As it is said: “The greatest hero is the one who turns his hater to a friend.” Then, the serpent, the angel of death, becomes a holy angel.

For this reason we must have a creative attitude toward all the difficulties and opposition, searching for an opportunity to use them to build bestowal and eternal life. The entire difference between a broken world and a corrected one lies in the way we use our desire. We only need to change the intention from egoistic to altruistic.

We have to explain this to everyone by showing the essence of the breaking or, speaking in the modern language, the essence of the crisis. It is exclusively about the revelation of the evil of our nature. It can only be corrected by rising above the egoistic use of desires toward love. This is the only place where we have freedom of will, whereas people are completely not free in all other aspects.

The more consistent we are, the more confident and serious we will be, and the quicker we will understand that we are in the war of the Creator and Amalek that happens in all generations. Amalek is the entire essence of evil, our egoism, its true essence. The war happens “in all generations,” which means that it happens on every stage of our existence, from one reincarnation to another.

This is why it is very important to collect scientific data about the crisis from around the world. Scientists have nothing to do with Kabbalah, and we present the results of their studies that state that the crisis is essentially the result of human egoism. Only unity can serve as a remedy for this illness, the unity of all of us above egoism.

We will use accessible language to explain to the world the Kabbalistic view of the state of the affliction and the healthy state. Then, the only thing left will be to “prescribe the medication,” to complete the intermediary link. Mark the illness with the minus sign and the corrected state with the plus sign.

The problem is that people do not know what the solution is. To them, the remedy is a big question mark.

The Illness Is Clear. It’s Time to Treat It

Today, it already is clear that our ego is the cause of the illness and that our recovery is connected to bestowal. So, when will we be able to come out of the crisis? It will be once we unite. Thus, our objective is to attain a mutual guarantee so that all of us would be soldered into one.

However, the world is avoiding this solution because egoism does not desire unity. It will not leave us until we start suffocating. It must be like this in order to bring us directly to the goal: the need to unite. Egoism keeps revealing its evil to us until it really becomes unbearable to us. Only then will we be able to escape our ego toward the quality of bestowal and then turn actual egoism into bestowal.
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From Lesson 3, the Germany Convention 8/6/2011

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Egoism: A True Guide To Better Future

Dr. Michael LaitmanThe origins of our spiritual path lie in the breaking. We must regard our egoism, the alienation and hatred between us, as the right preliminary foundation for correction.

When Rabbi Akiva saw barren ground in place of the Temple, he laughed and rejoiced. He was the wisest man of his generation, a great Kabbalist. He was asked how he could rejoice at the collapse of sanctity as the aspiration for bestowal had been vanquished, and the principle of love thy neighbor as thyself had been desecrated. Could the collapse of all hopes really be a reason for joy?

He responded: “I have never believed, never known, and never felt that we will be able to attain the general correction. But now, once our spiritual structure has been destroyed, once the love that reigned among us has been broken, and the people have fallen into unfounded hatred, I am convinced that this final breaking will lead to our general correction, complete redemption.”

This is why everything that is being revealed to us every moment of our lives is the breaking we will need to correct. No matter what happens to me, from the core issues of life to insignificant things in the family or at work, in all that happens within me, with my well-being, relationships with relatives, friends, people, and the world, in all of reality, everything only becomes revealed for the purpose of correction.

Every time, a new image is sketched before me that delves deeper into my egoism. In this image, I must see the result of the constant influence of the Light that essentially, activates increasingly deeper layers within me.

We perceive the world in our ego, and this is why we need to correct it. So, what is this correction? It brings unity to people. Especially now, when the entire world is beginning to realize the evil of the current state, we help them feel and understand that “evil” is our evil inclination.

Our egoism is the cause of everything bad. We see this in the things that are happening. Unable to bring the world to order, people are destroying it, ruining themselves, breaking relationships, and destroying nature. We are unable to move toward goodness and make a good life with the evil that is concealed in us.

The crisis is becoming more acute every day. In other words, we are discovering that our egoism is destroying everything and is not letting us normalize, balance, and improve our lives. On the other hand, we must understand that it is guiding us forward the right way and helps us head toward correction and goodness. It’s similar to how a manifested illness shows us how to treat it.

As we realize this, we must be grateful to our egoism and love it for showing us the place that needs correction. It is written that Pharaoh brought the sons of Israel closer to the Creator. He began to pressure them, and at the end, they had to escape Egypt. Otherwise, they would have stayed there.

This is why it is written: “Come unto Pharaoh for I have hardened his heart.” There are two opposites here, and we must not forget about it. No matter the evil that you encounter, instead of destroying it, you need to correct it.
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From Lesson 3, the Germany Convention 8/6/2011

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Norwegian Retailer Pulls Violent Games In Wake Of Attack

Dr. Michael LaitmanIn the News (from gamecareerguide.com): “Media reports indicate retailer Coop Norway will cease to carry 51 gaming and toy brands following attacks that killed 77 in a government building and youth camp.

Danish site Gamers Globe reports (translation) that the removal includes first-person shooters Homefront, Sniper Ghost WarriorCounter-Strike Source, and the Call of Duty series, as well as popular MMO World of Warcraft.

Alleged attacker Anders Behring Breivik mentioned playing World of Warcraft and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in a wide-ranging 1,500-page manifesto written before the attacks.”

My Comment: We see that sufferings correct. But we can do without them! How much violence do we have to witness in order to realize the necessity to change the environment that surrounds us, children and adults alike? However, this is only “against violence” and not for greater closeness with each other. Closeness can be reached only by means of mandatory education of the entire population: bringing all citizens to unification above all the differences between them. Otherwise, the cause of violence—disparity between people and mutual hatred—will nevertheless remain.
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Bringing The World To Unity

Dr. Michael LaitmanWhen reading The Zohar, we should try to keep in mind that all of the corrections amount to unity between us. We should see everything taking place in the world today as the revelation of disconnection. At the end of the day, hatred, disorders, and all of the problems that arise are being revealed so we, and then the whole world, will feel that we have to fix the connections between us.

To the extent we work on dissemination and speak about the connection between everyone above the separation and opposition between all parts of the nation and the world, to that extent we prepare and demand unity during the study.

Therefore, the more we exert an influence and disseminate this knowledge, the more we talk about unification, trying to bring the nation to unity, the more we will demand it during the study, and then we will merit conducting this Light to us, and from us—to the nation and the world.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/10/11, The Zohar

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Kabbalists On Spiritual Work In The Group, Part 6

Dr. Michael LaitmanDear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.

Obtaining the Greatness of the Creator through the Environment

And while one sees how one’s environment slights His work and does not properly appreciate His greatness, one cannot overcome the environment. Thus, one cannot obtain His greatness, and slights during one’s work, as do they.

And since one does not have the basis for obtaining His greatness, he will obviously not be able to work to bestow contentment upon the Creator and not for himself. This is so because one would have no motivation to exert…. And one’s only choice is to either work for oneself or to not work at all since for him, bestowing contentment upon the Creator will not be tantamount to reception.

The measure of the greatness of the Creator comes from the environment which cares about the greatness of the Creator. Only then will everyone have the energy to act for the sake of the Creator.
– Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar

The friends should primarily speak together about the greatness of the Creator.
– The Rabash, Rabash—the Social Writings, “What to Look For in the Assembly of Friends
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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 08.10.11

Shamati #52 A Transgression Does Not Put Out A Mitzvah
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Chapter Hukat (The Statute), “A Man Removed His Shoe,” Item 12, Lesson 2
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Part 2, “Ohr Pnimi,” Item 100, Lesson 7
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Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, Item 55, Lesson 32
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