Start Everything From The Beginning Every Single Day?

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: If man chooses the Creator every single time, then how does it differ time after time?

Answer: A new desire, a new degree comes every time, and everything starts from the beginning. Yesterday some things made you sad and certain successes made you rejoice, but today everything starts anew, as if you were returning to the same point, and there is nothing you can do about it.

What happened, did you not already figure this out yesterday? But no, new subtleties of understanding are being added today.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/23/2011, Writings of Rabash

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Don’t Miss The Light!

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What is the spiritual weight of the convention in December? How many years of study is it worth?

Answer: I think that there is no substitute for it in the coming year. In this very important and, I would say, fateful year, we will see how the world turns towards unity and connection. These will only be preliminary steps, but we have to be strong and well prepared for that. This is what the convention should provide us with.

It isn’t just about being able to leap forward, which otherwise would take us, say, six months. If we don’t connect during the convention, we won’t be able to fulfill our mission. The system of connection we are creating during the three days of the event is extremely important for us.

A person may not study with us on a daily basis. However, if he skips the convention and the preparation for it, he will miss out on the “building blocks” from which his spiritual vessel is built. It isn’t about the “wisdom” one hears during the lessons. Today we are constantly working with the Light that Reforms.

Hence I warn you: Don’t allow yourselves to miss the lessons. It isn’t just a study. These are very precious moments when the Light actually influences you—much more realistically and intensively than before.
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/23/2011, “Peace in the World”

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When Fashion Goes Out Of Fashion

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Today many superfluous products are targeted at women: fashion clothes, jewelry, cosmetics, diet food, and so on. Will women really give up all these things?

Answer: If we follow people’s true desires, everything will happen simply and smoothly. Today’s fashion is imposed upon us by those who make money from it. Actually, there is nothing truly beautiful and useful in fashion. We are talking about an artificial desire that is being imposed upon the public. Fashion is unnatural; it doesn’t stem from human nature.

Of course, a woman wants to be beautiful and to wear jewelry. It has been this way for ages, but without the madness that accompanies it today. Today new rules are constantly being dictated to us, forcing us to compete, which in the end only bring us closer to the collapse. We are being bought and sold; they are driving us crazy with all these different fashions. It has gone too far, and it isn’t by chance that the young generation doesn’t take it seriously any more, although the fashion and the cosmetics industries still make billions of dollars.

Let the Light work, and you will see how fashion becomes irrelevant, just like many other forms of egoism.
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/23/2011, “Peace in the World”

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Let The Light Do Its Job

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: When the Light changes me, will I naturally want to act for the benefit of others?

Answer: You will be different. You won’t have the slightest desire to make a profit at someone else’s expense.

Question: So how will I be able to take all the seven billion people in the world into account?

Answer: Don’t worry. The desire doesn’t come without the understanding and the ability to realize it. The desire stems from the system that is already instilled in you and gets revealed there. You are already incorporated in the system of the seven billion people both mentally and emotionally, and so you will be able to make reliable calculations for the common good. Just imagine what a vessel you are getting!

Until then, everything that you do will have destructive results. This is why the world leaders cannot find a new economic system. After all, they don’t possess an internal model of human society connected in a new way. This is why they don’t know what to do: to raise the interest rate or to lower it, to demand the repayment of debts or to write them off?

First we must only aspire to connect. By this we will enable the Light to set us in the right direction. Then the amount of useless activity in the world will gradually diminish, and we will begin to connect softly, advancing towards balanced consumption without wars and terror. We have to let the Light do its job. There is no other choice. We cannot do anything on our own.

In the meantime, however, we don’t want to let the Light in, we don’t oblige it to work, and as a result, our society assumes its present form.
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/23/2011, “Peace in the World”

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A Question About Kabbalah And Religion

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Someone asked where is Jesus in Kabbalah, and the answer came back: “He is absent.” How can Jesus be absent? Kabbalah says that it deals with physical energy, so how can you separate it from the One who generates it? It’s like separating the gas from the car. How can it run without it?

God is the source of all things. In Genesis God spoke: “Let there be light, and there was light.” But isn’t light energy? Then why would God separate Himself from what He created? How can Kabbalah have no relation to religion? Regardless what religion it is, God is the source of all energy, all things in Heaven, on Earth, and beneath it.

Answer: Are you talking about the Creator or man, about what is revealed or what people believe in? I think this is a question of faith, which has nothing to do with science. Do you ask a physicist: “Where is the divine force in your particle accelerator?” Kabbalah talks only about what is revealed to us, people, as we develop within the force of bestowal and love.
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Wander In The Fog Or Go With The Flow?

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Why is the law of mutual guarantee concealed from us? Why can’t scientists discover it?

Answer: You would like to place a person before irrefutable facts: Think badly of your neighbor, and a boulder falls on you from the sky; cause harm to someone, and you receive a threatening notice from the bank. You want to have an immediate response to your every action: reward or punishment. It would be a law of nature, an indisputable fact for you.

However, a person must be given freedom of choice. If we acted instinctively, there would be no problem. Nature would pressure us into becoming one whole. It is very simple: If you show me that I lose by disconnection with others, I will smile and be nice to everyone. I will build friendly relationships, take care of others, and make sure no one is treated unfairly. If we were programmed with mutual responsibility from Above, we’d gladly implement this program.

But the truth of the matter is that we must arrive at mutual guarantee by our free choice; we have to build within the human degree on our own. That is why the message of unity is hidden in the fog and we are lost in it, deprived of a sense of direction. The moment we begin to realize and feel it, it vanishes. Otherwise, we won’t be able to develop the human within ourselves.

The fog is not important. It doesn’t matter if we are slow or clever, clumsy or graceful. We must do only one thing: build an environment. Like a child building a house out of blocks, we should construct an artificial environment as an example of who we would like to be if we desired it.

If a person sits idle, Nature will oblige him indirectly, through blows and sufferings. But blows, too, will never force man to surrender his own nature because by this a person descends to the “animate” degree and builds the environment instinctively in order to survive. It would be a Soviet model of socialism with the Creator instead of the KGB behind your back. And you would become an animal living in unity with other animals in the herd. What kind of created being is that? Can we reach the level of the Creator like that?
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/12/2011, “Peace in the World”

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A Solution That Is Hard To Discern

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: During the social protests in Israel, people experienced a sensation of togetherness for the first time. They understood what it means to be united. Now they lack this sensation. They don’t know what to do next. Some say that they want to become social activists and do volunteer work.

Answer: We need to rid them of all their illusions. Possibly, they will go and hand out presents in hospitals or distribute donations for the needy. We can’t stop them from doing this, but the most important thing is that they understand that correction comes from within. It’s not their external actions that need to change, but their inner state that must be altered. We discover the evil in the world not in order to correct it, but in order to transform ourselves. Then, the evil will disappear. The evil serves as an indicator of our inner change.

That’s a very different approach. It’s like switching your perception to a new level. You have to invert yourself from front to back. I always looked for ways to change the world, how to build more support systems and expand charity, how to create better aid systems, and how to improve our society. I wanted my kids to be able to walk at night without being attacked and help the elderly since I will be in that state one day. However, all of these things aren’t meant to correct our nature, but they serve to improve the picture of the external world, which I wanted to sweeten.

Now, we see an opposite situation. All those protests in numerous countries are totally useless, although we do understand why they are happening. The true reason for the protests is not what the oligarchs did, but that the external conditions of the world have changed. The world has become global, and that’s the essence of the crisis. Financial bubbles were created in the past as well; moreover, governments do this today because they don’t have any other solution. What else can they do? They are in a trap.

The real solution that they do not see yet is the inner change of a person. It is very difficult to discern this solution, and it’s even more difficult to believe that it’s realistic. It’s true that if we were better, if we stayed more connected and thought jointly, then, of course, we wouldn’t pollute the land and the air, and we would do everything right. That’s all true, but we are unable to do so. Nature is not pushing us hard enough yet, although according to recent data, we are finishing off the Earth. Yet, it doesn’t seem to be making an impression on us. We know that it’s still not happening today.

We use international organizations only for egoistic purposes. In general, if the United Nations makes a decision regarding any country, it is pretty easy to make this country comply. In this global world, you just close up their import and export “taps,” stop the financial flows, and here we go, the “patient” starts suffocating.

So why are we incapable of organizing the world properly? We have the ability, and we possess such forces. However, we haven’t suffered enough yet, and after each affliction, we go back to our old behavioral pattern.
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/12/2011, “Peace in the World”

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Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What changes do we have to implement at this point?

Answer: The most important task is to change man’s outlook on the world, his approach to it. In truth, we don’t need to do anything else. It is impossible to take any practical steps without this.

Indeed, people haven’t figured out what’s happening yet. They first must agree with the idea that we have to change internally in the direction of unity. It is enough to merely agree with it out of despair caused by the total extinction of the sources of fulfillment. People will reach a new understanding, will be imbued with a new feeling, and start to implement excellent ideas even before you think of them. As a result of the strong global connection, people will acquire wisdom.

Question: What does it mean “to agree to unite”?

Answer: People will agree internally that the world’s new and better future lies in the connection between everyone. This is already a different outlook on the world. I don’t object any more, I agree to learn about this, I become part of this plan, and I accept this message. I already understand that the crisis is caused by big egoism that has totally separated us and drawn us apart, while a single, whole system is being revealed to us.

This is what constitutes the agreement: Instead of following the price of the US dollar and interest rates, people will begin to change their way of thinking. “We will be better off if we unite more because this is the condition for success today, which Nature has posed to us.” A factory owner or a doctor at the clinic—no matter where a person is and what he or she does—will know that he can only succeed by way of unity, connection. A person will understand that it won’t help if he steals from someone, profits at someone’s expense, deceives someone, and so on. His entire attitude to life will change.

The present financial system is based on the principle of success at the expense of others. At first everything was fine: People saved money and invested it in industry. But then the speculative games started and prices soared. A fight starts over a glass that costs five dollars: One is ready to pay 20 dollars, and another 30, and we build an entire industry on these prices, as if it is based on real money. As a result, the dollar which was initially made of gold is now made of paper. We’ve lost control over the economy. It isn’t the economy anymore, but one big lie, and this is why it is being destroyed today.

We have to shift to a totally different system and most importantly, determine what we are doing this for. The global financial system has to help us balance the general system. We will operate not with inflated but real financial resources, which correspond to a real capacity of the world’s economy. Through this we will bring the world to balance. We will all discuss how to better invest the available means in order to reach maximum balance.

This is the new economic approach: to profit not from money in a bank account, but rather from strengthening the connection and balance betwen all the systems.
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/11/2011, “Peace in the World”

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Kabbalists About The Soul And Commandments, Part 3

Each commandment entails another commandment. A commandment (Mitzvah) means merger and union, and derives from the words “single joining, togetherness” (Tzavta Hada). And this is the essence of commandment, that is, adhesion with the Creator on one occasion brings about another commandment, meaning an even greater adhesion. [The entire correction amounts to an increasingly greater unity of the entire humanity.]
– Moshe Chaim Ephraim, Degel Machaneh Efraim, Chapter “Korach

The 613 commandments and seven commandments of the sages constitute 620 sparks of the Light. Baal Shem Tov said that a commandment (Mitzvah) derives from the word “joining” (Tzavta). It means that when we fulfill a commandment (unify), we merge with the Light of the Creator.
Tzror HaChaim, 38
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IMF lacks The Resources To Tackle The Crisis

Dr. Michael LaitmanIn the News (from BBC News): “The IMF says it will take decisive action to tackle the eurozone debt crisis and support the global economy.

“However, the communique, issued during a meeting between G20 finance ministers, the IMF and the World Bank, did not give specifics on whether extra funds would be available to the global fund.

“’Advanced economies will ensure that banks have strong capital positions and access to adequate funding,’ said the communique.”

My Comment: If financiers and economists understood that nature prepared the only option—the economy of reasonable consumption, they would only have to bring their economic and financial systems in compliance with this requirement of our evolution. However, since they do not know and do not wish to know that yet, their attempts to act using old methods will cost us a lot of unnecessary suffering.
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