We Are Standing At The Threshold Of An Extraordinary Discovery

man1One receives all the desires of the “Human” level from one’s environment, and if one uses these desires to benefit others, one experiences a pleasure that’s 620 times greater than when one receives for oneself. “Inside oneself,” one can only perceive this world, but “inside others,” one can perceive the Upper World. That is why today the world is standing at the threshold of an extraordinary discovery: if we will love others as ourselves, we will discover the Upper, Eternal, and Perfect World.

We shouldn’t suppress our desires, but correct them and use them correctly. Today, when egoism is ready to swallow the entire world, we are already able to transform ourselves and attain eternal fulfillment. We must only realize that a body needs just the vital necessities, whereas all other pleasures are discovered when we come out of ourselves.

The financial crisis shows us that money is a connection between us. The disaster has to “get under our skin,” because otherwise we will continue just like before. It is similar to the story about Pharaoh, who was beaten by ten plagues in order to finally allow the Jews to leave him. Hence, the crisis is not over, and the real blow is still ahead. We still don’t feel that the banking disarray, the climate problems, the disintegration of the family unit, depression, drugs, and the crisis in science and education – are all one common result of a disrupted connection between people.

The science of Kabbalah enables us to recognize the evil without actually becoming immersed it. We must put all our efforts into explaining to people that “Everyone needs the world and the world needs everyone.” People must now recognize that salvation lies in unifying with each other.

The world’s troubles will vary according to our ability to offer the world a remedy: the method of correction. The science of Kabbalah not only enables us to solve the problems of our world, but to capitalize on them and reveal the Spiritual World. This is indeed “the revelation of the Creator to the creatures in this world,” which is the definition of the essence of Kabbalah. Essentially, the correct connection between people is the Creator.

We have to connect with the world and its suffering, and try to explain the solution by all means possible. We can discern the disasters in the spiritual dimension and encounter them there, without letting things develop to the physical tragedies. Everything depends on the dissemination of the science of Kabbalah.

People Are Beginning To Open Their Eyes

leastNews Report (translated from Pravda.com.ua): The Ukrainian Secretary of Finance, V. Pinzenik stated: “The world can come out of the crisis if we all reach out to each other. The key problem facing the world right now is egoism. In a normal situation, egoism is the right thing. But in the current situation, the world will not come out of the crisis unless people forget all about egoism for a year. The problem is in people’s heads.”

My Comment: Actually, egoism has never been “the right thing,” but the world has never known another nature. However, now that we’ve revealed our integral interconnection in one closed system, we will be forced to subdue every person’s individual egoism in favor of the system’s existence. We must forget about egoism forever. And the problem is not just in people’s heads. We don’t know how to get rid of egoism. Therefore, humanity will still have to go through the following stages:

  • Finding the correct definition of “What is egoism?”
  • Recognizing that man’s egoism is the only source of evil
  • Recognizing that egoism is our entire nature
  • Recognizing that it’s impossible to get rid of egoism
  • Discovering that Kabbalah is the means to replace egoism with altruism
  • Applying Kabbalah and attaining the integral existence of all people

Only the dissemination of Kabbalah is able to reduce this path of suffering. Nevertheless, it’s nice to see that people are beginning to open their eyes! They have never done this before!

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Utopian Attempts Are Doomed To Fail

whimNews Report (from The Economist): The cimarrón is one of at least ten alternative currencies in different parts of Venezuela. … But none of these tokens can be exchanged for the bolívar, the country’s legal currency. Their use is limited to “prosumers” – you have to bring something to sell before you can actually buy anything with them. … ‘It’s magic,’ says Pablo Mayayo, an Argentinian who is advising Venezuelans on these schemes. ‘When you take away money… people relate to each other in a different way, by co-operating, not competing.’”

My Comment: Kabbalah states that progress is programmed by nature and determined by the egoism that continuously grows in us. Our egoism cannot be stopped, but it can be corrected. Then, instead of using it to harm others or for illusory self-benefit, we will use it to benefit everyone. This is the principle of a closed system, and today we are revealing that human society is just such a system.

Therefore, any movement backwards, our attempts to reverse history, are opposite to nature and will inevitably bring about an even greater crisis.

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The Eyes Can Hear (And Smell)

The Moral Norms of a KabbalistNews Report (translated from an article at chtochto.ru, based on the book Brain Rules): Experiments with human senses in neurobiology now demonstrate that not only can people “hear” with the eyes, they can also “smell” with them.

My Comment: This confirms what is written in the “Preface to the Book of Zohar,” that the things we perceive do not exist outside of us. Our five senses are nothing but the five levels (Aviut) of our common desire, in which Reshimot (informational data, Hitlabshut) emerge. The levels of desire differ by the desire’s strength (Aviut) and quality (Hitlabshut), similar to the difference between the development of the levels still, vegetative, animate, speaking, and the Creator.

We study all of this in Kabbalah, the science of perception (revelation) of reality (the Creator). By definition, Kabbalah is the method of revealing the Creator to man in this world. It explains that each of these five parts consists of all the other parts. This is why each part can partially perceive all the other parts, and vice versa. Hence, when a person loses one of the five senses, it becomes partially replaced by the remaining senses. In other words, you can “see, hear, smell, taste, and touch” with any one of your senses. And this ability is more developed in some people: for example, Rosa Kuleshova, who could read printed words with her fingers. Actually, in the past we all had these abilities.

Nothing changes outside of us. We perceive the constant influence of the Simple Light (the Creator – the desire to give us pleasure that’s constantly directed at us) in our continuously changing desires (Reshimot – inner informational data). The Reshimo are what depict – inside us – the changing picture of the “external” world, like frames of a motion picture strip. The senses that create the picture are inside us, and the resulting picture of world is absolutely subjective.

Therefore, if I place myself under the influence of the right environment (group), I can create the inner conditions for the Reshimot that emerge within me to develop spiritually. I will then feel a desire to realize the Reshimot through bestowal and love for others, and then my perception of the world that emerges within me becomes spiritual. I will thereby reveal its cause and its purpose, or in other words, I will start perceiving the general force of Nature (the Creator).

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