Three questions I received on the correction of the world:

Question: Sometimes even avid followers of Kabbalah and students of Bnei Baruch have simple but “fundamental” questions they feel are necessary for further advancement and understanding. My question is: it says that the wisdom of Kabbalah can help correct the world. But why do we have to correct the world?

My Answer: It’s because the world does not exist independently of you or outside of you, but  only inside you and its existence depends on your qualities. So, by correcting the world, you correct your qualities.

Question: Correction can be brought into the world only by the people with a point in the heart, even though they are not corrected yet. Is it true that once people with a point in the heart become corrected, they will receive the quality of Bina from the Creator, which is the quality of bestowal toward the entire world, including the still, vegetative, and animate levels? The world, on the other hand, has the quality of Malchut and cannot correct itself on its own. So, the only ones who can correct the world are people with the quality of Bina, those with a point in the heart – Bnei Baruch.

My Answer: You are absolutely correct!

Question: Is there a critical mass of Kabbalah students that has to be reached in order for positive changes to take place in the world?

My Answer: You are that critical mass!

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A question I received: Since I cannot contact you directly, let me throw out some burning questions…

My Answer: I’m here for you on this blog, in direct contact with you!

Question cont’d: Do you consider Kabbalah to be a complete and absolute wisdom that cannot be supplemented by anything?

My Answer: Every person who attains Kabbalah today adds his part to it, along with the Kabbalists of the past. It works the same way in any science. However, in Kabbalah, this is done through one’s attainment by the method of correction, rather than through egoistic knowledge or theories. So, you are welcome to reveal and supplement the general picture with your own observations.

Question cont’d: Say a person has attained the full correction, but was forced to return to this world in order to complete certain tasks. Does he have to undertake the correction of the entire corrupted world once again? In other words, one’s individual correction is not final until one leaves this world?

My Answer: That’s correct.

Question cont’d: Were there any Kabbalists in the Sanhedrin aside from Kayafa? If yes, what was the percentage?

My Answer: All 120 members of the Sanhedrin were great Kabbalists who attained the Creator.

Question cont’d: Was Avesta knowledgeable in Kabbalah? If so, why did Alexander burn her, considering that all his actions were controlled by the Creator?

My Answer: The Creator governs everything. Avesta and Alexander were like robots that He controlled.

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In the news (translated from Mignews.com): Science fiction writers never imagined that instead of guns, tanks and missiles, we would soon go into battle using computer programs. Some predicted that the battle fields of the 21st century would be filled with cyber soldiers rather than people and that the battles themselves would take place in interplanetary space. Instead of this, the ones that will go to battle will be lines of organized hacker-thieves with a mastery of computer programs rendering the enemy’s armor nothing but a heap of metal.

My comment: Isn’t this boring! But it is precisely in such battles that today’s boys are discovering the spirit of combat!

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A question I received: Wouldn’t you agree that Kabbalah is very similar to Marxism? Are you really endorsing Marxism, when it had failed so miserably in Russia?

My Comment: Marxism failed because the method of transitioning to an altruistic regime is comprised of two conflicting processes that were not handled correctly. According to Kabbalah, you must first restrict a desire, and then acquire a screen (the intention to bestow) over it.

The first part of the transition is to end the old egoistic social regime. The only way to move away from it is by either hating it or the people in authority.

The second part of the transition is to altruistically develop the masses in order to move closer to creating an altruistic society. Marx knew that the tactic must shift midway from an egoistic destruction of the past to an altruistic creation of the future. After all, an altruistic society is only possible if it is built on an altruistic foundation, and in order to do this, it is necessary to prepare (educate) the masses.

What happened in Russia was that Marxism only completed the first part – the dethronement. But it could not educate the masses so as to replace the egoism that was instilled in the initial dethronement, and to transform it to altruism – the foundation for a collective regime.

The only way to change people’s behavior diametrically, from egoism to altruism, is by educating the masses and nurturing the realization that this change is necessary. Only after that can the new society be implemented.

Do you remember how the entire world held their breath, waiting to see a successful establishment of the Soviet regime – the second part of the correction?  If they would have succeeded in this, then the entire world would have adopted the collective regime by now. However, the egoistic direction of the first part of the transition became destructive for the collective regime of the second part.

Conclusion: In our times, the revelation of Nature’s laws is making the need for a collective regime more and more apparent. By failing to observe Nature’s laws, we only draw greater suffering upon ourselves. Therefore, we must give practical and scientific examples to people and an explanation of the fact that egoism is destructive. This must continue until the masses begin to understand. We should not oppose mankind, but its egoism. In the end, our message is unity, bestowal and love!

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Two questions I received on the correction of egoism:

Question: My egoism is not very developed. I do not aspire to become rich or to build my career. I have no ambition and I work all sorts of jobs for minimum wage. However, I do have an aspiration to get out of this cycle. In order to study Kabbalah, do I have to develop my egoism more or can I study Kabbalah without this?

My Answer: The only thing you should focus on is correcting the egoism that you have. You will then see that you are bursting with egoism! That’s because one’s entire ascent toward the Creator is based upon the growth and correction of egoism.

Question: During the last day of the 2009 International Kabbalah Congress, I decided to set an alarm on my phone that would remind me to spend one minute everyday thinking about the fact that all the people on earth are one Kli. Aside from this, I really want to join a group, but my egoism holds me back. Should I force myself to go to a group, or wait for this to happen naturally, for the Light to push me to go to a group?

My Answer: If a person is sick and is just sitting there, waiting for a desire “to come to him” to take the bitter medicine, a shot or an operation, then is he doing the right thing?

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In the News (from Belta): “Crisis lessons to highlight 13th St. Petersburg Economic Forum agenda” – On June 6, so-called financial day, the participants of the forum will discuss post-crisis financial architecture, reformation of the international financial institutions, prospects for reserve currencies.

My Comment: What problems were solved at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum that couldn’t be solved at the G8 and G20 meetings ? However, the more discussions, the sooner we will come to realize that the cause of the crisis lies is in our relationships and that the solution comes by examining this root. The economic avalanche can’t be stopped by regulations or laws. People must become connected into one benevolent desire. That is what Nature demands of us.

There is only one method of forging these relationships – the same force of Nature that created our egoism will cause egoism to change into an opposite quality – the feeling of everyone as a part of one system. This defines our common fate, and the method of Kabbalah shows how to produce this realization within us and draw the proper influence from above.

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A question I received: I came across your answer about “the Jewish conspiracy.” You confirmed that some kind of conspiracy does exist, but you mentioned that it is positive in nature: that everyone knows the Jews are the chosen people, and they will help all the nations unite and establish a “new order.” My question is: what are the means or methods that will be used to establish this new order? Please answer my question or I will assume that you have no answer or you are concealing it.

My Answer: I am answering your question as quickly as I can, to make sure I don’t lose you as a student or disappoint you by my ignorance. The Jews have a great secret, which holds answers about the future of the world. It concerns all the people in the world, which is why everyone subconsciously hates the Jews. Everyone hates the Jews because on some level, they feel their dependence on them.

However, the Jews themselves also don’t know about their secret! The only people who know it are the Kabbalists. They have known it for centuries, but they concealed it because no one had a desire to follow the way to the future. The reason for this is that people’s egoism was not fully developed yet.

Now, however, the time has come when we have all the conditions for revealing the secret to everyone. The signs of this are the global suffering, depression, the collapse of the old order and the revelation of the global interdependency. However, even today there are still not very many people with a desire to engage in this secret.

From now onward, everything is up to you. If you desire to reveal the secret, you will attain an expanded perception of everything that exists around you, and that you don’t perceive right now. The revelation happens in a similar way that one does scientific research – whatever is unknown (a secret) today turns into a revelation (knowledge) tomorrow.

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A question I received: How does a woman’s spiritual development depend on a man? I am a man, and the study of Kabbalah is my entire life. However, my wife watches sitcoms and thinks mostly about how to make more money. For the sake of saving our marriage she sometimes watches Channel 66 (“The Kabbalah Channel”) together with me, and even reads your blog. But nothing goes in. Can I “pull” her onto my level? I need her and we have two very young children, but on the other hand I want to devote myself completely to Kabbalah.

My Answer: Each person receives an aspiration to reveal the Upper World (a point in the heart) individually from above. You have no right to force your wife to be interested in Kabbalah.

If she allows you to study Kabbalah in your free time, then you must agree to all of her other conditions. In addition, you should show her how grateful you are to her for this. This will help you in your spiritual development and in working with your egoism.

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In the News (from The Daily Mail): “’Condom cards’ for boys as young as 12 so they can get free access to contraceptives” Boys as young as 12 will be handed ‘condom cards’ allowing them to collect free contraceptives without their parents knowing. The taxpayer-funded scheme lets them pick up packs of condoms from football grounds, barber shops and health centres simply by showing the plastic card.

My Comment: Acceleration of development is a result of the growing egoism. Sexual activity is also connected with general dissatisfaction and “non-fulfillment.”

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In the News (translated from Lenta.ru): Russian First Deputy Prime-Minister, Sergey Ivanov, advised to go to fortunetellers, prophets and clairvoyants to get an answer on the question about an exact date of Russia’s exit from the economic crisis, because no one can give an answer to this question. Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, appealed to officials not to make unwarranted forecasts about the timing of Russia’s exit from the crisis.

My Comment: Soon we will begin to recognize the fact that we are dealing with an absolutely incomprehensible, unknown and unpredictable phenomenon. We will stop comparing it with past and similar events; we will stop calculating and making forecasts, we will subdue our pride, humble ourselves before Nature and gradually begin to agree with Nature’s demand to unite.

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