Opinion: (Alan Greenspan, a former Chairman of the U.S. Fed): “’The euro is breaking down and the process of its breaking down is creating very considerable difficulties in the European banking system,’ Greenspan said today, according to Bloomberg.

“He told attendees at the Innovation Nation Forum today that European leaders must reassess the feasibility of a monetary union between 17 countries with very different ideas of government and monetary policy.” (Source: businessinsider.com)

“Casting serious doubt over the continued survival of the Euro, Greenspan said the cultural and economic differences between northern and southern Europe are just too big. While countries in the north–such as Germany, France, and Finland–have a lot in common, they are very different to countries in the south, such as Greece.

“Southern European states tend to have current account deficits, meaning they consume more than they produce, so they end up having to borrow from countries in the north. ‘That cannot go on,’ said Greenspan…”

“The Euro-zone crisis matters, Greenspan said, because the world economy is extremely integrated and because about 20% of U.S. exports go to Europe. Though the odds of a new recession in the US have risen, the former Fed chief said he doesn’t expect that to happen–at least for now.” (Source: en.mercopress.com)

My Comment: But the world is interconnected, and the recession will be traveling around the world until people understand the true cause of their troubles: our lack of correspondence to global, integral nature, the quality of bestowal, mutual guarantee. We cannot separate humanity from the entire universe, if the world is global. We must seek solution in the violation of the world’s globality, in its unity.
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In our days, there is no big difference between working in the group and all of humanity, individual and collective work since a common network has become revealed. In the past, groups of Kabbalists worked in hiding, separated from everyone else. They did not show themselves because it was forbidden to reveal Kabbalah and explain its purpose before the actual network of common connections becomes revealed and the need for a method of correction arises.

This is why Kabbalists kept quiet. But since the moment this network started revealing itself, the situation has become cardinally opposite, and we must divulge this wisdom.

Kabbalists predicted this even before this network became revealed to the world. Almost one hundred years ago, Baal HaSulam started telling the world about the need to reveal the wisdom of Kabbalah. He thought that the world should prepare ahead of time for the revelation of connections to avoid going through wars and suffering we have experienced in the past century.

Humanity experienced more killings and suffering in the twentieth century than in the entire history of humankind. And of course it was possible to go through all these corrections in a different form. But so far, the corrections the upper one performs remain within Him, and we do not know about them or see them with our own eyes. We do not have the means to see the corrections we have attained at the cost of such great suffering.

Even though this was a correction, but its form was undesirable since it donned on us under the pressure from Above and against our own desire. In Kabbalah this relationship is called “Achor Be Achor” (back to back). But we need to come to a complete agreement and turn “face to face” with one another (Panim Be Panim).

After all, one way or another, we always advance, but it happens in an undesired way. But now, after Kabbalah has come out into light, humanity can prepare itself for the revelation of the network that connects us through an integrated, global upbringing and mutual guarantee, that is, through the proper connection between us.

And when we prepare for this revelation, we will welcome it as good, and we will perceive it as a common field blessed by the Creator, and not as a life full of danger and threats. Everything only depends on our vessel, which must precede the Light.

You will feel that this field of mutual connections is blessed by the Creator because you yourself will want to bless it! You will think that every new revelation benefits you because it brings you closer to general bestowal, mutual guarantee!

Whatever happened needed to happen. We neither erred nor made wrong moves—everything happened according to the Creator’s desire that became revealed this way. We should not regret anything in the past, even the most painful events that are very difficult to accept: “There is none else beside Him.”

But from today on, we need to see that everything depends on us, and “no one will help us but us!”
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/30/2011, Shamati #110

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All the upper worlds, the breaking and the descent from Above downward all the way until this world, and then the development in this world until our time, all of this cannot yet be called the creature. Only now, when we are finally beginning to reveal something and to supplement our previous development, it can be said that we are approaching the beginning of being the creature. The degrees we are now beginning to realize are turning into some sort of actual reality.

Everything that happened before: the four phases of the Direct Light, Malchut of the world of Infinity, the entire expansion of the worlds all the way until our world, the birth of our universe, the Earth, and humanity, its entire history until today, all this is like a grain that contains the entire program, the entire process in its potential. After all, none have yet realized their freedom of will! There is no creature yet! None have yet done anything by their own desire, their free choice, separate from the Creator.

This special process is starting only today. Until now everything came from Above. And even when we read about certain actions, such as screens, calculations, all of this refers to the future. In addition, people who have already attained this from below upward tell us about it. And only the upper program is realized from Above downward.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/1/2011, Talmud Eser Sefirot

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Question: I know and tried many times: It is impossible for me to change my egoistic being. I want to change, but do not have the power. I know this and Kabbalah says that it is impossible.

What is the next step? Go to Google maps and look up where the Creator is living and travel to Him? Knock on His door and when He opens ask and demand from Him to change my evil inclination for the good?

This drives me “crazy.” Every day I wake up and know it is not in my power to overcome this evil inclination.

Answer: If you are convinced that you are unable to change yourself, it’s a big discovery by itself. But this is not required of you: You specifically have to become convinced that you are incapable of it. By recognizing your inability to change your egoism, you will see that you are governed by the Creator so as to evoke your demand for Him to change you.
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Dear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.

All Changes Are in the Desire, Not in the Light

We can only speak on the basis of our sensations, to the degree that we are impressed by the impact of the Light that fulfills us and is aroused by “His desire to do good to His creations,” and to the degree that it reaches the receivers.

Similarly, when we examine a table our sense of touch feels it as something hard. We also discern its length and width, all according to our senses. However, that does not necessitate that the table will appear so to one who has other senses. For example, in the eyes of an angel, when it examines the table, it will see it according to its senses. Hence, we cannot determine any form with regard to an angel since we do not know its senses.
– Baal HaSulam, Shamati (I Heard), Article No. 3, “The Matter of Spiritual Attainment”
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Shamati #127 “The Difference Between Kernel, Essence, and Added Abundance”
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Chapter “VaYakhel (And Moses Assembled)” “The Firmaments Over the Garden of Eden,” Item 321, Lesson 18
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Part 2, Chapter 2, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Chapter 8, Item 86a, Lesson 27
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Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, Item 120, Lesson 52
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Nation,” (Start with: “Humanity is headed slowly and gradually upward…’”), Lesson 15
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