Our only goal is to discover the upper Light, the only force that rules the world. After all, everything else is only the means. Besides this, there is no problem in our existence because every given moment and every situation in our life is defined by our contradiction to the Light. And so we should relate to everything as the means to discover the Light.

Some states are more efficient and some are less. In any case, everything depends on whether I can accept the Light correctly and use it.

Now we are facing a special state: connection above many obstacles and differences between the parts of our collective spiritual vessel. This was made possible as a result of many great efforts and the hard work of our European division, as well as of our friends from these countries, who have gathered together.

No state in the world is more tense, where as a result of the crisis and everything that is going on these days, the discrepancies and differences between the components of the collective vessel are so great and the internal states of each part are so intense. But at the same time, we have made many efforts in preparing for this convention, where representatives of nations and countries that are so different and have so many internal conflicts and different accounts with one another gather to connect.

There is actually “Mt. Sinai” here—a mountain of mutual hate, distance, lack of understanding, and the inability to accept one another. After all, every one is a representative of a separate part that acts against another. And we want to connect above all that. We have a special opportunity that doesn’t exist anywhere else, not in any other event. Nowhere is there such tension like in the collective vessel that will gather at the European convention.

Therefore, we should pay special attention to that. From all these differences, we should constantly feel that we connect above them and want to reveal the inner hatred, the inner breach among us, and contradictions. They all remain, and we understand, feel, and don’t blur them. They are turbulent inside like a boiling stew on the stove. We cover it with a lid and don’t let it explode or get cold. On the contrary, we constantly want to keep this fire burning so that it will turn into a flame of love.

This is one of the feelings we should have in the coming European convention. Although compared to the size of the convention in Israel there will be perhaps 20% of the capacity of the collective vessel, looking at the quality, which in spirituality determines the power of the vessel, it will be stronger and greater than everything we had in the past. Both the distance and the events taking place in the continent make this a very special situation.

Therefore, we really hope that as a result of our efforts, above all the differences, the lack of understanding and the distance, we will be able to connect. We now have the opportunity to rise above all the differences, “to lock” ourselves above them, and then according to the differences between the peoples and the cultures—and between us who are connected to one another—we will feel the power of the vessel, in which there will be enough room to discover the Light.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/21/2012, The Zohar

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Question: It is said: “There is no righteous man on earth that does only good and makes no transgressions.” What stops a person from living in accordance to this principle?

Answer: This is due to the lack of confidence, or in other words the absence of the Light of Hassadim. This is precisely what we need to obtain.

For example, I am on the first degree and need to reach the second degree. The Light of Hassadim is the difference between the two degrees. I don’t have this Light and there isn’t anyone who can give it to me. My only option is to include myself in the environment and obtain the Light of Hassadim from it. After all, the environment is the quality of Вina.

Upon obtaining this Light I elevate to the second degree and obtain a realization: the Light of OM (Ohr Makif) comes and fills Hassadim.

This is how I obtain both the Light and the vessel.

Everything depends upon the extent to which a person lowers himself before the correct environment.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/21/12, The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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We have to convene internally, so that we will be together, as one man in one heart, in one thought, so that the point of unity will be revealed among us, as one of our friends put it as “a mad feeling of love that seeped into our hearts in the Arava convention.” We should hold on to this point again.

Not only do have to hold on to it again, but we also have to feel it, to reveal it now much more than then when it was first discovered. First it is revealed simply as a point, as something in which I find myself.

Later it seems to close, and to diminish gradually by the different feelings and problems in this world. But it doesn’t go anywhere. We’ve already attained it, and it is ours.

Now we should feel this point on a totally new dimension: His power, His desire, and the source of our lives.

Then we will feel how all this operates around us. We will see the forces that are behind people, and how they operate everything: how people move, their thoughts, their desires, their bodies. We will see how everything turns and leads to one stream, to the attainment of the Creator.

We should see this for the first time, even if we won’t understand it, but we will be included in this state.

Question: What wave are you expecting?

Answer: I expect that people will come prepared, and will know what is about to happen as well as they can, that they will understand the essence of the convention, its goal, and that they will be able to quickly be included in one another.

There is no need for personal acquaintances. It is okay if I don’t know anyone. I only know that everyone has come in order to unite and to see and feel the upper level above us, the next level of the world.

Question: What should they do?

Answer: I strongly recommend that those who are behind the screen do everything that they can so that they won’t feel the screens, but rather feel themselves and us together, so that we will rise above the distance and the virtual connections that separate us, so that although we see and feel ourselves only through technical means of communication, we will feel that we have one heart and that it is on one place. It isn’t in Vilnius or anywhere else, it is above us, above all the corporeal obstacles like time, movement and distance.

We are together! I hope that we will feel it this weekend and in this single place we will feel the revelation of the Creator.
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Question: We know that without preparation nothing will happen. But not every action indicates that we are really preparing for an attack. So what is the preparation?

Answer: When an athlete goes to the Olympics, his achievements clearly depend on his preparation. He practices intensively for several years in order to be as fit as possible.

How is it possible to ascend to the next level if there is no ladder attached to it, if we don’t prepare the necessary conditions, if we don’t reach the understanding and the recognition, and if we don’t change the attributes and the relations among us and our tendencies?

After all, you will take on a new form in the next degree, a new mold, a new schema, a new program. You will change everything inside you and acquire a new perception of the world. In ordinary life we also go through changes that change our perspective of the world, but it is nothing compared to the gap between the spiritual degrees.

It is impossible to manage here without preparation. What is more, without it you will not be able to bear the changes, you will not be able to create a basis for them. You have to prepare the “building blocks,” and the Light will come and connect them. You arrange all the necessary parts for the next degree, but you can’t connect them by yourself. But you consciously want this connection; you see and attain that these details need to be connected in a certain way, in order to become your system of bestowal upon the Creator, so that He will be revealed inside.

Although in the meantime it is just a plan, the Light comes and fulfills it. Then, you immediately discover the Creator in this schema.

Therefore, during the preparation, you should collect all the elements of the schema and understand how they should be connected. The fulfillment is done by the Light, while the request, your prayer to Him, ripens inside you.
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We need to gather and to create a real serious tightness among us, so that like in a nuclear explosion the pressure will give birth to the Light that is concealed inside. It is the internal pressure that will reveal it.

In addition, we simply must, in all the conventions we will hold until the summer, go through certain states. Otherwise, we and the whole world will find ourselves under another Providence that is totally undesirable. We absolutely need that! It is not only for us but for everyone, for the whole world.

Now the atmosphere and the situation are right for that, but it may change in the future. Therefore, I am in a great hurry and I am hastening everyone.

I hope we take this seriously! I am very happy that the groups throughout the world understand this and do feel that our birth point is near, and that we have to go through it! We have to push ourselves through the Machsom, (barrier)! We are already there, but on the other side.
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Eight years ago at the convention in Sitrin, we all shouted: “We will break though the Machsom (barrier)!” I kept quiet then because there was no point in saying anything or to object. What does it mean to “break through”? Will we, by using our ego, break the spiritual Machsom?

Gradually we began to understand that it is possible to transcend the Machsom only by the connection among us, by repressing the ego and rising to the attribute of bestowal, to mutual connection, above our ego, and then by creating something that is external to us, external to our egoistic “self.”

This is the only way a collective vessel is created, because it can only exist as a collective vessel and not as everyone’s individual vessel! Gradually the spiritual thoughts and desires were formed in us. After all, it is a long way! Look at what we’ve been through since then! It is an internal spiritual revolution inside a person!

We’ve started talking about it and beating the ego since the beginning of the crisis, because the ego has been revealed in the world as a negative force. Since then, we’ve been getting closer to the point of our connection, the point of our adhesion, in which we really find ourselves as being reborn in the upper world, in the next phase of attaining nature.
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Opinion (Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organisation): “Margaret Chan, director general of the WHO, warned that bacteria were starting to become so resistant to common antibiotics that it could bring about ‘the end of modern medicine as we know it.’

“As a result, she claimed, every antibiotic ever developed is at risk of becoming useless, making once-routine operations impossible.

“This would include many of the breakthrough drugs developed to treat tuberculosis, malaria, bacterial infections and HIV/AIDS, as well as simple treatments for cuts.

“Speaking to a conference of infectious disease experts in Copenhagen, Dr Chan said we could be entering into a ‘post-antibiotic era.’…

“Dr Chan said: ‘Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill.

“‘Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials.

“‘Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units.

“‘For patients infected with some drug-resistant pathogens, mortality has been shown to increase by around 50 per cent.

“‘A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it.’…

“A crisis has been building up over the decades, so that today many common and life-threatening infections are becoming difficult or even impossible to treat, sometimes turning a common infection into a life-threatening one.”

My Comment: It is not for nothing, the crisis is called total and global. It is not only around the globe, but it affects the whole of human activity because it stems from our egoistic attitude towards society and the world. However, as soon as we begin to treat ourselves and nature wisely, we will bring all issues, including disease, into balance.
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In the News (Jean Twenge, PhD, a psychology professor at San Diego State University, from American Psychological Association): “The times are changing, and not necessarily for the better when it comes to giving back to society, according to 40 years of research on 9 million young adults. Since the baby boomer generation, there has been a significant decline among young Americans in political participation, concern for others and interest in saving the environment, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association.

“‘Popular views of the millennial generation, born in the 1980s and 1990s, as more caring, community-oriented and politically engaged than previous generations are largely incorrect, particularly when compared to baby boomers and Generation X at the same age,” said the study’s lead author, Jean Twenge, PhD, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of the book, ‘Generation Me.’ ‘These data show that recent generations are less likely to embrace community mindedness and are focusing more on money, image and fame.’”

“The same trend is observed In Russia: Romanticism, which was noticed 10 years ago, vanished, people want clarity, which is primarily associated with their material conditions. When a person sets in front of himself only economic goals, he becomes one-dimensional and easily manageable.” (Source: rbcdaily.ru)

My Comment: That is why in a state of crisis it is easier for the authorities to manage people, but under the condition that the authorities can manage the crisis. But when the desire for wealth is not supported by its realization, the authorities are blamed. Isn’t it better to start raising generations in the spirit of yearning for different values?
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