Question: What is this “proper education?”

Answer: The proper education is the integration of a person in the right environment that gives him a line of action and a direction toward the future state.

He always needs to see his next state in the environment. His next state pushes him forward, awakens, encourages, and pushes the desire to be like it. In an environment, it is easier for him to be changed.

Educators create an atmosphere for the little man in which all of his feelings—including shame, fear and so forth—push him to become like the environment, and so all the units from which the entire little childish society is composed are correctly gathered into a harmonious group, and this is their next state.

A harmonious group is a group in which the egoistic person is reshaped into a social person, and he begins to understand that he is found in absolute, mutual cooperation with the surrounding society, and only through mutual cooperation like this can he provide for everything that he needs in a good, correct, and convenient form.

The person puts pressure like this on his ego when he wants to succeed in something since each one of us has some kind of personal goal. It is possible to do this only in an appropriate environment with which he needs to be in good contact. This means that an egoistic goal attains something through altruistic actions.

Good contact is the right mutual cooperation with others. I am for them and they are for me, and that is how we help each other to attain something important for everyone.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 7/9/15

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The Torah, “Numbers” 11:15: [Moses said to the Lord,] If this is the way You treat me, please kill me if I have found favor in Your eyes, so that I not see my misfortune.

Moses is a characteristic that pulls us forward toward the goal of creation. Either it is killed, or the people follow it, meaning the ego kills one of the two.

Question: Why does Moses get so much pain from the people?

Answer: It is because he sees that greatness, wholeness, and eternity are waiting for them, whereas the people cannot understand what is prepared for them and take at least one step toward this! In addition, if everyone had taken this step together, he would not have had so much pain. The pain would have disappeared immediately.

The beginning of connection and union is just a psychological problem. We immediately feel what this gives, but our first breakthrough forward must happen through an inner split with the ego. However, a person is not ready to be detached from it, so he suffers.

Question: Did detachment from the ego begin with the plagues in Egypt?

Answer: No, the plagues in Egypt were necessary for splitting the Red Sea, meaning the partial departure from the ego and the beginning of working with it, and after that begins the movement through the wilderness when every step takes us further and further from the ego, approaching others more and more! We work in a constant internal tension: thinking about others, feeling them instead of myself, working for their sake.

This is a wilderness for the ego because there is no nourishment here from receiving for my own sake. Rather, everything is directed toward bestowal only.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/25/15

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After the results of the election reached the Knesset in Israel, the social networks presented two strong feelings that were held by the people: happiness and rejoicing from victory and hard disappointment from defeat.

A Divided People

In the recent elections 26 parties participated: How can such a small country have so many parties and opinions?

Even if this is good, it is good only if there is something that unites us into one people. But we see that this is not happening.

Those Who Fell Into Hatred

Within the nation there stands an essential problem: How is it possible to find the right base among us, a reliable common denominator? This will be possible only if we begin to balance the power of the ego that arouses disputes, separation and internal wars between us with the power of love. This is latent in our people and we lived according to its laws before the destruction of the Second Temple, which was destroyed because of unfounded hatred. So we fell from the level of love to hatred, and today, with the end of the exile, we must rise again from unfounded hatred to love between us. Only in this way will we create a situation in which nobody will want to go away from here and everyone will live in peace, in happiness, and in security.

That is how it has always been; only union is what saved us. From the start our people were founded on the union of people who were strangers to each other in ancient Babylon, under the authority and leadership of Abraham. That is how the people lived and existed, in conditions of union and love above hatred, according to the principle, “love covereth all transgressions” (Proverbs 10:12).

Put an End to Division

Even today it is up to us to understand how to establish bridges between us and overcome mutual hatred with the help of love. Only in this way can we continue on the way. I very much hope that this message will be heard by both these and those, that the right part of the population will not yield to strong euphoria, and the left to strong disappointment. For the moment of truth has arrived, but we don’t see where we are.

The next step is a necessary step from our perspective; this is the union of the people above all these differences and contradictions, above the distances, the isolation, and mutual hatred. Struggles have already occurred in our history and we must not allow a situation like this now. This weakens us and threatens us with terrible consequences, which are not even desirable to think about.

The wisdom of Kabbalah tells us that we can’t even be sure of another exile, for the former traditional ties no longer connect and bind us to each other as they did in the past. And so we must now find a means, a method, that will connect all the ends of the spectrum and consolidate us into a single people. It is necessary to rise above the views of the right and the left to a state of a single people. There fulfillment and wholeness is to be found, in it everyone will feel wholeness. It is incumbent upon us and it is possible. I very much hope that the people will begin to reflect and think about this.

First of all, it is necessary to understand that there is no other way out, that the former approach has exhausted itself. It is not worthwhile to close accounts with the past, let’s direct our view towards the future. This is the method and this is the only situation in which all of us can exist from now on.
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From KabTV’s “A Talk About the Situation in Israel After The Elections” 3/18/15

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Preparation for the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Rungs of the Ladder,” Article 38

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Meaning of Conception and Birth”

Writings of Rabash “Dargot HaSulam,” Article 24

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar“

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You and I are living in a special time when the world is beginning to feel more and more united. The only problem is that these connections are negative rather than positive. Meanwhile, we feel our complete dependence on each other, which is beginning to worry and irritate everyone.

If the dependence is not a kind one, then such connection brings only problems, as it is written, “the unity of criminals is to their own and the whole world’s detriment.” If people do not correct themselves and their relationships, it is better for them to separate and keep their distance from each other.

All of this started in ancient Babylon where egoism developed to such an extent that people began to hate one another. Consequently, many languages arose. Egoism erupted for the first time and separated people. Before then, they all lived as one nation where everything was shared.

However, suddenly they felt disconnected and a belonging to different communities, families, and nationalities, and therefore they could not continue to live together. From then on. the science of Kabbalah appeared.

One sage named Abraham, who lived in Babylon, revealed that we cannot resist our connection. People definitely will be connected, and we will not succeed in distancing ourselves from each other. However, we should know how to unite correctly, regardless of the egoism that grows with every passing day. Thus, the science of Kabbalah appeared, and it is the method of good connection between people.

Kabbalah states that first we need to correct ourselves and our relationships with each other. Then, everything we do will be to our benefit.
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From the Convention In Guadalajara “One Heart For All,” “Day One” 7/17/15, “Preparatory Lesson”

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The Torah, “Numbers” 11:9 – 11:10: When the dew descended on the camp at night, the manna would descend upon it.

Moses heard the people weeping with their families,each one at the entrance to his tent. The Lord became very angry, and Moses considered it evil.

The numerical value of the word “dew” in Hebrew is 39, which means that it includes 39 Lights that descend in the form of dew. Such a perfect appearance of the Light can actually correct all the poisons, wounds, and our egoistic flaws.

By the way, dew is a wonderful remedy in our world, but we just don’t know how to use it, whereas animals, birds, and insects collect the dew and drink it. If we followed the behavior of animals and developed our medicines on the basis of their behavior we would be healthy, but instead we fill ourselves with manmade medicines.

The Torah, “Numbers,” 11: 11-15: Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You treated Your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in Your eyes that You place the burden of this entire people upon me?

Did I conceive this entire people? Did I give birth to them, that You say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as the nurse carries the suckling,’ to the Land You promised their forefathers?

Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are crying on me, saying, ‘Give us meat to eat.’

Alone I cannot carry this entire people for it is too hard for me.

If this is the way You treat me, please kill me if I have found favor in Your eyes, so that I not see my misfortune.”

It isn’t easy to follow the spiritual path because we have to discover all the problems and ask for their correction. Yet no one wants to do that and this is the reason the people complain, crying and asking, “Give us meat.”

If you want meat, please take it! After all, the manna can have different tastes. What difference does it make? The type of food makes no difference. Even today we eat one thing but feel the food as something else.

Very soon we will print everything one can think of by a three-dimensional printer and we will only have to push a button and receive anything that we want.

Isn’t that manna? It is actually the same thing. The only difference is that all this will be harmful for us because there is simple sawdust soaked in different flavors and additives in the cartridges of these printers.

And Moses said that this is the wrong way. We have to choose the natural way and not ask for ordinary meat but draw the Upper Light that actually contains everything in it. But the people refuse to do so and don’t want it.

Question: Does this mean that the people have nostalgic memories about the life in Egypt?

Answer: It isn’t nostalgia but a desire to go back to working in their egoism: “We don’t want to follow the path of connection and unity. It is a desert for us: it is tasteless, difficult, and burdensome. Give us meat, which is what the ego depicts, we want to live on that level; no one needs the 39 Lights, it is too much for us.”

Comment: The people’s complaints trouble Moses who cries out to the Creator: “Why have You treated Your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in Your eyes that You place the burden of this entire people upon me?”

Answer: It isn’t about an old leader who is about 80 already and who has lived his last 40 years in the desert leading the people.

Moses is our most ancient attribute that leads us through the egoistic desert to the land of Israel, which means to unity. There is nothing else we can do here. In fact there is no other way out. We either advance towards annihilation and a massacre, or according to the laws of nature ascend to the next level.

We think that we choose our own future, but it isn’t so. No one knows what the future brings, so how can one choose? It is a kids’ game.

In fact everything is predetermined and the goal is already known, we only have to decide how to reach it: either in the best and shortest way or by objecting and stubbornly refusing like a donkey, and then you will be beaten until you grow wiser.

The word “donkey” in Hebrew “Hamor” stems from the word “Homer” – “matter. ” The matter of our world is egoism and it is according to this matter that we advance at the moment.

We are ready for any kind of work except for summoning the Upper Light because it only comes according to the level of our unity. When we get closer to one another it is revealed and the more we draw apart from one another and separate from one another because of our ego, it disappears.

In our state we only need to begin to connect and then the Upper Light will immediately descend unto us from Above. We will immediately begin to feel where life is revealed, what it means, where we are headed and what the future of all mankind will be, but we need to connect and unite in order to do so.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/25/15

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A Miserable Lot

Everything that happens in the world happens solely in order for us to reveal the true world, in which we all exist. In essence, everything that is depicted outside of a person’s desire, when one sees inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature, and other people—all of that is the Creator’s manifestation before the person. But a person does not feel this or understand what is wanted from him. Consequently we are going through a quite lengthy and painful process in history, just so that in the end we would ask ourselves the question about life’s meaning: what is all this for? Who benefits from all this? Who do I please? What secret lies hidden in our existence?

We see logic and meaning in every cell, in the oneness of nature, in the relationship of all its parts, but we find no logic in our own existence. A person, who is the “crown of creation,” is also the one who suffers the most of all created beings. We possess a developed mind and feelings, but yet we act like the biggest spenders and squander all our potential for mutual interactions.

Moreover, even when we realize this, we cannot do anything about it. Our wretchedness is amazing: a person knows when he does something stupid that will bring harm to him and others, but he is unable to change anything.

For example, a glutton cannot hold back from his favorite foods and loses control, all the while understanding perfectly well how horrible he will feel later. We face the same trouble with all types of pleasures, great and small.

Throughout history people have been asking themselves if there is any way out. Is it possible to enter a more mature, a more “solid” state? Is it possible to avoid being so miserable and lowly? We realize our lowliness and still we follow it, and today is always like the day before. We close our eyes and go with the flow…

Facing the Issue Head-On

At this point we definitely need to say a big thank you to Kabbalists. They suffered just like many others, but they succeeded. They were able to discover that this whole miserable life is meant to bring us to the key solution.

After all, it cannot be that our life would flow from birth to death in such an absurd existence. It cannot be that such wise nature would create a creature that is so developed and at the same time behaves in such a despicable manner. This discrepancy of our abilities and actions is too striking.

Moreover, nature itself pushes us into an abyss. Maybe I want to act differently and be a different person. If I planned on my own and programmed myself, I would act differently—certainly better than “destined” by nature or the Creator.

When we reach this realization or understanding, it indicates just one thing: the need to solve the question posed. Therein lies the source of understanding life, success in life, and success beyond the limits of its passing frames. It’s unlikely that it is limited to our “protein” existence for 60-70 years.

The Science That Leads Us Through Life

People who asked this question found that the world and the human beings here truly have an ultimate goal: to reveal the single force that sends us everything. It fully includes the whole universe and “plays” with it in order for us to truly wish to reveal it.

Meanwhile, all throughout history only some individuals learned about the opportunity to reveal the Creator. Nonetheless the number of people who ask the right question is growing. And these people are telling us that this is the only productive task of a person in this world from the moment he matures and realizes who he is.

As children, when we are 6-9 years old, we also asked the question about life’s essence and meaning. Maybe we didn’t ask adults, our parents, these questions, but they were there.

Starting from an early age, children need to receive an upbringing that explains how to exert constant effort to reveal the upper force, which influences us constantly, brings us life, and leads us through everything that occurs on the path.

Throughout history people made great efforts to reveal this force. They found a whole system of gradual acquaintance with it and called this method “the science of Kabbalah,” which literally means “the science of receiving.”

It explains how a person in our world can receive revelation of the force that influences him and demonstrates to him the whole picture of reality.

According to the words of Kabbalists, one needs to engage in this science particularly incessantly, and lead one’s whole life in it so that he attains the upper force in the time that is allotted to him. One needs to attain it to the point of encountering it in all its details.

Everything else in life should be used only to provide for the bare necessities—to the same extent that animals care for themselves. There is no point to exert more than necessary into the material existence—only as much as is needed to exist rationally.

This does not mean that we need to live in caves and wear animal skins. If we do not exceed the “survival bar” and dedicate all our effort to revealing the Creator, rising to His degree of eternity and perfection, then it goes without saying that we will not do silly things and pursue excesses of the material world. If we limit ourselves to simple existence, we will give all our strength to our true purpose.
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From the Convention in New Jersey “Completing the Circle,” Day One, 7/24/15, Lesson 1

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Opinion (Umair Haque, Havas Media Group Director): “We are stuck in the ongoing crisis in our lives in the middle of an existential desert wondering whether this is what our life has come down to, the life of the lost generation.

“In the present we are creating the future being at the end of a historical era that was full of great ideas and wonderful metamorphoses that lead to a happy life.

“We want to make an easy profit, to give a real chance to influencing human life. There is a revolution in the idea of what prosperity and being well off mean and why we need to feel that it has to include a full perspective and the examination of a conscious existence. Do you want to heal the soul? Heal the world.”

My Comment: There are many similar texts all over the net, but no one has a clear plan. There are seemingly logically correct texts, but when you read them more deeply you discover concepts and ideas that have no real basis. The good thing, however, is that people are looking for a way out. Eventually they will prepare themselves and be ready to understand the method of Kabbalah.
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Question: Can you briefly (in one or two sentences) express the essence of your proposed idea in words that are understandable and accessible to everyone? And in short suggest a list of priority actions for its implementation?

Answer: The goal is to attain a connection between people such that according to the principle of equivalence of form and resemblance, the Creator, the total power of love, will be revealed in this connection. This is achieved through the realization of the conditions brought to us by the wisdom of Kabbalah. See the Kabbalah.info website, not all kinds of fiction.
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