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Writings of Rabash, “Dargot HaSulam,” Article 17
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Question: It used to be that when the situation in Israel worsened and military actions began, the people would always come together. But with this current rising wave of terrorism, in the streetit is felt that everyone is more concerned and anxious about himself. Why isn’t this fear uniting us?
Answer: The threat of terrorism isn’t bringing us together because we feel that it is not coming from outside the borders of Israel but really is in the heart of the nation. So, it apparently is tearing us apart inside. It is compelling each one to hide in his corner.
This is not a war where we know where the enemy is and we could oppose it with all means. Military power will not help against terrorism—that’s the problem.
We need to understand what is happening. We are beginning to receive more internal and qualitative blows that have a more meaningful influence on us. When missiles fall, then we understand that there is a danger of injury, but it is something definitive.
Terrorism sows fear in us, and most importantly, a sense of powerlessness. We know that we have the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system, aircraft, and army. If they shoot at us, we would strike back with a more powerful response.
But against terrorism you can’t do anything because it is hiding inside. But if we, the people of Israel, free ourselves from our “internal terrorists,” from the hatred between us, from the desire to terrorize others, then nothing would be left of the Arab terrorists on our streets either.
The only way to will destroy terrorism —is an internal correction of each in relation to his neighbor. After all, if we do not change, the next hit will be even more significant. We feel that a developed, efficient, well-organized system of terror is operating between us. This system begins to rule over us, instilling in us the fear, the horror, the feeling that the terrorists are hiding everywhere, lying in wait for us at every step.
Does this description remind you of the selfish network of relationships between ourselves? This is exactly the same system—its external reflection. So far we have not seen such terror in the street, but we can come to it if we don’t begin to deal with the internal “terrorists,” with our egoism now.
The physical terrorism can accurately reflect the inner, spiritual terrorism, so terrible times will come. We hope that the Creator will not allow this to happen and that we will take care of ourselves.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/19/15, Baal HaSulam, “The Mutual Guarantee”
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In the News (inosmi.ru): “The world may soon enter an era in which it will be possible to be rich only because of one’s birth. Modern capitalism is increasingly resembling feudalism.
“According to the calculations of the British charity Oxfam, in the next year 1% of the richest people on earth are to amass more money than the remaining 99%.
” If the average growth of world production is 1-1.5%, while income from capital investment comes to 4-5%. Speculating on the market, you can earn much more than producing something useful for the economy. The greatest chance of enrichment are for those who have sufficient capital and can afford to indulge in financial speculation. So they accumulate more and more money and are more and more alienated in property terms from the rest of society and its problems.
“‘Therefore, the circumstances of birth are more important than talent and effort,’ – wrote American economist and Nobel laureate, Paul Krugman.
“The new aristocracy – is not so much the aristocracy of industry, as it is a circle of people holding money. Many economists have long pointed to financial speculation as a source of growing stratification.
“Much of this paper wealth can evaporate as a result of the financial turmoil, just as in a few weeks in June and July 2015 2.8 trillion (the amount is close to the nominal GDP of France) evaporated with the Chinese exchanges. The problem is that the large financial speculators did not become poor from the collapse. It is the small punters who, losing their life savings in the markets, can not count on any support. Banks in these situations also can count on assistance from the state.
“Increased stratification also leads to a decrease in social mobility, limited access to education. In the long term, the less ‘equal’ economy also suffers from the greater likelihood of senior positions being taken by not really talented people, but by those who compensate for the lack of talent by birth in a rich family or acquaintances in high places.
“Growth of the disparity in income in the long term may also lead to dire political consequences. On the one hand, it leads to oligarchic mode, on the other hand, increases sympathy for the radical movements that seek to eliminate the existing socio-political order.
“It is possible to observe a harbinger of countries lying in the periphery of the eurozone. There is growing a generation that has never had a chance at a normal job. “The level of financial stratification in Europe have threatened social equilibrium. When the unemployment rate, which among youth in Greece and Spain, more than 50% of the younger generation has no prospects,” – indicates Janusz Shevchak.
“‘Piketty writes in his book that if the level of return on capital will consistently exceed the level of economic growth (which he predicts in his works), this can lead to the destruction of the foundations on which to build democratic capitalism, that is, the idea that work allows one to get rich, and its material effect depends on individual skills and effort. As a result, a phenomenon exacerbated delegitimization of capital and that this is followed, activated movement “angry” and start coming to power of populist parties (both left and right), cleverly finding access to public discontent, “- recalls Sobochinsky.
“…in Europe support formed for radical formation during the Great Depression of the 30’s: the Communist Party, the German Nazi Party, fascist, radical socialist and national-radical movements. History shows that the radicalization of society can be accelerated if an economic crisis imposed an identity crisis of the nation and the immigration crisis.
“‘The response to the crisis 30s was the introduction of very high taxes in the framework of the policy New Deal, so that in the post-war period managed to establish relative balance between labor and capital, as a result, income inequality decreased significantly.'”
My Comment: Capitalists are not brave enough to raise their own taxes. Today there is no longer a clear and accurate correlation between hard work and the outcome of labor. Countries are not locked within their borders and business has become global.
Therefore, people don’t feel that they depend on capital within their country and international corporations don’t feel that they depend on it. In order to feel it, they have to feel the environment, the attitude towards others. The world has come to an economic dead end and the only way out is through new social relationships. See “The Last Generation.”
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Question: The Book of Zohar is a major part of studying Kabbalah, but, at the same time, The Book of Zohar is divided into many parts and is very complicated. There are three volumes that explain the five books of the Torah (the Pentateuch).
Beyond that, there is The New Zohar and other books that are not included in the other volumes such as The Secrets of the Letters (Sitrei Otiyot), Raza de Razin, and so forth.
Recently, I have come across a book called Parashat Pinchas (the weekly section of the Torah Pinchas) in Russian, translated by Ephraim Bauch, and I have not found this book in the editions you have published.
So, is all of that The Book of Zohar? Do all of these books draw the Light, even the above-mentioned Raza de Razin that speaks about different lines on the palm of the hand? Please tell me what is the complete Book of Zohar?
Answer: There are many versions, commentaries, and translations of The Book of Zohar. To avoid confusion, I recommend only The Book of Zohar with the Sulam Commentary by Baal HaSulam or Zohar La’am in Hebrew or the version that is translated into different languages.
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In the News (Max-Planck-Geselleschaft): “An international team lead by Rachel Yehuda, professor at Mount Sinai hospital in New York, and for the molecular analyses Elisabeth Binder, director at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, studied the genes of 32 Jewish individuals who had been held in concentration camps, experienced torture or had been forced into hiding during the Second World War. The researchers additionally examined the genes of the group’s children who are known to have an increased likelihood of stress disorders, and compared the results with Jewish families living outside Europe during the Holocaust.
“The scientists concentrated on epigenetic changes in the FKBP5 gene which has long been the research focus of Elisabeth Binder. ‘With “epigenetic” we mean all processes that do not change the actual genetic code but alter its accessibility,’ explains Elisabeth Binder. ‘FKPB5 determines how effectively the organism can react to stress hormones, and so regulates the entire stress hormone system. FKBP5 is altered in several diseases such as posttraumatic stress disorder or major depression and has now been associated with intergenerational effects.’
“The results suggest that ‘epigenetic inheritance’, where a person’s life experiences can affect the genes of their offspring, may play an important part in a child’s development. ‘The gene changes in the children did not appear to be mediated by adversity experienced during their own childhood but could only be attributed to Holocaust exposure in the parents,’ said Rachel Yehuda. ‘Environmental influences such as stress, smoking or diet can affect the genes of our children. Early detection of such epigenetic marks may advance the development of preventive strategies to address the intergenerational effects of exposure to trauma.’
My Comment: All of us, all of humanity and all of its generations are completely interconnected as a single organism. Therefore it is natural that all information is transmitted, and immediately, by all both “up and down,” within a generation and between generations and is forever preserved in our shared memory, which is our common cause and complete correction.
In this case, in particular, until the Jews, do not fulfill its purpose— to lead the world to a single whole—this memory will force them to fulfill their mission.
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The Man of the Future Invented in Israel
Question: Israel is a leading country in terms of new technologies. What is its role in creation of the man of the future? Will this person be “invented” in Israel?
Answer: There is nothing to invent, this kind of man has already been among us for thousands of years. Israel is the only country that “patented” this type of human species. Everybody will learn from us and pick up the methodology of correction from us. We’ll share it with the world for free!
Question: If an altruistic person shows up in Israel, he would immediately be “swallowed” since all around him are egoistic.
Answer: So these people hide themselves, but they are among us.
Question: Today’s Israel looks like the complete opposite: there is lots of isolation and mutual hatred among its residents. Why is it that the man of the future who has an open heart should emerge particularly here?
Answer: Israelis are the most selfish people in the world. That’s why first they have to understand and acknowledge before any other nation how terrible the state of selfishness is and realize that it needs to change.
This explains why the entire world presses on Israel. The pressure from Arab countries, Europe, America, Russia… will strengthen. New powerful waves of anti-Semitism are still ahead. We will experience more problems until we decide we have suffered enough and we implement a new program and send it around the world.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 9/8/15
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Question: What is the mission of the Jews?
Answer: Kabbalah, the science of the upper governance, teaches us that we are under the control of the upper system of forces that operate on us and influence us to come to a state of integration, the more and more close these forces become, the more tightly we are locked together,
Accordingly humanity develops not only outward and upward, but also in the connection between each other. Therefore, in our world there is not only the sciences and culture, but also the Internet. Economic, trade, and political systems developed in our world in order to tie us together, but this connection has to be good and mutual and in everyone’s benefit.
In the law of the integral system there is only one option that the whole system should seeks—its maximum overall health, just like a healthy body, in which all the systems operate in coordination with one another.
Although these systems are opposite from one another by nature, as, for example, the lymphatic system differs from the circulatory system or the nervous system, they operate in full coordination, complementing one another, thus determining the body’s health. In our world, we cannot balance these two systems. The still, vegetative, and animate levels in nature automatically exist in such symbiosis.
But human nature has raised man above this system. We need to understand it, to perceive it, to incorporate in it, and use it correctly. Nature forces us to learn and to control this system, but we don’t want to.
Because the people of Israel don’t want to unite for the common good, we are the reason for all the problems in the world. Humanity feels this instinctively and therefore accuses us. Thus, as the sufferings increase, the pressure the world puts on us will also grow.
Question: But why is this happening today?
Answer: You have to study the system that governs the world in order to understand that. It is like going to the doctor who finds that I have dozens of problems. In principle they exist.
But in order to understand them you really have to learn the system. You may not always be able to explain even to a patient what he suffers from. He is simply prescribed pills and sent home. Here, however, the pill we can give the ill society of the world is of a different character, of an ideological character.
The problem is that we should use this pill consciously because each of us has to ascend to the human level and not remain on the level of animal existence, although we don’t really want to leave it. But nature pushes us to a reasonable perception of its essence, and so we have no choice but to discover the general system that governs us.
It tells us about very simple things: If you want to attain the right unity between you according to the principle of “love thy friend as thyself,” you will balance the whole system.
Then the right and the left forces of nature, the positive and the negative, will mutually complement one another and be balanced. We must reach this. You will change human society and all the other parts of nature will calm down and we will come to harmonious relationships between nature and man.
But in order to do that, man has to change. He has to be educated and taught everything. Until we do that, until we establish an integral education system so that people will complement and get closer to one another, nothing will happen!
You may ask how it is possible to change eight billion people. The wisdom of Kabbalah tells us how this can be done. It says that all of humanity is built as a pyramid, with the people of Israel at the apex.
If you begin to engage in integral convergence between them, it will necessarily affect the whole world, which means that the nation of Israel will become”a light to the nations of the world.”
Then everyone will feel good; the anti-Semitic attacks will stop and the hatred people feel towards the Jews will disappear. They will see how the whole world, including our closest neighbors, will suddenly begin to treat us nicely because they will see that the nation of Israel brings the world goodness instead of evil.
This is the only thing the world is expecting of us! This is the reason that we are always accused of something. The whole world engages with one small nation, one single small state, Israel.
We keep complaining: “How is that possible! What is the UN doing?” This is the only thing the UN does. What is UNESCO doing? UNESCO keeps attacking us. All the newspapers in the world are filled with articles against Israel. Is there anyone in our favor? If we pay, someone may say something in our favor, but he doesn’t really think so!
This means that every nation and every person in the world, according to how developed he is, begins to feel that Israel has the key to the world’s happiness. This is what all the Kabbalistic sources tell us.
To be continued…
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From KabTV’s “The Current Emergency Situation In Israel” 10/14/15
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