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Posted on January 3rd, 2016
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Torah, “Numbers,” 22:22 – 22:27: God’s wrath flared because he was going, and an angel of the Lord stationed himself on the road to thwart him, and he was riding on his she-donkey, and his two servants were with him. The she-donkey saw the angel of the Lord stationed on the road with his sword drawn in his hand; so the she-donkey turned aside from the road and went into a field. Balaam beat the she-donkey to get it back onto the road. The angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, with a fence on this side and a fence on that side. The she-donkey saw the angel of the Lord, and she was pressed against the wall. She pressed Balaam’s leg against the wall, and he beat her again. The angel of the Lord continued going ahead, and he stood in a narrow place, where there was no room to turn right or left. The she-donkey saw the angel of the Lord, and it crouched down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger flared, and he beat the she-donkey with a stick.
We see that the space for a person to exist becomes narrower. First it is a field, then a road, and after that an even narrower place through which it is not possible to pass.
This is an indication of Dinim (judgments) and of the difficulty of maintaining the laws. First the person uses the ego without any limitation in all situations in life; then he gradually discovers how the ego brings him closer to a realization, moving him against his will towards realizing the goal of creation.
It is possible to say that in the beginning, the ego pulls a person forward and seduces him with egoistic benefit, assuring him that everything will be his and for his sake. This is what Balaam wanted, and so he continued walking with his donkey, and then begins the realization stage, the restriction of the ego.
The restriction of the ego happens gradually, by levels: Shoresh, Aleph, Bet, Gimel, Dalet, in which these levels become narrower. The more that the ego comes closer to realization, the more compressed the conditions become, and ultimately the ego surrenders under the desire of the person and becomes the basis on which the person must carry out all of his actions. That is, he begins to work with the ego in its opposite direction.
The ego is ready to be used with an intention for the sake of bestowal, and not in the form that it originally wanted to work, for its own good. So the action of restriction is to show a person the direction in which he must go.
Question: Must a person understand this temporally?
Answer: Even if he doesn’t hear and doesn’t understand, ultimately the continuous increase in suffering will cause him to hear and will give him a clear and precise direction. We see how humanity has developed and has become wiser as a result of everything that has happened throughout all of history, whether voluntarily or not, even though it happens very slowly and very unpleasantly.
Question: If Balaam had listened to the voice of the Creator, then it would not have been the way of suffering for him?
Answer: No, he would still have gone through all this suffering, otherwise it would have been impossible to advance! Baal HaSulam wrote that there is an ideal correct way and an ideal incorrect way, but the true way is between them, and it is called Derech Eretz (the way of the land).
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/12/15
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From the News (Jewish News): “Reporter Jurgen Todenhofer, who spent 10 days behind enemy lines with Islamic State (ISIS), reveals the terror group’s self-confessed weakness.
“Israel is the one country in the world Islamic State fears, according to the only Western journalist allowed entry into territory controlled by the terror group.
“The claim from German reporter Jürgen Todenhöfer, a former member of the German Parliament, came after he spent 10 extraordinary days behind enemy lines in Iraq and Syria, accompanied by his son Frederic. He returned saying the group behind the Paris attacks was ‘preparing the largest religious cleansing in history’ and with a ‘pessimistic’ view on what can be done to combat it.
“But the author of ‘My 10 Days in the “Islamic State”‘ told Jewish News: ‘The only country ISIS fears is Israel. They told me they know the Israeli army is too strong for them.’
“IS branded the co-ordinated attacks on the French capital that claimed 132 lives as ‘the first of the storm’.
“Todenhofer claimed it is part of ISIS’ tactics to lure in Western boots on the ground and capture US and British soldiers. ‘They think they can defeat US and UK ground troops, who they say they have no experience in city guerrilla or terrorist strategies. But they know the Israelis are very tough as far as fighting against guerrillas and terrorists,’ he said.
“‘They are not scared of the British and the Americans, they are scared of the Israelis and told me the Israeli army is the real danger. We can’t defeat them with our current strategy. These people [the IDF] can fight a guerrilla war. …’”
My Comment: Their trip to Israel will be their (ISIS) last journey.
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Question: If in the beginning there was only Kabbalah, then how did religions appear from it?
Answer: This happened exactly because they abandoned the continuous work of uniting (within a group, within a nation) and allowed egoism to appear in relationships between people. This caused the outer seal—Judaism to originate from Kabbalah. Judaism regulates the outer actions that a person performs with his body (this is why it is called the “External Torah” – “Hitzhoniut aTorah”), whereas, Kabbalah refers only to inner actions (therefore, it is called the “Inner part of Torah” – “Pnimit aTorah”).
This means that Kabbalah shows how through uniting in the group a person can achieve an elevation above his egoism and in this mutual annulment of egoism he can reveal the Creator. The difference between Kabbalah and religion is not only in the action (whether it is mechanical or in intention) but also in the result (he hopes to receive a reward after death or he hopes to reveal the Creator in this life).
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Torah, “Numbers,” 22:20 – 22:22: God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If these men have come to call for you, arise and go with them, but the word I speak to you—that you shall do.” In the morning Balaam arose, saddled his she-donkey and went with the Moabite dignitaries. God’s wrath flared because he was going, and an angel of the Lord stationed himself on the road to thwart him, and he was riding on his she-donkey, and his two servants were with him.
“Hamor” (donkey) is from the word “Homer” (substance), this is the substance of all of nature and the donkey particularly symbolizes the female part called Nukva; these are all the deficiencies, all the desires, and all that is included in our egoistic nature.
Balaam uses his entire ego here and therefore the most strict conditions, the Dinim (judgments), worked against him, for when a person begins to use the ego, he apparently “walks on the razor’s edge.”
“God came to Balaam at night, and said to him: “If these men have come to call for you, arise and go with them, but the word I speak to you—that you shall do.’” (“Numbers,” 22:20), which is to say, the Creator apparently said to Baalam: You will use your donkey, your ego, but you will bless the work of the ego through My blessings. And everything that I say to you, meaning all the altruistic intentions, will be involved in this.
We see it in all cases. How, for example, and Haman: first, he is given the opportunity to participate in the selfish actions to build a gallows, prepare yourself a horse and robes, and then suddenly everything changes!
But Balaam always wanted to receive for himself. We see it in the case of Haman: first he is given the opportunity to participate with egoistic characteristics, building a noose, preparing a horse and the clothes of a king for himself, and after that everything suddenly changes.
That is, when using the ego it seems to a person that he is now going to get something for himself and begin to receive benefit. That is how all of humanity thinks, but actually nobody benefits from this, because according to the program of creation, it is only possible to use egoism to advance towards altruism.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/12/15
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Comment: It is known that thanks to psychologists who advise people to investigate their lives, they indeed find themselves and become happier; psychologists get clear results.
Answer: It could be that there are individuals who are happy, but I personally don’t see this, and I also don’t see it in any of the statistics.
In contrast to this, through investigation and study of the program of creation, the plan of the development of the world, it is possible to say with absolute confidence that we have already passed through all the stages, the previous stages were better than the present stage, and they are certainly better than those that will be tomorrow. It will not be better. Nature is hastening us to advance so that we will clarify what we are living for and what we truly need, so psychologists will not help here.
Psychology from the days of Freud until our day has existed for about 100 years, and in the last 20 years it is practically in decline, so I haven’t yet seen psychologists who can lead a person to happiness. Perhaps psychiatrists can do this because they have pharmacological means.
The apparent result of the search for the meaning of life is expressed in the immersion of humanity into drugs. According to an unpublished statistical study, a large part of humanity already consumes marijuana. I am not expressing any opinion as to whether this is good or bad. In principle, it relaxes a person and diverts his attention from a search for the meaning of life. The wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t agree with this. But all the others agree and encourage it.
If 10 to 15 years ago all opposed the consumption of soft drugs, today these drugs have been legalized on a political level because it is beneficial for the leaders because drugs anesthetize people and divert them from a search for the essence of existence.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/25/15
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Question: How can I know whether I am moving in the right direction?
Answer: When you pursue spiritual development, perhaps in the beginning, you will not feel the result of your correct actions.
However, if they are directed toward bringing a person to the method of unity—that is, to Kabbalah, and to be learning that everything has to come down to uniting humanity and carrying out the main law of the universe, “Love your neighbor as yourself”—then one is acting in the positive direction in the straightest and most obvious way.
By taking these actions, you will begin feeling the way that you are influencing the world positively. After all, the positive forces of the upper governance begin passing through you.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/8/15
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Question: We have gotten so used to living with the Internet, and it has only been around for a total of 25 years. It was created in 1990, designed for the employees of the secret European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), and then it began to spread throughout the world.
Why did it develop so rapidly and how has this already encompassed the whole world?
Answer: First, this is a very convenient communications system between people that doesn’t obligate anyone to anything; this is the most important thing: to nobody and for nothing!
Second is the speed. The moment I press a button and send you a letter, you receive it and can respond immediately. I remember when I corresponded with my parents in Canada, it was a problem to write a letter, wait for an answer, and so forth. But now this just takes a few minutes.
In addition, the Internet is with both audio and video, an illusion of direct communication, while you and I are at two ends of the Earth we see each other, talk, we only don’t smell each other. All forms of communication between us already exist; we send each other all kinds of contracts, lectures, decrees, orders, photographs, films, anything possible.
Today we cannot get along without this means of communication. Our world is always a reflection of the system of relationships that manifests in people, and at present we have achieved an integral, connected world.
Question: Does this mean that an inner demand has appeared in us?
Answer: Certainly! Necessarily! This is an inner demand of a person! This is necessary and imperative for us.
The Internet was established to show people that they have a means for direct communication with everyone, but they don’t know how to communicate correctly. This is the biggest problem, and the Internet reveals it. Look at what it is filled with and what it does.
It externally reveals all of the dirt of the inner states of a person so we can see who we are! We gradually accumulate this “garbage” and sometimes we look at it, are shocked, and decide that it is necessary to do something about it; it is necessary to clean our “stables.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 12/23/15
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