Audio Version Of The Blog – 03.05.16
Posted on March 5th, 2016
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Comment: Modern genetics can now enable scientists to change the genes of babies so that they will be healthier, more beautiful and clever when they are born and thus augment all of humanity.
Technology will also allow us to control the genes that are passed on to the next generation. Is it right to program the future child?
Answer: Science offers us many options and the question is how we use them.
Comment: Parents don’t want their child to suffer.
Answer: If we are given this option, I am in favor of determining in advance whether a child is healthy in the first place. If we could discover the gene of happiness and luck, it would be quite good. But that is not in our genes. Happiness is on a level higher than the level of biological research. When we have the chance to make people healthier physically and mentally, then of course we should use this technology.
People may object to this, especially religious people who claim that everything stems from the Creator, but if this is the case, what is the point in taking any measures and why should we go to the doctor, etc? It says that a doctor is given the permission to heal people since the treatment includes both a diagnosis and other elements that affect our body, and so we should determine and do it. If we could determine in the early stages of pregnancy that a baby has certain defects that cannot be corrected, the pregnancy should be terminated.
First, there is the time during which the embryo is formed and we should determine his attributes before it is formed. First there are the three days of the absorption of the semen and then another forty days of the creation of the embryo during which it is not considered an embryo yet. If we can determine what will happen to it during this time, then from a Kabbalistic, medical, and religious perspective it is not considered murder or the termination of life. This is the reason that we should use these technologies. I don’t mean that we should go against the upper nature in any way! On the contrary, I believe that after forty days, when the embryo receives its soul based on the roots and branches in our world, it is forbidden to intervene with its development. But we can determine all its attributes before that.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 2/15/16
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Question: What do the Kabbalists mean by the concept of “other?” Is this every person or a particular group of people? You say that love is fulfillment of the desires of others, but after all, aren’t there different desires?
Answer: When a person begins to feel the higher system, he begins to understand how it is up to him to relate to people correctly. If I were to say to you that the other is everyone, then you would ask, does this mean that I must embrace the enemy, the one who hates me? It is very difficult to explain this according to the usual perception.
The wisdom of Kabbalah, first and foremost, brings the person to the study, a discovery of the higher system. From this, it will become clear to him who the other is, who is near, who is distant, what love is, and what hatred is. Otherwise, he would not understand anything.
So, all of my explanations are directed only toward making it possible for a person to relate to the wisdom of Kabbalah correctly and to begin to learn methodically in the right group. In this way, he invites upon himself and stimulates the Upper Light that will correct him, open his eyes, and he will become a Kabbalist.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/27/15
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Question: How was the human body created?
Answer: According to the theory of evolution, atoms first accumulated into chunks of matter, the earth was formed, and millions of years later different simple connections appeared on the surface of the earth, and life began to develop.
About 500 years before Darwin, the great Kabbalist the ARI wrote in his book, The Tree of Life, that everything evolved from the still, vegetative, and animate levels into the monkey, which is the uppermost form of the animate levels and an intermediate level between the animate level and the human level.
Question: How was the soul created according to Kabbalistic theory?
Answer: The soul was not created. The soul is a part of the Creator from above.
The Light enters our desire to receive, which wants to enjoy, and changes its attributes to the opposite attributes, into a desire to receive and enjoy for the sake of others by dressing in others and connecting with them. When a person begins to connect with others in order to bring them pleasure, he becomes a Kabbalist who receives the Light from above and conveys it through him to others.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/20/15
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Our nature is a desire to enjoy and we love whatever gives us pleasure. We love many things depending on the hierarchy of our desires for: food, sex, family, money, respect, and knowledge. If there weren’t hate, there wouldn’t be love, and the intensity of love depends on the intensity of hate. Hate can be toward someone or something or toward a situation in which we lack something that we love. Human development means the correction of our definitions as to what is good or bad, what we enjoy and what we don’t. Man is a social creature so he can determine values not according to his own feeling but according to the well being of society.
So why is it important to me that I am loved? Because deep inside we are all connected to one another like one body, and because of this internal connection I greatly care about what others think of me or say about me, and just as I have a desire to be loved I also have a desire to love.
Children who grow up without loving parents are really miserable, because when we don’t feel a connection between us we feel lost. Love gives a person a feeling of internal abundance that revives him, and it is a much deeper emotion that we actually know at the moment. We have yet to discover what it is.
Today people draw away from family connections; love disappears and in its place, a new connection will be built. The secret of life is connected to love, to the connection between opposites, between love and hate. Without this there is no life.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 692 – What Is Love?” 2/16/16
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Question: A parade of fascists carrying torches took place in Sofia, Bulgaria and it seems that the public was indifferent to it. Could such a minor incident spread and occur on a global scale?
Answer: The whole world is accepting fascist ideology now. Nazism and fascism are ideologies that are ignited in humanity when there is no other ideal. I can say that socialism and Nazism embody the dead end of human egoistic evolution and people are beginning to identify Israel as the source of all their failures since Israel is not fulfilling its historical role.
This is the reason for the revelations of such powerful phenomena and people’s inclination to accept them. On the one hand, there seems to be no real justification for them, but on the other hand, they very naturally stem from people’s internal feeling so that it is impossible to argue with them rationally. This discussion will eventually bring the Jews to the realization that there is a reason for the whole world’s accusations and that they actually have some kind of key to the happiness of the world.
The key to happiness is in the wisdom of Kabbalah, and the world can discover this ideology, the education system that changes a person, all of humanity, and the whole world in which he will acquire his future happy state. Kabbalists who live among the Israeli people are doing everything in their power to show the people that we have an ideology, a method, and everything we need in order to make ourselves and the whole world happy, which is the main thing. This is the basis of all of humanity, of all the religions; this is the right attitude of man to the world.
So let’s start engaging in it! Because only we can do it, and then the whole world will unite around us. After all, this is the reason that the world is accusing us. But the Jews don’t want to hear about it. In every generation people try to annihilate those who should take care of humanity by trying to burn, hang, hush up, or destroy the “upstarts” who are concerned about humanity. In any case, I have no right to blame anyone except the Jews who allow the world to develop this way although they have the method for happiness.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 2/15/16
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Question: Scientists who studied 42 babies came to the conclusion that babies see things that adults cannot see.
Answer: This is typical not only of babies. I remember that we were having lunch once, and my wife was serving the meal to everyone around the table when our little daughter who was about two years-old pointed at an empty chair and asked her mother why she didn’t serve him anything, as if someone was sitting in the empty chair.
Question: In the above study, scientists refer to the same things. Babies from the age of six months to three years notice different small and “unimportant” things that a grownup wouldn’t notice. Babies also can see mysterious figures.
Answer: This assertion has a strong basis. Babies have the feeling of the upper world. A small child suddenly can begin to pray, although he doesn’t understand anything, is not connected to the Creator, is not raised in a religious family, and has not read or heard anything about it yet. However, he already feels that since his internal nature pushes him toward the upper level, so young children have this inclination until it gradually disappears because of the external influences of our world.
Question: Does this phenomenon have a Kabbalistic basis?
Answer: Of course, the Reshimot (reminiscences) are the basis of a person’s nature, and it develops for a while. If a person continues to develop it, he continues to grow naturally into the spiritual world, but since we don’t develop it, it remains in us in its embryonic phase, and only our ego and our body develop while the spiritual part remains inside us.
Question: Do people who begin to engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah seemingly return to the phase of infancy?
Answer: Not only that, they return to their embryonic phase, and when a person goes through spiritual levels, he feels to some extent as if he were in his mother’s womb and then as if he is born and develops.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 2/12/16
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Question: Can a man and a woman be friends?
Answer: No, only people of the same sex can be friends because the strongest attraction is sexual attraction, which means that it is above friendship.
Question: So, what is meant by the expression, “When husband and wife are worthy, the Shechina is between them?”
Answer: If a husband and a wife connect spiritually, they can reveal the Creator in this connection.
Question: What is an ideal family for you?
Answer: An ideal family is when a husband and wife develop together in spirituality and in their corporeal life, trying to establish a mutual connection between them so that one unique whole will indeed appear between them in which they discover the Creator.
Theoretically, this is possible, but I have not encountered such examples in corporeal life, which is natural for the state our world is in for the time being, the state of shattering. We may reach this state in practice, and in fact, we must reach that since in the future this will be the foundation of the family.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/6/15
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New Life 617 – Israel And The Global Refugee Crisis
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Will Europe change its attitude toward Israel as a result of the refugee crisis it is undergoing? Of course, but it will be only for the worse.
We can expect nothing from the Europeans or from the whole world for that matter when it comes to their changing their attitude to us for the better. Eventually they will blame us for everything. This stems from the fact that we haven’t brought the correction to the world, and so they hate us.
What is happening in the world today is the preparation for the blow that might hit Israel. Therefore we must take preventive measures in advance. Today’s financial crisis will increase and all the countries in the world will be in the state Africa is in.
The global refugee crisis is meant to push us to a new level in our relations with others. There is no solution other than all people all over the world entering a new kind of school for changing human nature, and Israel will manage this process.
Only when we change our attitude to others and open our eyes to see that we are all one, will life be pure pleasure. Mankind must develop. It is impossible to remain in first grade. We have to develop until we feel that we are one family.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 617 – Israel And The Global Refugee Crisis,” 8/27/15
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