Preparation for the Lesson
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Writings of Rabash, “Letter 53”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 17
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Question: In the past every man had several women, is this considered unfaithfulness?
Answer: In earlier times it was not considered unfaithfulness or anything unusual, since a man did not neglect his family.
If we wish to understand this phenomenon, we should simply understand the upper nature of a man and a woman first, and then accordingly understand what we can demand from each of them.
A woman feels that she belongs to her man. This is how she is built psychologically, and so any expression of passion on her man’s part to another woman seems to her as unfaithfulness. Women’s sexual passion is related to feelings, to faithfulness, etc., whereas a man’s passion stems from sexual arousal, and he doesn’t feel anything toward the object of his passion other than the sex drive.
This is the reason that humanity needs to learn how to live and to relate to each other correctly according to nature.
Question: What if a man is in a long-term relationship with another woman?
Answer: Then it is not sexual attraction anymore but also a material connection. It was acceptable in earlier times for a man to have several families or one family with several wives and many kids from his different wives.
Today, there are cultures in which a woman can have several men; it is all a matter of culture.
Question: But is there anything that can harm one’s spiritual development? Isn’t it a transgression of the commandment “thou shall not commit adultery?”
Answer: Adultery refers to a woman who is married to another man. A married woman is a taboo, just as a woman has no right to seduce a married man.
But today we live in such a time and our life is so confused that the corporeal laws no longer match a person’s spiritual nature.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/6/15
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Question: Does a connection exist between the soul and the external beauty of a person?
Answer: No, when a person speaks from within his soul, then he is beautiful. It is immediately felt that he is a serious person internally: with intensity, with knowledge, with understanding, with some kind of illumination—with this, he is beautiful.
After all, we don’t judge art and science according to their appearances. We judge them according to the potential genius that is found in them. We admire scientists without any connection to their external appearance because they reveal the secrets of existence to us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/20/15
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Question: What is group intelligence?
Answer: In an organized collective, there is an eclipse of reason, a relinquishing of thought and criticism, an intoxication in the collective setting, a pleasure derived from the numbing of the senses and the herd instinct of the masses. We lose independent judgment and become stupid.
So as not to become thrown into the will of the masses, of society, a small group must have a goal and a sincere desire to achieve it.
In our group, which consists of those who are studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, each person’s energy is directed toward complementing the others with Arvut (Mutual Guarantee). When we realize our aspirations in the framework of the group, the group of ten, no one’s voice is silenced. Instead, it becomes an addition to the group. Then, what appears is not just a collective animal intelligence, but the higher intelligence of the group.
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In the news (bbc.com): “Sophisticated geometry – the branch of mathematics that deals with shapes – was being used at least 1,400 years earlier than previously thought, a study suggests.
“Research shows that the Ancient Babylonians were using geometrical calculations to track Jupiter across the night sky.
“Previously, the origins of this technique had been traced to the 14th Century. …
“It had been thought that complex geometry was first used by scholars in Oxford and Paris in medieval times.
“They used curves to trace the position and velocity of moving objects.
“But now scientists believe the Babylonians developed this technique around 350 BC. …
“Prof Ossendrijver examined five Babylonian tablets that were excavated in the 19th Century, and which are now held in the British Museum’s archives.
“The script reveals that they were using four-sided shapes, called trapezoids, to calculate when Jupiter would appear in the night sky, and also the speed and distance that it travelled.
“’This figure – a rectangle with a slanted top – describes how the velocity of a planet, which is Jupiter, changes with time,’ he said.
“We have a figure where one axis, the horizontal side, represents time, and the other axis, the vertical side, represents velocity.
“The area of trapezoid gives you the distance travelled by Jupiter along its orbit.
“’What is so special is this type of graph is unknown from antiquity – so making figures of motion in this rather abstract space of velocity against time – this is something very, very new.’”
My Comment: According to the writings of the wisdom of Kabbalah, Abraham, who was a Babylonian priest, lived during that period and according to our opinion, would be considered a scientist and his father was as well. They were a famous family of scientists; there they also developed the wisdom of Kabbalah, which had been handed down for generations from Adam HaRishon (First Man). The wisdom of Kabbalah was used for correction of the person, in his union with others, and for discovery of the upper force through this unity.
In those days it was considered to be an absolutely practical science, a science for discovery of the upper force of nature. And in our day we are also returning to the same attitude toward the wisdom of Kabbalah. If so, it is possible to say that Babylonian civilization also developed the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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New Life 691 – Intention And Fulfillment Of A Mitzvah (Commandment)
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz
A person is a desire for enjoyment for his own benefit; this is called “ego.” When we act for our own benefit, we only feel this world, but if we change direction, from drawing into ourselves to going outside toward others, we perceive a new reality called the “upper world.”
The transition from the intention for one’s own benefit to the intention for the benefit of others reveals the soul of man; it is written that, “A Mitzvah without intention is like a body without a soul” (Don Isaac Abravanel, Nahalat Avot, commentary on Masechet Avot 2:13).
The Mitzvot were given for the correction of the heart, and the correction is actually carried out in a group. The correction is to connect as one person with one heart, and the entire world should proceed forward toward this. The intention that should attach to any deed is love, and the “Light that Reforms” is the force that connects between ten people who want to connect as one.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 691 – Intention And Fulfillment Of A Mitzvah (Commandment),” 2/11/16
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Preparation for the Lesson
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 11
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Gatehouse of Intentions,” Item 138
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar“
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Question: After a thousand year rift that divided Christianity between East and West, an historical meeting was held recently between Pope Francis and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill. Did they truly unite?
Answer: It is not whether they united or not; the fact is that all religions worldwide universally exist within human egoism, which causes them to enter into an irreversible crisis. The ego has grown and religion could not give the evolving person an answer to the question that arises in him about the meaning of life: How he can manage his life correctly, toward what he must bring it and toward what nature is leading us?
Religion has remained on the same level that it was 2,000 years ago when the nations of the world got it from the wisdom of Kabbalah. The wisdom of Kabbalah was the religion of the people of Israel until the destruction of the Second Temple. Then out of it came modern Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Since then, they haven’t changed.
Neither Judaism, Christianity, nor Islam can give an answer to their faithful audience because humans have evolved in the direction of attainment. Since humans have attained our world with the help of science, they also want to recognize and achieve their fate, their life, their destiny, and everything else that is found above them scientifically.
But religion is not capable of that. It can only serve a small, egoistic person, making it possible for him to suppress the question about the meaning of life. It says to a person, “Believe,” and he believes, and in order to settle down into this mollification, he slowly lowers a screen over his eyes. Then he apparently doesn’t see or think, he believes and that’s it. Moreover, this doesn’t depend on his intellect but on his inner psychological need.
The wisdom of Kabbalah says that to everything that religion preaches, a person must truly apply the religious Mitzvah (commandment), “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18); and the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches how to apply it.
Religion talks about the existence of an upper world, a Gan Eden (Paradise, Heaven), a Gehenna (Hell), and the rest of its symbols, and the wisdom of Kabbalah claims that it is up to us to come to discover these concepts now, here in this world. Our world includes all the worlds generally, and all the various possible situations can be seen and attained while still within this world, in this life, right here and now.
And so, of course, Kabbalah, a further development of all the sciences, comes to change religions..So understandably, the religions are very opposed to it. This is less so for Christianity and Islam because it is still far from them.
But this is certainly so for Judaism since it sees a very great threat to its continued existence in the wisdom of Kabbalah. The wisdom of Kabbalah just shakes up the entire enormous mechanism that has been built by religion to serve, to subdue, to influence and control the people, the believers, in that it opposes all the rules and laws that exist in popular Judaism, which tell a person to shut his eyes and believe without any true understanding of both the prayers and the Mitzvot. Understandably, in this form they cannot talk about fulfilling the law, “And you shall love your friend as yourself”; all of that is forgotten and left on the side.
So a very big difference exists between religion and the wisdom of Kabbalah regarding a person’s approach to creation, humanity, and everything that happens with him. This is talking about a fundamental change in his internal mechanism of understanding and perception. In other words, according to the wisdom of Kabbalah, a person must rise above the animate level within himself to a higher level.
Humanity is facing a big problem that will produce suffering on its spiritual level. We are in the beginning of this process and I hope that we can lay down a good and solid foundation for humanity. Then it will be easier for us to move forward.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 2/14/16
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