In the News(Vestifinance): “The leaders of the 27 EU countries have stated that the freedom of movement of labor is one of the main four freedoms, which should support each country bloc, which wants access to the single market. They also called for Britain to speed up their exit from the EU in accordance with the prescribed rules and sent them a notice of desire to get out of the union as soon as possible, so as soon as such notification is necessary for the formal launch of negotiations on the exit. Without formal notice, negotiations cannot begin. But Cameron wants his successor to formulate a strategy and informed the European colleagues to withdraw before the start of negotiations. …

“German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the most powerful leader in the EU at the moment, is trying to convince the leaders of other countries to give time to the UK to have the courage to choose a new leader and to begin formal negotiations. However, she expressed tough stance on the issue of access to the European market, noting that London can not select the privileges that it likes. …

“European leaders have recognized the need for change. But they also know that they need time to block the remaining 27 member states to regain their unity within the European Union, as in recent times there are differences, which only worsened as a result of a referendum in Britain. Countries are going to learn from the British experience. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after the summit that the radical changes seem unrealistic. Among these changes, she called towards fiscal and political union in the current situation. This would require amending the Lisbon Treaty and carry out more referenda, namely that heads of state want to avoid. ‘This is not about unity in Europe, and on the improvement of the results,’ – said Merkel.”

My Comment: The whole problem of the European Union is expressed in these words. In the European Union there never was unity, because attainment of unity is possible only as a result of an ongoing process of education and training for the peoples, and it did not dedicate its attention to this at all.

They must recognize the difference between an “alliance of banks and industries of the nations of Europe” and an “alliance between peoples.” These concepts should not be confused. Here is the tragic mistake of the politicians of the European Union. They require educators….so the collapse of England is only the beginning of the collapse of the European Union!
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Question: What do we lack in order to form the correct prayer?

Answer: Our hearts still do not feel that they can touch one another. They are enclosed in the egoistic layer called our body.

In this case, our body is not the physical flesh but rather egoism, which does not allow us to touch hearts. As a result we cannot form a prayer.
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From Convention In Moscow, Day One, Lesson 3, 5/2/16

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Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 5:01- 5:03: And Moses called all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, and learn them, and observe [them] to do them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Not with our forefathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, we, all of whom are here alive today.

The covenant is made with every generation. This is the program of creation that permeates all generations and which we must fulfill until the end of our life on Earth.

We must bring our world, balance, knowledge of the Creator, and raise humanity to the next degree, where they will fully reveal the upper force and begin to exist in two worlds simultaneously: in our world and in the upper world.

Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 05:04 – 05:07: Face to face, the Lord spoke with you at the mountain out of the midst of the fire: (and I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to tell you the word of the Lord, for you were afraid of the fire, and you did not go up on the mountain) saying, “I am the Lord your God, Who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall not have the gods of others in My presence.”

There is only one upper force that controls everything with absolute good.

To the extent that a person is equivalent to it, he feels this good and exists in it. And to the extent that he is opposite to the upper force, he feels lack of good, a so-called “eclipse” of benevolence relative to himself, and he must understand that he obscures himself from the Creator.

Therefore, we need to neutralize the darkness through our internal correction and change our egoistic perception of reality to an altruistic one.

It is written, “You shall not have the gods of others in My presence”; that is, above all value the quality of bestowal and love.

Question: It is said here that Moses stood between the Lord and the people. What do I, as a person, place between the Creator and myself?

Answer: The quality called Moses is a quality of absolute bestowal and love through which, like through a collecting lens, the governance of the Creator passes to us.

Moses is an example for everybody. Therefore he gives instructions to the children of Israel for every action. And those who fulfill these instructions are in complete agreement with the Creator.

Comment: The Torah specifies the reason why people should look at everything through the quality of Moses: “For you were afraid of the fire, and you did not go up on the mountain.”

Answer: The children of Israel didn’t want to go up on the mountain. They had neither the right nor the ability to do so because they were afraid that they wouldn’t be able to withstand the conditions they were given.

And only the nation’s quality called Moses, like pure Bina, is able to climb the mountain, be in the covenant, in the agreement, and in connection with the Creator. Therefore, the entire Light and the entire Torah come through the spiritual quality called Moses.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/9/16

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Comment: There is a feeling that you aren’t talking about what happens in the spiritual world, you are hiding what people are engaged with there and everything else.

Answer: For the last 3,500 years a few hundred books have been written about the spiritual world by great Kabbalists who investigated and discovered the upper world. As for me, I am the smallest and the last in the chain of Kabbalists, so if my words are inadequate, I recommend taking their books and start reading!

Then you will find out how you must change yourself so you can see the upper world, learn how to expand it, and penetrate more deeply into it. This is also true for sciences like nuclear physics or the synthesis of medicines and the like. These are very complex things and the wisdom of Kabbalah is even more complex because it is found beyond the perception of our regular senses.

It must be understood that it is not possible to explain the wisdom of Kabbalah, so I don’t exactly explain but teach. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches a person how to open his eyes and see the upper world. It is similar to looking at a stereogram in which you need to defocus your vision to see the hidden image. When the view is concentrated on the picture it seems that there is nothing there except for lines, and suddenly with defocusing your vision a three-dimensional picture can be seen there of roaming dinosaurs or anything else. This happens when vision is fully dispersed.

The wisdom of Kabbalah can teach a person to disperse the focus like this with all the senses! Then all five senses become directed toward the next more internal level and we begin to enter into a picture of the world that is beyond its borders and we feel all of creation! I cannot explain this, I can only recommend how to disperse the focus on oneself, how to feel the upper world instead of this world, and enter into the next dimension.

In fact, we exist in all five spiritual worlds! And our world, which is found on the lowest level of development, is not counted among them. There are five worlds that are composed of 125 levels, which are found above our world; they exist here and now, but we don’t feel and see them. But we come in contact with them unconsciously, and they influence us. The role of a person is to discover the upper world and to carry out a focal dispersion on all of his egoistic approaches to life and begin to perceive the altruistic world that exists according to laws that are the opposite of the laws of our world: altruism instead of egoism, love instead of hatred, concern for others rather than concern for oneself.

The Torah doesn’t just say “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) for no reason at all. This is the general law of the upper world, and if you want to feel it, try practicing this attitude toward the world. This is possible only if a person enters into a circle of people like him who are eager to attain the true reality.

When a group of people like this gather together and begin to practice attitudes like this with each other, attitudes of love and concern, attention and support, then suddenly, as if in a fog, the hidden world that surrounds us will begin to appear and be revealed. The entire Kabbalistic method is based upon this, and no Kabbalist can tell us about the spiritual world because we don’t have internal models that match its sensation. In our world, we are already born with models that make it possible to feel the spiritual world, and even though they are incomplete, we acquire them. Why do newly born babies not hear and later begin to hear?  Why don’t they see at first and then begin to see? It is because these models are created in us gradually, we develop our senses. I suggest everyone to begin engaging in the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah, which derives its name from the word, “Le’Kabel,” to receive, to receive perception of the upper world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16

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New Life 492 – The Public And The Leadership: A Love Story
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Is the country’s leadership connected to the public or is there a total disconnect between the two? What is the right connection between the heads of state and the people that enables them to operate as one harmonious unit?

The stormy elections bring up a sad fact, those who lead the state or who want to reach high positions in government are detached from the public, from its desires and its needs. Many of us wonder how we have come to this extreme situation that is the source of so many problems and even to the total incompetence of central government services.

From a Family to A State

The most ancient unit of connections in society is the family. Thousands of years ago, every individual in the nuclear and extended family felt that all the other members of the family were part of him. This is how people lived for thousands of years, but because of changing circumstances, when the nations grew, people began to choose representatives that would manage them. Our desires grew and changed with time and accordingly humanity underwent different forms of governance: from slavery to monarchy to parliaments divided into many parts. But gradually a new problem emerged, a breach between the leadership and the public, which means that the head was no longer connected to the body…

In order for the body to operate properly, it has to be connected to the head somehow. In a political system the head is sometimes connected to the body and sometimes less so, sometimes it resists the body, and sometimes the body resists the head; instead of operating together, there is a gap between them.

Before each election, every party claims that it can be the head that will function better with the body in order to satisfy all the desires and deficiencies it feels, and that the essence of every party is to serve the whole body. But we all know the exact opposite happens the day after the elections. The leaders who are elected forget that man’s nature is basically egoistic…

The Solution: The Head Should Serve the Body

In order for the leadership to operate harmoniously with the public, the heads of state should be people who maintain the relationship of “love thy friend as thyself.” They have to be detached from their personal interests, they have to put aside their desire for direct or indirect self-benefits while governing the people.

In a healthy body, the head has to receive the desires of the body and calculate how to fulfill them. In a healthy country the leaders have to perceive the desires of the people and implement them. The leaders themselves should have no desire other than this desire.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 492 – The Public And The Leadership: A Love Story,” 1/6/15

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Preparation for the Lesson

Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder,” Article 15

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 110

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of Religion and It’s Purpose”

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When we study Kabbalah we begin to understand that there is no time in the spiritual world. But there is a state called “6000 degrees” that we must go through and join 6,000 souls into one soul.

All this exists in the world of Atzilut inside Partzuf Zeir Anpin (the Creator). Therefore, when it comes to the spiritual states, they are unchanged.

If we say “6,000 years” it means 6,000 degrees; if we say “600,000 souls,” it means 600,000 so-called Reshimot (information records) that we need to realize between ourselves. In the spiritual world, everything is very clearly distributed and defined by formulas and graphs.

And all that concerns physical years and the reflection of the spiritual states on our life happens somewhat differently. After all, on the material level we can reduce years, and if, lets’ say, in the current year 5777 we make a complete correction, then our current year will be called 6,000 years. We will make a jump in time, i.e., will bring the Light of correction so much closer to us that we will jump through years with its speed.

It is quite difficult to explain exactly the match between the spiritual structures and physical, geographical, historical, and other ones because these temporal and spatial axes don’t fit in an ordinary person.

This is the problem that even Einstein, Hugh Everett, and other well-known scientists have found difficult to explain. Therefore, nobody in the world understands it, but they just agree, because in our usual animate (material) state we have no ability to perceive and feel the acceleration of time.

I hope we will live to see the time when we will participate together in the final correction and be honored to attend the “banquet” in honor of the end of correction to which the Creator, as the groom, will invite the whole creation, as a bride.

The bride needs to correct herself, to dress in the white robes, and to be beautiful to match the groom. Beautiful means the quality of bestowal.

This is a very serious event that will be felt as something really great: year 6000 is the end of history.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/3/16

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Question: Is it possible to raise a prayer and attract the Light if I do not feel any desperation or suffering?

Answer: How is it possible to pray if you do not feel any suffering? How can you ask if you do not have any need? A prayer is a revelation of desire. If I have no desire, then there is no prayer either.

Question: I can pray only from my own desire (Hissaron). How can I pray from my ten?

Answer: There is no way. Of course, you can mumble something, but it does not influence anything. If you do not exist in a ten, you cannot nullify yourself. You cannot make yourself similar to the Creator in any way.

You cannot pray from a ten without a common desire. Only together with friends when you unite into a one whole can you form a common intention, which is called a prayer.
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Moscow Congress, Lesson 3, 5/2/16

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Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 4:29 – 4:30: And from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are distressed, and all these things happen upon you in the end of days, then you will return to the Lord your God and obey Him.

Today we  are just beginning the path to the Creator. Ahead of us are many corrections.

Question: What does it mean “with all your heart and with all your soul”?

Answer: “With all your heart” means with all your uncorrected desires. Once you correct them along with the thoughts and intentions, they will be called “all your soul.” The soul is the completely corrected desire of a person where he reveals the perception of the Creator.

At the end of days means at the end of the existence of egoism, when you fully rise to the top of the spiritual ladder through all 125 degrees, correcting the egoism and managing it correctly. Thus you merge with the Creator, attain all the worlds simultaneously, and begin to exist in perfection and eternity.

Today we are in the state that is called “at the end of days,” but it can last many more years. It is year 5777 now according to the Jewish calendar; 223 years remain until the end of 6,000 years.

However, we can accelerate our spiritual development if we actively attract the additional Upper Light. Starting from our generation onward it is possible and preferable for us and in the eyes of the Creator.

The upper system, called the Creator, is designed so that we can influence it and accelerate our development and correction. This is what Kabbalah was given to us for.

Everything the Kabbalists did throughout the history of humanity was only necessary to bring us to the realization of the spiritual method and to shorten the time of the spiritual development.

Therefore it is said, “Who is called Israel? Anyone who shortens the time of his spiritual development.”

Question: Is it possible to pass 223 years in one year?

Answer: And even in less time. It is written in The Book of Zohar and in other Kabbalistic sources that there are no restrictions on this. We can do it very rapidly. We were given everything: Kabbalah, the spiritual method, the system, and the instruction for its implementation. The rest is totally up to us.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/2/15

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