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Posted on March 21st, 2018
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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 3/21/18
First Conference, Second Conference, Third Conference … The Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism convened today in Jerusalem for the sixth time.
How many more conferences, conventions, forums and meetings will we need to deal with the relentless global phenomenon of anti-Semitism.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, former Director General of UNESCO Irina Bokova, head of the Museum of Jewish Heritage Center for Study of anti-Semitism Abe Foxman, and many others leading the battle against anti-Semitism attended – none of them have some brilliant solution to offer. “Anti-Semitism is on a worrying upward trend,” each of them said in their own words.
There were recommendations for legislation, further discussions and calls to support active organizations; but a genuine, revolutionary solution was not heard. At least not in the ears of my students who participated in the three days of the conference at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem.
They saw representatives of various organizations speaking about how much they do against anti-Semitism. They protest hatred, speak at conferences, build coalitions, and go into Twitter-wars with anti-Semites.
The problem is their approach. Every organization proudly displays its work and justifies what it’s doing, yet after countless efforts, “Anti-Semitism is on a worrying upward trend.”
Until we become receptive to hear about the root of this relentless phenomenon, we will find ourselves gathering again and again, and painfully looking at the grim results.
However, the path to a solution has already been paved from time immemorial. Anti-Semitism is only a result we see on the surface; The reason runs deeper.
Humanity needs a unifying mechanism, a way to feel the natural connection that binds all human beings, a bond that will lead to peaceful life. The Jews have the method. They carry it within them. They were founded based upon this method of human connection. Abraham, the father of the nation, gathered around him representatives from various groups, tribes and clans living in ancient Babylon, and founded a group that lived by the principle of “Love thy neighbor as yourself” – unity above all differences.
In time, that group became a people. But later on, it lost the brotherly love and fell into unfounded hatred, and that was when anti-Semitism was born.
Anti-Semitism is an expression of a deep-seated demand that lies in the hearts of the nations of the world. An expectation from that same group, the world’s Jews, to once again provide mankind with the blueprint for a unified society, to recreate their oldest start-up. When we hold a convention that aims to do just that, we can expect to see different results.
#SpiritualWork
Spiritual growth occurs by unification of egos, broken fragments of the soul ADAM. So there is only one commandment “Love others”—to collect all the parts together. Their gradual assembly does, in fact, form our spiritual path, until the final correction, unity
#FreeWill_ML
Do you consider yourself a sinner unworthy of the Creator? Know, you are always half sinner-righteous & can always outweigh yourself with one action to being justified! But your ego will always grow so that in you good = evil & you have free will to exert to do good
#Spiritualwork_ML #Passover
Among 4 sons, the special one is who doesn’t know how to ask. So there’s no desire for the Creator’s Light, not even a plea for a desire as “a needle eye.” Desire is measured by suffering for fulfillment! A greater desire will come with the Light itself
#Spiritual work_ML #Passover
Entrance and work in Egypt is in pursuit of unity although we’re #egoists and try to connect selfishly. But thru efforts (studies, unity, self-annulment) we draw the Light that Reforms and receive from it the force to overcome the ego, “Pharaoh”
#SpiritualWork #Passover
It is vital to return to the connection existed in the Adam system before the breaking. But if we reach this connection with our egos, it’ll be 620 times greater. Thus we’ll reveal not the small light of Adam but the entire Light of NaRaNHaY, the Creator
#SpiritualWork #Passover #Kabbalah
The yoke of exile is the inability to reach the right intention. We try, but each time we reveal that it is #selfish. After all, the Creator wants to lead us to realization of evil, that on our own we won’t succeed, without a plea, without His help.
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Kabbalah’s main distinction in defining the Creator’s work (Avodat HaShem) is its aim at uniting people, loving the neighbor, bringing them to the model of Adam, the system of the common #soul, and then from love of the neighbor to love of the Creator.”
#Passover
Pharaoh is between us. We must turn him into revelation of the Creator.
Pharaoh & Creator are revealed not in us, but only in the connection between us! Pharaoh disunites, and Creator is the network of love uniting us.
Torah, like water, must fill the spaces between us.
#Spiritualwork_ML #Passover
Don’t swallow Maror without chewing means we must work on unity even though we can’t attain it ourselves.
If the group agrees to unite, it “entered Egypt”
Meaning, they have realized, like Joseph’s brothers, that there’s no other path to the Creator!
#SpiritualWork #Passover
To see truth: one is shown he’s an egoist, remote from the Creator & wants to exit the long path; not ready to exit slavery. Passover is the left line, Torah’s secrets, bestowal. Passover—repentance, cleanse in #Hesed, ready for the left line of Hochma
Everyone must study Kabbalah or come to this world again. Without it one won’t reach the goal of life, the Creator. Kabbalah teaches how to receive Upper Light, reveal the Creator, learn all methods of the Creator’s impact on us. Kabbalah is the sum of this knowledge
It’s important for the aspiration toward #spirituality to be qualitative. It is born only by aspiring toward unity in the group. Even a bit of it causes the reforming light OM [Ohr Makif] via its quality. Whereas a loner will waste his whole life’s efforts in vain.
Study of the Ten #Sefirot (TES) describes #spiritual actions using “mechanical” expressions. But inside us they must become sensations and attainments of states. The text talks about the Light’s work on the desire, but in us it must evoke sensations from these actions. #Quote
The Source of #Light is not revealed to us, but we sense His desire to delight us in the Light, and decide to answer Him in kind. The creature makes the reflecting Light. It’s called reflecting because it returns us to the Maker’s degree, making us similar to Him. #spirituality
In studying #Kabbalah, one must aspire not to become smarter or gain new knowledge, but to change one’s sensations & expand the heart. The heart learns to sense phenomena outside itself, inaccessible to us today: actions of bestowal, unity, which are above our sensations & mind.
Action within reason is Knowledge. It is our MO.
Action above reason is Faith. It doesn’t exist in our world. It is bestowal above reason! Like loving others above oneself, despite the ego. It can be received from the reforming light, OM. To that extent, I’ll be like the Creator.
#Kabbalah
We don’t understand the act of creation: how from the Creator’s will to bestow is born the creation’s will to receive, a black point from nothingness. Then a transition from inanimate to plant matter, from plant to animal, to a qualitatively new state “out of nothing.”
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New Life 954 – The New Man
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe
Technological advancement will ultimately free people from the labor market. As a result, men and women will have to redefine their roles both in the home and within society at large. The new man will be more open, able to express himself and willing to concede. His identity will shift from having a macho image to spiritually advancing his family and the whole world. Women will also no longer be attracted to macho men but will appreciate a man’s emotional capacity for warmth, understanding, and softness.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 954 – The New Man,” 1/28/18
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Question: Is it possible to express your disagreement with the opinion of the circle or should you only say something that does not go against it?
Answer: It depends on how you imagine your connection. It is possible that you could awaken some disagreement and then an interesting polemic and clarification would flare up. The main thing is that what you are doing should serve the purpose of rapprochement.
This can happen in very serious, hard, mutual clarifications. But if in the end we come to a greater rapprochement than at the beginning of the workshop, then this is already useful.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian 10/22/17
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#Freewill_ML
I don’t have the proper desire for spirituality. I can desire anything except that. Envy, pride and ambition that are revealed in the group help me attain the spiritual world, while elevated, pure desires outside the group slow me down!
#Freewill_ML We don’t inherently have a need for spirituality. This need comes from the Creator as a desire to reveal Him. Beito – natural path of development, or Ahishena – accelerated path, by mutual guarantee, connection with the group, one gets the proper spiritual needs.
Signs of entering the upper world: Pesach Matza Maror. Matza: war against ego. Maror: bitterness of inability to unite. Pesach (Pasach): exit to freedom from ego
The Creator gives us the force to flee (Pasach). Matza and Maror are the obligation to feel the bitterness of slavery.
#Spiritualwork_ML #Passover
To rise above ego and reveal connection between us, we turn to the Creator, not Pharaoh. Creator and Pharaoh are two sides of one phenomenon. Spiritual work is simple and specific. The hard part is turning to the Creator—that’s where Pharaoh hides.
#Spiritualwork_ML #Passover
Attaining the Creator is discovering unity and love, which don’t exist in our state. We live in the opposite world. The Creator that will be revealed is now being revealed in the opposite form. He’s the one that broke the Soul—He’s Pharaoh!
#Spiritualwork_ML #Passover #Kabbalah
We have to chew Maror, attempts to unite, feel the whole bitterness of hard work and failures. We soften and, out of despair, turn to the Creator. Only after the hard work do we start feeling slavery and the need for help in order to flee!
#Spiritualwork_ML #Passover #Kabbalah
First the group feels progress toward unity, 4 years of plenty, but then they start seeing that they can’t unite. They cry out from this work, since unity is beyond them. Then their cry rises up to the Creator and they move towards salvation!
The Book of Zohar explains that the Jews shape the fate of the world: “Just as the organs of the body cannot exist for one moment without the heart, so all nations cannot exist in the world without Israel.” #GFCA2018 #Antisemitism #Europe facebook.com
We have become a nation based on the tenet of “love thy neighbor as yourself,” and only the return to this tenet can eradicate the world’s hatred towards us.
#GFCA2018 #Antisemitism facebook.com
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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 3/19/18
The Scandinavian countries are on their way to becoming the first countries in Europe to ban circumcision and kosher slaughter. And you can add rejecting five Israeli choreographies from the art festival in Norway to this newsflash.
Do not let politics fool you. Hatred towards Jews is building up in the hearts of Europeans, creating tremendous pressure with no means of letting up. Even if they are not aware of this, haters of Israel sense that we hold the key to their good future.
According to Kabbalah, anti-Semitism is not a passing phenomenon but rather a natural dynamic: when Jews unite above all conflicts and differences, a positive force of unity spreads throughout human society. On the other hand, when we are emotionally separated and distanced from each other, we evoke negativity in the world, which repeatedly strikes us as a burst of anti-Semitism.
But our ears will not listen. The irrational hatred that arises as it does today and which takes on the form of new laws directed at the Jewish community, reminds us the hard way that we have a role, and even though we would be happy to shake it off, it is impossible.
We are a people that carries within it a spiritual potential – the seed of love for all people of the world. We have become a nation based on the tenet of “love thy neighbor as yourself,” and only the return to this tenet can eradicate the world’s hatred towards us.
The Book of Zohar explains that the Jews shape the fate of the world: “Just as the organs of the body cannot exist for one moment without the heart, so all nations cannot exist in the world without Israel.”
When we unite, we drive the world towards unity and a great abundance begins to flow. Division between us, however, creates division in the world and blocks the channels of abundance, leading to wars and hatred. As written by the greatest Kabbslist of the 20th century, Yehuda Ashlag: “The Israeli nation has been established as a ‘conduit,’ which at the same rate that Israel themselves are unified, so they transfer their power to the rest of the nations.”
Question: What exactly does the Creator conceal from us? What is the central point of the concealment?
Answer: “There is none else beside Him” is the central point. There is nothing else to hide from us.
Question: Is egoism also concealed from a person?
Answer: No. When you start working on the revelation of the Creator, you see how much your egoism constantly distracts you. Ordinary people do not believe that they are egoists because they do not yearn to reveal the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian 11/12/18
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