Without Knowing The Past, We Will Not Attain The Future

laitman_243.07Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation, “Introduction to the Writings of the Last Generation”: Man’s advantage over it is that the spirit of man ascends into the past, and looks into the past as one looks in the mirror and sees one’s flaws so as to correct them. Similarly, the mind sees what it has been through, and corrects its future conducts.

“The spirit of man ascends into the past”—to that force that has created him.

First of all, a person wants to know: “Where did I come from?” And then: “Where am I headed to?” But he cannot ask, “Where am I going to?” If he does not know his beginning, he will not know his end. That is why he looks to the past, wanting to reach the source, the Light, that has created him. Because the question “Who am I?” is a question about the source of man: “Who created me, who controls me, who decides?” And if he becomes aware of the source and studies it, then he attains his future.

“He looks into the past as one looks in the mirror and sees one’s flaws so as to correct them”—flaws that are purposely created in him by the source so that he would come to the awareness and attainment of Him: from darkness into Light—and in this manner to attain the future. And the future exists in the connection with that same source.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 9/11/17

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New Life 972 – Positive Competition

New Life 972 – Positive Competition
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Competition is necessary for the world to run and for the person to grow and develop. We envy others who appear to have more and want to realize our own uniqueness. In the future, people will compete in a positive, healthy way to see who is more beneficial to others and society as a whole. Everything will be done for the sake of Heaven rather than in the name of personal honor. Everyone will aim to resemble the Creator by becoming more loving and giving.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 972 – Positive Competition,” 3/4/18

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 4/17/18

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My Thoughts On Twitter, 4/16/18

Dr Michael Laitman Twitter

May 3-6, 2018 will mark this year’s biggest spiritual event, the annual World Kabbalah Convention in Newark, New Jersey, and we’d love for you to join in the unforgettable connections and life-changing experiences that you’ll share with 100s of like-minded, friendly people.

We create our conventions in a way where there is no need to have any prior knowledge, preparation, or accolades in order to attend. However, anyone who wants to come and participate, even a person off the street, can do so. http://one.kabbalah.info

It’s not just for the 500 or so people who will attend, or few thousand that will connect and listen to it, but for those millions and billions who need to hear something related to connection, unity, mutual guarantee, the #purpose of life, which we discuss at the convention.

The higher up from the animate degree a person grows,
The more the intention determines the essence of the action,
Until only the intention, the upper world, remains…
#quotes #success

The public’s victory in the struggle for privacy will be possible when we begin to develop our “inner human,” and connect meaningfully and positively to others. It is through mutual relations that we will discover nature’s hidden force @Medium #privacy

The world will be redeemed from egoistic nature only by the dissemination of Kabbalah among the nations.
Kabbalah will explain the upper wisdom to the nations, preserved by the nation of Israel for them, and people will realize the reason for their prejudice to the nation of Israel.

Kabbalah Conventions: What Role Do They Play In Solving The World’s Problems? How Do They Accelerate #Spiritual Progress? Do They Require Prior #Knowledge?

Answer: We need to promote our conventions, especially the convention in North America, since from it and onward, waves of information about the world’s correction will spread around the world, and everyone around the world will be impressed by what happens there.

Most opponents of Kabbalah wish to wipe it out so it won’t exist at all—then they won’t feel pangs of guilt regarding being weak and lazy about going against their own nature, ascending up the Creator’s mountain. This way they seemingly prove how right they are!

Everything outside of us is the Creator!
He presents Himself in opposite, repulsive qualities. Upon this, we build our spiritual, anti-egoistic desire (Kli).
There is no will to bestow in us. But our will to receive with a screen works as a will to bestow.
#Kabbalah

The Creator is revealed in the union of the 10, where each person cancels himself to 0. It’s unity of equals, despite all of them being different: by annulling, our 10 zeros come together into one zero containing 10 zeros, like 10 Sefirot.
#SpiritualWork_ML #Kabbalah

No one is free of #social pressure. If society thinks that “the emperor is not naked,” then in spite of the obvious, as long as society thinks this, one has to be brave to go against its norms. Society is ready to suppress anyone rejecting its sacred values!
#bravenotbroken

From Twitter, 4/16/18

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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 11/19/17

laitman_560Question: Are there any objects in creation in relation to which the Creator ceases to act and they have no opportunity to know Him?

Answer: Every person has the possibility of attaining the Creator. It is only objects on the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate nature that are not prepared to do this.

Question: If the Creator is responsible for my corruption, why does the good and benevolent Creator compel me to develop through evil when He gives me the feelings of suffering?

Answer: It is in order for you to transcend the evil that was created in you initially and to attain the absolute good.

Question: You say that love is about caring for others more than for myself. How should I take care of myself in order to maintain balance? After all, isn’t the principle of love in Kabbalah that I must love myself, others, and the Creator equally?

Answer: I could say that I love myself and that is why I want to take myself out of the servitude to the ego and achieve a full resemblance to the Creator. In principle, this is actually very great self-love. But at the same time, I suppress my egoism with all my might.

Question: Does a Kabbalist understand how the Creator acts through him or does he only feel the action of the Creator?

Answer: A Kabbalist feels the Creator’s actions, and through this feeling he understands Him. The feeling comes first and then the understanding.

Question: Is it worth learning the principles of Kabbalah by heart in Hebrew? Or is it enough to know them in English?

Answer: It is possible in English, but it is desirable to know them in Hebrew so that it will be clear where they come from and specifically why they were called this because the Hebrew language is derived from Kabbalah.

Question: What has happened to a person who has felt the friends and their spiritual state, has heard their thoughts, and then this stops? Where has all of this gone? After all, nothing disappears. Has the vessel expanded?

Answer: Certainly. Egoism grew and everything that existed before, everything that connected him with his friends, has disappeared in the growing egoism. But he must go on because now he will reach a feeling of the friends on a larger scale.

Question: If I am not the Creator, how can I fully be like Him? Would I cease being a creature?

Answer: No. It is specifically in that you are fully like the Creator that you become a creature. So, a person who resembles the Creator is called “Adam,” from the word “Adameh,” similar to the Creator. That is what they called the first Kabbalist who became similar to the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/19/17

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The Creator – The Teacher

laitman_282.01Question: Can the Creator be a person’s direct teacher?

Answer: No. Our egoism would want this because it wants to receive, to capture, to seize, to enslave. The Creator can serve as a teacher only through the group, within it. To the same degree that I merge with the group, enter into it, dissolve within it, I begin to discover the presence of the Creator within it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/31/17

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New Life 971 – Life Behind Our Social Masks, Part 2

New Life 971 – Life Behind Our Social Masks, Part 2
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

We all wear social masks in order to gain as much as possible from every situation. Even when we think we are benefiting another person by wearing a social mask, underneath it we find a desire to receive for ourselves. We have become a bogus generation with fake news and phony profiles, all for selfish gain. The method of education called the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to build good relationships and attain a desire to benefit others. As we collectively learn this wisdom, the social masks will fall and be replaced by positive attitudes toward others until we feel the need to be as one. The higher, divine power of love and bestowal called the Creator will unite us and we will no longer need or want the masks.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 971 – Life Behind Our Social Masks,” 2/27/18

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 4/16/18

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