New Life 1021 – The Uniqueness Of The Human Brain, Part 2
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

The human brain acts as a modem and is infinite in its potential to develop. The brain serves the desire in one’s heart and mind. It leads to self-destruction and death when serving the egoistic desire to receive for oneself. As we open our hearts to one another with the desire to give and share, the brain expands until we feel an infinite world. When we switch from the program of reception to the program of bestowal, we come to know and understand everything. The person becomes a pipeline or passage to complete integrity, soul perception, and the revelation of the Creator in this world.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1021 – The Uniqueness Of The Human Brain,” part 2, 6/10/18

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Question: What is the “end of all generations”? Is it the end of physical life or a special personal state?

Answer: The end of all generations is the end of the ascent up the spiritual ladder, when we reach its summit.

Question: What does it mean that we are in the stage of the last generation?

Answer: To be in the stage of the last generation means to approach the ascent on the spiritual ladder and ascend it as the last generation.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/11/18

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Question: Why does merely mentioning terms of the science of Kabbalah arouse a negative reaction among people who do not study it?

Answer: The fact is that throughout the years of the existence of Kabbalah there have been so many fabrications around it that it is natural that no one is indifferent to it.

Only specific people understand Kabbalah and they are its followers. Everyone else is very cautiously and warily interested in it. They consider it something dark, bad, and dangerous.

Most importantly, religion, being based on blind faith, is also against Kabbalah. They tell me how to behave, and like a wind-up-toy, I mechanically perform the prescribed actions.

Kabbalists say: “No, you must explore this world, explore the Creator, and wish to understand and attain Him with your mind.” Attain the Creator in order to be like Him, to serve Him exactly by becoming equal to Him. This is the state we must reach.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/18/18

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Everything is achieved through unification. The success of the unification depends on both how far apart we are from each other, and our understanding that only above the strong separation can we reach a level where the Creator is revealed between us and starts to unite us. Therefore, the congress in Europe provides us with the best conditions for a genuine realization of unification, that is, the Creator’s revelation to the creations in this world, which is the goal of the wisdom of Kabbalah.

We have to use this gathering to achieve not only external, but also internal unification that will be strong enough to reveal the upper force in it according to the similarity of properties.¹

Adam HaRishon is the system of ten Sefirot, which continues to exist in its original form, only that egoistic desires came inside it and stalled it. As a result, the system stopped working, and we have to put it back into action. All the parts of the system remained and we only need to adjust it to that additional desire that was revealed in it and that blocked the connections between all the elements. This is called the partition.

Adam HaRishon is a system of connections between us, like a web of ten Sefirot. We must launch this system, provided that we correctly use the desire to enjoy, that is, for the sake of bestowal.

By connecting all parts of this system again above the separation, each receives the whole soul and everyone will feel it all. Therefore, achieving the goal of creation and attaining the Creator depends precisely on the connection and mutual inclusion of the broken parts.

By correcting the separation, the creations will acquire tools for attaining the Creator. Without division and correction, it is impossible to reveal the upper force. By working together on the correction and unification of all parts, the creation creates the Creator, as it is written: “As though he had made Me.”²

In applying our efforts to unite, we discover that the Creator himself is between us as an obstacle to unification.³

If a person is alone, he will surely complain and curse the Creator, and if he is connected with the group and the ten, he will certainly glorify Him.⁴
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/23/18, Lesson on the Topic: “Melting the Hearts into One Heart” (Preparation for the Convention in Italy 2018)
1 Minute 0:23
2 Minute 15:20
3 Minute 29:05
4 Minute 35:30

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Life 1020 – The Uniqueness of the Human Brain, Part 1
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Unlike animals, the human brain is intended for spiritual development. The brain is controlled by the will. While part of the human will and brain are responsible for physical existence, the other part has the potential to develop us spiritually. If we want to develop, we must first grow emotionally and, depending on our desire, we can develop a desire to feel more than we feel in the five senses, to feel another world.
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Lesson Preparation

Lesson on the Topic “From Helplessness to Crying Out to the Creator”

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar“

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By connecting the beginning of creation, its current state and its end, a person starts feeling grateful to the Creator, outside any personal calculations. By opening the heart to the friends and letting them in, I acquire the spiritual world. The group is my actual soul.

If I correct myself, parts of the world will converge and become a single whole. By taking responsibility for the world, I unite the broken parts of my soul. The world is a part of my Kli, the souls that I must connect. This is how my flaws requiring correction are revealed.

The the world’s condition is entirely up to me. I alone can bring it to total correction. After all, the “world” is what appears to me in my desire, either in a corrupted or a corrected one, to a greater or lesser extent. This means everything depends on me!

Any darkness must be taken as the reverse side of the light, as its starting point. Wishing for greater unity, guarantee, bestowal above the ego, seeking to see the Creator’s good in everything, we transform darkness into the light, bitterness into sweetness; we hasten the dawn.

Darkness and the lack of guarantee in the group are the light and the vessel of the next state. The Creator “flirts” so that we strive after Him. Any descent is an invitation to rise. Darkness demands that we strengthen the guarantee in order to become one with the Creator.

Merging with the Creator in darkness is transforming His reverse side into His face. If I cannot treat evil as goodness, if I cannot turn any condition into adhesion with the Creator, then I am not receiving the power of a guarantee from the group.

Darkness is a breaking, incapacity to perceive the light- force of bestowal. In the darkness of #selfishness we find the Creator’s “underside,” the opportunity for correction. And we rejoice at this, for He showed us what’s missing. Now from darkness we can come to adhesion with Him.

There is nothing accidental in the world. Everything is intended only for the disclosure of the Creator, the Good Who Does Good. If we prepare in advance, we will accept anything negative correctly, finding Him in the darkness, in the opposite states.

Spiritual work’s built on a request/gratitude to the Creator—He’s open to both. One chooses what will give him maximum equivalence = bestowal to the Creator, thru maximum effort against the self and through the group. We ask to unite our intentions. Becoming one, we’ll merge with the Creator

Every single day we cause numerous problems by our barbaric use of oil and trees, by poisoning the earth with #chemical #waste. But the biggest blow to nature we cause is by acting selfishly in our relations. Since this level is the highest, it causes a common crisis. #environment

#Kabbalah offers every person the opportunity to move through space at infinite speed and zero time—notwithstanding #Einstein!
#Wisdom #ThursdayThoughts #quotes #Time #life

Kabbalah explains tragedies by the lack of connection between us, the lack of balance between parts of nature. The world has turned into a ball girded with multiple threads that we are progressively destroying. In the integral world, breaking connections causes an integral crisis!

A person who wishes to advance in spirituality must remove his ego-desire.
He realizes that he can’t go against his ego-nature.
But since the Creator gave him the ego-nature, He will replace it as well, if the person asks for it from the bottom of his heart.

To lift a person from spiritual ascent, the Creator drops him down with thoughts of him instead of HIM. One thinks that he fell alone, spiritual growth isn’t for him and he’s worse than everyone. But precisely from this state, if he asks the Creator, He helps and brings him to Him.

Loss of energy and sensation of emptiness (after a congress) come from above—for us to find out: What does the Creator want from me? Why did He take away all my strength and desires?
It’s so I’ll depend only on Him and receive desires/strength to move to the goal only from Him!

After ascent (at a congress), we fall!
Yet it’s not descent, but opportunity to reevaluate the goal anew:
what do I want from the Creator and what does He want from me?
Whereas in ascent there is no care for spirituality—since I feel great and would stay this way my whole life.

According to Baal HaSulam, “Peace In The World”: Peace in a given society depends on world peace, for we’ve reached a stage where the whole world is a single society. So everyone has to care for the wellbeing of the entire world and serve it, in order to ensure his own existence.
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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 8/1/18

Breast Milk: Humanity’s Greatest Natural Asset

As we head into World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7, 2018), the US has just made breastfeeding in public legal in all 50 states. Hopefully, the new legislation will raise the importance of breastfeeding in general.

At this point you may be asking yourself, what does the wisdom of Kabbalah have to do with encouraging women to breastfeed?

The wisdom of Kabbalah deals a lot with the concept of ‘suckling’, but not in its physiological aspect, rather in the context of its spiritual roots – the spiritual forces that create the phenomenon of breastfeeding in our physical world.

From the spiritual system we can learn that the mother’s natural nourishment contains unique forces, vital not only to the physical body of the newborn, but also for his or her spiritual development. However, the scientific tools we have today are incapable of detecting all of the subtle and delicate components found in breast milk.

Beyond the many benefits of mother’s milk that medicine indicates, such as antibodies that protect the newborn’s body against diseases, mental development, and more, there is also an emotional nourishment that flows between the mother and baby. The newly arrived baby needs continuous contact with his mother, in as much as it can be similar to how it was in the womb.

Breastfeeding connects the mother and infant to a single system, in which the mother’s blood turns into milk, and becomes blood once again within the baby’s body. This is why breast milk is so important, since it’s almost identical to being fed through the umbilical cord in the mother’s womb.

The great Kabbalist, the Ari, wrote about the spiritual roots of this in his book Tree of Life (Etz Chaim): “After the birth of the newborn, the upper blood returns to be milk… blood is turned into milk within the full belly, and from that juice, butter is made to feed the baby.”

The milk carries with it the mother’s physicality and her smell, but also her attitude and her inner world, her life wisdom and other factors that cannot be measured scientifically. It is an open communication channel for twenty-four months, through which much information flows, raising the baby according to the countless changes that shape his world emotionally, physiologically and mentally.

At the age when the baby begins to walk and still breastfeeds, as several layers of connection are formed. On the one hand, the baby can “escape” its mother and begin to build his independence away from her. On the other hand, the emotional need and the constant connection between them connects them for life.

The mother also enjoy the benefits of breastfeeding not only in the physical sense, but as it is written, “Hear the sons of your father’s morality, and not abandon your mother’s Torah” (Proverbs 1: 8). From his mother, the baby receives what is referred to as “Torah” – the inner lights that develop his inner qualities, preparing him for future spiritual development. Over the course of his life, he will seek that deep connection, only at a higher level – to be born as a spiritual person and suckle from his higher root.

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