One isn’t judged from above on New Year’s, but he judges himself, how he must be, and he determines his own future. And this New Year is a new turn for him!
One is his own judge, jury, and executioner!
And then, as it is written, there is judgment below and judgment above…

Prayer must be in the heart:
for the heart to be in accord with the prayer for acquiring bestowal (faith) instead of the inherent quality of reception (knowledge).

The Creator’s concealment is in His power over all that happens.

Requests for the New Year: to feel the greatness and singularity of the upper force, the Creator, despite His concealment. To feel His importance and authority in all that happens. Up to each of “our” desires and actions, how they are all controlled by the Creator.
#RoshHaShanah

This is the meaning of the New Year’s prayers. #RoshHashanah

The New Year is the creation of Malchut, a new desire that comprises all the souls, for them to be filled by the Creator, feel His greatness within. We request to feel for the Creator, the desire to love and bestow, to fill everyone and be revealed in all.

One must therefore attain the Creator’s greatness and singularity. And then the Creator will fulfill him.

Man is held by two forces, to receive and to bestow. But one must decide which will rule within him. And not for the sake of a reward in this world or the next, but because the Creator is great in his eyes.

The main thing over the course of life is to acquire permanent faith, i.e., full quality of bestowal over one’s natural desire to receive, the ego.
From this desire and request, a New Year begins in one’s life!
Let us wish this for one another! #RoshHashanah

This decision defines the New Year! #RoshHashanah

One’s request determine’s one’s fate.
Though all the abilities are already included in one, the way they are used depends on the path one chooses:
to exert in acquiring this world (riches, power, knowledge)
or to be similar to the Creator, the quality of love and bestowal.

But one can only sense it as sin in contrast with the opposite quality, that of bestowal, faith.
So let’s ask for the quality of bestowal!

#Elul is the time to ask for #forgiveness and release from sin. The ego is the cause of all sin. For as long as the ego isn’t gone from man, all of one’s thoughts and actions are for oneself, a sin.
From Twitter, 9/9/18

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 9/9/18

I wish all of us what we lack most, love and connection between us!

It has always saved our people, it is in our DNA. “Love your neighbor as yourself” is what we must realize between us for the entire world.

Happy Rosh HaShana!

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Question: Many times I’ve heard you speak about the necessity of proper upbringing. What is upbringing according to Kabbalah? Can egoism be educated or do we need a properly educated egoist?

Answer: A Kabbalistic upbringing means an upbringing by means of the upper Light. It is when I, along with my friends, with the help of various actions described in the Kabbalistic methodology, attract the upper Light. The upper Light influences us and brings us to a state of unity where the Creator is revealed and where we all become one whole. This is the state we have to reach.

A Kabbalistic upbringing is supposed to unite us under the influence of the upper Light, revealing the Light under the condition that our connection, our mutual bestowal, will resemble its qualities. Then in the union between the upper Light and us, we will reveal its source—the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/29/18

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New Life 1037 – Love Of The Nation Of Israel
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Other nations have natural love, but love of the nation of Israel means that each one wants to benefit others and enjoys this. The people of Israel are made up of a gathering of the nations of the world and therefore they have no connection. “National love” means that I must love each one in the nation that aims toward reaching love. A connection between differences is called “Israel,” which means we direct ourselves straight toward the higher integral power in nature. We need to learn to cover over all hatred with love like the forces of plus and minus and then we will attain wholeness and eternity. That is how we acquire the “weapon” of love and then nobody will want to harm us. The “weapon” of love is connection; it has the power to fight against all evil which is separation. There is no need to fight with anyone else but only with the evil that is found within me, only to fight with my own ego. When we relate this way to each other, people will immediately change their attitude toward us in a positive way because we will illuminate the whole world.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1037 – Love Of The Nation Of Israel,” 7/17/18

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Lesson Preparation

Lesson on the Topic “The Month of Elul And Rosh Hashanah”

Lesson on the Topic “Conception”

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 9/7/18

Bus stops across London were defaced with posters in the colors of the PLO flag declaring “Israel is a racist endeavor.” Apparently, these unauthorized ads protest the British Labor Party’s decision to adopt the definition for anti-Semitism by the International Organization for Holocaust Remembrance.

Among the eleven clauses of the definition are four clauses that define a certain criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic. One of those who opposed them was Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. His anti-Semitic remarks in recent months have stirred a public outcry to the point that British Jews have threatened to leave the U.K. if Corbyn wins the upcoming elections.

In light of the steep rise in violent incidents towards the 270,000 Jews of Britain over the past three years, the adoption of a new international definition of anti-Semitism is crucial there. But Corbyn’s last minute decision to adopt the clauses of the definition will not change things. Corbyn’s hatred for Jews flows in his veins by nature. And he’s not guilty of it. It is like an illness that doesn’t let him rest.

And Corbyn is not the only one suffering from this illness. The “anti-Semite” may arise in every person, in any time, by any trigger. It is like a wild animal within, demanding to release its strong aversion towards the Jews, whom it identifies as “the source of all evil.”

Therefore, we can write formal definitions on paper, but they will not alter human nature. Precise formulated phrases cannot balance the negative attitude towards Jews that is naturally embedded in the nations of the world, and especially in those who harbor anti-Semitic sentiments.

In the Book of Zohar, the greatest book in the Wisdom of Kabbalah, it was written 2,000 years ago that hatred of the Jews will last for thousands of years until a balancing force flows into the world. Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag, who wrote the commentary on the Book of Zohar, describes it as follows: “the Israeli nation had been constructed as a form of gateway by which the sparks of purity would shine upon the human race across the world, until they develop and recognize the pleasantness and tranquility found in the kernel of love of others.”

Until this happens, the world may point blaming fingers towards Jews in any event that happens: murderous terrorist acts in Europe, the September 11 attacks, the spread of AIDS, economic crises, and even natural disasters.

Rav Kook wrote: “Any noise in the world happens primarily for Israel” (Letters of Rav Kook). The ancient Jewish sages wrote that “no calamity comes into the world, but for Israel” (Tractate Yevamot), and Tikkun 30 in the corrections of the Zohar writes that “the Jews cause poverty and ruin and robbery and killing and destruction throughout the world”.

The natural system drives all of human society towards a central pressure point – demanding the Jewish people to unite in order to fulfill their spiritual duty. To do that, the Jews were given the method of connection – the wisdom of Kabbalah, which can help them become a model for all nations.

Then, a balancing force will finally spread throughout the world, soothe the hatred towards Jews, and unite all of humanity into a global community. If British Jews were to become aware of this principle and share it with the people of their country, they would bring about a true revolution.

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New Life 1003 – The Oral Torah, Part 2
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Without the guidance of a teacher who is a Kabbalist, it is impossible to understand the secret that is latent in the Torah, in the Mishnah, or in The Book of Zohar. Since the destruction of the Temple, there has been controversy about the concept of “Lishma” over the question of whether the Torah requires a correction of the ego in order to love. Torah “Lishma” means that I perform actions for the sake of others, “Lo Lishma” (not for Her Name) means that I am doing things for myself, for the sake of receiving a reward, respect, and so forth. Most people lost the connection with Torah Lishma and the Kabbalists who taught this were always oppressed and persecuted. The language of the branches, which Kabbalists teach, is based upon the connection that exists between the upper force and the physical branch that is activated in our world.

People who claim that there is no need to maintain the Torah Lishma, the correction of the ego and loving, are dealing with the externalities of the Torah; while the Kabbalists learn it through the language of the branches, and discover its upper spiritual roots.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1003 – The Oral Torah,” part 2, 4/24/18

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Why do I get punished for thoughts and actions if they aren’t mine?
There’s no punishment or reward in the world, there’s learning.
One is taught to reveal the Creator’s singularity.
This is the aim of our development.
The right decision is: to reveal that the Creator does everything

If I can connect to others in order to fulfill them, to this extent I find contact with the upper one, as if a valve opens and my soul gets filled to the extent I transmit upper light to the others. When I transmit all of this, an illumination, Or Hassadim, remains in my soul.
From Twitter, 9/8/18

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