New Life 1060 – Critical Thinking And The Wisdom Of Kabbalah
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Accurate critical thinking requires measuring one unit of falsehood against one unit of truth. The intensity and depth of my criticism depend on the strength of my connection with the principle force of nature. I must detach myself from the still, vegetative, and animate forms of life and adhere to the inner force that is at the foundation of nature. When I discover this force within myself, I can then test my thinking against it. In the past, humanity engaged in critical thinking in an incomplete way due to egoism and self-absorbed interests and opinions. In order to overcome doubt and find out what nature really requires of us, it is necessary to continue to ask, investigate, and clarify the truth within a special group of people who want to acquire new qualities.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1060 – Critical Thinking And The Wisdom Of Kabbalah,” 9/20/18

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It seems like one must wait for all group members to consent to the Guarantee
But since there’s only man and Creator and everything else is a system of connections between them,
you don’t have to wait for anyone for the Guarantee. Consider everything ready for it, for man’s action!

Only by annulling yourself to the group can you evoke its influence on you, which will pull you away from ego.
This act depends only on you alone and not on them.
Because besides man, there’s only the Creator
And there’s None Else Besides Him,
and He shines upon you from the group
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In English

Medium:

“10 Years to the Financial Crisis: What Now?“

BlogActiv:

“10 Years to the Financial Crisis: What Now?“

Newsmax:

“Trump’s Moves Better Suited to Our Interconnected Globe in Our Times“

The Times of Israel:

“15 Rosh Hashanah Insights You Don’t Know About”
“What Has Changed This Jewish Year?”
“Sukkot: How Humanity Can Live in Harmony Under One Roof”
“Why Is There Anti-Semitism?”
“The Meaning of Our Personal Yom Kippur and Its Connection to the World“

JNS (Jewish News Syndicate):

“‘Tikkun olam’ in the New Year 5779“

Jewish Boston:

“What Has Changed This Jewish Year?“

Linkedin Article:

“Global-Political Disruption: Germany’s Response to Trump Cutting UNRWA Funding”
“Escalating UK Anti-Semitism: The Jewish People Must Unite to Fulfill Their Spiritual Duty“

“10 Years to the Financial Crisis: What Now?“

Algemeiner:

“‘Tikkun Olam’ in the New Year 5779“

Blitz:

“Tikkun olam begins with tikkun adam“

In German

BlogActiv:

“Was hat sich in diesem jüdischen Jahr verändert?”
“Wie Trump die gekürzten 200 Millionen Dollar aus der palästinensischen Hilfe anderweitig nutzen kann”
“Was hat sich in diesem jüdischen Jahr verändert?”
“Warum gibt es Antisemitismus?“

In French

The Times of Israel:

“Les défis d’aujourd’hui pour les Juifs et le manque de direction”
“Qu’est-ce qui a changé cette année juive?”
“Souccot: comment l’humanité peut vivre en harmonie sous un même toit”
“Pourquoi y a-t-il de l’antisémitisme?”
“Qu’est-ce qui a changé cette année juive?“

Dreuz.info:

“Bouleversement politique mondial : la réponse de l’Allemagne au retrait de Trump du financement du fonds de l’UNRWA“

In Spanish

Huffington Post Spain:

“La tormenta de Corbyn y la raíz del antisemitismo”
“Sucot: La humanidad en armonía bajo un mismo techo“

BlogActiv:

“Huracán “Florencia”: su poder depende de la relación entre las personas”
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In Italian
Huffington Post Italy:

“Evento: il nome in codice per la prossima crisi globale“

BlogActiv:

“‘La sopravvivenza dei più ricchi’ dipende dal fatto che dovranno cercare di salvare tutti noi”
“Migliorare la comunicazione nell’era degli smartphone”
“La ricerca della felicità e il fallimento del sogno americano“

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Entry into the spiritual world, crossing the Machsom, is a special stage. It’s like the eye of a needle that one squeezes into. I must restrict myself to a state of wanting only spirituality, bestowal to friends. With this desire I can pass through the needle’s eye into the upper world

The main thing about the Guarantee is to start feeling a need for mutual action.

Mutual Guarantee is mutual support of friends in the group to evoke the general light of correction OM (Ohr Makif) from the center of the group.
Together we sprinkle ourselves with the life-giving rain of Hassadim and each other’s example.

At the World Film Fair in New York—a major event in the film industry held in October 2018, the movie The Social Network in the Age of the Third Reich by my student Michael Rozenshtein, was awarded Honorary Laurels.

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Medium:

“The Pursuit of Happiness and the Fading American Dream”
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“Women’s Changing Role in Society“

BlogActiv:

“Europe’s Migration Crisis: Another Symptom of the Global Crisis“

Newsmax:

“Smartphone Era Demands We Bridge Tech-Generation Gap”
“Global Interdependence Means No One Wins a Trade War“

The Times of Israel:

“A Review of Anti-Semitism in America After the Unite the Right 2 Rally”
“Beyond Israel’s Nation State Law”
“Seeking: A Spiritual Leader for the Jewish People”
“The Legacy of Rav Kook to Jewish Unity”
“What Education for Unity Really Means”
“Today’s Challenges to Jews and the Lack of Leadership“

Breaking Israel News:

“Israel’s Existential Threats and the Nation-State Law”
“Lessons from Hiroshima: From Weapons of Mass Destruction to a Weapon of Mass Connection”
“How Trump Can Reallocate the $200 Million Slashed Off Palestinian Aid“

Linkedin Article:

“Seeking: A Spiritual Leader for the Jewish People”
“Women’s Changing Role in Society“

In German

BlogActiv:

“Europas Flüchtlingskrise: Ein weiteres Symptom der Globalen Krise”
“Die Verbindung zwischen Israel und 2,3 Millionen Flüchtlingen aus Venezuela“

In French

Medium:

“La crise migratoire en Europe: un autre symptôme de la crise mondiale“

BlogActiv:

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“La crise migratoire en Europe: un autre symptôme de la crise mondiale”
“Leçons d’Hiroshima: de l’arme de destruction massive à l’arme de connexion massive”
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“La poursuite du bonheur et le rêve américain en voie de disparition”
“Le lien entre Israël et 2,3 millions de migrants fuyant le Venezuela”
“Comment Trump peut-il réaffecter les 200 millions de dollars qui ont été retranchés de l’aide aux Palestiniens?“

The Times of Israel:

“L’existence menacée d’Israël et la loi de l’État-nation”
“Ce que signifie réellement l’éducation pour l’unité”
“Au-delà de la loi de l’État-nation d’Israël”
“Une revue de l’antisémitisme en Amérique après le rassemblement ‘Unite the Right 2’“

In Spanish

Huffington Post Spain:

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Question: What does it mean that faith is a vessel of bestowal?

Answer: The fact is that faith is a property of bestowal, a property of Bina. There is common faith and complete faith (Emuna Shlema), which is filled with complete knowledge.

That is, faith is not an end state. It is a tool for attaining the Creator, and in this tool, a person reveals the Creator as the source of Light that fills him and allows him to see all the creation, in all the worlds, in all times, above all limitations.

In this case, the reflected Light (Ohr Hozer) must be equal to the direct Light (Ohr Yashar).

Question: To attain faith, the property of bestowal, does it mean to attain the desire to receive this property?

Answer: Yes, I want to receive the property of faith and not just say: “I believe!” We have to work a lot on this. Our whole path is attaining the property of faith, or reflected Light. And then, this property already contains everything, including love.

Love is the next, deeper stage, when all the Light enters the property of a person’s faith, the property of bestowal; that is, the direct Light is clothed in the reflected Light.

And all this is done within the group; otherwise, you will not make a single movement, not a single action.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 3/22/18

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Lesson Preparation

Lesson on the Topic “The Work Within Reason And The Work Above Reason”

Talmud Eser Sefirot,  Vol. 6, Part 16, Table of Answers for the Meaning of the Words, Item 5

Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 13 “A Pomegranate”

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-Music’s structure includes moments of silence: pauses, inhales. What is silence in the spiritual world?
-Without pauses we wouldn’t hear anything. A pause is like preparation of a Kli, vessel. The sound of pauses inside us is just as necessary as the sounds we hear.

You “buy” a friend at the price of self-annulment. I must pay for the “purchase” with something, give something up, abdicate my ego.
I can’t eradicate my egoism, but I can change its use from “for myself” to bestowal with the help of light OM [Ohr Makif]. This is called “buying a friend.”

That’s the hurdle in revealing the Creator, since the best possible imaginable pleasure is society’s praise, for which man can expend all his energy and give up all pleasures if by that he’ll attain sufficient praise.

If they don’t give in, the markets will crash!

Save the world financial system at the cost of the USA real sector’s demise, or vice versa? That’s the financiers’ war with Trump: not to abdicate banks and the Fed to government control. Trump will win because financiers can’t ensure economic growth.

Only rare individuals aspire to the Creator, since one must give up society’s praise and be ready to be condemned by society. One isn’t ready to reveal Kabbalah and the Creator until society’s praise is devaluated for him, since otherwise he will aspire to attain that praise.
From Twitter, 10/25/18

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