Can Kabbalah Dissemination Prevent the Next Holocaust?
Posted on June 25th, 2019
From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 6/25/19
From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 6/25/19
The more I exalt the Creator in my eyes, the more I am filled with His greatness. Identifying oneself with Him frees one from all spiritual or corporeal problems. Problems are resolved only by the fact that the Creator, the Upper light, fills our empty desires.
Me – Group – Creator:
The Creator is the reason and goal of group work. But realization happens in the group, where I must attain love for friends. This is what I ask from the Creator. Hence the Creator becomes a means here. But after I attain love for the friends, I can go on to attain love for the Creator.
We strive to hold the Creator in the center of the group, so His greatness will hold and connect us. From the center of the group, the Creator plays with us, dividing us. Yet we overcome the disturbances, constantly preserving the balance by our common sensation of the Creator’s greatness, holding Him up between us.
The way to check the Creator’s greatness is to see how much it obligates me to love the friends. It is written, “from love for the creatures, one comes to love for the Creator.” But why must I love the creatures? Because I want to attain love for the Creator. The Creator is the goal, and preparation for it is love for the creatures.
Ascents and descents happen independently of us. What depends on us is to connect the lack of the Creator’s greatness in us in descent, to the Creator’s greatness in ascent. I, myself, search for and awaken the lack of the Creator’s greatness, trying to feel it, measure it and connect it to the sensation of the Creator’s greatness now.
Man’s primary work is to attach to the ascent the lack of the Creator’s greatness, which he felt before, during a descent. This is exactly why these states are called descents—because the Creator’s greatness disappears in them, there’s no Creator in us and between us.
We want to attach these descents to the ascent.
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Michael Laitman and Len Saxe: Message for the Jewish People
Leonard Saxe, PhD
Director, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies
Director, Steinhardt Social Research Institute
Brandeis University
Question: Must we bring the system into balance or must we change in relation to a system that is completely unchangeable and balanced?
Answer: We must change, only us. In this way we change the world that is reflected within us.
Question: What appears first, thought or desire?
Answer: Desire. Desire is our foundation. Thoughts then appear, which begin to sort and take in and absorb the desires and work with them.
Question: What appeared first, distance, time, or movement?
Answer: All of this is the result of our egoistic development. Until the spiritual essence fell into the egoistic level, there was no time, motion, or space.
Question: Does spiritual happiness always come as the result of a struggle between two opposing forces?
Answer: It is not only the struggle, but also the right combination between two opposing forces.
Question: The wisdom of Kabbalah is a method for uniting people. How is it possible to help your family unite in order to survive? How do we add Kabbalistic principles to the family?
Answer: You need to try to do this gradually and never apply pressure. Don’t be troublesome, don’t frighten people. You must show them that you are happy because you are studying Kabbalah. This will be the best method for making it popular with your relatives.
Question: How does a Kabbalist differentiate evil from good?
Answer: Everything that brings us closer to each other and to the Creator is good. Everything else, even what is neutral, is evil
Question: Why do people try to extend their life on Earth? After all, we were not born for that, but only in order to develop the soul.
Answer: I don’t think it is necessary to artificially prolong life. There is nothing worse than this world. Yet we don’t have the right to give it up because we need to carry out our role.
Question: When a person becomes a Kabbalist, by seeing what is inevitable, is he able to correct his behavior in the present?
Answer: Certainly. If you see your spiritual state, then you can certainly correct your next movement based on your state.
Question: What are the levels of control of the heart and the spiritual state that exist for a Kabbalist?
Answer: Tzimtzum (restriction), then the Masach (screen), ascent above the ego, and after that Zivug de Haka’a (mating by striking), meaning the proper functioning of your egoism with bestowal and love.
Question: Does a hierarchy exist in a spiritual system?
Answer: Certainly it exists. There are 125 levels that are divided into sublevels. Kabbalists feel that someone is higher or lower according to the hierarchy. But other than that, each one has his own mission.
Question: How is it possible to hasten and carry out a maximal change in states from bad to good and from good to the middle line?
Answer: This is only through work with friends in a group to the degree they approach each other.
Question: Does spiritual consciousness depend on the physical level of human consciousness?
Answer: Spiritual consciousness does not depend on physical consciousness in any way. A person in our world can be stupid or lazy, while in spirituality he could discover completely different characteristics.
Question: How and what is changed in a physical person after going through the Machsom (barrier)?
Answer: He becomes purposeful. That is all.
Question: Whether we remain in this world or abandon it depends upon what?
Answer: It depends upon the mission.
Question: Do all people have a point in the heart?
Answer: All people have a point in the heart, if only they want to renew or revive it.
Question: Can a Kabbalist influence his spiritual root and therefore determine the flow of events in the lowest world, for all the worlds?
Answer: Yes, certainly he can.
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/20/19
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Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe
Genuine self-confidence is only attained through a loving and supportive environment. Shame is the fear of feeling less than others. It is the fear of hurting or eliminating one’s ego, which has a constant concern for self-fulfillment at the expense of others. Pride that comes from wanting to control and take advantage of others is negative, empty, and stupid. Learning self-acceptance will also not help. We can only attain psychological freedom and resilience when we build mini-societies of people who share the special, lofty goal of transcending the human ego together. They achieve positive pride that comes from the desire to control oneself. They protect themselves from hurt and advance humanity by adhering to the rule, “Do not do to your friend what you hate.”
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Descents are given from above in order to check if there are any ascents in egoism. Although, one cannot do much in a descent, upon receiving another ascent one must recall the previous fall in order to understand what must be done not to get any more descents.
In an ascent one understands how much he loses in a descent, in egoism. This calculation becomes increasingly important until, after much suffering, does the real need in the help (salvation) of the Creator arise. And one is able to appreciate the Creator saving him from egoism.
Why is it that specifically the importance of the Creator (the Greatness of the Creator) so important to man? Because we exist in the Creator that fills everything, and only the absence of the desire to reveal His greatness (not Him) is what conceals Him from us.
Descent distances me from the group, and therefore from the Creator. I don’t feel the need for the group or the Creator. It is the opposite in an ascent when both, the group and the Creator, are important to me. If I don’t lose the importance of the Creator, I will not fall. This is only possible in a group that cares about the common greatness of the Creator.
To feel the greatness of the Creator is to value His presence in my life more than life itself. As if I get a result of a blood test with thousands of indicators, but I only care about one: the greatness of the Creator, His importance in my life. I evaluate myself according to it.
A descent means I cease valuing the Creator’s greatness in my life. The Creator becomes unimportant to me—this is called a descent. Only by the scale of the Creator’s greatness in me do I assess my states as ascent or descent: how important/unimportant the upper force is to me.
Ascent and descent are defined only by how much I feel the Creator’s greatness. If I notice that I’ve lost the greatness of the Creator, it’s a descent, since there is no Creator in my world. This is the only thing deemed a descent in spirituality.
The Creator deliberately created a descent for me so I will extract the lack of His greatness. In the ascent I can add the need for the Creator’s greatness that was present in the descent, and ask for His revelation. Therein lies my work—everything else is done from above.
From the descent, I want to extract a need for the Creator’s greatness. This does not mean I sink into a descent. Awakening a descent means awakening only the lack of the Creator’s greatness, which I experienced. I wish to supplement the current ascent with the lack of the Creator’s greatness from the preceding descent.
The state of ascent is the sensation of closeness to the Creator, His greatness
It’s not the Creator Himself that’s revealed, but His authority. If I feel that everything is governed by the Creator, then I can inquire into the previous descent—in order to build an ascent from it
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We see the entire world as being full of evil, but we understand that this is not true because this is how it seems only because of our egoism. Therefore, we rise above it and adhere to the Creator who is good and does good. After that, we can develop our sensations, mind, and heart in order to see the world as evil and nevertheless be above this evil inside the force that is good and does good.
We need to arrange ourselves so that as more or less evil is revealed in the world, we will always remain in adhesion with the good who does good, as it is written: “They have eyes and see not; they have ears and hear not.” We sense evil within our egoistic desires and we always establish ourselves in order to remain afloat, like a buoy on the surface of the water. The more evil that is revealed, the more we amplify the good who does good, and as such maintain ourselves above in faith above reason.
Knowledge reveals more and more evil; Malchut of the world of infinity opens more and more, as it is said that toward the end of correction, impudence will multiply. All the while we constantly keep afloat by clinging to the good, to the upper one. This is how we want to spend every day and every second of our life.
It is clear that a strong inclusion in the group is needed. We live always on this border, afloat, in the point of balance between the two worlds. Then it turns into the middle line where we ourselves awaken darkness and attract the light. Yet, for now, all we have to do is try to float on the surface of this evil, constantly adhering to the good.1
My buoy is the ten. I build this buoy by annulling myself before the ten. I do not drown because I care for the friends, for their benefit, not my own. This lets me stay afloat, otherwise I will drown in the water. The nine friends are the nine points in the heart that remain afloat in the feeling that “There is none else beside the Creator,” and I support them and hold onto them.
I am not just grabbing them like a drowning person, I am trying to keep them from drowning, and therefore, I am afloat too. I annul myself before the buoy to absolute zero.2
First of all, you need to annul yourself before the ten in order to surrender yourself to it—this is the very first stage of spiritual work. I can then be sure that I am included in the ten. No matter how high I am, like in the example of Rabbi Yossi ben Kisma, by annulling myself before the friends, I perform the first spiritual action. After all, the ten will always be higher than me. I can be the greatest, but if there is a ten next to me, it will always be higher than I am. Therefore, my first spiritual step is to annul myself before it.
After I annul myself, above this self-annulment I can already perform all kinds of actions within the ten through my inclusion in it. I must find out what my friends want and fully use myself to fulfill their desire. The ten on a spiritual degree is my tool for communication with the Creator. Alone I have no opportunity to contact Him, I have no one before whom I can annul myself and in relation to whom I can develop my desire on the spiritual degree.
I reveal the evil and the darkness in me and I want to grasp the light, but this is only possible through the ten by annulling myself before it like Malchut annuls itself before the first nine Sefirot or like the lower one annuls itself before the dark Malchut of the upper. I must then make every effort to support the friends, that is, to pass my qualities that are corrected from reception to bestowal to the ten. In this way, I begin to belong to the higher, already-spiritual degree, and all this an expansion of faith above reason.
I am already preparing for the next revelation of evil. I am changing all the time, and therefore, I cannot create any support within myself, any safety belt against the impudent egoism when it erupts in me. Therefore, I tie myself to the group. If today I invest in the group as much as possible, elevate the friends, serve them, annul myself, then with this I create insurance for myself for the future.
The group is my protective buffer, the battery, the first nine Sefirot that will later support my Malchut. The investment in the friends, the mutual guarantee, is necessary for advancement because later they will feel that they are obliged to save me, to free me from prison.
The group works like a pump. I adhere to it, receiving more strength from it, and then I receive additional egoism that throws me away from the friends. The friends return me back to them but only through the efforts that I invested previously. This is how I work all the time, like a piston in a pump.3
The ten is a spiritual structure, not a corporeal one. This is not a burden or difficult duty for me, but my lifeline. To be more exact, it is a system for the revelation of the Creator. It seems that I work with ten corporeal people with whom I do not feel any connection. Yet, gradually, thanks to the reforming light, I begin to feel an inner connection between us in which the Creator’s revelation is manifested.
It is between us that the Creator is revealed. Within our relations and bestowal to each other, new sensations are revealed, a network that makes it possible to feel the upper force. This network is woven from the qualities of the friends: from bestowal and love within which we begin to reveal the Creator. These properties of the network allow the upper light to reveal itself in them.
Then the ten, from a burden, from the ten corporeal bodies, turns into a mechanism of connection, into a detector for the revelation of the Creator. The group becomes the vessel of my soul.4
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/3/19, “The Absolute Zero”
1 Minute 9:40
2 Minute 33:05
3 Minute 41:50
4 Minute 1:04:20
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