Preparation to the Lesson
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Lesson on the Topic “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Meaning of Conception and Birth”
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Selected Highlights
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Question: One of the basic laws of nature is the unity of opposites. How can we connect this with the Creator?
Answer: The law of unity of opposites says that in the end they should all connect together and complement each other.
At the beginning of creation, all opposites were concentrated in one point, in complete connection and perfectly complementing each other. And then it all was shattered.
Now we must bring everything that was shattered into a multitude of laws, connections, and conditions to one single whole where they exist correctly, in interaction, in balance, in harmony with each other, and maintain with their oppositeness such a connection that is called “perfection.” It is in it that we attain the Creator—the source of this perfection.
We cannot say who He by Himself is. The Creator is above this. But we can attain Him to the extent that we are able to correlate these positive and negative qualities with each other and create from them something in between, a middle line.
The Creator is the middle line, which is revealed between two qualities reception and bestowal. After all, there is nothing in nature except the manifestation of these two opposing forces.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 5/21/22
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Question: Can the difference between us give a person pleasure and comfort?
Answer: Nature has created us different from each other. And here the question arises, should we strive to neutralize absolutely everything there is between us? Or should we maintain this disparity and somehow move forward while preserving it?
I think practice will determine this. People will use disparity between them and will understand how much they need its manifestation.
Disparity will not increase, but it will be felt more acutely. Sensitivity to it will become more and more obvious in people, which will help them manifest themselves in an even greater rapprochement with each other, despite the disparity.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 6/24/22
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Question: Is there a difference in the definitions of God, nature, Creator, and the upper force?
Answer: No, there is no difference between all these names, titles, definitions, and restrictions. There is simply an upper force—one, the only one that exists, and there is none else besides it.
And we exist within it although we have a very clear feeling that we live by ourselves and have nothing to do with the Creator. And if He exists, He has nothing to do with us. In general, our relationship with the Creator, I would say, is very delicate.
When we want to explain everything created by the Creator, everything that gets into our senses, and apart from them we do not know what else is there, then we talk about nature as the Creator and about the Creator as nature.
But if we are talking about the beginning, the process, and the end of the universe, about his plans, then we must introduce into this nature some elements that are above the still, vegetative, and animate levels that exist in us.
And what is above these three levels, we must already associate with the upper force above them. We call it the Creator, who on one hand generates, supports, organizes, and fills the still, vegetative, and animate nature including us, and at the same time also raises a person, who initially belongs to animal nature, above this level, to the degree of Himself. After all, the Creator is at the next degree—above the natural forces of nature.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 5/21/22
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Comment: You said that now we are approaching the war of Gog and Magog.
My Response: This war is already underway. In different sources it is called differently, but in principle, it is a war of the sons of light with the sons of darkness.
The war of Gog and Magog is the last battle for the correction of egoism by the upper light. It is very difficult for a person to separate himself from his ego despite the fact that he is disappointed in his condition, is ready to break away from this world, and sees only continuous losses in it: “Why to be born, suffer and die if our life is worth nothing, there is no sense in it?”
We used to live like animals: you were born, and you live. And now we have reached a level where we realize: “Do we really need this? No. Who benefits from this? Nobody.” Worthlessness, aimlessness…
But when we talk about rising to the next degree, we have to act against egoism. And although it—in principle—manifests itself as an absolute evil, we still cannot break away from it.
This is where the so-called war of Gog and Magog arises: when we all need to unite against our egoism and not against each other. Will the method of bringing people closer to a common good Babylon be correctly perceived straightaway, and will the corrections of our nature be made with the help of the upper light to the degree of “love your neighbor as yourself” and us merging with the upper force, with the Creator?
Will this be done in a good way, or will humanity still succumb to its dark, low instincts, fascism, Nazism, and will protectionism prevail for a while? Then we will go through a certain period of suffering, which will eventually convince us that there is no other way out.
But it will lead to a very bitter, terrible experience, which humanity has not yet had when a small fraction of people will remain, and all the rest will be destroyed. This small handful of people, will have gathered all the suffering of humanity into themselves and will be able to correct their egoism and achieve the final, predetermined upper goal.
This is the plan of nature, the plan of our evolutionary development, and there is no getting away from it. Its active part began to be implemented at the end of the last century with all kinds of problems of humanity, with individual crises here and there, which gradually merged into one general crisis, into a state of universal interaction, universal dependence of all countries, nations, and civilizations. This is the beginning of the war of Gog and Magog.
Either this war will be realized on a spiritual level where humanity will struggle with its basic egoistic motives realizing that they were given only to overcome them, or it will close its eyes and follow the path of dark instincts, and then it will experience all this, as it is said, in the flesh, that is, on itself, on its own skin. Then a very difficult time will come. Kabbalists warn about it.
They even write: “I would not like to live at this time” the state of the world will be so terrible. Mothers will devour their children out of hunger, people will hunt each other like barbarians, like cannibals, mutilated by all kinds of radiation effects.
The international system of communication will fall and people will find that they have absolutely nothing to eat, clothe themselves, or provide themselves with electricity, fuel, and so on without it. It will be a collapse that will turn people into savages.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The near future of humanity” 11/3/09
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My new article on Linkedin “Europe Supports Terrorism against Israel”
Less than a year ago, Israel presented evidence that the Palestinian organization Al-Haq is a terror supporting organization. As a result, the European Union cut off funding to the organization. A week ago, the EU suddenly announced that it had found no evidence to support Israel’s argument and announced that it would resume funding. Shortly after, nine European countries issued a joint statement that they, too, will resume funding of Al-Haq and other organizations that support Palestinian terrorism against Israel, claiming that Israel had presented no evidence to support its claim.
At the same time, the Israeli organization NGO Monitor said that it did provide European governments ample proof that these organizations finance or otherwise support terrorist activities. The organization decried the countries’ “deliberate ignoring of materials presented to them for years.”
I have no doubt that the organizations that Israel pointed out do support terrorists and terrorism. However, I am just as confident that trying to get the EU or its countries to stop funding them is utterly pointless. The simple truth is that the EU, as an organization, and the member states of the EU, support these Palestinian organizations because they, too, want to revoke the State of Israel.
We can complain to them and we can protest, but as long as we do not advance the one thing we must advance—our internal cohesion—and present it to the world as an example of unity, we will not see any favorable approach toward Israel.
Currently we are setting an example of division. Accordingly, the entire world is uniting against us and with our enemies.
If we are divided, the world wants not only to revoke Israel, but to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth. There is no in-between here; it is either or.
By “unity,” I am not referring to unity with Israel’s enemies against adversaries from our own folk. This does not show the world that we are united, but rather emphasizes our division and increases the world’s hatred toward us. By “unity,” I mean uniting with our own people despite the chasm of views between us, and without erasing it, so as to show what we are overcoming. This will give the nations the example they need in order to begin to unite among themselves, and they will thank us for it.
We need not be afraid of criticism. We must be confident that all we need is to be a light to the nations—an example of solidarity, mutual responsibility and love of others. If we do this, the world will cherish us and thank us.
The world unites with us when we unite with one another, and unites against us when we turn against each other, as is happening now. Our success, therefore, depends entirely on the connection between us. If we nurture our unity, we will thrive. If we do not, the world will see our existence as redundant and disruptive, and will seek to do away with us.
Through the connection between us, we determine where the world’s forces will go. When we are united, the world directs its energy toward connection and everyone enjoys the benefits of unity. When we are divided, the forces of the world turn against each other, wars and destruction ensue, and the whole world blames us for it. This is the simple equation of our lives.
For more on the link between Jewish unity and antisemitism, read my publications The Jewish Choice: Unity or Anti-Semitism, Historical facts on anti-Semitism as a reflection of Jewish social discord, and Like a Bundle of Reeds: Why unity and mutual guarantee are today’s call of the hour.
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How will society improve in the future?“
Society will improve in the future by becoming the happiest and most perfect society ever, where positive connection, love, mutual responsibility and unity become the sole criteria for humanity to live in total harmony, peace and joy.
We could imagine the future state of human society as a family, where we all mutually wish to make each other happy, helping each other wherever possible, raising each other’s spirits, and likewise our systems would function to help us receive whatever we need in order to reach balance among each other and with nature.
The laws operating in a loving family are the exact same laws that we now break as a society—laws of a single, integral and perfect system—which is the reason we feel society filled with myriad problems and crises. By making moves to implement laws of a single, integral and perfect system in our social connections, we draw positive forces dwelling in nature upon ourselves, which let us observe such laws, and which also start filling us with a sensation of harmony and perfection.
Based on the video “Kabbalah Express” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Israel Shimshon on June 24, 2022. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
Question: There have been many studies on the topic of dreams in the world. Sleep is a state when man’s contact with the outside world slows down and there is some kind of brain reboot, that is, the conscious activity stops.
What happens to a person who is in attainment of the upper world? What is the state of “sleep” for him?
Answer: Sleep is the lowering of a person from the full GAR degree to half of this degree—VAK. This state of semi-attainment is called sleep.
It has nothing to do with physiology, neither with wakefulness nor with sleep on the earthly level.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 6/28/22
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