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Posted on September 25th, 2021 at 9:55 pm
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International Kabbalah Convention, Preparation for Lesson 1
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International Kabbalah Convention, “Entry Into the Spiritual Degree,” Lesson 1
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Selected Highlights
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International Kabbalah Convention, Preparation for Lesson 2
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International Kabbalah Convention, “Annulment as a Preparation for Ibur (Impregnation),” Lesson 2
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Reality shows us that an individual cannot exist in isolation without a sufficient number of people around him to serve him and help him provide for his needs. (Baal HaSulam, “Peace in the World)
We see that any individual, and especially modern man, is doomed if he is detached from society because he cannot provide his needs in any way.
If the meaning of life is to reach connection with the Creator during our lifetime, to reveal the upper form that manages us, the main thing for us is the revelation of this force.
If we do that, we will ascend to a level of eternity because contact with the Creator provides us with a different form of life. We must therefore reach this level as soon as possible.
The main tool to attain this is the group that can support us, awaken us and encourage us so that we will begin to attain the Creator this way.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/21/19
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Prophets, Joshua, 8:34-8:35: And afterward Joshua read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the Torah.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that walked among them.
Question: What does it mean to read the entire Torah?
Answer: This is not about reading the book itself, but about fulfilling the commandments that people must fulfill if they wish to move in the direction of the Creator. This is the meaning of the Torah and human life in general, the essence of our existence on earth. This is what Joshua explained.
In principle, this is not a lot of work, just the fulfillment of the commandment “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Nothing more!
You just need to place this commandment into your heart and nothing else is needed. It includes absolutely everything.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/19/21
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“I have been to the end of the earth. I have been to the end of the water. I have been to the end of the sky. I have been to the end of the mountains. I have found none that are not my friends.” (Native American Navajo Proverb)
We are all parts of one common soul.
Question: How pure Native American souls are! How is it possible to come to such a thought? Half of them are enemies but they say: “I have found none that are not my friends.”
Answer: No one knows. They also stripped scalps from each other and so on. But in general, they have accepted this attitude. This is their prominent philosophy.
Question: But if you do not talk about them, but refer to us, relate these quotes to us, how would you comment on: “I have found none that are not my friends“?
Answer: “As one man with one heart.” “Man is man’s friend.” “Love your neighbor as yourself.” All this is written in the Torah in direct language. It is all there.
This philosophy, in fact, exists in every nation but in a different form, at different levels, and in different depths.
But in principle, you can always find something similar in any nation when they talk about community, collective wisdom, the need to get closer, the need for peace, and so on.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/15/21
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Question: After the victory of Joshua over the city of Ai, an altar was being built to the God of Israel on Mount Ebal. One of the translations of the word “ebal” is evil. Why is the altar placed on evil?
Answer: And how else? Where is the temple placed? Also on evil. This is all done to rise above egoism. Therefore, everything that is under it is evil. Thanks to the construction, it is corrected.
Question: It seemed to me that first the evil is corrected and then the building is erected over it.
Answer: No, egoism cannot be corrected. A completely opposite quality is built over it, and thus this primordial evil works for good: for connection, unity, and unification.
One arises above the other. Nothing vanishes, nothing disappears. And even if we say that the ego is destroyed, it means that its evil usage is killed. And the ego itself remains and contributes to the creation of good. Egoism should always be at the bottom, while a temple is being built above it.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/19/21
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Question: The term “Creator” (“Bo-re“) in Hebrew means “come and see.” Why is it said “see” and not “taste” or “hear?”
Answer: Vision is the highest organ that transmits a huge amount of information to us that is incomparable with all other organs of perception. It characterizes complete attainment.
Therefore if I say “I saw,” it is considered indisputable evidence. And “I heard,” “I felt” or somehow else, this is unreliable.
In many sources it is written “taste the Creator.” Taste is also a kind of attainment, but it is not vision.
Question: What is the spiritual root of vision? What is special when in the spiritual we receive information through vision?
Answer: Vision symbolizes the light of Hochma, the highest light that we can attain.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 9/10/21
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All holidays celebrated by the people of Israel stem from the wisdom of Kabbalah. The Sukkot holiday symbolizes the spiritual Kli.
We must build from our desire for pleasure such a form that the Creator can clothe and be revealed in it and we understand who the Creator is, what He wants from us, and how we can be connected to Him, how to rise from our level of creation, from the level of dust to the level similar to the Creator.
To do this, we need to know how to build our Kli out of the material of the desire by means of contraction, screen, and reflected light.
The Sukkah symbolizes the corrected Kli. It is a building that serves as a model for our inner spiritual vessel. Therefore, there is a custom on the holiday of Sukkot to build a structure not inside our heart or in the union of hearts, but to build a Sukkah in an external form as the symbol of a corrected heart, a corrected soul.
The Sukkah is built from the simplest natural material. For its construction you cannot use iron or concrete but only wood, stones, branches, or leaves—anything the earth gives. This is how we build our corrected Kli, the soul, in the form of a hut, a Sukkah, like in child’s play, we build the desired spiritual state in material form.
Based on the details of the construction of the Sukkah described by the Kabbalists, we can understand what a soul is, what it is made of; and what states it passes through. Baal HaSulam and Rabash were very sensitive to this holiday and took care of building a good, beautiful Sukkah because it identifies a person’s attitude to the correction of his soul.
Sukkot symbolizes that we have reached the corrected Kli in which there are four stages, the four walls of the Sukkah. And the Masach for the desire to enjoy called Schach is the roof of the Sukkah. And we are inside the Sukkah, inside the soul, and nothing remains outside because we have corrected the whole soul and unite within it with the Creator.
During the seven days of Sukkot, we invite guests, the seven Sefirot to the Sukkah. Keter, Hochma, and Bina are above the roof of the Sukkah, and the Sefirot Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut are under the roof. This is how we celebrate the entry of the light from the degree of GAR to VAK into the body of the soul.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/20/21, “Sukkot“
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My new article on Linkedin “Why Even China Can’t Stop Social Media”
It is now scientifically proven that social media is bad for our health. The content you can find there is bad for our mental and emotional soundness, especially that of adolescents. When social media just began, it purported to connect people and in this way make them happier. But people create social media, and people are inherently bad. As a result, social media does the opposite of its proclaimed intention: It makes us more depressed, insecure, and disconnected from the real world than before. Only when we change who we are, we will change how we connect on social media and elsewhere.
Nothing will change until we change our flawed nature. In the long run, all measures will fail until we realize that we have no choice but to dump the focus on regulations, restrictions, and penalties, and focus on educating ourselves, on teaching ourselves to be humane, which is the real meaning of being human.
Currently, China, for example, is imposing limits on the hours that teenagers can play online games. Instead of healing China’s teenagers, I think it will increase their craving for games. Moreover, the problem is not that they are playing games, online or offline. The problem is their disconnection from others. This is what sickens children, adolescents, and adults alike.
If, previously, people connected to each other naturally, since people needed each other’s help in many cases, today people feel much more self-sufficient. As a result, their tendency to see human connection as an asset rather than as a burden is waning. The more AI becomes ubiquitous, the more automation will take over our lives and make other people seem superfluous.
Instead of treating it as a problem, we should see it as an opportunity. This trajectory toward automation and disconnection, which will not change, is our chance to take our relationships to the next level. It is a chance for all people to connect in the heart rather than in the body.
We can reach beyond the screen of the phone only if we aim for the heart. There is no other solution to the excessive use of social media since this is exactly where we need to advance—into each other’s hearts.
For now, social media helps us recognize that disconnection is bad. But revealing the bad is not the same as recognizing it. Revealing the bad means that we see that social media is bad for us. Recognizing the bad means that we recognize the root of the problem: our alienation from each other. We need to work on fixing our disconnection, not on its symptoms, whether they are addiction to social media, bullying, substance abuse, or anything else.
If we use the symptom to recognize the problem and treat it at its core, it will no longer be a problem, but a part of the healing. May we be wise enough to recognize the bad rather than reveal it, and courageous enough to teach ourselves to love rather than to hate.
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