Question: I believe Baal HaSulam and you, but I cannot get close to Rabash. How can I do this?

Answer: Baal HaSulam is a great Kabbalist who attained, generalized, and systematized the science of Kabbalah. We are engaged in Kabbalah in order to master it not in the form of science, but in the form of a method of spiritual attainment. These are two different things, although interrelated.

When a person wants to enter the spiritual world himself, then Baal HaSulam is a theoretician for him. He cannot lead a person forward. Rabash leads us forward, explaining at every step where we are, what to do, how to act, what interaction to have in a group, with ourselves, and with the Creator.

I remember well how he wrote his first article, sitting next to me on a park bench. I gave him an aluminum cigarette wrapper, and on the back of it, he wrote a small article—the first of the future three-volume book.

At first, I asked him questions and he gave written answers to them. His first articles appeared this way. Later he wrote by himself.

Without these articles, we could not advance. At each morning lesson we devote an hour and a half to two hours to the articles of Rabash, only half an hour to The Study of the Ten Sefirot (Talmud Eser Sefirot,) and half an hour to the articles of Baal HaSulam.

It is even incomprehensible how people could master the spiritual space before Rabash, how they could feel it in themselves and advance to different levels. That is what he teaches us, because in our time, souls that descend into this world need it.

Rabash is a practicum of Kabbalah and Baal HaSulam is more a theoretical Kabbalist.

In order to get closer to Rabash, one must read his articles and listen to our lessons on them. All of them are in the archive, you can use them free of charge, access is free. Go ahead, dare!
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/23/18

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New Life 225 – Maintaining A Positive Attitude, Part 1
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Learn how to achieve a positive attitude toward all events in life. We can reprogram ourselves to build a positive environment that can help a person advance while simultaneously being happy in every moment along the way. The basic law of this type of society is love: an internal, heartfelt, and limitless communication between everyone. The “half empty” glass is filled with success and freedom through love because when we connect to others we receive the power of eternal life.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 225 – Maintaining A Positive Attitude, Part 1,” 9/3/13

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 5/2/19

What’s the difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism? Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman explains that there is a difference, even though the basis is the same.

Since Jews bear inside them the method for the world’s correction, and the more the world deteriorates, the more necessary this method becomes, the world starts needing this method more and more. There is a certain subconscious feeling that this method exists in the Jewish people, and therefore there is hatred toward the Jewish people because they prevent the world from having a good future. What exactly is the good future and what exactly should the Jews do? They don’t know.

Nature, however, is giving everyone besides Jews a feeling that the Jews have something that they’re not giving the world, and therefore, the world is suffering.

Usually, during the 2,000 years of exile, it was directed at the Jewish people in a more or less revealed way, and nowadays, after the establishment of the Jewish State, the State of Israel, then a part of anti-Semitism has become anti-Israelism, which is against the State itself.

Therefore, anti-Semitism has several faces. There are some who feel more anti-Semitic, and others who feel more anti-Israeli, but both stem from the same root, and undoubtedly, there is something about the Jewish people that they have to give the world. Jews themselves don’t know what it is, besides the Kabbalists among them who bear the method of correction. Therefore, if the Jewish people will reveal this method to humanity, then both anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism will disappear from the world.

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Question: How are days divided according to the Jewish calendar?

Answer: There are 24 hours in a day, four seasons, and  four Jewish New Years on a shifting schedule. The same schedule exists between day and night: days are longer and nights shorter in the summer, and the reverse during the winter.

According to the Jewish calendar, an hour is not 60 minutes, each of which is 60 seconds, but a conventional unit. This unit is not constant but is time dependent.

According to the usual calendar, it is considered that there are 12 hours from sunset till sunrise and from sunrise till the next sunset is also 12 hours. But by light hours, 20 hours could lapse from sunrise until sunset, and night (darkness) would last only four hours.

In this case, the day hour and the night hour are absolutely different. It is a bit like the sundial, which does not have a uniform dial, but is on a logarithmic scale.

Since the length of the day and night changes every day, it means that the length of the night and day hours changes every day. They depend only on Partzuf Zeir Anpin in the world of Atzilut, which actuality manages these actions, because the upper light passing through it onto Malchut (and Malchut is us), defines everything.

If we could only know exactly how it operates, we would feel this system, a gigantic astronomical machine that surrounds us and thus affects us. We would then start getting closer to its internal parameters: what does it mean more light – less light, warmer – colder? If we would live and work according to such hours, it would have been a completely different life.

On the other hand, how is it possible to exist in these mechanics? Why do we need it? Why should it affect us in this way? If we would restructure and live in accordance with it, how would we feel nature and ourselves? It is interesting! This means that we would start to feel it in accordance with its influence on us. The surrounding world, space, stars, everything would shine differently.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 12/30/18

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Question: In my work with the ten, I feel that I harm the friends. Even when I do this, I have no strength to stop. However, I am terribly upset that I cannot change anything. Is this a prayer? Or should I do something more to reverse this situation and move on to the next state?

Answer: You have to pray and ask for the ten to help you become kind and good. Try to be frank with them, straightforward.

Do the same with the Creator. Do not be afraid to do so, it will help. If you do not do this, then your spiritual development in this life will not work.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/9/18

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New Life 223 – Romantic Love – The Perfect Pleasure
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

How can the limited love we are familiar with be transformed into real “true” love, eternal love? In true love relationships, the goal is to bring pleasure to each other by learning what the other enjoys and working to benefit and serve the other. Each one enjoys that the other enjoys. The two have to build a third thing between them, a kind of ball full of fear and mutual love, and live together inside it. The fear and the love are the deficiency and the filling that are constantly renewed. This mutually loving attitude brings eternal happiness and endless pleasure.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 223 – Happiness: Love – The Perfect Pleasure,” 8/15/13

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#YomHaShoah
It is written in the Torah: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” This is the source of all good and its absence is the source of all evil for our nation.
Only the connection between us or lack thereof is the source of love or hatred of the nations of the world for Israel. #NeverAgain #Israel #Holocaust

People in the world don’t exactly know what the reason for their hatred of #Jews is. But hatred of Jews is natural, it’s embedded in nature, which comes from the foundation of the world

Since Jews bear inside them the method for the world’s correction, and the more the world deteriorates, the more necessary this method becomes, the world starts needing this method more and more. #israel #Antisemitism

Since Jews bear inside them the method for the world’s correction, and the more the world deteriorates, the more necessary this method becomes, the world starts needing this method more and more. #israel #Antisemitism pic.twitter.com/rwqvIXjwaM

— Michael Laitman (@laitman) 2 May 2019

#Hitler wasn’t a biological anti-Semite, who felt a natural hatred toward Jews from within, but how he developed into an anti-Semite as he saw #Antisemitism as a means for power.
And also, as he received a favorable response not only from Germans, but from other countries as well, for his pressure on the #Jewish people.

The purpose of creation is to bring the creatures to their absolute fulfillment, which is to attain the Creator and all that is in store for them. But this can only be achieved by the presence of egoism and it’s defeat. Therefore, we should not destroy egoism, but use it correctly.

On this sad day of remembering the victims of #Holocaust (Shoah) of European Jewry, it is necessary to realize its nature, so that by commemorating the past we will ensure that this horror will never happen again. Kabbalah explains that the Creator expects unity from us and will push us toward it again …

The correction of the world is possible only by correcting the nations through the people of Israel, and for this reason, without realizing it, the peoples of the world feel that Israel owes them. The knowledge about correction will come from dissemination of Kabbalah to the world. (Baal HaSulam. Horn of The Mashiah)

The solution from the hatred of the nations of the world, invented by the Jews abroad, is to completely dissolve among the peoples of the world. They think that it will work out. But they are sadly mistaken. The upcoming history will show so …

The spiritual work given to the people of Israel consists of elevating the entire mankind along with itself, and thus the world meriting the complete prosperity for all. (Baal HaSulam)

Since Israel exists only for the purpose of correcting the nations of the world, their own correction depends on and is conditioned by the correction of the people of the world. (Baal HaSulam)

Know that until Israel is corrected up to the highest spiritual degree where the world is also corrected, Israel will not reach the level meant for it. And only after attaining the correction of the whole world will #Israel rise to the spiritual level they deserve. (Ramchal)

If we do not fulfill our purpose and do not correct the world, the nations of the world begin to correct it against us in the form of Amalek, Petliura, Hitler—only to force us to correct the world! (Rav Kook)

All the evil in the world is revealed only due to the delay in correction of the world, which Israel must carry out. It is revealed so that Israel will correct it, according to its great destiny to restore the whole world to its splendor. (Rav Kook)

In our generation, all the evil-doers of the world raise their heads and wish to destroy the people of Israel, as it is said: “Evil comes to the world precisely for the sake of #Israel,” since it is they who cause all the suffering in the whole world (by their inaction).
Preface of The Book of Zohar, 71.
From Twitter, 5/2/19

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