New Life #150 – Patching Together the Religious-Secular Divide, Part 2
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

Israel is the vanguard of the world. Israeli people are unique in that they have an impression from the connection and brotherly love, which dwelled among them in the past. Israel includes representatives from all cultures and is like a mini-world. All the diverse segments of society are in crisis since the ego has reached gigantic dimensions. Just as the socioeconomic problems in Israel are happening all over the world, the solution for Israel is also universal and will heal the whole world. Either the whole world will consolidate against us with tremendous pressure, or we will educate ourselves for connection. Our situation is very dangerous. We are playing here like children in a sandbox while our situation is deteriorating. Waves of fascism and Nazism are again beginning to threaten the stability of the world.

We need to create a wave of healing here that will inundate the whole world. Do not become involved with quarrels between the different factions; rise above them. All of us have a common enemy—the ego. Each faction will receive an allotment for its true needs only on condition that it approaches connection with everyone. How do we deal with points of contention? The same way we do at home, with our partner. We first rise above the argument, connect, and then solve the problem together. That is how an argument can increase mutual connection. We transform the bad that is discovered between us into good thereby strengthening the love.
From KabTV’s “New Life #150 – Patching Together the Religious-Secular Divide,” Part 2, 2/26/12

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Writing of Baal HaSulam, Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot

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In #France there are talks to replace the words “father” and “mother” with “parent 1 and 2” in order to show respect to single-sex couples. But that’s not enough: they also wish to revoke all #gender differences. Nature cannot be changed. It must be studied and we must become similar to it.

#Kabbalah study differs from any other study in that it awakens a special, positive force, light that changes the student-egoist to an #altruist, to similarity to the positive force of nature, the Creator, and fills him with this force. Today we are in the opposite state.

The entire study of Kabbalah happens in tens, similar to the authors of the Book of Zohar. The entire aim of the studies, regardless of the material studied, is just one thing: to unite us together, so that to the extent of our unity, in our unity we will reveal what we study.
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Question: If it is not the soul, then what enters a new body in the new birth in a reincarnation?

Answer: The point in the heart.

Question: What happens to our consciousness when the biological body dies?

Answer: Nothing happens. The fact is that our consciousness exists in order to safeguard our egoism. When egoism dies, that is, when it hides from us, then consciousness becomes of no use to us. Therefore, it disappears.

But with the help of our method, we develop a new kind of consciousness and a new kind of desire. The new consciousness serves the new desire—the desire to give. And we do not need to die for this. We can live several lives and deaths during the current existence of our body.

Moreover, we will not feel that we are dying because we will already be in a completely different “beyond body” state.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 10/7/18

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Question: Shabbat (Sabbath – Saturday) is not connected to the calendar. What are its signs? Can Shabbat be at any hour or does it have a longer interval? Is it characterized by deep contradictory feelings that come to a standstill and are waiting for resolution from above?

Answer: In our world we understand everything according to the calendar. In the spiritual world everything depends on which of the seven levels a person is on.

Question: Is it true that Baal HaSulam used the theory of meditation on oneness in theory and the practice in the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah? That is what Avraham David Fisherman claims and promulgates. If Baal HaSulam didn’t, which Kabbalists did?

Answer: Baal HaSulam did not use meditation! This is a gross lie. I don’t know about other “Kabbalists.”
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New Life #149 – Patching Together the Religious-Secular Divide, Part 1
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

A Jew (Yehudi) is someone who is attracted to unity (Yechud) and unification (Eichud). Israel refers to a society based on the principle “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) without various external religious or secular images. No individual sector will achieve anything without a good connection between the parts. We need to overcome the historical gaps between us and embrace one faith based on love from human heart to human heart. If we succeed, we will discover new forms of pleasure and the infinite power of nature that is latent among us!
From KabTV’s “New Life #149 – Patching Together the Religious-Secular Divide,” Part 1 2/26/13

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World Kabbalah Convention, “Covenant of Salt,” Lesson 9

World Kabbalah Convention, “Love Will Cover All Crimes,” Lesson 10

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Question: If the whole world is inside of me, who am I?

Answer: This is the most difficult question because I can understand, find out, and interpret myself only when I attain my full correction, meaning the level of the Creator. Then I will feel what I actually am—a small point within the higher power, within the Creator.

Question: Who are the other people in my world, inside of me, if they are derived from my characteristics, from my perception? Do they truly exist?

Answer: They don’t exist in themselves. I create them within me.

Question: When I change, will I stop being myself or will I find myself, my future self?

Answer: By changing myself, I find my future self.

Question: Is love of others really loving parts of myself since the whole world is inside me and flows and lives only within my feeling? Should I learn to love myself differently, in a broader sense?

Answer: You need to exit your ego, transcend it. With its help, but in an opposite way, when it becomes a bestower of the receiving property, it communicates and connects with others.

Question: How can I not confuse a real yearning for spiritual feeling with my emotional and mental state? All of these states are transmitted to my brain.

Answer: At first you will be confused, but you will gradually begin to shape everything within you. This will begin to transform into images, dependencies, conditions, and maybe even graphics. Gradually this method will become part of you.

Question: Does my desire have a special power? Can I correct and change something through the force of my will?

Answer: No you cannot change anything with your will. Only through your connection with others, only by actions above your egoism, can you change your nature and those around you.

Question: If all the others are parts of me and everything is inside me, then what is we?

Answer: We are parts of a single desire called Adam.

Question: If every person has his own reality, can we combine them into one by sharing our feelings, sensations, and differences in perceptions? Is that enough?

Answer: I cannot tell you how to integrate different realities into a single perception. I don’t have the words to describe this.
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From a Lesson in Russian, August 26, 2018

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