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EU intellectuals signed to support liberal values against the growing influence of the far right. The Euro-parliament elections will be a victory for the destroyers. Today’s liberals are more eager to destroy everything than the far right, while both sides are equally antisemitic.
#Antisemitism #EU #liberal #values #politics #Europe
#Davos2019: the #rich and powerful aren’t doing anything to correct the world. They grow richer as the middle class stagnates. The #future looks stark, the #EU and world are about to collapse with a financial crisis. This will be the decline of #Europe and the world.
The only cure is unity above all the forces of separation.
#wef19 #futureofwork #FutureofEurope
#Antisemitism is the nations’ natural repulsion by Jews, with phases of drastic upsurges that take place due to expressions of schisms within the Jewish nation. History gives us countless examples of Antisemitic expressions in the past and future ….
… depending on the Jews’ separation from each other. #HolocaustRemembranceDay
Having attained bestowal in Hassadim, receiving light of Hochma, pass it to others through your AHP. Filling others with Hassadim, correcting their bestowing GE, one must use one’s receiving AHP, revealing light of Hochma, and from it pass the light of Hassadim into GE …
of the lower one. That’s how “blood turns into milk.”
If science doesn’t get rid of external pressure, it will cease to be science. Ego’s pressure has reached science: even if your discoveries are scientific and experiments correct, but indicate a preferred gender or race, they’re excluded from #science.
People will fear sponsoring and supporting you!
In 2018 Israel was condemned 20 times by the UN for “violating human rights, and over 500 times since the 1940s. They did not name any authentic violations! How simple, nonpunishable, clear, and wonderful that there is a Jewish State that Anti-Semites can hate openly and justly!
The initial stage of spiritual work is supporting the ten in the greatness of the ten and the goal in states of descent. When you lose your “shirt,” like one living in the woods, be happy that the Creator has given you the opportunity to attain joy in the state of ….
“a Hasid is happy with what he has” (“Hasid” here is not a religious person, but a Kabbalist who has attained the degree of Bina.)
Everyone speaks out against poverty and inequality.
The free market does not correct inequality and injustice.
The world is built upon egoism and no one will give up privileges.
In a democratic government, the main power are the super-rich.
They sponsor the politicians and media …
… and beget inequality. There’s no solution!
It is showing how Democracy has degenerated to its opposite:
#Macron speaks out against the yellow vests’ demand to hold referendums by public initiative. (Unless they are rigged referendums, whose results can be used to benefit the establishment.)
The #YellowVests movement has spread to European cities
The protesters aren’t united by a political movement or ideology. They’re a-political and hostile to the political class and economic situation. In any form, the movement was caused by the general situation in the #EU …
… and hence it won’t disappear until the general #European problems are resolved.
Publicly, the industrialists do not advocate automation and promise to protect those who are being laid off. But they invest billions, wishing to eliminate workers. Their ultimate aim is to replace people with machines.
If society won’t take measures to care for itself …
… robots will replace everyone… except the bosses!
#futureofwork #robots #unemployment
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We see that without connection with truth, with the spiritual root, special dates in our world turn into children’s holidays. Tu Bishvat is also limited to planting trees in a garden or city. Which of course is wonderful in itself, but it is far from its true meaning.
Tu Bishvat, the new year of trees, is a very serious date, which according to its spiritual root means the beginning of man. It is written “Man is the tree of the field.” Therefore, it is correct to plant trees on this day, but it is also necessary to take care of educating a man in order to grow “a fruit bearing tree” out of him. This means raising a person who is similar to the Creator.
It is interesting that all the work we perform in the care of trees must also be performed on a person. Otherwise, one’s tree will not bear fruits, or they will be bitter, not fit for human food. We need to perform 39 types of work to care for the growth of a person’s soul, as if growing a tree. This is not just a tree in the field, but a fruit-bearing tree growing in the Garden of Eden because it produces our soul: corrected desires to receive and to bestow that are joined together in one fruit. This is possible through education, environment, and habitat, without which a tree does not grow to be good and fruit-bearing.
Therefore a person is compared to a tree in the field. This is not just any field, but the field that is blessed by the Creator. The Creator blesses this field according to the efforts invested into tending to the tree, according to the investment in the environment.
We do not interfere with the inside of the tree, but influence it from the outside. Thanks to the external care, it begins to produce beautiful, sweet fruits. All this depends on the environment, on the group, on the ten. We must try to build such an environment that will become the field blessed by the Creator. The relationship between friends should be such that each one can confidently grow in the correct, good form, connect together, and bear one common fruit—an apple from the Garden of Eden, the corrected soul.
Therefore, the holiday of Tu Bishvat symbolizes the entire spiritual work of a person at the initial stage. A tree is something that grows from the inanimate soil. If we arrange the correct environment, the external conditions, then we get a live sprout that turns into a tree bearing fruits suitable for human food.1
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/21/19, “Tu BiShvat (15th of Shevat)”
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If I do not integrate with the group against my desire and do not demand the friends to accept and hold me to free me from my egoistic prison, then I will never succeed. Even if I succeeded in integrating with my friends for a while, the time will surely come when I lose all the desire and want to be left alone. I will hate them and will not even want to look at them.
Then again, a time comes when I manage to overcome myself, and then, at the call of the point in the heart, I come to the group again and want to connect with it. We receive such opportunities from above and can only reduce the time between the attempts.
Again, I join the group and fall out of it again, moving from one polar state to another. Sometimes I don’t want to think about the group or even about the wisdom of Kabbalah at all. Then, suddenly I realize that spirituality is only within the group and I need it. Such polar states indicate progress.
At first, it seems that there is one desire in us called Joseph that pulls us toward connection and there are his brothers who protest against him. Later we will understand that there really is no separation between Joseph and his brothers; these are the very same desires that are raised by the reforming Light and then fall.1
All the corrections, all the 613 commandments, can be kept only through global connection both in general, connection of the people of Israel and throughout the world, and in the ten, the minimal cell of correction.
The rule “Love thy friend as thyself” says that even my initial, individual correction cannot be done outside the framework of the ten. It is only through mutual integration that one can build a system in which at least some connection is manifested or its absence is revealed in order to correct it.
All corrections happen not in each element separately, but in their connection.2
Each friend makes every effort to integrate with the others and by receiving strength from the other nine, he connects with them. And so one fulfills one’s personal commandment of “Love thy friend as thyself.” When all ten friends reach such a state, their individual corrections connect together into one collective “Love thy friend as thyself” inside of which the Creator is revealed. Love of friends leads them to the love of the Creator.3
None of us can keep all the 613 commandments, corrections. This is possible only through integration of each one with all the others. Each one contains 613 desires within, but one cannot correct them without connection with the others. It is only in this connection that we can fulfill all 613 commandments.
Each requires a new connection, as if on a telephone switchboard where operators once used to manually connect the lines. A person is always at such a switchboard station where he must activate various properties in the friends and put them to work. They incorporate his properties in their work, and thus eventually the ten Sefirot are formed—a mini model of the entire universe.4
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/16/19, Writings of Rabash, Vol. 1, Article 5 “What Does the Rule ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’ Give Us”
1 Minute 39:35
2 Minute 47:00
3 Minute 50:00
4 Minute 59:55
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Rabash, Writings of Rabash, the article “The Agenda of the Assembly 2”: Accordingly, when one comes to the assembly of friends, he should always see whether or not the friends have the goal that he craves, that each of them has some grip on that goal. And he thinks that by everyone bonding together for one goal, each will have his own share, as well as the shares of the whole of society. It follows that each member of the society will have the same strength as the whole of society together.
In spirituality, it is clearly seen that if we are included in each other everyone gets the sum of all the forces from the rest. No one gains this at the expense of others because the total power they accumulate and combine in themselves is gained by each of them.
This is an amazing law of spiritual balance when everyone can dispose of all the forces, all the qualities and corrections made by the group.
Question: Rabash writes: “And he thinks that by everyone bonding together for one goal, each will have his own share.” What does this mean?
Answer: Everyone will have their full part of the goal since union is distinguished by the fact that the Creator exists inside of it. Therefore, it cannot be that what you receive is at somebody else’s expense.
Question: In the article it is written that a person should be on guard when he comes to the assembly of friends. What does it mean to be on guard? In relation to whom?
Answer: You must clearly understand why you are coming, what you should bestow from yourself, and what you get from others. The assembly of friends is very serious work.
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The true, inner part in a person is called a soul. By discovering one’s inner point called “I” or soul, a person reveals the higher, eternal, and perfect stabilizing power called the Creator. Today we are detached from the essence of life, the soul. This is particularly noticeable with younger generations. We remain unaware of our true selves while being shaped by innate characteristics, education, and environmental factors. We continue to develop in this way from generation to generation until we finally come to the question: “Who am I really?” and search for the higher power that provides an anchor in life. This is the goal of human evolution and each of us must attain it. We all belong to one root and are all connected with one another there. When a person is connected to this innermost root, he feels that he has come home to a good, warm, and full house.
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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 1/27/19
“Never again.” A powerful statement with deep personal meaning to me since childhood when I started asking questions about why most of my family perished under the Third Reich and what the future would look like for my people, I was compelled to get to the bottom of why the Holocaust happened. On the 74th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we need to face the reality that, in spite of all the suffering the Holocaust brought, hatred against Jews is still alive, strong, widespread, and on the rise.
How can we make sure history doesn’t repeat itself if we fail to understand where the hatred of Jews comes from? While we commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day around the world, I suggest that there is something deeper about our history as a people that we must remember so we can assure ourselves and our children that “Never again” truly means never again.
A recently uncovered book from Hitler’s personal library revealed his intention to extend the Nazi tentacles to include North America in the grip of his Final Solution plans, which were prevented only by the victory of the Allies. If such a thing nearly happened then, how hard is it to imagine the potential for a similar operation in today’s globalized world?
Every year, we remind ourselves that history must not be repeated. However, truth be told, we are witnessing very similar conditions to those before World War II, this time with rampant bigotry and hatred against Jews across the entire globe, basically everywhere. According to a survey recently released by the European Commission, nine out of ten European Jews report feeling that anti-Semitism has increased over the past five years and almost a third of them avoid attending Jewish events or visiting Jewish sites because they do not feel safe. In the US, the FBI reports a rise in the incidence of anti-Semitic acts since 2016. Out of all religion-based hate crimes, 58% targeted Jews or Jewish institutions.
The trends show that history is not necessarily a good teacher and we have failed to learn our lessons well. There is still time to correct our mistakes in this test of life. The clock is ticking for us, and until we scrutinize and internalize the reason for the constant pressures against us, we will not be able to make a course correction to eradicate anti-Semitism.
Over many centuries, our ancestors fought to maintain their unity above their growing selfishness. But two thousand years ago, they succumbed to unfounded hatred and were exiled from the land of Israel. Since then, Jews lost the ability to be a light unto nations because we lost our unity. This was the starting point of anti-Semitism as we know it.
Our unity determines the state of the world and its fate. Through our unity, we allow the world to connect as we let the positive, uniting force of love above differences stream into this need of the world. Conversely, our separation denies humanity such a soothing power and invokes within it hatred toward Jews when they are deprived of the calming force. The failure to deliver the ability to unite above differences causes the nation’s aggression toward Jews and is the subconscious reason why they perceive us as the root of all evil.
Our sages explain the phenomenon of such hatred toward us with these words: “No calamity comes to the world but for Israel” (Yevamot, 63a). Jewish leaders throughout the ages have circulated this message widely. They did so as a reminder that the only remedy capable of protecting us from trouble is the power of connection which we Jews can provide.
Rabbi Kalman Kalonymus wrote in Maor va Shemesh (Light and Sun): “When there are love, unity, and friendship between each other in Israel, no calamity can come upon them.” Similarly, Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain wrote in Shem mi Shmuel (A Name out of Samuel): “When Israel are as one man with one heart, they are as a fortified wall against the forces of evil.” The Midrash (Tanchuma, Devarim [Deuteronomy]) states likewise: “Israel will not be redeemed until they are all one bundle.”
In a nutshell, “love your neighbor as yourself,” brotherly love, and mutual guarantee are the keys to the security and prosperity of the Jewish people. When we unite above our conflicts and disputes, we unleash nature’s positive force. It is the force that maintains the balance of creation, and its absence among us causes human society’s decline. In his “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Rav Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) called this force “reforming light,” and explained that it can balance our self-centered nature and thereby heal human society.
Only if we rekindle the brotherly love we cultivated centuries ago and share the method for achieving this with everyone, will the world stop hating and blaming us for all its troubles.
In his essay, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee),” Baal HaSulam writes that “the Israeli nation was established as a conduit to the extent that they purify themselves [from egoism], they pass on their power to the rest of the nations.” Therefore, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day can be more than a commemoration of the millions who died. It can also be an opportunity for us to remember that we have a method for connecting the world, a true means to prevent the atrocities from recurring.
At this time when anti-Semitism is intensifying across the globe, we must strive to rise above our differences and draw the positive force that will connect us, unite the world, and uproot all hatred. Now is our time to radiate light to the rest of the nations, the light of unity, peace, and balance through our shining example of reuniting above all our differences.
Criticism is allowed for only 30 minutes after a person has worked for 23 1/2 hours a day in the right line, that is, he has justified everything. The work in the right line is to transfer our left line, our discontent, into the right line, through our efforts.
After a person has made the correct preparation during the 23 1/2 hours, keeping himself in the right line all the time and having trained himself to work in it, he should force himself to awaken the left line, the critical attitude. It is not easy for him to do this; he has already become accustomed to being in Hassadim, in mercy, merged with the Creator in the right line, and now he checks how much he can add to this bestowal for the sake of bestowal, to the small state.
One should always strive for a small state (Katnut); a big state (Gadlut) is only an addition, AHP de Aliya (AHP of ascent), that is, a tiny part of the desires to receive that can join the desires to bestow. The main thing is that a person moves to the left line not when he suddenly dislikes something, but only after he has built the right line with his efforts and has the right to awaken the left line.
We are constantly positioned against the Creator: “There is none else besides Him.” But the Creator clothes in outer garments, representing the whole of reality: inanimate nature, plants, animals, and people. We must penetrate through these garments, clothe in them, and accept and reveal the Creator in them. In order to break through these garments, we must first gain the desire for bestowal. Only then, as small additions, do we add the desires to receive to it, which is called the 30 minutes a day.
You can determine this proportion not only by time, but by weight or size. The idea is to strive for the small state, it is important, and the large state is only an addition that must be carefully weighed. We should understand that we do not work with genuine desires to receive, but weigh what desires to receive we can work with to add pleasure to the Creator above our desires to bestow.
The work with the desires to receive is much more difficult, high, and sublime than the construction of desires to bestow, the giving attitudes toward the Creator.1
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/20/19, Writings of Rabash, Vol. 1, Article 30 “What to Look For in the Assembly of Friends”
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