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In the News: Scientists at Berkeley and Bar-Ilan universities, after interviewing over a thousand respondents, found out that the root of all humanity’s troubles is women.
It turned out that wives, sisters, and daughters are the main culprits in complicating everyday life. It is about their ability “to make an elephant out of a fly” which, in the opinion of the respondents, women mastered to perfection. (Study Finds)
My Comment: Indeed, this is how is sometimes appears to men, and this is their big mistake.
The thing is that men and women have completely different attitudes toward life. A man is like a boy, who changes his toys over time. A woman, on the contrary, is a mature being, who looks at the world very realistically and responsibly. By nature, she is created to give birth, educate, care, and continue life.
It is very hard for men to comprehend and appreciate women’s place in the world. What can we do, we cannot put ourselves into someone else’s shoes, understanding and feeling that their demands come from a different and “closer” perception of reality.
Therefore, what appears as complex to a man is in fact a calling for him to grow up and listen to a loved one who understands life better. “Listen to what Sarah tells you,” is what the Creator told Abraham. In everything concerning a realistic approach to life, men should seek women’s advice. It is she who unravels the entanglement of contradictions that men only increasingly tighten.
If women controlled the world, it would undoubtedly be much better. We would not play around with wars, nor compete with who wins over whom. Yet, on the other hand, the point is not in giving all the power to women.
We all should be like one family where mutual understanding, responsibilities and opportunities are accurately distributed, and where both parts of our nature connect harmoniously. And someday we will learn how to do this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 1/30/18
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Jewish Boston published my new article “Passover: A Story of Hebrews Who Wanted to Be Egyptians:“
To most of us, the story of our exodus from Egypt is nothing but a tale. It is a fascinating story, no doubt, but is it relevant to our time? When placed against the dishes served before us on the table, it is an unfair match toward the Haggadah. However, if we knew what Passover really means to all of us, we would be “drinking up” the narrative instead of waiting for it to make way for the main event: the food.
Underneath a tale about the struggle of a nation to be free lies a description of a process that we as Jews went through, and which we are going through again today. It is with good reason that the Torah commands us to see ourselves each day as though we had just come out of Egypt. The ordeals of our ancestors should be both warning signs and traffic signs, directing us which way to go in a world fraught with uncertainty and trepidation.
Israel’s Heydays in Egypt
When Joseph’s brothers went into Egypt, they had it all. Joseph the Hebrew was the de facto ruler of Egypt. With Pharaoh’s blessing, he determined everything that happened in Egypt, as Pharaoh said to Joseph: “You shall be over my house, and according to your command all my people shall do homage. …See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt. …I am Pharaoh, yet without your permission no one shall raise his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt” (Gen 41:40-44).
Thanks to Joseph’s wisdom, Egypt not only became a superpower, but also enslaved its neighboring nations and took their people’s money, land, and flocks (Gen 47:14-19). And the prime beneficiaries from Egypt’s success were Joseph’s family, the Hebrews. Pharaoh said to Joseph: “The land of Egypt is at your disposal; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land, let them live in the land of Goshen [the richest, most lush part of Egypt], and if you know any capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock” (Gen 47:6).
There is a good reason why Joseph became so successful. Three generations earlier, his great-grandfather, Abraham, found a method for healing all of life’s problems. Midrash Rabbah tells us that when Abraham saw his townspeople in Ur of the Chaldeans fighting one another, it deeply troubled him. After much reflection, he realized that they were growing increasingly egoistic and could no longer get along. The hatred between them was causing them to quarrel and fight, sometimes to the death. Abraham realized that the ego could not be obliterated, but could be covered with love by focusing on connection rather than separation. This is why Abraham is regarded as the symbol of kindness, hospitality, and mercy.
Although Nimrod, king of Babylon, expelled Abraham from Babylon, Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah (Chapter 1) and many other books describe how he wandered toward the land of Israel and gathered tens of thousands of followers who understood that unity above hatred is the key to a successful life. By the time he had arrived in the land of Israel, he was a wealthy and prosperous man, or as the Torah describes him, “And Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold” (Gen 13:2).
Abraham passed his knowledge on to all of his disciples and descendants. According to Maimonides, “Abraham planted this tenet [of unity above hatred] in their hearts, composed books about it, and taught his son, Isaac. Isaac sat and taught Jacob, and appointed him a teacher, to sit and teach… and Jacob our Father taught all his sons” (Mishneh Torah, Chapter 1). Joseph, from the Hebrew word osef (assembling/gathering), was Jacob’s prime disciple and strove to implement his father’s teaching. In Egypt, Joseph’s dream of uniting all the brothers under him came true, and everyone benefitted from this. This was the heyday of the Hebrews’ stay in Egypt.
How the Tables Turned Against Us
Everything changed when Joseph died. As it happens every time throughout our history, when Jews are successful, their egos overcome them and they wish to abandon the way of unity and become like the locals. This abandonment is always the beginning of a turn for the worse, until finally a tragedy or an ordeal forces us to reunite. Egypt was no exception. Midrash Rabbah (Exodus, 1:8) writes that “When Joseph died they said, ‘Let us be as the Egyptians.’ Because they did so, the Creator turned the love that the Egyptians held for them into hatred, as it was said (Ps 105), ‘He turned their heart to hate His people, to abuse His servants.’”
The Book of Consciousness (Chapter 22) writes even more explicitly that had the Hebrews not abandoned their way of unity, they would not have suffered. The book begins by quoting the Midrash I just mentioned, but then it adds, “Pharaoh looked at the children of Israel after Joseph and did not recognize Joseph in them,” meaning the quality of assembling, the tendency to unite.
And because “New faces were made, Pharaoh declared new decrees upon them. You see, my son,” the book concludes, “all the dangers and all the miracles and tragedies are all from you, because of you, and on account of you.” In other words, the good Pharaoh turned against us because we had abandoned Joseph’s way, the way of unity above hatred.
When Moses came along, he knew that the only way that he could save his people was to pull them out of Egypt, out of the egoism that was destroying their relations. The name Moshe (Moses), says the book Torat Moshe (Exodus, 2:10), comes from the Hebrew word moshech (pulling) because he pulled the people out of the evil inclination.
Yet, even when he pulled them out, they were still in danger of falling back into egoism. They received their “signet” as a nation only when they reenacted Abraham’s method of uniting above hatred. Once they pledged to unite “as one man with one heart,” they were declared a “nation.” At the foot of Mt. Sinai, from the word sinaa (hatred), the Hebrews united and thereby covered their hatred with love. This is when they became a Jewish nation, as the book Yaarot Devash (Part 2, Drush no. 2) writes, Yehudi (Jewish) comes from the word yechudi (united).
The Pharaoh and Moses Within Us
It has been many centuries since this epic story unfolded, yet it seems that we have learned very little. Look at our current values, we are just as corrupt as the Hebrews were after Joseph’s death. By “corrupt,” I am not saying that we must avoid life’s amenities. Neither Abraham nor Joseph was abstinent in any way. By corrupt, I mean that we are shamelessly selfish, narcissistic, and promote these values wherever we go. We are arrogant, self-entitled, and have completely lost our Jewishness, meaning our tendency to unite. In consequence, just as the Egyptians turned against the Hebrews when they abandoned Joseph’s way, the world is turning against us today.
Pharaoh and Moses are not historical figures; they live within us and determine our relationships on a moment-to-moment basis. Every time we let hatred govern our relationships, we re-crown the Pharaoh within us. And every time we make an effort to unite, we revive Moses and the oath to strive to be “as one man with one heart.” Andrés Spokoiny, president and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network, described our situation beautifully in a speech he gave last year: “In the last few years, we saw an unprecedented polarization and ugliness in the Jewish community. Those who think differently are considered enemies or traitors, and those who disagree with us are demonized.” This is precisely the rule of Pharaoh.
Being Jewish does not necessarily entail observing specific customs or living in a specific country. Being Jewish entails placing unity above all else. However fierce our hatred, we must rise above it and unite.
Even The Book of Zohar writes explicitly about the paramount importance of unity above hatred. In the portion Aharei Mot, The Zohar writes, “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to also sit together. These are the friends as they sit together, and are not separated from each other. At first, they seem like people at war, wishing to kill one another. Then they return to being in brotherly love. …And you, the friends who are here, as you were in fondness and love before, henceforth you will also not part … And by your merit there will be peace in the world.”
Learning From the Past
Versions of the story of Egypt have occurred throughout our history. The Greeks conquered the land of Israel because we wanted to be like them, to worship the ego. We even did the fighting for them as Hellenized Jews fought against the Maccabees. Less than two centuries later, the Temple was ruined because of our unfounded hatred for each other. We were deported and murdered in Spain when we wanted to be Spaniards and abandoned our unity, and we were exterminated in Europe by the country where Jews wanted to forget about our unity and assimilate. In 1929, Dr. Kurt Fleischer, leader of the Liberals in the Berlin Jewish Community Assembly, accurately expressed our centuries’ long problem: “Anti-Semitism is the scourge that God has sent us in order to lead us together and weld us together.” What a tragedy it is that the Jews back then did not unite.
As though we are incapable of learning, today we are placing ourselves in the exact same position we always do. We have become slaves to our self-entitlement and arrogance, and we do not want to be Jewish, meaning united. We are letting Pharaoh rule all over again. What good can we expect to come out of this? We must not be blind again; we should know better by now.
In each of us there is a Moses, a point that moshech (pulls) toward unity. Yet, we must crown it willingly. We must choose to liberate ourselves from the shackles of the ego and unite above our hatred. This may seem like an impassable mountain to climb, but we are not expected to succeed, only to agree and make an effort. Just as the Hebrews were declared a nation and were liberated from Egypt when they agreed to unite, we also need only agree to unite, and the rest will follow. We will find within us the power and ability to unite.
In this Passover, we really must pass over from unfounded hatred, the blight of our people, and restore our brotherhood. Let’s make this Passover one of rapprochement, reconciliation, and accord. Let’s turn this holiday into a fresh start for our nation. Let’s put some seder (order) in the relations between us and be what we are meant to be, “a light unto nations,” spreading the glitter of unity throughout the world and to our brethren. If we only try, I know that we will have a happy Passover, a Passover of love, unity, and brotherhood.
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Question: How must I understand the statement that “There is no evil in the world” if only evil exists in the world? The cruel and vicious history of humanity, wars, and treachery are proof of this.
Answer: All the evil in the world is my evil, something I cannot balance with good. The evil exists within me! It is written, “All who condemn do so through their own defect.” (Kiddushin 70b)
The conclusion is very simple: if I want to see a perfect world, I must perfect myself. We will discover that this is so, however illogical and unrealistic it may seem. All I see around me is my reflection. So what can be done when such evil is discovered? I must change myself.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/12/17
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The largest portal Breaking Israel News published my new article “The Passover From Materialism To Unity:“
“This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.” – Exodus 12:2
Passover is an opportunity to pass over from a state of divisiveness, disregard, and coldness in modern society, to one of unity, care and warmth.
Although the Jewish year formally begins on Rosh Hashanah, there is a more expansive view of the Jewish holidays that shows Passover as the start of the Jewish year. To see it from this perspective, we need to understand the deeper meaning of Passover.
Passover describes an inner process where a period of intensifying division leads to a decision to unite, followed by the discovery of a more unified state. Also, Passover points out what makes the Jewish people unique.
What Makes the Jewish People Unique?
Unlike other nations and races, the Jewish people did not emerge organically from familial offspring or terrestrial closeness. The Jews were originally a gathering of people who became known as “the Jews” when they dedicated themselves to uniting “as one man with one heart,” and accepted the responsibility of being “a light unto nations” (the Hebrew word for “Jew” [Yehudi] comes from the word for “united” [yihudi] [Yaarot Devash, Part 2, Drush no. 2]).
The holiday of Passover explains this transition.
It starts at a time when the people of Israel lived exceptionally well in Egypt. In terms of commonly accepted social values, they had it all: comfort, wealth and success, or as it is written in the Torah, “in Egypt … we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted” (Exodus, 16:3). However, even with all their material abundance, they felt that something was missing.
At this point, let’s zoom out to see the process this describes: Human nature, which is a desire to receive pleasure, constantly urges us to fulfill ourselves. The more we fulfill ourselves, the more we feel empty, and the more we feel a need to seek higher and greater fulfillments time after time. Thus, our desire to enjoy grows, and we evolve through various stages of the desire’s growth. After we satisfy our basic needs for food, sex, shelter, and family, our desire grows, and we develop social desires—money, respect, control, and knowledge—which we continually try to satisfy.
Then, we encounter a problem.
Like a dog chasing its tail, we chase after all those pleasures, but we keep finding ourselves wanting something more or different than them, without being able to point out what we really want. The Passover story describes this new desire: that when our material desires are quenched, a new desire for positive social connection emerges. This desire is called “Moses.”
Moses had been around the whole time the people of Israel were thriving in Egypt. He grew up in the house of Pharaoh until he himself exhausted the material pursuit of happiness. That is when the Egyptian exile began. Pharaoh, i.e. our ego, refuses to accept unity. It cannot think of anything worse than the idea of living life with a goal to “love your friend as yourself.”
So as the people of Israel prospered in Egypt, they naturally started wanting more than what they had, and the idea of social unification—Moses—started forming among them. Then came the struggle between Moses and Pharaoh. On one hand, Moses pointed the way to unity and love for one another, while Pharaoh insisted that the rule, i.e. that they would continue living and working only for egoistic, material fulfillment. When Pharaoh saw the people of Israel accepting Moses, he became the savage king the Passover story describes.
Through a long process, the people of Israel ultimately stood by Moses, demanded their unity, and triumphed. They united at the foot of Mount Sinai and accepted the law of “love your friend as yourself.” They then proceeded to purify themselves of hametz (leaven), i.e. their ego, and made the transition (i.e. the Passover) from egocentrism to unification, realizing Moses’ idea and guidance.
Passover Today
Since Passover describes a process of overcoming egoism with unity, it is just as relevant today as it ever was. Today’s materialistic culture looks increasingly like Egypt described in the Passover story: we enjoyed the delights of materialism for quite a while, but more and more people are increasingly feeling that their lives are missing something.
We see this expressed among individuals with increases in depression, stress and loneliness, and in society with intensifying politically-fueled social division, xenophobia, and anti-Semitism. All these phenomena show us that we can have all the material abundance we want, but it still won’t fulfill us, and what we really need in order to fulfill our new, bigger desire is unity, positive social connection.
Unlike our material fulfillment, we cannot picture what uniting above our divisions would be like. We see no example of unity that we can fill our media and educational systems with, and so we keep regurgitating and reinventing materialistic ideas, stories and products since we do not see nor know anything else.
As society continually engages in this materialistic pleasure-chasing loop without any other goal in sight, and as problems increasingly burst out from this setup, the more society points the finger of blame at the Jews. Anti-Semitic sentiment thus rises because the Jewish people, in their ancestry, possess the template for realizing the new desire for connection. If the Jewish people fail to aim and work toward unification in a time when not only the Jews but the world at large, needs unity, then the world subconsciously starts feeling the Jewish people as the cause of their problems.
Our forefathers underwent the process of uniting, saving themselves from ruin in the process. Today, as the finger of blame is on us for all kinds of reasons, it’s up to us to identify the root reason for all that blame—that out of all people, we have been given the keys to unite above all differences, and this is what the world really needs from us. It’s as if the world pays no attention to all the technology, culture and medicine we bring to the world. However, if we do as our forefathers did, then we’ll realize what we were put here to do, and we’ll see how the world’s attitude to the Jews will change to one of respect and appreciation.
I hope that we will start paying attention to the root causes and tendencies behind the world’s problems and that this Passover, we will make a step toward their ultimate solution—unity.
Happy Passover!
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The Jewish state is one that concerns itself with unity above everything else, while also allowing for the fullest expression of each individual’s uniqueness.
#Israel #Jewish
#Reality_ML #Kabbalah
To someone who really wants to exit the exile of this world and enter the #spiritual #world, the Creator helps, by sending him more and more obstacles in the spiritual work; otherwise, a person will never leave this egoistic world. #Ego #Egoist
The group is obliged to exalt the greatness of the Creator. This will help to lower yourself before Him. To walk by faith above reason in the greatness of the Creator. If one has faith that the Creator wishes everyone well, this leads to the love of the Creator (Rabash).
#Kabbalah
5. Hatred for Jews, perhaps not obvious and unclear even to them, compels countries to accept Arabs as if to spite Jews. Then they discover that they acted against themselves.
That’s how the Creator governs all, for Israel or against them.
#Jewish #Israeli #IsraeliTerrorism
4. It is written: There is no unnecessary quality in nature, but we are tasked with the mission of correcting every quality, i.e., bringing everything to mutual agreement and love. #Jewish #Israel
3. We must understand that we can’t change any special attitude to Jews—it’s like breaking nature.
Only if Jews correct themselves will anti-Semites disappear. In the general integral view of nature, anti-Semites have the role of a force pushing Jews to develop and be corrected.
2. Therefore, analyzing the property of #hatred toward #Jews, since it is natural, we can distinguish 4 stages in it: from the natural one (blood-related) anti-Semites to those who consider themselves close to Jews. #Antisemitism
1. Like a desire, created as a single one, is divided into 4 parts in its development, HaVaYaH, so is its every particular state or component—into 4 constituent parts. The property of bestowal and reception, the relation toward them also consists of its HaVaYaH.
#Jewish #Israeli
We don’t find in man anything that is not found in an animal, except the aspiration to connect with the Creator. It’s inherent only to man! Hence, man must be evaluated only by his yearning for the Creator. Only that exalts him above the animal world! (Baal HaSulam) #SpiritualWork_ML
#Reality
To the extent that we’ll increase the importance of the Creator/bestowal/group, to attain His properties of bestowal and love as the purpose of creation—we’ll receive strength to rise above #Ego and bestow. It depends on the importance which comes only from the environment!
#Reality
We attain the Creator only per the properties of organs of perception. Hence, He is called “come and see”/Bo-Reh. In the extent of the correction of my intention to be similar to Him will I begin to feel what I’ll call the Creator. Each time—by the degree of similarity
#Reality_ML #Kabbalah
While a person is in the ego, he feels the world as dark, as exile, slavery, under the power of egoism/Pharaoh. But as soon as he changes his intention to bestowal, he sees the world as the Promised Land, prepared for him and full of abundance.
#Ego #Passover
Remember:
1 Everything, even troubles, come only from the Creator,
2 in order to push you to flee, but not from them—from egoism—to the group-prayer-Creator.
3 Do not only solve them in this world;
4 Treat them as the necessary stages of exiting into the upper world.
#Spirituality
Kabbalists attain the complete world, all its steps to the attainment of the highest level of ADAM. Thus the entire upper and lower realities are attained, whereas the attainment itself is called the Soul (Baal HaSulam: “The Secret of Conception and Birth”) #Kabbalah_ML #Reality_ML
#SpiritualWork_ML #Kabbalah
Feeling difficulties and emptiness in spiritual growth is a huge help. Otherwise, one can’t beg the Creator to change him, so he can exit this world into the upper one. Here everything depends on a good environment and proper study leading to the plea.
Unlike J. Stiglitz, I don’t get #depressed, because I know man’s egoism and I don’t expect good deeds from the economy elite. I’d rather wish it success. The farther it goes in its greed, the faster the #world will see the truth and ripen to take advantage of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
#Reality_ML #Kabbalah
We can’t forget that suffering comes only from the Creator and only to push forward. Hence, we must thank the Creator for all our problems and ask to give us the strength to accept them correctly so that they will push us out of this world into the higher world
The greatest misery is to feel that the Creator exists but that He turned away from you. If the Creator left my #consciousness, I would have no thought of Him. But if there’s a small link with the Creator—that He doesn’t want a link, forgot me—it’s time for a #prayer! #God
Anything in creation, harmful or useful, and even the most harmful, has a right to exist and it’s forbidden to eradicate it. But we must correct its harmful influence and turn it into good and useful (Baal HaSulam, #”Peace in the World”)
#WisdomofKabbalah_ML #Reality_ML #Kabbalah
One thought immediately created all reality to its final state. This thought acts in everything; it is the action itself and the result, and the meaning itself, and the efforts of accomplishment, and the reality itself, and the reward. (Baal HaSulam, TES, part 1) #Reality_ML #quoteoftheday
#UnifiedUpperForce_ML
Everything is pre-programmed and every #soul is already in its perfect eternal state, pervaded with upper Light.
(Baal HaSulam Letter 25)
Every person is bound to reach the root of his soul.
(Baal HaSulam, “The Acting Mind”) #Reality_ML #Kabbalah
#CrisisSolution #Ego
The war with the rich is near: they don’t pay taxes per their income. #Taxes serve to reduce #inequality. But the richest are taxed less tax. The number of old and unemployed people is increasing, while tax collection is less. How will the issue be solved?
#Crisis
The laws of nature are absolute. But nature requires fulfilling them in accordance with the development of man. Kabbalah teaches us the laws of nature. We don’t change properties given by nature, 9 Sefirot, but we learn how to unite them correctly above our teacher—ego.
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Truth is in the disclosed lie. #Manipulation and #exploitation lurk in the concealed lie. Today we tell the truth to another’s face and this behavior is much closer to the raw egoistic nature underlying our every motive. #AprilFoolsDay Full post:
#Passover
Efforts need to be made to have expulsion from the property of bestowal and love manifested (destruction of Adam’s soul among us). A sign of salvation is a sense of desperation to reveal bestowal and love—the Creator. This feeling must be shared. From Egypt—exit to unity!
#SpiritualWork_ML #Kabbalah
Egoism assures man that the path should not be uncompromising, as Kabbalah points out. No need to suffer, fighting with egoism, desire to receive pleasure. Hence, parallel to Kabbalah, egoistic religions developed, #Ego-practices, the gifts of Abraham
#SpiritualWork
Religion eases life, allowing replacing internal acts to correct #Ego with external acts for a reward in this and the future world. This helps discern egoism against the Creator’s property of bestowal. Hence, religions and practices are necessary to discern the Creator
#Passover
It is written: “I am not a messenger,” i.e., the Creator Himself delivers from #Ego/Egypt. This means that I’m in contact with the Creator, without intermediate properties. I feel being against the Creator, in my demand; I associate salvation only with Him. #spirituality
#Kabbalist_advice
We shouldn’t and cannot correct ourselves! Only one force (#Creator, #Upper Light) can do this. But we must ask Him for it. The #ego isn’t letting us ask the Creator for help, so that, by annulling its power, we would reveal the Creator’s authority in everything.
#Crisis
Nature’s laws are absolute. But nature demands fulfillment of its laws in accordance with one’s #development. Kabbalah teaches us nature’s laws. We don’t change the qualities nature gave us, the 9 Sefirot, but learn how to combine them correctly above our teacher/ego.
#SpiritualWork
The power of group prayer is such that it is forbidden for a member of the Kabbalistic group to ask for oneself, even to do something for the Creator, but only with a request for a group. The one asking for himself causes the destruction of his soul. (Baal HaSulam)
#KabbalahWisdom_ML #Reality_ML #Kabbalah
#The Creator is the property of bestowal and love; it is all that exists, the nature of all levels, worlds. There’s nothing but Him! Man is created opposite to the Creator’s quality—to be able to become like Him and in this measure reveal Him
#Reality
#Kabbalah doesn’t welcome rejecting ego. #Egoism is matter created by the Creator. The greater it is, the more to correct and become like the Creator. The degree of similarity to the Creator in bestowal and love is called a #screen. It is what we should ask from the Creator
#Reality_ML
It is impossible to harm yourself or others by studying Kabbalah, because the spiritual world is protected, hidden from your egoism by your own screen. As you cannot lift more than you have the strength for, so you cannot see what you can’t use for bestowal and love.
#KabbalahWisdom_ML #Reality
Kabbalah allows a scientist to use the force of the forthcoming stage of development in order to ascend—to attain the next level empirically and mentally. Kabbalah is a science requiring the researcher to acquire the properties of the object researched.
#Reality
If we compare the property of Light/bestowal with the property of egoism/reception, then at different levels of comparison we’ll get physical, biological, chemical, psychological, etc. levels of dependence—the laws of Light vs. desire. This is the nature of all worlds!
#Kabbalah
With sight we view what is occurring in our brain that has a camera showing us what we supposedly see, as if it’s located opposite to us. But any thinker understands that all that we see is occurring only in our brain. (Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 34)
#Reality_ML #Israel
A corrected Israeli society would be a united people, though we all come from different nations of Ancient Babylon. But above all these differences we will reveal love and connection. All the differences will turn to unity and the Creator’s #revelation in us.
#Crisis_solution
Man’s objective: to combine individual, fragmented, even opposite qualities. #Unity is revealed precisely in their unification. The Creator purposely prepared this work for us, so that by “assembling nature by its parts” we would attain His (=her) perfection.
“#SpiritualWork_ML #Passover #Wisdom
The Creator is the property of bestowal and love. It exists in all creatures. In your relation to them, and in no case apart from them, when you will treat them as the Creator, you will find Him in them, in the measure of your similarity to Him.”
This #Passover waves of #Antisemitism are pervading the world, especially in Russia. We must explain their source and nature not to anti-Semites, for they can’t change themselves or the world; explain to Semites—so that by correcting themselves, they correct the whole world! #Jews
#Reality
Spiritual work doesn’t require us to embrace the whole world, nation, humanity; a group of 10 will suffice. Thru it we’ll be able to feel the whole world and all worlds up to infinity and final correction. After all, a part consists of the whole, depending on the attainment!
There’s nothing redundant in the world. When attaining the Soul’s system, everyone finds their place. But if not, like a child assembling a Lego, redundant parts remain. By attaining the Creator’s qualities, we’ll reveal everyone’s purpose and the good connection w/ one another.
#SpiritualWork_ML
Advancement is possible only thru the development of the connection with the upper or with the lower—and in no other way. I can’t rise above my level unless in conjunction with the Upper. I won’t rise above my level unless I receive the desire from the lower.
#SpiritualWork
We don’t realize how much we hate the Creator, how distant we are from Him in our properties. We hate Him, namely Him, because “there is none else but Him.” It’s from the point everyone must come to in his development that we must change everything and start to love
#SpiritualWork_ML #Passover #Kabbalah
#Torah means the Light that is in it; as per the Creator: “I created the evil inclination/#Ego and the Torah to correct it.”
This refers to the L ight of the #Torah, able to return us to the Source, the Creator. (Baal HaSulam Shamati, 6)
#SpiritualWork #Passover
It’s written: “I am not a messenger,” i.e., the Creator Himself delivers from #Ego/Egypt. This means that I’m in contact with the Creator, without intermediate properties. I feel being against the Creator, in my demand; I associate salvation only with Him.
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