Question: When I was on vacation in the mountains, I experienced something unbelievable and amazing. I enjoyed looking at the view and didn’t notice that I had entered an inexplicable state. I saw that the entire world is interconnected, that all people, animals, the plant world, and the earth itself are one single whole and living body! I stood and cried from joy. I had chills all over my body and my hair was standing on end. I had never felt such happiness. This continued for about 10 minutes (maybe, because I didn’t feel time). Later, it happened another two times, but this was in a city.

Dear Michael Laitman, why was this shown to me and for what purpose? After all, isn’t that the way it is? What should I do with this information? I found out about you by chance.

Somehow I saw your program on YouTube, the “Echo of Moscow” with Dorenko, where you claimed that the world is a single whole body.

Answer: Your feeling is correct and sometimes it is discovered among many other people. But this is not a revelation of the upper world. It is only the feeling of the connection between the nature of our world. But it does give a sensation of harmony and union. The wisdom of Kabbalah makes it possible to attain this harmony, expand it, study it, and live within it!
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Question: It is very difficult for people to perceive the difference between the wisdom of Kabbalah and psychology and philosophy. Can you explain the difference?

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah talks about the structure of the system of creation that is based upon opposites and the connection between two forces: the properties of bestowal and reception, the positive force and the negative force, and the material that exists between them that is managed by the two forces.

This method explains the four phases of the extension of the Ohr Yashar (Direct Light – the characteristic of bestowal) on the property of reception and how both properties interact with each other, producing different variations of integration of all the forces, elements. Kabbalah proceeds from the most simple, true, elementary beginning and explains how everything is extended and developed into our world.

Psychology and philosophy have nothing to do with this. Kabbalah is not a speculative science, it is immensely logical. A person who is involved with it, even if he or she doesn’t feel these forces or doesn’t reveal the upper world, the knowledge is still very interesting.

Therefore, many come and just study Kabbalah as a theoretical science even though they don’t understand what is spoken about. And there are people who want to develop themselves and master the wisdom in a practical way. Everything depends on the goals a person pursues.

We teach both these and those. It doesn’t matter to us why a person studies Kabbalah, we teach him or her everything. The first course “The Structure of the Upper World” includes the study of the system of creation. The second course “Practical Attainment of the Upper World” includes a person’s work in a group.

In principle, the wisdom of Kabbalah is designed to elevate a person above the egoism that prevents us from uniting, and psychology teaches a person how to get along within egoism. Psychology and philosophy cannot go beyond egoism.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian 9/24/17

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New Life 943 – History In The Light Of The Wisdom Of Kabbalah
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Historical development occurs according to five stages that repeat themselves at different levels.

You can look at the history of the human race as a person whose life (or egoism) has evolved over the generations. The human ego has developed through the Stone, Copper, Iron and, now, Plastic Ages. Today, we face a state of despair as we are on the cusp of a new level of spiritual existence. Since God was revealed to man for the first time 5,778 years ago, the human race has been in the process of becoming a spiritual creature in consciousness and feeling. We are about to acquire new forces such as the ability to feel things with the desire to love rather than the desire to receive.
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From the KabTV’s “New Life 943 – History In The Light Of The Wisdom Of Kabbalah,” 1/7/18

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Writings of Rabash, “Concerning Above Reason”  

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Israel’s Channel 9 is currently working on a documentary film that will present Bnei Baruch’s activity over the past 20 years, and the World #Kabbalah #Convention that is taking place this week in Tel Aviv. Here are some photos from the shoot.

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Question: How do we come to the sensation of communication in the circle without words?

Answer: We exist in a field, a space, called “The Creator.” In order for us to feel it, we must create similar qualities inside ourselves: bestowal, connection, love, and emanation. We have no such qualities. We are created opposite to the field of the Creator, in egoism—reception, neglecting others, distancing ourselves from them, and so forth.

It is done this way so that we ourselves would create qualities similar to the upper field, which are achieved in the correct connections between us. That is why we try to unite among each other inside states based in our egoism, where we deny and keep distance from each other.

We are purposely created as egoists so that, despite it, we would rise above it and create the conditions in ourselves that would let the field fill us, and we would be able to catch it in the newly created sensory organ called “mutual connection.”

If we meet this condition, we will discover the upper force, the Creator, His program, His force, and His plans for us and everyone else. It will become clear how to act better, and what to do. We will find ourselves inside this field in the state of eternity and perfection.

In order to attain the qualities of the upper field and begin sensing it according to the law of similarity of form, we must create close contact. Therefore, all our training is aimed at bringing us to a state where we rise above our egoism.

We don’t destroy our egoism. Despite it, we connect.

It is a very difficult and long practice, but today it is available to everyone. Anyone who is interested can master it. A person can then discover the upper force that fills our world. He will know how and why everything happens to him and others. His eyes will be opened to everything happening in this world, life, and everything outside of it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/22/17

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Question: Why can’t we communicate directly with the Creator? Why do we need an intermediary, like a teacher?

Answer: It is not an intermediary. It is your previous state. The fact is, creation is a shattered system, which starts to correct itself like links in a continuous chain from the least, almost undamaged elements, to the more complex.

An element that went before always passes all of its knowledge, all it has accumulated, all of its connections, to the next element. And because we are links in this chain, we are always connected to our teachers and then become teachers for the next generation.

Question: If the teacher is my previous state, then who is my future state?

Answer: The future state is you until you advance spiritually. And then it is your students, those who must continue the correction after you, moving through the levels of this broken system. They either find you during your lifetime or in some way connect with you spiritually after death.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 10/1/17

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New Life 942 – How To Treat The Past
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

The human being’s roots depend not on his relatives but on the root of his soul. In contrast to animals, which have no interest in their roots, people are intrigued about their relatives even though attitudes passed from parents to children can take on an opposite shape or expression. It is worthwhile to learn from the past and direct oneself to a higher goal, but not be immersed in it since it is already dead. The best remedy for a person who has lived a difficult life is to find a higher purpose that will illuminate to him and start a new life.
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From the KabTV’s “New Life 942 – How To Treat The Past,” 1/7/18

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Psalm_62 For God waits in silence my soul only; from Him is my #salvation. Only He is my rock & salvation. How long will they assail me? They bless with mouth but inwardly they curse. My soul, wait for GOD only, hope is in Him. Pour your heart out to Him! You, Lord, are refuge

Psalm_61. Hear, O God, my cry, heed my prayer! From the end of the earth I call to You, in my faint heart lead me to the high rock. I will dwell in Your tent forever, take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. So I will sing #praise to Thy name forever, paying my vows day by day.

Psalm 97.The #Lord is King! The Heavens declare His justice. Be ashamed, idol worshipers. Loving the LORD, hate evil! He saves the souls of the godly from the wicked. Light is sown for the righteous, gladness for the upright in heart. Be glad, righteous ones, exalt His holy name

#Psalm_96. Sing to the Lord a new song. Tell of His wonders among nations. Glory and majesty before Him, strength and beauty in His sanctuary. Let heavens and earth rejoice, all trees will sing. Before GOD, for He is coming to judge the earth with justice, and people -with truth.

Psalm_60 GOD, You rejected us, You crushed us in anger. Restore us! So Your beloved may be delivered. Have You forsaken us and do not go forth with our armies, O God? Give us help against enemies, for man’s help is vain. In God we’ll be strengthened, He will tread on our enemies.

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