Natural disasters carry a message from Mother Nature for each and every one of us. For the full article: kabbalah.info #wildfire #california

My latest on @JPostOpinion: “Think the war at Hanukkah was between Jews and Greeks? It was between #Jews and Jews.” www.jpost.com #Hanukkah

Most important is to feel my I detaching from me, instead of I there’s WE, the group cares for US, as everyone used to care for their I, WE begin to #pray for US, and the Light comes to US and makes US into a single whole in which the one Creator is revealed.

A broken creation is demonstrated only in relation to us, our perception. The system is always one. But there’s a purpose to us not being able to correctly recognize the Upper One’s influence, and hence react to Him correctly. We decide it by arranging our group like the system.

Spiritual work always starts anew. We must understand and agree to it, and be thankful for every new beginning. Though it means new stress in overcoming the ego, the sensation as if disappears—everything is erased. Always a new beginning. #gratitude

There are 2 analyses: sweet/bitter—sufficient for regular #existence, and truth/falsehood—manifests in certain people. As it manifests, one rejects falsehood and aspires to truth. It compels to reveal the meaning of life, so one comes to study Kabbalah. #meaningoflife

#Einstein: to jump on top of a table, you must jump higher than the table. Meaning we need a method of rising “above oneself.” Any movement is built on a game. By playing at a spiritual degree in the group, we draw the upper light, and attain it with its help.

Any spiritual action influences the system of ADAM, the unified soul. Therefore, the entrance to any degree it starts at zero (conception, Hibur), to understand and react correctly. We enter the #Soul if we know the cause-action-result.

From Twitter, 12/12/17

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Question: How not to quarrel in the Third Temple?

Answer: The Third Temple operates on completely different grounds, according to different criteria. Quarrels are not possible there. When we ascend to the spiritual world, egoism no longer grows; we are only influenced by the correcting force that we add to our egoism. Therefore, there cannot be further shattering.

All this is stated in theory according to the laws of the correlation between the negative force of reception and the positive force of bestowal. By studying the methodology, we understand that we really are moving toward this state, and there will be no other.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/23/17

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Baal HaSulam, The Writings Of The Last Generation: Ultimately, the diligent class will put to death all the elderly and handicapped who eat and do not work, or even if they eat more than they can work, as it is detrimental to society, as it is known that they have no sentiments.

That is absolutely true! When a person lives to a certain age or can no longer bring real benefit, he is treated as if nobody needs him, let alone the sick.

This would be the natural development of capitalism if it continued. But in principle, it is possible that we can come to this. Then we would have a Spartan society: only young, healthy, and robust people would remain, those who could bring benefit to the elite. And if they were not needed either, then they would be destroyed, leaving, say, one billion out of eight billion.

Remark: According to statistics, the number of elderly people per employed person will increase in Europe by 2030. If today there are 1.5 employed people for every retired person, then in 2030 it will be half. Thus, the standard of living will drop from 30% to 50%.

My Comment: Not necessarily. I think that robotics and automation will help us. But the fact is that there will be no one to feed retired people because the desire to feed them will disappear even though there would be the opportunity to do so.

Our opportunities will not coincide with our desires. Therefore, society will slowly prepare them for disposal through the healthcare system.

Remark: It is hard to believe that we could come to this. On the contrary, today the press cries that old people and disabled people do not receive sufficient benefits.

My Comment: The media does it only under orders—which means that some party does it to get votes and win an election.

Question: Doesn’t public opinion support retired people?

Answer: There is no public opinion. There is an opinion of elites who govern public opinion. All the rest is fake news.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 8/7/17

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New Life 312 – Attitudes And Changing Attitudes
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Human character is changing from focusing on “what’s in it for me to what’s in it for us.” As we begin to be curious about the purpose of human life, we gradually build new values based on the concept of “love your neighbor as yourself” above the old value of “love only myself.” More and more, we will try to see the good in others and create an environment based on love rather than mutual exploitation.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 312 – Attitudes and Changing Attitudes,” 3/9/14

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Preparation for the Lesson

Lesson on the Topic: “Hanukkah by the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

Lesson on the Topic:”Holding Onto the State of Entering Ibur (Conception),” “Above All Disturbances”

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 10, Item 25

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom,” “External Factors” 

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Some tips to help you understand the meaning of #Hanukkah

Exertion: when I say “I can’t do any more” is precisely where exertion begins. Every moment I must actualize the principle “If not now, when?” Freewill is exercised at every moment. If you miss a moment, you haven’t actualized your freewill.

Love is when you’re inside me, and I’m inside you, like an #embryo inside a mother. As a mother senses herself in her child—his desires determine everything for her!

Along with the growth of the ego, Kabbalah develops one’s “point in the heart,” allowing him to exist between two forces: good and #evil inclination. Then, between them, he’s free to use the evil inclination for the benefit of the good—and advance in this manner.

Today we can say that we’re putting the method of Abraham into practice. That is the source of the method of unifying people, which is called #Kabbalah…

To what degree is the #Creator responsible for the world? For everything that happens? If He causes all this disunity among us, how is He responsible for it? He is responsible for everything, completely and absolutely: He stands behind us, ready to do all we ask.

Addressing the Creator is the vessel of the soul (prayer, Hisaron, Kli). It must always develop—that is my correction. Not the answer to the request, but the request (yearning) itself—there’s spiritual work & fulfillment of the soul. By this I show my attitude to the Creator.

Kabbalah reveals for us the GPS of #life: where to go & how not to stray, but take the quickest and shortest path to achieving all the very best—toward the right Goal in life, for the GPS to show us where it lies.

To reveal the #spiritual world means to sense oneself in it. The spiritual world is a network where our desires intertwine, concealed from us by the ego. As we aspire to be like this system of connection between us, we stimulate its influence on us, up to its revelation between us.

To draw the light means to always think that it is precisely what we lack—ever increasing #connection between us, up to the bond between everyone becoming permanent, i.e. manifesting as the 10 Sefirot filled with the Creator’s light.

The #ego is necessary! It was created in order to show us how distant we are from one another, how distant (different) from the Creator, so that we could draw closer together and thus with the Creator, in His complete revelation.

What will determine the good future of Israel and the world? #JerusalemEmbassy

Instead of proclaiming #Jerusalem capital of Israel, Trump could have directed secular Jews (Israeli and US) to actualize the method of uniting the Jews, which would cause the unification of the nations of the world! Instead, his proclamation exacerbates hatred and delays peace.

Trump won’t correct the world. Jews must become a united people and thus show an example of unity to the nations. This is their historic & spiritual mission, & rejecting it causes all the suffering in the world (Ashlag. Preface to The Book of Zohar, para 70-76) and #antisemitism.

From Twitter, 12/11/17

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Torah, Numbers 12:01: Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses regarding the Cushite woman he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.

Moses’s wife Zipporah is a Cushite, meaning she is dark-skinned. It means that Moses’s Malchut is much darker, harder, and heavier than the desires of Miriam and Aaron. Therefore, when he works with her, he reaches a higher level.

In the same way, we now have to attach ourselves to all of humanity. Can you imagine the Malchut that is waiting to be connected?! At the same time, when this happens all will receive such an elevation!
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book,” 3/25/15

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Question: What can you do if you see that people in this world are completely not connected?

Answer: Unfortunately, this is so. But all of nature—inanimate, vegetative, and animate—is already beginning to close. It is revealed to us as more and more integral. Everything without exception enters into one system.

And nature has always been like this, but now it is approaching man, wanting to include him within nature and cannot. We oppose all of it degrees and are unable to be integrated in it because we are not integrated within ourselves and between us.

It is possible to disagree with this and say, “Is it true that the inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature is integrated? We see how the animals prey on each other.” But for them it is a means of existence. They have no intention of causing harm to each other, only to co-exist correctly.

But we do not see it because we look at them through our egoistic point of view. If we could look at nature correctly, we would understand that they do not destroy each other, but only act in symbiosis.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/13/17

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Question: Can a Kabbalist control his own and others’ hatred that results from separation?

Answer: No. Hatred cannot be controlled. It can only be covered with love. It is written: “Love will cover all crimes.”

Question: Can I do this for someone else?

Answer: No. The only thing you can do is include everyone else inside of you and in this way turn all of their negative qualities into positive ones. There are no negative qualities. They are simply not balanced by positive ones.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/6/17

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