Wonder Woman, Part 4

laitman_629_3Question: Usually, movies made by women directors are not as popular as films directed by men. However, the film Wonder Woman with both a female director and main character received great acclaim.

Does this reflect a particular spirit of our time, that it is a woman who is expected to be a hero and a savior?

Answer: There were a lot of women throughout history that played leading roles. The first example: Adam and Eve, because of whom the entire history of humanity started unfolding. Then, Abraham’s wife Sarah, the prophetesses that the Torah talks about: Rachel, Leah, Yael, Miriam, Deborah, Hulda, and even Pharaoh’s daughter Batya. We see that the women in the Torah act in no less emphasized way than the men.

Question: What qualities should such a “super-woman” possess?

Answer: The super-woman is the one directing her children and her husband toward the correction of the world, toward the good connection. That is why Abraham was told: “Listen to what Sarah tells you.”

Such a woman has the power of bestowal and love for a friend. A woman understands that this is the only way that the world can exist. She has an even greater ability of overcoming herself than a man does, because she has the power of giving birth.

A man frequently remains a child that only wants to play around. A woman has a much more serious take on life by nature because she is connected with nature’s principles, with the system producing life. That is why women that come to study Kabbalah display a very serious attitude and desire toward correction.

A super-woman is the one that possesses the internal force to overcome a person’s inner nature that is directed at using others for self-benefit and to start treating them as if they were her children, as members of her family. She is ready to give and help in everything, as in the family, instead of receiving egoistically.

Heroism is in stepping out of the borders of her family toward which she feels natural love and relating to the whole world as if they are all her children.

Question: Let’s say a woman starts relating this way to the world. How can she influence others and advance them toward correction?

Answer: A woman has a great influence in the world. As soon as she starts behaving like such a heroine, her abilities become endless. She can turn everyone around her toward love and bestowal.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 6/8/17

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Do Not Gratify The “Animal” In You

laitman_627_1The Torah, Deuteronomy, 27:21: Cursed be he who lies with any animal. And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Laying with animals is completely forbidden because during such an act the person is not copulating through the human aspect within himself, but rather through the animal within himself. It is the inner state that is being referred to here.

By this act, the individual is lowering himself to such an extent that he becomes an anima and even lower than that because he is serving the animal within himself by deriving pleasure from his animal level. That is, he desires to be the animal. In other words, his behavior, in this world, is not for the sake of rising toward the Creator, but rather for pleasing the animal within himself.

A person who engages in pleasing his animal state damns himself. This means fulfilling any animal desire, not just sexual. For example, when he feeds “his cattle” only for carnal pleasure, then he sinks lower than the cattle because he is serving it. He should be feeding his animal only in order for it to rise to the level of human, that is, one should constantly be engaged in work on the self.

Question: Does that mean that a man should only lay with a woman, with a desire, in order to birth the next level?

Answer: According to the Torah, that is how it is. In the Torah, copulation is viewed only as means for spiritual advancement, when each time the person is in the intention of conceiving the next spiritual degree. In our world it is personified by the birth of new baby.

Question: And that is why this must be done on “clean” days?

Answer: Yes, in our world, following these rules is a direct reflection of spiritual forces according to root and branch.

Question: For this act to occur only for the birth of the next degree, on whom is the responsibility greater, on the man (let’s say, even within me) or on the woman? Must she be clean?

Answer: On both. There are things that only the woman knows and is able to do, while the man is not. In this, the man completely trusts the woman. There is no way that he is able to verify. Everything is based on her honesty and sense of responsibility.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book,” 11/23/2016

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laitman_629_3The Goal of Corrected Society Is the Personal Goal of Everyone

Question: How can a person realize his personal inclinations in the integral society of the future if society will demand some other contribution from him? Suppose a person wants to become a great musician and is engaged only with music and society sends him to a different job?

Answer: The problem is that people don’t yet understand what integral education is. After all, they haven’t received it and they don’t feel what it means to live in the country as if in one family. They can’t even imagine what it is.

As a result of integral education, a person will treat society and his family as two parts of one whole. Like today he gives and receives in his family, he will also give and receive in society. If society is built correctly, it will give a person confidence, security, and everything that is necessary.

Society will break no one—each one will be able to realize his inclinations. We are talking only about the fact that a person must invest in society in order to receive from it everything necessary for satisfying his needs at all times and in all conditions.

Question: How is it possible that each person will do what he wants and annul himself before society at the same time?

Answer: Everything depends on education. A person can’t just do anything he wants because after integral education, he will find out his place in the integral system and precisely there he will feel himself best of all.

We all are in one system. If I find out exactly my place, then I will want to be precisely in it according to my nature! Integral education brings a person to an understanding of his purpose according to his nature, and it can’t be that he’ll want anything else. After all, precisely this task will be an optimal one for him.

Question: Each person wants to realize himself, this is a very strong inner motivation. How can he abandon it for the sake of society?

Answer: Through integral education a person will begin to see an integral system and feel his real place in it. Then he will strive to implement exactly what he is destined for. After all, this is exactly what he can do best for society and for himself.

Imagine an integral system. If I am created this way in order to be a cogwheel in one place I can’t strive toward another place where a square element is required. I will feel that I have to be exactly where a cogwheel is required and that this is the best thing I can do for myself and for society. The goal of society and my personal goal becomes the same.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/29/17, Lesson on the Topic: “Mismah Arosa” (Arosa Document), “Plan for Getting Out of Crisis”

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New Life 861 – Restraining The Evil Inclination

New Life 861 – Restraining The Evil Inclination
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Why do we have an evil inclination? How can we recognize it and what is the good force that helps us in this process?
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From KabTV’s “New Life 861 –  Restraining The Evil Inclination,” 6/1/17

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Recognition Of A Kabbalistic Text

laitman_209Question: Is every Kabbalist who takes a piece from a Kabbalistic text able to feel the author and recognize that the text was written by another Kabbalist?

Answer: No. It is necessary to be on a high level in order to do that. But in principle, according to the text, it is possible to understand immediately whether a person who attained the upper world, or at least had a connection to the upper world, wrote it, or whether it was just a person “from the street” talking.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/5/17

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How To Read The Book Of Zohar Correctly

Laitman_065Question: How does one read The Book of Zohar correctly, and what is the order of reading?

Answer: The Book of Zohar must be read with commentaries; in fact, without them, it is impossible to understand it.

A few years ago, during group work, we published a book that was prepared for the people and that is also what we called it, Zohar for the People. As a result of this work, today everyone can read the book and understand it. We translated the text from Aramaic to Hebrew and “simplified” the text without distorting it.

Originally, the structure of The Book of Zohar was divided into several parts: the text itself, the commentary on the text, and so forth. We united the different parts in a harmonious way into a single text that is divided into numbered sections, making it possible to read it easily and continuously.

Zohar for the People is material that has been well processed, translated, not only into the Hebrew language, but also into Russian and English. I very much recommend becoming familiar with the book and trying to start studying it.

The lessons that we learn from the book Zohar for the People begin to be felt by the students present in a lesson as a definite “spiritual stream” that passes through them. The book works on them from within and washes egoistic thoughts and calculations out of them.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/5/17

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Wonder Woman, Part 3

Laitman_632_4Question: The movie Wonder Woman in which an Israeli actress saves humanity awakens thoughts about the correction of the world, about the Jews having to be the Light for all the nations. People understand that this correction is needed, but how do we actualize it?

Answer: First of all, the nation of Israel must actualize its own correction. We are connected to all of humanity and that is why as we correct ourselves, we pass this awakening, this aspiration for correction, to all others. Kabbalists are obligated to teach the nation of Israel the methodology of this new unification, this method of correction, the achievement of love of others. We don’t need to pay attention to those who speak against Kabbalah because by they are obstructing people from uniting, they are simply committing a crime. Then later, this example of unity must be demonstrated to the entire world.

If the nation of Israel, being the biggest egoists, is able to correct itself and demonstrate to the others how to move from hatred to love, from separation to unity, then it will serve as an example and will give strength to the entire world. The whole world will follow the Jews toward unity.

Furthermore, the nations of the world will help the Jews in this correction, as is written by the prophet Isaiah, “the nations of the world will lift the nation of Israel onto their shoulders and deliver them to the temple in Jerusalem.”

Question: The heroine of the movie saves the world from various evil people and external forces; you are speaking about the need for us to save ourselves from our own egoism?

Answer: Egoism is the only evil. We don’t have any other enemies. The whole nature of man is evil from birth. There is nothing in creation except the evil principle. And this is exactly what we need to correct. If Israel corrects itself, the entire world will be corrected.

Egoism is my desire to build my success on the failure of others. This is a completely natural desire for every person because it is inherent in our nature. But we must rise above this nature to bestowal to others, to concern for their welfare instead of our own. A person who is ready to make this correction within himself is called a super-hero.

He overcomes his egoism, his inherent nature, and that is why he is called super-human. By doing this, he corrects the entire world, a world that is in such bad shape only as a result of human egoism because we project our negative relationships onto all of nature.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 865 – The “Superpowers” Of The Israelis,” 6/8/17

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Laitman_632_4Altruistic Egoists of the Future

Question: It turns out that a person who is an egoist by nature has to understand that to give to society is better than to receive from it. How is this possible?

Answer: Integral education is required for this, which explains to a person how he needs to be in balance with society by giving to it in proportion to his abilities and receiving from it according to the necessity.

This is opposite to his nature, according to which he wants to receive as much as possible and give as little as possible. This is why the education that makes this correction is required. Due to the integral education, he connects with others and feels them close to him, like friends or his family on which he depends. According to this, he can correct himself and give to society more than he receives.

After all, everything depends on society and at the end everything comes back to a person, that is to himself. Let’s say, I earned $10,000 and I am required to receive only $2,000 from society and leave $8,000 for society.

I know that the corrected society will spend this $8,000 for good: it will build subways, houses, hospitals, and schools for children. I understand this and therefore gladly give the money to the society. If I and society become one body, then it doesn’t seem to me that I tear something from myself by giving to the society. Everything depends on education.

It is customary to take children on excursions to different organizations and explain how they work, study economics with them so that they would know why taxes exist, how the government functions, and how decisions are made.

This is how we need to show to a person that all government systems work for his benefit so that he will be convinced that he and society are inseparable from each other. Then he will see that all the property of society belongs to him.

Integral education lets a person understand that he and society are one integral system. There are things that he consumes through society and there are other ones that he receives personally.

Question: Does integral education change the nature of a person?

Answer: One’s nature doesn’t change; a person remains an egoist, but an altruistic egoist. It is explained to him how the country is built, which acts only for the sake of the people’s good in which everyone is connected.

The $8,000 that he gave away will also be used for his benefit through all sorts of systems. It is now that all the charitable donations are stolen along the way and remain in someone’s pockets, but then everything up to the last cent will be used properly.

It will be possible to check through the computer how much money was paid to each citizen in the country for the general benefit: part was used for an army, part for education, part for culture, part for hospitals, and for everything else that people need.

Of course, we are talking about the corrected country, and not about today’s. Integral education should create people who understand that everything exists for their benefit. There are such benefits that a person consumes personally: everything that relates to food and family. And there are benefits that are received through society.

Question: Is it enough for a person to understand that we all are one body or does he need to feel this?

Answer: We need to feel that we all are like one family. Due to education, we should become like one family. This is not against egoism. During war, everyone feels as one family because the common disaster brings people together. A person understands that he depends on the environment and therefore is interested in making this environment richer and stronger in order to have more hospitals, schools, and many useful services that are available to everyone.

In essence, this is the direction toward a correct socialistic society where the country and society assume many responsibilities that usually fall on an individual. He no longer has to worry about anything. Why should each one have to think about where to educate and raise children, about sport schools and classes—everything should be free of charge.

There will be no need to buy tickets to the theater and to pay for your child’s classes. Each child will receive everything he requires, irrespective of his father’s salary. Everything will be free of charge both at home and in the community; after all, we are one family. And inside the family each one is interested in organizing interesting classes, good education, medical care, and leisure for his children.

If we all want to do this and will work together, then it will be a heavenly life. No one will be stealing because everything remains in families. If the entire country is one family, then everything belongs to the family. Imagine how much we will save, because today no less than 60-70% is stolen.

Therefore, integral education is necessary. After all, when the middle class disappears completely and only a few thousand rich people remain and the remaining billions are beggars, it will lead to an explosion.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/29/17, Lesson on the Topic: “Mismah Arosa” (Arosa Document), “Plan for Getting Out of Crisis”

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