The Torah is not a set of rules we must observe in order to appease a fearsome God, nor is it a collection of tales that may or may not have happened. So what is it really meant for?
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Jerusalem, in the spiritual sense, is a point of connection between the souls and the upper system. The actual city is completely unique and holds a special status in Israel because it is the location of the Temple Mount, where the Temple once stood—the symbol of connection between this world and the upper world.
Jerusalem is a symbol of unification. It is known that unification is what makes the people of Israel special and chosen. Without it, our nation would not have attained the degree of Bina, bestowal (symbolized by the number 40, forty years of wandering in the desert) and the land of Israel, which means “straight to the Creator” (Israel, Yashar-El).
All of this was possible through the work they performed as they went through ascents and descents, overcoming all kinds of obstacles along the path. When we work on unifying against egoism, we attain a desire aimed at the Creator, which is generally called “the land of Israel.” Then we arrive at a special, “perfect city” (Yira Shlema), called Jerusalem (Yerushalayim).
There is a mountain (Har) inside it, meaning special doubts (Irurim) through which we obtain a vessel to receive for the sake of bestowal. This is the First Temple, followed by the vessel of bestowal for the sake of bestowal, the Second Temple.
All of these states are attained only out of unity. This is not talking about stones or a geographical location but about Jerusalem “in the heart.” That is, it is talking about how to build relationships that are called “perfect trepidation,” “the perfect city” (Yira Shlema), meaning the place of unification between us and the upper force, the Creator.
Everything is expressed through unification. That is, unification is the land of Israel, Jerusalem, the Temple Mount. If there is no unification, then none of these exist either. Thus, are we really in the land of Israel and in Jerusalem today?
Speaking frankly, we are not. For now, these are merely potential notions, intended to direct us toward attaining their essence, meaning the correct unity. Then we will find that we are in the land of Israel, in Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount.
Baal HaSulam explains that we have received the land of Israel for a time, as an opportunity to realize our unity and attain redemption, meaning the revelation of the upper force. Redemption is freedom from our egoism for every person individually and all of us together. Therefore, our primary work is to unite against egoism. Then we will reveal Jerusalem in our heart, along with all the other, more internal qualities that become revealed inside it.
Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi said (Jerusalem Talmud, Tractate Hagiga): “The built Jerusalem is similar to a city that is united into one, a city that makes all of Israel friends.”
This means that when we attain a spiritual state called Jerusalem, we become a united nation of Israel, as one man. This is what Jerusalem symbolizes, its essence. No other place or nation has this approach. This is because everything becomes revealed in the nation of Israel only through unification, and without it, there is no nation of Israel, nor land of Israel, nor Jerusalem.
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From the 3d part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/24/17, Selected Excerpts for Jerusalem Day
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Question: When do you, as a Kabbalist experience the strongest experiences?
Answer: When my students don’t understand the need to be committed to the movement. These, probably, are my most intense concerns, because everything else doesn’t matter.
Question: Do you feel this as a betrayal?
Answer: No, usually it is disregard. They don’t understand the importance of spiritual advancement.
Question: And what is your strongest positive feeling?
Answer: The feeling that my students can be together, that they gather together internally into one single desire, to which they are getting closer.
Question: Does it mean that these feelings don’t concern you personally, but your students, precisely those in whom you invested?
Answer: Personally, my intention is always directed to connection with the Creator, to chasing Him, when He is hiding from me and revealing Himself in the circumstances in which I make Him to reveal Himself. I don’t have problems with this. This is my constant work.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 01/29/17
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It is written in the Torah, “When you go out to war.” A person goes out to war with his desires and scans all 613 desires by reviewing them in himself. This means “Moses appeals to the people.”
Moses is a point in the heart, the only thing that we have from the spiritual level. It also needs to be corrected because Moses developed in the house of Pharaoh (in egoism). And then, as he is corrected, he can already lead all the other desires of a person.
The correction of Moses occurs before the rise above egoism, in Egypt, and therefore, after leaving Jethro, he begins to reveal the Creator.
The Creator tells him, “Come to Pharaoh.” This means that Moses already feels two forces in him, the quality of bestowal (the Creator) and the quality of reception (Pharaoh), and lives and works between. From the moment he hears the voice of the Creator coming from the burning bush, he begins to act in these two directions.
A person through his Moses reviews all the desires within himself and clarifies which of them he should correct and which ones to put aside in order to come back to them and work with them on the different degrees.
Therefore, the Torah (from the word “Oraa” – “instruction”) is an instruction for each person that explains what his actions should be.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/19/16
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The book Siah Yitzhak, Part 2, Collection 1: The essence of creation and choice, and correction, and damage in the world—all this depends on Israel.
This is indeed so because Israel includes two forces of nature: the desire to enjoy and the spark of light. And that is why only they can reach contact with the light and extend the light to the other nations.
Israel are those in whom the sparks of light appeared in Ancient Babylon and those in whom these sparks become apparent only now. The spark can awaken in anyone, in the representative of any nation, as it was once with the Babylonians, and he or she will join this process too.
All the nations of the world depend on Israel, and they have to help the Jews in order to not just hate them for no reason, but so they push them toward correction. As the prophet Isaiah said, the nations of the world will bring the sons of Israel on their shoulders to build the Temple. In this way, the nations of the world force Israel to begin correction, showing that this is what they expect from them.
Imagine the UN suddenly decided to issue sanctions against Israel for not starting correction, that is, the people of Israel do not unite according to the wisdom of Kabbalah and the Torah, do not teach it to others, and do not show an example. If we were united, we would be treated well, and if not, we would be pressured until we have no choice but to make corrections. How would such an attitude help us?
Why is it not happening? Because all the nations are still unaware of the method of Kabbalah, including the people of Israel. That is why no one, except Kabbalists, understands what is happening. The world must know what the law of development means, what we should do, and in what order the process of correction is accomplished.
This process begins with the head, with Kabbalists, then passes on to all Jews, and then to the whole world. Everyone who can do it, joins this work; there is a place for everyone. Our time requires the world to move forward to correction; otherwise, we will find ourselves in a much harder situation than 70 to 80 years ago at the time of the Holocaust.
It is known that the Jews did not notice the threat then and did not take the opportunity to change their destiny and leave Europe. At first they even supported Hitler’s coming to power. And today, they support Obama and protest against Donald Trump, although it is obvious which of the two is against the state of Israel and who is “for” it.
These are the signals of the approaching Holocaust. Therefore, it is more important for us not to think about what happened, but to look forward and think about what we need to do so that it does not happen again. Only if all Jews unite can we save ourselves. We should cry not about the Holocaust, but about the fact that we are so stiff-necked that we cannot listen to Kabbalists’ warnings and prevent the new Holocaust.
And it will certainly come, if we do not trigger forces of mercy against forces of justice; that is, if we do not oppose hatred by unity. Now hatred and separation between Jews is stronger than in any other nation. If American Jews, both the supporters of Donald Trump and his opponents, would unite, they would come to correction.
So by the end of the Holocaust Memorial Day, everyone has to come out with one heavy thought and one concern of the heart: How can I prevent the Holocaust of my people and the world? This can be done only through connection between us, by becoming one person with one heart in mutual bestowal, so that love will cover all crimes. We have to care only that love rises above all obstacles. And then the power of unity will “spill” from the people of Israel to the whole world.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/24/17, Lesson on Topic: “Holocaust Memorial Day”
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Question: We see the world as if inside ourselves and try to satisfy our desires, but outside of us we see nothing because it seems to us that these are other people’s desires. Will Kabbalah make us feel the entire world as our own desires?
Answer: Yes, it will. Moreover, the desires that come to us as if from outside will be more meaningful to us than those that we feel inside.
You will begin to feel the desires of other people more than your own. And you will feel yourself only to the extent that it is necessary. You will be soaring, not feeling yourself. And when you think: “What can I give them?”—then you will return to yourself and begin to search inside for what you can do for them.
Question: There are billions of people around a Kabbalist. Does he only think: “What can I bestow?”
Answer: But in this measure he feels how the Light, the Creator, flows through him. He is the conductor connecting the Creator with each of the humans. They do not feel it, but he does.
Question: How can you make yourself feel others as your own desires and even more?
Answer: You must ask for it. This is the beginning of a real life.
You enjoy the fact that you transfer the idea of the Creator to everyone; you are His conductor. Therefore, you adhere to Him, becoming an instrument in His hands. The Creator is inclusive in Himself. But thanks to you, He can reach every creature.
Adhesion with the Creator is all the gain, the reward, the tribute.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/17/17
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In the News (Jerusalem Post): “The small, but vocal group [BDS] aired their grievances in a Facebook group called ‘Eurovision boycott of Israel – ZERO points to the song of Israeli Apartheid.’
“’We are a group of Israeli citizens. This week Europeans (and also Australians) will get a chance to tell Israel what we think of the oppression and dispossession of the Palestinians, and to express solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike. In the Eurovision Song Contest, we should give Zero Points to the Song of Israeli Apartheid!’ demands the group on its Facebook page.”
My Comment: This movement exists in every Jew against his own Judaism. The Jew hates himself and believes that if he joins others, he will justify himself and will receive protection from them. This operates in him subconsciously, because the whole egoistic nature of our world is opposed to being a true Jew. Jew (from the root “Yichud” – unity) symbolizes unity. The people of Israel were founded by a group of people who decided to unite and live in peace and friendship without any difference between them, in equality. In fact, this was a true communistic society.
With the destruction of the First and Second Temples, this changed. Love was exchanged for mutual hatred, revulsion, and rejection. All of this is fully revealed in the BDS organization.
Question: Do you think that Jews are most active in BDS?
Answer: Yes, of course. All of the great anti-Semites were Jews, beginning with Torquemada and even Titus in ancient Rome, and so it has been throughout all of history. If we dig into history a bit, then all the most active anti-Semitic ideologues were Jews.
In them speaks the greatest hatred to unity, to the reconstruction of people, to that group of people that would show an example to all the world as it should be to unite and reach the mutual love of all people. They do not know that they are serving as the carriers of hatred in our world so that through the hatred, people will understand the necessity of transforming it into love. That is how the higher management operates.
Question: Do you think that a great accumulation of hatred will ultimately awaken and summon an attraction toward love?
Answer: Yes. That is what happens in general. The “bending” must go through the branching point, and then it will be understood how to act in practice. One always gives rise to the opposite of itself.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 5/11/17
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Torah, Deuteronomy 24:12 – 24:13: And if he is a poor man, you shall not lie down [to sleep] with his security. You shall return the security to him by sunset, so that he may lie down [to sleep] in his garment…
Clothes, the dressing of the soul, is a restriction, a screen (Masach), and Returning Light that is in what you receive the soul. Without the garment, you can’t sense it within yourself.
The rich and poor are two Partzufim, upper and lower. Fulfillment of the poor (lower) depends on the rich (upper) that is obliged to give everything to the lower for the fulfillment of the soul. This means “to return a deposit.”
If the upper has a screen that he must transfer to the lower, he doesn’t have a right to delay it, especially at night, because otherwise the lower will find himself in the dark without the means to cope with the darkness, that is, in an egoistic desire. The upper must take care of him, because he has the screen that he can transfer to the lower. This screen is called a garment.
It is written, “You shall return the security to him by sunset, so that he may lie down to sleep in his garment,” in other words, so that he would have protection from egoism.
From the material point of view, it can be interpreted as if a person must sleep dressed in clothes. Indeed, even according to the Torah you must change for the night in some kind of shelter, for example, under the blanket, because like roots and branches, without clothes you become naked.
From the spiritual point of view, “naked” is an inner state when you lose the garment and the Inner Light and the soul disappears from you immediately. You become food for Klipot (impure desires). All your desires immediately turn into egoistic ones.
Therefore, you can undress only in order to enter the Mikva (a pool for ablution) to clean yourself from egoistic desires and to dress again, meaning to obtain the anti-egoistic screen again, because the body is egoism and the garment on it is the screen.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/31/16
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Question: Are there upper forms of consciousness?
Answer: These are the only forms that there are. In our world, consciousness is subordinate to the small egoistic desire and serves only that desire. The upper consciousness is that which serves the Creator. This consciousness stems from attaining the Creator, from resembling Him, from working together with Him.
Question: How can we understand what the Creator wants from us?
Answer: The Creator wants us to be like Him, so we must learn the method that reveals the Creator. To the extent that we learn it, we will attain Him and resemble Him.
Question: Does this mean that as long as we don’t attain the Creator, we will not be able to understand what He wants?
Answer: The Creator wants you to enjoy.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/15/17
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