Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 03.08.17
Posted on March 8th, 2017
Preparation for the Lesson
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Lesson on the Topic: “Purim,” Part 1
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Lesson on the Topic: “Purim,” Part 2
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Preparation for the Lesson
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Lesson on the Topic: “Purim,” Part 1
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Lesson on the Topic: “Purim,” Part 2
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Preparation for the Lesson
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Lesson on the Topic: “Purim”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Mutual Guarantee,” Item 28
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Like little children are unable to perceive the world in front of them that is above their comprehension, so is a person, not comprehending the laws of nature, is unable to perceive anything above his own level.
This is why, existing in this world and having researched almost all its material laws, we as scientists, politicians, educated and mature people, still do not know its spiritual laws.
But there comes a time in the evolution of humanity, when we begin to be directly dependent on these laws. Straightforward evolution is ending, which only existed as a result of the growth of human ego, and egoism is beginning to “spiral into itself.” As a result, the world becomes more round, closed, and integral, like a global “small village.”
However, humanity is not aware of the spiritual laws and that is the reason for all the confusion. Not only are the ordinary people are confused, but even those who stood in power and ruled over us, they too are unable to act correctly and govern without knowing the laws of nature. Nature’s behavior today is changing and traversing from material laws to spiritual, and we do not know what to do with it.
It is as if we have lost the ability to direct our lives: family, country, nation, world, human interactions, finances, and commerce. Something strange is happening, with each day becoming more and more incomprehensible and unknown.
And that is why in our time, the wisdom of Kabbalah is being revealed. It explains: “By Your actions, we will know You,” that is, it is necessary to understand the actions of the upper force, the Creator, and from it we will comprehend how today’s world behaves.
Otherwise we will suffer more and more. Nature, like a caring parent, pressures us like an unruly child, demanding that we change because otherwise we will feel bad.
The laws established in the world of Infinity, in the relationship between the Light and desire, are absolute and unchanging. The wisdom of Kabbalah explains in what form we can connect to the Light, which is the source of life, knowledge, and fulfilment.
It is necessary to study these upper laws, without which we will not be able to continue to exist. And that is why the wisdom of Kabbalah, as a science of the attainment of the upper force, becomes today’s most important need.
There was a time when it was studied at one’s own interest, by specific chosen individuals in each generation, who were motivated to reveal the upper force in accordance with their inner calling. But today there are many people who desire to know the upper force, all its laws and behavior.
And the entire world begins to understand that our lives are impacted by new laws, new conditions, which we are not capable of organizing correctly. In our time, it’s essential to attain the upper force by its actions even for the simplest material existence.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/17, Lesson on the Topic: Preparation for the Convention, Part 1
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Everyone already feels that the world is in a state of the global crisis. At first, attempts had been made to cover it up, but after the 2008 financial collapse the world had to acknowledge the existence of crisis.
Today, after the events that took place in Europe, the problems of the European Common Market, and the situation with refugees, after the US election that caused a drastic change in the political course, our world begins to realize that it is undergoing serious transformations.
In addition to that, we have got revolutionary changes in engineering, technology, global warming, mass unemployment, a lot of extraordinary phenomena in nature and in human society, family disintegration, the sharp increase in drug abuse, as well as despair and depression, which has become the most widespread illness. Undoubtedly, the world’s current state can be called critical.
More than that, there is a danger of a new world war, as well as many other problems. The question arises, “How to bring humanity out of this crisis and lead it to a better state”? Every normal person who wants to live a good, safe life, and raise children knowing that they will have a brighter future ponders over this.
Today’s world does not give us hope for a good future neither for ourselves nor for our children. This is why people instinctively shy away from starting a family and taking on necessary commitments.
Can anything be done to change a general situation? The state of the world demands it, with the internal tensions intensifying in every country around the globe.
It seems like humanity has lost its way; perhaps it happened a long time ago, but it is becoming apparent only now. It is as if a person keeps going and going, and suddenly realizes that he drove in a completely wrong direction and doesn’t know how to find the right way. It is not even clear now how to get back to the point where he lost his way.
We ought to get very serious now because we ended up someplace unknown, and the main thing is not to make even greater mistakes. After all, the forces at humanity’s disposal are very powerful and dangerous. The only way out of the crisis is to develop new, altruistic, social and human values.
This means that the solution cannot be reached at any level and in any respect, other than in the system of integral education that has to be provided to all people. We cannot change the conditions given to us by nature, but everything depends on our relationships with each other, within a family, a nation, a country with all its parties and movements, as well as between countries and the world as a whole.
Human relationships can only be corrected through education. It is like when seeing children fist fighting, everyone understands that they lack good upbringing. There is no point screaming at them and punishing them because nothing will help except for upbringing. If you give them more games, you’ll bring in even more conflict. And if some dangerous toys like sticks and stones happen to get into their hands, they can hurt each other.
This is why the only thing that humanity needs is education, and not new technology. The education of a person is the most sensitive and effective area for promoting changes.
There is abundance in the world, and there is no lack of provisions. Instead of throwing away a third of all the products we can feed all the hungry and still have extra left. Likewise, there is no shortage in clothing.
The whole problem is in the wrong relationships between us that prevent us from arranging our life in such a way that everyone will be alright. There is no shortage of energy sources, or any other resources needed to man. Then why are they not available to everyone? Because we do not take care of everyone!
After all, one feels confident specifically when he is better off than the others. If I make a thousand a month, and you make only eight hundred, I feel good. I need to evaluate myself in comparison to someone else, and according to my ego, a good state is only when the other has less than I do.
This is why it is necessary to bring humanity to the point where it starts taking care of everyone. Two things are required for that: first, the state laws that prohibit individuals to cause it harm, and second, education that compels a person to act for the benefit of others.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/26/17, Lesson on the Topic: “Mismah Arosa (Arosa Document),” “Plan for Getting Out of Crisis”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Mutual Guarantee,” Item 24
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Lesson on the Topic: “Purim”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Mutual Guarantee,” Item 23
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From the “Crisis and its Solution” (Lecture in Arosa 2006)
Only by interacting as a single whole can cells exist, develop, and multiply. The law of altruistic interaction functions in every created being except man. Man is given freedom of will to realize the need for altruism and to observe this general law of nature.
Seeing how animals devour each other, it is hard for us to call them altruists. Everything created: inanimate matter, plants, animals, and humans are complete egoists. So, where do we see that altruism is a program of nature?
But when it comes to the internal program embedded in every creature, we can say that all of nature is built according to the law of mutual help and support between everyone. We just look at nature through our egoistic eyes and because of that we blame it to the extent of our own depravity.
If we assess nature not from the negative side, from our egoism, but from the side of a positive systematic approach, we will see that all its systems work properly. Instead of asserting that “all devour all,” we can say that “each exists for others.”
Due to the fact that one becomes food for another, as it usually happens in nature, each degree exists in order to sustain the degree above it, and it continues for the higher degrees. And for whom was man created? His mission is to make his desire to enjoy “food” for a higher degree, for the desire to bestow.
It is difficult to realize that the law of nature is altruism, because it doesn’t manifest itself openly. We don’t see kind, altruistic connections between all parts of nature. On the contrary, we see egoistic connections where each one cares only about its own benefit and devours others.
It happens this way on all the levels: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human. It could be concluded that overall, total egoism, the desire to enjoy, is the law of nature, rather than the desire to bestow and altruism.
But with the development of science, intelligence, and human society, we gradually begin to discover that connection between all parts of nature is more important than the existence of each of them. That is, the central points of creation are not the clumps of matter, but the spaces between them. Exactly in these spaces the most important things happen, but we don’t know about it.
Connections between separate elements of creation are more important than these elements. After all, the elements consist of the simple desire to enjoy, and inside the connection between them is all the energy and matter. There actually is the true reality that we are not yet able to comprehend.
A man, who is at the center of creation is the most important part, that is, the connections between people. Through our unity, we assure all of nature and lead to the fact that all other parts of nature are pacified and establish good connections between them.
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From the 3d part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/12/17, Lesson on the Topic, “Mismah Arosa,” (Arosa Document)
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Mutual Guarantee,” Item 20
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