Let Us Understand Our Purpose and Our Duty, and Accomplish It

First of all, we must explain to the Jewish people that the boycott at this stage is only the beginning of the pressure, both corporeal and spiritual, that awaits us. Ahead are much more severe situations as described by the prophets of Israel, and all of this, then, is to oblige us to take correct action as the people of Israel living in their own land and to set a good example to the world.

Then we will understand that anti-Semitism is only there so that the people of Israel would take upon themselves the mission to achieve brotherly love and show everyone how to apply the method of unity through the Light that Reforms.

After all, no one else has this method and cannot have it. The Light that Reforms goes out to the world only through the people of Israel. That is why this nation is called a “kingdom of priests” and “a holy nation.” When the nations of the world accept the basics of unity from us, the first spiritual quantum of Light, their attitude toward us will immediately, diametrically change. As the prophet Isaiah said, they will carry the sons of Israel on their shoulders and bring them to the temple in Jerusalem.

Only, it will take a decision—when we will provide a true example of unity that our world needs so much? In today’s global and integral reality, we cannot survive if we do not unite with each other in an equal society with entirely good relationships. In such a society, people become related to each other, help each other, and maintain relations of friendship and love.

How do we achieve this in a world that is opposed to such aspirations? This work isn’t up to us, but to the Upper Light.

To be continued…
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From KabTV’s “About the Boycott of Israel” 6/3/15

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Question: Was the great Kabbalist Baal HaSulam far ahead of his time when he wrote the article, “The Last Generation,” in the beginning of the 20^th century about humanity inevitably achieving a communistic society?

Answer: A Kabbalist isn’t ahead of his time. Rather, he sees everything from end to end. For him time doesn’t exist! He simply rises to the next level from which it is possible to understand what is happening with us. Actually, the wisdom of Kabbalah makes it possible for us to rise to a higher level where we clearly see that we need to re-educate ourselves, how to do it, and what we must reach. It accurately teaches by which path it is possible to reach the goal so that we will work correctly on ourselves.

Question: In the article, “The Last Generation,” Baal HaSulam prepared an answer for all questions. It is left to us to research this article and realize it together. We hope that this will help us to find the answer to the question, “What can we expect?”

Answer: What is waiting for us is what we choose. People must understand the necessity of developing a mutual connection, which increases the sensitivity of a person to his environment, and become like the general system about which the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks. Even if a person doesn’t see this system, with the help of special training and special exercises called roundtables or discussion circles, he can feel that this reveals a new positive force on the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate.

In nature, plus and minus are balanced, so all of its objects act instinctively, accommodating to the influence of nature while in a human being there is only one negative force. So, he needs to discover the positive force of nature, balance the negative force through it, and go forward in the balance and harmony of the middle line. Then, he is called Adam (Man), while, now, he is on the level of the beast.

To be continued…
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From KabTV’s “About Our Life” 5/11/15

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Question: Do we see that there was a need for the way of suffering only so that toward the end of the 20^th century humanity would say, “We have reached a blind alley, there is nothing left to investigate?”

Answer: Humanity doesn’t even look at its history. Now it simply gathers sensations and emotions that lead it to the understanding that it is impossible to advance further this way.

We have become locked in and have begun to perceive each other as ourselves. What happens in South America, Australia, Asia, or Africa, all of this exists within me. Each one of us sees on what is happening at the other end of the world television. Each one of us has become a man of the world. We are beginning to feel ourselves as one large and closed society in which we are completely dependent on one another.

Imagine if a nuclear accident occurred at some nuclear power plant or a nuclear submarine exploded somewhere or some deadly virus spread, it would be bad for everyone. One incident like this would be enough, and everything would begin to die. Today, we depend on each other so much that, against our will, we are becoming linked as one family.

How can we make people understand their dependence on everyone else so that they can rise to the level of a single family?  After all, it is impossible to solve this through war?

We have a a situation in the world, like in a family, where the couple hasn’t loved each other for many years. They consider each other as strangers, and because of their egos, they don’t want to forgive, to indulge, to provide for and serve each other. As a result of this, they divorce. That is the way 50% to 60% of the population behaves. But they cannot get divorced! Give us another Earth so that all of those who are dissatisfied would go and live there. Impossible! This means that the only thing that is left to do is to educate people.

This is precisely what the wisdom of Kabbalah was talking about thousands of years ago, “Wait! A time like this will come, and in the meantime I am hiding myself from you.” That is how it quietly ducked down and concealed itself, and now it is beginning to emerge and assert itself, “Here is the method for you with whose help you can attain the right and perfect state for yourself without wars.”

The wisdom of Kabbalah spoke about this for all these thousands of years, only it could not be revealed to people, just like you can’t give an atomic bomb. Everything must be in its time, and now the time has come.

To be continued…
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From KabTV’s “About Our Life” 5/11/15

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We know how much suffering people who were involved with the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah went through since the time that the method of the Ari began to be introduced in this world. And this is not because of someone’s evil will but because we exist in a broken system.

And the moment that you begin to go out with your spiritual idea that is directed towards connection between people, you immediately put yourself under fire from all directions.

Someone who was neutral and even supported you also comes out against you. After all, you are arousing anti-egoistic forces and egoism is the nature of the whole world. So we see that there aren’t any people in whom anti-Semitism isn’t hiding, after all, it comes from nature. It is possible to ignite the fire of this hatred in everyone.

Correspondingly, anyone who hears about the wisdom of Kabbalah hates it because he is in the nature of the broken desires. And if he is attracted to the wisdom of Kabbalah, it is only out of curiosity. But in fact, he hates it, and to the degree that he gets closer to it, he hates it more and more, until he abandons it.

There has to be great help from above and work in this world, so that together they will influence a person, and he will cross the potential Machsom (barrier) standing before him, leap above it, and rise to his first spiritual level.

We know how the first Hasidim suffered; they were arrested and put in prison in Russia and in the Ukraine. Against them was the Mitnagdim (the movement against Hasidism). Those religious Jews hated the Hassids who wanted to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah so much that they made efforts to imprison them and condemn them to death. The fire of hatred burn in the religious Jews regarding those who tried to open the wisdom of Kabbalah and spoke about connecting people and revealing the hearts that this hatred is felt to this day, even though modern Hassidism is no longer the ideology it once was, and therefore, there is not as much opposition to it.

We know how much Baal HaSulam suffered. When he published the newspaper, The Nation it was immediately shut it down. He planned to write 50 articles continuing with “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah),” “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee),” and “Peace in the World.” But instead of 50 articles, he only published four as he was forced to stop because the newspaper was shut down. He said: “If so, then the generation is not ready for this, and there is nobody to write for!” How many new ideas would we have gotten if he hadn’t stopped?

Even during my life with Rabash I saw how much it was difficult to be involved with studying Kabbalah. Today there are many such groups, and if you sit in your corner and don’t go out, everything is okay, there will not be opposition. But the moment that you go out, you will get blows. Like the Jews who lived in exile in the closed ghettos, the Kabbalists lived among the Jews.

But the time has come when we must come out of hiding not for the sake of some abstract idea, but because the correction in our generation is possible only with the inclusion of masses of people. The connection between them is the only condition necessary for revelation. It follows that if I don’t connect to others, I don’t create the conditions, the means, the basis, the bearer in which the Light can be revealed.

And then all of my studying would be in vain; it would bring no added value that would allow me to realize myself and truly merit the discovery of the Light, the revelation of the Creator, raising myself to the first spiritual level. This is possible only if thousands more will connect with this. Even though the power of each is minimal, together they are strong in quantity that works together with the qualitative force that worked in previous generations.

And so we have received the opportunity to fill the desire that is burning in us. It burns a bit in each one, like a thin candle. But if we connect many candles together, a gigantic blaze is created that is prepared to illuminate with spiritual Light.
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From the Talk about the Importance of Dissemination 3/19/14

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(Continued from the “Revolution Of The 21^st Century: Rich Man, Poor Man”)

Having engaged the people, the integral methodology will, in fact, lead to reducing the gap between the rich and poor; it will  become acceptable and no one will see it as unbearable. The familiar feeling as if the rich rob us will disappear.

As part of the new relationship, without any negative incentives, the rich themselves will be willing to share more than you can imagine today. Their contribution to society will be enormous.

We are talking about successful people who, under the new conditions, will be able to manage society correctly and integrally including the interests of the weaker sections of the population. The poor are incapable of this. Only their children and grandchildren will be able to become good managers.

Thus, in addition to social learning, nothing else will help. It’s either the one or the other. Gradually, the poor will realize that they need the skills and abilities of the rich, and the rich will realize that they must serve the poor. As a result, both parts of society will be imbued with unity and love, and confidence in the future.

There is no other solution.

For example, in Russia, the October Revolution completely destroyed the previous system down to the foundations, and the dire consequences of this are still being felt. You cannot put a housewife in the leadership of the country.

The same thing is happening in the Israeli Knesset: Some journalists become politicians and lawmakers. Moreover, he strives to become the Prime Minister. On what basis? Indeed, one, must first graduate from several universities, take special courses, and gain experience.

In the West, it is done in this way. Not everyone can be a good head of state or a minister or member of parliament. However, here eloquence replaces true qualifications.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 5/14/15

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In the News (golos-ameriki): “Turn on the TV and see one problem after another, an endless number of problems. Fear, tension, depression. The feeling that everything has gone out of control. Maharishi used to say: ‘The negativity is like darkness.’ Darkness – is the absence of light, the darkness does not need to be fought. You just have to turn on the light. Turn on the light, and darkness will go away. If you are able to illuminate your inner field of feelings and perceptions with bright light, you can say that you are a different person. Light banishes negativity. And you do not need a very large number of ‘fireflies.’ It is enough for just one percent of the population to significantly expand the field of positive. The world is currently hanging in a dark cloud of negativity. It is necessary to make an enormous effort to disperse the cloud.”

My Comment: In principle, this is what we are doing. But I think 600,000 bearers of Light will be sufficient for the whole world to be entirely illuminated with Light. And to begin with, dozens are enough!
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All the work until the generation of the Messiah is in self-annulment, although there are differences according to the destiny of each soul. In every generation there are high souls that have special missions.

This continues until we reach the time of the Messiah, which we are in today. The whole world becomes on soul, one family, and so we have to perform actions according to the time we live in.

This doesn’t mean that we have to sit and wait for the Messiah and hope for some miracle from Above. There are no miracles. There is only one miracle: the spark that awakens in a person. Everything else depends on one’s efforts and on his work, and there are no concessions here on the part of the upper system. Our mission is to draw the Light that Reforms unto ourselves and to correct the incorporation of all in all.

Today it is fulfilled by dissemination, using all the opportunities we have.  After all, it is the most real and practical action of correction that we can perform. This is the reason that we cannot escape this work. We should understand that all our study and all the systems we have built are all meant only to continue the dissemination of the method of correction and connection.

This is the major part of our work through which we will be rewarded with a corrected soul and will attain the form of Adam (Man). Then we will discover what the height of 600,000 souls that make that Malchut is. All the souls of Israel are included in Malchut of the world of Atzilut and rise with it to the height of GAR of Atzilut, called 600,000, ,which is 620 times greater, or the complete attainment from the minimal Light of Nefesh of Nefesh of Nefesh until the attainment of the complete Light of NRNHY.

This is our work, and the most important thing is not to forget that our mutual incorporation is the fulfillment of the correction. Its practical embodiment is the incorporation of the whole nation, as it says: “The Creator dwells among His people.” It is there that we find our corrections and the correction of our soul.

We must not forget that this requires continuous work and caring about people. There are different levels here: the still, vegetative, and animate nature and man, and even a poor beggar is as important as a prince. Those who are on the level of the whole nation have the power from their great mass of billions of people. On the level of the vegetative there are fewer parts, and there are even fewer on the animate level, while on the human level there are just a few.

Eventually we meet with the whole world, with all the people of all sorts that will later be clarified. We cannot identify them immediately. We see that people are ignited at first and then they cool off or that they follow the right path along a very thin line and then they suddenly divert and are attracted to an unknown direction.

We have to take care of everyone, like children, until they grow up. We must remember that it is actually thanks to this care that we correct ourselves and grow. We can attain the one soul only by dissemination; this is our mission.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/21/14

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We are witnessing great disruptions all over the world these days. But we know from our history and according to the spiritual structure that these waves eventually accumulate and turn against Israel, against the Jews. That’s the way it has always been and that’s the way it will be.

The prophets wrote a lot about the days of the Messiah, and you should read what they say. If we don’t hasten time and don’t perform the necessary corrections on the spiritual dimension, they will occur in the corporeal world in a totally different manner.

The spiritual corrections stem from the internality of the vessels, because Israel is the internality of the world. But if Israel doesn’t take the process of correction upon themselves, the corrections will be through the nations of the world that are starting to act against Israel. We have already seen the outcomes of such actions.

Today, 70 years after WWII we are in the same spiral and the threat is consolidating and increasing. In the meantime, the struggle is against other states, but everything will eventually arrive at the main root of reality, which is the conflict between Israel and the rest of the world.

We shouldn’t wait for the wave of hostility to hit us again and this time from every corner of the earth. This time there will not be those who support us and those who are against us. The whole world will be against us now, just as the prophets say. This is the reason that we have to fulfill the corrections that we are responsible for now: to go out to the public as much as we can and to connect the parts that belong to our spiritual vessel to us, in order to reach a magnitude in quantity and in quality that will be suitable for the appearance of the first upper Light, Nefesh of Nefesh.

This is the only thing that can save us from all the Klipot (shells) and separate us from all the forces of impurity with a firewall. Then we will find ourselves in this spiritual vessel and will develop it more and more until we reach adhesion with the Creator. This is the call of our times; this is our mission. We have to prepare ourselves for these actions, know that we correct our souls through them, and that it is only by the connections between us that we can reveal our soul, which means the revelation of the Creator to us the created beings.

All our groups abroad continue the ordinary actions of dissemination like before, but in Israel we have a special agenda for dissemination. After all, we have to become the force to which there will be no resistance. If anyone rises against us, we will have the power to stand against him. Otherwise we will not be able to fulfill our mission. This isn’t an action of external dissemination but collecting the parts of the soul without which it cannot reach the first full measure that enables the revelation of the Creator inside it. We have to connect all the parts of the soul until we reach a magnitude of 600,000, just like the nation of Israel at gathering at Mt. Sinai.

We need such a strong connection in the group so that the Upper Light will be revealed in it. This is the reason that we have to see this act of dissemination as the quest for our soul. We are assembling the general soul and preparing the basis for the revelation of the Creator, without which the world will continue to deteriorate, and I find its condition very worrisome.
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From the Talk about the Importance of Dissemination 3/19/14

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Integral Education Convention, Lecture # 1:

Question: Is it easier for the Israeli nation to understand or to feel that “there is none else besides Him” because of the uniqueness of this country and its education?

Answer: Everyone says that the Jews are a special nation; this isn’t new. The question is what this uniqueness is.

The Jews are special because they were on a spiritual height in the past. This is the group that came out of Babylon together with Abraham. All the Babylonians are called Yehudi (Jews), which stems from the Hebrew word “Yichud” – “unity.” The word “עברים – Hebrews” stems from the word “עבר –  moved,” which refers to those who have crossed to the other side, to the altruistic side. Israel are those who have an intention Yashar-El, straight to the Creator. This means that all the names that relate to this nation stem from its spiritual ascent.

When the nation was on a spiritual height it overcame its ego and then according to the thought of creation underwent two breakings—the destruction of the First and Second Temples and accordingly the shattering of the vessels, of HGT and NHYM. After the final shattering, the nation was exiled for the last time, and now it has to ascend.

Because the Jews were on a spiritual level their ego naturally grew even more after the fall. They were so even before the fall, as it says in the Torah, that back in the time of the exile in Egypt this nation was as stubborn as a donkey. When they fell from their spiritual height they became even worse.

Of course they have changed greatly during the last two thousand years and have undergone terrible sufferings and accordingly underwent many changes, but they still have no idea whatsoever what the wisdom of Kabbalah is and what the method which is their spiritual legacy means. They are totally indifferent to it.

This is the nation that is in the worst state of all the other nations because it carries the Reshimo (reminiscences) of its spiritual fall.

Accordingly there is a special atmosphere in Israel. How will a correction take place here? It is up to us. The correction will naturally take place here and partially in other nations, but only partially because people who have inherited the spiritual roots have to return to them and together with all those who awaken spiritually for different reasons to set an example for the whole world.

But I don’t want to get into why someone in South America or from Siberia, for example, begins to feel an attraction towards the spiritual ascent. There are good reasons for that. It either happens as a result of the mutual incorporation of the spiritual genes, the Reshimot, that occurred during the last two thousand years or because it turns out that a certain person belongs to the nation that used to be on a spiritual height.

Those who aspire for the Creator are called Israel. All our groups around the world belong to this group, but we also have to work with the local public. This isn’t easy, but we have to do it.

I wouldn’t say that it is easier for the Israeli nation to feel that “There is none else besides Him,” because their ego is much bigger than the others. It is much more difficult for the local population to come to this than any other public.

On the one hand, it is easier to lead any other nation up the spiritual levels, but on the other hand, the two opposite sides of the Jews nation are very prominent. It isn’t by chance that the Jews took an active part in every movement and every revolution that brought about changes in society, although only egoistic changes for the time being. Now the time has come for the spiritual changes.

I hope that we will see how all the differences between peoples and nations, cultures and civilizations gradually disappear and they all become the one nation of the Creator. This is what should happen.
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From the World Zohar Week “Integral Education Convention” Day Three 2/4/14, Lesson 1

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The correction of the broken soul began with Adam HaRishon (the First Man) and has continued for nearly six thousand years, until our day. We are in the last stage, which is unique in that the correction must continue with the understanding and awareness of masses of people, meaning those souls in which the sparks from the Shevirat (breaking) are clothed.

In all these thousands of years from Adam HaRishon until our day there were different periods in which the souls were corrected in all kinds of ways individually, meaning in small groups. The first group was created by Abraham and was called Israel (Yashar-El – straight to God).

But today we are in a unique period called “The Last Generation” by the Kabbalists. After all, specifically now it is up to us to realize the wisdom of Kabbalah in a practical way, which means that all the people join in the process of correction.

This is the unique characteristic of the last period of correction, which must finish in the next few years or in the next few decades, depending on the efforts that we do. Up until now the higher management was compelled to work with us, and it was almost impossible for us to accelerate the development and change the timing.

Everything was revealed from above to below: building the first Beit HaMikdash (Temple)—its destruction, building the second Beit HaMikdash—its destruction, and that is how it was until the end of the last exile.

But from this moment on, after the return of the people of Israel to their land, the last stage of the correction began, which requires understanding, awareness, and the joining of all of humanity in the process. Included in this are not only a few chosen individuals and small groups, but in the end, the whole world must join in. The Kabbalists wrote about this, and it was revealed in the form that the higher system built. After the whole world joins in the process, we will merit the desired correction.

So studying alone is not enough for us. The study is said to attract the Light that Reforms to us and strengthen the person in his activities on the level in which he is found. If one is not working work with the community, which is what is most important, there is no reason to study the wisdom of Kabbalah. After all, its realization is specifically through the practical expansion of our circle more and more.

This expansion, this extension in all directions, is an absolutely necessary action, which is unique and doesn’t typify any previous period of the existence of Judaism. This wisdom always was hidden, secret, and people who learned it gathered in modest, inconspicuous places to avoid attracting attention to themselves and to not to stand out. They existed in a form completely opposite to all other religions.

But now, on the contrary,  our period is absolutely different and we must show what true religion is and what the destiny of man is in this world.

In all generations the Kabbalists dreamt about beginning this work, but the time to act had not yet arrived. Only in our time has it become possible.
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From the Talk about the Importance of Dissemination 3/19/14

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