From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 8/7/18
What The Next Generation Really Wants
There is a way to break through out of our egoistic nature, and live in another dimension.
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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 8/6/18
Modern Life is a Life of Loneliness
The new epidemic in the modern world is loneliness.
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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 8/5/18
An example of failing global affairs: when the new Italian government made it clear that it would not be “Europe’s refugee camp” and refused to bring in ships with immigrants, the implication was immediately evident in its neighbor, Spain, where 22,000 immigrants have arrived since the beginning of the year.
The Spanish government does not meet the burden: there are not enough policemen, not enough beds, not enough food. But this isn’t Spain or Italy’s problem, it’s the continent’s problem. EU leaders fail to present a true, long term solution, as they make a decision to open or close their gates based on political, economic and reputational reasons.
But mass immigration is only a symptom. It joins a long list of intricacies that make up a multi-faceted global crisis facing humanity—socially, economically, and ecologically. And all those challenges share a common root: the incompatibility of a divided humanity with an increasingly interdependent world.
Europe is where many of the global challenges are rising to the surface at once, demanding to be solved. As part of that, today’s Europe is eating the bitter porridge it has cooked for itself since the days of the capitalist colonialist race of the late nineteenth century, where European powers were hungry for the wealth of natural resources and cheap manpower of Asia and Africa.
The European pride tells a story of moral and cultural contribution to primitive Third World populations. But in practice, history shows that many countries that were under European rule did not receive the educational, economic, and political means to enable them to join the rest of the world as equals. In fact, European countries uprooted the ancient spiritual values from Africa with the dissemination of Christianity, and led to ethnic segregation, and even brutal civil wars, with their agenda to divide and conquer.
Today, the boomerang is flying back to hit Europe. The swarms of African immigrants that flood its gates pose a socioeconomic burden on countries, while millions of Muslims are gradually reshaping European culture.
Sooner or later, we will all recognize that humanity has become one large colony that inhabits immigrants from almost every country. In parallel, our inevitable global interdependence will necessitate us to make significant socioeconomic changes, to balance the standard of living across all countries.
“Do not be surprised if I mix together the well-being of a particular collective with the well-being of the whole world,” writes Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag in his article “Peace in the world.” “Because indeed, we have already come to such a degree that the whole world is considered one collective and one society… Therefore, everyone must care for the whole world in order to ensure his own existence.”
Global vision, an integral feeling, cooperative thinking are just some of the principles of the new approach we must cultivate within us. A fundamental change in human awareness is bound to happen. If we see the necessity for this in advance, and move toward it of our own accord, our “migration” to a new connected world will be a lot more peaceful.
From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 8/1/18
Breast Milk: Humanity’s Greatest Natural Asset
As we head into World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7, 2018), the US has just made breastfeeding in public legal in all 50 states. Hopefully, the new legislation will raise the importance of breastfeeding in general.
At this point you may be asking yourself, what does the wisdom of Kabbalah have to do with encouraging women to breastfeed?
The wisdom of Kabbalah deals a lot with the concept of ‘suckling’, but not in its physiological aspect, rather in the context of its spiritual roots – the spiritual forces that create the phenomenon of breastfeeding in our physical world.
From the spiritual system we can learn that the mother’s natural nourishment contains unique forces, vital not only to the physical body of the newborn, but also for his or her spiritual development. However, the scientific tools we have today are incapable of detecting all of the subtle and delicate components found in breast milk.
Beyond the many benefits of mother’s milk that medicine indicates, such as antibodies that protect the newborn’s body against diseases, mental development, and more, there is also an emotional nourishment that flows between the mother and baby. The newly arrived baby needs continuous contact with his mother, in as much as it can be similar to how it was in the womb.
Breastfeeding connects the mother and infant to a single system, in which the mother’s blood turns into milk, and becomes blood once again within the baby’s body. This is why breast milk is so important, since it’s almost identical to being fed through the umbilical cord in the mother’s womb.
The great Kabbalist, the Ari, wrote about the spiritual roots of this in his book Tree of Life (Etz Chaim): “After the birth of the newborn, the upper blood returns to be milk… blood is turned into milk within the full belly, and from that juice, butter is made to feed the baby.”
The milk carries with it the mother’s physicality and her smell, but also her attitude and her inner world, her life wisdom and other factors that cannot be measured scientifically. It is an open communication channel for twenty-four months, through which much information flows, raising the baby according to the countless changes that shape his world emotionally, physiologically and mentally.
At the age when the baby begins to walk and still breastfeeds, as several layers of connection are formed. On the one hand, the baby can “escape” its mother and begin to build his independence away from her. On the other hand, the emotional need and the constant connection between them connects them for life.
The mother also enjoy the benefits of breastfeeding not only in the physical sense, but as it is written, “Hear the sons of your father’s morality, and not abandon your mother’s Torah” (Proverbs 1: 8). From his mother, the baby receives what is referred to as “Torah” – the inner lights that develop his inner qualities, preparing him for future spiritual development. Over the course of his life, he will seek that deep connection, only at a higher level – to be born as a spiritual person and suckle from his higher root.
For more about this subject please see my article about why stay-at-home mothers should benefit first from basic income >>>>>>
From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 8/1/18
Earlier this week, I came back from a successful international Kabbalah convention in Rome. Three days of exhilarating connection that filled me and hundreds of my students. However, before the flight back, we saw another reality.
The restaurants were empty of diners, the shops empty of buyers. The boot-shaped country is limping. The capital of Italy, known for its glamorous culture of food and fashion, is losing its glamour. The demographic balance has also changed, my local students have told me. Couples consider marriage only from the age of thirty-five and up, if at all. And they are not worried about having children, because according to them, it can happen until they are fifty.
Checking the Italian pulse reinforces a global diagnosis: human culture is both dying and being reborn at the same time. What used to be shiny is no longer apparent to the human ego. People are becoming indifferent as emptiness grows inside of them. It lands like a cloud, covering the horizon, and causing everyone to walk in the fog.
From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 7/26/18
Our three-day Kabbalah conference in Rome began this evening. Its purpose is to awaken great desire for unity as the sole means for bringing humanity into balance with nature. Over 500 Europeans are participating in the conference, while the rest of the students from around the world participate online. This is the true European Union!
From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 7/26/18
Dear Toronto Group,
We are happy to join you in celebrating your new home. I am sure that the Bnei Baruch center in Toronto will be a warm and loving place where great light will shine—a light that will surround you, a light that will turn into your inner light, a light that will shine unity and happiness to the whole world! 🇨🇦️
From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 7/22/18
The ego holds us captive, chains us to a dividing worldview in which we can never rebuild our society. At the moment, it seems like the need for change will only come with intensifying troubles, wars, struggles and protests. But there is another way. Shorter, faster and more pleasant to all of us. It is through consciously playing, through practice, through education.
For two thousand years the Kabbalists have been pointing to unity as a solution to all our troubles. They warn us in every way they can that if we don’t connect to our common spiritual root, the events of life will teach us to do so in a very difficult and long-winding path. Therefore, we must begin relating to the better future we want for ourselves and our children, to the positive relationship between all of us.
From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 7/22/18
Days of misfortune and calamity or a time to rebuild?
From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 7/22/18
Our world is governed by two forces, a positive force and a negative force. We, humans, are in between these two forces. The spiritual root of the negative force is referred to as the 9th of Av (Tisha B’Av).
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