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Why Does The Creator Boast Of Creating Evil?

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Why does the Creator “say”: “I created the evil inclination” (Kiddushin 30b), and boasts that He created the evil inclination?

Answer: Because if the egoistic evil inclination that is completely detached from the spiritual world didn’t exist, then also we and all of creation that is the opposite of the Creator would not exist.

If the creation will rise to the level of the Creator, then it will have some additional value. Its nature is bound to be the opposite of the higher nature, otherwise it would not be independent.

The descent of the worlds from above to below, the breaking of the soul, the manner of our existence in this world, and everything that we experience was done by the Creator so that we will feel at least a little of what the evil is that exists within us that the Creator created.

We can access this evil gradually, and through its transformation to good, we climb the 125 spiritual levels.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/21/16

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Finding The Formula Of Human Evolution

Laitman_715Question: According to the accepted definition of science, the wisdom of Kabbalah is one means of describing and understanding the world around us. What do you want to achieve by promoting not the science, but just one perspective on the structure of the world?

Answer: Every corporeal science is one possible perspective of the structure of the world, while according to the wisdom of Kabbalah, all of nature and everything that was created stems from a desire to receive pleasure—no matter whether we express it by physical or psychological parameters. It turns out that by remaining within the framework of our science we are very limited.

Look what is happening with us. We don’t know where we came from, and we are not sure that we can predict what will happen the next day, not the next minute, or in a few years. What use is science if it doesn’t give people an understanding of the world and how to manage it?

The most important thing is to understand the formula of our development and what happens to us. We don’t even know how the engine that turns and moves us forward works. As Einstein said, we are just like kids playing with pebbles on the beach while the sea itself is unattainable. And so the claim that we can seemingly determine what science is, is like a kids’ game.

On the whole, science is based on human perception because there is a human being behind every instrument who feels and understands everything through his mind and heart. When we take it into account as variables in our measurements, we begin to see the world as a system that is constantly changing, and this system is dominated by us.

We can measure it, feel it, and work with it; we can insert different parameters into it and see what happens. This is already a systematic, cybernetic approach. Man cannot affect nature without changing your parameters because man doesn’t know how to adapt to it and how to see the result.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/28/16

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The World Is What We Attain

laitman_926_02The Standard by Which to Evaluate a Wisdom

The value of any wisdom in the world is according to the purpose that it yields. This is the goal to which all the scrutinies aim. Therefore, a wisdom without some purpose is inconceivable except for infants playing games, since to pass the time they come and this is their purpose, according to their value. For this reason, a wisdom is not evaluated by keenness and proficiency, but according to the merit of the purpose that it yields.

You therefore find that any external wisdom is only for the purpose of corporeality, which is sure to be gone today or tomorrow. In that case, it is sufficient for the subject to be as the predicate.

And although the wisdom has many advantages over these subjects, for wherever it is, it is nonetheless a spiritual element, but we have already said that it is evaluated by the purpose, which is its persistence for eternity. And if the purpose is transitory and fleeting, it is lost along with it.
(Baal HaSulam, “The Wisdom of Israel Compared to the External Wisdoms”)

Naturally, our universe and its laws, which seem to us unshakeable, has its beginning and its end. There is a beginning, middle, climax, and then decline, reduction, and extinction in the development of any dynamic system.

Therefore, today we see that the laws we study and consider to be absolute exist only in the framework of our senses and only with regard to us. If our senses were different, we could attain totally different laws and connections.

Question: Does this means that you have to change internally in order to become a physicist? I study and explore how the world around me changes and create the necessary instruments.

Answer: On the whole, when I study something in any field I can freeze a certain parameter and keep studying with a fixed parameter.

It is the same here when we are subconsciously frozen in our egoistic senses and use them to explore the world. Therefore, it seems to us that there is nothing but the world that we see, but we forget that we perceive everything through our senses that are initially fixed by nature.

If we could change them, a totally different science would emerge based on our new senses. This variable dramatically changes all the laws as they turn from absolute laws to relative laws. It turns out that on every level and in every internal change a totally different science is created, a different state, a different world. This is what a person attains.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, when a person begins to change 125 fixed types of changes appear in him and accordingly 125 worlds, 125 levels or depths of attainment, which means 125 types of science.

But when you attain the uppermost level all your previous attainments merge into one single whole that is called the world of Ein Sof (Infinity). We cannot understand that yet, because we probably undergo a special transition there. This transition is still unattainable for us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/28/16

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A Door To Time Travel

Laitman_910In the News (ibtimes.com.au): “Using single particles of light, scientists from the University of Queensland, Australia, have shown that a photon can pass through a wormhole to interact with its older self. The quantum experiment was aimed at simulation of time travel by quantum particles.

“The Collective Evolution, citing the Nature Communications, which published the findings of the quantum experiment, says the difficulty in time travel lies in the existence of ‘closed timelike curves’ (CTCs). A CTC refers to the line of a material particle in spacetime that is closed, enabling it to return to its starting point. The report says CTCs are used to simulate powerful gravitational fields of the kind produced by a spinning black hole. Based on Albert Einstein’s relativity theory, CTCs can theoretically warp or distort existence to bend space-time back on itself, enabling time travel.”

My Comment: If we assume that everything flows in time, the journey along the time axis is not possible. Whereas according to the wisdom of Kabbalah, everything exists within a single picture of the world. Past, present, and future can generate the existence of the world from the one and only state. It follows that time doesn’t exist but is only one parameter of subjective existence in our perception of reality.
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The Uniqueness Of The Wisdom Of Kabbalah

laitman_214When we compare the wisdom of Kabblah with natural science, we discover a number of similarities and differences. According to Kabbalah, “a judge has only what his eyes can see.” Since this is purely a scientific approach, a person has to approach corporeal sciences and spiritual science in the exact same manner, which means according to the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Everything ordinary science uses is also typical of the wisdom of Kabbalah: attainment, repeatability of statistical data, graphs, etc. The wisdom of Kabbalah isn’t blind faith but attainment. According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, faith is the feeling of the upper world, which means the feeling of the force that fills the world and manages it wisely. This is also the difference between the wisdom of Kabbalah and other sciences that perceive only the outcome of the upper force at the level of our spiritually still world.

The wisdom of Kabbalah explores the actual governing force that ordinary people in our world don’t feel or perceive. In order to do so, they have to acquire corresponding attributes that are similar to this force. According to the physical law of equivalence of form, a person can feel only what matches his senses. Only then can he explore the single, upper force of nature.

Kabbalists record and process of their studies as data, drawings, graphs, and so on. They also claim that the Hebrew alphabet is made of special symbols that signal the different connections and ties of the two forces of nature, the positive and the negative.

In fact, the Hebrew and the Aramaic language mutually complement each other, and they appear as a result of studying the two attributes of nature, bestowal and receiption, that are at the basis of all the actions and phenomena in our world, the positive and the negative, etc.

Since the wisdom of Kabbalah relies mainly on the attainment of the basic force of nature, it is more accurate, more broad, and much more profound than all the other sciences; it is the universal wisdom.

This is also expressed by ancient philosophers and philosophers of the Middle Ages, scientists, and Kabbalists. Moreover, according to recently published Newton’s diaries, he  studied Hebrew and Kabbalah and from it learned the laws he wrote about.

The uniqueness of the wisdom of Kabbalah lies in the fact that it requires a person to create additional new senses unlike corporeal sciences, which study the nature using our pre-defined senses. Kabbalah is a science for any person who development an additional sense within himself or herself.

There is the force of bestowal in nature, the force of the mutual connection, that we cannot perceive because we don’t have the inner sensor, the receiver that perceives it. We cannot feel the force of bestowal or measure it, so we don’t know anything about our existence. We know only a small part of the creation and it is rather one-sided.

The wisdom of Kabbalah is a science that tells us not only about our world, in which there is one force of receiving, but about all of creation that is made of two forces: the force of bestowal and the force of receiving. Scientists don’t understand this at the moment, and only perceive very little of this. The problem isn’t the human mind that is meant to serve the small egoistic force, but the need to feel the whole volume of creation, which manifested within us.

It is actually this need that pushes a person forward. A person understands that he has to attain the meaning of life, its reason, root and purpose. Without them there is no meaning to life.

Scientists speak about the attainment of the human state while the wisdom of Kabbalah tells us about its root: what manages a person, why, for what, and toward what. At the same time, Kabbalah explains what we are have to change inside us since we can investigate the upper force only to the extent that we are similar to it.

And most importantly is why does a person study it? This is also the major stumbling block. A Kabbalists studies in order to care of others, to help others for the good of others, which ordinary science, in principle, doesn’t do.

Ordinary science investigates what exists and it’s not interested in how to apply this. Kabbalah offers its services to politicians and to the rich who then twist scientific achievements the way they want. A Kabbalist, on the other hand, studies and changes the world within him, and politicians or the rich have no use of it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/28/16

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Depression Affects The Whole Body

Laitman_037In the News (Science Daily): “An international team of researchers led by the University of Granada (UGR) has demonstrated, for the first time, that depression is more than a mental disorder: it causes important alterations of the oxidative stress, so it should be considered a systemic disease, since it affects the whole organism.

“The results of this work could explain the significant association that depression has with cardiovascular diseases and cancer, and why people suffering from depression die younger. At the same time, this research may help finding new therapeutic targets for the prevention and treatment of depression.”

My Comment: Of course, the entire body is affected because the body, as well as the whole of creation, is a complete system, ten Sefirot, according to the general rule, “There is no partial in spirituality.”

The more that research of this type will become known to us, perhaps people will understand more rapidly that depression is clear sign of the demand by the body to attain fulfillment of the desire for pleasure in any way. In our day, fulfillment of the desire for pleasure is possible only through discovering the meaning of life. This is possible only by discovering our next level of development, which is the revelation of the upper world with the help of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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The Imbalance That Threatens Creation

laitman_746_01In the News (planet-today.ru): “US researchers have combined data on the majority of galaxies known to mankind and created an impressive scale of it in their Cosmic Web project that illustrates the structure of the universe by means of links between individual clusters of stars.

“’Ultimately, the universe is a network of individual galaxies, combined with gravitational interaction. We have built a visual model of these relations and got something that with the proper proportion of imagination can be called, “A view of the universe from God’s point of view”,’ – explains one of the authors of the project Kim Albrecht.”

My Comment: Kabbalah says that not only our world but all of creation is a single organism, and among all the worlds, only the human being has freedom of choice in his behavior. The rest of the creatures are instinctively run by nature.

So the balance of the entire system depends only on human behavior, and only humans bring it out of balance, and conversely, can restore it to balance.

Kabbalah explains how to manage the system correctly and maintain its balance. Currently, the egoistic behavior of humanity takes the system of creation out of equilibrium. Kabbalah warns of the consequences ….
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Magic Tricks—Only In A Circus

laitman_600_04Question: When you encountered the wisdom of Kabbalah, did you immediately see deep meaning in it or did you first want to learn magic?

Answer: I never wanted to learn magic, that always repelled me. After all, I am a man of science, so I understood that this wasn’t serious. Magic tricks can only be in a circus.

What was the benefit from Nostradamus, Messing, or Wanga divining the future? Did they achieve something through this? They spoke about what they felt and nothing more.

I never aspired to be involved with it and I believe that it is completely unimportant. People who can predict the future exist, but it is up to us to develop realistically toward the true goal and purpose of creation. And in particular we must draw “a full wagon” of seven billion people after us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/14/16

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How Can We Acquire The Language Of Kabbalah?

laitman_249-03Question: How can we acquire the language of Kabbalah? What does it depend on?

Answer: All you have to do is to listen to Kabbalah lessons regularly and you will acquire the language of Kabbalah. It is like a child who learns how to speak from his mother, or a person who finds himself in a strange environment and gradually begins to understand the foreign language though his feeling and not through the mind.

This is also how we can begin to understand the language of Kabbalah, the description of the upper world, which we don’t feel at the moment. By studying the wisdom of Kabbalah and uniting we gradually acquire the attributes of the upper world and so we begin to understand its names because we associate them with the new feelings that we have acquired.
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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 1/24/16

laitman_259_01Comment: You can find information on the Internet saying that a red string is a Kabbalistic Jewish lucky charm that can protect a person from envy and the evil eye.

Answer: A red string has nothing to do with Judaism or religion, and certainly not with the wisdom of Kabbalah. I don’t know where this idea comes from. I think it is an invention of the famous Berg Institute that engages in the desecration of the wisdom of Kabbalah and in selling anything they can: “holy water,” red strings, and other “Kabbalistic” accessories.

Question: Are there people who cannot be corrected?

Answer: Basically yes. These are people who cannot fully perceive reality. There are people who are born detached from reality and who relate to it differently than we do, and so the wisdom of Kabbalah isn’t for them.

Question: How does the wisdom of Kabbalah relate to female intuition? Is it real?

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah welcomes women who have strong intuition and those who don’t, but it has nothing to do with the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Question: Were Spinoza, Leibnitz, and Newton Kabbalists?

Answer: No.

Question: How does the wisdom of Kabbalah relate to a man’s unfaithfulness?

Answer: As the usual manifestations of animal behavior.

Question: How does the wisdom of Kabbalah regard artificial intelligence? What is its function?

Answer: This is a mechanical, computational intelligence that by calculations can resemble human feelings to some degree. On the other hand, any machine cannot recreate the Kabbalistic attribute of perceiving the upper world because it is based on the attribute of bestowal.

Question: In what way is a Kabbalist different from a prophet?

Answer: A prophet is a person who is directly connected to the upper force. It is a special attribute of the soul. You can become a prophet, but in order to do so you have to attain a special level on which you begin to feel the connection with the Creator on the level of a prophet.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/24/16

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