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The Ocean Behind The Door

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: In fact, we need only to correct our egoism that prevents connection. Then, why do we develop the entire methodology of integral education? What else can we talk about besides separation and unity?

Answer: Indeed, nothing else exists. However, when you begin to go deeper, when you enter, it is found that there lies the entire higher wisdom. It is inherent in the desire to receive and in the desire to bestow.

After all, all our actions converge in this dualism. There is only the “plus” and the “minus,” two opposing forces. However, look at what they produce by interacting with each other in this world: all the sciences, including physics, chemistry, biology, zoology, astronomy, medicine, psychology, and so forth. Everything is built on the interaction of two opposites, the entire world, the universe with its set of laws and myriad details.

In spirituality, we add to this the screen and the Reflected Light. The response from the minus, the material that wants to be like the plus—that is, the Light—and then something absolutely new emerges. It is not just the relationship between the plus and minus, but their relationship between each other. The minus begins to relate to the plus completely differently. It rises above itself, its knowledge, its mind, and acts opposite to its own nature in the likeness of the plus. The created being learns from the Creator what to do, and it does this.

Much more complex laws are manifested here, which we study. This is great, truly boundless wisdom. It grows seemingly from nothing, from two opposites, one of which only wants to be like the other. It would seem, let it become like the other. However, you open the door slightly, and, behind it, you will discover the ocean without end.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Contact With The Teacher

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What can be done if the group opinion is contrary to the opinion of the teacher? Which side should one choose?

Answer: We know that our small children don’t agree with us about many questions. Either they don’t agree because they are still small or because we didn’t explain everything to them sufficiently. This must be clarified.

But if you truly have a conflict with me and it is not imaginary, then you have a problem. Then you get absolutely nothing from me! And this says that you don’t have any possibility of advancing spiritually.

I suggest to people who don’t have contact with me, to leave us and search for another teacher, for time is running out, life is going on and coming to an end. That’s too bad. It could be that you will have another teacher with whom you can find contact and move forward. I say this for your own good. If there is no contact with me from your side, then you are not bringing any benefit to the entire movement of the world group.

There must be contact with the teacher as there should be with the Creator. Even contact with a friend must be as it should be with the Creator, because all this is connected together: group, teacher, and all the Kabbalists and transforms into being a single whole.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/25/13, Question and Answers with Dr. Laitman

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Be Cautious Of “Know-It-All” Philosophers

Dr. Michael LaitmanBaal HaSulam, “The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Philosophy”: Philosophy loves to concern itself with His Essence and prove which rules do not apply to Him. However, Kabbalah has no dealings whatsoever with it, for how can the unattainable and imperceptible be defined?

Kabbalists do speak a great deal about His illumination in reality, meaning all those illuminations they have actually attained, as validly as tangible attainment.

Kabbalists attain an abstract Light when it dresses into vessels and turns from a theoretical form to a tangible structure by manifesting Itself in us as various features of ours.

It is said that “we do not define by name or word that which we do not attain.” We attain everything there is by analyzing it in our vessels of receiving. They are our “eyes,” our vision, the channel through which we perceive the world. Only on condition that we know a certain phenomenon can we explore it to the degree of our immersion in it. Thus, we advance. There is a rigid principle: “We shall know You by Your deeds.” That’s why we always rely on our perception within our vessels, desires. Our internal reactions to them are in fact the Light.

Similarly, we recognize electricity not by its essence, but according to its results. Something flows through wires and generates various phenomena. All we see are the results. Baal HaSulam writes about it in his article “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah.” Actual things are found even in the corporeal reality set before our eyes, although we have neither perception nor image of their essence. Such are the electricity and the magnet, called “fluidum.” Nevertheless, who can say that these names are not real, when we vividly and satisfactorily know their actions? We could not be more indifferent to the fact that we have no perception of the essence of the subject itself, namely electricity itself.

We always explore the consequences of various essential categories, rather than deal with the categories per se. I have no idea what the subject that I look at is in fact, but I know how it acts.

All I do is check my sensations and reactions: Something looks black to me, other things feel solid, some are long, and certain things I can taste or smell. Reality is comprised of my internal reactions to outer impacts, rather than the factors that cause them per se. Therefore, phenomena that we differentiate are actually the effects that externality causes in us.

Why do philosophers refuse to admit it? The answer is that it will obligate them to become Kabbalists and study the Wisdom of Kabbalah in order to explore spirituality. Common sense prompts that they don’t know or understand a thing and have nothing to say. Really, what can one say if one doesn’t live in spirituality, nor does one sense It in one’s vessels, desires?

We shouldn’t approach Kabbalah with a regular human mind; we are not in the dimension that Kabbalah describes as of yet. We can fantasize about what’s inside the Earth and imagine life on other planets since these things are at least somehow interlaced with our sensations. However, they have nothing in common with spirituality. Moreover, we don’t have any connection with the spiritual realm: Our material reality as we see it is absolutely detached from the picture that is created in our minds. How can we deliberate about something that we have no contact with whatsoever?

This is one of the reasons the Wisdom of Kabbalah was concealed from humanity throughout millennia. Kabbalists were afraid of “smart alecks” who just tended to philosophize about the topics that are related to Kabbalah.

It also applies to the philosophers who valued Kabbalah, such as Reichlin, Goethe, Pico Della Mirandola, and others. Even these people did not understand a thing in the great wisdom, nor could they realize that the general universal knowledge that is beyond traditional disciplines originates from Kabbalah. What they proclaimed is in fact nothing but philosophizing. Some philosophers approach Kabbalah with critical analysis that is based on a subjective approach, others admit its importance, although none of them understand it. Their position lacks rationalism that is so much needed. Nevertheless, the truth will be revealed soon; we are very close to it.
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The Passage Through The Worlds

Dr. Michael LaitmanIt is impossible to invent something that doesn’t exist in nature. Perhaps there is no analogue in the material we build it from or on the same level, but it must exist. We take all the examples and the analogies from what already exists in nature; we cannot invent anything that is totally new.

It is fundamentally impossible. There is only one new point in all of creation—something from nothing (Yesh Mi Ayin). Everything else, except this “initial act of creation” (Genesis Maase) is a consequence of the meeting of the vessel and the properties of the Light in different connections. So we can take an example only from the existing attributes and create parallel forms.

Everything that we build in our world, which means in our egoistic feelings, is called “this world,” and there are examples for that in nature. If we want to continue our development by studying nature’s wisdom, we have to develop a new perception that is focused on bestowal. Then we can also fulfill the examples of in order to bestow by ourselves.

We cannot receive examples of the upper attributes from this material world, and so all the scientific progress ends on the border between our world and the upper worlds. Even before science has exhausted itself, our material desire to receive reaches a dead end and comes to an end. Our development ends at a certain point since we cannot find new examples we want to implement in this world.

Most importantly, we have lost the desire to look for them in order to invent new things and thus advance on the material level. We are in a point of transition, on the verge of the revelation of new spiritual desires.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/21/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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All Of Us Are One Family

Dr. Michael LaitmanI am very excited and this is not really typical of me. I have acquired quite a lot of experience in teaching and in connecting, especially with students and friends, but here there is a unique atmosphere, exciting and pure. In principle I expected this, and in spite of it all, it still excites me that it is possible to hear and to see something like this on Earth.

As you know, Kabbalah is a science that is derived from the investigation of the system of creation. People who succeeded in changing themselves according to the forces that manage us, the force of bestowal and the force of reception, discovered it. They know how to control these forces within them, in fact, they know how to manage themselves like they would some device, and through this they perceive the upper world in which we also exist.

Only we don’t know how to control these characteristics. In the meantime, we exist only within one characteristic that is revealed in us from birth, the characteristic of reception or ego. And we need to acquire the second characteristic, which is the opposite of the first. The acquisition of the second characteristic is a very complicated and drawn-out process, and all of us are now occupied with this.

After we acquire it, it is discovered in us and we begin to learn how to work with these two opposite characteristics. Only then do we begin to understand what nature or the Creator or the creation really is. And we see what happens behind this whole picture that is formed only within our egoistic characteristic.

When we discover the true picture of reality, we see that everything is based upon the right connection between the two characteristics, on the reciprocal wholeness between the opposites. And a wondrous picture is discovered, in principle, a single whole, the entire creation. All people, including the entire world, is one whole.

And only so that a person will not be a managed creature, in order to lift him to the level of the entirety of the perfect nature, it is given to him to feel that his egoistic characteristic that controls the nature of the still, vegetative, and animate destroys him. On the one hand, this characteristic develops a human being, and on the other hand, he begins to feel his development as a negative development. All that he does, he begins to see that he does to his detriment. And he is not prepared not to do it.

In this way, the program of nature acts in us so that we will reach recognition of the evil of our ego, of our nature, and we will want to balance it, to somehow leave it and rise above it, to control it and to limit it. But this is impossible until we reach an understanding of how we do this and what Kabbalah speaks about.

Without this wisdom we are liable to suffer, we try to do something with ourselves, with our ego, but nothing comes of it. We need people who have already penetrated into the “supra-egoistic” world who understand how everything is constructed and who can help us acquire an additional characteristic, the characteristic of bestowal that will balance the characteristic of reception.

Even though Kabbalah reveals that all of us are one family, one complete whole (the Kabbalists wrote about this already thousands of years ago) it waited until the moment that humanity began to understand and become conscious of its evil nature.

Even a few decades ago we thought we had the ability to be victorious over nature, to change the direction of the flow of rivers and to conquer nature. For some reason we want to “conquer,” “to fight over crop yields,” to do everything by force, to shatter everything. We thought that this needed to be done because we weren’t the crowning glory of nature, its highest part, for no reason. And ultimately it turns out that it is completely the opposite.

The recognition of evil is the most wondrous phenomenon that typifies our century, our generation. On the one hand, a global world is revealed, wholeness is revealed, integrality, a mutual connection between all its parts. And on the other hand, there is a feeling that there is no adaptation among us for globalism, for wholeness and integrality. On the contrary, we are completely opposite to all of nature.

It would seem that humanity is so powerful and intelligent, it is also the part the affects nature the most. Indeed, in the nature of the still, vegetative, and animate, all the parts complete each other, they are found in harmony and we are opposite to it. We are harmful, and in fact, we destroy ourselves and everything found around us; we saw the branch we sit on, with our own hands, we cause our own deterioration. All of our sciences turn into evil, the arts are deteriorating, and families fall apart. Everything we produce and attain turns into completely ridiculous accumulation in one hand and poverty in others.

That is, the ego is clearly revealed today as entirely evil and destroys all our options and great human potential. At the same time, nothing can be done about it.

Once upon a time we were one single whole. The upper light, the force of bestowal, the force of love, which is the essential force of nature, created desire. This desire evolved, and to the degree that its characteristics became distant from the characteristic of the Light, it became conscious of being opposite to the Light, becoming more distant from it all the time. Thus, the levels of the evolution of desire were created; its distance according to its lack of equivalence of form to the characteristic of the Light increased until this desire was shattered into very small fragments. And these fragments are, in principle, the people in our world.

The parts of the still, vegetative, and animate nature are in an integral relationship with each other. But the human is completely shattered. All of us are little egoists; all of us are completely opposed to each other. All of the types and forms of connection between us are only in order to fulfill ourselves and if possible, at someone else’s expense. We get pleasure from the oppression of others and this happens subconsciously in our nature, unconsciously and even automatically. Someone who is more developed is more of an egoist, and he looks for better opportunities to benefit at the expense of anyone and everyone.

Essentially this is the picture we are gradually discovering between us in this generation. Humanity is beginning to gradually realize this, and as a result we have the opportunity to discover the wisdom of Kabbalah. Humanity could not disclose this on its own;  there are special souls for this, i.e., parts of the shattered common desire, of the shattered Kli that can perceive this themselves.

Our spiritual father is Adam. Many generations of people lived before him, but he was the first to reveal the truth, the combination of the two forces, the force of bestowal and the force of reception, the discovery of the Creator, meaning, the force of bestowal opposite to our primordial property.

It is not by chance that they called him “Adam,” which means “Domeh – similar to the Creator.” We know that there are no accidents, as it seems, it was improbable that his parents just got the idea to name him in this way, even though they didn’t know the reason.

According to tradition, around the age of 36-37, Adam perceived the Creator, meaning he discovered the higher reality, the second characteristic, and with the help of the two characteristics (reception and bestowal), he began to investigate the world. He wrote about this in his book, Secret Angel (Raziel HaMalach). Thus the process began, and therefore, even though we believe our spiritual father is Abraham, it is forbidden to forget Adam.

But Abraham lived in another era, twenty generations after Adam. Then not only was the ego discovered, but also the system of its correction. Therefore we call Abraham the spiritual father of humanity and he is included in all of the religions. He gave us the opportunity, the mechanism, that made it possible to develop altruistic characteristics within us opposite the egoistic characteristics and then supported by the two opposite characteristics the possibility to investigate ourselves and nature through us in order to grow and discover the world.

The method of correction began from Abraham. In ancient Babylon the ego was already discovered among people in a serious form, and Abraham, as a representative of that generation, found the required method, the wisdom of Kabbalah, relying on what had already been discovered in people. It is necessary to remember that previously he had been one of the spiritual leaders of Babylon, and in general he was an educated man of those times. Therefore from him came the method of correction called “Kabbalah,” from the word “reception” or from the word “transfer” (information).

In fact there are many things hidden here. This is a hint of the many opportunities that the wisdom of Kabbalah conceals. On the one hand, this is a science of our ego, therefore it is called the “science of reception.” And on the other hand, this is a science  of transmission because it is passed on from generation to generation, or the science of connection because it brings people together who want to discover the upper world because they can only do so in the relationship between them.

Therefore from the days of Abraham, people who want to perceive the upper world, to discover the eternal state, and to exist within it, i.e., to rise above the state of the beast and discover the next state, unite with each other.

At the same time, hey pass through very interesting changes.

Once, when we were embryonic, we were a kind of energy, which gradually transformed into still (inanimate) matter. After that the still matter passed through an evolution and transformed into vegetative matter and after that to the animate, and now we are passing from animate matter to matter that is called Adam, human matter, that is not yet found in us. This is a completely different level of evolution.

Imagine how for hundreds of millions of years matter passed through changes from still to vegetative and from vegetative to animate. And now, as of today, we must essentially leap within a number of years, within a single lifetime, intensifying the transition from the animate level to the level of Adam. This is the state we are in.

The whole method is a conscious connection after the shattering that happened in the spiritual world. Since that time when our world appeared as a result of this shattering, beginning with the “Big Bang” and onward, it exists only so that we will connect together, unite as a single family. This is how it is expressed and heard with our human language.

I don’t know if fits the definition. This is what the Kabbalists write, this is what Baal HaSulam wrote, that all of us are one family. We need to understand how much we must connect. Our connection must be such that not one will be left feeling himself not connected; instead we will only feel inclusion among us, we will feel that all of humanity is a single whole.

This is a great correction that we must make on ourselves. But on the other hand, essentially this is easy to reach. Baal HaSulam writes that there is nothing but a simple psychological task because ultimately everything is done by  the Light, the power of bestowal, the power of love, the essential power of nature that created the ego in particular so we would perceive this power and begin to work with it, so we would rise to its higher level, so that we would enter into the system of Adam, the eternal, perfect system, in which we lose the relationship to our beastly state, rising above it.

This is what we should aspire to. And essentially this is easy to attain. This is a psychological problem; it is achieved not by me personally, but through everyone together (the collective). We must solve this “little problem” on our egoistic physical level. It is up to us to solve it. If we succeed in doing this, then we will pass quickly to the next state.

Of course, I cannot convince myself that I need to connect with others. It is impossible. He we cannot do without the influence of society. Thus based on the original terms, the problem is solved only in the union of us all—when each one awakens all the rest, and all arouse each one, connecting with each other with mutual concern for all and for each one separately. This is the integral.

And our ego helps us because it separates us all the time, pushing everyone to the side, “pulling” us from the others. And so we begin to feel a need, a greater and greater imperative for connection. The ego repels us again and again, doing this intentionally, subtly, but in fact this is not so. This is because it is managed by that same power of the Light, that power of bestowal. It is secondary and therefore called “existence from absence.” In other words, it was created intentionally, artificially, to help us to discover the Creator, the Light, the characteristic of bestowal, from a lack of existence.

Therefore it is necessary to see in our ego as “help against us.” In all the activities where we discover it, it is up to us to be happy that it indicates our imperfections that still exist so that we will reach the necessary connection, the discovery of the higher system.

And when we discover that, we see that it is truly those relationships that we try to arrange between us. We discover within them the system of worlds, the ten Sefirot that interact with each other. We discover this actively and the ego seemingly pushes us from behind, pokes, and indicates where we still lack discovery of the right connection between us.

Therefore we need to relate to the ego politely and happily, as a negative helper, who warns, pokes, and pricks, specifically in a place in which connection is lacking. It is up to us to love this means that develops us correctly.

The ego shows us the imperfections not in ordinary life but in a place where we begin to approach each other. In ordinary life the ego is found on the level of the beast. Each one wants to grab something for himself, to conquer, to score, to steal, to manipulate, to lie… all this is not considered as ego with which we need to fight. It is necessary to put our attention on the ego that disturbs us from connecting. It is our leader, our guide. It indicates precisely the smallest imperfections, works with us at every moment. And we need to thank it for this.

People turn to me with complaints about lack of power, lack of desire, disappointments, frustration, and so on.

First, if these are complaints regarding the beastly ego, then in a circumstance like this we simply don’t pay attention to it. Gradually this will pass, die, and disappear somewhere. It is not necessary to think about this.

And if you pay attention only to connection, then here you begin to receive blows and various stimuli, a lack of desire and disappointment. This is the ego that is required more. It must not only be nurtured and developed, but we must immediately rise above it and build new relationships with the others until we reach a level of connection between us or until our attempts to connect convince us that we are truly powerless.

But even here there is a difficulty. I can be convinced of my powerlessness only when I am connected with the others, that is, when I will feel the need for mutual connection with the friends. They will arouse me through their striving forward, towards each other. I will feel how much I am not like them. I will feel that I am worse than them. Even though this may not really be so, but I will feel that I am lower than they are, inferior to them, not successful like them. They speak so nicely, can be open, embrace, hold each other, suddenly find the correct necessary words, and I have none of this, I am “impenetrable”, insensitive, impervious, unemotional.

If a person advances, he always thinks this about himself. And this is very good. It is only necessary to understand that this is given to him intentionally and to the degree of his advancement he will see himself as being more and more inferior. Here the support of the group and a constant reminder is imperative that these states are most productive and useful.

If a person doesn’t feel the support of the group, then disappointments like these will throw him off track and he will leave. He will tell himself that this is not for him and that he cannot do it, that this doesn’t lead anywhere, and that he will not attain any quality of bestowal… and so on.

We cannot respond with indifference and say that it is okay that he left. First of all, we must immediately help him return.

Actually, this is a serious sign for us that indicates the need to develop a force within the group that will keep a person inside so that it won’t be possible for him to go out. The group needs to be a weight from which it is impossible to detach, like a black hole or like superheavy stars that because of their great density don’t make it possible for light to escape.

In principle, a person departing from  the group is possible only in the case that he is opposed to and doesn’t want to participate in work together with everyone, if he comes to the group by chance and ultimately discovers that this is not for him, then there is nothing to do, he has not yet ripened within. But in spite of it all, we need to leave a place for him to return. And in general, this needs to be a sign to the group that they must examine themselves, are they a family or not?

Essentially how do we build a family? And just why is the family our model?

If we consider a normal family, which might not exist today, we depict is something shared, whole, where all are equal. Equality is not just “according to the ruler,” rather each one has his height, children, and parents, old, sick, healthy… the family always decides what is needed for everyone and what is the maximum that it can do for the good of each one. It is clear that this comes out for one at the expense of another, but in a general way we try to do this where everyone will receive the maximum possible from the family’s common resources.

Relationships like these need to be also within the group. Connection, adherence, concern and mutual love, a common fate, a common Kli, are stronger than within a family, and this solves all the problems. On this basis it is possible to solve all the problems. If you begin from the point of assuming that all of you are one family, then your decisions will always be correct without any distortion. But if your approach to problems in ordinary life is egoistic, then your actions and decisions will be incorrect.

We are one family. In all matters the group should proceed from this and then there won’t be mistakes. Our decision needs to be shared, collective. This is not a separate decision of two or three people. Two or three can decide about problems that touch upon technical problems of arranging work, for implementing any events. But for what concerns our life, our our shared spiritual work that relates to everyone, we all need to decide.

As Baal HaSulam writes, “Today the entire world is already like one family.” He wrote this at the beginning of the 20th century, around the year 1927. Imagine that already then the world began to ripen and to connect, even though people then were so separated. Who was aware of what was happening in Africa, in South America, or in Australia? And in general what kind of intercontinental connection was there? There was nothing special, but in spite of it all, he wrote about this because within we had already finished connecting between us as a family, and in fact, we were ready to begin to acquire our next level, the level of Adam.

And today it is already clear to us. And even though we see separation, conflicts, and problems in the world, it is already clear that in general there is absolute dependence between all parts of the world. This is happening in a natural way, according to the laws of evolution. And therefore today when we study Kabbalah, we have already begun to speak about the integral education of humanity, not only of ourselves, but of everyone.

Baal HaSulam writes that the whole world is one family. And the Kabbalistic principles must ultimately encompass the entire world giving an equal standard of living to everyone. Baal HaSulam, in the article, “Building the Future Society”: “The entire world is one family. The framework of communism according to the Torah should ultimately encircle the entire world in an equal standard of living for everybody.”

Incidentally, this is a compulsory condition. According to our beastly level, it is up to us to supply everyone with their basic needs.

But the process is gradual. Every nation by and large would in fact accept these fundamentals for itself; if educated in the spirit of bestowal to others and has a sound cause for fuel, could immediately enter into international unity based upon the principles of altruism. For all the peoples who would enter into the framework of this society there would be a comparable standard of living; The surplus of a wealthy or a diligent nation will improve the living standards of the failing or nation poor in raw materials and productive means. ”

It seems to us that this is still far off and in particular we are very far from this. But at least in the last hundred years we have seen, in spite of it all. that the world is advancing towards this. In the end, we have reached a state that not only brought us to the recognition of a method for discovering the world, a new life, a new level, but also we could no longer exist on the previous level.

We were no longer prepared to exist in it in a normal way, ideologically, mentally, and spiritually. We felt that we must find something else in life. What brings us to this is not a shortage, not slavery, not any terrible conditions on the level of the beast, but a lack of meaning in life, nihilism, emptiness, that is, a desire for something higher.

This is already a gigantic leap from the days of Baal HaSulam. Masses of people (as of today there are already millions) feel within them a spiritual hunger and somehow approach the wisdom of Kabbalah every day or are even familiar with it.

And in addition to this, further millions or even billions of people are beginning to understand the nothingness of life like this through the general global crisis on various levels. We see that it is taking place in all the nations, in all cultures, in all civilizations, and they all are searching. But they are searching on the level of their “beast” (this is not said in disparagement, rather this is a classification of desires according to the levels: still, vegetative, animate, and “speaking”) where a person is occupied with his existence, how to organize himself, his family, and the world around him so that it will be secure from now on for him and for his children and so on. This is imprinted in us on the instinctive level.

Therefore all the rest, even if they once desired this, are beginning to understand that this is also impossible to do and to attain. Today they no longer want to get married, to build a family… they are depressed and don’t find a sufficiently good reason for this, and so forth.

Therefore we see that in spite of the attempts to connect among people, the principles, “the world is one family” and “we are one family,” at least in the national framework, don’t work anymore. Even within the family (!) there is a shattering. Children of the age of ten already dream of when they will leave the home of their parents and the parents also are not prepared to live all their lives together, they divorce, marry again, and so on. The concept of “family” has disappeared.

We see destruction in everything, on the national and social level. Everything is destroyed, including the natural basis of the family. And all these phenomena of destruction are also the recognition of evil. We understand that we cannot find any fulfillment from anything.

The only solution, as the Kabbalists say, is to build a family of a different kind in which we are connected on another level and only together can we feel true life.

There is an expression like this, “The negation of negation.” Baal HaSulam writes about this, that the person rises to the next level of his development only when he feels that the present is no longer appropriate. Then he destroys it with the help of various revolutions: social, technological, and so forth. In any case he makes a breakthrough, a departure to the next level of development and it could even be to a new form of existence.

Therefore, today we are making this breakthrough, which is the negation of the previous state, which needs to appear to be terminal. And the next stage must be born from this negation.

Here we stand before a dilemma that the wisdom of Kabbalah presents to us now. It is not for the first time that we are passing through states like these, but they were always solved through uprisings, bloody riots, revolutions, famine, destruction and so forth. And now the wisdom of Kabbalah offers us something else, to advance through a conscious method.

The transition from the animate level of humanity to the human level can take place not through the usual method by which we passed through before, during the period of slavery, the Middle Ages, capitalism, and so forth.

Incidentally, capitalism is the culmination of egoistic development that ended after tens of thousands of years that Kabbalah divides into four precise periods. Now this development has reached its end, for we have attained the maximal ego that shows us that we must be freed from it. We will not succeed in transforming it into something new. On all levels of life it doesn’t leave us with any hope that we will succeed in transforming the ego into some form. This is impossible. We see that economists, political scientists, and sociologists try to find some kind of solution to the situation, but they haven’t succeeded in anything. And now they are beginning to acknowledge this.

You know that we spoke about this a number of years ago, but everyone laughed. After that they stopped laughing and waited expectantly. And now they admit that there is no solution, and they don’t know what will be. Gradually they are beginning to adopt this outlook.

It makes no difference to us if they recognize us or not. We simply see that everything is advancing in a form like this. The system is working and its evolution was foreseen already from the start thousands of years ago based upon the knowledge of the system of creation. In a general way even Abraham wrote about this already in the Book of Creation (Sefer Yetzirah).

And today, whether it is aware of it or not, the world is transforming into a single family, and it is up to us to be a clear example of this. I hope that there will be an opportunity like this.

We don’t need to do anything artificial; our goal is to build familial connections that are essentially correct. I don’t mean familial closeness, but the division of responsibility between everyone, the general connection that is derived from complete mutual assistance, from love and integral connection where everyone is included with the others.

The moment that we begin to advance towards this, extraordinary possibilities will be revealed to us from above. They will invite us to talk about this method and ask us to teach it. We are already getting signs from the managers of organizations that people are not succeeding in maintaining the connection between them; there simply cannot be normal labor relations. Suddenly everything is crumbling. Like the residents of ancient Babylon who stopped understanding each other, so also today people are ceasing to understand each other and there is nothing to do.

So it is not the fault of the person. Suddenly each one is cut off from the rest. I feel this is happening and so do business owners,  and all kinds of public figures. You are talking with someone, broadcasting, trying to manage various structures but all of it is in the same decaying relationship. And you don’t succeed in any way or manner in penetrating through the ego that is raised like a wall between people.

I repeat, they are not guilty as nothing can be accomplished using the old methods. It is possible to break through this “isolation layer” between all of us only with the help of the power of the Light, for there is no other way. Humanity is lost, and people continue to err in this way with their eyes shut, colliding with each other without understanding where they are. You will begin to feel this.

And therefore there is a need for family, meaning a need for a mutual inner connection that will awaken naturally. Otherwise we are lost, we will not succeed in satisfying even the compulsory fundamental needs for existence and everything will crumble. We are losing all connection between us and you see how suddenly in various nations wars begin between brothers. Who is against whom? Why and what for? There are a million excuses!

Are there really any kinds of serious reasons for someone to kill someone else!? Thousands of reasons will always be found for this. But they will also kill for no reason at all. Why? Because of a lack of any kind of connection, even the most negative.

When an atmosphere of detachment is formed in a family, we can at least argue, and this will also be the end of the thread for mutual connection. There must be some kind of connection, some kind of dependence, even if it is negative, it doesn’t matter.

And here nothing is left, and this will lead to wars, to various outbreaks. Otherwise you simply won’t feel where you are at all, as if you are suspended in space and this is frightening. This is the most terrible thing that can be. I am found in absolute darkness and don’t know where to go. Like a small child who gets lost in a dark room. This is a terrible state, and they are bringing us to it with the help of various means so that we will feel the need for what is called “family.”

Thus “family” on the human level is an absolutely dependent existence within one integral system where each one is totally connected with the others and each one feels this entire system as his particular “self.”

This was the reason for the first shattering. When we were created in the beginning as one common desire, we felt only our small existence and not as on the present level, absolutely not. Rather it was on an embryonic level like when we were once in the womb of our mother in the still, vegetative, or animate levels, similar to our state today.

Therefore, in order to bring us to awareness of the higher level of the Creator, the level of the Light, they must shatter us with the help of the Light so that it will enter among us and specifically among us so that it will create a network of connection that will distance us but will make it possible to approach each other to the measure of our desire, the mutual yearning.

When we begin to come close, then we will discover, feel, and understand the Light in its intensity a billion times greater. We feel everything with a single Light; everything is connected, integral for us. We feel one thought, one force of the Creator and get answers for all our questions until the next level when the ego is discovered again. Then a new level of separation is discovered. And when a person builds a new connection above it, he perceives a greater level of Light, connection, thought and feeling of cooperation.

But already the first level brings us to the level of eternal existence. That is, we begin to exist in the dimension of the human on the level of Adam. Previously we existed on the level of the still, vegetative, and animate nature until we evolved to today’s level. And thus we will raise it to the level of human and then the previous level is finished.

It is to be understood that the present change through which we are passing is so serious and extreme that there has been nothing like it. It was much easier to pass from the natural level of the still to vegetative and after that to the animate than it is to pass today from the nature of the animate to the nature of human. For the modern change depends upon a prior desire from our side, it is up to us to oblige the Light to change us. Otherwise nothing comes of it.

And so the Light changes us into a single whole. We go back to one complete desire that was created from the start. It was torn to shreds because of our ego and now we connect the desire through the removal of the ego. When we return to a single desire, we begin to perceive our next level, which is to say, we are made equivalent to the Creator. So, the next level is called “Adam – man,” which is similar (Domeh) to the Creator.

Hence, we are one family. This is not just a nice word; this is a compulsory need, a goal, a call of nature to all of humanity. And we are the leaders in this case.

And all the rest of humanity also needs to consciously demand to reach the level of “one family,” even though it lacks movement forward. We have gathered together because we ourselves want to advance, and they are forced to advance from behind. But they don’t know where to advance since they lack the goal. If a single force acts on you, you can only flee from it. It pushes you and you flee from it along the same track. It pushes you from the other side and you flee along another track. That is why humanity will run in different directions all the time, lacking organization, without understanding what is happening to them at all.

And here an obligation has been imposed upon us to tell about the method of correction of our nature to all who don’t have the power to change in their domain. As it is understood, we cannot tell them about the subject in the same form that we read in our source texts. There is no need, because they will think that we are mystics. They lack the most minimal feeling that we have; they have no forward aspiration, attraction, or yearning. They are pushed from behind only by a negative force, and we are attracted only by a positive force.

But if we begin to connect with them, we will also acquire from them the negative force that pushes from behind. In other words, their desires, their needs, their expectations and their yearnings to depart from these earthly conditions that we are indifferent to, these will become ours and will also push us from behind. We will begin to be concerned about them like we are for our children and then we will have additional serious motivation. Today this is not so, they attract us forward, and even if we advance only a little, this is also good. And that’s all… but this is not enough.

So first of all it is up to us to understand that the state of humanity today is intended for us, for those who are going forward, looking forward. We are the pioneers and therefore it is up to us to be involved with integral education. We will begin to receive desires from other people, their aspirations, and their demands, and they will gradually become ours and we cannot remain indifferent to them.

Through involvement with integral education, the group is changed, it acquires an additional push forward. And then the family truly begins to be created. We are connected in order to take care of someone, to educate, to be concerned for someone and this is very important. First of all this is for us. And besides that, if we are truly one family, then the entire world is also built this way as a single system. So how will we succeed in reaching the next level if we don’t create it together with everyone?

For this, all of us are designing a new science, a special chapter in the wisdom of Kabbalah. It explains to people, as to little children, how to connect between us into a single whole, not by means of Kabbalistic concepts, but basically we are saying the same thing…

And so, the whole world is one family and the responsibility has been delegated to us to bring the world to this state and through it to go out to the next level of existence, to the level of Adam – human. This has been entrusted to us and we will try to implement it.
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From the Convention In Krasnoyarsk Day One 6/14/13, Lesson 1

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Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: We are now disseminating integral education. Basically, this is actually the wisdom of Kabbalah that has been adapted for use with the masses. I would like to know the relationship in percentages, how much should be invested in internal dissemination and how much in external dissemination?

Answer: Usually scientists investigating the different effects and phenomena of nature, put everything in formulas and graphs depicting the dependencies.  Then, based on this, they begin to examine the appropriate materials, and after experimentation they translate everything into practical technological processes required for life.

Before technological development reaches the store shelves it goes through a long process. In the beginning scientists are involved with formulas, graphs, physics, mathematical calculations, and apparatus. And then you will see the devices packaged in boxes in stores. Every housewife can buy, let’s say, a microwave, put it in the kitchen, plug it in, and heat up rolls.

Can you imagine the path of development from the study of microwaves and their impact on various objects, etc. to the housewife warming up pie for her family! Even though she is not familiar with the principle of how the device works, this doesn’t interest her. She only knows that it is necessary to set a particular temperature, a particular time, and then she will get warm pie. This is also physics and its utilization.

That is how it is with the wisdom of Kabbalah. It explains the structure of the world, the forces that influence us. But according to the level of the person, he could learn it as advanced physics, namely the inner nature of things, or as a practical application on himself.

We investigate the wisdom of Kabbalah in its pure form, with the help of graphs, formulas, and a large volume of complex texts. You yourselves know how many years it can be studied, but not be fully explored. But in practice, it only explains the interaction between two forces—the positive and the negative—as they are correlated and integrated in the bond between them, the resulting environment that is formed between them, how we can change so it is comfortable and beneficial for a person so that these forces can be used more effectively. But the problem is, in order to use these forces correctly, a person must be corrected.

Apparently we don’t use the cooperation between these two forces (the positive and the negative) on the level of our internal characteristics, but on the egoistic level, we try to enslave not only all of nature, but the family, the nation, all of humanity and the entire earth, and make of them whatever may come to mind.

And this becomes possible for us to a certain extent but not more because nature doesn’t allow this. That is, it isn’t possible for us to manage the same two forces on the next level. This level is revealed to us only to the degree that our form becomes equal to these two forces. Rather it is only if the person begins to change his nature that he can then use these forces and manage them.

Our world is a space in which we exist with our egoistic nature, because that is how we were born and developed, and within this framework we can use the positive and negative force in an allowable range.

The next levels are 125 levels of opposition between these two forces. These are not just levels of strength or ability, rather they are new qualitative levels, from which, due to the connection between them, completely new life forms are created. We are not prepared to penetrate into this, since it is possible to understand these levels above us only to the degree that we become equalized with them.

Currently, all of humanity has entered into the latest crisis because it has already evolved to a level for which it must change and rise from the lowest level to the next level. We are beginning to feel this now.

The transition to the next stage involves a change in our nature from egoistic to altruistic. And here a problem is aroused. We are learning how to change our nature based upon the fact that we ourselves are attracted to this. But most people are not attracted to anything, so nature and the crisis will force them to be involved with this.

They will not be occupied in it as we are. We learn the method itself, the structure, the cooperation between the two forces, the energy field between them, the Lights, the mingling between the forces. All of this can be translated into the language of pure physics or the language of emotion because everything goes through the person or into other forms of expression. We are familiar with this from our sources.

And the common man, who is not pulled forward like us, must nevertheless rise to the next level, for life will push him through suffering; he will not have to do this. He is like the housewife who uses the microwave. We only need to show him, to teach him, what to press and everything will be all right.

And it is necessary to think about this. Therefore it is up to us to rewrite this method in the most simple and accessible form, for our physical and our spiritual future depends on this. Which is to say, if we want to reach discovery of the next level, the next stage, even the next dimension (although this sounds mystical, we are not mystics), then it is up to us to adapt the method to ourselves and rewrite it in a simple form for others.

If we take a textbook about the laws of Newton on the university level, we see that these formulas are quite complicated, but in school we learn them as short and abstract formulas: mass, velocity, acceleration, free fall, and so on. Exactly like this we must rewrite all of our complex laws, the integral relationships in their simplest form. This is a very serious problem and we must take care of it.

We learn about the relationship between the two forces according to the relationships between a man and a woman in a family or parents with children or other relationships on the physical level or in the connection between two systems: positive and negative in the form of Abba ve Ima or ZON or Arik Anpin and Atik. Even though the names change, the principle remains the same, a linkage between plus and minus. Depending on the strength of the relationship between them, the height of the system to which they give birth is established.

Through conversations about “A New Life” or discussions of other subjects, my interior is not changed at all, since for me it is the same diagram. This is exactly how it is at the time of the lesson, during the three hours we jump from subject to subject; however, I don’t get exhausted at all, I could teach another ten hours. You would get tired, but I wouldn’t because for me there is one model.
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From the Convention in Krasnoyarsk 6/13/13, Lesson 3

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Bear in mind that they only apply to the one who reads them; they talk only about what happens within a person, about his properties, only about personal relationships between a person and the Creator, and not about external objects or events.
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Dr. Michael LaitmanOur role is to understand that there is one and only one global nature, and we are the ones who need to connect it through mutual integration, through our intentions. Therefore the concept of “There is none else besides him” is derived from the unity of nature; there is nothing besides the one system that includes everything within it.

And it seems to us as separate because we are also separated, and therefore we don’t see the world as it is but see it according to the condition in which each person feels it solely and only individually within himself. The reason the world seems to us as separate, mutually distant, can be found in the lack of mutual connections between each other; this is discovered more and more with each passing day due to the fact that our ego is constantly growing. Moreover, its acceleration is growing acutely hyperbolic; we see how every year, every month, every week, and even every day, everything in the world is changing very rapidly. And this change is happening specifically because the same changes are happening in us. The world is felt solely and only individually. Therefore the method by which the world is felt correctly is derived from this as well; if we change our characteristics, then we change how the world is felt.

Currently there has already been much work done on this subject by philosophers, psychologists, and physicists. Scientists are gradually beginning to approach the awareness that the world depends on our subjective feelings, yet they are all identical. While everyone feels the world differently, they all feel it in the same manner through our egoistic characteristics. If we correct them so that the characteristics become opposite, then certainly we would feel the world differently: as integral and mutually linked. From here is derived one of the assumptions of our method: “Don’t think about correcting the world…” By these words we mean humanity. We don’t correct the world; rather we correct ourselves. So we begin to feel not only the world, but also ourselves within it completely differently. Ultimately, our movement from the present state, which is called “our world,” to the future state, which is called the “world of the infinity,” is in its entirety an inner correction of how we feel the world, and no more than this.
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From the St. Petersburg Convention “Day One” 7/12/13, Lesson 1

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Dr. Michael LaitmanThe intellect and emotion of the person constitute his “self,” and what is found above his intellect and emotion is the spiritual level, the spiritual Adam (man).

Humanity developed egoistically throughout history, during which our intellect and emotion grew, and we already have gotten used to this and accept it as correct. To us, this is evolution. We get more and more discernments within our emotions and intellect, more and more details about our world, and it seems to us that this is the way we advance.

Really, what else could there be? The better that our telescopes and microscopes are, the deeper we see. The more intense our radar becomes, the farther away we hear. Ultimately, we expand the range of our five senses and our intellect supports this process.

However, there is an evolution of an absolutely different kind about which the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks—development within other senses, with other characteristics that, to date, we don’t have—and we call these the force of bestowal. It seems to us that there is a force of bestowal even in our world, but here we would say that this is talking about intention. This is because, after we go deeper into every action, a person seemingly may go against his ego. We discover that altruism cannot be perceived, and ultimately everyone is acting only for self-benefit.

The characteristic of bestowal that is found above our reality cannot be attained through the usual means. Therefore, I don’t understand and don’t know what spirituality is at all, and in order to resolve this problem, I have a precise and very unique science that is conveyed to me through a hole that is “like a pinprick,” through a very small opening into the spiritual world. This is a small opening because I can’t take anything with me, except for my essential impression, the spiritual spark that is “a part of the divine above.” It is latent in me so I can pass through the crack (that we see with difficulty) between the two worlds.

There is a wall in front of me through which only the spark can pass, and all the rest is left behind. Furthermore, to communicate with the other people who meanwhile were left on the other side of the wall, I am forced to be “clothed” in the previous clothing, but I, myself, already have passed to the new world, and there is no connection between the worlds since they behave according to different methods, different principles. Here, the characteristic of reception dominates and there, the characteristic of bestowal.

For now, we have no possibility of understanding or discerning the principle of bestowal or its characteristics. In no way or manner are we prepared to approach it or imagine something close to its truth. All of our worldly efforts are designed only to confuse us, to calm or to dazzle the ear, and that’s all. In fact, the world of bestowal is a “reverse world” and its reversal is reflected in the essences of things and not in their form as in our world.

Indeed, we don’t acquire the spiritual world with the help of the intellect or the wisdoms. Rather, it’s the opposite. The wisdoms are very likely to hinder this matter, and in general all the efforts that the person produces for himself from an egoistic standpoint in this world—all the beliefs, methods, religions, means, coachings, and so forth—are useless. Throughout history, a multitude of efforts have been employed that haven’t helped anyone. On the contrary, we see that religions and faiths support the egoistic nature of our world more and more. Therefore, for a person found here, there is no chance of making a proper assessment and judgment in regard to the spiritual world. Even through chance or accident, no one is ready to reach the truth because our understanding and emotions are not found in contact with spirituality.

Therefore, we must make a clear distinction.

On the one hand, there are scientists who investigate nature within the five senses and reveal the results of their work to everyone, and, then, other scientists who are no less egoistic seriously examine these results through experiment to negate their colleagues, and while they debate each other, the truth is discovered within the five senses, about which, as it is written, “A judge has only what his eyes see.” We have no doubt regarding scientific facts. We rely on them one hundred percent. In the area of the five senses belonging to our world, science is unassailable. It establishes clear levels of reality: axioms, theorems, theories, estimates, approximations, predictions, assumptions, and more. It establishes clearly what is fact, proof, estimation, and result, and all these concepts are integrated into the various sciences of nature that investigate that nature in which we live.

However, due to our weakness, we cannot encompass the entirety of creation, all of nature. Therefore, we divide it into various fields: physics, chemistry, biology, zoology, and so forth. In the last centuries, a number of areas have intersected, integrated, and formed interdisciplinary sciences that recently have had a leading role and have brought significant results. The entire world has become integral and obligates us, specifically, to learn the connection between phenomena and not parts of the overall picture.

It is also up to us to understand that even studies like these are biased because we are investigating with the help of our senses as the means, our tools, and our intellect. Science is aware of this and acknowledges this as a limitation since the picture of our world depends on the level of our development, and on the next level, this will change. Absolute knowledge of nature in the framework of these methods is unattainable. The more that we penetrate into the atom, an entire universe is discovered and infinite layers of knowledge.

Lately, science is passing through many crises, encountering uncertainty and many contradictions. It is distressing to watch modern scientists because they are found in a forlorn state at the end of this present stage. Nature has become more and more “circular,” integral, and they still retain a natural, individualistic approach that typifies an egoistic person. Ultimately, they lose connection with nature and exhaust the linear study that fit with their egoistic linearity. As of today, a new, circular, global nature is revealed in our world, saturated with collective linkages, and they have no possibility of digesting this. That is, we cannot investigate this new nature because from the start, our senses are egoistic.

On the other hand, the spiritual world and the wisdom of Kabbalah are something else. If the Kabbalists hadn’t told us about their investigations, these would have remained outside of our interests. Humanity would not even have risen to the level of religions. There would not have been an elevation above the primitive properties of the winds, trees, stones, and so forth. Humans would have bowed down to the various parts of nature because they saw that nature is great, and this greatness obligated them as if they had to bribe it in order to be worthy of a good relationship, to drive off thunder and lightning, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods and so forth. We would have related to everything that is liable to be a source of threat exactly like this. However, humanity wouldn’t have advanced more and would not have even thought about concepts like “souls” and “the next world” that already belong to a completely different level of speculation.

Among the other areas of human involvement, there is an area called “philosophy.” This is not a science because it has no basis for investigation that makes possible experimental evaluation and the attainment of results that other people can check again in all their details, and, relying on these examinations, establish truths that will be accepted by everyone. Philosophy has no mechanism like this. It is the result of human intellect that thinks about various things, including science, life, and so forth. We have no possibility of checking their conclusions because they belong to something that is not clothed in substance. No laboratory will check a thesis formed in the human imagination based upon abstract speculations.

For a long time, philosophy was considered to be dealing with a high human level. Until the beginning of scientific development, it was much respected, so much so that until today, other scientific degrees all are linked to this. Everyone recognizes the PhD degree in many fields, which is to say, the Doctor of Philosophy. People thought that philosophy included all scientific studies and all of human wisdom.

However, in the last three or four hundred years, from the days of the Ari, from the beginning of the development of science, philosophy lost its status and descended from the stage. Science made it possible for us to examine the data and be sure of our success, whereas philosophy ultimately always is mistaken. It has just about nothing to say about the future, therefore, it is impossible to rely on it. Together with this, the ego of philosophers grew, as it did for all the rest of humanity, and they contradicted each other all the time, immersed in a big lie.

Philosophers always loved to investigate the wisdom of Kabbalah to the degree that they heard about it. Some of them even learned Hebrew and Aramaic in order to read the sources, and in spite of all this, the philosophers didn’t understand that in Kabbalah there is a principle of attainment. Without entering into the spiritual dimension with the appropriate senses—which is to say, with true tools of attainment like the scientists do in our world—we are not ready to investigate anything. This is because we simply don’t exist in the area that we are studying.

Rather, the philosophers look at the wisdom of Kabbalah according to their worldly intellect while they are on the other side of a wall, without passing to its second side through the “pinhole,” and it doesn’t bother them at all to discuss and argue about what is found beyond the wall and bring to light new speculative creations. This situation reached such a state that philosophers discussed Kabbalah without taking the trouble to learn from the books of the Kabbalists. They simply picked sections that they liked from various books.

The famous philosopher, Gershom Scholem—who, fifty years ago, was considered to be one of the fathers of modern philosophy in Israel and a great investigator of Kabbalah—in fact, never mentioned even a word about Baal HaSulam who lived and worked precisely during that period.

I understand this because this is speaking about investigation of a great deal of material in the wisdom of Kabbalah that is so deep that philosophy cannot match it. Therefore, he simply ignored this as if it didn’t exist.

How can a scientist relate to a subject that he studies like this? A true scientist is openly ready to erase all of his previous achievements if he sees that they are erroneous. The Rabash would erase what he recorded before from his writings, and write, “Incorrect.” After that, there would be a new version that eventually also would be erased and so on for a number of times. This is science, a scientific approach. This is respectable, for during development, there are no absolutes. The absolute is the completion of correction and the infinite world in which everything is connected together, and until then, there are always doubts.

It is said that what is garbage for the higher is food for the lower. This is to say that, when I rise, I erase the previous level, and it becomes “garbage” for me. It is no longer correct. It is forbidden to use it. Whoever is caught up in yesterday doesn’t reach tomorrow. Our advancement is through our ability to be detached from what seemed to us to be correct a moment ago. Otherwise, it is impossible. You see, we are passing through absolute changes of all of our ten Sefirot all the time. Our intellect and emotions are renewed all the time; they pass through an “upgrade.” Instead of the old that is erased, the new appears, and if the person guards himself from the upgrade and cannot rise “above reason,” he doesn’t advance.

So, as of today, we see that philosophy still exists, even though it certainly is found in a graveyard. The positions of the philosophers are very powerful and have been resistant to innovations for generations. Besides that, philosophy has adopted the wisdom of Kabbalah, and they teach it in Faculties of Philosophy. We must understand that philosophy steals everything that is in Kabbalah, and it is not even successful in this.

Inwardly, we are also philosophers, but we must ultimately bury the philosopher in us. In fact, no one has a moral right to discuss Kabbalah if he is not himself found in spiritual attainment. What can he say about an area with which he is completely unfamiliar? However, in spite of it all, people express their opinions and assessments without rising to the level about which they speak.

Therefore, in our world, we basically are required to understand that the spiritual level is found above us, and we have no contact with it. Therefore, we cannot say anything about it. First of all, it is up to us to be detached from the animate level and rise to the level of Adam, the spiritual level that is acquired only with the help of the Light that Reforms, through work in a group with the help of the method of Kabbalah. We must be detached all the time from the previous state and rise more and more. Otherwise, we also will be those philosophers.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/01/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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