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The Essential Secret Of The Jews, Part 38

From the book: The Essential Secret of the Jews, M. Brushtein

The Postulates Of The Theory of Integrality

Development began with the Big Bang.

Development is in connection.  

Development trends are in a growing complexity of connections.

The program of development  “pushes” towards connection with “the right addressee.”

The purpose of development program is to connect absolute opposites.
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Dr. Michael Laitman

Question: The Torah tells us that the Creator told Abraham what land he should go to from Babylon. So, did he initially know where he was going?

Answer: No. It is not about the coordinates on a map. If we do not think about millennia of history, we do not consider kilometers of the earth’s surface either. Time and distance have no control there. When a person’s inner feeling, called “his Creator,” tells him what to seek, where to go, it means that he should move not to another location, to a new place of residence, but on to the next spiritual state, which will be called “the land of Israel.”

Question: That is the “land” that he found in himself?

Answer: Of course. Because the concept of “land” (Eretz) is derived from the “desire” (Ratzon). “Eretz Yisrael” means the desire aimed “straight to the Creator” (Yashar-El). When you get to the point where all your desires are directed to the Creator, then one would say that you arrived, entered “the land of Israel,” whether you are in Canada, in Africa, in the US, or anywhere. After all, our body is not taken into account. The whole matter is in a person’s desire.

Let’s go back to Abraham; he worked with his students on unity. Many Kabbalists write about this, especially Maimonides, the great Kabbalist of the 11-12th century. Abraham began to work with them according to the system “love thy neighbor as yourself,” and thus began to unite, assemble, and “form” a completely new society from them, in which everyone was internally connected to everyone else.

States, countries, and people are also connected, but externally, meaning that they have health care systems, social security, laws, education, etc. But we are not talking not about the external but the internal systems of connection between people. This approach of Abraham’s is different from the concept of Nimrod, who offered people dispersing so as not to interfere with each other and, at the same time, keeping in touch from afar.

It would seem, indeed, let the diplomats negotiate, let traders take caravans along the “Silk Road” or “from the Vikings to the Greeks,” let the sailors discover America, etc. But here we are talking about another journey, about connecting with each other internally. We are not talking about bodies, but intentions, focus, and overcoming internal obstacles. A person travels not in the mountains, not through the Sinai desert, but through the desert of the soul, because he feels his attitude towards others is a wasteland that dries him out, in which there is nothing with which to be fulfilled.

That is why the way to get closer to others is through the desert. Then, a person really gets closer to them; internally through the “Sinai desert” he comes to the “land of Israel.” And here he finds his desire “flowing with milk and honey,” emanating, “radiating” all the good things.

In essence, this is a “paradise.” In the past there was a desert, or even “hell,” and now the “Garden of Eden.” Unwillingness to come into contact with others, hatred of one’s neighbor, all of this is turned into goodness.
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From KabTV’s “Babylon Yesterday and Today” 8/27/14

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From the book: The Essential Secret of the Jews, M. Brushtein

An Atom – Is A Product Of Unification

“About one hundred seconds after the big bang, the temperature would have fallen to one thousand million degrees, the temperature inside the hottest stars. At this temperature protons and neutrons would no longer have sufficient energy to escape the attraction of the strong nuclear force, and would start to combine together to produce the nuclei of atoms of deuterium… .” (Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, A Briefer History of Time)

Interestingly, it took only a minute and a half after the universal explosion, and the process was reversed. Figuratively speaking, matter, torn to shreds, began to recover.

A question arises. Are we heading to the original state or, perhaps, to something else?

This question requires a special investigation that is why we will leave it to better times and move on to more pressing things. For example, to atoms—the concrete results of the policy of unification.

“The atom (from the Greek, ‘atomos’ – indivisible) is the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its properties. A positively charged nucleus is in the center of the atom, which focuses almost the entire mass of the atom; electrons, forming the electron shells, which size determine the size of the atom. The atomic nucleus consists of nucleons—protons and neutrons.” (Academic Dictionary).

It seems that the process of unification began to gain momentum. Separate, distinct in their properties, elements are becoming united into a whole system.

Interestingly, what is the behavior of the quantum – the smallest amount of any physical property, of the substance or radiation, which a system may have? (Academic Dictionary) What about its unification? It turns out very well. Some researchers even apply the term “social” to the quantum.

“Quanta are highly sociable: once they share the same identical state, they remain linked no matter how far they travel from each other.” (Ervin Laszlo, The Interconnected Universe)

The above statement is confirmed, for example, in the experiment conducted in Switzerland.

Researchers from the University of Geneva attempted to detect the coordination of “entangled” photons. It turned out that the “entangled” photons, put far apart from each other, “managed” to change their states absolutely synchronously. The speed of coordinated reaction of photons exceeded the speed of light a thousand times!

We are talking about a phenomenon that is also called “quantum entanglement.”

Reference:

“Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon that occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated or interact in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently – instead, a quantum state may be given for the system as a whole.

Measurements of physical properties such as position, momentum, spin, polarization, etc. performed on entangled particles are found to be appropriately correlated.” (Wikipedia, “Quantum entanglement”)
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Dr. Michael LaitmanAncient Babylon receded into the depths of history, but it is still reflected in our time. Its entire course is a single process, linked from beginning to end and from end to beginning.

That is why when we see how history repeats itself, but on another level, we need to draw the right conclusions from what happened and is happening.

So, in Babylon, which was ruled by King Nimrod, Abraham’s group was formed, which challenged the “official” program of development with its own program. Nimrod said that the hatred and separation that flared up between the people must be overcome in a natural egoistic way: to settle in different places in order to have less contact with each other, in modern terms, to move out from shared to individual accommodations.

Abraham’s opinion was different: We cannot do that; we must connect. And now we have to pursue not division, but unity.

As a result, three million followed Nimrod, and only five thousand followed Abraham. This small group of distressed people, who were not satisfied with the people’s general concept, called itself “Israel” and left Babylon. “Accumulating” years, centuries, and millennia of suffering, it moved its own way up to the present day.

Question: Was the group “pushed out” of Babylon and forced to start its own movement?

Answer: I would not say that it was “pushed out.” Pressure began later, but not at the beginning.

In those days, Abraham was a great Babylonian priest and sage. The people who gathered around him realized that his method of correction, or the method of a new life, attracted them by its inner meaning, that it is not just egoistic “divorce,” separation, scattering to different places, but the movement inside. The corresponding message, the request of the soul, was awakened in them, and they were ready for it.

After all, humanity evolves not just technically; it changes form throughout history: slavery, feudalism, capitalism, socialism, etc. In other words, it changes its shape, it changes its content. The quantitative growth of egoism also acquires a new quality.

So, the followers of Abraham felt that they could not develop just egoistically; they needed to reach a completely different level, to “jump” to the next level. Thus they adhered to Abraham, who fulfilled their internal demand.
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From KabTV’s “Babylon Yesterday and Today” 8/27/14

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Beginning The Correction Of The World

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Why do you insist on the dissemination of Kabbalah among Jews and involve your non-Jewish students in this work?

Answer (I answer on behalf of a non-Jew): Because through the dissemination of Kabbalah among the Jews (explaining to them their mission and the cause of anti-Semitism), we, the nations of the world, oblige the Jews to begin the correction of the world. Only the Jews can begin the correction of the world, meaning its unification, because only they are its broken parts (since the destruction of the Temple 2,000 years ago). But as soon as they begin the correction (unification) under our influence, we all join them and act together.
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A Spiritual Stigma That Cannot Be Erased Or Concealed

Dr. Michael LaitmanEvery Jew in the world is a versatile, complex, and complicated creation, and in order to stabilize him correctly, a unique education for all of the people is required.

After thousands of years of exile, the people of Israel have forgotten who they are. This affects everyone, beginning from the most educated to the simplest people. No one truly understands what it is to be Israel. Who is Israel? What is the origin of the people of Israel? What happened to it in the course of history, and how did it form itself? What happened in the days of the destruction of the first and second Temples when the people of Israel were on a spiritual level? What is the spiritual height that we attained, and why do we belong to spirituality?

What is the Shevirah (shattering) through which we have gone? What was the destruction of the Temples? What is the exile that didn’t happen with any nation in the world and in any place? Why are the people of Israel considered to have been in exile until today? After all, two thousand years have passed since then! Why, after all of these years, didn’t our people assimilate and disappear among the other peoples?

Why do so many problems haunt us today?  Because we wanted to get lost among the other nations, but didn’t succeed? Why does anti-Semitism continue to flourish in enlightened times? It is somehow possible to explain this phenomenon in the Middle Ages, in barbaric times. But how, with all these high-tech developments, communications, education, and culture, have these absurd stereotypes about Jewish people continued?

We must realize that the people of Israel need an Israeli-Jewish education that explains to a person who he is. We never will succeed in being freed from the stigma of the people of Israel that proves that we belong to it even if we hide at the ends of the earth. It makes no difference where Jews are. They must know what is happening with the people of Israel.

As of today, nobody knows this! Even though we learn the history and geography of the Jewish people in schools, we don’t know anything about it. This is because the whole truth is found within the wisdom of Kabbalah to which the people of Israel are linked.

The people of Israel are a spiritual people that are subordinate to the spiritual law that the wisdom of Kabbalah investigates. So, we are linked to this wisdom, and we cannot flee from it. The Jewish people gathered around Abraham in accordance with the spiritual root that obligates us to unite, and, with the help of the unification among us, we attain the higher power.

Our people were founded once for this reason. So, the law, “And you shall love your neighbor as yourself” belongs directly to the people of Israel, and we must exist according to this law. We have no possibility of continuing to exist without knowing the truth about ourselves, and for this, we must attain our spiritual source, for its entire essence is specifically in that and not in physical sources like the rest of humanity.

The people of Israel are like aliens from another world. There are even anti-Semitic hypotheses that support this because the nations of the world feel that we are different from the others, and we are truly different, and we have come “from another planet.” We have fallen from heaven. The origin of our source is “from heaven,” from the spiritual world. This source is in us and we must discover it to know why things are happening this way, what its origin is, and why it pursues us all the time. We are on the surface of the Earth with a unique mission. So, it is impossible to get along without becoming aware of the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is our constitution, the system of connections between us, the mechanism, thanks to which we exist and function. In addition, without the wisdom of Kabbalah, we cannot understand what is happening to us.

So, it is not important to us who is against and who is wholeheartedly for Israel; who is for Zionism or against it. We won’t know what to do if we don’t realize our foundation, the connection between us, the final goal, the entire process of how to reach that goal, and what we are doing in this world if we don’t understand our destiny.
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From Kab TV’s “A New Life” 8/14/14

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The Essential Secret Of The Jews, Part 36

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The Postulates Of The Theory of Integrality

Our Universe is a result of the Big Bang.

Two opposing forces emerged after the Big Bang.

The interaction of these forces has led to the development of the Universe.

The Universe is controlled by the force, which led to the Big Bang.

There is no evolution. There is a perfect creation, similar to an absolutely round ball. It is in an infinite interconnection, in an ideal, perfect condition.
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The Future Of American Jews

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: How do you see the future of American Jewish organizations?

Answer: I suggest the article that describes how once Israel, its existence and essence, was the cause around which the American Jews united. This is what united them, gave them an incentive for the existence of their organizations, and was a source of inspiration.

As they began to associate themselves more with the surrounding society and to ignore the existence of Israel, to that extent the cause that united them disappeared, and being disconnected, they “fell” in their ideology, activities, and influence.

If they do not understand this and do not put Israel at the center of their activities, they will completely disappear as Jews in America. Israel, for its part, must actively play the role that unites all the American Jews and their organizations.
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The Essential Secret Of The Jews, Part 35

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How Everything Began

“The nucleus around which the entire Creation is united in the pursuit of a common goal, – is Israel.” (Ramchal – Moshe Chaim Luzzatto [1707-1747], Kabbalist, poet. “Da’at Tevunot.” 277)

The World Was Created From A Point

We talked a lot about unity. It is interesting to see when this process began in matter, so to speak, initially—is one. And second, how these trends, the trends towards unification, evolved. Since we introduced what happened long before the Big Bang, we will see what happened next. How did that primary program “express” itself in the matter that is known to us?

“The entire universe was squashed into a single point with zero size, like a sphere of radius zero. At that time, the density of the universe and the curvature of space-time would have been infinite. It is the time that we call the big bang.” (Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, “A Briefer History of Time”)

What happens? It turns out that we, the entire universe with all the nebulae, black holes and other objects, was originally housed in the point that had no size?

It is impossible to imagine that, but the fact pleases. Indeed, he argues that theoretically it is possible to unite everything without exception, even the capitalist and socialist, even egoism and altruism, and even an anti-Semite and Jew. Since this fact is scientific, we can assume that our hypothesis began to gain points.

It is still interesting. Who and why did he decide to disturb the Commune-point idyll?

Here’s how the famous physicist responds to this question.

“This means that questions such as who set up the conditions for the big bang are not questions that science addresses.” (Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, “A Briefer History of Time”)

It is unfortunate that academic science is not able to answer such questions. Let’s refer to the non-academic science – Kabbalah.

“Behold, that before the emanations were emanated and the creatures were created,

The upper simple light had filled the whole existence.

And there was no vacancy, such as an empty atmosphere, a hollow, or a pit,

But all was filled with simple, boundless light.

And there was no such part as head, or tail,

But everything was simple, smooth light, balanced evenly and equally,

And it was called the Endless Light.

And when upon His simple will, came the desire to create the world and emanate the emanations,

To bring to light the perfection of His deeds, His names, His appellations,

Which was the cause of the creation of the worlds,

He then restricted Himself, in the middle,

Precisely in the center,

He restricted the light.

And the light drew far off to the sides around that middle point.

And there remained an empty space, a vacuum

Circling the middle point.

And the restriction had been uniform

Around the empty point,

So that the space

Was evenly circled around it.

There, after the restriction,

Having formed a vacuum and a space

Precisely in the middle of the endless light,

A place was formed,

Where the emanated and the created might reside.

Then from Endless Light a single line hung down,

Lowered down into that space.

And through that line, He emanated, formed,

Created all the worlds.

Before these four worlds came to be

There was one infinite, one name, in wondrous, hidden unity,

That even for the closest of the angels

There is no attainment in the endless,

As there is no mind that can perceive it,

For He has no place, no boundary, no name.” (“The Tree of Life,”  The Ari, 16th century Kabbalist)

To be honest, this text raises more questions than gives answers. However, the poem is impressive. And not only because of the sublime poetics, for example, but also by the fact that the author aligns the concepts of space and time. By the way, it is almost four centuries before the discovery of the theory of relativity!

In addition, the words “circle” and “round” catch the eye.

It calls for the analogy with the word “sphere” in the description of the Big Bang, and with the shape of our planet and the globality of the world.
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The Secret Program Of Kabbalists Comes To Light

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: I’ve heard that today’s Kabbalists’ program is to prepare people for the revelation of the upper force. Could you please tell us about this program?

Answer: This program is not secret. If it belongs to the people and, ultimately, to the world, then, of course, there are no secrets. Kabbalists wrote about our time since the days of the prophets.

It is said that all the prophecies belong to the era of the Mashiach (Messiah – the end of correction), in which we find ourselves today. Baal HaSulam indicates this in the articles “Time to Act” and “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar” and others.

This period began in the 16th century, with the Ari (Isaac Luria), called Mashiach Ben Yosef, who began the process of the final correction. Beginning with him and further, Kabbalah was more and more developed, through Baal Shem Tov and his disciples.

That is, we are in the process, which began not today, yesterday, but within the program, which has been realized for thousands of years, gradually moving towards its conclusion. Beginning in the 20th century, after Baal HaSulam wrote the article “The Last Generation,” after everything that was written by Rabbi Kook and Rabash, we can assume that we are on the home stretch.

The activities of the Kabbalists of all times and generations were focused on our time to ensure that we have already begun to implement the correction among the entire nation, in the masses. That’s what we are doing.

There is a clear indication that the time for this has come. The Jewish people have returned to the land of Israel. But for the time being, this nation does not correspond to the true definition of the people of Israel, and this land does not match the definition of the land of Israel; we still need to achieve this.

This is the place where we live “as if” the people of Israel in the land of Israel is under tremendous internal and external stress. We are divided into many currents within, confused, and do not know who we are and what our purpose is.

Our nation is divided into a huge number of factions, camps, opinions, and parties. Among us there are many people who hate this country, among the Arabs, and among the Jews themselves. Our situation is very precarious, and we have recently found ourselves in confrontation with the whole world. The entire world is against Israel. There are growing anti-Jewish sentiments and pressure on the Jews in all the countries.

Many Jews abroad also oppose the state of Israel. For example, behind the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, acting with anti-Semitic statements, there is a group of twenty Jews who support him and curse Israel even more than he does. The same phenomenon can be observed everywhere.

The Jews living abroad hope to secure a safe future in this way. But we already saw how this ended in Germany seventy years ago. The nations of the world do not like Israel and the Jews, regardless of whether there is a war in Gaza or not.

Therefore, we must explain to the people intensively and as soon as possible on what our good and secure future depends. If we talk in terms of the wisdom of Kabbalah, we can say that the only thing missing in the world is the revelation of the Creator, the general force, managing the entire universe, including our small world, humankind, and the people of Israel within it.

All this is in the power of one force, which is called the Creator (Bore), from the words “come and see” (bo-re), because we are able to reveal it. We reveal it due to the fact that we are getting closer to it. As we approach and reveal the upper force, we are counted worthy of an absolutely good state.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalists Write. Preparing the People of Israel for the Light” 8/20/14

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