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Revelation Can Only Bring Benefit

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: How do you feel about WikiLeaks?

Answer: Everything comes from Above, while we perceive it according to our equivalence of form with the Upper Light. Therefore, if everything in the world changes, it will only be for the better. It’s best for things to change in any direction and faster!

Therefore, this great revelation of human stupidity is only beneficial to everyone. Perhaps the masses will begin to understand that "the hearts of the world’s rulers are in the hands of the Creator." Meaning that they are no less stupid than everyone else and they are not really doing anything. Moreover, they don’t think any further than their stomachs and wallets.

Secondly, it will become revealed that the world is absolutely interconnected in its global, universal crisis, and in the involuntary, egoistic unity of people who hate each other. There’s no way to escape this or to change nature. It’s scary to consume each other because what if instead of you consuming someone else, they will do it to you?

Thus, there will be just one solution left: to look for an answer to how to cope with living together. In addition, in the global world the task isn’t simply to coexist, but to find the formula for total and open interaction as one organism! Otherwise it’s impossible to survive! That is how Nature will bring us to happiness with a rod.

Thirdly, it is impossible to stop this process. The revelation of the Upper World entails the full revelation of every one of us and all of us together to everyone and to every person. Let all of egoism’s base evil be bared and then we will all start to make our way out of this garbage dump.

We will then leave behind all of our pride, narcissism, complaints, and anger, putting the Upper Goal that’s determined from Above at the head of everything. Then we won’t advance toward it forcefully, but consciously.
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Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Is it correct to build an intention while studying The Book of Zohar and to think about those who have been hurt by the fires in the north of Israel and those who are fighting the fire?

Answer: This is not a matter of the obvious and latent problems people are facing. By bringing the Light closer to Malchut de Atzilut, we enable Malchut to shine in her nine lower Sefirot, meaning in all of reality that lies beneath her, including our world.

We raise MAN, a plea for correction, to Malchut, which is then transferred higher, all the way until Arich Anpin, the source of abundance. By virtue of this, the abundance starts descending to Malchut and she provides this Light to the lower ones: the Worlds of BYA, our world, all the souls, and the still, vegetative, and animate levels of nature.

Of course, we thereby bring life to all the creatures below. This includes the inhabitants of the north of Israel, who are the same as all the people and all the creatures that continue to suffer.

We understand that they are suffering due to a lack of connection with the Upper Force. When we add the right intention to their suffering, we raise their desire upwards together with our intention. Then we receive additional abundance in response, which becomes transferred to the whole world.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/5/10, The Zohar

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I’m Asking For Everyone’s Sake, Including Ourselves

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What should we actually do to counter nature’s blows, such as the fire in the north of Israel that’s happening now?

Answer: The only thing we need is the common intention, the unity of our thoughts. We need our friends all over the world to think about how our unity with one another will help eliminate all the disasters in the world, including the horrible fire that has broken out in Israel.

You have to include your personal plea into the common plea for the whole world and unite with all of the world’s suffering. That is the only way it works: If you think about everyone, then at the end you can also add “us” – but not yourself! This is the only thing that can help.

It is impossible to fight catastrophes or a crisis using the old methods if you find yourself facing the Upper Light that acts against you. We are yet to see how the financial crisis will come back, even though people have tried to extinguish it using all the possible means. In fact, it will explode much more powerfully than before. And the same thing will happen with everything else. We cannot cope with these problems using the usual methods. We can only suppress them temporarily, but later they will break out even stronger.

Correction is possible only through bringing hearts closer, only through unity. The world has to become global. The force operating on us from Above surrounds us, shutting us in from all sides and becoming revealed as one global force. Therefore, we feel how humanity is becoming as one organism where everyone is connected with each other.

We are yet to see that these very catastrophes will force humanity to unite. Now fire-fighters from all over the world will come to Israel to help fight the fire, and tomorrow something else will happen in another place and the whole world will come rushing there, and later it will be a new place. In this way, through disasters, nature will force us to unite and understand that we need each others’ help.

Nature will become so hostile that we won’t have time to think about how to fight with each other. If we don’t agree to it the good way, the Creator will force us to it. The situation will become so serious that not one nation will be able to single-handedly fight the natural catastrophes. Everyone will have to help each other. And suddenly, everyone will understand that they have to be together; otherwise we simply won’t survive,

Everyone will unite in the face of a deadly threat. But why should we wait for it if we can advance by the good path?
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From the lesson on Baal HaSulam’s article “Freedom of Will” on 12/3/10

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The Israeli Newspaper Maariv About The Convention

The most popular Israeli newspaper “Maariv (Evening)” published a big article about the recent Convention:

Excerpts from the article: Roberto from Mexico walks up onto the stage in a gigantic hall filled with thousands of participants. He is choking on tears and is barely able to speak.

Suddenly, we hear the words, as if he found a string in his throat: ‘You are my family,’  he says. ‘And I cannot live without you.’ The audience is crying. They will cry when Alexander from Russia will ask everybody to join the good within, and when Reuben from the United States will ask everybody to close their eyes and think about this special day.

Reporter: ‘I don’t understand why people are crying here. Do you?’

Alexander Demidov: ‘They are crying because they didn’t know that they would find so much warmth here, that everything here would be so close and true. It is like you suddenly discover you have a son. And you didn’t know he existed, that he is so nice, strong, and handsome.

This is what I feel when I see people from Japan and Turkey here, the people who say that we are closest to them. I didn’t cry because I am not that sensitive, but I felt short of breath.’
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The largest (700,000 copies) Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth (Latest News) published a big article about the Convention.


Excerpt from the article: “An Israeli, a German, a Turk, a Swede, a Romanian, and an Englishman met in Tel Aviv. This is not a beginning of a joke. It really happened yesterday at the yearly Kabbalah L’Am Convention.

4,500 Israelis together with another 2,500 people from 54 countries from around the world gathered yesterday at The Israel Trade Fairs Center for a convention that will last three days and takes place eighth year in a row.”
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The Jerusalem Post Newspaper About the Convention


The Jerusalem Post newspaper published an article about the World Kabbalah Convention 2010.

Excerpt from the article: “The sixth World Kabbalah Convention will open on Tuesday at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds, drawing a projected 7,000 people from 54 countries and a variety of religions and speaking 38 languages, for three days of learning about Kabbalah.

“’Kabbala is popularly mistaken as religion or mysticism, but the people attending this convention have delved deeper into Kabbala and understand that it is a method with the sole aim of developing connections of love among people.’”
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Latest News From The Frankfurt Book Fair


Representatives of our publishing house in Frankfurt report:
We have established long term relations with the publishing houses in Germany and Spain, which will release two books per year and help organize the follow-up promotional tours. We hope that in the next couple of years, authentic Kabbalah will be well known and recognized in these two countries and Europe in general.

Great interest was repeatedly expressed by the publishers from Asia, especially China, Korea, and Vietnam. Additionally, some other publishing houses have signed contracts for the second book after the success of the first one such as the following:

The Zohar – Italy,
Attaining the Worlds Beyond – Croatia, VBZ,
Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life – Spain, Nowtilus,
The Zohar – Brazil, Imago,
Attaining the Worlds Beyond – The Czech Republic, Euginka,
A Guide to the Hidden Wisdom of Kabbalah – Germany, Ullsteind.

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News From The Frankfurt Book Fair


Our representatives took part in the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010. This is our 6th fair. Laitman Kabbalah Publishers is becoming well-known, and the relationships that we have developed are starting to bear fruit.

Books About Kabbalah To The World

Dr. Michael LaitmanIn the news (from Earthtimes.org): The Frankfurt Book Fair opened for business early Wednesday at the start of a five-day run, with 7,500 exhibitors displaying books to trade buyers from round the globe.

My Comment: Our representatives from all over the world will also be working at the fair: Ingrid Thoma, Charlotte Danieli, Daniel Lange, Eduard Yusupov, Alex Stetter, Ralph Caspala, Jakob Heilbronner, and Uri Laitman.

For many years, we have been participating in this international enterprise and are well known to all. We have been developing business relations with the major world publishers for a long time.

This year we are planning to sign contracts for publishing our books with the biggest publishing companies in the world: CHILE – Norma Group, CHINA – Beijing Holybird, CROATIA – VBZ, CZECH – Grada, ESTONIA – Pegasus, FINLAND -Mäntykustannus, ITALY – Apogeo – Feltrinelli, LATVIA – Jumuva, MEXICO – Random House, NORWAY – Fritt Forlag.
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My Answers To The Top 10 Unanswerable Questions

Dr. Michael LaitmanIn the News (from Telegraph.co.uk): Ask Jeeves, the British Internet search engine, has published its Top 10 unanswerable questions that have bothered humanity during the last decade. Here are my answers to them.

1.  What is the meaning of life? In getting to know the source of life, the Creator, through which we find eternal life and its meaning.

2. Is there a God? No, there is Nature or the law of equivalence to the Creator, the property of love and bestowal.

3. Do blondes have more fun? Because they are dumber?

4. What is the best diet? Eat like animals do: what’s good for your health.

5. Is there anybody out there? Yes, there is, but at a higher dimension, in the will to bestow, contrary to the corporeal life which is lived in the will to receive.

6. Who is the most famous person in the world? For each person, it is his parents.

7. What is love? Fulfilling the desires of the other person.

8. What is the secret to happiness? To give instead of taking since then you are unlimited and happy.

9. Did Tony Soprano die? I don’t know who he is, and it doesn’t matter to me anyway.

10.  How long will I live? The point is to attain eternal life before this one expires.
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