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Where Should You Study Kabbalah?

Posted on October 15th, 2009

Three questions I received on studying Kabbalah worldwide:

Question: Do you teach Kabbalah in the USA, and if yes, where?

My Answer: You can find all the information here.

Question: Is the curriculum for your classes available for download?

My Answer: Yes. Please check out the information on all our available materials and ways of learning on our web site.

Question: I am so happy to learn about Kabbalah. This philosophy reflects my personal aspirations. Do you have any locations in Russia? I would like to visit them while I am there.

My Answer: Please visit our Russian site to find the information. There are Bnei Baruch groups as well as individual students in almost every city in Russia.

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The True Source Of Happiness

Posted on October 14th, 2009

Two questions I received about happiness:

Question: How can we let young people and their parents know that long-term happiness is achieved better by suppressing the ego and instead choosing the forces of love and bestowal? How can we teach this principle and model it?

My Answer: The only way to cause correction and to create a new, stable generation is by introducing Kabbalah’s method of education and upbringing into the schools.

Question: How can I make myself happy?

My Answer: The source of happiness lies in being closer to the Creator.

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Actions Taken In Nature Are A Consequence of Man’s Egoism

Posted on October 8th, 2009

Two questions I received about how man’s egoism is evidenced in Nature:

Question: Rav Laitman, if I understand correctly, Nature conducts itself according to certain laws. For instance only take and use what you need and not more. But a friend told me how a wolf pack killed over 40 sheep and lambs in one raid. The wolves escaped without consuming any of the sheep they killed. If the Law of Nature rules the still, animate and vegetative world what causes this type of aberration?

My Answer: Predators exhibit this kind of behavior because they are influenced by man’s downfall. The whole world ascends and descends with man.

Question: If Nature is intelligent and we should resemble it by ceasing to be competitive but collaborative, why is it that animals compete for food and survival, or plants compete for sun or other natural resources? Does Kabbalah share some common point with the evolutionary theory?

My Answer: This is a consequence of man’s egoism, as it is described in the Bible.

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Life Is An Ascent To The Creator

Posted on August 18th, 2009

Three questions I received about difficult family situations:

Question: How does one reconcile one’s past? It is a past dotted with illness all my life and “child abuse” early on, culminating with a statement at a family reunion in front of my Grandparents that my Mother wished I would have died and my brother lived. How does one rid or clear one’s thoughts of this? Am I not receiving information correctly or do I not see what is in front of me?

My Answer: You have to forgive them! This is the Creator’s way of solving yet another problem through you. This will become clear to you soon.

Question: My father left most of his money to one son, leaving the rest of us just a bit. Needless to say, this has caused much friction between us. What do you suggest I do, as my anger is building to the point that I want to ruin my brother, and I have the means to do this very easily? I don’t even care about the money; now it’s just about principle.

My Answer: You have to obey your father’s will, and your brother is not to blame for this. Don’t change anything, but just agree with it. The Creator has set up this situation for you through your father and other relatives. Instead of focusing on all the other feelings, fulfill yourself with the aspiration toward Him.

Question: I am a young man but I have already endured too many losses of my relatives who were really good people. And now my father is in the hospital waiting for a surgery after having a heart attack on my granddad’s remembrance day. On the one hand, maybe this surgery is care from Above, so that something more terrible won’t happen to him. Still, I ask myself: why was he not guarded against any trouble? How can I keep getting up and believing every time?

My Answer: Our life should not be an escape from suffering, but an ascent above the suffering in order to connect with its source: the Creator.

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Is Hyponosis Allowed In Kabbalah?

Posted on August 4th, 2009

Two questions I received on the personal life of a Kabbalist:

Question: Is it ok for a Kabbalist to use hypnosis? Is it a tool the Creator allows us to use?

My Answer: No, and it is not permitted.

Question: In your short bio you talk about your life path, your children, and your grandchildren, but you don’t mention whether you’re married. This leaves me confused because I know how important you consider women in Kabbalah. Why don’t you write anything about your wife?

My Answer: So others won’t be jealous – and that’s not a joke!

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So You Think You Are A Kabbalah Prodigy?

Posted on August 2nd, 2009

Three questions I received from beginning students:

Question: We are located at the center of the Philippine archipelago, and there are no recognized Kabbalists here. Can we learn Kabbalah from you? Do we need a real person to activate the 10 Sefirot of our bodies? Who is our initiator if there are no representatives here from the Kabbalah center?

My Answer: If you connect to our studies, the group, unification and dissemination through the Internet, this will provide you with everything you need to advance spiritually.

Question: I have always searched for the meaning of my life, but I could never find a good enough teaching to fill the gap and to complete the missing pieces of the puzzle, until I met you and your wonderful teaching. I would just like to express my gratitude to the Creator and to you for bringing the Light to this world and for sharing it with the blind, like myself.

My Answer: Hold on to this admiration: it will give you strength to advance toward the Creator. And good luck!

Question: What should I do if I feel that I am a Kabbalah prodigy at 20 years old? Should I just keep learning or am I allowed to teach from my own analogies of what I know so far?

My Answer: Your knowledge is a delusion. You have to let the Kabbalistic texts go through you, and when you do, you will soon see how mistaken you were.

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Who Is Your Friend In A Kabbalistic Group?

Posted on July 26th, 2009

A question I received from my student: You say that one should treat one’s friend in the group as a child, with love and without judgment. We have to rise to a higher level of understanding and see that the most important thing is to treat our friends by the principle of “love your friend as yourself.”

But does this mean that we have to ignore insults from our “friends” and refrain from reproaching them even when their actions cause moral and physical harm to us? Every time this happens to me, I want to resolve the situation and I feel as if that person is not my friend. Or, in cases like this, should I just put a distance between myself and that person in order to avoid the negative feelings, even though we both study Kabbalah?

My Answer: Rabash wrote that if you sincerely attempted to resolve the situation with that person, and your attempts failed, then you should leave him alone and act as if you don’t notice him. You have to wait for that person to mature, and when he does, he will become your friend. Keeping this attitude should help you!

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No Matter What – Never Stop

Posted on July 19th, 2009

A question I received: I was never a good socializer and not exactly a communicative person. Actually, being among large groups of live people is a big torture for me. I lose all desire to talk, I go berserk; I feel that I am deficient, etc.. You teach us: “Create your own environment”, I feel that will never be able to. But I can’t imagine living without Kabbalah studies and I continue to read books and study over the Internet on my own.

People that surround me don’t like me. I simply hate them, and I hate myself, too. In one of the forums they told me to mix more. But what can I do if I the word “mixing” makes me sick?

My Answer: It’s just wonderful! Continue anyway you can, and the Light will lead you to a new state, resolution and circumstances. Most importantly – no matter what, continue your studies.

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Revealing The Universality Of Kabbalah

Posted on July 14th, 2009

Questions I received about problems in Venezuela, people living in the East and an expression of doubt about Kabbalah as the only path to spirituality:

Question: I am writing to you from Venezuela. How can we choose the correct environment if we live in a country with so many political problems, where the people are severely divided and where the employment situation is often intolerable?

My Answer: Kabbalah is intended to solve all the problems of our world by elevating a person above them. All problems come from the Creator precisely with the objective of forcing us to rise above them. By understanding the source of the problems, you have the opportunity to truly overcome them.

Question: Why is it that whenever you speak of the dissemination of Kabbalah, you never focus on the East? What will happen with this part of the world? Is it that people living there are unable to walk the path of correction and avoid suffering?

My Answer: I speak to all people on Earth. The only issue is that we do not yet have enough friends and groups in the East and this is why I rarely mention them.

Question: I do not agree that the study of Kabbalah is the only method of spiritual advancement. I imagine that the Creator has all sorts of possibilities to spiritually develop any person, irrespective of whether or not that person studies Kabbalah. I also think that in places where Kabbalah was not widely known, there were also people who were able to complete their spiritual transformation.

My Answer: I wish for you to become more deeply familiar with what Kabbalah brings to our world from the ancient world, when the entire civilization was in one place – in Babylon. Kabbalah was revealed then and there in order to lead humanity to unity. You will discover Kabbalah’s universality and alter your current opinion.

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Life, The Goal And The Soul

Posted on July 14th, 2009

Questions I received about fate, sensations received while reading, Adam HaRishon and connections:

Question: How do we find out the real purpose of our fate? Is there a way to discover whether a person’s actions are properly directed at carrying out the goal, for which he came to this world?

My Answer: This is a person’s constant work over the course of his whole life, in clarifying the goal – the Creator, the quality of bestowal and love, and acquiring this quality to the extent that he continually nears it.

Question: I have been reading your books for a long time, and it seems that something fulfills me within. I acquire a string of hope and attachment. I feel that I exist, that I am here, and when I concentrate on this feeling, I feel certain serenity and fulfillment. Is this feeling of existence my own ego, or is it universal, common?

My Answer: This is the emergence of your personal attainment of the common universe.

Question: To what organ of Adam HaRishon does my soul belong?

My Answer: Only you can reveal this as you reveal the Creator, because this revelation comes generally in the common soul and individually in your soul.

Question: When you say that “there needs to be a connection between people,” what sort of a connection do you mean?

My Answer: I am referring to the need to be in positive relationships, with participation of everyone in regards to everyone else, as our connection in a single mechanism obliges us.

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