New Life 520 – Me, God, And The Love Of Others
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Your attitude to the world is egoistic and exploitative. If you change your attitude to love of others, you will resemble God.

The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us that everything we see around us is the reflection of our internal attributes.

A person who begins to feel as if everything that is external to him is himself, actually unites with God. God wants to teach you to love, through every incident, through every person who treats you badly. A wise student is a person who learns from the Creator how to treat everyone with love, just like He treats us.

To pray in the spiritual sense is to ask for the force of the Light to come and change me and improve me.

Anyone who treats you badly merely displays your negative attributes to you. The Creator treats you with the utmost love even now, but your attributes turn the picture into a bad one. The goal is to enable you to develop above the level of an angel or beast, to be a man, Adam, who is similar to God.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 520 – Me, God, And The Love Of Others,” 2/12/15

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Question: The wisdom of Kabbalah engages in the revelation of the Creator, but where is He? Is He beyond the universe, meaning beyond its borders, or on another dimension, meaning within the universe but in a parallel space?

Answer: The Creator is a field we exist in. He evokes different sensations in us so that we will begin to feel Him.

Therefore the greatest punishment is when the Creator disappears, when He is concealed from us. We feel the connection between us, but we don’t feel the field, the Creator.

The wisdom of Kabbalah is divided into two parts, one part is meant to lead a person to feel the field. The other part is to investigate the field by becoming similar to it. When we change, we feel the field, the Creator, through our changes. The Creator remains constant and only we change until we fully attain Him.
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New Life 517 – Kabbalah Conventions, Part 1
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

What is the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah La’Am Convention and in what way is it different from other spiritual conventions?

How is it related to the process humanity is undergoing, and what should a person who comes to the convention expect?
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From KabTV’s “New Life 517 –  Kabbalah Conventions, Part 1,” 2/8/15

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New Life 516 – God And I, Part B
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Everything we feel is not necessarily true and there is no guarantee that it is the same on the outside. If we had different attributes, we would feel a different reality.

There may be whole worlds we don’t perceive around us. It is the same with regard to God; if we perceive Him, we perceive Him only in our own attributes.

A dog can feel according to his sense of smell and a snake feels according to heat and cold. If we want to feel the world like they do, we need a similar sense. This means that everything is perceived according to our senses and our attributes.

The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us which attributes we should build inside us in order to feel God. The attributes of the upper force are good and benevolent, bestowal, love, and giving—ready to give everything to everyone. We on the other hand, have an opposite nature, we incessantly want to receive from everyone and we want to receive something new at every given moment.

This is the reason that God and we are not on the same frequency, in the same world. God develops us so that we will discover Him. He is the one force that manages and organizes everything in reality and He develops us until we want to discover Him.

Nothing exists but God and me, but I don’t have the sense to feel that at the moment. When a strong passion to discover God awakens in me, He leads me to the wisdom of Kabbalah.

I have to tell myself in every situation that there is none else besides Him so that I will be able to hold on to something. Only He is before me. And what if I feel angry at Him? He doesn’t mind… as long as I relate to Him.

At any given moment in life, I have to try and discern two things: that there is none else besides Him and that He is good and benevolent. If you feel that He does you harm, it is because your attributes are evil. After all, only good stems from Him. It is like parents who want to develop their child, and buy him educational activities, but he refuses to study.

I have to build the attribute of bestowal that is just like His inside me, and then I will feel that there is none else besides Him and that He is good and benevolent. The whole world is like an envelope that is presented to me as I perceive it only in order to enable me to upgrade my attributes. I recommend that you forget what I have said here so as not to get confused, and listen to the whole program.

To sum up, find a teacher and a group that engages in the wisdom of Kabbalah and learn how to adjust yourself to God.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 516 – God And I, Part 2,” 2/5/15

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New Life #515 – The Wisdom Of Kabbalah: God And I–Part 1
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Everyone is looking for God, but He is hidden, so humanity has developed many methods of how to find Him. On the whole, however, everyone has his own God, which is a sublime value that a person sees as the goal of his life.

Summary

When the desire to discover the meaning of life awakens in a person, he aspires for a personal connection with the upper force and begins to feel that there is an upper force that he wants to hear, understand and perceive. If a person truly wants to discover the upper force, he reaches a teacher and the method for revealing Him, and then he learns that the upper force seems to tell him: Do you want to reveal Me? You have to change.

There are many teachers in the world who direct people to all kinds of God. Personally, I was attracted to the wisdom of Kabbalah. Kabbalah teaches a person that it is possible to discover the upper force only through the law of equivalence of form, by resembling Him.

The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches a person how to build the right connection with God without any fantasies or dreams. You simply discover that there is an upper force that controls everything and that everyone can get to know Him by changing his nature.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #515 – The Wisdom Of Kabbalah: God And I–Part 1,” 2/5/15

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Question: Where did the Creator come from?

Answer: The question “where” indicates that we are in the final phases of our evolution in which time, motion, and space are still important for us.

But they exist only in our world, which is the lowest of all of the other worlds. In all the other worlds there is neither time nor motion, no beginning and no end.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16

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Question: Are all the laws of nature the Creator’s attributes?

Answer: Of course. All of nature is the Creator, but there is a revealed part of nature and a concealed part.

The wisdom of Kabbalah refers to the Creator as the concealed part of nature because what is revealed to us is its distorted part that we feel as such as a result of our uncorrected senses, as a result of our ego.

Comment: Humanity has revealed more than 200 physical laws of nature during the last couple of centuries.

Answer: This is also the revelation of the Creator, like the force of gravity for example.

There is nothing other than the Creator and man who feels Him. The question is what a person feels exactly, how and by which attributes.

Everything we can possibly imagine is the Creator; we are inside Him, but we feel only a very small part that is totally distorted and opposite from His real attributes. When a person ascends to the 125^th level of spirituality, he becomes similar to the Creator and is entrusted to reveal all the information he needs in order to perform creative actions.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16

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Question: How can I picture myself, the world, and the Creator?

Answer: You should imagine that everything around you is only the Creator and that with regard to a person there is concealment. There is absolute concealment in which a person feels only what is inside him, which is the world that is reflected in his brain on a screen in the back of his head, as Baal HaSulam says, until gradually he discovers that the Creator surrounds him and that he is inside the Creator, inside the upper nature. This is how the truth is revealed to one.
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Question: If the Creator doesn’t change, how does He develop the changing nature?

Answer: We are the ones who feel that the Creator constantly changes His attitude toward us, but the attitude itself is constant.

In other words, the Creator’s attitude toward us is always the same; He is absolute goodness. At the same time, we feel that His attitude toward us constantly changes in order to change and develop us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/13/16

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Int the News (Hi-News.ru): “Why is there something rather than nothing?

“Our appearance in this universe is too strange an event that words cannot express. The vanity of our daily lives makes us take our existence for granted. But whenever we try to deny it and think deeply about what is happening, the question arises: why the universe is all there is and why does it have and is subject to such accurate laws? Why does anything exist? …As for philosophers, they came to this anthropic principle that our particular universe manifests itself in such a way because of our presence in it as observers.”

Answer: The reason for everything that exists is thought; it is primary and gives rise to matter, the desire to fill itself. It gives the desire, matter, its attributes and consequently matter, the desire yearns to resemble the thought, its Creator.

Question: Is our reality real? How do we know that what we see around us is real and not a big illusion that was created by some invisible force? Could it be that we are the product of an intentional simulation, that our civilization is an illusion and that we are not who we believe we are? What should we consider real?

Answer: Everything is manifested in our sensations, in us, and there is no way we can discover what is beyond us. Kabbalah develops within a person the ability to feel what is external to him by faith above reason and thus enables us to answer all these questions.

Question: Do we have freewill? Are our actions managed or do we make our own decisions of our own freewill? Neuroscience shows that the brain makes a decision before we understand it. Quantum mechanics indicates that we exist in a universe of probabilities and any form of determinism is basically impossible.

Answer: There is freedom of will to explore the intended path of development and to advance along this path either by force or consciously. (See the article “The Freedom” by Baal HaSulam).

Question: Does God exist? We cannot know whether God exists or not. We don’t know about the inner workings of the universe in order to make grandiose claims about the nature of reality and about the fact that there is an upper force behind the scenes.

Answer: We have to reveal the Creator. This is the only way to solve this issue! The method for the revelation of the Creator is called the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Question: Is there life after death? We cannot ask the dead, so we can only guess. Materialists assume that there is no life after death, but it seems impossible to prove this scientifically.

Answer: Our biological life is born, lives, and dies. The eternal element is the desire, which when connected to the biological body has to undergo different phases and grow. The desire grows by drawing the force that created it, the Creator. We were given life in order to reveal the upper state, in order to attain the Creator’s level in this life.

Question: Can we perceive anything objectively? We can observe the environment only through the filter of our senses, thoughts, and minds. Everything that we feel has gone through a multi-layer filter of physiological and cognitive processes. Our world view is subjective. The only way to check this is by somehow seeing the world through another person’s consciousness. We can observe the universe only through our mind and interpret it only subjectively.

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah develops senses in us that are external to our body, through which we discover the true reality, the upper world and the reason for it, the Creator. Our efforts in uniting the group spur and summon the correcting Light, the Surrounding Light (Ohr Makif), and it develops a sense of perception in a person that is external to his egoistic subjective filter. This is called the revelation of the Creator and of the upper world to a person.
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