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My Thoughts On Twitter 8/16/19

Dr Michael Laitman Twitter

Today, on Friday, August 16, 2019, the street upon which the central building of the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education & Research Institute is located—called in Israel, Kabbalah L’Am –Bnei Baruch Association—will have its name changed to “Rabash Street” …

….in commemoration of the great Kabbalist Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (the Rabash)—a decision made by the Municipality of Petah Tikva, headed by Rami Greenberg.
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From Twitter, 8/16/19

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The neighbor is one who is opposite to me, similar to how we are opposite to the Creator. Nevertheless, the law of love operates in the system, obliging us to connect—otherwise we won’t be able to exist.
Love is the law of connection of all parts of nature, the created hatred, on all degrees.

We unite with the Creator not from the positive or negative, but from the middle between them—the Creator. Hence we must look for the center of the group, the common connection so that there—and only there, together we will demand the Light that Reforms. It will then do its job and it is also there that we will reveal the Creator.

Love is a special force of a higher order, connecting the positive and negative. It “covers all crimes”—gaps between opposites. It is the 3rd factor connecting them into one. It is the middle line given to us from above. It is the force of the Creator, not belonging to “+” nor “-“.

The day of love (Tu Be-Av)—love for all of creation, as coming from the Creator. This is a connection to the whole universe, humanity. I wish to love everything, to belong to a single system of good forces, so I will support everyone and everyone will support me. This universal love must fill everyone.

It was a pleasure having the @i24NEWS_EN crew here today at our headquarters in Petah Tikva. They interviewed me about the uniqueness of Bnei Baruch, how we teach Kabbalah, and why it’s becoming so popular in our time.

I explained the difference between authentic Kabbalah, and other teachings. We talked about how our organization welcomes individuals of all colors, genders, and nationalities, from all over the world.
#kabbalah #inclusion #diversity #spirituality

Two states on the spiritual path:
Mateh (staff)—when a person manages his egoism, being in control of it and aiming it to move toward the goal. That’s why it is called Mateh—staff.
Nahash (serpent) is when one cannot manage egoism, has no control to lead it in the intention for the sake of the Creator. But the serpent teaches him the path…
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#Hungary has the highest level of #Antisemitism in #Europe. 7.5% of carriers of the #Jewish genes live there—the largest share of Jewish genes in the world after Israel, twice the number in the US. It is as if having one Jewish grandparent.
That is why Hungarians are the biggest anti-Semites!

We advance step by step: I rose and fell—”And there was evening and there was morning—one day.” Each and every time, we build a new state by losing everything we received before. If we’d remember and preserve the previous state, we wouldn’t be able to acquire a new one. I have to fall—”Shimon from the market”

The lower one receives everything from the upper one: this world and the upper world, and the means to ascend.
What remains is to discern how to relate properly to the external and internal states, meaning to the group, the world and myself, and then incorporate myself into the group and annul myself.

Self-annulment can be passive or active, at various degrees, in changing conditions. But the experience we must accumulate from all the states we go through is the ability to annul ourselves of our own choice. I must know why I annul myself and before whom, and how, in return I acquire the group, the world.

For now we cannot do anything besides self-annulment, nullifying ourselves more and more. All correction comes down to this: until its very end, until the “coming of the Messiah,” the light “Rav Poalim Umekabtsiel.”
All our actions are to annul ourselves because we are working on egoism’s correction.

By nullifying myself, I adhere to the Creator’s self-annulment and attain Him through His self-annulment. By annulling myself for the sake of connecting to Him, I start to understand how He annuls Himself—and thus I study the upper one. It is also important to annul yourself to the right people, but never to the egoistic world.

Allowing the Creator to be delighted by revealing Himself in the creatures is work that, till the end of correction, proceeds entirely “on the ascent,” from “AHAP De Aliyah,” by adhering to the upper one, annulling to Him through annulling to the group, as written, “From love for the creatures to love for the Creator.”

Passive self-annulment is bestowal for the sake of bestowal, while an active one is already reception for the sake of bestowal. I am in the upper one, I feel Him and understand just how I can delight Him by receiving, by helping Him be revealed in me.
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We are in the material (spiritually inanimate) world to have the opportunity to create conditions that are independent of spiritual (internal) states, to help by actions as long as we are unable to help by intentions. Every lesson is participation in building the Kli, even by a physical effort!

Every person that mourns the destruction of the Temple (soul) will merit to see it. We must pray for society’s correction, for creation of intentions to bestow, Rosh, Kabbalists, above desires to receive, Guf, the nation. Desires are in the nation, while intentions to bestow must be developed by Kabbalists.

The soul is the head, Isra-el, intentions to bestow, and the body—desires to receive. The soul’s correction lies in attaining intentions to bestow. Desires do not change. The soul’s breaking is that intentions became “for reception,” in order for us to be able to correct them to “for bestowal” and connect them with desires. That is how the soul is revived.

The soul’s breaking by the Creator till our state was necessary so it could be restored by people. That’s what the Creator revealed to Abraham in advance. It is just preparation to realize the need to perform the correction now. Only it counts as man’s work—the past is preparation from above.

Intention is called the head, and desire is the body. We work on intention so it will direct the desires and we’ll be able to use them correctly. If the congruence between the two disappears, it means destruction of the body, Temple. Creation of the Temple is when the congruence of intention and desire is restored.
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We are in a material (spiritually inanimate) world to have the opportunity to organize the surrounding settings, which are independent of our spiritual (internal) states (ascents and descents) to remind each other of the intention, schedule and participation in the common work, unity

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My Thoughts On Twitter 8/7/19

Dr Michael Laitman Twitter

All of nature, our behavior and attitudes—everything works according to the egoistic desires of each and everyone. Until the Jews draw the Upper force to correct egoism, the world will not change. Once the nature of the world begins to change, the world will return to that (Light of Hassadim) as at the time of Adam. (Torah)

Humanity has gone through all the stages of its egoistic development. We are about to undergo a period of realizing the need to change our nature, and ascending above individual egoism into a consciousness, aims and efforts that are common to us all—by nature’s coercive pressure and suffering, or by accepting this development.

In the European civilization’s decline, we can see the end of the entire earthly materialistic civilization. The next stage of mankind’s development lies in its ascent into the world of spirit, attainment of integral existence in unity, rather than achievements in each individual’s narrow egoism. But for now, the birth of the new era lies ahead for us …
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Chaim Vital: “The Gate of Reincarnations”: The Ari warned all the students in his group to take upon them the observance of the condition of loving the neighbor as yourself. Thanks to this, his request for love of friends will rise to the Creator together with their requests and he will be able to ascend and perform the correction above.
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Since the #Jews were created as a gathering of the 70 nations of the world, they have nothing that is personally theirs. They contain the whole world and everyone has a concern about them—what happens in their nation and state.
Hence the nations instinctively look upon #Israel and wait for changes…

The nations of the world may be hostile to each other, but this has no adverse impact on other nations. However, with the nation of Israel—if it is not amicable among itself, by the lack of connections between its members, it impacts the nations of the world negatively. And when they pressure it, it grows closer within itself—and the nations of the world feel better because of it.

There have been Kabbalists greater that the Ari, such as Rabbi Akiva, Rashbi and others. But they were unable to express the method of correction the way the Ari did. This is not determined by a Kabbalist’s height, but by his correspondence to the generation. That is why we value the Ari’s texts so much—because we can attain correction with their help.

The story of how the Ari’s works were publicized resembles the story of The Book of Zohar, which was revealed a thousand years later. Only by the time of Baal HaSulam were all of the Ari’s writings finally collected and Baal HaSulam was able to write the “Teaching of the Ten Sefirot” commentary to them. All of Kabbalah is built upon The Zohar and the books of the Ari.
#zohar #ari

When we study the materials of the Ari, we are affected by the light that reforms that’s concealed in these texts. Its influence depends on our intention, aspiration to unity, unification, similarity to the Creator. The light operates around us, enveloping us, protecting us, bringing us closer to unity.

Baal HaSulam: There are no words to express the importance of the Ari’s spiritual work for us because the doors of attaining the upper world were locked, and the Ari came and opened them for us. All the sages of subsequent generations and till our days devoted themselves to adhering with his upper wisdom.

The Ari was a person who opened up the path to the heavens for us. From the inheritance we received from him, we can extract the light that reforms—the most valuable thing it contains. The Ari’s compositions are the saving rope thrown to us from above—by grabbing on to it, we can rise to the Creator’s degree.

We are approaching the 9th of Av. During this period we have always been exterminated, imprisoned, and sanctioned in all sorts of ways. But the 9th of Av can turn into the most joyous and bright day of all—redemption of the world from all evil, its elevation to the eternal perfect degree.
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The EU is in crisis. It cannot be reformed because the EU is not a finished structure. There cannot be a good connection between egoists—interests diverge, the structure disintegrates.
The solution: break up before another war breaks out, or start uniting the people/nations of the EU rather than businesses…

After the destruction of the Temple, relationships fell from the level of the heart to the bodily level of communication through hands and language. Instead of connecting the hearts, they began following instructions, checking how to speak to others. That’s how they separated from the main law of the Torah, “love your neighbor as yourself,” not even remembering it!

Following the destruction of the Temple, a good connection, it is impossible for hearts to connect lest it become an outlet for ego-hatred. This is why on the earthy degree laws of behavior were established that reflect spiritual laws.
If there is no love for the neighbor, then at least (!) don’t do to another that which you do not wish for yourself.

After the destruction of the Temple (their spiritual connection with the Creator), they decided to reduce their demands for bestowal and love—to superficial demands. They began interpreting the Torah’s laws and conditions as external laws of behavior, not requiring internal correction of the heart—egoism.

Precisely the small man, who is below, far from the Creator, transmits his request upward till Malchut of the world of Infinity, evoking the light of Infinity along all the degrees and thus from above downwards, records his name, his contribution to the general correction

Unification must emerge BETWEEN hatred and love, even for oneself. Without destroying anything, but only by adding goodness. This is the middle line, “the golden mean,” in which we reveal the Creator and unite with Him, attaining the eternal and perfect existence.

Correction lies in ADDING the good force to the evil, egoistic one. The Creator created the evil force. And He will give us the good force —per our request, as written “He who creates light and who creates darkness.” Everything comes form the Creator. We must connect the light and darkness together so “the darkness will shine as light.”

Every person is right inside of his egoism, but for the common truth and justice, we must rise above the differences. We must come to love the differences between us; we can build love only thanks to them—above them, learn the middle line, how to rise above man’s egoistic nature, in faith above reason.

The corrected creation exists not by destroying egoism, but by building connection-understanding-love above it. The nation of Israel was forged in Babylon out of 70 nations in order to create, within the disagreements, above the separation, love above hatred—and to exist precisely between them (the middle line).

The nation of Israel must show the world an example of unity on 2 degrees, as written, “Love covers all sins.” We must learn not to annihilate the disagreements, but to create connection, understanding and love precisely above them. By combining love-hate, plus-minus, sweet-bitter.

Unity in society is not attained by changing each individual or one’s attitude to others. On the contrary, without changing our opinions, we must rise above them, above all the disagreements and as we cover them, we connect with each other. There’s no other way to attain unity.

In Abraham’s times, the nation of Israel was formed as a group of his students. Abraham asked the Creator: how do I fulfill the mission, attain general correction? The Creator answered: Only by being exiled to Egypt—enormous egoism. And then by gradually coming out of it…

Egyptian exile: exile from connection and brotherly love into Pharaoh’s slavery, when egoism rules over the desire to connect between people. The egoistic desire that separates us is called Pharaoh. But after suffering, 10 plagues, egoism-Pharaoh expels us out of itself!

Without the Egyptian plagues, suffering, we can’t come out of Egypt, for we have enjoyed being in egoism, as we do now. And we, too, will receive the ten plagues—blows to Pharaoh, our egoism, which is inside each of us and all of us together, to help us break free, come out it.

Separated from egoism, Pharaoh, we can move on to the stage of its correction by the quality of bestowal, by Light (Torah). We pledge to be in mutual guarantee and unity, we want to receive the force that will unite us. Therefore, we receive the force of bestowal and the method of correction—the Torah!

For 40 years—degrees, we undergo correction in the will to bestow above egoism—in the desert. Then comes the correction of Receiving for the sake of bestowal, the Land of Israel. We build the desire to love in unity, the 1st Temple. It gets destroyed. We build the 2nd Temple. It gets destroyed. We fall into egoism completely. We mix our desires with those of the nations of the world.

And every generation that does not build the temple, it is as if it is destroying it. Why has the exile been prolonged?”

In the 16th century the ARI reveals the method of correcting the world’s egoism—Kabbalah. Vital, the ARI’s student: “…deliverance is not coming. There is no cure for the destruction of the Temple, it is already 1504. Hope has run out.”

“Why isn’t it coming? Because we are not demanding the correction. We have no need for correction. We must try to achieve good relationships on our own, understand that we are unable to, and ask for help. As a result of our efforts to unite, we’ll understand what to ask from the Creator. This means waiting for the Messiah—the force of correction.”

Another 500 years have passed… Baal Shem Tov asked the Messiah: When are you coming? He answered: When my sources spread into the world. Meaning, when Kabbalah is revealed. So that people will want the correction, will understand how it will come to them. In the mean time, we are destroying the planet with our growing egoism.
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