In general, humility is evident when a person tries to see only the actions of the Creator in everything, especially in the actions of those who accuse him. And even though he is aware that “There’s none else besides Him,” he can’t relate everything to Him in the moment.
(Baal HaSulam, Letter 1)

The Creator made egoism such that a man is unable to overcome it, but having no strength left he still has to try and ask the Creator for help, and in his inability to conquer his ego with the force of the Creator, and appreciate His help and might, like a child next to his father!

In the near future we’ll get to see just how dis-unified the Jewish people can be, in the point above/below egoism. If not for the anti-Semites, the #Jews would destroy themselves: in the name of God, unity, or ego. That already occurred during the 1st and 2nd Temples.
“Those for the Creator—join us!”

If the power, opposite to #egoism, is manifested in the world, it leads to revelation of the Creator, to unity, to Communism and is called Isra-El, Straight-Creator, through the correction of the Soul broken with egoism.
This is the difference of the people of #Israel from all the nations of the world, for everyone has a desire toward the Creator.

The scandal in the US #Democratic party, where many #Jews act as anti-Semites, causes confusion about what is happening with the Jews, their behavior seems absurd. But that is not so. The reason for this is that there are two forces in each one of us: the ego and its reverse side. Usually, it is the ego that gets manifested (nations of the world).
#politics #antisemitism #Liberals

There is not a person in the world who doesn’t possess these two forces. For they come from the breakage of a single Soul, when the forces of reception and bestowal interconnected. Therefore, they always exist side by side.

In ancient Babylon people became aware of “the point in the heart,” the desire to unite above the egoism of the heart to reveal the Creator. But if the ego of the heart rules over that point, the enemy of unity appears in the person—an anti-Semite. These two forces in everyone complement and nourish each other.

The greater the person, the bigger is his ego. So don’t blame yourself for your bad qualities—they come from the Creator, and are corrected by Him as well. Don’t regret your “sins,” they stem from the Creator, as it’s said: “I created the ego”…worry about the insufficient prayer about correcting yourself.

Kabbalah La’am newspaper #39 came out, which is published in #Hebrew. You will find interesting articles there: how to solve the issue of #AntiSemitism taking over the world; how we can learn to love, not hate, articles about March 8th and #Purim.

#Democracy does not create the basis for economic #prosperity in the world any more than authoritarian regimes. The reason is that the development of egoism in democracy has no limits and has become hyper-exaggerated, when egoism devours itself and no longer serves as the engine of progress.
#politics

Connection is a feeling of mutual dependence, a feeling that I depend entirely on others: on their success, achievements, health, on everything. Like in the family. This is how our desire works in its simplest, primitive form.
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All the exiles of the people of #Israel happened for the sole purpose of extracting the sparks that fell into the nations of the world. Because Israel is responsible for correcting the world by their reception of the Torah. (Sfat Emet, Yitro)
#Bible

Israel’s resettlement among the nations was necessary in order to elevate the world, because of them. For they are equivalent to the whole world. (Zohar, Shemot, 288) #Israel

Dear Women!
March 8 is your holiday—a precious day!
I wish you all the very best that anyone can have in this life: children, grandchildren, love and warmth! As well as slight understanding of what this life prepares us for.
Let the whole world be a delight for you!
#women #InternationalWomensDay

Wishing to unite with the group, in it we discover a need for the Creator’s help.
To the extent we connect to friends, we feel the Creator’s revelation between us.
Changes in attitude in the group enable us to reveal the Creator more and more, and in different ways.
By dissolving in the group, I merge with the Creator.

It is written, the nation of Israel went into exile in order to attach the other nations to it and for everyone to aspire to the common correction of the common soul.
Evading this mission leads the nation to disasters: destruction of the Temples, exile, extermination.
Now we have yet another chance ….

Hence parties must be judged not by the promises they make, but how close they are to uniting the people. Everything else is irrelevant…
#Politics

We have already learned our lessons from every sort of attempt by governments to improve our lives. We see that it doesn’t get better. It can get better only if the people unite.
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The nation of #Israel dispersed among the nations so other nations will join it.
#Talmud Psachim 87
#Antisemitism

If the nation cannot proceed toward unity, enemies appear such as Amalek and #Hitler, not letting us rest—inciting us to break free from the ego, even though it’s not in a good way.
(Rav Kook, Articles v. 11)

Whether the pressure is positive or negative depends on the nation of #Israel. See Preface to the Book of #Zohar, Item 71
#Bible

The prophet said (#Isaiah 14): “The nations will take them and bring them to the place, and the house of Israel will settle (assemble) in the Creator’s land.” The nation of Israel assembles under pressure from the nations of the world.

We always receive everything from the Creator. The feeling of suffering is considered to be the feeling of the reverse side of the Creator, since He is “Good that does good.” And it is necessary to strengthen the faith in the Creator, not to fall into thinking that there is I or some other source of my states.

The image of the #caricature of Jews at the carnival near #Brussels is certainly anti-Semitic. Such is the movement in the EU and the whole world.
But the indignation of the Jews is puzzling: isn’t it about time to understand the cause of eternal #Antisemitism?
And not be surprised every time about its manifestation … ?
#antisemitism #jewish #jewishhistory #belgium #parade
From Twitter, 3/6/19

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#Antisemitism can be eradicated only by the Jews, when they unite among them “into one heart.” As a result, all the nations will operate for the sake of unity, and the whole world will reach oneness.
Hence today everyone in the world must obligate all the #Jews to build systems of unification.

Book of Zohar: In our time, Europe will de facto be overtaken by Islamic rule. All of this will degenerate into a huge Antisemitic and Anti-Israel wave.
History will keep repeating till we change history
#Jewish #Kabbalah #Antisemitism

#Antisemitism is always a mandatory part of society’s development. Just as anti-Semitism surged with the backdrop of defeat in WWI, so it is now surging in native Europeans against the backdrop of failures in economy, politics, and social life.
#France #Belgium #AalstCarnaval

When I see anti-Semitic caricatures and slogans, I see the desperate demands to free themselves from internal dependence on Jews. We all need to understand that liberation from hatred and dependence lies in raising all humanity above egoism to the Creator, by the method of Kabbalah.

It is said by the prophet (Isaiah) that the nations of the world should lead (compel, push) the people of Israel to the mountain of the Creator (revelation of the Creator). Their mission is to demand that the people of Israel show the way to the nations of the world how to reveal the Creator, to lead the peoples of the world toward unity with Him. This is the source of anti-Semitism.

Anti-Semitism grows. History doesn’t teach anyone. It informs us and will repeat itself until we learn! Let’s accept hatred for us as a law of nature. We must study its cause, goal and proper use. #Antisemitism is demanding for us to change rather than to demand change from others.

The goal is, in our #consciousness, to enter the upper world’s existence, a shared, balanced eternal state. Kabbalah reveals the method of entering it. Our time is the time of the method’s revelation. We can aspire to it in a good way or be nudged by evil—the choice is ours!

Throughout 3,500 years, the Jews have forgotten about their mission to unite and unify all humanity. But the obligation hasn’t been lifted from them, and the nations of the world also subconsciously feel this and periodically demand it, without knowing what exactly to demand.
To the extent both (Jews and the nations) become aware of the goal, they will resolve it together.
#israel #antisemitism

Hatred for Jews comes from their origin and mission. They gathered from the nations of Babylon, following Abraham’s call to unite and in the unity, to reveal nature’s Upper Force, and then to reveal it to all the nations. They are hated because this hasn’t happened yet.

The media is definitely not naive or uninformed. But their articles on #Antisemitism are merely informative. They lack analytics. No one understands the nature of this phenomenon, although it’s very well-known. It’s time to admit that this is a natural phenomenon and look for its solution in nature as well!

#Antisemitism can be eradicated only by the #Jews, when they unite among them, as in one heart. Then all the nations will also proceed to unite, and the whole world will reach unity. Hence today everyone in the world must obligate all the Jews to build systems of unity.
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The commandment that surely leads to intention for the Creator, Lishma, is to work for oneself to the extent that it is necessary, and beyond that for the sake of the society, to bring it closer to the Creator.
Actions and intentions for their sake bring us to the intention for the Creator. (Baal HaSulam, “One Commandment”)

Ecological #society: everyone gets what they need. Society cares about a decent standard of living for everyone. #Education helps us not to receive more. Egoism is corrected by the group attracting the Light that Reforms.
All the fulfillment beyond what is needed on the animal level is spiritual. Nature is pushing us toward it!

A single force propels nations to unite among themselves and with itself. If we don’t do it of our own accord, then the external forces will oblige us to unite, like a bag full of nuts, by applying hatred, pressure, and wars. All the forces in the world are aimed at uniting those who aspire toward the Creator and connect with Him through them.

All of the creatures’ qualities and behavior are attained by Kabbalists as coming from upper spiritual roots. Although it is impossible to describe their qualities and behavior in the upper roots, it is possible to describe their qualities and behavior in the language of branches of our world.

Liberalism developed in the EU due to a powerful middle class of consumers.
But the ego raised their children into weak, irresponsible, demanding paupers.
The destitute liberals will be consumed by conservative reproducing migrants.
Hence conservatism and nationalism will awaken in EU
#EU #Liberals #europe #migrants #nationalism

Although the Creator rules over everything, when He is concealed, it seems as if the evil forces overpower us and there is no chance to break free from the delusion, although in your mind you understand that everything comes from His goodness.
Nevertheless, efforts to affirm that “There’s none else besides Him” lead to revelation.
(Baal HaSulam, “Letter 1”)

Since the goal of creation is to bring all of nature to equivalence (adhesion) with the Creator, the goal of life is hence for Kabbalists to draw the light of correction Ohr Makif to the nation of Israel, and through them to all humanity, with the intention of fulfilling the Creator’s will (for the Creator’s sake).

On the earthly degree we are programmed in every way, since desire, the basis of matter, is controlled by hormones. #Oxytocin controls man’s #social and emotional behavior, the quality of spouses’ relationships, the motherly sense, trust in people, the #happiness #hormone ….
,…. and social attachment.
#connection #kabbalah #InternationalWomensDay
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The Creator doesn’t conceal Himself. As He comes closer to reveal Himself, He elicits a sensation of His concealment in us so we would accelerate our efforts to reveal Him. But there is never concealment or separation from the Creator’s side.
It is Him coming closer to man that elicits the sensation of distancing, separation due to disparity of form.

When you are corrected, you will see a corrected world, the Creator’s revelation, the Shechina. It is an illusion to see suffering in the world. Man sees to the degree of his lack of correction—every person sees a different picture of the world. The world has no picture—it is revealed in man’s qualities! Man determines the world!

Let everything rage around and inside me, but for me all that matters is to adhere to the Creator in my mind and heart—to see that everything comes from Him. One condition: “Hear this, Michael, the Creator is our God, the Creator is one”—in any state everything comes only from Him. This is called adhesion.

When you correct yourself, you will see the corrected world, the revealed Creator, Divinity. It is an illusion to see the world as suffering. A person sees things according to his deficiency; everyone sees a different picture of the world. But the world has no picture—it is revealed in the person’s qualities! A person defines the world!

By postponing the revelation of the Creator’s actions in us at each moment, we forgo the revelation of the meaning of life. But in order to make constant effort not to abandon the pursuit of the Creator at every instant, you need the support of the group.

If I desire another outcome from what is happening, it means I am unhappy with the Creator’s governance. There is no doubt that only He controls me, but for now I do not agree with Him, I am not devoted to Him. If I do not feel joy in every state, it means I’m not in adhesion…
…with the Creator, still in “Lo Lishma,” wishing for change…

People separate everything that happens from the Source, not wishing to search for how one upper force operates in everything. By paying attention to everything happening around you and inside you, you will reveal that everything is dictated by the Creator.
You just have to ascertain your attitude to His actions—and reach agreement with Him.

Any states, if you relate them to the Creator, are corrections, helping you come closer to adhesion with Him (Rabash, Hakol Tikkunim).
Hence the most important thing is to create an environment that constantly aims man at the Creator.

Have faith that only the Creator compels you to do everything. However, as long as you are unfit to feel that the Creator compels you to everything, He operates through people. Yet you must believe that the Creator operates behind everyone and behind you.
Try to accept all reality in this way. (Rabash, “Torah Is the Middle Line”)

It is a law of nature that one cannot feel evil from the Creator, since that belittles His greatness. Hence to the extent man feels evil, he separates from the Creator. This is the greatest punishment.
Since the sensation of good and evil in the Creator’s governance leads a person to the goal. (Zohar, “Night of the Bride, 138”)

The main problem is that when a person sees a wrong action or thought, he falls, believing himself to be the source of these actions and thoughts. And he forgets that only the Creator is the cause of everything.
And although he is generally aware of this, he forgets to attribute the action to the Creator—and justify. (Baal HaSulam, “Letter 1″)

“It is impossible to accept the Creator’s full authority over the world, because then all the evil of the world should be attributed to Him as well! Only kabbalists reveal His full control over all good and evil. And they accept the Creator as the only acting force in all creation….in every act, evil and good.” (Baal HaSulam. “Letter 1”)

Everything is created with one thought, right down to the final state. And this thought acts in everything: it is the action itself, it is its result, it is the essence of all efforts, it is all reality and it is all the reward for them. (TES, part 1, Inner Reflection, p.1,8)

All types of Torah, open and concealed, are of the same source that teaches how to reveal the Creator. The difference is only in the light that reveals the Creator, which depends on the person’s intention. To hold the intention and stick to the goal to reveal the Creator ….
…. is easier by studying Kabbalah since this is what it clearly describes.

When a person starts studying Kabbalah, soon after, he starts experiencing mood swings, becomes demanding and impatient, which is the result of his egoism coming to the surface; it needs to be corrected so it may reveal the perception of the Creator.
So the phase of the desire’s correction begins.

The Upper Light from the Creator passes all 5 worlds—and in the Talmud, its actions are described in the language of our world. But we do not understand and do not feel in these descriptions how the Creator’s light affects the 4 types of desire 1-2-3-4, described by Talmud ….
…. in the inanimate-vegetative-animate-human nature.

The Talmud sages were great Kabbalists, able to describe the correction of the collective Soul with the words of our world. But it is very difficult for us to imagine spiritual corrections in the language of the Talmud, the lowest world.
Therefore, we use the language of Kabbalah, the highest world, for successful correction.
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#Israel are the first to receive the influence from above, and from them it spreads to the whole world. Hence they are called Isra-El (Li-Rosh – A Head for Me) since they are the first to receive the upper influence, which is then passed on to the whole world.
(Beer Maim Chaim, Truma)

The #Torah is intended for man’s correction—to bring him to adhesion with the Creator by equivalence of form.
This happens by the light OM [Ohr Makif], which returns one to the Source.
The light influences those studying Torah – Kabbalah to the extent of their efforts to unite in the ten.

Torah must be studied with the aim of correcting egoism. If there is no correction of egoism after studying the revealed Torah, one must move on to studying Kabbalah, which awakens the intention to be corrected since it talks about intentions and not about our world …
…. in the language of branches.

Besides feeling love, one must feel worry—not for himself, but because he fears losing the love under the pressure of disturbances. Perfection is felt only if there is love coupled with worry about preserving it, while thinking only of the Creator.

One who wishes to attain spirituality falls down on the path, so much that he wishes to leave the path. But he must believe that it is not he who departs from spirituality, but spirituality departs from him because he wishes to depart from spirituality.
But if he strengthens in moving forward, he is rewarded with strength.

Heaviness is felt when you cannot annul to the Creator, as if you don’t exist, but you think only about Him, or feel how He fills you. Success in this depends only on the Creator’s greatness in you, and the greatness depends on gratitude to the Creator…

A branch from the upper root is called #Israel, defined as carrying out the correction of the world, having the quality of eliciting the #correction of the nations. The nations of the world cannot develop spiritually on their own, but are willing to receive it from Israel.
(Baal HaSulam, “The Maid Inherits the Mistress”)
#TikkunOlam

One must first attain the upper roots in their true form. Only then, after attaining and grasping them in reason, can one research their consequences in our world, since every consequence comes from its upper root in all the details.
(Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”)
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-How do we accept evil?
-There is no evil. Evil shows a person that he hasn’t yet attained perfection in goodness. Unrevealed good is felt as evil. And it is felt clearly, vividly, so man will pay attention to where else he can additionally correct this quality and turn it to good.

“Torah and work” means one studies Torah so Torah will bring him the Light of Torah, so he could shift his attention from reception to bestowal, which will allow him to connect to the Creator, which is called studying “Li Shma.”
(Rabash, “Torah and Work by the Path of the Creator”)

It is essential for everyone to study Kabbalah. Even if one learns the entire Torah and becomes the most righteous of his generation, if he hasn’t learned Kabbalah, he must return to this world to learn the secrets of Kabbalah. (Baal HaSulam, foreword to the book, The Sage’s Mouth)

Initially the system is set in the initial and final states. Only the character of motion is up to us: by accelerating the path, we evade the blows with our efforts, the path of good development.
By slowing down the path, we elicit negative influences upon us ….
—the path becomes a path of suffering.

The topic of “love and hate,” the need to balance these two qualities of our nature, passed through the whole convention like a red thread.
#spirituality #love #hate

The international Kabbalah congress in Israel just finished—it was attended by over 5,000 students from different countries, from distant corners of the world.
#kabbalah #convention #TelAviv

There is no difference between the Torah of the world of Atzilut and the Torah of our world, between the wisdom of Kabbalah and the open Torah. The difference is only in the one who studies: though they study the same text, for one the Torah will be the wisdom of Kabbalah …
… but for another—the open Torah of the world of Assiya. (Baal HaSulam. Foreword to TES, 147).

Revealed and concealed Torah is the same, since everything is determined by man’s intention. If one wishes to know—he doesn’t reveal Torah. But if he wishes to come nearer to the Creator with his qualities, he will be able to attain this by the revealed and concealed Torah …
…. but he will attain it faster with the concealed one.

Kabbalah demands sagely investigators of hearts that devote 20 to 30 years to it, and who are only then able to testify to it. (Baal HaSulam. Kabbalah and Philosophy)
The Torah is attained only in a group. (Bavli, Brachot 63,2)
The ten sits and works in the Torah—the Schechinah among them. (Avot 3,6)

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Man cannot feel where his thoughts come from since he does not feel them until they manifest in him. But when they manifest, he feels them as his own. Yet it is precisely the consecutive sequence of thoughts that allows one to attain their root—the Creator.
(Baal HaSulam, “Secrets of the Creator’s Names”)

History is the development of #egoism:
– #Liberalism gave rise to standard consumption. A generation of weak-willed liberals has been raised.
-They will be devoured by conservative #migrants-nationalists, #fascists. #Europe will be overtaken by #Muslim fundamentalism.
Its demise will be replaced by #communism.
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The heart is a desire covered by egoistic intention.
By rubbing our hearts against one other, we’ll shed the egoistic shell-intention from the hearts.
Instead of it, we will get the intention of bestowal and the heart will be filled by upper light.
#wisdom #quotes #kabbalah

Build a common desire, a vessel for revealing the Creator, with the ten.
Our world is a world of action. In it, we can make actions without the heart’s consent. This lie nevertheless enables us to build our independence in spirituality, precisely by virtue of the lie…

The sensation, “There’s none else besides Him” depends only on the extent of self-annulment because we build a place for revealing the Creator above our egoism. Through self-annulment, we turn “I” into “We” and “We” into “the Creator.”

Love of friends is just a name that conceals not just connection, but an enormous and difficult analysis. We identify the “evil” between us—a bad connection that stems from our nature. And “above it” we must establish a good (i.e., spiritual) connection.

Each person must constantly check himself: does he submit to the others, so everyone will be equal, as one man with one heart? From this unity, new phenomena, forces and actions are revealed, which we never suspected or imagined.

There are already people among us who exist in the quality of bestowal to the environment.
Next we must enlighten humanity about the need to follow the laws of nature and build life upon the principle of mutual bestowal in order to merit the upper reward, the Creator’s degree (Baal HaSulam, “Peace in the World”).

“The ethics of nations’ life must obligate people to bestow to the neighbor (love your neighbor as yourself), so there will be full equality in everything. This will be the perfect consciousness of all the nations. Besides this, every nation may follow its own religion and tradition” (Baal HaSulam, “The Last Generation”).

“#Nature, like a judge, punishes us according to our development. Hence suffering grows to the degree of progress, since we are obligated by the Creator’s providence to carry out the law of bestowal. In as much as we do not carry it out, nature punishes us. And Nature will defeat us, will compel us to ‘love the neighbor'” (Baal HaSulam, “The Peace”).

It is best to accept the Kabbalists’ opinion: that the words “Nature” and “Elokim” (one of the Creator’s names) are identical (Gematria 86). In this case the Creator’s Laws may be called Nature’s Commandments, and vice versa, since it is the same thing.
And there is no more need for empty rhetoric. (Baal HaSulam, “The Peace”)

The emergence of a plea to the Creator came from the Creator Himself.
It wasn’t man who initiated closeness with the Creator, but the Creator drew him closer, giving him a desire to ask for help.
It is also the Creator that completes this process by awakening reactive desires for Himself.
Faith in this process leads man to unification.

The ability to annul myself is determined by the environment—as much as I submit to them. At every moment, the Creator gives me this opportunity. The upper light operates constantly—the changes depend on my consent to annul myself within the opportunity that is presented.

There’s no evil without good and no good without evil. We must preserve both, without diminishing the evil, because it is precisely above it that we reveal the good. It is written, “love will cover all sins.” If there are no sins, there is no place for love.
It can exist only while covering the evil.

No one has found clear and sound grounds for building a sound society of equal and happy people. Everyone seeks the truth, but egoism grows and humanity’s state deteriorates. Hence there is no path other than to start gathering into “tens” and gradually building the new society…
… through good upbringing.
#education #happiness #selfdevelopment
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