Most people seem to not be surprised that a Jew could turn over other Jews, and had even more such stories to tell. But I choose to look at the humane side of things: never judge someone until I have walked in their shoes. #AnneFrank

We act AS IF we desire to connect. Our efforts draw OM, and we begin to feel that we are one system. In this system, the Creator gradually reveals Himself. And we discover that we are a living organism of the Creator. We are parts of the common soul that He fulfills.
#Kabbalah

… we will discover that our state of mind is radically transformed. Fear and death threat can bring us to think in ways we did not imagine we are capable of, and evoke deeds that detached from context, we may call “cruel.”

We can virtue signal about higher morals, tout the importance of democracy, lyrically express our views of a better world, but once we ourselves experience such a radical situation and find ourselves pressured into fearing for our lives …

Even if the new information is correct, and it was indeed a Jewish woman who turned in #AnneFrank and her family, we must not judge people who are under such enormous pressure.

The immediate response in #socialmedia was critical and harsh. Most people seem to not be surprised that a Jew could turn over other Jews, and had even more such stories to tell. But I choose to look at the humane side of things: never judge someone until I’ve walked in their shoes

In the last few days, new knowledge of the identity of the person who betrayed Anne’s family to the Nazis has been revealed. A new book titled The Backyard of the Secret Annex alleges that a Dutch-Jewish collaborator Ans van Dijk reported their hiding place ….

“Who has made us #Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up until now? It is God who has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again.” These were the words of #AnneFrank …
(Reuters)

There’s no sense in taming #emotions. All negative emotions must be balanced with positive ones and then you’ll feel comfortable.
When positive and negative emotions work toward an exalted goal, they form an ideal complement, necessitating one another and thus we come to #perfection.

The beginning and the end
Are set for the creation.
But who shall be the first
To make it to the meeting place?
#poetry

The perceived world is our rational #knowledge.
The world governing us is above our perception.
#Suffering forces us to enter into a new system of governance.
By entering it, we build it—and we call it the upper world, Creator.
This is the meaning of, “You make me.”
#Kabbalah

#Kabbalist’s_advice:
First, always imagine:
“Who are you receiving from?”
And then:
“What are you receiving?”
And then:
“For what purpose!”
#Spiritualwork_ML #Kabbalah #advice
From Twitter, 5/28/18

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#wordsofwisdom #meaningoflife #Kabbalah #weekend #love #sundayfunday #inspiration #happy #sundaymorning

I must remember where the problems come from, but not follow them, in knowledge, i.e., sensation of trouble. I must go above them, drawing closer with the Creator who sends them to remove me from the ego, knowledge, world and cling me to Himself above the blows, to the intention.

#Spiritualwork_ML
Everything comes from a single system that, according to my ability, reveals problems to me, and I must correct my attitude toward them. Revealing the deficiencies is part of the correction, which amounts to correcting my attitude to the system, the Creator.

Advice:
First, always imagine:
“Whom you’re receiving from,”
and then:
“What you’re receiving…”

#Spiritualwork_ML #Kabbalah
I feel like a baby in the Creator’s hands, under his absolute care and I rejoice at this like a baby in his mother’s arms. The states change: left right to right line, descent to ascent.
But I’m building from them a middle line—my attitude toward Him.

A whole world can be built from this one point—a world where the Creator and I exist together.

#Spiritualwork_ML #Kabbalah
The Creator exists in the world and governs everything, including me. But unlike others, He gave me the opportunity to know about it! I care about only this—the Creator’s attitude toward me.

Revelation of disorder evokes the thoughts: where is this coming from, who sent it and why?
I work on myself to turn the flaw into perfection, sadness into joy, Creator’s concealment into revelation. Under the Creator’s constant care, I cling to Him—always and in everything.
From Twitter, 5/27/18

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Sensation of the world comes from the system of Adam, which reveals to me my own incongruence with it, which I must correct. Flaws of the world are flaws of my attitude to it. The difference between a perfect world and the real one is my #ego, which requires correction.
#Kabbalah

It is paramount to maintain both degrees: 1.knowledge, 2. faith above knowledge.

Perfection is built not in spite of, but above knowledge-sensation;
In sensations, I reveal troubles and problems—ego’s evil
Above sensations, scrutinizing why they are coming and from Whom, I rejoice.
From Twitter, 5/26/18

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7. Kabbalah’s method is built upon a balance of 2 forces: materialism (our feelings) and idealism (faith in something we can’t attain).

Just like when building a house, if the walls don’t have any empty spaces, we won’t be able to enter it. The entrance is in a place of deficiency.

6. Spiritual Kli:
– Malchut has nothing, but everything is built for it,
– the first 9 Sefirot are full of light.
We must unite these two degrees.

We include both degrees:
– seeing a #life full of flaws,
– building ourselves up to feel a perfect world.
#Spiritualworld_ML

5. Seeing all the people #suffering, I must say that “there are eyes but they do not see,” meaning that I do not see the truth. I must consider myself perfect, existing in a world fully suffused by upper light.
#Reality_ML #wisdom

4. There are two layers of perception of #reality:
-man feels deficient since he has nothing of the spiritual world, which he desires.
-nevertheless, he must imagine that he is in the spiritual, infinite #world, governed by one upper force.
#Reality_ML #imagination

3. Striving for faith above reason, we imagine an eternal and perfect #world in which we exist. Through these efforts we draw the light that reforms, and actually start to feel that the whole world is non-material!
#Reality_ML #kabbalah

2. There are no problems in the material world—we simply live it.
But we build the spiritual #world above rational #perception—by way of faith above reason.
Faith is reflected from #knowledge, rises above it and is opposite to it.
#QuoteOfTheWeek

1.Spiritual sensation is built above the material one. It has no words or characteristics, isn’t perceived by our senses and constantly disappears from them. My #world is my sensations.
Man must build and exist on 2 degrees since there can’t be one without the other.
#Reality_ML
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7. Kabbalah’s method is built upon a balance of 2 forces: materialism (our feelings) & idealism (faith in something we can’t attain)

Just like when building a house, if the walls don’t have any empty spaces, we won’t be able to enter it. The entrance is in a place of deficiency.

6. Spiritual Kli:
– Malchut has nothing, but everything is built for it,
– the first 9 Sefirot are full of light.
We must unite these two degrees.

We include both degrees:
– seeing a #life full of flaws,
– building ourselves up to feel a perfect world.
#Spiritualworld_ML

5. Seeing all the people #suffering, I must say that “there are eyes but they do not see”, meaning that I do not see the truth. I must consider myself perfect, existing in a world fully suffused by upper light.
#Reality_ML #wisdom

4. There are two layers of perception of #reality:
-man feels deficient since he has nothing of the spiritual world, which he desires.
-nevertheless, he must imagine that he is in the spiritual, infinite #world, governed by one upper force.
#Reality_ML #imagination

3. Striving for faith above reason, we imagine an eternal and perfect #world, in which we exist. Through these efforts we draw the light that reforms, and actually start to feel that the whole world is non-material!
#Reality_ML #kabbalah

2. There are no problems in the material world – we simply live it.
But we build the spiritual #world above rational #perception – by way of faith above reason.
Faith is reflected from #knowledge, rises above it and is opposite to it.
#QuoteOfTheWeek

1.Spiritual sensation is built above the material one. It has no words or characteristics, isn’t perceived by our senses and constantly disappears from them. My #world is my sensations.
Man must build and exist on 2 degrees since there can’t be one without the other.
#Reality_ML

Now in #Amsterdam: a spontaneous meeting with the #Dutch group—are preparing together for a conference in Europe to be held at the end of June. Glad to have the opportunity to meet physically with my dear students. See you tomorrow evening in Israel! #kabbalah

In the body, every part takes cares of all the rest—this is called love.
For us, love is pleasure from fulfilling ourselves.
#love #thoughts
From Twitter 5/23/18

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Two conditions are necessary for the reception of the Torah:
– to clarify that the ego gives neither the chance nor the strength to escape its authority toward unity, revelation of the upper force, bestowal.
– we desperately want to achieve all this.
#Jewish #Israel #ego #Kabbalah

We come to the reception of the #Torah when we genuinely need the desires to bestow, and desire nothing but this.
For this we’re ready to “wander the desert, cross the Final Sea, go through all the Egyptian plagues”—as long we acquire the desires to bestow in the end.
#Jewish

The #Torah brings us to the Giver of the Torah, and this is most important as it opens a new world to man.
There’s no other path to reveal the Creator than by uniting broken desires, clarifying the form of connection and adhesion with the Creator.
#Israeli #Spiritualwork_ML

The #Torah is the upper light that clothes in our desires, which are deliberately broken, since the light’s advantage stems from darkness. The light is revealed due to the desires’ correction, to the extent that we reveal it in the contrast of qualities.
#Kabbalah #Wisdom

Man’s objective is to restore the connection between distant, broken parts, and recreate the construction made by the Creator.

Like a computer program, the #Torah organizes the development process so as to bring us to the goal. By agreeing with the great Programmer, we connect to and help with His work.

3. The #Torah is upper light, vested in our deliberately broken desires, since the advantage of the light is from the darkness. The light is revealed by correcting desires, to the extent we reveal it upon the contrast of qualities.
#Spiritualwork_ML #Kabbalah #Wisdom

2. Torah is like software arranging our #development to bring us to the goal. By agreeing with the Programmer, we become part of and assist Him in the work.
Man’s mission is to restore the connection between the remote, broken parts and recreate the structure made by the Creator.

1. The #Torah is a special program of existence, a force capable of connecting all parts of reality. All elements of creation connect by countless connections in one harmony, to express the Maker Himself by the force of the desire that was created by the Creator.

I envy the friends,
Proud to be among them!
It is my hope to be like them!
#poetry #unity #quoteoftheday

From Twitter 5/22/18

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Man’s desires contain a need that’s absent in the animate world—an urge to adhere to the Creator. Only humankind is ready for this and its entire existence is evaluated only by this foundation, evoking the drive to bestow to the Creator (Baal HaSulam, “About Yehuda”).
#Kabbalah

The upper nature is a system connecting us into one whole.
But we see a broken world.
Just as we draw a picture and break it up into parts
For a child to put it together and understand,
That’s how we have to put ourselves, our broken world, together correctly,
Using hints from above.

There’s no #Jewish nation in disunity (exile from unity). It exists only when united. From the 1st degree of unity, 1/125 of the Creator’s unity, it’s already called a nation. Until then, Jews are preserved by the Creator and return to #Israel to fulfill their mission.

#Shavuot
When we unite with each other in mutual bestowal, all of our individual egos unite and are transformed into a force of resistance, protection. All of the serpent’s venom turns into medicine. Everything depends only on how it is used.
#Israel

#Shavuot is when we turn the #evil force into the good force. These two forces stand one against the other. The entire thickness of #egoistic armor is our evil inclination, above which we build a bestowing intention, bestowal for the sake of bestowal.
#Israel #wisdom

#Shavuot is a spiritual state when we can attain the giving of the Torah by uniting with one other and the Creator, when we turn the force of each person’s egoism into thick armor. By uniting, we infuse it with the life force of light, turning it into armor against all #evil forces.

#Shavuot
We must implement the giving of Torah to all humanity so it will feel its existence in the quality of love, goodness, interconnection, and everyone will be able to rise to the next degree of reality. This is the giving of #Torah – Upper Light, Upper Force
#Israel

#Shavuot
The Torah isn’t a book that you can read and understand, but it’s a matrix, a world you can enter and reveal the system of all reality,
#kabbalah #quoteoftheday #Israel
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Happy Shavuot From Israel #shavuot #torah #israel #meaning

Happy Shavuot From Israel #shavuot #torah #israel

But we are given it only after we, the whole of the people of Israel, proclaim “with one voice” (#Exodus 24:3) that we will do as the law dictates.

Happy #Shavuot!

#Shavuot has a special message to all of us. Like all #Jewish holidays, it represents a state in our spiritual development. The state of Shavuot marks the point where we are given the #Torah—the law of life.

From Twitter 5/18/18

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High above, Batya,

Daughter of Pharaoh and of the Creator,
Wraps everyone in a blanket of light.
(#Zohar. Lech-lecha, 196)

The wisdom of Kabbalah is the Creator’s #revelation by His paths, in all categories that are and will be revealed in the worlds, in all forms that can be revealed in the worlds, till the end of all generations.
(Baal HaSulam, “The #Wisdom of #Kabbalah and Its Essence”)

Everything was prepared in advance, and every #Soul already exists in all its light, goodness and #eternity.
(Baal HaSulam, “Letter 25”)
Every person has to attain the root of his soul.
(Baal HaSulam, “The Acting Mind”)
#WisdomofKabbalah_ML #Reality_ML

One thought created all #reality, upper and lower, all the way to the final correction. This one thought acts in everything, is the essence of all actions, determines the goal, and is the essence of all efforts, their whole perfection and expected reward.
Baal HaSulam, TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot), Part 1

The first spiritual act, annulment of self (egoism, one’s I), is necessary so the Creator can perform anything on you with your consent (Mesirut Nefesh) in faith above reason (bestowal, Li Shma). After that, self-annulment becomes more and more active.
#Spiritualwork_ML #Kabbalah

One who receives fulfillment from the Creator ascends in these fulfillments. One who merits to feel that the #Creator also delights with him, preparing him to receive the upper influences, is called a #Kabbalist.
(Baal HaSulam, “Letter 46”)
#SpiritualWork_ML #Kabbalah

Crossing to the common group screen is called crossing Machsom, the boundary with the upper world. We act together in our group aspiration, covered by a common intention (screen, blanket) from us to the Creator. This is crossing the Machsom.
#Spiritualwork_ML #Kabbalah

The peculiarity of #Kabbalah is that it is able to connect opposing properties ( #opinions, desires, goals), people (parties, nations) into one.
#Wisdom

It is my hope that we will use our ambitious energy to enliven our connection and spread it to the world sooner rather than later, instead of waiting for turmoil and #suffering to goad us from the other end of the spectrum. #Iran #Jerusalem #Israel

The more we can inspire relations of care, #kindness and #love to each other above our divisive inclinations, the more we will pave the path for a key attitude shift to sweep over #humanity.

While time is still tilted in our favor, we should concern ourselves with initiating our connection through positive incentives. The #world is waiting for us to carry out our fateful mission: to infuse it with positive connection. #Israel

However, such temporary connection has no lasting strength. That is, the moment the external threat goes away, we continue business-as-usual, and all our internal disputes again take center stage. From my article:

#Israel Currently Working Against its Divine Mission
In periods when such tensions escalate to all-out #war, the climax of fear momentarily connects us. We stop caring about our internal disputes and all focus on protecting ourselves from the external threat.

Q: If my desires reach a higher order, to bestow and love, will I see spiritual phenomena?
A: You’ll even feel the system of #forces managing our world and every person, you’ll see the result of its influences and will interact with them to practically determine the #future.

The Creator gradually raises us, creating problems and revealing that only He can solve them. In this way He attaches us, egoism, to Him. There’s nowhere to run, and that’s great! It’s wonderful to feel that all your development is in Him, in acquiring the quality of bestowal.

The Creator will force #Jews to think about the reason for others’ hatred of them and what #Kabbalah says about it!
#Antisemitism

#UNHRC: Israel ‘ignores international law again and again’
The #UN will soon pass a resolution to revoke the state of #Israel, with most countries’ support.

#Kabbalah is simple, but it’s difficult to master since you have to act against yourself, for the good of others and the Creator.

#selfdevelopment #consciousness

#Spiritualwork_ML is managing the world/desire, aiming it at the benefit of the group/Creator. This is the sole influence on the world/Creator. Governance is only through desire.

The #Germans wanted to be courteous hosts
But the guests ended up being the hosts—
Showing hosts the door…
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Rabbi Yehuda Leib Arieh Altar, the #ADMOR of Gur, stressed in Sefat Emet (True Tongue): “Israel’s unity induces great salvations and removes all the slanderers.”

Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain wrote in Shem mi Shmuel (A Name Out of Samuel): “When #Israel are as one man with one heart, they are as a fortified wall against the forces of #evil.”

Great Jewish leaders throughout the ages circulated this message however they could. Rabbi Kalman Kalonymus wrote in Maor va Shemesh (Light and Sun): “When there are #love, #unity, and #friendship between each other in #Israel, no calamity can come upon them.”

Until we achieve a certain quality and quantity of positive #connection above all our differences, we can expect tensions to continue rising.

Read my latest on @BINAlerts
Iran-Israel Clashes: Why the Enemies of Israel Give It No Respite >>>

The unique role the people of #Israel have toward the world: to connect “as one man with one heart” and provide a positive example of connection to #humanity, i.e., to be “a light unto nations.” Fulfilling this role can protect the people of Israel from trouble.

#Iran-#Israel Clashes: Why the Enemies of Israel Give It No Respite >>
Until we achieve a certain quality and quantity of positive #connection above all our differences, we can expect tensions to continue rising. @BINAlerts #opinion #Commentary

My latest on @BINAlerts
After periods of #Israel warring with all neighboring countries in its radius, its current enemy on duty, which warns and gives it no respite, is #Iran.

By showing an example of unity, #Israel will fulfill its mission of being a light onto the nations, as the head of the spiritual Partzuf (soul) relative the body, #humanity. Unity must spread to all nations and the Creator’s #revelation in all its might happens precisely in them.
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