Thought is the greatest force in creation. But we don’t see how thoughts determine everything happening. Studying Kabbalah lets us see the network of #forces permeating and governing the world. Also, it reveals how we control the world with our thoughts, consciously or not.

The Creator is the corrected you, because you’re made opposite to the Creator, the quality of unconditional love and bestowal. We study ourselves in order to correct ourselves to the opposite, and receive equivalence with the Creator. Kabbalah is #spiritual work.

#Hanukkah is a stop midway, from the ego (Malchut) to the quality of bestowal (Bina) and onward to perfection (Keter). We celebrate Hanukkah as a complete severance from the previous egoistic state, and as a firm foothold toward the state of complete spiritual correction.

How can we see the #future? All states exist, we just need to learn to see them! The future changes according to our attitude towards it. A Kabbalist knows that nature/the world can’t be changed, but a person can change upon request. How do you endure states? Don’t endure-enjoy!

Discordance is necessary to develop greater balance and #unity. The rule of overcoming discordance: nobody is right, the right decision lies in rising above discordance. Mutual guarantee provides an opportunity to constantly rise above revelations of discordance.

#Egoism differs from altruism by the intention: I want to do something for myself or for you. I can hug you, and it would be for me, or I can spank you, but it would be for you. It’s not the action, but the intention that determines the essence of an action.

Our path comprises 2 stages: concern for self (Lo Lishma, for oneself) & concern for others (Lishma, for others). In this measure & only through others do I fulfill the Creator as per the rule “from #love of others to love of Creator,” “He is among His people”—so He is revealed.

By rising to the #spiritual level we acquire the desire to bestow in addition to our initial desire to receive, and we can balance between them. By correctly combining these two desires to receive and bestow, we create from them a third component called “the human.”

Happy #Hanukkah, the holiday of light! May it be easy, pleasant and warm! Let’s open our hearts to one another and grow closer to the light, the quality of love and bestowal!

From Twitter, 12/15/17

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Thought of creation: creatures opposite to the Creator, in the will to receive (egoists) must affect their correction & become like Creator, the will to love/bestow. This is done in 2 stages: from the ego to neutral state (#Hanukkah), and to the action of love & bestowal (Purim).

The upper force unites us and thus reveals new senses in us. I start sensing the whole world as parts of my body. Everyone becomes a part of me. This sensation is called a soul. And what fills it is called the Creator. And therein lies the rational miracle of #Hanukkah!

The meaning of the holiday of #Hanukkah: in unity we draw the upper light. And from there the light passes through us to the ego, and defeats it (Hanukkah) by turning it into its opposite, from being enemies to being adhered with the Creator (Purim). This is a true victory!

#Hanukkah is a stop on the path. But there are no stops in spiritual work! A “stop” means receiving the quality of Bina, bestowal, GE and immediate resumption of the work in AHP, to “bestow while receiving,” achieving complete correction of the soul, GE + AHP = holiday of Purim.

#Hanukkah is a victory in the fight against the ego, for unity above and despite the ego. If we unite by rising above the egoistic forces separating us, we enter attainment (revelation and realization) of the upper (spiritual) world, eternal and perfect.

A #miracle is a change in perceiving reality. There’s one reality, but as I acquire new qualities, I perceive the world differently. Like a newborn, I come out to a new level of perception under the influence of the upper light. This is the entrance to the upper world.

From Twitter, 12/14/17

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My latest on @TimesofIsrael Beware! These Hanukkah Insights Require Some Mental and Emotional Effort TheTimesOfIsrael.com … #HanukkahSameach (#infographic)

From Twitter, 12/13/17

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Natural disasters carry a message from Mother Nature for each and every one of us. For the full article: kabbalah.info #wildfire #california

My latest on @JPostOpinion: “Think the war at Hanukkah was between Jews and Greeks? It was between #Jews and Jews.” www.jpost.com #Hanukkah

Most important is to feel my I detaching from me, instead of I there’s WE, the group cares for US, as everyone used to care for their I, WE begin to #pray for US, and the Light comes to US and makes US into a single whole in which the one Creator is revealed.

A broken creation is demonstrated only in relation to us, our perception. The system is always one. But there’s a purpose to us not being able to correctly recognize the Upper One’s influence, and hence react to Him correctly. We decide it by arranging our group like the system.

Spiritual work always starts anew. We must understand and agree to it, and be thankful for every new beginning. Though it means new stress in overcoming the ego, the sensation as if disappears—everything is erased. Always a new beginning. #gratitude

There are 2 analyses: sweet/bitter—sufficient for regular #existence, and truth/falsehood—manifests in certain people. As it manifests, one rejects falsehood and aspires to truth. It compels to reveal the meaning of life, so one comes to study Kabbalah. #meaningoflife

#Einstein: to jump on top of a table, you must jump higher than the table. Meaning we need a method of rising “above oneself.” Any movement is built on a game. By playing at a spiritual degree in the group, we draw the upper light, and attain it with its help.

Any spiritual action influences the system of ADAM, the unified soul. Therefore, the entrance to any degree it starts at zero (conception, Hibur), to understand and react correctly. We enter the #Soul if we know the cause-action-result.

From Twitter, 12/12/17

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Some tips to help you understand the meaning of #Hanukkah

Exertion: when I say “I can’t do any more” is precisely where exertion begins. Every moment I must actualize the principle “If not now, when?” Freewill is exercised at every moment. If you miss a moment, you haven’t actualized your freewill.

Love is when you’re inside me, and I’m inside you, like an #embryo inside a mother. As a mother senses herself in her child—his desires determine everything for her!

Along with the growth of the ego, Kabbalah develops one’s “point in the heart,” allowing him to exist between two forces: good and #evil inclination. Then, between them, he’s free to use the evil inclination for the benefit of the good—and advance in this manner.

Today we can say that we’re putting the method of Abraham into practice. That is the source of the method of unifying people, which is called #Kabbalah…

To what degree is the #Creator responsible for the world? For everything that happens? If He causes all this disunity among us, how is He responsible for it? He is responsible for everything, completely and absolutely: He stands behind us, ready to do all we ask.

Addressing the Creator is the vessel of the soul (prayer, Hisaron, Kli). It must always develop—that is my correction. Not the answer to the request, but the request (yearning) itself—there’s spiritual work & fulfillment of the soul. By this I show my attitude to the Creator.

Kabbalah reveals for us the GPS of #life: where to go & how not to stray, but take the quickest and shortest path to achieving all the very best—toward the right Goal in life, for the GPS to show us where it lies.

To reveal the #spiritual world means to sense oneself in it. The spiritual world is a network where our desires intertwine, concealed from us by the ego. As we aspire to be like this system of connection between us, we stimulate its influence on us, up to its revelation between us.

To draw the light means to always think that it is precisely what we lack—ever increasing #connection between us, up to the bond between everyone becoming permanent, i.e. manifesting as the 10 Sefirot filled with the Creator’s light.

The #ego is necessary! It was created in order to show us how distant we are from one another, how distant (different) from the Creator, so that we could draw closer together and thus with the Creator, in His complete revelation.

What will determine the good future of Israel and the world? #JerusalemEmbassy

Instead of proclaiming #Jerusalem capital of Israel, Trump could have directed secular Jews (Israeli and US) to actualize the method of uniting the Jews, which would cause the unification of the nations of the world! Instead, his proclamation exacerbates hatred and delays peace.

Trump won’t correct the world. Jews must become a united people and thus show an example of unity to the nations. This is their historic & spiritual mission, & rejecting it causes all the suffering in the world (Ashlag. Preface to The Book of Zohar, para 70-76) and #antisemitism.

From Twitter, 12/11/17

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According to Kabbalah, in our time, humanity is developing to a stage where we have to recognize our existence within nature’s integrated system and how we influence the system the most—through the quality of human connections between us. http://bit.ly/naturewin #wildfires

From Twitter, 12/9/17

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My reaction to President Trump’s statement on @newsmax: Jerusalem Must Be a Beacon of Peace With or Without the Embassy http://bit.ly/jerusalempeace #jerusalem #embassy

A different kind of explanation to the rise of the Gender Neutrality movement. What are your thoughts? Read the full article: http://bit.ly/gendersoul #gender #neutrality

From Twitter, 12/7/17

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My reaction to President Trump’s statement about Jerusalem #jerusalem #embassy
https://www.facebook.com/MichaelLaitman…

The Wisdom of Kabbalah Explains Gender Neutrality #gender #neutrality

From Twitter, 12/6/17

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How can I feel two opposite states, like #joy and suffering, at the same time? To feel two states I need two Kli: my personal one, and that of the group. In my personal Kli I feel the ego’s suffering, but in the common Kli of the group I feel joy.

Man is like a child the Creator has made and is raising, wanting for him to be like the Father: independent, perfect, similar to Him. You need not give the Creator anything but the pleasure of seeing you become similar to Him. #inspiration

#Freedom is possible if I rule over desire. For as long as I’m inside my egoistic nature, I am fully CONTROLLED by my ego. The only freedom is to learn to anticipate the Creator’s desires. Then you will decide for Him, as it is said: the righteous decides, & the Creator executes

Spiritual movement is impossible under the ego’s rule, nor under the rule of the #spiritual force of bestowal, but only in the combination of these two forces. While in the ego, we don’t exist in the spiritual world—there’s nothing against which to measure ourselves.

Our world is the first degree of the great cycle. The next degree is the upper world, from which all signals that govern our world descend. Those who wish to reveal the #meaning of life—who-what-how governs it—must reveal the upper world. This is the domain of Kabbalah.

The whole world is the Creator’s manifestation. By influencing us in various ways, He addresses us. Try and you will start to sense Him addressing you. Especially in your thoughts and feelings, for they are from Him, even before you realize it. You are your reaction to this fact.

What’s ahead? Understand: we must die within and be reborn. Precisely reborn in our perception of life, death, the world. To move to an unknown coil of existence, tune to a new dimension that we cannot even imagine to ourselves at the present.

Most important is to care for the point in the heart. It must be returned to its source, the Creator. It will pull you there itself, and you must help it. The #evil isn’t in the desire to enjoy, but in the intention to act for yourself.

Everything is done by the upper light! We are controlled by His influence on us. The only action we can do is either distance or draw closer together, distance or draw closer to Him, be dissimilar or similar to the Light. This is our only freedom and chance to influence #fate…

Creation begins with the breaking of bonds between us, which r then filled with ego, rejection. We try to rebuild these bonds, the ego resists. Thanks to this, we rebuild the bonds 620 times stronger than before they were broken. This is why Creator is revealed in the connection.

Nothing exists but man and the Creator! Everything else is in you. All that you see around r your personal qualities being displayed against the Creator’s qualities. By connecting these 2 pictures you achieve the right perception of all of creation, in adhesion with the Creator.

Why did the great light dissipate into sparks? So that we would value everyone as the Creator’s part. And then we could truly join together once again into a single whole, the way the Creator has made us, and achieve our purpose–to reveal the one Creator. #purpose

Man is drawn to #truth IF it’s demanded by his POINT IN THE HEART – a desire to reveal truth even in suffering. Hebrew for TRUTH – EMET—includes the entire alphabet: E-Creator, M-Bina, T-Malchut—the Creator’s general name. Kabbalah teaches we must attain Him to be like Him

A film by my student, Amit Shalev: http://intotruthfilm.com/en #antisemitism #Jewish

The #ego is like separate cells, and the Light knows how to connect them. Like the particles of any substance, the way they’re arranged determines the type of the substance. Man exists above the light, because he includes the its governance within himself.

From Twitter, 12/5/17

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There’s no loftier sensation in our world than growing distant from the world and experiencing #spiritual ascent in unity with the friends…

You can study a bird in flight, make mathematic analyses and build flying devices using them. Or you can acquire the bird’s natural qualities and fly. Herein lies the difference between #science and Kabbalah, which doesn’t get “smart” but transforms man into an omnipotent creature.

Our #freedom lies only in being able to change not reality itself, but our attitude toward it. Reality is created by illuminating our egoistic Reshimot. Your attitude toward this changes reality, the way you perceive it: this world (bad) or the upper world (good).

After one becomes capable of bestowal, one is able to receive the upper light and pass it through oneself to everyone else. One isn’t restricted in any way in this, and becomes a vessel for infinite light, passing it from the Upper One to the lower ones. #consciousness

From Twitter, 11/30/17

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