Kabbalah on Education

Kabbalah comes to the rescue to today’s education and parenting crisis

Sibling jealousy is a natural reaction of egoism.

This is a natural reaction of egoism. Parents may try to explain to a younger child how they would like him to behave, but it’s impossible to demand a correct reaction from him. It’s written, “Educate a lad according to his path.” This means that parents have to compensate their elder child for his new position in the family, so that he feels that a good attitude towards the newborn is advantageous for him.

When a younger child is born, a mother feels excited that the family has become larger. An elder child should feel the same. How? For instance, he can receive a present “from” a younger sibling. That is, a child should see that a new baby allows him to derive something positive for his egoism. Otherwise the elder sibling will hate the younger one, as he senses that his mother’s attention is switched to the baby, everyone takes care of it, and not him. 

In previous generations, sibling jealousy probably wasn’t so acute, because people lived in more modest conditions, or elder children had more friends with whom they could play and thus paid less attention to their younger siblings. But today, parents need to fulfill the desires of the elder children, showing them that they receive something good thanks to a newborn baby in the family.

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Comment: The workshop has an interesting feature. At the moment of its implementation, a person seems to come to some kind of understanding, feels inspired, feels encouraged, and the next day it all disappears.

My Response: It does not matter. Even if it has disappeared from a person, it is still his. Nothing disappears in spiritual development. It is just that something has disappeared at the moment because new egoism has been added.

Nothing ever goes backward, only forward. If something is washed out of your memory, it is because a new, still uncorrected, egoistic mass comes that obscures your previous spiritual attainments.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Why Workshops Are Needed” 4/5/14

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Question: How does a person relate to the personal opinions of everyone in the group? How important is it to express your opinion?

Answer: What personal opinion can there be? No one has any opinion of their own. My only opinion is that I support the group in its advancement toward the Creator, and by this I support all my friends. My opinion is my contribution to the common yearning to come closer to the Creator. That is it. What else can there be?

There is one single force of bestowal and love in the world, and I need to strive for it. If I am against this, things will get worse. Moreover, the opposition is completely unwise. Neither my freewill nor my special criticality or individuality are manifested by it.

“No, I want to be against the Creator!”

“What do you mean ‘against’? What is the rationality of your action? Why are you against Him?”

“Because I want to be an evil force!”

The evil force is also Him, just like the good force. The adhesion with the Creator is simply an understanding that there is nothing else. Whether you are for Him or against Him, you will still be with Him. Therefore, we do not have any options.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Personal Opinions” 12/28/13

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Preparation to the Lesson

Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Vision of Rabbi Hiya” 

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How do you tame people?“

Animals can be tamed through positive and negative stimuli. People can be tamed similarly if they are lowered to the degree of animals. If we constantly hold such an influence over people, without letting them develop beyond such stimuli, always holding them under positive or negative influences, then they feel nothing more than those influences. We then provide people with no means of self-criticism but only to run away from the bad and move toward the good. People then become lowered to the degree of animals and behave accordingly.

If, however, we give people freedom from positive and negative pressures, then we provide the possibility of further mental and emotional development.

We can see throughout history that there were periods of slavery, and periods where people fought just to meet their basic needs. Their only problem was how to get food and a roof over their head. However, human progress led to them becoming more capable, providing themselves with food, heat, shelter, family and even a society where they looked out for each other. Then emerged the opportunity to care for their inner fulfillment, and to feel the need to fulfill an additional “something.” They developed arts, music and literature, and this emergence of a new spiritual yearning marked the beginnings of the human being.

Human beings are much more than creatures that simply respond to positive or negative stimuli. We also grow from within, and there is a certain level that our inner growth can reach.

Likewise, it is incorrect to give children incentives for positive behavior and to punish them for negative behavior. We see that even with various prizes and punishments, we cannot prevent children from developing in their own individual ways. One child wants something, and another child wants something else, and they do not really care about how we guide or direct them—through prizes or pressure toward something else. We all have a need to express ourselves.

Based on the video “Can You Tell the Human from the Animal?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Tal Mandelbaum. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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American scientists have made a breakthrough in the research of the process of controlled thermonuclear fusion. For more than 60 years scientists have been struggling with this problem trying to reproduce in the laboratory the nuclear reaction that naturally occurs on the Sun and other stars.

Thermonuclear fusion is a process directly opposite to nuclear fission, which is used in atomic bomb explosions. If such a synthesis becomes controlled, it will open unique opportunities for creating practically inexhaustible and environmentally friendly energy sources that do not produce harmful emissions of carbon dioxide or radioactive waste.

Experts say that one glass of liquid hydrogen—used as fuel for thermonuclear fusion—can provide a house with energy for several hundred years. It is assumed that poor countries will be able to receive virtually free energy in any quantity.

Of course, if this discovery comes to practical use, it will be a great gift to humanity. However, we have seen many times in the past that such great discoveries do not benefit men. There are many people who earn money by burning oil and gas, and therefore, they are not interested in such a discovery.

They will not want to give humanity such a big gift in the form of an unlimited source of energy. Therefore, I do not think that such a revolution in the energy sector can happen before humanity corrects itself for the benefit of the entire world.

There is no doubt that all suppliers of conventional fossil fuels that produce energy today will obstruct this process by all means.

We can talk about it only after the correction of humanity. But then we will no longer need thermonuclear fusion because we will connect with the source of upper energy, which operates in a completely different way. Then we will have no problem with energy, we will draw it simply from nothing.

There can be no success in the practical use of such a source of super-energy like controlled nuclear fusion until humanity succeeds in connecting with each other correctly.
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From KabTV’s “Writers Meeting” 12/13/22

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It is known that profusion of movement pains man, for it is an indirect extension from His essence. However, it is also impossible to remain devoid of possessions and good, for this, too, is in contrast with the root, since the root is filled abundantly. Hence, we choose the torment of movement in order to acquire filling with possessions.

However, because all their possessions and property are for themselves alone, and “he who has a hundred wants two hundred,” it follows that “One does not die with half one’s wishes in one’s hand.” Thus, they suffer from both sides: from the pain of increased motion, and from the pain of deficiency of possessions. (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 4, Item 21)

Our egoism, that is, our nature, is arranged in such a way that we want to be either in complete rest or to be filled with what we lack. Our entire life is practically in looking how we can be filled with what we desire.

Here we always have two options: either to remain at rest or to enter a movement that leads us to fulfillment. And if you have already decided to move, then you should clearly see the goal in front of you.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 12/18/22

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Kabbalah & Relationships

Tips on how to build successful relationships based on the spiritual principles and understanding of our nature

The spiritual root of sex is the soul’s unity with the Creator.

In the spiritual world, the soul is united with the Light, and this union is called Zivug—coupling. It constitutes the unification of two parts of creation—male and female, and is the greatest pleasure that can ever be—the soul being filled by the Light of the Creator.

This spiritual coupling also has a branch or copy in the physical world, the world of matter. This is why we are so preoccupied with sex—it is the ultimate pleasure in this world, and the root of all of our desires in this world.

Sex is the basis of all our thoughts, because its root is the soul’s union with the Creator. This union is the final goal of Nature, and everything that happens in the world is determined by the final goal. This is why we just can’t avoid thinking about sex. Our attraction to the opposite sex and to pleasure also come from this final state – the adhesion with the Creator, called “Zivug” (never-ending sexual union).

The pleasure we feel from sex is a perfect example of the difference between physical and spiritual pleasure. We spend so much time and effort thinking about sex, and we imagine that it will give us enormous pleasure, but in fact our pleasure vanishes into thin air the minute we reach the peak of sexual satisfaction. Before we really had time to enjoy this feeling, it is over and we find ourselves once again striving for another moment of pleasure.

This is what happens in our world, because the pleasure that fills the desire immediately neutralizes it. No longer having the desire, we stop feeling pleasure. It leaves us feeling empty, and as life goes on, this emptiness only grows bigger. This is why it is written, “One leaves the world with half his cravings unfulfilled.”

Spiritual pleasure works very differently because being in spirituality means having the ability to receive the Light with the intention of giving pleasure to the Creator, to the One who gives you the Light. Hence, in spirituality, coupling or sex is continuous and eternal, and it only grows stronger all the time. As a result, one feels eternal life and perfect fulfillment that constantly gets bigger. Obviously, this is very different from the pleasure we feel in our world, where we can only feel momentary pleasure followed by emptiness.

This is why it is written that ever since people fell from the spiritual world into our world, only those who attain the spiritual world still feel the real taste of copulation. The true, spiritual pleasure is attained when two opposite parts of creation—male and female—merge together and are filled by the common Light.

Subconsciously, in our souls, we all desire this coupling because we were created for it. On some level, we all aspire to feel the spiritual world because it is the only place where we will find true, lasting pleasure.

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Question: The Merriam Webster dictionary has named “gaslighting” as the word of the year. It means the psychological manipulation of a person that makes him doubt the accuracy of his own thoughts or perception of reality and leads to a loss of confidence and to dependence on the manipulator.

They say that in our age of fake news, conspiracy theories, and propaganda, gaslighting has become the main thing. Can we dodge gaslighting, or will it reach us everywhere?

Answer: It depends on the kind of person one is. It depends on the individual. One should have his own serious defense against this, his personal basic worldview.

Question: So one cannot be pushed from this worldview?

Answer: There are, of course, different stages in this matter. But the one who has serious preparation in this can’t be pushed.

Question: What could it be? After all, propaganda and all this gaslighting penetrate into all holes.

Answer: This gaslighting wants to explain to a person that he is controlled. And a person should feel that he controls himself. And here arises the single combat of a person with those who encroach on his independence.

Question: Is this really an encroachment?

Answer: Yes! Big time! This is enslavement. But what will you do? That is the world.

Comment: In principle, we see that almost 90 percent are subject to enslavement.

My Response: And they want it, too!

Question: So a person should resist this, to the point where it is either death or resistance?

Answer: Not to that extent! A person just needs to understand that he can be subjected to such a mental, psychic attack, and that after that he will no longer have freewill. And to avoid this he must build himself.

Question: What kind of core in a person is it that he has to build in himself?

Answer: To do with oneself what others want to do with him. That is, others want to impose on him some kind of their point of view, worldview, or attitude to the world, and he builds it all himself!

Question: So he is ahead of them and builds himself?

Answer: Yes. Moreover, he is so ahead of them that he can fight them. He can put a wall between himself and them. That is what we need to understand.

Question: What does this wall consist of?

Answer: This wall consists of confidence in my own method of building the world in myself the way I want it to be. And that is it.

Question: What kind of wall will hold? What kind of world should I build that can withstand?

Answer: As materialistic as possible, which will resist any attempts to hack this inner world of a person.

Question: Is it possible only for strong people, or is almost everyone capable of this?

Answer: No, I don’t think everyone is capable of this. But in principle, this can be taught and people can be pulled out of dependence, from such a sub-level, slavish state.

Today, absolutely everyone is in a state where they are controlled; thoughts, pictures, points of view, and so on are imposed on them. Humanity is crawling back into the caves.

Comment: There is a very interesting observation. There are millions of views on the Internet about those who have gone somewhere, to some kind of isolated community. Someone has gone to the taiga and has been living there alone for 20 or 30 years. A person leaves on his own, and that’s it, he leaves other people behind. And people watch and write comments like “I wish I could do that.”

My Response: Yes, but it’s not easy.

Comment: This is the wall that one has built. And you propose to do it in the active world.

My Response: Absolutely active, without changing anything—only inside yourself.

Question: How do you do it? Give us some practical advice.

Answer: I built such a wall in myself, as if I shut myself off from the world, from everyone. I live inside myself quietly and alone. No one suspects that I live like this.

Comment: It’s interesting! You have tens and hundreds of thousands of students, and you say, “This is how I live.”

My Response: It doesn’t matter.

Comment: Share a secret…

My Response: The secret is very simple. I am building this world within myself, and therefore even if I am in contradiction with the world that is being imposed on me, I do not feel any particular opposition. This contradiction does not crush me and does not fight with me. I just dismiss it and continue.

Question: Can you at least tell us a little bit about what you have there in that world?

Answer: In that world I am the king. And I serve the great Creator. That is all. It is very simple.

Comment: It’s not simple. But I really want to go to such a world. Is there any advice on how to get into it, into this world?

My Response: Crawl.

Question: How?

Answer: It needs to be built. A person must build it within himself. And when he builds it, he discovers that yes, it can be done, it must be done and it will be forever.

Question: Is it both security and peace?

Answer: It covers absolutely everything! This is the kingdom of the great King.

Question: But is He the King?

Answer: Yes, and you are building for Him.

Question: And then you find yourself in it? So that He rules there?

Answer: In order for me to rule everything for Him.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/1/22

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