Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 6/20/21
Posted on June 20th, 2021 at 7:00 am
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Jerusalem is considered the center of the world, the eternal city. It was founded by King David as the capital of the Kingdom of Judah and it is the capital of Israel today. Jerusalem is mentioned 800 times in the Tanakh, which means it is given great importance in all three major world religions and especially in Judaism.
Jerusalem is considered an eternal city despite the fact that it has been destroyed and conquered by invaders several times over the course of history. Today, Jerusalem is at the very center of controversy for the entire world. Why is the attention of the world focused on this tiny piece of land?
The spiritual world, as well as the material world, must have a center. It was once believed that the center of the universe was the sun around which everything revolves. And this is actually the case if you look at our solar system from the point of view of astronomy.
And in the human system, everything emerged from Jerusalem even though Jerusalem existed as a small settlement even before Jews came to the land of Israel. They conquered the land by defeating seven other nations that lived on it, and they populated the place according to instructions from above. Since then, Jerusalem has belonged to Israel.
Jerusalem is a special place that is the heart of Israel. It did not immediately become a central city; there were several other such places before it. But after a while, Jerusalem became the most important center and received the names “city of peace,” “city of David,” “perfect city,” and since then, it has been proclaimed as the capital of Israel forever.
Why did King David chose this particular location for the capital of his kingdom? It is the place where the spiritual and material centers of the world come together. That is why people are so attracted to this point and many feel special phenomena in it. Even today, many tourists who come to visit Jerusalem say that it has a special glow, an unusual feeling of certain vibrations.
There is even such a phenomenon in psychiatry as the “Jerusalem syndrome” in which a person begins to imagine himself as a historical character from the Tanakh and forgets who he really is.
If we could look at Jerusalem from the inside, as if through an X-ray, we would see that it contains many spiritual properties: the Temple Mount, Mount Scopus, the city walls, etc. We would see the special atmosphere that reigns in every corner of Jerusalem. Every smallest fragment of this city bears the imprint of a special spiritual quality.
These symbols have existed in Jerusalem for thousands of years, but for us they have become familiar and commonplace. On the other hand, we must understand that the main thing is not the thousands-year-old walls, but the people who look at Jerusalem.
It is the people who must give a special spirit to this city, the correct spiritual symbols. Because on one hand, Jerusalem is called the city of peace, and on the other hand, it is constantly torn by strife and wars so it is not clear how to bring it to perfection and peace.
We still have a lot of work to do in order to understand what Jerusalem is and what needs to be done to make it whole and perfect. Jerusalem is not only a city of peace but also a city of perfection and integrity. How can we bring it to a state where the ten spiritual Sefirot would unite with the soil of this world, that is, so that the end of correction would come?
For this, we study the science of Kabbalah and strive to reach the state where this will happen. We ourselves must become whole and perfect. It is thanks to the people who live in this city and achieve unification of everyone—all races and nationalities—that it will become the city of peace, the perfect city.
To do this, we need to learn how we can create such a form of humanity where all people will be united by good, correct, friendly ties to the full extent. Then we will understand the power that is contained in this city. The more we unite together, the more we will reveal the power hidden in Jerusalem. Then it will be a perfect city.
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From KabTV’s “The Peace” 5/25/21
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Question: After leaving Egypt, the people approached Mount Sinai to receive the Torah, spiritual instruction. Why did they not need it up to this point?
Answer: Because a person develops like a small child. He does not need instructions for the first years of his life. Later we begin to teach him. He paints pictures, everything is shown and explained to him, and he is taught in school. That is, he must gradually be included in society in the correct form.
Comment: But a demand arose among the people: “Give us such a system so we will stop hating each other!”
My Response: We are talking about a ripe nation that has gone through a great deal of suffering and realized that if they are not connected with each other, then the force that influences them will affect them negatively.
After all, a nation that is not united is forcibly dividing this force and it manifests itself in contradiction in each one toward the others. Naturally, everyone will suffer. So, they demanded instruction.
After receiving it, they began to move on and wandered in the desert for forty years until that generation died that knew what it was like to be enslaved, meaning, to be in one’s egoistic desires that you indulge and that seem necessary, and good—work for your egoism and you will be fine.
That generation had to die, i.e., completely abandon the use of egoism for one’s own sake. Now as we approach the last generation this should work in us. We must realize that we have no other path than to rise above egoism in positive union with one another.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/19/21
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Comment: A person has such desires, which in Kabbalah are called “Yavanim,” which means Greeks.
My response: The Greeks (Yavanim, Mityavnim) are those people who want to materialize their aspirations for the upper world. They do not understand spirituality without any totems, some signs of stone, wood, etc. This is how all religions gradually arose. Since then, the Jewish religion has changed a lot. After it, Christianity and Islam appeared.
Question: Do you consider this a natural process? Was this supposed to happen?
Answer: Yes. Once people lost such a leader as Moses, they broke away from a clear aspiration for the spirit and began to see it in wood and stones. Many branches of true Judaism appeared. This is how the Hellenization of hundreds of thousands of Jews took place.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 1/21/21
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Question: In the article “The Last Generation” Baal HaSulam writes that although this land is given to the people of Israel after 2,000 years of exile, it is possible that the Creator (nature) will again take it from us if we do not conform with it.
Does it mean that we are given a certain period of time to correct ourselves? What period of time are we talking about?
Answer: I cannot say for sure, but it is possibly a limited period of time and it is quite short. We need to start working on ourselves, on our compliance with the land of Israel about which, by the way, it is written in our laws: what kind of Land this is, how to treat it, what kind of people should live here. Namely, Jews.
That is, Jews must change their intentions and desires from reception to bestowal. If they work on themselves in this way, they can continue to live on this land and enjoy its fruits. But if this does not happen, then the land, as it is written, will vomit out its inhabitants.
Question: Indeed, the last exile lasted 2,000 years, a long period of time. Why did it take so many years?
Answer: The thing is that we need to understand how we exist, what kind of exile it is, and what it means to exit out of it, just like out of Egypt. First of all, we need to understand the exile itself, what it is, and only then we can be ready for it.
In fact, we are still in exile today. We are not considered to exist in the land of Israel because it symbolizes the desire that is directed to the Creator, and our desires are not yet directed to Him. On the contrary, we are in the opposite state.
Question: Is the fact that the people of Israel exist here for more than 70 years just a sign, a symbol of something?
Answer: It does not mean anything special. This, of course, is a symbol, but for certain it is not yet a spiritual definition of the state of the people and the land.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 1/21/2021
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Question: The Israeli Prime Minister and the Defense Minister met with foreign diplomats in Israel. They very logically, accurately, and visibly proved that Palestinian rocket launchers are stored in residential areas, in kindergartens, inside houses and hospitals, and that under residential areas of Gaza there is a huge underground city where militants are hiding behind residents and that our airstrikes are precisely targeted.
If there are threats to civilians, they are immediately notified to leave the area and are given time to evacuate. Evidence was presented that one quarter of the Palestinian rockets fell on their own territory, but that they do not care. They bombed Lod and hit the city of Tyre in the north of the country, which are populated by Arabs.
It was clearly proven that there is no army as humane as ours.
Do you think that we will always have to justify ourselves to the world—how good we are?
Answer: I do not think we need to do it because we will not be able to justify ourselves and because we are not so good. In fact, we are still the ones to blame. We will always be guilty, and we will always be the ones held liable.
As long as egoism exists in the world that causes rejection, hatred, and separation from each other, we will be guilty because we are the source of it.
And there is no getting away from it. Thus, everyone will be increasingly fixated on us, will accuse us, and will act around us and against us. We used to believe that as we develop, people would get smarter year after year and understand that it is not us.
But nothing could be further from the truth! Look at the Holocaust! We thought that when the truth of the Holocaust was out in the open people would see what it was and would change their attitude toward this long-suffering nation.
But no! We see what humanity is saying: “You have suffered? Suffer a thousand times more! Because we are all suffering because of you.” Humanity has this feeling that they are suffering because of us, that we are the source of suffering.
Question: Then I have this question: should we respond when we are attacked, and how should we respond?
Answer: We must defend ourselves in order to exist. It says in the Torah: “He who comes to kill you, kill him first.” But you must do so with the awareness that you must correct this state of being attacked. You must investigate the reason why others hate you and eradicate this hatred.
Question: So in any case, the first thing is to fight back, right?
Answer: Otherwise, who will justify, correct the world, and so on? Yes.
But Jews cannot really be annihilated. After all, they are the ones who have to bring the world to correction. This is our problem.
Question: What has to happen for everyone to feel that this is our land, that we are defending our land?
Answer: The nations of the world will not only feel this, but they will lead us to this country, they will open all the borders for us and say: “Come in and live here! Reign in glory, we will glorify you.”
Question: When will this happen?
Answer: When we all come together and when out of our correct, kind connection, we influence the whole of nature so that all of nature comes to unity, to a good relationship with each other so that all nations will suddenly look at each other with love. It can be a startling change if only the Jewish people would act this way among themselves.
Comment: Didn’t your teacher Rabash worry about the soldiers as if they were his own children? I remember you said that even while praying, he would listen to the news. He was asked, “How can you listen to the news during a prayer?” He said: “My children are there.”
Baal HaSulam recognized this country and even met with the head of state Ben-Gurion. He wanted this country to exist. You came here and served and worked in the army. And in general, everyone knows that you are not a left-leaning person.
My Response: I am neither left nor right. I do not stick to the left or the right wing’s ideology.
Question: You have a Kabbalistic view that this country should become just that, and that is what it was created for. And for this purpose Jews were gathered here?
Answer: Yes, to turn it into the spiritual center of the world.
Question: And then, at that moment, we will be able to say that this land is ours, right?
Answer: Only then.
Question: How do you feel about the fact that they make fake news from your videos, from what you say? They cut the first part out, a little here, a little there, and the part that remains makes it look like you are against Israel, that you support BDS and the extreme left. That is, they cut out what you say about what Israel should become, about love of others and how to implement it. And then they begin to flag it.
How do you feel about this?
Answer: I am not even angry at them; it is their livelihood. They live off this, get paid for it. Hamas collects money, passes it to such scribblers, and they work.
Question: And immediately people look at you in a certain way and say: “Wow, look at what he said! He says this is an apartheid country!” And so on. But it was a cunning editing job. How do you feel about this?
Answer: Positively. Because truth cannot be spread in this world. But lies spread very quickly! So, thanks to a lie, the truth will gradually come out through this lie. “Truth will grow from the earth.” So, I am happy.
Question: Really? It doesn’t bother you?
Answer: On the contrary, I am glad that I am being turned upside down, and in general, cut into pieces. Why not?
A person in our world has reached such a state of egoistic development that he cannot accept the truth. Here, try taking a truth pill, your body will reject it.
But if you take one gram of truth with 20 grams of lies and swallow those 20 grams of lies, you will be satisfied with these 20 grams of lies! And one gram of truth will be absorbed through it.
And that is what these people do. So I am grateful to them for taking my words this way and cutting them up.
Question: So you believe that in the lies they spread, there is still this gram of truth that penetrates it?
Answer: Yes. Although it is completely invisible. Quite the opposite.
Question: Then I have another question. What would you say now in this difficult time to the citizens of our country?
Answer: I have nothing to say. I have absolutely nothing to say except one thing. You nevertheless have to take an interest in who we are, what we are, and why we exist, for whose sake.
Question: The people of Israel?
Answer: Not just Israel. Today, it already is the entire world.
If you start to take an interest in this, I talk about it and write about it in all my books. You will find that we have a grand and wonderful mission, which from day to day becomes more and more singular in the world.
Everything else is becoming irrelevant, everything else becomes null and void. And only we remain with our idea that we must implement. And everything that relates to implementing this idea—love your neighbor as yourself, the connection of everyone—all of this remains and becomes more and more clearly manifested in our world as a necessity.
Question: Do you consider yourself to be a Zionist? And if yes, how do you define this concept?
Answer: Well, I cannot use these definitions because they are used in a completely different way than how I see them.
The aspiration to Zion, of course, was everyone’s aspiration. I remember my grandfather and his trepidation when he spoke about it. This was in the 1950s. Of course, it was very sacred to him.
Question: And he passed that on to you, right?
Answer: I remember that, yes. When I first went up to Jerusalem, I was very, very anxious—I was doing something that my grandfather never could.
Comment: That is, he conveyed this feeling and aspiration through you.
My response: Yes. I felt connected to my ancestors. But then it went away. Then I developed a very different connection with the land of Israel, with Zion, only for the sake of a higher idea.
Real Zionism is connection with the upper force that passes through the spiritual land of Israel! Earth, “Eretz” comes from the word “Ratzon,” a desire, aimed at love and bestowal.
Question: And in this sense you are a Zionist?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And so were Baal HaSulam and your teacher Rabash, right?
Answer: All the Kabbalists.
Question: What is the land of Israel to you, to you personally?
Answer: It is a place that no one really wants, in reality. It was not needed. That is why it was abandoned for centuries. When the Jews came, it became needed by all.
This is a place that I hope will be completely forgotten and everyone will look only up toward heaven. That is where one should look for the desire for love and bestowal, for connection! That is the land of Israel. Up there.
Question: Is it not the physical land of Israel?
Answer: There is nothing physical. Not in these rocks, not in this sand, not in anything here! Everything is only inside, inside the people who appreciate and strive for this ideal of love, connection, and ascent to the Creator, to the quality of love and bestowal.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/20/21
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Question: An indicator called the “happiness index” is made up of people’s subjective satisfaction with life and life expectancy. This is the so-called ecological footprint: how much physical space do we need in order to consume resources, use space for waste, etc.
If we compare this indicator with the GDP (gross domestic product) by country, then where the GDP is high, the level of people’s happiness is lowest. Why do you think it happens this way?
Answer: People are driven into a framework in which they do not feel free and happy. They are forced to do what is needed like slaves. Accordingly, the index of happiness is not very high either.
People lie to themselves and consider themselves happy. They do not understand what happiness is.
Happiness is not working 20 hours a day, like in Japan, and not hanging out in the middle of a stone jungle, like in New York. Happiness is an inner state of a person. But it is nevertheless inseparable from the connection with nature, with society.
Everything should be harmoniously interconnected. Today I do not see this in any corner of the world, except, perhaps, in very small countries.
I am flying to Switzerland soon. I know this country well, as well as central Europe in general. I don’t think the people there are that happy. But at least there is a very high balance between silence, clean air, the ability to work and feel good.
At the same time, I have lived in New York and its suburbs for quite a long time, and I do not think that this is the limit of comfort: both internal and external.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations” 6/9/21
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Question: We have already been through four elections in Israel. Do you think there can be a government with different parties from different directions? They are already voicing slogans: “From Me to We.” That is, they will sort of try to annul themselves in order to come to a common decision. How will the system still work?
Answer: It will not work. There is no foundation for the system to work. In general, there is no foundation for Jews to get together and manage something together amicably. There is great egoism and a complete misunderstanding of the fact that egoism must somehow be controlled, suppressed, and not always rise above each other.
Everything will be as it was before, only the government will change with even greater frequency. People will no longer pay attention to who is there and who is not. You will wake up in the morning and find out: “Oh, we have a new government!”
Question: Will even this thought: “What if something changes? Maybe something will change after all?” disappear?
Answer: I do not know. We will reach a state when there will be military coups again, generals will seize power with the help of troops. And on our borders, our dear neighbors will wait anticipating victory.
Comment: Then build a perfect picture of how it should work.
My Response: The recognition of evil exists somewhere in the people: We cannot be together, we are like this. We are the most egoistic ones, the most so and so. On the one hand. But on the other hand, they do not want to admit it. Many, the masses, are ready to turn a blind eye to this.
Of course, there is also religion, which helps to suppress these thoughts, it talks about the chosen people, and so on. I do not know. I personally do not have any prescriptions for the future. You know my prescription, but no “pharmacy” will accept it. They cannot even read it!
Comment: That is, you only have one prescription—unity of the people.
My Response: The gradual education of the people toward unity, as a necessary, the only necessary, condition!
Question: Then what kind of government should there be, that they would agree to and bet only on it?
Answer: Only Kabbalists. The ones who would gather people and identify among these people the ones that are essential, necessary, able to take part in governing the country and the society.
Question: What about governing the country: is the entire foundation still only the unity of the people? Are all the laws made only on this basis, and all of life only on this basis?
Answer: Absolutely! I am building you a perfect picture! You think it cannot be real. Is it perfect? Yes, it is perfect. However, in these conditions and with these people, and in the state in which society is today, this cannot happen yet.
Question: What will we come to?
Answer: To the fact that there will be a big massacre. Has that not happened in our history? Such fratricidal wars that we do not need enemies, we will kill each other ourselves.
Comment: It mainly happened in the time of the Temples.
My Response: It does not matter. We can come to this. I do not believe in a good near future. As much as I can see how things are unfolding. I do not know.
We are nevertheless trying to do everything we can and to explain everything. But speaking seriously, soberly, people laugh at what we say. And this laughter causes great disappointment, fear, and sorrow. Because this is how people laugh when they really feel bad. This is how the gladiators used to shout: “Those who are about to die salute you.”
Question: What do you expect when you say all this? Let’s say it goes on the air.
Answer: It has to go on the air.
Question: To make them flinch? Is that what you expect?
Answer: I do not know. Let them curse me, let them do what they want. It does not matter to me at all.
They should just know that this is the opinion of a Kabbalist. I just want them to understand. Or if they do not understand, I want it to remain somewhere within them, and in some future, they might remember it. So that it would stop them somehow, alert them, and so on.
I want to help.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/7/21
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