In the News (from People’s Daily): Leaders from the Group of Eight (G8) rich countries said on Wednesday that the world economy still faces significant risks despite signs of stabilization. “While there are signs of stabilization … the situation remains uncertain and significant risks remain to economic and financial stability,” the leaders said in a declaration concluding their first-day meeting at a summit in the central Italian town of L’Aquila.

My Comment: But despite their words, as long as the solution is nowhere in sight, and as long as they still haven’t run out of money and the printing facilities are operational, they’ll go on inflating the financial bubbles. Therefore, Kabbalah and the solution it offers is still not an option for them, because their “information receiver” still operates at a different frequency. In the meantime, all they can do is keep inflating those bubbles, which will invariably lead to a collapse!

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A question I received: Presently, the Big Bang theory is the most credible explanation physics has of how the universe was created. What does Kabbalah say about this?

My Answer: In the past, we were taught that the universe is infinite and eternal. Today, however, this seems naïve and is not a sufficient answer, for how can anyone who hasn’t attained these concepts speak about them?

Kabbalah can accept the statement that the universe appeared as a result of an explosion, or a breakthrough of the Upper Energy into our world, the lowest level of creation. That spark of Upper Energy gave rise to all matter, energy and information in our world, which then developed further.

In the science of Kabbalah we learn about how a spark of the Upper Degree breaks through to the lower degree. This is called an act of creation, or the appearance of existence from absence. This is how the next, lower level appears.

And it was the same process that brought our universe – the lowest of the worlds – into existence. However, we are unable to grasp how just one spark of Upper Energy can create everything. People were able to “guess” that this happened because this idea came to them “from God,” or “from Above,” even though it is contrary to our reason and assumptions. It’s just as “ridiculous” as the idea that the universe is infinite and eternal. We are simply asserting what the facts lead us to conclude.

Kabbalah agrees with the above theory, although science views it as a paradox.

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In the News (from The Wall Street Journal): “Pope Weighs In on Financial Crisis” You know the international financial crisis has implications in every aspect of global life when the Pope decides to weigh in. Today Benedict XVI issued his third encyclical focusing on the economy. It is widely seen as directed at G-8 leaders gathering in Italy this week. Here are some excerpts:

Economy and finance … can be used badly when those at the helm are motivated by purely selfish ends. …we must adopt a realistic attitude as we take up … new responsibilities to which we are called by the prospect of a world in need of profound cultural renewal, a world that needs to rediscover fundamental values … it is not the instrument [the economy] that must be called to account, but individuals, their moral conscience and their personal and social responsibility.

My Comment: All of the above is correct, but how can we possibly make people’s all-enveloping egoism budge? Only through Kabbalah! Maybe someone could tell the Pope about it…

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Our civilization has gone through many transitions from one socio-cultural framework to another, but all of these transitions occurred on the animate level, the level of human egoism. This is why the frameworks were always changed in minor ways, but never in the way of an inversion. It is because they were all founded on egoism, where people’s end goal was “to get the most.” And because a person always “gets the most” at others’ expense, all our existing institutions were founded with the sole purpose of holding people back from annihilating one another.

Eventually, all these institutions will naturally transform to their opposite, because people will change inside. Once transformed, these institutions will support us in a way that enables us to complete each other, give to each other, love and fulfill each other.

However, none of these changes will be carried out “from above” – by the authorities, but rather, they will happen because every individual will go through an inner transformation. New ways of relating to each other will develop from the ground up, just like our civilization developed; this will happen in accordance with strict laws of Nature, guided by the development of informational data or genes – Reshimot.

The science of Kabbalah says that one way or another, we will reach the final state. It says, “You will reach a state of being in harmony with Nature and equal to the Creator. However, your path there can be good and fast, or you can be brought there through suffering and blows of fate.”

This is the same as the treatment that a child receives: If he is smart, he understands what is being demanded of him and sees that there is no other way to go but to become a human being and to learn. He then applies his own efforts to get there. But if he doesn’t acknowledge the need to change, then he will be forced to do so by way of “beatings.” Either way, he will have to change. Thus, the current crisis is Nature’s way of pushing us to advance and become human.

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In the News (from The Financial Times): “US non-farm payrolls fall 467,000 in June” …the economy shed an average of 691,000 jobs a month during the first three months of the year. Monthly job losses, as measured by the Labor Department, peaked at 741,000 in January. Employers have cut 6.5m jobs since the recession officially began in December 2007. The average workweek fell to 33 hours, the lowest level since records began in 1964, from 33.1 hours in May.

My Comment: Will there be a bottom to this, or is it a bottomless abyss? Clearly, using the old means to recover is not working. Thus, what we have to do is to improve the social relationships, rather than the economic or industrial ones. We have to make them global. Then, all the other relationships will change as well.

There are three issues we have to agree upon:
1) That a commonwealth of all people within a global civilization is a must;
2) That Nature has a force that can correct people from hatred to love for one another;
3) That Kabbalah tells us how to do this.

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Issue 21 of Kabbalah Today is now available.

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In the News (from BBC News): “There is a strongly felt need for a reform of the United Nations Organisation, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth,” the pope wrote in the third encyclical of his papacy… “To manage the global economy, to revive economies hit by the crisis, to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result … there is urgent need of a true world political authority,” he wrote… It “would need to be regulated by law, to observe consistently the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity [and] to seek to establish the common good,” … “Furthermore, such an authority would need to be universally recognised and to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights,” said the letter.

My Comment: I agree with this idea, as long as it isn’t mixed up with religion and the religious understanding of moral principles, mercy and the social good. However, the only way to implement it is to change human nature from egoism to bestowal, and this can only be done using the method of Kabbalah.

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A question I received: Why do you consider all sciences to be a consequence of the science of Kabbalah?

My Answer: Kabbalah originated 4,500 years ago in Ancient Babylon, and all the secular sciences originated from the science of Kabbalah. True science is a tool by which we attain Nature (or the Creator, which is the same thing). However, in regular, secular science, one attains His qualities egoistically, using one’s will to receive. In ordinary science, one attains the Creator within one’s earthly or materialistic desires.

On the other hand, if a person has the desire to understand the Creator, to attain His plan and the system through which He influences us, if one truly wishes to know Him and His actions and to reveal the deepest meaning of His acts, then to accomplish all this, one has to become like Him. And for that, one must have the desire to learn to bestow. In this case, that person is able to reveal the science that studies the Creator – the science of Kabbalah.

Everything in reality comes from the Creator and is attained within our desires. If a person’s desires have the intention of “for the sake of reception,” then he learns the ordinary, natural sciences, using the desires he was born with. But if his desires are similar to the Creator’s, then he uncovers the truth and understands the Creator’s actions. One attains this to the extent he is similar to Him. To the degree one is similar to Him, one attains His actions, intentions, desires, and His entire plan, as well as its realization.

A person attains all of this inside himelf, by means of equivalence of form with Him. This is how the science of Kabbalah enables one to see the Creator’s world, and is the reason why it is the only true science.

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A question I received: What should people learn and feel when they first come in touch with the wisdom of Kabbalah?

My Answer: People need to know that the method is revealed here and now to give all of us an opportunity to correct our earthly and spiritual existence and thus come to perfection: filling all voids, revealing the good, rectifying all wrongs and finding the cures to all illnesses.

In other words, the science of Kabbalah explains that here’s a source of abundance and thus it teaches us how to plug directly into that source.

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A question I received: Why is it that humanity’s natural development does not lead to the understanding that we must all be connected with each other in a benevolent connection?

My Answer: Everyone can give and take using their egoistical qualities – at work, in commerce and socially. When our egoistic properties reach a global, international level, we reach the maximum realization of our desires. This is where the first phase of human development ends and another begins – the phase of correcting the developed desire.

Nature demands that we restore the connection among us, which was broken before we were even born. This connection can only be corrected with the help of the Light, which the science of Kabbalah can provide.

The desire to start a family, to provide for your children, to be a good neighbor, to give and receive, to make money with each other, to live in peace, – all exist within the egoistic desire.

But if we are talking about a new system of connection among us, this is not a system of mutually beneficial trade, but a system where I am obliged to give to all; I must invest in everyone. This is not a transition to more trade with a higher degree of participation, although the world might understand it as such. Everyone understands that we must be interconnected in a positive way. But what Nature demands of us are heartfelt relationships based on the principles of bestowal and love, and not just honest trade!

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