The Destruction Of The Temple – The 17th Of Tammuz

Question: It is said on the 17^th of Tammuz, Antiochus Epiphanes burned the Torah and brought a statue of an idol into the Temple. If we look at that from a spiritual perspective, what does that mean?

Answer: The Torah doesn’t simply refer to the tablets or to a scroll of paper with something written on it. The Torah is Light, a spiritual force that descends from an upper level that is filled with love and bestowal unto people who aspire for this level.

The Temple refers to a person’s heart. The fact that a person is above his egoism is called holiness. So when the state of love and bestowal disappears, the Upper Light, the Light of Hassadim (Mercy) disappears and the holiness also disappears, and instead a statue of an idol (of egoism and self-love) is placed in the Temple, which means in our hearts.

This is the reason that humans bow to idols. Of course, we should thoroughly purify our hearts, our attributes, our intentions, and our feelings of all the egoistic idols until we are able to aim our desires at the full connection between us, so that each of us will think only about the wellbeing of others.

Question: Is the fall from the holy level of connection also an act of destruction?

Answer: Yes, but it is essential because otherwise the Creator will not be able to insert His attributes into the created being. The attributes should be opposite and at the same time include each other inside them, the Creator should include the attributes of the created being, and the created being should include the attributes of the Creator.

Then they will begin to create attributes that come in contact, that can resemble each other, one opposite the other; the Creator descends to the created being thanks to the incorporation of the created being’s attributes inside Him, and the created being can rise at least a bit above his life, which means above his attributes and desires, and reach the level of the Creator.

Thus they mutually cooperate. This sums the whole principle of the correction called Tzimtzum Bet (the second restriction).

It is important to say that the mutual penetration of the opposite attributes doesn’t stem from the 17^th of Tammuz or the 9^th of Av but from Adam’s sin, because it is there that the system of mutual connection and the equivalence of form of the created being to the Creator already exists thanks to the sin and the clash of the polar attributes.

Thus the chain of ascents and descents should regularly take place in every person. So I wish you all successful descents, which should be followed each time by an ascent!
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 7/11/16

Let’s Bring Good To The World!

Question: What is hindering the people of Israel and all the Jews in the world from uniting? Why don’t other peoples have this problem?

Answer: The other peoples have the same problem and even more so! But they aren’t founded on the idea of consolidation, like we are. We possess the method of unity! Therefore, the nations of the world are pushing us to begin to use it.

Question: So why doesn’t anything succeed?

Answer: It is because our people don’t know and don’t want to know that they have this method, the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is specifically this that talks about how it is necessary to unite and how to show this to the rest of the peoples.

But no one wants to listen. Check yourself: how important it is to you, what will you do, and when will you think about it next? It turns out that we, the Jews, prevent ourselves! Anti-Semites are right when they accuse us of being a problem for the whole world, because only we have the uniting technique called “Kabbalah.” But we do not want to use it and lead the world to the good bright future!

It is not important to the anti-Semites how many achievements we have brought to the world, how many Nobel Prizes we have, and that we want to be good to them. The world requires something else. The one thing that it wants from us is that we transform it into a better world with happy people!

This is possible to attain only through consolidation. Give humanity an example of unity. This is the only thing missing in our fragmented and miserable world. Show that people can live together happily in unity and connection between them and that the method is in our hands! It is called the wisdom of Kabbalah and we have to use it. We haven’t used it for 2,000 years, and now the time has arrived to begin using it and bringing the world to happiness.

Question: Would there be peace in the whole world if we were happily and joyfully singing and dancing in circles in Israel?

Answer: If this method could be summed up by our singing and dancing in circles, everything would be simple. But it is much more complicated, it is universal and profound. It is unique in that it reveals how to reach the higher management. This is a very wise, serious and internal global method. It is possible to read what scientists, thinkers, and philosophers have written about the wisdom of Kabbalah and to understand what it is. This is the only asset of our world.

Question: If the process of unifying were to begin in Israel, would the world around us then change?

Answer: Absolutely! Both the Arabs and the anti-Semites would become our friends. Nobody, except the Jews has freedom of choice. What do the anti-Semites seem to say? “You hold the key to our happiness! You are the reason for all the evil in the world!” So we can become the reason for all the good.

Let’s do this! There is no reason to sit and cry about this, drawing a bitter future upon us again. We must wake up and approach this question seriously. Really great powers are in our hands. We can make ourselves and the entire world happy!
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From the Webinar 5/8/16

Golden Path To Love

Torah, Deuteronomy, “Va’etchanan,” 5:29: Keep them to perform [them] as the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn aside either to the right or to the left.

Do not turn aside either to the right or to the left means to go along the middle line only, using all your qualities for bestowal and love.

All qualities, whatever they may be, we must accept so that we rise above ourselves in love for them.

When we deviate to the left, we enter the state of uncorrected desires and can’t leave them so. When we deviate to the right, we enter the state when we “float” in the Upper Light, in the quality of bestowal and love, but we don’t participate in it with all our egoism.

Therefore, both sides have to be balanced by the middle line, which is called a golden path to love.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/30/16

New Life #735 – Blessings And The Connection To The Creator

New Life #735 – Blessings And The Connection To The Creator
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Summary

“A person should not enjoy the world without a blessing.” It isn’t easy to understand what the sages mean by that, but they don’t refer to empty words. A person should reach the revelation of the Creator and true gratitude.

Children learn to say blessings and adults should learn how to actually discover the Creator.

Those who have revealed the Creator say that He is good and benevolent to all, and therefore I have to be like Him. The blessing is only a reason to connect to the upper force in order to identify with Him. The blessing should include the intentionto discover the Creator and to bring Him delight.

All our work is to correct our attributes, to correct the desire to receive, which is totally egoistic. All this can be fulfilled only by studying the wisdom of Kabbalah in a group of people.

It says “the commandments were given only in order to purify the created beings,” that is, purify us, to correct our egoism. To bless actually means to reach a state in which a person enjoys the actual connection with the Creator and his giving to the Creator.

The purpose of the blessing is not to say thank you but to ascend to the level of the Creator, to be loving and giving like He is. Giving to the Creator can only be by giving to others, as it is written,  “from the love of the created being to the love of the Creator.”

Therefore, “love thy friend as thyself” is the greatest rule of the Torah. This is the goodness that a person can “give” the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #735 – Blessings And The Connection To The Creator,” 6/21/16

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The 17th Of Tammuz

Question:  What can you tell us about the 17^th of Tammuz?

Answer: The entire period after the holiday of Shavuot and the giving of the Torah, meaning the “descent” of the unification system and elevation above the human ego, is portrayed for us as a very complex stage. It is impossible to simply achieve realization of the correction method among the Jewish people or all of humanity without serious complications. We see that every action, even the best, in any case must begin from suffering, from an impulse, from an understanding that it cannot be realized, that it requires sacrifices, and it is specifically the events of the 17^th ofTammuz that provide an answer to this subject.

The 17^th of Tammuz is a tragic date in the history of the Jewish people. It was the beginning of the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash (Temple) in Jerusalem. In all times this date has been marked with sorrow. It symbolizes the beginning of becoming aware of our inability to carry out the plan of creation, meaning the direct correction of human nature.

After all, to correct it we must incorporate all of our characteristics with those of theCreator. This is a very interesting point because there is nothing positive about us!

The incorporation of the positive characteristics of the Creator with the negative characteristics of the person in order to change their form from a “mess” can only happen with destruction, with a shattering. Otherwise it is impossible to bring the two characteristics, the two opposing categories, together.

It is achieved only through an “explosion” as in the formation of metal alloys or the formation of a mixture of oil and water. It is accomplished only through a strong and shaking collision.

This is how the walls of the Temple were crumbled and then the Temple itself was destroyed. Everything was shattered and ground into dust! So for thousands of years the Jewish people endured much suffering including the Holocaust, expulsion, extermination and pogroms.

We have reached a state, where through studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, under the influence of the Upper Light, we are beginning to differentiate true goodness from bad, the characteristics of the Creator from the characteristics of the creature. By separating and correcting them, we place them as two lines against each other and abide in the middle line between them, combining good and bad in the correct mutual relationship with each other.

The 17^th of Tammuz (Yud-Zayin Tammuz) represents the beginning of the explosive shattering through and the power of the mutual entry of the two opposite properties of the Creator and creation.

Egoism and the characteristics of the Creator, (the property of love and bestowal), can exist separately by themselves. But when they come in contact with each other, an explosion occurs without which it is not possible to recognize the evil of our nature and begin its correction.

It is in this explosive entry of the forces of good in the force of evil, that have within them so-called Reshimot, informational records by which gradually, with the help of the Upper Light, it is possible to place the ego in the lowest state and obligate it to serve the goodness of the characteristics of bestowal and love since it cannot do anything itself.

Therefore, from the point of view of the wisdom of Kabbalah, these are essential periods. They existed from the beginning within the plan of creation even before their realization in our world, beginning with the siege of the Temple in Jerusalem followed by its destruction.

We have already gone through all of this, and now if we behave correctly, we can expect only good times of correction and the correct realization of the Reshimotthat are found within our egoism.

For this we must attract the Upper Light to be able to distinguish with its help where there is a bad characteristic and where there is a good characteristic, how to separate between them, and how to correct one relative to the other. If we approach correction correctly, then no more evil will be revealed in the world because all of the negative characteristics of the creature will have already been revealed in the past.

The wisdom of Kabbalah makes it possible for us to begin with a fundamental cleansing and clarification of our characteristics, to evaluate the states we are going through clearly, to choose the positive side relative to the negative, and  to place them correctly one against the other.

Then from the connection between them, we can build a single field and a correct connection between us that will be called the “Third Temple,” the common desire that will reveal the upper force and a new level of existence to us.

I hope that these days will be used as a push to recognize what is happening and that people will begin with a correction to move properly and easily through the clarification of the evil in their nature.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 7/11/16

The Connection Between The Spiritual Way And the Corporeal Way

Question: What is the relationship between the corporeal way and the spiritual path?

Answer: I don’t know what the corporeal way and the spiritual way are. They should be unified by the goal I adhere to; I go by that.

The spiritual goal is the revelation of the one upper force that manages our reality, which you can call the Creator or God. It makes no difference. Best of all is to call itnature.

If a person chooses the upper force, then he dismisses all but what is actually necessary for his physical existence because, after all, he is still in a corporeal body.  It needs to exist under special conditions: a person needs food, a home, different services, medical care, etc. To have all that, a person must work.

It turns out that in addition to the work required to serve one’s mortal body, a person needs nothing but aspiration to reveal the upper force in order to serve his soul.

Thus, the thousands of unnecessary, empty actions, hobbies, and occupations disappear from a person’s life. I feel free! I have time for everything.

For example, I engage in preparing for the lesson, I read,  and I participate in different TV programs. In addition to the morning lessons, I also give lectures and write articles that are published in various newspapers. I have time for everything.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/10/16

Everyone Must Become Moses

Torah, Deuteronomy 5 : 26: Would that their hearts be like this, to fear Me and to keep all My commandments all the days, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Fear is the quality of awe before the fact that a person has an opportunity to correct himself, but he constantly misses this opportunity to merge with the upper force, to rise to its level, and to become likeMoses.

It says in the Torah that everyone must become Moses, that is, to completely correct himself.

Question: Moses often said, “I spoke to Him and convey to you what He told me.” What does it mean that he hears the Creator?

Answer: This means that he feels Him within himself. The sensation of the Creatorat the level of Bina is called hearing and at the level of Hochma it is vision.

Before people enter the land of Israel, Moses repeats the laws of the Torah to them.

The entire Torah speaks about one single principle, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” However, at each level, it carries an increasing capacity, deeper egoism, and according to it, the height of spiritual ascent.

Each level looks different. It’s just like with children: in principle, you tell them the same thing, but they understand it differently, and you treat them differently. Everything depends on the internal desire of a person, his requirements and his abilities to absorb your message within himself.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/30/16

“The Bluff Of Western ‘Well-Being’”

In the News (stoletie.ru): “The phrase ‘economic growth’ – one of the most commonly used in the lexicon of liberal economists. At the same time it is cleverly used by politicians and statesmen of the West to give out for the black white and vice versa. The term ‘economic growth,’ as well as the statistics used to measure it, have long been the means of manipulating public consciousness. And also the means of covering destructive and even suicidal policies of the “golden billion” in the economy. …

“Can you trust indicators of gross domestic product (GDP) and other similar indicators, measuring economic growth? – Definitely not. First, there is the widespread practice of statistical fiddling and fraud. Particularly successful in this statistical service is the USA. …Second, changing the methodology of the calculation of GDP, as a ‘product’ it includes all sorts of dubious ’services’. As a result, the structure of the US GDP, the real economy (industry, agriculture, construction) accounted for a little more than 1/5; the rest – services. Yes there is, of course, vital services, for example, transport and communications. But at least half of the total US GDP, according to our estimates, – ‘air’.

“By ‘air’ and all sorts of additions, the statistical services in the US and other countries of the ‘golden billion’ manages to ‘paint’, ‘positive dynamics’ of their economies. …

“Anyone, even a novice economist, knows that companies, corporations, other business entities have assets and liabilities. Assets – property and various requirements (e.g., requirements on loans, goods delivered, etc.). Liabilities – above all, the various obligations (for example, service obligations and repayment of loans, payment of the goods, etc.). Even people who are far from economics and accounting are well aware that if the commitments (in other words, the debts) begin to outweigh assets, then a company faces bankruptcy.

“Surprisingly, in relation to countries, such a simple and intuitive approach of the assessment of their economic situation is rarely used. Especially the so-called ‘economically developed’ countries. And they, in the meantime, either are already bankrupt or are on track to bankruptcy. But very few people notice it. The problem is very simple: increases in debt of the ‘economically developed’ countries have over the years exceeded their GDP growth. In other words, the increase in debt business in an entity called an ‘economically developed country’ far exceeds the growth of its assets. The phrase ‘economic growth’ in relation to these countries looks more than strange. This ‘economic growth’ is with a ‘minus’ sign.

“Now specific data. I borrow them from the famous Finnish economist, businessman and politician Hellevig Jon (Jon Hellevig). He is one of the few foreign economists, who exposes the falsification of Western economics and statistics and shows that the US, EU countries and other countries of the ‘golden billion’ – are complete bankrupt. The most generalized picture of the western economy through 2013. Hellevig gives in his work “Awara Group is Study on the Real Growth of GDP Net-of-Debt”. It contains calculations of real GDP, adjusted for changes in debt. ‘The adjustment is very simple: the official measure of annual real (i.e., inflation-adjusted price changes) GDP growth is subtracted the country’s debt growth for the same year. This will be ‘the most real’ GDP growth. However, soon it will be a ‘very real’, or the present decline in GDP. …

“In all Western countries, the annual increase in the national debt is several times higher than the annual growth rates of GDP. Hellevig gives the following figures for the period 2004-2013 gg. Increase in the US national debt for the decade was 9.8 trillion. USD, and GDP growth -.. about 2 trillion dollars thus exceeding the growth of debt on growth in US GDP was five times. …

“Judging by the figures, which are listed in Hellevig’s work, countries such as Denmark, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain and several other countries have long been actually bankrupt. And countries such as the USA, France and Italy are already close to it.

“Their bankruptcy and parasitic existence due to the ongoing alignment of the country’s debt pyramid ‘golden billion’ are fig leaves used to cover the official GDP statistics. …

“The illusion of ‘well-being’ and a ‘high level’ of economic development in the ‘golden billion’ countries, is supported not only by a sly statistics. The main means – is massive and constantly growing borrowing from the rest of world.

“To carry out such borrowing is due to the fact that the Western countries have the ‘printing press’, creating astronomical amounts of money. Converging with this, the ‘printing press’ money is used not only and not so much for the operation within the countries of the ‘golden billion’, but for the purchase of goods, services and assets all over the world.Ultimately, the money accumulated in the international reserves of the countries of the world capitalist periphery. The undated and almost non-interest bearing promissory notes of the West will not be paid. …

“In conclusion, we can cite some statistics, revealing the secrets of “economic prosperity” countries of the “golden billion”.

“The US Central Intelligence Agency to regularly keep records of the external debt of almost all countries in the world (about 200 countries is taken into account).

“According to the CIA’s latest data, in 2012 the world’s foreign debt was equal to $ 70.60 trillion. (Roughly comparable to the size of global GDP).

“That country in the first line of the table of the CIAis : US – US $ 18.85 trillion; the European Union – 17.95; Japan – 3.02; Switzerland – 1.54; Australia – 1.48; Canada – 1.33. The total external debt of these ‘golden billion’ countries was 44.17. That is 62.6% of the world debt. …

“One gets the following picture: the higher the country’s level of external debt, the less are its foreign exchange reserves. And vice versa: the more foreign exchange reserves, the lower the level of external debt. All this clearly reflects the parasitic nature of the countries that we used to refer to the category of ‘economically developed countries.’”

My Comment: Everything is depending upon a future world war that will “erase” everything or the recognition of the need for a true reconstruction of the individual and society, and not the economy. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah offers.
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Iraqis Are Selling Their Kidneys

Comment: Citizens of Iraq are selling their kidneys in return for thousands of dollars because they are so impoverished. The country is gradually becoming the biggest center in the Middle East for the illegal trafficking of organs. The world is losing its humanity.

Answer: Is the world able to maintain humanity in the face of developing egoism? The world is losing more and more of it to the same extent that egoism is growing in us.

Question: How is it possible to escape from this?

Answer: There is no way. On the contrary, you are sinking deeper and deeper within the ego, but since you don’t want to suffer, you try to pay less attention to what is happening. People will produce different pills, films, drugs, and will establish sports competitions, etc., just to relax and not feel the problems. It is a natural human form that runs in its natural nature called egoism.

Sooner or later man will come to the point when he will discover that it’s no longer possible to continue in this way since the next object that they can break into parts and sell will be himself and his family, although towards his family he would already be indifferent. We already see some distance that exists between parents and children, and about the distance between couples there is nothing new to say. Thus, all of this is natural, when the main thing is the worry for my beloved self. We are in a certain plan of nature, in a matrix, that works on us and consistently leads us to the need to recognize the evilness of our nature, which claims that the most important thing is myself and no one else, and wants to get rid of the others. .

When I feel that I am completely dependent on those surrounding me, then I will begin to erase the difference between us. If they begin to relate to me in a good way, then it will be good for me and for them, and if they relate to me badly, then I will feel badly.

Only through feeling badly will I reach that state and begin to think of how, in any case, to correct the world that I am dependent on each moment of my existence. In this way I reach the need to worry about others. Thus, the negative relations between people are unavoidable. Through them we will feel the need for mutual connection and then we will begin to correct the world according, if necessary, like after a war when people are all engaged in building something together that is shared and essential for existence.

When we recognize this out of necessity, we will gradually feel that in the connection between us there lies hidden a great state of unity that reveals a completely new world and new sensations to us.

This is the way to happiness, although it is a long way. By studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, you begin to understand that everything should be quick, nice, and good. There is no need to wait for terrible crashes and ugly situations. We need to be do this now and start to implement it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 4/21/16

New Life #734 – Why Do We Bless

New Life #734 – Why Do We Bless?
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Summary

The reality that we feel is not the actual reality we live in. This is the reason scientists have been trying for quite a while now to break through this world and discover the forces that manage it.

Nature operates according to laws. And so the question is: What is the general force, the general formula that manages nature? The first man to discover it lived 5,776 years ago. He discovered the Creator, the general force.

When a person changes himself and his attributes, his perception of the world changes. If he nullifies himself, as if resets himself, he perceives the true reality.

The upper reality helps us get to know it better, and we can do so either willingly or as a result of pressure. The upper force is good and benevolent, and there is none else besides it.

I have to tune myself to the upper force in every situation in my life. Thus I gradually annul the partitions between me and the upper force, and this is from where the custom of blessing stems. The goal of everything that comes from the upper force is for our own good. It leads us to the revelation of the upper force.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #734 – Why Do We Bless,” 6/21/16

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“The European Union At A Crossroads”

Opinion (vestifinance.ru): “Europe is at a crossroads, European leaders must radically change the political and economic landscape of the region or the continuing instability will provoke a ‘domino effect’ in which the number of countries who decide to leave the EU will increase substantially, according to a regular bank HSBC report.

“In the quarterly Bank report state of the European economy, prepared by analysts of HSBC Karen Ward and Fabio Balboni, it is noted that for the leaders of the European Union there are only two ways. They can continue to get out of the current economic situation, which gives a steady, but a slight increase and, will be perhaps fueled by the destabilization of the political sphere. Orthey may revise the current direction and consider changing and radically change the direction of life on the continent. …

“In fact, currently the economic approach that encourages unconventional stimulus measures in Europe, particularly in regard to quantitative easing conducted by the ECB dominates, which means that governments will ensure growth, but not enough to reassure the population that is not seeing direct benefits from this growth. …

“‘In fact, we expect that the EU will continue to try to get out of the current situation by extending QE and growing deficits. However, this process can not be sustained. We hope that instead Brexit will be a catalyst for positive change. The EU can use this for their own good. Trying to fight this decision will mean only one thing: after Britain other countries will follow.’”

My Comment: I want to believe that the departure of Britain will obligate the members of the European Union to study and weigh the matter. And the possibility even exists that they will also hear our voice, that of the Kabbalists….
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Me And My Seven Billion Internal Desires

Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 5:25 – 5:28: And the Lord heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me, and the Lord said to me, “I have heard the sound of the words of this people that they have spoken to you; they have done well in all that they have spoken. Would that their hearts be like this, to fear Me and to keep all My commandments all the days, that it might be well with them and with their children forever! Go say to them, ‘Return to your tents.’ But as for you, stand here with Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which you will teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.”

Moses starts to line people up dividing them into tens, hundreds, thousands, etc. This is a proper distribution of the desires to their levels and their gradual correction in accordance with the depth of their egoism.

Desires in a person mean people and their individual personalities. This is what a person sees outside of him.

All those seven billion I see around me are my internal desires that I perceive as existing outside of me. Had I not seen them outside of myself, I wouldn’t feel them the way I do now. And when they seem to me to be living in this world, I immediately begin to feel that I confront them.

And then who am I? I am an uncorrected point in the heart. Therefore, I feel myself in a confrontation with them. I have to reach love toward each one of them despite the egoism dividing us.

In other words, my egoistic heart is in front of me in the form of external objects. Only when I’m ready to contain the entire outside world, can I say that I am corrected.

But we don’t need to correct ourselves. We don’t have any forces and predispositions for it. We must give it all to the care of the Upper Light and allow Him to do it! Therefore, the Kabbalistic method is intended for placing ourselves under the influence of the Upper Light.

And when a person begins to realize this, his life becomes easy. Therefore it is said, “To those who fear me, tremble before me, the Torah seems very simple.”
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/30/16

Why Do We Suffer? Part 4

The real goal is to find out the source of sufferings, their function, and to learn to use them correctly for our benefit.

The source of sufferings is the basis of the entire creation. Sufferings are created by the Light of the upper force that wants to fill the creature, and therefore leads and develops it. We can develop only through suffering that eventually leads us to the question about themeaning of life.

A person must rise above material pleasures, such as food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge and understand that there is an absolute and eternal fulfillment. The same Light that created sufferings will now fill them.

It doesn’t matter what we are suffering from, any suffering is a lack of fulfillment. This is why drugs are used so widely today. There are so many desires, a person wants this and that, and something else. And if he takes a drug he wants nothing and he can soothe the pain.

However drugs soothe the suffering through disconnection of the mind, specific receptors in the brain. And the Upper Light, while filling a desire, increases it and makes me want more and more in order to reach absolute and eternal fulfillment.

I don’t cancel suffering, suffering and the Light work together. It is called fulfillment in the middle line when I make sure that the suffering remains. I don’t try just to fulfill and extinguish it in order to lose all desires.

I appreciate my suffering that gives me an opportunity to constantly fill it and enjoy, moving from suffering to fulfillment, as if satisfying my hunger like in the way we try to increase our appetite before a meal, we go for a walk, eat something spicy, or talk about food. After all, the correct use of suffering brings pleasure.

People are ready to pay a lot of money to restore their appetite for food and sex; they pay psychologists to support their desire for family and avoid divorce. All desires are for our benefit and we shouldn’t suppress them. Even pain is good, because it indicates disease and compels us to go to the doctor and start treatment.

Suffering performs a very important function, therefore we shouldn’t just remove it, but we need to use it correctly. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah does.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 6/23/16

A Paradox Of Spiritual Attainment

Question: If a person doesn’t feel the Creator and explores a world where there are no images, is it possible to say that by reading a book he can simply program himself and then begin to feel what is written in it?

Answer: We need to assemble and make a sensing and thinking organ for ourselves that will understand the new relationships that appear in us, and between us and can manage and change them. In a sense we do program ourselves.

Otherwise, what could be a reasonable approach for study?

Certainly I transform myself into some kind of system, but it is a system that I can manage! And so the infinite Light in which I am found and begin to perceive is upgraded within me and I can come in contact with it. Even though it is a wave, it becomes a quantum within me because it is upgraded even though it is infinite. This paradox happens here!
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/28/16

The Most Important Intention

Question: Is “there is none else besides Him” the most important intention in everything that we do?

Answer: You should also add that the Creator does everything and therefore everything is correct and for a person’s good. And you see it incorrectly to the extent of your incompatibility with the Creator’s attributes.

Question: Should I think about why I do everything I do during the day if I want to reveal the Creator? What should the answer to this question be?

Answer: First we should always ask, “What should I do and for what?” Then I should decide whether to perform that action or not and implement my decision.
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The Wisdom Of Kabbalah And Religion

Question: Are you moving away from traditional Judaism?

Answer: Without a doubt. The reason for this is that we must reveal the knowledge about the world we are living in to people. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah reveals. It teaches a person how to discover the world that is hidden from him, more precisely, to discover the Creator, because nothing except this “field of life” exists.

Religion teaches a person mechanical actions that he must carry out in order to mechanically, but unconsciously, conform to this field. It aspires to hold a person only at the level of implementing instructions. This form is convenient for religious domination and also subordinates a person because everything is clear: carry this out and you will receive a reward!

Kabbalah explains that through this acceptable mechanical implementation, a person’s state is called “exile” from spirituality, meaning exile from feeling the Creator.

This period of performing mechanical actions ended in the time of the Ari in the 16^th century. The Baal Shem Tov, the great follower of the way of the Ari, began to introduce the wisdom of Kabbalah to the masses in a practical form. Opponents rose up against him and a war began between the supporters of the revelation of the Kabbalah to the people and those who opposed this movement.

Currently, the religious part of society carries out the Mitzvot (commandments) mechanically, and a large part of society is moving further and further away from any tradition. I believe that it is specifically for the part that is “moving away” that it is necessary to reveal Kabbalah, the heart of Judaism, the true Torah, the ability to discover the Creator. When people don’t find answers to the meaning of things, they move completely away from the Jewish people. The example for this is American Jewry.

Studying the wisdom of Kabbalah reveals the possibility and opportunity to discover the Creator.

Our Bnei Baruch organization invites anyone interested in entering spiritual life and the feeling of eternity, because it is said that “they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them” (Jeremiah 31:33), “and all nations shall flow unto it” (Isaiah 2:2). Any resistance to us will disappear in the future, both by our opponents and by that part of society that still doesn’t perceive that the wisdom of Kabbalah brings freedom from all troubles and an ascent to the sensation of wholeness. This is because human egoism is growing constantly and pushes a person toward discovery of the Creator as “help made against him.”
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Why Do We Suffer? Part 3

Question: It is hard for a person to overcome suffering: the loss of loved ones, illnesses. What is the essence of overcoming?

Answer: Suffering has a special role in our lives; it develops us. During its history humanity went through many phases of evolution developing societies and families, and all this was due to suffering.

This follows from the fact that we emerged from the shattering, from the one shattered soul called Adam HaRishon. Therefore we find ourselves more and more shattered in order to be able to correct ourselves more and more.

This is why from generation to generation, even from year to year, and in our time already from day to day, new phenomena, deficiencies, personal and general problems, and a crisis of humanity and society are revealed in the world. Previously these problems didn’t exist and suddenly they have arisen seemingly from beneath the earth, but this is exactly what moves us forward.

Suffering develops us, but to what extent?

The correct response to suffering, first of all, is to understand its purpose. Otherwise, we are like animals in a field running away from blows but suffering reaches them again. People rush through life until they die without reaching anything good.

And what is really the purpose of life? Is it just to escape from suffering the way we do? What is its meaning?

We rejoice giving birth to children, but they grow up and leave home. We study so much in order to get a profession, and then work all our lives and are left with nothing, because everything ends with death.

A person looks for some compensation for his continuous suffering. Even our pleasures are a way to escape from suffering. Obviously this is not the purpose of life. Actually the greatest suffering eventually revealed to the person in the modern world is the realization that with all our intellect, high level of development, strength, and technical capabilities, we don’t understand anything about life.

Why do we live, for what purpose? This is completely unclear. Suffering keeps us alive because we are afraid of death and we invest a lot of efforts in order to somehow distance ourselves from this moment. Although eventually we agree with the inevitable and humbly surrender to the current until we die.

It means that the greatest suffering is that a person doesn’t feel that he is the master of his life. He doesn’t know what he is living for and what the benefit of it is. Therefore young people don’t want to get married, have children, and get a profession, but are attracted to drugs, trying somehow to fulfill themselves.

Now, we do a thorough audit of our lives, and against the background of the unfolding crisis we still want to understand the meaning of life and its essence. The suffering from the meaninglessness of life becomes overwhelming, and this is the result of our high level of development. Previously people didn’t even think about this.

A hundred years ago there wasn’t less suffering, but the question about the meaning of life never arose. And today this question even torments children who don’t understand why to study and obtain a profession. The spiritual development has reached such a level that a person must know whether he should live and why. Therefore, antidepressant and drug use are so prevalent.

We need to make a big effort to uncover the source of the common suffering of man, i.e. teach them how to fulfill this common empty desire. Above the usual desires for food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge, an additional question arises, what do I need all this for? Why do I need food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge?

All these fulfillments are a kind of a drug with which I fill and soothe my desire to enjoy. So why chase fulfillment, isn’t it easier to just take a pill? This approach kills a person.

Shopping centers are crammed with a variety of products and all kinds of clothes. People go somewhere, fly, travel; they just don’t know how else to fill themselves, what other “drugs” to take in order not to feel suffering. But suffering still comes.

Therefore in our time the wisdom of Kabbalah is revealed, and I hope very much that it will help humanity to understand that it is not enough to soothe ourselves with all kinds of “drugs” in the form of food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge. It’s time to reveal the true, original source of suffering and begin to fill it with real fulfillment.

The real fulfillment doesn’t lull us to finish the material animalistic death. This suffering raises us upward and instead of the earthly death, we find an eternal life. Let’s hope that humanity will understand what opportunities are opening for it.

But all this is due to suffering, therefore we must not soothe it, but appreciate it. After all, in it is the foundation of life. The correct management of suffering and its fulfillment in every moment is an engine for the correct development that leads to the eternal life.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 6/23/16

New Life #525 – Understanding The Law Of Life

New Life #525 – Understanding The Law Of Life
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Summary

Suppose we arrive in a strange country and without knowing the laws there, we encounter many problems. So are we really in a network that runs the legality of world forces. We don’t know it, and thus we suffer.

The Book of Zohar tells about this law and enables us to enjoy life in our world. We suddenly begin to understand that life is going to be increasingly more difficult because we don’t know this law.

Then we will begin to adapt ourselves to the world and the world seems to become adapted to us in return. The moment we improve our egoistic qualities, the world will seem like a different world, a corrected world.

When we change our approach from receiving to giving, to uniting, to bestowal, and even to love, it opens up the world for us. The sages who discovered this a long time ago couldn’t tell us about it until today because we weren’t ready to digest it. We depict the reality that we experience.

We will not be able to change our life for the better if we continue to operate from within our egoism. Therefore we only destroy the world more and more from one year to the next. We need to change our approach, and in order to bring about a positive change, we first have to learn the law according to which the world is managed.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #525 – Understanding The Law Of Life,” 2/22/15

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Sorting Life’s Values

Question: If everything that we get from the Creator is designed for our good and for correction, and everything negative is a change in the form of our desires, what must be “cleansed” from our lives?

Answer: The Creator throws an immense amount of “garbage” into our lives and we need to select the necessities from it and discard the rest. We must sort out what is good and what is bad, what is imperative and what is not imperative. This sorting makes us into a correct creature. Based on it, we understand how the Creator operates.

Before us is a pile of garbage in the form of so-called values: sports, movies, travel, power, wealth, etc. All these lure us so that we cannot differentiate good from bad,light from darkness, the logical from the illogical, and the purposeful from the empty.

If we sort everything correctly, we see that there is almost nothing left to choose from except our inner thoughts and feelings. All the external influences that we get, say through the television or computer screen, are essentially empty.

By separating the necessary from the unnecessary, we constantly choose so that these clarifications will ultimately reveal before us an immense mechanism, the immense system called the Creator.

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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/10/16