Saturday, March 24, 2018

New Life #956 – The Fear Of Missing Out

New Life #956 – The Fear Of Missing Out
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel
Summary
These days we cling to our phones for reassurance because without them, we feel no existence, no oxygen, and detached from what’s going on in society. The mediaand other interested parties confuse us with sales campaigns, making us feel shame that we are missing out on something important. The fear of missing out, however, is meant to bring us to the ultimate fulfillment of understanding and achieving the essence of life. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to connect to an internal, spiritual network, a connection between our hearts and minds.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #956 – The Fear Of Missing Out” 1/30/18
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Thursday, March 22, 2018

The World Kabbalah Convention—Newark, New Jersey May 2018

laitman_929Question: What is the main reason a person should attend a Kabbalah convention?
Answer: We are in a state where the wisdom of Kabbalah is becoming more and more widely recognized, not as it has been popularly misconceived throughout history, as religion, mysticism, magic or philosophy, to name a few, but as a substantive method through which we need to upgrade ourselves and the world in all of its fields.
The wisdom of Kabbalah explains the structure of human relations on personal, domestic, social, national and global scales. It addresses the education of both adults and youth according to what is most important in life, how to prioritize human values and engagements, and how to plan personal, domestic and national life in order to bring about a harmonious future generation.
In other words, the wisdom of Kabbalah opens up a new and improved map of the world, showing where the world is headed, and explaining the laws of nature: why and how they work on us. It doesn’t ask anyone whether or not they want to know about the wisdom and awareness it brings. However, if it is important for us to find our optimal place in the world, and to have happier and easier lives, then it is important for us to at least learn and experience a little of what Kabbalah has to offer.
Therefore, I invite everyone to the World Kabbalah Convention. I am sure that everyone will head home with a healthy, rational and practical approach to life, both in relation to everyone’s personal lives, as well as to the world in general. In modern life, which is globally interdependent, such an approach is very much needed.
Question: What feelings can a person expect to experience at a Kabbalah convention?
Answer: We are expecting to make this Kabbalah convention practical, that it will give its participants an ability to feel the forces of nature acting on us, as well as the learning of how to act with and even manage them. By doing so, we will be able to manage our lives, on individual, social, national and even global scales. Through that, we will know what to expect in the near future, as well as in the future generations. It will help us with our own education, with children’s education, with everything, that is, I’ll know how to get along with everyone and everything.
Therefore, physical participation in the convention is very important, because we cannot grasp these things from long distance, over the Internet.
In addition, people will have the ability to ask questions and get answers, and there will be many people helping everyone scrutinize and clarify everything we learn and experience. We will be very happy to see participants from all ages and backgrounds, without limitations, because the wisdom of Kabbalah belongs to the whole of humanity, everyone included, and everyone is equal in relation to the wisdom of Kabbalah. It comes to us from Adam HaRishon (“the First Man”), therefore it is equal for everyone.

Absolute Happiness

laitman_572.02Question: What is the highest state in Kabbalah, described as a state of complete and absolute happiness?
Answer: Absolute happiness is created through the full integration between the right and left lines into the middle line, when the egoistic system (Klipa – shell, Tuma’a – impurity, Gasut – vulgarity) is completed and filled through the right line, the characteristic of bestowallove, and care.
If the two systems exist simultaneously in the middle line between them, with complete acceptance of each other, then this state is called absolute happiness.
But this state will not remain permanently because distortions, breakdowns, and decay are constantly revealed within it. In other words, any spiritual state, including a state of happiness, is dynamic.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/17/17

New Life #955 – The Spiritual Person

New Life #955 – The Spiritual Person
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe
Summary
According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, spiritual development occurs when men and women overcome their own egos and focus instead on understanding and fulfilling the others’ desires. They will complement one another and concede to one another, thereby becoming a united, integrated, complete, and whole human being. Only through this soul connection will they discover the power of the Creator between them.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #955 – The Spiritual Person,” 1/28/18
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

New Life #954 – The New Man

New Life #954 – The New Man
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe
Summary
Technological advancement will ultimately free people from the labor market. As a result, men and women will have to redefine their roles both in the home and within society at large. The new man will be more open, able to express himself and willing to concede. His identity will shift from having a macho image to spiritually advancing his family and the whole world. Women will also no longer be attracted to macho men but will appreciate a man’s emotional capacity for warmth, understanding, and softness.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #954 – The New Man,” 1/28/18
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Disagreement With The Opinion Of The Circle

laitman_571.08Question: Is it possible to express your disagreement with the opinion of the circle or should you only say something that does not go against it?
Answer: It depends on how you imagine your connection. It is possible that you could awaken some disagreement and then an interesting polemic and clarification would flare up. The main thing is that what you are doing should serve the purpose of rapprochement.
This can happen in very serious, hard, mutual clarifications. But if in the end we come to a greater rapprochement than at the beginning of the workshop, then this is already useful.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian 10/22/17

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

What Does The Creator Conceal From Us?

laitman_571.08Question: What exactly does the Creator conceal from us? What is the central point of the concealment?
Answer: “There is none else beside Him” is the central point. There is nothing else to hide from us.
Question: Is egoism also concealed from a person?
Answer: No. When you start working on the revelation of the Creator, you see how much your egoism constantly distracts you. Ordinary people do not believe that they are egoists because they do not yearn to reveal the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian 11/12/18

New Life #953 – Bringing Children Into The World

New Life #953 – Bringing Children Into The World
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel
Summary
New life comes from the power of desire. Each child brings forth a unique spiritual component and alters the destiny of the family. The connection between the feminine and masculine forces as well as the higher power grows every day during pregnancy. The feminine force must be ready to accept the masculine force and the masculine force must have the right influence on the feminine force in order to for conception and pregnancy to succeed. The wisdom of Kabbalah advises that partners who want to have children commit to a process of mutual spiritual development.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #953 – Bringing Children Into The World,” 1/23/18
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Monday, March 19, 2018

Light Of Life

laitman_212Question: Can the work on translating a text or other dissemination work help me go through spiritual descents?
Answer: Working with texts is the basis of our activities. The book does not go anywhere. It has an upper spiritual root. Even if it is on a computer, it is still a book, a text. Twenty-two Hebrew letters form a spiritual Kli (vessel).
By reading and simultaneously preparing the text for others, you become a channel of communication between the Creator and them. Then the upper Light passes through you. Otherwise, you block yourself and do not get anything from above.
Everything is arranged so that there is the upper one (the Creator), you, and a third person. You must conduct the Light from the Creator through yourself to the lower one.

Baal HaSulam writes in the “Foreword to the Book The Tree of Life”: Each of us is connected with the entire chain of souls and generations. From this we see that in fact the person lives for the sake of satisfying the needs of all the souls, when each of the links conducts the light to the entire chain.”
When a person conducts the Light through himself to the others, he is not restricted by anything. This is a wondrous feature because then he becomes the receptacle for all the infinite Light. He does not stop it, but conducts it through himself and therefore all the Light becomes his.
At the same time, he enjoys the fact that he adheres to the Creator, connects Him with all the others, and fills others with the equivalence with the Creator. What can be more powerful than this state? Nothing.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/29/17

New Life #952 – The Creation Of Life

New Life #952 – The Creation Of Life
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel
Summary
The creation of life requires a father who represents the desire to give, a mother who represents the desire to receive, and a spiritual component otherwise known as a soul. All forms of life including stones, plants, cats, and human beings incorporate these three factors. The spiritual component is the power that causes the reproduction of life until it achieves its purpose, which is the discovery of the higher force by human beings. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to discover this higher force, which is the general power of love and giving.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #952 – The Creation Of Life,” 1/23/18
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Sunday, March 18, 2018

Why Should You Come To A Kabbalah Convention Invitation?


From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 3/13/18
I was asked to give my input as part of a campaign we’re running before the next big event, to answer the question: “What is the main reason why a person should attend a Kabbalah convention?”
The following is my answer…
Since we’re in a state where the wisdom of Kabbalah is becoming more and more widely recognized, not as it has been popularly misconceived throughout history, as religion, mysticism, magic or philosophy, to name a few, but as a substantive method through which we can upgrade ourselves and the entire world.
The wisdom of Kabbalah explains the structure of human relations on personal, domestic, social, national and global scales. It addresses the education of both adults and youth according to what is most important in life, how to prioritize human values and engagements, and how to plan personal, domestic and national life in order to bring about a harmonious future generation.
In other words, the wisdom of Kabbalah opens up a new and improved map of the world, showing where the world is headed, and explaining the laws of nature: why and how they work on us. It doesn’t ask anyone whether or not they want to know about the wisdom and awareness it brings. However, if it is important for us to find our optimal place in the world, and to have happier and easier lives, then it is important for us to at least learn and experience a little of what Kabbalah has to offer.
Therefore, I invite everyone to the World Kabbalah Convention. I am sure that everyone will head home with a healthy, rational and practical approach to life, both in relation to everyone’s personal lives, as well as to the world in general. In modern life, which is globally interdependent, such an approach is very much needed.

The Group As A Mini-Model Of Humanity

935Kabbalists advise us to unite in groups that will become a model of mini-humanity, mini-Adam, because then the laws of communication will work between people like it used to be before Adam HaRishon’s sin. And in this way, we will attract the upper Light, which will influence us even more and unite us.
We seem to want to leap forward in time. By the natural course of evolution, the upper Light will pressure us and unite us together in only a few hundred years from now. And we want it to happen right now!
That is why we perform all the actions that are required of us, like little children who play and develop by playing the game. And in a similar way, we want to build a group in which the laws of the end of correction are realized.
The Light influences the group in response to our efforts, we compel it. According to the laws of nature, we awaken the upper Light to influence us more and move forward to the extent of our efforts and the strength of our desire. So, we speed up the time of our development. This is the essence of the method of Kabbalah.
The desire to love your neighbor as yourself, which is the law of the end of correction, becomes our daily goal.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/6/18, Lesson on the Topic: “Preparation for the Pesach,” Part 2

10 Grams Of Unlimited Fulfillment

laitman_243.05It is difficult for us to imagine what the world of Infinity is because we look from the side of the vessel and perceive infinity as an infinite desire.
But in spirituality, in contrast to corporeality, infinity is considered a filling not restricted in any way. If the glass is filled to the brim, it means that there is infinity inside it, even if it is only 200 grams in size.
The vessel does not limit its reception of the Light; that is, it does not indicate to what extent it agrees to receive, and not more beyond that. Therefore, both small and large vessels can contain infinite filling if they do not limit the Light, but receive everything they can fit into them.
There may be a small vessel in a state of infinity, and another, more than a million times bigger, will be limited. After all, everything is evaluated relative to the vessel; if it does not place a limit on the reception of the Light, then it is limitless.
There may be only ten grams of desire in you, but you do not limit the filling. Hence, you are in Infinity and your feelings are unlimited. Or perhaps, instead of ten grams your desire has grown to ten tons, but you cannot receive more than half of it. It turns out that the ten grams is the infinite filling, and the five tons is a limited one. Everything is evaluated with respect to the person who attains.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/4/18Talmud Eser Sefirot

In The Circuit Of Souls

laitman_214In the “Introduction to the Book From the Mouth of a Sage,” Baal HaSulam writes: “It is known from books and from authors that the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah is an absolute must for any person from Israel. … if one studies … but has not learned the wisdom of Kabbalah, he must reincarnate into this world to study the secrets of Torah and wisdom of truth. ..
“You can therefore see the utter necessity for anyone from Israel, whoever he may be, to engage in the internality of the Torah and in its secrets. Without it, the intention of Creation will not be completed in him.
“This is the reason why we reincarnate, generation-by-generation through our current generation, which is the residue of the souls upon which the intention of Creation has not been completed, as they did not attain the secrets of the Torah in the past generations.”
It is our duty to make this last effort and spread the wisdom of Kabbalah, the method of correction of the souls that descend into our world at this time. These are the smallest, lowest, and most insignificant souls. But because of their insignificance, they will give out the greatest Light after correction.
Here, the law of inverse relation of desire and Light operates. That is why it is the lowest desires that exist in our world that should give out the greatest Light, which will correct all souls, connect them, and give them one common Light impulse from which they will all unite.
Question: Are the souls that recirculate in our world all the time the same souls?
Answer: No. Sometimes there are also renewals and conjugations of souls, their mutual merging and division. It is very complicated. Just as in a living organism: cells, liquids, and systems are constantly mutually replaced and transformed.
This can only be grasped in feelings. When one reveals the whole system, he begins to see what happens in it. And it can be revealed only if a person constantly tries to imagine that everything that happens in it comes from the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/29/17

New Life #951 – Celebrities And Future Leadership

New Life #951 – Celebrities And Future Leadership
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe
Summary
As of today, it is fashionable for celebrities to lead the nation because the entire public is frivolous. People grow up on the Internet and are followed by a supportive public, but what does this really mean when the Internet is full of inferior content? It would be more useful for business people to manage a nation like a business with educators by their sides who would bring the society forward. A true leader is built on a good story that he believes in so that he is able to convince others that what he is talking about is possible and useful.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #951 – Celebrities And Future Leadership,” 1/21/18
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Newsmax: “Hawking Was All About Benevolent, Honest Science”

The largest portal Newsmax published my new article “Hawking Was All About Benevolent, Honest Science

The death of world renowned astrophysicist, Stephen Hawking, can be seen as another nail in the coffin of genuine science. Hawking’s honest approach to science was exemplified by his readiness to admit his mistakes. In his 70s, he admitted that a belief he formulated early in his scientific career was incorrect. This form of scientific inquiry, however, has become a rarity in today’s scientific world.
Since around the 1960s, we have witnessed the gradual corruption and downfall of science.
The widespread acclaim for science deteriorated, and became replaced with business, Hollywood, and sports. More significantly, science itself became infused with goals other than understanding the nature of reality. It became increasingly exploited as a means to inflate people’s wealth, power, and respect.
Together with the decline in the appreciation of genuine science came scientists’ needs to serve their funders’ interests. It is now commonplace for governments to use scientists for advancing their political agendas, and for corporations to use scientists for increasing their profits.
One of the obvious results is that “scientific progress” and “technological progress” became confused as being one and the same, since scientific research and development is so prominently put to use in developing today’s technologies.
Profit-Driven Initiatives Do Not Benefit Humanity
It has thus become difficult to be a genuine scientist, one who aims to discover the underlying order of nature, and much easier to be a scientist who contributes to profitable high-tech ventures. The overshadowing of truth-seeking science with technology-developing science gained public support as it became a commonly-held belief that new technologies emerge to benefit humanity.
Statements such as “renewable energy is better for the environment” and “social media connects people” have become modern-day axioms in public discourse, creating a perception where each new gadget comes to solve people’s problems and make the world a better place.
However, a deeper look into this phenomenon shows the contrary. For example, electric cars like the Tesla, popularly branded as “good for the environment,” have been found to cause more pollution than 8-year old carbon-emitting cars; and social media, despite connecting people technologically, has been found to have dangerous sociological and negative psychological effects.
Therefore, lurking beneath the façade that technology will eventually solve most of our problems and make our lives better, are discoveries showing how these new “solutions” are actually detrimental to our well-being, because they fail to fix our problems at their source.
The reason for this is simple: we cannot expect real, long-lasting solutions to our problems if the solutions offered emerge from self-centered profit motives. In other words, everything we create comes from a destructive calculation, because our self-interests are more important to us than the benefit of all people. Stephen Hawking himself once gave the example of how computer viruses reflect the destructive quality of human nature, stating that “the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive.”
The Knowledge Science Still Needs to Extract From Nature
With science and technology resulting from our self-centered perception of reality, their capacity to do good to humanity is bound to reach a dead end. However, if we change our perception of reality to one where we wish for the benefit of all over selfish interests, then we will see phenomenal breakthroughs in science and technology: They will function to genuinely solve our problems, and will indeed make the world a better place, since the perception guiding them will become free from exploitative, manipulative and profiteering motives.
Interestingly, over the course of the 20th century alone, science itself did a 180 degree flip on the point that science itself is a result of human perception. It started with the Newtonian view that reality exists regardless of our perception, took a leap through Einstein proving that reality is relative to our perception, and ended with quantum mechanics stating that reality can be created by our perception.
Therefore, science itself has culminated to a pivotal moment in human understanding: If we want to make further progress toward discovering the laws of nature, and use them to everyone’s benefit, we need to change the way we perceive and relate to reality. The underlying motives of egoistic profit and power in this sector need to shift to altruistic motives that genuinely seek society’s benefit.
Hitting Restart on Humanity
To undergo such a fundamental change of human perception, we have to put ourselves into the laboratory as the object of research. That is, we have to actively experiment and find how to upgrade our relations to each other, through educational and social activities in groups. The aim of such social activities and experiments would be to develop an altruistic lens through which we can look at the whole picture of reality.
In my view of the future, researching the structure and behavior of the world through enhanced human connection will provide the major shift that our science needs in order to become truly beneficial for humanity. Ultimately, it would open our eyes to a whole new kind of science, one closer to the inherent balance and harmony that exist in nature.

What Makes People Fear Kabbalah?

Laitman_198Question: What makes people fear and hate Kabbalah even though they know very little about it?
Answer: First, the feelings of fear and hatred are inherent in people because propaganda against Kabbalah has been around for at least 3,000 years.
Second, it is contrary to human nature. Kabbalah speaks about something hidden; therefore people relate to Kabbalists as a “secret society” whose members are involved in secret management. After all, a person rises to the level of governing the world. Different labels are stuck on Kabbalists: cult, Masonry, Jewish Masonry, ancient esotericism, etc.
Question: If people who are interested in Kabbalah read this, they might think, “Why should we be involved with this?”
Answer: What is it for? It is the soul that asks this question. A person cannot suppress this desire. If he has the possibility of discovering the meaning of life, attaining the upper world, he will not be able to limit or calm down this desire. Life becomes insipid without this goal. What kind of a taste does it have ? One just sinks into a coma.
Question: If the Creator wants to bring His creation to resemble Him and to give it pleasure, why is it necessary to take such a long route? He gives a method, then conceals it, and everyone hates it. Why?
Answer: The reason is in freewill. We don’t understand how it is realized, but it must be. It is impossible to achieve revelation of the Creator against your will. You can be pushed but simultaneously stopped, leaving you hanging, like on a swing. By constantly attracting and repelling, you are given a chance to solve the question about the meaning of life on your own.
Question: Who does this?
Answer: The upper management, called “the middle line.” There is no getting around it: that is how it is arranged.
However, in general, this is very difficult for beginners to understand, so they constantly complain. In any case, many come and leave, first cheering and later cursing. That is how humanity searches for the meaning of life. And this meaning is above our egoistic understanding of the world, in bestowal, in love, in exiting yourself. Therefore, everything is complicated and daunting.
Question: So you justify this attitude from the Creator?
Answer: This is the system we exist in, the matrix we live in. It is called nature. Therefore, it is impossible to talk about whether it is good or bad.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/10/17

The Group In Egypt

laitman_275Only the “sons of Jacob” enter Egypt, in other words, the qualities that are already in some form of contact with the Creator. But with respect to the general process of correction, it is practically nothing—only the acknowledgement of evil.
They are not yet ready to receive the Torah for the correction of their own evil inclination, since they have not yet escaped Pharaoh. But they are in need of the Light that reforms in order to reveal that they are slaves to Pharaoh.
Egypt is the discovery of the original desire to receive pleasure, which until this point did not manifest in the sons of Israel. That’s why the forefather Abraham asked the Creator: “How will I know that my descendants will inherit this land?” And the Creator reassured him that they would reveal a great desire for pleasure, which is called “help made against him,” in their effort to achieve the goal of creation.
An individual cannot work without fulfillment. Our material, the desire to receive pleasure, does not disappear and does not become extinguished; we only change the content of desire. We need to work on acquiring a desire that will correspond exactly to what the Creator wants to give. This type of desire does not appear on its own by natural means.
In other words, it is necessary to connect to the Giver and feel how He is fulfilled by His act of giving to me. And then I feel and understand all the ways He relates to me; His pleasure is in my receiving and feeling the pleasure of Him giving.
The Creator receives pleasure from my comprehension of His intention toward me and my experience of pleasure from the knowledge that it pleases Him to give to me, and that I am prepared to respond to Him with the same attitude. You need to go through many stages of attainment of the Creator in order to begin to actually give Him fulfillment.
“The Sons of Israel in Egypt” means the Kabbalistic group. It is impossible to ask for oneself— only for the group since in it we actualize the correction of the desire in order to bestow to the Creator. As it is written: “From the love of friends, to the love of the Creator.”
I ask for the others, for the group, for unity, and not for myself. It turns out that the correct, true prayer is a prayer for the Creator, since we are doing all this only in order to bring Him pleasure.
The blows that bring us out of Egypt—these are just what separates us from the group, from the ten. Other problems are not blows, they are merely passing inconveniences. When an individual is not working in a group for unity and correction, he receives other problems.
If you don’t want to join the group, then you will be pushed to it indirectly: problems at work, at home, with the police, so that you will gradually come to correction within the group through all these indirect ways. But such work takes a long time and has very low efficiency.
If, however, from the very beginning we think only of how to strengthen the ten and build in it a unified and strong framework of connection between us, then we begin to discover the plagues of Egypt and quickly exit Egypt, significantly accelerating time.
The main thing to understand is that all of Egypt, and in general the entire work, is only in the group. Everything is revealed only within it, outside of it nothing exists.
Within the ten, we have only one goal, one direction above the egoistic nature and intentions of each. In the center of the ten, in the center of our unity, we want to reveal the Creator according to equivalence of form.
As soon as we are able to unite with the intention to reveal the Creator, He is immediately revealed because we enter the same range of frequency, the same quality as Him. This is called the spiritual embryo.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/9/18Writings of Rabash

Why Do We Like Movies?

laitman_922Question: Why do people love to watch movies and TV shows and to get caught up in the feelings of complete strangers? Is it because of a lack of feelings and experiences of their own?
Answer: No. These are not someone else’s feelings. I feel the same emotions myself, and then identify with the heroes of the movie. People pay a lot of money to experience feelings that make them cry. For example, people fly to Germany to see an opera, etc. There is a Rabash article where he wrote that feelings a person isn’t currently experiencing, but has either experienced in the past, or they come to him in a state called “empathy” from the compassion that he feels for others, and although bitter feelings may be aroused in you, it is a pleasant bitterness that only enhances the sweetness. That is why we like to cry a little and dwell in sorrow a little because this further emphasizes the possibility of enjoyment and happiness.
Question: In the past, you said that movies were invented as an art of empathy. What about horror movies? Why should a person watch them?
Answer: These films nevertheless expand the limits of a person’s imagination and shake him a little. We have very few emotions in life. In our daily lives we are “frozen.”
Remark: There is a theory that if a little child watches action and horror movies, these experiences and impressions will be enough for him and he will not actualize them in life. There is another opinion that claims that this will influence children negatively and they will become violent.
My Comment: Certainly, they will get used to cruelty. Likewise, a bad example is contagious. I believe that this should not be allowed at all.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/13/17

To Rise Above The Ego

Laitman_165Question: What does it mean to rise above egoism in my answers during workshops? To play with words, to agree with the others and continue their thought even though I feel and think the opposite?
Answer: To rise above egoism means to try to make connections with others that are most kind and altruistic so that the Creator can enter into your relationship with a friend, appear in it, and be in it. This is the way you discover Him.
You play in it, clearly knowing that it is not you. But your efforts are gradually arousing the impact of the surrounding Light and it builds new properties in you.
Question: But this often provokes a negative reaction in people. They say: “Why should I pretend? Where is the truth coming from the heart?”
Answer: Your truth is only your egoism, nothing more.
Question: What is the benefit of artificially presenting myself, let’s say, as the last of the participants?
Answer: You are created an egoist, you despise everyone and everything. The most important thing for you is only yourself, and you understand this perfectly. Therefore, you must act out completely different properties that you allegedly possess.
Why should you do that? It is so that the upper world reacts to your game. This happens in a very simple way. The Light knows everything that it has created in you and it evaluates your efforts. You strive to be great, good, to unite with others, to reach the Creator.
However, in principle, based on the properties that the Light created in you, you cannot desire it, but you try to play, and this is counted as your efforts. According to them, the upper Light changes you. This is your payment for changing.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/22/17

What Is The Secret Of Kabbalah?

laitman_216.03Question: If today Kabbalah is open for everyone, then what is its secret?
Answer: There are no secrets in Kabbalah and never have been. The entire problem is only in society’s  possibility of correctly accepting it, adapting to it, tasting it, and using it correctly for its development. There is nothing else.
For example, it is written in The Book of Zohar that of the great Kabbalist Rabbi Shimon’s ten disciples, only Rabbi Aba could correctly expound upon it so that it would be accessible, smooth, correct, and at the same time hidden.
And the measure of concealment must be so special that when you read the Kabbalistic text, it reveals itself to you, and maybe not to your neighbor.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/12/17

New Life #950 – Being A Celebrity

New Life #950 – Being A Celebrity
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe
Summary
Why does it seem to us that being a “celebrity” means being happy; how is publicity about a person influential, and how do we direct the natural desire for publicity to a positive place?
The desire to be respected and well-known is inherent in a person and today when this is possible, everyone wants to be a celebrity.
The stars of the future will teach others to be happy by attaining the essence of life. They will be people who succeeded in rising above their own egoistic calculations.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #950 – Being A Celebrity,” 1/21/18
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