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Two questions I received on Kabbalah books: Question: At the Blackpool Congress you recommended for everyone to have the book Kabbalah for the Student in Hebrew. Why? My Answer: Experience shows that our permanent students end up learning the original language of Kabbalah - Hebrew, because it is impossible to convey all of the information in a different language, using different symbols. However, this only applies to our permanent students. For example, right now I am in St Louis. The local group, who are Christian Americans, study Hebrew twice a week. They understand it and listen to the lessons with almost no translation. Question: In one of your recent lessons you said that the texts on a computer screen give less Light than a book. What difference does it make how the text is displayed? My Answer: It makes a difference, especially for a beginner, who can open a book anywhere, anytime. However, for the new generation, the monitor screen is closer. Related Material: Laitman.com Post: “Kabbalah for the Student” – A New Book Laitman.com Post: The Power of Kabbalistic Texts Kabbalah Books in English Kabbalah Books in Hebrew Share This Less

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I had a conversation about the global crisis with Amir Hen – a famous Israeli attorney of economics, business and finance (center), and Avihu Sofer – head of Bnei Baruch’s publishing department for the press and the Internet (right). Summary: What is the right way to create contracts between people, organizations and governments if they are to take into account the global manifestations of nature: that everything is interconnected and interdependent, everyone is conditionally or specifically equal, and the planet belongs to everyone? The transition to the conditions of the last generation cannot be forced or artificial. It is impossible for anyone to understand how to behave under these new conditions of the global interconnection of all people unless one learns this law – the law of life and sustenance of a single system of human society. Just as a person cannot exist in our world without knowing its laws on the still, vegetative and animate levels – knowing what’s useful and what’s harmful, and how to utilize different objects and phenomena - in exactly the same way, a person cannot exist in our times without knowing the law of the “global (unified) mankind” on the “human” level, which is being revealed today. Moreover, this law and all of its manifestations are studied only in Kabbalah. By observing this law in a greater measure (through building a greater connection between the souls), we will ascend the 125 degrees of the ladder leading to the Creator’s Palace. Related Material: Laitman.com Post: The Source of Happiness Laitman.com Post: By Changing Our Intentions, We Change the Whole of Reality Kabbalah Today Article: The Consumer Effect Baal HaSulam Article: “The Last Generation” Share This Less

Questions I received on the development of spirituality in a person: Question: How do I receive the point in the heart? My Answer: When the first spiritual Reshimo surfaces in you. Questions: Who taught Kabbalah to the first man (Adam), since he didn’t have books? My Answer: He revealed it on his own just like Abraham. He is called “the first man” because a person who attains similarity to the Creator is called “man” – Adam, which comes from the word “similar.” He was the first man at that time; everyone else were animals. Question: Can a newborn baby be a Kabbalist? My Answer: No. One needs to earn a Masach. Question: Can a newborn be on any spiritual level? My Answer: Yes, if the society as a whole is. Question: Can a baby be born above the Machsom, with full understanding of everything? My Answer: No, but he can achieve this very fast during childhood with the help of upbringing, as before the destruction of the Temple. Question: What is it to annul oneself before others? My Answer: It’s when the desire of another person is more important to you than your own desire. Question: Do I need to share my attention with the group rather than give all of it to my wife and kids? My Answer: Only inside of you. Related Material: Laitman.com Post: To Be Born a Kabbalist Laitman.com Post: How Does a Kabbalist Organize His Day? Book: Kabbalah Beginner’s Guide Baal HaSulam Article: “The Love for the Creator & Love for the Created Beings” Share This Less

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Three questions I received on the modern study method of Kabbalah: Question: You wrote that the Mashiach Ben Yosef is the great Ari’s revelation of the modern method of correction, Kabbalah, in the 16th century. Can we make an analogy that the Mashiach Ben David is also a revelation – the one that was made by Baal HaSulam? Or will there be other revelations of the method that will be more complete and have a more powerful effect? My Answer: In Article #102 of Shamati , Baal HaSulam writes the following about the Ari: “That is why the holy Ari, who was the Mashiach son of Yosef, was able to reveal so much wisdom, for he had the permission from ‘the revealed world.’” As for the Mashiach Ben David, there are many mentions of him, but they all indicate something different and can only be understood through personal revelation, but I prefer to quote the primary source texts. Question: What do you think about The Book of Bakhir? My Answer: Baal HaSulam writes the following in the article “Disclosing a Portion, Covering Two”: Ever since the teachings of the Ari were revealed in the world, all Kabbalists abandoned all other books and study only The Book of Zohar and the books of the Ari.” Question: You said that 1995 was the starting point of the current events. What happened in 1995 that you are referring to? My Answer: I felt this because suddenly, the students that started coming to study with me were different: They were serious, diligent, and persistent in their pursuit of the goal. Today they still make up the core of the worldwide Bnei Baruch group. Of course, there were also inner changes that are concealed from the average onlooker - a clearer revelation of new spiritual forces in the world. Related Material: Laitman.com Post: The Coming of the Messiah Laitman.com Post: Worldwide Map of Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Today Article: Isaac Luria - the Holy Ari (1534-1572) Shamati #183: “The Discernment of the Messiah” Share This Less

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Preface to the Science of Kabbalah (“Pticha”). Items 3-5, summary: 3. The order of distancing, of the weakening of the desire to bestow, resulting from the development and growth of the desire to receive, from above (from bestowal, similarity to the Creator) downwards (moving away from Him) – happens along five degrees or five worlds: Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. The World of Assiya includes our world (HaOlam Hazeh). “World” – Olam comes from the word Olama – concealment, because to the degree one grows distant from similarity to the Creator, the Creator becomes concealed. All creatures originate and have their root in the World of Infinity, in the Thought of Creation to “delight the creatures,” in their initial state. 4. The distancing of the creation from the Creator is necessary for the following reasons: To give creation (man) an opportunity to be independent. This is accomplished through the complete concealment of the Creator in our world. The gradual distancing occurs through the Light’s fulfillment and its subsequent expulsion. These contrasting states create sensations, realizations, and experience in the desire, giving it the opportunity to compare, and thus make it suitable to achieve its intended purpose. The creation’s purpose is the following: after its forced descent into our world, it is to use its free will and awareness to compare and to choose bestowal over reception. Thus, by choosing that similarity to the Creator is the most important thing, creation must gradually ascend to Him, until reaching full equivalence and adhesion with Him. 5. The degrees, the structure of creation, and all the actions are determined by the nature of the Light and the desire. Phase 0: Light (the Creator’s attitude to the creature) emanates from the Creator’s plan to create the creature in order to delight it by making it similar to Him (the small state is not considered complete). This phase is called zero or the root. It incorporates the future creature in the form of a point of the future desire, similar to a drop of semen or a seed. Phase 1: The Light influences the point of desire, developing it to Its own size and then filling it. The desire feels the fulfillment, called the Light of Wisdom (Ohr Hochma). Because the desire is fully dependent on the Light, it doesn’t feel anything besides mere existence, like an embryo within a womb. This phase contains everything that the Creator had allocated for the creature. Gradually the desire becomes aware of its distinction from the Light and wishes to become like the Light - bestowing. This new desire is defined as a new phase: Phase 2: This is the desire to bestow to the Creator, to be like the Light. As a result of this, the desire feels a different kind of pleasure than in phase 1 – the pleasure of being similar to the Creator, the Light of Bestowal (Ohr Hassadim). However, gradually the desire realizes that it merely desires to bestow, but does not actually bestow. This realization results in the emergence of a new desire – “to receive for the sake of bestowal,” and this is already defined as phase 3. Phase 3: The desire receives like in phase 1 (the Light of Hochma) with an intention like in phase 2, and feels that it bestows, like the Creator (the Light of Hassadim). Due to the sensation of being on the Creator’s level, a new desire develops – phase 4: Phase 4: This is the desire to enjoy the Creator’s status or position by receiving the following from Him: a) The pleasure of being filled with pleasure, and b) The pleasure of being similar to Him. Since the desire receives everything that can possibly emanate from the Creator, phase 4 constitutes a fully developed desire. Related Material: Download PDF version of Pticha Share This Less