News Report (translated from news.ru): Between the years 2000 and 2007, 3,500 people per year returned to Israel. In 2008, however, the number of people who have returned jumped to 7,000, and another 15,000 have submitted their applications to the ministry of absorption. In the last two months alone, as many as 2000 people returned to Israel. My Comment: The return of the “lost children” marks the end of their wanderings in search of a heaven on earth, and the beginning of their search for the real heaven - the revelation of the Upper World. The Book of Zohar says that this precedes the return of the truly lost sons - the return of the ten tribes that were lost 3000 years ago. Today there are hundreds of millions of them in the world… Related Material: Laitman.com: Israel Are Those Who Aspire Straight to the Creator Laitman.com Post: The Jewish Nation Can Only Be Revived By Restoring “Love for One’s Neighbor” Part 5 from the book Interview With the Future: Spiritual Exile Share This Less

A question I received: What Is your opinion on the negotiations to divide Jerusalem? Are you for or against its division? My Answer: I don’t have an opinion of my own; I accept the opinion of the great Kabbalists. Baal HaSulam writes: “If the people of Israel will accept the laws of Kabbalah, then it will be possible to build the Temple and bring back all the past glory. And of course this would prove to all the nations of the world - even the Arabs – that the people of Israel have the right to return to their land. This will be very different from the present secular repatriation, which does not impress the nations of the world. We need to act quickly, or else they might sell Israel’s independence for their own needs, not to mention giving away Jerusalem.” He wrote this 93 years ago, when there was no talk of  repatriation yet, or the state of Israel, or our Jerusalem, and moreover - its current division. I am neither “for” nor “against” it, because I know that the only thing that will help us is our correction. Hence correction is the only thing I am “for.” It is also written: “If you follow the path of the wisdom of Kabbalah and accept the Creator’s teaching – things will be good. And if you don’t accept it, then you will still advance toward the goal He has set, but your path will be one of suffering. In other words, wars will break out in the world, fought with atomic and hydrogen bombs, and all the nations of the world will search for counsel on how to avoid the wars. And they will come to the Messiah in Jerusalem, and he will teach them this wisdom.” Related Material: Laitman.com Post: The Third Temple and the Coming of the Messiah Laitman.com Post: Building the Third Temple Baal HaSulam Article: The Last Generation Chapter from the Book The Kabbalah Experience: The Messiah and the End of Days Chapter from the Book Interview with the Future: A Spiritual Task Share This Less

We were visited by the President of the University of Haifa - Professor Aaron Ben-Ze’ev (left in the photograph below). Prof. Ben Ze’ev is considered one of the world’s leading experts in the study of emotions and perception. He has written many books and articles on these topics. There were no contradictions between us. The only difference is that Kabbalah clearly defines every desire and the sensation inside it, and it graduates the sensations according to their levels and qualities. However, the earthy sciences cannot do this, because we can only research something while being on a level above the object being researched. Hence we can research the still and vegetative levels of nature, and a part of the animate level, but we cannot accurately research man since we are at the same level as the object being researched. This is why psychology isn’t an accurate science. Kabbalah, on the other hand, lifts man above his animate and psychological levels, allowing him to measure and reproduce any sensation, and to examine its cause, process, and consequences. One of Professor Ben-Ze’ev’s specialties is the research of the feeling of love. He has an enormous amount of empirical data on this, yet this earthly science does not enable him to systematize them. In the future scientists will discover that it’s vitally necessary to systematize knowledge and to have a clear understanding of the nature of feelings and sensations. Then this “crisis” will lead psychologists to Kabbalah. Related Material: Laitman.com Post: Kabbalah and the Earthly Sciences Laitman.com Post: The Sciences Are Subordinate to the Wisdom of Kabbalah Laitman.com Post: Love Is Providing Others With the Means to Fulfill Their Point in the Heart Lesson on Baal HaSulam’s article “The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Philosophy” Share This Less

A question I received: I read an interesting work by researcher A. D. Panov entitled, “The Crisis of the Universal History’s Planetary Cycle.” In it he uses the method of interpolating the times of civilizations’ revolutions and reaches the conclusion that the next and most significant crisis in the development of nature and man is scheduled to happen in the year 2027 (the Snooks–Panov vertical). After this crisis the entire development of human civilization will change fundamentally. What do you think about this, and that this will happen in 2027? My Answer: There are many hypotheses about the crisis, and people’s premonitions are justified. However, do they understand the causes of the crisis, its process and its purpose? It is pointless to predict dates, because we cannot take into account our participation in becoming aware of the process and of our conscious self-correction, which will immediately introduce positive changes and accelerate the whole process. This is because the “crisis” is the process of restoring our balance (similarity) with Nature - with the quality of love and bestowal. As soon as we reached the level of global egoism, we started being influenced by the general force of nature (the global interdependency between all of nature’s parts), which forces us to become similar to it (like parts of one body, to be in harmony all together). If we recognize that this is what Nature demands from us and aspire to correspond to it, then to the extent we strive to become a harmonious part of the general system of nature, we will not need its negative correcting influence, which we feel as suffering (war, hunger, destruction). Because it is impossible to calculate the degree to which we will participate in our correction, we cannot predict the flow of the entire process. The prophets - the Kabbalists of antiquity, described this process without incorporating the human constituent into it. This is why their descriptions are full of terrible suffering on the global scale. However, it is within our power to alter its flow, and this is why we’ve been given Kabbalah. This is also why it has been concealed until our time, and why it is now being revealed to everyone. Related Material: Laitman.com Post: Disasters and Diseases Come to an End When Humanity Unites Above Selfishness Latman.com Post: The Consequences of Egoism’s Growth Article: “Peace in the World” Interview with the Future - Part 6 “The Face of the Future” Share This Less

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