The topic of this week’s International Children’s Lesson was “Hanukkah.” The lesson was translated from Hebrew into English, Spanish, French, German, and Russian.
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We held another International Children’s Lesson on December 19. The lesson was translated from Hebrew into English, Spanish, French, German, and Russian.
The topic of this week’s lesson was “125 Levels.”
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The topic of this week’s international children’s lesson was “The Mutual Guarantee (Arvut).” The lesson was translated into English, Spanish, French, German and Russian.
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In every Latin American country, there are groups and individuals who study Kabbalah and work together with us on its development and dissemination. The largest and strongest group of our friends is situated in Chile. Ingrid Solyar from the Chile group has created this friendly, colorful blog for children.
The lesson was on the topic, “How to be free.” It was translated from Hebrew into English, Spanish, German, French and Russian.
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On Friday, 11.21.08 I gave an International Children’s lesson on the topic “The Creation of the World.” I had a lively discussion with the children about their understanding of the process of creation. The lesson was translated into English, French, Spanish, German and Russian.
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News Report (translated from Washigton ProFile): American children do not want to become President. The Boys & Girls Clubs of America published results of a survey that asked American children whether they would want to be the President. 67% responded that they would not want to be the President of the USA. The young Americans said that the most important qualities for the President to have are a good personality, high moral standards, an ability to inspire people, education, and a history of being a successful leader in the national arena. Results of surveys published by Newsweek and Gallup show that the children’s views are very different from the adults’.
My Comment: The young generation’s egoism has outgrown all conventions. People do not want to put on a show all the time. To be President means to be under constant pressure and to always try to have everyone like you. This is a feeling of being absolutely controlled and dependent; it’s a non-stop theater where you have the most difficult part!
Today’s egoism makes people want to take care of themselves and their personal fulfillment, to throw aside all the conventions and strive for individual fulfillment. Otherwise one’s egoism will feel unfulfilled (depressed) and will be ready to suppress itself (through drugs), or even to annul itself (through suicide).
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During the international children’s lesson that was held on 10.10.2008, we talked about prayer. Prayer is the most secret, concealed desire in one’s heart. It hides so deep down in our hearts that we don’t even feel it. But precisely this desire has a connection with the Creator, or we can say that the Creator dwells inside this desire.
In order to reveal the Creator, we must reveal this desire for Him. But how can we influence this desire? A person cannot reach it himself, but only through the environment (the group). He evokes all sorts of influences from the environment, which make his desire for the Creator, for love and bestowal, grow. In fact, these influences have a direct effect on one’s heart.
In this manner, through the group, one can evoke such a great desire for love and bestowal in his heart that it will become similar to the Creator in the minimum degree, and then he will immediately sense the Creator within it. This is the meaning and purpose of prayer - to gradually reveal the Creator in one’s heart!
During the following international children’s lesson, held on 10.17.2008, we talked about blessings. A blessing is a sensation of gratitude that involuntarily appears in one’s heart. It is gratitude for the corrections that take place within a person under the influence of the Creator’s Light:
“Blessed are you, Ruler of the world… Who opens eyes to see the Upper World… Who spreads the earth (the desire to receive) upon the waters (the desire to bestow)… Who gives the heart the understanding to distinguish day (the Upper Light, the quality of bestowal) from night (egoism)… Who clothes the naked (with the Light of Hassadim, in which the Light of Hochma is revealed)… and so on.
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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.
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