On July 9th, www.RadioKavana.info – a unique, one of a kind radio station hosted by the worldwide Kabbalah community, held its first live broadcast. The program’s highlights included news from the hottest dissemination spots today: Sochi, Gelendzhik, Crimea, and Bnei Baruch.
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On July 9, a Cairo daily paper published an article about Kabbalah, me and our International Kabbalah Education & Research Institute. It looks like the Egyptian intellectuals are interested in Kabbalah…
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A comment I received: I’m shocked and moved to tears to find out that we are also potential Nazis. Why did great Kabbalists, who attained Gmar Tikkun (final correction), continue to take part in cruel slaughter and use of animals? How can it be possible that the exalted teaching of Kabbalah ignores cruelty to animals?
It’s obvious that it won’t correct anything in the soul if we were all to become vegetarian. But great Kabbalists corrected everything and did not become lovers of miserable animals. How can this be? Maybe there are 126 levels and the time of the complete Gmar Tikkun has arrived only now, when “love thy neighbor as yourself” will also include animals, plants and the still level of nature? As far as I understand with my simple mind, we must ultimately feel love for ants and bugs as well…
My Response: There are rules for how to act in order to correspond to the general law of nature, called Elokim. Man has been created opposite to this law, and our task is to change ourselves in order to be the same as this law. This is the purpose of our existence in this world. This change in a person, from our level to the Creator’s level, can be attained only by studying Kabbalah. Baal HaSulam writes about it in the article “Introduction to the Book ‘From the Mouth of a Sage’”: “Even if a person is completely righteous in this world, knows the whole Torah and has fulfilled all the earthly commandments, but did not study Kabbalah, then he must return to this world again in order to study Kabbalah” – because only by studying Kabbalah does he attract the Light of Correction to him, as written in the “Introduction to Talmud Eser Sefirot,” item 155.
By correcting himself, a person unwillingly acts according to the Upper Laws. When this happens, how does he relate to the nature around him? He relates to it based on the degree of his equivalence of the Creator. And no matter what he relates to, he does so based on his equivalence to the Creator. But perhaps his actions and behavior won’t seem righteous to you, because you imagine righteousness differently to what it is in the spiritual world.
Two questions I received on the masses’ participation in the method of correction
Question: Please let me know whether I understand you correctly or not: You’re saying that there will be a very small quantity of people serving the Creator through studying the science of Kabbalah in comparison to the whole of humanity?
My Answer: No. Everyone needs to understand that there is a method of attaining happiness. Until everyone comes to this understanding, then no one will actually achieve it. That’s the condition. People subdivide into four groups according to their natural development and the size of their desire. Those with the largest desire are Kabbalists, and those with the smallest desire are people who will merely understand that they need this method for survival; that they need to join the rest and do everything like everyone else, like in a herd. It’s the same way as the masses operate today, according to social influence and advertisement.
Question: You have described the main mass of society (99% of people) as being “individually and socially passive.” These are, apparently, people who don’t ask questions about the meaning of life, i.e. people without a point in the heart. Are all such people just flesh and bones made for the herding, or can they all be “awakened” in the foreseeable future for spiritual progress?
My Answer: Every single person has free will. The only difference is the extent to which one’s free will becomes realized within oneself. However, according to one’s soul, each one needs to completely and independently realize oneself. There are leaders and there are followers, but all are conscious!
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News Story: Cultural Tolerance for Divorce Grows to 70%
The Gallup service published the results of a traditional survey where Americans were asked to evaluate the moral acceptability of various actions. The survey results show that U.S. residents regard divorce as the most morally acceptable act from the list, while adultery receives the most disapproval.
My Comment: Why is it considered “moral” to break up a family and separate its children in order to satisfy people’s individuality, their egoism? It’s because the society that judges such values as morally acceptable is the same society that places most of its value on the individual. Simply put, divorce and destroying the family is much easier than building the family and developing it, so people view divorce as being something normal.
On the other hand, animalistic affairs, relationships without any deep feelings that are forgotten about as soon as they’re over with, and that take place much more often than divorce, are for some reason looked upon as being the most morally unacceptable acts.
Is this a high level of morality? Is it self deception? Or is it a special institution in a deceitful society? It’s quite possible that any kind of a moral evaluation of behavior has been replaced by whatever people find most convenient. In this same manner, all the “honest” men and their “faithful” wives together scoffed at Clinton! Could it be that people really can’t judge themselves properly? People’s egoism blinds them.
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Two questions I received on the worldwide dissemination of Kabbalah:
Question: At a recent lesson, you said that it’s important to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah to the nations of the world, to people who live in America, Russia, and Europe. Is it also important to disseminate Kabbalah to Muslims, both distant and near?
My Answer: Of course it is, and in addition, there are many points of contact for doing so. The problem is that there is a wave of aggressive Islam sweeping over the world today, but nevertheless we have students from Arabic countries. Obviously we don’t reveal their identities, besides our friends from Turkey. We have a practical website in Arabic, and there are lessons translated to Arabic. Several people in the central Bnei Baruch group are fluent in Arabic and they disseminate Kabbalah in Arabic, as well as in Persian.
Question: Do you think that now is the most appropriate time to disseminate Kabbalah newspapers in China?
My Answer: I think that we should put disseminating in China on hold for now. For the time being, I have a book being published there.
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The vanity of modern life, the myriad changes and trips, and abundant opportunities of communication, do not solve the problem of loneliness. It’s becoming more and more difficult to make new acquaintances, especially in order to create a family. About half of the people living in cities live alone, a tendency that’s only growing.
In the era of total freedom, it has become harder to make new acquaintances. Globalization and individualization are leading to a disintegration of social networks. Cell phones and the Internet are increasing the distance between people. People are increasingly communicating anonymously and virtually, instead of meeting face to face.
This is only the beginning of the expression of egoism – a cancerous tumor that is consuming us little by little. It is digging its own grave, as written, “Egoism is a help against you,” and “The Pharaoh will bring us closer to the Creator.”
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A question I received: Why are there still so many conflicts between representatives of different ethnic and religious groups? Sometimes even the official religious communities support these aggressive views and actions. What is it about people that makes them want to practice superiority over other nations and ethnic groups, and to do all this in the name of the Almighty?
My Answer: Religions were created after Kabbalah became concealed, by people who fell into egoism. These people took Kabbalistic ideals and passed them off as their own. They couldn’t, however, abide by these ideals, and as such, they could only instruct others to uphold them by threatening them with punishment in the world to come.
Because of how egoism provokes mutual hatred in people, all religions mutually hate one another, but they conceal their hatred, and on the surface, summon the world to peace and love. However, they’ve never had an aspiration for peace and love, and if it were in their power to do so, we would still be destroying each other in religious wars, following their call to make them stronger, like we’ve done in the past.
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Earth & Universe, a web portal containing information on the global crisis and fundamental issues of existence, sent me a questionnaire as part of an effort to gather answers from people recognized in certain fields on various pressing global questions. The following is the questionnaire with my answers:
What is the most important thing to you in life?
Disseminating the method of correcting egoism throughout the world. Man’s egoism is the root of all the evil in the world, and only its correction will bring people happiness.
In your opinion, what is the meaning of life?
The meaning of every person’s life is to correct oneself – to attain love toward everything around you.
Do you believe in evolution? Why or why not?
I believe that human beings evolved from apes, as explained by ancient Kabbalistic sources written long before Darwin. However, this evolution was not triggered by spontaneous, natural development of apes, but rather because this species of animals had initially contained informational data about the species that would develop out of it in the future - the human.
Do you believe in UFOs?
It’s possible that there is life outside Earth, but I won’t believe in it until it is discovered and ascertained as a fact. As a scientist, I rely only on facts.
In your opinion, what or who is the reason for the existence of pedophiles, homeless children, hunger, hatred, war, terrorism, corruption, poverty, national and religious extremism, and other forms of injustice? And why has no one been able to defeat these evils?
All the evil that exists in the world is caused by human nature. Throughout history, man’s egoism has constantly increased and developed, urging man to develop society, and to master and rule the surrounding environment. We don’t have the power or means to tame our egoism on our own.
What can save the planet from ecological disaster?
Our planet can be saved from ecological disaster only by changing our attitude to the environment, people and nature - from hatred and the desire to use everything for our own narrow benefit, to universal bestowal and love.
Over two million people from 57 countries currently study with the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education & Research Institute. Our daily lessons and broadcasts are simultaneously translated into nine languages. We have to create a committee for saving the planet as soon as possible, and gain access to the mass media in order to provide education to everyone on the planet about the correct way to co-exist.
How do you see the future of the world and humanity, and what would you like it to be?
In the future, all people will clearly discover that they are absolutely connected elements of a single system, dependent on each other like cogwheels within one mechanism. As a result, all of their actions and thoughts will be determined by the total inter-dependence that they will have revealed. This will compel everyone to reach a common opinion, plan and action to transform the world.
What’s your favorite quote?
Life is possible only on the condition that there is full harmony among all its parts, just like in a single, whole organism. This is defined by the Biblical verse, “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” This verse is not talking about a high moral level, but the law of life’s existence.
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The Corrected Society
Accepting the law, “Love your friend as yourself,” word for word.
Just division of the profits so each will work according to ability and will receive according to need.
Public opinion should be based on “Love your friend as yourself,” so one who receives more than one’s needs will be considered a killer.
Transformation
The will to receive, imprinted in every creature, is in disparity of form from the Creator. Hence, one’s soul is separated from Him, since disparity of form separates in spirituality. It is therefore clear that what the Creator wants of us is equivalence of form, at which time we will cling to Him once more, as prior to our creation.
This is why Kabbalists said that one must cleave to the attributes of the Creator - “as He is merciful, so you are merciful” - so all our actions will be only to bestow upon our fellow person to the best of our ability. This is how we achieve the goal of cleaving to the Creator, equalizing with Him.
What one must do for oneself, in the necessary measure for the sustenance of oneself and one’s family, is not considered disparity of form, since “necessity is neither praised nor condemned.”
All these conditions will arise in the days of the Messiah. And when they accept this lesson we will be awarded complete redemption. [Read more →]
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