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May 13, 2007 at 8:21 pm · Filed under Articles, Evolution, What is Kabbalah?
This new article by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD aims to present an introductory Kabbalistic understanding of human nature and the Nature of our world. By achieving comprehensive understanding of human nature and the Nature of our world, we will be able to provide a single, comprehensive resolution to all negative phenomena we experience.
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From the article:
“If we acquire a better understanding of human nature and the Nature of our world, with all their rules and facets, we will be able to see where we are erring. Thus, we will also be able to first end the predicaments in our lives, and subsequently advance toward a much brighter future.”
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May 12, 2007 at 8:06 pm · Filed under Articles, Quotes
Baal HaSulam’s Shamati article #28 “I Shall Not Die but Live” has been added to Bnei Baruch’s website. A quote from the article and a link to it follows:
Quote from Baal HaSulam:
In order for one to reach the truth, there must be a sensation that if one does not obtain the truth, one feels oneself as dead, because he wants to live. This is the meaning of “I shall not die but live”…
Baal HaSulam, in Shamati article no. 28, “I Shall Not Die but Live.”
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May 11, 2007 at 2:29 am · Filed under Altruism, Quotes, Thought of the Week
A Quote from Baal HaSulam:
The entire difficulty lies in changing our nature – from a desire to receive for ourselves, to a desire to bestow upon others, because those two things deny one another. At first glance, the plan seems imaginary, as something that is above human nature. But when we delve deeply into it we will find that the contradiction from reception for oneself to bestowal upon others, is nothing but a psychological matter, because in fact we do bestow upon others without benefiting ourselves. Because self-reception, though it manifests itself in us in various ways, such as property, and possessions for pleasure of the heart, the eye, the pallet, etc., all those are defined by one name – pleasure. Thus, the very essence of reception for oneself that a person desires for is nothing but the desire for pleasure.
Baal HaSulam, Peace in the World, section “Pleasure vs. Pain in Self-Reception.”
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May 9, 2007 at 10:46 am · Filed under Altruism, Society, World Peace
From today’s daily lesson:
In today’s lesson on The Arvut (The Bond), Rav Laitman discussed the relationship between the individual and the whole in relation to a student’s question (11:00).
Student: Do we correct the world at the same time as we correct ourselves?
Rav Laitman: Yes. We correct ourselves and of course, in the correction of each and every one of us we correct the whole world. This is because it is a closed system, and as such, you can only correct yourself through your participation in every single person. Moreover, through your correction, you already prepare corrections in all of the souls, because you are integrated with everyone.
Therefore, if you correct yourself, then that corrected part of yourself exists in all the other souls and, as a result, they already begin to feel something.
This is because there is no single “I.” “I” is integrated in everyone, and there is no “you”—“you” is integrated in everyone. So if, let’s say, a million people correct themselves, and you are integrated with everyone, you therefore start sensing that same part from those little million people who are incorporated in you. How do you sense it? You suddenly get thoughts and desires about things you’ve never ever dreamed of previously, things you’ve never been attracted to.
That is the interconnectedness. We are in the same system of Adam ha Rishon (The First Man), we can’t escape it, but it’s broken, and that’s why those who correct themselves sentence themselves and the entire world to a scale of merit.
Rav Michael Laitman, PhD in the lesson on Baal HaSulam’s article The Arvut (The Bond): wmv video | mp3 audio (55 min)
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