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January 8, 2015 at 6:00 pm · Filed under Articles, Books, Perceiving Reality, Zohar
Can Our Perception of Reality Be Expanded?
The most complicated, yet fascinating topic connected to The Book of Zohar, and indeed to life, is “the perception of reality.”
It is known that around us are numerous waves that we do not perceive. However, there is also a field of higher information called “the upper nature” or “the Creator.” We can come in contact with that field and receive everything from it—emotions, understanding, information, love, sensation of eternal life, and the sensation of wholeness that exists in that field, which fills everything around us.
The very purpose of the wisdom of Kabbalah is to teach us how to develop our own tools so we can perceive that field of higher information. This can be done only if we change within; hence, when we change, we ourselves become like that field, and thus like the Creator.
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January 7, 2015 at 6:10 pm · Filed under Articles, Books, Ego
Our spiritual lives are divided into four periods. The Creator’s enjoyment, which lies in delighting His creatures, depends on how much we can perceive and discern. It also is affected by how much we can discern Him as the giver of all goodness. Only in this case does He receive pleasure from us. This is much like a parent who plays with his or her beloved child and enjoys the child’s attitude toward him or her. The parent is delighted that the child recognizes the parent as a loving and strong parent who only awaits the child’s requests and is ready to grant them.
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January 6, 2015 at 6:09 pm · Filed under Articles, Books, Zohar
Today the Book of Zohar Can Be Interpreted Correctly
The Kabbalistic writings use the “language of branches”, describing spiritual matters using notions, objects from our world. Thus without the right interpretation the unprepared reader has no chance of entering the true meaning of the texts, to receive the necessary inner changes in order to attain the mind, the thoughts of the author.
And the books of Kabbalah and The Zohar are filled with corporeal parables. Therefore, people are afraid lest they will lose more than they will gain … And this is what prompted me to compose a sufficient interpretation to the writings of the Ari, and now to the Holy Zohar. And I have completely removed that concern, for I have evidently explained and proven the spiritual meaning of everything, that it is abstract and devoid of any corporeal image, above space and above time, as the readers will see, to allow the whole of Israel to study The Book of Zohar and be warmed by its sacred Light.
Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” Item 58
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January 5, 2015 at 6:14 pm · Filed under Articles, Books, Zohar
The Story Behind the Writing of the Book of Zohar
The story of The Book of Zohar begins some 1,800 years ago in a tiny, dimly lit cave in Peki’in, in the Western Galilee, Israel, where Rashbi and his son, Rabbi Elazar, hid from the Roman emperor. For thirteen years they prepared themselves for the writing of the book that would change the face of history.
The years passed and Rabbi Shimon and his son completed the correction that they had to complete and came out of the cave. Eight other Kabbalists joined Rabbi Shimon and his son and together they studied and wrote The Book of Zohar.
Among Rashbi’s students was Rabbi Aba, a Kabbalist with a special gift. He was the only one who knew how to write the words of his teacher in such a way that they would be both revealed and concealed. The Book of Zohar refers to that gift as “Disclosing in secret.”
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January 4, 2015 at 3:40 pm · Filed under Articles, Laitman Unplugged, Meaning of Life, Video
Bringing a New Meaning to “Life-Changer”
There is no such thing in existence as a rigidly defined reality, because all of reality depends on us. This is the first lesson we have to learn. The picture you perceive, see and live in is simply a movie that is being played to you, but you cannot get up and leave.
You are used to it; you’ve lived in it since you were born and you sense it as your life, as if it’s real.
However, one day you find that you have become terribly bored with this movie because your desires have evolved or the suffering that is being shown to you has become unbearable and you crave to rise above it and see something else, some other movie. You long to change the movie.
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