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Youth Suicide and Depression is only cured by the Correct Education

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Millions of young people suffer from suicidal tendencies, depression and drug addiction because they’re hopeless. A medicine cabinet filled with anti-depressants isn’t going to help; they need real answers.

by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD

According to the World Health Organization, someone around the globe commits suicide every 40 seconds. In the year 2000 (a long time ago, but things have only worsened since), 815,000 people lost their lives to suicide — more than double the number of people who die as a direct result of armed conflict every year (306,600). For people between the ages of 15 and 44, suicide is the fourth leading cause of death and the sixth leading cause of disability and infirmity worldwide. Also, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, “Combined 2004 and 2005 data indicate that 8.88 percent of youths aged 12 to 17 and 7.65 percent of adults aged 18 or older experienced at least one major depressive episode (MDE) in the past year.”

Millions of people the world over, and especially the younger generation, are committing suicide or suffering from suicidal tendencies, depression, drug addiction and violence because they’re hopeless. They have real questions and they need real answers, and there is no one to provide them with answers except us — the parents.

In his book “Man’s Search for Meaning,” Viktor Frankl quotes Friedrich Nietzsche as saying that “He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.” more…

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Spiritual Search

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One man’s search for meaning in life. A personal story by Bnei Baruch student Ed Stedman discusses the desire to find meaning in life, or what Kabbalists call “the desire for spirituality,” as the final stage of desire emerging in humanity today.

Three years ago I was riding a subway train in Toronto when a short announcement in the newspaper caught my eye. There was to be an introductory Kabbalah lecture at my local library and although I was totally unfamiliar with Kabbalah, I somehow felt that it was an ancient wisdom that might have something to offer me.

This initial lecture by Tony Kosinec (lecturer for the ARI Online Kabbalah Education Center and spokesperson for Bnei Baruch USA) was a mixture of technical diagrams and an assertion that there was some sort of potential power in a unified group of students. I felt compelled to check out this assertion.

That was three years ago and my life has now changed so radically that it seems like another lifetime. What have I learned in three years? more…

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AUDIO: Mission: Possible (And Mandatory)

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Kabbalists explain that the only role of the Jewish people is to reveal to humanity how it can achieve the highest possible level of existence, and that the Jewish people have no choice in the matter. more…

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Kabbalah Today Issue 4 Podcast

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A Kabbalah Today Issue 4 podcast compilation has been created containing the following playlist (the links are to the articles in the paper, containing the audio files for the articles alone):

Why Kabbalah, Why Now?
A “Properly Working” Nature
Between Creator and Creature
Unraveling the Zohar: a Wake-Up Call
Who Are You, People of Israel?
Spiritual Education

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Integration in Technology, Communication Systems and Babylon

From Today’s Daily Lesson

StudentStudent: If I understood the previous paragraph correctly, does it mean that the higher spiritual level we are in, the more technology will decline?

<a href="http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/bnei-baruch#about-rav-michael-laitman-2c-phdhttp://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/bnei-baruch#about-rav-michael-laitman-2c-phd">Rav Michael Laitman, PhD</a>‘ /><strong><u>Rav Laitman</u>:</strong> Of course. What do we need technology for? If I understand you without a phone, cell-phone or any other communication line, then what do I need technology for? </p>
<p>If I feel others, instinctively, naturally and internally, then why would I need thousands of TV channels? To constantly look at what they’re saying? If it’s all in me, then why do I need it?</p>
<p>If I understand the phenomena that can be in a person, and they are inside of me, then why would I need comedies, dramas, histories, novels and whatnot? It’s all inside me. </p>
<p>I don’t become thick inside. I begin to contain everyone and everything in a way that I’m happy. I’m not limited, but on the contrary, the fact that we want to connect to each other in this way, with this great distortion—look at what’s happening, especially in how the media attracts attention for the reason that they don’t want connection between us.</p>
<p>“Communication lines” is only a name we give them. But what communication is it? They want to profit on peoples’ connections. It’s important for them. In other words, it doesn’t matter what they provide us with and what kind of connection they create among us. They go on and on about what is happening in their services, and you go in there… and it’s only so that you go in there. Just look at the lies they’re using. These are not communication lines. The name is incorrect. </p>
<p>In other words, we need to understand that everything which has taken place since the Babylonian separation—when everyone lost their ability to understand and feel others, when the confusion in the languages occurred, when one didn’t understand the other—everything since then has only been to complement that flaw. </p>
<p>We see that it’s not working, and today it’s finally appearing in the clearest way. Leaders don’t understand the people, they don’t understand themselves, children, grown-ups, or anything. We don’t even want this communication anymore. We see that it has reached its lowest point. </p>
<p>So in the beginning, we wanted to, as it was in Babylon… What happened there? Abraham said that we have to complement ourselves, so we went deeper into nature, the ego separated us, and we have to go deeper into nature, be more giving, more connected to each other, and then we will be one system again, in harmony. The rest of the Babylonians said “No. We will go, each according to his ego. We’ll be able to connect to each other; we’ll be fine. We’ll provide for each other, and no one will have any deficiencies.” We see today how no one can give himself anything; no one can connect to others; no one feels that he has any need to connect to anyone, and if he does have it, he doesn’t know how to do it. We are in the worst possible state. </p>
<p>It thus turns out that our crisis is the same Babylonian crisis, in ancient Babylon, in the Tower of Babel, and now we understand that it’s because we didn’t take on the right complementation. Instead of spiritual complementation, we wanted to complement ourselves corporeally—technologically—and we failed.</p>
<p>Rav Michael Laitman, PhD in the lesson on Baal HaSulam’s article <a href="http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/articles/exhile_and_redemption.htm">Exile and Redemption</a>: <a href="http://files.kab.co.il/video/eng_t_rav_bs-galut-ve-geula_2007-06-20_shiur_bb.wmv" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker(Rav Michael Laitman wmv video | mp3 audio (55 min)

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