Due to popular demand after the first Q&A session with Dr. Laitman (which gave rise to the ONE Convention Preparation eBook), we’ll be holding another special Q&A session with Dr. Laitman in preparation for the ONE Convention in New Jersey:

• When? Thursday, June 17. 8:00 PM till 10:00 PM EDT (New York time)
• Where? Kabbalah TV – kab.tv
• Got a Question? Write your question in the “Ask a Question” form in order to have it answered by Dr. Laitman on the night of the special Q&A session:

Ask Your Question for the Special Q&A Event Here »

Dear Friends,

We are now making an exciting global music video for the new ONE Convention song, We are the People!, and in order to capture and promote the message of a happy and peaceful global connection among people.

We would like to get input from friends all around the world. Instead of shooting this music video by ourselves, we are opening this up to everyone around the world who is concerned about the world’s situation and wants to bring about a better world, so get ready to shoot!

Instructions – How to Participate in this Global Music Video:

• Listen to and/or download the song: We are the People! [on SoundCloud] »
• Open this spreadsheet of video shots needed »
• Mark the clips you are going to shoot. It would be best if you could shoot a few of the shots yourself, or with your group.
• Each shot should be no shorter than 10 seconds and no longer than 15 seconds.
• Make sure there is good light (beware of intense direct sunlight and indoor environments in the afternoon and evening).
• Put the camera on a tripod or a steady surface and shoot the scene.
• If you have a good confident camera person feel free to move around, shoot several shots of the same scene, etc.
• In the repeating chorus (2 and 3) please come up with ideas of your own to shoot and send 🙂
• Please shoot on an HD camera or use your phone with the highest resolution possible.
• Make it fun, exaggerated, creative, dramatic and from the heart!

Due Date:

• July 20, 2014.
• However, of course, the sooner the better!

Send To:

• oneconvention@kabbalah.info
  (i.e. send your clip to this e-mail address by the due date)

Together as ONE!
The ONE Convention Team

Question: How should Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education Center students prepare themselves in order to be ready for encountering the idea of dissemination at the ONE Convention?

Dr. Michael Laitman: A person need not pressure himself. He needs to feel comfortable. You need to come to the convention with high spirits, like you are coming to a party. You are not coming there in order to work day and night. No. You come to have fun with your friends, whether you know them or not, but you come to a festival, to a party, first of all.

Although you want to read and connect to others, but these things need to be as preparation to go to a party. You need to prepare. Maybe you go buy a new outfit, maybe a tie, maybe a shirt, maybe you get a haircut. What are we going to bring? Maybe a good bottle of wine or something? The thing is preparation. Preparation needs to be the same as for a party. That is the kind of spirit: no pressure. That is what’s most important. Come with a smile from one ear to the other, and behind the ears.

Student: Just to mention that everyone is invited to this party, everyone is accepted, new and veteran. Also, as mentioned earlier, there will be a training meant for everyone in order to exactly explain what is the wisdom of connection that stems from the wisdom of Kabbalah, and how anyone can be involved in it, all in this whole, happy festival atmosphere.

Question: Now to continue what you mentioned, to come really happy, like to a party, a student from New York is asking: I feel a lot of excitement about the ONE Convention. How can I help a friend feel the importance?

Dr. Laitman: Try! What can I tell you? There are many friends who want to make their friends excited. I think when we get ready for a convention in Israel, we need to build a lot of stuff—kitchen, buying tons of food. You have those general things, so I don’t know. Start cheering each other up. That’s the main thing. That’s all you need.

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Student: You speak a lot about the laws of nature being integral laws, however the laws of nature dictate that the strong defeat the weak.

Dr. Michael Laitman: The strong defeat the weak until the world becomes integral. In an integral world, one who is connected with others defeats the lone strong one. That is why we are seeing that individualistic tendencies today are losing out, because the world is becoming more integral and the laws of an integral system are working in it. There is nothing you can do about it. Those who do not accept and discover the laws of the integral system will experience constant decline.

Question: How can I know that the process of becoming more global is the next future stage, and not maybe just some tiny thing that we need to correct in ourselves?

Dr. Laitman: First, we believe Kabbalists because they have been talking about these things for thousands of years and the world is advancing according to what they wrote in their sources, their texts. They explained the laws of the general nature, the Higher Nature.

To further explain it, we see how true it is that the process of becoming more global are the laws of Nature, and as we move deeper into connection between us and working against our will, our desire, we get illumination from above. It is still a small illumination.

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Question: Yesterday, we talked about the upcoming conventions and various events in Latin America, and you talked about the importance of going there, that you will feel the place, the people, and that there is something special going on there behind the scenes, a special force. Can you say something about North America, whether there is importance in the place itself?

Dr. Michael Laitman: We have had many different conventions in North America. Indeed I began to feel them much more closely. The problem with North America, perhaps at least a little bit, it that there is a group dealing with Kabbalah and a group dealing also with integral education, the wisdom of connection, and I think that these two parts need to be connected, because today it is inappropriate to be divided. I really hope that the divide will be at least narrowed through the convention, because it disallows people from actualize themselves effectively and correctly.

If that divide connects, then there will be no difference between the South American and North American attitudes. For now, this is hindering, and especially lately it became a hindrance to our progress. We have to come to a state where our students feel no difference between the wisdom of connection and the wisdom of Kabbalah, as there is no difference. However, if we are talking about going outwards, then that is a different story. If we disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah and people come to us, then we teach the wisdom of Kabbalah first, and afterwards, one comes to the wisdom of connection, as Baal HaSulam writes about “love your friend as yourself.”

You can realize the wisdom of Kabbalah only by connecting to others. That is its actualization. On one hand, studying the wisdom of Kabbalah theoretically gives nothing. On the other hand, if people do not come to the wisdom of Kabbalah and display no interest, you come to them with the wisdom of connection in order to make their lives easier. Then, you gradually pull them into connection, and in the connection, little by little, you show them the basics of Kabbalah, even without mentioning it first, that it is the wisdom of Kabbalah. You then eventually reveal it. It depends on how they advance. We still need to put together these things.

Student: So it is a very meaningful stage in the development of the North American Kli [vessel], which is bringing all the different students to the same perspective and understanding with respect to the wisdom of connection.

This Q&A is based on the Special Q&A Session with Dr. Michael Laitman in Preparation for the ONE Convention, which took place on Sunday, June 16. Watch the whole video & stay up-to-date with ONE Convention preparation materials here »