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Kabbalah: The Bnei Baruch Association – Kabbalah Education & Research Institute.
Kabbalah Revealed:
Attainment of Unity
of the Universe
Continuation of the lesson given by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD
Date: July 13, 2004
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Question: What is the difference between the attainment of unity through the realization of evil and simply in the egoistical Kelim?
The typical realization of evil occurs not in the surrounding Light, but by itself. You get caught if you steal; you get exposed if you lie. Here I evaluate myself not with regard to the Upper Light, but with regard to the punishment I receive. Hence, I need to steal in such a way as not to be caught or if I get caught all the time, I have to stop stealing.
What is the conclusion I make? I can stop using my egoism because I have no other way out or I look for ways to use it legitimately and so as to avoid punishment. However, I do not try to correct egoism and my realization of evil happens not in the spiritual Light, but at the level of this world.
The spiritual altruistic Light, the Ohr Makif, descends upon us if we artificially begin to wish to become similar to the Creator and work in the group to attain that objective. As a result of that, the Upper Light affects us and with regard to it we feel our evil. This evil is totally different: it is not the fear that I will be caught and punished; I suffer because I desperately want to be like the Creator, but my nature is opposite to Him.
I evaluate my egoism in a completely different way. The path of suffering, Musar, compulsive education that forces man to refrain from evil does not correct him. We see: jails are still open; people become increasingly worse; and what was previously considered an outrage is accepted as a norm today. We can get used to the drug problem, tolerate prostitution, and connive at larceny.
Why do most human vices become accepted? This is because we are powerless against our egoism. We simply slacken our standards of the permissible. Only a downright murder still goes without acquittal.
This happens because we want to correct ourselves with regard to punishment, but not with regard to the Light. Correspondingly, we do not ask the Upper Light to correct us and remain as we are. Generations deteriorate instead of becoming better.
The system of compulsive education and interdiction (Musar) teaches humanity nothing. Its task is to bring people to the last level of the realization of evil and to let them see that they cannot get out of this situation by themselves and are in need of a completely new, different system of education and ethics.
Humankind will then discover that only Kabbalah provides an answer because this system stimulates the descent of the Upper Light and enables man to feel it and compare himself with it. Nothing short of that will help.
Until then, we will continue degenerating all the time.
Question: Why can’t I attain the Creator’s world by merely realizing the difference between myself and Him, without the realization of evil?
The following definitions of good: the realization of evil, the sensation of absence of the Creator’s unity, and remoteness from real, true comfort (in the egoistical state we cannot feel it anyway because it disappears next moment) can be perceived only in contact with the root.
Is the attainment of the Creator and becoming an altruist the same thing? We should clarify what this expression, “the attainment of the Creator,” really means. As a matter of fact, it is equivalent to the acquisition of the altruistic properties.
How can you acquire such properties? You have no other method, no other system of control, but a group of like-minded people. How can we approach this? Obviously, we cannot “fall upon” the entire world; hence, the best way to begin is by organizing a small group. What is the method, how can we know – how? To help us with that, a statute is given to us from the upper level.
Everything is interrelated; hence you only need to begin correctly. For example, in different languages the same object may have different names: table, stol (Russian), Tisch (German), Shulchan (Hebrew), etc. Now instead of different words, I will have this notion inside me. What does it mean "to go from the language to a notion" I will fill words with their inner meaning. Instead of using the words stol, Tisch, Shulchan, I will simply penetrate inside and perceive forces instead of an objects.
Delve into the notion, “I, the Creator and our unity” and you will see that nothing else exists. The rest of the properties, actions, and everything else that happens to us and within us are included in these three objects: I, the Creator and the means of our merging. At the moment they are torn within you because you use many different words to express the same notion.
Once you determine correctly of what you speak, all the contradictions will disappear.
Question: Why do I need to recognize evil, if I can see the Creator behind all that exists anyway?
To see means to perceive and one can perceive only if one is to a certain extent similar to the perceived object. This is true even in this world. Unless I have an inner mechanism capable of generating and perceiving an outside wave, I simply cannot hear it. All our earthly sense organs are based on that and so are the spiritual.
To feel the Creator means to be somewhat similar to Him. Consequently, I cannot remain an egoist and at the same time feel Him. In this case, I just imagine that I feel Him: I hear a voice from above or see visionary images. There are many people who experience such auditory and visual hallucinations. However, I have no way to feel the Creator without to some extent being an altruist.
This is possible only if my attitude towards others is the same as His. All spiritual work in our world stems from it. That is the purpose of this world – to let everyone prepare himself for a meeting with the Creator.
You may ask any questions that you like, but you will finally see that everything before you exists only for that and there is no contradiction at all. All in man and around him was created with one single purpose – to let him find a way to the Creator. The entire creation was meant only for that and we need not do anything else in this world! This is the only purpose for its existence.
Question: Is altruism a controlled egoism?
Altruism is a controlled egoism! You expressed it so wonderfully and so very correctly. We cannot get away from egoism and retain all its properties without suppressing them. We correctly use not egoism, but rather the will to receive. Egoism is the desire to receive pleasure for one’s self. You use this desire, but already for pleasing others and consequently the Creator.
Question: On the one hand, the realization of evil is the absence of the will to bestow and the aspiration to similarity of properties with the Creator. On the other hand, the mind enables you to understand things and to advance. How can we prevent the mind from telling us that everything is all right?
The interrelation between the mind and desires can be different: either desire dictates what the mind should do or the mind tries to obscure desire. The mind and desire should interrelate in such a way that the left and the right line – desires and mind – coincided in the third point – the Creator.
In some cases (as in our world) feelings dominate over the mind and in others the mind neutralizes feelings or simply disregards them. In both cases the result is not good. Everything should be based on the middle line, between Hesed and Gevura, Din and Rachamim.
Question: The mind rejoices because the Kli is highlighted and the realization of evil takes place. This is like the right diagnosis – a new Kli manifests and offers more work. On the other hand, this joy subdues the desire for the realization of evil: everything seems to be all right…
If your aspiration to the Creator is powerful enough, the realization of evil becomes a pleasant experience for you, because it reveals your nature as opposite to the Creator.
Being afraid that this state will end, you will stop aspiring to the Creator and trying to reach the equivalence to Him in properties. Instead, you will want to remain in the same state while admitting to yourself: “Now I feel that I am opposite to the Creator. How good it is that I’ve reached this level!” This is called Klipah.
Sometimes a person sits and suffers while eating his heart out and at the same time enjoying it: “What a poor sufferer am I!” Such states can continue for a long time and a person can hardly get out of it by himself.
The best way is to do it under the influence of the society, which is capable of illuminating man’s path. This way he begins to see that there is a higher state and acquires an additional desire for it. As a rule, envy awakens at this point and this is a very good feeling. If used correctly, it can give you a mighty push forward.
However, such states do exist. In every state, both the worst and the best, the Klipot (our egoism) have a way of slipping out in such a way that a person will start enjoying them. Even when there is no escape and the person is led to his doom, his egoism will still find something sublime in this state to justify its existence.
It is amazing what our egoism can do! It is really equal to the Creator in its power.
The Science of Kabbalah is Intended for the Benefit of its User
The difference between the Kabbalistic method of man’s correction and other methods lies in their goal: what standards should the corrected person meet, those of society or those of the Upper force?
In other words, with regard to what do we evaluate ourselves? Do we want to become good citizens or do we aspire to become similar to the Creator? That is what makes Kabbalah so cardinally different from ethics, in the same way as spirituality differs from corporeality.
Ethics sees its goal in building a happy society the way the practical mind based on life experience comprehends it. This goal does not promise an individual any benefit beyond the limitations of nature.
Nowadays we are trying to introduce a new notion all over the world – “new ethics.” What does it mean?
We can say to the society: “Folks would you like to live well? You see that misfortunes are befalling us all the time; hence we can be happy only if we change. If we become better and more altruistic, we will live well.”
By setting this goal and putting ourselves in this position, we come back to communism and socialism that we have already lived through. The Baal HaSulam writes: “The impending blow will be appalling because we replace the goal with a substitute. The goal cannot be the achievement of good life in society. It should be to attain the Creator and to merge with Him.”
Unless we reveal this Goal and aspire to attain it, all our efforts lead us in a faulty direction.
Therefore, it is wrong to appear on television and broadcast on the radio that we have to correct ourselves to be good and live well. This is the return to communism and nothing good will come out of it because we substitute the Purpose of creation with an artificial goal.
Our animate egoism that says “Let’s make a good life for ourselves” will inevitably lead us again to a much greater fiasco than the one we are witnessing today.
Why is Russia in such a state today? The reason for it lies in the fact that the people there took the divine principle of bestowal, and although there was no trace of bestowal in what they did, they declared this idea as their goal, profaned it; and hence, caused harm of disastrous proportions to themselves.
If they had realized different ideas, they would have gone through all the processes and states long ago and achieved good results. Without this change they tend to plunge into dictatorship again only because they misused the divine idea.
If we say to the society: “To live well, let’s study Kabbalah and correct ourselves. The instrument called the Upper Light will correct us and we will feel good,” we will make the most terrible mistake and will cause irreparable damage to ourselves, to others, and to our children.
We have to explain to the society what the purpose of creation is: “There is one indivisible Creator, and our goal is to merge with Him.” If all our actions are directed toward it, then all our intermediate states will be comfortable, but not egoistical. They will be pleasant because we will live in this goal and attain it.
Therefore, any other way of development, except gradual education of society and publishing textbooks is unacceptable. First, we have to promote Kabbalah among people through other sciences, arts, and culture and only afterwards will we come to publication of college and school textbooks.
People will begin to see how all things work around us and support this idea. The idea about the Creator’s oneness and our unity with Him will not look unreal anymore. It will gradually receive a powerful backing from the society and a call for such advancement will be heard and accepted.
Therefore I believe that we should start disseminating these ideas through science, gradually describing these ideas and presenting them to the society in the right manner.
Question: It turns out that this idea can be accepted only by the young because the older generation is allergic to all of these communist ideas?
No, it would be wrong to say that only the young generation can accept these ideas and enter the Land and the old generation should die out as those who exited Egypt.
The communist slogan was: “I need to get rid of egoism to live happily in my society materially.”
Our slogan is different: “I need to attain unity with the Creator and to rise to the spiritual level.” Now the goal changes cardinally: we want to attain the Creator, not to reach social happiness.
The fact that the attainment of the Creator presupposes correction of egoism and its transformation into altruism is a consequence. It works differently because in the past it was based on compulsion, whereas now it stems from the realization of necessity.
A person cannot change anything within him unless he previously goes through the realization of evil and understands the need to correct it. He then asks the Creator for power of correction, receives it, and rises to its level and starts acting.
Everything changes: the goal and the means of its attainment. Only the definition remains the same – the alleged correction of egoism.
The society needs to go through gradual adaptation to this idea. This process should be voluntary because the true realization of evil comes from within a person.
Politicians will never understand it. I cannot imagine someone who was born and raised in Russia and who has any idea about the correct development. This country’s reality turned inhuman relations into a norm. Their education is so tough that a miracle should happen for a person to hear and understand what we say.
Question: How will religion treat this idea?
We have nothing in common with religion or other theories. We have our own view; they have theirs -- and life will tell what is right and what is wrong. There is no antagonism here.
We have a great number of various properties and we do not choose which of them to correct. At a certain time and in certain circumstances we begin to see our shortcomings and try to correct them. Similarly, various philosophies and religions will really understand why they appeared and what their purpose is.
Nothing was created in vain; everything has its role and predestination under the sun. The Baal HaSulam writes that even at the end of correction there will be religions and that they have a right to exist. It seems incredible because religion is a set of rituals or faith in something supernatural. How can it exist if I consciously attain the Creator?
We cannot imagine these states, but these words seem to reassure us and say: “All contradictions will be resolved naturally and peacefully. Don’t worry, Kabbalists will make no crusades. They will only show you that it is worth your while to start thinking about the reason of your suffering. Not against your will, but voluntarily. That is all.”
Ethics sees its goal in building a happy society the way the practical mind based on life experience comprehends it. This goal does not promise an individual any benefit beyond the limitations of nature.
If the goal is not out of reach of criticism, then who can prove to a person once and for all that he has a fair share of benefits, so as to make him relinquish a certain part of what is due to him for the sake of society? In other words, within the framework of society we can only act for the sake of our egoistical benefit. To this extent, we can annul ourselves in relation to the society.
In contrast to that, the goal of Kabbalistic development promises man the attainment of happiness. A person who attains love for others in accordance with the law of equivalence of properties merges with the Upper force, transcends his narrow world of suffering and enters into the eternal world of bestowal to the force that created him to the creations.
A person can begin to treat others with love when he aspires to the sublime reward of merging with the Creator. “I am ready to love you if it brings me to unity with the Creator, to the attainment of eternity and perfection.” Only this way we can have egoistical powers to think in this direction.
Therefore, we initially have to use the notion of the need for the Creator’s revelation and merging with Him in our explanations. I cannot address the public by saying: “Folks, do you want to be healthy and happy? Let’s annul our egoism and treat each other well.”
This will be no different from the corrupt communism that we have experienced. I should, rather, say: “The ultimate purpose lies in unity with the Creator. Merging with Him is our reward.” If I can direct a person this way, I will be able to enhance his understanding of the Creator’s importance and the greatness of the goal that he will agree to give up his egoism. It will then be the perfectly correct action. Whereas by veiling of this goal (i.e., by creating a new ethical system of comfortable and nice existence) we commit a very grave mistake.
The Baal HaSulam writes in his article “Granting the Torah” about the terrible blunder that was committed in Russia, where they used this idea simply for attaining social well-being. Instead of attaining the Creator and bestowing to Him they wanted to achieve happy living in the society. By so doing they detached themselves from the Upper sources and entered the terrible 70-year period, which has not yet ended. Being at the peak of their economic, cultural, and social development, they tumbled down from that high level.
The system of ethics obliges the person to seek positive regard from others, which is similar to renting something with payback by the end of the term: that is, you give me, I give you, and we have a good disposition towards each other. Man’s habit for such work prevents him from climbing even the steps of ethics, for he gets used to such efforts that are well awarded by those around him for his good deeds.
The ethical rules state that, provided we treat each other well, we will live happily. I treat you nicely; you treat me nicely. If you do not, I will compel you to treat me well. In other words, this constitutes a complete separation from the spiritual.
Whereas the person studying Kabbalah for the sake of bestowal to the Upper force in similarity to its actions and receiving nothing in return, really climbs the moral levels. Little by little he acquires a new, different nature of bestowal to his neighbor. He receives nothing for himself, but the bare necessities to sustain his existence in this world.
Herein lies the essence of genuine ethics or moral teaching: I should stop wishing anything for myself. Imagine what a difficult path lies before humankind before it realizes and agrees to it. Anything that comes short of this is not Kabbalah.
Only this way can man truly get rid of his natural egoism and all nature’s interdictions. For when he abhors any reception for his own sake, when his soul is free from all unnecessary and excessive bodily pleasures, when he stops craving for wealth, recognition, and power, he freely enters the realm of the Upper force. He is guaranteed from any harm, because all harm is caused by egoism alone.
However, his goal is not the achievement of well-being. He desires to merge with the Upper force; that is his reward. Today we cannot understand it because we always transform this notion of confluence with the goal as the ultimate good.
It is therefore obvious that the wisdom of Kabbalah serves those who use it, while being of no benefit to those who ignore it. And even if all of man’s actions are aimed at his correction, this is only a means to reach the goal of becoming equal with the Upper force.
This goal is so alien to our egoistical notions and desires that at the beginning it is difficult for us to imagine it. Imagine how enormously important this abstract goal should appear to us, so that we would be able to wish to relinquish our present properties and to merge with it!
At the same time, what a horrible tragedy we have to live through in our present properties to desire to give them up. Either we will be forced by appalling suffering, or the goal irradiated by the Upper Light will pull us up.
This must be a superhuman, heavenly force of the Upper Light that can solve this problem for us. In no way can we treat or solve it rationally.
I am immersed in my egoism and the enormous world is in front of me. I wish to devour it, to use it in its entirety. Suddenly, I have to imagine some goal of merging with the Creator, bestowal to Him. This is all very good for Him, but where am I here? I do not exist in this picture.
Attraction to this goal can be very simple and easy (it only seems to us that it is impossible) under the influence of the Light, which emanates from this goal. This Light attracts and at the same time corrects us: although we are drawn to it egoistically, the correction turns us into altruists. This happens without our conscious realization.
Therefore, the most important thing is to shut your eyes and draw the Upper Light’s emanation upon yourself in accordance with Kabbalists recommendations. There is nothing else. You have no idea where this Light comes from; you cannot agree with it or attract it.
The ordinary mind cannot grasp it. Follow the advice that you receive from them. Through the history the ideas of people brought nothing but suffering: only following Kabbalists’ clear instructions can help us.
You cannot imagine how much has been written by Kabbalists over thirty-eight centuries of Kabbalah’s existence as a science. These powerful sources have come from a great spiritual height.
Thirty-eight centuries have passed since the first book on Kabbalah was written! I do not take into consideration the book “Angel Raziel” that appeared 5700 years ago. I start with Abraham’s “Sefer Yetzira” (“The Book of Creation”).
So it is your own choice – to take the path of Kabbalah or the path of suffering.
Question: We speak about the realization of evil. What stages does this process go through?
The realization of evil is a graduated process that passes from certain objects, causes, and goals to others.
Steps of recognition of evil:
1. First, I see evil in my friends;
2. After that I see my own evil in my attitude towards them;
3. Then I see evil in my attitude towards the Creator;
4. Finally, I see evil in the Creator’s attitude towards me.
All of these stages are called the realization of evil, and we are obliged to pass them all to the very last one. We are facing the Creator, His Light, and realize the difference between the Light and the Kli, between us and the Creator. This realization of evil is, in essence, the opposite sensation of the screen’s absence.
I imagine how wonderful it would be if I had the screen now and could turn evil into good with its help!
This is the last stage of the realization of evil, whereupon I ask for the screen, receive it, make a Zivug de Aka’a and merge with the Creator in my similarity to Him.
This stage of the realization of evil is preceded by very many other stages and unknown, incomprehensible causes until the ultimate cause is clearly revealed – the lack of similarity to the Creator and the absence of the screen.
Question: Can Kabbalists help the society in its realization of evil?
Through self-correction Kabbalists simultaneously correct their inclusion in all other souls. Therefore, the more numerous we become the stronger we will be. Even without turning to the society (simply by being one common soul), we already introduce the sprouts of correction to all other souls, and they begin to understand better and subconsciously admit that it is possible and that is the way it should be.
This occurs thanks to our inclusion in them, and our numbers with regard to the size of the world’s population do not matter because everything is determined by Kabbalists’ spiritual power, by the level of the person who aspires to the Creator relative to the entire humankind.
This is similar to a million blind people following one person who is able to see. They can take him by the hand and arrive at their exact destination. In the same way, every “sighted” person, who is in some contact with the Creator (he is in contact with the common soul; we all are in contact with the rest of humankind), influences millions, billions of people because his power is much greater than theirs.
The Baal HaSulam writes that one plant is at the level that corresponds to the entire inanimate nature; that one animal is at the level that corresponds to the entire inanimate and vegetative nature; and that one man is at the level that corresponds to the entire inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature put together. The person in the spiritual state or the one who aspires to it at least a little (even if he is not at the level but wants it to some extent) is at the level that includes all the rest as absolutely mechanical elements; so whatever happens within him applies to them all.
Therefore, by our correction we prepare the entire humankind for necessary states. We will see how the masses will be ready for correction without even knowing why.
Question: One person who aspires to the spiritual influences all. That means great responsibility, doesn’t it?
The responsibility is enormous. If a person aspires to spirituality he becomes responsible for the whole world and he begins to feel it. This responsibility really begins to determine his life. Hence, it is said: “He, who accumulates wisdom, accumulates sorrow.”
The Introduction to “The Study of Ten Sefirot” tells about four stages (worlds) of man’s development: Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, and Atzilut. The person begins to share the pains of society and aspires to alleviate them and make his society better, healthier.
Unity with others, correcting and fulfilling them and ascending the spiritual levels are all the same. Every subsequent level means the Creator’s greater inclusion in other souls through you, which manifests in these Kelim because every one of us has only one point, the rest of our Kelim are in other souls.
Question: Can we liken exile to the double concealment and the exodus from Egypt and entering the desert – to a single concealment? If so, what corresponds to the return to the Creator out of fear and out of love?
The Baal HaSulam explains in the Introduction to “The Study of Ten Sefirot” that in the beginning a person feels double or single concealment.
What is concealed from man? What is the Creator’s concealment? Does this mean that there is some Creator (G-d forbid us from imagining Him this way) who is hiding from man? What is concealed is the fact that one indivisible force stands behind and governs everything. This is called concealment of the Creator.
The third and fourth stages of the Creator’s revelation are called the return out of fear and the return out of love. The return out of fear means that a person asks himself: “Have I done everything for the Creator?” Fear is precisely this. The return out of love does not presuppose even this question.
Question: On the one hand, the sighted person’s influence on the blind is enormous. However, it is very difficult to accept the Creator’s idea without a point in the heart. Can Kabbalists initiate such a point in a person?
Until a person receives a point in his heart, he will understand nothing of what you want to tell him. When it appears, this point in the heart can be developed by means of lessons, conversations, etc. Man does not know what it is and how to develop it, but the desire to advance in the right direction should come from within a person. Nothing can be achieved through coercion.
Eventually, all people will have to come to such a state. The problem is that it is impossible to influence man’s desires from outside. You cannot influence yourself to change your desire. Desires appear and change only under the influence of the Light. The Upper Light creates desire in four stages, and then gradually, in turn changes it. The Light is primary, desire is secondary; hence, we have no control over our desires.
In this world we only prefer one desire to another. What does “we prefer” mean? The Light reveals more pleasure in one desire and less in another. I make no decisions; like some device I simply determine: this gives me more pleasure and that less. There is no freedom of will in that; it is simply an unconscious calculation.
Freedom of will lies in drawing the Light. I want the Light to show me the next desire on my path to the Creator. It does not matter to me what it will be like as long as it brings me closer to the Creator. I do not look for it myself, but ask the Light to give it to me.
Where can I get it from? I will not find it within me and I cannot influence it. Neither can I get it from the outside people – they can only suppress it within me. Therefore, only a group can impart to me the importance of attracting the Light, which will reveal new desires within me. That is why we have to advance with the help of the Light, the Creator.
The dissemination of knowledge about the Creator should be above all like this: “The only means to receive from the Creator energy for advancement is to connect with Him.” That is where we have to begin our circulation. Without referring to the Creator everything in the world is corrupt because you offer people other sources of correction, energy, and fulfillment that do not exist. This way, you lead them back to the path of suffering.
Question: Will those who studied Kabbalah and stopped come back?
One cannot leave Kabbalah because by means of it you connect with the root of your soul. It turns out that by severing ties with this root a person disconnects himself from the source of life. You cannot do that because such connection has to exist somewhere.
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Kabbalist Rav Michael Laitman, PhD.,
Kabbalist, Rabbi, & Author
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World leading Kabbalist, Rav Michael Laitman, PhD has an MS in Bio Cybernetics and a PhD in Philosophy and Ontology.
Rav Laitman is the author of 25 internationally selling books on Kabbalah; his books have been translated into nine languages.
His lessons are broadcast live throughout the Internet and cable TV to tens of thousands of students the world over. In recent years he has become a sought-after lecturer in academic and learning circles in the US and Europe
His search for the meaning of life led him to the teachings of Kabbalah in the 1970’s. At first he studied Kabbalah with various teachers in Jerusalem and other parts of Israel. In 1979 he discovered his true teacher, Kabbalist Rav Baruch Shalom Halevi Ashlag (1907-1991).
From the time he met Rav Baruch Ashlag (known as the Rabash), he was never apart from him and spent most of his time in his presence, as his disciple and personal assistant. Up until his death, Rabash passed on to Rav Laitman the wisdom he had acquired from his father, Kabbalist Rav Yehuda Ashlag, known as Baal HaSulam for his Sulam commentary on The zohar (The Book of Radiance).
Rav Dr. Laitman held a successful public meeting in San-Francisco in March 2005 with leading American scientists, participants of the blockbuster hit "What the Bleep Do We Know?" Here are some of the impressions of the scientists after meeting Dr. Laitman:
Fred Alan Wolf, PhD. author of eleven books, among them The Yoga of Time Travel, Matter into Feeling: a new Alchemy of Science and Spirit, and Mind into Matter: "I admire your knowledge. I would love to sit at your feet and study for a long time."
Jeffery Satinover, MD (Psychiatry), MS (Physics) – Author of seven books including The Quantum Brain & Cracking the Bible Code: "The emergence of Kabbalah from its concealment in a genuine form is historically significant and is truly remarkable."
Rav Laitman is the founder and president of the Bnei Baruch Association – Kabbalah Education & Research Institute. Bnei Baruch is an Israeli based non-profit organization that is dedicated to spreading the wisdom of Kabbalah to all of humanity.
Bnei Baruch conducts daily Kabbalah lessons, broadcasted live on the Internet and available for free.
In 1996 Bnei Baruch created, what is now the largest and most popular Internet site on the subject of Kabbalah--www.kabbalah.info. This website provides unlimited access to Kabbalistic texts and media in over twenty languages, and hosts over a million readers every month.
Website: www.kabbalah.info.
Further information is available at www.kabbalah.info.
The following study
e-books, and resources are free,
and available in the formats listed below:
• "Attaining the Worlds Beyond",
by Kabbalist, Rav Michael Laitman, PhD.
Audio book
(MP3 format): www.kabbalah.info/
engkab/
worlds_beyond.htm
PDF:
www.kabbalah.info/
engkab/
book_4/Attaining-Text.pdf
•"Kabbalah for Beginners"
Palm download:
www.kabbalah.info
/engkab/ebook/kab_
for_beginners.htm
•"What the Bleep…"
Video Discussion:
www.kabbalahmedia.info/
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ModernScience/Kabbalah
MeetsModernScience_
pilot_eng.mpg
Rav Laitman's Latest Book Releases:
•The Kabbalah Experience
Never has the language of Kabbalah been as clear and accessible as it is here, in this compelling, informative collection. The depth of wisdom revealed in the questions and answers of this book will inspire reflection and contemplation.
•The Path of Kabbalah
“Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness” (Exodus 20:3). This commandment from the Bible is the basis of the Kabbalistic wisdom, for Kabbalists know that the only true reality is that of His Essence, the Upper Force.
For more information on obtaining these books and others, visit:
http://www.kabbalah
books.info/default.php
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