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Kabbalah: The Bnei Baruch Association – Kabbalah Education & Research Institute.
Attainment of Unity
of the Universe
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by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD.
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The Essence of Kabbalah is in Leading Us to the Realization of Evil
The purpose of all man’s actions in his aspiration to attain the Upper world is the realization of evil within him. He discovers that his natural egoism stands in his way to the Upper world.
However, this definition is incorrect: we do not aspire after the attainment of the Upper world. Actually, we have no need for it. The Upper world means greater concealment because the higher the world is, the more it is concealed. So there is no good news here.
From this it follows that the attainment of the Upper world is the revelation of the Creator’s unity in even greater contradictions and disparities that we feel within. In the Upper world we do not find space filled with demons and angels. On the contrary, we attain one force and, simultaneously we reveal many other seemingly independent forces. By uniting them all in one, we reveal the Creator.
Besides the objects that we observe in this world, man attains only one force that stands behind and controls them all. A clear, explicit apprehension of this force is called the revelation of the Upper world. We reveal only the degree of unity in the universal governance.
When we say that the Upper world is full of objects, we mean the multitude of forces that control us, which we ultimately unite in one single force called the Creator.
We cannot help being amazed and puzzled when we read “The Study of Ten Sefirot.” What does this book describe? It describes the soul that is influenced, controlled by two opposite spiritual forces.
Why are they opposite? One of them comes from the direction of the Kli, the other – from the Light. They can be called Hassadim and Hochma or Rachamim and Din (mercy and judgment). They are revealed in Zivug de Aka’a, inside our material. Nothing else exists.
Therefore, I wish to say that the attainment of the Upper Worlds is the attainment of various measures of the indivisible governing force. What does the expression “various measures” mean? This means the extent of revelation of its contradictions. The higher the world is, the deeper the contradiction between what seems to us and the solution for this contradiction. That is all. That is to say, one and the same problem is being solved constantly – the revelation of the Creator’s unity.
All the difference between created beings lies in the extent of their realization of evil. A higher evolved creature comprehends a higher degree of its evil (i.e., its opposition to the Creator). This is the only parameter and, in general, the only way to evaluate oneself in relation to the ultimate standard – the Creator.
Therefore, it recognizes evil and pushes it away more than an undeveloped creature that feels a lesser degree of it and therefore leaves it within, because it does not feel it as evil.
Let us suppose I knew that in order to escape death, grave disease, or dreadful punishment I have to get up and come to this lesson. I would undoubtedly do so.
If I lack this confidence, if my group, my habit, my inner statute fail to convince me, then I stay at home. Everything is determined either by the need to avoid suffering or to receive pleasure.
If I knew that this brings me a million dollars, (it does not matter what sum represents a million dollars for each of us) I would not find it difficult to get up in the middle of the night and rush to the lesson because I would know that I gain much more than a few hours of sleep.
Therefore, everything depends on how much more important the Creator’s revelation and my contact with Him are than the pleasure that I can imagine today in the state of separation from Him. This is the meaning of the realization of evil. This evil is perceived as the lack of contact with the Creator in the sham reception of pleasure that we seek.
Hence, it is said that the basis of all evil is love for oneself called egoism. This quality is opposite to the Upper force, which only possesses the will to bestow.
If so, wherein lies the attainment of unity? The attainment of the Creator and the entrance into the Upper world is equivalent to attainment of unity or to the achievement of the property of bestowal, inclusion into it, adhesion with it.
Those who imagine the spiritual world as something other than the attainment of the greater altruistic property, of bestowal, (when all the problems of unification between the Creator and creation together with all the conflicting circumstances that emerge because of it are solved)completely misunderstand this notion. The Upper world is our state at a more altruistic level.
A person who does not aspire to achieve it, whose actions are aimed at receiving everything from everyone, at placing everyone under his control who disregards the recommendations of Kabbalists, is in no way advancing towards the union with the Creator.
It is impossible to approach the Creator and at the same time behave in the opposite way: subdue others, dictate to them how they should develop spiritually, aspire to trample down the entire world.
There is no coercion in spirituality. This is the main principle in accordance with which we have to explore the spiritual realm. Our attitude towards ourselves and others should be based on it. The property of bestowal is opposite to coercion. There is no difference between the revelation of unity of all forces and the attainment of the Creator, of His property of bestowal.
Why can’t I easily correlate the world’s manifestation around me and the lack of bestowal within me? These things do not appear the same to me at all.
I see the big world around me with no Creator present in it. How can I know that if I start giving, everything will be good?
I perceive the world’s picture in accordance with my egoistical Kli. I draw this picture on my egoistical substrate and the Creator is entirely absent from it. This world is governed by various forces, governments, financiers, and the military, all of which are mere puppets.
Since my egoistical property is opposite to the Creator, I perceive the surrounding reality accordingly. Hence, it is said: “Kol ha-Posel be Mumo Posel” (“Everyone judges by his own defect”).
However, as soon as I transform my egoistical properties into altruistic, I become similar to the Creator. He enters into my world and begins revealing Himself in all that is outside and within me. It turns out that I merge with Him through the surrounding world.
The first and most important state that we go through is called the realization of evil. We understand that because of our egoism (i.e., opposition to the Creator) we perceive the surrounding world and Him incorrectly.
I do not cry to the Creator: “Why are You hiding from me?!” I cannot see Him and I do not know Him, but I was told that he exists. However, I am not looking for a way to perceive reality correctly as yet. Gradually, I start realizing why my state is so imperfect. And what is a “perfect state?” Kabbalists say that it is the state of similarity to the Creator, the state of absolute bestowal.
I am not in that state because I am opposite to Him. Since my nature is absolute egoism, I accordingly make a decision as to what I should do: I am going to change not the outside picture, not the surrounding world, but myself. As I switch my attention to the source of action and start changing myself, my perception of reality also starts changing.
In point of fact, reality does not change: I remain in the same perfect and corrected state (in the world of Infinity, Ein Sof). However, I will be able to feel it only after correcting myself. The entire world excluding me is perfectly corrected.
The person who begins attaining the world reveals that nothing exists around him but the Creator (i.e., the absolutely corrected state) and the completely corrected souls. It turns out that everything depends only on his personal correct inclusion in this picture.
The sensation of aversion for egoism is different in every soul. An underdeveloped person does not consider egoism a bad quality; hence, he uses it openly and shamelessly. A highly evolved person is aware of a certain degree of his egoism and is ashamed to demonstrate it in public; therefore he usually disguises its use.
In other words, the extent of man’s egoism determines the way it will be used. Enormous egoism completely rules over people in defiance of education and caution. Some of them pursue their political goals; others resort to robbery and murder.
We see it in politicians, whose methods of communication cardinally differ from that of ordinary people. Their egoism is so enormous that today’s enemy may easily turn into a close friend and ally the next day and back into an implacable enemy again by the end of that day. This is not considered enmity or friendship; rather, it is perceived as politically correct conduct.
The only importance is attached to what is rational and profitable and others’ interests are bluntly disregarded. Such people aspire to fill their Kli at every moment of their existence. This conduct is considered quite normal, and the better they can take advantage of others to achieve their goals, the more commendation they deserve.
Such people are driven only by the inner program of achieving power. They can kill and confer decorations, steal and persecute – all the available means are good as long as their objectives are attained. If the person is focused only on the attainment of his goal and steadily advances towards it, he is believed to be a wise and prudent politician. Such people inevitably achieve their goals and usually serve as heads of our governments.
Thus, the degree of man’s egoism determines how unceremonious his behavior is. And vice versa, when he begins to feel the ugliness of his egoism, this sensation defines his spiritual level and dictates all of his actions.
The level when a person already feels his egoism with regard to the Creator is necessary. Unlike politicians and ordinary people, the person attracts the influence of the surrounding Light upon himself with his own efforts.
The surrounding Light affects us and we perceive our own properties as opposite to the properties of this Light. This sensation of our contrast to the higher level (not to the Creator so far) turns into the realization of evil and compels us to diminish the difference between us (purification).
To be in the process of the preliminary spiritual correction means to reach the level of the realization of evil, to feel one’s opposition to the Light, to the Creator’s properties.
The opposition you feel within should suppress all the other negative sensations to such an extent that only this problem would be before you. When only this problem exists for you, then your desire to solve it is defined as “raising MAN,” offering a prayer, appealing to the Creator.
The Creator responds only to the request for a solution to this problem (of disparity between you and Him). The rest is not considered a problem. All the problems will be accumulating within you until you realize that they are but the elements of this single problem: your opposition to Him. Everything else was created for this purpose, our entire world with all of its “problems.”
When a person reaches this correct state (i.e., “Only the Creator and I exist, and I have to attain this truth!”), then this inner conviction is called “raising MAN” because man’s suffering is felt by its upper level (the AHP of the upper Partzuf that is lowered into us), and just this desire can be included in the upper level.
This is a request for merging, correction, ascent to the level where man becomes one with the Creator. He already asks for what the upper level is ready to give (correction and fulfillment) and immediately rises to the Upper world’s first level.
This will take place only when a person has only one desire – to become completely similar to the Creator. This happens automatically; nothing is supposed to rise anywhere. By the spiritual ascent we mean the advancement towards a more altruistic state. There is nothing else up there.
Everything depends on a person. A highly evolved person feels egoism as something so disgusting that he cannot tolerate it. Therefore, he expels it completely in accordance with his level of realization, for he neither wishes nor is able to receive pleasure at the expense of others.
He begins to feel that the Creator intentionally surrounds him with other people. He wants the person to understand through this confusion of relations with others that basically, it is his attitude towards the Creator who stands behind them all. These others are not one but many to enable man to unite with the Creator.
Ultimately, sparks of love for his neighbor start awakening in the person. They are called altruism, which is the basis of good. This quality gradually develops in him. First he develops a feeling of love to his relatives and wants to take care of them. When the quality of altruism develops within him even more, a degree of bestowal to everyone around him, his neighbors, his people, and all humankind grows in him as well.
A person perceives more and more distant souls as created beings that exist for the sake of the goal.
We see that the spiritual levels of the Creator’s attainment are the levels of our increasingly greater realization and correction of evil. The expanding concentric circles of our good, altruistic attitude towards more and more people will ultimately embrace the entire human race.
The Baal HaSulam explains it in the Introduction to “The Study of Ten Sefirot.” When a person becomes aware of his egoism and corrects it, he starts feeling other souls’ desires as his own and corrects them. Thus, love for all creations and unity with them fills him. In this unity with other parts of the Kli he feels unity with the Creator.
The understanding that the revelation of the Upper world and ascending its levels is the increasingly greater attainment of the altruistic properties, the correct definition of the spiritual instantly answers man’s question: “Does he aspire to it or not?”
Therefore, a person has to decide every time whether his idea of the spiritual is correct. If he perceives spirituality as some imaginary picture and believes that he aspires to a more comfortable state, then he clearly lost direction.
Question: Does it follow from your words that a person starts correcting other souls and develops the sensation of others only after the completion of his own correction?
No, it doesn’t. The ascent to every level means unity of man with the universe. This unity is achieved in two stages.
The first stage of unity with the universe comes when I stop using my egoistical Kelim. This is called the correction of Galgalta ve Eynaim.
Let’s take a look at this process. With regard to the spiritual my egoism equals zero: I want neither spirituality nor the Creator. This means that my egoism is only at the level of this world: I crave for bodily pleasures, I want to know and receive everything I see in it. The Creator does not exist for me; hence I feel only this world and have no other desires.
Then a point in my heart (the root of the next spiritual level) starts awakening. I have to develop it, fan it, and make it swell. In other words, I need to acquire the desire for the Creator. The Baal HaSulam compares it with a person who is mad with love.
Every one of us has experienced first love in his or her life. Man is intentionally given these states so that he will have a standard by which he can measure his feelings at times when everything grows dim. "Oh, I'm so enticed, I want her so much, I love her so much, I badly want her to stay with me, become mine…" We have to have at least the same aspiration to the Creator, which are described in Song of Songs as “I am love-sick…”
In one of the Baal HaSulam’s letters this aspiration is likened to seemingly animate sensations. We ascend from this world; hence we take our examples from it. We experience it all only to compare it with our advancement to the Creator, so there is no need to be shy about using these words and expressions. This is the language of root and branch.
So we acquire a great desire for the Creator. When it rises above this entire world, this means that a person is ready to pass to the next level. This desire is not yet corrected, it is still egoistical. Yet it is directed only to the Creator. This indicates that a person has already reached the so far uncorrected spiritual state.
Now he only has to correct it. The Light (Ohr Makif) works on you and corrects your state. This is called “I tried, aspired, and found” (Yagati ve Matzati).
I cannot correct myself; the Light does it. However, I have to aspire for it. I want to attain the Creator both egoistically and altruistically at the same time. I cannot yet separate one from the other within me. The Baal HaSulam writes in the Introduction to “The Study of Ten Sefirot” that the states Lishma and LoLishma are combined together.
That is the way it should be. I have to understand that, on the one hand, it is my aspiration to altruism, while, on the other hand, it is still egoistical. This is my state and it can’t be helped. However, I have this desire and if it exists in me, then by correcting it I can ascend the next spiritual level.
This way I receive my first correction and as a result I begin to understand what the altruistic property is. I acquire altruistic qualities and aspiration to the Creator. This starts from zero above the Machsom. In fact, it appeared first below the Machsom, but in the spiritual world it is considered to be zero level.
Subsequently, bigger and bigger egoistical desires emerge within me. As they grow from the Aviut 0 to 4 and become enormous, I correct them all with Galgalta ve Eynaim (GE), i.e., abstain from using them.
I correct and purify them using the properties of Bina and thus correct my GE. By neutralizing my increasingly growing egoism I gradually rise from our world to the world of Atzilut. When I reach the last egoistical level while receiving nothing for myself (as a righteous person who needs nothing for himself) and acquire all the properties of GE, then I completely entered the world of Atzilut.
Now I make another action. What does “correct GE” mean? I do not want anything from anyone. I merely correct my attitude towards others and stop using them selfishly.
Upon correcting my GE (i.e., after correcting myself with regard to the rest of the souls), I start correcting my AHP (Awzen, Hotem, Peh). I begin to absorb other souls’ desires in order to correct and fill them.
My corrected GE enable me to work with them thanks to the property of complete Bina that I acquired. Bina’s desire is to correct egoism and fill it with Light in the same way Ima fills ZON. Now I wish to do the same for other souls: I want to accept their desires because for me they are like AHP.
I absorb their egoism and correct it – feed it, fulfill it. This action is referred to as the attachment of AHP. My AHP are made up of all the souls, the rest of the Kli. Until I do that, I will not be able to complete my correction.
It turns out that when I attain the properties of GE, I become equal to the Creator. He is in the same state, wishing only to delight His creations and nothing for Himself.
What is my advantage with regard to the Creator? The fact is that I share the same egoistical properties with all the creations. Since I have my own egoism, my own AHP, I can correct, help, and fill them. The Creator is unable to do this.
My advantage over Him is that I am His messenger, representative in this world. This way by carrying out His actions I become like Him.
The correction of GE means that although all the souls gradually reveal themselves to me in such a way that I can use them, I do not want to do that. This process is defined as the gradual correction of GE. This is the manifestation of my unwillingness to use the surrounding world, the souls and the Creator selfishly. Afterwards, I will use the souls to fill them.
I constantly work with all souls, either refraining from their use for myself or using them in order to fill them.
Therefore, with regard to them I act as the Creator. The souls constitute the third party in a situation where I and the Creator are similar. I treat them in the same way He does: His attitude towards them is absolutely good, and, by acquiring the property of GE, I treat them similarly, without any self-interest. The way He wishes to fill them, I too correct myself and with His help can fill all the other souls.
Hence, it is said that man completes creation and leads it to the goal. The Creator and I become equal partners with regard to the rest of the universe. That is why He broke the common soul into parts and gave these parts an opportunity to treat others as He does.
Conscious and Unconscious Development
Two forces push us forward and compel us to climb the spiritual levels until we reach its top – the final goal, when our properties become equal to those of the Upper force:
1. One of the forces propels us without our choice or realization. It spurs us from behind; Kabbalists call it “the path of suffering.” Ethical and educational systems based on empirical knowledge tested by the practical mind stem from it.
The essence of this system is nothing but evaluation of harm caused by the growing sprouts of egoism. This experimental data was received “by chance.”
What does “by chance” mean? While existing on this planet, I and billions of other people feel destiny’s blows, learn what is good and what is bad, and finally create a certain picture. Thus we decide what we should do and what we should not do in order to exist comfortably.
We bring this data together into what we call an ethical or educational system. In Hebrew it is called “Musar” (moral teaching). We create this system empirically and we ought to take it into consideration because it includes our entire previous experience.
What is good or bad about this system? It works well with regard to our world and badly with regard to where we have no knowledge or experience. That is to say, cause and effect are concealed from us; hence we have no idea of what we should do with regard to the spiritual world.
Ask a wise man in our world who engages in science, arts or philosophy: “What should be done?” and he will be at a loss how to answer your question. Because we do not receive the correct information about our actions, see no cause and effect, we cannot instruct the next generation: “Do this and do not do that.”
That is why our education is worthless, and every next generation will be unhappier than the one before it. So in fact, the system simply does not work.
A system of education is the most important thing in the world. If we had sufficient experience and knowledge, our children would be happy. Next time we come to this world we would correct ourselves and live happily. We would pass this information from generation to generation and with its help would be able to act correctly.
However, we cannot do that, hence this path is called the path of suffering. We will never know how to advance based on experience because egoism is constantly renewed. The problem is that today I cannot approach my egoism with the previously accumulated experience. Every moment it grows, expands, and renews itself within me.
We have no experience to match our developing egoism; hence we constantly err. Only if we apply to it the knowledge of Kabbalists (above reason, above our understanding), who advise us how to deal with it, will we be able to act correctly. This is called “faith above reason.”
We should understand that neither we nor anyone else has any past experience to manage our ever-growing egoism. We ought to draw on the experience of Kabbalists who have reached higher spiritual levels and blindly follow their advice because we perceive our new additional egoism incorrectly.
Unless we follow the advice of Kabbalists, our advancement takes place under the constraining influence of natural forces. They push us forward and we constantly receive bruises and bumps in the process. As a result, we do not progress correctly.
2. The second force pushes us forward by means of our conscious awareness. We choose this force on our own. It draws us from the front and Kabbalists call it “the path of Kabbalah.” By taking this path and following the advice of Kabbalists with the intention of making our properties equal to the Upper force, we quickly realize our evil and receive a double benefit.
So what are the characteristics of these two paths?
The first one – the path of suffering – gradually teaches us that we should find another way to advance. In other words, we should stop relying on our own experience, strength, knowledge and memory, as well as on the advice of people like ourselves. That is because none of us has sufficient experience to know at every moment of time how to act in this world. Our egoism is constantly changing; every second we have a new Kli that never existed before and we do not know how to deal with it. Every new Kli requires a special method of interaction.
Our second opportunity is to use the opinion, knowledge and advice of Kabbalists who say that the only correct approach is to switch off one’s egoistical mind and to act the way the spiritual level would act in your place – altruistically.
You unite all your thoughts and properties with the Creator, and interact with Him as if you and He form a single whole. This way, although you are not really merged with Him (do not imagine that you are actually one with the Creator), your efforts draw the Upper Light (Ohr Makif) upon you.
What does the Light do? As the Baal HaSulam writes, it stimulates within you the realization of evil. It does not make you happy right away. I do not immediately become similar to the Creator just because I aspire to Him and believe that there is none else beside Him.
He does not reveal Himself to me at once because I am opposite to Him and I still must correct myself. That is why evil is revealed to me! I feel it as suffering, and here a problem exists: I do not want to feel this evil because it hurts, so instinctively I move away from this path.
What should I do? How can I overcome this pain from being opposite to the Creator, bad, imperfect, and full of detestable properties? How can I get over pain and feel pleasure because evil was revealed to me?
What should I be thinking about so as not to let the realization of evil suppress my inner aspiration to advance? This sensation can be so overpowering that I will run away from it with my eyes shut.
This means that our goal is to feel all the stages on our path to the Creator as a constant pleasant and exciting ascent.
At the same time, while realizing our evil, we see how corrupt and insignificant we are. So what can we do?
Here a person needs a group which tells him: “What you are feeling now (your realization of evil) is in fact wonderful. This indicates that we advance towards the goal. This is the way we really are and now we reveal the truth. The revelation of truth does not pass unnoticed; the fact that your true state is revealed to you is a great victory.”
The group should support the person and help him to understand that the revelation of evil within him is actually the best encouraging sign he can possibly receive from the Creator. In that case, he will perceive the realization of evil as delightful liberation and will say to himself: “I have achieved this state at last.”
How can it be that I suddenly feel suffering as pleasure? This is possible because we consist of the heart and the mind. We may suffer in our heart (i.e., in our desires), but in our mind we can perceive it as pangs of love.
I associate suffering with the goal and appraise it with regard to the future state because the realization of evil occurs under the influence of the Ohr Makif. I already imagine and subconsciously look forward to attaining the next higher state.
I will become like the Light, not like my present Kli, although now I only feel contrast between them.
If a person receives the direction to the Light from the group and from its leader, he will not fear the realization of evil.
We do not have to wait until our life experience starts pushing us from behind by means of pain. At the same time, our intention to reach similarity to the Upper force helps us to develop the same realization of evil without suffering.
As soon as we begin to aspire to become equal to the Upper force, we feel its purity and sweetness. The comprehension of meanness of self-love develops in us. This growing revelation of evil develops in combination with a feeling of pleasure and peace of mind that slowly emerges within us as a result of similarity to the Upper force.
If we independently advance, we align ourselves with the Creator correctly and see our defects with regard to Him and look forward to our liberation and healing within Him.
This way we gain time, because we act consciously; it is in our power to do more and thus speed up the process of our correction until we achieve absolute equality to the Upper force and merge with it.
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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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