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Kabbalah: The Bnei Baruch Association – Kabbalah Education & Research Institute.
Kabbalah’s role in
creating a new
planetary consciousness
Rav Michael Laitman, PhD
in an interview with Tal Asher
February 28, 2006
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Asher: Oh! The picture deep inside?
Laitman: Deep inside.
Asher: Yes.
Laitman: So, there are such holograms. When you completely free yourself from all of your stereotypes and everything, and simply look, in this unusual way, completely independent from everything; you are empty, you do not intend to see, and then you begin to see.
So there is something like this when you come from science to Kabbalah. I remember how I used to do this, this refocusing, and naturally, it was unclear and unpleasant to me. This does not change anything in one’s past, it does not change one’s ordinary life, but still, this is a shattering of his ideas.
Asher: What is the main reason for people to go through this shattering?
Laitman: If this is a serious, genuine investigator, he will go for it.
Asher: What about a level lower, just a thinking man, without any special motivation?
Laitman: You will not come to this without motivation. This is a serious science that transforms us into a new being. In fact, it creates in us a feeling that takes us into a different dimension. That is, into the forces, scopes, objects that exist around us now, although neither we nor the instruments that we produce can grasp them.
And, naturally, we have a predisposition to begin feeling these forces, these spaces, and these dimensions. There is no regular time flow in them. The cause and effect flow happens not over time, but only by the cause of the effect. The scopes that we imagine (here or there, etc.) do not exist. This can be likened… One can say that the space that exists beyond the speed of light, when all of this turns into perfection… where time is zero and where “place” compresses into a point, and so on.
By the way, the ancient Kabbalists say that the true scope of the universe is beyond the speed of light. This is what Rambam wrote back in the seventeenth century.
Asher: It follows that we know a mere few percent of the entire universe?
Laitman: Of a true universe, yes. Of course, we know just a tiny part of a true universe. But we do not know the most important, the informational part. All that we grasp, everything that happens in this world…
Asher: Impulses that influence our world come from there?
Laitman: Yes, of course. So, of course, you need a big desire that would force you to pass this period of training, of inner self-attuning, much like one tunes a musical instrument.
Asher: I see a contradiction here. On the one hand, you are saying that Kabbalah gives a general solution to all nations. Now you are saying that this is a very specific thing for individual people. And that this is a serious science and without a serious motivation, it is impossible to…
Laitman: But today there are already thousands and tens of thousands of these special people, and there are more of them every single day. That is, a human being has to become a human being. Nature will not let him remain as an animal. Take any tribe that until recently existed in who knows what way. I won’t even say that they had a bad life. They lived in their world, they felt good, in harmony, everything was fine. Today, egoistic desire that suddenly explodes in them starts to rapidly evolve; it pulls them from their place, from their small villages, and throws them to who knows where.
The rapid development of egoism will force people to realize the need to come out of beastly existence and rise to the so called “human” level. But if we spread this knowledge beforehand, if we offer, teach, adapt it for contemporary people, for their language, their mentality, if by using normal earthly sciences we show how sound and real these ancient teachings about the universe are, then by doing so, we curtail humanity’s suffering.
Ultimately, the law of nature is unchangeable. Sooner or later we will inevitably come to it. But if we manage to do this not through the path of suffering, but rather by raising human consciousness, then, of course, this is preferable.
Asher: What is “the law of nature”?
Laitman: The law of nature is one law by which nature created us, according to which it guides and develops us, and the goal it must bring us to. This law is called “the law of absolute good.”
That is, originally, the purpose of creation with the general Thought’s plan of creation... (by the way, now physicists also say that the Universe seems to be a Thought, a Plan). So, this general Plan of nature, its general Thought, information, if you will, it has just one essence—good. In particular, out of this Thought of good, nature was created. It developed as still, vegetative, and animate levels, and it now approaches the “human” level of development.
When, being pressured by the laws of nature that in reality urge him toward good, absolute good, a comfortable, eternal, and perfect state, a human develops himself to the level when he feels this entire good. When he does so, he then discovers that he and the rest of nature are harmoniously connected into one system. And all of them (animate, vegetative, and the still parts of nature) engage themselves under humans, and together with man, rise to the same level of perception, realization of existence.
Asher: It is hard for me to understand what “absolute good” is. Good always has a direction: “I do good to someone.” So it follows that absolute good is simultaneously directed to all?
Laitman: Absolute good… No. Absolute good is the Thought that created creation, the egoistic desire, and urges it to equalize with this Thought. And this is the Thought that completes this action by bringing this primordial egoism, and all of its parts (still, vegetative, animate, and human) to itself, to the level of existence called “good.”
Asher: Where is my individual good in this global process? That is, good for me personally?
Laitman: You play a critical role in this global process. It is because talking about the existence at the still, vegetative, and animate levels, well, our bodily level as well (when we refer to human body we mean our existence without knowing this Upper level of good), we are not talking about freedom of will at all or that we live sensibly. We exist under the influence of inner…
Asher: Instincts?
Laitman: Yes, instincts, genes. In general, today, they say that there are genes for everything, and that we are under their total control. That is, everything is provided for.
Asher: Well, as they say, instincts plus the environment’s influence?
Laitman: Yes, they determine everything between themselves. If we really saw the structure of a person at the level at which he is completely detached from the attainment of the Upper One and from transforming himself toward the Upper One, we would see that at such a level a person, of course, is absolutely nothing. As such, he does not exist at all. This is why nature does not pay any attention to these levels of our development until we start to treat ourselves sensibly and seriously as those who are obliged to attain the Upper existence.
Until this desire, thought, need emerges in a person he or she is automatically engaged by nature. And thus today’s crisis and everything that we went through over our entire history are simply blows of nature by which it pushes us “to happiness using a stick.”
Asher: And our reaction to them?
Laitman: Our reaction to them is also involuntary; it is an involuntary reaction.
Asher: Automatic?
Laitman: Yes.
Asher: And what about other parts of nature—animate and so on? They seemingly have…
Laitman: Freedom of will is absolutely lacking in them, as in humans. Naturally, a question arises: What can a person be responsible for, if he has no freedom of will? Nothing…
Asher: So what is the difference?
Laitman: …and, in fact, a person is not held responsible for anything. He begins to be held responsible specifically when he is given an impulse for the spiritual development, for this higher development.
Asher: Is this awakening possible in other parts of nature? Or just in a human being?
Laitman: Just in a human being. Only in him, because from the beginning, other parts of nature lack the sensation of past, present, and future, they lack the awareness that “I am alive.” Do you understand? Consciousness is tightly connected with the functioning of simply a biological body.
Asher: That is, one can say that without self-awareness there is no spiritual progress?
Laitman: Correct. Well, I use the word “spiritual” very carefully, because both “Kabbalah,” and the “spiritual”…
Asher: Are already strongly discredited.
Laitman: Yes. So…
Asher: So why do other teachings, spiritual as well, cannot offer this to humanity?
Laitman: This simply does not exist. Also, Kabbalah is not a spiritual teaching, it is not a religious teaching either, it has no relation to any religion, including Judaism.
Kabbalah is the teaching that emerged in ancient Babylon. According to the legend, at that time humanity really represented one small family. And when humanity’s egoism first grew in a leap-like manner and they failed to co-exist with each other, then what is called “The Tower of Babel” appeared. That is, the contradiction between them and nature emerged in them for the first time.
Before this, people were afraid of nature and tried to transform themselves so as to correspond with nature and automatically looked for closeness, contact, and adhesion with it. In contrast, increasing egoism changed their tactics. People decided that they could protect themselves from nature using force, and began to equip themselves with amenities, guard themselves against nature. I mean, internally, I remain an egoist; I don’t have to yield to anyone. I build a technological environment: an artificial nature, some artificial micro-climate around myself, etc. that will protect me. I will develop sciences as well, I will develop everything—I will be strong and big. This is what the building of the Tower of Babel is—“to reach the heavens,” to rule, instead of uniting, merging. This was the first response of humanity during the days of Mesopotamia (yes, this is the cradle of civilization) to the challenge of egoism. And from there everything started.
Back then, there was, as they say, a single language, a single philosophy of life. The ancient teaching of Kabbalah originated from there saying that we are a single family, that we have to feel love toward each other, and then we rise to a higher contact with nature. We ascend above our world, that is, above our beastly existence, and become equal to the eternal perfect nature, and so on. And when they failed to correctly respond to egoism’s challenge, Kabbalah hid at that very moment.
And it is revealed again only in our times, as the method of that very same correct response to egoism’s challenge. But after all these millennia, when humans have already gone through all their searches in sciences, in technologies, in arts, in social life, in various formations and became convinced that all of this only harms them. And so today we are already under the ruins of this Tower of Babel, we sit and mourn over our five thousand years of needless development.
Asher: Can we say that this was a five-thousand-year long cycle of going through all possible solutions?
Laitman: Yes.
Asher: Before Kabbalah, that is?
Laitman: Yes.
Asher: And that they are virtually over?
Laitman: Yes. And they were bound to happen. Therefore, we would not be able to re-do the past. Even the Tower of Babel that they supposedly created and later destroyed… People settled apart from there, a great number of nationalities, languages emerged, went to India, went to Europe. All of this is backed by historic and geographic data. An entire science is very interestingly built on this thing: what was the origin of writing, and so on. In general, this is clear.
So, the truth of the matter is that today we need specifically this method again. And we had no choice but to go through this, because otherwise, we really could not rise with small egoism. However, now we can rise not to the Tower of Babel with this egoism, but rather, understanding what egoism is, we can rise to that Tower of Babel above egoism.
To rise above it, willingly, merging among ourselves as unified cells into one unified whole body, and to achieve it with this healthy beastly body, yes, to reach the “human” level. In ancient Babylonian (Aramaic was a spoken language in ancient Babylon) “a human being” is called “Adam,” from the word “Domeh,” “similar” to the Upper force. This is the state we have to reach.
Asher: Well, let’s say there is such a notion as “ethnocentrism,” that is, every nation as if loves itself. How do you see the future society? What will happen with cultures, with nationalities?
Laitman: Kabbalah describes all of this in great detail. The truth of the matter is that settling apart, separation, distancing from each other is necessary. The division into races, nationalities, nations, mentalities, and in general, civilizations that occurred over history, all of that is necessary. It is because now we will attempt to unite despite this separation, and the might of unification will manifest; we will have an opportunity to rise above this separation, preserving all these differences, without suppressing anything, without downgrading or destroying anything. We do this by particularly preserving the uniqueness of everybody (a human being, a nation, a civilization) and by uniting all this into a single whole with nature in mutual giving.
So all these religious, national, ethnic, and mentality differences that are huge, (anything that you can imagine) will manifest more and more. This is only the beginning of egoism’s last stage that we now begin to realize in ourselves and all of them must be preserved. We should respect everybody and all of their distinctive features. This is because he who destroys even the tiniest manifestation of individuality, by doing so destroys humanity’s chance to clarify one more feature in the attainment of this great law of general good. The Upper attainment is built specifically on contradictions.
Hence, perhaps even religions will remain with their specific properties and differences, but people will rise above this, in shared connection to a common goal. In a family, when people love each other, no natural contradictions stand in the way (sexual, racial, national, or anything else). If above all of this, there is understanding, love, a common goal, then on the contrary, all of this may endow one with some additional traits, manifestations. This is what Kabbalah says.
Asher: Is it possible to realize this principle of the Upper good only in, say, Western civilization or only in the Eastern, in some part of humanity, and not in all humanity in general? Let’s put it this way: Can it be realized partially?
Laitman: Of course, it can be realized partially, and Kabbalah also talks about this. It says that we first have to create a small society with all elements of the future world community, in a way that there would be no need to even add anything to it. Then, others will join it more and more.
Asher: This is exactly like a hologram, when a little part of it….
Laitman: Yes.
Asher: …when it is increased, it simply becomes a big detail.
Laitman: Yes. So it is said that there will be no need to change anything. Such a small society can be built, but it can be built only from people who are at the corresponding level of consciousness.
Asher: A famous American sociologist Etzioni states that in order to build a future society each state will have to make some concessions. What is your opinion about this?
Laitman: Kabbalah does not speak about any concessions. Under no circumstances! In other words, well, you know, in our world they are good up to a certain point, when you feel that it is better for you not to compromise but rather insist on your previous conditions, and when you pick a certain moment and demand on a full scale, making concessions to nothing.
Kabbalah is a completely different method, the method for connecting to the Upper level. Hence, if you compromise, then you compromise your own egoism in order to rise to an even higher level. You do not make concessions to me, or I to you. In general, we do not deal against each other. Together, we rise and merge at the Upper level, and not at the corporeal one. Thus, the earthly relationships are defined only after people begin clinging with each other on the Upper level where all of us represent, will represent, and always represented a single whole, one united whole. This is why speaking of concessions is a completely wrong philosophy.
Asher: But you still think that it is necessary for the states to unite?
Laitman: We are not even talking about states; states have nothing to do with it. The fact that today the division of states is still continuing does not necessarily imply that groups of people have to unite with each other in this way. We are talking about humanity.
Furthermore, we can say that completely different groups of people exist in humanity, within each nationality or within each civilization, and these groups are just naturally different. We perhaps do not see them this way, because we look and say, “oh, these are Muslims, these are Christians, these are Catholics,” or we say, “these are western or eastern,” and so on.
If we look at people through another prism, we will see a completely different picture. We see that some people from the entire humanity belong to a certain group. Say, this is like in our body: heart, liver, stomach, brain, and so on. We suddenly see as if the parts of these organs are evenly distributed virtually throughout all of humanity. And perhaps they will gather together, part by part, and will feel who is closer and who is more remote, but not judging others by some artificial characteristic, such as religion, nationality, or race, etc. Do you understand?
Moreover, some common communication, language, understanding, and consciousness will have to reappear. Globalization is leading us toward this. We see that the internet and its common culture begins to slowly envelop the world. So, we are prepared for this.
In addition, humanity has a very interesting feature: about ten percent of humans are natural altruists. These are people who feel bad when others suffer, and from that, humanity suffers. This is how they are built. This is an altruistic gene. Naturally, it has nothing in common with altruism that we are talking about, for the latter is conscious, it is built on top of egoism, it is built consciously, cognitively, by changing the inner essence of a person. While the former is natural altruism, so called egoistic altruism, if we can say that.
But these people are, nevertheless, ready to unite, they are ready to self-sacrifice. We see their activity in our world. Indeed, these ten percent of the earth’s population are invariant, the same ten percent repeat from generation to generation, over the history of mankind. That is, the growing general egoism does not affect them. This is prepared by nature as a certain support. We do not yet know how it will manifest in the future in order to create this small society, which will be a prototype of the future generation.
Asher: You are saying that it is necessary to unite altruistic forces. Not everybody understands how there can be a different “Amnesty International,” “Friends of the Earth,” “Greenpeace,” or “International Red Cross Committee.” How can they be united, for they basically have different types of work?
Laitman: By the way, I have encountered many of them; during our congresses, we meet UN representatives on all these questions. What could I say? The fact is that when these organizations begin to realize that their activity is fruitless, when people, so called donors who donate billions to these organizations begin to see that even though these organizations work, they give virtually no positive results, then the need to review their own doctrine will arise. And this is where the good is.
Today, a serious revision of the whole spectrum of voluntary, altruistic organizations is underway.
Asher: You said that a person does not have to compromise anything in the corporeal world in order to make a transition to the altruistic state, to undergo this transition. It follows that there is no reason. Why do people resist? Why are they not ready? What holds them back? Indeed, neither a state nor an individual person loses anything.
Laitman: You understand that a human being always acts only from within egoism that emerges in him. There is an egoistic urge, and because of this, a person comes to science, art, technological development, medicine, or to a simple family life, fishing, football, whatever, it does not matter. This is exactly how he has to come to Kabbalah at the end of his development.
Therefore, we are not preoccupied with somehow inspiring a person in advance. Nor are we eagerly waiting for you to finally become a bigger egoist, in order to understand that your life is totally empty so that you start searching, and come to us. Not at all. It does not depend on us. These are laws of nature, its flow. The only thing that we can do is to spread the knowledge or, even if not knowledge, then information that there is knowledge that answers one’s question about the existence on earth. And if, accordingly, a person has an…
Asher: Egoistic impulse...
Laitman: …yes, an egoistic impulse at the level where earthly life no longer satisfies him, he understands that he has already tried everything, and there is nothing for him ahead. Drugs, terror, divorce, suicide...What is he going to do? In such a state, a person sees that self-realization does not exist in this life, and then he comes to Kabbalah.
So our task is to make sure that he or she knows upfront that such a thing exists, or that when that moment comes, a person would immediately find this method, without suffering. However, on no account do we influence a person. We want it (information) to be passively available.
Asher: As a global information network…
Laitman: Yes.
Asher: …of informational support?
Laitman: Yes, this is what we are developing. Therefore, we are not interested in any specific properties of a person, their religion, nationality, or what level he is at, who he is, or what is happening with him, nothing at all. We do not come to him. Our education system is absolutely passive, and it does not “catch” people because you cannot. And even if you do, what you will do with him next? He will not feel any inner response here.
Asher: It is impossible to teach someone against his will.
Laitman: Yes. Therefore, those who come, come. They try it a bit, step aside, check out what is there, and what isn’t. And ultimately, if someone’s egoism has really developed to this level, he stays.
Asher: And doors have to be already open?
Laitman: Yes, yes. This is our task. The task of our organization is to ensure that necessary books are available in a required, accessible form throughout the entire world: for instance, various media, CD-ROMs, films, internet in all languages and so on. And to the extent that a person desires, it would be available for him, and moreover, it would be free of charge. Really, this is our task today. This is the goal of our organization. In other words, all of this is absolutely free.
Asher: How does the study at your academy differ from the study at the University? I know that there are Kabbalah courses, or that…
Laitman: Yes, of course, my daughter is currently completing her studies and starting to write a doctorate on Kabbalah at university. That is, what they study at university is not applied to a human being. They study the emergence of Kabbalah, its history over the centuries, main sources, what’s written in them, and so on. It is the way that a regular science about a certain historic phenomenon is studied; but nothing more, other than about the phenomenon. This is because they do not intend to apply it to themselves. Nobody has set this goal for themselves, as they are not at the egoistic level necessary to demand Kabbalah for themselves. Just in the above mentioned aspects. That is, people write dissertations, as my daughter is now starting to write “Influence of the Kabbalists of the Middle-Ages on…” some kind of processes in a certain society and in a certain country.
Asher: As philosophy?
Laitman: Yes, this is a pure philosophy. This is a department of Philosophy.
Asher: That is, one can say that they study not Kabbalah, but about Kabbalah?
Laitman: Yes, about Kabbalah. And this is the same as what I have mentioned earlier: 1700 departments in the world study it this way. For example, when I go to America for a lecture series (I visited Universities, gave lectures), they naturally complain that basically “All lecturers, except you, teach Kabbalah as a science, without applying it to a person. You, in contrast, teach it as an individual method.” Well, I say that I specialize in the anthropological branch of Kabbalah. [Rav is laughing] But of course, this is not fully clear yet in academics and not to all. Well?
Asher: How can we advance this understanding in academics, how to make your method accessible?
Laitman: I do not think that academics need this at all, or that it is ready, or that in general, it needs it and we need it together with them. We have to look for regular people as well as scientists who realize the crisis, (that it does not yet have a solution and that we do not even understand what its essence is) and who are ready to listen to other opinions.
There are many such people among the Russian scientists, percentage-wise. Literally, individuals emerged over the last year who talk about Kabbalistic ideas in their own language. So, it seems to me that very interesting contacts are possible, and I hope with your help. It’s quite possible that some very serious breakthroughs can be made. We will be able to show to the world the nature of the crisis and its possible solutions, and most importantly, its goal: to elevate us, and not so that we simply come out of it and continue to exist as now. And this is not a regular crisis. This is not a crisis; this is a message from Nature.
Asher: Stimulus?
Laitman: Stimulus, yes, that basically… We have to rise above this. That is, this is a joyous point, not the point of disappointment, fear, and despair. It is very important to present to humanity our current situation in this way.
Asher: Can we say that a new emerging civilization is a certain stage of humanity’s evolution?
Laitman: Well, this is the last stage. This is why Kabbalah calls it “the last generation.” Not because everything ends with it, but because this is really the last generation out of these unfortunate generations that we all have passed in great suffering. But now, when we begin to be aware of these sufferings, we experience them anew, already as the source for the attainment of absolute good.
Asher: You are going to Düsseldorf (ed. for the scientific symposium “Wisdom and Science in a Dialogue: The New Planetary Consciousness”). What concept are you going to offer to the World Wisdom Council?
Laitman: Düsseldorf is a completely different scientific gathering. This is not a meeting of the World Wisdom Council, of which I am already a member. Düsseldorf gathers scientists: sociologists, philosophers, demography experts, anthropologists, to be honest, I don’t remember what else. Well, people of this kind from the set of sciences that already deal with questions closer to the goal. That is, “ancient teachings as the means for solving the current crisis.”
There will be very interesting lectures. Naturally, India, China, Japan, Oceania participate there. That is, we know what we are dealing with… Sufis, that is, this is a very interesting audience. Yet they, and not I, have resolved that after introductory remarks, I will give the first lecture followed by debate on it. This is because in principle, in one way or another, unconsciously or already consciously, a majority of people perceive that Kabbalah is the foundation of all ancient teachings, religions, beliefs, philosophies. This is why a general lecture is given specifically on Kabbalah, like a cap—opening all the rest. Later there will be separate lectures on different methods and their possible integration. Yet, Kabbalah comes forward as one universal principle.
This is happening from congress to congress, whether it was a congress in Tokyo that gathered altruistic organizations, or a congress in Arosa, Switzerland where a scientific council met, or in a council of representatives of various UN committees. Or now in Düsseldorf where a symposium of regular scientists of these main schools will take place. Nevertheless, with each time, it is becoming increasingly obvious that Kabbalah really presents the concept of, and carries in itself such a generalizing picture of the world that everything else is integrally connected to it without any contradictions. All religions, various beliefs, ancient wisdoms, even art suddenly find their origin in it and integrate, connect to it as if to a certain…
Asher: Common denominator.
Laitman: Yes, denominator. Thus, I hope that this will manifest this time as well in…
Asher: Maybe now is the time of a certain process of integration?
Laitman: Yes, integration around Kabbalah. Although in Eastern Europe, this word is still seen as…
Asher: A black magic—this is a usual reaction …
Laitman: Yes, black magic, all sorts of (how do you call them?) closed groups of people who…
Asher: Sects.
Laitman: Sects, masons, who knows what. Naturally, all of this comes from ignorance. We simply need to educate. What can you do?
However, in civilized countries, in addition to studying it at universities as an academic subject, people also defend PhD theses and dissertations, and so on. The attack on Kabbalah is completely cleared away; all such things are absolutely cleared away. At least, we publish books in German, Spanish, and English in the biggest publishing houses in the world. Now there is a book coming out in China, in Japan. As I said, we have a university in 27 languages. And this is what is gradually happening because life is forcing it.
Let’s hope that we will have good connections and prolific scientific work with Russian scientists. I hope that we will be able to have a big general conference in Moscow with our group of Kabbalah students and a world scientific forum. It includes many Nobel prize winners, socially-minded people, and representatives of UN commissions of various developmental stages, and so on. That is, we would be able to gather in Moscow a very good international congress. I hope that Russian scientists themselves will be able to participate in this as it will be a good step in realizing the crisis in Eastern Europe, and for the benefit of the entire region.
Asher: Yes, in general, a certain interest is building up around it; one can see that this idea is attracting interest.
Laitman: Thank you for your attention. Thanks for your questions!
Asher: Thank you very much!
Laitman: We hope to continue, given the interest. Goodbye!
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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/
~video/KabbalahMeets
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
View these fascinating video clips from Rav Laitman's world lectures !!
The Needed Shift in Human Consciousness
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=4Q0NsgtFMhI
05:11
Dr. Michael Laitman's speech at the World Wisdom Council meeting in Tokyo, Japan,
"Creating a New Civilization" - November 2005.
Creating a New Civilization - Tokyo 2005
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=WZF2L4CEfZc
06:23
The World Wisdom Council's 3rd meeting "Creating a New Civilization" in Tokyo, November 2005.
Israeli artists meet Rav Michael Laitman, PhD
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=-mUumQWnlGM
07:36
Israeli artists meet with Rav Michael Laitman, PhD to talk about the meaning of life, free choice, and life's basic questions.
Attaining the Worlds Beyond
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=uUWl8-WPeKk
05:14
A video inspired by text from Rav Michael Laitman's book "Attaining the Worlds Beyond."
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