Testimonials from North America

The North American Kabbalah Convention was held for Bnei Baruch Kabbalah students around the world over the weekend Jan. 12-14.

The North American Kabbalah Convention was held over the weekend. Over 1000 people came to the Hilton Newark Hotel in Elizabeth, NJ from all over the world to increase the common desire for drawing the Upper Light and hastening the speed of discovering the point of common, unconditional love between all people.

Many newcomers who came prepared for the convention, according to the Kabbalistic method of drawing the Upper Light taught at Bnei Baruch, are quoted from the final day's Yeshivat Haverim (Gathering of Friends):

Seth from New York: I can't even describe the awe and inspiration that I feel. The light and love that we all felt was an inspiration for all of us, and I know we're all going to take it back with us and it's going to help us for a long time to come.

I never saw the Rav speak live before. Everyone told me that it was inspiring in ways you just couldn't describe and it was true. ... And I just couldn't be happier than I am right now feeling the love and the light from everybody here. Thanks, L'Chaim!

Fabrizio from Miami: I get goose bumps as I am talking about this - the emotion, the feeling, the camaraderie, the love that we all shared in this conference, to me, is amazing and if anything, it's only a glimpse of what's to come.

Abraham from Queens, NY: I asked two of my friends here what they felt, and whatever they felt, they couldn't even explain it in words, because they knew they finally found out what a true connection is, by seeing you together and really trying to help out in everything that you can. ... Just imagine this, what we have, in bigger numbers, in the billions!

Ketil from Norway: We are not created to live our lives alone. It's more and more crucial to break out of this solitary shell and start to give. Also, the more that we do this, the more we realize we are one. And the greater thing I experienced here is that it is also being practiced ... I can't describe it and put it into words because then I'll just collapse! I just want to kiss you all!

Mike from Connecticut: I'm starting to realize the world needs a heart, one that is capable of pumping the Creator's love to every little corner, to every little cell. I'm a cell that wants to grow, that desires to sense the entire living organism. It's becoming more and more important. I hope to never let go of the thought that I and everyone can be the constant veins and arteries which carry the message of the soul's correction. My name tag says "Stanford, Connecticut, USA," but I pray that we all begin to sense distance as relative, and that we are always together. Maybe someday soon, when everyone is gathered, our name tag can say "Gmar Tikkun" (Heb. the End of Correction). L'Chaim!

Chaim from New York: When I started studying, as I watched the lessons, and you start to get the importance of the goal... You know, sometimes I'd be by myself and I'd say "Wow, is it even realistic? I'd be happy if just the first step happened, if I could just get a glimpse of that spiritual reality." And I didn't think it was realistic.

Let me tell you something. After this congress, I feel that it's realistic, that with this group, and with this cable (my friend Alex called it a cable), that we can weave this giant cable through the entire world and bring us all, in our lifetime, to Gmar Tikkun. L'Chaim!