Kabbalah

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European MTV host Eden Harel asks Rav Michael Laitman, PhD whether or not a Kabbalist can also live as a Buddhist, which led to an explanation of two approaches to the ego. In short, Rav Laitman describes the difference between the two approaches as that of diminishing the ego (in Buddhism) as opposed to increasing the ego (in Kabbalah). The aim of increasing one’s ego in Kabbalah is not to make more money, have more power, honor and knowledge etc., but to aim one’s desire for the greatest thing that we can ever achieve: spirituality. Watch this Video at Kabbalah TV [03:53]

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Kabbalists name the first man who wrote a book on the wisdom of Kabbalah, 5,000 years ago, Adam ha Rishon (Hebrew for “The First Man”). The book he wrote is called Raziel HaMelech (The Angel Raziel).

The nature of our world is juxtaposed with the nature of the higher world, both of which are sensed simultaneously by Kabbalists who reveal their properties to us. From his writings, we see that Adam was not a savage, but indeed a great Kabbalist with enormous insight into the nature of the higher world. He spoke of the souls which would follow from his soul, the paths they would take through the worlds to come, and their eventual ascent back to their roots. Watch the Video [03:15]

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Evolution, both for humanity as a whole and for the life of a single person, is determined at the level of desires. Throughout history, and throughout our life, we have evolved through basic physical desires for food, sex, family and shelter, and then as our desires grow, we demand social attention in the form of money, honor, pride, power and knowledge. When our desires evolve to their greatest extent, and none of the aforementioned fulfillments can satisfy us, we begin to desire spirituality—a need to associate with something beyond everything that can fulfill us in this world. Watch the Video [05:44]

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Many who associate themselves with Kabbalah these days offer fortune-telling, numerology, charms and blessings and relate their approach to Kabbalah to how it can help a person in this world. Rav Michael Laitman, PhD aims to debunk such approaches as misconceptions about what Kabbalah really is, in order to pave the way for a definition of Kabbalah: as a method of self-correction, and nothing other than this. Watch the Video [03:20]

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What is the difference between the wisdom of Kabbalah and other spiritual approaches which appear in times of pain and inner turbulence? Rav Michael Laitman, PhD explains that Kabbalah is the only method that addresses all problems directly at their source: human nature.

Laitman continues by explaining that it is impossible to convince a person that this is true, because before a person comes to acknowledge their own nature as the source of every problem they perceive, they must first arrive at the question about the source of their pain by themselves. The only requirement to investigate this proposal is one’s desire to know whether their life has a purpose or not. Moreover, this question “What is the purpose of my life?” can only be raised after one has suffered sufficiently for it to warrant their interest. Watch the Video on Kabbalah TV (04:20)

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Great Kabbalists throughout History overviews the Kabbalistic lineage and literature from the time of Abraham to our era. The first Kabbalistic book, Sefer Yetzira (The Book of Creation), written by Abraham, described his spiritual revelations. This was the primary source of the wisdom of Kabbalah until the time of the second great disclosure by Moses in the form of the Torah, a book of spiritual revelations written in a language distinct from its predecessor – that of "branches," or material consequences. Following the Torah came The Zohar (The Book of Radiance), written in the language of Midrash (Legends).

Contemporary Kabbalah began with the revelations of the Ari (Isaac Luria) in his book Etz Chaim (Tree of Life) during the middle ages. This continued until the Baal HaSulam (Yehuda Ashlag) in the 20th century who wrote Talmud Eser Sefirot (The Study of the Ten Sefirot), a modern textbook commentary on previous works. Watch the Video on Kabbalah TV (05:41)

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Best-selling author William Simon and promoter Bill Gladstone interview Rav Michael Laitman, PhD on how authentic Kabbalah can help with life’s day-to-day problems, and ask Rav Laitman about his personal experiences with Kabbalah, his teacher, his family and his move to Israel earlier in his life. This interview delves into the depths of one’s personal spiritual search and how, through constant perseverance at self-transformation and improvement, one can achieve answers to life’s most pressing questions, and break down psychological barriers to discover a new world of eternally amassing pleasure. Watch the Full Interview on Kabbalah TV (1 hour)

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In the video, Do We Have the Ability to Feel Others?, Prof. Ervin Laszlo talks with Rav Michael Laitman, PhD about how feeling others - empathy - is the mark of a higher consciousness that we need to achieve. He mentions how modern science is approaching the phenomenon of oneness, how modern science recognizes oneness as a part of nature and evolution, and how this knowledge is needed for people to recognize the move needed in order to realize the oneness that we all share. Rav Laitman adds that the reason we don’t currently understand and feel our oneness is because we are locked in our five egoistic senses. Watch Do We Have the Ability to Feel Others? (03:15)

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In the video, Critical Mass, Prof. Ervin Laszlo talks with Rav Michael Laitman, PhD about the need for a critical mass of people to affect positive global change. When people begin to think and act differently, it affects others, and Laszlo discussed examples of such behavior in new groups which are emerging these days, which he hopes have the ability to spread worldwide and exert global social influence. Education, information and explanation are also discussed in relation to this process of spreading the message of positive global change, and influencing people through creating a new dialogue—one with this message of global change inserted into it. Watch Critical Mass (05:13)

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When one searches for how to improve one’s life and finds methods for strengthening the body, better health, healings, charms, blessings and many methods considered as spiritual undertakings. In the video, A Comfortable Framework for the Masses, Basketball player Guy Goodes clarifies whether these things really are spiritual or not with Kabbalist Rav Michael Laitman, PhD. Spirituality is an often encountered term within things these searches, and Rav Laitman describes how spirituality is unrelated to such methods because spirituality is unrelated to the body.