Authentic KABBALAHT DAY Issue #24 A publication of the Bnei Baruch association founded by Dr. Michael Laitman www.kabtoday.com

In this issue: The men who wrote The were a group of ten great Kabbalists led by the famous Shimon Bar THE BOOK OF Yochai (RASHBI). These ten men who gathered in a special place, in a special time, represented through their inner, spiritual qualities the “ten Sefirot”— p.2 ‘Tis the Season the ten founding blocks of creation. of Light They were able to come down from the enormous height of their spiritual attainment to our simple human level in order to explain such concepts that theoretically we are unable to grasp. They lure us with their fables, and like kids who mature from listening to tales, p.3 What Do You Want so do we develop from reading this text. this Holiday Season? With time, we gradually begin feeling the Upper World because a wondrous quality called ”the Upper Light” shines upon us as we read. This wonderful quality of the Light is simply p.4 Music and Kabbalah: A Tale of Two Journeys miraculous. People A Real Wonder of the World who begin reading this book immedi- ately feel its magnetic radiance, which draws by Dr. Gene Shklover and Al Shpaner them back to it time and time again. They can read he seven wonders of the ancient A River of LighT p.5 DISCOVER KABBALAH and re-read it multiple world, the medieval world, and “Zohar” in Hebrew means Splendor, times throughout their entire lives. It the modern world… the lists Radiance, or Light. For the poet in always renews their impressions and T us, the text of The Book of Zohar can keep piling up. People have always been never becomes boring. The Zohar be- be likened to a river flowing out of the fascinated by manmade structures that comes like a breath of air, which they Garden of Eden and through a person’s just need to get. They continuously please their eyes, give them some enig- heart. Anyone who opens his heart will yearn for those inner changes which matic flavor and make them proud of be washed by its waters, will be cleansed they experience while engaged in read- belonging to the human race. and will begin to see. p.6 Women, If You Only ing The Zohar. Knew … If someone told you that there is one We often hear that Kabbalah is The Zohar. Why? The matter is that this book Parallel Worlds wonder that everyone had overlooked was written in a very special style, which The uniqueness of The Zohar is that it and it is a book, incredulously you places us into a multi-dimensional space creates for us a projection of the Upper would say, “C’mon, a book? It can’t be a and walks us through it. While it tells World to our world. It was written in wonder of the world.” us fables and stories on the outside, at two spoken languages of Ancient Baby- the same time it gradually immerses us The Book of Zohar—for millennia lon: Hebrew and Aramaic. These two in a hidden reality, called the Upper languages represent two levels of per- p.7 Baby Einstein, this book has mesmerized the minds World. It attracts us with its intricate, It’s Time for an of old and young, religious and athe- unusual tales and draws us inside. As ception. One language narrates stories Education Upgrade! ists, philosophers and academics, and we become inspired by it, we gradually in images of our familiar world, while the other takes us into the spiritual di- interest in it just keeps growing. In fact, enter the Upper World. mension, revealing to us two worlds one the keyword “Zohar” is one of the most Certainly, to grasp the spirit of this parallel to the other. It tells us stories popular searches on the Internet. So, book that was written two thousand years ago, we have to aspire and be about this world and in parallel it tells what is inside this book? What is so spe- intrigued. We have to develop a certain us about its source in the Upper World, cial about these ancient Aramaic and sensitivity and comprehension to be thus drawing an image of one world Hebrew texts that makes people hold able to tune into the people who wrote p.8 Kabbalist Answers overlaying the other. your questions their breath and then say, “Wow!”? The Zohar. continued on page 24 ,, Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.,, Michael Strassfeld

4continued from page 1 because we long for the Light—a We then find ourselves between two metaphor for a sensation of Nature’s worlds—the one we are very familiar with benevolence. For us, the experience so of Nature on its highest level can and another one that we cannot perceive, ea n but somehow feel that it’s there. However, S o only be described as spiritual Light. f And the holiday season brings out this image of two worlds exists only in e L the need in all of us to feel closer to our imagination. In actuality, it is one h i that Light. t g complete picture, which we still perceive In the end, it doesn’t matter if as two. h s you light a Menorah, put up a tree, i In our world, images are visual and t or have a bonfire. At the heart of the

T matter is the fact that deep inside,

we see, feel, and understand them. But ‘ you are celebrating the goodness of images in the Upper World reflect attri- Nature and your inner yearning to butes like qualities, forces, desires and bring that extra bit of Light and hap- intentions. To start experiencing them piness into this world. And that is a together we need to imagine ourselves on very good thing indeed. that spiritual level, place ourselves there, ‘Tis the Season to be jolly by the light of the Yule log, or as we spin and live through the state where we exist by Jon Currie our dreidel, or light the fireworks of simultaneously in these two dimensions. ights. Lights. Lights. It seems holiday season. There are lights Diwali, or as we eat sweets for our To experience this fascinating spiri- that this time of year there decorating Christmas trees, candle Iranian New Year. It’s one world we tual journey we need to imagine that The are lights everywhere. And it lights of the Menorah lighting up live in after all, and a very small one L at that. We all have different holi- Zohar is telling us about ourselves and the is no coincidence that virtually every house windows for Chanukah, days and traditions, but to Nature, spiritual states we are going through. We society and every religion has some Diwali lamps glowing and fireworks we are all the same, like one small form of light festival going on right erupting in the streets, bonfires of have to be so “thirsty” for this experience family. about now. There is Christmas for Chaharshanbe Suri blazing, and that we feel like an empty well. Then, many more. most of the Western world. There is So look up at the Northern Lights by simply following the text, letting the or the lights on Broadway and give a Chanukah for and every- The typical wisdom behind text flow through us, and trying to feel good cheer to your fellow men and where. There is Diwali for Hindus, this is either a) a coincidence or b) The Zohar because the nights get longer and women, starting this holiday season the picture that is drawing for Chaharshanbe Suri in Iran, and darker and the ancients wanted to and ending never. If we only stop to us, we will begin touching and feeling the countless more religious and secular bring back the sun. But if we look feel Nature’s kind attitude toward Upper World, thus getting closer to our festivals of light everywhere. a bit deeper, we will find that the all of us, we will notice how it is birth in the Spiritual World. Twinkling lights adorn trees need for lights and light is actually urging us to treat each other with Now, isn’t that a real wonder of both indoors and out, and buildings rooted into the psyche and DNA of the same good spirit of kindness, the world? everywhere are spotted with clear mankind. Kabbalah explains that consideration, and Love. and colored lights during the we love having lights all around us

2 Kabbalah Today | Issue #24 | www.kabtoday.com ,, Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.,, Plato

by Annabelle Fogerty-Scahill just can’t afford to fulfill our oversized desires and expectations. he smell of pine and cinnamon What and the taste of peppermint What Do We T evoke memories of waiting Do You Want this Really Want? anxiously for Santa Claus. Those warm Clearly, something has to change. memories of childhood linger into Holiday Season? When people’s expectations and de- adulthood, but the holiday season is no sires can no longer be fulfilled, it’s a longer just a time of giving and getting sure indication that people must reach presents, eating delicious meals, and for a new kind of fulfillment. After all, enjoying pleasant sights and smells. what do we really want for the holidays? Our holiday traditions come from our Holiday Stress human need for connection; what we The American Psychological Associa- really want during this special season tion found in a 2006 survey that nearly is to feel high-spirited, festive, joyful, half of all American women experience and connected to those around us. So heightened stress during the holiday it’s logical that money and the material season. From November to January, things it can buy should not be the cen- the already overburdened modern terpiece of the celebration, as much as women strive to uphold the holiday we might have lost sight of that fact. traditions by buying presents, sending cards, and cooking miraculous holiday The Real Gift meals, all while holding a job, taking The real gift of the holiday season lies care of a family, and maintaining a in our interpersonal connections. But home. more than that, these relationships Men share in the anxiety at least as can actually help us overcome our much, since they are often put into the emotional and financial crises in the Beth Willinger, research professor at because our desires have increased. But hot seat to finance the added expenses longer term. Newcomb College Center for Research when a desire increases, so does the of the holiday season and to deal with No one can lift themselves out of on Women at Tulane University, “We emptiness that is felt when the desire is the resulting debt come January. The emptiness, stress, and bankruptcy have become much more complex and not fulfilled. And everyone knows that heightened pressure brings out our alone; we can only lift each other. This complicated as a society, and expecta- a feeling of emptiness is intolerable. holiday season, instead of giving our- worst habits as we try to cope with the tions have increased. Our expectations Adding to our stress level is the fact selves more anxiety and debt, we can stress by overeating, drinking alcohol, as a country have also raised our expec- that the desire for overabundance has give each other the camaraderie and and other unhealthy behaviors which tations for overabundance and conspic- not lessened even with the current eco- consideration that we all really need. could have long term effects on our uous consumption.” It is our expecta- nomic climate, yet our ability to fulfill We can raise each other’s spirits and mental and physical health. tions that fuel a rash of overspending, that desire has. Unemployment has give each other good impressions that Oversized Expectations dept, and more stress. reached its highest level in 15 years, will last much longer than a fruitcake Experts agree that the undeniable cause So why do we continue in this cycle? holiday bonuses are down two-thirds, or a Big Lot’s gift card. And it is a gift of holiday stress is the oversized expec- According to Kabbalah—a science that and even those of us lucky to keep our that only gets better with re-gifting. tations and disproportioned focus on studies our innermost motivations, our jobs are often working longer hours material consumption. According to expectations have gone out of control and are usually making less money. We

“There is a wonderful, invaluable remedy to those who engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah … They awaken upon themselves the Lights that surround their souls … The illumination received time after time during the engagement draws upon one grace from above, imparting abundance of sanctity and purity, which bring one much closer to perfection.”

—From the “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot” by Yehuda Ashlag, Baal HaSulam

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by Riggan Shilstone If you try to read Kabbalistic texts such as The Zohar, however, you will Much like a music teacher opens the discover a world of strangeness and world of music, the study of Kabbalah Music and Kabbalah: mystery. The gulf between our world opens a new world—the infinite spiritual today and the world that the Kabbalists world A Tale of Two Journeys are telling us about is too vast for us to n recent years, millions of people navigate without assistance. have become interested in Kab- Just as my piano teacher led me balah. I began my journey almost I through the maze of music apprecia- four years ago after being inspired by tion, a teacher of authentic Kabbalah Kabbalistic music. This medium of ex- can show us how to interpret these pression has played an important role texts. By starting with concepts we can in my life since childhood, and unex- relate to in some small manner, we pectedly, it now helped me understand can gradually build an awareness and this wisdom known as “Kabbalah.” appreciation of the spiritual concepts. Music has been called the “inter- In so doing, we actually develop a new national language,” but is it really sense that will eventually be capable of that simple? I was a child of the 60’s, perceiving this new world. comfortable with the simple melodies and harmonies of the Beatles, Gordon Experiential Study Lightfoot, and Peter, Paul and Mary. I Just as in music, we must eventually had no interest in any other genre, and dive into this new world ourselves. I dreaded the annual school field trip to could have been satisfied with becom- the symphony hall. But as an adult, I ing an expert in music theory, but I We played music, broke it apart and The path of Kabbalah begins with decided to study classical music, found wanted to feel the music, not just un- analyzed it, and I listened to her exqui- a new desire. Usually, it is expressed a piano teacher, and spent hours every derstand it. The same is true with Kab- site explanations with awe. As I became though questions such as, “What is day practicing. balah. more sensitive to the subtleties, we be- the meaning of life?” and “Why am I Today, it’s hard for me to believe gan to go further afield—entering into here?” Once this desire awakens, we There are many “experts” who can that there was a time when I did not the world of fugues, atonal harmonies, have the motivation to do something tell you the structure of the spiritual love Bach or appreciate the dissonance and strange intervals. about it—to find something to fulfill world in infinite detail, but that is not of Stravinsky or that I existed 40 years this desire. That is how we find our what Kabbalah is about. Even more without feeling an urge for opera. Even Opening A New World way to the books of Kabbalah—an than music, it is an experiential study. later, I found I could listen to and enjoy Years later, when I first heard the mu- extensive library of materials left to us As we read text or listen to the beau- the rap music my son brought home! sic of Kabbalah, my experienced ear by Kabbalists throughout the centuries, tiful music of Kabbalah, what we are re- So what was it that changed? immediately sensed that it had come explaining the spiritual worlds. ally studying is ourselves and our inner across something entirely new and dif- Everything Is In The Ear These great men have gone before world. Unless we feel these concepts ferent—again! I couldn’t quite put my Of The Beholder us and entered the spiritual worlds. within, we have accomplished nothing. finger on it, but I somehow sensed that Tracing back the steps, my course must Their writings tell us exactly how they The Kabbalists left us the map and in- there was an infinite depth of meaning got there and what they found in this structions, but it is up to us to make have been determined when I began and emotion to be revealed if only I studying piano. My teacher’s unabashed new state. The books form a bridge for the journey. would explore this music more deeply. us to do the same. excitement and love for classical mu- And it was only later, after I did delve sic simply rubbed off on me. Soon into it, that I realized that there was enough, under her tutelage I began to even more: Kabbalah is a methodology hear patterns and forms that were the of opening us to a totally new world very foundations of music. What was that we do not sense today, just as my hidden before gradually became clear piano teacher opened a new world of to me, as if materializing out of a fog. music for me. How did she coax my initial inter- The difference is that when learn- est in music into a passion equal to ing about classical music for the first hers? She started me with Mozart and time, I already possessed the sensory Beethoven—music whose tunes and apparatus (ears) I needed for studying harmonies could be appreciated on the music. In Kabbalah, however, we not surface, even by my uneducated ear. only need to develop an appreciation Working from there, she led me deeper of the forms and objects of what is and showed me the subtleties that I termed the “spiritual world,” we must missed, opening my ears and mind to also develop a new “sense” to be able to new possibilities in the music. perceive them.

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www.kabtoday.com | Issue #24 | Kabbalah Today 5 ,, Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. ,,

Ralph Waldo Emerson

of existence, no living species can exist, height of individualism and separatism. live, or survive by itself. Existence is only The collective positive connection, possible by complementing the “other now lost, in former eras sustained half.” In other words, each element in families, villages, states, and nations. nature is always a complementary part Now, we see the very nucleus of human to its opposite, and only together can existence, the family, in disarray, as they be complete and perfect. Even on evidenced by the high incidence of the vegetative level, the division into divorce, drug use, and depression, all Women, male and female parts is clearly evident. of which exacerbate women’s feelings This “specialization” is enrooted into of emptiness. If You Only all things by nature, and it dictates This heightened and growing that equilibrium can be reached only if emptiness, we are also finding, can Knew … both parts, male and female, correctly no longer be fulfilled by the regular interact with each other. material “stuff” we used to buy This primal law has been operating or do. Humanity is beginning to in all of reality from the beginning realize that the only thing that will of time, building our world in a fill the emptiness is eternal spiritual strictly defined order, ensuring that fulfillment. Women’s emptiness is also the “female” part of reality defines the tool we can use to emerge from this by Dr. Gene Shklover the direction of where everything is current empty state. Women with their The power of women’s desire can However, it isn’t just women who going. The same applies in our lives; desires inherently guiding the world fuel the change needed to bring the have changed. “Men are not the same although in recent times, it seems are the critical invisible driving force to entire world to perfection, joy, and as they once were,” say women, moth- male and female duties and roles have steer us all to attaining complete and peace ers, and wives. In fact, the whole world been mixed up. Yet, by virtue of the perfect spiritual fulfillment. Women’s very foundation of their female nature, desire for spiritual fulfillment will fuel he more humanity develops, is not the same. In the modern reality, women have to worry about taking care women (unknowingly) are still steering the desperately needed changes for the more complicated and un- of things they never had to before: how the world through their desires. men to naturally enact their part to predictable our lives become. T to earn income together with bringing bring our troubled world to the correct And as usual, the most difficult part Intuition and instincts worked up children, how to avoid wars and eco- form. falls on the shoulders of the most beau- fairly well until the 20th century. nomic troubles, and so on. Struggling to tiful part of humanity. But as humanity reached the peak Then our “female” and “male” find a balance between all these social of its egoistic development, instincts parts, together in perfect complement, According to the World Health Or- and personal challenges while not sens- were subdued by the ego and started will work in one complete unity that ganization, about twice as many women ing a strong, supportive man’s shoulder, working against us. In the 21st century, will transcend all of us to the new (20-26%) as men (8-12%) are affected by women are becoming more independent our collective ego has culminated to a beautiful reality! a depressive disorder each year. Despite and adopting more roles traditionally the fact that women have achieved free- ascribed to men. Sometimes they even dom, high social status, and equality, forget that they are women… they, in growing numbers, still feel psy- Woman, The Invisible chologically empty and insecure in life. Driving Force At the same time, women comprise Yet, the entire world is and has always the greater and, arguably, stronger part been driven by women’s desires, be- of humanity. In fact, they are the driv- cause women are destined by nature ing force that inspires and pushes men to inspire and to bring meaning into to commit heroic and noble deeds. It’s the lives of their special ones. They no wonder that there is a saying, “God set goals, they define directions, they wants whatever woman wants.” direct all thoughts, and by doing this, So, what happened to that beautiful they draw our common future. Yet, they inspirer about whom numerous poems have somehow lost awareness of their and songs were written, and who was a role and destiny and try to do every- devotee of incredible victories and con- thing themselves. quests? What happened to that tender, However, our world is governed by warm, and reliable keeper of the “family the laws of nature as always, and if we hearth”? observe closely, we see that on all levels

6 Kabbalah Today | Issue #24 | www.kabtoday.com ,, Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ,,

William Butler Yeats

naturally strives to imitate his or her Education For The Baby Einstein, parents. Children closely observe their 21st Century parents’ actions and demeanor, and While our children easily manipulate It’s Time for an then strive to use this knowledge to electronic gadgets that didn’t exist a few achieve their own goals. Through inter- decades ago during our childhoods, Education action with our children, we help them and while we mull over the cons and acquire new capabilities and data, as pros of showing them the hottest new Upgrade! well as techniques for coping with the “educational video” on the kids’ mar- world around them. ket, we can be certain that there is one Survey results confirm that the wisdom that is sure to guarantee their examples set by adults are the main best future, right at the beginning of source of early education. Out of the their lives. 68% of children under two years old This wisdom, called Kabbalah, that watched screen media, only 27% will teach them (and us) about the imitated some type of behavior from fundamental laws of all reality, the TV. But 38% can turn on the TV relationships that are required in by themselves, and 40% can change today’s age, the nature of their desires, channels with the remote. So, our and most importantly, the formula for children are not imitating the screen lasting fulfillment. These concepts by Crystlle Medansky media; they are imitating us! and principles can be learned through But that’s not all; there is another Today, being a baby Einstein is no collectively purchased millions of Baby games, music, books, and interactive steady, natural trend that has existed longer knowing how to use a TV re- Einstein products. group activities which are fun and mote control, but knowing how to between parents and children for The American Academy of Pediat- entertaining. push the buttons controlling all of generations. Every new generation rics recommends no screen time for reality… is more evolved than the previous. And of course, the best way to teach children under two. Yet, the electronic your child all of these principles is to hreatened with a class action media market for babies and toddlers Children always have greater desires, learn and implement them yourself. It law suit for deceptive practices is booming, making screen time more higher aspirations, and bigger dreams T in claiming that their videos prevalent than ever. A recent Kaiser than their parents. And so, isn’t it our will then come easily and naturally to are educational and beneficial for early Family Foundation study found that duty and responsibility to provide them your children. Let your little ones begin childhood development, Disney Com- 68% of children under two years watch with the knowledge and practical tools their exploration of the world by setting pany is offering refunds to millions of screen media on any given day—that is for realizing their dreams and desires? positive examples and upgrading their parents who purchased Baby Einstein nearly seven in ten children! How did In our day and age, when concepts education to one befitting of our videos, or alternatively, they are offer- we get here? like distance and time have become day and age. What could be better ing “satisfaction upgrades” to a book or Like Parents, than to show our children right at music CD. The offer currently only cov- virtual, this means nothing less than ers households in the U.S., but British Like Children teaching them the rules that govern the beginning of their lives how to campaigners are pushing for refunds in It isn’t difficult to notice that starting all of reality, as well as the ultimate guarantee their best future? the UK reporting that they, too, have from earliest childhood, every child purpose for which we were created.

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www.kabtoday.com | Issue #24 | Kabbalah Today 7 fame and has made humankind have a moment, we change our opinion of special relationship to it. what is more important; sometimes we The discovery of the spiritual value sleep, other times play or food, world using The Book of Zohar begins and so on. But how do we find the by opening ourselves to the text so it most important thing in life? can flow through us easily, completely unobstructed. We can then begin to It has to be unconditional, infinite, feel new, spiritual sensations. and higher than anything. It has to Classical Science will how we perceive our surroundings. As we are reading or listening to this transcend the boundaries between life Never Discover the We have to change our perception book, we have to expect to feel a new and death and fulfill all of our desires, Spiritual World from reception to bestowal; then our realm that is made up of feelings, but even those we don’t even know we have A question I received: Physics says perception will become altruistic. without any fantasies or visual images. yet. It has to be the highest, most ex- the same thing as Kabbalah: that we However, in order to develop this kind We should try to feel the words of alted thing in the world, the very peak perceive only a small portion of every- of perception, we need a new method this book immediately and directly, toward which all things lead. thing that exists in the physical uni- of relating to the world. as when reading something that is So how do we find this thing and verse. How are the parts of the physical This is why a completely new science close to us, something we understand reality that we don’t perceive different about the world—Kabbalah—is emerg- and experience as we are immersed in attain it? How do we reach absolute joy from the spiritual world, which we also ing to replace the sciences that exam- reading the text. and success here and now? don’t perceive? ine nature through our egoism. Clas- The Most Important Thing We can do it through a method My Answer: Scientists are able to sical science is now in crisis because it called “the wisdom of Kabbalah.” That create instruments to recognize what in Life cannot give us anything qualitatively is why this wisdom is so important. We we don’t perceive with our bodily A question I received: Why is Kab- new. People feel oversaturated by the balah important? value anything according to how much senses. These instruments enable us material things because these things no My Answer: Out of all the things it benefits us, and if Kabbalah can help to expand our senses, although all the longer fulfill them. That is why people filling up our lives, some are more us attain everything, this makes it more data that we discover using these tools are starting to ask the question: Where important and others are less. Every important than anything else. still has to go through our senses and do we go from here? The only answer is be transformed into a form that we can to shift to a different way of using our perceive. desire. Currently we perceive everything in- side the desire to receive, in an egoistic The Book of Zohar manner, because we are egoists within. is a Ticket to the Therefore, no matter how many new Spiritual World phenomena we reveal in nature, we A question I received: Why is The will not reveal the spiritual realm be- Book of Zohar so famous? cause it is based on an altruistic nature. My Answer: It is common Ask Your Questions Without changing our egoistic nature, knowledge that The Book of Zohar is and Find Your Answers we can only reveal more of our material unique; it is the only book with the world. power to bring human beings into at Laitman.com The spiritual world can only be the spiritual world. This unparalleled revealed by changing the method of mission is what brought this book to

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