... d e n t KABBALAH FOR THE STUDENT Copyright © 2008 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers www.kabbalah.info ... ...bundant in the books of Kabbalah? Indeed, if you take the body of a small animal, whose only task is to nourish itself so it may exist in this world... ...portant thing in this whole diverse reality is the sensation given to the animals—that each of them feels its own existence. And the most important ... ...thout any difference in their form, but only in their substance. Thus, an animal or a rock in this world is a corporeal matter, and its correspondin... ...imal or a rock in this world is a corporeal matter, and its corresponding animal or rock in the Higher World is a spiritual matter, occupying no pla... ...of corporeal occurrences within the body. And man’s pre-eminence over all animals is that our minds are developed to such an extent that all the body...

...tman, PhD KABBALAH FoR BEgINNERS Copyright © 2007 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers www.kabbalah.inf... ...l in our world is the least broken (egoistic); plants are more egoistic, animals are more egoistic than plants, and humans are the most egoistic of... ...n the scale is the speaking (human) level, which feeds on both plants and animals, and some minerals. The spiritual level isn’t a separate level in i... ... the smallest level of desires. Following the still, came vegetation, then animals, representing the animate level of desires, and finally hu- - mans...

...Person’s Guide to a More Peaceful Life Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers www.kabbalah... ...nviron- ment so they could fulfill their wishes. Unlike minerals, plants, and animals, people constantly evolve. For every generation, and for each ... ... we are seeing in the world. Ev- erything else in Nature—minerals, plants, and animals— instinctively follow Nature’s altruistic law. Only human beha... ...are five levels to our desires, divided into three groups. The first group is animal desires (food, reproduc- tion, and home); the second is human de... ...ous? Minerals exist so that plants can feed on them and grow; plants exist so animals can feed on them and grow; minerals, plants, and animals exis... ...ia, Yetzira, and Assiya. In the physical world, they create minerals, plants, animals, people, and people with “points in their hearts.” The physica...

... Zohar UNLocKINg THE zoHAR copyright © 2011 by MIcHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers www.kabbalah.inf... ...ent to it. If we left the baby to grow in the woods, it would imitate the animals and grow like an animal. With the exception of a few instincts and... ...peaks of things that seemingly happen in our world: stories about people, animals, trees and flowers, mountains and hills. However, in truth, it tel... ...ve in our senses or develop tools to perceive. Also, when we examine other animals, we see that their perception of reality is different from ours. B... ...nsation of physical life. our body is no different than that of any other animal; hence, this kind of perception is defined 72 uNloCkiNg the Zohar ... ...een inner and outer Kelim is a human phenomenon that doesn’t exist in the animal kingdom. When a lion eats a zebra, it doesn’t hate it, and the zebr...

... According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers 1057 Steeles... ....................................................56 A Communal Society Among Animals ........................................... 57 Interdependenc... ...here the will to exist is greater than in the vegetative. For the most part, animals live in groups, packs. They are very mobile and must constantl... ...le and must constantly roam in search of food and suitable living conditions. Animals eat other animals or other plants, and relate to them as a sou... ...e is Everything 35 sations and emotions, and lends a unique character to each animal. Every animal senses its environment on a personal level, bring... ...he beneficial, and moves farther away from the detrimental. The life cycle of animals is also individual. Each lives and dies in its own time, unlik...

...av Michael Laitman, PhD THE ZOHAR Copyright © 2007 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers www.kabbalah.info ... ... itself and all its inhabitants, except man, are robots operated by their animal nature, rather than creatures with free will, in the spiritual worl... ... by their spiritual nature. Upon being born in our world, man, too, is an animal without freedom to act against his egoistic desire to receive pleas... ...d his son Elazar are angels (spiritual forces, similar to robots or draft animals in our world), whose task is to help the souls to ascend from one ... ...ignifies a person tearing away a part of his inner 249 THE DONKEY DRIVER animal egoism for the sake of drawing closer to the Creator. This is what b... ... uninitiated why altruism is the property of a lion, while a dog, a loyal animal, is the root of egoism and impurity). It is therefore said that whe...

...ories of Three conTemPorary sages copyright © 2010 by michaeL LaiTman all rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers www.kabbalah.info... ...nd entered an evil place, and has grown accustomed To living among vicious animals. if he hears the voice calling out to him, he awakens to repent for...

... S TRoNg fR oM THE w oRLD CRISIS Copyright © 2009 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers www.kabbalah.inf... ...od. This quality is what characterizes com- plex creatures such as plants, animals, and most notably, man. the d a Wn Of humanit Y Layer by layer, li... ...perated, but they acted purely on instinct. But humans are not like other animals. They discovered that to increase their chances of surviv- al, the... ...le element in it is missing or deficient, be it a mineral, a plant, or an animal. An eye-opening report submitted to the U.S. Department of Educatio... ...neral would disintegrate. At a higher level of complexity, in plants and animals (including humans), there is a collabo- ration of different molecul... ... this balance in all of nature’s levels: the inanimate, veg- etative, and animal. w e humans consider ourselves above nature, perhaps not in theory ...

...mati (I Heard) SHAMATI (I Heard) Copyright © 2007 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers www.kabbalah.info ... ...amples on with one’s feet. 4. Innumerable, that there are small with large animals, meaning whether one has small vitality, or whether he has great ... ...e from Above.” And the “egg” means that it is lifeless, although a living animal emerges from it. But in the meantime, no life is seen in it. And th... ...glory of the Lord endure for ever.” Because he has come to a state of the animal 258 Shamati of the Yaar (forest), from the word Iro (his town), it... ...e a single creature and the individual plants are specific organs of that animal. Similarly, in spirituality there are people who have already acqui... ...that they already work with the will to bestow. Animate: We see that each animal has its own characteristic; they are not confined to the environmen...

...of Spiritual Fulfillment 2006 First Printing © 2006 by Michael Laitman All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or trans- mitted in... ... astonish us with their inconceiv- able contradictions. For example, young animals mature in a matter of weeks or months, while humans need many years... ...ver, during the transitional phases, humans are much weaker than any other animal. If we did not vii Awakening to Kabbalah text 9/29/05 1:20 PM Pag... ...nal outcome, we would reach the opposite conclu- sion—that it is the young animal who will become the master of creation and the human who will lead a... ... ours. Instead of flesh and blood fig- ures, such as Moses and Pharaoh, or animals and nations, we will see spiritual forces. If we remove the outer s...