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...e of my being here? Why does the world exist? Do we continue to exist after our physical being has completed its tasks? In this world of constant pre... ... personal expectations and desires. Various forms of meditation, nutrition, and physical and mental exercise quiet man’s natural instincts and enabl... ...instincts and enable him to feel more comfortable from the point of view of his physical state. This process teaches him to lower his expectations, ... ...y the desire to receive develops and grows. In the first stage, man lusts after physical pleasure. Then he seeks money and honor. An even stronger d... ... is sometimes claimed that wherever the word “body” is written it refers to our physical body, that the right hand symbolizes charity and the left, ... ... laws of the spiritual world we begin to understand the laws of our world. Most sciences, such as physics, chemistry, biology, etc. become simpler a... ... reaches the appropriate spiritual level, he does not care so much for material sciences, which are less organized. Substances that are spiritually ... ... but not to go down. Any Kabbalist may perceive the roots of development of all sciences, if he wishes. The Baal HaSulam, Rabbi Ashlag, sometimes wro... ...bi Ashlag, sometimes wrote about the correlation between spiritual and material sciences. A great Kabbalist, the Gaon of Vilna, enjoyed making compa...

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... is highly unusual for one renowned in the spiritual: he was educated in the sciences, holds an MS in bio-cybernetics, and has pursued a successful... ...nd Kabbalah from the Moscow Institute of Philosophy at the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1976, he began studying Kabbalah, and has been researchin... ...e knowledge they passed on to us became the basis for both ancient and modern sciences. The term, “Kabbalist,” comes from the Hebrew word, Kabbalah ... ...ended up taking an entirely different direction. Western philosophy generated sciences that researched our material world, that which we perceive wi... ...EVEALED the more we will feel Adam’s eternal existence instead of our passing physical existence. Especially today, altruism has become essential for... ...LED bodies die, we will feel that we continue to exist in the eternal Nature. Physical life and death will no longer af- fect us because our previous... ...ding to Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag, “One can- The first level of desire relates to physical desires such as food, sex, family, and home. These are the mo... ... IN TOWN We have said that there are four degrees to the will to re- ceive: a) physical desires for food, reproduction, and fam- ily; b) wealth; c) po... ... desires. When Kabbalists talk about the heart, they aren’t re- ferring to the physical heart, but to desires of the first four degrees. But the fift...

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...nder- stand the attributes of creation. T H E E N D O F M AT T E R Q: Will the physical world vanish at the end of correction? Is Malchut of Malchut ... ...nts. There is not a single word in Kabbalah that refers to our world, meaning physical bodies. T H E T H O U G H T O F C R E AT I O N 25 Creation w... ... have those laws inside us and could fulfill our desires without the need for physical action. We wouldn’t need billions of unnecessary things, nor ... ...forcing us to feel ashamed and humble before the Light (the Creator) prior to physical suffering, and accelerate the emerg- ing desire to get rid of ... ... to develop the whole of physics or chemistry, and then starting to use these sciences. It would be similar to living like a Neanderthal without usi... ...s on earth. Each new generation is made of the same souls robed in newly born physical bodies. Physical bodies are born, live and die. After their d... ...ut all the people before Adam ha Rishon? Also, how does it correlate with the sciences dealing with the origin of man? I read in your books that all... ...color and sound, but all we can perceive is what goes through our senses. All sciences are limited by our five senses, whereas the Kabbalah speaks o... ... has no problem approaching the immediate study of Kabbalah. Unlike all other sciences, this wisdom demands no prior study. It is enough for a perso...

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... world between mother and child. We can solve all the problems that arise in physical relationships by understanding the root relationships that ex... ...n the real sensa- tion of our existence and reach beyond the boundaries of our physical world, we will have to be reborn into this world over and ove... ...sured by the degree to which they are identical. The spiritual sphere is not a physical one, but one of desires, the highest being that of the Creato... ... attributes of the Creator, the highest spiritual degree, while living in our physical, corporeal bodies. Thus, after having equalized in form with ... ...in the very first stages of the con- struction of the group in order to create physical closeness. This will later lead to spiritual closeness, just ... ...or scientific that provides a fuller picture of our world, and places all the sciences and other “wisdoms” in their place. There is nothing more rea... ...O F S P I R I T UA L E VO LU T I O N 115 Rabash was very interested in natural sciences such as physics and chemistry. He immediately connected every... ...ld; we don’t know and don’t understand a thing about it. None of the existing sciences en- ables us to influence the future, so on what grounds do yo... ... all the explanations from the perspective of the Kabbalah, the origin of all sciences. Each science has its own lan- guage. If Kabbalists are not sc...

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... and Kabbalah from the High Institute of Philosophy at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Mos- cow, and an MSc in bio-cybernetics from the Faculty of... ...ty’s evolution in the following ways: First, the will to enjoy manifested in physical desires, such as the desire for sustenance, reproduction, and... ...“ordinary person’s” assessment of the effect of parameters such as wealth and physical state on one’s mood, and their actual impact according to th... ... ways to decrease the intensity of the desire to enjoy. They used mental and physical exercises to do so, thus decreasing the in- tensity of the suf... ...istance given to her by the other monkeys. Another female monkey, mentally and physically retarded, survived with the support of her older sister, w... ...r- eignty, and desires for knowledge. These categories sym- bolize all the non-physical desires that can surface within us. They received the name “h... ...e reciprocal dependency between them- selves and the rest of humanity. Various sciences, primarily quantum physics, provide proof that changes in one... ...r not. The world exists and its shape is fixed. In time, the evolution of life sciences permitted the examination of the world-picture through the se...

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... accustom our bodies to renouncing egoism. Instead of forcibly suppressing our physical desires, we have been given Kabbalah, the Light of Kabbalah, w... ...tor. -71- We then demand to be taken out of that black abyss, that dungeon of physical desire in which we find ourselves. In this manner, events prog... ...nd study companions. Students who follow the teachings of Kabbalah live in the physical world, but are overburdened by their selfishness. This is why ... ...eir selfishness. This is why they cannot properly understand the sages who are physically close to them, but who also evolve in the spiritual worlds. ... ...ctingtheDesirefor -97- 11 InnerMotionandDevelopment In this world, we advance physically by using our organs of motion—thelegs.Oncewehavemovedforward... ...mporaryand transitory. Having grasped Kabbalah, we can grasp the source of all sciences in their true, completely revealed state. This in itself shows... ...terial research and innovation. But precisely for this reason, in spite of all sciences, the Creator instills in us an instinctive faith. Nature and t...

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... my life?” “Why does the world exist?” “Do we continue to exist after our physical being has ended?” In the absence of sufficient answers, some find ... ...ll discuss the history of Kab- - balah as experiences that occurred in the physical world. Part Two will explore the origin and structure of reality.... ...nd bonding will we defeat egoism, achieve the Creator, and find a life of physical and spiritual bliss. Let us now explore the personal stories of t... ...nique teaching methods established brotherly love among his students. The physical reality obeys the same law of love, the Creator, which governs t... ...ng of one of the most meaningful periods in the history of Kabbalah. The physical ruin of Judea was a manifestation of its people’s spiritual decli... ...d- - ing to well-defined spiritual laws, on which physical and biological sciences have no bearing. This is why we can- - not clone a soul. There are...

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...nt from the present. Not now, when Zion and Jerusalem stand destroyed both in a physical and a moral sense; and the house of Jacob is found, accordin... ...y to the legs, and feet, and toes; so that first Babylon, considered not in its physical structure but in its moral principle, hath been following t... ...hinder, but rather supposeth, that both the mother and the child should be some physical or real things, to which these similitudes have a most suit... ...self, the son of God and the son of the Virgin Mary, not certainly at this time physically conceived and born, but spiritually conceived by faith, an... ...sed from the earth, not in a metaphorical and spiritual sense, but in a proper, physical, and real sense; therefore may we well assure ourselves of ... ...eir souls would go from globe to globe, acquiring new knowledge in the physical sciences, in order to become perfect therein; for such people do wand...

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...the cleansing of actions, that all that is desired concerns observing the physical Mitzvot (commandments), without any additions or anything that sh... ... observing the Mitzvot, which is the desired purpose. Hence, the study of physical conducts is not enough; we need to study those things that produc... .... For when one detests any self-reception and his soul loathes the petite physical pleasures and respect, he finds himself roaming free in the Creat... ... a separation of the elements comprising the object. This is possible with physical objects, comprised of several elements which death disintegrates.... ...d the subject of religion as a whole. We can only accept concepts of life sciences taken from experiments that no man can doubt. Clearly, such a proo... ...learly, such a proof cannot be found in any spiritual matter, but only in physical matters, set up for perception by the senses. Hence, we are permit... ...nd “formative research.” But here there is a great advantage over secular sciences: here, even the part of formative research is built entirely on th... ...that calculates astrology will not cling to one that contemplates natural sciences. And there is great diversity even within the same teaching, for i...

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...o him, he left it, to dedicate himself exclusively to geography and astronomy; in which sciences he could not make great progress, for want of the ne... ... appears to me, able to sustain the whole. By this method, for more than a century, our physical philosophers have proceeded in the study of nature;... ...d; the one the cause of all the good in the world, the other the cause of all the evil, physical and moral, which afflict and trouble the children of... ...nt parts, or different people and nations, were all reunited under one single headship, physical or moral which they acknowledged, and at whose orde... ...ms purely metaphorical and spiritual, or four kingdoms material and visible, which were physically to appear in the world? If the first; why do we we... ...e figured by a leopard or tyger, for the variety of governments, as well as of arts and sciences, which flourished among the Greeks: for as, accordi... ...ks by their eloquence, their industry, their public games, their poetry, their arts and sciences, which they were daily inventing, did attract to th... ...re regarded in the statue. In this the kingdoms are looked upon solely in a material or physical aspect; —in the beasts, on the contrary, the kingdom...

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... or explicit) are not balanced. It protects small citizens from big monopolies, the physically weak from the thug, the tiny opposition from the migh... ...'s body is the main source of food to the baby and, in any case, she has to endure physical hardship to raise the child. Why not extend the woman's... ... But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of com... ...y numerous factors. It is almost a universal reaction. Any threat to one's welfare (physical, emotional, social, financial, or mental) is met with a... ...Anthropy The Second Law of Thermodynamics predicts the gradual energetic decay of physical closed systems ("entropy"). Arguably, the Universe as a... ...py tends to decrease. This is the orthodoxy. Personally, I believe otherwise. Some physical systems increase disorder, either by decaying or by act... .... This is true in every sphere of life: the economic, the social, in the arts, the sciences. Neurotic Adaptive versus Normally Adaptive Cultures T... ...humanize disease. By imposing upon issues of health the pretensions of the accurate sciences, we objectified the patient and the healer alike and ut... ...y an external object (the Other). It is the equivalent of resonance in the physical sciences. But we have NO WAY of ascertaining that the "wavelengt...

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...rther to present the science of Kabbalah as the basis for understanding the hidden parts of reality which scientists are now discovering. While other sciences research the definable world around us, Kabbalah teaches us how the spontaneous changes occurring within us affect our surrounding reality. The wisdom of Kabbalah enables us to monitor those changes and control them,...

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...ined mys- teries. Since physics has always been considered “the mother of all sciences” and the forefront of technology and experimentation, its dis... ...e cannot seem to achieve it. Kabbalah does not repeal any other teachings or sciences. Nor does it challenge humanity’s progress over the gen- erati... ...mitations on the desire. This does not refer to distance, time or space in the physical sense. Rather, this is an observation that pertains to the na... ...AT U R E O F M AT T E R 37 At its preliminary evolutionary stage, humanity has physical desires for sustenance, reproduction, and family. The body al... ...eart,” to the sum of desires that have evolved in us through our life cycles: physical desires, social de- sires, and the desire for knowledge. Oppos... ...abbalah is surfacing now because it is im- possible to experience these states physically, and Kabbalah is a means of easing our way through the stat... ... their degree of spiritual consciousness and were able only to perceive their physical reality. This was actually a gradual process. Some lost their... ...- dom to us. If one properly understands quantum theory—the most ad- vanced of sciences—one can see that there is a possibility of genu- ine free will... ... beginning of the 17 th century up to the 20 th century, a premise that all sciences relied on, is that all things are machines. It is true that mo...

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...including all kinds of religions and faiths. Meditations and exercises of physical and intellectual development give us some transitory relief, but ... ...ce of the light of the Creator, is felt as pain and torment of all kinds: physical pain, disease, famine and death. Thus, we are comprised solely of... ...balah 17 Introduction to the Zohar, Who is to Blame? Souls descend to the physical bodies according to a fixed and predetermined order. They return ... ...edetermined order. They return to this world each time in a new body. The physical characteristics of each generation are similar to the one that pr... ...ver the next two millenniums, they needed only the revealed Torah and the physical observation of mitzvot, for their spiritual evolution. They relate... ...part of it, which we call “our world”, or “this world”. As with all exact sciences, Kabbalah entails experimentations, documentation of results, rep... ...easier. The wisdom of Kabbalah is not about studying this world. All other sciences are but particulars that make it up. With regards to Kabbalah – m... ...he can really lead the world. There is no contradiction between the known sciences and the wisdom of Kabbalah. Quite the contrary, many of my studen... ...h. Quite the contrary, many of my students have academic degrees in exact sciences. The wisdom of Kabbalah has all the characteristics of a science: ...

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...r to research itself and the surroundings, humanity has developed various sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology etc. They are called Natural ... ...er understanding of the problem of survival in this world. But among all sciences, there is one that develops us quite differently; it is called th... ...ell as those of the individual change continuously. At first, they aim at physical pleasures, on an animal level, the enjoyment of food, sex and fa... ...exactly what Plato and Aristotle feared when they prohibited the study of sciences to those of unworthy moral standards. There is not a shadow of a... ... is misunderstood by us, as is the case with all the terms that take on a physical meaning in our world. Although it says that the Torah spoke in th... ...ns in the world is nothing more than an appearance and disappearance of physical bodies. The souls, however, which are the filling of the physical... ...nails or our hair is to the 45 of 263 Interview With The Future physical body. That is because they are in the degree of the ‘vegetative’ ... ...is because they are in the degree of the ‘vegetative’ in man, whereas the physical body belongs to a higher degree, the ‘animate’ in man. By studyi... ...ng new in Kabbalah that goes against human logic. All the laws of natural sciences speak in one form or another about each part of creation striving...

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...with cause-and-effect con- nections. Nothing is created without a purpose; the physical world is governed by precise laws of motion, transformation, ... ... existing scientific theories assert that the world is governed by invariable physical laws that we are unable to influence. Our only task is to liv... ...f the surrounding world. So how can we tell illusion from reality? As with all sciences, Kabbalah, too, is divided into the study of matter and the s... ...udy of form. Nevertheless, it has a remarkable feature and an edge over other sciences: Even the part of it that stud- ies form abstracted from matte... ...other is—in the end—for self-benefit. It is absolutely impossible to make any physical or mental movement without a prior intention to derive at lea... ...e is insensitive, unable to think, and creates the species in accordance with physical laws. The created species develops in conformity with evoluti... ...purred by suffering, in this life- time or in a subsequent life, influenced by physical, social, and eco- nomic factors, every one of us and all of hu... ... world, the science of Kabbalah, its inner, concealed part (as well as other sciences) is being revealed only in the latest generations, since it de... ...es in the fact that it includes complete knowledge about our world (i.e., all sciences in their unrevealed entirety) and its elements, because it st...

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...s to be the price we pay for the legacy of a human world split apart and a physical world which we are slowly bringing to destruction. And also the fa... ...ticularly by a special type of relationship with other people and with the physical world as a whole. For such groups there is no distinction possible... ...It has posed many difficulties for later Buddhist thinkers. If there is no physical or “spiritual” connection between the person who acted in the past... ...m this is something of a paradox, since reincarnation is held not to be of physical anatomy. The role of paradox Many of the basic Buddhist teachings ... ...ad lived countless times before; nevertheless as a person he was a simple, physical living being, rather than a soul encased in a body. As in the poem... ...h of what the “New Agers” claim to have discovered as of what our orthodox sciences claim. I also tend to suspect that those hypothetical future being... ...n that on which our Western religions and philoso- phies (and consequently sciences) are based. The Australian Aborigine begins with the assumption th... ...ully entrenched in our way of thinking and has given our religions and our sciences their dis- tinctive basis. Not only do we make mind/body, world/he...

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... do so. w e have learned that we can use our intelligence, instead of our physical strength, to enhance our pleasure. Yet, to enhance it effectively... ...single- celled creatures. The same applies to physics and to all the hard sciences. with humanities, it will be truly refreshing to examine human hi...