Question: What should we do if the whole group is in a descent?
Answer: This is wonderful! We need to view it as an opportunity given to us from Above to be “as one man with one heart.” It means we are all together in one desire and one state. This is great because we have succeeded in uniting. Now we can use the force of this unification to change our state.
Read more »Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-09-02Video: ENG 29.68MB Audio: ENG 5.4MB
Read more »Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-09-01Text: ENG 0.32MB
Read more »Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-09-01Video: flash: ENG 1.9MB flash: ENG 1.27MB flash: ENG 1.62MB flash
Read more »Question: Who is to blame for my downfalls in the final analysis: I or the Creator? Are they a result of my effort or lack thereof?
Answer: It is said about the Creator, “I am the beginning and the end.” “I am the beginning” means that each intitial state is not up to a person. Usually, it doesn’t have anything to do with whatever took place previously.
Read more »Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-09-01Video: ENG 40.11MB Audio: ENG 7.35MB
Read more »Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-09-01Video: ENG 49.67MB Audio: ENG 9.1MB
Read more »Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-08-31Audio: ENG 14.99MB Video: ENG 219.63MB
Read more »The same question arises over and over again: Why couldn’t the Light create a perfect being similar to the Creator from the start? But it can’t be done! It is impossible to pass the property of bestowal from the Creator to the creature directly.
Read more »Question: Is it possible to proceed by “faith above reason” all the time?
Answer: Of course not. However, Kabbalists do not discuss whether we can or cannot proceed in that manner; we simply must! And when we can’t, we ask for help, and the Creator does this work for us. The entire work is done by the Creator, not a person. But we need to ask Him to perform it.
Read more »Dear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.
Following the Paths of Kabbalists
Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-08-31Video: ENG 52.31MB Audio: ENG 9.36MB
Read more »Question: Where was Adam when the serpent was tempting Eve? If he were by her side at that moment, he might have chased the serpent away or have protected Eve from it by asking her not to listen to the evil “seducer.”
Answer: He swayed off to the left, to the serpent’s wife.
Read more »In the news (from Wired.com): Experiments conducted by Princeton University neurologists Greg Stephens and Uri Hasson demonstrated that there is a mind connection between people who are participating in a conversation, and the brain activity of the listener copies processes occurring in the brain of the speaker.
Read more »Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-08-29Video: ENG 72.37MB Audio: ENG 12.89MB
Read more »
"In the times of the Messiah, the L~rd shall manifest a second time His hand' (Isaiah
11:11). He shall be the Redeemer in person so that 'Israel shall be saved in the L~rd with
an everlasting salvation' (Isaiah 45:17). And 'his rest shall be glorious' (Isaiah 11:10).
All the world shall say, 'It is fitting that his rest shall be glorious, for while ordinary kings acquire glory for themselves through victorious wars, and do not believe themselves to be esteemed when they are at rest, he, on the contrary, without waging war makes everyone subject to him, and all render him homage."
[Commentary Minha- Ghedola in the Grand Rabbinic Bible of Amsterdam, 1700-1705 Rabbinic Bible of Bombergi]
Begins:
Friday, 7:00 PM
September 3, 2010
Ends:
Saturday, 6:59 PM
September 4, 2010
