Very special newsletter this week - but first view an invitation from Rav Laitman for the Catskills Congress in September, where he talks about discovering the hidden parts of reality and forces around us and how we can use them to change our destiny and improve our life.
The Secret Meaning of the Bible
Imagine our universe for a moment: the endless amount of galaxies, stars, and worlds. Now imagine that we remove from our universe a specific portion of space. How are we able to imagine the resulting emptiness of this void if it contains nothing that is able to be measured or described? In reality we perceive all phenomena in terms of time, space, and movement. We cannot envision something that is absolutely static, frozen in time, without any volume. This is an analogy of our understanding of the spiritual worlds. There is no time, movement, or even space in the spiritual worlds. Since all our reality and perceptions are based on these physical concepts, it follows that there is absolutely no connection between spirituality and our construction of physical reality based on our perceptions and sensations. This results in a lack of words and vocabulary that is able to express spiritual concepts
The Secret Meaning of the Bible
Why There has to be Death?
Question: Why do we come into this world? And on the other hand, if it took so much effort to bring us into this world, then why do we leave it? Why do we have to die? Can we exist in this world forever? If a human being is destined to live for 100-120 years, wouldn't it be better if he lived for 600 years and died, after finishing all of his incarnations? Why do we have to come back into this world and revive it again? And the last question: if the soul is some sort of entity that continues to live after physiological death, then why do we relate to death as to something that happens to us and at the same time, not to us? That is, we do exist at the place where the eternal soul dwells - we die and have no idea what happens next. Is it a fact that although we perceive only this world, our soul exists simultaneously in some other dimension which is on another side of the verge that we call death?
Why there has to be Death
Heaven and Hell
Question: Let us talk about Heaven and Hell. Does the science of Kabbalah believe that Heaven is a kind of pain relief pill, an analgesic, used by all religions? Religions depict images of the Heaven Garden and Hell to manipulate believers. Do such places, such dimensions really exist? Is it true that after death each soul either burns in the fire of Hell or enjoys eternal pleasure? If there really are such dimensions, then how do they correspond with the fact that according to the Science of Kabbalah there is no reward and no punishment, as everything in this world is predetermined, and man is not in fact responsible for his actions?
Heaven and Hell
Thought of the Week
If you attune yourself as a part of the group, and, along with others, wish to feel the Upper Light that would correct your egoism, then this Light will affect you. This is because now it has to influence you only in this way – through correction.
Rav M.Laitman PhD: One Law
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kabbalah
bible
The Secret Meaning of the Bible
Imagine our universe for a moment: the endless amount of galaxies, stars, and worlds. Now imagine that we remove from our universe a specific portion of space. How are we able to imagine the resulting emptiness of this void if it contains nothing that is able to be measured or described? In reality we perceive all phenomena in terms of time, space, and movement. We cannot envision something that is absolutely static, frozen in time, without any volume. This is an analogy of our understanding of the spiritual worlds. There is no time, movement, or even space in the spiritual worlds. Since all our reality and perceptions are based on these physical concepts, it follows that there is absolutely no connection between spirituality and our construction of physical reality based on our perceptions and sensations. This results in a lack of words and vocabulary that is able to express spiritual concepts
The Secret Meaning of the Bible
Why There has to be Death?
Question: Why do we come into this world? And on the other hand, if it took so much effort to bring us into this world, then why do we leave it? Why do we have to die? Can we exist in this world forever? If a human being is destined to live for 100-120 years, wouldn't it be better if he lived for 600 years and died, after finishing all of his incarnations? Why do we have to come back into this world and revive it again? And the last question: if the soul is some sort of entity that continues to live after physiological death, then why do we relate to death as to something that happens to us and at the same time, not to us? That is, we do exist at the place where the eternal soul dwells - we die and have no idea what happens next. Is it a fact that although we perceive only this world, our soul exists simultaneously in some other dimension which is on another side of the verge that we call death?
Why there has to be Death
Heaven and Hell
Question: Let us talk about Heaven and Hell. Does the science of Kabbalah believe that Heaven is a kind of pain relief pill, an analgesic, used by all religions? Religions depict images of the Heaven Garden and Hell to manipulate believers. Do such places, such dimensions really exist? Is it true that after death each soul either burns in the fire of Hell or enjoys eternal pleasure? If there really are such dimensions, then how do they correspond with the fact that according to the Science of Kabbalah there is no reward and no punishment, as everything in this world is predetermined, and man is not in fact responsible for his actions?
Heaven and Hell
Thought of the Week
If you attune yourself as a part of the group, and, along with others, wish to feel the Upper Light that would correct your egoism, then this Light will affect you. This is because now it has to influence you only in this way – through correction.
Rav M.Laitman PhD: One Law
Tags:
kabbalah
bible
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