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April 23, 2024

Our Higher Root Cause

Our Higher Root Cause

It is time for “Jewish” to mean hero; a hero that knows himself, that knows how to overcome his own ego and to love others, teaching others how to do the same.

It is in these stressfully precarious times, with a growing, world-enveloping economic crisis and the looming threat of Iran, that I found myself in a very interesting meeting. A meeting so delicate and intensely profound that it brought me to wonder in awe about the future we are all about to be living.

Maybe it will be completely terrible and chaotic, politically, financially, socially and ecologically – but maybe not. Maybe we’ll pull through and find it to be uplifting and transforming.

I found myself sitting together with my old university professor, the big-hearted and wise psychologist Dr. Kalman Kaplan, an expert in Biblical Psychology and the author of the TILT: Teaching Individuals to Live Together model, and one whose depths I cannot fathom: Dr. Michael Laitman, scientist and…Kabbalist. It was not your ordinary discussion about where we are and where we are heading; there was a very pressing feeling that something big needs to happen, and that it can only happen through the collaboration of many.

The topic was us. Jews.

What is going on with us, our identity, our strengths? Are we aware? Are we awake? Are we tapping in to our great ancient wisdom and do we see how relevant it is to today’s issues? Sadly, everyone around the table agreed that the situation is less than favorable. Read Full Article at JPost »

  

2 Comments »

  Anthony Garvin wrote @ October 17th, 2012 at 2:39 am

What does kabbalah mean to overcome ones own ego?

  Anthony Rago wrote @ October 16th, 2012 at 10:44 am

As a student of Ashlag’s teachings of Kaballah – I have learned that there is great meaning in words or language as it is our conscience. Jew comes from Judah. Judah means “to praise G*d” and now we have to ask – what do we mean by praising G*d? Well, If we understand that the only truth we know – the only meaning of G*d we can express is source or full or whole or Holy – all the same – we then come to the conclusiont that Source or G*d is full – not part – whole – not lack. So G*d can’t possibly NEED praise. So what does it mean. I learned that the highest level of praise is to be SIMILIAR TO. Being similiar to whole, full, source is to give as that is the only thing we experience from G*d/Source. So that would mean that a Jew is a human being (compassionate/humane) who is a giver.

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