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Uniting Our Hearts – Kabbalah Congress in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education & Research Institute, together with the Almaty Kabbalah group, is inviting you to the first ever Kabbalah Congress in Central Asia and Kazakhstan!
The theme of the congress is Uniting Our Hearts, and is dedicated to the unity among Kabbalah students from around the world. The aim of the congress is to reach a new level of unity and dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah in Asia.
When: July 18-20, 2008.
Where: The picturesque outskirts of Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Preliminary Congress Fee: US $200.
For registration and additional information, please contact almaty_bb@yahoo.com.
Application Deadline: June 30, 2008
We are waiting for you!
Almaty Congress Organizing Committee
Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education & Research Institute
www.kabbalah.info
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Three Sources for True Freedom You Don’t Want to Miss Out On
Our modern idea of freedom is embedded in remoteness, individualism and isolation. The true idea of what freedom means has been inverted and long forgotten. Here are three sources of information on what true freedom is and how it can be attained in our world today.
1. Video: The Freedom Prison
In this excerpt from a morning lesson Rav Michael Laitman, PhD provides a definition of freedom that is completely opposite to society’s idea of freedom, but is more natural than anything else.
Download this Lesson: wmv video | mp3 audio [66:42]
Shamati Article #190 “Every Act Leaves an Imprint” (the article on which the above video’s lesson is based)
2. Freedom of Will (An article by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD)
3. The Freedom (An article by Baal haSulam)
Related Material:
Newspaper Articles:
* Kabbalah Today Article: The Freedom Blues
* Kabbalah Today Article: A Kabbalist, a Geneticist and the Meaning of Life
Short Clips:
* Do We Have Free Will or Is Everything Predetermined
* “Kabbalah Revealed” Episode 10: Free Will, Part 1
* “Kabbalah Revealed” Episode 11: Free Will, Part 2 The Four Factors
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The True Story Behind the Book of Zohar and Its Author – Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
Zohar means Radiance, and The Book of Zohar is the fundamental book in the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is the key enabling one to reveal the spiritual part of the universe, hidden to our five senses, and the Upper Force that governs everything and brings everything into being.
It was written by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, or Rashbi, a great Kabbalist who lived in the 2nd century CE. Rashbi attained all the wisdom that was to be recorded in The Book of Zohar while hiding from the hostile Roman authorities in a cave in Northern Israel. Together with his son Rabbi Elazar, Rashbi spent 13 years living in this cave, eating fruits of a carob tree and drinking water from a nearby source. In that time, the father and son had attained all the degrees of the spiritual world, and were able to feel the Upper Force or the Creator with utter clarity. Continue reading “The True Story Behind the Book of Zohar and Its Author – Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai”
Kabbalah – Explaining Why Things Happen and How to Make Them Happen Better Since the Time of Abraham
Kabbalah Chronicles
Article in Kabbalah Today Issue 1
The Rambam (Maimonides) wrote that when the whole of humanity was deep in idol worship, one man could not go with the flow. His name was Abraham. He pondered and searched until he found the truth: that the world has only one leader. When he discovered this, he realized he had discovered life’s eternal truth and ran to tell the world. Since then, the world has had a method that reveals this truth. Today this method has a different name – “Kabbalah” – but it is essentially the same. If we open our hearts to it, it will teach us why things happen, and how to make them happen better. Read the Full Article…
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