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Storks and Teamwork – Why Storks Fly in a V

Storks and Teamwork

Every autumn, flocks of storks fly on their way south. Their journey over land and sea covers a great distance.

They begin from cold northern lands and migrate south towards warm Africa. Next autumn, look up at the sky and you’ll see the V-shaped flock.

Why do they fly in a V? When a bird flaps its wings, it creates momentum that eases the flight of the bird behind it. This is why the V-shape lets the flock cover a much greater distance than one bird could ever do alone.

And another interesting fact: When one of the storks falls out of the flock because it is weak or hurt, two other storks immediately fly beside it to help and protect their fellow flyer.

They remain with the weak bird until it is strong enough to fly again, and only then do they rejoin the flock.

What can we learn from the storks’ flight?

People who have a common goal will reach it faster and more easily if they join together in a group. Each member will help another, and together they’ll move forward better than apart. This is why Kabbalists have always studied in groups.

– Read the Original Article in Kabbalah Today Issue 10

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The Rules of Checkers & the Rules of Spirituality

Checkers

When Rabbi Nahum of Ruzhin, a Kabbalist of the last century, found his students playing checkers, he told them of the similarity between the rules of the game at hand and the rules of spirituality: first of all, you cannot make two moves simultaneously; secondly, you can move forward but not backward; thirdly, one who reaches the end can move as one likes, according to one’s desires.

If we believe that someone is talking about us, we become interested in what they are saying. That which is desired but is concealed is known as a “secret.” If we read the Bible and feel that it is talking about us, then we are considered to have begun studying the hidden wisdom of Kabbalah, where we will read about ourselves, although we are not yet aware of this.

As we progress on the spiritual path, we will realize that the Bible speaks about us, and then the Bible will transform from being concealed to being revealed. Those who read the Bible without posing questions about themselves cannot discern in the Bible either the hidden or the revealed parts; to those individuals, the Bible appears simply as a historical account or a collection of legal statutes.

pp. 270-1 of the book Attaining the Worlds Beyond by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD

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Einstein’s Grades as Example of the Practical Difficulties in Determining the Truth

From Today’s Daily Lesson

Albert Einstein as a Child
Albert Einstein as a Child

Schoolchildren love to hear the story (turned myth) about Albert Einstein getting bad grades at school, thinking that they can too sit back, get bad grades, and still be a genius afterwards. In today’s daily lesson on a section from Baal HaSulam’s article “Peace in the World,” called “Practical Difficulties in Determining the Truth,” Rav Michael Laitman, PhD used Einstein’s school grades as an example of how humanity does not have the scales of measurement to evaluate a person properly, because we ultimately do not know what a person is supposed to be.

The main problem is that we create our scales of measurement out of a lack of sensing a person’s soul, of who is a person, what is each person’s role within the system of souls, what particular condition is one currently in and what is one’s duty toward the interconnected system of souls. A proper scale of measurement for evaluating each person and oneself needs to take all these parameters into consideration.

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The Connection Between Globalization, Economics and Nature’s All-Inclusive Plan

The Consumer Effect
The Consumer Effect
Feature Article in Kabbalah Today Issue 10

The globalization of economics means that any local market is inextricably tied to the global economy. The ongoing dollar decline, lately spurred by changes in China’s market, clearly demonstrates how interdependent the world’s markets have become. We have to discover the right way to act within an interconnected system—and what’s a better example to study than Nature, the mother of perfect, integral systems? more…

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Kabbalah Today Issue 10 Out Now

Kabbalah Today Issue 10
Kabbalah Today Issue 10

In this month’s issue of Kabbalah Today:

* The Consumer Effect – Learning from Nature to optimize our globalization of economics.

* Ecology and Us – Will our increasing environmental awareness save us from the ecological crisis?

* Storks and Teamwork – Why do storks fly in a V?

* I Saw a Reversed World – Does reality exist without us? Or is it a picture created within us, depending on our inner qualities?

* Kabbalah Is Not Philosophy – “My teacher, Pythagoras, the father of philosophy, took his teaching from Kabbalists…”

* After 5,000 Years, It’s About Time to Meet the Master Planner – Becoming equal with the Master Planner is the purpose of creation

* Interview with Rav Michael Laitman, PhD – Questions answered by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD–from an interview with New Jersey’s “Courier Post”

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