Let Nature Guide Us to Godliness

Essence of Life

Bnei Baruch’s latest installment in Shari Arison’s Essence of Life webzine is an article discussing altruism as Nature’s law, and humanity in relation to this law. Moreover, it introduces the method of Kabbalah as the means for humanity to consciously realize this law.

Firstly, by defining human drives as egoistic and detrimental to future development, and Nature as altruistic and beneficial to future development, a place for work is presented to humanity: to somehow learn how to become altruistic like Nature. This is the place where the method of Kabbalah enters to change “to somehow learn how to become altruistic” into a time-tested method of “how” to learn and implement altruistic relationships. As is stated in the article:

Kabbalah makes us aware of how much our environment influences our development, and offers a method for using the environment to frame altruistic human development.

The goal of the environment Kabbalists have devised is to guide a person in achieving homeostasis with Nature. As well as being the goal of Kabbalah studies, Kabbalists call this ‘the goal of Creation.’ They state that all of humanity is destined to become equal in form with the Creator, i.e. to become altruistic and function as one interconnected body in relation to the Creator.”

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Worldwide Unanimous Agreement

“When all the people in the world unanimously agree to annul and eradicate the desire to receive for themselves within them, and will have no other desire but to bestow upon their friends, all worries and harmful ones will be banished from the earth, and each will be secured a complete and healthy life. In the end, each of us will have a whole world to care for our needs.”

Baal HaSulam, in Introduction to the Book of Zohar. Featured in Kabbalah Today (issue #3, May 2007), section “Quotes of Great Kabbalists.”

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Kabbalah Today – Issue 3 Out Now

Kabbalah Today

The e-version of Kabbalah Today (issue #3 May, 2007)—Bnei Baruch’s monthly paper—is now available.

Love is the theme of this month’s issue: the importance of love as a means to achieving eternal life and harmony, and the ways by which we can develop it. Here is an overview (with links) of the paper’s sections:

Love, Love, Love
Love, Love, Love

Feature Article
Kabbalah says that the only force in reality is the force of love. Evidently, without love, there is no life. This is why Kabbalah says that Creator, nature and love are synonymous. more…

Camp Mount Sinai
Camp Mount Sinai

Section: On the Topic
The Creator is love. This is why He can sustain and provide for the whole of creation. In Kabbalah, Mount Sinai is the hatred we must climb to achieve the Creator, the quality of love. more…

Baal HaSulam
Rabbi Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) – 1884-1954

Section: Kabbalah Icons
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag is better known as Baal HaSulam (Owner of the Ladder) for his Sulam (Ladder) commentary on The Book of Zohar. This work, and his commentary on the Holy Ari’s The Tree of Life, have made him the foremost Kabbalist of the 20th century, as well as one of the greatest Kabbalists of all time. more…

Omnipotent Magician
The Omnipotent Magician Who Could Not Be Alone

Section: Specials
A double-page, picturesque journey into this tale for grown-ups. more…

Kli
Lights and Vessels

Section: Kabbalah Sketches
Reality is made of Lights and vessels that receive them. Kabbalah Sketches explains how it happens, focusing in this issue on the four phases of creation’s emanation. more…

All's Well that Ends Well
All’s Well that Ends Well

Section: Kabbalah Sources – Clear and Simple
Kabbalists reached the top of the spiritual ladder and declared that there isn’t, never was and never will be any “bad” in reality. more…

The Zohar
A Glimpse of Radiance

Section: Kabbalah Sources – The Zohar
All the Kabbalists dreamed of our time, when all humanity could discover the wonders they had. By reading the authentic texts they left for us, we can achieve spiritual and physical harmonious perfection. more…

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‘Kabbalah Today’ uses mass media to hasten final redemption

Jerusalem Post

JERUSALEM POST (April 23, 2007): The mass dissemination of Bnei Baruch’s paper Kabbalah Today is the subject of Matthew Wagner’s article today in the Jerusalem Post.

Wagner explains Bnei Baruch’s objectives for Kabbalah Today using quotes from an interview with Kabbalah Today’s executive editor Chaim Ratz, and presents a basic argument of how Bnei Baruch’s approach differs from traditional Jewish approaches to Kabbalah in its aims to mass disseminate the wisdom.

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