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...nderstood in the context of Buber's 'previous intensive study, chiefly of Jewish mystical writings. It is not an isolated phenomenon among hls work... ...-by the impact, that is to say; which it makes on our actual, responsible life, as persons and as groups, in the modern world. This immediate value... ...bject. These two attitudes represent the basic twofold situation of human life, the former constituting the. "world of Thou", and the latter the " ... ...orld of "It, of creeds or other forms, which are objects, and have their life in the past; nor is it, on the other hand, a reliance on the "wholly... ...ter manifold attempts, till it is stilled by one who learns to escape the cycle of births, or by one who saves the souls, that have fallen to alien ... ...sation of pain", that is of becoming &tnd passing a.way-release from the cycle of births. "Henceforth there is no return" is the formula. of the ma...

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...The great Kabbalists, Rav Yehuda Ashlag, and his son and successor, Rav Baruch Ashlag, offer modern readers valid answers to life's most vital question: What is the meaning of my life? Their interpretations of The Book of Zohar and The Tree of Life explain how we can benefit by using the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah on a day-to-day basis. Additionall...

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...printing Ta b l e o f Co n T e n T s Foreword (Bnei Baruch) 5 The Tree of Life – a Poem (Rav Isaac Luria) 7 Time for Spiritual Attainment 1 1 Time to... ...e that sublime feeling of unbounded pleasure and complete control of your life. Kabbalah teaches how to enjoy life here and now. It explains such con... ...xplains such concepts as “the next world,” “souls,” “reincarnation,” and “life and death.” How can we, novices, experience such perceptions? How can ... ...T ranslator’s note: A Shofar is a ram’s horn, used on festive occasions in Jewish holidays. 1 5 4 K a b b a l a h f o r T h e s T ... ...f ThE World This is why it is written that each of the nations will hold a Jewish man and lead him to the Holy Land. And it was not enough that they ... ...l these creatures, what It wants of them, what will be the end of all the cycles of the world, and how all these cycles in the world, which are so f... ...e interpreted. This is because the Higher Will had already calculated the cycle of this Guidance, which ends in utter completeness. And these measur... ...st be present, and then it is possible to say Kedusha (specific part of a Jewish prayer) at the service. The Holy Zohar says about it: “Wherever ther... ...e still living in this world, so we will not have to return to this world cycle-by-cycle and repeatedly suffer this vain, purposeless, and useless l...

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...f the papers presented by the Author that the book contains. The book opens with an “Invitation” and then proceeds with “The Myth of Sophia-Analysis: life as a work of art”, “Choral Group Research on life as a work of art”, “The Cosmological vision of Sophia-Art”, “The Cosmo-Art Theorem”, “The Cosmo-Art Myth”, “The Myth of Ulysses contains the Cosmo-Art Myth”, “Exploring t...

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.................................. 9 CHAPTER I: The Myth of Sophia-Analysis: Life as a Work of Art ...................................................... ... Art ...................................................... 13 What does “Life as a Work of Art” Mean for Me? ......................................... ................................... 32 CHAPTER II: Choral Group Research on Life as a Work of Art ...................................................... ...so we have to re-establish order and this is the task of religion. The Jewish religion has this basic scheme: First there was order (the creatio... ...t is consolidated. The Christian religion adopts the basic scheme of the Jewish religion and it transforms it in the following manner: The Messia... ...An excellent example can be taken from the plant world, which undergoes the cycle of the four seasons so as to renew itself and make sure life remain... ...four seasons so as to renew itself and make sure life remains fertile. This cycle is a continual death and rebirthing of life. Biologically, our bodi... ...re of it. In the spiritual dimension of the I Person, however, there is no cycle that has a regular rhythm like this. Life with its many circumstanc...

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...past to the future, in situations we might all experience at some point. Anyone who wants to learn how to make the most of every moment in his or her life, anyone who wishes to find a happy, fulfilling life, will find the answers in this book. Since the days of The Zohar and the Tree of Life, the language of Kabbalah has never been as clear as it is in this moving piece. I...

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...e author of HaSulam (The Ladder), a commentary on the Zohar) reveal that from this time forward, the Kabbalah will become a simple and genuine way of life, open to all, with no restrictions. This approach originated in 1995, and we are currently in the midst of this process to expand the reach of Kabbalah. Why our generation? Because the souls that descend to this world an...

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... from this time forward, the Kabbalah will become a simple and genuine way of life, open to all, with no restrictions. This approach originated in 1... ... of their very existence. The question will form: “What is the meaning of my life?” or “What am I living for?” It will arise not only if we are in ... ... us flat, before we find the solution in drifting in the currents of everyday life. Indeed, if we contemplate reality, as described in the books of... ... L U T I O N O F H U M A N I T Y Q: Why did the Kabbalah remain, much like all Jewish thought, in the margins of the development of the cultural worl... ...of the dead.” How can we reach the Creator? We accumulate experience over our cycles in this world and evolve to the level that we are able to be- gi... ...n to oppose unconscious development, as we have been led through by our past cycles. When we attain that certain level, a special desire begins to ... ...t feel it, because they haven’t matured enough to feel it. During one’s life cycles, one comes to a situation where the point in the heart is reveal... ...age of legends (Agada the language of legends ( ), the language of the Talmud (Jewish re- ligious laws), and the language of the Kabbalah (Sefirot), w... ... hu- manity: the language of the Bible (history), the language of the Halacha (Jewish law), the language of Agada (legends and tales), and the languag...

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...eator. It is a method of reaching spiritual fulfillment. Through the study of Kabbalah, you too can learn to direct your heart--and consequently your life--toward success, tranquility, peace, and happiness.In this distinctive, personal, and awe-filled introduction to an ancient wisdom tradition, Rav Laitman--a disciple of the great Kabbalist Rabbi Baruch Ashlag (son of Yeh...

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...int material from this book, please mail or fax your request in writing to Jewish Lights Publishing, Permissions Department, at the address / fax numb... ...e address / fax number listed below, or e-mail your request to permissions@jewishlights.com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Laitma... .... cm. ISBN 1-58023-264-7 1. Cabala. 2. Mysticism—Judaism. 3. Spiritual life—Judaism. I. Title. BM525.L247 2005 296.1'6—dc22 2005026131 10 9 8 ... ... Safrai Gallery. Manufactured in the United States of America Published by Jewish Lights Publishing A Division of LongHill Partners, Inc. Sunset Farm ... ...ho will become the master of creation and the human who will lead a bitter life and die. It follows that we understand neither the meaning of our exis... ...sense within, we begin to feel a wider world around, to see the meaning of life, the reason for suffering, and the purpose of existence. Those feeling... ... eternal, and complete lives. Souls of great Kabbalists go through special cycles. They do not appear in our world in every generation but, like the b...

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...realm. This unique method of study, which encourages sharing this wisdom with others, not only helps overcome the trials and tribulations of everyday life, but initiates a process in which individuals extend themselves beyond the standard limitations of today's world....

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.......................................................... 74 The Making of Life ......................................................................... ...........................................................131 The Reins of Life ......................................................................... ...we come into this world! Man has always been searching for the answers to life’s most basic questions: “Who am I?” “What is the 10 K abbalah for... ...ing, she gives back to Root Phase, to the Creator. Now we have a complete cycle where both players are givers. In Phase Zero, the Creator gives to C... ...Phase f our – Craving The Crea Tor’s minD Now it seems we have a perfect cycle where the Creator has succeeded in making the creature identical to ... ...perspective, Malchut’s desire com- - pletes the Thought of Creation, the cycle that He originally had in mind (Figure 2). As Figure 2 indi- - cate... ...he introduction to Attaining the Worlds Beyond: “…Not feeling well on the Jewish New Year in September 1991, my teacher called me to his bedside and...

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...Mossad. There is only one rule: TRUST NO ONE. Dedicated to Lidija, my wife and life. Facts and Speculations All the historical events and ... ... and two decades later they made me – the time it took them to regain some trust in life, not least by making a small fortune in the specialty publi... ...funereal abode, mumbling barely audible goodbyes. The air outside was fresh with life. I was 46 years old but didn’t have much to show for it, ... ...r idea was to clean Europe of Jews, our intractable enemies. We wanted to solve the Jewish question for centuries to come. We wanted them out, the Z... ...k his head and laughed hoarsely: “Hitler was the great white hope of Zionism! Our Jewish policies virtually guaranteed the emigration of wealthy J... ...tter of factly. “Some fools in the SD and the SS even learned Hebrew, listened to Jewish folk music, and published pro-Zionist articles in Goebbel... ...rodes. After a while, I fall asleep and then wake up and fall asleep again. This cycle is repeated six or seven times. I lose track of time. I am...

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...Torah “as a spice,” as a means for correction. It is also called a “potion of life,” for it pours into us the sensation of the Creator, the Light of... ...nt to approach Him through our efforts. Without obstructions in our corporeal life, we would not feel any need or desire for Him, and would never be... ...hole Partzuf. Sometimes such a point can remain dormant in the heart for many life cycles. If that point is absent, a person can study Kabbalah for ... ...Partzuf. Sometimes such a point can remain dormant in the heart for many life cycles. If that point is absent, a person can study Kabbalah for years... ...nstance, it is known that Rabbi Yosef Karo, who wrote the Shulchan Aruch (the Jewish code of laws), a priceless piece of work, slept during his Kabb... ... Jew by birth, and a ‘spiritual Jew’? The answer is: In someone who was born Jewish, there is a tendency to become a Jew in the spiritual sense. The... ...e complete our correction through the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah is this cycle finished. Why do people interpret and relate so differently to th... ... us. That is because souls accumulate more and more experience in every life cycle, and their demands increase, compared to the former genera- tion.... ...o result. However, observing Mitzvot mechanically is still necessary for the (Jewish) collective because it preserves their identities from generatio...

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...experienced it can understand it." Attaining The Worlds Beyond is a first step toward discovering the ultimate fulfillment of spiritual ascent in our lifetime. This book reaches out to all those who are searching for answers, who are seeking a logical and reliable way to understand the world's phenomena. This magnificent introduction to the wisdom of Kabbalah provides a ne...

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... a bitteranda fair one, asked by all born on earth: "What is the meaning of my life?" Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, Introduction to Talmud Esser Sefirot Among ... ...e Kabbalist, Ari, and of many other works on Kabbalah. Not feeling well on the Jewish New Year in September 1991, my Rabbi called me to his bedside an... ...lfabovethisworld,helpinfindingtheself, and help in determining your purpose in life, you must turn totheCreator,whosendsyouallthoseaspirationsinordert... ...abitter and a fair one, asked by all born on earth: "What is the meaning of my life?" Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag -14- ATTAININGTHEWORLDSBEYOND 1 Perceivingt... ...ents for his Kabbalistic group, Baal Shem-Tov instituted Admorut—a division of Jewish society into sections, with each section having a Kabbalistasits... ...with our bodies. Nor are we different from our souls after they passed all the cycles of life, and finally returned to the Creator. We are created so ... ...ssageoftime,oneisvisitedbyan extraneous thought. And so, gradually, after many cycles of disturbing thoughts and spiritual ascents, such a steadfast -... ...was implanted in each of us, but which sometimes remains dormant for many life cycles. Thisistheessenceofourfreewill.Oncewebegintofeel the awakened al...

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..., on the current border between Turkey and Syria. He spent the next 60 years of his life there. Harran is 1200 kilometers off the beaten path to Ca... ... The books of Esther and the Song of Solomon do not contain the word "God". The Jewish codifiers of the Bible almost left them out (i.e., almost... ...unity of luminescent bacteria called Vibrio fischeri. From the first moments of its life, the squid circulates bacteria-infested seawater through a ... ...quantitative threshold) is attained. This is called "quorum sensing". http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/ http://www.biolum.org/ Black Death AID... ... expression; (4) intermittent wakefulness manifested by the presence of sleep-wake cycles; (5) sufficiently preserved hypothalamic and brain-stem a... ...cky (stout), shabbily dressed (though a gentleman), foreign-looking euphemism for Jewish-looking), and with a moustache. He wore a deerstalker hat... ...t have been the sister of the Virgin Mary, as the Church would have us believe. In Jewish families, two sisters cannot share the same name. John im...

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...ar is a source of energy and vitality. With The Zohar, we can begin a new life and bond with the good and pleasurable that exists in the world. Unlo... ...has never seen the light of The Book of Zohar has never seen light in his life. Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Eichenstein of Ziditshov 1 The prohibition from Abov... ...rdechai Azulai 2 And because Israel are destined to taste from the tree of life, which is The Book of Zohar, through it, they will be delivered from... ...ll these creatures, what It wants with them, and what the end of all the cycles of the world will be. Ramchal, Pitchei Hochma (Doors of Wisdom), Doo... ...rld. Baal HaSulam “Messiah’s Shofar” It is important to remember that the Jewish nation was not formed on a racial or a national basis. Jews today a... ...ur world, acquires a new clothing (additional egoistic desire), and a new cycle of life begins. only by studying the wisdom of Kabbalah can we rise ... ...e to The Book of zohar” 27 From the magazine, Collections, a yearbook for Jewish studies, ninth book, Jerusalem, 1995, Editor: Meir Benayahu, pp 152... ...eir Benayahu, pp 152-154 28 From the magazine, Collections, a yearbook for Jewish studies, ninth book, Jerusalem, 1995, Editor: Meir Benayahu, pp 152...

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...from the merit of his work. He wondered how much the licentiousness of his life and the salaciousness of the subject matter were the real color of wha... ...ve petty lives. Such was the gray in the gray matter that enveloped them. Life with Noppawan had the insatiability of an itch to a mosquito's bite an... ...love would cling to his former pleasure-inducer as a source of meaning in life's vicissitudes. He and Noppawan had done the same but they were less ... ...y Buddhist and Christian practitioners although thoroughly embraced by the Jewish, Moslem, and Hindu world. I'd think it over carefully before exorci... ...ve. The movements of his splayed legs when he walked were like parting ice cycles even though the furnace was operating and it was warm inside his apa...

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...any years from this debilitating disease, which both you and I know robbed him of the quality of life and his will to live. I hope you do not think ... ...cle’s proposition with incredulity. Did he really wish her to marry Gavin, the secret love of her life since childhood? Her heart was fluttering so ... ...e Mission. And as for Rosita, I am confident she will wish to accompany you to India. You are her life!’ Sir Terence paused, his brow puckering slig... ... communities tend to cling together in a country which is not their own. In England we, too, have Jewish, Chinese and even Arab quarters in our citi... ... her period. Could she be pregnant, or had her recent stressful episode with the snake upset her cycle? She would have to wait and see. Helen had t... ...n fatalism, were learning to adapt. Two months had elapsed since Helen missed her first menstrual cycle and she was now certain that she was pregnan... ...sitar which Princess Muna loved to play. I believe, Memsahib, her spirit cannot rest or enter the cycle of rebirth. I am a THE CURSE OF KALI 277 ...

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...Kabbalah, Science & the Meaning of Life traces the milestones of the evolution of science with which we are familiar, such as Newton’s and Einstein’s theories but goes further to present the science of Kabbalah as the basis for understanding the hidden parts o...

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... Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah,... ...H PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life Translation: Chaim Ratz Proofreading: Kate Weibel Editor: Claire... ... Publishers E-mail: info@kabbalah.info KABBALAH, SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published... ...word, “heart,” to the sum of desires that have evolved in us through our life cycles: physical desires, social de- sires, and the desire for knowledg... ...I N G M Y S E L F Many people mistakenly relate the wisdom of Kabbalah to the Jewish religion. In truth, Kabbalah and religion are fun- damentally di... ...nd of the natural evolution of the will to receive in humans, after many life cycles, one begins to feel that there is something higher, a Giver. At... ...A L A H , S C I E N C E , A N D T H E M E A N I N G O F L I F E 206 in ancient Jewish treasures that some wondrous revelation that astounds the whole...

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...ins: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years. 4: Human Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization. 6: The effect of civilization upon humans. 7: Death, the existence of evil and its effect o...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development ...

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...se came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural Dynamics of the Universe and... ............................................................. 104 Chapter Two: Life The basic structural dynamics of the Universe. Pg 113 The Tr... ...f Twelve Pg 119 Science Pg 121 Instinct and Evolution Pg 124 How and Why Life Emerged Chapter Three: Hominids Pg 132 The Basis o... ...unctionality Pg 540 Tool-functioning vs. Human Functioning Pg 541 Evolving Cycles vs. Vicious Cycles Pg 545 Boredom Pg 548 Profit Pg 561 The... ... Pg 737 Rage and Unhappiness Pg 737 Nature and Science Pg 740 The Vicious Cycles of Civilized Ease and Hardship Pg 747 Play and Sports ... ...dead evil Pg 1766 How the Undead Fool the Living Pg 1767 The Undead and the Jewish Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice ... ... here only in this way. Conditions that are Actually infinite do have finite cycles that come to a finite end… but only within the Infinite Conditi... ...to be practiced, their cultures were poisoned, twisted, etc. One reason why Jewish Culture has survived intact for so long is that it has had more ... ...their cultural differences became too noticed… once other people read what the Jewish religion was… an elite culture that placed all other cultures b...

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...ligious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that thevast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many...

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...Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose nearly all meanin... ...an intellectual puzzle with which to play. For Plato it was a necessity of life. For a long time I had felt that if I got to the roots of religious be... ...I learned of the background of theological doctrines, the less relevant to life they seemed to be. I realized that to become a minister of religion wo... ...ed to a discussion of the meaning and feeling-value of symbols in personal life, as well as in culture generally. Jung was, with Sigmund Freud, a cofo... ...people as much as things. This is more or less what Martin Buber, a modern Jewish writer, meant when he spoke of changing one’s perception of the worl... ...ns tend to devote the giant’s share of their content to the development of Jewish and Christian thought, which is then used in turn as a basic outlook... ...t important: 1. The universe is eternal. It undergoes an endless series of cycles of birth, progress, decay and annihilation, a series of cycles which... ... of cycles which has neither beginning nor end. 2. There is a never-ending cycle of reincarnation of all living beings. The personality of every indiv... ...epted the common belief that the world is eternal and undergoes an endless cycle of beginning, progress, decay, and annihilation repeated ad infinitum...

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...y so? Today we are learning that the wisdom of Kabbalah offers both the answers and a practical way to avoid suffering and lead a wholesome and happy life. Now, the wisdom of Kabbalah is being revealed like an open book, to all people of all backgrounds. The wisdom of Kabbalah is a contemporary method that reveals how to achieve the best in life. An Interview with the Futu...

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...ub that will become the Lord of Creation and the human will lead a bitter life and die. Hence, we do not understand the meaning of reality or the l... ...in him, he begins to feel a wider world around him, to see the meaning of life, the reason for the pain, the purpose of existence and a lot more. T... ...urce of pain and head toward the goal, attain it and grasp the meaning of life. 6 of 263 Interview With The Future Part 1 A Science to Und... ...of reality, a bonding with the upper forces and full comprehension of the cycle of life. Everyone will have to attain an existence beyond the concep... ...my relationship with Him, breaking through these screens. When the first Jewish farmers began to populate the Negev desert in the south of Israel, ... ...orn to the moment of our death, but it contains not only our current life cycle, but also all the incarnations of our soul. If we read the data in ... ... who takes upon himself this mission is called a Jew. But a concept of a Jewish nation doesn’t exist, because there were never such a people to beg... ...ocesses can be done only with the vegetative nature, because there are no cycles of life and death in the still, and we cannot yet rise above the be... ...lders.” (Isaiah 49, 22) Question: What about our duties in keeping the Jewish religious laws, is that not a part of our duty? Answer: What we ...

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...ves develop the way they do, and what we should do to make them develop differently, Laitman sheds light on every stage in the corporal and spiritual life of one who wants to be exposed to this wondrous wisdom. Throughout time, man has sought answers to the fundamental questions of life: who am I? What is the purpose of my being here? Why was the world created and is th...

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...rary science books look more and more like science fiction, but still they fail to provide us with a clear answer as to the essence of the meaning of life. The wisdom of Kabbalah, offers a clear and proven method to understand the meaning of our lives and our objective in the universe. That method focuses on the development of man?s ability to sense a hidden part of realit...

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...Table of Contents 1 The Meaning of My Life 2 View on Evolution from the Perspective of Kabbalah 3 Reincarnation 4 Kabbalah is a Science 5 About the Structure of Creation 6 About the World 7 The Purpose of Reincarnation According to the Zohar 8 The L...

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...alist Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Table of Contents 1. The Meaning Of My Life 2. View on Evolution from the Perspective of Kabbalah 3. Reincarnati... ...ed. Bnei Baruch World Center for Kabbalah Studies The Meaning of My Life Table of Contents 1 The Meaning of My Life 2 View on Evolution fro... ... Throughout time, man has sought answers to the fundamental questions of life: who am I? What is the purpose of my being here? Why was the world cr... ... enable genuine tranquility and completeness. That is why only an ancient Jewish science, the wisdom of Kabbalah, that is not based on the suppressi... ... the Creator. That is why a person does not have to go through an endless cycle of physical pain in order to ultimately turn it to spiritual pain. H... ... without a body, and how it descends to this world again. Thus, many life cycles go by and we call them “reincarnations” of the soul. The Zohar expla... ...h the descent of the soul to the body for the first time, through all the cycles that this soul goes through, and ending in the state where the soul... ...prove his attributes in order to resemble the Creator, then he is called “Jewish” or “Israel”, from the words Yasher (straight, direct) El (to God),...

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...al Flows and the International Financial Architecture XXIV. War and the Business Cycle XXV. America’s Current Account Deficit XXVI. Anarchy as a... ... of delayed consumption - fails when applied beyond the investor's useful economic life expectancy. People care less about their grandchildren's fu... ...f a larger whole. Economics strives to answer the "why’s" and "how’s" of our daily life. It is dialogic and prescriptive (i.e., provides behavioral... ...e number of industrialists, service providers, or farmers is limited - as is their life span. The quantities of raw materials, machinery and plant ... ... translate to enhanced productivity and wealth formation. It looked like a virtuous cycle. But the abolition of scarcity implied the abolition of v... ... Depending on one's point of view, this is a self- reinforcing virtuous - or vicious cycle. Consumers learn to expect lower prices - i.e., inflationa... ...unemployed. The third, more tacit, way was to legitimize leisure time. Whereas the Jewish and Protestant work ethics condemned idleness in the past...

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.... S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that ... ... fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of ... ... with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinct strains: IA. The right to be brought to ... ...n". As usual, Judaism was there first, agonizing over similar moral conflicts. Two Jewish sayings amount to a reluctant admission of the relativity... ...as many drawbacks. One, it leads to moral relativism. Consider this maxim from the Jewish Talmud: "Do not do unto thy friend that which you hate". ... ...itic arguments more closely and in an unbiased manner: Argument number one - Being Jewish is a racial distinction - not only a religious one If ra... ...ered access to the afterlife, to immortality, and eventual reincarnation (or karmic cycle in eastern religions). For this reason, to this very day... ...ery 5 years. Would this phenomenon imply that we gain a new identity each time this cycle is completed and most our cells are replaced? Adopting th... ... not natural - not part of the eternal framework, the undying process, the timeless cycle of birth and death. Suicide is a break with eternity. Hen...