AUTHENTIC KABBALAH
KABBALAH T DAY
ISSUE #25
A
PUBLICATION OF THE
BNEI BARUCH
ASSOCIATION FOUNDED BY
DR. MICHAEL LAITMAN
adults demonstrate and explain. Adults
have always created various means of
development for their children, such
as games, toys, playgrounds, music,
and books. Children naturally explore
their small worlds by taking apart and
reassembling their toys in an attempt to
understand them. By engaging in these
activities, the world begins to take form
and make sense.
In this issue:
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The KabbaliSTic
neW year
guide to Spirituality
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Who can Save The planeT?
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by Dr. Gene Shklover
Mother Nature has prepared a unique
path for our development. Just like parents help a baby develop in this world,
The Book of Zohar teaches us how to
develop in the spiritual world
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Mother Nature created an innate
program for parents and society to ensure that each new generation will grow
up prepared for the demands of the
world we live in. We are instinctively
driven to teach our children everything
that we have learned.
However, unlike animals, we cannot
give our children, right after birth, all
the necessary information, education,
and knowledge for living in our world.
We cannot help them develop the entire spectrum of feelings and reactions
all at once. It can only occur gradually,
through a step-by-step process. Our children accumulate greater feelings, impressions, and knowledge as they slowly
go through their maturation. Through
the course of 20 years or longer, children develop into adults.
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A
baby is born into this world
tabula rasa (Latin for blank
slate), without any knowledge
aside from its ingrained genetic
predisposition. Then he begins to
instinctively acquire impressions from
his surroundings and to distinguish
between warm and cold, dark and light,
and to recognize different sounds: mom
and dad’s voices, footsteps approaching,
silence, and so on. Gradually, he begins
reacting to stimuli such as ambiance,
sounds, colors, and light; and eventually
he starts reacting to its mother’s actions
with laughs or cries.
Soon, a baby begins to actively explore the world, and then he is unstoppable. He grabs everything and tastes it
in his little mouth, crawls everywhere,
demands to touch and feel everything,
and opens his small, curious eyes trying
to grasp whatever his mother tells him.
A baby doesn’t understand these things,
but he gazes at his mother and radiates
happiness.
As the growth continues, the baby
begins to differentiate various feelings in each of his senses. Although he
does not have full awareness of what
is happening, his naturally embedded
instincts make him continually more familiar with the world. Through all these
experiences a baby begins to think and
to build connections between bits and
pieces. He begins to understand and
have greater demands.
In our world, children develop
through the impressions they receive
from outside influences, initially from
their parents and older siblings, and
then from the models of behavior that
SpiriTual birTh
A similar process happens when we are
born tabula rasa into a different dimension of our reality—the spiritual world.
We cannot comprehend anything beyond our routine physical reality, and
thus, we need the spiritual father and
mother, surroundings, games, toys,
teachers, education, and explanations
to help us become acquainted with and
develop in the spiritual world.
The great 20th century Kabbalist
Baal HaSulam writes in the article
“Body and Soul,” that as no person can
exist without information about the
world he lives in, so a soul cannot exist
in the spiritual world without receiving
information about it. Our spiritual
advancement cannot occur without
receiving various new impressions.
Initially, we may not understand them;
thus we may feel as an infant, yet these
sensations will “fill us up” and cause us
to grow.
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