Why A Zohar Convention?

We were born into this world without knowing where we came from before we were born, where we are headed after we die, into a family we didn't choose, to a school we didn't choose, into beliefs and values we didn't choose, and into a society with values that silence any questions about the above.

But in our era, more and more people are incapable of taming these questions: Why are we here? Who are we? Where are we? What's the point of it all? And the more pronounced these questions become, without getting answered, the more people feel their lives as painful, empty and confused.

The Zohar Was Written To Fulfill Today's New Desire

The Zohar described this present situation in humanity 2,000 years ago. It explains that in our era, people would start feeling a new desire, one beyond our desires in this world for food, sex, family, money, honor, control and knowledge. Unlike these, the new desire would be incapable of becoming fulfilled in our world, because it can be fulfilled only by getting answers to the above questions. The answers to these questions lay in discovering the true reality we're in while we're alive in this world. Moreover, unlike our everyday desires just mentioned, which lead us to temporary, fleeting fulfillments, this new desire would lead us to unlimited, everlasting fulfillment.

The Zohar was written specifically for the purpose of fulfilling this new desire in our era. It was written by a group of Kabbalists who dedicated their lives to finding the answers to life's fundamental questions, and by doing so, attained the complete picture of reality together. With determination, inner discipline and hard work, these Kabbalists discovered the forces and laws upon which our reality is based, and wrote their discoveries in The Zohar.

The Zohar Gives Us The Tools To Discover Harmony

The authors of The Zohar discovered how creation is constructed from its beginning to its end. They entered into the system of governance that operates our reality, and wrote how that system works, providing us with the tools for how to function in harmony with this system.

They wrote The Zohar in a hidden language. Its language seemingly depicts all kinds of pictures, fables and historical events related to people, places and times. However, this is an incorrect picture that we perceive only through our inborn, five senses. In order to discover what The Zohar truly writes about, we need guidance with the text, to properly aim ourselves toward it and not fall into corporeal perceptions, and by doing so, undergo inner changes that develop an additional perception of reality within us. Through this additional perception, we start seeing the spiritual world The Zohar describes.

The World Zohar Convention 2010 is an intensive three days of studies, workshops and activities aimed at developing this additional perception of reality through The Zohar.

Why Is The Zohar So Important In Our Era?

Never before have Kabbalists opened the study of The Zohar to the public in such an intensity, because before today, there was never a need for it. Today, when questions about a person's purpose and role start intensifying, The Zohar starts opening up to the world, together with Kabbalists who provide the guidance for how to aim ourselves properly toward The Zohar.

A new reality of perfection, completeness and eternity doesn't have to come after much confusion and pain, but can be attained here and now, and The Zohar holds the key to discovering that reality in the shortest time possible. Everyone who wants this reality is welcome to attend the World Zohar Convention 2010 in New York on May 7-9, to experience this deep, inner transformation together with friends from all around the world.

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When we come to a real crisis, we will realize that we are entirely controlled. This fact has already started to surface. Science, culture, education, family, and all other aspects of our life will come under serious scrutiny and reassessment.

As a result, we will come to the conclusion that we know nothing about our world, that we don’t have a clue about what’s happening and we are completely controlled. Together with that, we will sense the need to rise above this condition of slavery. That is the exact state that is called the “Egyptian bondage.” It’s indeed slavery, for a person sees that he is a slave to his egoistic nature, which corners him and does what it pleases with him, taking advantage of the fact that a person is obliged to obey his egoism’s every whim.

That’s when he feels the need to come out from under the yoke of his nature, and he then receives a spiritual force to counter the force of the corporeal. And in between the influence of two forces, he finds his free will.

This crisis is a turning point, when we cease being animals and become free. After all, animals are completely governed, so we are still animals, where there’s neither reward nor punishment. All of our development was intended only to lead us to the realization of our own futility, that we are nature’s slaves. When we realize this, we will cry out and come out of slavery to the level of “Human.”

Dr. Michael Laitman PhD

Article taken from Laitman.com

URL to article: http://www.laitman.com/category/free-will/

A Book That Opens Our Eyes

The science of Kabbalah reveals an enormous new world to us, the spiritual world, which includes our entire world of today like a tiny grain of sand in the entire universe. But how can we attain a sensation of the spiritual world? It can be done similar to how in our world, a baby is born without having any knowledge and with sensations that are not yet developed. But gradually he accumulates impressions of this world, hears and recognizes sounds, sees images, discerns colors, and feels the difference between cold and hot. He has to learn all of this from the impressions he receives.

At first he simply develops his senses and learns to discerns the presence or absence of sound, for example. Later he begins to discern various sensations in each sense. What makes a developed person different from others is that his senses are able to perceive finer things. To a musician, sounds awaken an entire world of sensations. An artist lives in the world of colors. A writer feels the shade of every word.

But all of this comes to a person gradually. We exist in some kind of reality, which gradually becomes revealed to us. It influences us, makes us progress and forms in us a capability of perceiving it. This is how the material reality, this world, is arranged; and we develop and reveal the spiritual world along the same exact stages and by the same laws.

There is a special book that consistently develops our sensation of the spiritual world in addition to this world. In essence, we are living in one, common world, but relative to us it divides into a part we can perceive and a part that is concealed from us. In order to reveal the concealed part of the world, we must start to feel it in a direct fashion, like babies. This is what the unique book, The Book of Zohar, does for us.

Article taken from Laitman.com

URL to article: http://www.laitman.com/2009/12/a-book-that-opens-our-eyes/

The Prayer of Many

There cannot be a prayer for correction, unless it is a "prayer of many." Therefore, if we study, speak about corrections and think about changes: we must describe them only with respect to the connection between the souls. What souls do we have right now? Souls are something supreme; it is the corrected deficit for connection with the others. Souls are what awaken between us, between our deficits, if every one of us wants to connect to the others; one's tendency to be connected to the others is the correct deficit. And if this deficit is corrected, the soul's body is built from it, and the fulfillment which will be received in it afterwards will be called the soul's light.

Therefore, in none of us is there a soul. Our souls are the degree of connection between each one and everyone. In other words, if there are 7 millions parts before me, if before me there are more souls, more desires for spirituality, then my desire to connect with them in order to attain a single Kli (vessel), my tendency to connect with them, is called the "soul's body."

Meaning, in none of us there is neither the soul's Kli nor the soul's light. The souls are found among us, it is that connection in the net between us which we must reveal. And the plea for the existence of this connection between us is called "prayer of many."

At the moment, we do not have an actual deficit for connection with the others, but when we ask for a true deficit for connection among us and receive it from above, the fulfillment for this deficit comes, and we begin to feel the mutual connection between us. And afterwards, inside the mutual connection between us, inside the Light of Mercy, the Light of Wisdom is revealed as well ─ the notion about who created us, about who created the connection between us, about who dresses in the Light of Mercy, in the Light of bestowal, in the desire to bestow on our part-is called "the Creator."

Therefore it is worthwhile to make continuous efforts in convincing ourselves, clarifying to ourselves, that the corrections are between us, between our desires to reach adhesion with the Creator. It does not matter how broken and scrutinized they are ─ the most important thing is that there is something to start with, that there is a point in the heart, and from that we begin. And all the rest is "prayer of many" ─ how I reach the plea for the revelation of the connection between us, between those points in the heart.

And if we reach this plea, there is no one who can stop our prayer, because the response is always received only to a "prayer of many," "prayer of the public." Therefore the souls need to connect to the public, and the public needs to raise its plea to Nukva (Female), and accordingly the Nukva will be able to receive the fulfillment from the root. This is how the system works.

Dr. Michael Laitman PhD

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