My Brother, My Sister

Hello Friends,

I was speaking with Gil over lunch the other day and we decided to start writing a song together, a song that had universal appeal; one we could use for Kabbalah without it having an official Kabbalah stamp on it.

As you all know BB is strongly focused on introducing the concept of altruism to humanity, to help us recognise our need for authentic Kabbalah.

Please, have a look at what we've written so far, and add any suggestions you like. This is an open forum...all idea's are 'welcome'.

Let's see if we can create a song for BB...

Gil mentioned we've got a melody man that can add music to it as well, could be interesting :)

Please Note: This is only a first (make that second) draft, feel free to make any changes you'd like, if you'd like too. Have some fun with it...I'll keep an eye on the user comments and suggestions.

Here it is:

Mr Brother, My Sister

As the nights become longer,
My feelings grow sombre.
Wondering why I’m here,
Wishing the answers were
Clear. Listen…do you hear?
Why are these deepening

Questions ringing in my
Ear?

What is the purpose of life?
Why am I here?
This thirst is drawing me
Near; the answers are
Beginning to appear...

Never satisfied, a puppet
To these insatiable desires
Dwelling inside. But now
Just tired; tired of trying to
Beat the next man to his feet,
Tired of chasing temporary
Desires that simply seem to
Fleet.

What is the purpose of life?
Why am I here?
This thirst is drawing me
Near; the answers are
Beginning to appear...

As these fleeting desires
Keep coming, I keep
Running (at their mercy),
Till I suddenly realise - I’m
Not worthy. So I stop to give
To my brother, my sister;
Only to discover an eternal
Pleasure like no other.

What is the purpose of life?
Why am I here?
This thirst is drawing me
Near; the answers are
Beginning to appear...

When I give to you,
I feel closer to the truth.
The greatest gift is found
In giving. I want for you,
You want for me - feel our
Hearts continue to expand,

as we unite hand in

Hand...

What is the purpose of life?
Why am I here?
This thirst is drawing me
Near; the answers are
Beginning to appear...

BB Sydney, May 2006

The Chile International Kabbalah Congress August 4-6, 2006

The Chile International Kabbalah Congress The Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education and Research Institute presents



The Chile International Kabbalah Congress

August 4-6, 2006

Everybody is invited to the Chile International Kabbalah Congress that will take place in the capital, Santiago, on August 4-6, 2006!

International Kabbalah Congresses are held around the world in order to circulate the knowledge about the Science of Kabbalah and to increase the spiritual level of humankind. During the congresses, Kabbalah students from different countries meet each other. Although they speak different languages, their common aspiration towards spiritual development and self-perfection unites them into one. A wonderful atmosphere of love and friendship that is created during the congresses stays in the hearts of participants forever.

The congress program includes daily lessons, discussions, seminars and group meetings, festive meals, and a unique cultural program.

Rav Michael Laitman, Ph.D. will be present as the principle lecturer, together with Kabbalah students from all around the world. Such gatherings of people who have awakened to spirituality have left so many life-changing impressions and indescribable sensations among past participants.

Everybody is welcome to experience the single most life-changing phenomenon that has ever hit this planet— the Science of Kabbalah.

Please fill out the registration form and click "Register" to submit your registration. We will send confirmation of your registration and all seminar-related materials via e-mail.

http://www.kbb1.com/~chile/register.html

Roots & Branches Super Logos

I've been designing some polished versions of the BB Tree logo for websites and such. Anyone can feel free to use them in Circulation. I'll post more up as I create them. Which of the following do you think is better?

Click on the pics for enlarged versions:


POP-QUIZ: Did you know that there are exactly 22 leaves on the branches of this tree, the same amount as the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet!

A Must to Watch

Wisdom in Action - Part I, II & III
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ARIfilms

Advice from the morning lesson

To always be directed, drawn to bestow to the society, to resemble the Creator.

To feel my desire only in order to serve a fellow man.

Advice from the morning lesson:

We have to show good relationships, even if it is not exactly so. Start playing love of friends.

Aspire Higher

"a prayer, even if does not emanate from the depths of one's heart, still prepares the individual for salvation. In a prayer a person promises the Creator that after he receives spiritual strength he will concentrate all his efforts on returning the spiritual aspirations that are lacking at the present moment. In this lies the great power of the prayer. A plea of this kind is accepted by the Creator, and as a result a person advances by the path of the Kabbalah, rather than by the path of suffering.

For this reason, a person should never agree to the path of suffering, even if he is certain that the sufferings are being sent by the Creator; and even if he firmly believes that everything that is sent by the Creator is sent for his benefit. The Creator does not desire a person to passively accept suffering. On the contrary, He expects an individual to prevent suffering, to avoid the condition in which the Creator must push a person from behind by sufferings, to strive by himself by means of faith, that it is for his benefit to ask of the Creator this advance forward.

Even if one feels that he does not yet possess a true desire in himself to attain the right state, one should still ask the Creator to grant the true desire and faith through the power of prayer. That is, one should ask the Creator to give him a desire to ask, which he lacks."

Definition: Peh (mouth)

In spirituality the place of Zivug is Peh. There, where the Rosh, the calculation, ends. At first, there is the calculation, then the act. The passage between calculation and the act, there the decision is made and from there we speak. Meaning, there are no places, no situations, there are no organs—we are speaking of a process: When I calculate the things and then do the action, and continue it –then the beginning of the action is called Peh.

Let us learn—there is no slip of the Peh in spirituality!

Definition: Thought – Speech – Action 18 May 2006

Action means that a person contributes his entire free time to bestowal in favor of the other.

Thought – you don’t have to be very smart; - the thought
must be found in your heart: through the bestowal to the other you should reach the bestowal for the sake of the Creator.

Speech means that a person examines himself, evaluates his actions, whether he advances in the right way.

Important: Difficulties

Not to think that deviation from the responsibilities in your life and family is beneficial to your soul! The Creator will arrange difficulties for you in a different place.

Advice of Rav: 18 May 2006

To demand for the Surrounding Light to shine on me to the extent that I am
in darkness in relation to it.
To ask myself whether I recover during the
morning lesson.
To examine and reassess whether I advance in the right way.

Quotation of Rav from the morning lesson:17 May 2006

We cannot bestow upon the Creator before we bestowed upon man.

One receives
all the powers to advance from the society and not from oneself.

Claims to Make Lesson 11May2006

We must make claims to only one thing:
That He will give us the brains and the feeling to understand the public, so as to provide the public with suggestions—means to reach the correction.
This is our only plea: to ask of Him. The claim is not on Him but on us, for we do not make claims on Him.
There is no other possibility here to reach the end of the correction, other than in mutual work for the correction of the world.
(Lesson of 11.05.06, Introduction to the Book of Zohar, from minute 48:07)

The World Without End

We know nothing about the Creator, except His will to create us and to give us the enjoyment. Upon His device, desire of enjoyment arose from nothing.

The Creator's will of creation is called "Keter" (crown), since it surrounds like a crown his will to give us the enjoyment.

The creation of the keter may be imagined as a vessel (kli) ready to get the enjoyment, or the Creator's light (ohr). This point of the creation is called Hochmah (wisdom) and the enjoyment filling the kli is called "ohr Chochma" (light of wisdom).

Since the desire of the enjoyment is the only human's desire, the Creator directs us using it. in many countries in hot summer days we hear water-melon sellers driving cars or modest barrows and calling for buyers. Why these men work so hardly under the burning sun? The Creator gave them desire to bring enjoyment to their families, but thus they bring the enjoyment also to the others while selling juicy quenching fruit. Thus the light gives to the creature not only the enjoyment itself but also the ability to give the enjoyment to the others. But the creature (kli) refuses to have this ability. The enjoyment from voluntary deny to receive (get) the light is called "ohr Chassadim". This stage of the development of the creature is named "Binah".

But the life is impossible without the light (orh of Chochma). And the new form of the creature (Binah) begins to receive some minimal portion of the light and hence is transformed into a new kind called ze'eir anpin. Further development of the creature brings a new desire to enjoy the light, and it beoomes a new object - malchut (kingdom, it means kingdom of desire).

Hence there are the following stages of the creation and of the development of the creature (kli):

l. KETER. The Creator's will to create kli and to bring it the enjoyment.

2. CHOCHMAH. Desire of enjoyment arisen from the light.

3. BINAH. enjoyment not from the light but from its returning to the Creator.

4. ZE`ElR ANPIN (Z"A). Receiving some portion of ohr Chochma

necessary for normal life.

5. MALCHUT. Feeling the importance of or Chochma, Z"A tries to become full of this light and thus turns into malchut. it's malchut being the only real kli (creature) because it desires ltself to receive the entire enjoyment from the Creator. The previous forms are not real kli, but onIy stages of its development. The Creator's will is to create thle kli would like ltself to enjoy His light. Malchut full of the light is called "olam Ein Sof" - the world of Without End. The movement is change of desires giving birth to near creatures (kli). The time is a chain from the cause (the primary desire) to the effect (the secondary desire). "The world of Without End" means a vessel full of enjoyment without any limit, i.e. unsatisfied desire. This is the condition of kli malchut. Therefore, from the Creator's point of view, malchut is the completion of the program of Creation.

The aim of the Creation is to create a new thing the creature and to fill it with lmmense absolute enjoyment. Thus the Creator gave to the creature a great desire to receive the enjoyment.

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What man must do in order to have his prayer be accepted by the creator?

In order for the Creator to hear the prayer, it should come from the very heart of hearts, i.e. all one's desires must be concentrated in that prayer. And this is why one must delve into the text hundreds of times, even without understanding anything, just to achieve a true desire, so that the Creator could hear him.

How can man reach to a state of prayer?

There is a rule: the effort spent on attaining something increases the desire to attain it, and the strength of that desire is determined by the suffering caused by the unavailability of what we desire. The prayer is the suffering itself, not expressed in words but only felt within the heart.

Proceeding from this, we can understand that only after strenuous effort to attain what is desired can man pray so sincerely that he will receive it.

Exploring Kabbalistic Words New Addition to the BB Blog

Hello Group

Just an idea, we have been talking a lot about the topic of desire of late so I thought it a good idea to expand on this word from selected articles.

These descriptions will be added on daily to help focus those that read the advice from the morning class.

Enjoy

fabianvon

Australian student group studying with the Bnei Baruch World Academy for Kabbalah Studies

www.kabbalah.net.au

Definition: Rest

The righteous have no rest either in this world or the next.
Rest-
Rest lies in incessant advancement. For there is no stopping in spirituality nor motion. What does this mean?
That all changes are felt as rest, uninterrupted changes, the whole time. For when something stops, then the feeling stops.
All our feelings come from beatings, changes. Yes, what is it that is called "dead"? Therefore do not wait for rest, on the contrary, accept motion as the state of rest, as the favorable state.
How is it with a child? Stop him! – For him it is torture, he is exploding-let him just go wild, yes? That’s it, be a child!

Definition:

The sensation of the other is the ability to feel for the sufferings and to share the happiness of the other.