What Does It Mean To Be Jewish Today? Course – Lesson 4: Evolution of “the Method”

Lesson 4: Evolution of the Method [With Chaim and Gilad]   Chaim:  Hello and welcome to Lesson 4 of What Does It Mean to Be Jewish Today. Gilad: Hello. Happy to be here as usual. [Opening comments re internet, posting questions, etc.] Last week we talked about the evolution of the correction method. We said that it started with Abraham. He started the correction, he wrote books, and he and his wife Sarah taught what they knew to their contemporaries. And then it developed on and on through their posterity until they came out of Egypt and they needed a new method—not a new method but a new presentation of the method—so there came Moses. He received the Torah, the law, and the Hebrews became the people of Israel, those who want to go straight to the Creator. Now they were compelled to create mutual guarantee in order to achieve spirituality, to achieve the purpose of creation. They continued to develop the method until the ruin of the temple, when the people of Israel were exiled, and since then the correction method developed in what we now know as Kabbalah. Basically it was incarnations, development of the same method that Abraham discovered. Actually Adam discovered it, but he didn’t… from Abraham’s time on there is more of a methodical development of the method. The Kabbalists continued to develop it,...

What Does It Mean to be Jewish? – Like a Bundle of Reeds with Dr. Michael Laitman

  What Does It Mean to be Jewish? – Like a Bundle of Reeds with Dr. Michael Laitman Dr. Michael Laitman discusses what it means to be Jewish with “Like a Bundle of Reeds” executive editor, Chaim Ratz. “Like a Bundle of Reeds” is a TV series originally broadcast on JLTV based on the book of the same title. It deals with the following topics: * Are we Jews different from other nations? * Why was I born Jewish? * Why is there anti-Semitism? * Could the Holocaust happen again? * What can I do? * Why are there Jews? Download the eBook version of “Like a Bundle of Reeds” for free here » http://bundleofreeds.com(also available is the softcover version for only...

What Does It Mean To Be Jewish Today? Course – Lesson 3

Lesson 3: Life As An Evolution of Desires [With Chaim and Gilad] Chaim: Welcome to lesson number three of What Does It Mean to Be Jewish Today. Today’s lesson is going to be about the evolution of the correction method, from we all from Abraham, how he started the correction method and how we developed through the ages until today. We’re going to run through it. Gilad: We are here to take your questions about the lesson, or even not about the lesson. We’ll try to get to those. Last time we talked about the evolution of desires. If you remember, we talked about three basic levels—still, vegetative, animate and speaking—which develop everywhere. First of all  you see them in nature, in the reality around us. Starting from the Big Bang, you see the minerals developing—the galaxies and planets and everything develops. Eventually the vegetative level emerges. Why does it emerge? Because another level of the will to receive emerges, and then the plants start to develop, and then the plants develop further and animals begin to appear. The difference between animals and plants is motion.  Animals can move about to search about for food, for mates for reproduction, etc. Then humans appear. The difference between humans and animals is that humans can actually sense the presence, the past, and the future. They have this thing that animals don’t...

Jewish Life Explained – Like a Bundle of Reeds with Dr. Michael Laitman

  Jewish Life Explained – Like a Bundle of Reeds with Dr. Michael Laitman Dr. Michael Laitman discusses how Jewish life optimally accords with the law of connection with “Like a Bundle of Reeds” executive editor, Chaim Ratz. “Like a Bundle of Reeds” is a TV series originally broadcast on JLTV based on the book of the same title. It deals with the following topics: * Are we Jews different from other nations? * Why was I born Jewish? * Why is there anti-Semitism? * Could the Holocaust happen again? * What can I do? * Why are there Jews? Download the eBook version of “Like a Bundle of Reeds” for free here » http://bundleofreeds.com(also available is the softcover version for only...

Yom Kippur Explained – Like a Bundle of Reeds with Dr. Michael Laitman

  Dr. Michael Laitman Explains Yom Kippur – A “Like a Bundle of Reeds” Interview Dr. Michael Laitman discusses the Yom Kippur holiday and the story of Jonah with “Like a Bundle of Reeds” executive editor, Chaim Ratz. “Like a Bundle of Reeds” is a TV series originally broadcast on JLTV based on the book of the same title. It deals with the following topics: * Are we Jews different from other nations? * Why was I born Jewish? * Why is there anti-Semitism? * Could the Holocaust happen again? * What can I do? * Why are there Jews? Download the eBook version of the new “What Is Yom Kippur? – The Great Secret of the Jews (That You Don’t Know About)” booklet for free here »...

Lesson 2: “What Does It Mean To Be Jewish Today?” Course

Lesson 2: The People of Israel’s Birth [With Chaim and Gilad] Chaim: Hello to you all. We’re glad to be here in the second lesson of Like A Bundle of Reeds, lessons to talk about the role of the Jewish people and anti-Semitism and why this is all happening—the lesson that explains really what we’re doing here, why everything is happening and… Gilad: …what we can do about it. I went to my parents’ house yesterday, and I told mother that she should watch the course. She was born and raised in Australia; her parents went there after the second world war. I showed her the clip we showed last week and she was in total shock. She wasn’t able to watch last week and I showed her the clip of the students in universities and she was in total shock of it. Her immediate reaction was, “What can we do?” First of all, I told her to watch the course and we’ll tell her what to do. But her immediate response was that we have to write letters, we have to try to contact them, and I think that our immediate response to watching these anti-Semitic actions, seeing what’s happening in the world, is to do something, act. It’s very important to know what the right action is, otherwise we’re [in neutral] and we see no change. I...

Lesson 1: Introduction – “What Does It Mean To Be Jewish Today?” Course

Lesson 1: Introduction [With Chaim and Gilad]   Chaim Ratz: Hello. We’re happy to be with you. It’s our first session of a course that is called “What Does It Mean to Be Jewish Today?”  Interesting topic, huh? Gilad: Very interesting topic, and we’d love for you to be as active as possible. You have a question and answer forum on the website and we’ll take your questions live. So throughout the lesson—anything, any questions you have, anything you want to find out, you want to discuss—please post it in the Q&A forum. We’ll be happy to open things up, to make it as interesting, as relevant as possible. How did we get to having a course on the meaning of being Jewish? This book, Like A Bundle of Reeds: Why Unity and Mutual Guarantee Are the Call of the Hour Today, this is the reason why we are here. I’ve been translating Dr. Laitman’s books for over ten years now and I’ve been the executive editor of Laitman Kabbalah Publishers for about that long as well, if not longer actually, and this is his most recent book that talks about this topic—about being Jewish. In this book he presents a very, I would say, serious prediction of the trend, the direction in which humanity is going and how it relates specifically to Jews and the role of Jews...