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...
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...