From Chaos to Harmony: The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah

209 Pages·2007·0.41 MB·English

by  Michael Laitman PhD

From Chaos
to Harmony
The Solution to the Global
Crisis According to the
Wisdom of Kabbalah
LAITMAN
KABBALAH PUBLISHERS
Rav Michael Laitman, PhD
Translation: Chaim Ratz
Editor: Claire Gerus
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FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY
The Solution to the Global Crisis
According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah
Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN
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ISBN: 0-9781590-4-7
FIRST EDITION: FEBRUARY 2007

From Chaos to Harmony
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ...............................................................................11
THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK .................................................................15
FOREWORD ...............................................................................................17
PART ONE: FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY ....................................25
PROLOGUE ................................................................................................27
CHAPTER 1: DESIRE IS EVERYTHING ................................................31
One Cause, One Solution ...............................................................31
Evolution of the Human Desire for Pleasure ..................................39
CHAPTER 2: THE BOUNDARIES OF JOY ............................................41
FOOLING THE DESIRE TO ENJOY ................................................................44
CHAPTER 3: ALTRUISM IS LIFE’S LAW ................................................51
Harmony Among Cells in a Living Organism .................................53
Connectedness Creates Life in a New Degree .................................54
An Egoistic Cell is a Cancerous Cell ...............................................54
The Individual vs. the Collective .....................................................55
Helping Others ................................................................................56
A Communal Society Among Animals ...........................................57
Interdependency ..............................................................................58
Without Poverty or Lack ..................................................................58
In Nature, Everything Moves Toward Unity ....................................59
CHAPTER 4: BREACHING THE BALANCE .........................................61
What Gives Us Pleasure? .................................................................65
Correct Use of the Ego ....................................................................68
THE CRISIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESTORE BALANCE .............................72
CHAPTER 5: OBEYING NATURE’S LAW ..............................................77
LIFE’S PURPOSE .........................................................................................77
What Should We Do? ......................................................................81
Much Easier Than It Seems .............................................................86
A Long Way and a Short Way ...............................................................88
CHANGING OUR ATTITUDE TOWARD OTHERS
BRINGS ALL OF NATURE INTO BALANCE .....................................................90
CHAPTER 6: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM ..............................................97
Pleasure and Pain .............................................................................98
Where Does Choice Come In? ......................................................100
CHAPTER 7: REALIZING OUR FREE CHOICE .................................105
Imitating Nature ............................................................................108
A NEW DIRECTION .................................................................................110
CHAPTER 8: EVERYTHING IS READY (FOR LIFE’S PURPOSE) .....115
EVOLUTION OF THE GENERATIONS ...........................................................115
SOCIETY’S APPROACH TO ALTRUISM .........................................................118
A New Generation of Confident, Happy Children ......................119
EGOISTS AND ALTRUISTS .........................................................................121
CHAPTER 9: A REALITY OF WHOLENESS AND INFINITY ...........127
PERCEPTION OF REALITY .........................................................................127
Life is Within .................................................................................129
NATURE’S PLAN ......................................................................................133
OPENING OUR EYES ...............................................................................139
Chapter 10: Balance with Nature ..............................................................143
Balance at the Speaking Level ........................................................146
PART TWO: ISRAEL’S ROLE ..........................................................151
ISRAEL’S ROLE ........................................................................................153
HUMANITY AND THE WISDOM OF KABBALAH ...........................................154
THE BIRTH OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL .......................................................161
THE EVOLUTION OF THE CORRECTION METHOD ......................................164
THE ROLE OF ISRAEL ..............................................................................168
The Return to the Land of Israel ...................................................170
Uniting the Nation ........................................................................173
ANTI-SEMITISM ........................................................................................176
THE RISE OF THE ISLAM ..........................................................................178
INTERNALITY AND EXTERNALITY ...............................................................182
THE WAR OF GOG AND MAGOG .............................................................186
THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD IS IN OUR HANDS ......................................192
NOTES ..................................................................................................197
FURTHER READING .................................................................................201
ABOUT BNEI BARUCH .............................................................................207