...lam), whose The Study of the Ten Sefirot is the one book without which a contemporary Kabbalah student cannot achieve spiri- - tuality. These great ... ...chael Laitman, Professor of o ntology and the Theory of Knowledge, PhD in Philosophy and Kabbalah, and MSc in Medical Bio-Cybernetics, established a... ...urc- - es, it is carried out in simple language and uses a scien- - tific, contemporary approach. Developing this approach has made Bnei Baruch an in... ...Kabbalists that they established. If we make room for these seasoned, yet contemporary values, we will discover that we possess the power to put dif... ...Bnei Baruch. It is apolitical, non-com- - mercial, and written in a clear, contemporary style. Its purpose is to expose the vast body of knowledge hi... ...al teaching aids. Kabbalah Books Rav Laitman writes his books in a clear, contemporary style based on the key concepts of Baal HaSulam. These books...

...rning to Kabbalah to further his scientific research. He received his PhD in Philosophy and Kabbalah from the Moscow Institute of Philosophy at the... ... introduc- tion to this book, is the founder and foremost exponent of Systems Philosophy and General Evolution Theory. Born in Budapest, Hungary in ... ...me, Newsweek, and the international media. Prof. Laszlo turned to science and philosophy in his mid-twenties and began publishing books and articles... ...ection, we are likely to end up exactly where we are headed.” When applied to contemporary human- ity, this could prove disastrous: Climate change is... ... that it inherited as an applica- tion (or rather, misapplication) of Newton’s philosophy of nature. In other cultures, as well as in the Western wor... ...a great leader. The involvement of Kabbalists in their societies helped their contemporary scholars develop the basis of what we now know as “Wester... ...their contemporary scholars develop the basis of what we now know as “Western philosophy,” which later became the basis of modern science. In that r...

...tural world, without in- fluencing the advancement of humanity, as did western philosophy? After all, the Kabbalah sees as its goal the correction of... ...lah is based solely on experimentation, and not on the human mind, or even on philosophy or other rational considerations. It maintains that everyth... ...est level, the Kabbalist cannot rest. A T I M E F O R C O N T RO L Q: What do contemporary Kabbalists influence, if there are any? A: There are a gre... ...that as soon as one climbs a little higher than this world, the whole Tibetan philosophy vanishes without a trace. That is why I was never intereste... ............................................................................. 100 Contemporary Study Books .................................................

... ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kabbalist Rav Michael Laitman, PhD, has a doctorate in philosophy and Kabbalah from the High Institute of Philosophy at the R... ...een cooperating with leading scientists in research concern- ing Kabbalah and contemporary science. When asked how he fits both Kabbalah and science ... ...ace to learn about the overall systems of reality. Consequently, I turned to philosophy, then to religion, but found an- swers in neither. Only afte... ...der is founded on principles from the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah, along with contemporary science’s latest dis- Foreword 23 coveries. This book is... ...altruism, Nature’s quality of love and giving. This is why Nature can “ask” a contemporary 74 FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY person, “Are you responding cor... ...together with dis- coveries in other fields of research, combined to form the contemporary scientific approach to how we perceive reality: the obser... ...n this book. The most sublime feeling that the return to Na- ture can grant a contemporary person is a temporary and incomplete sensation of Nature’...

...usions in such cases will be based purely on theo- retical assumptions. All of philosophy refers to this kind of science, and humanity has often suff... ...here as well. It is my hope that readers will understand my dislike for empty philosophy, because whole structures are built, and completely un- subs... ...level; at that time, we can all understand the Book of Zohar. The fact that a contemporary Kabbalist succeeded in fully com- menting on the Book of Z...

...y that something doesn’t hurt me when it does. I rely on my feelings, and no philosophy will help me in this case. This is the limit of my “self.” I... ...ething that exists outside us, and that fraction is what we call “our world.” Contemporary science accepts the fact that our research of the world i... ...ohar. It was written in the second century AD by Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochay. The contemporary Kabbalist, Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (1884-1954) wrote a commen... ...e writings of the Ari in a Zohar and on all the writings of the Ari in a Zohar contemporary language so that we could understand it. Today, the souls ... ...heirs alone. T H O U G H T S Q: How do our thoughts affect our environment? A: Contemporary science finds that the will of the experimenter affects t... ...alist of the 16 th century, to our world. He was the Kabbalist who wrote the contemporary interpretation of the Zohar, thus creating a solid founda...

...E M E A N I N G O F L I F E 10 In his book, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687), Isaac Newton (1642-1727) proposed a theory of mecha... ...alculate results of an experiment within a certain boundary of probabilities. Contemporary science differentiates between the “actual re- ality” that... ...of Truth. M I C H A E L L A I T M A N , P H D Rav Michael Laitman has a PhD in Philosophy from the Russian Academy of Science and an MSc in Bio-Cyber... ...h for a place where I could study the general systems of reality. I turned to philosophy, but before long realized that the answer was not to be fou... ...s cannot reach. In other words, to progress to a higher level we must ex- pand contemporary science to include consciousness, and this is a big step.... ... toy-train model, each of its parts has no freedom of choice. Similarly, most contemporary scientists will tell you that the physical universe is ex... ... Kabbalists said that it is impossible to imagine the true nature of reality. Contemporary quantum mechanics came to a very similar conclusion. It i... ...viously stated that quantum theory allows us to under- stand the boundaries of contemporary science and declares that there is “something” beyond the... ...rely on practical experimenta- tion. Hence, this process is entirely reliable. Philosophy, however, engages in ideals abstracted from Mat- ter. It is ...