Location: Los Angeles, CA For More Info go to http://www.kabbalah.info/~los_angeles/index.htm Local Classes Attaining the Worlds beyond Wed. 7pm - 9pm Open to all students and highly recommended for new ones. This course is intended to build a solid foundational understanding of Kabbalah needed for more advanced studies. Study materials will be taken from “Attaining the Worlds Beyond” book by Rav Michael Laitman. For more information, write to los_angeles@kbb1.com Who is Bnei Baruch? Bnei Baruch is a non-profit group, centered in Israel, that is spreading the wisdom of Kabbalah to accelerate the spirituality of mankind. The Kabbalist Michael Laitman PhD, who was the disciple and personal assistant to Kabbalist, Rav Baruch Ashlag, the son of Kabbalist Rav Yehuda Ashlag (author of the commentary on the Zohar) follows in the footsteps of his mentor in leading the group toward its mission. Laitman's scientific method provides individuals of all faiths, religions and cultures the precise tools necessary for embarking on a highly efficient path of self-discovery and spiritual ascent. The focus is primarily on inner processes that individuals undergo at their own pace. Bnei Baruch welcomes people of all ages and lifestyles to engage in this rewarding process. In recent years, an awakening, a massive, worldwide search for the answers to life's questions has begun. Society has lost its ability to see reality for what it is and in its place easily formed viewpoints and opinions have appeared. Bnei Baruch reaches out to all those who are seeking awareness beyond the standard view. It offers practical guidance and a reliable method for understanding the world's phenomena. The group's unique method not only helps overcome the trials and tribulations of everyday life, but initiates a process in which individuals extend themselves beyond the standard boundaries and limitations of today's world. Kabbalist Rav Yehuda Ashlag left a study method for this generation, which essentially 'trains' individuals to behave as if they have already achieved the perfection of upper worlds, here in our world. In the words of Rav Yehuda Ashlag, "This method is a practical way to apprehend the upper world and the source of our existence while still living in this world. The Kabbalist is a researcher who studies his nature using this proven, time-tested and accurate method. By this method, man attains perfection, and takes control over his life. In this way, he realizes his true purpose in life. Just as a person cannot function properly in this world without having knowledge of it, so also his soul cannot function properly in the upper world without knowledge of it. The wisdom of Kabbalah provides you with this knowledge." The goal-orientated nature of these studies enables a person to apply this knowledge on both an individual and collective basis in order to advance the spirituality of the entire world What is Kabbalah? Kabbalah is not a religion. Because it deals with fixed truths and universal principals it may be more correctly viewed as a science, a science that is felt by us as wisdom that translates the architecture upon which all Creation is premised into an accessible guide that will profoundly enrich the life of the person who approaches it for the right reason. It contains the key that explains not only the way our inner and outer worlds are constructed, but why. It teaches a method that allows the spiritual seeker to live in exact accord with the guiding force behind the whole of reality and to work in the same way it does: with a higher creativity used only for the well-being and fulfillment of life. Kabbalah is called hidden because its purpose is to define and reveal our own and the higher nature that goes undetected by our senses. It's been misunderstood as mysticism or magic but these misconceptions arose because authentic source material combined with methodology was not generally available until 1995, nor has the terminology that Kabbalistic books are written in been understood. More importantly it couldn't be understood until it was needed. The key to this wisdom can only be received now that humanity has reached its present level of development in our inner life and natural sciences. A hundred years ago the concept of the completely interrelated properties of a hologram, where each part contains the whole as well as the whole containing each part would've been considered mysticism. Today it's no longer a concept. We can even project this principal physically and most 11-year-olds fully grasp the idea - This of course is merely a corporeal expression of something, the true meaning of which we are now ready to receive.