“MARSH”

Hebrew, Russian, English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Croatian… you name it! The languages spoken by Bnei Baruch students are so many that it is hard to keep track of them all. Our languages are the codes we use for getting messages across, to let the others know what it is that we think or feel. Whether they are, ideas or sensations, we always rely on language to express them. Everything ends up as a sentence.

Though there are times when words are not enough, when no word we know, in any language, is able to explain, not even express, what is inside our hearts & souls. Words are useless then. It is not that we had run out of words, it is that what we felt inside ourselves was so… so… so… that we could not find the words to describe it, what to do know? This time we intend to 'talk' in a different way, not with words, not to minds, but to hearts & souls.

The search for that 'new' language led us to different paths, music and dance. Our paths were also physically distant, and mine even made a drastic turn a while ago. But as we have learnt, everything led us up to the day when our paths met and a very special friendship started.  And from that friendship, a 'complicity' based on a mutual desire started. Excitement, fear, nervousness, admiration, more fear, are just some of the emotions that we have felt through so many sleepless night thinking on how  to say what our friends makes us feel.

And it is true, no exaggerations, what you make us feel is so unbelievable that it demands to be expressed. Due to the lack of words or definitions we turned to sounds and moves to express ourselves. You are not to analyze them, nor try to understand them, just let them in, inside your hearts. Feel them, because by doing so, you will be feeling us, feeling what you make us feel.  So, please, stop thinking and, at least for a couple of minutes, start feeling.

Feel us in NY!

We have been told that there is no time, motion or space in the Spiritual World. A good example for space as an illusion of our material world can be found in the ARI Online World English Virtual Group this Group came out as one of the fruits of the ARI Online Kabbalah Retreat held in St. Louis, Missouri, last November. For many, this retreat was the first live interaction we had, with our instructors and our virtual classmates. We knew many names, we recognized some faces, but it was our souls who reunited. We knew we had gotten home. We all came back to our hometowns being different, feeling ourselves as part of something that we may have not been sure how to explain but that covered up for all our lacks, and necessities.

We knew we could not, should not, let that sensation diminish, nor les fade away. Therefore by the hand of Rob Taylor, Susan Morales-Kosinec and all of ARI Online team we got on board on a project that might have sounded a Little ambitious back then, has now become a reality. A reality that goes beyond the one that our five senses allow us to perceive, we are a group of 131 people in 17 countries whose hearts overturned into a union that for those outside of it may seem hard to understand.

It is not a virtual group in which there´s only information sent through e-mail, it goes far beyond. Weekly meetings are held, as separated groups, men and women, as well as mixed ones. During these meeting articles are analyzed, texts are studied, dissemination projects are organized and the tools for dealing with our material lives through following the laws of the Upper World are given to us.

For the dissemination projects, the group is divided into regions, each one has its own Regional Manager. The Men’s Group and the Women’s Group also have members who are in charge of contact’s list, projects coordination, and organization.

No need to say that even though many of us have not yet met personally, it has not been an obstacle for us to feel connectedness, support, love for and by the group. Some of us were lucky and got the chance to attend the Congress in Israel. There we could see again the ones we had met in St. Louis, and also had the amazing opportunity of physically meeting friends with whom we had already had virtual contact for months. Those friends who could not attend the Congress were always within us, in our hearts and intentions. Rob Taylor held virtual meetings at dawn from his hotel room and the communication via e-mail and IM services was also pretty intense.

The meetings after the Congress have been more intense, the goal is clearer, the intention stronger, and the distance shorter. Our next step is the New York Congress. Just as we did for the Congress in Israel, we have already started our preparation. That is our next goal, to see each other in New York, but not only to see each other, but to be ready for what is gonna happen there, and whatever it may be, and as we have done before, allow it to take us to build new goals as a group and as individuals. We will keep climbing up the ladder because we have witnessed that time zone, distance nationalities, language, cultures are not an obstacle for us, quite the opposite, they are our fuel, bringing us closer, uniting us more and more. Because this group is made of bodies, but of souls who feel one another and intertwine to create one big soul.

"Gathering of Souls"