Collective Prayer – A New Song By Arcadi Duchin

This song is based on the Daily Kabbalah Lesson of 12.08.2009:
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If You Want To Receive More, Bestow!

born As counter-intuitive as it may seem, if I want to ascend to the next spiritual degree and receive greater Light, I need to “come outside,” exit the state where I had fulfillment, the Light of Hochma, and ascend to a degree that doesn’t have the Light of Hochma, but only the Light of Hassadim. Then I am guaranteed to never fall from my spiritual degree, and nothing could ever harm me.

Indeed, nobody can harm me but me! A person is a tiny world. Everything I see outside of me actually exists within me, within my sensations. This whole world only appears external, but it actually exists within; I merely imagine it to be outside. When we begin to acquire spiritual sensations, we will feel that these qualities and phenomena transpire within. It seems obvious that everything exists outside, including the still, vegetative and animate levels of nature, as well as all the people in the world, all the stars and the entire universe. After all, how could I possibly fit all of that inside!? But in fact, I do feel all of these things inside me. It is a great folly to view the world as external. Even classical science, which examines the physical world, is beginning to agree with this viewpoint, something The Book of Zohar wrote about over a thousand years ago.

All the things and characters described in The Zohar, such as the Creator and the creation, Leah, Rachel, Yaakov, Israel, angels, evil spirits and various other forces, myself and all the worlds that I can possibly imagine – all of that exists only in my perception. Therefore, when I read The Zohar, I need to try and feel as though these things are happening within me, while outside – there is nothing! All the friends with whom I study, the television that plays the lesson for me – all of these things are my own sensations.

A New Schedule For The Daily Kabbalah Lessons

(All times are listed in local Israel time, click here for a time converter)

Sundays and Fridays:
3:10 – 3:20 AM Preparation to the Lesson, excerpts from my lessons with Rabash
3:20 – 4:15 AM First Part of the Lesson
4:15 – 5:00 AM Second Part of the Lesson, Introduction to the Science of Kabbalah
5:00 – 6:00 AM Third Part of the Lesson

Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays:
3:10 – 4:30 AM Lesson on The Book of Zohar
4:30 – 5:00 AM Introduction to the Science of Kabbalah
5:00 – 6:00 AM Third Part of the Lesson

Saturday night:
06:00 – 07:25 PM Lesson on The Book of Zohar

Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 12.09.09

The Book of Zohar – Selections, Chapter “Vayechi”
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The Book of Zohar – Selections, Chapter “Noah,” Item 261
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Article: “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 60, Lesson 26
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Article: “The Character Of Kabbalah,” Lesson 4
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Paranormal Activities Are Products Of The Imagination

Kabbalah and the Earthly SciencesQuestions I received on paranormal activities, the solar eclipse and if Kabbalists can choose to die:

Question: I was wondering, are there any ghosts? I have witnessed many paranormal activities and I wanted to know if this is all imaginary or if it has something to do with the spiritual world. Do these activities demonstrate that some people are closer to the spiritual world than others?

My Answer: These activities are all imaginary. Kabbalah is the method to realistically attain the Upper World by means of obtaining senses and qualities that match it.

Question: Superstition aside, why were so many people interested in the July 22 solar eclipse? What does this phenomenon reveal (if anything) about our perception of reality, and does it have any significance in Kabbalah?

My Answer: It’s not just superstition. It is a reflection of people’s fear of losing their life and entering the darkness in every way. This is because at the animate level, we perceive the sun as the source of everything!

Question: Could a Kabbalist die if he wanted to?

My Answer: He can’t and he wouldn’t want to, because this would take him away from his life’s mission.

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