Question: My daughter is several months old, and in order to teach her to turn over, I place her on her belly and give her time to try to turn onto her back. But if she cannot manage to do it and keeps crying I turn her over on my own. Why doesn’t the Creator help us turn over when He sees how much we try and that we are failing?

Answer: The Creator is wiser than you. You or some smart doctor decides that a child needs to turn over at a certain age. And then everyone repents their mistakes and decides on something completely opposite: they themselves must turn over….

The problem is that we do not believe that there is something watching us with a lot of dedication from above. The upper Light is right across from the vessel, beginning with the actual world of Infinity. In Infinity, the Light and the vessel merge into one. But when the Light fills the vessel this way there is no creature, because nothing separates it from the Light.

This is the way the still, vegetative, and animate nature exists, the desire to enjoy, which automatically carries out the orders of the Light, which fulfills it, without question, like a car that obeys the driver without questioning him.

But to create a person, something independent needs to be built. And how can he be independent when “There is none else beside the Creator?” And this is why the Creator must disappear and leave an empty space. It is empty because there the creature does not reveal the Creator.

Everything remains as it was; we are in the World of Infinity. But we have lost the feeling of this state: The Light has left our desire and left it empty. And now this desire must take the form of the Light. And the Light will keep returning and entering the desire as the desire works on taking the form of the Light.

And then the creature will take the exact form as the Light. At the same time it will remain opposite to the Light in its matter, but it will become like it in its qualities. And this desire will be called creature, man: This will be us.

This entire circle, beginning with the world of Infinity until our world and back to the world of Infinity is only needed in order to reveal the Creator to the desire, which will be called man. We are in this process only to reveal the Creator in relation to us.
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From the Arava Arvut Convention 2/23/12 Lesson #2

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Question: You are saying that we lack joy. How can we reveal it together with the broken heart, which we need to build the spiritual vessel?

Answer: Joy is revealed from the perception of the importance of the goal, the comprehension of the connection with the upper One. Even if I have not yet received what I desire, I am advancing towards it, I am in this process, I am working on the realization of the goal that is important to me. All of this must evoke joy in me.

Moreover, a person is the product of his environment, and when he does not feel joy, it means that the environment is not influencing him the right way. You need to take care of it.

It comes to me as a shock every time, is it really that difficult to be joyful? After all, we are given all the conditions for revealing the Creator. And we keep being unhappy about something, but what else do we have to demand? We do not realize that revelation can happen any moment.

Only our readiness is lacking. And joy is one of its conditions. It demonstrates our value of the importance of spirituality, and this is lacking. We think that we are more important than the Creator—and this is why He is not revealing Himself.

Stop setting your own conditions and demanding things, and you will see that revelation will happen immediately. But when you have certain demands of your own, how can you then be in the state of bestowal?

You are saying that you want to reveal the Creator? But He bestows, and you wish to reveal His bestowal, which means that you yourself wish to bestow. Then what is there for you to demand? One completely does not correspond to the other.
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From the Arava Arvut Convention 2/23/12 Lesson #2

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Question: How do you envision a world government that rules humankind in all spheres of its activities including manufacturing and distribution processes to make them rational and accurate when even on a scale of one country it is impossible to achieve stability and order?

Answer: It’s impossible if we use the customary approach. I heard Lenin was shocked when he realized what kind of bureaucracy he had to launch in order to control vital societal systems. There is no computer that can cope with this kind of task. How can we achieve integrity, reach mutual guarantee, and ensure that no extra goods are being manufactured and that everything that is being produced stays in complete balance with Nature?

It can only be attained by transitioning to a new stage, by obtaining the sensation of unity (a collective mind, “matrix”). Our efforts to connect with each other initiate Ohr Makif (surrounding Light), and thus lead us to revelation of an absolute connection among us (a vessel – the Kli of the soul.) It doesn’t stand for “We” since “We” is a plain sum of each of us; “Akolel” is a Higher Force (the Creator) that reveals Itself through the sum of us.

Since everybody is included in unity, into mutual guarantee and inclusion (Arvut), each one immediately senses the same things as others; therefore, the division into “I” and “others” disappears. What’s left is “one whole” (in Gematria it’s called “Akolel,” +1, i.e., commonality.)

Thanks to our sensation of this force, we will be enabled to perfectly and optimally inter-communicate with ease, love, and without making mistakes. It is said: “The One who makes peace in the Heavens will bring it upon us.”  (The word “Shalom”  is derived from the word “Shlemut” – perfection and “Ashlamah” – addition.)
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Preparation to the Lesson
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Shamati #35 “Concerning the Vitality of Kedusha“
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Chapter “Beresheet (Genesis),” “Moses and Two Messiahs,” (Starting with: “The Vav of Gachon”), Item 251, Lesson 72
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