Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah),” Item 15: Now we can understand the words of Hillel Hanasi to the proselyte, that the essence of the Torah is, “Love thy friend as thyself,” and the remaining six hundred and twelve Mitzvot are but an interpretation of it.

And even the Mitzvot between man and God are regarded as a qualification of that Mitzva, which is the final aim emerging from the Torah and Mitzvot, as our sages said, “The Torah and Mitzvot were given only so as to cleanse Israel.”

The correction consists of restoring the shattered vessel and the transformation of all the rejection between its shattered parts into connection. Then the intensity of the connection between the shattered parts will grow 613 times from what it was before and then the vessel will be able to reveal the Creator in full depth and in all the details.

On the day that he was created, Adam was created as an angel; he had no comprehension of anything: neither good nor evil. But through discovery of the great ego between all of his parts, through transforming them to connection, he received a deep comprehension of the Creator, the Light, the Bestower, the Upper, and reached adherence with Him. His gain compared to the initial state is his own growth and adherence with the Creator.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/25/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: Can we understand what we read before we transcend the Machsom (barrier)? It seems that in this corporeal life everything is constantly changing and things turn out to be the opposite of the opposite of the opposite.

Answer: It seems that we advance too slowly, but according to my experience, I can say that if Kabbalists had not determined and arranged the order of the spiritual work for us, we wouldn’t be able to advance so quickly and to attain vessels of bestowal, the soul, in our lifetime. We don’t understand how different the spiritual state is from the corporeal state. It is the opposite nature. But we think that it is simply an addition to what we already have in this life.

We have to work according to Baal HaSulam and Rabash’s method and study the Sulam Commentary to The Book of Zohar, the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah and TES, but this must be accompanied by dissemination, because this provides us with the spiritual vessel. We are actually not a vessel; we are the point of Bina, the nation of Israel that is only a conductor, an adaptor, a pipe. If this pipe isn’t connected to anything, then it doesn’t work; it is out of order and becomes one block of stone.

In spirituality there is no door that opens to let you into spirituality. On the contrary, there is a wall in front of you and the moment you are ready, you see an opening in the wall and you enter. It makes no difference where you stand at that moment.

You don’t need to worry about finding the opening. Don’t look for the opening, but seek how you can open the wall. We have to worry about building a vessel, a connection, and then you will be able to go through quickly.

Kabbalists have left us enough material so that we will build it by ourselves. Now we are starting the new phase of dissemination. It is only thanks to the revelation and the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah that we can come out of this world and be awarded with real spiritual work and the correction of the world.

But Kabbalists wrote very little about dissemination; they tell us only about the general principles. We have to search for the way to work with the public and how to actually do it by ourselves. Why didn’t Kabbalists tell us about everything specifically and why didn’t they prepare a manual for dissemination so that we wouldn’t make any mistakes?

There is no such manual. I constantly wait, like a hungry man, for the next phase to be revealed according to the work we do. If we want to advance, we have to discover the next phases by ourselves. Together we write the method for the correction of the world in our days.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/23/14, Shamati #8 “What Is the Difference Between a Shade of Kedusha and a Shade of Sitra Achra”

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Question: Why isn’t the transmission channel within me from the Creator to humanity fixed, and why do I have to make great efforts each time to rebuild it?

Answer: It says that “Nukva becomes a virgin again each day.” Working with the desire to receive, you start anew each time and create a new structure of the ten Sefirot. Don’t think about yesterday. Today you have to build yourself anew.

Therefore, you need the goal of creation, a teacher, a group, the study, and all the means for attaining the goal. In order to delight the Creator, we have to go out to the people, gather them, and connect to them. It is only thanks to this connection that we can fulfill the goal, the revelation of the Creator to the created beings in this world. We have to constantly build this vessel until it reaches the intensity and the deficiency needed for the Light to influence it and to turn it into a means by which you convey the Light using your own Masach (screen).

Then you will be connected to the center of the group, to the Creator, and to the people; being in the middle, you will work with your Masach and decide how much you can convey to people according to how much they can receive. You will spoon feed them as you become an active element in the system. This is the role of Israel.

Then you will discover that the Kabbalists are above you fulfilling your connection with the world of Infinity while you are between all the Kabbalists and the people. Kabbalists are part of the Creator and they have prepared the whole system for you, starting with Adam HaRishon, Abraham, and all the others, and then through me to you.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/23/14, Shamati #8 “What Is the Difference Between the Shade of Kedusha and a Shade of Sitra Achra”

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We must fill every moment with our efforts. These efforts don’t have to be difficult like effort in our world; rather they must be happy and light. Otherwise, I am not working for the sake of the Creator, as it is written: (Isaiah 43:22) “Thou hast not called upon Me, O Jacob.”

If you feel that you are hauling a heavy suitcase, this is a sign that you took the wrong burden. After all, the burden of the Creator is very light. You need to check if you are working in the right way.

It shouldn’t be that difficult for you. Only a Klipa that you accept as the truth is very difficult and heavy. It becomes especially heavy and difficult so that you won’t haul it.

But if you clarify the right attitude to your state, then everything becomes terribly easy. Instead of a heavy suitcase, you are taking a single flower and moving it around from place to place. Everything depends upon how you look at your situation.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/21/14, The Zohar

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Opinion (Alina Savelyeva, assistant to the Dean at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow): “In 2008 the Head of the IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned of the grave consequences – of governments being overthrown and wars – that could arise from the sudden increase in food prices on world markets.

“The ability to provide enough food for yourself, and have a surfeit to sell for export, is becoming a way for states to influence world politics and the economy, says Alina Savelyeva. It was the rise in food prices that triggered the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and elsewhere.

“Arab governments were unable to keep food prices down and soon there were mass street protests, demonstrations followed by serious political unrest. An article in The Daily Telegraph suggested that the upheavals in Egypt and Tunisia signaled the beginning of an era of ‘food revolutions.’

“The idea of food as a weapon was formulated by Earl Butz, US Minister of Agriculture in Richard Nixon’s government back in 1974. These days, approaching agriculture as an industrial supplier of an ‘alternative weapon’ is common both in developed and developing countries. The term ‘food power’ has been coined in English. But any power or force (even military) is not only an instrument of attack or destruction, but also for containing one’s enemies, in the ‘carrot and stick’ model.

“The World Bank report on International Development in 2011 named three types of threat to food security that could lead to military conflict: 1) natural (drought and flooding), 2) economic (major price changes for basic food products) and 3) political, i.e., a ban on access to land resources or social support programmes.”

My Comment: Natural disasters and the accumulation of arms will bring the world to a threatening state. We are able to affect the first type of threat naturally and indirectly by striving to eliminate the second and third threats.
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Question: How does a person rise with faith above reason above his feeling of darkness?

Answer: A person ascends above darkness and all problems only through the Light that Reforms. It is not important if he understands this or not, feels this or not. That is how this action happens and is realized. The difference is only in whether he understands this action or not. It is a matter of perceiving the actions of the Creator on a person both in good and pleasant feelings and in bad and unpleasant feelings.

It is necessary to reach a state of accepting all bad things as good, as things that help me advance. The importance of the goal changes the character of an action to its opposite: from feeling the bad in an action to feeling its goodness so much that we stop feeling pain.

This means that we have the power of faith above reason. The importance of the goal extinguishes the bad feeling that makes us suffer within our desire to receive. It means that I am ready to make a Tzimtzum (restriction) and rise above the bad feeling. And that is how we advance.

But only the Light performs the action, and my job is to attract and hasten the action. I can arouse the Light and prepare myself to approach its action only as much as I can through my request or gratitude. This is how I shorten the time.

This determines our term; time exists only for us. For the Creator, time doesn’t exist, and we are always in the perfect, corrected, final state. What is additional can only be within our consciousness, how much we are ready to discover it as good, as the true form of His relationship.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/23/14

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Question: How can one learn the language of the Creator and how should we respond to His message?

Answer: We must understand that everything that happens must be resolved in this life according to how things work in this world. All these physical laws are also determined by the Creator and people have determined that they need these laws. So it makes no difference if they seem good or bad to us; I must keep them. This is because they are all derived from one source; there is nothing other than that.

When I get some problem, I must determine that it was sent by the Creator. I must resolve it as is customary. But I arrange things such that I operate within the connection with the friends, with the group. Even though it is personal and is irrelevant to anyone else, it obligates me to connect more strongly with the group.

And actually, physically, I respond to this problem exactly as someone else in my place would. Only he would not think that with this the Creator is drawing his attention to Him, with this He is giving him  this work; rather he would simply solve it in the framework of this world.

I also solve the problem in the framework of this world, but actually, this world becomes the spiritual world. And that is how I advance. For me every event in the material world becomes a reason for spiritual advancement, for resemblance and greater equivalence to the Creator.
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From the Convention In France “One For All And All For One,” Day Two 5/10/14, Lesson 4

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Question: Is it enough simply to recognize the fact that everything that happens is sent from Above, or must one do something else?

Answer: It is not enough just to say that everything comes from Above. There are many people who talk this way. But what is important is not what the person says but how he reacts.

Does this recognition that everything comes from Above obligate me to attain this source? Do I perceive everything that happens as the language of the Creator through which He speaks to me, and do I try to change so as to become like Him, or am I just saying that all of this is from Above?

If I understand that everything comes from Above, both pleasant and unpleasant events, to bring me closer to the Creator, then it makes no difference what kind of impact it has on me, because I want to get closer to Him. He can beat me, and I want to flee from Him and forget about Him. But I must rise above my ego and say that it is not important to me how He affects me: if it is good or bad for my ego.

I always want to draw nearer to Him so that good and evil will have relevance to my ego only and not to myself, not to my consciousness. And it could be that evil advances me towards the Creator more than the good. So He will send me more evil, and I will rise above it.

It is said that “Those who love the Creator hate evil,” because evil is considered to be not the trouble or the blows that I feel. If something distances me from the Creator, this is called evil, and if it brings me closer to the Creator, then this is called good.

And then this corrects me to some degree; I begin to feel pleasure that I advance towards the Creator, even through blows. And I suffer if something distances me from Him, even if it is pleasant. If I get some kind of physical pleasure and take it into account and understand that I am distanced from the Creator through this, then this makes me suffer.

That is how a person begins to change the corporeal, beastly, egoistic desires into desires that depend on closeness or distance from the Creator, which are called vessels of bestowal. We need to go through this process.

If a person moves from desires like these to others, this means he is crossing the Machsom and entering into work for the sake of bestowal, into Lishma. He now carries out all actions only for the sake of advancement and feels all advancement as pleasure and no longer feels the blows. He is already disengaged from his ego through which the blows pass, and has pleasure from advancement only.

This may seem difficult, complicated, and hard to comprehend from a psychological point of view, but don’t worry, this is possible and we will reach this. We are already prepared to absorb and understand and begin to realize it.
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From the Convention In France “One For All And All For One,” Day Two 5/10/14, Lesson 4

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