The work of Israel in a complete Kli composed of GE and AHP, desires to bestow and to receive, advancing together towards the goal of correction, is giving all of one’s time in the right direction. GE must approach the method of correction such that together with the AHP we can filter and clarify those desires and characteristics which are preferable to use to advance on the middle line.

AHP is the left line, GE is the right line, and they must be connected such that the advancement will be optimal, in the middle line, with the right mutual connection between them. The sign of this optimal advancement is world peace, when there won’t be wars, problems, and suffering.

When the world will calm down externally, then we will see how much this state is worthy of revealing the higher power. The Creator cannot be revealed in conditions of conflict between nations and in enmity between people. He is not ready to be revealed in hatred, for there is no equivalence to His characteristics of peace, perfection, and love.

So those terrible events that we see in the world, we must see as our field of work. And this is called (Genesis 27:27) “a field which the Lord hath blessed” upon which we must go out to work. In every situation, in every moment, in every place in the world, it is necessary to choose His approach.

And so we will see how in all the extremities of the earth more and more of our friends appear who organize the right work regarding the method of connection and who bring peace and unity to the world in which the Creator can be discovered. Only the revelation of the Creator to the creatures can bring true peace and perfection. Therefore, all of our work is only in disseminating this idea.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/5/14

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Question: Why is the Shavuot holiday called the holiday of the giving of the Torah and not the receiving the Torah?

Answer: The giving of the Torah happens when we reach a deficiency for it. This is speaking about the Light, about giving from Above, not about receiving from below.

A person is not a free man; he is not free as long as he has not received the Torah. And after receiving the Torah, we begin to acquire the characteristic of Bina, freedom. This is freedom from our ego, from the desire to receive. And then it is possible to declare that we are working on receiving the Torah.

But on this day itself, when we are compelled under the pressure of the plagues of Pharaoh and all of the troubles that brought us to Mount Sinai, we agree to accept the mutual guarantee, but sill don’t have a strong enough desire  In the meantime this is only the giving of the Torah, given from Above.

And receiving the Torah begins when we already approach its realization: beginning with the Ohr Hassadim, to bestow for the sake of bestowal, the correction of the desire of Galgalta ve Eynaim on all levels; and after this the correction of the desire of AHP on all levels. When we correct the desire of AHP, this is truly called the receiving of the Torah, for there the Light that Reforms is working with all its power.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/3/14, Shamati #66 “The Giving of the Torah”

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Question: How can we connect the two discernments of “If I am not for me, who is for me” and “There is none else besides Him“?

Answer: Our mission is to reach a state in which there is no time, place, or motion. This means that there is no difference between the ascents and the descents. Even if one discovers the greatest evil and a sharp sword is placed on his neck, he shouldn’t despair of mercy. All these states don’t disappear, but we simply rise above them.

The desire to receive has to die totally, and so it is cut off, piece by piece, but we receive it as the greatest pleasure since it becomes not a simple necessity that we can avoid but the preparation of the vessel that turns into a real Light and the fulfillment of the act of bestowal.

It is actually in the worst states that we can see the height of faith and bestowal, and thus love them. Everything depends on how important we regard the Creator and our bestowal unto Him. Thus, we increase our vessel to the extent that we manage to turn ourselves into a means to delight Him.

The Creator opens up all the discernments in our hearts and minds that are not corrected and by which we are not adhered to Him in every state, from the easiest to the most difficult.

Thus, we connect these discernments: “If I am not for me, who is for me” and “There is none else besides Him.” The adhesion annuls the gap between these two discernments.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/3/14

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The Torah, “Leviticus” (Shemini), 9:22-9:24: And Aaron lifted up his hands towards the people and blessed them. He then descended from preparing the sin-offering, the burnt-offering, and the peace-offering.

And Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting. Then they came out and blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. And the fire went forth from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fats upon the altar, and all the people saw, sang praises, and fell upon their faces.

In the spiritual world everything is built in a form of a pyramid. People are the most numerous desires, but the weakest, and the lowest ones are corrected by higher desires. Both are egoistic desires, but their correction is performed simultaneously in the connection between them. So the attribute of love and bestowal is revealed gradually as it is conveyed from the highest desires to the lowest ones by their mutual help to one another.

Here the mutual system of the Direct Light and the Returning Light operates. It is not discrete but analog, and so it doesn’t operate in phases but simultaneously from the beginning to the end. It is impossible for something to be at the beginning and for something else to be at the end because the system operates simultaneously from the top down and from the bottom up.

This is the principle of the spiritual world. In our world there are also such analog systems. The lower and the upper depend on one another and mutually complement one another and unless it spreads from the top down and from the bottom up, there will not be a full revelation of the Creator.

The appearance of the Creator to the nation is the revelation of the attribute of love and bestowal, and it has to be revealed not only in the upper levels but also in the lower levels. Eventually the feeling of the Creator, His attainment, has to be felt in everyone in the complete form. When He is revealed, the differences between everyone disappear completely.

The Creator is revealed to everyone: to Aaron, to Moses, and to the people. On the whole, it makes no difference which level each one is at. Everyone becomes equal in power and is filled equally.

The lower serve the upper, the upper serve the lower, and both serve the Creator. The Creator serves each of them and all of them together. The outcome is a closed global integral system in which everyone is totally connected. The Creator is connected to the others no less than they are connected to Him, like a mother to her children. It is just not clear who needs whom more. Eventually it turns out that everyone needs everyone.

Such a complete convention is attained in new altruistic attributes that are a result of purification and the right preparation of the offering, which means of myself. When we offer ourselves, which means that we come closer to the attributes of the Creator, He is revealed in us. What is more, He is revealed to everyone equally.

Everyone begins to understand that working for himself, for others, and for the Creator are the same thing. Any sense of the created being different in any way disappears. Everything is revealed as one world of Ein Sof (Infinity), as complete adhesion.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/18/13

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Opinion (Marina R. Bityanova, Ph.D., Professor of Moscow Open University, Director of the Center of psychological support in education, author of four books): “When people work together for a long time, they have to make joint decisions – not to come to a compromise, but namely to develop a common view of the problem. Compromise is an averaged solution, and hence no one’s. A group decision is general, and therefore is accepted by everyone.

“In practical terms, this is a very important property of the decisions that are accepted jointly: at the same time, they are everyone’s personal decision, therefore, everyone will perform them. Thus, a group should be encouraged to take vital decisions together, in collective discussion.

“But is a group decision effective? Maybe it is better if a decision is made by one person – the head, the leader, and then he convinces the group in his reason?

“People have long realized that taking a complex and responsible decision is better in discussion (a council of wise men, gathering of the elders, focus group), in general agreement – consensus. A group action is qualitatively and quantitatively superior to the action of the ‘average’ person, but sometimes is not as effective as the actions of an outstanding personality.

“Group decisions are more risky than individual; having united, people decide to take the risk, because a group discussion makes people feel that they share responsibility, personal irresponsibility that facilitates the adoption of extreme decisions, view risk as treasure: readiness to take risks increases status; during the panel discussion, group members aim at showing that they possess such readiness.

“Another important feature of group decisions: during discussion, opinions are not averaged, but polarized.

The thinking style of a group with a high level of internal unity and autonomy has the following features:

– An illusion of invulnerability;

– The desire to give a rational explanation for one’s decision as the only possible and correct;

– Stereotypical view of opponents;

– Open pressure on the minority;

– An illusion of unanimity;

– The emergence of self-appointed guardians of the group spirit, etc.

“Studies show that groups of this type increases internal cohesion and self-satisfaction of the members, but it reduces the quality of group decisions; members’ individual decisions are of a higher quality than those of the group.

“This phenomenon often occurs in groups working in crisis, stressful situations, forcing group members to unite around group goals, to fence off from the outside world.”

My Comment: When a group wants to unite so that its unity benefits the whole world, no negative qualities can occur in it.
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Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut” (Mutual Guarantee):  “The Patriarchs observed the whole Torah even before it was given.” This means that because of the exaltedness of their souls, they had the ability to attain all the ways of the Creator.

The patriarchs belonged to the pure vessels, GE (Galgalta ve Eynaim), and therefore did not need the Torah, because the Torah is the Light that corrects the Aviut (thickness) of the desire, and they were not thick but pure. The whole Torah is love and bestowal and they could observe it out of the exaltedness and the purity of their souls.

All the lower vessels, however, could not observe it just like that but needed to be equipped with sufficiently thick desires, which correct themselves by the Light that Reforms and could eventually be detached from it and receive the Torah.

Vessels of Hesed (mercy), Gevura (valor ) and Tifferet (splendor) correct themselves without the Light that Reforms, but are simply adhered to the simple Upper Light out of their purity. They knew all the Torah intuitively, since their vessels let them know about actions of bestowal. But their sons Netzach (eternal) , Hod (glory), and Yesod (foundation), all the other souls that come after them, already belong to the vessels of receiving and are therefore unable to understand, to feel, or to correct themselves by their own understanding and purity.

When the vessels are thicker, they need the Light that Reforms. First they have to reveal the full depth of the thickness of the desire to realize how bad it is on the levels of Egypt and during 400 years.

This is what Abraham asked: “I know that I belong to HGT, to vessels that are already corrected, that we are pure and that we are closer to You, but what about my sons? How will I know that they will inherit the land (of Israel)?”

The Creator answers him: “Don’t worry, they will be in exile and will accumulate all the necessary thickness, and then they will realize that they need to be connected to Me.” Abraham heard that and calmed down. The vessels of bestowal have a natural inclination to the Creator, while the vessels of receiving can only establish some attitude towards the Creator by going through exile that reveals the evil in them.

The method of correction is totally different in vessels of bestowal, in GE, and in vessels of receiving. Fathers and sons are two different levels. The sons are already egoistic as we can see.
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From the 5^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/5/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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“Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “BeLaila De Kala” (The Night of the Bride), Item 138: This is the main point of the essay, for thus far the corrections, too, were regarded as the work of our hands because we received rewards or punishments for them. However, at the great Zivug of the end of correction it will be revealed that both corrections and punishments were all the work of His hands, as it is written, “The heavens tell the work of His hands.” This is so because the great Zivug of the firmament will say that everything is the work of His hands and He alone does, is doing, and will do all the deeds.

A person has such a feeling and such thoughts that the end of correction is a fixed state that will come sometime in the future and that we can simply wait for it. He doesn’t understand that this state comes according to the corrections that a person performs. Nothing comes by itself, but only according to our work on the corrections.

We shouldn’t hope to remain the way we are and that corrections will simply arrive on their own. No, I am the one who has to try hard in order to reach correction.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/2/14, The Zohar

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Question: Can you explain the meaning of the ten commandments that were given on Mt. Sinai and that should be repeated every day, now, before Shavuot, which symbolizes the giving of the Torah?

Answer:  First of all, the ten commandments symbolize the desires in which we are connected to one another. It is only about connection.

The giving of the Torah takes place at the foot of the mountain only after the people accept the condition of mutual guarantee as one man in one heart. This means that we understand that there is a mountain of our ego above us and that we can ascend this mountain only with one point in the heart. This point is called Moses since it pulls us out of our ego.

Mt. Sinai is enormous, like the tower of Babel and even larger. We are at the bottom of the mountain ready to stand around this mountain of our ego. That is, we agree to connect all the parts of our private egoism into one mountain and not to fear it although it is a mountain of hate. We need to yearn for connection even though the only goal of our ego is to resist connection.

When we connect this way, we demand the revelation of the power of bestowal in our connection. It is because the inclination for connection is the spiritual vessel, the deficiency for mutual bestowal, as it is written, “From the love of the creatures to the love of the Creator.” Thus, we accept the condition of “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/3/14, Shamati #66 “The Giving of the Torah”

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The first decision to accept the mutual guarantee is on Shavuot. Shavuot is the name of the holiday from the perspective of the vessels as we gradually correct ourselves in the 50 days between Pesach and Shavuot, which are called the counting of the Omer (bundle).

Omer means connections. During these 50 days we collect ourselves as much as we can and clarify what we can correct and what we cannot. After we collect all the deficiencies, on the 50^th day, we decide what we can do with it.

Every day we ask for correction in one of the Sefirot and bless it. On the whole there are 7 x 7 = 49 Sefirot that make up the connection between us: between Malchut and Bina. On the 50^th day we already have our corrected vessel, our connected desire, and we are able to receive the Light that Reforms.

Thus we become one man, one vessel, and instead of the Light that corrects and reforms, the Light enters us as a filling. This is the beginning of receiving of the Torah.

The holiday of the giving of the Torah, Shavuot, symbolizes all that. It is a very important, great, and special holiday. There isn’t a more joyful holiday for Israel than the day of receiving of the Torah.

But people don’t regard this holiday as importantly as they should; they only know that it’s customary to eat dairy products. This holiday is also called the holiday of harvest, the first harvest. The Creator gives us the Torah just like cows give us milk.

But the nation of Israel living in the land of Israel, as a corporeal branch of the spiritual root, must understand the true meaning of the giving of the Torah. There is no greater holiday. Of course the exodus from Egypt is the starting point, but all this is the preparation for receiving the Torah.

It makes no difference that we received the first two stone tablets with the ten commandments and that we broke them. It is through this that the sparks of Torah penetrate our vessels because these vessels are still mixed with the vessels of the Egyptians, and so we make the golden calf. Later we receive the second tablets on Yom Kippur, and after the holidays, we reach Purim. This is how the year ends. Let’s hope that we can at least start this process that will be completed only at the end of correction.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/3/14, Shamati #66 “The Giving of the Torah”

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