Question: What needs to go into this decision other than our desire?

Answer: The decision that we need to come to includes our disappointment in our ability to unite on our own, as well as in our individual or joint ability to break through the barrier and reveal the spiritual world.

What feeling am I to use to reveal if I do not perceive it? This feeling needs to form between us as an additional, new phenomenon that we aren’t familiar with yet.

I have five senses, and I am trying to use them like radar in order to locate the spiritual world. What is it and where do I find it? I try, but I fail to find it because the Kli where the spiritual world can be perceived is not within me. It is between us. So, how do I create it?

I am not able to do this on my own because I do not feel the others. It is as if they do not exist. What do I use to connect with them if I lack this sensitivity?

Only the upper force can help me connect with them; it intentionally created the dividers between us by placing each one of us in a separate cell, like bees in a hive.

We are not able to break the barriers, so where will we perceive spirituality? We will perceive it in our common desire, which can only be attained with the Creator’s help; He will remove the dividers between us!

This was deliberately arranged so that we would reveal Him because the breaking of the dividers builds the Kli for revealing the property of bestowal, which is inherent of the Creator.

It appears that my need for a new Kli brings me to this decision. This is called an effort, and we must do it together, helping one another in raising the importance of our expectations. As soon as we come to a joint decision to unite and break the Machsom with this sensation, this happens, because we really want the revelation of the Creator as the force and and everyone’s property of bestowal that exists between us. This is the spiritual world.
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From the lesson 11/12/10, “Letter 57,” Baal HaSulam 

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Question: What are the precise actions needed to attain unity and the property of bestowal?

Answer: Our only free action is to connect with the group, and the tighter, the better.

However, the physical actions are not unity. This needs to be an inner unity, “What am I doing this for?”

When trying to unite, I constantly need to keep turning to the Creator, “Help me attain unity!”

I drag Him with me to the lesson, the gathering of friends. I always want Him to be near me. I demand for the Creator to do this to me, and I do not let Him go for even a minute.

The upper force must carry out my request because this is what He, Himself, wants, just like an adult wants to create conditions for the development of a child. However, there is no worse condition than when a child does not want to develop, and this is our situation. We do not care for our state, but the Creator wants us always to keep demanding!

So, I need to know that my work is to connect with the group and find the spiritual world in this connection.

I do this work together with the Creator. I keep constantly pulling Him, as it is written, “Come unto Pharaoh.” I do not need anything but this!

So, what are we lacking? First, it is disappointment in our own abilities. Second, it is confidence that the Creator can help us. Third, it is asking Him to complete the action.

He always performs the action. This is why our work is called Avodat HaShem (the work of the Creator). What a paradox. I work, the effort is mine, but the work is called the Creator’s work. I only evoke it!

However, I need to work very hard in order to find out what exactly He needs to do. The Light does the action, but I need to be in the right place and say, “Act here!” He acts if I find the place.

Besides, it does not matter where I am and what I am doing, whether I am with the group, at the lesson, at home, at work, or traveling. I am always doing this. This is our practical work.
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From the lesson 11/12/10, “Letter 57” Baal HaSulam 

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Question: Should I try to distinguish in the events and people around me things like the right and left lines?

Answer: No, this only applies to inner work. Only when a person attains the forces of his soul and begins to work with them, does he begin to distinguish which of them apply to the right line, and which ones to the left, as it is written: “The left rejects, and the right adducts.” Those things that reject me from spirituality refer to the left line, and those things that attract me refer to the right line. I need to base my advancement on the two forces, otherwise what am I to rise above?

The left line is represented as Mount Sinai (hatred), and it determines the height of the steps on the ladder of spiritual ascent. My egoistic desire, the left foot, which rejects all the other people, gradually becomes revealed, step-by-step on this ladder, to the extent of my readiness to correct it with the force of the right line, the right foot, the property of bestowal. Thus I ascend the steps of (Jacob’s) ladder.

It is when I can classify my inner forces—whether they are for or against the connection between them—but I cannot classify the surrounding people or events.

You can say that according to the perception of reality, the entire world is within you because man is a small world; everything he sees outside of him is inside him. So why can he not regard his inner and outer parts the same way? Once you begin to perceive inside you the things that are outside of you, then you will add them either to the right or the left side!

But until then you can only work in relation to your friends, adding them to yourself as parts of your soul. If we want to be as one man with one heart, then our desire includes everyone, and it does not differentiate between you, me, and others, just like when one, two, or three drops of water merge to form one big drop.

When we have a common desire like that, we will be able to regard its inner structure the same way we regard the three lines.
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From KabTV’s “Weekly Portion” 11/12/2010

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Studying The Book of Zohar for one hour brings about more results than studying a regular interpretation for a year.—”Kisle Melech,” Tikkun 43, Chapter 60

This is necessary today to protect us from evil because, where previous generations were closer to the Creator, our generation is distant from the Creator. Only Kabbalah can protect us.—Ya, Tzemach, “Preface to Etz Chaim”

The prohibition on studying Kabbalah was in place only up to the year 5250. From then on, the prohibition was lifted and, on the contrary, there was a directive to study The Book of Zohar. From the year 5300 on, everyone was obliged to study Kabbalah. Since the Mashiach will come as a consequence, we have no right to postpone this.—”Ohr HamA,” Preface).

If we study The Book of Zohar with children from nine or ten years old, we would bring the salvation closer.—”Keilot Yakov,” Chapter “Sod”

Deliverance will come only through the power of The Book of Zohar.—”Kise Eliyau,” Chapter 4.

Today, it is urgently necessary to become proficient in Kabbalah. The Book of Zohar is necessary to pave the path to salvation.—Rav Kook, “Orot,” 57.
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The Torah, “Leviticus” (Metzora), 14:36:… After this, the Cohen shall come to look at the house.

A person who rises to the level of a Cohen (priest) and is able to correct his desires, no longer checks his body and his clothes since these desires already have been purified and he is in a corrected state in them, but the house is his external desires.

The more external a desire is, the easier it is to correct it. However, on the other hand, the easier it is to correct it, the more it stands out as an interruption.

Here there is an inverse relationship: It is easier to correct 1000 kilograms than 100 kilograms, and it is easier to correct 100 kilograms than 10 kilograms. So, on the whole, these values are interrelated.

This means that the light desires are everywhere, like bacteria, for example. There are so many that you need to protect yourself from them. There are such terrible desires inside you, like viruses, and you must correct them. It is a different kind of work, which is more internal. But there are fewer of these desires.

These are the bricks by which we later must build ourselves.

There are billions of different viruses and bacteria in our world that constantly attack us. They keep a general balance: homeostasis. It is impossible to live without them.

Of course, we can dismiss this, but, if we want to find meaning in life and understand who we are and what we are, we cannot do it without knowing a person’s inner attributes.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/5/14

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Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”: This wisdom is no more and no less than a sequence of roots, which hang down by way of cause and consequence, by fixed, determined rules, interweaving to a single, exalted goal described as “the revelation of His Godliness to His creatures in this world.”

The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about all of reality, and it is revealed to individuals throughout history and in general at the end of our history.

The abundance comes from above and below, there is the desire, a burning need. They cannot touch each other because there is an insulating obstacle between them, an essential precondition of adaptability. This is the main thing that we should know. This is the subject of the wisdom of Kabbalah.

There are many details, but this is what we need first and foremost: knowing how to adapt and make ourselves suitable for the perception of the Creator, for the perception of the abundance.

Accordingly, the Creator is revealed to the full depth of the desire in all its five levels.

As for the roots, we discover them according to Tzimtzum Aleph (the first restriction) and the Masach (screen), and creating the necessary adaptability.
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From the 5^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: What was happening to the people of Israel during these last few weeks when the military operation took place? There was a miracle of unity!

Answer: The force of unity is awakening. It’s the upper force. We are in the period Kabbalists called “the end of correction” (Gmar Tikkun), the last generation, complete deliverance.

The Upper Light approaches us and encourages us to connect with Him. Since we are opposite to the Light; we perceive His closeness as something negative. If we are united or at least make efforts to unite, we regard the Light’s approach as kind and positive.

Various events are sent to us for the sake of helping us reconnect with each other. As the Light descends to us, we have to become similar to It. These events are sometimes pleasant, such as nationwide celebrations of holidays, etc. And disasters and wars are also sent to us.

Both good and tragic events are given to us with only one goal: to push us to connect. Then, the Upper Light, the general force of the universe that encompasses and completes everything there is into one sphere, will have a chance to manifest Itself to us.

This is why we get impressions from both ends: On one hand, we become much more sensitive under the pressure of afflictions and problems. On the other hand, sensitivity allows us to feel the presence of a special force of unity, the upper force that moves closer to us.

These days, all of us sensed that there was a very special atmosphere in this country and that we received a very unusual kind of fulfillment. Our task is to develop the same sensation of unity among us to the degree that wars disappear because of their total uselessness.

If we manage to do so, there won’t be a need to use an external influence that presses us even more in order to make us connect and stay together, uniting because of Hamas. If we unite voluntarily, the external malevolent force that pushes and obligates us to unite would be redundant.

All parts of the system work in synergy. It is said that the “Pharaoh brought the sons of Israel closer to the Creator.” The Pharaoh stands for a singular, general negative force. And soon, we will see how the whole world is becoming one negative force directed against Israel. It will pressure us from all sides and use any possible means to make us aspire to unity.

Approaching the Creator means re-connecting in one general desire and becoming as one man with one heart for the sake of implementing the rule: “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” So, do we really need the evil Pharaoh? The entire world is called Pharaoh because in all countries anti-Semitism flourishes and nobody wants to help Israel.

I just returned from a trip to South and North America and Europe, and I can say never before have I felt such a huge universal hatred to Jews. Everybody thinks that the Jewish people are the source of all troubles in the world and that there is no room for them on the face of earth because they bring so many afflictions to everybody.

I was in the US during the time that a rabbi was killed in Miami. As he was walking down the street, someone shot him and walked away. Do you think there was an outrage in the city? Everything was very quiet, as if everyone was in agreement with this.

In the news are only reports that Israel is assaulting Gaza and killing Palestinian children. Nobody says anything about the missiles falling on the Israeli territory. The output from the  mass media is that the Israeli army destroyed homes and killed a certain number of civilians. And what is happening in Israel as a result of the rocket and terrorist attacks is not mentioned. They either say that Israel deserves this kind of trouble, or they just don’t say anything about these events, as if they don’t know Israel is being bombed, as if there is no Hamas, as if Hamas is not firing thousands of missiles into Israel.

Miraculously, all the news gets filtered. It’s not intentional, not someone maliciously desiring to present biased facts. They see it this way and broadcast their vision on all channels; thus, the entire world regards Israel this way!

The world assesses the situation very simply: the people of Israel are bound to be a good and useful force that organizes and unites the world, leading the world to unity, harmony in all parts of nature. Instead, these people cause harm. They regard the people of Israel as the central source of evil in the world.

Each person who lives in this world has a built-in, deep feeling, which is impossible to change. The knowledge is imprinted in everybody as a cornerstone. Therefore the people of Israel have no other way but to fulfill their mission in relation to the rest of the world.
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Question: Jacob is afraid of Esau, what is he afraid of?

Answer: Let’s say I came to visit you. Before coming over I had a good dinner and even though you offer different foods to me, I am not hungry, that is, my desire to receive pleasure is not big at all. I tell you: “You know, I do not want anything, but for you (for the sake of bestowal) I am willing to accept a small treat, for example tea and cake.” I receive my treat, and I feel no shame; I did it with the intention to please the host, and this makes both of us equal because when I do not receive for my own sake, it is referred to as giving to you, and this makes me full of self-respect.

We sit at the table, having a conversation, time is passing by and I start getting hungry. You say: “So, maybe you would like something?” But now, I really am hungry! I smell the food; they are “attacking” me! So what do I do? I am afraid to remain in this big desire. I am facing a big desire, will I be able to resist this big pleasure while having this big desire and can I perform the same action to please the host?

If I am acting for the sake of bestowal, I reveal the Creator, and if I do not attain it, I land in the so-called “hell”; I fall into the state called Esau rules over me.

This is called Jacob is afraid. He does not know whether he will be able to overcome his egoism, his desire to receive pleasure, because Esau is in it, he begins to demand, he is coming closer to Jacob and says: “We are brothers! Let us be together!” Our egoistic desire tells us: “Do you want spirituality? I am with you! Do you want to reach the Light? I love Light! Give it to me!”

We must push it away, confuse it, trick it, tell it, “All right, see you tomorrow,” and run as fast as we can and as far as we can. The Torah teaches us how to work with our egoism by gradually taking pieces from it for correction until we correct the entire egoism.
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The Weekly Portion 11/18/2010, The Zohar

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