Convention “All As One” In New Jersey – 5/3/18
Posted on May 3rd, 2018
Convention “All As One” in New Jersey, “Awakening to the Creator’s Invitation,” Lesson 1
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Convention “All As One” in New Jersey, “Awakening to the Creator’s Invitation,” Lesson 1
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Exodus from Egypt till Passover is purifying desires, attaining faith, bestowal, Light of Hassadim. After Passover, it’s purifying desires to receive, to receive Light of Hochma in Light of Hassadim, #Torah. When Torah fills the desires, it’s called #Shavuot, reception of Torah.
33 days of corrections in Hafetz Hesed (bestowal for bestowal), time of smallness, reaching the degree of Bina over egoism taken from Egypt. #LagBaomer is correcting the desire till smallness. Then, from bestowal for bestowal, we proceed to reception for bestowal, reception of Torah.
This allows us to understand the historical events related to #LagBaomer: the death of Rabbi Akiva’s 24,000 students. They died because they ceased relating to one another well, according to the rule, “every correction is preceded by breakage.”
From #LagBaomer on, we must unite with greater allegiance to prepare our desire to receive for the sake of bestowal, to receive Torah, Light of Hochma. Thus, Lag (the 33rd day) is a critical point on the boundary between the bestowing and receiving desires.
We celebrate Lag BaOmer, meaning the end of correcting the Soul’s bestowing desires: #Hesed, #Gevura, #Tifferet, #Netzah, till #Sefira #Hod in Hod – LAG in total (33rd Sefira out of 50). Next, correction of receiving desires for bestowal starts: from Hod in Hod till #Malchut.
#LagBaOmer
Correction of the will to bestow prior to Lag BaOmer (33rd day of Omer) is the period of smallness. This is the start of correction of receiving desires—the time of greatness and reception of the Light of bestowal inside these desires, also known as reception of the #Torah.
Passover symbolizes the onset of redemption from egoism, acquisition of the desire “bestowal for the sake of bestowal.”
#LagBaOmer
The most notable corrections are Egypt, Exodus, Crossing the Final Sea, Accepting Mutual Guarantee and Receiving Torah.
Exodus from Egypt precedes Passover
The program of upper providence includes periods called holidays. This is special illumination from above, revealed at specific frequency and force: days, weeks, and months. However, these aren’t times, but names of upper lights pushing us toward correction.
#LagBaOmer
The Creator created lack and fulfillment, which is felt to the extent that the lack is felt. The goal: for us to feel as He does. The advantage of light is felt from darkness. Creation must attain separation and unification. We sense our existence upon the contrast.
#Kabbalah
Tonight in New Jersey, I will be giving the first lesson in our annual gathering in North America. KabbalahConvention2018 …#AllAsOneConvention #NJ2018
From Twitter 5/3/18
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The definitions of the wisdom of Kabbalah are not quite like definitions we use in the ordinary spoken language. The “nations of the world” are the desire to enjoy for oneself. “Jews,” the people of Israel, are desires aiming to bestowal.
Therefore, each person can be divided into nations of the world and Israel: into desires seeking only to satisfy themselves and desires aiming to the love of others and from it to the love for the Creator. On this basis, everyone can determine to which part of the general desire, that is, the creation he belongs.
Religion (Daat) is the method of Kabbalah that helps a person reach the middle line (Sefirot Daat-Tifferet-Yesod), and accordingly aim his desire to enjoy bestowal. If, when reading Kabbalistic sources, we perceive them through these definitions, we will not get confused and we will attribute everything to the desire to enjoy, the material of creation and its various properties. Then we will be able to identify them correctly and understand where we are: in a corrected or in a corrupted state. 1
The desires of Israel, directed straight to the Creator (Yashar-El), do not feel satisfaction until they reach correction. Such a person feels internal restlessness. If he is drawn to the revelation of the Creator, to correction, he cannot be satisfied with ordinary civil life, but must reach the revelation of the Creator. Only in this he will find comfort, tranquility, and satisfaction. 2
If we are given a desire to attain the Creator and we do not develop it, do not promote it toward the revelation, we inflict great troubles on ourselves because we are lowering the heavens to the earth. By this we cause the fall of the generations who were called to correct their desire. After all, instead of ascending to the upper Light and being filled with it, they want to receive abundance below without any correction, and by this they cause darkness and all disasters in the world.
People who were capable of making a correction and rising, becoming a channel for the upper world for all others, but failed to do so and did not realize the desire given to them to reveal the Creator, suffer from this themselves, and they also condemn others who cannot do anything by themselves and depend on them. Therefore, the nations of the world suffer from the fact that Israel fails to perform its mission, to correct itself. This is the reason for the existence of anti-Semitism. 3
Instead of climbing the degrees of bestowal and love of others and conducting the Light to the nations of the world, which was possible already from the First Temple, the people of Israel absorbed corporeal desires of the nations of the world and adopted their customs. In each generation only a select few Kabbalists remained. 4
There are laws of nature that act on the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels. If a person does not follow them, he receives punishment because these are laws of physical nature. There are also laws of spiritual nature that relate to the equivalence of a person with the Creator. These laws act selectively, according to a person’s degree, like a system of justice that does not punish a child, gives only partial punishment for the same offense to a teenager, but punishes an adult person in full.
The spiritual ladder is created on the attitude of the upper Light toward the desire to enjoy, the material of the creation. According to this, a spiritual law acts at each level. The law is a proportion between the upper Light of the certain level and the desire to enjoy corresponding to it, when they are equal and can connect.
Therefore, if at some degree we do not see and do not know something, it means that it is for our benefit, because the ladder of degrees from above downward is built in such a way. We cannot complain that this is unfair. 5
Everything we feel in this world is an influence of the forces that guide us with maximal love and care in the right direction. Wherever I fail to see this, I need to correct myself in order to agree with this governance. 6
From the From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/18, Baal HaSulam, “Exile and Redemption”
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2 Minute 3:05
3 Minute 6:45
4 Minute 12:00
5 Minute 23:00
6 Minute 26:10
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Question: What does the Kabbalistic principle “Do not show a fool a job half done” mean?
Answer: The Creator does not show us half of our work until the step is completed.
The measure of the full step is called “seah” (an ancient measure of granular substances). Until we fill up our “cup” with a full measure of effort, we will not feel that we have done anything. We are shown neither half of the work, nor a quarter—only the completely finished work.
In every Partzuf (spiritual system) there cannot be less than ten Sefirot, otherwise their presence in Malchut (the tenth part of the Partzuf) is not felt. Only after all the processes in the nine upper Sefirot reach Malchut does she begin to feel that something is happening. Therefore, it is written that the spirituality is not divided into parts—there is only an integral structure.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian, 11/26/17
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Question: What is happiness for a Kabbalist?
Answer: Happiness for a Kabbalist is an opportunity to fulfill others and, through them, the Creator. However, I by myself cannot bestow to the Creator or receive from Him, but only through a buffer, which is the group, and even better, the whole of humanity.
Question: What is a Kabbalist’s greatest joy?
Answer: It is from the action where he can bestow to the Creator through the group, and discover the Creator in it, seeing how one enters another, how the group becomes a buffer between him and the Creator, and how all of them together, the three of them, meet in this group, in this mass.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian 12/31/17
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If we succeed in awakening the system of our interconnections, we’ll start to understand and agree that we must be connected, included in the law of nature—mutual guarantee, full interconnection of all parts/souls. This is the law of a healthy organism.
Hence, we must try to awaken the system ourselves (Path of Light), instead of
waiting for it to awaken us “in due time” (Beito).
Life is connection between elements, entry and exit of energies, exchange of substances, and in the system of our interconnections—it’s exchange on the level of desires.
This is “Returning to the Light.” #kabbalah #meaning #spirituality #consciousness
One can’t rise to any spiritual degree without revealing savage desires inside and going through them the wrong way. Burning with shame, you gradually understand that it wasn’t you who did it—it was the Creator, and you thank Him for revealing the evil.
#LagBaOmer
All Israeli holidays are milestones on the path of the Soul’s correction till the final correction. Hence, the holidays speak about the history of the nation of Israel, composed of breakages and corrections. Desire can’t be corrected without revealing its breakage.
#LagBaOmer
The holiday of LagBaOmer symbolizes unity, unification. Essentially, all Israeli (Isra-El – straight to the Creator) holidays indicate greater unity (correction) or fragmentation (breakage) between us.
The truth has touched me—
I realized: if the Creator’s greatness
Is above all, inside me,
It will save me!
#Wednesday #kabbalah #poetry #wisdom
The way to check for correct progress is to shift the focus from yourself to the group. At the convention, turn on the aspiration to dissolve, as if you don’t exist, feel everyone except yourself, forget yourself! If we aspire to this, we have a chance to feel the upper force!
The force shaping and filling us is called Creator. It needs to be revealed. To this end, we must observe 2 rules:
-love others as yourself
-from the love for creatures to love for the Creator
Thus we unite the hearts/desires and become filled by the quality of bestowal and love.
We need to arrive at the convention with great hopes that for the first time in our lives, we can reveal the upper world in the connection between us. In its unity, the group of convention participants becomes a mother’s womb for me, in which I’ll begin to develop as an embryo!
Since the world’s correction lies in its proper unification of HaVaYaH, the convention—a world gathering of Kabbalists, people aspiring to attain the goal of creation—is a source of the power of unity, capable of drastically pushing members of Bnei Baruch to revelation of the Creator.
#SpiritualWork_ML
We need to prepare for unity, become included in everyone, rise above our ego, feel everyone instead of ourselves—and inside this, to feel the spiritual state, the Creator. Let’s try to make this effort during the convention!
#Congress #unity
After each step forward on the spiritual path,
I must close off the path back so I can’t run away
The door behind me closes and the one in front of me opens,
Like a floodgate, there’s no way back.
This is the path of gradual exit from egoism, the nature I’m completely immersed in!
The path of pain is when I can’t relate the pain to the group and the Creator inside it.
If I relate disturbances to unity and the Creator, it’s the path of correction.
I choose the path: to blame the Creator or thank Him for revealing evil, which I correct—even the threat of world war
#Spiritualwork_ML
Unpleasant sensations must leave their mark on us, lest no revelation takes place, just like any work or energy is only revealed through resistance. And our unity is built only on resistance, the shattering of the Soul that happened beforehand.
There’s one goal in spiritual work.
It’s attained by increasing the unity between us,
to see that everything comes from the Creator
for our unity.
We thus correct ALL problems,
which become revealed as GOOD,
to reveal the Creator inside the connection as
There’s none else besides Him!
#spirituality
Everything that happens, happens in order to give us a chance to correct our desires. All #worries, #fears, uncertainties, feelings of helplessness, disorder, personal #problems, whether in family or society—can be resolved only by coming closer to the Creator!
We must see the evil that’s revealed as an invitation to correct it and to come closer to each other, until in our connection we will reveal, more and more, the upper force, the Creator. This is how our broken desires manifest, as problems. By correcting them, we build the Soul.
Disturbances are the Creator’s actions, compelling us to connect to Him.
One should see himself as fighting an inner #war against himself.
Then nothing will confuse us, lead us off the straight path, away from the understanding that everything comes from the Creator, His desire to bring us closer to Him.
#Freewill_ML
It seems to man that correction is hard and confusing, until he realizes that one need only recognize the defects and ask for their correction. There’s no need to think HOW they’ll be corrected, but only to picture the corrected state, desire it, and ask the Creator.
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The largest portal Breaking Israel News published my recent article “The Greatest Role Natalie Portman and Other Jews in the Entertainment Industry Should Aspire To“
While the media spins into a frenzy over Natalie Portman’s turning down of the Genesis Prize (the “Jewish Nobel”) as a critical statement of Israel’s leadership, I was asked to comment on her actions. Frankly, I have nothing to say about her or what she did. Instead, the discharge of anger, accusations and opinionated ping pong surrounding the event presents a clear example that we as a Jewish people are not focused on what really matters. If we were, thenwe would rise above all the outrage and examine the core issue: our very identity and function in the world.
It’s no secret that the media thrives on generating hysteria by amplifying celebrities’ insignificant comments into wildfires of public opinion. What should we ask ourselves is why do we enjoy it so much? Why do we let ourselves get swept into this socially divisive snowball effect? Why don’t we enjoy in more socially beneficial ways, by engaging in the creation of a more positively connected society?
Actors Had Far Less Influence in the Past
Historically, actors were never at the center of public discourse as they now are. For example, in ancient Rome, actors had even less civil and political rights than their fellow citizens. Their ability to switch between different characters and behaviors made them seem “soulless,” as if they lacked personality and identity. As such, they were considered as being of lower social status. However, the 1920s saw Hollywood’s penetration into mass consciousness. Actors drew public attention. They suddenly rose in popularity and wealth to a high social status, and their opinions were also placed on an international pedestal.
Backed by the immense material strength of an audacious industry, actors ride controversial media trends, mostly political ones, showing support or opposition to one of the sides, in order to create buzz and empower their public image. It stems from sheer self-interest, and it’s why I’m not interested in dealing with it.
If we’re speaking about Jewish people in the entertainment industry, then I would expect them to portray an authentic representation of the Jewish essence. More succinctly, I would expect them to show examples of the tendency to unite above differences, that a kind, loving and caring attitude to others above all the primal divisive urges is what defines Jews at their nucleus.
A Mission for Jews in the Entertainment Industry
In practical terms, I would recommend that the entertainment industry’s Jews work on creating a new social vision, one of a positively connected future where we and humanity as a whole will succeed to connect above all of our differences. Instead of romanticizing the past or creating fantasies completely removed from reality, we should emphasize what can bring us together: the creation of a vision of how our society can overcome our current problems, divisions and conflicts and reach harmony rich with everyone’s individual characteristics and expressions continually strengthening a massive enveloping unification.
For example, the ceremonies in last week’s 70 years of independence celebrations in Israel sentimentalized the nation’s struggles and achievements over the last 2,000 years. From stories of the nation receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai, through 2,000 years of exile, encounters with anti-Semitism, tragedy in the pogroms and the Holocaust, the return to Israel, and the extensive efforts and ingenuity of Israel’s progress in security, agriculture, the economy and high tech in order to reach the solid national infrastructure Israel holds today—it is true that the people of Israel have been through a lot and have a great story to tell.
However, I would completely shift the focus of this story. Instead of reminiscing about our past and present achievements, we should see these as a background to our real challenge: How can we realize a new and enhanced vision of nothing less than a perfect future, one where instead of division, conflict, friction, and struggle, we will bring to the world connection, positivity, love, and happiness? We should accept the fact that we have been given a portion of land as an opportunity to realize our true identity and function in the world: to unite (“love your friend as yourself” [Leviticus 19:18]) and be an example of that unity for humanity (“a light unto nations” [Isaiah 49:6]).
The biggest story about our fate as a Jewish people is not in the past. It is happening right now. If we work toward envisioning and materializing this vision of social unity, then we will find ourselves living out our monumentally epic tale of biblical proportions on a day-by-day, moment-by-moment basis: we would start carrying out the role we were put here on this planet to fulfill.
Therefore, in echoing the words of Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, that “I am glad that I have been born in such a generation when it is permitted to disclose the wisdom of truth,” (in “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence”) we all have access to feel this joy by focusing ourselves on a vision of a positively connected future for ourselves and humanity, and starting to work together to materialize this vision.
The Greatest Role Jews Have Is Creating a Better World
I, therefore, wish for us all to start thinking about this vision and our role in it, that we discuss it, act it out and promote it to each other, and that large aggregates such as the entertainment industry and its actors whose opinions constantly ripple throughout our media networks, will start also playing their part in this new direction. Today, we have the opportunity and the potential to set off a major transformation to a positively connected world the likes of what we’ve never seen before, and it is my dear hope that we will realize it.
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The cascading of the worlds from above downward was the preparation for the correction, and the opposite process from below upward is its implementation. During the cascading from above downward all the conditions were established for disparity of form, so that we would reach the equivalence with the Creator from this disparity. The end of correction is complete equivalence between the created being and the Creator.
All this implementation occurs in the ten. The first ten, the first HaVaYaH, was divided, shattered in all possible ways and descended to complete disparity of form with the Creator, to complete lack of connection. We then begin to correct this shattering by connecting tens. By working on connection in our ten, we unknowingly gather many different tens, until we begin to see how they form an ever more advanced ten. 1
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/18, Lesson on the topic of “Discovering the Creator’s Force in the Ten” (Preparation for the Convention “All As One” in New Jersey 2018)
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