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It Is Better to Be at a Lower Degree but All Together

937How can you prepare yourself for the upcoming congress in the Arava so that you can be with everyone together, at its very epicenter, and not miss something very important, which will then be a thorn in your heart for many years?

If you follow the congress closely, from no matter where, then you will join it and we will all be together in the same Kli, in the same scrutinies, and in the same exercises. And in this way we will rise together.

Of course, everyone will understand this to the extent of one’s preparation. But we still have almost a month ahead of us and we can prepare so that everyone can be practically on the same level. And that means a lot.

It is better to be at a lower degree but all together, than at a higher degree with each on his own. I hope that we will integrate so that we will all be together at a certain small degree, but we will all understand each other and try to rise together. That is what is important for the congress.

So the most important thing for this congress is to be together! Not physically, but psychologically and spiritually.

It is better to be on a lower degree together than on a higher degree alone, because when I am on the same degree with the ten, I am in a spiritual Kli. And when I am on the spiritual degree alone, without a spiritual Kli, there is no guarantee that I will be able to stay there. At any moment I can fall from there.

We need to reach the end of correction at least in the ten, and then all the other tens will join. So far, there are a small number of tens at the degree of the end of correction, Rabbi Shimon’s ten and a few more. And we also want to achieve it, so we are counting on the success, not of any individual, but of at least a ten.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/26/23, Writings of Baal HaSulamIntroduction to The Book of Zohar

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Prize for Excellent Parking

566.01There is a funny story about a seven-year-old girl Gili giving parking tickets to cars parked near her house. But she wrote on the infringement note: “Thanks for the great parking” and drew a heart.

Why do only children think about making others feel good? Apparently, children are smarter than adults. After all, it does not occur to us to give each other such cards and smiles at random passers-by. The egoism of an adult is very big because we have to rise on top of it, above all nations and countries.

Instead, we go along with our egoism. It controls us, not that we control it. It is good that we have such children next to us. Let’s hope that when they grow up, they will be able to change something in this world.

Although most likely, it is now, while the children are small that they can do such noble deeds from the bottom of their hearts. Later their egoism will grow, and they will join the common competition with everyone. Maybe they will even join some party, and then we will see them handing out completely different flyers.

At the moment children want to be guided by their good intentions. Cute children! But then their egoism will grow, and they will start distributing other leaflets, campaigning for some party or against someone. In such a way they will join in the squabble going on between everyone. Cute children will be corrupted and join the ranks of the fighting parties.

It is necessary to go by faith above reason and think that salvation is only in connection. Otherwise, this is the end. We can win and stand up against everyone, but not against our egoism, which will bury us.

To take control over your egoism means to appreciate something more than a sense of your own rightness. That is, you strive to cover all crimes with love and desire nothing but that. The main thing is connecting with other people. This is the only thing that counts.

But as a child grows, his will to receive grows and forces him to make larger and more far-reaching calculations. There is nothing one can do about it, what is left is only to accept by faith above reason that everyone is obliged to concede. Instead of trying to win and outwit the other, we need to think about how to outwit ourselves in order to be together with others. The war should be internal, not external.
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From KabTV’s “An Inside Look” 1/15/23

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Study Human Nature

281.01Question: How can people who study The Study of the Ten Sefirot with us use this information not just theoretically but practically?

Answer: In principle, it speaks of the development of nature.

Question: But where am I there? Suppose I now learned something new, filled my brain with this information, or maybe I have become smarter, what is next?

Answer: This information explains to me who I am, what humanity is, and how we will be getting out of the current situation.

We can already start thinking. In the meantime, human nature is developing us to a state of recognition of evil, so we try to start getting out of it.

In The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Baal HaSulam is trying to say that we are the creation, we are the will to receive, and therefore, there is nothing to be expected from us. At any moment in time, we want to get something, preferably at the expense of someone. And that is okay.

That is, we must understand our nature, and not go against it. We just need to study how we can change it.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/1/23

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The Singing Planet

712.03Some doctors explain harmful addictions as a person experiencing a pleasant sensation and afterward he wants to repeat it. But over time, the sensitivity is dulled, and the sensation weakens. It turns out that a person is forced to constantly increase the dose in order to reach the initial sensation.

It is the same in ordinary life; we never manage to repeat the experienced pleasure with the same intensity. This is possible only in one case. If the desire to do good to others, to bestow, to share, becomes such an addiction, then we will really feel happy because this makes us similar to the upper force of nature, the Creator.

In this form, we come to the fact that there will be a wonderful world around us. We will hear trees, bushes, and birds singing, we will understand and feel that all of nature wants to share good with everyone.

All nature wants to sing only about love, connection, and a happy life. But because of man, there are birds singing sad songs. We are just not sensitive to it.

If we felt nature, we would hear this melody in the rustle of trees, bushes, and grass, in the voices of birds and animals, even in the howling of the wind. We would feel them singing about a good, beautiful world if we, humans, did not spoil nature, did not bring the force of malice and greed into it.

We just need to understand the general mechanism of nature and turn it in a good direction by turning there ourselves. This can be achieved in the shortest possible time. After all, if we change at our human degree, then all degrees below us will change, all of nature will calm down, and harmony, perfection, and world peace will be established in it.

Man will have only one addiction: listening to the voice of nature, to its inner strength aimed at mutual understanding and care, as it is said in the Prophets that the wolf and the lamb will live peacefully side by side.
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From KabTV’s “An Inside Look” 1/15/23

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