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Posted on November 27th, 2023
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Regarding the war, the world has split sharply in two: for or against Israel. This confrontation manifests itself in every society and every corner of the world. What role does it play in the process of correction, and why is it happening this way?
I see this confrontation as a force that will oblige the people of Israel to unite. This pressure has no other purpose than to act on us so that we unite with each other.
The world is boiling, and everyone is looking at Israel as if it is an open wound on the body of the world. Why is such attention drawn to it? After all, if you look at the geographical map of the world, Israel is a very tiny country. However, this material map does not show the spiritual connection of Israel with the entire world.
It is not clear how it is possible that the whole world, billions of people with all their weapons, cannot cope with a tiny country that is almost invisible on the map. Here, the connection between the corporeal and spiritual world is clearly manifested, and we are at the most decisive point.
Despite the smallness of the State of Israel, the world feels particular importance in what is happening there. If you look at the size of this country on the map, it seems there is nothing to talk about. And yet they cannot do anything to us.
It is written in the prophets that at the end of correction, every person from the nations of the world will cling to a Jew to lead them to the holy land. It turns out that it is not enough for us to go out into the spiritual world, but we must bring everyone along with us, and the nations of the world will push us to rise to additional, still higher levels.
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From the 3rd the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/14/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Shofar of the Messiah“
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We, the people of Israel, have to correct ourselves by uniting “as one man with one heart,” and by doing so, become a conduit for such unification to spread worldwide.
Until we do so, then the lack of unity in the world surfaces as myriad problems and crises, and more and more people feel subconsciously that the people of Israel are to blame for their shortcomings.
Therefore, the shift to a harmonious and peaceful world depends on our unity. When we unite, we form a critical mass that then enables humanity as a whole to also come together. Then, when there is a spirit of unity among human society, it alleviates the many forms of suffering that emerge on personal, social and global scales.
This unifying spirit beyond divisions is what originally made us known as “the people of Israel” (“Israel” from two Hebrew words, “Yashar Kel” [“straight to God”], which means a people aimed directly at the source quality of love). We were people who first came together around 4,000 years ago not based on biological ties, but according to the method of attaining “love your neighbor as yourself” that Abraham established, specifically in an era that was marked by rampant social division.
We should thus see the many forms of hatred and dislike of the people of Israel as reminders that we need to come together with relations of love, care and kindness dwelling in our connections above any kind of divisiveness that we might feel toward each other.
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Everything in reality, good or bad, and even the most harmful in the world, has a right to exist and must not be destroyed and eradicated from the world. We must only mend and reform it (Baal HaSulam, “Peace in the World“).
Negative phenomena is our egoism when a man wants to act in the name of good only for himself.
Question: Negative phenomena manifest themselves very clearly during war. Is there any way to correct them?
Answer: No, there is not. Baal HaSulam means that we can gradually bring ourselves to the feeling that all manifestations of egoism are evil and all anti-egoism are good.
Question: On one hand, he says that not a single phenomenon should be destroyed but only be corrected. On the other hand, there is a clear principle in the Torah: If they come to destroy you, you must stand up first and kill them, that is, destroy them, not correct them. How do these two principles interact?
Answer: If they come at you with weapons, you must defend yourself and do what they wanted to do to you. That will be your correction.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/29/23
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Question: When a Kabbalist comes out from under the influence of the whole world and merges with the Creator, what happens to him?
Answer: He begins to feel the governance of the Creator.
He ceases to perceive his own thoughts and feelings, begins to feel the thoughts and feelings of the ten, and to this extent comes closer to the Creator.
To feel the Creator’s thoughts in the ten means the revelation of His plan—what He really wants from us.
Question: In what form does He convey this to us? In the form of some kind of feeling or state?
Answer: In the form of our thoughts. And we feel that they come from Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/14/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Two States“
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“This is called “a handmaid who is heir to her mistress,” since the very power of the mistress—the control of the internality—is by the force of our wisdom and knowledge, as it is written, “we are distinguished, I and Your people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.”
Now, the handmaid has stepped forth and prides herself in public that she is the heir of this wisdom” (Baal HaSulam “A Handmaid Who Is Heir to Her Mistress“).
Mistress means the desire to reveal the Creator and the handmaid is external aspirations.
The problem is that now the external part of the knowledge of nature prevails in the world. That is completely wrong because it turns all the devices and governance of the world upside down. It turns out that people do not want to perceive the inner part of nature, study it, and master it. That is how all sorts of other teachings appear.
Even though, initially the handmaid’s aspirations were intended to single out the mistress, it turned out that she seized the place of the mistress and rules instead of her and hides behind something else, which is lighter, more pleasant, and more understandable. Therefore, people do not want to do the hard work of revealing the Creator.
Question: If we are talking about a ten, how can we determine that the handmaid has taken or is beginning to take the place of the mistress?
Answer: This is a very serious issue. In principle, it all depends on how a person feels and what he is drawn to—either to reveal all sorts of secrets of the universe or to follow the recommendations of the Creator. That is the difference.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Handmaid Who Is Heir to Her Mistress“
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“The four phases in the desire are the four letters HaVaYaH, which are KHB TM (Keter, Hochma, Bina, Tifferet, Malchut)” (Baal HaSulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES). Vol. 1. Part 1. “Inner Observation”).
Question: How do Kabbalists attain HaVaYaH? Do they attain it as something whole, including all the elements, or in parts?
Answer: HaVaYaH is a system that starts from the Creator and ends in the depths of creation. Kabbalists attain it as something complete.
We study the desire that changes under the influence of the Creator. In other words, we learn how the Creator influences the desire until He brings it to the best state.
Attainment of HaVaYaH begins with the Kabbalist dissolving into it, if I may say. He understands that everything in him is created by the Creator or received from the Creator, and there is nothing from himself.
Question: If so, how does he reveal the entire structure of the development of the desire, from the Creator to the creation?
Answer: The Creator shows him how opposite to the upper light he was created, and in these two opposites, he attains the entire creation. The Creator does not need darkness and light, but man needs them to pass through all the intermediate phases between him and the Creator. That is how his spiritual development occurs.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/11/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)”
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Question: Every desire revealed in us is preceded by four discernments of the direct light. How can we reveal this to see the Creator’s actions behind all our desires?
Answer: Only in our connection with each other can we reveal the system of unity, along which the light passes through all our friends onto each of us.
The light must pass through them, reveal itself in each of them, and then you, who are at the last degree, will also be able to reveal it. Friends stand above you because they are higher than you, and they are the degrees by which the light descends to you, from above to below.
Question: How do we connect with them in order to rise from below?
Answer: You have to help them, add your desires to them, your Hisaron, your pressure. And then, by this, you will push them up, rise with them, and receive the light you evoke in them.
This system is the ten Sefirot in which each of us works from Malchut to Keter, where Keter is the Creator and the intermediate degrees between Keter and Malchut are all your friends.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot, (TES)”
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Before the shattering, one system of Adam HaRishon existed in the universe.
This organism was in complete harmony with the Creator with a positive desire to bestow, to nourish, to love.
However, in order to create something opposite and create our world out of opposites, the system underwent a shattering, which is called the sin of Adam.
More precisely, it was not the desires themselves that were shattered, but specifically the connections, that is, intentions. Thus, the entire nature turned out to be completely broken into the smallest parts, which then began to reassemble but no longer according to the law of mutual bestowal, attraction, and love, but on the contrary, on mutually beneficial terms. This is how the egoistic nature of our world was created.
In other words, the breaking of altruistic connections between all forces caused the emergence of egoistic connections. All of this, as Kabbalah describes, happened before the Big Bang in the world of forces. And then, through the gradual coarsening of these forces, our earthly nature and we emerged.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 10/10/23
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Question: In the primary sources it is written that the Creator Himself, the upper force, is waging war with the evil inclination, with evil forces. So, it is said that He is a warrior. How should I understand this? Whose side is the Creator on when there are two fighting sides and each prays from the heart for victory? Who is the Creator with?
Answer: The Creator is with no one. He is completely uninvolved in these problems, although He initiates them. The thing is that His task is to call humanity to understand its nature and do everything to correct it. Therefore, a person must recognize himself as an absolute egoist and, based on that, find the key to self-correction.
Question: Let’s say there is a war going on, and both sides are praying for victory. How does the Creator, the upper force of nature, react to these prayers? It is said that the Creator feels everyone’s prayer that come from the heart. I am sure that from both sides, the prayer comes from the heart because everyone wants to win.
How can you, as a Kabbalist, determine who the Creator is with?
Answer: The Creator is with those who are closer to Him according to the criteria of goodness, unification, and the desire to help close ones, distant, strangers, everyone, no matter who. That is, we must study the properties of the Creator and try to understand them, and then accept and incorporate them into our environment.
Question: But if both nations are united and go against each other and each believes that they are fighting for freedom, for their people, for their families, then who is the Creator with? Is it possible to judge by the results; whoever wins, that is who the Creator is with?
Answer: No, it cannot be said that way either. We should just study the properties of the Creator, His laws, and see how close we are to them or not. Based on this, we will understand who the Creator is with and how He guides creation.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/29/23
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