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It is said that the light of wisdom means the light of life. This is a feeling of power that fills our heart and mind and makes us more and more like the Creator.
Question: Why is it called wisdom as if it were some kind of knowledge?
Answer: This is really knowledge, knowledge of the general picture of the universe, of everything that happens to us. This is called wisdom, the light of Hochma. And at the same time it is the very energy of life.
The point is that wisdom is an internal part of knowledge. You can know many different details and laws, but wisdom is precisely that part of knowledge that helps us embrace the whole picture of the world, feel it, and see it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/27/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is He Will Give Wisdom Specifically to the Wise”
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The fourteenth commandment is to keep the Sabbath day, which is the day of rest from the entire deed of creation (Zohar for All, “The Commandments of the Torah,” 247).
Saturday is a special day of the week when we have no right to produce anything.
Therefore, there are many laws that state what work, production, rest, and so on mean.
We are talking about energy production, mechanical or other actions we should not perform on the Sabbath (Shabbat) because throughout the week we work on ourselves and on the Sabbath the Creator works on us.
By correcting egoism for a certain period, we reach a point where the remaining work can only be done by the Creator. As it is said, “The Creator will complete for me” because man cannot pull himself out of egoism.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 12/10/23
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The basic principles of working in a group are mutual inclusion and the abolition of egoism toward each other. You can reach this state through rapprochement with your friends in the ten and through the joint study of the Kabbalistic materials of Baal HaSulam and Rabash. This is a lot of work when friends get together, read articles, discuss them, and thus become closer.
Question: But our nature is egoism. Is a person capable of canceling it?
Answer: Yes. A person can gradually abolish egoism by studying according to the Kabbalistic method.
Question: Let’s say we are reading an article. What should I cancel?
Answer: While reading the article, you strive toward the spiritual state it describes, and therefore gradually get closer to the state. That is how we move forward.
Question: The point is that this is an example of mutual inclusion. I can understand it. We read together, I get involved in the text, and I join the author’s thoughts. What example can you give of self-cancellation?
Answer: Cancellation occurs as a result of the fact that we act against our nature for the sake of getting closer to our friends and to the Creator. Through the efforts, we gradually approach those spiritual properties that designate the Creator: connection, mutual assistance, love, and so on.
Question: Let us say that now we have decided to gather in a group to read an article, and I have other more important things to do with egoistic fillings, but I cancel them and do spiritual things. Can you say that in this way, I cancel myself?
Answer: Yes, this can also be considered an anullment.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 12/5/23
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The seventh commandment is to circumcise after eight days and remove the filth of the foreskin. (Zohar for All. “Introduction to The Book of Zohar“. The Seventh Commandment. #223)
This commandment has only an inner meaning. We define to ourselves what our egoism means, and as we develop, as it is written, on the “eighth day” we do “circumcision” to ourselves.
It means that we remove the egoistic inclination of our nature in which we were born and develop and leave for ourselves only the non-egoistic part of the desire, which helps us to develop spiritually, act correctly with each other, and leads us to love between us.
In other words, the commandment of circumcision is that when a person discovers some desires in himself that he cannot correct, he cuts them off and does not use them.
The eighth commandment is to love the proselyte who comes to be circumcised (Zohar for All. “Introduction to The Book of Zohar“. The Eighth Commandment. #228)
This means that we should help in every possible way those people who have not worked on themselves and have not tried to overcome the evil inclination (egoism) but have already developed a tendency to do so and attract them to us.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 12/10/23
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The sixth commandment is to engage in multiplication. Anyone who engages in multiplication causes that river, Yesod of ZA, to always be springing (Zohar for All, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” The Sixth Commandment, #219).
The inner force of creation aims at connecting all created beings and directing them correctly in development so that they confirm the wisdom and correctness of the Creator with their lives and actions.
The words “engage in multiplication” indicate that we agree with the Creator’s governance and wish to conform to Him in our actions in creation.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 12/10/23
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Question: Can we say that the external wars that are taking place in the world now are a consequence of the fact that we are not fighting enough internally with the so-called nations of the world?
Answer: Yes, that is right. Since we are not united internally, various problems arise in the world, and therefore, the whole world screams that Israel is to blame for everything.
Question: Is it really only prayer that can transfer these external wars into internal ones?
Answer: I think so, because we have already fought enough, and it did not help. Nothing in the world will help in any war.
We must come to the decision that help can come only if our hearts are united.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/21/23, Writing of Rabash “And It Shall Come to Pass When You Come to the Land that the Lord Your God Gives You”
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The third commandment of the Torah is “to know that there is a great and ruling God in the world,” which includes the entire universe.
At the heart of His attitude toward everything from micro to macro is that everything is filled only with love and care so that this world would exist in harmony with Him.
The instruction to know the Creator means not just to believe, but to feel within and around you that everything comes from the Creator and calls us to absolute love.
The fourth commandment says that the Creator is almighty. In other words, there is no other force except the Creator that governs the world and influences it in any way.
The fifth commandment calls everyone to engage in the Torah, i.e., to study the internal laws of the universe, accept them, and act according to them.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 12/10/23
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Question: In the article “Purpose of Society – 2,” Rabash writes that man is created as an egoist who cannot find the energy to perform any actions for the sake of others.
Where can one get the strength for this unnatural work?
Answer: In your environment.
Question: I would like to know what kind of environment are we talking about because a person’s life is in the family, work, and among friends.
Answer: No, he must create additional environment for himself, preferably ten friends, including himself. In this community, they must treat each other as Rabash, Baal HaSulam, and other Kabbalists recommend so that the connection between them will gradually lead them to a connection with the Creator.
That has nothing to do with work colleagues or family. There must be a connection between people who, in order to become one with the Creator, are ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of others.
Question: Why can’t this be achieved in the family? After all, there is already a connection based on economic relations and instinctive love.
Answer: The fact is that for spiritual work it is desirable to gather ten men or ten women according to an ideological principle, who would create special conditions for the revelation of the Creator between them.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 12/5/23
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