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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 41
What Are the Right and Left Lines in Relation to Developing Feelings?
The right and left lines are relative. In the preparation stage of our spiritual development we do not yet know the spiritual form of these lines. With a desire to receive for oneself and a desire to bestow, the latter is called the “right” and the former the “left,” and both divide into various forms.
Below the barrier, when everything is still Lo Lishma (not for the Creator’s sake), the right and left lines are determined by importance. Raising the importance of the Creator is called “right,” while raising the importance of what the body demands is called “left.”
When we cannot yet work with these lines, the main focus is scrutiny. Intellectual scrutiny is our entire work. If this scrutiny can be combined with feeling, we might achieve in one hour what others achieve in a week. This explains why reading and discussing Kabbalistic articles is so exhausting, as rapid work requires significant energy.
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Question: What kind of friend implements mutual guarantee in a good thought?
Answer: It is any of your male or female friends who can make a connection between you and the Creator.
A realized good thought for the sake of a friend is your realized wish for him.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/30/24, “Arvut on the Way to Lishma“
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Question: You were asked: “What miracle would you like to see?” And you answered: “That all the people of Israel would enter into a connection with the Creator.” Whom did you mean by the people of Israel?
Answer: All those who can unite into one heart are called the people of Israel regardless of who they are and what they are.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Unity Day 12/29/24, “Miracles Happen When We Unite”
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We have a group, a society, an atmosphere where thoughts circulate around us that all our progress comes from the revelation of greater and greater egoism. Therefore when egoism is revealed within us, we do not despair or fall, but rather joyfully embrace these revelations.
Here one can determine the state a person is in as they go through several stages.
The first stage is when a person is horrified by their negative qualities and seeks to run away from them, to turn away, to close their eyes and not feel them! Then they begin to accept these qualities as a given, as something that must be. After that they start to see them as necessary for their advancement.
Finally they come to feel them as a gift when the Creator reveals to them their true evil, the very evil He created within them.
At this point a person feels good about it because the Creator is working with them. The Creator awakens these negative traits within them, traits so vile that they are revolted by them. You feel worse than an animal, worse than anything imaginable. But this is exactly how it should be.
This is created by the Creator so that a person can, from this state, turn to Him and ask for correction. It is said: “I created the evil inclination, and I created the light for its correction.” And you exist in the middle, between these two qualities of darkness and light, and only ask for the evil to be revealed.
You then draw light onto this evil, and once again evil is revealed, and again you draw light. This is how you move forward—step by step, left-right, left-right.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”
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Question: You said that we should not allow evil to develop. Is this the work that needs to be done to go through the four stages of correction?
Answer: The four stages of correction will take place in you automatically, each time in a different form.
There is no way you can approach them with your mind because, at the time when evil is revealed, you are in your feelings, and all your thoughts disappear. No common sense will help you; your feelings take over. Therefore it all depends only on the environment in which you are.
Understand that as soon as we move from degree to degree and evil is revealed, we are controlled from above! The only thing that can help you is the environment that you create in advance so that it serves as a damper, a brake, that absorbs some vibrations and shocks and gives you help and support. This is the ten in which you work.
If there is no ten, your progress will be very limited, very shallow, and only partially successful. You will still move forward because you exist within the vast collective world Kli, but it will not be the same. So take this into account.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”
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Question: When I study and read sources myself, I do not understand anything at all. But now when you read them and we go through them together, they are perceived in a completely different way.
Answer: Of course. That is exactly why I am here. Without explanations you would not understand anything. Millions of people can read these sources and still understand nothing. Additionally, there is an internal, emotional, spiritual transmission from teacher to student.
However, your preliminary work with the sources is still beneficial because you familiarize yourself with them directly through your own feelings and perception.
Now you see how it can all be explained from the next degree. I explain things just one degree above where you currently are, no more, and I try not to overcomplicate it. On the contrary, I try to break it down for you and serve it like baby food on a spoon.
But even if you put in effort without understanding anything, that effort becomes the desire into which you later receive light, revelation, and understanding. So it is not in vain.
For example, before attending Rabash’s lessons, I used to read The Study of the Ten Sefirot and other sources. Questions would arise, and I would write them down and dig into them to develop some analytical ability that would allow me to absorb more from my teacher.
In other words, it is not about understanding, but being prepared to understand what the teacher will say. That you hear things differently from your teacher is a good thing. That is how it should be.
At the next degree, everything becomes simpler and simpler still. And the simplest of all is the simple upper light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”
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A person, having placed the Creator in his empty space, begins to attribute everything to Him. But he must elevate the Creator above all his sensations and awarenesses. By so doing, he places, as it were, the power of the Creator above himself.
It turns out that in every state, when he stops feeling that everything comes from the Creator, he renews His power in his perception, sensation, and thoughts—in everything. In this way he constantly corrects more and more of the new pictures of his life, until he fills everything that is manifested inside him as the world with its source, the Creator.
And the world is called Olam, from the words “elem ve ester,” that is, “hiding.” This is the veil in which we live and that hides the source, the Creator.
To the extent that I begin to relate everything that is happening to the Creator, I build a new system of perception of the universe, a new system of true reality.
That is, through all the images passing through me, I begin to perceive and feel contact only with the Creator. And all the other images of our world gradually disappear since they do not exist at all. Therefore the world is called neelam, disappearing, non-existent, because it is only an external picture that hides the Creator behind it.
In this way I gradually reveal Him. But this is realized in each of my states, when first of all I feel: “Oh! I completely forgot that all this is drawn to me by the Creator!” And secondly, the thought arises in me: “I forgot that the fact that I have just remembered about this has also been caused by the Creator.”
After all, what I think about this, what I perceive and feel in a certain way, how I react to the world itself created by the Creator, and to my idea of Him, all this is built inside me by Him.
Where do I remain then? In fact I do not exist except for my specific efforts to retain, not the picture of everything that is happening, but its source, the Creator Himself within myself, who is the cause of everything that is happening.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”
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Comment: On one side the Creator provokes us, but on the other side I have to trust Him. There is a contradiction here.
My Response: The entire system of spiritual advancement is built on nothing but contradictions. Otherwise we would be unable to sense our real state.
In our world we exist only in one state, in egoism. We perceive everything only in relation to this state. We do not have any other scale except for greater egoism – smaller egoism, more pleasure – less pleasure.
We still do not understand what it means to be in the property of bestowal and to create a new system of scale within myself.
This is why we have such a hard time with this method called “hidden.” No one hides it; we just do not have the matching senses for it, and we do not have any ability to grasp it or to comprehend it.
Therefore Kabbalah is called “hidden wisdom,” or “secret wisdom.” But this is not a secret where someone conceals something from you. You are the one who conceals it from yourself by your one-sided properties.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Is None Else Besides Him”
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Question: You said that I should see the ten as corrected. What is a corrected ten?
Answer: I must envision the ten as absolutely complete, united, and merged into one.
The state of the individual elements of this system is one of mutual completion and such interconnection that there is nothing separating them, only complementing one another.
Within each of us, there is nothing except our initial point, which is distinct from others. Everything else that forms around this point exists solely to allow us to integrate with one another.
Spiritually, we represent Malchut, a black point, while all the other nine Sefirot are not me but my relationships with others. This is how I should envision a corrected ten: a state of total interconnection within one another.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”
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