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Posted on March 17th, 2025
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Question: What are the conditions for receiving salvation from the Creator?
Answer: The very first condition is that you feel it. A person feels that he exists under the power of the Creator and he wants to liberate himself from that. And here a question arises “What for?” If it is just for no reason, then obviously this is wrong.
A person has to realize what forces hold him under the Creator, what he has to obtain in order to rise above this limitation, and how liberation from these limitations would impact him, his group, and his friends.
This is where his work on himself begins, he organizes himself in the new form by acquiring the properties of the Creator.
Question: You said that one has to realize what forces hold him under the Creator. What does this mean?
Answer: It means that all egoistic properties and their various expressions do not allow us to become liberated from the Creator, to distance ourselves from Him, and be spiritually independent.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 2/24/25, “Great is repentance, for it reaches unto the throne”
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Question: You said that the Creator is revealed in accordance with a desire of a person, when a person truly needs Him. But why does a person need the Creator?
Answer: We need the Creator in order to feel that our entire world is His creation and was created solely for the sake of man.
Question: How do we come to the point where this becomes an urgent necessity for us?
Answer: Through efforts, we must make efforts to appreciate the Creator and thus turn to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 3/7/24, Baal HaSulam, Shamati 8, “What Is the Difference between a Shade of Kedusha and a Shade of Sitra Achra?”
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Question: Going in faith above reason means going with eyes closed. How do we come to prefer going in this way in order to see the Creator?
Answer: If we continue going the way we have until today, we will never understand what is happening in our world. But if we begin to direct ourselves toward perceiving the world in faith above reason, we will correctly feel both our world and the Creator within it.
Question: Does each person have their own perception of reality?
Answer: Everyone has their own perception of reality, similar to how we perceive reality in our world. After all, we gather together, thousands of people, exchange thoughts and plans, and somehow understand each other. The same applies in the spiritual world.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 2/20/25, “Connecting to Lishma,” Lesson No.2
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Question: Souls are Kelim that receive lights from the worlds. How do we attain the worlds and their lights in the ten?
Answer: We attain them through our connection.
Question: Is our goal to become the world or the soul?
Answer: The soul. Meanwhile, the world is the feeling souls have of the state they feel among themselves.
To the extent we attain the soul, we also attain the relation of this soul to a higher level, to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/2/24, Wriitings of Baal HaSulam “The Matter of Spiritual Attainment”
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The explanation is in the association of the quality of judgment with the quality of mercy. When Malchut rose to the place of Bina, the degrees split into two halves—GE and AHP, or MI ELEH. …
This discernment is apparent primarily in Partzuf YESHSUT, in which there are only VAK of lights in GE of the vessels, for which reason it is called MI. Her AHP, which are the three letters ELEH, fell to the degree below it, to ZON. Also, ZON have only GE in lights of VAK, and their AHP fell to the degree below them, which are three worlds BYA (Zohar for All, Vol. 1, Introduction of The Book of Zohar “General Explanation for All Fourteen Commandments and How They Are Divided into the Seven Days of Creation,” #9).
The Zohar describes how the ladder of spiritual degrees is structured from top to bottom. Each subsequent degree is not located directly beneath the previous one. Part of the upper level enters the lower one in such a way that no degree has free space except for its middle point called the middle part of Tiferet.
From the upper third of Tiferet and above, each degree receives from the upper degree that is embedded in it. From the lower third of Tiferet and below, each level is inside the lower one. This is how the entire ladder of degrees is arranged.
The AHP of the upper degree is within the GE of the lower degree, and the AHP of the lower degree is within the GE of its lower degree, and so on. Inside each degree, there is a small layer—the middle third of Tiferet—which remains free from the influence of the upper and the need to give to the lower.
In the upper part of its GE, where the AHP of the upper degree is embedded, each Partzuf is under the force of the upper degree. In the lower part of its AHP, which has descended into the GE of the lower degree, each Partzuf is in service to the lower degree.
Thus, each Partzuf has only the middle third of Tiferet as its independent space where it decides with whom to align itself, with the upper or the lower, whether to ascend continuously or remain below.
This is how the ladder of degrees is structured from top to bottom, and we must use it correctly in order to ascend.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/2/11, Zohar for All ““General Explanation for All Fourteen Commandments and How They Are Divided into the Seven Days of Creation”
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I never chase famous or wealthy people. They are absolutely empty; there is nothing you can do with them. Nothing! They exist in a society in a kind of shell that deadens them.
They are forced to play their games, to act out their performances in life. These are unfortunate people who are already dead while still alive.
So why would I need them? What can I gain from them? You have to play along with them, say what they want to hear, flatter them. Then they will pay you. But in doing so, you stop being straightforward and honest with yourself, and directed toward the goal. That is why I cannot even imagine how a Kabbalist could be involved in such things.
Question: But you do have a few famous students?
Answer: Do I single them out? I put them below everyone else. What difference does it make if one is a famous composer and another is a well-known actor? He is famous to outsiders who scream with excitement and throw their hats in the air when they see him because he entertains them from the stage.
But I do not pay any attention to that; I do not value it. Just like I do not value the few lawyers and economists who study with me. What is the difference? Do they stand out because of their spiritual potential, their inner capabilities, and how they realize them? Now that is a different matter. But everything corporeal has no relation to Kabbalah.
Being fully committed to the goal, that is what I value in a person. That is what I thank the Creator for. I have nothing good in my character or qualities except for one thing: I do not let go of the goal. Of course, this was given to me from above; it is not my own merit. But it is the only thing I truly appreciate in myself. Not that I take pride in it, but I value it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. It is Better to be Empty than Full” 6/23/10
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