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There is no need to strive to correct the world, that is, to correct ourselves; we only need to study the actions that the upper light performs on us. As it was said by the Creator to Moses: “Let’s go to Pharaoh!”
Moses is small and scared; this quality in a person is very weak. And against him stands a huge monster—all of creation, the whole world, in whose hands is all the power, all the food, all the oxygen.
I get all this from Pharaoh, this is my whole reality! And some small property rises up against it, a tiny desire (who is he anyway?) that wants to escape and get out from under this power and start living in another world!
We hardly feel such an opportunity to rise up and get out of our egoism. We do not know where to go at all, where to escape from this Egyptian slavery!
But the Creator tells us: “Let’s go to Pharaoh”—together! And Moses, like a little child, takes the adult by the hand, and they walk together.
All that is needed from the human side is consent, a request, a demand, to the Creator for help. He does not have to fight the evil himself.
But people do not understand this and think they can do something themselves. He is a fool who thinks he is a hero.
This is where all religions and supposedly “spiritual” techniques stumble, because the left side (egoistic desires) is given to us precisely in order to adhere to the right; after all, this is the whole purpose.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/10, The Zohar “Shmini”
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Achieving unity with the Creator is only possible by emerging from exile. Exile is the feeling of being disconnected from the Creator, a lack of unity.
But how can I know what unity is in order to feel that I am not in it now, to yearn for it, to cry, and to desire nothing else but to leave this state?
After all, my current state does not seem so bad to me. I do feel a certain lack of fulfillment in life, but I cannot say that I suffer greatly because of it. This is not what we call exile.
Exile is the state opposite to unity; it is when I suffer only from its absence and feel this lack as unbearable pain, piercing me to my very core. But how can I reach such an acute need?
This is the same question Abraham asked: “How can I be sure that my descendants will inherit the land of Israel?” The word “land” (Eretz) means desire (Ratzon). So, how can I attain such a desire that will be entirely directed toward bestowal?
After all, all my desires are aimed at egoistic reception, and there is only one small point in my heart called “Abraham,” which is the beginning of a corrected desire from which a new approach is born, a question. And the Creator answers him: “Do not worry, I will send you into exile.”
And then Abraham is at peace, because he understands that no matter what happens, he will inevitably come to such suffering from the lack of unity with the Creator that from it he will inevitably reach unity. That is, a person realizes that he has no choice; he must find the desire, the need, for unity with the upper force.
For this, he has to fall under a foreign rule, one that is opposite to the Creator. This power will gradually reveal itself to him, step by step, as something completely unbearable. At first, it will even seem good to him, not burdensome at all, like a light cobweb.
He will enter Egypt and begin working for his egoism because a famine has begun in the land of Israel (in his desires for the Creator). Joseph descends into Egypt, and then the entire house of Jacob follows—meaning the whole person, with all his desires and intentions, both good and bad, sinks into his egoism and feels comfortable in it!
This is no longer just a minor ego but the complete opposite of unity with the Creator, of spirituality, of bestowal and love.
It all begins with the hatred that flared up among the brothers and the selling of Joseph into slavery. Thus, all of a person’s desires begin to develop within his egoism, and he does not yet feel that this is bad. He is doing well—these are the seven years of abundance.
Even if I feel that I am somehow opposite to the Creator and find myself in the egoistic Egypt, I do not feel bad there at all.
And so, we naturally develop until we begin to build the cities of Pithom and Raamses. For Pharaoh, for our egoism, these cities symbolize a good life. But for our point in the heart that starts to awaken, this life becomes bitter.
I feel that these are miserable and wretched cities. I have nothing in them, only emptiness. Even if I derive some pleasure from this life, I later bitterly regret it.
Thus, I come to cry out over my meaningless existence.
I see that I am trapped in a mindset where I try to measure everything with my intellect and egoistic feeling, that is, with the impure force (Klipa), consisting of knowledge (in the mind) and reception (in the body).
I feel how it is destroying me and constantly demanding confirmation from reason that I am winning, succeeding, not failing, progressing, and that I am always gaining something! Such is the demand of my egoism.
But on the other hand, I begin to realize that this egoistic approach is simply burying me in Egypt, and I do not want to remain there. This was not the purpose of my life.
And then I begin to search for a way to break free from the rule of this Pharaoh—knowledge and reception. I seek new concepts that are above this.
Gradually, I discover that there is a quality called Israel (Yashar-Kel, straight to the Creator), which is higher than knowledge and sensation in my desire for pleasure, higher than beneficial fulfillment and egoistic reasoning.
Above this there is another state, whose “head” is called faith and whose “body” is bestowal.
This is the soul, which differs from the egoistic body based on knowledge and reception.
Thus, as a result of my work, and precisely thanks to the Pharaoh who is being revealed to me, I begin to value and elevate the desires for bestowal above the desires for reception and to prefer faith over reason.
And as soon as I begin to work in this way, an even stronger rule of Pharaoh is revealed within me.
Previously, I did not know that he was such a cruel ruler from whom I needed to flee. Moses (within me) flees from Pharaoh to the land of Midian and must hide there for 40 years, meaning that in a person, the power of bestowal grows against Pharaoh.
It is still small, unable to overcome him, but the person already understands that he must somehow fight the egoism that brings him harm.
Here he realizes that he needs the help of the Creator, and the Egyptian plagues begin.
He feels how the blows strike the Pharaoh, and through them, his Moses becomes separated from him, preparing to lead the entire nation, all the desires.
Thus, the Creator’s promise is fulfilled: that the descendants of Abraham will be exiled in a foreign land, oppressed for 400 years and will emerge from there with great wealth.
This is the very desire that has grown in Egypt thanks to Pharaoh through all this struggle.
We do not take Pharaoh himself out of Egypt, but we take from him those desires for which we have fought, and we bring them out by faith above reason.
It is in these desires that we have felt exile (Galut)—and in them, we wish to experience redemption (Geula), the revelation of the Creator.
All our work in Egypt is to discern the difference between the magnificent cities built for Pharaoh and their misery for our desire to break free from him—to distinguish Pharaoh as the “help against you,” and the helper with whom you go to Pharaoh—that is, the Creator.
You see how they stand opposite each other while the person stands in between and asks the Creator to resolve each state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/11/11, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And They Built Arei Miskenot”
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Question: If the past does not exist, why do I see old buildings?
Answer: All of this exists within you. If you were not here, then none of it would exist.
Comment: If I tell someone: “This is all inside me. You are a part of me,” they will think I am crazy.
My Response: That is natural. Even if you explain that physicists or philosophers propose similar theories, they will still say the same thing. What Kabbalah speaks about closely resembles some philosophical or physical theories. There is nothing unusual about it.
Understand that there is no way around it. What “seems” to a person or not does not matter. There is reality, and that is what we are discussing. Our corporeal reality exists only relative to us. If our qualities change, reality will change as well.
Scientists already write that time exists as an objective reality only relative to us. There is nothing truly objective. Everything is relative to us. Physicists directly speak about time flowing forward, backward, in any direction, or not existing at all. If time does not exist, then what is left? That means nothing exists at all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Reality of Perception” 7/20/10
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Comment: Once when you were talking about bestowal you said that reception does not exist.
My Response: Yes, indeed, reception does not exist.
It exists only in our imagination, in our fantasy. Therefore, our entire world is imaginary, unreal, because there is no such force or property as “reception.” It manifests itself as if in a state of loss of consciousness.
In other words, to the extent that we are in a loss of awareness of true existence, to that extent we exist as if in a dream, in an unconscious state in which we imagine our life in reception, in accumulation.
It is only our clouded consciousness that represents everything to us in this way. It is as if you are asleep, and this world is depicted to you in your dream.
As it is said in the Psalms that when a person returns to connection with the Creator, he reveals that he was asleep.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Loss of Consciousness” 7/22/10
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