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Posted on June 26th, 2025
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Why do you need corporeal life if you are below the level of intention? To reach this level by your free choice! Therefore, before attaining the correct intentions, you must be in a state where you have nothing in common with them.
At the same time, you must have some sense of existence, and with this sense, you gradually come to understand intentions and enter what is called the spiritual world, that is, into the development of intention, and continue to engage with it.
You are the one who does this. That is why there must be a certain preliminary reality, called “this world,” from which you begin your independent movement.
But once you’ve acquired this tool having the Rosh, Toch, and Sof of a Partzuf, you continue onward with them, and you no longer need this world. Can any physical actions here still help you? Regardless of whether they can or not, the existence of this world does not interfere with your living in intention, in the spiritual world.
Even now, you can sit here with everything you possess and, at the same time, be in Atzilut with a fully functioning Partzuf. And conversely, you could be only there, without your physical body.
That already depends on your role in relation to all other souls: How much you must be in contact with them, what your function is with respect to them, and whether you must remain in a physical body.
If you must, then even if you yourself no longer need to reincarnate, you will still do so. These are different kinds of calculations.
This is what happens with great Kabbalists. You see, one and the same soul from Adam, through Abraham, Moses, Rabbi Shimon, the Ari, and Baal HaSulam keeps reincarnating. Does it need that for itself?
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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The wisdom of Kabbalah differs from simple popular blind faith in that it speaks about the work during descents, distancing, and rejections from the Creator through all kinds of events in our life.
We may be ready to say, “There is none else besides the Creator.” After all, it sounds correct and good that there is only one force that creates everything and governs everything. But we forget this the moment we feel rejection from that force when we receive various problems that seem unfair.
Moreover, it turns out that these are all pre-planned for each of us by the Creator from the very beginning of creation, as everything has already been predetermined until the end of correction. That is why our whole life is a movie, to which we must add “620 times more” through our own efforts and specifically during times of distancing.
The main work happens during a descent. The Creator makes the path heavier for us by sending various troubles, problems, and concealments, and placing obstacles in front of us. But we know how to overcome all this, and it is not by heroically jumping over all the obstacles.
True overcoming lies in attributing all the obstacles and the heaviness of the heart to the Creator, and not asking for them to be removed. The obstacles are actually the degrees by which we must ascend.
Each time the desire to receive pleasure grows, a problem arises as an invitation from the Creator to rise and affirm His oneness on a higher degree. That is why we live from problem to problem, from disappointment to disappointment, from fear to awe. But it is precisely in this that we must see the Creator’s grace because He does not leave us, but pushes us forward.
This is how it happens with the whole nation of Israel as a collective, and with each individual person who is advancing toward their final corrected state. It is precisely during descents that we have the opportunity to ask the Creator for help. It turns out that the descents are those states in which the Creator invites a person to draw closer, and precisely through overcoming the confusion and disturbances meant to separate us from Him.
If, despite all the obstacles, we declare that they come from the Creator in order to make us ask Him for help to rise above them toward greater adhesion, then the obstacles become a means of connection, the very glue with which we adhere to the Creator.
It turns out the obstacles were actually helpful in leading to a request, in response to which a person receives from the Creator the force of bestowal, of faith above reason, above the disturbances. And this is how he advances.
Therefore, our work is in rejoicing over the disturbances as opportunities to ask the Creator to draw closer to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/19, “There Is None Else Besides Him”
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If a person relates to creation as the Creator does, it means they build the same attitude as Him and enter the same state as Him. If they shape the same desire, and the Creator’s only desire is to give, then they reach His level, His state.
One could say, to achieve something, it must be important to me; otherwise, I will have to wait for blows. The blows will come, I will change, and in the end, I will still feel that I should strive for something where there are no blows, only pleasure.
So maybe I shouldn’t wait for blows to decide to move toward my goal. Instead, I should elevate its importance now. At this moment, it seems reasonable to not pay too much for it; it doesn’t seem that significant to me. However, I know that if I wait, I will pay three times as much. That is, even now, I should recognize its full importance.
How can I increase the importance of my goal? For this, I turn to a group, which is a kind of advertising agency that provides me with “brainwashing,” and explains why it is vital to me and why I should invest now and achieve it because later it will cost more, later there will be suffering.
Thus, advertising replaces the blows that would have made me realize the importance of “escaping” toward this goal, and brings me an awareness of its significance right now. Therefore, I need the group to supply me with the same energy and the same sense of necessity to achieve the goal, just as the blows would.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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Question: How can Kabbalah be perceived as a science without experience and proof? A theory is fine, there are many theories, but how will this be perceived by a person?
Answer: It is clear that we present Kabbalah as a theory. And this theory is dual. First, it is a theory because in our feelings, in our proofs, there is no level where you could demonstrate some clear events that no one would be able to refute.
So, on one hand it is a theory because you construct your perception of what happens in our world based on a cause that is invisible to the eye, solely according to your own logic, according to the accumulations gained from your previous experiences. This is one theory.
And the second theory lies in the fact that even if you have built and attained it, you prove it through your own conviction, not with facts. You cannot reveal the Creator to everyone and say: “Here is who is responsible, here is who is doing all of this!” So it still remains at the level of logical, theoretical, abstract proofs.
And why is this theory dual, a theory within a theory? Because you will never be able to demonstrate it to everyone “on demand.” “Let’s do this, and everything will happen!” It’s like taking a staff, striking it against a rock, and water starts flowing. That won’t happen!
We need to be prepared for the fact that what is supposed to happen does not happen immediately, and even though we’ve taken this theory as a means, as a tool, to change our state in the world, it has never had proofs in nature.
That is, there has never been a case where we conducted a certain specific experiment and obtained certain positive results like with how a medicine is discovered for a disease where experiments are conducted, results are published to the whole world, the world agrees, and the developers get permission to distribute the medicine.
In our case, it is hard to say that it will happen this way because then all of humanity would progress not in a form leading to adhesion with the Creator, but in the opposite form.
Here we begin to understand why the Creator sends suffering, and why it is not in vain that it is written that “suffering softens the body.” This means people will be more prepared to accept our idea. Instead of study, instead of group work, suffering will give them the degree of purification necessary for them to agree with us. It will be agreement through force, agreement from pain, but they will have no choice.
Questions arise: Why must humanity go through blows? Why not reveal all this in nature? Because discoveries in nature, too, you make through suffering, through blows, through investing effort and resources.
In other words, everything we attain, we attain “in sorrow”; otherwise, you do not advance toward adhesion. It is impossible to advance toward adhesion other than against the will to receive.
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From the 1st part from the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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While studying in Abraham’s group, his like-minded companions and their descendants received both Aviut (the coarseness of desire) through the Egyptian exile, and Zakut (purity) through the suffering they endured as a result of possessing such Aviut.
It was difficult for them to remain in adhesion with the Creator while in Egypt as they perceived various external forces ruling over them, and it was hard to relate these forces back to the Creator. This is what is called “exile”, and they built the splendid cities of Pithom and Raamses for Pharaoh, and miserable cities for themselves.
Aviut increases, and as a result, it seems as though the desire to receive brings a person good things, while the desire to bestow brings harmful ones. A person is unable to connect the two and relate them to a single desire, a single force, a single thought.
This continued until, within that group, which by then had grown into a nation, different kinds of Aviut and types of soul began to appear: Moses, Aharon, Kohanim (the priests), Levites, and the people. In addition, there was also the “mixed multitude”(Erev Rav) that had intermingled with them—”a great mixture of nations”.
And yet, due to the increasing number of blows that their desire to receive had undergone, each individual began to feel that they could escape Pharaoh’s rule only with the tiny point left within them, called “Moses.” And they began trying to flee from the power of Pharaoh.
They began to sense the possibility of escaping the thoughts called “Pharaoh,” the “Egyptian nation” within them. Then they reached a state in which they could unify all these forces into one called “Moses,” and attach it to the Creator, to adhere to the very idea that “There is none else besides Him”, and “He and His Name are one.”
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From the 1st part from the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #17 “What Does It Mean that the Sitra Achra Is Called ‘Malchut without a Crown?'” (10.10.21)
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 32, 32 (6.5.2006)
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