We have gathered here to establish a society for all who wish to follow the path and method of Baal HaSulam, the way by which to climb the degrees of man and not remain as a beast (Rabash, Article No. 1, Part 1, 1984, Purpose of Society – 1).

From this article, we need to extract the key principles:

1. 1. What does it mean to gather?
   2. What is the method of Baal HaSulam?
   3. What is the degree of human?
   4. Was man created for pleasure or for awe before the Creator?
   5. The condition for achieving all of this is similarity of qualities with the Creator.
   6. The desire to receive is not bad in itself; it is the very material of creation. What is called the evil inclination (Yetzer Ra) is our unwillingness to unite, our refusal to correct the shattering of the soul into its parts—our individual souls.
   7. We do not destroy the egoistic desire, but only correct its intention from for myself to for others.
   8. That is, in the desire to receive, we are always opposite to the Creator; but in the intention to give, we connect to Him.
   9. Adhesion with the Creator is through similarity of qualities with Him. The intention to bestow is attained through work in the group. This is a task that is both achievable and verifiable. The collective desire to bestow that we build is the common soul, which the Creator fills.
   10. Every state we go through consists of two opposites, and as we advance the gap between them grows. I reveal:
       1. My increasing worthlessness
       2. The increasing greatness of the goal.

I must connect these into one point to feel the shattering between souls so deeply that it compels the upper light to correct me. Then bestowal will reign between me and others.

This is called the giving of the Torah—the light of correction.

And afterward, the giver of the Torah is also revealed within our corrected attitude toward others, within the collective spiritual vessel (Kli).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/16/2010, Writings of Rabash

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