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Posted on January 1st, 2026
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The Creator makes us believe that we are not the only ones who feel ourselves from the inside, but that there are other people around us who perceive and evaluate us. This is an illusion, a deception! There is nothing outside, everything is only within me.
With these additional impressions, He expands our Kelim, builds our new level, and lifts us above the animal level to the level of “Adam” (“like the Creator”) in order to become like Him.
It seems to us that the Creator is outside and we are talking, interacting, and cooperating with someone outside of us. I imagine Him before me, and then bring Him in and merge with Him. Then there is nothing before me, He and I become one.
But for now, I imagine Him outside myself. This is a deceptive fantasy, but because of it, as I consider my Kelim to be “external,” I gain additional Aviut of desire, egoism (a desire in which I feel myself relative to others or others relative to myself), which helps me achieve the upper property and become like the Creator.
I just need to bring this image from the outside in, and I will merge with Him!
What happens after this final correction called Gmar Tikkun? Kabbalists say the end of our correction is only the beginning of a new state. Once I have corrected my desires, a new stage will begin. Let us wait and see.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 1/4/10, Baal HaSulam, Preface “Foreword to The Book of Zohar”
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Every soul is connected to the world of infinity by a chain, a ladder of spiritual degrees, with a gradual weakening of the lights and the Kelim (vessels). The moment I establish a connection with infinity, I awaken this system. In fact, it exists within me, and only seems to be external to me.
There are two in the universe: man and the Creator, and it is necessary to somehow give man the sensation that he exists outside the Creator so that I may understand what separation from Him is, opposition, distance, rapprochement, and adhesion with the Creator. Therefore, I was deliberately created in such a way that I perceive reality as divided into what is inside me and what is outside.
Then it becomes easier for me to understand what “I” and the Creator are, what breakage and connection, an unconscious state and concealment are, or conversely, what approaching Him and adhesion into one whole are.
The Creator throws out everything that I feel within myself, and it turns out that my perception is divided into two: the inner, which is everything that I receive, and the outer, what I give, but without the correct intention. Thus, the external world is my Kelim that are deliberately presented to me as alien and foreign so that I may understand what bestowal is. If I begin to relate to them as a part of myself, then I will understand how distant bestowal is from me and how opposite and undesirable it is!
Try to love your neighbor as yourself; it is not simple at all. I cannot. And this means that I cannot bestow, I cannot draw closer to the Creator. No wait, I do want the Creator! But how do you want Him? You must demonstrate it, and this is precisely the only correct way.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/4/10, Baal HaSulam, Preface “Foreword to The Book of Zohar”
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Question: How do direct and reflected lights combine?
Answer: When direct and reflected light meet, each Sefira of light enters all the Sefirot, in a way similar to the interference of waves, where many waves overlap one another. Due to this, we go deeper into the plan of creation, into the Creator, attain His original desire, from which this superimposition of waves and individual Sefirot emerged.
Going from the particular to the general, you delve into this upper generalization and attain His thought and intention regarding the creatures. Upon attaining His action, you become the same.
Direct and reflected light is your work in relation to others. The nine Sefirot of the direct light that reach your Malchut arise from your inclusion in the environment. Otherwise, you would not be able to reveal the direct light. You reveal it only if you are connected to the group.
You were able to connect with the environment and reveal the direct light in it by making a restriction on your desire.
First, you need to reach a state where you want to connect with your environment and discover the evil in yourself, the desire to use everyone. You pray for a good desire, and after much effort, you gain the force of restriction and neutralize your egoism toward others. After that, you ask for the power to bestow to others. You begin to discover a connection exists between you.
In the connection between you and others, you begin to reveal the direct light shining on you from there. Because your desire is restricted, the light can shine on you. It shines on you in the measure of this restriction, to the extent you can avoid egoistic pleasure from this connection, the warmth and love of others, and their participation.
In addition to this restriction, you must build a screen that determines how you will behave with your friends and how you will give to the Creator, to Keter, through them. This is how you develop the system of your response to the Creator, the system of reflected light.
Waves of direct light come to you from above, and the reflected light rises from below and overlays the direct light like overlapping waves, complementing it. Moreover, each wave gets its own special form, passing through a special opening, desire. It turns out that you, with all your desires, are included in all the properties and desires of everyone else. And when you eventually reach Keter, you create a small semblance of the Creator out of yourself. This is called reflected light. And there, in Keter, you and He merge.
But all this is initially expressed in connection with others; otherwise, you will not feel either direct light or create reflected light. We are unable to act in relation to the Creator. We act within a general broken desire, striving to unite with it, be included in it.
We have no other place to act except our broken desires, which are presented to us in the form of society. The Creator is an accumulation of all these desires, a hidden source that controls us. Our task is to respond to His governance and come to Him, then He will be revealed. That is, the whole job is to penetrate others’ desires.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/12, Baal HaSulam “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
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Question: What are “reflected light” and “direct light” in spiritual work?
Answer: Reflected light is the reciprocal relationship of creation to the Creator when it desires to become similar to Him. It is the action performed by the creation with the intention to resemble the actions of the Creator. Reflected light is the measure to which the creation becomes similar to the Creator, equal to Him. It is the clothing on the direct light, the vessel in which they merge with one another.
Reflected light is bestowal. It is what reveals the higher reality to the creation. To the extent a person develops their reflected light, they begin to see what else exists in the world besides their own egoism, that is, besides our imagined reality.
We perceive all of this in reflected light, as if in a unified sensory organ. Reflected light gives us the ability to see what lies outside of us. All our qualities become arranged according to their integral connection, according to bestowal to others. We begin assembling all our internal qualities into an image of bestowal and examining how best to connect them in order to attain it.
Reflected light expresses the result of my inner work. It is my attitude expressing love, bestowal, the desire to unite, yearning, and striving. And within that, I reveal the direct light, the attitude of the Creator toward me, and the reflected light is my attitude toward Him.
There is nothing but relationships. Do you think you will receive something material from the Creator? You will be filled with the very attitude you wish to bestow upon Him. Love becomes your fulfillment. What is revealed to us is only the sensation of the greatness of the Creator, and it gives complete fulfillment to the desire to receive. The light of NRNHY, the light of infinity, all of it is your own attitude toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/11/12, Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot
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