If a person begins to imagine the system of bestowal as increasingly close and alive, one draws nearer to working in the group to disseminate this knowledge. One understands that this whole idea materializes here in one’s group, in one’s world. Here and now a person must carry out the corrections.

Then it becomes easier for the person to agree to enter into a covenant with the friends and to keep it. Everything depends on presenting spirituality as correctly as possible, that is, as the revelation of connections of bestowal between us, among all the inhabitants of this world. This network that connects us will become the reality of the upper worlds, the world of infinity.

Within it, we will reveal forces, and the still, vegetative, and animate levels of nature will no longer be so important to us. They will gradually disappear like the first nine Sefirot, the preliminary stages of the development of the light and the desire. Only the final stage will remain, Malchut, the forces contained in our mutual connection, in mutual guarantee.

This entire network of connections operating fully in bestowal is called the Creator. And then we reveal that “There is none else besides Him,” because this is the only thing that has ever existed, and we all become included in this network, included in the Creator.

However, the relation of man and the Creator is still very far from us. We attain it by building relationships between a person and his friends, that is, between man and man, by constructing a network of connections between us and entering into a covenant. We advance through such work where we must be connected with one another precisely in unpleasant, uncomfortable states. This gives us the opportunity to complement the connection with our own efforts.

It is said: “One should always sell the beams of his house,” meaning he must always be ready to leave his current degree, exit his state, and seek a higher degree. It is called higher because there one is more strongly connected with others, adds more of one’s own effort, and more devotedly adheres to the friends.

And in connection with them, a person finds how to connect to new forces and to reveal new systems within the general system of Malchut.

Malchut is the place where the force of bestowal is revealed, the desires of people whom this force of bestowal, that is, the Creator, connects.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/16/11, Rabash, “One Should Always Sell the Beams of His House”

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