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Before and After the Shattering of Adam

264.01We must think about how to absorb the quality of bestowal and love, the quality of connection, in order to connect the general system Adam” into a single whole.

Initially, we were assembled in the system of Adam without egoism, and then it entered us. Therefore the Creator says: “I created evil, and I created light to correct it.” The creation of evil means that the entire system was shattered into tiny particles and egoism appeared between them, like water that flows into cracks in the land and divides it.

So what should I do? By correcting ourselves we do not destroy egoism, but in spite of it we create connections between us. Therefore our connections are 620 times stronger than before. After all, the system  of Adam before the shattering was very weak. It existed like a small animal or like a small child, in the state of Katnut (small state).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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The Creator is the Power of Correction and Fulfillment

264.01There were times when Kabbalists entered the spiritual world alone on their own. But that time has long passed. Starting with Abraham onward we see that a group has emerged.

All Kabbalistic laws and conditions for the development of the soul are built on “loving thy neighbor as thyself,” that is, on correcting egoism to the point of uniting with others into one common spiritual whole, one network.

The spiritual system called Adam (which means “similar to the Creator”) was broken on purpose. From its pieces we now must assemble, like a mosaic, the same system, only by ourselves, with our desires, our searches, to get closer to each other in order to unite. For this, we need the power of the Creator. This is our method.

Do you want to collect your soul? Then you need a force against your egoistic nature, which will glue you to others. Therefore, you must attract it. Thus, by collecting your soul, you are obliged to attract the Creator, and therefore you inevitably need Him.

It turns out that by collecting the fragments of the mosaic into a single whole, you come closer to the others, and then glue them together with the force of the Creator. The Creator is like glue, the force of correction. He fills the connecting parts together, because the circulation of His power becomes possible in them, the power of love, the power of light. This is how the manifestation of the Creator occurs. He acts as the power of correction and the power of fulfillment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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The Foundation of the Jewish Nation

767.2Any culture is the filling of a nation. Kabbalah is a very important part of the culture of Israelis as it is essentially the foundation of the Jewish people.

On what basis did this group emerge three and a half thousand years ago under the leadership of Abraham? The basis is the unification of completely different people—descendants from various nations whom Abraham gathered together, created a group from them, and called it “the people of Israel” because Israel means straight to the Creator, because this group is aimed precisely at attainment of the quality of bestowal, and connection.

In fact, the Jews are not a nation, but a collection of representatives of all the nations of ancient Babylon, a few from each nation. Therefore, we see how ready they are to distance themselves from one another.

They do not feel a biological connection between them. Only when an external danger arises do they involuntarily unite because for them that is common. If the world did not have a special attitude toward them, they would not think about uniting at all and would not even look at each other, because biologically they represent completely different roots. They are united only by the external hatred of those around them.

That is why if the Jews themselves do not want to unite, then hatred toward them arises among the nations of the world, and then they involuntarily draw closer to one another. But this unification is not for the correction of the world, but only for a certain correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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From an Imaginary Reality to the True One

935The world has entered a state where it is beginning to destabilize itself because it needs to ascend to the next degree. Its highest degree is called “Adam” (man) since all of nature is divided into four levels: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human.

We are approaching 6,000 years, the end of human history. We think that the Earth is spinning and will continue to spin. No, the Earth will not spin forever, because the world is merely our perception of ourselves and our surroundings. In and of itself, it does not exist. Without us, there is no world. This entire reality exists in our imagination.

We must understand that the time has come for us to transition from this reality to its next level, the spiritual one. That is, we must move from a world that exists based on the methodology of connecting egoistic forces to a world that exists according to the methodology of the quality of bestowal.

This transition is achieved only through the connection of people when we strive to come closer to one another and ask the Creator to give us the force of unity. But we must feel the need for it; that is, we need to create such a negative potential within the group, such a need for this force, that the Creator is truly revealed between us, and the force of unity begins to govern us. Then, through us, as the head of the Partzuf, this force will flow to all other parts of humanity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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The Altruistic Component

608.02Question: You said that knowledge is what we feel in egoism. Does this mean that faith is what we try to build above it, that is our soul?

Answer: Yes, knowledge is egoism and faith is altruism, the opposite quality when I act not for myself, but for another.

The Creator shattered egoism into many parts so that I could work either from my own egoistic part or for the sake of others. This becomes my altruistic component.

If the Creator had not broken the vessel, I would have no way to achieve the quality of bestowal. To whom would I bestow? Now, however, I am compelled to bestow to someone outside myself. This other person was once part of me. We were all together in one body before the shattering of Adam. Now they are outside of me, which is why I hate and reject them.

But if I work on them as though they were with me in one desire, in one body as a single whole, then I am acting altruistically.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Special States of the Soul

293.1Question: On one hand the light is constant; on the other the lights come on holidays and on Saturday (Shabbat). Does our perception change because of this?

Answer: The light changes only relative to people, but in reality it is unchanged. It is absolutely even and infinite, and fills everything, and all the usual sensations that unfold on the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh day (Shabbat) and further into holidays and special dates are special states of our soul.

They will exist until we completely correct it. As soon as we correct our common soul, everything will turn into one continuous light, into a single day.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Your Gear in the System of the Common Soul

929Each and every individual in society is like a wheel that is linked to several other wheels placed in a machine. This single wheel has no freedom of movement in and of itself but continues with the motion of the rest of the wheels in a certain direction to qualify the machine to perform its general function (Baal Sulam, “Peace in the World“).

However, we do not see this in our world, not in the entire universe or even in one tiny part of it. There is not a single part of the general machine that would work correctly anywhere, at any level.

Initially everything that was created was corrupted, but it is moving toward correction. In the end, everything will end in a general corrected state when all the cogs will spin together in one direction, with one purpose, without any conflict between them in complete mutual understanding.

How should a person act so as not to block this machine? After all, none of us know its laws and cannot see our future since this machine is infinite, and man’s influence on it is also infinite. It turns out that one can only be sure of the correctness of those actions that are directed at one’s immediate environment, that is, in relation to one’s friends.

Everyone needs to find out what the general function of the machine is, and how to move his or her part in order to correct the whole machine and make it work correctly.

This machine is a common soul; each of its gears is a separate private soul, and a ten is a separate connection of close souls. So how can a person influence this machine correctly?

There are parts in the machine that one must activate with the help of one’s mind, experience, and sensitivity; and there is also a duty to activate this machine on the level of faith, from a sense of duty in relation to some parts of the machine because this is the desire of the upper one.

This machine ultimately gives a person the knowledge of in what form he or she should connect with everyone in order to feel this machine as perfect. A person must make the right decision and achieve the right correction between all parts of the machine to feel oneself to be at the center of decision-making and to take responsibility for the final result.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Hitkalelut [Mingling/Inclusion]

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Ten Is a Spiritual Unit

963.7Question: We have groups and tens in our community. What should a group consist of? Are there any key elements that characterize it?

Answer: A group means several subgroups or tens. Ten is a minimal association, what is called a Minyan, there is nothing smaller than it in spirituality. This is the HaVaYaH, a unit, a cell.

Our current task is to reach a state where we unite into such a ten. Then we will represent a unit that exists in spirituality; until then, we do not exist.

When there are many such units gathered, they represent a spiritual body. But this is already a great achievement. If such a state manifests itself in our time, it will be a tremendous accomplishment.

And a final correction occurs when all the tens that should gather from the shattered soul of Adam unite together into a single spiritual body called Adam. Therefore, a group means at least a few tens united by a common aspiration.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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The Main Secret of the System of Creation

117Where do we begin to correct the collective soul if we do not know the overall function of this system, cannot see its gears, meaning the individual souls, and do not yet understand the role of our own “gear” in this mechanism?

We need to find the general formula, and we will be able to determine all the components from it.

Therefore, we are required to go through many states, and in each of them there will be some unknown. When we connect all these states, all the unknowns, into one system, we will be able to find the key parameter on which the entire result depends.

In other words, everything ultimately depends on the proper connection because this machine needs nothing else. If we can identify this key parameter—the main secret of the system—everyone will find peace and achieve total unity and harmony that will allow them to continue indefinitely.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, ““Hitkalelut” [Mingling/Inclusion]”

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The Symbolic Meaning of the Number of Souls

275Question: I feel some kind of mystery behind the number “600,000.” Is this feeling correct?

Answer: “600,000” is a purely symbolic marking of the number of souls that must unite to fully reveal the Shechina. Therefore, you should not cling to the number.

The main thing for us is to be together in mutual help and fulfillment of one another so that we can feel the entire Kli, the entire soul together. Then we will succeed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”

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