The Creator created only one thing—something that does not exist in Him and can ostensibly exist outside of His essence.

This something is called creation; it is the desire to receive and be filled and is opposite to the Creator. This is our embryo called “Adam,” from the word “like the Creator” (Edomeh), which is similar to Him in that it comes from the Creator. It is opposite to Him in properties, but similar in expression.

Adam is the property of receiving that exists only as a bestower. The Creator created the desire to receive, but this desire manifests as completely annulled relative to the Creator—an embryo, a point of Bina in the upper light.

And then it divided into many parts and each particle of this property Bina became opposite to the Creator and the light that created it.

As the property of bestowal is divided, it is distanced from the Creator since many different properties that are similar to the Creator in their original form, begin to separate in their similarity and differ from each other. Everyone wants to give to the Creator as He wants to give to them, but everyone is different from the others.

It is how what is called the 600,000 basic parts arise since the system called Zeir Anpin consists of six parts each of which or all together are at the level of 10,000; this is the level of Keter of the world of Atzilut. Thus it is considered that there are 600,000 of them.

In Kabbalah, there is no concept of parts. Spirituality is not divided into parts, but differs from each other in its power. Therefore, when we say that the soul was divided into 600,000 parts, we do not mean quantitatively, but qualitatively, i.e., the level of that spiritual object that the Creator created at the level of “Keter of the world of Atzilut.” It is to this state that we must reach in our correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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You lack nothing but to go out to a field that the Lord has blessed, and collect all those flaccid organs that have drooped from your soul, and join them into a single body (Baal HaSulam, Letter 4).

When our collective soul shattered, it fell to the very bottom—the level of our world. When we are engaged in correction we do not look at male and female bodies, we mean the correction of people.

The inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature does not concern us in our spiritual work. We use it because we need to live, and this justifies its existence. But in the future, we will see on spiritual levels how everything that exists can be used—all atoms of the cosmos and everything created in the universe—because it all belongs to the collective soul.

For now, we must understand that our work in correcting the only desire created by the Creator is at the lowest, most primitive level where we initially found ourselves.

Therefore, we must unite to help each other attain increasingly higher states with greater qualitative and quantitative connection, mainly in the quality of our connections. This is the meaning of being at the lowest egoistic level, the level of the world we perceive.

As soon as we begin forming more complex structures from ourselves, interconnected by good forces, we will perceive, not the egoistic form of this world, but its more altruistic form, called the spiritual world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: Adam HaRishon had one program and the Creation had another. Are we starting to follow a third program?

Answer: No, there is only one program called the plan of creation (Machshevet haBriya), and it is constantly working. Depending on what level the souls (desires) are at, more or less broken, this program behaves one way or another. It is just like in a computer, there is nothing complicated here.

Question: Then why do we say that we are returning to the state of Adam? He did not have any egoism, did he?

Answer: There was, but it was hidden, which is why it shattered. Adam had everything. There is nothing new; there is only revealing data.

Question: Will we still have this egoism after the final correction (Gmar Tikun)?

Answer: Billions and billions of times more. Otherwise, how will we achieve a vast corrected state without a huge ego?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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In order to create a relationship between us, which is called the spiritual world, we need support. Therefore, Kabbalists say that since one person alone is insufficient in the entire scope of the universe, 600,000 souls were created, i.e., the main vessel (Kli) in a shattered state.

Subsequently, this main vessel further divided into millions, even billions of particles.

As egoism manifests more and more, the number of these particles increases so that each one, like an individual atom, can correct itself and connect with other particles based on correction, on the basis of the qualities of bestowal.

Initially, these particles were connected to each other by the Creator’s force in the quality of His bestowal. Then this quality of the Creator disappeared, ascended. Now, we must begin to once again attract the upper light into the connections between us so that it reassembles us into the structure called “Adam.”

Thus, as stated in Baal HaSulam’s Letter 4: You lack nothing but to go out to a field that the Lord has blessed, and collect all those flaccid organs that have drooped from your soul, and join them into a single body – into a single desire. This is what we must engage in. This is our only task. We should have nothing else before our eyes.

In this world, I act automatically: I work, take care of my body, my family, and everything else. But why do I do all this while living as if in a dream? It is in order to connect with other souls and reveal the Creator to the extent of our connection. The Creator manifests as the light that connects the separate shattered parts.

If this is so, then it is natural that the Kabbalists, who began to attain these states individually, immediately realized that this must be done together, formed a group in which people mutually help each other and create such combinations of desires and aspirations that helps their connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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All of the souls extend from the soul of Adam HaRishon, for after he sinned in the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, his soul divided into 600,000 souls.

This means that the one light that Adam HaRishon had, which The Zohar called Zihara Ila’a [upper brightness], which he had in the Garden of Eden at once, spreads into numerous pieces (Rabash, Article 10 (1984) “To What Degree One must Attain In Order To Not Reincarnate”).

The Creator created a desire opposite Himself, seemingly separated from Him. The Creator is the attribute of bestowal. Desire is a property of reception. But in the state in which it was created, desire does not experience opposition to the Creator. Therefore, it undergoes division into 600,000 parts.

Six hundred thousand is a conditional concept. In spirituality, there is no division into parts or stages. We divide it this way for ourselves to grade, label, weigh, and determine spiritual states. In reality, spirituality is a continuous field without any distinctions.

Only when we try to feel and understand it and we need to somehow grasp it in our feelings and thoughts, do we divide it relative to ourselves into gradations and facets, although it is indivisible.

For example, consider air. Suppose we are trying to define what air is; we must divide it relative to ourselves into some quantities, values, and qualities. By itself, it may not have them at all, but otherwise, we cannot grasp or define it.

Therefore, for us to comprehend the Creator, He specifically created within Himself the desire to bestow and give pleasure. However, He does not represent the desire to bestow, to fill, a good or evil desire—all these manifest only in relation to the creations.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: How can I understand that a soul has clothed itself in me?

Answer: Your current desire to understand why you exist is called the soul. You live to fulfill this desire and satisfy it.

Question: With the concept of “600,000 souls,” the number does not reflect the number of people or bodies, right? Is it a qualitative level related to the position of each spark relative to the worlds?

Answer: No, it is not. Each person carries a piece of the collective soul. Therefore, it is said that the collective soul is divided into parts, each of which is within us, and this is how we correct them.

Question: How should one work on oneself to avoid succumbing to the temptation of receiving for oneself? How can one feel this temptation?

Answer: This is a long process of correction. One must study and engage in this. It is a spiritual training mainly described in Rabash’s articles.

Question: Will moving to Israel affect spiritual advancement?

Answer: Undoubtedly.

Question: Why does spirituality not divide and separate into parts?

Answer: There are no different intentions and actions there because it is whole. Everything is aimed only at integration, to become similar to the Creator. Just as He is one, so must we be one single whole in our souls.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/19/20, “Connecting into One Soul”

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Adhering to the Creator is a task that must be achieved by each of us in this world. That is why we are gathering together. After all, if we existed as one person, like as our prototype Adam, we would not be able to achieve anything.

The fact is, our feelings come from egoistic qualities. But if we are in a state where we feel something outside of ourselves, then we can begin to work on ourselves.

Therefore, one person is not enough in the world, but several people are needed, at least ten. If we mean that we must attain complete union with the Creator, then it is possible only through ten stages, as we study from the four stages of direct light.

In other words, the originally created egoistic desire had to be divided into many parts. Depending on how much this desire develops and becomes more and more opposite to the Creator, we are divided into more and more particles, that is, people, each of whom carries an egoistic element that can be corrected.

If only a few people were not separated by egoism, this collective object would not be able to correct itself. Therefore, we are divided into structures such as individual atoms so that any combinations can be created from them.

That is similar to various chemical elements of which there are not so many, only slightly more than a hundred, and the multitude of compounds they create between them. The result is life in its endless, eternal, perfect movement.

The molecules of inanimate elements are connections of atoms. When molecules combine, they can produce something, generate something from themselves, and make their own copies.

From what the Creator created, we see that everything must break apart and fall to the lowest level and then assemble into atoms, atoms into molecules, then more complex structures in which life, reproduction, division, and so on appear.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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There must be many separate people in the world, each of whom carries an elementary piece of common egoism. We are the consequences of our previous changes. As Baal HaSulam writes, there are no new souls in our world that are just beginning their development from the most elementary states.

Each of us carries very important information, and without it, there will be no complete correction, no perfect states of the soul—the creation. Everyone should understand their responsibility for the opportunity to advance the whole creation to the Creator by their own efforts, because without him it is unattainable.

Each person is not just a small particle striving toward the Creator and advancing the collective soul by a tiny millimeter, no! In spirituality, this is a much more complex and comprehensive movement. When a person works on uniting with others, they completely become that single soul created by the Creator.

Spirituality does not divide into parts, does not dissolve, and does not multiply. It gradually reveals itself to a person as an eternal, perfect, and unified state. Everything happens only to the extent that our perceptions are corrected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: Are the souls that are here today the same souls from past generations or are they, as it were, new awakenings?

Answer: A soul is a desire aimed at attaining the quality of bestowal, at connecting with others. Each time it is new because it goes through all sorts of changes. So it cannot be said that it is the same soul as before. There is no such thing.

You can rise to the same level that Abraham was on, and then you will literally feel everything that he felt as if you dwell in him. It is not the same soul, but what is called Ibur Neshamot—the impregnation of souls.

Question: When people awaken spiritually, must they necessarily have a Reshimo from a previous state, or is it a new awakening?

Answer: There is nothing new. The Creator created one unified soul called Adam from the word “Domeh (similar), that is, similar to the Creator. Then it shattered into many parts, each of which is a private soul that is in each of us and in general in all people in all generations.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/20, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

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Comment: There are different souls, i.e., those who are awakened by the Creator and there are those who must awaken through us. It seems like this group coincides with those who came to Abraham in Ancient Babylon and became the people of Israel.

My Response: You do not need to elaborate on this because you will not understand anything anyway since you do not attain these souls at the level at which they were. It is useless to assume anything. You will only confuse yourself with incorrect conclusions.

It has nothing to do with those souls. They have done their job and continue their correction at other levels. After all, souls are at all levels of the spiritual world and our world. There are only those who have never been subject to correction.

Once we were all in the common soul of Adam, then we fell to the level of our world, and today we begin our ascent. We should not be confused with the souls of Abraham’s time or others. Someday, you will reveal this in practice, not based on your imagination.

When receiving an awakening from above, you need to know what to do with it: unite with each other, attract the upper light, etc. The closer you become to each other, the more actively you will realize your new properties.

In these properties, you will attain new states up to those upper ones in which the souls used to be or are now, for example, Abraham, Terah, and others. These are high levels.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/20, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

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