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Get Information Out Into the World

961.2Question: Is it important that you give out some new pieces of information every day?

Answer: Yes, my teacher, Rabash, often spoke to me about this. He would look at me with a detached, unfocused gaze, and just talk and talk because he needed to speak out to someone.

Speak out! So that this information would remain hanging in the air, passed through someone (whether understood or not, it didn’t matter), enter the world, and exist within it. Later, people will be drawn to it, discover it, and it will be easier for them to reveal it.

Question: So is it essential to verbalize this information?

Answer: Verbalizing means a great deal. That is why we are called “speaking beings” (Medaber). This is our level; it is what distinguishes us from animals.

Comment: But we are talking about this on a physical level.

My Response: It does not matter. You express information from within yourself. Speaking means building semantic blocks within.

Question: What if someone simply talks to themselves? Does the information have to pass through someone else?

Answer: Preferably it is through someone else. For example, for Baal HaSulam transmitting information through others was not enough; he would write and then burn material. It did not matter anymore because the information had already entered the world, resonated, fulfilled its role, and from then on, the world continued to exist with it.

Spiritual information is not physical. It is not something you need to receive, compress, package, extract, or process. No, it operates on entirely different carriers.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Spiritual Information” 4/17/10

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How You Come to Adhesion with the Creator?

935Question: Baal HaSulam was in adhesion with the Creator. How can we reach such unity with the Creator in our neighbor?

Answer: That is not simple. You have to be connected with each other, and from your common connection you have to plea the Creator so He will tie you together even more strongly and will include you in Him. We cannot ask for more, and we do not even need more. As it is said: “In Him my heart will delight.”

Question: Rabash writes that Baal HaSulam made it so that an ordinary person could achieve Dvekut [adhesion] with the Creator when before only great disciples could do so.

Can we now improve our methodology so that every person could achieve adhesion with the Creator like a real sage?

Answer: If we achieve what we are supposed to achieve, then we will understand how we can help everyone. This will be the result of our spiritual work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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Find a Common Connection

938.04Question: Baal HaSulam is not just a high soul but a great Kabbalist. What do you think  the future we must realize according to his works is?

Answer: We must find a common connection between us called our collective soul. We need to find the connection between this collective soul and the Creator and merge them.

Question: Should the articles written by Baal HaSulam about society be viewed as a guide to action, or is what is described supposed to unfold first as a result of our spiritual attainment?

Answer: It does not matter how you approach it. Under the influence of the upper light, everything will turn out as it should.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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A Soul That Descends Into Our World Once in Ten Generations

944Why is it said that a soul like Baal HaSulam descends into our world only once in ten generations? The fact is, this soul is incredibly great, and its attainment requires tremendous effort.

Therefore, it descends into the world only once every few generations when there are many souls ready to rise from one spiritual degree to another. Through their collective effort, they can reach the heights described by Baal HaSulam.

Through all our efforts in studying the wisdom of Kabbalah and our actions toward unity, we wish to include ourselves in his soul, and to the extent that we achieve this inclusion, we can touch, even slightly, his greatness. Everything depends on our desire to rise above our current state and reach greater unity, through which alone we can attain spirituality.

By reaching a certain level of attaining this degree, we must try to clothe ourselves in Baal HaSulam’s spiritual garment, which is exceptionally high, hoping that the Creator will have mercy on us and allow us to understand, feel, and somehow glimpse this state.

That does not depend on us alone, but on the desire of the upper to reveal itself within us and, through us, influence all of humanity. We must not forget this, so that together we can feel this immense responsibility and strive to bring the whole world closer to the Creator.

Our group is the result of the work of the great Kabbalists who lived before us, who have extended to us the end of the thread that connects us to the Creator. We must grasp this thread and use it to ascend.

Through our closeness to one another, through connection and mutual inclusion, we will be able to feel more elevated qualities and higher states, and in doing so, we will oblige the Creator to raise us up to Him. That is already near, and we hope we will succeed in achieving it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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The Whole Spiritual Heritage Is Before Us

961.2Question: How can we correctly build a chain of connection from our unity through you with Rabash, Baal HaSulam, and all the great Kabbalists?

Answer: Through prayer.

Question: Is the connection with the Creator and the connection with the great teachers throughout the generations the same?

Answer: No, first, there is connection with the great teachers and through them with the Creator.

Question: The generation of the ARI  before Baal HaSulam and Rabash is considered the last generation. Does that mean that we are not waiting for anyone else?

Answer: Actually, we do not have to wait for anyone. Everything the Kabbalists revealed in the past lies before us. We can use all this to rise together to the Creator and achieve the highest state through it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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Baal HaSulam Opened the Path to the Creator for Us

525Today we commemorate the memory of the great Kabbalist, Baal HaSulam. Rabash wrote about his father and teacher: “Baal HaSulam made it so that if an ordinary person follows his way, he can achieve Dvekut [adhesion] with the Creator just like a dedicated wise disciple.”

Over time it has become easier to fulfill this requirement of coming closer to the Creator, understanding and feeling Him, and establishing some contact with Him. In our days, every person must strive to attain adhesion with the Creator, and this is why we learn through the methodology of Baal HaSulam and Rabash how to achieve this.

Baal HaSulam brought about a tremendous change in the methodology of studying the wisdom of Kabbalah. Before Baal Shem Tov it was generally unclear how to advance in order to come closer to the Creator and establish a connection with Him. Thanks to the work of Baal Shem Tov, this methodology became clearer, but it was still not meant for ordinary people; it was only for great Torah scholars who had dedicated their entire lives to this. There were significant limitations on this path.

However, thanks to the work of Baal HaSulam, this goal became more achievable. Even a simple person, by learning from a wise Kabbalist, could now come closer to the revelation of the Creator.

That is, the strict condition that existed previously (of requiring one to study the entire Torah in order to proceed to the study of Kabbalah) that allowed only a select few to attain the revelation of the Creator and adhesion with Him is no longer in place.

After Baal Shem Tov this task became simpler and more accessible to a greater number of people. By virtue of their desire and aspiration, they could break through this barrier and through their prayer achieve contact with the Creator.

This simplification did not happen by chance but because the world is advancing and the entire nature of creation is revealed more and more. People evolve and are capable of understanding and grasping more. The desire to reveal and attain the Creator and to connect with Him is increasingly awakening in ordinary people who had not previously studied the Torah.

This awakened desire draws them to the study of Kabbalah, to reveal the Creator with its help. The only thing required of a person is to give their heart to this, to feel that their heart needs it. That is, a person simply needs a desire for revelation, as strong as possible, which draws them toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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All Secrets of Nature Are Hidden in Unity

937All secrets of nature are hidden in our unity—there is no other remedy for broken souls. Therefore, we use the method of Baal HaSulam in all stages: rising above egoism, joining into tens, and moving toward unification into one man with one heart.

Baal HaSulam expressed the whole science of Kabbalah in a new, rational, and very open form that it is difficult for the world to accept. He brought each person closer to his purpose. We only need to unite into one man with one heart and raise a prayer to Him from this unity so He will manifest in us.

On one hand it seems that time passes and all this cannot be done, but on the other hand, we see that generations are advancing to the extent that they can realize the conditions given by the spiritual environment.

In fact, this progress cannot be considered slow, as some complain. Apparently, we do not understand how huge, lavish, and simply infinite the whole universe is. At our stage, we want to perform actions immediately at the highest level. But until we achieve sufficient force of action and its required accuracy, we will remain on the path.

Only through connection with other people can we turn to the Creator correctly. The more connected I am to the friends on the path, the closer I am to the Creator. We need to enclose ourselves as much as possible within the boundaries of the ten, the Kabbalistic group, and inside it, we will find everything Baal HaSulam wanted to convey to us.

Every day we must try to raise the ten to an ever higher level. If everyone in the ten wants to do this and knows that their spiritual score depends on it, we will succeed.

I hope we will go through the holidays with full seriousness and begin to reveal what relates to our souls. Every day I see my students more and more collected, united, and in agreement with the steps the spiritual forces are taking us through. If we want to accelerate the ascent to the next degree, an attack is required from us through unification with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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Highest Spiritual Level

961.2Question: Is the level of Moses the highest spiritual level, or are there higher ones?

Answer: No, there are no higher levels. The level of Moses represents the ultimate annulment before everyone.

Question: Rabash said the same about Baal HaSulam, that the Shechina spoke through his throat.

Answer: No, that is not the highest degree.

It means that to the extent a person had a desire, they attained the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”

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For the First Time in History

259.02Open these books and you will find all the good orders that will appear and the end of days, and you will find within them the good lesson by which to arrange mundane matters today as well, for we can learn from the past and by this correct the future (Baal HaSulam, “The Last Generation”).

Question: You have always said that Kabbalah is not concerned with our world at all. It lifts a person into the upper world and describes spiritual states.

It turns out that Baal HaSulam was the first of the Kabbalists to write about the arrangement of our world?

Answer: Yes, before Baal HaSulam, almost none of the Kabbalists wrote on this topic. For the first time in history, he began to describe our world, the upper world, and the transition between worlds.

Question: Baal HaSulam writes that he is not one of the most outstanding representatives of the human race, and if he has opened these books and took some information from them, then in principle, any chosen ones of the generation, with a little effort, will be able to find in these books everything that is required to build a society.

Why does he write so modestly about himself?

Answer: The fact is that those who study Kabbalah see his achievements anyway. And what should he write to those who do not understand anything about it?

Question: And when he talks about the chosen ones of the generation, who is he talking about?

Answer: About the first persons of the generation, the sages. People who do not study Kabbalah will not be able to take information from these books and build a society of the future. After all, how would they know what to do?

This knowledge is not transferred from the boss to the performer. Those who will directly work with the world and organize it as humanity of the last generation should master the wisdom of Kabbalah and its techniques.

Question: Baal HaSulam emphasized that he takes the principles of building a future society so close to his heart that he can no longer restrain himself and he decided to reveal this wisdom.

He wrote these lines at the end of his life. Doesn’t everything written before that prove that he revealed Kabbalah to people? After all, he is the author of a huge number of books.

Answer: He meant that he had not yet revealed this kind of information to the world.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation“ 2/4/24

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198Baal HaSulam’s article “The Last Generation” is a unique article written in the 50s of the last century. He wrote it specifically to show the future from the past, a program for the spiritual development of humanity.

The article is intended for a generation that must choose what to exist for, where we are going, what attracts us. This is exactly what Baal HaSulam is interested in. He seeks to show how spiritual laws are manifested in all areas of our lives, and we must reach a state where we think together about the last generation that is now being formed.

Baal HaSulam was a great visionary and prophet. A prophet is a person who has a connection with the upper force, the Creator, with the system of the worlds, and at the same time with our world. Therefore, it can serve as a link between our world and the upper one.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 2/4/24

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