All of us know that the desire to receive is matter, and in other words, is the basis of the entire creation. Desire is all that the Light (the Creator) created. Therefore desire is called “something from nothing” for it didn’t exist before the Light created it. This is the only action, the act of creation.

In continuation, the desire to receive evolved from the zero phase to the fourth phase, and with the influence of the Light it began to feel its existence, that is, who it is and what it is. In this state it suddenly began to feel itself as receiver. If it just created me this way, this is one thing, and in addition, I also understand that I want to receive and enjoy the reception; this is something else already. Here we are talking about intention: The desire to receive revealed the intention within it, and it was the opposite of the intention of the Creator.

Therefore an immense gap was created between the intention of the desire that was created (an intention for the sake of receiving pleasure for itself) and the intention of the Creator that the desire feels (an intention to give pleasure to the creature, to fill it, to be concerned for it and so forth).

The feeling of the great gap, the feeling of concealment arouses in the desire to receive what is called, Tzimtzum Aleph – first restriction. In fact, this was the beginning of creation. With the influence of the existing conditions, the desire to receive begins to do something by itself. It begins to receive only in order to give pleasure to its Creator, meaning it tries to be like Him. And this resemblance to the Creator is the first world among the five worlds (because the desire to receive is comprised of five levels), the world of Adam Kadmon (AK),  which is Adam HaRishon (first man), the prototype of man.

This completes the first stage since the desire to receive cannot do anything further. In order to continue to realize itself, new actions are needed. The details of these actions are most interesting. From below the Tabur of the end of Galgalta ve Eynaim, a mixture of the desires is made, more precisely, this is a mixture of the intentions Lo Lishma and Lishma.

After this, Tzimtzum Bet, the second restriction, is made. It gives a push to the continuation of development that is so great, that at one time the desire to receive receives the Light within itself as if it is Lishma, and then it discovers that in spite of all this, it is not prepared to do this, it doesn’t have it within its power to keep the right intention, and it receives everything for itself. The state in which the egoistic fulfillment is revealed is called the shattering of the desire to receive.

And after this, within this shattered desire, new worlds appear, new systems are built. And all of these systems are already built in a state in which the desire to receive understands and is aware of what it is, who it is, and how it must construct a system in which it can be repaired, meaning, to move from the intention in order to receive to the intention in order to bestow.

All this takes place when nothing exists yet besides the two desires, the two opposite forces, in other words, even before our world is formed, before the Big Bang, before our universe, before everything. These two forces construct the entire system of control through which four worlds appear: Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya (ABYA). Thus the control system is created.

And after this, from that central point of the world of Infinity, Olam Ein Sof, (∞), which felt shame and therefore made a Tzimtzum, restriction, a unique inner Partzuf is formed, a very unique small inner system. This is called Adam and its goal is to absolutely resemble the Creator, to bring the entire desire to equivalence of form with Him. This system also passes through a shattering, a division into a multitude of parts that fall into our world.

What is this world? In it are the conditions with whose help the desire to receive can correct its intention. How does it do this? It does this in a form completely independent of the Creator. Otherwise this wouldn’t be an independent correction and the desire would not be independent. Therefore, after the five worlds: Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya, the descent through all 125 levels beginning from the world of Infinity and to our world here, under all the higher worlds, a unique level is formed.

This is unique in that here bodies exist, what we comprehend as bodies that are born, develop, grow old, and die. And in addition to this, these bodies are also divided into males and females.

A complete system is formed here of the action of forces, which in our state and consciousness are felt as bodies. In the spiritual worlds, only desires and intentions exist. And in our physical world, there are three factors: the body, desire, and intention. And for this reason, the bodies can reach different relationships between them, mutual approach and distancing. And this approach and distancing does not necessarily influence the desire and the intention.

The desires can be completely different, the intentions can be completely opposite, very bad, and simultaneously among the bodies there can be closeness. And we see this in our world. Politicians or people who hate each other gather, let’s say, “hiding a knife or a gun” behind their backs, smiling politely, shaking each other’s hands, talking and agreeing about things between them.

This is the uniqueness of our world; this is its advantage and its deficiency. Here, without correcting the desires and the intentions, it is possible to approach each other through the bodies. And if we don’t understand this condition, the uniqueness of our world, if we judge the inner closeness according to the outer closeness, then it’s clear that we lose.

An additional example is sexual attraction. In general, at a young age people don’t yet understand that this is a corporeal drive. And as a result, there are many problems.

People don’t understand that the main intimacy must be much more deep, internal, intentional, the purpose of life. When you cannot reach this goal without another person, then there will really be true intimacy.

Therefore in our world this image of “bodies” is formed, a true illusion. It’s divided into four levels: the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking nature.

And as is known to us from a part of Kabbalah called the perception of reality, all the bodies appear only in our internal imagination. The entire immense material world is felt as only external. However, in fact, it’s revealed this way only in our consciousness. Physicists, biologists, and psychologists have already spoken about it.

But on the other hand, this is the uniqueness of our world, and in general, the accomplishment of the entire process of evolution of creation, for it brings us to a state from which we can begin to come close at least corporeally.

Where does all this lead? Throughout history humanity has developed according to an interesting law, the law of the growing ego. If we are talking about simple nature, then also in it first the still level evolves after that the vegetative level, in continuation the animate level and only after that the human. However, these stages are temporary since the process reaches some stage and afterwards stops and doesn’t continue to evolve more. This is gradual evolution in stages.

All of us know what natural cataclysms happened during evolution on the surface of the earth. And after that, the human evolved from the ape. Kabbalah reveals to us why and how this happened. It’s clear that the Kabbalists wrote about this much before Darwin. This is talked about in The Book of Zohar, in the books of the Ari (the Kabbalist who lived in the 16^th century) and in introduction to “The Study of the Ten Sefirot” which is the commentary to The Book of Zohar by Baal HaSulam.

Human evolution is most interesting: Hundreds of thousands of years passed until in the 20^th century the most serious exponential evolutionary stage arrived. In the beginning of the 21^st century, we have reached a state of saturation: The ego stopped evolving and even began to decline a bit.

In other words, we have begun to understand that there is an end to the ego. We yearned all the time to reach the peak of our evolution; our ego grew and we thought that this growth could be infinite. Especially in the 20^th century the American dream of general happiness in a society of unlimited infinite consumption attracted us. It seemed that we could see and know everything, that we could enjoy everything, that all of us would be free and happy, that we would live hundreds of years and even more. Everything seemed like a rosy dream. We were sure that our children would live much better than us; that it would be possible to live both for our sake and for their sake, that is, we would be twice as happy.

After that, the ego grew to a state in which both for us there is no life and also for our children it will surely not be better. Already as of today, we are watching this and know. We are preparing a world for them that is bad, much worse than the present one.

This is felt in natural disasters and in everything that is happening in the world. Even the undeveloped nations have quickly reached some threshold and are beginning to fall.

And so our ego has led us to a dead end and we see that we have reached the “end of the line.” The Kabbalists indicated this point as 1995. This is the unique indicator that Baal HaSulam pointed out. In his opinion, from then on, humanity would become conscious of the end of its evolution and that our ego is not infinite.

It is about the end of the process that began with the Big Bang that was the beginning of our universe, supposedly 14 billion years ago. Beginning from the Big Bang until our time, all of this period, was a period of the evolution of the ego. And here it reaches its end.

Can you imagine what a unique time it is we are living in? As of today the ego is beginning to “fold up,” and we see this according to the cases of depression, the problems in the family (children, divorce), the social condition, the relationships between us, the advancement towards a new world war, and so forth. People see anew all the time the lack of perspective. The egoistic state, for its own sake, Lo Lishma, is outliving itself. We are not prepared to be detached from it, but it no longer seems to us as something absolute, certain, and unshakable. Thus, nature obligates us to change the old perception, our relationship towards the world, towards life, and towards ourselves.

Kabbalah talks about this, that precisely now, humanity has the opportunity to reach awareness of the end of its evolution and to think again about the goal of its existence: Do we really exist only for the sake of our bodies? Whether or not we truly comprehend our world only through our bodies, absorbing everything through the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching? Various kinds of waves influence us and we perceive them and see the world on some kind of inner screen.

But do we perceive everything? Do we exist in the right form? Through our ego, through concern for our bodies alone, are we not inserting ourselves into a psychological trap of information that contracts and destroys our attainments and emotions, our existence? In brief, come, let’s check again, are we right or not about our conservative egoistic approach?

This is the uniqueness of our time, the time of the discovery of the wisdom of Kabbalah as a means that makes it possible to discover within us the new feeling. It makes it possible not to be locked into our five “beastly” senses that die together with our bodies and to develop in us a new inner sense that doesn’t depend on our body. This is called the Neshama, soul. In principle, this is also a body but a spiritual one. We develop it very easily through a change in intention from “for myself” to “for another.” This helps us exit the limitations of ourselves and begin to feel what others feel. For if I feel everything within me, then my reality is called “our world,” and if I can feel everything in everyone in humanity, then I feel an upper world, only if I can enter into the feelings of the other and be outside of myself.

The sufferings that we feel in us are the true crisis. And this is a gigantic help so that we can go out of ourselves and begin to feel the world that exists outside of us.

And then a state arrives like this, that in principle, it doesn’t matter to me what I feel within me. It’s as if I am living within the other, and thus I pass from my limited, mortal “self” to the infinite, immortal “self.” This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah gives us.

And essentially it gives us much more. For death is linked to my “beastly” body and Ein Sof is linked to the soul.

In other words, I enter into a completely different area, into a new dimension within which I truly exist. And I begin to feel this world as imaginary, that it doesn’t really exist. This is because it exists only within my erroneous imagination, within my egoistic perception where I am centered only on myself.

And so our world is unique in that here we can come close with the help of bodies, even with different intentions. We can gather together in a circle with a number of friends, next to a roundtable and begin to connect with each other. And even though the connection between us is artificial, even if from the beginning we have no good intentions toward one another since from our nature we are egoists, yet there is a group, there is a roundtable, there is a “playground” in which all of us can join together and support one another in this connection, and between us there exists a circular Arvut, mutual responsibility. It is possible, for it’s up to us to reach a common goal. And we utilize all of the material opportunities, all that is in our hands. About this it is said, “Everything that is in your hands you should do.” We try to reach connection between us in which each one can exit himself and be a single whole.

For what is this imperative? It’s only in order to help one another. There is nothing more than this. Why does this single whole exist? Why did the shattering of the one desire into a multitude of desires happen? Only so that through this we would yearn for mutual help, meaning that each one could go out of himself for the other.

Thus we yearn for some kind of common whole, even though we don’t want this, but we try to act together with the help of the bodies. We gather in a group, we carry out various activities, arrange conventions, study, teach, and educate ourselves. We try to reach connection between us, a “raspberry ball.” And our impulse passes from one to another. We can support each other, awaken one another. We can magnify and enhance the connection between us psychologically.

And the first condition is in this, that the connection must exist according to the laws that were written for us by the Kabbalists. For this unity, the agreement must be like a Kli meaning the characteristic of maximal bestowal and love, as much as possible. The Kabbalistic articles that our teachers left for us direct us towards it. They wrote and recorded for us what the connection must be; they determined all of its conditions.

Therefore, the “agreement” between us must be like a Kli. And in general there is no need to invent the conditions for connection. By means of our distorted mind that pushes us egoistically wherever it will all the time, we invent only what is useful for our ego, but in no way or manner towards spirituality. We don’t understand what this spirituality is and therefore we need to listen to the sources. This is very important because there are a multitude of “sages” who begin to invent something themselves and it’s clear that after some time they fail. They are ready to destroy this life for us and we don’t succeed in attaining what we are seeking.

But there is also the second condition: It’s up to us to explore the upper world, in other words, what we must attain. And also our studies must be based upon the sources, on the books that were written by people who attained the upper world.

We aspire the upper world, and to the degree of our yearning to be closer to it, to the degree of the tension, we receive an influence from it called Ohr Makif (the Surrounding Light).

It illuminates everyone, it just illuminates, it is everywhere. But it will continue to illuminate us only to the degree that we yearn for it. When we want to approach it, then to that degree we awaken a stronger Light onto ourselves.

As with the Doppler Effect new internal characteristics appear in me specifically because I am found in a uniform field of equal voltage, but if I move in it, then a voltage is created in me like the electricity that is created in a wire under the influence of a magnetic field. This is the well known Law of Induction; everything that has free electrons in it can be used as a conduit as it moves within the electric field.

So we also move in a uniform field of Light, and to the degree that we yearn for it, meaning, try to move more rapidly, to reach, to attain, and to discover it, to that extent there arises in us “induction,” “induction currents” are formed in us. And they change us, our intentions, from Lo Lishma to Lishma. In the beginning we don’t understand how this happens, but gradually the phenomenon acts.

In this way, all of the development that is expected for us leads to connection. Therefore, there exist various drives like these in nature, like the attempts to connect nations, various corporations, professional organizations and large industries, international unions like the European Union and so forth.

But we don’t know how to connect. Therefore everything happens the opposite way. The Soviet Union also broke up because it could not unite everyone on a common spiritual basis, and Europe will also break up; what will be the result of this is not known. Also, the United States and, in general, all of the unions will begin to break up because all of them are built on mutual ego. Only if we begin to understand that it’s up to us to connect, then we will pass through this way, this transition from mutual distancing to mutual attraction, in a good, easy, and comfortable way. And for this the wisdom of Kabbalah was given to us. But if we cannot use it, then regrettably we will be pushed towards greater suffering, mutual hatred, with great losses for all of humanity into World War III and IV, and so on….

And so the unification of our world is in this, that specifically in it we can reshape our intentions from Lo Lishma to Lishma and do this completely independently without being dependent on the Creator, that is, to construct for ourselves equivalence of form to Him without being under His revealed influence. We are prepared to build a state between us that will be similar to spirituality and to awaken upon ourselves the Light that Reforms and advance in this way.

Therefore the solution is only in connection between us. Accordingly we have developed Integral Education first and foremost in order to continue to unite the world, and second, to elevate it to the Creator.

We are found in a unique situation, for we have received a unique awakening from above, and therefore it has brought us to connection (S), to Kabbalah, to study. And from this condition, we must be occupied with our dissemination.

In principle, the entire world today is in crisis and it depends only on us if it will understand what this crisis is and what its purpose is. In the end, we, as the chosen and unique part, must take this entire world and raise it together with us to the level of the Creator, to connect it to the Creator.

It is possible to do this within the shortest amount of time; everything depends only on us. I hope that we understand that the solution is in connection and that the right connection can exist only through us, and that we will seriously begin to be involved with the dissemination of integral education and learning.
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From the Moscow Virtual Convention “Unity Without Boundaries” Day Two 12/14/13, Lesson 2

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Advancement through the “acceleration of time” (Achishena) is possible only if you walk as a bent-over old man who is looking for something seemingly lost. Then, when you disclose evil, good is revealed immediately opposite to it because I previously sought flaws while in a good state.

Everything depends on the trend of advancement. If I see a set table before me, then I care about a good appetite to enjoy the refreshments, that is, I look for a deficiency.

If we get enough influence from the environment, then it’s not important what happens to us. These days we are seriously involved in clarification about what mutual guarantee is, and it is clear that in accordance with this we experience strong blows, common problems, but we overcome them quickly and easily. Everything depends on the trend.

This means that I will never be confident in my strength and I always need more mutual guarantee. It will never be enough. Indeed, at the moment, as I equip myself with some measure of mutual guarantee, I immediately become distant and various disturbances arise that I can transform in the middle line with the help of mutual guarantee, having turned them into advancement.

Therefore, we must strive for mutual guarantee as much as we can, and this will cause our tiredness, rejection, and nasty feelings. All these obstacles are present in the work on mutual guarantee because there are three lines in the middle line, and in the left and in the right. By this, we develop our soul by beginning to work with our internal states.

We strive to achieve the strongest possible mutual guarantee, and when we feel that our unity has obtained enough strength, then we ourselves begin to awaken the left line, the appetite, which is called to “awaken the dawn,” not waiting until “the dawn awakens me.” Usually, this opportunity comes through a wider environment. Then, we need to work on the importance of our group relative to the external society.

Inside the group, I work so that the group is more important than me. Now, I have to work with my group, united together, so that the rest of the external environment is less important than this group. That is, the group is more important than me and the entire external society (the external society does not mean our world group). Then I will be able to draw new desires from there and increase our mutual guarantee.

There is nothing to worry about but mutual guarantee because to the extent of our force of unity, the forces of breaking, new Reshimot will be awakened. We will start working with them in order to achieve the human image, by gluing all the pieces together. We do not need to worry about the Reshimot that emerge from the breaking but only about our fuel and energy. In mutual guarantee, we receive force just as “raw material.” Various disturbances that come help us give a concrete form to this guarantee.

The force of guarantee has no form; the form comes from the negative, from flaws. If I do not come across obstacles, then I do not feel that I exist. The air puts pressure on me, all my sense organs receive different effects without which I would not feel that I exist. The same thing happens with the force of mutual guarantee: If I have this force, but feel no resistance, then I do not feel that I am in the spiritual world.

We feel that we are in the spiritual world only due to the forces of darkness. The Light itself does not draw any forms, the form is born out of the darkness.

We pass through these states on the path until we stand on the direct beam (Kav), along which we continue our movement towards the goal. This entrance to the tunnel in the “tube,” the middle line, is very important and difficult. For a long time we go round in circles at the entrance, not daring to enter, make a step and retreat. But when we enter, thanks to the lessons we learned, we continue to advance in it.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/1/14

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Question: I don’t understand where the point that I can be impressed is if I am totally absorbed in my ego.

Answer: I cannot explain that yet, but you can already feel that it is happening: A kind of passage opens up which we don’t identify in our corporeal senses. There is a kind of hiding place here that we can get into.

There is a wall before you that suddenly opens up and you can enter. It is called an opening and a door in spirituality. When does it happen? When you don’t want to identify a wall before you, you decide that it isn’t a wall and that you are going to enter through it! Then you actually enter if you want to nullify your ego, which stands between you and the Creator. This means that you accept the conditions of mutual guarantee.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/31/13, Lesson on the Topic: Preparation for the Convention

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It is impossible to check and judge our states according to our feelings. A pregnant woman may not feel so good sometimes, but does she want to abort? On the contrary, she wants to continue! The goal is to be a mother, to have a child and hold the baby in her arms, and that compensates and justifies all the pain and discomfort that she feels.

The body suffers; the whole period of pregnancy and giving birth is not easy and may be tragic, dangerous, and critical. If an alien from outer space who knows nothing about our life on earth would see this, he would be shocked by the torture the poor woman is being put through, but we are happy and delighted by the whole process of pregnancy and the birth of a baby.

We are advancing towards the birth of a new level, so what do we lack in order to be glad in every state? We should see “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my adversaries,” as it says in Psalms 23: “my enemies,” who are in me so that they will see it. I don’t want to reassure them by that and vice-versa, rather, to tease them and to praise the goal.

If you don’t feel a greater impression than you felt yesterday, it means that you lack the support of the group. The whole group lacks the force of unity in order to empower each individual and everyone together, in order to survive the current state.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/31/13, Lesson on the Topic: Preparation for the Convention

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Question: Many people watch our programs on TV but they have never contacted us and have never attended a convention. Should they do so? Perhaps what they experience when they watch our programs is enough for them.

Answer: I receive many emails with such questions every day. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Israel and all over the world who watch our shows on TV or on the Internet. How is this kind of participation different from actual physical participation?

You can judge by the last events: A group of friends got together and decided that they have to develop the new method of education. As a result, they delved into the educational process and grew more and more excited as new horizons opened up before them. Eventually they were excited about the potential they found in the wisdom of Kabbalah since education is the essence of changing a person.

The still, vegetative, and animate nature have developed for ages. But here we are talking about very rapid and meaningful changes, the transition from the animate level to the human level.

Compared to the previous form of evolution, these two levels come one after the other in the opposite order of evolution. This oppositeness is fulfilled by the Light that Reforms, and it is possible when people connect if they are together, if they touch one another, if they are in a circle breathing the same air, otherwise it won’t work.

So I turn to all those who are used to watching us on a screen and especially on a TV screen. According to the data the cable companies have, there are hundreds of thousands of such people in Israel. You are our loyal viewers; you are the ones who spend a lot of time watching our programs. I warmly recommend that you don’t miss this opportunity. It’s possible to go through a whole level by one leap, as it is said: “a person who attains his world in one hour.” Come to the convention in February and you will be able to feel and to discover what you have been hearing for quite a while now but don’t feel and don’t understand yet. It will truly be something new, a revelation of a whole world. It’s a pity if you miss this opportunity.

I turn to you as a one who understands what can be acquired in the two or three days that you will spend with us. We hope that you, the viewers of channel 66, will also be with us in Tel Aviv on February 5 – 7, 2014, together with the thousands who will come from all over the world.

I also turn to our friends all over the world, of course. Hurry up and buy a ticket and come. You can also participate in the Arava convention, in the education convention and The Zohar convention. We are expecting you. The preparation has already started and we will support it and undoubtedly fulfill everything that we have heard. It’s actually happening now. Let’s hope it will happen for everyone.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/30/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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We should speak about the greatness of the goal in the group, about our desire to rise above our nature, which we cannot remain in any longer, and about the need to reach connection between us. We have enough troubles. If we want to improve our lives in this world, we have to draw positive forces, a positive attitude regarding our connection.

I turn to all the friends so that together we will discuss how we can reach this connection. We have to do our best to imagine the good connection that existed before the breaking of the vessels when there was one soul, one vessel, one thought, and one feeling for all, so that everyone will feel the others as if we belong to one body and are in it, which is called “as one man in one heart.”

Everyone, even if he feels himself, will perceive the others as cells in one organ, and that each cell gives to others and bestows upon them so that the whole body will function properly. If we understand that this should be our inclination in order to attain a state in which the Creator is revealed, Godliness, the Upper force, spirituality, then all the means and the opportunities are in our hands. The Creator puts our hands on the fate and says: “Accept it as goodness.”

The whole world supports us in this work to such an extent that life is becoming hard and meaningless. However, on the other hand, there is a new illuminated road that opens up before us and a delightful and special opportunity. Thus we build an ark in which we can save ourselves and perhaps even the whole world from the flood that is approaching and which is rising higher and higher. In the meantime, this flood only scares and threatens us from a distance, but it’s already felt here and there spreading chaos and helplessness.

In our first meeting with a group or with the public, we have to explain that spirituality is totally based on the power of mutual guarantee. It is purposeful that we first feel distant from one another, opposite from one another, hate and are repulsed by one another. It is on purpose that we are all at the foot of Mt. Sinai in a state of mutual hate, like the students of Rabbi Simon.

But it’s a good state, since by overcoming it, we can acquire the Godly attributes. As created beings, we can only feel a state of “the advantage of the Light from the darkness.” If we have these two discernments, then in the contrast between them we can see and feel one another. We cannot see only Light or only darkness. But we can see the Light in contrast to the darkness or the darkness in contrast to the Light. Therefore, the Creator has arranged this state for us so that we will be able to attain, feel, understand, and attain Godliness.

This is the goal of our first gathering. This is where a group begins. If we want to start the spiritual path, we have to know that it starts from attaining the first condition: the attainment of mutual guarantee. The attainment of mutual guarantee is also divided into several stages: first we should understand and accept things and then start fulfilling it gradually until we reach mutual guarantee. This is actually the first phase.
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From the Preparation to the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/30/13

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Question: The air is always full of love during our conventions, how can we intensify the feeling of love before the convention in February? How can we maximize it? How can we absorb the warmth that envelops you and be filled by it?

Answer: There is only one way to do it: preparation. The creation itself is an indication of that. I am equipped with a desire, with excitement, I worry because I want to fulfill the most important thing, and not only in this life but in all my reincarnations. I have already come to this world so many times that I don’t want to be born again and live here. Even egoistically without an intention of in order to bestow, without any connection to the Creator, but simply. So I have to see this as an unprecedented opportunity, a unique irrevocable opportunity.

What will I gain from this convention that cannot happen anywhere else? There are no such events in our life that can push me so strongly forward along the spiritual path.

Question: What should our preparation focus on? What should my yearning focus on?

Answer: On mutual connection. Through this connection, I will receive what everyone attains and gains. I envy them, I envy the friends who prepare this whole event for us, and I yearn to be incorporated.

It is said: “There is a person who attains his spiritual world in an hour.” So I have come here in order to attain everything the friends have attained. This is possible. In spirituality, like in connected vessels, the abundance is poured from one vessel to another. If I connect to someone who is great, I am also great. This is the rule, so let’s do it.

This is how I want to work and this is the only reason I am coming to the convention. We have another month of such intensive preparation. A person who wants to will be ready to attain his world.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/30/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: What can I say to a person who wants to “attain the world in one hour”?

Answer: It is said: “There are people who attain their world in one hour.” In one hour means by one action. One action can only refer to connection. Attaining one’s world in spirituality refers to a certain revelation of the true reality in contrast to our fictitious reality. The stronger we can connect, reaching not just a quantitative change, but a qualitative one, the sooner we reach great success and discover a new world.

We are preparing for a great convention with this motto. Although it doesn’t mean that this motto should actually be written, this will be our intention: to fulfill this opportunity and to attain the spiritual world in one hour. At the congress, we will meet people who are distant from us, people who have had no contact with us, those who have learned about the wisdom of Kabbalah via our TV channel or the Internet and do not know each other.

We invite everyone and we hope and expect them to reach a feeling, an understanding, of what spirituality is by being incorporated with us. We can do this in a short time during the days of the convention or even in the few hours that a person will attend the convention with us. Therefore it is said: “There is a person who attains his world in one hour.” A person a long the journey of his life doesn’t know where the greatest treasure that can give his life meaning is. We, on the other hand, do have a special book, The Book of Zohar, which we want to open for everyone.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/29/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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In our days a very great conflict is being created between the elites and the impoverished masses. With every passing day the gap between them grows and is acquiring threatening dimensions. The tension is growing in society. We see how nationalistic, fascists regimes are gradually rising in many countries as a natural reaction to what is happening.

The elites cannot part from the movement towards wealth. With each devaluation, they are becoming wealthier, while the masses become more and more impoverished and lack perspective. A serious problem is created in society. The tension and polarity reach very great dimensions and already begin to be felt in the developed nations.

The third world nations still live in poverty and it’s doubtful if their inhabitants will ever succeed in reaching a condition of wellbeing. A question about the future of the world is appearing: What can be done about all this? The wisdom of Kabbalah warned about the development of events like these. What we talked about 10 – 15 years ago is beginning to be realized now; moreover, this is being realized very rapidly.

We can expect to see conditions that will not be good for us. People feel this. The feeling of no escape can be seen in their lack of desire to raise families, to give birth to children. A tremendous number of people living in the western nations and in America (65 – 70%) suppose that it will be much worse for their future children than it is for them; therefore, they don’t want to give birth to them.

In such a complicated time like this, the wisdom of Kabbalah has appeared, a hidden method for changing the world, which has waited for this moment and which warned about it many years ago. We know that Baal HaSulam traveled to Poland to convince people of the need to change. He wrote to many leaders in the world trying to prevent the Second World War. For Kabbalah speaks about this, that according to the development of creation in four stages there may be four world wars.

Kabbalah begins to proclaim louder and louder that it has a means for helping the world that has no need for anything besides this. We see how the greatness and importance of scientists and philosophers has fallen, how the leaders of the nations are gradually impotent. This is the natural movement of evolution which cannot be stopped.
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From the Moscow Virtual Convention “Unity Without Boundaries” Day Three 12/15/13, Lesson 5

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Question: Should women inspire the men?

Answer: Women can inspire men better than anyone else. Imagine that your wife is impressed by you and keeps saying: “You are so clever, so handsome, so special! I look at other men and see that you are much stronger and better than them!” If a woman felt that way about you, you would immediately run home and sit by her like a little boy listening to everything that she says. This is what men are like.

Women can manipulate men anyway they like. If a woman is clever, if she aims at the goal and understands what she does it for, I will only be grateful to her just for starting to work on my nature. I will not brag and be proud of being a “macho.” On the contrary, I will be totally honest with her: “The ego is my nature, it is a contemptible zero! Help me exit it! Let’s resist it and change it together. Then we will do the same with you.”

This is where we should annul ourselves. Let’s be our own psychologists a little and look at ourselves from the side. This is the only way we can exit this state. We also try to do the same thing in the group, by putting ourselves above it and then below it so that it will impress us.

We have to do the same thing in the family, by constantly ascending and descending one with regards to the other, but what for? In order to attain the upper goal! So I don’t care about the relations with the family as long as they are aimed correctly and are set on the goal. A woman is your major assistant, she knows you better than anyone else, so her right attitude towards you can help you exit your nature quickly.

We should have special courses for teaching married couples about the right mutual relations and how to change people’s egoistic nature. You will see how you will be able to positively influence your kids afterwards. They will be good, kind, disciplined, and wise. We should take advantage of such opportunities. The main thing is to be more mature. The importance of the goal justifies everything.

We know that in the past Kabbalists were actually happy when they had bitter, angry wives. But our wives are not angry or bitter. They are following the spiritual path with us, helping us, and advising us as to how we should work with our ego and use it for the right cause.

We need to understand that we are connected only for this common goal which determines our relationships, and that we do everything to attain it. This means that I don’t want to play with your ego in any way; I don’t want to use it in order to stab you, no! We should behave wisely, gently, and tactfully with regards to one another to the extent that we can use ourselves and our partner correctly.

This is what we should learn. You cannot imagine what a great tool this is for our correction. We can change our planet with it! To be honest, you don’t need anyone but a female ally. You need the group only in order to connect the two of you correctly.

In any case, during the transition period there are quite a few families in which the partners are moving in different directions. In that case a person needs a group. By the way, a group of women is very serious support with regards to the men’s group. Take this seriously. Progressing through the right methods of interaction, you will see how much it helps you.
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From the Moscow Virtual Convention “Unity Without Boundaries,” 12/14/13, Lesson 4

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