Question: At the convention we get overwhelmed with the feeling of unity. What can we do not to forget the intention during this time?

Answer: I don’t think we will have problem with that during the convention. After all, there we work constantly connected. There are those who return home in the evening and suddenly rediscover an entire world with its problems and difficulties. And then they are amazed by how big the gap is between what we live in internally and what is going on externally.

And now that gap will be even bigger because the shattering is being revealed on the outside, while unity—inside. The contrast between these two states will manifest with even greater intensity.

We need to prepare internally for the convention in December in order not to lose the intention during the lectures, the activities, or the breaks. In general, the environment constantly needs to put pressure on us and thus direct us so that we have this sensation all the time.

Besides that, we have another month and a half before the convention, and I think that during this time new people from Israel and from all over the world will be attracted to it, including those who do not have the point in the heart, but nevertheless feel that this is important and that a solution is hiding here, even though they don’t yet understand it.
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/23/2011, “Peace in the World”

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Question: Why should we have an “internal” convention at a time when we have started disseminating to the masses?

Answer: Now it is more necessary than ever. In the past we could have small gatherings of friends, and it was enough in order to advance, quietly and individually.

In truth, we waited for the world to wake up. We, Galgalta ve Eynaim (GE), don’t need to correct ourselves personally. As the AHP awakens, our task is to receive corrections and serve it. Baal HaSulam writes about it in “The Giving of the Torah.” This is what it means to be a “kingdom of priests and a holy nation.”

We are special only because we can and are obliged to serve the entire world. This is the uniqueness of Israel, of Galgalta ve Eynaim. If we “deserve” anything, it is only service, work.

Today the nations are waking up, public unrest is starting, and the world is submerged in problems. For us it is a sign that we should hold events like the convention in December, in order to accumulate in ourselves a greater power of bestowal, of mutual guarantee. Only then will we be able to turn to the world and invite more people to join us, which will enable us to receive the Light of Hochma (Wisdom).

For us, Galgalta ve Eynaim, revelation means reaching unity and mutual guarantee and doing so in connection with AHP. We have to awaken mutual guarantee in it too. Then in response to that, it will join us as the factor of its unification, and together we will all become the ten full Sefirot. This will be a true Partzuf, upon which the upper Light can act. Then it will begin to fill us.

 
The Light will operate not only on GE, on “half of the body,” but on the entire degree. Today we approach the realization of this stage: If we connect to the masses, if we bring them and ourselves to the minimal level of mutual guarantee, the upper Light will fill us. It will only fill all of us together. This is because by nature, GE do not require any filling and work only for AHP.
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/2011, “One Commandment”

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In the time of the concealment we should cry. Why am I in concealment? Because my vessels are not corrected. How can I come out of the concealment? I have to correct the vessels. How do I correct them? I don’t ask for the concealment to disappear; on the contrary, I want it to stay because I don’t want my desire to receive to be filled. I wish to discover the attributes of bestowal above the concealment and to be filled in them. This is called “to be filled with the upper Light.”

We should understand that our ego, the egotistic desire to receive, will never be filled with the Light. There was a Restriction on that, an absolute prohibition.

Only if I build the desire to bestow above my ego, to the extent that I want to bestow back to the same source, I receive fulfillment from it in return. That’s the only way!

I will never receive any pleasure in my ego, which is under the Restriction. It cannot be filled directly.
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From the 6th lesson at the Toronto Convention 9/18/11

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The will to enjoy, egotistic pleasures, the egoistic desire, is called the “corporeal world,” and the desire to give, to fill, and to bestow is called the “spiritual world.” There is hardly any difference between the two except for one—the result.

If a person performs an act of bestowal, he must discover the Light. This means that he reaches Keter (crown). But if he doesn’t perform an act of bestowal, he doesn’t attain Keter. The only difference is the result.

Therefore, the impure force (Sitra Achra) is called “Malchut without a crown (Keter),” when I’m in the desire to receive, but the Light of Keter doesn’t reach me.
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From the 6th lesson at the Toronto Convention 9/18/11

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It is said: “The darkness will shine like the Light.” There is no day or night in our inner work. The Light shines in everything and fills the entire Malchut of Infinity. We exist in an ocean of Light. How can there be night?…

We have no day or night in spirituality, but we feel various changes in our states. It is necessary to discern these changes. Perhaps these are my days and nights that I feel in my egoism, when a day means that I have earned and conquered, while a night shows that I’m not that lucky. Meanwhile, the Creator’s day and night are opposite. For Him a day is a possibility to bestow, love, fill, and connect, while a night, on the contrary, is a lack of forces of bestowal and love.

Hence, we always have to discern in what we exist: in the darkness of the night or in the light of the day, mine or the Creator’s, and try to remain in the correct definition.
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From the 6th lesson at the Toronto Convention 9/18/11

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We are under the authority of “other gods.” “Gods” are the forces of nature that I worship. I worship various things: forces, fulfillments, phenomena, and situations, which make me—my ego—feel good. This is called “other gods.”

My attitude is wrong only relative to the property of bestowal that is opposite to me. I do not derive pleasure from it and do not understand how one can bestow—and enjoy it.

It means that we are under the control of other gods and engage in idolatry, meaning worship idols: all sorts of egoistic fulfillments. We have to change our system of values and appreciate the property of bestowal that is opposite to us.
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From the 6th lesson at the Toronto Convention 9/18/11

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We attain the Creator depending upon how much we exalt Him and how important we deem Him to be. What does “Him” mean? The universal quality of bestowal.
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From the 6th lesson at the Toronto Convention 9/18/11

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The word pomegranate (Rimon in Hebrew) comes from the word loftiness (Romemut). The more the attribute of bestowal is elevated in my eyes, the more I can advance above all my personal calculations.

From where can I take this greatness of the attribute of bestowal? It is only if I place myself under the influence of the environment. And then the external force of all the friends will come to me, and they will “brainwash” me, will penetrate my heart, and most importantly, will give me the sensation that the attribute of bestowal is most important.

We are in an ocean of Light, but we don’t feel it because we belittle it. How can we receive the sensation of its greatness that will enable us to feel it?

In any vocation, the most important point is to be sensitive to the smallest details that non-experts do not feel or understand. If I am a tailor, and I look at some shirt, I can tell you everything about it: What material was used and exactly how it was sewn. But if I am not a tailor, for me it is just a rag.

At present we are in a sea of Light, but we have no ability to “grasp” it, to discover it, or to see it. It is because we don’t see its importance. Why? Because this Light is the attribute of bestowal, and I don’t feel any importance in it; it is the farthest thing from me. I don’t want it and won’t want it.

It is only if an external force will come to me and “brainwash” my mind and heart, commit me to think that this is exactly what I am missing, and constantly influence me, only then will I say in the end: “I want it!” And then I will discover it. This is called that I have built the vessel for the property of bestowal called “importance.” And then I reveal this property, and this is called the “Light.”

From this we see how important it is to give the correct definitions, the correct meanings to words. In spirituality it is the secret of success.
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From the 6th lesson at the Toronto Convention 9/18/11

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The essence of one’s work is to reach the recognition of the importance of the Light, the property of bestowal, that is opposite to us, our desire, and all the pleasures we can think of today. I have to change my system of values: to reach a state when I will value like diamonds all that is completely unimportant to me today, totally opposite to all my views, and seems to me like waste, and I will treat as waste all that my ego values like diamonds.

I have to change their significance completely. After all, today I evaluate everything in my receiving desires, according to what’s important to them. But I transform them into the desires of bestowal, to what is of value to them. This is man’s main work: to realize the importance of bestowal.
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From the 6th lesson at the Toronto Convention 9/18/11

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In truth, the upper Light, the Creator, is revealed in a quiver. I restrict my desire to receive pleasure and fear that the Light will be revealed while I won’t be able to hold back this desire and will want to receive the Light.

Thus, by trying to restrain myself, on one hand, I feel my desire, but on the other, I sense the screen and exist in a tension between the two, which is called a quiver. To the extent that I am able to restrain myself, I strengthen my vessel—and the Light can become revealed.
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From the 6th lesson at the Toronto Convention 9/18/11

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