Workshop
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The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts “Sukkot“
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace,” “Proof of His Work by Experience”
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Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” Article 12
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Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” Article 36
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Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” Article 12
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The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, “The First Person”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace,” “Proof of His Work by Experience”
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Shamati #36 “What Are the Three Bodies in a Man”
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The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts “Yom HakiPurim”
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Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 43
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Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, “Table of the Answers for the Meaning of the Words,” Item 23
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace,” “Necessity to Practice Caution with the Laws of Nature”
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Shamati #68 “Man’s Connection to the Sefirot“
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The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace,” “Necessity to Practice Caution with the Laws of Nature”
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Question: Is the wisdom of Kabbalah a science or not?
Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah is a divine science, a science of the upper world, and not a regular science. It works with other tools, not like biology, physics, or anatomy. This is a science that is different from all the sciences of this world for it uses different tools and methods.
Although essentially, its goal is not that different. This is because in regular science the person is also subconsciously looking for the Creator, the origin of life. From this yearning he gets a drive for scientific investigation. He feels fulfillment from reaching some kind of truth.
Perhaps this truth is the opposite of the truth, but this is not important. Science has some divine spark in it, and this is what attracts the scientist. The problem is that this spark captivates the person and clothes into his ego so much that it is difficult to extract it.
Nevertheless, by virtue of this spark the scientists are great fanatics of their science. They are ready to sacrifice themselves for its sake, to conduct clinical trials on themselves, and to engage in it day and night. Basically, they are running after the spark that is submerged in the ego, in “Klipa.”
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam
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Question: How does a person gradually develop an inner dialog with the upper force and discover the Creator by adhering to the group and to the teacher?
Answer: I may not like the friend’s face but I want to be in contact with him and see that the human being is being concealed from me, the inclination of the truth in him, the special attitude. By performing different actions and changing myself I discover these friends of mine by whose appearance I was previously repelled by. Now, however, I begin to discover their beautiful inner form. This is how we move from one state to another.
Later this inner state seems ordinary and not special at all and I lose interest in it, but I still continue to work and discover a deeper and more sublime form. Thus we establish the inner connection with the friend.
Question: What exactly do I continue?
Answer: I continue to look for the friend’s inner desire and not for his external attributes. If I look for it this way then instead of the old friends, I will discover new friends that have been concealed within them.
Question: What does it mean to yearn to see the internality of the friend and not his externality?
Answer: Seeing the friend on the inside means to try to connect to him even more strongly and to justify him. I understand the Creator who has sent this friend to me in order to find the Creator through the connection with him. Therefore, I am forced to work with him although I would rather have the Creator send me Baal HaSulam as a friend.
Question: I was indifferent to the friend but suddenly a new attitude towards him begins to develop in me. What is this change?
Answer: The Light begins to influence you and so you begin to pay attention that there is something greater in your friend than just a corporeal body, this is called “in Your Light we will see Light.” As a result of the influence of the Light you discover that there is also Light in your friend. You don’t know or understand that it is Light yet, but you already begin to see that there is something valuable in the friend.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam
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The first thing that you need to understand thoroughly is that all the evil of egoism is revealed only against unity. Only this is called the evil inclination in man.
Secondly, all this evil is already in us and only comes out. So do not worry, huge deposits of egoism are still hidden within us.
On the other hand, we should bless for all the bad revelations, as for the good one. After all, it means that this evil is initially hidden within us and we ought to be happy that it is revealed because in this case it can be corrected. As it is said, “Look at them and turn them into a pile of bones.”
If we weep together over our evil, then it is good. If we correctly ask for “forgiveness” for it, then we reach its correction, that is, we rise to the next degree—we come to the king, the beginning of the New Year. We proclaim the Creator as the highest, as the reigning, as the cause of all that is happening in the world.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/7/14, Shamati #23
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Workshop
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Shamati #122 “Understanding What Is Written in the Shulchan Aruch“
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The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts “Introduction” “Two Points,” Item 122
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Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 43
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace,” “Proof of His Work by Experience”
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The entire method about which the Torah speaks, from the first Adam (man) until entering the land of Israel, is the process within a group of Kabbalists who discover the evil within the group while working on the spiritual connection between them. From then on, only good is discovered.
The discovery of evil is all the hatred that separates people and is discovered to the degree that they want to connect. However, now instead of quarreling over various insipid matters, if humanity would want to connect, it would not need to discover the evil. All of their evil is found within the people of Israel. Therefore, the nations of the world cannot correct this evil alone. They do this with the help of the people of Israel and reach correction all at once.
After all, if the true evil of the ego were revealed in them at the moment that they begin to connect, the world would be drowning in evil. They really would be devouring each other down to the bone. So, the work of connection was given only to the people of Israel who are called the “stiff-necked people.”
The people of Israel do the work of connection and transform themselves into a “glue” that can connect all of humanity. They work together with the nations of the world, but their evil inclination is not revealed in this work.
This is an interesting concept. After all, the evil inclination is specifically revealed at the time of connection between people, and we need to work with that. The Torah tells us about this in all the stages of the wilderness. In other words, they are the stages of revealing the ego that is gradually discovered and corrected. It seems as if the children of Israel were wrong, transgressed, and violated the commands of the Creator. However, it is precisely in this way that they corrected themselves and prepared themselves for entry into the land of Israel.
After their entry into the land of Israel, they still needed to conquer it, but this was already a different war, which was the conquest of the nations in the land of Israel: This was the use of the ego through the power of bestowal that they previously acquired. However, in our day, in order to correct the entire human ego, it is necessary to conquer the entire world by means of the power of bestowal. The nations of the world are not obligated to fight with their evil inclination.
The whole Torah talks about the discovery of evil that is revealed through the inclination to connect. This is similar to what a young couple does when they go through all kinds of conflicts when they try to get along in their shared life. They communicate more and more through a shared kitchen, bedroom, living room, house chores, work, a joint bank account, and spare time.
Before then, they would meet somewhere from time to time, and this didn’t obligate them to do anything. Suddenly, they have lots of reasons to connect, and so the evil inclination is revealed in them.
The entire world now feels like a pair of newlyweds. So, it requires a method, the wisdom of connection, which is the wisdom of Kabbalah. This is required everywhere; in our time there is no possibility of connecting in any other way.
Why are people not ready to connect today? Why do so many couples divorce? It is because not only is the ego revealed but also the true evil inclination. This is because humanity must now be connected all over the globe and on all levels. So, everyone will be required to know the wisdom of Kabbalah that teaches how to overcome the evil inclination.
When you want to connect with your child, you must know how to do this, specifically with the help of the wisdom of Kabbalah. You need to learn to attract the Light that Reforms otherwise you won’t have a connection with your children. Today, parents lose connection with their children who reach adolescence around the age of 13, and, in another decade, this connection will already be weakened by the age of seven or eight, and even earlier.
Today, at the age of three or four, children begin to feel completely independent. For them, a parent is simply a tool for attaining a goal, which is the fulfillment of their desires and no more. Problems of this type will appear everywhere. It is impossible to attain connection without the wisdom of Kabbalah.
Everywhere that people try to connect, in the workplace or at home, they will discover their evil inclination. They will want to connect more and will not be ready for it. So, they will divorce. Even the terrorists are divided and are not ready to connect into one gang. There are so many groups and so many factions among them! The separation will keep on growing everywhere. Soon, everyone will sit in his house with a rifle, and that’s it.
The friends in a group of Kabbalists consciously work on the connection between them. Therefore, all of these phenomena become expressed among them in a very clear and obvious form. However, Kabbalists have the tools for working against their ego, against separation, and against hatred. The friends perform the role of the people of Israel, regarding all of the children of Israel, just as all the people of Israel do with respect to all of humanity. So, all of the people of Israel must work like a group of Kabbalists with respect to the whole world.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/7/14, Writings of Rabash
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