Question: The whole nation (of Israel) was shocked by the incident of the abduction of three teenage boys. Do we have any possibility of influencing these events?

Answer: All troubles are a result of our lack of sufficient connection. If the people of Israel were connected according to the Reshimot that are being revealed, then nobody could cause us any harm. It would be possible to dissolve the army and send them all home.

If we were to attain a sufficiently powerful connection between us, then a protective dome of Light would appear above us that would manage everything. We wouldn’t have to do anything ourselves.

As long as there is no connection or unity between us, in order to compensate for this lack, we need an army, politics, and so forth. However, this is because we have not been equipped with the Light as a shield, so we need all kinds of material defenses. The problem is only in the lack of connection, that is why our children are kidnapped.

We need to see the whole system to know exactly what happened. However, if you are familiar with the system, then it is clear to you what will happen in the future, for everything is subject to clear and precise laws. The only thing that can be done to mitigate the sentence of the upper law is increasing our connection. We  don’t have any other means and we don’t need anything else.

In this system, there are no other means that can ease the situation and correct it besides the connection of the people. The connection is realized through the Light that Reforms, and it can be drawn through a scream in your heart with a request for connection in order to give contentment to the Creator.

The means are clear and only need to be applied, only in them should we see salvation. So we begin to translate into practice the upper management from the way of suffering to the way of Torah, the way of the Light.

Until then, we only can scream and complain, “Why did they go out on the road in the dark? Didn’t they know they shouldn’t hitchhike?” You can scream until tomorrow, but this is useless. Everything has been arranged according to a higher system in which we just have not made the proper corrections, and the children are not to blame. If they had not gotten into this car, then something else would have happened.

In someway this damage would have been revealed in the system and resulted as another trouble, and the cause is only our lack of connection.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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The world entered into a crisis long before 2008, when it became obvious to everyone. However, before then, no one wanted to speak about it. It is not just that the stock market fell or some bank became bankrupt, rather the global crisis encompassed the entire world. The world began to see that it is entirely linked in a single system, but this system is not good.

We want to work together. Europe is united by desperation, because we are completely interdependent. However, the laws that connect us are egoistic laws, and so, instead of using each other correctly, we harm and ruin each other.

This was not so before. International trade, international relations, universities, factories, companies, and nations developed. Everything worked well according to the principle of mutually beneficial exchange, “You – Me, Me – You,” and it was possible to develop.

But the problem is that there are specific dependencies in the world that have turned into a closed system, one integral network. This is no longer the old economic, political, and cultural relations between some nations, but unique new relationships between us are needed.

However, we don’t understand these unique relationships because we are egoistic by nature. Even though we all are linked to each other integrally around the globe, we continue to work with each other according to a regular, egoistic, capitalistic standard to which we have become habituated, and so these links don’t work.

This is the crisis. The contradiction between the new relationships that we must establish between us in the world, connected in new ways, and our inability to reach this is due to a lack of knowledge.

People think that they can continue to exist as before. But, the world, human society, all the still, vegetative, and animate nature, including humanity, already have become a system in which we must transform our attitude. This is specifically required from us humans, not still, vegetative, and animate nature.

So, if we are thinking of going deeper into the reason for the crisis, it will become clear that the reason is our perception. All that is the matter is that we aren’t aware of the kind of a network of mutual connections we suddenly have found ourselves in and how all of us together must behave according to the conditions of this network.

Here, Kabbalah comes to the rescue. It explains that the world today must act the same way we behave in a group of friends, each helping his friend, being integrated with the desires of one another and seeing all as one person with one heart. Those laws must gradually prevail in the world.

Whether the world wants it or not, it already is beginning to behave according to these connections, and if we don’t go out to humanity and teach and explain to them what is happening today, then we are not applying the wisdom of Kabbalah. We are not carrying out our mission for which we have received this knowledge.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/14, “Preparation for the Convention in America”

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You should know that now the whole world is a group and we must teach this group, every person and everyone together, how to behave correctly according to the rules of the group. So we have begun widespread dissemination, but in a form compatible with the world, called integral education or the wisdom of connection.

It is impossible to go out to the world under the name Kabbalah. But in the end, we must really teach everyone the essence of the network of connection between us.

To the degree that we enter and integrate into this network, we feel our interconnection with everyone and discover that these connections between us are governed by the same rules that operate between the Sefirot, between the Partzufim and the worlds in Kabbalah.

Where does the spiritual world come from? The whole spiritual world is the altruistic connection between us. If we transform the one-sided egoistic, severed, non-global connections into a corrected global network, then we see this network as a spiritual system and the whole world as one Malchut de Ein Sof (Infinity).

The different levels of connection between us are the higher worlds: Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira,  Assiya, and this world. In the end, we correct all of these connections such that the Olam Ein Sof  (world of infinity) is among us, without any borders. All of us are connected together in one place, with one desire, which is called Malchut de Ein Sof.

It follows that there is no difference between the wisdom of Kabbalah and integral education. Integral education is the same as the wisdom of Kabbalah, only with simple explanations that are adapted for children. When the children mature, we will no longer teach them through simple explanations with colorful pictures, but in a more serious form.

That is how they teach in a medical school; first they dissect rabbits and after that they go on to humans. So we first go out to the wider world with an initial simple explanation, called integral education or the wisdom of connection, but after that we combine this with some knowledge from Kabbalah.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/14, Preparation for the Convention in America

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Question: Could it happen that I might bring harm to the world?

Answer: Certainly, you can cause harm if you don’t carry out the right actions that are required of you with intellectual and emotional participation in the system by free choice. Instead of this, you become a burden to the world. This is how you destroy it.

The right action is learning where your free choice is, what it is, and realizing it. This is what we are learning. Every day, you must make it anew and perform new acts of connection with others, and when you don’t take such actions, you cause damage. In other words, you don’t yearn to be in one heart with all the inhabitants of the world. You don’t make actions to see this connection as the most important thing in life.

Question: When Rabbi Shimon fell to the state of Shimon from the Market, did he cause damage to the system?

Answer: When a Kabbalist falls and rises, he doesn’t do any harm. Instead, he only brings benefit. By falling, he discovers a shortcoming that must be corrected. He reaches this shortcoming, Shimon from the Market, through his efforts and preliminary preparation. You don’t. There is a difference between preparing ourselves for the next action and not preparing.

Question: So, it follows that everyone in a group who falls harms it and condemns it?

Answer: No, it depends upon which person falls, as it is written, “For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again” (Proverbs 24:16), for this is a Tzaddik and not just some corrupted person. Shimon from the Market is a spiritual concept. This is a fall into such a depth like nobody before him has fallen or after him will fall, and from such a depth he can rise up and justify the entire creation.

If someone like a baby falls, we don’t consider the fall or the getting up. Everything depends upon preparation.

However, if a person whose time has come for correction destroys, instead of correcting, apparently he reduces the world to the way of “in its time,” causing war, disasters, a Holocaust. We have gotten all of this already through our failure to correct in time.

We could have prevented the first and second world wars with all of their horrors.

Even now, we can prevent the third world war. Indeed, we are in the generation of the Messiah, which gives us free choice. This is no longer the exile that we had to endure.

In the writings of “The Solution,” Baal HaSulam wrote: I have already conveyed the rudiments of my perception in the year. I have also spoken to the leaders of the generation, but at the time, my words were not accepted, though I cried out loudly, warning about the destruction of the world. Alas, it made no impression.

Now, however, after the atom and hydrogen bombs, I think the world will believe me that the end of the world is coming rapidly, and Israel will be the first nation to burn, as in the previous war. Thus, today it is good to awaken the world to accept the only remedy, and they will live and exist.

We hope that we can stop this slide into the abyss.
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From the 5^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/13/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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The dependence of the upper Partzuf within the lower Partzuf is worse than slavery. There is dependence through the force of evil, alien power. But there can also be slavery through the good life force, when the upper loves the lower.

And then it transmits to the lower because of its love, and does everything that the lower requests, of course, only if it is for the good of the lower. It will always be waiting in order to know how it can help the lower. This is slavery, as if, in an inverted form.

The upper cannot cause any damage to the lower. But until we begin to request, to raise MAN (Mayin Nukvin – female waters), to raise the upper AHP (Awzen Hotem, Peh),  the upper will not raise its AHP. It will only wait.

This is called, the Shechina’s sorrow, Malchut of Atzilut greatly longs to raise its AHP and waits for our prayer. But by itself it is not able to raise it, but only according to a request, according to the awakening by the lower ones, the sparks GE (Galgalta ve Eynaim) that are in the worlds of Beria, Yetzira, Assiya awaken the AHP of Atzilut that fell into the worlds of Beria, Yetzira, Assiya.

The upper is with us in slavery, like a parent with his beloved children. Love captivates us as slaves, just like hatred. However, love makes a slave of the upper, one who loves, and hatred turns the lower into a slave, one who hates.

If the upper hates, then the lower becomes its slave, and if the upper loves, then it is in slavery.

Question: In which situations does the upper answer the prayer of the lower?

Answer: The upper answers the prayers of the lower on the condition that they are ready to annul themselves for the sake of connection and ask the upper for the strength to connect between themselves into one Partzuf. The upper realizes their connection and creates a common Partzuf within which the Light is revealed.

This means that in order to receive help from the upper you need to want to connect with others in the common Partzuf, not your individual one but the one that belongs to everyone, which is called Malchut. This is called the prayer of many.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah lesson 6/8/14

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Preparation for the Lesson

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Writings of Rabash, “Dargot HaSulam,” Article 371

“The Book of Zohar” — Selected Excerpts, “Two Points,” Item 122

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We are now writing history together. Day after day, we have to create a booklet with explanations that will be relevant for a short period, for that day, and then we move on.

There was never anything like this before and certainly this work will also continue after us, but on the same basis that we lay down today. A very unique period has begun, for we are now making a transition, an innovation, and then this new stream will only go and grow.

Certainly, an innovation will happen on every level, but there is no more fundamental and important transformation than what is now happening with people in the world today. The world is going out from a mindless form of existence where its evolution is managed by internal forces. The natural program evolution (“in its time”) pushes and pokes you from behind and you are like a donkey, running forward, trying to escape from the blows of fate.

Now, the transition has arrived in which you continue to advance forward, but you, yourself, put a grain bag in front of your donkey so that he will run faster. This is a new and completely different approach to evolution in which you have become a partner with the Creator.

The Creator is not compelled to push and poke your donkey. Instead, you get up and sit on the donkey as a human, preparing the feed bag for him, and you hang it in front of your donkey’s head, and so the donkey advances, runs forward, and you are riding him.

Question: How is it possible to make sure every day that you have found an explanation most appropriate for that day?

Answer: If you are connected with your friends and from this connection you find a way to approach people, then you certainly will not make a mistake. There is no other way to observe this. There is only the most appropriate connection between us for the nation and the world, and nothing else.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/12/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: Is it possible to convince people to connect in a good way in order to avoid troubles like the kidnapping of the boys?

Answer: The whole world is a desire to be filled. When there is no filling a person feels bad and he suffers. If there is too much filling, he feels good and enjoys. When a person feels good he doesn’t need any extra filling, and then he doesn’t hear anything. But if he needs something and you offer to fill that need, he will listen to you and will want to receive what you offer.

Now, when such an acute need for positive changes has been invoked in people, we have to let them know that we have the solution for saving the kidnapped boys.  And for that, we have to connect.

It is because everyone wants the boys to come back! So let’s connect. It is a system that is subordinate to clear laws in that it either works or it doesn’t. All troubles stem from lack of connection according to the Reshimot (reminiscences) and according to time.

Now we have to be more connected, but since we haven’t been connected, this trouble has come about. If we want to get rid of this affliction, we have to connect. We should constantly worry about our connection and take every advantage we are given to do so. Otherwise we will not follow the path of I shall hasten it, the path of the Light, but rather the path of in its time, the path of suffering. The tragic event of the abducted boys is an example for that.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: Why does Baal HaSulam tell us about how the Masach (screen) rises and descends, about how Bina mixes with Malchut, etc.? Why should we know all these details?

Answer: Baal HaSulam tells us about our foundations, our roots. It is because a person in this world acts either like an animal, worrying only about how to fill himself, not caring about anything else (if something happens one millimeter away from him he doesn’t care one bit), or he may be troubled by questions like: Who am I? Where do I come from? Why am I living, for what purpose?

If a person thinks about such questions that are a bit beyond his own body, they already belong to the human level and not to the animal level. An animal is totally closed inside itself.

The wisdom of Kabbalah tells us about the roots that belong to the human level, that is, everything that is external to me. External to me means external to my corporeal existence. Corporeal means from one end to another: from birth to death, as long as the body lives. This is the only thing about which the animal cares.

On the human level, however, one asks: Where did I come from and where am I going? These questions do not belong to our inner system but to the external system. I have to reveal it and then I will get the answers to all the questions such as: Who am I, what am I living for, and what is happening to me?

So when we read the descriptions of the upper system in Kabbalah books, we may not care or we may care very much, and accordingly we discover that this story actually refers to us. It refers to our behavior and our functioning on the animal level and also on the spiritual level. Spirit refers to what is outside the body.

In the article “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Baal HaSulam tells us about our foundations. Up to a certain point he tells us about Malchut itself and about how it spreads from the top down. Malchut is considered the animal level, but Malchut is connected to Bina, which is the foundation, the root of the human level.

By its connection to Bina, Malchut can resemble Bina and thus reach the level of Keter, that is the Creator. This is why the connection between Bina and Malchut is so important. In fact it is the point where a person connects with the Creator.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/13/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Preparation for the Lesson

Workshop

Shamati #69 “First Will Be the Correction of the World” 

“The Book of Zohar” — Selected Excerpts, “Two Points,” Item 121

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 69

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Nation” 

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