Today, the broader mass of humanity has become the Kli (vessel) for revealing the Light. This is what the times demand. First there was the period of the patriarchs, after that the sons, and today,  this is the period of the Messiah. In every period the conduct from above changed.

Our group is a transitional conduit first for the people of Israel and then together with it for the whole world. But specifically among the broader humanity the purpose of creation, the Ohr Hochma (Light of Wisdom), must be revealed.

The Creator is not Ohr Hassadim (Light of Mercy). The work on the density of the Shoresh (root),  Aleph (first), Bet (second), is not yet the revelation of the Creator to the creatures, but only the correction of creation. After that it is necessary to realize the purpose of creation, to reveal the Ohr Hochma within the Kelim (vessels). This is possible only through the external Kli, the masses. As it is said:  “If someone says there is Hochma among the nations, believe it.” (Eichah Rabbah 2:13).

But, “If someone says there is Torah among the nations, don’t believe it.” The Torah is the Light that Reforms. The nations of the world are not ready to attract the Light that Reforms to themselves, so they cannot heal themselves. But if someone helps them attract the Light and be healed, then the great Lights are revealed in them; specifically among them, the Creator is revealed.

The people of Israel merit the discovery of the Creator thanks to the nations of the world. When Israel joins them to it and corrects them, then the Ohr Hochma will be revealed in them. And Israel will also discover the Ohr Hochma thanks to this, when it conveys this to the nations of the world into what they are lacking. This is called is that Israel fills the Ohr Hassadim that is found in it with Ohr Hochma.

Israel belongs to the Kelim of bestowal and it cannot discover the Creator on some level by itself, without the nations of the world. But this is not that Light that must be revealed in the period of the Messiah. Our essential work is to prepare ourselves for the correction of the world. In this specifically we must see our mission, the work of the Creator.

The Creator is discovered in the deficiency of the people. When we accept the deficiency of the public, from it we create MAN (female waters) and raise it to the Creator. Then we receive double Light in response, as it is written,  “The firstborn takes twice as much” (Baba Batra 124a) and we convey it to humanity. This means that the Ohr Hochma that is revealed among us is revealed in the Kelim of the public that we join to us. And among the public themselves, this Light is revealed in their main Kelim.

But in the meantime, all of the Kelim are connected into one Kli. Israel brings the adhesion with the Creator, and the nations of the world bring their deficiencies. This is how they work together. The nations of the world cannot discover the Creator without the help of Israel, and Israel cannot reach this discovery without the nations of the world.

For this it is necessary to create circles, many circles, until ultimately they will connect into one infinite circle. This is reciprocal work. Therefore it is said that the nations of the world raise Israel to the height of the third Beit HaMikdash (temple). And Israel is not prepared to rise to a height like this by itself, for the third Beit HaMikdash is the discovery of Ohr Hochma within Ohr Hassadim to a full degree, when: “They shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them.” (Jeremiah 31:33

Something like this is possible only thanks to the great Kelim of the nations of the world. But Israel must carry out this work.
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From 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/12/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: What proof do we have that there is a special force in connection?

Answer: Haven’t those who were in the commando or in a sports team ever felt this force?

Question: But this force doesn’t change human nature.

Answer: The force that is revealed in the connection can convince and dominate those who are connected. If five, ten, or even twenty people come together sharing one intention or inclination, this inclination dominates everyone and doesn’t let anyone fall.

This is what happens in an ordinary, egoistic, corporeal connection. We are built in a way that this force sustains all of us. What is more, when we convene or assemble no one can decide or come up with a solution by himself. Instead, we discuss things together and consult one another and the sharpest and most extreme decision comes up. Although everyone worries and had doubts, the group decision is accepted in the direction our ideology breaks through.

This happens since the force of connection is revealed in the group, which draws all of us forward and blurs all the negative and extreme implications. It is because this force already identifies whether we can continue to advance according to our connection. The group doesn’t simply accept the best decision but also the most decisive and extreme one for our advancement, for making a breakthrough.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/06/14, Writings of Rabash

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Question: How can we explain to a person how he can change his evil egoistic nature without mentioning the upper force so as not to sound mystical?

Answer: If we consolidate the connection between us, then above us, a greater and more qualitative force is revealed in the central point of our connection, in the center of the circle. This can sustain us at any state we wish.

This force can remove all our problems, raise us, and organize our life in a totally different way. We don’t look for it somewhere up in the sky, above the clouds and the stars, or by using different tricks and meditations, but only in the connection between us.

Besides, the Israeli nation lived in this state for more than a thousand years. There are many stories that trace back to those times about the revelation of the upper force, from the same level that all the holy books were written. This is how the nation lived and this state is called the Temple.

The Temple isn’t a building made of stones but the connection between us. When the connection between us was shattered, it is said that the Temple was destroyed. Then instead of love and connection, there is unfounded hatred among us. Therefore, today we don’t feel any connection between us and that is how we live.

This state is called exile, and that is the exile from connection. The force that can do whatever we want is revealed in this connection and can actually perform miracles. We don’t need to do anything in order to attain it, but we must only know how to connect.

Question: You have met with many well-known scientists all over the world. Do they accept this explanation? Can they perceive a concept like the center of the group by rational thinking?

Answer: Scientists today not only believe and accept such explanations, but also believe all sorts of nonsense. You wouldn’t believe the state they are in. Once they were sure about their science: Newton’s laws and even about Einstein.

But today, scientists have a really tough life because such deep voids are opening up in nature that scientists realize; by using the ordinary human mind, they are unable to perceive and to digest it or to understand these laws.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/06/14, Writings of Rabash

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We don’t want to change anything, not the media, not the government, nothing, not even the education system. We only want to change a person, so we come to him and start talking to him. But we don’t demand any changes in anything that is happening to the nation or the world.

This is because it would mean changing the connections and systems that were built by people according to their ego. But all this is built correctly and suits them well. If we want to change this, then we must change the person who builds everything according to what is inside of him.

Question: But a person must see some benefit in order to want to be changed internally. What kind of motivation would he have?

Answer: 15 years ago you couldn’t talk about the wisdom of Kabbalah at all. This word was forbidden and aroused fear. And today nobody is afraid of anyone anymore. So leave its work to the Upper Light and only do for yourself what is up to you to do.

We need to leave an informational brochure for people with some explanations, but the main thing is to attract them to practical activities, to workshops. I don’t see any means other than creating circles.

According to its form, the circle matches the world of Infinity. It is not by chance that a workshop is done in a circle. This has been the accepted form since ancient times: Tribes sat around a campfire, all discussions were conducted around a round table to show that all were equal. A circle symbolizes equality.

But in our workshop the circle is a symbol of the world of Infinity. Through our wanting to connect in this form, we attract the Light that Reforms. It comes to us in an infinite form, for we don’t limit it in any way, we don’t have a Masach (screen). And so we use this Light as Ohr Makif.

But the brochure doesn’t need to attract people to workshops, but simply should explain the laws of the existence of the world. These are totally objective and don’t depend upon us at all. So the booklet needs to be written like an abstract by a scientist, a researcher, observing nature. It is not necessary for there to be any ideology, which already belongs to a person’s personal relationship, but only natural laws that don’t depend on us.

Whether we like it or not, that is how the world is organized and built. And dur to these workshops and all kinds of exercises, we want to participate in all of this evolutionary process in the best and most beautiful form.

Nature urges us on through blows and obligates us to evolve and turn from an egoistic form to an altruistic form. And we have no choice: We receive blows until we agree to accept the altruistic form. But there is also another way; instead of the way of “in its time,” the way of natural evolution, we can go in the way of “I will hasten it,” the way of accelerating time.

And the booklet explains how to pass from “in its time” to “I will hasten it.” It will become clear that this is definitely possible. And we are actively realizing this transition, and that is how we attract everyone to workshops.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/8/14

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Question: What exactly gets connected during the workshop?

Answer: The desires that are ready to bestow unto one another.

Question: But do strangers who are not friends connect?

Answer: We sit and talk without arguments and each one annuls himself a little in order to connect to others in mutual bestowal. To the extent that we annul our ego and connect, we invoke a certain force that is concealed inside, the force of connection.

This force exists in nature. It stems from the same source that the first spark once broke out from and from which the universe developed. This is the force of unity because all of creation stems from one spark.

As a result of this spark infinite universes and galaxies were created, but that doesn’t matter. If we connect as one man like the source the universe was created from, then it invokes this unique force in us. It is in nature and sustains nature.

Let’s try it and you will see what confidence it gives each one, what a feeling of a new life, of peace. It can even heal us and correct our connections. Let’s use this force of connection which exists only in the unity among us.

The more we manage to connect and the more deeply we annul our ego, the more we will discover the force of connection and with it we will be able to perform miracles. It will affect all our problems and heal all the illnesses. Let’s pull it out of nature and learn how to use it practically, creatively, just like we use nuclear energy, which we didn’t know about before.

This force is in nature; it can be called the Creator because the universe begins from it, but it doesn’t matter what we call it. It is in nature and we can use it like all the other forces. We call all of humanity to do so, because this force is the solution to all our problems.

This force is the source from which two forces later emerge: plus and minus. But the source itself is one, and if all the opposite forces are balanced inside it, it can solve any problem since it integrates these two opposites inside.

By using it we can fix everything. One may want money, another health, another respect, and another peace at home and with the children. So let’s be cured of all the illnesses and all the evil. “He who makes peace in Heaven will make peace upon us with his mercy and upon all of Israel,” he who makes peace under Heaven, which means balances the negative and the positive forces, will also make peace among us.

If you wish, let’s start, if not, then you don’t have to, but you should know that we have a universal means. We only need to invoke this force and receive from it like from a power plant, but in order to do so, we have to connect since it is revealed only when we connect.

If you are connected and this force is revealed among you, start working together and you will succeed in everything that you want! After all, you will have the source of the force, like a container of fuel that can be used as you wish: you can use it to make plastic and you can burn it for fuel.

You can use this potential force anyway you want, as long as it is not to hurt anyone! This is the force of connection and if you want to abuse it, it will disappear immediately. We must use it only for connection, only for the good.

It is very simple and we have to explain this to everyone. It has nothing to do with any religions and there are no mystic forces here.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/8/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Preparation for the Lesson

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Workshop

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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 119

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“The Book of Zohar” — Selected Excerpts, “You Are Partners with Me,” Item 62

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Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 67

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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Mutual Guarantee,” Item 26

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Question: What does it mean “to become a Reshimo (a spiritual gene) relative to the rest of the world?

Answer: The modern world is lost without any idea where to go or who can lead it to some kind of goal. This feeling of helplessness, distress, and emptiness will increasingly grow.

We are going through a complete disintegration of the basis of previous life. Formerly, the world was developing very rapidly, it looked as if the American dream would come true any moment and a well-developed capitalism would allow each one of us to live a good life and earn “big” money. All of a sudden this state of affairs has stopped and life has lost its meaning. This sensation of hopelessness triggers the question, “What is the meaning of my life?” While we are transitioning from our prior state to a spiritual realm, we have to turn into a spiritual gene (a Reshimo).

People whose spiritual genes wake up come to study the wisdom of Kabbalah. They need to advance this seed that is built into them. They have already reached the lowest point of disappointment in their lives, begin thinking about the essence of life, and begin moving with this internal determination that they have revealed.

But what should we do with others who do not have this spiritual gene revealed inside themselves yet, with all those seven billion who extend into despair and hopelessness, people who are approaching the bankruptcy of their prior values? How can they rise to a new state if their spiritual gene doesn’t wake up in them?

Our international organization has to become a spiritual Reshimo for the entire world. Our common desire, our collective Reshimot, becomes “a drop of semen” inside humanity, inside this massive human desire.

The mass has already rotted and deteriorated, all that is left is the seed (us) that knows the way and possesses energy, intention, knowledge, and experience. That’s why we go ahead of everybody and move the entire humanity forward. This is the function of a spiritual gene.

After the shattering occurred, all that was left was only Reshimot – spiritual sparks, “points in the heart,” that fell inside the broken desire. A spark and a broken desire worked together for thousands of years and eventually they figured that the desire is empty and broken. It has no chance to receive any fulfillment since it has neither a screen, nor underwent a contraction, nor is there any Reflected Light in it.

There is only one Reshimo that burns inside the desire and is able to bring the desire to its new state since the Reshimo (the spark) is connected with the Light. All there is are the Lights, the sparks, and the vessels. The Lights are on the top (in the world of Atzilut), the broken vessels and desires fell. Inside the desire there is a spark of the Light, a point in the heart.

The Light influences the spark. Only due to this impact, the entire vessel elevates, otherwise it is unable to rise. This explains why our time is so suitable for correction. The spark is very noticeable because the desire (the vessel) feels that it is broken and empty and has no hope for the future. That’s why a connection among the Lights, the sparks, and the vessels appears. A spark connects the desire with the Light. This is what is going on in the world now.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/13

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Question: The more I advance, the less strength I have. How can I be responsible for anyone else?

Answer: This is actually an indication that you are really advancing and that you discover that you have no force. It is very good and it is considered advancement.

After all, you advance towards bestowal and you discover that you have no force. Your strength is running out and that’s the way it should be until you reach a state where you have no power at all, complete zero.

How can it be otherwise? How can it be that your ego will allow you to advance towards bestowal? It is like the ten Sefirot of the Direct Light and the Returning Light: As you advance in bestowal from 0% to 100%, your ego diminishes from 100% to 0%. This is called the opposite order of the Lights and the vessels.

And nothing is wrong with that! You should be glad that you have less and less strength to study and to love the friends. You begin to fall asleep and to feel that you are a rag, but this is the truth that should be revealed.

You discover your nature in which there is nothing but a desire to enjoy. If in the meantime no pleasure illuminates for you, you cannot move.  Your ego doesn’t want anything and is ready to sleep until your last day: Give me a sleeping pill so that I will fall asleep and never wake up. Who doesn’t want to close his eyes and never open them again? What’s important is not to feel anything.

This is a correct impression, a person has to feel that and then work with it, but there are those who escape. Why do I need to suffer with this feeling? It is better to go with my old friends to a football game or to a pub, to some party, and to enjoy life and think as little as possible.

The main thing is not to think about the goal of creation. You can wave off these thoughts and decide that it is all nonsense in order to justify yourself and get back to your ordinary life.

But there are people who advance despite everything. At every turn we get a chance to choose, but you should know that you will have less and less strength. And then you will either receive it from Above or totally lose it and leave.

Therefore, we begin to think about how to receive force from Above. This is possible only if we ask for it through the group. If the group begins to demonstrate the greatness of the goal and the greatness of the Creator before me, I will wake up thanks to my envy, lust, and honor. This means that I have to receive the desires from the environment or through the environment from Above.

Thus, the greatness of the goal becomes so necessary for me that without it I cannot move or do anything. I have left my old corporeal life and the spiritual life is still far from sight. So what will become of me? The only thing is to end this life uselessly and die?

Here a person begins to understand why Kabbalists say: “either the group or death.” I have no choice but to organize an environment that will impress me with the greatness and the importance of the goal that will shake me and push me, rock me, shame me, and pull me.

It makes no difference what means is used as long as it revives me and wakes me up! I am ready to pay everything that I have for that, I ask: “Friends, wake me up! And when I wake up, I promise to repay you many times more, with interest!” That’s the way we should work.
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From the 5^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/27/14,Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: In what way is studying the wisdom of Kabbalah different from the wisdom of connection?

Answer: We can speak to people who come to study the wisdom of Kabbalah about the Light of faith, about the Light of bestowal, about self sacrifice, about faith above reason, about ascending above our egoistic nature and about rejecting our nature, and about going through all the states of the shattering.

On the other hand, when we present the wisdom of Kabbalah to the public, we cannot approach them by talking about these ideas and concepts. We can tell them only what can be revealed to vessels of receiving. This means that we tell them that there is a method that enables us to receive pleasure, filling yourself by the connection with others.

There is an upper force or an inner force in nature that allows us to connect and to correct all the problems by this power of connection that we have received. If you want to correct your connection with your children, hold a workshop in a circle with them. You will discover the force of connection and unity among you that will change and fix everything.

When the force of connection is revealed, there is an immediate correction. I cannot generate this force from inside our circle during the workshop and fix my washing machine by it, but by holding the workshop, your washing machine will not break down anymore if this is supposed to be your correction.

We should understand that only the force that is revealed in the connection will fix everything. Therefore, we must be everywhere and hold debates around roundtables, and wherever we do that, the situation will be corrected. Thus, we teach people to avoid problems, to find a blessing, luck.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/12/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Rabash, Article, “What is ‘O praise the Lord, all ye nations’ in the Work?” (Psalm 117:1): It must be explained why The Zohar says that all of the nations have a minister over them, while this is not so for the nation of Israel; only the Creator rules over them. For the nation of Israel is the property of the Creator.

The Creator is called the middle line, Zeir Anpin. This characteristic doesn’t exist in the lower if they don’t carry out special activities in order to be its carrier, a vessel for the middle line.

So the Creator has no image or body. The middle line doesn’t exist in nature; it appears only on condition that the lower places itself between the two lines: right and left.

And all the rest of the forces in nature are called ministers of the Creator because they exist by themselves and are the result of the two forces active in reality: the force of reception and the force of bestowal. They are called angels, forces that control the 70 nations of the world.

But the nation of Israel, the one who seeks Yashar-El (straight to the Creator), has no Creator as long as it doesn’t stabilize its vessel and discover the middle line in it. The Creator (Bore) means “come and see” (Bo-Re). And as long as the middle line has not been created, the nation of Israel has no one to turn to.

The Creator is revealed solely and only on condition that the person builds himself and adapts himself to the characteristics of the upper one. In this way he creates a place for the discovery of the higher power. As long as the lower is not ready for this revelation, the upper one doesn’t exist and has nowhere to be discovered.

From here is derived the prohibition: (Exodus 20:3) “Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness” of the Creator, for this prevents us from doing the right work.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/6/14, Writings of Rabash

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