Our method is meant to bring about a change in every person and not in governments or the upper echelons of power in the state or in the world. The changes from above will lead to nothing; it can only be changed from below.

Our whole development is from the bottom up because we belong to the third stage of development. After the descent of the worlds from the top down and the history of human development in this world, humanity is starting its ascent from the bottom up.

In any case, in any condition, and at any stage, changes always take place from the bottom up. Therefore, we reach the ordinary person and bring about changes in him, and he brings about changes in others by his connection to them. The Upper Light finds a place through which it can bestow. So we continue upward.

I hope to see you confident and happy, and that you know how to approach the public with joy since all the weapons are in your hands and with them you can destroy all the evil in the world.
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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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Question: What is so special about the miracle of the giving of the Torah? After all, there were miracles before that like the miracle of the exodus from Egypt and the parting of the Red Sea?

Answer: We cannot attain these levels by ourselves since we ascend from the bottom up. Just as in our world we cannot ask a child to do something by himself if he doesn’t know how or expect that he should know something that he hasn’t been taught.

First we have to teach and educate a child, then he will be able use this knowledge and perhaps even discover new things, but everything requires preparation. When we come out of Egypt, we have no preparation and can’t do anything. We need the revelation of the Light that will come and take care of us and will provide us with inner discernments. First we need education, training, strength, knowledge, intelligence, and sensing.

Because we have no idea about the upper world, how can we resemble something about which we know nothing? How can we reach something if we have no preparation for it? Therefore, everything that is revealed in the giving of the Torah is given to us as if in advance, so that later we will work on it and attain it by ourselves.

This is how it always happens: First you are given a new state; it is shown to you and then it is taken away so that you will attain it by yourself. This repeats on every level and in every state. It is impossible to require a person to advance by himself. When we ascend from the bottom up we never know the next level. Every upper level is a whole world with regard to the lower level. There are such processes that we cannot even imagine that they exist and cannot know anything about in advance.

It is simply an endless adventure in which every time something new is revealed. It is like reading the same articles, the same sentences, but everything is perceived in a totally different way. Suddenly you see that you have to change all the concepts, to perceive and process them in a totally differ manner. It is on this new basis that you begin to understand what is written differently.

Therefore, it is impossible to ask a person to prepare himself for the receiving of the Torah in advance. We make certain preparations according to our level of understanding, and then whatever has to happen happens.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/3/14

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Question: Why does it say that “the Creator did not find any people or any language that are capable of receiving the Torah” except for Israel?

Answer: The only vessels, desires, that can receive the Torah are Galgalta ve Eynaim (GE). But it is possible to move forward only with vessels of AHP. Therefore, we advance only by the combination of GE and AHP, and all the preparation is done by the mutual incorporation of the two: Israel in exile with the nations of the world.

Question: Does that mean that only the vessels of GE need to attain mutual guarantee?

Answer: Everyone must attain mutual guarantee, but in his own way. Eventually everyone has to be in the same boat.
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From the 5^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/5/14, Writings of Rabash

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Question: How is it possible to reach equality in a convention in order to balance the entire system?

Answer: We will not talk about equality, but we will talk about connection. And from connection comes equality. It is not necessary to cut off heads and line everyone up according to one standard for this. On the contrary, everyone must grow as high as possible and be integrated in a general connection. Equality comes from this.

There is no need to limit anyone. Limitation never leads to anything good. The only thing we need is connection, and from this is born the feeling of what it is to be equal.

We want to join, to embrace, and to connect. And on the basis of that feeling that appears as a result of all these actions, we begin to connect equally. This is because connection cannot exist if we are not equal. Connection between differences; these will become the higher and lower levels.
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From the 5^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/5/14, Writings of Rabash

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Question: What is the meaning from the Kabbalistic perspective of each of the ten commandments, like “thou shalt not steal” or “thou shalt not kill,” etc.?

Answer: We don’t understand the true meaning of the ten commandments that simply seem like moral instructions to us.

The commandment of “honor thy father and thy mother,” for example, refers to the connection between the Partzufim of ZON (Zeir Anpin and Nukva) and the upper Aba and Ima (father and mother).

The commandment “thou shalt no steal” is the prohibition to use the desire to enjoy for my own sake, which is called stealing. Who are you stealing from? From the Light, from the Creator.

All the ten commandments refer to the right use of the desire to enjoy. It is about the limitations that we must implement on Malchut. These limitations are called a Masach (screen) and the Returning Light (Ohr Hozer). Due to the fact that Malchut accepts these limitations, it can become the clothing for the ten Sefirot, and so it is called the ten commandments.

A commandment (stemming from the Hebrew root “utterance”) is what is born in the mouth of the Partzuf, the Peh de Rosh. All these actions are performed in the world of Atzilut.

Only after we become as one man in one heart do we receive the ten commandments. Otherwise we cannot hear them. We have to be on the level of Bina in order to have the ear that can hear the ten utterances from Mt. Sinai.

First we have to go through a period of preparation and reach connection on the level of one man in one heart, and only then do we hear the commandments. Otherwise we will lack the vessels in order to understand them.

Everyday a new confusion and a new understanding are felt during the study. You ask a question and after that you may be confused a hundred times and understand a hundred times in order to bring yourself to the point where you asked the question. Everything depends on the vessels.

Question: Do these commandments, such as “thou shalt not steal” and “thou shalt not kill” operate in the corporeal world too?

Answer: Of course we need the same thing that is written on the spiritual sense in our world too, but the correction of the soul takes place in the spiritual world. Still, we have to create the right environment in the corporeal world so that in it we will be able to attain the spiritual correction.

First we must understand that the basis for all the corrections is the main rule of the Torah: “Love thy friend as thyself.” This means that all the corrections, all the details described in the Torah, are the explanations for how we should reach the fulfillment of the conditions of loving others.

My attitude to whatever it may be—to friends, to the external world, to all the spiritual worlds, to everything—has to be only out of love, to the extent that I love myself. That’s it! Every action I make has to be accompanied by the thought that I do it for others. Love isn’t just speaking the words. There must be a real desire within me that obliges me to do it. Otherwise it is not called a commandment.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/03/14, Shamati 66 “The Giving of the Torah”

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Preparation for the Lesson

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot“

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Mutual Guarantee,” Item 21

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Question: Why is it easier for some people to connect to dissemination and more difficult for others?

Answer: It doesn’t mean anything. There are those who are like the patriarchs and there are those who are like the sons. The patriarchs actually have no Light of Hochma. All the Light is revealed by the sons but on the level of the patriarchs.

I add the desires of AHP but the Light of Hassadim is revealed in AHP, while the Light of Hochma is revealed in GE. But how can GE receive the Light of Hochma? After all, they are vessels of bestowal?

I take the deficiencies from AHP and raise them to GE and then I raise them higher to the upper. It turns out that I receive from the upper the Light that is dressed in the deficiencies of the lower. But I receive these deficiencies and suffer because of them; I wanted to give them everything, “the cow wants to nurse the calf more than the calf wants to suckle.”

I have great deficiencies from the AHP and even if my source is the desires of GE, I can receive all the Light that is meant for AHP and even much more. This means that the firstborn receives twice as much. We have to learn how to do that.
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From the 5^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/5/14, Writings of Rabash

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There are several phases in getting closer. In the first phase a person realizes that the more he yearns for connection in order to attain the spiritual world, the more he sees that he cannot. He cannot connect to others and to reveal the Creator which means the attribute of bestowal in the connection.

He tries until he sees that he cannot. The first thing a person discovers is that the Creator’s force is ready and able to help him. So he says that “There is none else besides Him” and that this is the only thing he needs. In order to reach that, first since he has no choice, and then out of his own freewill, he agrees to follow the direction of love of the created beings and thus reach the love of the Creator.

At all times the condition of the love of the created beings acts depending on how much the Creator has to be revealed. There were times when the Creator was revealed only to Kabbalists and was concealed from everyone else, and so this work was different than it is today. This means that in different times there was a different merging between the wisdom of the general and the wisdom of the individual, about which it is written: “the opinion of the Torah is opposite from the opinion of the landlords.”

Today we are close to the complete revelation, and Kabbalists tell us about that because we wouldn’t be able to discover that by ourselves. No one can determine that just by external signs. Although from day to day we see that the world is advancing towards an absolute crisis and that the crisis is in human society, in the connection between people.But in our world there is no power that can correct his connection.

So we should listen to what Kabbalists say. First we have to understand that the Creator can help us connect and to be as one man in one heart. The hearts are different and we need to make an effort to connect into one heart. It is as if we squeeze all the juice out of a lemon, all the evil inclination that comes out of the heart. To what is left, we can add the intention of mutually bestowing unto one another and by that unto the Creator.

The conditions are very simple, and although it is impossible to fulfill them, it is clear what needs to be done. After squeezing all the egoistic inclinations out of my heart, I can relate to the group, to each of the friends, as to the Creator, but only if it is a friend and we are ready to connect that way, so that together, between us we will discover the Creator in one common heart.

Each of us is as important as the upper force itself. Each of us is ready to turn himself into a force of love and bestowal. If we yearn for that and don’t forget it during the day, a habit becomes second nature, we will realize that we cannot and that we need the Creator’s help. It is only with His help that we can annul our nature and connect above it.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/3/14

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We are now implementing an activity that corrects the Shevirah (shattering), something that has never happened in all of history. Just imagine how important this work is. The shattering, the error of Adam HaRishon with the Tree of Knowledge, all of this happened in order to mix the desires and to make it possible for the receptive vessels to approach the goal of creation.

For these are the true desires. The desire to receive is the foundation of creation. And in these days we are implementing the first action in the entire creation, in the descent of the worlds from above to below and in the creation of this world, this entire universe, in the entire evolution of the creature on the face of the earth and the entire history of humanity. Only now begins the correction of the shattering and all of the expansion from above to below.

We are at the turning point from which we begin to rise again from below to above. And this elevation is not done through the desires of Galgalta ve Eynaim themselves, for they were already corrected at the time of the First Temple. And now they are beginning to correct the Kelim (the desires) of the AHP.

The moment we correct our AHP that belongs to Galgalta ve Eynaim, meaning the physical people of Israel, then the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel will be discovered. After that, the new work in partnership with them will have already begun.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/5/14, Writings of Rabash

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The work of Israel in a complete Kli composed of GE and AHP, desires to bestow and to receive, advancing together towards the goal of correction, is giving all of one’s time in the right direction. GE must approach the method of correction such that together with the AHP we can filter and clarify those desires and characteristics which are preferable to use to advance on the middle line.

AHP is the left line, GE is the right line, and they must be connected such that the advancement will be optimal, in the middle line, with the right mutual connection between them. The sign of this optimal advancement is world peace, when there won’t be wars, problems, and suffering.

When the world will calm down externally, then we will see how much this state is worthy of revealing the higher power. The Creator cannot be revealed in conditions of conflict between nations and in enmity between people. He is not ready to be revealed in hatred, for there is no equivalence to His characteristics of peace, perfection, and love.

So those terrible events that we see in the world, we must see as our field of work. And this is called (Genesis 27:27) “a field which the Lord hath blessed” upon which we must go out to work. In every situation, in every moment, in every place in the world, it is necessary to choose His approach.

And so we will see how in all the extremities of the earth more and more of our friends appear who organize the right work regarding the method of connection and who bring peace and unity to the world in which the Creator can be discovered. Only the revelation of the Creator to the creatures can bring true peace and perfection. Therefore, all of our work is only in disseminating this idea.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/5/14

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