We are unconsciously managed by intentions of in order to receive. There is nothing we can do about it since that’s the way we were born. But if we perform the right actions, even if our intention is still incorrect, which means that corporeally we try to be in a circle, in connection, and attracted to mutual guarantee as much as we can, we thus make ourselves suitable for the Upper Light even without the intention of in order to bestow.

We don’t adapt ourselves to the Upper Light itself but rather to its illumination from a distance called the Surrounding Light. This Surrounding Light begins to affect us according to our efforts to reach connection, to reach “don’t do unto others what is hated by you,” “love thy friend as thyself,” in connection and in self annulment. Even if these actions are not accompanied by the intention of in order to bestow, they still bring the Light that Reforms closer to us and thanks to it we gradually acquire the intention of in order to bestow. Thus our actions acquire the intention of bestowal and we begin to ascend the spiritual ladder.

Therefore it is said that “Mitzvot (commandments) don’t require an intention,” and that even actions without the right intentions can begin to correct and bring us to the first spiritual level, to the level of Nefesh of Holiness. The spiritual path begins from this level. Then our actions become more focused, with the intention of Lishma (for its sake), for the Creator, in a more conscious way. We perform 613 corrections on each and every level: 613 corrections on the level of Nefesh, 613 corrections on the level of Ruach, 613 corrections on the level of Neshama, 613 corrections on the level of Haya and 613 corrections on the level of Yechida and then we are rewarded with the great Light, the Light of Ein Sof (Infinity).

Question: Why does it say that “a Mitzvah without an intention is like a body without a soul?”

Answer: It’s about real Mitzvot, but what we do now is not a Mitzvah yet. It says that “a person is rewarded with the goal of creation by keeping the Torah and the Mitzvot.” Torah is the Light that Reforms that comes and corrects our desire with the intention of in order to bestow. Correction is called a Mitzvah.

This means that the Upper Light performs the Mitzvah by correcting the desire, but it is a person who draws the Upper Light. A person who draws the Upper Light does not have the right intention yet, and he only performs all the actions in order to summon the Light that Reforms. When the Light comes, it already performs the corrections that are called Mitzvot. So our role is only to constantly bring ourselves to a state or to stabilize the state that is closest to the Surrounding Light, to the Light that Reforms.
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From the Preparation to the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/8/13

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Baal HaSulam, “600,000 Souls”: Should the ignoble, too—one who has a lowly and base soul at its root—aim his heart and purify his deeds to become worthy, he will be rewarded with extending the whole of the soul of a holy nation in his soul, with all the wonders that the holy nation has tasted thus far. This is because they were all but preparations for this wholeness.

Hence, even that particular soul must taste everything, and he will buy his world in an hour.

Eventually we have to perform one action that will make the Lights and vessels match, but because we cannot do that, the process is divided into many states, periods, and people… Still Adam HaRishon (first man) is one single body that makes a mistake and is shattered to pieces. So the pieces can actually come together and connect correctly and return to their corrected state in one action.

But reality was split into separate parts according to the parameters of time, motion, and place, in the bodies of other people so that we will be able to carefully examine and understand what is going on and accumulate wisdom through our questions and answers. It’s all so that we will find out and discover creation between the Light and the vessel.

We cannot perceive the Creator’s actions all at once. So we gradually advance step by step toward the complete state throughout our reincarnations, by billions of actions. All the created beings, whether tiny bugs, distant stars, or human beings, fulfill this process, each on its level. Everything that happens is the essence of the series of corrections. How do these parts affect each other? Do we affect the explosion of stars for example?

We do, but the wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t speak about it. In a certain sense it’s very limited, since it speaks only about man, about what we have to do now, and nothing more than that. It doesn’t reveal all of reality to you. You will discover it by yourself if you use this wisdom correctly. It doesn’t tell you in advance what you will attain, but rather, it teaches you how to reveal reality and thus prepares all that is necessary. Since if you have the key, then all the doors will open up before you.

So Kabbalists, the sages, say “let’s give a person a key. If he is worthy, he will discover reality and see it correctly, if he isn’t worthy, he will not discover and will not see it. Why should he fail in vain? Curiosity is no justification…”
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: I love Kabbalah conventions, the music and meeting with people, while during the lesson I am dying of boredom. What should I do? When will the Light come in?

Answer: Every person has his own natural inclinations. Some cannot remain seated, in contrast, others like to sit and study. Some prefer physical activities, while others enjoy mental analysis. We are talking about the corporeal nature of man.

However, on the path to the spiritual world, everyone will come to a common denominator. After all, in spirituality, feeling and thought get revealed simultaneously, as well as action, contemplation, and empathy. In our world, they are scattered all over our perception, but in spirituality they are brought into one singular point of contact.

When will revelation come? It will come when we, with our collective effort, draw the Light that Reforms and everyone will feel in their heart that he is willing to surrender to the group, Malchut, which is the place where he must find the Creator, the common force of bestowal, and will learn to bestow to Him.

If a person is shaped in this form and is ready to surrender to unity and find the Creator in it, then he achieves what he desires, but not before. In the meantime, we must put forth our best effort to accomplish this.
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From 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/10, The Zohar

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Question: Why does the spiritual path look like a retreat to me as if I am becoming more remote from the Light?

Answer: That’s right. Until a person has acquired a full measure of need in finding the Creator, he will discover, over and over again, how far he is removed from the Light.

It looks like digression, but in this case, you should understand the following: I will enter the spiritual world only when my desire is completely formed, when I will be willing to do anything for it, when our world no longer interests me, and when I will decide to put everything on the card. I will no longer demand anything for myself, not a single response. To do this, a person must be able to see how well he is advancing in this, aspiring to it with more zest, and how he still doesn’t merit it, the two opposites linked as one.

So, examine yourself: Are you walking the right path? Or are you running from the conflict of the two opposite feelings? This is the way we must advance.
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From 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/10, The Zohar

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Question: What does it mean, to bestow to the others?

Answer: To bestow to others means to bestow to the group, all of whom together aspire to adhere to the Creator, think solely about that, and understand that it can be achieved only by mutually connecting without any difference between us.

However, in that case, it wouldn’t be the others any longer, but as if it were me, myself, adhered to the Creator. Still, I must first learn to bestow to the others based on what is written, “From the love of man to the love of the Creator,” since otherwise I will err, for my ego will confuse and deceive me.

Bestowal to the others is bestowal to the group in order to reach the common goal, which is to bestow to the Creator. You bestow all of your desire to the friends, thereby turning it into the place where the Light can be revealed. You are passing it to them!

If you are doing it with absolute devotion, in this part of your devotion transferred to them, they can reveal the Creator. And when everyone does the same and we reach the might of “600,000” souls, spiritual revelation will occur.

All of us together must think about how to create this common desire of the entire world Kli, to unify it so that it becomes fit to unveil this first portion of Light. Then, adhesion (Zivug) between all desires and the Light will occur. This will happen for the first time in history! In truth, everything that had taken place in the previous generations was a mere preparation for this.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/9/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: You said that all we must do is express our willingness for the Upper Light to reform us. There are quite a few groups who are striving to unite for some purpose: the mafia to rule in their area, a Kabbalistic group to achieve some exalted goal. They both say they want to unite; however, in either case, something slows them down, preventing them from reaching unity.

Answer: As for the regional mafia, it lies in their hands. As to “spiritual mafia,” they have a problem: They have no weapon. Their weapon lies in the hands of the Creator. The Creator will hand it over on one condition: that you will be worthy of it, meaning, you will know how to use it correctly. The Light is the most powerful weapon; nothing supersedes its might. It contains the most enormous pleasure, infinite fulfillment, limitless possibilities to do anything at all. How can He give such a weapon to you?

Look how we guard our children while they are growing up from everything that might harm them! Can man be given something so dangerous that he could destroy everything? Therefore, the Upper Light comes to us through concealments, the system of worlds, and works by way of advancing us step by step in stages. This is what we currently are experiencing as suffering. All of this is its effect aimed at advancing us so that in the end we would understand what we need to do, like children who misbehave. It can’t be otherwise!

How can this spiritual mafia be granted the Light? They will make such a feast “for themselves” that it will be more horrible than Babylon and Egypt together. In truth, before they are reformed, they are all Amans. Everyone has a Malchut of Infinity, but we don’t get to know it. I reside in the uppermost layer of egoism, this corporeal world, and below me lies the entire dense thickness of infinite ego, the Malchut of Infinity.

When I am illuminated by a small Light that has passed through the filters of all worlds, it illuminates only a tiny layer of egoism for me. If all of it came in and the entire abyss of egoism opened up, I would never be able to climb out of it, and this is the reason why this world is so small.

Look at how much we are helped from above right now, for it already has exhausted itself, and I see its end, the rock bottom of this world. It holds no more pleasure for me. Where do I get more desires? There aren’t any in this world. All the rest is for bestowal, and the desires of this world you received only in order to exist for the time being. From this moment on, you must decide what to do.

All of this is done for our salvation. After all, if the great Light came in, you would sink in such tremendous suffering that you wouldn’t be able to come out of it. You would be buried under desire that you would not be able to fill. It is like the love that is burns you because you can’t have it.

This is how desire will become revealed against the Light illuminating it, and all of your life would be sold out for yet another chase after pleasure that would make you feel even greater emptiness. It is impossible! It can be no more! The plane regarded as “this world” where you can enjoy something for your own sake for some time in order to develop the mind and feelings to perceive spirituality has come to its completion.

From here on, you must find the Light that comes to illuminate the upper layers of desires  for you, the Light that Reforms, the Surrounding Light. This is the not the light of pleasure, but rather the one that discerns and reforms. Then, the light of fulfillment arrives if you align yourself with it by way of the screen and Reflected Light.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/9/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Preparation to the Lesson

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Writings of Rabash

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The Book of Zohar — Introduction

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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love for the Creator and the Love for the Created Beings“

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As a result of people connecting during a workshop or roundtable, the collective mind is created. We are aware of this phenomenon known as the “wisdom of the crowd.” If people unite, then an additional force emerges and something new that exceeds their capabilities is born between them. Each possesses mediocre intelligence and capabilities and makes mistakes answering questions. However, when they are discussing it all together, listening to others’ opinions and complementing each other, the average response will be correct or very close to the correct one.

Each member makes a mistake in a different direction and, thus, on average, the answer is correct. However, it’s not only the statistical law of large numbers but also about the emotional aspect. When people unite and want to solve a problem together, they get a special sense. It is not just the average response. Since they have tried to find a solution together, a special addition emerges.

We do not simply ask for an answer from everyone individually as if in a statistical survey, but we bring them together and want to achieve one common result. Then they do not make mistakes. This is the consequence of connection, not just an answer resulting from averaging when one mistake compensates another.

When people connect, a special additional force emerges that propels us to the next level. All of us are on the bottom step; ten on the lower degree are equal to one on the higher degree, in the same way as the entire still level is equal to one plant, and all the plants to one animal, and all the animals to one human being by his power and essence.

It is not a simple equation. The force of the Creator must be added to it because it is required to switch us from the still level, where all the still elements are joined together to the vegetative level to become one plant. However, we should know that this force is always at our disposal. The Upper Light always shines. Once we connect, the Upper Light will instantly and automatically begin to work on us and raise us to the next degree.

Therefore, it is said that the entire still level is equivalent to one plant. The Upper Light is automatically included in this formula. We seemingly know a priori that the Upper Light will act and raise them.

The common answer is obtained not as the average of all the responses. By conducting a workshop and forming a circle, we must come to a common decision, a definition that will be at the center of the circle. We do not need ten separate opinions. That will produce nothing. It will just complicate things as mere philosophizing: One said this and another said that. This is analysis. However, we need synthesis, the general factor belonging to the upper degree!

We do not yet know how to use workshops properly. The workshop is a spiritual vessel, a tool for attaining the end of correction. As a result, we must rise to the level of the gathering of Rabbi Shimon’s group. We just call it by such a mundane word “workshop,” but it implies a real spiritual connection. Workshops should be changed. We will work on this. It cannot just be taught. This skill comes gradually, and the pressure from outside helps in this.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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What is a democracy? The entire nation, comprised of millions of people, gets together, and the people are asked, “What do you want?” Some say that they want football, others say that they want Coca Cola, and they are told, “You will get what you want.” What else can the masses want if they are not educated, if they are not raised up the spiritual ladder? In such a case, democracy leads to regression, degradation. So, what’s so good about it?

Democracy is good only when we make a circle, which means only in a group. This is where the entire world goes wrong. The actual idea of democracy is ideal, but it must be fulfilled only under certain conditions. It is impossible to implement it with the masses, among people who don’t think about tomorrow. So, people don’t go to vote because they don’t care who is elected. They only shout and resent the fact that the government doesn’t do what they want.

Neither those in government at all levels nor the governed people understand what democracy is. This s because it is not in their vessels.; it is in round vessels, which are not suitable for them at all. The people need a king, an authoritarian power. A king feels that, “The state is me; it is all mine!” And he cares about his subjects, that his citizens feel good since they belong to him. He works for the welfare of everyone in the nation, as it is all his.

So, if a nation exists egoistically, it needs a king. However, if a state already advances spiritually, it needs a democracy. They are opposites: “circles” (Igulim) and “straight line” (Yosher), the two forms of the vessel. We shouldn’t confuse one with the other since neither is better or worse. We see that democracy doesn’t work, and that it is just nice words. Free elections and freedom of speech in the media are all just toys. In fact, the leaders of society do what they must do.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/13, Writings of Rabash

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We connect in order to be guarantors for each other, but tell me: How much money do you have in your bank account that will make you want to be my guarantor? Do you know what debts I have, what problems? No one knows what can happen to me tomorrow, and you will need to cover it. How many millions do you have in order to give me all that I am lacking?

You are a guarantor only in that you build such a relationship toward me where you are concerned that nothing will be lacking for me, that you open yourself up to me, but not physically.

Physically, not one of us is able to do anything. Even with all the US banks backing you, an army armed to the teeth, and a horde of attorneys at your disposal, you still would not be able to be my guarantor in anything. So, how can we commit to be guarantors for each other?

This is not the guarantee of anything except your opening the way for the Light. You neutralize my ego, and the Light enters and changes my attitude toward life. I am transformed into a new person. You don’t need to show me that you have any knowledge or any ability, any corporeal covering for my problems or shortcomings. You only need to open the door to the Light, and I suddenly stop worrying about myself.

What is needed from you is only trying to relate to me from above your ego, and all the rest the Light will do. The Creator will finish this work for me, but you need to begin it. If you are carrying a heavy bag on your back and the bag is about to fall from your shoulders, then you will get help to carry it. However, if the bag is not heavy and not falling and you just cry that it is difficult for you, then don’t expect help.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/13, Shamati #38 “The Fear of God Is His Treasure”

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