We shouldn’t just teach a person good manners but really need to change his nature. Otherwise the story about the cats that were trained to be waiters and wear a suit will repeat itself. According to the Hassidic fable, the moment the cats saw the mice, they threw the trays they were carrying and chased them.

This means that we can teach a person to behave politely, but the moment a certain pleasure shines for him, he will throw away everything you have taught him and run away. We have to change a person’s nature! Therefore, we have to be very realistic and to understand whether we have the power to do so or not. If we don’t, then we shouldn’t bother people and should let them enjoy life as much as they can: at a bar with friends having a glass of beer or at a football field munching a snack.

The point is whether you intend to correct the world with the Light or whether you are just wasting people’s time with your ideas. In order to have the Light that Reforms you need to be arranged as a spiritual vessel, a vessel called mutual guarantee. This is what you should take care of first of all since otherwise there is no point going out to the public.

If we go out to the public equipped with the force of the Light, it means that we enable the Creator to fight in our place. After all, what can we do by ourselves? We have already found out from our experience that the Creator shatters to pieces all the attempts people make to establish a welfare society by themselves. We are yet to see in the near future how the American economy will collapse and totally disintegrate and the tremendous effect it will have on the whole world.

It’s time for the Light to operate! Without the Light everything will fall to pieces. Once there was a big ego that held the grains of sand together and we could build this whole world like kids who build sand castles on the beach. But today this connection is gone, the ego has disappeared and it doesn’t hold the grains of sand together anymore. It has no fuel left, no filling that can nourish it.

What can you do with a person who doesn’t want anything and is ready to spend the rest of his life living with his mother, who doesn’t want to work, and who sat the age of 20 dreams about a small allowance in order to survive somehow. The ego isn’t working today since it sees no benefit in it. So from what can we build something? We see that everything is falling apart and the crisis is everywhere, in every part of the world. Strong nations such as Syria are so badly destroyed that it will take 30-50 years to rebuild it, if at all.

Flourishing countries are becoming deserts since the Light has to come and revive the vessels now. This depends only on you! So you will have to come out to the world and bring them the method. If you don’t bring them the method that has to go through you, everyone will blame you and feel that you are responsible for all the problems in the world and they will demand it from you. It’s a serious situation. You cannot just live the day, everything can turn upside down in a moment.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/01/13, Shamati #38 “The Fear of God Is His Treasure”

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Question: Goals promoted in the outer environment influence me much more strongly than the goal that is set by the Kabbalist and what the group tries to convey to me. What can be done with this contradiction?

Answer: I have a purpose for which I live. If not for that, I would be living the life of a “beast,” I exist because I cannot die and intermittently I satisfying myself with “animal feed.”

But no, I have a goal in life, and I need to be locked onto this with the help of the group, arranging everything so I aim only for this goal. And all the rest of my activities are done according to my life’s goal.

And the goal of life is the revelation of the Creator, which is adherence with Him. This goal is attained through the principle, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” by means of connection in a group. And I must be attracted only to this and adhere to this alone.

In fact, we are talking about the construction of the spiritual Partzufim that are “inserted” one within the other. The core of everything is the purpose of life. To reach it I need the group. To strengthen the group, dissemination is needed. And therefore I need the entire world or the “nations of the world.”

But the main thing for me is the goal of life, while all others are the essential components required to attain it. And if not for the goal, I would not resort to them. I do and use only what helps me on the way to the goal.

According to this, from the group I need only what is good for attaining the goal, and therefore the entire group must realize the goal for me. Therefore it is said, “He chooses a better environment all the time,” I change the group all of the time and take from it things that are required for me to attain the goal.

The process is dynamic: The dissemination is changing all the time according to what we need for strengthening the group in order to find the shared power in its center and to discover the Creator. But in order to discover the Creator in the center of the group through the power of the guarantee within the group and through the right dissemination, I need to go out to the wider world, to receive deficiencies, obligations, fears, and anxieties from people so that they will push me and obligate me to act. Then I will reach the right demand, and then I discover the Creator.

All of these components are needed on the way except from the external world as it is, the dissemination that we do is enough. We have three levels: the Creator in the center of the group, the group itself with a guarantee and I’m in the group, and dissemination. This is the right agreement that is familiar to us: the lower, the upper, and the upper upper; or interior, middle, and exterior.

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The main difficulty on the way is that we don’t feel any deficiency for the goal of creation. Our deficiency is the opposite because I naturally think only about my inner state, how to complete what I lack, how to get this. And if I had everything, then I wouldn’t think about anything at all.

But I am not prepared to think about how to fulfill what the whole universe lacks, including the still, vegetative, animate, and human levels, or how to fulfill the Creator through them. Does He lack something? I don’t feel His deficiency. Somehow I can feel the deficiencies of others, but not the desire of the Creator. How would I know how to give Him contentment? I do not have the correct, purposeful, deficiency in me, not even the beginning of such a deficiency.

But the final corrected state that already exists in nature affects me; despite the lack of desire, I still am attracted to it, if not in my heart, then at least out of curiosity. Or I can get a deficiency from the environment, from the group. They all keep on saying how important this is, so I also begin to pay attention and work on the deficiencies of others. And in this case, the final state of perfection acts on me and begins to awaken changes in me.

Or I see that as the years go by I still have nothing, so I begin to consider what else I can do. I am not concerned about the importance of the goal, only about the years I wasted. I see that it is up to me to do something!

We must begin working with the environment in order to get a deficiency from it, and in response, the “Surrounding Light” arrives and begins to change me more and more.

The main thing is to bring me to a deficiency, to a Kli, and not to the fulfillment. It is up to me to imagine that I am standing before the “Surrounding Light” all the time and it is only up to me to ask! It is as if I come to the ticket window at a train station, peek in, and ask for a train ticket. It is only up to me to ask, and they will give me a ticket for wherever I choose.

I must feel that I will surely get the ticket but on condition that I know where I need to travel and what the next station is. But how would I know where the next station is? To do this, I have to be included in a group, to invest in it, to disappear into it, and to absorb the deficiency from them. If I come to the ticket window to buy a ticket with this deficiency, then without a doubt I will not miss it; I will take the ticket for the right train, for the next station.

That is how I advance from station to station. And it becomes increasingly clearer each time that the station at the final destination is to bring contentment to the Creator. This is also expressed as a deficiency. Because I begin to give contentment to the creatures, I receive a small part of the desire for giving pleasure to the Emanator, the Creator,” all the time. That is how this desire becomes more and more clearly portrayed.

Even though my request is very simple and I don’t understand exactly what I am asking for yet, I receive the Light in response a full set of the complete ten Sefirot. This also includes the Light corresponding to the stony heart, and I begin to understand that it is impossible for me to use it. This also includes the Light corresponding to the Sefirot of Keter, which belongs to a level above me. Within Keter of the lower, we already feel the Malchut of the upper.

That is how I begin to connect many states from the past, present, and future in me. I already understand how it is up to me to build myself in an increasingly advanced form all the time. I begin to feel the cyclicality, the rotation of the wheels that sometimes turn forward, sometimes backward, but always propel the train forward. The wheels turn in different and opposing directions, butt the train steadily approaches the goal.

In the entire complexity of states, the most important thing is for me is to think about the point of a true prayer, that it must be a prayer for the desire for bestowal. The main thing—it is the desire to seek and not the desire to bestow, which is a Kli, the prayer before the prayer, the deficiency of a deficiency for bestowal. That is specifically what I need.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/03/13, Writings of Rabash

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Explaining to the external audience that a good life is only possible if the law of mutual guarantee is observed, we cannot be limited only by appeals. It will leave people untouched, like a school teacher’s instruction that students pay no attention to.

In order to really affect people, we must act not by means of our own strength, but we need to attract the Light. After you bring them the knowledge of what does not exist in our nature, they need to trust you and feel that there is truth in your words; that is the real opportunity to realize what was said.

Due to what force can it be realized? People will not believe us and will consider us naive dreamers. How can we explain the method of integral education in a few words so that they feel the real force behind it in and don’t consider us to be kibbutz members or communists?

Otherwise, you would just lecture that we should love one another and you would be asked, “What? Did you fall from the moon? Don’t you see what world you live in?” You yourself do not care about others in the way you preach. You are talking about completely unrealistic things that no one will accept but a few thousand people like you.

The Creator awakens these thousands of special people around the world and gives them the force to unite. But there is no merit of yours in this at al; it’s all done by the upper force that keeps us. And in what way can we explain to the rest of people how to achieve the good life?

We realize that the Creator is revealed only in this world, in its desires, in this area; there is no other place of revelation. Our relations must improve and then we will feel that the power of love expands between us. It is the Creator. We will reveal Him, but we will reveal here, as taught by the wisdom of Kabbalah, the method of revealing the Creator to the created beings in this world! Indeed, all the spiritual worlds are more sophisticated connections that are revealed between us. They have no separate place, only here.

So, we can go to the outside public only if we have the force that can change a person. When I explained to the people who understand what I was going to do, they immediately said, “So, you want to change nature? Well, go and try!” Smart people, scientists—biologists, politicians, and sociologists—familiar with the human nature of this world understand that it is absolutely impossible like as if to replace a minus with a plus, to cancel the force of gravity. And if that is not possible, what can we talk about?

So, first of all, you must be sure that you possess the power to realize what was said. And when you turn to someone, you should be able to give him the feeling that you are talking about real, feasible things. Without this, you will get not explanations, but sweet dreams. We must give the other party a feeling that we are in mutual guarantee, that there is unity between us, mutual connection, something beyond our nature.

A person does not understand what his nature is but he feels that he is approached by a superman, possessing new abilities, new outlook, perception, extraordinary power, having the tools to realize his words. And this is possible only under the condition that you are armed with mutual guarantee, otherwise the Upper Light will not come with you, will not act through you. The Light is revealed through the vessel of mutual guarantee and then starts to work.

And without mutual guarantee only your selfish, egoistic motives act in you. Therefore, if a person does not feel some special power in you, he will just laugh at you. That is, he will make you understand by this path of suffering that you have to change. He has to see in you Moses coming down from Mount Sinai with the commandments of the covenant in his hand, surrounded by rays of light, with a radiant face!

He has to see in you this inner strength, higher than earthly. After all, you show him an example of social behavior at a level that is above this world. And then the person will agree; he will also want to be able to become like this and will accept your offer.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/01/13, Shamati #38 “The Fear of God Is His Treasure”

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Baal HaSulam, “One Commandment”:  Although Moses received the Torah and the laws for all the generations, to such an extent that the prophet is not entitled to any innovations, his prophecy was only given for a time.

…and his only task is to extend that same prophecy to those generations that are no longer worthy of receiving from the first.

And the last prophet is the Messiah, who completes them all. He, too, is certainly not permitted to add or subtract, but his success will be greater, since the whole generation will be fit to accept his words and be completed through him.

Question: What meant by a “prophet”?

Answer: I say something to the extent of my understanding. A prophet is someone who is connected to the Creator on the level of Bina (where he “hears”) or on the level of Hochma (where he “sees”). A prophet is a messenger who operates especially outside himself on behalf of the public, of the external circles, for the sake of correcting the vessels, the desires.

We go through different corrections in the general system: different parts of desires connect in different manners. So a certain “area,” a certain desire, a certain part, has a role, to bring about additional corrections to some of the desires, “areas,” or parts of the system. So, with regard to them, this part is called a prophet. The additional abundance for the correction of a certain part of the general soul goes through him.

On the whole, the creation is made of the still, vegetative, and animate nature and the speaking that communicate with each other in different ways. Then a certain part is revealed and it reflects a certain power and special guidance to the other parts. The effect of this part is not limited to a certain time span of its activity and it actually joins the system that needs to be corrected for a certain amount of actions or “years.”

Thus a prophet operates in his time, but his actions and his contribution remain in the system. He had a special vessel, a special soul, through which the Creator operates on others.

On the one hand, this is the Creator’s choice from within the system, of course, and on the other hand, it is still a person’s work too. It is the work that waits until he reaches this role, but this role is already predetermined, and made for him and he cannot escape it.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/01/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam “One Commandment“

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We lack the urge, the yearning, the intention, the stimulation, and the need. We seem to want spirituality, we listen and study but we are not burning to such an extent that it becomes an obsession, an existential fear. What can we do if we don’t have such a burning desire?

It seems that we cannot bring ourselves to feel the correct fear by ourselves in order to draw the Light that Reforms. We are not strong enough for it. We cannot get close enough to one another so that we will feel that we really need that, so that all our prayers, hopes, and desires will connect and mix so that each one loses his sensation of self. We don’t feel the need for that, we don’t have such a desire!

It is only when we get a new deficiency from the outside, from external people who demand our help and we feel under pressure and helpless. It’s like a person who lives by himself and doesn’t really worry about himself, thinking that he will manage somehow. But after he has a family all day long he thinks about what he will bring home in the evening to feed his children. These are already obligations from which you cannot escape.

It’s the same in our case. When we establish connections with the public and promise them something, then as result of the inclination for respect, control, and fear of shame, we are forced to worry about the fulfillment of all our commitments. The need to fill the deficiencies of the public forces us to be more strongly connected between us, we feel to what extent we need the friends.

If these external deficiencies are not sufficient to make us feel the worry and the fear of the need to reach connection, the Creator also sends us enemies and persecutors against whom we have to fight and win. Otherwise it hurts our pride and our good reputation making us feel uneasy and disappointed. Thus, new voids are revealed in us that we could never reveal by ourselves because of the body of our ego’s protective force. The Creator reveals them by sending external opponents, “barking dogs.”

We have to regard all these means as help from above. These negative forces add to our weak powers through which we have tried to connect and to attain something; it gives us a strong push forward and corporeal impressions that penetrate to our bones and hit us in the most sensitive spot.

Let’s hope that these powers will be strong enough to bring us to the cry for help, as it says “and the children of Israel cried out from the work. And the Lord heard their moan.” This is very serious work. We mustn’t blur and ignore these attacks but rather should fear them, feel ashamed, and work with the right means that we have been given in order to succeed.

These are all “help against.” Nothing in our world was created for no reason but only to help us. Although we have to guard ourselves and to take the right stand concerning the criticism and all the problems we encounter, worrying about the success and the fulfillment of our promises to the public, we also have to thank the Creator for all the means, the bitter impressions, the medicine for our ego that help us detach ourselves from it and to ascend.

We have to be equipped with a deficiency that covers up the gap between the two levels: the current level and the next level, the spiritual one. The formula for that includes my desire to receive and that of the public and of my enemies. We have to connect all that to one formula and to include it in a prayer, MAN, in order to make it powerful enough to receive a response from above, MAD. MAN and MAD create the Direct Light and the Returning Light and raise all of us connected as one to the next higher level.

It’s our common ascent. Moses didn’t come out of Egypt by himself, he only escaped to Jethro for a while and then returned. Only together can we exit the enslavement of the ego and this we mustn’t forget.

We establish a strong desire to come out of Egypt and to leap to the new spiritual level by our wide dissemination. All the fears, anxieties, blows, and disappointments were given to us only in order to connect us more strongly and to force us to escape at the right moment. Pharaoh’s army, the negative force, and the night that under its cover we have the opportunity to escape despite the dark and unpleasant state, all connect into the right entirety of the forces that are meant to lead to our birth into the new world.
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From the Preparation to the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/30/13

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All religions and philosophy are based on knowledge leaked to them from Kabbalah. The prohibitions and concealments of the wisdom of Kabbalah were imposed by Kabbalists. Such concealment allowed others to sell stolen knowledge as if it were their own.

On the other hand, however, when Kabbalah was finally revealed, everyone inevitably oppose it, because it’s a revelation of the source of all other teachings. After all, their existence depends on the fact that Kabbalah was hidden.

All religions are based on concealment. If the Creator were revealed, would there still be a place for religions and faiths? What can you to believe in, if everything is clear to all?

In other words, there are only 3 states:

1. The state of revelation that existed at the time of the First and the Second Temple, when people clearly sensed the Creator, and everyone knew what to do.

2. The state of concealment that is divided into two:

1) a period when even the method of the Creator’s revelation was hidden

2) a period of revelation of the method of Kabbalah in order to reveal the Creator.

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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/16/2010, “The Handmaid that Is Heir to Her Mistress”

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The Book of Zohar, Chapter “Bereshit – 2”, Item 101: “When everyone is included as one into a third chamber, and the desire and the prayer rises to take its place in the fourth chamber, then all become as one—one desire and one connection, and this is the place of the bowing to bring contentment to one’s Maker.”

We have to make efforts to see the entire creation as it still exists in its first and third states. The second state, which we currently observe, is only a play of our imagination, as it is said “We were as dreamers.”

We have to rise above the dream and wake up. Depending on how strong our aspiration to stay alert and sense the genuine reality is, to that degree we elicit the Light, accelerating time (Achishena) so that it influences us.

Probably, it is better not to delve into internal scrutiny, wanting to discover how much we are in hatred instead of love. Perhaps, it is still difficult for us. It is better to aspire to the authentic state because essentially, we are in the world of infinity, the world of unity, perfection, and integration. But now, we are experiencing a certain confusion, which is purposely given to us, because only by applying our efforts to attain perfection and interconnection do we reveal the original state and wake up from unconsciousness. Similarly, a person who wants to wake up from sleep, become round, needs to apply certain efforts. Although, we are awakened from outside, we still have to try to wake up internally.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/28/12, The Zohar

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An assembly of friends is the highest state that we can attain and receive in this world as a vessel that raises a prayer (MAN) to the Creator. All the corrections that we can make are only made by raising our prayer (MAN) to a higher level. The state in which we create and form our prayer (MAN) symbolizes our common connection with all our GE, with the desires to bestow that we raise above the desire to receive.

We cut off the desires to bestow from our desire to receive by giving up the desires to receive, our AHP. If the desires to bestow connect into one whole in bestowal upon the Creator, a prayer (MAN) is created, a request, a deficiency to acquire and to receive the force of bestowal. It’s because a prayer doesn’t even contain a desire to bestow but only a desire to acquire a desire. It’s because a desire is already power.

Such a prayer should be the result of the assembly of friends, of connection. An assembly of friends doesn’t mean that our physical bodies gather in some physical place at a certain time. It’s a spiritual concept, something that we create that exists above the limits of time, motion, and place. It’s about this that we have to constantly maintain and care.

The eyes of all the friends should be focused only on that one point, on the center of our group. We should constantly check what happens to it. When does this group become Shechina, a collection of our desires with regard to the Creator, so that the Light that Reforms will give it such a form that the Creator will be able to dress and settle in it according to the law of the equivalence of form, like a cloud that descends upon us, like fog that fills an indentation? It’s about this that we should constantly worry.
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From the Preparation to the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/30/13

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