Rabash, Letter 16: It is known that it is impossible to see a small object and it is easier to see a large object. Hence, when a person commits a few lies, he cannot see the truth—that he is walking on a false path. Rather, he says that he is walking on the path of truth. But there is no greater lie than that. And the reason is that he does not have enough lies to see his true state.

But when a person has acquired many lies, the lies grow in him to the extent that he can see them if he wishes. Thus, now that he sees the lies, that he is walking on a false path, he sees his true state. In other words, he sees the truth in his soul and how to turn to the right path.

It follows that this point, which is a point of truth, that he is treading a false path, is the medium between truth and falsehood. This is the bridge that connects truth and falsehood. This point is also the end of the lie and from here on begins the path of truth.

Thus, we can see that to be rewarded with Lishma (for Her Name), we first need to prepare the biggest Lo Lishma (not for Her Name), and then we can achieve Lishma. And similarly, Lo Lishma is called a “lie” and Lishma is called “truth.”

The disclosure of falsehood is the very point from which a person can start correction because he will see that he is in falsehood and can no longer endure this condition. A lie is what that goes against the truth. A person has a point that does not allow him to agree with a lie, “You can kill me, but I cannot accept this!”

This is the point of truth, where the truth and the lie converge. A person stands in the middle and cannot agree with a lie whatever it may cost him. If I stay at this point with a lie, I disappear from the universe!

My desire has only one point like this, which came to me from the desire to bestow upon the Creator, where it is felt that “He is first.” At that moment when I finally clarify my nature, I feel that there is His desire inside of my desire. Then I can no longer remain in my desire because it will be a complete lie to me. I see that there is life; its source is in the spark of the Creator hidden within creation. This point is the beginning of the birth of the human being.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/11/13, Writings of Rabash

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Baal HaSulam, “Peace in the World:” Therefore, we must understand and be very careful when casting a flaw in any item of Creation, saying it is redundant and superfluous, as that would be slander about its Operator.

Humanity is beginning to realize after it has suffered from “clever” theories that required eradicating “extra” for the sake of everyone’s welfare. Once, there was an opinion that our body had “unnecessary” parts. Up until now, we have practiced social regulation by artificial, contrived criteria. In education, culture, economy, politics, trade, in all areas, we resort to unnatural measures and forms of governance. The consequence of this is the distortions that raise the level of our suffering to the world crisis.

In fact, we need to learn the correct development from nature. It is perfect initially and we are its consequence. Our thoughts and feelings also stem from what it has given us. So we just have to imitate it, take its example.

Indeed, many of the latest technologies are based on the knowledge of natural systems and mechanisms in the attempt to reproduce them artificially.

We must do the same thing in society, in our social, economic, trade, and other relations. If we had copied nature on ourselves, we would have gotten rid of all the problems.

It is common knowledge that the Creator did not complete Creation when He created it. And we can see in every corner of reality, in the general and in the particular, that it abides by laws of gradual development, from absence to completion of growth. For this reason, when the fruit tastes bitter at the beginning of its growth, it is not considered a flaw in the fruit, since we all know the reason: the fruit has not yet completed its development.

And so it is in every element of reality: When some element appears bad and harmful to us, it is but a self-testimony of that element, that it is still in the transition phase – in the process of its development. Hence, we cannot decide that it is bad and it is not wise for us to cast a flaw in it.

We can say that the world is evolving and we are discovering more complex things in it or we can say that we ourselves are developing and that is why we see the world in more advanced and complex ways.

Whether we are talking about the world outside or the world inside of us is not important. The final conclusion can be simple: “Don’t touch Nature. Don’t stir it with your “dirty” hands and your stupid mind that is able to see just what is within a millimeter of your nose. You better take care of yourself. You have the globe. So, try to live in peace with it and if not it will not be good for you.”

With our corrupt mind, our “dirty,”—that is, egoistic—hands, we interfere with the matters of the Earth, the wealth and resources of which are limited. They are given to us only to move forward in a balanced way according to nature, not adversely against this universal all-encompassing system.

If we do realize our negative attitude, nature immediately begins to defend itself automatically and we encounter the consequences of our increasing error in its response. This causes great suffering, crisis, and the threat to our very existence: the danger of annihilation.

All this because we do not understand: Nature is perfect, and we just need to learn how to join this system fully in a balanced way.

Question: Does this mean that we need to adopt vegetarianism, naturalism, environmentalism, and other methods of this kind?

Answer: If they had stemmed from deep, thorough studies of nature, I would have agreed with them, without even becoming familiar with them completely. The entire point is in the rational, exploring approach.

The principle is simple: The human being is not prohibited from doing anything that does not disturb the natural balance. Of course, we can eat meat and fish, cut down trees, plant plants, and enjoy life. However, we must always know where the boundary is beyond which there are actions directed against balance, and how well we fit in the system of nature.

How can I check this? It is only through my egoism. Where I use it, there, harm begins. After all, nature is an analog system that is entirely altruistic and based on mutual bestowal. All its parts, similar to the organs of our body, care only about the welfare of the whole. This is the way we should see nature in order to check ourselves. Do we act in a similar manner? Do we seek perfection or not?

This is what it means to act not artificially but naturally, to be in constant love and bestowal, which is the law of nature instead of egoism that seeks its own advantage. Thus, at our level, we can carry out the law of nature, “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” the law by which its every part lives.

A predator, devouring prey, never does it for the enjoyment of the suffering of others. He just hunts for food and nothing more. The deeper we understand nature, the more convinced of this we become.

Accordingly, we need to understand what and how much we must receive from nature. There is no problem if we use it only to live with it in balance, in other words, if all our actions are for the good of others, for the benefit of the still, vegetative, and animate nature.

How is this achieved? First, we need to correct our own nature. After all, what the lower levels perform instinctively, we must realize in what is called “above reason,” above egoism, and for this we study the method of integral education.

Question: In nature, the strong eat the weak, and it does not disturb harmony. However, this causes a devastating effect among people.

Answer: Uncorrected egoism acts in us. However, in fact, this law should be carried out differently among people, the strong helping the weak in correction. The wolf eating the sheep brings correction, for example, helping the population get rid of the weak animals. Thus, we must help each other according to the same principle of harmony and balance, only it is not eating, but equal love toward everyone at the human level, commitment for the sake of others.

Question: How can we measure our strength or weakness in this context?

Answer: It is through service to others. Either I serve them or use them.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/9/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: We say that the principle of love for the other as for oneself is the law of Nature, but can we learn this from it?

Answer: If we could learn this from nature, we would not need integral education.

However, it is possible to learn from nature how to build integral systems. We see from their example that we are not able to integrate into nature and we are unable to identify ourselves with it.

The problem is that no one knows how to establish balance with nature, how to achieve similarity, unity with it. Humanity cannot find the answer to this question by its own power. Here, we are needed, the carrier of the Light that Reforms. We explain to people that the world is integral, that it represents an analog system similar to our body, all the parts of which interact harmoniously with each other, while a person is like a cancerous tumor devouring everything around.

Modern scientists conduct remarkable studies on this topic. The disease is clearly marked and it is clear that it progresses threatening to destroy the entire human race. What if we die out like mammoths? What if it happens in my generation or my children’s generation? What can we do?

It is becoming clear that there is no remedy. After all, it also has to be received from Nature. However, researchers learn from it only in the negative. They state our oppositeness to it and do not know how to become integral.

An indifferent conclusion follows: “Whatever.” Everyone finds his niche, his argument, his justification. Economists say one thing, sociologists say another, politicians, a third, and there is still no solution. They see the negative of our world (–), opposite to perfect nature (+), but cannot figure out how to achieve a balanced state, how to come to equilibrium. This cannot be learned from nature.

That is why the world needs the method of correction, the wisdom of Kabbalah. It teaches how to develop in three lines when the Light is opposed to our ego, and we know how to form the middle line between them, how to balance them.

People without the point in the heart (●) cannot know that because the human ego is manifested in them, while in us, the higher ego resists love. We try to come to love and discover hatred, one that is unknown. It is possible to get along with their hatred and that is why they do not have vessels, the tools for the solution. They are like helpless children and only we can solve today’s problems.

Thus, it is our duty to reveal the difference of potentials to humanity, the entire gap between plus and minus. It, itself, will not clarify the problem to the end because it does not have a solution. Why do we need to reopen the wound? Similarly, spouses avoid problem areas in order not to quarrel for nothing.

Only we can understand the disease and establish its final diagnosis because we have a cure for it.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/9/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: What type of connection should be formed in the “tens” in order to feel the inner connection with the teacher within this unity since only through him can we establish connection with the Creator?

Answer: Working in the group of ten, you do not have to think about the teacher. I say this not out of some kind of modesty, but because this is not the right approach. The teacher must be high enough in the student’s eyes and respected enough so as to become a magnifying glass through which you look at your path to the Creator and can advance. You use this lens, your teacher, as glasses, but he does not become your goal.

You look not at the glass, but at what is behind it; however, you can see this only with its help. This lens focuses your line of sight on the Creator correctly; this is the role of the teacher and the group.

I see all my students united in one circle, in one body, and I speak addressing this one person. If you try to be included in this common body and connect with them in the way I see them connected, you will receive spiritual information from me. We will meet inside this common body, and there we will really understand each other.

If you want to understand what I am saying, you can understand this in your mind or feel in your heart, but to understand truly you need to be precisely in the center of the group, as if you are walking around the room trying to hear a faint sound and suddenly you find the place where you can hear it well! And if you step a meter to one side or the other side, you will hear nothing. Try it!

It’s necessary to feel the importance of the teacher but only to the extent that is required to perform the work in the group for the sake of revelation of the Creator. The teacher is your instructor, a guide on the spiritual path but not an idol or a king replacing the Creator by Pharaoh’s example.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/9/13, Writings of Rabash

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Question: It’s unclear how there is still a hierarchy in which there are those who dominate and those who are dominated in a closed, healthy system that is totally connected and all its parts are equal. The hierarchical mechanism is based on linear domination and on an accurate order of cause and effect. So can a linear mechanism be part of a round network?

Answer: It’s hard to perceive the dualism of spirituality that is caused by the fact that we are under the influence of two forces. We are influenced by Malchut of Ein Sof before the first restriction where everything was one with the Creator and everyone was equal.

After the first restriction a line was created through which we descended from the world of Ein Sof into this world by 125 steps and then return through it to Ein Sof. But what is the difference, for example, between level 80 and level 81?

On level 81 there is a stronger connection and also a stronger influence, so on level 80 the world of Ein Sof, which means its infinite mutual connection, seems to us at an intensity level of 80 units out of 125. On level 81, the world of Ein Sof is revealed to us at the level of intensity of 81 out of 125.

But these two forces operate in every state. So, on the one hand, we have to constantly see the world of Ein Sof as the goal in which we are incorporated in the Creator in adhesion with Him. On the other hand, we can advance to the perfect “round” state only with the help of serial linear actions.

It’s a wonder that after taking a step I incorporate into wholeness in the world of Ein Sof! Then I start to work with my desire to receive again, with the Masach (screen), measuring everything accurately which means that I don’t operate in Ein Sof anymore, but in a line. I draw the Light that Reforms, perform a spiritual action, take another step, and then there is the wonder again, I am in the breathtaking world of Ein Sof again!

In what way is the new Ein Sof greater than the previous one? There are more whole attributes in it, round attributes, although I managed to reach the round wholeness by the straight linear way.

Thus we get the outline of creation in which straightness connects the circles. On every level, the first three Sefirot are connected with all the ten Sefirot of that circle. This means that we are always both in a straight state and in a round one.

It is a person who connects the linear advancement with the round one. The creation is linear and the Creator is wholeness, round, and a person’s work is to connect them, and to turn the darkness into light, and the bitter to sweet. A person attains the Creator forever after he turns the line into a circle in the point of connection between the line and the circle.

But he attains Ein Sof on every level, even on the lowest level. In the meantime, however, he finds it hard to see as if looking at it without glasses.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/04/13, Talmud Eser Sefirot

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Question: What can I give the Creator?

Answer: You felt a certain unpleasantness by receiving in the world of Ein Sof (Infinity) and you stopped and said to yourself that you don’t want to receive anymore. In the world of the shattering, the world of Nekudim, you were shattered since you couldn’t receive in order to bestow. We know from TES that the upper Partzufim made an intentional mistake in the calculations. But why were you shattered? It is because you discovered a love that you couldn’t receive in order to bestow, that you could not return!

The filling itself is not important, not the five servings that the host serves you. The five servings already appear in the world of Adam Kadmon, and it’s clear to you whether you can receive them or not. Everything is clear with regard to the servings, but now you discover that the host has a special attitude towards you, that He loves you! And you cannot stand this attitude and it shatters you.

Love shatters in the most severe manner, since you have nothing to return, there is nothing you can do. So a person that is dedicated to someone, like a wife to her husband, totally buys him. If she shows him that she is ready to do everything for him, he cannot reject her, it is unconditional love.

It’s impossible to resist such love that is revealed in the shattering of the vessels; the created being cannot pay for it, he has nothing to complete it by. So as a result of the shattering, we finally begin to search and we find out what we can give in return to the love of the upper.

As a result we understand what the “two great Lights” are: Malchut and Zeir Anpin, the created being and the Creator that become one: “I am for my beloved and my beloved is for me.”

Question: Can’t I pay for this love just by my dedication, appreciation, admiration, and the recognition of His greatness?

Answer: No, because you have no other parameter but your desire, you cannot measure love and you don’t know what love is. You know what love is only by your own vessel.

You think that expressing your love towards the Creator is repaying Him several kilograms of desire with a Masach (screen), but love is typical only of the Creator. If you measure and calculate this, then thanks to the connection between you, the Light of His love fills the two of you. This means that “you are covered by one blanket.” The Light of love comes from the Creator and wraps the two of you since you both reach adhesion; since mutual love is called adhesion, you have the common vessels that are filled by the common Light thanks to the common Masach.
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From the 3^rd part of Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/17/13, Talmud Eser Sefirot

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Question: The wisdom of Kabbalah has used four languages throughout history: the language of the Bible, the language of Halacha (Jewish Law), the language of the Haggadah, and the language of Kabbalah. Can we say that the language of integral education is the fifth new language that we use in order to communicate with the world?

Answer: No. It’s more like the language of Kabbalah, adapted for “babies.”  It’s because we speak to people about love, connection, submission, about the collective force of bestowal that is revealed in the connection between us. This force is revealed from a higher level and dwells among us just like wisdom for the masses. We explain the psychology of integral education using today’s terminology behind which there is no other but the wisdom of Kabbalah: the Sefirot, Partzufim, the worlds, ascents and descents, mutual connection, Reshimot (reminiscences), etc.

Question: If in the past it used to be enough for me to study the wisdom of Kabbalah and to connect with the friends and the group, do I also have to study this style of Kabbalistic language today?

Answer: Yes. It is the uniqueness of integral education. Similarly, we explain to children and adults the same things in different ways. The connection with the world goes through a different level of communication and we have to learn it.

It’s the Light that Reforms that corrects everyone. It doesn’t come to the masses if we don’t participate in the process. If the world starts connecting independently, it will speed up the pace of advancing along the path of suffering.

For example, if Europe begins to strengthen the union that it needs so badly today, it will lead to Nazi regimes, and local communes that abuse others. But if we work on the unity of Europe, then it will take on a spiritual form, according to the rule of “love thy friend as thyself.” Therefore, we mustn’t give the world time to start the egoistic connection. Only if we initiate the process of connection among them will it lead to a positive result.

Question: How can we do that?

Answer: By using the media, through our groups, and mainly through the general network that connects all of us “below the surface.” Through it, we will influence people and they will begin to understand that we have the right method of correction and no one else.

In fact, accepting integral education is the criterion that a person is ready to be corrected. This is the fulfillment of the wisdom of Kabbalah, as it says in the articles “Matan Torah” (The Giving of the Torah) and “The Arvut” (Mutual Guarantee). So our role is to become teachers, a “kingdom of priests and a holy nation” with regards to the nations of the world. This is actually the field where we perform our external actions—”a field blessed by the Creator.”
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/03/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: What characterizes the peak of exile from which we reach redemption?

Answer: First of all, the exile begins when we feel that the evil inclination disturbs us from connection. I yearn for the Creator and therefore I yearn for connection, but my nature is standing in the way and blocks it and so it doesn’t let me go forward. This is what actually happened among the sons of Jacob at that time.

And at the peak of the exile we see that Pharaoh wins, and so we find ourselves in the “Egyptian darkness,” under the enormous dominance of the “angel of death,” which leaves no hope. We are so eager to connect understanding that our entire life depends only on this, and simultaneously we see that it’s impossible.

And precisely from within this darkness the command is heard: “Leave.” And so the possibility of salvation is revealed to us. In a state of absolute powerlessness when there is no chance of salvation, when everyone is in despair, hopeless, only the Creator with His glory and by Himself and nothing else except that higher power brings us out to the light.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/06/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Our sages said: “All of Israel is responsible for each other.” This is clear even from the days of Abraham who discovered the method of correction and gathered people who understood that it is possible to change the world only by changing man. In addition to that, by changing man we don’t simply change the world but also change our perception of reality and then instead of this world we feel the upper world. These are the people that Abraham taught how to connect, so that they would be able to establish the attribute of mutual bestowal in the connection between them, which is the vessel for the revelation of the upper world, the upper state.

The state of the egoistic connection and of what is felt within it is called “this world.” The new state in which we are connected and love one another is called “the upper world.” Besides, in this new state, in the mutual connection between us, we feel the general force of nature. We have not designed ourselves by ourselves in mutual bestowal, but there is a force above us that stems from nature which is in equivalence of form with us and is now being revealed in us. This is called the “revelation of the Creator to the created being.”

So, a “created being” is those who managed to connect as “one man in one heart,” in mutual bestowal. Thus, according to the equivalence of form, we reach the upper state. So, the principle of “all of Israel is responsible for each other” can be understood in two directions, straight and opposite:

·         If you belong to the category of “Israel,” you are responsible for everyone.

·         If people connect and want to belong to the category of “Israel,” they have to be responsible for each other.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/05/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Baal HaSulam, “The Love of the Creator and the Love of the Created Beings”: Thus, each and every Mitzvah that one performs affects the whole world. It is like a person who weighs seeds on a scale. Just like each and every seed one puts on the scale induces the final desired decision, so each Mitzvah that the individual performs before the whole earth is full of the knowledge develops the world in that direction.

It is said, “But one sinner destroyeth much good.” It means that one’s sinning reduces the weight on the scale, as though that person took back the beans he had put on the scale. By that one turns the world backwards.

Question: I don’t understand how we can reach the general correction if every wrong action that anyone might do may ruin everything.

Answer: There is concealment from the top down as the system of the worlds extends, which means the system of concealment. It operates so that even if we, who are beginners, commit great sins below, it doesn’t count as sins.

Just as a baby is forgiven when he breaks something since there is nothing we can do. But when he grows up we have certain demands and even greater demands of an older person, although he can also be forgiven the first time.

So we are operated upon and operate only according to our current level, and its according to this level that the benefit or harm that we bring society is determined. This is the system of concealment, the “spiritual jurisdiction,” that decreases the influence of the upper Light and builds a kind of a cone where the lower point stands for the minimal demands, on the verge of “forgiveness,” and as we rise the demands increasingly expand.

Still, you must know that in your current state, you influence all of reality. A person is a whole world, but it’s not at the expense of others and each one discovers his whole world inside him.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/05/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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