Because the created being is opposite in its nature from the Creator but has to reach equivalence of form with Him, we as created beings have these two opposite forms inside us. Our inner form, our desire to receive, is opposite from the Creator and the external form of the desire has to be similar to that of the Creator. This collision, this conflict, breaks us; we cannot get along with it unless we begin our true spiritual work.

Here we develop as every spiritual vessel. First there is only a desire to receive, and then it is restricted. After the restriction a Masach (screen) and the Returning Light appear, and then there is the receiving of the Light and the fulfillment. This fulfillment is not in the vessel itself in the desire to receive, but it is received in the form of bestowal, which the created being has corrected by himself in resembling the Creator.

These two opposite parts are constantly in the created being who has achieved an equivalence of form with the Creator. On the one hand, it is opposite the Creator according to its natural desire, but on the other hand, the form of the corrected desire is in equivalence of form with the Creator.

So sorrow and joy, emptiness and wholeness coexist, and it’s this oppositeness that makes our work whole, since by that we can detach from our “self,” which means from the desire to receive, to rise above it and to speak from the desire to bestowal, from the height we have attained and built above us. This is why there is a Mitzvah (commandment) to work for the Creator with joy, since this is the general formula. We will always feel the oppositeness and the emptiness in our desires to receive, and we should be happy that we have a chance to work above this feeling.

Even if I have no energy to pray and have nothing to pray for or don’t know what to ask for, it’s also a sign that I am on the right track, since I feel a bitter taste in my desire to receive. Here the two opposites meet: On the one hand, I have no energy to pray, I cannot turn to the Creator, there is nothing I can ask from Him and I have nothing to give Him, but on the other hand, I am very attracted to it and I know that I have to attain it.

This area already with two forces, two lines, two opposite directions, indicate that my desire is in a correct process of correction. This alone is a good enough reason to be happy! The main thing is the awareness that I have managed to rise a bit above my desire to receive, towards bestowal.
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From the Preparation the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/20/12

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Question: Is the state of war Israel is in now actually a result of the actions of upper forces, of the coupling of spiritual systems (Partzufim)?

Answer: This was caused by the delay in our corrections and because we didn’t draw the Light that Reforms by them, so that it could create a much higher coupling than the one that takes place automatically in the world of Atzilut without our intervention.

Unless we study Kabbalah and draw more of the Light that Reforms to the world, this will continue in the same manner. It is like a person who lives and dies—that’s how it will constantly alternate: One time war, one time truce, but essentially nothing will change.

We know very well that time passes and nothing changes. At best we will have a truce for several years and then things will get worse. Then we will discover that it isn’t ten thousands missiles that are aimed at us, like today, but millions, and much more powerful ones. So what will we do then? There is no chance we can succeed.

The Creator will arrange these situation for us over and over again until we finally understand that a special decision must be taken here, not a rational one, but above our reason. After all, this problem cannot be solved by our corporeal mind. It is only possible by unity, by which we draw the Light that Reforms.

If we constantly speak about it and act accordingly, people will gradually begin to perceive and to absorb this idea, when they feel that this is a realistic idea and that it is the only way to be saved.

After all, even if we are not being attacked by missiles, we are still at a state of war, not only a revealed war but a cold war as well. We cannot calm down for a moment under the conditions of the internal and the external threat. War is our permanent state, the reflection of the endless coupling of the forces in the upper worlds. That’s the way it will be unless we participate in it and turn it to the good.

War is the permanent state of this world. The whole world is in a state of endless war. How can it be otherwise if our ego is constantly looking for ways to hurt others, to beat, and to destroy? We are constantly looking for new conquests for it, which means that we are carrying on an endless war.

Thus we are being pushed from Above to the recognition of our evil inclination. Everything comes from the Creator, since if we are opposite from the upper worlds, how else can we receive this action? There is an endless coupling in the world of Atzilut, in endless bestowal and love, but when this illumination reaches us we turn it around to its absolute opposite form.

The most loving mother must punish her child if he doesn’t listen to her, since he may hurt himself otherwise. On her part this action comes out of love, but when he receives it, it turns into a blow.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/20/12, The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Special Edition: Events in Southern Israel

People are starting to wonder about the reasons for what is happening. “Why should I live under fire?”

People feel unhappy and this should encourage them to find a solution. Otherwise the pressure will only increase, and the enemies will gain strength, which they did not have before.

The way out is to turn to the network of forces that connect us and reach harmony, mutual love. The solution is in us, and not in the war with enemies. Until we unite, troubles and problems will pressure us more, like nuts in a bag.
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Question: According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, everything is revealed in a person. So, where are the spiritual worlds about which we study in the lessons?

Answer: It is in our attitude to the friends. Once, we were one whole and not slices of a whole “cake.” Then, there was one desire, and the Light resided in it. Later, the desire to receive came between us, the intention of “in order to receive,” and we crumbled.

Today, each cake crumb wants only to enjoy, to compare itself to others at the expense of others, by others. This is what we feel, and it determines everything. Accordingly, if we get rid of it, if we change the intention of “in order to receive” to the intention of “in order to bestow” that is aimed at bestowal, we will collect the pieces of the crumbled cake by ourselves. The upper Light will serve as the glue for that by filling all the voids between us.

Now, we are so contrary to one another that there is a void in everyone’s feelings, a vacuum between a person and the others. What is more, everyone wants to expand this void so as not to have any connection with those around him.

So, when I exit myself and call others, wanting to feel them despite the distance between us, I cannot annul this void. So, I want to ascend in order to build the necessary network above it, the network of the worlds of ABYA.

Then this void is filled by the upper Light. First, it was very small and just held us like cake crumbs, but, now, when we must fill the voids between us with the force of love and bestowal on top of the repulsion that remains, we discover between us a connection that is 620 times stronger. It is as if our cake has been filled with chocolate cream, and there is enough room to fill it with everything that is good.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/20/12, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”: Kabbalists have found that the form of the four worlds, named Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya—beginning with the first, highest world, called Atzilut, and ending in this corporeal, tangible world, called Assiya—is exactly the same in every item and event. This means that everything that eventuates and occurs in the first world is found unchanged in the next world below it, too. It is likewise in all the worlds that follow it, down to this tangible world.

There is no difference between them, but only a different degree, perceived in the substance of the elements of reality in each world.

Imagine a family: Yesterday, we had a fight and today, there is love and peace between us. The general system that is made of seven billion people also reveals new relationships in the network of its mutual connections in the same way. In the world of Assiya there is a bit of indifference, in the world of Yetzira there is renewal, in the world of Beria we are in a state of openness, and in the world of Atzilut we reach fulfillment.

The system, itself, is fixed and rigid. Suppose there is a husband and a wife, children and grandparents; all this makes no difference. Only the mutual relationships among the members of the family can change. This change of attitude is what determines the transition from one world to another.

Thus, I don’t change anything in the structure, but only hasten my development, my ascent up the spiritual ladder, the ladder of relationships. If the relationships within my family are corrupt, I am told, “Something needs to be changed. Try to give in a little.” I answer, “No! No way!” and this is our current state, the current position with regard to the correction. “I should give up my ego?!” Here, we must rise a bit above our stupidity.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/20/12, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash, “Article 257″

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt, Parashat “Emor,” Item 167, Lesson 13

“A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar,” (Starting with: “Hence, it is said in The Zohar, To: “Thus, we have thoroughly explained”)

Lesson Topic: “The Role of the Israeli Nation“

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The Book of Zohar, “Amor,” Item 140: Passover is seven days and Sukkoth is seven days. The wholeness of the joy of Sukkoth is one day, Shemini Atzeret. Why aren’t there seven days in Shavuot? After all Shavuot is the time of the giving of the Torah, which is most important, Passover is the right line, Sukkoth is the left line, and Shavuot is the middle line, which includes the two lines, so it should be seven days, more than in them.

Passover, Shavuot, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, all the festivals and all the days of the year are levels of the spiritual ladder. 6,000 years (the whole period of the correction of the world) is divided into 3 periods, each 2000 years long. When the vessels are revealed: the desires HBD, HGT, NHY, or the worlds of Berya, Yetzira, Asiya.

The souls in these worlds operate by rising together with these worlds to the world of Atzilut. By rising to the world of Atzilut, they attain these special festivals, the Saturdays and the weekdays. So it is about spiritual states, and The Zohar tells us why there are not seven days in Shavuot like in Passover.

We should understand that The Book of Zohar, which we have received is made of separate parts and sections that remained. There are parts where an explanation is cut in the middle and there is nothing afterward. This is all we have left and according to the upper Providence, we don’t need any more.

The authors of The Zohar did much more, they wrote about 100 volumes, everything they put into them they discovered and operated by in the whole system of the souls. Baal HaSulam and Rabash tell us that the sages of the Talmud prepared this system for us that way, so that now the Light operates through it and we are nourished by it and don’t have to precede our spiritual development by a life of sorrow. The authors of The Zohar did the same thing.

Baal HaSulam also wrote many books and burnt them. So what’s the use? The use is in what he put into the system itself. He prepared for us the whole system for correction and so did the authors of The Zohar. Of the whole book of The Zohar, we have received only the commentaries about the Torah, and even that is not whole. The book included much more than that, there was the commentary on the book of the Prophets and the book of Writings, about the whole Bible, but we don’t have it. They wrote these parts and they disappeared because they belonged to the system itself only. We receive it when we discover the system; this is how everything works.

It is the same in a person’s spiritual life, one part immediately goes into the system and another part is revealed. It is the same with our actions, on part is revealed and another is concealed.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/20/12, The Zohar

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It is now, with the country in such a tense state, that we need to invest maximum efforts in order to understand that all these events are only triggers that are intended to bring us to correct decisions, to mutual guarantee. The main thing is to not return to the same level of separation when tomorrow the firing ceases, but to remain at the same level of concern and mutual thoughts that we feel today. At least not to descend from this degree, then it will already be good.

The recognition does not come immediately. It’s like in an acoustic system: First a wave enters, shakes the system, and a certain period of time is required in order for the system to come to equilibrium and stabilize. Only in the end is a response formed at the exit. The same thing is happening today. We need to accept the state, and go through all the four stages of attainment, the recognition, the comparison, the whole process of development, that at the end we’ll finally understand it and make a decision. It will mean that we got this degree, integrated it within us and will no longer descend from it.

For this, we must go through many internal actions, and mainly go through them consciously. And this is not done quickly and easily. Our role is to help this process by constant dissemination in order to bring everybody to connection, to participation in workshops, to explain in all ways, by any means, where possible. This is the maximum that we can do.

We know that we are doing the right thing if we are acting for the sake of connection. The connection is required for us and not only so that the missile assault would stop. Otherwise, it turns out that we want to neutralize the upper force that pushes us forward. Rather we want to attain the goal to which this war is awakening us. It wants to push us to making the right decision and to advance. So let’s make this decision and advance, and then we’ll see that the threat disappears, resolved in a good way.

We constantly ask ourselves, “What next?” and obviously that further on it will be worse, in half a year, a year. The situation will only exacerbate and the conflict will not stop. So how can we finally resolve this problem? Do we have the opportunity or not?

We see how the upper Providence brings all these problems to us, forcing us to build the enemy before us. There is no decision here other than to first hold onto the goal to which all these calamities bring us. If we reveal the force of mutual guarantee between us, it will fulfill everything, and in our connection, the upper force, the Light, will begin to act. Then we won’t have any problems, and we’ll always have extra strength and will make the right decisions.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/16/12, “Peace in the World”

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Question: We disseminate our ideas so that the whole world will reach connection, but in the meantime there are many wars and conflicts all over the world. What can we do so that the connection will take place now?

Answer: First of all, we have to bring about connection among the people of Israel. With regard to the correction, whatever happens in the land of Israel, will also happen all over the world. All the problems in every part of the world, whether in Sudan or in the Basque region of Spain, will stop when the problems encountered by the people of Israel stop. This is where the root of everything is, and if we correct it, the whole world will calm down.

This is the reason that all the nations of the world blame the Jews: “Your are to blame that we feel bad.” And they are right. By that we should understand where the correction is: The abundance that the Nation of Israel can draw will flow through it to the world. In this general system, this nation is the link to the Light, but they cannot draw the Light only for themselves, they have to hold on to the intention for the whole world. Then the whole world will be peaceful.

On the other hand, as long as the Israeli nation doesn’t draw the Light, our enemies will not leave us, since the problem is actually not our enemies or our friends, but this is how the Creator awakens the Israeli nation to draw the Light for the whole world. Then the world will become similar to the Creator.

Question: So what do we lack in order to reach connection?

Answer: Just to be a bit wiser. We cannot digest this yet; we don’t see the system that way in order to understand that, we simply have no other choice. The general mutual connection remains invisible.
For example, there are still arguments about cutting Greece off from the EU, and although the Europeans already understand that it will only lead to new problems, they are still managed by financial considerations. They cannot take into account the real troubles that are expected.

Individuals, nations and all of humanity have not yet “digested” the globalization of the mutual connection of the general system. We are the problem, since we cannot disseminate the method correctly. We think that it is enough to simply study. In the meantime the inner fire is growing, and we are nearing an explosion. On a global scale and with regards to the Israeli nation the situation is very worrisome…
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/20/12, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah“

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Preparation to the Lesson

Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot, Item 25, Lesson 9

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt, Parashat “Emor,” Item 149

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