Preparation to the Lesson
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Shamati #209 “Three Conditions in Prayer”
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt “Aharei-Mot,” Lesson 11
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Talmud Eser Sefirot, Volume 3, Part 8, Item 9, Lesson 5
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Questions and Answers
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Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot,” p.5: Now you will understand what is written in The Zohar: “With this composition, the Children of Israel will be redeemed from exile.” Also, in many other places, only through the expansion of the wisdom of Kabbalah in the masses will we obtain complete redemption.
They also said, The Light in it reforms him. They were intentionally meticulous about it, to show us that only the Light enclosed within it, like apples of gold in settings of silver, lies the cure that reforms a person.
This power exists nowhere else. No other book, no other means in the world will help us correct ourselves, to come to the general correction and achieve the goal of creation. The only way is to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah so that it becomes revealed everywhere, so that everyone will know: There is a means for correction of the world.
Even if everyone is able to realize it only to the extent of his power, there must be awareness that the science of Kabbalah brings us correction. This knowledge is a prerequisite. Even Pharaoh learned what correction is and thus agreed to release the children of Israel. In other words, our egoism will not let us rise above it if we do not receive a clear and accurate idea of the method of correction.
Baal HaSulam writes about this in the article “Messiah’s Shofar:” “We have accepted that there is a precondition for the redemption—that all the nations of the world will acknowledge Israel’s law, as it is written, “and the land shall be full of the knowledge,” as in the example of the exodus from Egypt where there was a precondition that Pharaoh, too, would acknowledge the true God and His laws, and would allow them to leave.”
This applies to our personal Pharaoh, egoism, and to the whole world to which we must convey this knowledge. The world already feels that it needs a certain technique, but how quickly they learn about it depends on us.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/20/12, “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot”
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The connecting system among us is gradually revealed thanks to the fact that we connect. Within this connection we feel our desires, which gradually begin to connect, and the general force that flows in them.
This force and the Light that is revealed within our desires is the image of the Giver that is on the outside. We have built it by ourselves and discovered Him. This image is called the Creator, which means Boreh—come and see (Bo-Reh in Hebrew).
The Creator exists only if the created being builds and discovers Him within his desires, his intentions, his aspirations, and his efforts.
It may seem strange, since after all it says: “I am the first and I am the last,” “There is none else besides Him,” “His glory fills the whole earth.” And after all this, it says that a person himself builds his own Creator?
We are still ready to believe that we have to reveal the Creator who is concealed, as if to move the curtain behind which He hides. But it says that we are the ones who build the form we call Creator.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/20/12, Writings of Rabash
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Question: How do we feel the right connection?
Answer: The correct connection is when we feel only the connection and don’t feel ourselves. It is the exact opposite of what is happening now.
If we all disconnect from ourselves, we will feel only the connections among us, which means the general body that lives and exists. Each one will not feel his own individual cell, but that he is included in the whole body, and will give himself until he doesn’t feel himself but only the general body. This means that we have attained connection.
Then the collective feeling of life in the general body that doesn’t belong to anyone personally but is a result of the connection among us, this feeling is called the Creator.
This vessel is called Adam (a human), and its filling is called the Creator, the Light of life, the mutual force of bestowal.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/20/12, Writings of Rabash
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Our convention begins, and we are busy only with connecting, only with unity. From this moment until the end of the convention, we will not remember anything else and will not speak one word about the external world; we are focusing only on ourselves and on our friends wherever they are.
Don’t speak and don’t think about what is going on in the world. After all, if a person corrects himself by connection, the worlds of BYA will be balanced and the balanced forces will dwell in all of nature. If we, Bnei Baruch correct ourselves, the affluence will certainly flow from us to everyone; it will flow to the channels that connect us with the whole world.
Baal HaSulam writes about it in the Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot, Item 4: When the Children of Israel are complemented with the complete knowledge, the fountains of intelligence and knowledge shall flow beyond the boundaries of Israel and water all the nations of the world.
Thus we too have to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah among the nations of the world, but we have to perform the correction, not they. During the convention we forget everything: home, dissemination, and the world. There is nothing but the place where we are, together with our friends who are connected to us from all over the world. We are together in one heart. We are totally disconnected from the external world, entering more deeply inside.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/20/12, “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”
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Question: We’ve started our convention after having been through many things. How can we hold on to the goal like a bulldog that doesn’t let go of his grip? How can we find the vitality in our exertion and not demand a cheap reward in the form of an impression?
Answer: You should feel pleasure by your exertion. It doesn’t matter whether the convention is a success; I enjoy the fact that we are making an effort together.
You should understand that there are no pauses in spirituality. If you don’t put constant pressure, spirituality will disappear. It exists as long as the next moment is different from the present moment. You have to be on a constant ascent, and constantly add something. This addition, the gap between the moments is the feeling of the spiritual life.
A state can stop or freeze only here in our still world. This is why it exists, so that from here our way will start. Therefore, we have to receive pleasure by putting an increasingly stronger pressure, and get pleasure from our exertions.
Question: Do we fixate on the exertion?
Answer: You have to build the greatness of the one you bestow upon.
Question: How do I turn this effort into a collective effort?
Answer: It can’t be any different. You can’t locate the Creator by yourself, but only with others. After all, the “Creator” is the group; it’s its center: this is where you channel the growing bestowal and from this you receive pleasure. The pleasure is caused by the addition and not by the state itself. Thus, a person who has made a million dollars wants more the next minute and doesn’t stop at what he has achieved.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/20/12, “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot”
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Question: What is best to discuss in a group of integral education and what’s best not to discuss?
Answer: Figuratively speaking, we should talk only about love and friendship. We don’t examine our states because they all exist on the animal level.
First we must rise to the “Human” level, create a generalized image of it, our common quality of bestowal and love, our attitude toward one another. We can only hold discussions on the level of this network of correct interrelations between us, and only about things that strengthen our collective state.
Why so? Because, by becoming stronger within this state we begin to generate a certain force that illuminates our current animal state and it begins to change. Only from a higher state can we change our lower state. All of our conflicts will either gradually disappear or they will escalate before disappearing and on the backdrop of this we are developing our connection.
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Question: How do I force the upper to awaken me?
Answer: The upper awakens us from the start. As it says “I am the first.” This first awakening is given to a person before he begins to yearn for spirituality. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have had such thoughts from the start and it wouldn’t touch his heart.
Everything begins from an awakening from Above, called the “Reshimo” (reminiscence, information gene)—a reason, the influence of the friends, a desire that is suddenly evoked, a song—this is how I am awakened.
The awakening always comes from the upper, but usually in a concealed way without a connection to Him. It is as if I wake up by chance, suddenly. The upper hides on purpose, so as not to steal the “freewill” from me. The question is how will I work with this awakening, how will I respond to it?
First, do I understand that I have received it from the upper and thank Him for awakening me? In addition I have to clarify what exactly I have to wake up to? What are the options that I have?
This is the clarification of the question about the meaning of life, which I now have to ask myself: “What is the point in my life? Why should I go on living?” This means, what does my ego, my desire, aim at? What am I living for?
I begin to clarify the goal of my life in a more accurate manner, sorting the desires, until I find the most worthwhile desire for which it is really worthwhile to live. Suppose I had one last minute to live, and I had a chance to ask for one thing only, what would I ask for in this last minute?
I have to clarify what the most important thing for me is, what I should ask for. When we delve into this clarification, we see that we can only do it in a group. After all, it is the pattern of the upper world—as if the upper world descends into our world.
On the one hand, the relations among the friends are egoistic and they clarify this world for us. Yet, at the same time we have a point in the heart, which enables us to build a layer of upper relations, called the next world, the upper world.
Then we will be able to work on two planes: suppressing the lower, egoistic layer as much as we can trying to build another layer above it, a new level of relations based on love, mutual concern, mutual guarantee and connection.
The group enables us to build the pattern of the upper relations. It provides us with many opportunities to mutually work on our envy, on the lust, the hatred, and the love. Thanks to it we understand why we behave one way and not differently, and we begin to understand our states. Thus we quickly clarify our only right request.
We examine the other requests and see that they are all trivial and temporary and so we draw away from them. It says: “All the gates are locked, except for the gate of tears,” which means except for the last gate in which we demand adhesion according to equivalence of form. After all, we did everything we could, we tried to fulfill it and we saw that we can’t. We do not rest, but rather demand and ask, and thus reach what we desire.
This preparation includes many stages: The feeling of exile, the domination of Pharaoh, and then the struggle against him, until we manage to escape and reach a spiritual birth.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/19/12, Writings of Rabash
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Question: How can the group awaken me?
Answer: This is part of our mutual guarantee. I must feel that if I don’t awaken them, they will not do the same for me.
This is actually the problem: Why do we fall asleep and not advance, lagging behind the world? Instead of carrying the world behind us to correction, we are waiting for the world to discover its illness, the shattering, more and more.
If a close relative, someone who is very dear to you, your child, were seriously ill, and he felt worse from day to day, would you wait tranquilly until he were in a fatal condition? Wouldn’t you look for a cure for him in every possible way? Wouldn’t you do anything to find a way to convince him to take the remedy?
Do you also worry about the world this way? If not, then you are not fulfilling your job. The group doesn’t awaken you, and you are not awakening the group.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/12, Writings of Rabash
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Everything begins and ends in the vessels that we have to prepare. The upper Light is in a state of absolute rest, which means that the wholeness exists from the start. However, by our deficiencies, by our exertion, we spur this wholeness to leave the source and to be revealed 620 times more than the form of the spark in which it hides.
All the Light of Ein Sof (Infinity) is the lowest, minimal level, Nefesh de Nefesh, which exists before we begin to demand it. Through our demand, by the deficiency in the vessels that we have expanded, we turn this Light into NRNHY de NRNHY. So, everything depends on the extent to which we have prepared our deficiencies.
Blowing the Shofar symbolizes Rosh Hashanah (the New Year). This means raising the beauty (Shufra) of bestowal, love, and connection of the Creator’s attributes. This makes it a reason for a holiday: Our ability to raise ourselves and to prefer the attribute of bestowal, instead of the attribute of receiving.
Thus, we prepare the right vessel inside us and begin the new year, the new phase, the new level. This is a law for Israel, which means for those who want to ascend Yashar El (straight to the Creator) according to the three lines.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/19/12, Writings of Rabash
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