Preparation to the Lesson

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Writings of Rabash, Shlavei HaSulam, “Which Degree Should One Achieve so He Will Not Have to Reincarnate?“

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The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpts “Beresheet (Genesis),” “Seven Sections of the Upper and Lower Earth,” Item 38, (Starting with: “The words of Rabbi Aba”), Lesson 116

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“The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” “The Multiplicity of Partzufim, Sefirot, and Worlds,” Lesson 3

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All our correction is in order to reach the connection of all the shattered vessels. Then we will correct the general vessel. This connection should be perfect, special, and diversified. We aren’t just putting together a puzzle, a two dimensional picture.

After all, we understand from the shattering that the vessels were incorporated in each other, and there isn’t one shattered part that doesn’t include all the other vessels. Therefore, every part is separated from the whole since it has lost the natural ability to be with others. This is the broken part in it. Now with the help of the upper Light, it should acquire this ability by itself.

In the past I knew I was connected to several parts around me, just like in an ordinary puzzle. I had to get along only with those who were next to me, and this promised everything that is good to our “area.”

But now everything is different, now I am included in everyone. This means that I have to take part in the connection among everyone, in the connection between every two different parts. Just think what a mechanism we are talking about: All its parts are integrally connected among them, in all their diversity, in all the sections, in every direction. We cannot imagine yet how such a thing is possible.

In order to be able to start this assembly which includes measurements, an emotional perception, and mutual participation in hundreds of billions of options; this idea is presented to us in the form of the law of mutual guarantee, which we have to keep even on the lowest level. In fact; for a start, I don’t have to keep in touch with all the other parts, which are not really seven billion but an infinite amount, since everyone is included in everyone and since every connection to someone else immediately turns into the world of Ein Sof (Infinity).

The law of mutual guarantee, the format in which Kabbalists bring us the method of connection, is a simple method that can be easily fulfilled, and which enables us to carry out simple gradual actions on our way to correction without being confused. Today we cannot deal with our internal “mechanism,” which we will reach later on, according to the principle of “from Your actions we shall know You.” Instead we are dealing with accessible, external things that can be identified in order to advance.

This is mutual guarantee: not entering internal things, which could prevent me from correcting myself and the world. I only need to be responsible for what is happening among us. We should regard the method of mutual guarantee as a wonderful opportunity. Kabbalists intentionally brought us the method of correction in such a simple form.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/06/12,“The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: Will the division into internal and external parts, between “Israel” and the “nations of the world” be kept when the whole world reaches the end of correction?

Answer: No. The letters of the Hebrew word “Israel” stand for Li Rosh (I have a head). This is the order of the general correction—the one who is evoked and is given a special desire is called “Israel,” and he must take care of the whole world serving as the link between the Creator and the created beings. It isn’t an ordinary desire since the “point in the heart” manages it by the connection with the Creator. The attribute of bestowal was inserted into this desire, the posterior of Nefesh of Holiness. This is the meaning of the “Israel,” Yashar – El (straight to the Creator). It isn’t about certain people, but rather about a special type of desire that is connected to the Creator since it has the discernment of what bestowal is. Although it is concealed and shattered, it still exists.

How can the desires in which this spark, this discernment of bestowal, doesn’t exist be corrected? It is possible if they add Israel as their “head;” if the two parts connect and work together.

The whole world is the essence of the desire to receive that must be corrected. But it can only do it through connection with another desire in which there is a spark of bestowal. Therefore the “nations of the world” are not required to correct themselves. On the other hand, they feel sorrow and pain since “Israel” doesn’t correct them.

This is where the hatred that the world feels towards Israel stems from. Of course, no one perceives it, but subconsciously, according to their nature, these people feel it and express their claims openly.

The correction is the role of those who belong to “Israel.” They have to correct their attitude towards the nations of the world as soon as possible. Actually, there is nothing to correct in “Israel” themselves, except for the part of the “nations of the world” in them. If “Israel” process these desires in them correctly, they will understand how to treat others. Speaking in Kabbalistic terms AHP de Bina explains to Bina how it should treat ZON.

Thus we must first correct “the nations of the world” in us, our external part, which will allow us to connect with the internal part of the world. This is the order of correction. It is our duty, and if we don’t make efforts to carry it out as soon as possible, troubles are soon to come. The time has come, and the nations of the world will begin to pressure us since the mutual inclusion that was created as a result of the exile allows them to feel that Israel owe them.

It says: “Why was it called Mt. Sinai? Since the hatred of the nations of the world descended from it.” “Since Israel received the method of correction. So where do all our troubles come from? From Israel, since they do not fulfill what they have received.” The Torah, the method, obliges us immediately, while the upper force manages the nations of the world, and so their hate is justified.

But we are advancing “against the current,” hoping that the troubles will go away by themselves without correction on our part. It’s nonsense. After all, we are dealing with the force that evokes the correction. We mustn’t even ask or pray that the hatred that nations of the world feel towards us will disappear from the world; we should only exert ourselves so that it will be corrected. Here too, it isn’t because it’s an unpleasant phenomenon, but on the contrary, we have to be thankful for it since it evokes us to turn to the Creator.

So it’s an oxymoron.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/05/12,“The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”: Hence, only the members of the Israeli nation were admitted into the required Arvut, and not the nations of the world at all, because they did not participate in it.

This is how the desire to receive began to split. In ancient Babel, one nation lived that later began to split up into separate groups that spread all over the globe since the upper force didn’t hold them together anymore. This dispersion meant that the desires to receive discovered the differences between them. The different desires which belong to different levels like “Syria,” “the trans-Jordan,” “the Land of Israel,” “Egypt,” etc. began to appear. To the extent that they were revealed, we felt ourselves more and more separated until we discovered to what extent we are still connected to each other internally.

Today we are forced to connect since we depend on each other, and we cannot exist without each other. Thus Babel returns and obliges us to rebuild “a tower that reaches Heaven,” but not the egoistic one this time. We don’t challenge Heaven now, but rather rise to bestowal, to love, to equivalence with the Creator. This is called the true “ascent to Heaven.”

Today, in a time of total destruction of the old tower of Babel, we discover how destructive our ego, the source of all our troubles, is and how separated and distant we are from one another. Thus the dispersion of the Babylonians ends—each one wants to live separately without any obligations to others, and at the same time, it turns out that in order to survive we will need a general mutual connection. Because of our dependence on it, we feel that we have to reconnect, but how?

By feeling the necessity to build a new tower of Babel, we build it by correcting ourselves to bestow. Eventually we will become one nation again and will build the “tower that is full of good” and reach Heaven.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/04/12,“The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: If the correction begins with people who have a “point in the heart,” then why do we turn to all of humanity now?

Answer: We operate in two parallel “fronts,” since the “nations of the world,” who don’t have a point in the heart, will provide us with the necessary deficiencies by which we will understand how to correct ourselves in order to be adapted to them.

It is like a married couple that is not considered a family until they have children; they are not a real family since nothing ties them together. In fact they are still children, although they are married. It is the offspring they share, the obligation to raise their children, which makes them parents.

It is the same with us: If we don’t take upon ourselves the work of being the link between the Creator and the nations of the world, then we will not be able to be “Israel.” Only carrying out this mission directs us Yashar-El, straight to the Creator. So we have to stabilize the whole picture in order to start our self-correction. Since it is “first think, then act,” we need the whole plan now.

It isn’t by chance that Baal HaSulam went to Poland in the 1930’s to check whether it was possible to evoke the local workers to correction as if everything was perfect in the Land of Israel and only the Poles were missing. The picture has to be as whole as possible. We will not understand how to correct ourselves if we don’t go out to the people both in Israel and all over the world. This is also how children “teach” and stabilize their parents. The connection with those who need your care stabilizes you and shows you how to organize yourself internally.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/05/12,“The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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From Rabash’s lesson: When a person is naked, he feels a deficiency, and that’s why clothing for him is like filling that covers his deficiency. In spirituality too, an empty desire feels that it is deficient. When the Light comes and fills it, it is like clothing.

Clothing is the level of compatibility of the desire to the Light. The clothing can be inanimate, vegetative, animate, or different human characters—all this is the clothing a person has, which determines which attributes of the Light the desire can adopt by dressing in it in order to resemble the Light.

Our main work is to yearn to become a clothing on the upper one, to receive a form that is the most compatible with the Creator. We should constantly prepare ourselves to take on a new form. Everything is determined by the clothing because the desire itself has no form. It depends on the clothing, whether a person will be a beast or a human who resembles the Creator; it is one of the two.

On the way we should constantly see ourselves in a state of free will, half guilty and half innocent according to the clothing, according to the form I am inclined to. In order to do that I have the group, the teacher, and the books, which can attune me to a clothing, a form that is as similar to the Creator as possible.
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From the Preparation to the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/4/2012

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Question: Why does humanity oppose its part that yearns for bestowal?

Answer: This opposition is clearly understood. It is because there is a point of Light (•) in this part of the general desire. On the whole, a great gap is formed (Δ) between the desire and the Light, which leads to hatred.

Deep internal mechanisms operate here; they are on the level of nature’s internal forces in which the Lights and the vessels operate. Unless we correct the other desires so that they will also resemble the Light, this hatred, this anti-Semitism, will not disappear. Moreover, it will keep growing in order to push us to corrections.

Question: Does this mean that the hatred of nations is meant so that I will work “above reason?”

Answer: If you accept is as a reason to escape suffering, it will be a very coarse and corporeal stimulus. But if you accept it willingly as an incentive to act, you will succeed. It all depends on your point of view.

One way or the other, there is no reason to complain that the nations of the world are anti-Semitic. On the contrary, the correction can only come from you, and it will be right if you make an effort not to make anti-Semitism disappear, but rather use it for the correction of the world so that the Creator will be able to reveal Himself in all His parts.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/04/12,“The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”: Therefore, the Creator did not find a nation or a tongue qualified to receive the Torah, except for the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whose ancestral merit reflected upon them.

The forefathers represent the three lines that the desire to receive acquires and that enable it to correct itself, attain the goal, and become similar to the Light. We have to constantly use the same method that the three lines, the three attributes of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, founded at the beginning.

As our sages said, ‘The Patriarchs observed the whole Torah even before it was given.”

The three lines are even in the KHB phase, in the “first third of correction,” even when there is no need for them. They actually are realized in the HGT phase and even more so in NHY, which means in the other two thirds. Today, it is time for the final phase of the correction (NHY), when the external desire to receive is fulfilled.

On the whole, the forefathers symbolize the period that preceded our days. Now, it is the sons’ turn, which is us. We must correct the three lines by ourselves. All the rest of the world is NHY, and it will be corrected through our work on them.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, these phases are defined as two thousand years for each phase, but on the whole, we shouldn’t count years, but rather degrees. NHY cannot correct themselves. However, when the sons (HGT) are connected to the forefathers (HBD), then they also can correct the nations of the world.

This means that because of the exaltedness of their souls, they had the ability to attain all the ways of the Creator with respect to the spirituality of the Torah, which stems from their Dvekut, without first needing the ladder of the practical part of the Torah, which they had no possibility of observing at all.

The level of the forefathers includes all three parts: HBD, HGT, and NHY. The forefathers also went through the same processes that take place on the next levels. Therefore, we can discover the entire process until the end of correction, the whole method, by the ten Sefirot of HBD.

The forefathers cannot fulfill it in practice yet, but then can potentially plan and arrange the future system. Thanks to their spiritual height, they could prepare the ground for the work of the sons, although not in practice, but in potential, and it already included all the deficiencies and the vessels that are later used in the method that they discovered.

On the whole, the forefathers is the upper system that is fulfilled that way in the small desire at the dawn of its correction.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/4/2012, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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Shamati #241, “Call Upon Him While He Is Near”

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The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpts “Beresheet Bet (Genesis 2),” “Bina” Item 28, Lesson 115

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Talmud Eser Sefirot, Chapter 2, Part 2, Item 3, “Ohr Pnimi,” Item 10, Lesson 8

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“The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee),” Item 22, Lesson 7 

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Question: What does it mean to work above reason?

Answer: Work above reason means bestowal. That is, I want to take the form of a giver, like the Creator, to become a loving person, to leave my ego and make use of myself for the good of my neighbor, to unite with others in order to exit myself. It means that I appreciate bestowal more than my own qualities of reception.

First of all, I want to break free from the power of my selfish desires and to rise above it. It means escaping from “Egyptian slavery” and reaching the quality of Bina above Malchut. When I become free and rise above my ego, which can no longer grab my legs and drag me back, now I even can begin working with this desire within it.

The stages of embryo (Ibur) and feeding (Yenika) is a rise above my desire to enjoy, but the stage of adulthood is working within this desire. Work on the desire to enjoy is in fear, in bestowing in order to bestow (Hafetz Hesed), in the properties of Bina, by becoming included into the Creator, staying in His shadow like a baby clinging to his mother and fully entrusting himself to her and thus receiving the power to rise above his ego.

Then, when the child grows up, he can get in touch with his egoism and begin working with it. This is called a return to love.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/4/12, Writings of Rabash

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