Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #57 “Will Bring Him Closer to His Will” (11.11.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 112-115 (10.16.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 6, Item 24

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “Heaven and Earth”

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The common soul, which was one and connected, was divided into many parts after the shattering. We need to gather and unite these parts, and through them reveal the Creator.

The difference between the original vessel and the one restored after the shattering is that the shattering reveals new qualities that were not clear before. It is precisely because of these qualities that the soul shatters. When they are corrected, additional qualities of light are revealed against those broken desires.

In this way, we clarify the inner qualities of the Creator who created this soul and corrects it with His light.

If there were no shattering and correction, we would feel no more than the first man Adam before the sin, only the small state of Nefesh of Ruach deRuach. Whereas after the shattering and the correction, we reveal the entire light of NRNHY, meaning we adhere to the Creator Himself, attain equivalence of form with Him, and understand His ways and the wisdom embedded in creation.

Therefore, it is impossible to do without shattering and correction. The end of correction is the point initially placed into the program of creation.

The soul must correct itself so as to correspond to the entire system of creation, which includes all the worlds of AK (Adam Kadmon) and ABYA (Atzilut, Beria,Yetzira, and Assiya). The soul is the innermost part of the entire system of creation. Therefore, in our correction, it must take on the same form as all the upper worlds and consist of three parts: head, body, and extremities; and then of three lines; and of many complex forms.

When they connect with one another, the differences do not disappear, because “love will cover all crimes.” The corrected soul preserves within itself all the great egoism, all the immense desires and contradictions.

Everything that was before remains; nothing is erased. On the contrary, the negative manifestations help us in the revelation of the light, whose advantage is discerned from within the darkness.

We have great work ahead, because Adam had no head, body, and extremities; he only had a body, and existed on one level filled with the light of Hassadim. He was born “circumcised,” like an angel, in a small state. An infant has no mind and cannot stand, but only lies down, meaning his head is on the same level as his body.

But we must raise this shattered soul to its feet, to its full height as befits a human. That is why in our work we select the parts of the soul that belong to the head and the body, and clarify the function of each.

All the parts of the soul after the shattering are already prepared for correction, but we must draw the upper light, clarify the places of the shattering, and correct them.

Those who are drawn to spiritual work will be called the head of Adam, the common soul. And the rest are the parts of his body. That is why Israel, that is, “straight to the Creator”, is called “Li-Rosh, a head for me.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/9/18, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

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When I restrict myself in order to care for my neighbor, I am not secretly worried about my own well-being. I simply do not think about myself. This correction is performed within me by the light. This is what it means to rise above the desire, to carry out the first restriction, and to acquire the quality of bestowal. All of this is the result of the action of the light alone.

My care for my neighbor is in no way connected with material needs. I continue to eat, drink, sleep, and provide for all my necessities. The matter lies in the desire, in my inner attitude toward the act.

For example, I may greatly wish to help a sick person, to feed and give him a drink, but the doctors allow him nothing more than a piece of bread and a glass of tea. Thus, even though I would like to give him a plentiful meal and I have the ability to do so, I am limited.

So it turns out that it is all a matter of intentions. We build our relationships, the mutual guarantee between us, not on an artificial basis. That is why it seems impossible to achieve bestowal and unity, impossible to detach from concern for ourselves and to think only of the neighbor without worrying even about the essentials. But those essentials are supplied to me by others so that I may simply sustain myself. In our mutual guarantee, they care for my material needs and 100% for my spiritual success.

All of this must be properly arranged. Who are the friends? They are receiving desires that are corrected by the light that returns to the source. Nothing here is produced by our own efforts. Efforts must be invested only in order to draw the light, which will come and correct us. It is simply ridiculous to think that we will act in bestowal by ourselves. Can a person jump higher than his own head?

Our problem is that in all our actions, we do not aim toward the light. We think that the action itself will bring the result, that if we embrace one another, we will come to love our neighbor. But no, one must embrace with the intention that through this, the light will come and bind us in an inner embrace.

Everything is accomplished by the light that returns to the source. We forget about the most important element—the only force that acts in reality.

It seems very difficult and impossible to connect into one whole mutual guarantee, adhesion, unity, the neighbor, bestowal, and the urgent need so that they become a single vessel for the revelation of absolute bestowal, i.e., the revelation of the Creator to the creation. And the reason is only that we do not summon the force that will build this state for us. We mistakenly believe we can create it on our own.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/11/11, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]”

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Question: We made a great effort to gather together. We received strong impressions from one another. But nevertheless, we want to add something more in order to be closer to the text and to what is happening. What else can we add besides the great effort we already made to come together physically?

Answer: Open your common heart, enter into it, and direct this shared point toward the center of all reality, the center of all creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: You said that we must build the Kli of the fourth phase and then receive the light of the three previous phases in it. How is the fourth phase built in our joint work?

Answer: We desire to draw closer to the Creator, we raise our prayers, desires, and requests for what we lack in order to be similar to Him in qualities to Him. This influences the Creator, and in this way He changes our desires within us.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Why was it only one student, Chaim Vital, who understood the teaching of the ARI, and not the others? Why specifically him?

Answer: It is impossible to know why it was arranged so from above with the souls. Baal HaSulam writes about himself that he did not know why he was granted such a mission.

But we must understand that this is only from our earthly perspective that it seems as though there are chosen souls and unimportant, “secondary” ones because we look through the prism of our egoism.

However, when it comes to the spiritual, there is no such thing as great or small. There everything is measured in bestowal, and the greatest is the one who bestows the most, the one who serves everyone, stands lower than all, and provides them with support and foundation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter 39

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #57 “Will Bring Him Closer to His Will” (11.11.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 113, 114 (8.23.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 6, Item 24

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “Heaven and Earth”

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Question: When we read Kabbalistic books, is it necessary for us to always look for the connection between the root and the branch?

Answer: We must remain in this all the time; otherwise, we will not enter into the material and will not absorb what is being said.

Question: How can we connect to the one root common to all when studying The Study of the Ten Sefirot?

Answer: Our root is the Creator. We must strive to make Him as mutual as possible for all by connecting among ourselves and in Him.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/21/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: How can one “thank for the bad as for the good”?

Answer: RABASH gives an example of a father who gives his son one dollar every day, and one day suddenly gives him five dollars, to the great joy of the son. And the next day, he goes back to giving just the usual one dollar.

So why does the father act this way with me? He wants me to relate to him with love, and the shortfall of four dollars, which I now lack, I should make up with my love, with my bestowal! That I should look not at how much I receive from Him, but at how much I can thank Him.

Because of the fact that I suddenly received five dollars from Him, I expanded my desire, but from the perspective of receiving. And now I can fill this additional desire with bestowal. That is, He gave me the opportunity to expand my desires and to rise to greater bestowal.

But I must work on this. All the time, every day, I received one dollar and was grateful to the father for that dollar. And suddenly, one day the father gave me five dollars. My desires expanded, I received greater pleasure, and naturally I was grateful to the father. But for what was I grateful? It was for having received the extra four dollars!

The next day, from yesterday’s height, with an enlarged appetite, I already expect again to receive five dollars, but I get the same one dollar as before. Now I feel an empty desire of four dollars. What am I to do with it? Fill it with the light of love, the light of bestowal, of gratitude!

Now I understand that the father is giving me the opportunity to give to Him precisely in this empty vessel by filling it with the light of Hassadim instead of Hochma. He fills my desire with the light of Hochma, and I fill His with the light of Hassadim. From where else could the possibility to bestow come, if He does not empty my desire?

How could I thank Him and connect with Him even more strongly, become more similar to Him, if He did not first give me greater fulfillment and then take it away? And then again give more, and again empty it. As it is said: “The clothing of the light and its departure create a vessel fit for use.” Now I have a vessel.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/11, Writings of Rabash “The Merit of the Little One”

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Question: Suffering helps us adjust our direction toward the Creator. In addition, we must constantly be ready to hear the voice of the Creator. How do these work together?

Answer: Suffering, in a sense, moves us forward. But what really matters is whether this suffering comes, not from our egoism, but from the fact that we do not feel our proper place in creation, in all of Malchut. If we are not in our place, we feel it as a lack of balance of forces. Therefore, we must try to gather ourselves, our feelings, our goals, and strive toward the Creator in a more correct way.

Question: Aren’t we preparing every day to hear the voice of the Creator?

Answer: That you must ask yourself. It all depends on how connected you are with each other and whether you form a Kli, a group of ten, directed toward the Creator and desire to draw closer to Him.

Question: So readiness to hear the voice of the Creator is not my personal desire, but a group one?

Answer: Both yours personally and the group’s. The main thing, however, is the group’s desire.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/25, “Being Sensitive to the Calling of the Creator”

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