Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 1/16/25
Posted on January 16th, 2025
Question: Suppose I am driving down the road, and another driver cuts me off. What should I do at this moment to connect this incident to “There is None else besides Him” at the deepest level?
Answer: You need to remember that everything happening to you occurs solely under the guidance of the Creator. After that, your work begins.
Additionally, your group should remind you of this; talk about it and discuss it. Connection with the group is essential so that you can bestow to them, influence them, and they in turn can influence you. Working alone will inevitably leave you trapped in egoism.
If a person is not part of a group, not connected with others in serious spiritual connection, it is almost useless to work with him. This is permissible only if he is a beginner who has found a small society where he can develop as an integral part and complement himself within that society. Only in such a case!
We exist in a system of forces that operates this way. Just as in our world, we are entirely dependent on one another and see that we are involuntarily moving toward greater integration, so it is here as well.
If your egoism pushes you away from this, that is natural. It will repel you, providing countless justifications and arguments that you can progress on your own. However, in the end, all of that is false and will lead to nothing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”
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Question: What should one do if he comes to a mutual guarantee, to a covenant, but then encounters corporeal obstacles and realizes that his friends do not actually provide for all his corporeal needs, and he falls?
How can one rise again and return to mutual guarantee?
Answer: A person must correct himself in a state of descent.
Question: Does the desire we reveal between us and the Creator then become the source of all changes?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Who initiates the formation of a covenant? Is it me initiating the covenant or does the Creator grant me this opportunity?
Answer: Of course, it comes from the Creator. Everything begins with Him.
Question: When Jacob makes the covenant, he sets conditions to the Creator. We are taught that we should not expect any reward. Why then are conditions set?
Answer: A condition does not imply a reward. If we want to form a covenant, it already includes obligations from both sides that must be fulfilled. This is exactly what we need—to take a specific position on this matter relative to Jacob.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/3/25, “Arvut on the Way to Lishma”
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Preparation to the Lesson
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah),” Item 10
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Question: I feel that it is impossible to catch the light entering the vessel. How do we work with this? How can we hold it?
Answer: None of us individually can receive the light, but only if we come together. Each of us separately does not have the receptacle, the vessel. We form the receptacle by connecting our receiving and bestowing qualities. At their intersection, we create a network, and in this network, we catch the upper light, the Creator.
Question: What do we receive from the ten?
Answer: By annulling ourselves before the ten, each of us represents Malchut. The other friends, in relation to each of us, are the first nine Sefirot, the qualities of bestowal.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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When I experience a new desire for something, it is called a descent. In reality, there are no descents: “Holiness increases, not decreases.” However, when a new corrupted desire arises within us, we perceive it as a descent.
Each of us experiences the emergence of new egoistic desires. If we are correctly connected with one another, these desires automatically bind us together, and we instinctively respond to them.
This means that I perceive my friend’s desires as my own, and they perceive mine as theirs. In this way, we continuously pull each other up and rise together. It does not take a month or even a week for us to linger in a state of descent, to wait for the Creator’s mercy to lift us out of it. That does not happen.
If we are part of a group, each new descent, which is necessary for the revelation of the entire Kli (vessel), the entire desire, is felt by everyone as a tremendous advantage, as a great discovery. This is why it is said that an old man walks bent over as if searching for something he has lost. “Where are my desires? Where are the uncorrected intentions I can lift from the ground, elevate, and thereby elevate myself?”
But this is only possible if you are part of a group, if you rely on your friends and know with certainty that you are connected to them. In this way they support you and you support them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”
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Question: Many friends from all over the world are going to the big congress or to the mirror congresses. What should our intention be on the way to the congress?
Answer: It does not matter where the friends are: on the road, already at the congress, or staying in their places at home. The main thing is that they are all together in the same state.
Most important is for a person to be in a ten, where he can, together with his friends, implement a system of the common Kli. Therefore under no circumstances do I divide people into those who are far away, on the road, or even somewhere else in the world. The only difference is how much a person wants to be included in this common Kli.
When he comes here and participates in the congress, he works in tens, takes part in workshops, and unites with friends. We can also study at home. We see that people who come, both men and women (women even to a greater extent) absorb the material correctly, ask excellent questions, and are aware of what we are studying.
We meet these people everywhere. Many, even without knowing about the congress, listen to us and understand us. Suddenly it becomes clear that a huge number of people in the world nourish themselves from us.
Why am I saying this? To emphasize that the most important reason we gather is not to acquire knowledge, but to get the impression that it is precisely in the ten that we can see the structure of the world, the ten Sefirot.
And when we perceive these ten Sefirot in the ten and their division into the upper, middle, and lower parts (Rosh, Toch, Sof), when we feel the right and left lines and the light of NRNHY that is clothed in them, we will begin to work practically with this construction. And there is nothing else beside it. It is an atom of the spiritual world.
We cannot talk about any quality, about anything, if it is less than ten. We can say, “This is a hydrogen atom; this is an oxygen atom, something else or something else,” but we cannot speak of anything smaller than that, because there are no qualities there.
There must be a collection of some elements—pluses, minuses, electrons, protons, neutrons, and so on—that make up this object, which can be called by a certain name based on the combination of pluses and minuses. All substances are made of them. And then interesting relationships occur between them, all kinds of dynamic connections. Then this substance is called either vegetative, animate, or human.
In other words, we must gather in such a combination that would start such a life among us! That is why we come to the congress, and not to see the faces of our friends there. No! The main thing is to feel the gathering of people who can reveal the Creator and manifest the world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”
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Question: There are commandments between me and my friends and between me and the Creator. In the state of Lishma, should my intention be directed at my friends or at the Creator?
Answer: Both at the friends and at the Creator.
Question: Let us say that I love everyone, but I cannot make others love me. Does Lishma depend only on everyone and not on me at all?
Answer: It depends on everyone and on you; you just have to keep working.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/4/25, “Connecting to Lishma“
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Preparation to the Lesson
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah),” Item 9
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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”
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The purpose of creation is to become like the Creator, which is achievable only by correcting the soul that was intentionally broken during Adam’s sin of the Tree of Knowledge. The parts of the common soul lost their connection with each other and even became contrary to each other.
We need to put them back together into one soul starting from the lightest to the heavier ones, that is, by requiring more and more precise connection.
We always gather ten Sefirot, at first approximately, and then more precisely and carefully, which are called the steps of the spiritual ladder. The same ten Sefirot are connected more closely and precisely until they become the ten original Sefirot of the original HaVaYaH.
The general law of the existence and the conduct of the ten Sefirot is called mutual guarantee, like in an ideal human body, where all cells and systems must be in complete harmony and interconnection. This is possible only if each part knows and understands its connection with all the others.
“Mutual Guarantee” is the law of the existence of an integral system. The connection between all the parts—from step to step along all 125 steps—becomes more complex and internal. But the work begins with our accepting this principle as the only correct one; we recognize that the original HaVaYaH, the soul, is divided into ten parts and we need to start connecting it on the condition that everyone guarantees for everyone.
This is not an egoistic guarantee but a completely different one. Therefore there are many different conditions in it: everyone must humble himself before others, at the same time grow themselves in a certain way, engage in everyone and pray for them, feel responsible for everyone, and see others as a reflection of their properties.
Mutual guarantee is the general law of the entire universe. If it were not for our corrupted, egoistic perception, we would see the system created by the Creator as a limitless, ideal HaVaYaH, all parts of which are connected to each other and working as one whole.
Therefore mutual guarantee is a prerequisite for receiving the Torah and entering the spiritual ladder. If we are ready to fulfill this condition, to accept a mutual guarantee and begin to implement it, to do so we are given the Torah with the light that returns to the source. The light will do everything—all that is required of us is to agree to the condition of mutual guarantee, that is, to include each other, to connect into one system as one man.
The whole Torah is an expression of the condition of mutual guarantee in all possible forms, with all possible conditions and requirements, ever more sublime and precise from step to step.
Therefore everything we have learned about mutual guarantee and have achieved at the previous stage disappears at the next one. We fall and lose the unity and guarantee we have achieved, as if starting all over again. After all, all the conditions and laws that were fulfilled at the previous stage and were obvious, now, with a higher and more precise resolution, appear in a completely new way and seem unknown.
We have to study everything all over again, as if there were no mutual guarantee between us. Indeed there was none, because every time it is a new step. The sign of advancement is that all past success is erased, and the work begins anew.
This is the difficulty of our work, which is, in this sense, the opposite of the material one. We are not used to such conditions, and therefore they confuse and weaken us a lot. We want to see material evidence of our spiritual advancement, but this does not happen.
Our job is to constantly renew our mutual guarantee in any state, and see in it all the laws of the Torah and the laws of spiritual reality. From it we will understand the rule of loving one’s neighbor as oneself and all the laws of unification. After all, the mutual guarantee condition is the basis of everything.
Loving one’s neighbor as oneself is a consequence of the highest and most complete guarantee. To this, more specific laws of connection are added between all parts of the broken soul, which need to be collected more and more.
After we manage to collect them at the first degree and make sure it works, the mutual guarantee disappears, and we begin to achieve it again at a higher level, which is now required of us as if we had done nothing.
This is similar to how development at the inanimate level suddenly turns into a vegetative one. The vegetative level is, as it were, a consequence of inanimate development, but at the same time, has no connection with it. Later there is a leap from the plant level to the animal level, which starts from scratch again. After all, this is a new life, a new form of existence. Spiritual development occurs in the same way.
Mutual guarantee is our goal and our work. All the laws we must implement are based on this one principle of mutual guarantee.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/24/18, Preparation for the Convention “All As One” in New Jersey “Signing The Arvut In The Ten”
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