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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 8/1/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 38, “A Righteous Who Is Happy, a Righteous Who Is Suffering”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 134

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 7/31/23

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 23, “What Beginning in Lo Lishma Means in the Work”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 127

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic of “The 15th of Av: the Day of Love”

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The Black Day of the Calendar—the 9th of Av

727It is written: “Anyone who mourns for Jerusalem is rewarded with seeing its joy.”

That is, to the extent that we recognize the full scale of the destruction that happened to us, to the entire people of Israel and to the whole world, to the Creator’s program of creation, and to the extent that it touches our heart, to this extent we are able to understand and feel all this sorrow, understand the reason for the destruction, understand how to get out of it, and how to rebuild Jerusalem, that is, the “Perfect City” (Ira Shlema). In this way, from sorrow we come to joy.

There is no darker and more mournful day than the 9th of Av. This is the source of all judgments and all troubles. It was on this day that the Temple was ruined in Jerusalem. And we still grieve about it after thousands of years. Today we must also worry and grieve about it as if it happened yesterday, and this is everyone’s personal grief.

After all, those who do not mourn the ruin of the Temple will not be able to be present at its restoration. Therefore, we need to feel in the depths of our hearts what shattering is and what correction we should expect, in what form and with what result.

There was a terrible shattering—the Kli, that is, the connection between the created beings and the Creator was broken. And now, who knows when and how and by what actions it will be possible to correct it. That is why it is really a very sad day.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson on the topic of “Tishaa BeAv (Ninth of Av)”, 7/27/23

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 7/30/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 9, “One Should Always Sell the Beams of His House”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “The 15th of Av: the Day of Love”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 7/28/23

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 35, “When a Person Knows What Is Fear of the Creator”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 129

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Love of God and the Love of Man”

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How To Start a Dialogue with The Creator

125Question: You said that the Creator and I will be in the same connection as like talking to a person. How can such communication be imagined in the center of the ten where we unite? How does our interaction with this center with this connection happen?

Answer: If you connect with each other in the ten, then to this extent you can connect with the Creator and start a dialogue with Him. And then you have to identify what questions you have. Write them down, scrutinize them between yourselves, and with whatever you find necessary to appeal to the Creator, that is what you address Him with. These can be questions, wishes, all kinds of greetings. Only in short and from all together.

Question: And what I feel from the connection, and I turn from this connection to Him, does that count? Or do we need to formulate a question literally in the ten?

Answer: It is better if you formulate a question, discuss it, and only then ask it together.

Question: What does it mean that Kabbalists ask the Creator a question from the connection? What are they waiting for? Do they want to hear the answer, feel it, see it?

Answer: This is the rise of MAN, the rise of Hisaron, the rise of desire, the rise of what they lack, to get closer to the Creator.

The goal is to get closer to the Creator. Rapprochement can be in the equivalence of qualities. So, all the questions are about how similar our desires are to the desires of the Creator.

Question: Is this a request: “Help us to come to the similarity of You,” or “Tell me how to do it”?

Answer: All this. Only if this is your joint desire, which you have discussed with each other, formalized, and are now raising it together to the Creator, then it will definitely find a place for Him and invoke an answer.

Comment: You said earlier that there will be the same communication with the Creator as with a person.

My Response: Of course. It is even said: “So that the Creator is not a stranger to you.”

Question: How will we feel the connection with the Creator, His answer? What will it be expressed in?

Answer: Ask and start feeling in yourself, start looking in yourself: “In what thoughts, feelings can I sense the Creator? He sent it to me; He definitely sent me an answer right away. And where can I find it within me, in what code, in what language? How is this done?” It is like in computers. It is necessary to look for it: where is His answer?

You can have it in your thoughts, in your intentions, in your connections with your friends. Start digging, poking around.

Question: If He has already sent an answer, when did He send it?

Answer: He has no time, no problems. Usually, His answer is ready before you ask. Because your question also comes from Him, from the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/21/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 7/27/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 39, “What Is, “Anyone Who Mourns for Jerusalem Is Rewarded with Seeing Its Joy,” in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic of “Tishaa BeAv (Ninth of Av)

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What Forms the Universe?

548.01Apart from the four degrees of the development of desire, there is nothing else in the completely empty space that represents the entire universe. These degrees exist in nature, in creation. Keter is the first degree, the second is Hochma, the third is Bina, the fourth is Zeir Anpin, and the fifth is Malchut.

In Kabbalah, the first degree that relates to the Creator Himself, is usually called the degree zero, and the other four degrees of the development of our desires proceed from there.

These degrees, emanating from Keter (the Creator), form absolutely the entire universe. All qualities, worlds, creations, and everything we can talk about are in them.

The last degree of Malchut receives all the light emanating from the Creator. In accordance with this, it continues to develop more and more. This last part, Malchut, we study mainly in the science of Kabbalah: how it evolves and what is the consequence of its development.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbaalah Lession 7/16/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 7/26/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 24, “What is Unfounded Hatred in the Work”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 7/25/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 33, “What Is the Difference between General and Individual in the Work of the Creator?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction

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