Preparation to the Lesson
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Lesson on the Topic “Pesach (Passover)”
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Lesson on the Topic “Connecting the World in the Last Generation”
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Selected Highlights
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Once during Sukkot, the entire group was in a very good state and I asked my teacher Rabash what else were we lacking in order to jump right now to a special degree, which already is a spiritual one. He answered: “We are lacking an attack. We need an attack from your side.”
An attack is a cry of the heart. Everyone connects in one heart and together we ask, demand, shout, and beg for one thing: we want to rise up and cling to the Creator. It does not matter whether it is men or women, the main thing is to cry together from the bottom of the heart and address one Creator.
We only need to strengthen our connection so that it becomes even more powerful and strong, where everyone clings to the friends with all his might and holds on to them. Then we will definitely feel ourselves in a spiritual ascent. The Creator has placed us in a good state; we just need to connect more.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/6/23, “Working in Ascents and Descents”
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Pesach (Passover) is the biggest holiday for Kabbalists because it represents an exit from our egoism, from the will to receive pleasure, from the state of separation from the Creator, and from distance from our friends.
Passover is the beginning of the spiritual path, when we break away from the pincers of egoism that suffocate us and do not allow us to breathe.
Therefore we want to escape from such egoism in order to move toward connection between us and to restore the common Kli of Adam HaRishon, one common soul, in order to feel in it one spiritual world, one light, one Creator, and all of us together as one.
This is why this holiday is so important. There is no more important holiday than Passover. “Pesach” means “leap” (pasach). When we make a leap, we move from a state of egoistic reception to altruistic bestowal.
When we exit from our egoism, the will to receive, and this earthly nature that is artificially created by the Creator, it is really a great holiday. A fascinating journey into spirituality begins with it.
A person should feel that he needs a spiritual Kli, that he wants to contain all the parts of the soul so that they fill all his inner desire, and all his thoughts and aspirations would be only about the point of connection with the Creator. If he has reached such a state, it means that he has already prepared himself for exodus from Egypt.
Without a sense of exile, it is impossible to reach redemption. After all, the advantage of light is revealed only from darkness. Therefore, if the Creator wants to lead us to bestowal, to a state of being equal to the Creator, He is forced to lead us through exile.
The difference between exile (Galut) and redemption (Geula) is only in one letter “Aleph” – א, meaning the Creator. When the Creator begins to appear in our life, exile turns into redemption.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/6/23, “Pesach (Passover)”
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Preparation to the Lesson
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Lesson on the Topic “Pesach (Passover)”
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Lesson on the Topic “Connecting the World in the Last Generation”
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Selected Highlights
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The spiritual path lies through ascents and descents. Through descents, the Creator reveals the will to receive (evil inclination) in us so that we feel how far we are from the Creator. Then, with the help of a good inclination, we come closer to the Creator and through the feeling of states of distancing and coming closer, we move more and more toward the purpose of creation.
The purpose of creation is to come closer to the Creator and to complete adhesion with Him without any limitations. Relatively to this state, we should feel how far we are from the Creator now.
Therefore, first there is always a descent and distancing, then an ascent and getting closer. In this form and with such steps, we eventually come to complete adhesion with the Creator. That is, an ascent is impossible without a prior descent. We need to get used to it, know how to go through such states, and appreciate the descents because through them we learn and acquire the next state and the ascent that comes after them.
The ascent cannot be greater than the descent. In each descent, you need to already understand, feel, and imagine the future ascent. The entire path consists of descents and subsequent ascents. At first, we feel how we are moving away, how bad we feel, and every taste even for corporeal life is lost. Then, by overcoming the descent, we feel that we are getting closer to spirituality and going deeper into it in a more and more tangible way.
Thus, through descents and ascents, we are treading toward a state that will only be an ascent—the final correction for all descents.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/5/23, “Pesach (Passover)”
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It is not a problem to allow us to escape from Egypt, from our egoism. But the fact is, in the fight against egoism, we acquire additional Kelim that are new and great desires. Through these Kelim we will be able to attain the essence of the new land based on bestowal.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/5/23, “Pesach (Passover)”
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Lesson on the Topic “Pesach (Passover)”
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Zohar for All “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “General Explanation for all Fourteen Commandments and How They Divide Into the Seven Days of Creation,” Item 10
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The most important thing is to continue, as it is said: “Do anything but leave.” This “Do not leave” applies to every moment. In the moment in which you are, do not run away, but continue the same path to the same goal. Then these moments will very quickly become stages of the path and will lead you to the goal. This is the main thing.
Here, of course the group that can pull you and take care of you is very important. We need to awaken each other all the time and advance in such a way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/22/23, “Preparing for the opening of the heart at the Congress”
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When we discuss the topic of Passover, we don’t study the details of the holiday according to the calendar on the wall, but rather, the spiritual path and progress toward the final correction. This path is not short and it includes many stages. The very first stage is to begin to relate correctly to your will to receive, to your nature, in order to understand why this state is called exile or Egypt.
Everyone who wants to come to the land of Israel, to ascend to the upper spiritual degrees, must first go through exile in Egypt. We study spirituality in a state of exile, that is, when we are distant from spirituality.
Exile teaches and educates us and reformats us in the correct form. When we realize that it is absolutely necessary, then we will be able to come out of exile to redemption. Redemption is impossible without prior exile.
What is this exile? It is not corporeal troubles, the suffering from hunger, thirst, or hard work. Exile should be represented as an exile from spirituality. But we do not know what spirituality is yet! Yet it is precisely at the time when we are in a state of exile that we begin to feel what spirituality should be, where it exists, why we are far from it, and what we lack.
This is how we gradually begin to receive Kelim, desires for spirituality. When these desires reach a full measure, we escape from the state of exile. It really becomes unbearable for us, and we cannot stay in it.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/5/23, “Pesach (Passover)”
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The path from a person of this world to the state that is equal to the Creator is divided into many degrees and states through which we need to ascend. That is, each person needs to correct his inner qualities until he turns from an ordinary person into one who is similar to the Creator. This entire path can be divided into stages, just as physical routes are divided into kilometers along the way. There are 613 commandments in the Torah, states that we need to go through. The commandments are also called advices, which must be fulfilled in order to become more and more similar to the Creator, with their help, up to complete adhesion with Him.
Commandment also means advice because in each such appeal of the Creator to us there is a preparation for attainment, which is called posterior, as well as the attainment itself, which is called face. The Creator offers us some kind of action. If we fulfill it, then in accordance with it we will receive some kind of spiritual elevation and new qualities will be revealed in us, and thus we will take a step toward the Creator.
Performing the action itself is considered the posterior; that is, at this time we still do not understand anything and do not receive anything, but when we finish the action, we reveal some quality, the next degree, a new state of the Creator, and this is called face.
Therefore it is written in the Torah: “We shall do and we shall hear!” These are two states. When we do some actions exactly as it is written, we reveal within ourselves the ability to hear and rise to the next degree.
There are 613 such degrees in total. There are 613 preparatory degrees that take us to a new level. And there is also the side of the face when after preparation, we begin to hear and understand what is being said and to reveal something new. This is how we attain the meaning of these commandments, the meaning of these instructions.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/4/23, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar“
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