Preparation to the Lesson
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Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Rose,” [Mirrors of the Sulam (Ladder)]
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Freedom”
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Selected Highlights
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Humanity is in such period in history when we are revealing even more clearly that our development was wrong. After all, it was dictated by evil egoistic forces, and therefore was constantly accompanied by wars, conflicts, problems, and fears. Eventually we need to join the force of good.
We have no idea how different such a life is from our current existence. This is the entire essence of the wisdom of Kabbalah; it speaks about the collection of forces available in nature, how we can reveal them, bring them closer to us, come closer to each other through them, and begin to assemble the system as it existed before the shattering of the system of the common soul Adam HaRishon.
In this system, everyone was connected together and understood each other as if they belonged to one body, one mind, and with common desire and intention as one single whole. This is the way the organs in a healthy body exist, each organ knows what it must do to maintain the life of all other organs.
Therefore, Kabbalists advise us to work in a group in order to gradually feel how mutual support helps us uncover a system called Adam, that is, similar (Domeh) to the Creator, the force of bestowal. We will really feel together as one force with one mind and one feeling in love and unity.
For this purpose we organize Kabbalistic groups through which we try to learn how to exist according to the laws of connection and climb to the second floor of reality.
Then we will reveal the universe in its true form and find out that the universe is much broader and more interconnected than we thought. We get to know the forces of nature by seeing how they permeate this world from end to end. It means, to attain the Creator, the upper force, by rising to His level.
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From the Convention in Turkey 2022, “A Prayer Lishma,” Lesson 3
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There are two opposite forces in nature and everything depends on how we use them. There is the good force and evil, the force of connection and the force of rejection.
These forces are present at all degrees of nature: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human. We need to learn how to control these forces instead of letting them control us.
Kabbalists tell us about this, and they are the ones who have already revealed the upper degree of reality, the second floor of our existence. Humanity is already completing the first stage of its development under the control of an evil egoistic force. And then, according to the historical process and the forces controlling us, we have to go up to the second floor.
The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches how to climb from the first floor to the second. Kabbalists performed this ascent hundreds of years ago. But then there were only a few of them in each generation, such people who took on themselves the work of changing the relationship between people. Thus they revealed the second force of nature, the force of unity, and wrote us books about it.
We are obliged to move to existence on the second floor, to the realization of the good force between us in the global connection of everyone together. In this way we return to the state that was before the shattering of the system of Adam HaRishon, the first man that was shattered into many parts. There is a part of this Adam in each of us, and we need to connect all these parts back together, which is called becoming like one man with one heart.
It means to return to the existence of the system as Adam, like (Domeh) the Creator. And then we will continue to exist on the second floor of reality, on the degree of connection.
This transition can be made in a good way through the power of unity by awakening it between us. Or we will have to move forward under the influence of an evil force if we do not realize our connection in time with the help of correct, progressive development, from a smaller connection to an increasingly stronger one.
If we do not awaken the good forces of nature for our connection, then they immediately begin to act in an inverse, negative form. And then evil forces are revealed between us, which generates conflicts, wars, as well as internal and external problems in the relationship between us and for everyone individually.
Therefore, a hundred years ago, the wisdom of Kabbalah began to open up to everyone. Kabbalists explain what needs to be done to reveal our next degree, the second floor, in the fastest and best way. Baal HaSulam was the first Kabbalist who widely revealed this technique to everyone; he wrote many books about it, according to which we study.
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From the Convention in Turkey 2022, “The Conditions for Connection in the Group,” Lesson 1
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Lesson on the Topic “The Lord Will Finish for Me”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Freedom”
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Selected Highlights
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Preparation to the Lesson
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Lesson on the Topic “Each Day They Will Be As New in Your Eyes”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 6, “Inner Observation”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Freedom”
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Selected Highlights
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As created beings, we exist in two worlds at once. The so-called lower world is the world that we feel now according to our initial nature, that we were born with and in which we develop. But Kabbalists tell us that there is also the upper world to which we need to ascend.
The difference between these two worlds comes from the difference between two forces of nature: the force that separates us from each other and the force that brings us closer. It is like a plus and a minus, only they exist at the human degree. The closer we become to each other, by annulling egoism that separates us, the more similar we become to the upper force, the force of the Creator, the force that attracts and unites, which means we can move from the sensation of this world to the sensation of the upper world.
So far we are in the grip of the desire to enjoy, which forces everyone to act only for their own personal benefit. We need to reach connection by annulling our egoism and connecting above it as one man with one heart. This is the level at which the Creator exists—the single force that controls the entire universe.
Only these two levels exist in nature: the egoistic level and the altruistic level, the level of hatred and the level of love. We are at the final stage of our egoistic development and gradually we are beginning to learn that apparently there is another level where we exist as a united humanity.
Whether in a good way or by force, we will have to get acquainted with this second floor of reality and climb up to it. There are two possibilities for this: a good path or a bad path.
The bad path is a path of suffering under blows that we have already felt once in the past and that we still have to face in the future. The good path is a path of light, a force that connects, that brings us closer, and that teaches us how to be at the uppermost level of existence.
The wisdom of Kabbalah talks about this path of how to rise from our level, from the level of separation and confrontation, to the level of unification. Kabbalah has been talking about this for thousands of years. We will have to study this methodology and implement it in the relationship between us and between all the inhabitants of this world.
All Kabbalistic books write about this. These two forces exist in nature and it all depends on how we use them.
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From the Convention in Turkey 2022, “The Conditions for Connection in the Group,” Lesson 1
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Lesson on the Topic “Each Day They Will Be As New in Your Eyes”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 6, Item 6
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Freedom”
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Selected Highlights
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What is faith above reason? Faith is bestowal, and above reason means it has a higher importance than reception.
In our state, this quality is expressed only as my attitude toward the group because only in the group can I clearly see that in my actions and thoughts I prefer its benefit to my own.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/8/10, Rabash, Shlavei HaSulam, “The Importance of Faith that Always Takes Place”
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Lesson on the Topic “Each Day They Will Be As New in Your Eyes”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Freedom”
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Lesson on the Topic “Each Day They Will Be As New in Your Eyes”
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Selected Highlights
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