Preparation to the Lesson
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Lesson on the Topic “Faith Above Reason”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah)”
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Selected Highlights
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The word “Kabbalah” is explained in different ways. One of the meanings is transmission, since the language of Kabbalah can be transmitted only in the connection of a student and a teacher.
All other languages (Tanakh, Alakhu, Haggadah) you can study by yourself.
Of course, you have to get books from previous generations, study explanations of key points, and have the opportunity to consult with someone, but you don’t have to be closely connected with the teacher; you don’t have to learn how he thinks, feels, and treats everything.
You are not obliged to accept from him or to copy his attitude or worldview.
But in order to attain the language of Kabbalah, you must cling to him. After all, he is the upper and you are the lower.
He presents his AHP to you, and you are obliged to perceive it as something desirable despite its externality that deliberately, egoistically repels you.
Of course, you disagree with the teacher, do not want, reject, and hate. But, in essence, it shows you how much you don’t accept the spiritual.
You have to acquire a language, a program, that works in it, but doesn’t yet work in you. You try to copy it on yourself from the examples that are given to you.
Without the help of a teacher who is next to you in the same world, in the same sensory organs, in order to penetrate into the spiritual, whose attitude to the spiritual you can cling to despite the external obstacles blocking your ability to achieve inner connection—without such examples, the Creator would leave you in complete isolation from the spiritual, without any hope.
It is impossible to extract spirituality from books. After all, it is not attained by the earthly mind.
Only on the condition that a person annuls his egoism and destroys the barrier between himself and the teacher in order to see his inner content, only on this condition, does he absorb his spiritual contemplation as far as he is able.
And if you have somehow grasped the program of the teacher’s connection with the Creator, you can continue; otherwise, no.
This is what the Ari said before his death, that only one of his students, Chaim Vital, could continue to study Kabbalah, because he took over from him the basics of the language and the program of connection with the Creator, while the others did not.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/09, Baal HaSulam “The Wisdom of Kabbalah and its Essence”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah)”
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Selected Highlights
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Preparation to the Lesson
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Lesson on the Topic “Faith Above Reason”
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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 “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah)”
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Preparation to the Lesson
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Lesson on the Topic “Faith Above Reason”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah)”
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Selected Highlights
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Due to all the events taking place in the world, the Creator gradually brings to our consciousness, blow by blow, that we are developing in the wrong manner, both individually and everyone in general. We finally have to understand the laws of the system we are in.
It is naive to think that we build these systems ourselves. We see that our universe and all of reality exists according to certain laws that are revealed by physics, chemistry, biology, and astronomy. Everything acts according to these laws, and we humans also obey them. Why do we suddenly think that we can invent new laws ourselves, as we please?
If everyone wants to establish their own laws for the existence of the world in the way that is convenient for them, then only wars and conflicts between people result from this. No one understands what the correct system of world governance is. During elections, everyone shouts at each other that they know how to build the world better than the others. But the world does not need to be built; you just need to understand how it is already built and how to correctly integrate in the system that already exists.
It is said that “the world works as usual” and there is no need to change anything in it. You only need to change yourself, to bring yourself in line with the system that is embedded within reality—meaning the task is to change a person, not to change the world.
To understand this we have been given the science of Kabbalah. And when we begin to find out how much we contradict the laws of general reality and find in ourselves the reason for this opposition—our egoism; we can correct it by integrating into the system of creation and by rising above the whole creation like the Creator. As it is said: “And you will become like gods, and know the laws of good and evil.”
Then we get unlimited possibilities in the whole creation. And not only in the material world that we feel in our five physical senses where we can freely move from one side of reality to another, but also in spiritual reality.
All this can be achieved, but of course this is a long process during which we will need to educate ourselves and our children. It can stretch for several generations until the entire human society comes to harmony with nature.
Inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature do not need correction since they act according to natural instincts. Only we humans are the opposite of nature, and so we harm ourselves and the whole of nature. Therefore, it is our duty to study the laws of nature and change ourselves in accordance with these laws, which we can reveal.
These days many people have questions that cause misunderstanding and pain. Why are there such wars and suffering in the world?
So far we are only studying the laws of nature, and then we will begin to fulfill them little by little; that is, we are getting closer and closer to connection and even to love between all people, to the highest level of unity. And then we will begin to understand how we can change ourselves. And in accordance with our changes, nature will begin to change, turn toward us, and become kind and friendly.
The science of Kabbalah teaches us how we need to change in order to reveal the true laws of nature.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/2/22, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Peace in the World”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 6, Item 6
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Selected Highlights
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Patience and perseverance are the two main qualities essential to spiritual work. The Creator tests our devotion, i.e., how much we are attached to Him and are able to sacrifice everything else except Him, as if there is none else but the Creator.
We have to test our strength and whether we will be able to withstand all the influences from the Creator by which He leads us to the recognition that “There is nothing else but a higher power.”
A person needs great stubbornness in the work of the Creator so that despite any interference he does not forget that everything comes only from the Creator and so that under any conditions he continues the path in one direction. In all situations that arise in life, he should only hold on even more tightly to “There is none else besides Him”—for the Creator to be his only goal.
And the further a person advances, the more obstacles arise in front of him, all in order to strengthen his perseverance and dedication to the goal and his stability. Each time he is torn away from the goal, has obstacles in front of him, becomes confused, and is led astray, but he tries not to forget that all this comes in order for him to strengthen himself even more on the path and grow.
It is necessary to go through all the descents and falls, through a very narrow bridge, before you enter the gates of the spiritual world. And most importantly, do not be afraid of anything; no matter what happens, do not leave, but instead hold on to the goal. Just as a baby clings to his mother until it is impossible to tear him away from her, so must we cling to the Creator in order to be attached even stronger to the goal and in such a way to grow in spirituality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/22, “Patience and Persistence”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Essence of Religion and Its Purpose”
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Preparation to the Lesson
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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 Essence of Religion and Its Purpose”
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