Preparation to the Lesson
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” Item 21
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 138
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Lesson on the Topic: “Faith Above Reason”
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Selected Highlights
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Question: I feel like I am the weakest and smallest in the ten. How can I protect myself from beating myself up?
Answer: There is no need to blame yourself. On the contrary, you should be grateful that you have been shown who you are. Rabash told me about such states: “Now you are the same rag as me.” Do you understand? Rabash! He told me.
The realization of one’s insignificance and weakness is the absolutely natural, correct revelation of one’s condition. And we cannot be different. Everything we attain is due to the revelation of the Creator in us.
No matter how much we grow, we constantly attain our greater insignificance relative to Him. But, on the other hand, since we cling to the Creator, we already measure ourselves relative to our similarity to Him. And this similarity, of course, is attributed to Him.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1
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Question: When we feel that actions of bestowal give us egoistic pleasure, should we restrict our desire to bestow?
Answer: In no case should we restrict the desire to bestow if it is not in contradiction with connection.
If I feel that I will not be able to cope with the connection with my qualities, then I restrict them, but to the extent that I can remain in unity. The most important thing is unity, attaining unity, reaching unity. And at what level it is reached is not so important.
Even at its most minimal level, we are already in spiritual world and we are already giving the Creator the opportunity to be revealed between us.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1
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Question: How can we help our country and the people living in it move toward connection? And how do we affect them by our unification?
Answer: I would advise you to first of all develop the relationships between you. This is the most important thing. When the spiritual force, the property of bestowal, love, and connection appears in you at least a little, then it will simultaneously emanate from you and outside of you. This is what the masses will feel. But in the meantime, I do not think it is necessary to talk about it, advertise it, or do anything about it.
But spreading the general knowledge that a good connection between us leads to a better life is necessary. This is what we are doing all the time.
Question: How can we encourage each other to believe that it is possible to feel faith above reason?
Answer: This possibility depends only on you and on no one else. And the state of the world is arranged in such a way that if you want, you will necessarily and quickly achieve change. It all depends on the magnitude of your desire. So go ahead! Do not believe anyone that it is impossible, that it is hard. Our main problem in this world is to reveal the Creator, then everything will be clear to us. Good luck with this!
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Going with Faith above Reason” Lesson 5
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Question: In our world, it is accepted that the small is annulled before the great. But in the example of Rabbi Yossi Ben Kisma, this great teacher annulled himself before his students who knew nothing. What did Rabbi Yossi Ben Kisma gain from this?
Answer: He gained being included in people yearning for the goal. And it doesn’t matter that they were on a very small degree relative to him, a great Kabbalist. He gained by annulling before them.
Still he had his own egoism. So by annulling before them and thus becoming included in them, through these small uncorrected souls he was able to raise them along with him to the height of the degree he had reached.
Question: How can we receive the greatness of the goal from our friends?
Answer: I advise you to close your eyes and do everything that is written in the articles of Kabbalists even if you do not agree with it. You don’t need anything else.
The most important thing is to close your eyes, annul before your friends, and go along with them. No matter how big you are, take an example from Rabbi Yossi Ben Kisma.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Deriving the Greatness of the Goal from the Friends” Lesson 4
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Question: How can I feel that the Creator is behind the group?
Answer: When you reach connection with the group, then you will automatically see that the Creator is behind the group.
You cannot see the Creator Himself except when he is dressed in a group. Therefore, when you connect with the group, you will find that the Creator is in it.
You will never see Him outside of the group. The upper light can be felt only in a common Kli (Vessel).
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Adhering to the Friends” Lesson 3
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Preparation to the Lesson
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” Item 16
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 134
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Lesson on the Topic: “Faith Above Reason”
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Selected Highlights
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If I make an effort to see the actions of the Creator in every place and behind all sorts of people: behind friends, family, even my boss at work, then I understand that they do not come from people and from random events in life, but only from the upper governance. After all, there is none else besides Him, the only force that operates in the universe through all kinds of clothings.
I unite all these clothings, gather them in one place, and then I begin to reveal the Creator. Those clothings do not disappear, but become more and more diverse. If I make an effort to relate all of them only to the Creator, then I begin to reveal Him more and more.
This work—to relate everything to one force—leads me to adhesion with the Creator and to understanding Him. Through it, I change myself and cover all crimes with love.
I see all the obstacles not as disturbances, but as exercises given to me by the Creator to reveal Him in any state, and they become more and more refined and complex in order to reveal the upper force. However, I try to perceive every state that arises before me as sent to me by the Creator and I try to address Him through this state.
There is only the force of the Creator. This means that the Creator organizes and arranges everything in the world for us.
Although we see a huge, very complex, and multifaceted world before us with many contradictory forces, in the end, we need to reduce it all to one principle: “The Creator is above us, the Creator is one.”
This goal should become our guiding star. Then our entire world and our entire life will give us exercises that help us reach this concept and fully reveal it.
It is written, “They have eyes, but they will not see; they have ears, but they will not hear.” We do not see that there is only one force acting in the entire reality. When we begin to see this, another reality appears before us, a spiritual one where we are included together with the friends.
Then the next, higher degree is revealed, and each of us again begins to feel themselves under the grip of an egoism that has grown even more and that the entire world is even more corrupted. Yet, we understand that the Creator presents this picture to us. In fact, nothing changes.
The Creator just twists the regulator on our will to receive, and then egoism flares up even more in each of us and throughout the world. All this is in order for us to reveal the uniqueness of the Creator in the entire reality at an even higher degree, in even more complex and contradictory states.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/1/22, “Faith Above Reason”
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Question: Is annulment an act of free choice or an obligation?
Answer: If you want to develop spiritually, you must annul yourself. The reduction of egoism (Tzimtzum) is the very first condition of our spiritual development. And then we will develop in the property of bestowal, and this is faith above reason.
So, there is no choice here. If you do not want to, you will be brought to it anyway.
Question: Is the action of self-annulment to zero an action from above? Can I do it myself or does the Creator do it?
Answer: Everything comes from the Creator. But you act like you are doing it yourself. The Creator starts and ends everything. Only He does everything, and a person should try to participate in this. That is how it works.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Annulling before the Friends” Lesson 2
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Question: How are we able to see friends as great and join them?
Answer: It is no problem because everyone except me is great. To the extent that I annul myself in relation to them and take on their thoughts, views, and attitudes, to that extent I draw closer to them and enter the property of mutual guarantee (Arvut). Thus I move toward the goal.
I have to place myself in the group, like a drop of semen in the womb, and develop all the time. But this seed can develop only to the extent that it will form this womb around itself. This is how we should grow ourselves spiritually.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Adhering to the Friends” Lesson 3
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