Lesson Preparation
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Writings of Rabash, Article “What Is the Measure of Repentance?” (1989)
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 65
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It is impossible to eradicate the will to receive because it is creation itself. You can confuse yourself, get drunk, rush after one desire instead of another, extinguishing the first desire in such a way, but it is impossible to uproot a desire. I can ignore it out of fear or because of other stronger desires, but it is impossible to fight it directly.
Even the reforming light does not change the desire itself; it only raises or lowers its importance. Yet, all desires remain with a person as they were given to him at birth. If a person attributes no importance to the desire, then he can as if erase it from the screen on which he sees the world. There is no other way because the entire creation is a desire.1
Before the convention, I expect that the European tens will establish connections with each other and with all other world groups. There should be one common virtual meeting place where everyone can meet, get information, and recharge.
We need to be included in each other not only on an informative level, but also in feeling. I want to feel the friends as the organs of my body that were separated, and I must bring them closer to me. As much as I bring them closer and increase my sensitivity to them, I enliven them and begin to feel them alive, connected with me, and living within me, to that extent I build a vessel of the soul until the Creator is revealed in it.2
From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/16/19 “Correction of the Shattering – Preparation for the Congress”
1 Minute 3:10
2 Minute 19:35
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Lesson Preparation
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Preparation for the Convention
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 65
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All that a person needs to do is to connect with others, and for this, one needs to annul one’s egoism and forget about oneself, reducing one’s control and giving room for the others. This is all the work and general correction in one general soul. Therefore, all the sins and commandments, repentance, rewards and punishments, relate only to connection. The broader this connection is, the harder it is for us to annul ourselves, to make room for others, to give importance to them. In the connection, both quality and quantity are important.
During Selichot (Repentance) we ask forgiveness for our egoism, for the inability to annul it for the sake of our unity. Gradually, quantity turns into quality, expansion of the connection and the inclusion of new circles into it leads to new degrees of attainment and attracts new light. Giving birth to the new Partzuf Nefesh, we ourselves receive the degree of Ruach, and so on.
Therefore, there is no question which is more important for correction: quality or quantity. Qualitative correction is impossible without a quantitative one. All of our actions are very simple and discrete, but due to their large number, constant efforts to annul ourselves and connect with each other, we achieve all the spiritual attainments and rise.
It is written that “it is not the wise who learn,” but the one who constantly adds efforts so that penny by penny they accumulate into a large sum. Many discrete actions accumulate into a major result.
Therefore, we cannot complain that we are incapable of doing a great deed. A great feat is not required from us. At any place and in any state, there is always an opportunity to make a little effort. If we can perform our small actions and assemble them together, then through them, we will reach correction and a high ascent.1
One should repent only for not asking the Creator for correction. All the corrections go beyond knowledge, beyond the wishes of our egoism. Our work is to always come back to “There is none else besides Him.” In a place where the Creator is lacking, I must add Him. If I fail to do this, then I ask for forgiveness. I demand from the Creator to give me more strength, understanding, and sensitivity in order to see the possibility of correction and ask the Creator for it.2
I ask forgiveness for the fact that I had an opportunity to demand correction from the Creator and I did not do so, I did not reach the full recognition of evil. I repent that I did not work hard enough and could not be affected enough by my egoism so that I would begin to act. The evil that was revealed did not touch my heart. I could have been more sensitive and uncompromising to evil.
It all depends on our connection, but we have not reached it, we cannot feel the common trouble as our own. For that, we are now asking forgiveness.
We are now working on expanding our global connection (Kli). Thanks to this expansion, everyone will become much more sensitive to the people who are near him. Connection in every individual ten will grow because we expand our connections outside of it.3
In order to correctly connect with your ten, with greater precision and inner strength, discerning additional details in this connection and eventually revealing the Creator in it, we must take care of a wider circle. It is known that in order to deepen the study of some phenomenon, we should, on the contrary, expand it and step aside a little. Through this, we will understand the phenomenon itself.
By going beyond our Earth into space, we reach greater understanding of the planet on which we live. It is like this in everything. A person leaves his native country and sets off to conquer new continents because it helps him understand himself. It is the same with the ten; we cannot study it and discover the Creator in it until we take care of all these other similar tens.
We need to establish connecting threads between us, lines of connection; otherwise, we will not understand how the system works. It is impossible to study the functions of the entire body from one cell. It is even impossible to understand this one cell in and of itself, its purpose and functions because it is a part of the general body and its systems mainly work to communicate with other cells. It is impossible to pull out one resistor or transistor from a computer and think that we understand the construction of the entire system.
Therefore, if we feel the need to expand and start thinking about all the world groups, it is a sign that we are ready to achieve connection in the ten on a higher degree. One cannot be without the other.4
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/19 “What Is Preparation for Selichot [Forgiveness]”
1 Minute 18:20
2 Minute 26:25
3 Minute 39:10
4 Minute 1:10:45
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We must understand that after such a large, strong gathering and the ascent we had during the world convention in Moldova, there can be big descents, increased darkness, frustration, and a sense of helplessness. Ascents and descents must be balanced. Therefore, the more substantial the ascent was, the more severe the descent must be after it as a preparation for an even greater ascent.
It is necessary to take this into account and treat the descent purposefully, understanding that it is part of our work. Therefore, we should return again to the main topic of “There is none else besides the Creator.”1
By myself, I can get some initial feeling of being inside the Creator. But I am incapable of any action and attitude toward Him. The Creator is something that exists within the tens. Otherwise, it will be not the Creator but an idol I created.
I can express my attitude to the Creator only through my attitude to the friends. By working on the connection in the ten, I build my attitude to the Creator.
We feel darkness in the friends because we are different from one another. However, this is not darkness but the reverse side of the Light, directing us toward the Creator. There is no more loyal ally than darkness. Hold on to it, because only it will lead you to the truth.
Darkness helps us not lose our heads from what we received in our feelings and our minds. The mind and the heart do not act, only darkness works, and this is a tremendous help. Therefore, darkness is a new creation; the Creator created darkness. Darkness aims us in the right direction and connects us with the Creator.2
The ten is ten people, each of whom is willing to annul himself, to sacrifice himself, in order to enter among the others only to support them. He does not demand anything for himself, but only looks for a place of work. He then turns into a sewing thread that stitches everyone together. He asks only for such work because by sewing everyone together, he brings contentment to the Creator.
Therefore, the ten I sit in and the names of the people in the ten do not matter to me. What matters is for them to have desires that they are ready to give to me so that I will stitch them together, investing my efforts into this work.
If we feel darkness and emptiness now, then this is the best time for building the Kli. We must love the states of darkness. I then have no one to rely on besides the Creator, and I cling to Him. At first, it is just an egoistic desire to protect myself: “It is good that there is the Creator who controls everything and does everything, and I will adhere to Him, there is no other choice.”
Afterward, however, even without any self-interest, without any reward, I will be ready to adhere to this single point. The vessel of bestowal will begin to develop from it. Everything that comes above this point of self-annulment will turn into Hassadim (mercy), into bestowal. I want nothing other than that. This is how we build the vessel of bestowal, and the moment it appears, I will be able to feel the light of Hochma for the sake of bestowal in it.3
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/10/19, “There Is None Else Besides Him”
1 Minute 0:25
2 Minute 24:25
3 Minute2:18:35
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Lesson Preparation
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Writings of Rabash, Article 36 “What Is Preparation for Selichot [Forgiveness]” (1986)
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 61
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When a point in the heart awakens in a person, one yearns for the Creator, but one does not yet feel like a separate part of the common system and does not seek to connect with others. However, gradually, under the influence of the reforming light, one begins to feel the need to connect with others; ultimately there is one soul and it shines equally to each and every one.
One still needs to correct one’s perception of reality because a person feels the world totally differently from one’s shattered vessel. It seems to him that we all exist separately and that the world is divided into many parts, somehow connected with each other. Yet, you must see the world as one, as integral, that is, not connected by some kind of threads, but rather existing as one whole.
Even if we are connected to each other through the will to receive, the restriction, the screen, and the reflected light; in other words, even if we are connected through some kind of tubes, there must still be such a connection between us, as if there are no limitations in this connection through the tubes, the individual threads. These connecting pipes must fill the entire space, as if waves of the sea penetrate between us, connecting us without any barriers.
We will then turn into a single Kli, the way it was before the shattering, but through an infinite number of screens. The attitude to the will to receive will become corrected through the infinite number of individual acts of overcoming, and we will reach an integral and continuous connection.
The worldview from my ten’s perspective and from my individual perspective differ as if a perception of reality were created by the Creator and by me. I see the world in the form of separate pixels, in a black and white image.
The more pixels I distinguish, with more forms and colors, the clearer and deeper is my perception in all axes: past-present-future and I-the Creator-the common soul. However, all this is in binary form, in the contrast of light and darkness.
When we come closer to the state where darkness shines as light and light and darkness become as one whole for us, we should as if lose the ability to see anything in the old perception where everything was based on the difference, on the contrast between black and white.
The spiritual perception of reality, however, depends on how much I annul myself, eliminating the difference between light and darkness. I want darkness to shine as light in my senses, which is against my will to receive. I want to rise above it so that darkness will resemble my new desire armed with restriction, screen, and reflected light. I then reach the higher perception of reality, feeling it as the Creator. 1
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/16/19, Writing of Baal HaSulam, “600,000 Souls”
1 Minute 12:45
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Every particular exists only in order to point to the whole. Therefore, there is no need to delve into details, there is nothing significant in them. Every individual is required only in order to connect with the whole or to get out of it and thus teach us to perceive the common whole.
Through our actions, we discover the network of connections between us. Connecting them together, these actions are revealed as a system called Adam, the common soul. Adam HaRishon is a structure of connections between all of us. It is as if I look at a map and see a portrayal of roads connecting the cities. The same connection exists between all of us; it is not only three-dimensional but rather has an infinite number of dimensions.
This network of connections is called man, Adam. The more connections the individual points that are detached from each other can establish between them, the more roads they can pave, the more they build the common connecting system, which is called Adam. Therefore, they are also considered people, because Adam is the result of their efforts.1
The Creator deliberately broke the integral picture of the world and made it discrete so that we, by ourselves, through individual, discrete actions, would reach a common, complete form. We are incapable of such a generalization, but each of our individual actions, despite its limitations, brings us closer to the complete picture.
It is like calculating an integral, where the margin of error is added to the sum of rectangles. This addition completes those unaccounted angles, which we were unable to cover with our discrete shattering. This is called: “The Creator will finish this work for me.”
We add one small rectangle after another to the best of our ability. But how can all these rectangles be made into a smooth curve, how can we measure the entire area if we do not have the possibility of reaching the real integral picture through our “square” thinking? We can only increase the number of rectangles. Therefore, there is an addition to the integral that the Creator adds for us. He helps us perform all the actions, but then He still has to complete this work for us, adding what is missing, which we ourselves are unable to take into account.2
If the Creator is revealed within the desire of the ten, then how can we increase this desire, the area of the revelation of the Creator? The desire of the ten can be increased only through connection with each other. This entire area is divided into pixels that we cannot change, make larger or smaller. We can only increase the number of these pixels and thereby make the picture clearer. This is how it works, like a computer that detects only zero or one. Yet, through the large number of zeros and ones, all the operations are performed.3
After the convention in Moldova, the structure of the entire World Kli has changed. Because of the strong connection we reached there, we have jumped to the next degree. Now we need to build a new Kli. Now during every communication, we must take into account that we are connecting with the common Kli, with a certain area of the common soul.
For example, I connect with the Moscow group and understand that this is a part of the common soul. The sensation of this common Kli exists within me all the time. From now on, any connection in the ten is already a connection with the entire world Kli, as with the single whole. I feel that by connecting with friends in Europe, I influence my connection with friends in South America.
We are constantly adding pixels to the general picture and receiving new inner sensations. Due to the birth of these new sensations in us, the picture is constantly expanding. Every pixel is a connection within the world Kli due to which the form of the larger vessel called a man, Adam, begins to appear more and more.4
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/18/19, “Correction of the Shattering” (Preparation to the Europe Convention)
1 Minute 3:20
2 Minute 21:22
3 Minute 36:30
4 Minute 56:40
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Therefore, it is a must for every nation to be strongly united within, so all the individuals within it are attached to one another by instinctive love. …This does not mean that all the people in the nation, without exception, must be so. It means that the people of that nation, who sense that harmony, are the ones who make the nation, and the measure of happiness of the nation and sustainability are measured by their quality. (Baal HaSulam The Nation)
The force that strengthens the nation depends on its similarity to the upper force, which is oneness; that is, it is able to unite. Such a nation can overcome any difficulties as they manifest as breakings and imperfections that require correction. Therefore, we will have to encounter many problems so that we can cover all crimes with love, strengthening and uniting more and more. This is the way that perfection will be revealed.
Every time greater crimes are revealed, we must build an opposite state, with love above it, and with no despair or retreat. This is how the world is built and how it must reach correction.
How can the European nations achieve unity with the staggering number of refugees? The refugees only help the European countries understand that unity must be established above all differences. We need to see the wave of refugees as sent from the upper force: destruction for the sake of correction.
Fifty years ago, it was impossible to imagine the current refugee situation in Europe. Europeans protected themselves considerably, they preserved every nation’s uniqueness: Germans, French, Italians… . The borders were rigid and distinct.
Suddenly, everything began to change swiftly. According to the upper program, everyone must reveal the shattering they are in. How else can the necessity for correction be revealed if not by the introduction of a foreign force? Thus, several million people enter Europe who are foreign in culture, education, religion, and behavior. There is no greater opposite force.
As a result, the Europeans are beginning to understand that there is no choice: the only thing to do is to unite. They are yet to reveal how to come to such unity. No matter how unrealistic it may seem due to religious differences, the most acute and irreconcilable, there is no other option.
Europeans realize that they have to find the key to connection and unity. This key is found, first and foremost, in the integral method of connection explained by Kabbalah: covering all crimes with love. This is realized with the help of the upper force. We cannot achieve unity on our own; we can only create conditions where through Israel, a connecting channel, we will cause the upper force to act on masses of people.
In order for this to happen, we need their compliance: the way they talk and act will start to change. It makes no difference that only yesterday they were fundamentalists, no matter what religion they were practicing, the way they thought, or which of the seventy nations they were a part of. Everyone will become as one nation.
The main thing is that Europe is undergoing challenges and we must provide a solution. Therefore, uniting is very important, all the Kabbalistic groups across Europe and the entire world, especially now before the Bulgarian congress. This is how we will be able to bring the light of unity and oneness to Europe. Europe is becoming more and more engulfed in darkness, in the feeling of helplessness, despair, of being faced with no way out. But we will see how contradictions will begin to subside, opinions will start changing, as will thoughts and desires. Everything is resolved in thought and the thoughts will become new.
How is it possible that those who were fierce fundamentalists, nationalists, unwilling to talk to anyone who differs from them in the slightest would suddenly change? The upper light is able to reform anything. As He is intensifying the darkness right now, so will He correct it. The main thing for us is to be the conducting channel for Him—this is our work.1
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/13/19, Unification of the People (Nation)
1 Minute 4:00
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