Lesson Preparation
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Lesson on the Topic “The Work Within Reason And The Work Above Reason”
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Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Table of Answers for the Meaning of the Words, Item 20
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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All spiritual work goes by faith above reason. It is called “faith” because my regular corporeal senses, the desires I was born with, do not approve of it. But I receive a certain Light from above, which holds me in this state called “faith” and allows me to do the work despite the fact that I feel no upper degree. Also, I do not want to feel it, nor to work for the sake of feeling good, being its slave. Instead, I want to rise above it, above my nature. Therefore, I ask to be given the Light of faith.
Despite the fact that I do not see, hear and understand how the power of bestowal works, I still want to work according to its laws so that it would clothe in me. The people of this world are guided by the power of reception and follow their desire to enjoy, unconsciously submitting to it like dolls in the hands of a puppeteer. I, however, want to be guided by His other hand, which is called “the hand of faith,” so that it will begin to control me, capturing my whole heart and mind.
However, at the same time, I do not leave my old nature. I want to feel it and compare how one is different from the other in order to work by faith above reason. I will have reason and in addition, faith, which is higher than reason; that is, the power of bestowal will dominate over the power of reception. I will know and understand how bestowal can be dominant, and I will be able to direct it myself. It will remain under my control.
This is called “faith” because I do not require knowledge of how the power of bestowal operates; I just want it to be dominant over the power of reception.
Therefore, all spiritual work begins with acquiring the force of faith, the force of bestowal, above the force of reception, which is called “reason.” I remain a reasonable person and do not soar in fantasies as if I walk by faith alone, ready for any bestowal. I am not ready for anything, I see things absolutely clearly. Faith above reason is based on real force, even stronger than the force of reception.
I work with the full inclusion of all my feelings and reason, with my environment and the entire world, but in a new way, in a different style of work. This is the entry to the spiritual work.1
Faith above reason relies on sensations that seem unnatural to us. The natural feelings received from birth are our rational knowledge. Now, however, I ask to be given an additional perception of reality in order to build a new level of bestowal, Bina, faith, which does not rely on corporeal knowledge. I rely on reception because it is built on egoism. But I ask to be given such a perception of reality as if I can sense the Creator, as if His power of bestowal has been revealed throughout the world, and everyone is in love and bestowal, and I want to be the same.
I realize how far my request is from reality, but I want to align myself in such a way that I relate to it on two levels: the power of reception and the power of bestowal. On one hand, like a judge, I can only go by what my eyes see, which is corporeal reality. On the other hand, I perceive the world as if it was corrected, only the single force of the Creator operates in it, and there is nothing else besides it.2
If the Creator had clothed in me and had given me His power of love and bestowal, replacing the egoistic force of reception that used to control me, I would become an angel. I would only love and bestow to everyone just as unconsciously I want to receive from them now. I would simply replace one nature with another.
This can never happen. The goal is to remain as the same created being while also becoming similar to the Creator, that is, to include two levels.
Therefore, after many years of disappointment in the futile attempts to obtain the force of bestowal, to feel love, and the spiritual world, I finally understand that I do not even want it. I do not need the force of bestowal that would completely engulf me like egoism currently does. It would not amount to anything. True bestowal consists of remaining within the force of reception and acquiring the ability to rise above it by the force of bestowal.
While hating somebody, I get the ability to treat him well. I don’t want to turn into an angel and love everybody. I remain the same egoist as the Creator made me, not destroying my desire to enjoy, but above it, I make a restriction, a screen, the reflected Light, and I build my attitude of bestowal above reception. I don’t want any reward or compensation, I just want to treat everyone the way the Creator treats them. That is, my intentions are relatively unselfish.3
We must reveal all the evil inside of us and obtain the force of faith, Bina, above it. We cannot become the Creator, we can only become similar to Him. Therefore, our force of bestowal can only exist above the force of reception, as if we bestow.
The force of bestowal is the force of the Creator. We can only imprint it in ourselves and thus become a human, Adam, meaning similar (Domeh) to the Creator. We apply gilt on top of our desire to enjoy. But inside, under this gold foil, the whole sculpture remains, all the evil of our ego. This is the Aviut of desire and the screen above it.4
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/22/18, Lesson on the Topic “The Work Within Reason And The Work Above Reason”
1 Minute 0:10
2 Minute 15:15
3 Minute 17:55
4 Minute 36:00
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The whole correction is in unity. All that we and the whole of creation need to do is to unite. If we strive only in the direction of unity within which the Creator will be revealed, and the goal of our life is the purpose of creation, then we are moving in the right direction.
The Bnei Baruch World Group is just a vanguard, which will be followed by more and more parts of the common broken soul joining us. Thus, the Creator will have the opportunity to be revealed inside the creations with all His might.1
I have to work on the love for my friends regardless of how my friends behave toward me. After all, I perceive them as if they were sent to me by the Creator who organizes this whole picture for me. I am obliged to accept it “as is” and to understand that I see not my friends, but myself in the reverse, inverted form, which appears to me in this form.
My friends’ behavior is a manifestation of my own properties, which I still need to correct. Therefore, it does not matter what I hear and feel communicating with my friends, how much they insult and neglect me, and not only they, but the whole world in general. I have to correct myself in such a way as to perceive each friend, my colleague on the path to the goal of creation, as my best friend, and to cultivate the love for him in myself.
Thanks to the love for my friend growing inside me, I will see that he is being corrected, suddenly becoming better, more pleasant, more desirable, softer and kinder, as it is written that “love will cover all transgressions.” Moreover, I will continue to see a bad attitude on his side and at the same time will envelop him with love until I reveal that all this is arranged by the Creator.
The Creator hardens my heart through such external attire so that I develop my property of bestowal above it. After all, it is impossible to develop upon pleasant things. I will naturally be nice to someone who loves me because it is pleasant and beneficial to my egoism.
If I see that friends neglect me and reject me, then I have the opportunity to work on it. I become very sensitive and notice such subtleties that I had not seen before: someone turns a little away from me, does not look at me in a friendly way, and ignores me. It suddenly hurts me and awakens resistance and hatred in me.
Yet, I prepare myself to hold back. Then, I try to awaken love in myself, covering with it all the flaws that I see in a friend. I then find out that there is no friend—these are my own egoistic properties that the Creator shows me. It is over this depth of egoism that I have the opportunity to build a connection with the Creator, adhere to Him, and see that there are no friends, only the Creator.
What’s most important is not to forget that all this is the work of the Creator, and my task is to check and find out that I am incapable of doing it by myself. The person cannot correct himself; he was created only to ask the Creator to correct him, he was created for prayer. We must always turn to the upper one and demand from him.
Our task is to identify our flaws and ask for their correction. Therefore, friends become a vital environment for me without which I would not be able to turn to the Creator. The worse, as it seems to me, my friends treat me, the more they help me turn to the Creator.
It turns out that I myself am looking for opportunities for correction, like an old man who is walking bent over and looking for something that he hasn’t yet lost. I make an effort to identify deficiencies that can be collected and added to my prayer.2
A friend is “bought” by one’s own self-annulment. I have to pay for the “purchase” with something, that is, to give up on something, to sacrifice my egoism. I cannot destroy my egoism, but it is possible to change its use from egoism to bestowal with the help of the Light that reforms This is called “buying a friend.”3
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/18, Lesson Preparation for the Virtual Convention 2018
1 Minute 1:20
2 Minute 4:00 – 11.00
3 Minute 1:28:50
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Lesson Preparation
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Lesson on the Topic “The Work Within Reason And The Work Above Reason”
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Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Table of Answers for the Meaning of the Words, Item 5
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 13 “A Pomegranate”
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Lesson Preparation
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Lesson on the Topic “The Work Within Reason And The Work Above Reason”
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Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 99
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 40 “Faith in the Rav, What Is the Measure”
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Lesson Preparation
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Lesson on the Topic “The Work Within Reason And The Work Above Reason”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 4 “What Is the Reason for the Heaviness One Feels when Annulling before the Creator in the Work”
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Lesson Preparation
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Lesson on the Topic “The Work Within Reason And The Work Above Reason”
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Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 97
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Love of God and the Love of Man”, Title “All of Israel Are Responsible for One Another”
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Lesson Preparation
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Lesson on the Topic “The Work Within Reason And The Work Above Reason”
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Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 88
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Love of God and the Love of Man”, Title “Two Parts to the Torah: Between Man and God and Between Man and Man”
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Every day we have an opportunity to become increasingly closer to each other, that is, to the inner, emotional, and spiritual center of our unity, despite the difference in opinions and habits that might seem strange to others. However, we know that we are looking through the eyes of our egoism and therefore, we see nothing right. The only thing left for us is to have faith in the sages, Kabbalists, and be grateful for the chance to overcome.
By this sign it is possible to check how far you have moved or that you have already left the path leading to the goal of creation, to faith above reason, whether you rely on a spiritual basis or you fall into your egoism every time. The Creator gives us opportunities for advancement at every second; we just need to correctly accept them and correct our properties in order to see from them the true world instead of the world of egoistic deception.1
Give yourself as a gift to your friends
The creation of a spiritual Kli is carried out by getting closer to the friends. Such rapprochement is possible only through self-annulment, by adopting what I disagree with from them. This work involves including myself into the group, bowing down to it instead of dragging it into one’s own viewpoint.
If I really want to get closer to the center of the group, where the Creator is hiding from me, I have to look for difficulties and problems that I can overcome in order to connect with my friends. My gift to the group is my heartfelt and sincere participation by faith above reason.
Despite my disagreement, I join my friends. I then see that everything is already prepared in advance and there is no one to correct except for me. Everybody is already including themselves in the common soul, and only I, Malchut, should correct myself in relation to them. I will then reveal the structure of the common soul with its filling—the Creator residing within it.
All this is due to the fact that I correct myself against my will, making gifts to a friend or the group by annulling myself and joining them. I do not want this, and this unwillingness remains in me as the depth of my egoism (Aviut), but I do it above my unwillingness, against my egoism, and so I make a restriction, a screen, and include my Malchut in the first nine Sefirot.
The nine first Sefirot are the properties of my friends given to me for work and self-annulment so that I can restrict my egoism and be ready to give, to help, to support them in everything. As a result, I find out that everything has already been corrected. It is is the clothing of the Creator who arranged it all to help me develop love in myself and reveal Him.2
Only by the power of the greatness of the goal received from the environment is our willingness to transfer ourselves to the group measured. It is as if I came to a store to buy a gift for a friend and choose it according to the price indicating how much I appreciate him, how much am I willing to pay for his love: one hundred dollars, one thousand, or one hundred thousand?
In the same way, I assess my state in relation to the group: What I am ready to give up for the sake of connecting with my friends? After I have chosen the group, I have to go with it by giving up my egoism for the sake of connecting with it all the time. Gradually, I transfer my desire to enjoy from “within reason” to “above reason,” lifting it above the screen until I accumulate so much desire there that I can feel the presence of the Creator in it.
This is my gift to the group because this is the most precious thing that I have and that they need, that very desire that can be attributed to the Creator. The group is waiting for such a gift from everyone.3
The gift is always internal because you need to deny yourself something for him, to pay. The gift itself is just an external symbol, but it includes an inner action regarding our egoism, our desire to enjoy.
If I do not feel that I am going against my egoism. This is not considered as a gift because I do not refuse anything. A gift is when I, an absolute egoist, can cut off, suppose, ten percent from myself and pass it on to a friend. Only if my ego resists such a gift is it considered a gift. If I bring gifts to the one I love, then I make gifts to myself, like a mother giving to a child and enjoying it even more than the child does.
The giver of a gift to a friend refuses his egoism and passes it to the service of the group. It is necessary to make a gift of what causes the greatest resistance inside of us.4
A gift means that I take some filling from my egoism and pass it on to the benefit of others. Even buying a gift for a friend in a store, I refuse a hundred dollars, passing to a friend my desire to enjoy, which he can now use.
This is how we use the whole world, as it is written: “Go and earn from each other.” Let us begin to connect in such a way that each one will yield to the other, and in this way we will again unite in one Kli. Mutual earnings are an exchange, a connection of our desires into one desire. All of reality is a desire, there is nothing else. The whole world does the work of the Creator, consciously or unconsciously.5
Money is a cover, a screen. To the extent that I have such coverage, I can “pay,” that is, raise my desire to enjoy and transfer it to bestowal.6
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/18, Lesson Preparation for the Virtual Convention 2018
1Minute 0:20
2Minute 5:35
3Minute 20:40
4Minute 29:40
5Minute 39:39
6Minute 43:00
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The upper governance is pushing us to unite into one world Kabbalistic group around the entire globe in order to feel ourselves as one spiritual vessel. For this purpose, it is necessary to overcome all differences, to understand and feel each other despite the difference in languages, time zones, mentalities, levels of preparation, technical interference in communication, etc.
Of utmost importance is to understand that we are moving toward universal unity at the demand of the upper governance, and we are implementing it step by step, level by level. The first step that we enter in the spiritual world is called the embryo. This embryo must be perfect, that is, similar to the construction of the common soul of Adam HaRishon that had shattered.
Now we are collecting the parts of this soul back into one soul, and we must understand that this embryo is the first step of the union. The embryo is built on concessions, annulling oneself in relation to the group. Heartfelt participation is necessary, but a person is not the master of his heart, which is in the hands of the Creator. We thus need to learn how to influence the Creator so that He will unite our hearts into one. We will then become a spiritual embryo.
It is not enough to sit together and study—you need to somehow unite the hearts, and this is what is most difficult. The construction of the world group provides us with a new connecting force because a lot of additional interferences are revealed that must be overcome. In our group, we seem to have done our best, performed all the physical actions, and the heart is not in our power. But by striving to unite on the scale of the entire Bnei Baruch World Kli, we are taking one more step toward opening our hearts, sharpening our feelings for each other.
Due to such an extensive unification of the 80 groups around the world, of a huge number of people of different mentalities and culture, we will be able to awaken and touch each other, completing the impressions we lack to create a common Kli, which will be called a spiritual embryo inside the upper system.
All we need is to connect the parts of the soul separated from us. After all, once we existed as a single soul, Adam HaRishon, in the form of a perfect system. However, this system was shattered, and now we need to exit ourselves and attach the lost parts back to ourselves so that the Shechina will reign in this perfect spiritual body forever.
It sounds so simple: to exit yourself, collect all the parts of the soul that are outside, which are essentially my own organs, and attach them back to me. Then, in this connection, similar to the structure of Adam HaRishon, we will reveal the Creator who fills this Kli.1
I need to perform three actions and the Creator will finish the rest:
The most difficult thing is to feel that I really lack these organs in order to internally attach and implant them into me. I currently do not feel that I need them, like I do not feel the need of a sixth finger.2
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/11/18, Lesson Preparation for the virtual Convention 2018
1 Minute 1:50
2 Minute 20:00
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