Preparation for the Lesson

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Giving of the Torah”

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Love for the Creator & Love for the Created Beings” 

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Preparation for the Lesson

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Love for the Creator & Love for the Created Beings” 

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 203

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Giving of the Torah” 

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Preparation for the Lesson

Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder,” Article 8 

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 193

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Mutual Guarantee” 

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Question: What does it mean that the AHP of the upper falls into the GE of the lower?

Answer: AHP are vessels of receiving and GE are vessels of bestowal, Hafetz Hesed, that don’t want anything, but are satisfied with what they have. Keter, Hochma, and the upper part of Bina are only bestowal with no receiving.

It is only from the middle of Bina and downward that the thought begins of how to repay the Host, Keter, for the pleasure that He has given it. This is the reason that Bina develops vessels of receiving (Zeir Anpin and Malchut) so that it can receive in them in order to bestow.

This is the reason that there is only bestowal until the middle of Bina, and below that, receiving. The fall means that we cannot work with our receiving desires without having a Masach (screen) over them in order to bestow, and so we don’t use them. Only after we receive the Light that Reforms can the AHP rise, but only on condition that we receive an answer to the prayer (MAN) from the lower.

It turns out that we can use our desires to receive only in order to bestow unto others, unto friends or the public. We never will be able to use our AHP for our own sake in order to reach a state of greatness. What should we do that for? This simply cannot be! We can receive only according to the request of the lower.

This is the whole formula of “from the love of the creatures to the love of the Creator.” It is only because we want to receive a request from the created beings and want to bestow unto them that we have a chance to delight the Creator and feel love for Him. This is one action: the receiving of the prayer from them called “the love of the creatures,” and the request that is aimed upward for the fulfillment of this prayer called “the love of the Creator.” According to this formula, the action immediately is fulfilled.

The public gives us its deficiencies to bestow. Although they cry “give us bread!”, we must translate this request to spiritual deficiencies. At the same time, we must gradually teach people and bring them to spiritual needs. As it is written, “for they shall all know Me from their smallest to their greatest.” This means that we must teach the public that all of their deficiencies ultimately should be the desire to reach bestowal unto the Creator. Then, we will receive the right request from them and raise it upward. This means that “the love of the creatures” will connect through us to “the love of the Creator.”

This is the whole system. This is the only action by which we perform corrections. Three components are needed for this formula. The lower is the public, we are in the middle, and the upper is the Creator. Therefore, it is impossible to only study Kabbalah and perform correction. It is either together or death. A person is called Adam, one who resembles the Creator (in Hebrew). How can we resemble Him?

We must believe that the Creator is only a good and benevolent force, and this is also how we should relate to the entire world. We are the only ones who can help people reach the good, and therefore we must do that. This is the reason we receive their deficiencies and raise them upward.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder,” Article 4

Lesson on the Topic: “Discussion of the Forthcoming Congress in Moscow” 

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Mutual Guarantee,” Item 26

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Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder,” “You Stand Today All of You” 

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Mutual Guarantee,” Item 25

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Question: How must I look at society: Do I need to think that everyone already understands everything and are only waiting for my correction, or should I think that all of us are found in a single boat, with a single desire?

Answer: We are together in any way you look at it. On the one hand, this is a large and very advanced group at the height of the end of correction; on the other hand, this is a society that is waiting for me, while I am holding it back not letting it ascend! On the third hand, this is a society in which everyone is equal except for me. Which is to say, from any point of view about society: from above, on the same level, and below, I am obligated to it.

I get everything from the friends! But because of my attitude towards them, I cannot use anything they give me, radiate to me. Because of my incorrect attitude toward them, I cannot make a prayer (MAN –Mayin Nukvin, a demand for the characteristic of bestowal) for them. They would want to bestow and to help me, but are not prepared to do so! Their actual bestowal to me is possible only according to my MAN, my request.

They do everything for me; they prepare themselves to take care of me, but I don’t raise a prayer, MAN to them. I don’t consider them important and don’t believe that I would be able to get everything through them. I don’t believe and don’t see them as the greatest of the generation, so I freeze everything here and there.

Question: So how can I turn to the friends with a prayer, with MAN?

Answer: Try to believe that they have all that you need. Then you will have a drive to turn to them. The society has everything; it is in the state of Ein Sof (infinity)! But we cannot discover the minimal Light of Nefesh de Nefesh in it.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/14,  Talmud Eser Sefirot

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Question: Could it be that the lower raises MAN (a prayer) to the upper and cannot keep on raising MAN?

Answer: This cannot happen! The upper is in a state of Hafetz Hesed and this is the reason it is the upper with respect to the lower. He is the one who created and gave birth to the lower.

The lower discovers itself existing with certain inclinations and Reshimot (spiritual genes), which means with a certain fate, all of which come from the upper. Our whole existence is thanks to our father and mother, and it is the same in spirituality. But we receive all the discernments from our spiritual father and mother.

This chain comes down from the world of Ein Sof (Infinity). Everything that happens in me, both in the feelings that arise in me and in my mind, is all arranged by the upper to the smallest detail. He arranges and directs everything in me with fine tweezers and knows all my reactions because he is my upper. The upper Partzuf in the spiritual world isn’t just the one through which I receive everything from above. The upper totally controls me to my last cell, to the smallest detail there can be, and which I will attain at the end of the spiritual ladder.

The upper raises MAN on my behalf, and in order to be connected to me he is in a state of Hafetz Hesed, of Bina, of bestowing in order to bestow. If he were in a state of greatness, I wouldn’t be able to ever see or feel him.

This is the reason that he remains in a state of smallness with respect to me and so I can ask from him. This means that I can connect to him and attain a minimal equivalence of form with him, and thanks to that, turn to him with my request. Otherwise I wouldn’t be able to do so and we could not understand one another.

The lower who rises to the upper doesn’t see this AHP and cannot digest and understand it. The lower only knows that it is someone greater than him and nullifies himself before him, which in the meantime is the maximum form of getting close to him.

Question: Does the upper see the GE of the lower?

Answer: The upper sees everything because he gave birth to the lower. It isn’t even the same as in our world where we can build a certain system and then find out that it doesn’t work as we expected. In the spiritual world, the upper is fully conscious of the lower that is totally revealed to him so that he can work with him. The upper doesn’t have to wait for any responses from the lower. He only wants for the lower to know his own responses.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/14, Talmud Eser Sefirot

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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” Item 66

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” Item 69

Conventions in Odessa, “In the Circle of Unity,” Preparatory Lesson 

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Preparation for the Lesson

Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder,” Article 12

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 193 

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Mutual Guarantee,” Item 25

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