Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 7
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 27
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace,” “Necessity to Practice Caution with the Laws of Nature”
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Preparation for the Lesson
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot”
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 20
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace”
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Preparation for the Lesson
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot”
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 17
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace”
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We know how much suffering people who were involved with the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah went through since the time that the method of the Ari began to be introduced in this world. And this is not because of someone’s evil will but because we exist in a broken system.
And the moment that you begin to go out with your spiritual idea that is directed towards connection between people, you immediately put yourself under fire from all directions.
Someone who was neutral and even supported you also comes out against you. After all, you are arousing anti-egoistic forces and egoism is the nature of the whole world. So we see that there aren’t any people in whom anti-Semitism isn’t hiding, after all, it comes from nature. It is possible to ignite the fire of this hatred in everyone.
Correspondingly, anyone who hears about the wisdom of Kabbalah hates it because he is in the nature of the broken desires. And if he is attracted to the wisdom of Kabbalah, it is only out of curiosity. But in fact, he hates it, and to the degree that he gets closer to it, he hates it more and more, until he abandons it.
There has to be great help from above and work in this world, so that together they will influence a person, and he will cross the potential Machsom (barrier) standing before him, leap above it, and rise to his first spiritual level.
We know how the first Hasidim suffered; they were arrested and put in prison in Russia and in the Ukraine. Against them was the Mitnagdim (the movement against Hasidism). Those religious Jews hated the Hassids who wanted to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah so much that they made efforts to imprison them and condemn them to death. The fire of hatred burn in the religious Jews regarding those who tried to open the wisdom of Kabbalah and spoke about connecting people and revealing the hearts that this hatred is felt to this day, even though modern Hassidism is no longer the ideology it once was, and therefore, there is not as much opposition to it.
We know how much Baal HaSulam suffered. When he published the newspaper, The Nation it was immediately shut it down. He planned to write 50 articles continuing with “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah),” “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee),” and “Peace in the World.” But instead of 50 articles, he only published four as he was forced to stop because the newspaper was shut down. He said: “If so, then the generation is not ready for this, and there is nobody to write for!” How many new ideas would we have gotten if he hadn’t stopped?
Even during my life with Rabash I saw how much it was difficult to be involved with studying Kabbalah. Today there are many such groups, and if you sit in your corner and don’t go out, everything is okay, there will not be opposition. But the moment that you go out, you will get blows. Like the Jews who lived in exile in the closed ghettos, the Kabbalists lived among the Jews.
But the time has come when we must come out of hiding not for the sake of some abstract idea, but because the correction in our generation is possible only with the inclusion of masses of people. The connection between them is the only condition necessary for revelation. It follows that if I don’t connect to others, I don’t create the conditions, the means, the basis, the bearer in which the Light can be revealed.
And then all of my studying would be in vain; it would bring no added value that would allow me to realize myself and truly merit the discovery of the Light, the revelation of the Creator, raising myself to the first spiritual level. This is possible only if thousands more will connect with this. Even though the power of each is minimal, together they are strong in quantity that works together with the qualitative force that worked in previous generations.
And so we have received the opportunity to fill the desire that is burning in us. It burns a bit in each one, like a thin candle. But if we connect many candles together, a gigantic blaze is created that is prepared to illuminate with spiritual Light.
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From the Talk about the Importance of Dissemination 3/19/14
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 5
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Nation”
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All the work until the generation of the Messiah is in self-annulment, although there are differences according to the destiny of each soul. In every generation there are high souls that have special missions.
This continues until we reach the time of the Messiah, which we are in today. The whole world becomes on soul, one family, and so we have to perform actions according to the time we live in.
This doesn’t mean that we have to sit and wait for the Messiah and hope for some miracle from Above. There are no miracles. There is only one miracle: the spark that awakens in a person. Everything else depends on one’s efforts and on his work, and there are no concessions here on the part of the upper system. Our mission is to draw the Light that Reforms unto ourselves and to correct the incorporation of all in all.
Today it is fulfilled by dissemination, using all the opportunities we have. After all, it is the most real and practical action of correction that we can perform. This is the reason that we cannot escape this work. We should understand that all our study and all the systems we have built are all meant only to continue the dissemination of the method of correction and connection.
This is the major part of our work through which we will be rewarded with a corrected soul and will attain the form of Adam (Man). Then we will discover what the height of 600,000 souls that make that Malchut is. All the souls of Israel are included in Malchut of the world of Atzilut and rise with it to the height of GAR of Atzilut, called 600,000, ,which is 620 times greater, or the complete attainment from the minimal Light of Nefesh of Nefesh of Nefesh until the attainment of the complete Light of NRNHY.
This is our work, and the most important thing is not to forget that our mutual incorporation is the fulfillment of the correction. Its practical embodiment is the incorporation of the whole nation, as it says: “The Creator dwells among His people.” It is there that we find our corrections and the correction of our soul.
We must not forget that this requires continuous work and caring about people. There are different levels here: the still, vegetative, and animate nature and man, and even a poor beggar is as important as a prince. Those who are on the level of the whole nation have the power from their great mass of billions of people. On the level of the vegetative there are fewer parts, and there are even fewer on the animate level, while on the human level there are just a few.
Eventually we meet with the whole world, with all the people of all sorts that will later be clarified. We cannot identify them immediately. We see that people are ignited at first and then they cool off or that they follow the right path along a very thin line and then they suddenly divert and are attracted to an unknown direction.
We have to take care of everyone, like children, until they grow up. We must remember that it is actually thanks to this care that we correct ourselves and grow. We can attain the one soul only by dissemination; this is our mission.
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We are witnessing great disruptions all over the world these days. But we know from our history and according to the spiritual structure that these waves eventually accumulate and turn against Israel, against the Jews. That’s the way it has always been and that’s the way it will be.
The prophets wrote a lot about the days of the Messiah, and you should read what they say. If we don’t hasten time and don’t perform the necessary corrections on the spiritual dimension, they will occur in the corporeal world in a totally different manner.
The spiritual corrections stem from the internality of the vessels, because Israel is the internality of the world. But if Israel doesn’t take the process of correction upon themselves, the corrections will be through the nations of the world that are starting to act against Israel. We have already seen the outcomes of such actions.
Today, 70 years after WWII we are in the same spiral and the threat is consolidating and increasing. In the meantime, the struggle is against other states, but everything will eventually arrive at the main root of reality, which is the conflict between Israel and the rest of the world.
We shouldn’t wait for the wave of hostility to hit us again and this time from every corner of the earth. This time there will not be those who support us and those who are against us. The whole world will be against us now, just as the prophets say. This is the reason that we have to fulfill the corrections that we are responsible for now: to go out to the public as much as we can and to connect the parts that belong to our spiritual vessel to us, in order to reach a magnitude in quantity and in quality that will be suitable for the appearance of the first upper Light, Nefesh of Nefesh.
This is the only thing that can save us from all the Klipot (shells) and separate us from all the forces of impurity with a firewall. Then we will find ourselves in this spiritual vessel and will develop it more and more until we reach adhesion with the Creator. This is the call of our times; this is our mission. We have to prepare ourselves for these actions, know that we correct our souls through them, and that it is only by the connections between us that we can reveal our soul, which means the revelation of the Creator to us the created beings.
All our groups abroad continue the ordinary actions of dissemination like before, but in Israel we have a special agenda for dissemination. After all, we have to become the force to which there will be no resistance. If anyone rises against us, we will have the power to stand against him. Otherwise we will not be able to fulfill our mission. This isn’t an action of external dissemination but collecting the parts of the soul without which it cannot reach the first full measure that enables the revelation of the Creator inside it. We have to connect all the parts of the soul until we reach a magnitude of 600,000, just like the nation of Israel at gathering at Mt. Sinai.
We need such a strong connection in the group so that the Upper Light will be revealed in it. This is the reason that we have to see this act of dissemination as the quest for our soul. We are assembling the general soul and preparing the basis for the revelation of the Creator, without which the world will continue to deteriorate, and I find its condition very worrisome.
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The correction of the broken soul began with Adam HaRishon (the First Man) and has continued for nearly six thousand years, until our day. We are in the last stage, which is unique in that the correction must continue with the understanding and awareness of masses of people, meaning those souls in which the sparks from the Shevirat (breaking) are clothed.
In all these thousands of years from Adam HaRishon until our day there were different periods in which the souls were corrected in all kinds of ways individually, meaning in small groups. The first group was created by Abraham and was called Israel (Yashar-El – straight to God).
But today we are in a unique period called “The Last Generation” by the Kabbalists. After all, specifically now it is up to us to realize the wisdom of Kabbalah in a practical way, which means that all the people join in the process of correction.
This is the unique characteristic of the last period of correction, which must finish in the next few years or in the next few decades, depending on the efforts that we do. Up until now the higher management was compelled to work with us, and it was almost impossible for us to accelerate the development and change the timing.
Everything was revealed from above to below: building the first Beit HaMikdash (Temple)—its destruction, building the second Beit HaMikdash—its destruction, and that is how it was until the end of the last exile.
But from this moment on, after the return of the people of Israel to their land, the last stage of the correction began, which requires understanding, awareness, and the joining of all of humanity in the process. Included in this are not only a few chosen individuals and small groups, but in the end, the whole world must join in. The Kabbalists wrote about this, and it was revealed in the form that the higher system built. After the whole world joins in the process, we will merit the desired correction.
So studying alone is not enough for us. The study is said to attract the Light that Reforms to us and strengthen the person in his activities on the level in which he is found. If one is not working work with the community, which is what is most important, there is no reason to study the wisdom of Kabbalah. After all, its realization is specifically through the practical expansion of our circle more and more.
This expansion, this extension in all directions, is an absolutely necessary action, which is unique and doesn’t typify any previous period of the existence of Judaism. This wisdom always was hidden, secret, and people who learned it gathered in modest, inconspicuous places to avoid attracting attention to themselves and to not to stand out. They existed in a form completely opposite to all other religions.
But now, on the contrary, our period is absolutely different and we must show what true religion is and what the destiny of man is in this world.
In all generations the Kabbalists dreamt about beginning this work, but the time to act had not yet arrived. Only in our time has it become possible.
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