Preparation for the Lesson

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

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, Introduction “Who Is This,” Item 169 

Talmud Eser Sefirot,  Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 15 

Writings of Baal HaSulam,  “The Nation,” “The Individual and the Nation”

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

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, Introduction “Two Points,” Item 121

Talmud Eser Sefirot,  Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 12 

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Nation,” “The Individual and the Nation”

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

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, Introduction “Two Points,” Item 121

Talmud Eser Sefirot,  Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 10 

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Nation”

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

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, Introduction “Two Points,” Item 120

Talmud Eser Sefirot,  Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 10 

Writings of Baal HaSulam,  “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar“

Writings of Baal HaSulam,  “The Love for the Creator and Love for the Created Beings,” “Why Was the Torah Not Given to the Patriarchs”

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Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder,” Item 3

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

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

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Preparation for the Lesson

Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder,” “The Severity of Teaching Idol Worshippers the Torah”

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, “Torah and Prayer” Item 184

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 11

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Love of the Creator and Love for the Created Beings,” “And to Cleave Onto Him”

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The created being is a desire to enjoy created as something from nothing that develops from its root under the influence of the Light. If the desire is passive, which means that it doesn’t want to develop toward the Light and resemble it, the Light forces it to develop just as it happened in the four phases of the Direct Light.

Afterward, the desire becomes inclined to develop, which means that it restricts itself and builds a Masach (Screen) and grows as a result of its own initiative. The development of the desire to enjoy refers to the acquisition of the Masach.

The problem is that our desire with which we must ascend from the bottom to above this world is very small. We are impressed by the fact that it is ignited in order to attain the goal of creation, the upper force, but this is a first impression that quickly fades and disappears. Then, we can only continue as a result of a habit, of a routine, thanks to the fact that we have established corporeal frameworks that sustain and obligate us.

However, this actually increases our desire and our vessel. We must be armed with a desire that matches the same level to which we want to ascend in order to reach the first revelation and in order to discover every new level in general.

Where can we get such a desire? It is only from the Light that operates on us! The Light influences the desire that is something from nothing, that small black point, the tiny nucleus that develops it. This means that the problem is how to draw the influence of the Light.

If I draw the Light by myself, it means that “I awaken the dawn.” The Light that influences my desire to enjoy invokes a feeling of darkness in it. However, I discern the vessel for the revelation of the Light by that and wish for the darkness to illuminate like the Light.

This is the reason that I ask that my desire grow and I wait for the Light to influence me. I don’t care about the phases that will lead me there, and whether I remain in my desire to enjoy or acquire a desire to bestow, as long as I advance and draw the influence of the Light to me. This means that I awaken the dawn by myself and raise MAN, according to which the action is performed. This process is called “hastening time” (Achishena).

If I cannot awaken the influence of the Light on me in order to increase my desire, it develops naturally, in its time (Beito). The Light affects me in any case, but, because these changes are undesirable to me, they bring me sufferings. I am not happy about the darkness that is revealed to me. I cannot see the future vessel for the revelation of the Light in it.

This way of development is undesirable to the Creator, as well as to people. However, we still advance whether it is along the path of the Light or the path of suffering.

Therefore, when Abraham saw the good future that was prepared for mankind, for all of Babylon—for the small desire that was supposed to be filled with the Light of Infinity that is 620 times greater—he asked, “Where will we get the vessels and the desires from?” It is because it is impossible to receive the reward the Creator has promised us without a corrected desire.

Then, the Creator calmed him by saying, “Don’t worry. This desire will grow 620 times bigger during the 400 years of exile in Egypt.” This means that, on the way, people will go through a period in which they receive a big desire, either reluctantly or by hastening time, and then they will begin to work with it in order to bestow.

Today, everything is open and clear, and the phases we must undergo are well understood. We must make sure that we have the right influence of the environment that will be like a greenhouse for us that will hasten the growth of a big desire in us for the revelation of the Creator.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/14

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Preparation for the Lesson

Writings of Rabash, “Dargot HaSulam,” Article 875

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, “Torah and Prayer” Item 183

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 9

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Love of the Creator and Love for the Created Beings,” “One Mitzva (Commandment)”

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Baal HaSulam, Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, Item 25: Thus, as long as not all five Kelim KHB TM have grown in a Partzuf, the Lights are not in their designated places. Moreover, they are in inverse relation: in the absence of the Kli of Malchut, the Light of Yechida is absent, and when the two Kelim, TM, are missing, Yechida and Haya are absent there, etc. This is so because in the Kelim, the Higher ones emerge first, and in the Lights, the last ones are the first to enter.

The opposite order between Lights and vessels is very confusing. According to this order, the more we advance, the greater the darkness we enter. It is because we need thicker vessels in order to discover greater and stronger Lights. Therefore, I need greater support from the group and need to attend the lessons regularly, which means to sustain myself by greater powers than before.

Usually, the more I advance, the more I understand and feel, and the more I discover, but at the same time, I find myself in greater darkness since that’s the way it always is: greater Lights require thicker vessels.

You will also find that each new Light that reenters dresses only in the Kli of Keter. This is so because the receiver must receive in its purest Kli, the Kli of Keter.

For this reason, upon reception of each new Light, the Lights that are already dressed in the Partzuf must descend one degree from their place. For example, when the Light of Ruach enters, the Light of Nefesh must descend from the Kli of Keter to the Kli of Hochma…

We must make an additional effort in the vessel by the darkness that we discover and its correction. Thus, the vessel of Hochma is added to the vessel of Keter, and then the Light of Nefesh that was in the vessel of Keter descends to the vessel of Hochma and the Light of Ruach enters the vessel of Keter. The difference between the Light of Nefesh and the Light of Ruach is very large. It is a new world, a new attainment, a new feeling that never has been felt before.

The perception of reality is upgraded each time. Reality seems new and different. The upper force is revealed more in some new form, and the world, the general vessel, seems new. Every slight shock in the spiritual world summons a change in the whole integral system, and it is, therefore, very meaningful whether one is in Nefesh of Keter or in Ruach of Keter.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/14, Writing of Baal HaSulam

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The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, “Torah and Prayer,” Item 180

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

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