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Question: How do we direct ourselves correctly at the time of reading The Book of Zohar to heal all the problems of every individual person, the people of Israel, and the whole world?
Answer: It is necessary to pray, to ask, to be integrated into the pain of the people closest to us and also those who are far away. But we don’t pray for a particular person who is sick, but for correction of the general illness that is revealed before us now through the problem of a particular person.
One should pray for general correction, because what we see is only a particular expression of the general problem. This is how the prayer must be organized.
Question: Why is a prayer for everyone more practical than a request for a particular person who is closer to my heart?
Answer: A request for a particular person is closer to your ego. On the one hand, you are stimulated more by what is closer to you. But on the other hand, what is the difference if the desire to bestow is bestowing to someone close or someone far away?
There are no limits to the Ohr Hassadim (Light of Mercy); it extends to all places with the same intensity. So why do you want to pray for someone in particular?
We know that everyone is connected with everyone and there is only one soul. So every defect that is revealed in someone is the result of the general illness. So how is it possible to heal a particular person without healing the general illness? It is necessary to pray for everyone.
If you are ready to correct everyone through your prayer, then the person in whom you saw some kind of illness will also be healed. Otherwise this doesn’t work. After all, we are in a global system, a single system. Suppose that someone is sick with the flu, you cannot heal just him; rather, you must heal the epidemic throughout the world because it is a general system.
It cannot be that there is a defect in one place, even if it seems to us that we see only one damaged component. The damage is not only in him, but also in the whole system. And only in regard to you is this presented as a defect in a friend. You must take care of society in general, and the particular problems that you see are only a response to the common problem. An isolated component doesn’t exist in any form, not in me or anyone else. If I see it, it is an indication that the system is sick.
We see this in the world. If we want to correct some part of the government or the society, then nothing will help because we don’t approach this correctly.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/17/14, The Zohar
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Question: Which part is more important to correct: “Israel” or the “nations of the world”?
Answer: This is a single integral system in which each one is connected with all. It is impossible to activate even the smallest desire of Galgalta ve Eynaim separately. In spite of everything, a person influences the entire system without even understanding it.
It is impossible to change anything in one place without changing the entire system. This is because it is analogical.
There are discrete systems that operate according to pulses. The signal, meaning the external activator, enters and gradually passes by way of the entire system, pulse after pulse, until it reaches the end. That is how the simple systems that we build according to our egoistic intellect are constructed. We perceive the world like that; we see that there is a beginning and an end, pulses, a progressive process from beginning to end.
But if we are talking about another form of nature and not that which we are able to perceive, then we must agree that nature is a circular system that has no beginning, end or middle, and there are no sequential processes that flow according to a chain of cause and effect. It turns out that everything is a single complete system that is entirely created immediately.
The four phases of the Direct Light and the continuing development of Malchut of Infinity are activities that exist only in regard to us, but that is not how it truly is. It appears to us in a form like this because we ourselves are not circular; we are not whole, like this system.
The higher system operates everything and there is no part in it that is independent. This is not a system in which a signal enters and leaves. Rather, when the higher system receives some external influence, after a while it becomes stabilized and then we see the results throughout the entire system. The signal takes it out of equilibrium and after that it stabilizes itself and takes on the next state.
We are not built like circular systems so it is difficult for us to understand how the entire creation works. But a person who acquires spiritual desires sees that all of his desires are connected to everyone else. He no longer sees a difference between his desires and foreign desires because everything becomes his.
If I influence everyone and receive a chain reaction from everyone, then where am “I” found and where are “they”? All of us adhere to each other. The only thing that remains is the arrangement of what is before and after, as well as the division into what is internal and what external on a new level: What is it that is more important and less important to that single overall system?
Therefore, not even the smallest part within Israel can exist without our clarifying its benefit to the entire system. For through this we want to open a passage for the Light to enter the system and correct it. So we must take the entire system into account. The mechanism of “Israel” cannot exist if it is not connected to the entire system and if it doesn’t consider that it must serve the system, for it exists only for this purpose. So AHP and GE of Israel exist only for the good of the general AHP, for the good of the entire shattered Kli.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/3/14, Shamati #66
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Baal HaSulam, Article 69, “First Will Be the Correction of the World”: And the root of Israel is from the interior of the worlds. This is the meaning of “for ye were the fewest of all peoples.”
However, by correcting the interior, the exterior is corrected, too, though in small pieces. And the exterior will be corrected each time (until many pennies accumulate into a great sum), until all the exterior is corrected.
We know that the source of the four phases of the Ohr Yashar (Direct Light) is the root phase, the Kutzo Shel Yud (tip of the letter “Yud”). In continuation, there was “Yud,” a full Kli, Hochma, the first phase. Then the second phase came, Bina, the first “Hey.” After that there is the third phase, Zeir Anpin, (ZA), “Vav,” and in the end, there is the fourth phase, Malchut, the lower “Hey.”
In general, in the course of development, bestowal becomes reception, and after that, returns to bestowal and returns to reception, and in the end, into the desire to receive. But in the development of the Kelim there exists a particular threshold, that before it, to the level of Keter (K), Hochma and the first three Sefirot (Gar de Bina) the development had to be from above to below without any reaction, without any activity from the side of the Kli.
The truth is that the first reaction was created between Hochma and Bina, the desire to resemble Keter. But specifically Bina received the conscious decision that it wanted to be like Keter, so it acts like it, constructs the desire to receive, and bestows to Keter.
In this way, there are Kelim that resemble the action of the Creator within which He bestows, these are “Galgalta ve Eynaim” (GE), and there are Kelim in which what the Kli decides in the middle of Bina takes place, and these are called AHP. And the decision point is the middle third of Tifferet.
According to this structure, Malchut begins to be constructed and to resemble all the previous phases (=) and is itself divided accordingly into ten Sefirot; it constructs the ten Sefirot of Ohr Hozer (Returning Light).
With the Shevira (shattering), the differences between Galgalta ve Eynaim and AHP are erased, since everything is shattered, pulverized, and mixed. But in the correction of this gigantic “block” of Kelim, we begin to raise them with the help of Ohr Makif (OM) (Surrounding Light) that illuminates from a distance, and the first Kelim that were included in the process are the Kelim that belong to Galgalta ve Eynaim because they are more refined.
So it is up to us to correct the Kelim that belong to Galgalta ve Eynaim. They are specifically important to us, for if they were corrected on the egoistic account and decided to build themselves starting from the “middle third of Tifferet” and on, then the Kelim of AHP could connect with them, those who are themselves not ready to carry out any correction because they were not prepared directly from the root by the Creator, rather they were created as a result of the decision of Israel, the Galgalta ve Eynaim. So they depend completely on Israel , and they come to Israel with complaints in every situation.
So it turns out that if the Kelim of Israel don’t make the corrections that are incumbent upon them, they are blamed for the Kelim de AHP not being corrected yet.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/16/14, Shamati #69
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