Good Environment – 10.26.11
Posted on October 26th, 2011
Question: Why is the law of mutual guarantee concealed from us? Why can’t scientists discover it?
Answer: You would like to place a person before irrefutable facts: Think badly of your neighbor, and a boulder falls on you from the sky; cause harm to someone, and you receive a threatening notice from the bank. You want to have an immediate response to your every action: reward or punishment. It would be a law of nature, an indisputable fact for you.
However, a person must be given freedom of choice. If we acted instinctively, there would be no problem. Nature would pressure us into becoming one whole. It is very simple: If you show me that I lose by disconnection with others, I will smile and be nice to everyone. I will build friendly relationships, take care of others, and make sure no one is treated unfairly. If we were programmed with mutual responsibility from Above, we’d gladly implement this program.
But the truth of the matter is that we must arrive at mutual guarantee by our free choice; we have to build within the human degree on our own. That is why the message of unity is hidden in the fog and we are lost in it, deprived of a sense of direction. The moment we begin to realize and feel it, it vanishes. Otherwise, we won’t be able to develop the human within ourselves.
The fog is not important. It doesn’t matter if we are slow or clever, clumsy or graceful. We must do only one thing: build an environment. Like a child building a house out of blocks, we should construct an artificial environment as an example of who we would like to be if we desired it.
If a person sits idle, Nature will oblige him indirectly, through blows and sufferings. But blows, too, will never force man to surrender his own nature because by this a person descends to the “animate” degree and builds the environment instinctively in order to survive. It would be a Soviet model of socialism with the Creator instead of the KGB behind your back. And you would become an animal living in unity with other animals in the herd. What kind of created being is that? Can we reach the level of the Creator like that?
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/12/2011, “Peace in the World”
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Question: At the convention we get overwhelmed with the feeling of unity. What can we do not to forget the intention during this time?
Answer: I don’t think we will have problem with that during the convention. After all, there we work constantly connected. There are those who return home in the evening and suddenly rediscover an entire world with its problems and difficulties. And then they are amazed by how big the gap is between what we live in internally and what is going on externally.
And now that gap will be even bigger because the shattering is being revealed on the outside, while unity—inside. The contrast between these two states will manifest with even greater intensity.
We need to prepare internally for the convention in December in order not to lose the intention during the lectures, the activities, or the breaks. In general, the environment constantly needs to put pressure on us and thus direct us so that we have this sensation all the time.
Besides that, we have another month and a half before the convention, and I think that during this time new people from Israel and from all over the world will be attracted to it, including those who do not have the point in the heart, but nevertheless feel that this is important and that a solution is hiding here, even though they don’t yet understand it.
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/23/2011, “Peace in the World”
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All holidays are symbols of man’s spiritual advancement. When I begin to develop the desire to bestow in me, I go through “repentance” (the period before the New Year, Rosh Hashanah), when I clarify my evil. In other words, I see how great my ego is, which I can’t resist, and I commit many crimes, as it is written in the Rosh Hashanah prayer for absolution: “We have transgressed, we have betrayed….”
And then I see that I must begin the path from the beginning and make a switch within me from being an egoist, who directs everything towards benefiting himself, to being a giver, who only cares for the benefit of another. After all, I begin to understand that I myself am the actual “another,” who seems to be a stranger to me. And the one I thought was me actually is not me, but an evil spirit, my ego, a serpent sitting in me which constantly demands fulfillment from me.
When a person develops this kind of attitude towards himself, as if he were a cunning serpent and others were him, his true “Self,” then this switch in consciousness is called the beginning of the New Year for him.
After this he has nothing left to do but correct himself, become like the upper force, the force of the Creator, a giver. Reception for our own sake gives us the sensation of “this world.” But when my “I” is directed towards bestowal, outside, towards the others, in this aspiration I begin to feel another, the upper, world.
Bestowal is when I love someone and want to give him pleasure, like a friend to a friend or a host to a guest. I care for him so much that I restrict my own desires and wish to not receive any pleasure, only thinking about his pleasure. And once I have this “shield,” which guarantees I do not receive for my own sake, I become ready to receive and thus please another.
Everything I receive is for him, like we tell a child: “A spoon for mommy, a spoon for daddy.” But it is not a simple action in the spiritual world. I must restrict my desire and open it for pleasure, only thinking about another. In other words, my heart and mind are in him, and then all the pleasure that goes through me only goes for the others.
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From the Night Lesson of Hoshanah Rabbah 10/19/2011, Shamati
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Question: How can The Zohar really become a book for all people, and not just for people with a point in the heart? Or is The Zohar just like any other book to those without a point in the heart?
Answer: The time will come when every person in the world will understand that we are all connected with one another through a certain network of connection. Educated people who are interested in what is happening in the world, who work with it, study it, and examine it are already discovering this.
There are also people who simply have this inner feeling; they are the ten percent of humanity who are altruists and feel the entire world as interconnected. But the fact that the world is interconnected doesn’t really mean anything, people simply think they must treat others well because everyone is tied together.
Yet, this network must be revealed between us. How does it become revealed? It becomes revealed when we feel it is vital for us because we want a safe, comfortable, and happy life for ourselves and our children, one without natural phenomenon or blows coming from all directions.
Therefore, we must attain the proper connection between us. So how do we attain it? Kabbalists say: “This special book called The Zohar describes the proper connections between us. Read it if you aspire towards this.” And then I open this book, read one page after another, and I see that it works.
People will see that it works because that is what happens when a large mass of people begin to study. At a minimum, they will somehow need to be connected with Kabbalistic sources, just like religious people read these books today without knowing its inner meaning. The entire Torah speaks about the connection between people, but today they study it in a different way.
We still need to complete The Zohar for All, which we have already started working on, in order to give it to the world since it will be part of the study. People will not be able to manage without this book, as it is written: “The Zohar will help everyone come out of exile, and not just the one percent.” Everyone will need to study it to some extent.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/18/2011, The Zohar
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All the picturesque descriptions that are given to us in the Torah tell us about an increasingly stronger connection between human beings. In the spiritual world one doesn’t enter corporeal Egypt, cross the physical Red Sea and the Sinai desert, or reach the corporeal land of Israel. In the spiritual world all of this symbolizes the different degrees of the connection between the souls, between human beings, who connect internally, in their desires.
It is a connection that the Torah tells us about. It doesn’t speak of geography or the history of some group that wandered in the land of Canaan or Egypt. It tells only about the connection in which we discover these degrees. “Go from your land” means to exit your egoistic desires, that is, the life in Babylon. You need to leave this desire and arrive at a bigger one, in which you connect to your group more strongly. This desire is already called the “land of Canaan” (“land” means “desire”).
Later we enter the left line, our desires increase, the evil inclination is revealed more, and this is called the “descent into Egypt.” And when we later ascend from this state of “Egypt” by connecting together, it is said that we are in “the Sinai desert.”
After connecting above all the problems that become revealed in us, we rise to a level called the “land of Israel.” All of these are degrees of connection and not geographical places.
The names are taken from our world, but they are used to name the spiritual degrees. We can take a bus and travel from Babylon to the land of Canaan and then to Egypt and back, but it wouldn’t be a spiritual trip. It would just be a corporeal trip.
It all depends upon how we, sitting in one place, climb the degrees and discover the spiritual worlds within us. It is revealed only according to the strength of the connection between us. As we unite, we discover the spiritual degrees according to the strength of our unity.
We correct all of our “613 desires” only through connection. If a person doesn’t connect with others, he doesn’t fulfill any “commandment,” doesn’t make any correction of the desire to receive. All of the desires are disconnected from each other as a result of the shattering, and they can be corrected only by connecting one to the other.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/2011, Writings of Rabash
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Humanity is experiencing labor pains today. This is the birth of a new world. We ourselves discover these external conditions, while nothing changes in the world itself. There are people in the world today who commit suicide because of the financial crisis or because of fears and other problems. But at the same time you can find people who are not worried about anything and don’t feel the crisis at all.
It all depends on how a person discovers the world, but the world itself has no form of its own. Thus we can relax, think that it is all right, and wait until the regular flow of life will bring us somewhere by itself. Or we can also bring ourselves to a state where we will feel that we can’t agree to remain in this state any longer and must finally connect and discover spirituality, which is only revealed in a connection between us.
Everything depends on the pressure that we ourselves create. And then the usual, relaxed reality in which the rest of the people live will seem to us like the darkness of Egypt. We will feel how our enemies, Pharaoh’s troops, push us from behind, and we must jump into spirituality, like into the Red Sea.
Everything depends on how a person perceives his own state and by this leaves himself no choice but to connect with others.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/2011, Writings of Rabash
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Once, in the days when I studied with Rabash, the group was in a state of special inspiration, and I asked Rabash: “What are we missing to make a breakthrough?” He replied: “An attack is missing.”
It was a year when we invested great efforts in preparations for the holiday of Sukkot. We built a new Sukkah according to stringent rules that Rabash wanted to uphold. It was made entirely of wood, without a single nail made from metal, and with the covering so dense that the light could hardly pass through it.
We invested a lot in it by working together, and maybe because of that, a very special, warm atmosphere was created. Rabash gave special explanations in his lessons, or it just seemed this way to us because we were able to grasp more. And then I asked: “What else are we missing? In the course of a week, we are together in a Sukkah each day, learning and talking. Why doesn’t it happen?”
And then he said that it still wasn’t enough. In order to reach a connection, an attack was needed. That’s the way it was during the exit from Egypt. The people joined together and then they escaped. It is not possible to exit without a connection. It was that way before as well, when the people of Israel sighed from the hard work in the store-cities of Pithom and Ramses and cried together to the Creator, having felt that they wouldn’t succeed.
And it was also that way at the parting of the Red Sea when they felt the troops of Pharaoh catching up with them from behind and before them the Red Sea was blocking the way. And when they stood at the foot of Mount Sinai, on one side the women pushing them (and it is written that the people exited Egypt thanks to the righteous women who put pressure on the men), and from the other side the Creator placed a condition: Either you connect or this will be the place of your burial.
We see that the conditions that are revealed here are not at all simple. They are like labor pains. It is only if we accept these conditions that we will really be born into the new world.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/2011, Writings of Rabash
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