We give different names to the Upper Force. It is Upper not because it is positioned in elevation in this world, but rather because of its qualitative exaltation over all earthly forces. It is immeasurably more powerful than any other force; it is the authentic root of all other forces; that’s why it is called the Upper.

Its names derive from the way it manifests itself in relation to us and the way we feel it. In fact, its names represent Sefirot, since the Upper Light is sensed by us, by the receiving desires, in accordance with the way it illuminates inside the receiving vessel. The word “Sefira” means “glowing” (sapir). Sefira Keter is a source of the Light; all other Sefirot, other names, follow it below.

Let’s highlight some of the Lights. Most often we say “the Creator” (Bo-Re) since He is the One Who made the “creation” (Beria) – something that stands out (Bar), separate from itself, something that goes out of its own borders. In this connection stretching from top-to-bottom, the name points at His status, His attitude to the creation He created. On our part, in our aspiration from the bottom up, “Bo-Re” means “come and see” (Bo-Reh), which speaks of the state in which we can see Him.

Another name of the Creator is Elokim  (ים – אלה). From top to bottom, it means “MI – ELE” (אלה – מי). “ELE” – stands for AHP, and “MI”  Galgalta ve Eynaim. When we rise to Bina, we connect to Galgalta ve Eynaim with AHP and reveal a relationship of the Light towards the desire that is called “Elokim.” Its gematria is the same as “Nature” (הטבע), since it stems out of and builds itself from Bina. Thus, the nature of the Upper is Bina, whereas the nature of the lower is Malchut.

There is a designation of HaVaYaH, Adonai: the Supreme, the Lord. In fact, HaVAYaH is not an appellation per se, but rather a structure in which, according to the screen (Masach), the Light reveals itself. In general, HaVaYaH includes all names since, except for this appellation, nothing else has ever been created.

To sum it up, we give names to the Light in accordance with the way it manifests itself in us. This explains why there is no “Creator” per se; rather, there is only our perception of Him. It is said: “from Your actions we know You” “the judge has only what his eyes see.” We have to modify our approach and learn how to differently analyze our discernment of reality. After all, “The opinion of the Torah is opposite the opinion of the landlords.”

Today, everybody has his or her own idea about God. However, in this world, “God” is just a psychological need of humans, a desire to depend on somebody who is great and kind. It justifies our existence; otherwise, it is not clear why and for what we live, and who will pay for our troubles and affliction in the next world. This psychological approach allows us to pray for help and even “receive” it.

Yet, can this approach exist in reality without a screen and the Reflected Light, without real changes that we go through? By no means can it be so. Faith in this world is a psychological phenomenon: By appealing to the Creator, we change our desires, then the Light pours on new desires in a different way. As a result, we exit the previous state and enter the next phase, thus changing our sensations.

In fact, there is only the Light and the desire, nothing else. The time will come when people will open their eyes and see what they managed to build throughout thousands of years… Yes, it helped them to advance, but only to eventually come to the conclusion that this entire world, with all its illusions, is worth nothing. When people will come to this realization, they will find out the truth and it will justify everything that happened to them.

Nevertheless, nowadays we should not delay the disclosure of the situation we actually are in. There is no other way out: all other approaches and methods except Kabbalah are just idle contemplations that were developed out of our egoistic fantasies.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/9/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

The inclination for envy elicits the sages from among them, as our sages said, “Author’s envy increases wisdom.” The strong-willed, with the inclination for envy, excel in acquiring wisdom and knowledge. It is like the speaking degree in the whole of reality, in which the operating force is not limited by time and place, but is collective and encompasses every item in the world, throughout all times.

Also, it is the nature of the fire of envy to be general, encompassing all times and the whole reality. This is because it is the conduct of envy: if one had not seen the object in one’s friend’s possession, the desire for it would not have awakened in one at all.

The force of envy is the most powerful force, particularly in the workers of the Creator and a little less in ordinary people. If it is possible to say that ordinary people have envy in the same way we mean.

It is said that, “Author’s envy increases wisdom”; that is, this is the only force that acts, pushes, and pulls a person forward. It is a very useful force. That is why, we need to show each other how much we invest in the group, try to love friends, to exaggerate good examples, and not be afraid that you may appear immodest and not righteous.

You should not present yourself as a hidden righteous. On the contrary, your demonstrative example of showing your devotion, enthusiasm greatly benefits your friends. Understanding this, the group already shows the principle of “love they neighbor as yourself.” Indeed, I am interested in seeing that others are better than me!

Usually, our egoism wants to belittle everyone; even if I am absolutely nothing, at least others are even less than me. Here, on the contrary, I want to see others higher than me. Although this is against my egoism and is unpleasant, I begin to criticize myself—but it is for the good of my advancement.

Thus we show examples to young children, “Look at this boy, what he can do! Try to do the same”! It is natural for a child to learn from others’ examples. It is the same in spiritual development: We need to show each other a good example and deliberately stir up envy.

In the outside world, people love that others envy them and suffer, seeing them so successful, rich, and powerful. But here, it is opposite, by allowing others to see me as strong and goal-oriented, I help them because I want them to be better than me. Thus, I raise the group according to the principle, “The one who chooses a better environment is rewarded with success and advancement.”

We need to use this means, the lever, the fire of envy that burns us, with the utmost cunning, trying to awaken good envy in the friends. We need not only play in relation with each other, but also to talk about this, to learn from all the forms, which others show, and become like them and even better. Then the group will become stronger, grow, and move forward.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/26/13

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All changes occur in the desire to receive while the Upper Light is in a state of absolute rest. At the same time, we know that everything comes from Above and that there is none else besides Him, the Creator, and that He alone decides and acts. So how can it be that one time we say that everything is determined by the Light and another time that everything depends on the vessel, on our efforts, on the desire, on our exertion, and our work?

We can see it in two ways: from the perspective of the Light or from the perspective of the desire. But it’s clear that all the attributes and the software that are part of the Light operate in a concealed manner on the desire and activate it. This is called the “force of the operator on the operated.”

We can assess the Light that operates the desire according to its actions in the desire. This means that all our revelations start from the vessel, from the desire. I don’t reveal the Creator who operates on me, but rather, within my vessels, I discover the phenomena by which I guess that He operates inside me.

The Light is always there and I only discover its influence. Then it seems that my desires are full and that they begin to illuminate like sparkling Lights, but they only reveal the Light that is already in them. So it’s better to look at the vessels from the side, since it helps us focus on the work correctly and not wait for something to come from Above from the Light.

The Upper Light doesn’t stop its illumination on the lower even for a moment. This means that its influence doesn’t change because it’s good and benevolent for all. The force doesn’t change, but only the vessels do under the influence of this force. I must say so since it obliges me to take care of my vessels, to think about the connection with the friends, and to absorb additional spiritual deficiencies from them.

Thanks to the additional deficiency that I receive from the connection, by the greater importance of the goal, I demand the Light! I don’t ask it to illuminate on me more, but rather to open up my desire, and then the Light can influence me more.

My desire opens up and the Light remains the same. This is a significant difference in approach. Do we just pray and ask for mercy or do we know that everything depends on our work? Our desire is a result of our work and of the connection between us. This is how we seem to operate the Light, but, in fact, we only open the channels in our desire to receive in which the Light can be revealed.

If I speak from the perspective of the vessels, I oblige myself to constantly worry about them. I don’t wait for the Light to change, and I don’t shed a tear when it doesn’t operate on me and doesn’t fill me, and I don’t blame it for what it did to me and to the whole world in the past. This means that I don’t see the Light as responsible for everything as people commonly do when they make a mistake. After all, nothing depends on the Light because “He has given a law that cannot be broken.” He has given a person everything, like a scepter, so that he will be king and rule. So everything depends only on me and there is no one else I can count on.

Therefore, we must go out to disseminate and support the group and not be materialists and mystics who count on some hidden upper force. This is the great difference between the different religions and Kabbalah, that is, between beliefs and science. In Kabbalah all the tools are in our hands since we know that our desire determines everything and that the Creator doesn’t decide anything; He actually gives us full control.

So why do Kabbalists say that everything depends on the Creator? If we discover that everything is up to us, we will discover that everything is indeed up to Him, according to the work that we do. Therefore, it says, “I have exerted and I have found, believe!” But this is actually something the world isn’t ready to accept. Only by our efforts can we reach anything, and otherwise we can keep on praying forever. At the same time we say, “if only one could pray all day.” This means that we should reach a deficiency in our prayer that will be constantly renewed thanks to our work on the connection between us. So the prayer is the work of the heart, above our desire. This is a critical point and it is the foundation of all the spiritual work. This is the bone of contention that distinguishes the wisdom of Kabbalah from all the other beliefs.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/19/13, Talmud Eser Sefirot

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Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar”: Our mind necessitates that He is utterly benevolent, beyond compare.

There is a difference between what we see and what we feel. If we look at nature, not from our feelings, then it seems perfect. There is a perfect idea in the combination of its parts. Each in it completes others, and in the interconnection between them, all the elements always build more complex systems.

The possibility of becoming more complex and perfect, to rise to unknown stages is inherent in nature itself. This potential is present at all its levels. For example, we use only a small part of our brain. “Potentially,” it is designed to do so much more. Why can’t we use it completely?

In general, there are great depths in nature, huge reserves of energy; in short, we need a foundation that allows us, without any “bodily movements,” to provide ourselves with everything, to discover everything, to rise to the degree of eternity, perfection, to become empowered, and not need any efforts. Inexhaustible energy is everywhere, but we do not know how to “connect the wires.” Modern technology has taken a completely wrong direction and that is why it is unable to realize this potential.

As a result, we cannot reach abundance. Moreover, judging by how we feel, we are in a state opposite to what it should be.

What’s the matter? Why can’t we complete each other like the cells of a living body that so wonderfully interact with each other? Why did we develop in a bad direction?

Today we can hardly see the old days, and yet, life in tribes, in communities where everyone was close to each other, was much better. People were happier; they had more time, observed their traditions, adhered to their education, maintained a true family atmosphere, and all with a great feeling.

Looking at them with an upturned nose, we are missing the point. Meanwhile sometime in the future, we will find that we are more primitive than they are. After all, they at least enjoy life, and we struggle through life unsatisfied, in a race that has no end. In essence, this existence is devoid of any rationality.

It turns out that, ultimately, our development is not good.

Meanwhile, nature is like the mother for us. It has the giving maternal desire and has created everything that exists from this desire, this force.

At the moment, it is only an assumption in our eyes; however, it is reasonable enough to be taken for further study.

Baal HaSulam writes about this: We can trace our development by some signs that stem from a positive force. Moreover, it is built on the negative: I cannot move a step forward until I feel a lack in something.

What pushes us from behind? A stick. What lures me forward? Pleasure. Thus, we can attribute these two parts to nature. But on the other hand, we understand that ultimately they both develop us in the direction of increasing the good.

In short, at this point Baal HaSulam indicated that the entire creation is prepared, but for the time being it is still a question mark…
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lessons 12/25/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Baal HaSulam, Igrot (Letters), Letter 16, “The Unification of HaVaYaH Elokim”: HaVaYaH means private Providence, where the Creator is everything, and He does not need dwellers of material houses to help him. Elokim in Gematria is HaTeva [Nature], where man behaves according to the nature that He instilled in the systems of the corporeal heaven and earth, and he keeps those rules as do the rest of the corporeal beings. And yet, he also believes in HaVaYaH, meaning in private Providence.

By that, he unites them with one another, and “they became as one in his hand,” and thus he brings great contentment to his Maker, and brings illumination to all the worlds.

This is the meaning of the three discernments—commandment, transgression, and permission. The commandment is the place of holiness, the transgression is the place of the Sitra Achra, and permission is neither a commandment nor a transgression. Rather, it is the place over which the holiness and the Sitra Achra fight.

When a person does permitted things but does not dedicate them to the holiness, that entire place falls into the domain of the Sitra Achra. And when a person grows stronger and engages in permitted things to make unifications as much as he can, he returns the permission into the domain of holiness.

This is our work. This was the goal of creation: to create a human being who will become similar to the Upper force. As they develop, the created beings approach the state when they begin to have an opportunity of freedom of choice, everyone in his time. If a person comes to this threshold, beyond which he is supposed to get freedom of will, then the Creator brings him to a group and puts his hand on good fortune, saying: “Take it!”

If the person accepts it, that is, wants through the environment to turn himself in the direction of the Upper force, matching its properties, agreeing with it and justifying it, meaning adherence to the Creator, then he gradually begins to reveal his evil. Evil is a special property, the force that is revealed in a person against his approach to the Creator. Practically, it’s expressed in rejection, which he feels with respect to the environment, in reluctance to get closer to it.

The force that acts against the Creator, called “Pharaoh,” is revealed. All villains and sinners described in the Torah are in essence one force, supposedly fighting against the Creator. But of course all these sinners are awakened by Him because “There is none else besides Him.” In various ways, they all repel a person from holiness, that is, adhesion with the Creator, from obtaining the force of bestowal and love for friends, through which we would reach love for the Creator, the similarity of properties.

The states that reveal to a person that his nature is infinitely removed from the Creator and opposite to bestowal and love are called transgressions. If he overcomes them and uses them to get closer to the Creator through the environment, studies, and the Light that Reforms, this is called a commandment.

The opportunity to choose how to deal with the exposed evil, to correct it or not, is called the area of freewill. There are people who have reached the level of development that these states are revealed in them: a commandment, transgression, and the place of freedom of choice. This can belong to the period of preparation as well as directly to the practical spiritual work.

If a person works on the other side of the border of the spiritual world (the Machsom), then by revealing his evil, he feels the force, opposite to the Creator, and starts working with these forces in practice. The Creator manifests His management as absolutely good both for sinners and the righteous. This power of bestowal and love is opposite the person, as a model.

When it disappears, the person needs to get this example of management from the group. By various contrivances, he needs, with the help of the group, to become similar to this management, which is called Elokim. Malchut that attains the property of Bina is called Elokim.

HaVaYaH is the Light of Hochma, clothed in the Light of Hassadim, in Elokim. Thus, we achieve unity of HaVaYaH – Elokim, clothing of the Light of Hochma in the Light of Bina, Hochma in Hassadim. The person who has raised his desire, Malchut, to the degree of Bina, to holiness, the property of bestowal, can get the entire Light of Hochma. The Creator is revealed in this vessel, which the person corrected to bestowal. Thus HaVaYaH unites with Elokim.

In this one sentence “the unification of HaVaYaH – Elokim” is our whole work, the entire reality and the goal of development, the end of correction. This is a miracle how the cause of creation, the entire process of its development and the final result fits in this short Kabbalistic formula.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/24/13

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Question: What should I do if I am not built for this work? I have engaged in this work for so long and I have the desire to escape from it all the time.

Answer: You’re still not doing anything. You think that you engage in internal work and that you are advancing, but the advancement is assessed in regard to one’s connection to the group. Now let’s see if you are under the influence of this environment, that you have determined this, and they don’t just impress you automatically.

When you come to the group, it naturally influences you whether you want it or not. You are like a small child who hasn’t learned anything yet. You were just born, and you are taken care of like a baby: diapers, milk, etc. You grow and advance completely unaware that you are totally in the arms of the upper.

But later you are required to participate and connect to your environment: at least to smile at your mother, to reach out to her, to learn something. This means that you must interact with the environment. Do you participate with the environment in anyway, at least like a baby? Do you smile at it? Do you wave your arms and legs with joy like to your mother, when the group approaches?

Our society has to be like a caring mother, or like an incubator in which a person can mature very quickly on the path of “I shall hasten it” and reach the end of correction. There is no other way.

Question: But what can keep me in the group? What if they throw me out?

Answer: We don’t throw anyone out of the group. Even if your egg has not cracked but just lays in the corner of the incubator its whole life. Only if it stinks and begins to spoil and poison our society will we have to throw you out. But as long as you are passive, it isn’t that bad. Even if you are considered a burden on society, we are ready to carry you on our back. Only a person who intends harm has no place among us; everyone else does.

People leave because they don’t listen to what they are told: that spiritual fulfillment is possible only though connection. This connection has to be in the form of an incubator that warms us. Rather than the Creator, the group has to be the good and benevolent for a person. A person cannot advance without an environment, without a group. There is no other way, you either do so or you don’t.

Also there is a good chance for success as there are new opportunities now that no other generation before us had, not since the beginning of humanity in this world. Today we can begin with massive, open dissemination, unlike Baal HaSulam who started to bring people closer very carefully, one by one, mainly from the Orthodox environment, although there were several secular people among his students.

Today we can open the wisdom for all. This means that it is time to build an incubator for the small circle, for the wider circle, and for the whole world. It is our duty to build it. We are the ones who have received the awakening for the Creator, and so we have to build the incubator for all of humanity. This means that we should be the transition, a kingdom of priests.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/23/13, The Book of Zohar

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Throughout generations, those who were engaged in the internal part of the Torah were going through self-transformation; they worked for the sake of the Creator and attained spirituality. It’s impossible to attain Him alone except for special cases that occur to those who are granted revelation from Above for a special purpose. That’s why Kabbalists had to always stay connected with their friends, as one man with one heart, in mutual guarantee.

It was always done “in humility.” Even though each worked in unity for the sake of their friends, they never demonstrated this outwardly. Most of the time, it was the other way around; they ostentatiously displayed disregard for each other and towards their internal work as it was among the Kabbalists of Kotzk. They acted this way to conceal the true aspiration of their hearts, and thus enable them to apply efforts and advance.

There were other groups who studied, prayed, and discussed things together, for example, Ramchal’s students. But still, they were careful in disclosing their hearts to each other to prevent others, even their friends, from seizing their internal desires of the heart. After all, they were burning with such powerful intention to the goal that nobody had the strength to express it outwardly in words and everybody was entirely focused on their internal sensations.

Only after many years, closer to our time, precisely since the Ari and then Baal Shem Tov and the Magid from Mezeritch, when the movement for the use of Kabbalah in large groups (Hasidism) emerged, they started to gradually speak more about the internal work.

So we came to our time when we can talk about it more openly, not only among us, but even explaining the principles of spiritual work to the general public to wake up the hearts of many for spiritual work.

At the same time, we have to protect ourselves. Protection is made through intentions: The more our hearts are tuned to the internal wave, the more we become immersed in it and won’t seek to vent our hearts’ hidden aspirations.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/10/13

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Baal HaSulam, “Disclosing a Portion, Covering Two”: The secrets of the Torah are revealed only to those who fear His Name, who keep His Glory with their hearts and souls…

Question: Is there a connection between our fears and the trepidation in front of the Creator?

Answer: Our personal fears and the trepidation in front of the Creator are connected through the chain of cause and effect.

The Creator sends corporeal afflictions to us in this material life; all of them are in essence fears. We are afraid of not having something, of not being able to provide for our existence; we worry about our children’s future, etc. Later, due to our studies and under the influence of the Light that Reforms, we gradually rise above our earthly fears and approach a transitional step where we replace the fears of this world with spiritual fear.

We advance due to our material fears; it happens when the time comes. It is a result of our development. This is how all of humanity progresses. However, we tend to advance with the help of the second type of fear. How can we obtain it? How can we start fearing that we won’t be able to please the Creator?

Those whose souls are able to achieve the second kind of fear come to the group and begin advancing. They need to change their individual fears and start worrying whether they are able to help the group, their friends, and through them, the Creator. “I don’t know Him now, but if I get along with my friends, I will definitely get along with Him too.” If people are ready, they are concerned about their group, the general public, and dissemination. They are afraid of whether they are able to aspire to go outside of their borders, beyond their personal interests. If we implement the possibility that is given to us in this world, if we manage to form the format that will eventually let us enter the spiritual realm, it means that we are advancing
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Baal HaSulam, “Disclosing a Portion, Covering Two”: “There are three parts to the secrets of the Torah. Each part has its own reason for being concealed.

Unnecessary: This means that no benefit will stem from its disclosing. Of course, this is not such a great loss because there is only the issue of the cleanness of the mind here, to warn of those actions defined as “so what,” meaning so what if I did this, there is no harm in it.

But you should know that, in the eyes of the sages, the “so what” is considered the worst corruptor. This is because all the destructors in the world, those that have been and those that will be, are the “so what” kind of people. This means that they occupy themselves and others in needless things.

This prohibition applies not to the wisdom of Kabbalah per se, but rather to those people who take advantage of this wisdom with bad intentions, thus confusing others instead of leading them to the goal.

Our goal is the revelation of the Creator in this world by correcting desires and bringing them to the equivalence of properties. However, some people try using Kabbalah incorrectly: they reduce it to dry scholasticism, “peddling” amulets and other “miraculous remedies” for sale, etc.

Therefore it is necessary to protect the wisdom of Kabbalah and safeguard people from confusion by either keeping this wisdom a secret for a certain period of time or by revealing its authentic essence when the time comes without deviating and inch from the goal.

This is why there is a method that is defined as an “absence of need.” After all, in order to maintain maximum purity, people have to know only a part of the wisdom that is really essential for their self-correction and for their further advancement towards the Goal of the creation. One should not know more than this.

Therefore, people should receive precise guidance and the exact amount of knowledge that has to be given to them in a correct form, the right system and adequate presentation so that they know and follow only this direction without deviating even an inch from the goal.

The unnecessary part is not only about what’s written in the sources; nobody understands what’s written there anyway. The emphasis here should be given to the method of studies, to the teacher and students, to the character and organization of the learning process, to each of its facets. There is a huge complex of conditions that form a spiritual man. For that, as in an incubator, there have to be ideal conditions maintained including numerous essential factors; if people do not violate the rules and stay under their impact, they will correctly advance.

Otherwise people just follow their nature and spin in different directions instead of going straight forward…
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/12/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Desires that were created by the Light are equivalent to the Light, but they are of the opposite nature as reverse imprints. But their shape is identical to the shape of the Light, and therefore they are called “round.” By no means is it about a physical shape; rather, it is about their properties.

The same way the Light that constantly bestows without limits in all directions and brings good to everybody without exception—to the sinners and the righteous, to all desires in equal shares—the desires represent smooth circles made by the Light.

The circles differ from each other: a small desire or a big one, a good or a bad. But the difference between them is examined only by a “line,” direct desires that appear after the first restriction (Tzimzum Aleph) and have screens.

“A line” is a creation. “Round vessels” do not yet feel as a creation and are completely under the power of the Light. A line is a reaction of the creation, its work, its attitude to “round desires”, i.e., to what was made by the Creator.

The Creator made the world in the shape of circles, because His attitude to the world is “round,” absolutely equal. The creation’s attitude, that is, the attitude of the desire that has a screen and the reflected Light and aspires to become similar to the Creator, is a line within which the creation judges and evaluates “round” desires. The creation is not willing to remain in the state created by the Creator, in the round desire to be pleased. It wants to determine its attitude to the Creator itself, that is, to determine the desire on its own and then through it aspire to the Creator.

The creation wants to relate to the Creator through a line, but its goal is to make the line similar to a circle, so that the love and bestowal of the creation is infinite and as powerful as the Creator’s love to the creation, and even bigger! It means that the creation works with its desires only under the protection of the intention that determines to what extent the desire can be used.

The ultimate  goal is to achieve such a huge intention that it will allow the creation to bestow endlessly, to the complete wholeness of the desire. Then, the Creator and the creation, as the host and the guest, will reach complete equivalence that is called adhesion.

Round vessels (igulim) do not touch each other but connect only through direct vessels (yosher), through a line (kav),  a thin tube. The thin tube shares with the spheres and fulfills them; this is its role. The spheres express the Creator’s attitude to the creation as that of a host to a guest. A line is the creation’s “attitude.”

A line penetrates the spheres and goes through them. A sphere is unlimited desires that belong to the integrated system. That’s why they are so important for us today in this contemporary world.  Now, we begin sensing the pressure of the round vessels (igulim.) This is a problem because we want everything to be in accordance with our “straight” (yosher) benefit: I give you, and you give me; everything is egoistically straightforward in the form of “buying and selling.”

A circle means that you are open to all. The circles start approaching us; it means that the Creator is getting ready to reveal Himself in this world. We feel bad; we are going through a crisis because we have not achieved sufficient connection between the circles. We have to turn into a straight channel that will connect all spheres. Otherwise, the system around us will start to die; we, like cancer, kill it. It happens because we don’t make the “pipes,” the direct arteries between the spheres.

This is a very practical, thing. Each one of us has to become a “master installer.” Besides having the usual water pipes around, there is artform called “installation.”

Eventually, pipes have to grow so big, wide, and numerous that they will connect even the smallest spheres, and will eventually replace them. Instead of circles, there will be lines. The circles were made by the Creator as a manifestation of His attitude to us.  On our part, we have to bestow to Him through a line. Therefore, the lines have to replace circles and fill them. By filling circles, we fill the Creator!
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/11/13, The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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