Sages say a person should speak no word without intention. This is described as “distance yourself from falsehood”. “Falsehood” means that you are led by your egoistic desire rather than the will to bestow. Therefore, all we ought to do is keep preparing ourselves for the morning lesson and constantly think about the Light that Reforms since it is the only thing we depend on!

Imagine that all of us are facing a death sentence. But there is a chance to be redeemed. You just discovered that there is some “Surrounding Light,” someone whose first name is Light and whose last name is Surrounding, and he can save your life. You keep thinking: “How do I talk to him? What do I bribe him with so that he changes my sentence?”

That is exactly the attitude you should have while preparing for the lesson.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/10, Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot

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The Light has spread from the world of infinity, having passed many restrictions, and reached the center point of all the worlds, in which all sanctity, that is, the force of bestowal, ends. In this manner, this material world emerges, as the imprint of the 10 Sefirot of the spiritual world. We can do material actions in this material world we live in. It is in our power, and it is said, “Do all that is in your power!” And intention comes only due to the Light that Reforms.

Therefore, if we want to reach correction, we must perform the actions indicated by Kabbalists, that is, to strive to love others, which is the basis of all corrections. Everything we do to achieve this fundamental rule is counted as correct actions as if they have the correct form. It is impossible to find fault with the form because we have tried to unite, to cancel ourselves before the friends, and to feel each other’s desires.

That is, we acted correctly; we just did not have the right intention! And to the extent that we wanted to change our intentions in these actions, the Surrounding Light that Reforms acted on us. The Light is only waiting to affect us and to correct our intention to bestowal.

Therefore, a person comes to the state of Lishma, to spiritual bestowal, only after a period of preparation in which he acts in Lo Lishma. In other words, his intentions are still egoistic, but he performs all possible actions from a desire to achieve a genuine intention to bestow.

So, we need to treat our actions very seriously—hold various events, lectures, discussions, roundtables, go out to the public at every opportunity—to perform all the actions that facilitate dissemination and unity. After all, by this we attract a very strong Light that Reforms, which advance us quickly.

Therefore, I again and again warn people who have the opportunity to participate in dissemination to the general public and they do not do that. They just do not allow themselves to perform the actions that could move them toward holiness, to the spiritual world, even though they do not yet have the proper intention. It is a pity to miss this wonderful opportunity!
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/08/13, Writings of Rabash

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Question: What should I do if during the lesson I am bombarded by extraneous thoughts and feelings that distract me from the lesson?

Answer: A person goes through many different states. Sometimes he sits in the lesson totally detached and sometimes he is even asleep. It happened to me very rarely, but if I suddenly fell asleep Rabash used to hit my leg gently under the table or to pull me by the sleeve without anyone noticing, although I wasn’t actually tired but in a special state of mind. Sometimes you can sleep two hours a night and feel that you are fully awake and sometimes after sleeping seven to eight hours,  you feel that you are craving sleep; it has nothing to do with your physical state.

What should you do when you fall asleep? You should make efforts to fight it as much as you can, as much as possible, but at the same time to agree that there are states that are arranged for us from above in which there is nothing we can do. So I come to the lesson and fall asleep. I have never mock or shout at someone who sleeps during the lesson. It means that this time he cannot do anything about it but he is still here.

If extraneous thoughts go through my mind during the lesson, it is due to my preparation. It is very important to understand on which foot you got out of bed: whether on the “right foot” or on the “left foot” or even “on all fours,” which refers to the first thought you had. It depends on what thought you went to sleep with, on what you read before you went to sleep. You can watch a football game, but you must read something during the last five minutes before you go to sleep. That will shake you a little from within and push you in the right direction. And with this thought you should fall asleep, as if in prayer.

Then you will wake up and get up with positive thoughts with which you will come to the lesson. Even if later you fall asleep during the lesson, you will have a good preparation. If you listen to the lesson, then even better thoughts and intentions will come to you. Even if you have other thoughts and intentions, they will come for only a moment and you will be able to immediately recognize them and drive them away.

This is our work. But the main thing is still the action: to come, sit, and get ready for the lesson, to draw the drawings and to write down everything, which means to perform mechanical actions that help me connect to the lesson. Besides, you have to draw a circle, which means to imagine that you are in the group. You can even draw a circle on a sheet of paper, so that it will be in front of you and remind you that you are in a circle with all the others.

This form of a circle should be carved in your brain so that you will want to see the world only through it. It is as if you have special glasses in your mind and now you see that the world is round. It is because this is actually its true form and you want to see everything through the center of the group.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/07/13, The Zohar

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Question: In the spiritual system, the upper level waits until the lower level raises a prayer to it, MAN. How can I convey the requests of the public upward if I have no contact with the spiritual world?

Answer: You have contact with the spiritual world through your point in the heart. You only lack the deficiency to awaken the upper, and it is from the lower that you have to receive this deficiency.

You have Reshimot (spiritual genes) which belong to GE. The lower, the public, have no GE; they have no points in the heart. You include the deficiencies of the people in your AHP, since they want to be saved from trouble. These deficiencies and needs are ordinary corporeal matters: food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge, which are added to your GE, to the point in the heart. Since you have committed yourself to the public, you are under their pressure.

Instead of demonstrating and protesting in front of the parliament, they will protest in front of your house and smash your windows. When you see your frightened children and your upset wife, you will have no choice but to cry to the Creator for help. You have to reach this pressure in order to be ready for a prayer.

The Creator will respond only if you ask Him for power for the lower, for the people, to provide them with what they need. It is because they will receive what they need only if they “round up” and connect in a circle, in the workshops, at the roundtables, through integral education.

They will not receive filling just like that and it isn’t that everyone will receive a package by special delivery, but their lives will improve. We have to organize the public in circles for workshops and roundtable discussions. The main thing is to organize in a circle. When people organize in a circle and annul themselves before you, they can enter and be incorporated in your AHP and convey their complaints and their deficiencies to you.

You raise these deficiencies to your point in the heart that is also in the circle, in the center of the group. By that your work is over since the center of the group is your upper and the uppermost part of the public. In the center there is mutual guarantee, bestowal, and connection, as one man in which the Creator is revealed!

This whole structure is a total of ten complete Sefirot. Only one thing is missing: receiving an urge from the public that will force you to feel scared, to fear, and to feel that you are committed to bring them the Light that Reforms from the center of the group. So going out to disseminate to the public is essential for our ascent.

People ask for food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge. You are asking for connection, mutual guarantee, and the revelation of the Creator. If you can keep the right deficiency for the center of the group and the Creator, by fine tuning the correct deficiencies each time so that it wouldn’t be just bestowal and connection but will take on a more accurate form that is suitable for the next spiritual level, then there will be no need to pressure you from below and to shatter your windows.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/6/13, Talmud Eser Sefirot

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Question: How is it possible to restore the importance of the morning lesson if after so many years it has become routine and lost its taste?

Answer: The morning lesson is a place for the induction of the Upper Light. As if you come to a gas station to refuel. Throughout the day you need to gather all kinds of deficiencies—the need for the Light that Reforms, the need for the spiritual power, the need become similar to the Creator—to clarify and scrutinize: the true picture of the true world, my relationship to it, and its effect on me.

Throughout the entire day you need to see how much this form of reality you are spinning in, you still do not understand, is still not clear, is broken. And when you come to the morning lesson, this form needs to be clarified by the Light that Reforms in your thoughts and feelings, in all senses.

But if you have not prepared for the morning lesson, then it becomes a formal routine for you like subjects you learn in school: The Zohar, Talmud Eser Sefirot, and so forth. And then the lesson becomes empty without any benefit, a complete loss. If you don’t come to the lesson equipped with the right deficiency, then you will not receive the right fulfillment from the lesson, and then it follows that you learn wisdom and not Torah.

The Torah is called the Light that Reforms. So one of two things: either you study the Torah or wisdom, abstract theory. This is what you determine according to your intentions, the deficiency, and the need for correction that you prepared for the lesson.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/7/13, The Zohar

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Rabash, Letter No. 8: And once I have acquired this above-mentioned clothing, sparks of love promptly begin to shine within me. The heart begins to long to unite with my friends, and it seems to me that my eyes see my friends, my ears hear their voices, my mouth speaks to them, the hands embrace, the feet dance in a circle in love and joy together with them, and I transcend my corporeal boundaries. I forget the vast distance between my friends and me, and the outstretched land for many miles will not stand between us.

It is as though my friends are standing right within my heart and see all that is happening there, and I become ashamed of my petty acts against my friends. Then, I simply exit the corporeal vessels and it seems to me that there is no reality in the world except my friends and me.  After that, even the “I” is cancelled and is immersed, mingled, in my friends, until I stand and declare that there is no reality in the world—only the friends.

Aspirations like these bring people to a state where their last desperate desire is the yearning for closeness, to build a world in which they must exist under other conditions of contact between them. When they reach a true desire of this type, the Light transforms that into a reality.

There are many people in the world to whom the power for spiritual work has not been given, even in the simplest form, even unintentionally in an egoistic form as preparation. It wasn’t given! We see this regarding billions of people in the world, and we have merited that the Creator gave us desires and thoughts that allow us, at least in part, to participate in spiritual work, even if it is the simplest degree.

If a person is prepared to appreciate this gift, then to the degree that he attributes importance to spiritual work when he builds a new world (here only the feelings between us change), to that degree, he needs to thank the Creator.

You see, the truth is that we are not prepared to appreciate the importance of the fact that sometimes we are given even the smallest spiritual action to do. So, the person feels greatness and happiness in his heart and he praises the Creator whom he serves, and thanks Him and accordingly, he rises even higher.

The person must treasure the opportunity that is given to him to serve the Creator and to realize His will.

The “will of the Creator” means that a person constructs a model of the upper world from his relationships with other people.

Just as children play as if they are adults—daughters play with dolls and sons with cars or with war—so must we also play, and then we mature.

In our world, an adult is the one who stops playing. He stops developing, growing. This happens with us automatically because first nature pushes us so that we will grow and, then when free choice appears in us, nature no longer pushes us anymore, and we stop developing.

Therefore, those people, who decide that it is up to them to continue to develop, must continue to play those childhood games but on another level, that is, to build their future lives. They simulate what they imagine in their fantasies, discuss among themselves in a group, in circles, and build it so much so that they begin to feel the world they are approaching.

When a person sees an example of the future world and builds the right altruistic relationships with his friends, but he doesn’t succeed, he asks and demands, then help arrives. However, this happens only when he truly yearns for this. Just screaming and crying will not help here.
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From the St. Petersburg Convention “Day Three” 7/14/13, Lesson 6

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Man is not free to choose anything in his life. He is brought to a group and led away from it. He doesn’t control this. What depends upon us is how we construct an environment that will cause each one of its members to be a useful, spiritual part.

Therefore, it is said that the only free activity that depends on us is the choice of the environment. A person’s arrival to an environment doesn’t depend upon him since he is led there. And the choice of the environment  means that at every given moment, I choose my maximal integration within it. Does the rest of humanity, people without a point in the heart, have free choice? No, they don’t.

Only for us is there relative freewill in building the right environment and in the correct organization of humanity. Therefore, we have responsibility, both for us and for them. This responsibility is very harsh. If we don’t build the right environment for all seven billion people as much as possible, then we cannot advance because we are the upper part within the spiritual structure called Galgalta ve Eynaim (GE), and humanity is the huge lower part of creation that is called AHP.

The upper part, GE, is our particular part, called our group, and its lower part is our AHP. It doesn’t belong to us, but it is something that we develop, the method of integral education and information, various courses, and so on.

It is up to us to develop the subject, to act like adults, like teachers, in regard to the rest of the world, and in accord with the development of the world, it is up to us to bring the integral method and information to it with concern and attention.

All the rest of the world will need to accept it because, in spite of it all, the Light has an influence on all of us in such a form that there is nowhere to which to escape. It influences the entire world and pushes it with the help of suffering because the AHP is its opposite (the world is a big, egoistic minus), and when the Light influences it, it arouses in it even greater negative feelings, crises, and sufferings.

Ultimately, humanity searches for what to do, but it won’t find anything besides the Light that will be transmitted to them through us as a result of integral education. We need to create and construct all of this for them.

Therefore, in addition to the group work in itself, it must also take care of all the rest to the degree necessary to awaken humanity, which is awakened to a serious question, not about the meaning of life for the sake of some lofty goal, but about the meaning of life in order to be released from the sufferings, from the crises. This is enough so that we begin to take care of them.

When they discover their absolute helplessness, confusion, and inability to solve common earthly problems, and there is global awareness that they have no practical solutions, then we can confidently go out to the world and begin to look for the right ways of to whom and how to bring our method.

After all, the world already requires this unconsciously, even though it is like a child that still doesn’t understand where, what, and how. It doesn’t feel that this is the key to a different existence, to a new reality, to a new dimension, because for most of humanity there is no point in the heart and for us there is, and we feel that something must take place here. There is some kind of a solution here. We feel it only slightly, just to the degree that the Light shines on us, and the Light has no influence on them.

What does “it has no influence” mean? We are all in the field of Light, but they have no inner detector that can determine that there is some kind of illumination, that there are some kind of changes. We do have this detector; this is the so-called “sixth sense.” Therefore, everything depends only upon us.

We have a responsibility for everyone. Moreover, we have received the opportunity to advance spiritually only in order to bring the whole world to this, and if we don’t convey the Upper Light through us and don’t convey anything through us, then we feel only a minute illumination, in other words,  just a state of expectation, a neutral gear, and nothing more than this. Therefore, it is up to us to take this into account.

It could be that there are groups with a good inner preparation. Its members study seriously, come to all the lectures and lessons, but they don’t want to go outside. Ultimately, these groups will transform into a barrier for the spiritual Light, and because they are linked to us, they  burden us and damage all of us.

Therefore, we must be careful, but still compel them, encourage and cheer them gently, trying to explain and attract them to this work. After all, this is needed from a global integral system.

If this is a closed system, then you don’t have the right to abandon some part of it (even though this may not be a small part but about 99.99% of it). Even if it were only 1%,, even then you would not have the right to abandon them because if there is some uncorrected part of an integral, analog, closed system, then the whole mechanism is uncorrected. So if a need for correction is discovered in the world, you must think about all seven billion who require it and somehow activate the mechanism.

The principle of the formation of all of our groups, or of the world group, must also include all of humanity because the time has come to uncover and reveal the general link between us.

Prior to Abraham, only isolated Kabbalists had spiritual attainment. From Abraham and onward, it was groups, and from the times of Baal HaSulam and on, it is all of humanity.

Baal HaSulam wrote in the twenties of the last century that all of humanity is one family. This suggests we must consider them as part of our group. Therefore, the principles and foundations for building the group must include this component: how can we interact with the whole world.
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From the St. Petersburg Convention “Day Two” 7/13/13, Lesson 4

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Torah, “Exodus,” Mishpatim, 22:20: And you shall not mistreat a stranger, nor shall you oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Even when more and more new desires for the sake of reception are discovered with you that appear in your “land”—meaning,  when in your corrected state, desires appear that you have not yet corrected—you don’t need to sweep them away, intentionally making a contraction on them and not accepting them. Rather, it is the opposite. You need to help them recover. This is what is called a “stranger.”

Torah, “Exodus,” Mishpatim, 22:21-22:23: You shall not oppress any widow or orphan. If you oppress him, [beware,] for if he cries out to Me, I will surely hear his cry. My wrath will be kindled, and I will slay you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children orphans.

A “widow” and a “fatherless child” are unfinished Kelim, unfinished vessels for advancement, completely uncorrected desires where not even half of them have been corrected. There is no contact with them for ascension.

“You shall not oppress” means that in any case you should not abandon them, rather always help in order to connect all the desires together. This is speaking about the person connecting all of his desires, his intentions, his characteristics, within himself into a single whole that will be called the soul in which he reveals the spiritual world.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/27/13

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Question: How does the transformation in which the attribute of bestowal dresses in the desire to receive take place?

Answer: Before I used to reject the use of the desire to receive and constantly built the desire to bestow above it. Now, however, I begin to receive in order to bestow. This is a very special transition indeed when I operate the vessels of receiving.

It is hard to bring similar examples from our world. It is as if I steal for the sake of the public, as if I kill for the sake of life. The malignant tumor that used to consume and kill the body grew at its expense and I begin to inject medicine. This medicine makes the body feel 620 times healthier as it heals it. It is because the sick body has been in states that are close to death …

This is how the transition from the state of smallness (Katnut) to the state of greatness (Gadlut) is made, when the angel of death becomes the holy angel.

We should understand that a state of smallness is not charity (Hassadim) but rather weakness. Another point is that when the whole cruel desire to receive opens up in me and all the great Light is in front of me, then I say: “I don’t want it; I want to remain in the attribute of mercy (Hafetz Hesed). I prefer Hassadim only and I don’t need these vessels and these Lights.”

This is called true mercy (Hafetz Hesed) and it is a very high and sublime state. Without it I cannot contain all the Light of Hochma and receive in order to bestow.

It has to provide all the intentions of in order to bestow for all the vessels of receiving. I fill all my desires with the Light of Hassadim and decide to work in Hassadim, from within Hassadim. In order to receive pleasures, I develop a new desire for them that is 620 times greater and receive them only for the sake of the Creator, only in order to show Him my love.

All this is based on a new attitude that is sustained by the fact that internally I am still Hafetz Hesed. Even if I receive the Light of Yechida at the end of correction, I don’t do it for myself. Personally I don’t need anything and it is all for the Creator. This is not weakness anymore but the basis of all of bestowal to the full height of the greatest Lights, Haya and Yechida.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/07/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: Would you say that the path of “hastening” and the path “in its time” are two different vectors?

Answer: Advancement “in its time” is not a vector.

Let’s say, now I’m in a certain state (1), which has to move on to the next one (2). To cover this distance, we must hold on to the principle of the unity of Israel, the Torah, and the Creator. If I direct myself in this way, then I advance by the path of hastening.

But what if, having gone some part of the path, I suddenly fail? What if I was not successful here, i.e., failed to equip the desire that was revealed to me on this stage with the altruistic intention? Can I move on without the right intention? No, I cannot.

Consequently, there is no path by which you can move forward “in its time.” I have to stand here with my incorrect intention (←), which pulls me to the “left,” to the material. Next, I need to come to the realization of evil and then get back on track.

However, to realize evil, I have to enter it, exert myself, make up for all that is missing, come to an inadequate result, be sorry for what happened, and then go back to the acceleration vector.

Thus, I have no chance to advance to the goal “in its time,” even if a thousand blows force me. After all, they are not punishment for mistakes. I still need to make calculations and afterward identify the true evil and see that troubles are not evil but good. I seemingly kiss the stick, thank the Creator for its blows, “Thank you very much, that’s great because now I realize that I am in evil.” Moreover, I am aware that blows are goodness, and what once seemed as pleasure to me is a bad thing.

Thus, misery lets me get closer to the Creator. However, along the way I have to feel and comprehend so much, to change so much in myself on this long path of suffering… It is called this but in fact it is not even a path —I just make a turn and come back. And this turn may take not a year or two, but say, twenty years.

Question: How can we accelerate along a straight line?

Answer: You can speed up along a straight line if you are constantly connected to the center of the group, again and again. Taking the steps on the way means realizing one’s free choice. But its realization is to strengthen the group, which is the only means of achieving the goal.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/6/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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