Question: When we look at this world, we judge it with our mind, but how can we attain the Creator’s mind?

Answer: That is why we have to make corrections: to purify our mind from all the egoistic nonsense that fills it, preventing us from seeing the Creator. If we make a correction through the Light of Hassadim, then we rise above our egoistic desire and become ready to accept the Light of Hochma: the Creator’s mind.

Essentially, we research ourselves and based on that we recognize the One who created us. It is written, “I will know You through Your actions.” But what is His action? It is me! I am the Creator’s action! And I have to understand who I am.

To do this I have to come out of my limited, egoistic view and build a group outside of myself. If I start checking myself in relation to the group like a desire in relation to the Light, this marks the beginning of my attainment of the Creator’s actions. It happens to the degree I am able to stand it and desire it.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 10/28/10, “The Acting Mind”

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In the process of development, having reached a comprehensive age, we have become equipped with a huge arsenal of images and concepts about the elements of this world. Hence, we are able to divide and connect various pictures and meanings in our imagination or in action. Therefore, when we hear about something, we can imagine it based on what we know about “something similar” even if we have never seen this object and have no relation to it.

As to spirituality, we have no idea about it, nor any contact with it; we have no knowledge of its elements that we could sort and divide or connect in order to imagine something “similar.” We read about spiritual phenomena, and, if we imagine something in pictures, we ought to realize that we are deceiving ourselves. In this case, we take images of the corporeal world that are familiar to us, and, from them, in our imaginations, we put together, as it were, pictures of the spiritual world.

Since this path is known to be false, we, while studying Kabbalah, try not to put anything together in our mind and feelings, but to act from what is described, as “the judge has only what his eyes see.” Adding things (intellectualizing and fantasizing) is not allowed since it signifies form that is not dressed in matter. Kabbalah is against it because we have to attain a form dressed in matter. If we start imagining forms that are not dressed in matter, they will always be false forms borrowed from our world, and we will never know the truth.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/20/10, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Our path can be imagined as a computer screen where three windows or documents are opened at the same time. The last window is concealed; I don’t see it. This is me in the state of the Final Correction, in unity and adhesion with the Creator, in the root of my soul.

The window in the middle is my path, my advancement along 125 degrees. The first window is the one I now see in front of myself, my current state.

All three are states of my soul, what it perceives, since “we cannot name anything we do not attain.” Kabbalists have gone through this path, have experienced all these states from beginning to end, and they tell us about the process they have gone through.
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From the lesson on 10/22/10, Baal HaSulam’s Letter 17

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Question: Can a friend be bad despite what he has in his heart?

Answer: First of all we check our friends, but we do it once, at the very beginning. After making that check we have to rely on our unity.

It is called “Mikveh,” which is a special water reservoir for the purpose of  purification. When the Light becomes revealed inside our unity, its force cleanses and purifies us. However, if a person is completely unfit for it, then it cleanses others away from him. It influences him in a way that casts him away. This is the effect of the force of cleansing: It either pulls us inside, or throws us to the outside.

Therefore, one should assess his friends only by ascending above reason and caring only about how to strengthen the common force of unity in the group. Then this force, the Creator, will clarify: Who is outside and who is inside.

Those who are really trying to reach unity are pushed inwards by this force, whereas those who don’t merit it yet are thrown back. A person who is unprepared cannot go through the burdening of the heart and a descent. Instead of giving him extra forces, his states will force him to break away to the outside.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/27/10, “Make Yourself A Rav, Buy Yourself A Friend”

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Kabbalists who have attained the foundations of creation tell us that the Creator created a desire to enjoy. This desire is obligated to become equal to the Creator, to become a vessel that is filled with Light according to the law of equivalence of form.

This is the only true formula which the Creator established and created from the beginning. All other forms exist only in the perception of those who receive.

The single creation, the single desire to receive pleasure, exists in equivalence with the Upper Light and is filled with Light, unity, and adhesion. However, it imagines that it is separated and distanced from the Creator, that it differs from Him and has different qualities, that it is broken and separated into many parts. Now, from our end we have to decide which actions are necessary in order to return to the only existing, true state, the place where “He and His name are one,” where the Light and the vessel, the creature and the Creator, are united with each other.

The science of Kabbalah pays special attention to the current phase, which is the preparation for ascending onto the first and lowest spiritual level. Right now we do not know what is happening on that ladder. Once we get there, a person’s soul teaches him and we can look for help in the Kabbalah books, receive examples, gain experience, and learn from the previous states.

The entire problem lies precisely here, before the first degree. At this stage we need a great preparation; here the states are unclear and the world is opposite to the spiritual reality.

Therefore, at this stage we have to use the special means that the science of Kabbalah offers us.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/27/10, “Make Yourself A Rav, Buy Yourself A Friend”

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The Zohar, Chapter “BeShalach (When Pharaoh Sent),” Item 181: Then everything shone together because even though the light of Atik is covered in Hassadim, it contains Hochma, as well, since the Hochma in AA is necessarily received from him. Hence, the Hassadim of Atik are more important than the Hochma de AA and are regarded as containing it, and that Hochma and Hassadim shine in him together. This is why the sea made the upper laws, to drown the Egyptians and to save Israel, since the upper and lower were given into his hands. …since the crossing of the Red Sea depends on Atik.

The Upper Light comes and severs the coarse desires in us called “Egyptians” from the desires called “Isra-El” (straight to the Creator), which are ready to be corrected. This happens by the conditions of the Second Restriction (Tzimtzum Bet).

“The nations of the world” in us are all the desires that cannot be corrected until the very End of Correction (Gmar Tikkun). This includes the Klipot and all the desires that are directly connected with the Light of Hochma.

The desires of “Israel” (Yashar-Kel) include all the qualities of Bina and by their nature they belong to Galgalta Einaym. Therefore, the Light of Hochma that comes makes a split in the entire depth of the desire or vessel, separating the desires that can be corrected (the ones belonging to Galgalta Einaym that are able to become AHP de Aliya) from the desires that are completely incapable of correction. That is why the “splitting of the Red Sea” took place: to separate “Israel” from the “Egyptians.”

From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/27/10, The Zohar

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When a Kabbalist attains a spiritual degree, he “dresses” into the same form that is called “Abraham” or “Moses,” for example, and he “hears” what they say to each other. In The Zohar there are stories of people talking to each other even though they lived in different centuries, and you would think: How is that possible? It is because it is talking only about the spiritual world, not about people; it is describing desires and qualities that are called by these names.

Your name is also present there because you also have a root of the soul! However, for now it is not called by your current name. When you ascend there and correct this state, you will receive this name. You will reveal it. That is what you have to do: Reveal the root of your soul.

When you attain this point or your main, inherent spiritual quality, then from that point you will become included in the entire rest of the Kli of the World of Infinity. This will mean that you have revealed the soul of Adam HaRishon and it became yours, coming from your point.

Your spiritual vessel with the Light inside it is called by your name. You just don’t know it for now because you are not familiar with your spiritual gene that acts inside of you, the spark, the point in the heart. You don’t know where it comes from. It pulls you toward your root, but you don’t know what that root is, where it is located on the ladder of the degrees, and in what state it exists. You have to reveal it and discover that this is, in fact, you.

This does not mean that you are limited by that root; on the contrary, you will rise even higher! However, you will attain everything from that point. Therefore, every soul is obligated to attain its root and every person has his own root.

There are “forefathers” who are called “the heads of the degrees” or of the “generations.” They are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These aren’t roots of particular souls, but fundamental qualities. They are names of the Creator’s qualities.

On the other hand, each of us has his own root point that he must attain and in which he must correct himself. From there one corrects his connection with all the other souls. This is the meaning of the full, individual correction which every person must perform.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/27/10, “600,000 Souls”

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Question: How can I reach infinity (unlimitedness, unboundedness) through a path of restriction?

Answer: Suppose you wish to give me many fulfillments, but I only want to receive something specific. So, you restrict your great desire to bestow and give me what I want. I receive from you in a circular form according to my desire, but your action of bestowal toward me was restricted, that is, in the form of a straight line. This is called “the bond of a circle and a straight line” (a sphere and a tube), but, if you don’t restrict yourself at all because whatever I want does not constitute a restriction for you since you do not think about yourself whatsoever and all your thoughts are about how to fulfill my desire, then any opportunity to bestow is infinity for you even if you give me only what I desire, and, for me, it is also infinity because I receive everything I desire.

In other words, there are no lines or circles in our relationship, but only that which we determine for ourselves, the measure to which each of us is included in the other’s desire. If my desire is determined only by your desire, then I always remain in infinity. There are rules in which desire determines action: 1) What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is mine, 2) What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is yours, and 3) What’s mine is yours, what’s yours is yours.
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From the lesson on October 15, 2010, The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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We begin our spiritual path once we acquire a relatively large egoistic desire following millennia of development, notably in this incarnation thanks to the point in the heart. Because of this point, the desire to receive develops faster and more “aggressively,” demanding more as it does. The point drives the desire in an unclear direction so it raises its head and increases its demands from this world.

Developing within the space of our world without the point in the heart, it belonged to the desires of the masses, but now, the spiritual impulse is leading it somewhere else entirely. We continue to develop egoistically, but our ego has grown and now wishes to “devour” all of reality, corporeal as well as spiritual.

With these two forces, man begins his spiritual search until he comes to the group and finds the method of correction. If he utilizes this method correctly by studying the wisdom of Kabbalah with the intention of using the environment to draw the Light, he embarks upon a road of spiritual development. In this process, man’s ego is combined with his aspiration for bestowal, which he derives from the environment. Gradually, a demand grows in his heart, and the Light cultivates it.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/10, “I Am the First and I Am the Last”

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A person who is thrown into darkness loses all connection with the previous state of ascent. If the Creator then shows mercy on him and awakens him with Light, this does not mean that the person performed a correction. If, however, he awakens on his own with the help of the group, then he really does become corrected.

During an ascent a person prepared the right way: He put everything he possibly could into the group, using it as an “inspiration fund.” The efforts he made enable him to keep the connection during a descent. Now, by grabbing onto the end of this string, a person can awaken and through the group attract Light, energy, understanding, and faith above knowledge. Thus, he will start coming out of the descent towards a new ascent.

By means of the group a person always has the opportunity to renew the unity. Unlike the unity of the forefathers who were unable to receive the Torah yet, our unity directly connects a person to the group. This is where one’s free choice lies: to start working with the help of the group and equalize the descents with the ascents.

It turns out that at the end of the day, our entire freedom is realized in the group. A person actualizes unity only with the help of the group.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/26/10,  “600,000 Souls”

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