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Heaven and Earth—Two Opposite Desires

746.02Rabbi Shimon opened and said, “In the beginning God created.” We should consider this verse. Anyone who says there is another God will perish from the world (Rashbi, Zohar for All, “Heaven and Earth”).

In the beginning, the Creator created two opposite desires: the desire to receive and the desire to give, called “heaven and earth.” Between them is the whole creation.

The earth symbolizes the desire to receive, heaven, the desire to bestow.

Question: Wasn’t there a desire to give before that? After all, it is written the Creator is a pure desire to bestow.

Answer: Yes, but this does not apply to the creation of the world. The Creator created what is called “heaven and earth,” the desire to receive against the desire to bestow. Between these two desires is the whole creation: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature.

Later it says if someone believes there is another god, he will perish from the world. This means there will not be a state where people think there is another force besides the upper force (the Creator).
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar“1/21/24

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Strengthen Peace

746.02Elokim [God] is the upper Elokim, Bina, and he is called Elokim, in regard to MI [who] created ELEH [these]. And as MI connected to ELEH, the name always connects, and by that, the world exists (Rashbi, Zohar for All, “Heaven and Earth”).

ELEH and MI are two words that make up the name of the whole creation, Elokim. ELEH is its lower part (the property of receiving, Malchut), and the highest is MI (the property of giving, Bina). That is, these are two parts of the ten , which govern the entire universe.

The Creator created the entire universe, which is constantly moving toward manifesting itself as one unified system.

It says when these two parts come together, peace strengthens. It means that peace strengthens when there are no contradictions between MI and ELEH and ELEH and MI since both parts take care to complement each other.

By the way, Elokim and Teva (nature) have the same numerical value. The upper force, Elokim, also consists of two parts, ELEH and MI, which join together and fill the whole of nature.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 1/21/24

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What Level Does HaVaYaH Belong To?

548.03Question: When we first cross the Machsom, do we receive the spiritual vegetative level? Now are we at the animate level?

Answer: The animate level is not as small as you think. That is a very serious level. We are yet to leave the Domem, the still level.

Comment: I want this to happen as soon as possible.

My Response: As soon as possible? Then you have to make an effort.

Question: It is clear that the still level is the fundamental level of support of a form in the universe. What level does “I did not change My HaVaYaH” belong to?

Answer: This is the general level. The four letters of HaVaYaH mean the four levels of creation: Domem, Tzomeach, Hai, and Medaber (still, vegetative, animate, and speaking).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Still, Vegetative, Animate, and Speaking”

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An Allegorical Description of the Development of Creation

525Baal HaSulam, who wrote a commentary on The Book of Zohar, says that “flower buds” are the action of the beginning of creation. That is, the Kabbalist sort of sees and wants to convey the process of the development of creation, by comparing it with the flower buds that appear in the land. In this way, he gradually reveals to us the beginning of all creation.

Therefore, in the article “The Flower Buds” we are talking about the evolution of nature in our world until man appears. Then it explains what happens to this man.

It says in the “Introduction of The Book of Zohar“: The flower buds have appeared in the land; the time of pruning has arrived, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land (Rashbi, Zohar for All, “The Flower Buds”). It means that the whole of nature at all its levels—still, vegetative, animate, and human—in its development is gradually approaching a state where a person can begin to act as the peak of its creation.

This process is considered an external manifestation of nature’s development, as well as the internal development of a person. After all, everything that happens is carried out at all levels of nature, including the spiritual one.

Question: Let’s say “flower buds in the land” we can understand somehow: the land symbolizes a common desire and the flower buds represent the manifestation of the intention in this desire. What is “the voice of a turtledove is heard”?

Answer: This can be considered as a manifestation of the Creator’s call for a person to begin interacting with all other levels of nature.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 1/7/24

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Theory and Practice

243.01Question: Is it enough to simply study the system of spiritual worlds to develop spiritually?

Answer: No, it is not enough. The Kabbalah methodology explains how the system created by the Creator cascades from above downward under the influence of the upper light, which builds all the degrees.

Now, we must climb the same degrees from below upward by working with each other.

In principle, a person’s spiritual development should include both types of study: theory and practice. One is impossible without the other.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 11/7/23

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How Does Spiritual Correction Happen?

284.03Question: How does spiritual correction happen?

Answer: Spiritual correction takes place gradually. First of all, we must strive to attain the Creator in ever greater connection with each other, in ever greater degree of mutual bestowal, and then we will begin attaining the Creator. That already is considered to be in the world of Atzilut.

In other words, there are a certain number of souls in the system of Adam HaRishon. When they unite, the Creator will be revealed in the connection between them, and then our world will begin to disappear from their perception, i.e., the concealment disappears.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 7/11/23

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Spiritual Worlds

548.03Question: After the shattering of the general system of Adam HaRishon, filter worlds were created for further correction, i.e., the worlds of Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya.

What is special about the world of Atzilut? What is this state?

Answer: The world of Atzilut is the highest world, closest to the Creator.

It begins the decomposition of the elements of the higher power into its components: the ten Sefirot, the Partzufim, and other laws of relations between all parts of this world, which then, in the worlds lower to us, are transformed into independent systems.

After the world of Atzilut comes the world of Beria, which is completely unrelated to the upper force (Elokut). Then come the worlds Yetzira, Assiya, and finally, the lowest of the worlds – our world.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 11/7/23

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The Difference Between the World of Atzilut and the Worlds BYA

259.01Question: What is the difference between the world of Atzilut, the world of corrections, from the three worlds of Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya?

Answer: The difference is that the worlds of Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya are, as it were, under a curtain, under concealment. In these worlds, we can rise and fall, but at the same time, we do not feel anything divine, anything related to the upper, to the Creator.

In the world of Atzilut, however, the Creator is already manifesting. That is why this world is called Atzilut from the word “Etzlo” (at His, He).

Question: Do all corrections take place in the world of Atzilut?

Answer: Not exactly corrections but their result.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 11/7/23

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The Essence of Concealment

963.5Question: The word “world” (Olam) comes from “Haalamah” (concealment). What is concealed from us in the spiritual worlds?

Answer: Each subsequent world after the world of Infinity – Atzilut, Briya, Yetzira, Assiya – is more concealed, revealing less the essence of the divine that resides in the world of infinity.

Concealment was necessary to gradually create a system around us, which by mastering we would be able to ascend from our lowest world, where we completely do not feel the higher nature, higher and higher, up to the attainment of the Creator.

The essence of concealment is that we ourselves, by our freewill, reveal the essence of the divine and systematically ascend from our world to the world of Assiya, then Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut, and finally to the world of infinity (Ein Sof).
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 11/7/23

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A 6,000-Year-Long Road

548.03Question: In the article “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Baal HaSulam writes that spiritual correction lasts 6,000 years. What does it mean?

Answer: 6,000 years are 6,000 degrees that a person must go through in order to rise to the highest degree. Or rather, we are talking about desire, because the matter of a person is desire.

Therefore, everyone must go through all 6,000 degrees and through the worlds of Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, and Atzilut, reach the world of Adam Kadmon, and then the world of infinity.

Question: As far as I understand, does this article only talk about creating a system of correction from above downward, but not about the actual correction of a person who is trying to develop spiritually?

Answer: Anyone who wants to ascend the degrees of spiritual worlds must begin to systematically study Kabbalah. By studying this system, he will begin to feel its influence on him; he will feel that he is in this system and how and what is happening to him.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 11/7/23

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