We incorrectly imagine infinity as some kind of infinite space. But infinity in the spiritual world means unlimited fulfillment. This is a state when all our desires, which are limited in themselves, are corrected for bestowal.

Ten Sefirot are infinity; 125 spiritual degrees are infinity. In the spiritual world everything is infinite. This is just for us so we can establish our attitude that the spiritual is divided into ten Sefirot, 125 degrees in each world, etc.

All this division exists only relative to us, but in fact, every spiritual quality is infinite. No matter what quality I touch, infinity is revealed behind it.

In essence, the entire creation is HaVaYaH, five phases. But when this HaVaYaH wants to become like the Creator, it begins to divide again, and again, and again… And therefore, it becomes infinite.

If Malchut of the world of infinity had accepted the light in the form in which it was created, it would have been simply HaVaYaH. But since it cannot accept the light in one go and must work in a manner opposite to its initial nature, all of creation is divided infinitely.

Infinity is not a numerical measure, but a qualitative one. In our world, the concept of infinity does not exist, which is why we cannot truly understand it. It is something we can only “come and see.” Even within our world, if we try to delve deeper into a particular idea or explore something, an infinite number of layers and flavors begin to reveal themselves.

Creation is entirely unrestricted by the boundaries of this world, which we impose through our sensory organs. We perceive everything through our will to receive, which projects an imagined, finite reality, a deliberately simplified framework that allows us to exist with our primitive, egoistic understanding.

But when we break through this shell, we begin to understand what infinity is. Infinity reveals itself in our perception, and we ourselves become infinite. It becomes clear to us that everything is infinite because we are infinite, and our perception becomes infinite, and there is nothing complex about it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/27/18, Writings of Baal Sulam “The Study of the Ten Sefirot” (TES)

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Accordingly, we should ask, “Why did He create the worlds, restriction after restriction down to this murky world, and clothed the souls in the murky bodies of this world? (Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah“)

Question: Was our reality, with our murky bodies, part of the initial plan of the Creator?

Answer: When creating our reality, the Creator envisioned our corrected state, not the form in which we initially exist.

Therefore we must understand the work before us, what we need to do, and what we must achieve.

Question: How is the quality of Adam manifested, which the whole ten should strive to hold onto?

Answer: That quality is only revealed in the world of Atzilut.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/4/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Question: If a person includes everything within himself, then who gives him the name “man”? From what point does that come? Where is this observer?

Answer: A man includes within himself all of the created beings. And the Creator is above him, He gives man all kinds of problems in life so that he can solve them and develop.

Question: Who gives the name to the creation, which is between a person and the Creator?

Answer: It is said in the Torah that a man gives a name to all created beings.

Probably there is an understanding within him of how to call himself and those similar to him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/4/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Question: Can we say Zeir Anpin is like a Rosh (head) in relation to Aba ve Ima?

Answer: No. Zeir Anpin (ZA) defines Aba ve Ima‘s actions by raising MAN to it, but ZA is not a Rosh.
It starts the action like a small child screaming and asking, which affects the adults who care about him and give him what he needs.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Sulam Commentary, Item 50″

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The thing is that we have to know that all of the souls extend from the soul of Adam HaRishon, for after he sinned in the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, his soul divided into 600,000 souls. This means that the one light that Adam HaRishon had, which The Zohar called Zihara Ila’a [upper brightness], which he had in the Garden of Eden at once, spreads into numerous pieces (Rabash, Article 10, “What is the Degree One should Achieve In Order not to Have to Reincarnate”).

Thus, we now have discrete states, separated and distanced from each other, even in some aspects opposite to one another. Any state different from another is in some way its opposite. These uncombined, elementary, fundamental states do not resemble each other in any way although they are all fragments of one single desire—Zeir Anpin on the level of Keter of the world of Atzilut. This state is divided into 600,000 parts.

The shattering occurs on a spiritual level even before we begin talking about our existence and sensations.

Following this, the descent of the shattered particles into our world happened, which means a gradual spiritual coarsening and distancing from the quality of bestowal and the quality of connection between them. Naturally, the light within each particle diminishes more and more, and each particle seemingly falls lower and lower in its state until it reaches the lowest state—a coarsening of desire to the point of becoming egoistic, manifesting increasingly in the desire of Adam.

His inner part, his inner nature, which initially does not reveal itself, seems to shed its outer shells that came from the Creator, and his own structure, his own desire, his own nature—the desire to receive only for oneself that is, an absolutely egoistic desire enclosed within itself—becomes more and more apparent. This desire is the human being in our world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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All the worlds, upper and lower and everything within them, were created only for man. … In the beginning, they were restricted and hung down degree by degree and world after world, down to our material world (Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 9).

Our world is at the very end of the spiritual degrees. All this is built in order to enable souls to ascend these degrees from the bottom up. Only then will people be able to give everything and receive nothing; that is, they will be in the opposite state compared to today.

In the meantime, a person, being completely receiving, i.e. being in the most remote state from the Creator, becomes the opposite of the Creator.

Later, thanks to the soul clothed in him, he constantly engages in the Torah and the commandments. Then one begins to attain higher degrees from the bottom up and thus climb the spiritual ladder.

This is how a person changes his or her qualities until one attains the qualities of bestowal and is liberated from the desire to receive. And then one completes one’s perfection in true adhesion with the Creator, for this is the only reason a person was created.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/19/20, “Connecting into One Soul”

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Adhering to the Creator is a task that must be achieved by each of us in this world. That is why we are gathering together. After all, if we existed as one person, like as our prototype Adam, we would not be able to achieve anything.

The fact is, our feelings come from egoistic qualities. But if we are in a state where we feel something outside of ourselves, then we can begin to work on ourselves.

Therefore, one person is not enough in the world, but several people are needed, at least ten. If we mean that we must attain complete union with the Creator, then it is possible only through ten stages, as we study from the four stages of direct light.

In other words, the originally created egoistic desire had to be divided into many parts. Depending on how much this desire develops and becomes more and more opposite to the Creator, we are divided into more and more particles, that is, people, each of whom carries an egoistic element that can be corrected.

If only a few people were not separated by egoism, this collective object would not be able to correct itself. Therefore, we are divided into structures such as individual atoms so that any combinations can be created from them.

That is similar to various chemical elements of which there are not so many, only slightly more than a hundred, and the multitude of compounds they create between them. The result is life in its endless, eternal, perfect movement.

The molecules of inanimate elements are connections of atoms. When molecules combine, they can produce something, generate something from themselves, and make their own copies.

From what the Creator created, we see that everything must break apart and fall to the lowest level and then assemble into atoms, atoms into molecules, then more complex structures in which life, reproduction, division, and so on appear.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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The Creator is everywhere. This is the common, united, single, constantly operating force of the entire universe. Everything that exists besides Him is called a creation, specially created by Him and existing in Him.

We are inside the Creator—inside this common light. Our task is to reveal Him, to unite with Him, to achieve absolutely complete dissolution, unification, similarity, and adhesion with Him.

This is the meaning or reason for creating created beings that are opposite to the Creator. Our work, our goal is to understand what the qualities of the Creator are and how we can change ourselves to come closer to Him.

This is the essence of human existence in our world in the state in which we find ourselves—in a state that is created by the upper light, working on our egoistic desire to receive, enjoy, maintain ourselves at every moment of life only for ourselves.

This desire automatically works in us, and we must realize it and understand it—whether we agree with it or not—and then rise above it in order to achieve coupling, connection, and agreement with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: Is light something necessary for our correction or something we earn and become worthy of receiving?

Answer: Initially, only one quality exists: the quality of bestowal. It creates the opposite quality of reception. The quality of bestowal is called light, altruism; the quality of reception is called darkness, egoism. Both qualities coexist; the quality of bestowal is primary and the quality of reception is secondary.

The task of the Creator (the property of bestowal) is to bring the property of reception to similarity with Him so that it is on the same degree as the Creator. In this way, the Creator reveals His greatness, how He can create something opposite, yet equal to Himself.

This is the principle of the origin of creation, and we must reach this state. Since we were created from the quality of reception, we must create an intention on this property to use receiving for the sake of giving because receiving is our nature and it does not change.

And then the greater the egoism I work with in my property of receiving, with zero, first, second, third, fourth, the more I ascend. That is how it works.

So the quality of reception is not harmful; it is nature. Nature can be neither bad nor good. The only thing we need is to work with the quality of reception revealed in us with the intention to bestow.

If I receive for the sake of bestowal, then everything is fine; by this I bestow, although in principle my action is an action of reception. Only the intention changes. Thus, everything is determined by intention and not by mechanical action.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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The science of Kabbalah itself is very simple. It is difficult to implement it, but its idea is quite simple.

The Creator created one single desire that He broke into billions of parts. These parts, which are separated by egoism, must be reunited into the same system in spite of the ego.

At the same time, egoism should not interfere with them. On the contrary, it helps them connect. Then their connection, compared to the past, will be 620 times stronger, and these desires will not feel the state they were in initially before the shattering when they felt only themselves, but they will begin to feel themselves at the level of the Creator.

This is the movement of the shattering and its subsequent correction. Everything happens only according to the method of drawing closer and the connection of the broken parts, that is, between us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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