Question: 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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Question: The souls that form the general system of Adam HaRishon are in the three worlds of BYA—Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. What does it mean?

Answer: Souls that are still disconnected from spirituality, from the divine, are in the worlds of BYA in all sorts of states of ascents and descents, and are studying the results of their actions. They undergo preliminary corrections there.

We are talking about people who leave our world and begin to attain spirituality gradually.

Question: What is the connection between the system of Adam HaRishon where the rudiments of all people’s souls, all our desires and thoughts are, and the world of Atzilut, the world of correction?

Answer: The world of Atzilut is above the worlds of Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. There is a border between it and the worlds of BYA called Parsa. It is necessary to cross it in order to ascend to the world of Atzilut.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 11/7/23

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Question: The Torah describes the sin of Adam. We have all read those stories that, in fact, are telling about the shattering of the vessels. Why is it described in narrative form?

Answer: The Torah is written in an allegorical form because Kabbalists had to somehow describe the process of shattering close to human understanding.

That is, people in those days, 3,000 years ago, just like today, could perceive this information only through an allegorical narrative.

Question: Now we are studying the “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”, written by Baal HaSulam in Kabbalistic language. Did they not know this language before?

Answer: They knew, of course, but they did not use it often. After all, people were closer to the description in the type of language as in The Book of Zohar.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 10/10/23

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Question: In “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Baal HaSulam writes that after the shattering of the general system, impure worlds were formed. What is this about? What does “impure worlds” mean?

Answer: Impure worlds are egoistic forces that unite after the shattering in order to be able to snatch small sparks of light that could give them the opportunity to exist.

Question: Speaking more practically regarding our existence, the world is a concealment. What is concealed from us? Is it the fact that we bestow to each other and can receive pleasure?

Answer: Absolutely everything is concealed from us. The only thing we can do is recognize that the world in which we exist is evil. There is only one way out of this evil; it is with the help of each other to raise our prayer to the Creator so that He corrects us.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 10/10/23

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Question: When did the shattering of the general system happen, and what is the meaning of this phenomenon?

Answer: The shattering of the Kelim (Vessels) occurred at the very beginning of the creation of reality. After all, in order to create it, we needed such desires that would be opposed to the single force of nature—the Creator.

The Creator is the desire to bestow, fulfill, love, and unite. In order for the opposite desire to appear, which would be in some way different from the Creator and could be called creation, the desire to give was shattered into many small egoistic desires.

Every desire thinks only about how to fulfill itself. This is how our nature appeared from which we then evolved. The formation of egoistic desires is the process of shattering.

These desires have become the foundation of our world: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 10/10/23

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In the “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” it is said that the shattering is the process where light (pleasure) enters an unprepared desire.

This happens when a person wants to receive something for his own sake. But while he makes these attempts, he sees that he is not succeeding because the entire inner nature of our world exists based on the property of bestowal and love, on the property of the Creator, and we want to use the property of reception and acquisition. Therefore, a mismatch occurs between us and the Creator.

Question: According to the law of the first restriction, light cannot enter an unprepared desire. How did it happen that the light still entered it, and therefore, the shattering occurred?

Answer: Initially, there was no such prohibition; it was never manifested anywhere. Therefore, when the light entered the desire to receive, then, due to their opposition, the light was shattered into tiny sparks, and the desire was shattered into tiny particles.

This happened only once in nature and cannot happen again. Therefore, today our task is to assemble all the shattered desires and fill them with those sparks of light that scattered from the explosion.

Question: Is this a deliberate process?

Answer: Of course, there is nothing accidental; everything follows a common law.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 10/10/23

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Question: Did the process of the breakage of the general system happen gradually or instantly?

Answer: The process of the breakage took place instantly, but in stages. That is, only one action of the breakage occurred, but it descended in stages. Starting from the largest stage, the common vessel was gradually breaking and crushed into smaller parts until the smallest stage.

Question: Does the breakage mean that the upper light ceased to control our desire and, as it were, gave us freedom?

Answer: No, it did not cease to control our desire. While being in this broken desire, we are disconnected from the upper light, and therefore, do not feel its impact.

Question: Do I understand correctly that the breakage was necessary to mix the altruistic desires of the Creator and the egoistic desires of the creation, which allows the manifestation of life in our world? After all, life is a constant bestowal and reception.

Answer: Yes. Therefore, all our work in the corporeal world is to realize that reception is against the upper law of nature, against the Creator and bestowal, mutual unification is for Him, for His sake.

In principle, in every creation and, naturally, in every person there is a spark of inclination toward bestowal. Otherwise, we could not exist.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 10/10/23

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Question: When we look at the nature of our world, we see that there is still harmony at the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels. Is the manifestation of egoism observed mainly at the level of human nature, at the level of society?

Answer: No, egoism affects all the lower degrees too. Are animals not egoistic? Are plants not egoistic? They have an egoistic intention to act only for their own benefit; it is just that it is not as complex as ours.

Question: So there is no harmony at all in our earthly nature, at all degrees?

Answer: No. In nothing.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 10/10/23

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“The four phases in the desire are the four letters HaVaYaH, which are KHB TM (Keter, Hochma, Bina, Tifferet, Malchut)” (Baal HaSulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES). Vol. 1. Part 1. “Inner Observation”).

Question: How do Kabbalists attain HaVaYaH? Do they attain it as something whole, including all the elements, or in parts?

Answer: HaVaYaH is a system that starts from the Creator and ends in the depths of creation. Kabbalists attain it as something complete.

We study the desire that changes under the influence of the Creator. In other words, we learn how the Creator influences the desire until He brings it to the best state.

Attainment of HaVaYaH begins with the Kabbalist dissolving into it, if I may say. He understands that everything in him is created by the Creator or received from the Creator, and there is nothing from himself.

Question: If so, how does he reveal the entire structure of the development of the desire, from the Creator to the creation?

Answer: The Creator shows him how opposite to the upper light he was created, and in these two opposites, he attains the entire creation. The Creator does not need darkness and light, but man needs them to pass through all the intermediate phases between him and the Creator. That is how his spiritual development occurs.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/11/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)”

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Before the shattering, one system of Adam HaRishon existed in the universe.

This organism was in complete harmony with the Creator with a positive desire to bestow, to nourish, to love.

However, in order to create something opposite and create our world out of opposites, the system underwent a shattering, which is called the sin of Adam.

More precisely, it was not the desires themselves that were shattered, but specifically the connections, that is, intentions. Thus, the entire nature turned out to be completely broken into the smallest parts, which then began to reassemble but no longer according to the law of mutual bestowal, attraction, and love, but on the contrary, on mutually beneficial terms. This is how the egoistic nature of our world was created.

In other words, the breaking of altruistic connections between all forces caused the emergence of egoistic connections. All of this, as Kabbalah describes, happened before the Big Bang in the world of forces. And then, through the gradual coarsening of these forces, our earthly nature and we emerged.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 10/10/23

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