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See a World Full of Prosperity

715Question: Why is it possible to come to absolute love and bestowal only after the shattering?

Answer: We would otherwise not feel how truly egoistic and broken the state we are in is. It is from our distancing from each other that we begin to realize how much we need to be connected.

This is all necessary for a conscious process, for freedom of choice. If we existed only in the light itself, we simply would not feel that light.

Question: How long should this take? Does nature have a deadline?

Answer: Nature has no time and no deadlines. But in principle, we are already quite close to realization.

As our great teacher Baal HaSulam writes, we are in a process called “the last generation.” It is quite possible that we will yet see the world shifting from receiving to giving, from hatred to love.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 10/10/23

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Based On the Plan of Creation

226Question: Is the plan of creation some kind of goal toward which the entire creation is moving, or is it a thought that is in every part of creation at every moment of time?

Answer: Both. The purpose of creation is the creation of creatures in order to ultimately delight them, fill them with the highest light, and help them reach the level of the Creator. In this way their perfection is achieved.

Question: In every state of creation is there a piece of the plan of creation? For example, in every human thought, in every human desire?

Answer: Yes, in everything. Because all this comes from the Creator’s decision to create a single creature.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/5/23, Writings of Baal HaSulamThe Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)

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Under Complete Restriction

232.05Question: Where in our world can we see the manifestation of the first and second restrictions? These are, as if, two basic laws that Kabbalists revealed in the spiritual world. So, should there be some consequence in our world?

Answer: The fact is that our world is under complete restriction. We can bestow to each other or receive from each other, but these are not the same bestowal and reception that we talk about in Kabbalah.

These are exchanges of a completely different type. If I give something to someone, then I automatically calculate the benefit for myself. Therefore, even though I give, I feel that I receive.

That is, in our world these two laws do not operate explicitly. We are below them. It turns out that we act instinctively, like animals.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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Memories of Pleasures

282.01Comment: TANTA is a process when pleasures enter desires; when they exit it, they leave Reshimot, that is, memories of these pleasures.

My Response: The interaction of creation with the Creator is the interaction of the desire to receive with the upper light.

The light is inherently bestowing and desire is receiving. If the creation can make a restriction on its desire to receive and work in the same way as the light, with the desire to bestow (which means that it will still receive, but already for the sake of the Creator, with a different intention than initially), then it turns out that the Creator gives pleasure to creation in the form of the light, and creation, by receiving it, gives pleasure to the Creator.

Comment: In principle, Kabbalah explains the most natural processes that occur even in our body, in our world. How to receive pleasure, what memories remain from past pleasures and future pleasures, Kabbalah studies and describes all this.

My Response: The only problem is that we cannot reproduce them in ourselves quickly, as if by a textbook. We must work at this for a long time in order to begin to receive the force that would raise us above egoism, and we would be able to receive and bestow according to our own decisions.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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Parsa—The Border between Worlds and Desires

631.1Question: Between the world of Assiya and the worlds of BYA there is some kind of limiting line called Parsa. Is that where the second restriction took place?

Answer: Yes, the Parsa is a certain border below which the upper light cannot descend. Therefore we can divide all worlds, all spiritual space, from the world of infinity to Parsa and from Parsa down to the basis.

Our work is to raise our broken, egoistic desires, from below upward, and there, above the Parsa, connect them and fill them with the upper light, the presence of the Creator. All the egoistic desires that we cannot yet raise remain empty and dark below the Parsa.

In other words, there are a great number of desires. Before the Parsa, these desires are lighter and only the first restriction applies to them (the prohibition of receiving for one’s own sake). But if not for one’s own sake, then you can use them.

The Parsa is the border beyond which our dark desires exist, and we cannot use them even for the sake of the Creator because there cannot be such intentions there.

Thus, the entire path of correction that Kabbalah talks about is the correction of egoistic desires, both light and coarse. The coarse ones are corrected by rising above Parsa. And all these desires are only in relation to the Creator. How can we use the connection with the Creator?—For the Creator’s sake or for your own sake. For one’s own sake is below the Parsa, and for the Creator’s sake is above the Parsa.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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Spiritual Laws and Our World

234Question: Does every spiritual law have an effect in our world?

Answer: No, not everyone. In our world the spiritual laws do not manifest at all with the exception of the most primitive ones—“give and take.”

Nevertheless, there is a tendency to unite in the world. For example, molecules unite into more complex substances and so forth. We see that this force exists. Gradually our world is moving toward unity in any case.

Question: If the spiritual laws do not manifest in our world, does it mean that the first and the second laws of restriction do not exist at the inanimate, vegetative, and animal level? Are they only at the human level?

Answer: Practically yes. The first law is a ban to receive for the sake of oneself. We cannot cancel or change it. It does not exist in our world. We do not see its application.

Whereas the second restriction, i.e., the second law, speaks that at some stage Kabbalists reveal the presence of egoistic desires that for now we cannot use even for the sake of the Creator since we do not have the screen. However, when we correct them, we will be able to receive into them.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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First And Second Restriction

548.01This is the meaning of our sages’ words (Beresheet Rabbah, end of Portion 12): “In the beginning, He contemplated creating the world with the quality of judgment [Din]. He saw that the world could not exist and brought forward the quality of mercy [Rachamim] and associated it with the quality of judgment” (Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” Item 58).

We want to receive pleasure; it is our nature. The first restriction says that it is forbidden to receive from the Creator for our own sake; we will not receive anything and will remain in the emptiness.

The Creator, as if, raised the quality of Malchut into Binah, meaning mixed the quality of judgment with the quality of mercy. After all, the world cannot exist, but only by restrictions. Therefore, even in our world, we can not only receive, but also give something, albeit purely egoistically.

The second restriction is the prohibition of using egoistic Kelim even for the sake of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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Revealing and Receiving Abundance that Descends from Above

548.01The bottom Hey in HaVaYaH is Malchut, meaning phase four, the complete manifestation of the act in the vessel of reception that has intensified to extend more abundance than its measure of expansion from Bina. (Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES). Vol. 1. Part 1. Inner Observation)

Question: What is the meaning of the fact that Malchut has intensified to extend more abundance and a greater measure of its expansion from Bina?

Answer: Malchut is a greater desire than Bina, as it is written, “the cow wants to nurse more than the calf wants to suckle.” This happens when the desire of the upper one to bestow is revealed more than the lower one wants to receive, and from this Malchut grows in its desire to receive in order to stay in contact with Keter.

Comment: But they are completely different.

My Response: It does not matter. One bestows and the other receives, but one serves the other. If Malchut has no desire to receive, who will receive from Keter? If there is no desire to bestow in Keter, then where will Malchut receive from? It does not matter that they are opposites. Opposites just complement each other.

Question: It is still unclear why Malchut and Bina are designated by the same letter.

Answer: The first Hey is Bina, and the lower Hey is Malchut. The desire to receive, in fact, operates in both, but in a different style. In Bina, it receives to reveal all the abundance from above, and in Malchut, in order to receive all this abundance.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/14/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Light as a Source of Reward

591The whole of reality was emanated and created with a single thought. It is the operator; it is the very operation; it is the sought-after reward,, and it is the essence of the labor (Baal HaSulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot, Vol. 1, Part 1, Inner Observation)

This thought of creation contains everything from the beginning to the end, in all forms.

Question: Do my efforts and my reward also belong to this thought?

Answer: No, we are not talking about us, but about the Creator, about the light that comes from the Creator and builds the entire creation.

The reward is inside this light. The Creator causes certain actions in the creation, and He also fills the created beings with light.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/23Writings of Baal HaSulamThe Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)”

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Partzuf—A Spiritual Object

232.04Question: What is a Partzuf?

Answer: A Partzuf is a spiritual object that receives light for the sake of giving to the Creator and consists of three parts: Rosh, Toch, and Sof (head, trunk, and legs).

The head (Rosh) performs the function of receiving the upper light, feeling it, and figuring out how to work with it in order to receive it for the sake of bestowal, in the likeness of light. After that, the enjoyment of light passes from the head into the body (Toch) of the Partzuf and is felt there.

What the Partzuf cannot accept into the body is blocked by it for receiving, and empty desires remain from the waist and below (Sof), which cannot be filled for the sake of the Creator’s pleasure.

Question: In principle, we are talking about desires. Is the Partzuf a desire that is in every person, or is it a common desire of all mankind?

Answer: Both this and that. In general, we all represent the whole of humanity as one Partzuf. On the other hand, each of us and each part of us is also divided into Partzufim.

Just like in our world, if I see some type of pleasure, I automatically scroll through options in my head on how to optimally enjoy it. As I accept it, I feel this pleasure in myself. And there is still some part that I cannot accept for some reason. It is only in the spiritual that all pleasures are determined in relation to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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