The Book of Zohar, Weekly Torah Portion, Selected Excerpts

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” “One Should Always Sell the Beams of His House“

The Book of Zohar – Introduction, “The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba, the Letter Chaf,” Item 31, Lesson 20

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love for the Creator and Love for the Created Beings,” Lesson 2

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The Book of Zohar – Introduction, “Mother Lends Her Clothes to Her Daughter.” The Mother is Bina or YESHSUT. Her daughter is Malchut. Malchut is the desire to enjoy, which does not exist in Bina. Malchut may be associated with Keter only if it receives from Bina the screen and the Reflected Light. This is called the “clothes,” the main garment, the dressing of Hassadim.

This is the fundamental, basic principle of the wisdom of Kabbalah: how to get all the abundance that the Creator wants so much to give us.

The entire spiritual world is the system of relations between the upper Partzufim, from Malchut to Arich Anpin. Malchut of the world of Atzilut is contact with this world. Arich Anpin is the final correction (Gmar Tikkun). Thus, we are moving all the time between these states.

Malchut, standing at the point of the Parsa, must change all its garments in which it is located below the Parsa, leaving only one point from itself, and instead of this receive all the garments above the Parsa. This is called that it advances by faith above reason, the loyalty of the soul, and no previous garments remain with her—no mind, no feeling, no proof, no approaches, nothing that belongs to it below the Parsa, nothing that is personally its. There is no “mine!” There is only a point that remains, colorless and shapeless. And everything that I receive, I receive from what is above the Parsa, and this becomes my “I,” my reality.

This is the transition into the spiritual world: to replace all existing under the Parsa with all existing above it. Nothing is left in a person from the past—no memories, no proof, no reason, no feelings.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/13, The Book of Zohar – Introduction

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” “What to Look for in the Assembly of Friends“

The Book of Zohar – Introduction, “The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba, the Letter Chaf,“ Item 31, Lesson 19

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love for the Creator and Love for the Created Beings,” Lesson 1

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Question: You have said that while reading The Book of Zohar, we have to let the book operate on us. How should we do that?

Answer: It is through simply reading and reading, hoping that it will influence me. It isn’t the book that I read, but a text that was written by Kabbalists who are beyond the Machsom (barrier) and not just beyond the Machsom, but in GAR (the three upper Sefirot) of the world of Atzilut.

I connect to them through these letters. My desire to receive, my mind and my heart somehow establish a connection with their heart and mind. Their heart and mind are already in adhesion with the Creator.

Thus, with the help of the book, I connect to the upper force. Now, everything depends on what I want from it. I may want to make money in the stock market thanks to its special quality, or to improve my health, or to get some other benefit so that I will feel good. If I want that “my actions be like the deeds of the forefathers,” this is actually the desirable intention.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/13, The Zohar

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Some of the friends in the group of ten are in a state of ascent and others are going through hard times and descents and have an additional Aviut (coarseness). We are not responsible for these states, and so whether I like it or not, I simply have to take advantage of every state in order to advance. All the states come from Above and we mustn’t criticize them, and no matter whether we feel them as good or bad, we have to use them all as a means to advance.

Every group of ten is one cell, since it can generate only one unit of bestowal. One person in a group of ten or two or three people don’t count. Only if all the group of ten is connected correctly does it become one unit of bestowal, and then it begins to reveal its first Light of Nefesh.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/13, The Zohar, Introduction

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” “What to Look for in the Assembly of Friends”

The Book of Zohar – Introduction, “The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba, the Letter Samech, Item 28, Lesson 18

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 3, Part 10, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Item 4, Lesson 48

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Mutual Guarantee,” Lesson 18

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 2“

The Book of Zohar – Introduction, “The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba, the Letter Kof, Reish, Item 25, Lesson 17

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 3, Part 10, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Item 2, Lesson 47

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Mutual Guarantee,” Lesson 17

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” “According to What Is Explained about Love Thy Friend as Thyself”

The Book of Zohar – Introduction, “The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba, the Letter Tav,” Item 23, Lesson 16

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 1, Part 1, Chapter 4, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Item 18, Lesson 13

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace”

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The Book of Zohar, Weekly Torah Portion, Selected Excerpts

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