Preparation to the Lesson

Rabash – The Social Writings “Sometimes Spirituality Is Called a ‘Soul‘”

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt, Parashat “Naso,” Item 311, Lesson 13

Rav Yehuda Ashlag “The Peace“

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The Book of Zohar, “Naso,” Item 172: “The image of man,” like a man who includes all forms, the three faces, lion, ox, and eagle that are included in mans’ face, on the side of Malchut in him. Since a man includes Zeir Anpin and Malchut.

The form of a man is what we establish in the connection between us, until we have the form of the first man. Everyone’s exertion in the connection forms this new image called Adam HaRishon, “the first man.”

First man was created from above during the descent of the worlds, and was like a prototype, an angel, because it was created without our exertion. Together with our exertion, it turns from an animal into a man.

We see the same thing in the process of evolution: We have reached the full end of the animal development, and now we need to rise to the next level called the “Human Being.” So the wisdom of Kabbalah is being revealed, and there is a crisis in every aspect of our lives, and there are the right conditions to build the form called the human being by our exertion. It is because it is built only by the connection between everyone with the help of the integral education.

Before there was no such thing; Adam HaRishon was only a first example, like the levels of still, vegetative, and animate nature during the descent from above and the shattering. We have fully developed on the levels of still nature, the vegetative, and the animate. It was the right development in the light form of egoism. Now we need to start to put together the image of man, both inside us and throughout the world.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/24/12, The Zohar

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Preparation to the Lesson

“Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 111, Lesson 29

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt, Parashat “Naso,” Item 304, Lesson 12

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 3, Part 9, Item 8, Lesson 7

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Philosophy“

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The Book of Zohar, Weekly Torah Portion, “HaShavuah” Selected Excerpts

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Preparation to the Lesson

“Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 109, Lesson 28

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt, Parashat “Naso,” Item 298, Lesson 11

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 3, Part 9, Item 8, Lesson 6

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Philosophy“

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Preparation to the Lesson

“Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 104, Lesson 27

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt, Parashat “Naso,” Item 171, Lesson 10

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 3, Part 9, Item 6, Lesson 5

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Philosophy“

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The Book of Zohar, “Neso,” Item 99: “…and they shall stand at the foot of the mountain.” This is how they will be in the last redemption, under the sages of the Torah, as a slave who walks by the feet of his master’s horse.

Question: How can we bring the slave to walk by the feet of his master’s horse and not the other way around?

Answer: It is up to us. Baal HaSulam talks about it at the end of the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar“,saying that if we divide our internality and externality correctly in the work, then accordingly things will be divided in our world. If, on the other hand, we don’t divide things correctly internally, then the world will not be divided correctly.

So all the attacks on the world indicate that you are not divided correctly internally; your inner spiritual concepts such as bestowal, love, Creator, group, are not above the corporeal ones. As a result, you turn the world “on its head” by lowering the internality and raising the externality as something that is important.

If you divide everything inside you correctly, no one in the world will be able to resist it. So let’s raise spirituality in our eyes, let’s raise it above us. Bestowal, love of others, connection—should all be placed above everything, and then there will be no resistance on the outside, since you are aiming according to the upper force.

Today you are denounced and rejected from every direction, only in order to evoke you to do this work so that you will raise the internality above the externality.

Question: How can I let “Israel” rule inside me?

Answer: It means placing bestowal above receiving, “faith above reason,” the group above myself. In fact it is actually the group above me, but in constant thought, in the daily care. The main struggle is here inside, in order to constantly raise bestowal above receiving, the Creator’s greatness above the created being’s greatness, the greatness of the group over my own greatness.

Question: How can we fight this war together?

Answer: By mutual help. This is all our work.

Yesterday, for example, you didn’t manage to hold on to an intention, and today? Are you holding on to one intention throughout the day? Are you filled with the Creator’s greatness, so that by the evening it will be your only concern? Does everyone worry about others, about the fact that you should all think about the same thing? The Creator’s greatness is the deepest, innermost point of our connection. It is there in that point that we meet Him.

In one word, if you don’t advance, you will not hear anything new…
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/12, The Zohar

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Preparation to the Lesson

“Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 102, Lesson 26

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt, Parashat “Naso,” Item 5, Lesson 9

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 3, Part 9, Item 6, Lesson 4

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Philosophy“

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Kabbalists talk quite a lot about the “horde,” about the mixed forces that left Egypt together with Israel. This is actually the great problem that is standing in our way: the use of the Torah and the wisdom of Kabbalah not for the purpose of correction. Horde also refers to “those who fear God and worship Pharaoh.” On the one hand, they fear the Creator, but on the other hand, they wish to fill their egoistic vessels of receiving.

Question: What is the “horde” in my feelings, inside me?

Answer: They are revealed when you use what you acquire while you study the wisdom of Kabbalah for your own good and not for the Creator. Here you can say: “But in such a case all I am is the horde, I am all the evil inclination.” So what can I do if it’s still not a clarified state?

Actually it is about high levels. When the Light reveals my desires, I discover these parts in me. A man is a small world, so all the parts exist in each of us. Our work is to sort them out, to define them and to allocate a place for them, to cover them by the Masach (screen) and to know how to use them correctly. Just like a baby who learns to control his body, so do we have to control our desires: to cover some of them, to reveal others, and what’s more, to do it in the right time. A person behaves differently in different places and in different situations. It’s the same in spirituality.

But the moment I activate myself, I learn about the upper desire and about my desire; I learn to use different means correctly in order to resemble the Creator; I understand which “organs” I should activate in me and which not, in order to be called “human,” Adam (one who resembles the Creator), under different conditions, at different angles, and in every situation. I operate my “puppet” in order to resemble Him, and then internally I actually become Him. The “puppet” remains a puppet, and later when I acquire all His thought, there will be no need for it anymore.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/12, The Zohar

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Preparation to the Lesson

“Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 99, Lesson 25

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt, Parashat “Naso,” Item 118, Lesson 8

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 3, Part 9, Item 4, Lesson 3

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Philosophy“

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