Question: What can I do if not only don’t I have the desire to ask for the connection with the friends, but the opposite is true?

Answer: It is a sign that you haven’t prepared yourself. First, you must lower your pride, to subdue yourself to the environment, and to begin feeling that the friends are great people moving forward. While you are somewhere far behind, all alone, like a sleeping baby who was forgotten in his carriage.

Everyone has already moved forward a long way, and you, because of your pride, think that you are so special that you advanced forward by yourself. However, it isn’t so. It is they who moved forward, and you were left behind. First, you must acknowledge this. The detachment from the connection with the environment is the first reason for all the failures.

The problem is that you don’t have a deficiency, that there is no pressure. It is because you are not clarifying what is important. You constantly must make such efforts. If I constantly think about something, it becomes the most important thing for me and I don’t forget it during the study.

Besides, all the groups should work on this in order to awaken in everyone the importance of the spiritual goal. This is called the “mutual guarantee“—when we inspire one another to feel that there is nothing more important than bestowal. However, if everyone is under a kind of general anesthesia, a person cannot go against the power of the whole group, so he, too, falls asleep.

The problem is that you are used to advancing on someone else’s fuel, instead of each spurring others and then receiving from them much more that you have invested. The group should work as an amplifier of the individual passion of every individual desire.

However, I see that everyone is waiting for me to obligate this boat to move by my shouts and pressure. Without it, it is rocking on the waves, waiting to be pushed forward. The moment I stop pressuring, everyone immediately looks at me to see why I left. It is impossible to advance this way.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/12, The Zohar

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Igrot,” Letter 11

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt “VaYikahel (And Moses Assembled),” (Starting with: “Afterwards, through Man), Item 131, Lesson 4

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Volume 3, Part 8, Item 4, Lesson 2

Topic of Lesson: Customs of Rosh Hashanah 

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Igrot,” Letter 34 

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt “VaYikahel (And Moses Assembled),” Item 130, Lesson 3

“Preface to The Book of Zohar,” Item 36, Lesson 26

Topic of Lesson: Customs of Rosh HaShanah

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All the troubles and the hardships that we come across, about which The Book of Zohar tells us, are interruptions on the way to adhesion. After all, if we were in adhesion, we wouldn’t need to explain anything or write about it. The only thing we lack is to reach adhesion—this is the correct request.

If my request is correct each time, I will constantly be in adhesion according to my request. I only need to ask, but the request has to be for the right and clarified absolute desire—relatively to the state I am in.

If I could request correctly now, I would reach adhesion, on my relative level, of course. Thus the desires, the conditions, the inner attributes and the external ones would change in me each time, and if I asked correctly I would advance straight from the bottom up through these points—from one point of adhesion to another.

So all our work is to ask correctly, when we clarify our request more and more accurately. There are many conditions for the preparation for this work: This whole world, the friends, the study, etc. all this is in order to clarify our request.

This world and the friends are the components of my desire that I need to clarify. The only thing demanded from me is a prayer—MAN. Therefore, it says that every correction is performed by a prayer and good deeds by which we clarify our desire.

The book tells us about the desires we have to ask for in our prayers. Kabbalists don’t write about anything else but that, since you will discover everything else by yourself.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/12, The Book of Zohar

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Preparation to the Lesson

Kabbalah for the Student “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar,” (Starting with: “But what are the virtues”), Lesson 2

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt “VaYikahel (And Moses Assembled),” Item 118, Lesson 2

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Volume 1, Part 3, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Chapter 14, Item 2, Lesson 40

Kabbalah for the Student, “Peace in the World,” “The Condition of Life in the Last Generation,” Lesson 3 

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Preparation to the Lesson

Kabbalah for the Student “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar,” (Starting with: “How one can achieve”)

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt “VaYikahel (And Moses Assembled),” Item 107-157

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Volume 1, Part 3, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Chapter 13, Item 1, Lesson 39

Kabbalah for the Student, “Peace in the World,” “Using the Nature of Singularity as a Subject of Evolution in the Collective and in the Individual”

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Preparation to the Lesson

Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot, UMasbirot, Item 10

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt “Aharei-Mot,” Lesson 8

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Volume 1, Part 3, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Chapter 12, Item 4

Kabbalah for the Student, “Peace in the World,” “The Well-Being of a Certain Collective and the Well-Being of the Whole World”

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Baal HaSulam, “Messiah’s Shofar”: And because of that, Rashbi permitted himself and disclosed the wisdom of the hidden in his books, The Zohar and the Tikkunim. However, it was with great care, since he only permitted Rabbi Abba, who could disclose with intimation, so only the sages of the children of Israel would understand, and the sages of the nations would not understand.

A Kabbalist who attains the spiritual world is like a scientist who discovers something great. If you ask him to explain his discovery, he’ll not find the words for it and not be able to find a clear coherent definition. In order to do that, we need methodologists who pave the way for people to the summit of knowledge.

So if we are talking about the first convergence, Rabbi Abba could rewrite the words of Rabbi Shimon so that they illuminate even for beginners, for those who are at the foot of the wisdom of Kabbalah, and help those who advance in the spiritual levels to ascend. He arranged the material in such a coherent way so that there can be a smooth transition from “grade to grade,” from one level to another. Even if an ordinary person wants something, like a baby who opens his mouth instinctively, that’s enough. After all, he already has a digestive system, which means that the food he receives from the great ones will help him grow.

This is what Rabbi Abba knew how to do: to disclose with intimation, thus allowing even a beginner to approach the secrets. Rabbi Shimon attained the whole world, and Rabbi Abba knew how to bring his words down and to arrange them for our ascent. This is why The Book of Zohar is like a spiritual ladder for us.

Baal HaSulam adapted The Book of Zohar even more for modern times through his Commentary on The Book of Zohar. We think that he added Kabbalistic terms, but it isn’t so, it’s something else. The additional explanations do not add anything by themselves. On the contrary, they can distance a person who wants to learn this book from the inner essence. This is because then a person simply fills himself with knowledge.

No, Baal HaSulam eased our way even more so that we will hold on to it and advance by both the mind and our emotions. Kabbalists were worried and made sure to pave this path, the ladder, and to provide us access to it.

Question: We too would like to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah in a clear envelop and at the same time with a “filling” that will advance people. How do we do that?

Answer: It’s imprinted in us on the instinctive level because we study by the method Kabbalists passed on to us. A person who studies here and is dedicated to the path has it, thanks to the connection between Rabbi Shimon and Rabbi Abba.

After all, everything stems from The Book of Zohar and only that spiritual root operated for all the generations: the upper attainment (Rabbi Shimon) and the path, the access to it (Rabbi Abba). All the other friends from Rabbi Shimon’s group, including his son Rabbi Elazar who speak about the end of correction, are incorporated in this system.

So this is the meaning of “disclosing with intimation”: Even during the concealment, everything that a person needs is revealed on the way.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/12, “Messiah’s Shofar”

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Dargot HaSulam,” Letter 218

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt “Aharei-Mot,” Lesson 7

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Volume 1, Part 3, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Chapter 11, Item 1, Lesson 37

Kabbalah for the Student, “Peace in the World,” “Good and Bad Are Evaluated by the Actions of the Individual Toward Society” 

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Preparation to the Lesson

Shamati #46 “The Domination of Israel Over the Klipot”

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt “Aharei-Mot,” Lesson 6

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Volume 1, Part 3, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Chapter 10, Item 1, Lesson 36

Kabbalah for the Student, “Messiah’s Shofar,” (Starting with: “Dissemination of the Wisdom of Kabbalah the World Over,”) Lesson 3

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