Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson: Talk About the Seminar

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpts “Beresheet (Genesis),” “He Carved A Carving in the Upper Light,” Item 1

“Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson: Talk About Past Conventions 

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpts “Beresheet (Genesis),” “The Separating and Connecting Firmament,” Item 368, Lesson 99

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 7, Item 3, Lesson 4

“Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 138, Lesson 62

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

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

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson: Talk About Past Conventions 

The Book of Zohar –  Selected Excerpts, “Beresheet (Genesis),” “The Separating and Connecting Firmament,” Item 365

Preface to the Book of Zohar, Item 33, Lesson 19

“The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah“

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson: Talk  About Past Conventions 

The Book of Zohaar – Selected Excerpts, “Beresheet (Genesis),” “If My Convenant Is Not Day or Night,” Item 359

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 7, Item 2

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson: Talk About Past Conventions 

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, Beresheet (Genesis),” “The Hidden Light,” Item 354

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 7, “Seder Siba U-Mesuvav,” Item 1

“Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” (Starting with: “Of course, from that moment”)

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Igrot,” Letter 18

The Book of Zohar — Selected Chapters, “Beresheet (Genesis),” “Bet Resheet,” (Starting with: “‘To water,’ means”), Item 342

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 7

“Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 133, Lesson 59

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Question: What exactly is our work in unity?

Answer: I have to yearn for a connection with the text that we study, to want that everything it says to be fulfilled in my connection with the general vessel, with the whole desire. I want to discover all the phenomena The Zohar talks about in my connection with the group.

The Zohar talks about the still, vegetative, and animate levels of the desire, nothing more. So there, it speaks about the sages, land, trees, animals, and donkeys—everything applies to the four phases of desire. We shouldn’t be distracted from this internal meaning and imagine an external picture.

Even if it “diverts” us, we have to hold on to the internality as hard as we can, and we always keep this struggle inside us with mixed success. The main thing is to try, which means that you are performing corrections and raising the internality over the externality, raising it higher and higher.

These are the greatest corrections, which only we can perform as the lowest level of the system. Until now no one could do that, not even the great Kabbalists of the past. We, in our generation, perform this most important work by raising the internality over the externality at the base of the system.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/24/12, The Zohar

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When a person begins to stabilize himself with regard to the Creator, he sees that all the reality that he feels is inside him, including the group and all of humanity. All of creation, everything, takes place in his desire to receive. Except for this desire there is only the Creator.

While reading The Zohar, we discover different states that exist in our desire to receive that are more bestowal oriented and are aimed at the Creator.

First, our desires are totally separated and dispersed: all the inanimate, the vegetative, the animate and the human levels of nature. This is how a person perceives reality. But gradually we begin to see that the system is more organized, more integral, and closed. We even feel that it pressures us and that it is totally in mutual connections.

So there are two processes here, one approaching the other. A person discovers and realizes more as he develops. On the other hand, the system itself seems to be more stabilized externally, to be connected with all its parts, and to pressure us so that we will begins to perceive it as unified and closed. This means that at the same time there is both an “awakening from below” and an “awakening from Above.”

There are two ways we can develop, by the “way of the Torah” or “by suffering.” By the Torah, we advance as we hasten ourselves, trying to discover the system as more round and mutually connected, and by that we can understand the upper force, the Upper Providence.

But the system shows us that it is one organic and connected body that pressures us by these connections, making our life more difficult. We have to try to perceive reality only as one system, no matter what, through which the upper force wants to be revealed to us. The Creator is waiting to dress Himself in this system and to fill it according to the equivalence of form.

The Zohar describes very high and advanced states, but when we read about them, we lower them to our level, just like children with their naïve perception of the world. A smart grown-up understands the internal connection between things, what stems from what, and how everything is arranged, while a child looks at the same thing and sees the world differently, by perceiving only a narrow part of reality.

The Zohar too, reveals all of reality to us, but we perceive only a very small part of it. But each time when we try to stabilize our internal world according to what The Zohar tells us, by our efforts and our attempts to discern where all the attributes that are described by The Zohar (the “inanimate,” “vegetative,” “animate” and “speaking) are inside us, we advance.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/25/12, The Zohar

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Question: How can we picture to ourselves an ideal state: a general vessel (desire), connection?

Answer: We are all interconnected. When the very first connection is revealed between us, it means that all of us, no matter how many of us there are—billions or millions, reveal 10 Sefirot between ourselves. Such is the structure of the system.

And then, these 10 Sefirot begin to vibrate and generate sounds, as if strings of a guitar. They are in constant movement, in harmonious relationships with one another. Not a single sound is out of tune from the general harmony.

This entire system reveals to us more and more perfect 10 Sefirot. Besides, they become increasingly clearer to us in their various kinds. These various forms that become revealed to us appear because each individual Sefira consists of its own 10 Sefirot.

And when all these inner 10 Sefirot that comprise the 10 main Sefirot also start interacting between themselves, generating the upper harmonies of the main waves, as if in music or voice, they create the entire impression, transmitting inside all information about the vessels and the Light that fulfills them.

Different Lights are essentially impressions inside all these desires, experienced from the connection of singing strings, from the emerging chords. All this music is what revelation is.

Everything is inside the vessel. The sound is felt inside our desires, organs of perception, it doesn’t exist by itself in the air. The music of the Light is always revealed as the inner filling of the letters (the matrixes of desires), existing inside other letters. The Light manifests only inside the vessel, or desire, as a result of its changes.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/24/2012, The Zohar 

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