Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Igrot,” Letter 13

Zohar for All – Passover “Bo (Come Unto Pharaoh),” “And Pass Over the Lintel and the Two Mezuzahs (Doorposts),” Item 88

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 15, Item 43

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Why wasn’t it enough for us to receive one page of text from our teachers, from Kabbalists, from the great sages, who discovered the whole upper system and the upper force that will connect us to them? Instead they wrote many articles about different states, about holidays, and about all the levels of attaining the Creator. After all, there is nothing but the attainment of the upper force by studying the changes that occur in the upper system.

Kabbalists described all these states because we have to draw the Reforming Light, in every possible way, in every direction, in all the levels, although we are not there yet.

Today we are reading about these states at the time that matches their corporeal branches, the special time that is connected to Passover: We read about the exodus from the exile in Egypt and about the Passover sacrifice, which means how to come closer (the same Hebrew root korban and karov), and transcend the Machsom (barrier). Besides, we are doing it together in the group, and this symbolizes the whole essence of the exodus from Egypt, of the transition from separation to connection.

We feel the separation as being enslaved to our desire to receive, as separation and shattering. Connection seems like freedom, redemption, the desired miracle! If we read the articles with this intention and want to draw the Reforming Light, it will come.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabblah Lesson 4/22/12, Zohar for All

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The Book of Zohar, “Bo (Come unto Pharaoh),” The Passover Sacrifice, Item 189: When the Creator came to Egypt, He saw the Passover blood written on the door, and the covenant blood—how they were standing at the door.

Question: How can I keep the right intention while reading The Book of Zohar?

Answer: There is no doubt that I can’t keep the right intention, but I need to imagine the state I want to be in now.

First I need to totally detach myself from the voice of the announcer, as if I don’t hear anything. I know that I am connected to a pipe through which the Light flows unto me and it can either help me or harm me: it can become the “elixir of life” or the “potion of death.” It all depends on how I hear!

It is as if I put on earphones, but I turn the volume down and don’t want to hear. First I want to know what energy, what force, reaches me through these channels, how the Reforming Light should influence me. Do I receive it like a bat and sink even more deeply into the darkness, or like a rooster that expects the dawn? It all depends on my intention and so I have to clarify this first.

So first I block my ears in order not to hear anything. What should I do now so that the Light that reaches me will heal me? I don’t want the snake that is the symbol of medicine, to turn into a real snake and poison me with its lethal venom. The same poison can be used as a medicine even though it comes from the same source, from the same snake. In order to do that I have to prepare myself, to be in a group together with the friends, to want to connect with them in my heart and soul to become one man in one heart, to attain such a love into which we can all dissolve and feel ourselves as one whole.

To the extent that we can reach that by the Light that Reforms us into one body, we will feel the force that unites us, the Creator, internally. We will feel the source of the Surrounding Light. The Light determines the connection among us. The source of the Light is the Creator who is revealed in the vessel that is arranged correctly.

First I have to imagine this whole state accurately. When I see it before me by imagining it emotionally and even visually, I gradually begin to unclog my ears. Then I turn on the volume in order to hear the announcer’s voice, as long as I can keep the image I have created in my mind. But if what is going on disturbs me from keeping that image, I turn the volume down again. If it doesn’t disturb me, I follow that voice.

I try to hear the announcer and no matter what is being said: whether it is about Passover, the blood of the circumcision on the door, the details about the exodus from Egypt, I try to find all these discernments in that image in which we are all connected.

I don’t depict the image according to the corporeal meaning of the words which the “language of the branches” uses, but rather translate them into the “language of the spiritual roots”: Sefirot, Partzufim, reception and bestowal, the connection between us and the Creator, and the unity of the concepts “Israel, the Torah and the Creator.” I immediately get rid of the actual words, as from an unwanted shell. It is as if I clean the shell off the nuts before I begin to eat them, and thus I get rid of corporeal concepts and immediately move on from the branches to the roots.

I try to imagine what it looks like in the spiritual roots: what is the meaning of “lintel,” “Mezuzah,” or “blood.” Even if I don’t understand, it makes no difference. The main thing is my efforts, wanting to know what is being studied, to connect to what is being studied. The Reforming Light influences me according to my efforts.

We must constantly repeat these exercises over and over again, in every book that we study: the articles of Rabash and Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, The Zohar, the Mishnah, Shulchan Aruch, all the books are about how to connect the broken vessel.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabblah Lesson 4/22/12, The Zohar 

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Zeir Anpin is an upper mechanism. Whereas Malchut is my system that I can build together with the friends, that is, with the desires of the Creator that He arranges for me so that I can connect with them.

There are types of desires that do not belong to me; they are foreign desires, but they are also aimed at the Creator like me. I don’t look at their faces but only at the desires, or sparks.

Then I perform different external actions in order to unite us. I want to collect all these desires, all these small vectors into one bundle so that they will become powerful. When they are together, it’s impossible to break them as it is when they are separate.

We connect when each one annuls himself in order to attain the greatness of the Creator, the greatness of the attribute of mutual bestowal. We create it among us in order to show ourselves and the Creator that we are ready for bestowal and want it. Although it isn’t in our power to attain it and we can’t really bestow upon each other by annulling our ego, we still show the most we can reach in our group.

If we make such efforts, the Light that Reforms appears and fulfills the connection among us. Then from this connection (Malchut), we feel the attribute of bestowal that connects us with Zeir Anpin. Thus we discover the Creator: Yesod of Zeir Anpin connects to Malchut and Malchut begins to attain Him.

Malchut doesn’t connect to Zeir Anpin only by a point any more. It begins to open the attributes of bestowal inside it, which befit Zeir Anpin and at the same time are opposite from it because they cooperate with each other. Zeir Anpin and Malchut connect so that the upper Light is revealed between them: the Light of Hochma and Bina, the Light of AB-SAG, and thus we come to consciousness.

Everything depends on how we prepared Malchut. Accordingly, as much as a desire suitable for Zeir Anpin appears in it, it begins to grow together with Malchut. It absorbs its desire and thus grows.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/18/2012, The Zohar  

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “What Is the Hard Work and Restlessness in the Work”

Zohar for All – Passover “Bo (Come Unto Pharaoh),” “And Pass Over the Lintel and the Two Mezuzahs (Doorposts),” Item 75

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 15, Item 42

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “A True Prayer Is Over a True Deficiency”

Zohar for All – Passover, “Shemot (Exodus),” “He Neither Ate Bread nor Drank Water,” Item 251

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 15, Item 42

Writings of Rabash “Dargot HaSulam,” “A Matter of Exodus of Egypt”

Writings of Rabash “Pri Chaham,” “Davar Emet (Words of Truth)”

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “What Are the Two Discernments Before Lishma”

Zohar for All – Passover “Shemot (Exodus),” “Why Exile and Why Egypt,” Item 246

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 15, Item 41

Writings of Rabash “Dargot HaSulam,” “Go to Pharaoh”

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “What Is the Blessing that He Made a Miracle for Me in this Place in the Work”

Zohar for All – Passover “Bo (Come Unto Pharaoh),” “The Passover Sacrifice,” Item 186

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 15, Item 37

Writings of Rabash “Dargot HaSulam.” Talk About the Preparations for the Conventions and About the Dissemination

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “The Need for Love of Friends,” 

The Book of Zohar — Selected Chapter, “Beresheet (Genesis),” “Opposite the Frame,” Item 337, Lesson 93

Preface to the Book of Zohar, Item 32, Lesson 18

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“Zohar For All – Passover,” “Bo (Come unto Pharaoh),” Item 174: … It is written, “A land where you shall eat bread without scarceness.” “Scarceness” is bread of affliction. It is called, “bread of affliction” because the moon, Malchut, has been waned and is not blessed by the sun, ZA, and does not shine from the sun, as it is written, “For all that is in the heaven and in the earth.” This means that, “All,” which is Yesod ZA, clings to the heaven, ZA, and to the earth, Malchut, receiving from the heaven and giving to the earth.

The main thing is the relationship between Zeir Anpin and Malchut, because Bina, by formatting Zeir Anpin its bestowal upon Malchut, actually shows that if Malchut doesn’t adapt itself to Zeir Anpin, it is in smallness and it doesn’t even have the head of the Partzuf. Therefore, it is called Zeir Anpin, “a small face,” and Malchut has nothing, which is the point of darkness.

It says that there is no Creator without a created being, since Zeir Anpin is artificial. It is a tool that was created by Bina, which is empty and which becomes full, whole, and big according to how much Malchut can reach an equivalence of form with it.

It turns out that Malchut determines the size of Zeir Anpin since it has nothing of its own except what it needs to take, the attributes from Bina, and to arrange them, and thus bring Malchut to the level of Bina and then to the level of Keter.

The Creator is called Kadosh Baruch Hu (The Holy One, Blessed), because this Partzuf is holy for us—by holy we mean the one who bestows. He sets an example for us as to what we should be, He corrects us and we reach an adhesion with Him, but actually there is no Creator without the created being. It is because He has no form if we don’t stabilize a certain deficiency or a desire below. By that deficiency we reveal Him to the Light of Bina, which then fills Him.

This is a very special mechanism. Zeir Anpin always, wherever we study about it, in the four phases of the direct Light, or in other places, is a “small face,” we go over it quickly and there is nothing we can say about it. We must understand that Zeir Anpin is the adaptor between Hochma and Bina, (father and mother) and Malchut. On the side of Bina it has the attributes of Hassadim and doesn’t need anything. If it has a deficiency on the side of Malchut, then accordingly the Lights of Hassadim will be revealed in it and it will be filled with the Light of Hochma, but only if Malchut will want to adhere to it.

Zeir Anpin is VAK, (six Sefirot), and Malchut is a point. VAK symbolizes that it is empty and is ready to develop according to the point of Malchut if it wants to become more than a point.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/18/12, The Zohar

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