Writings of Rabash “What Is the Oil Is Called Good Deeds in the Work”
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Chapter “Pekudei (Accounts),” “The Place of Noga, Netzah,” Item 537, Lesson 22
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Part 8, “The Eser Sefirot of Olam ha Atzilut,” Item 19, Lesson 8
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love for the Creator and Love for the Created Beings,” “Why Was the Torah Not Given to the Patriarchs?,” Lesson 6
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There are different parts in The Book of Zohar, and we do not know which ones are more effective, and which ones are less. But it is not for us to judge and understand it; this will be revealed only later. That is why The Book of Zohar was not written in one sentence, which could be repeated all the time like some mantra. On the contrary, the Book describes the whole relationship that exists between us from this world and to the world of Infinity, in various forms and manifestations for every soul.

This is called the “Torah” (from the word “Oraa” or “instruction”) because it reveals before us the entire network of connection between all the souls in its corrected form. It describes the desire (vessel) in which the Light is revealed. By revealing the Light, the vessel becomes similar to it in its properties, and that is why it is called the “Torah.” Therefore, when you evoke its actions through this vessel, you receive the Light that Reforms.

All that is written in all the “holy” books (“holy” means “the one who bestows”) is the forms of connection between us, which Kabbalists attained. But what they did not attain was not written, and we will discover this together. They attained this in their personal final correction.

Therefore, everyone updates and writes the Torah himself. And the Torah of one person is not like the Torah of the other because everyone’s desire (vessel) is different, and thus he reveals the form of connection from his angle, from his spiritual spark, the point in the heart, relative to the entire vessel of the collective soul. That is why everyone writes a new Torah for himself and does not reveal the same.

Moses described the general system. But when a person reaches this general system, the general network of connection, and activates it by his desire, his personal involvement, he sees that it sparkles and works the way he sees and reveals it. He does not reveal what happens the way that King Solomon, King David, Rabbi Shimon, Rabbi Akiva, Baal HaSulam, the Ari, and so on did it. He discloses it from his desire (vessel), and he does not have the possibility to dress in somebody else’s vessel. No one can do this.

And what we attain later, we attain due to the unity between us. No one penetrates the spiritual spark of the other. But in unity, all our sparks are so connected that they all seem to reside in one spark.

This does not mean that someone is closer to me, and someone is further like in the field of network. On the contrary, we are so united with each other that this network loses its multidimensional form, and we become one point. If you are connected to everyone via the shortest path, directly, everything turns into one point, one drop. Let us hope that we will achieve such unity.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/2011, The Zohar

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Writings of Rabash “What Does It Mean that the Land Gave No Fruit Before Man Was Created at Work”
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Chapter “Pekudei (Accounts),” “The Palace of the Sky Itself, Hod,” Item 511, Lesson 21
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Part 8, “The Eser Sefirot of Olam ha Atzilut,” Item 18, Lesson 7
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love for the Creator and Love for the Created Beings,” “And to Cleave Onto Him,” (start with: “However we must still understand,” Lesson 5
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In order to spur us towards more advanced states, these advanced states glow in the distance for us. Something good is glowing for us in the distance. It’s like when you show a child some ice cream from a distance. It makes him feel bad rather than good because we tease him with the ice cream he doesn’t yet have.

It’s the same with us. And hence we begin to strive forward. It seems that our present state is bad, and as we aspire for a better state, we advance.

Each time a higher and more advanced spiritual level is revealed, and we have problems with it. While a child understands that he will feel good if he eats the ice cream, we are not so sure about it because our state is opposite to the spiritual advancement. This is why we experience unpleasant states, a descent. This is why we need additional means of support: the group and the study, to convince ourselves that a better future glows for us in the distance.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/26/2011, The Zohar

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During the reading of The Zohar, we need to begin to feel the kinds of connections and relationships between us that it talks about. Let’s assume that there exists some kind of hidden form of connection between us, unknown and secretive, but there is no doubt that this connection exists. We want to discover it: Who is connected to who, in what way, in what manner, to what dependency, and how can they influence each other?

The Zohar describes all of these forms of connection, and not only ours, but of the entire world. Now, the world is in a state of confusion, and we don’t know how to find the correct connection between us all or how to behave in the correct way in relation to others. The Zohar describes all that. If we knew and understood the entire system, we could easily organize everything that exists in the world.

Thus, on one hand, The Zohar is being revealed, and on the other, problems appear in the world, which we cannot manage. Problems arise in different forms, different areas of human activities in this world. We need to find the connection between them, to understand exactly what The Zohar is speaking about. Then, according to what is revealed to us from The Zohar, we need to build a corresponding reality in this world. This is called to discover the spiritual world between us.

Let’s suppose that the corrupted and shattered state in which we exist is revealed to us today. The Zohar talks about the corrected states, the very advanced ones that are a few degrees ahead of us. However, in any case, if we want to advance to these states, to correct our present situation even a bit, then that is already a prayer.

We want the same relationships that are described in The Zohar to be revealed to us in place of the broken connection that is being discovered now. This is so because that which was broken was the connection between the parts of the collective soul. This is why we want to correct it.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/26/2011, The Zohar

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Writings of Rabash “Letter 38”
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Chapter “Pekudei (Accounts),” “The Palace of the Sapphire Pavement, Yesod,” Item 481, Lesson 20
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Part 8, “The Eser Sefirot of Olam ha Atzilut,” Item 14, Lesson 6
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love for the Creator and Love for the Created Beings,” “One Mitzvah (Commandment),” Lesson 4
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Writings of Rabash “Purpose of Society”
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Chapter “Pekudei (Accounts),” “Six Degrees of the Sitra Achra,” Item 452, Lesson 19
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Part 8,  “The Eser Sefirot of Olam ha Atzilut,” Item 8, Lesson 5
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love for the Creator and Love for the Created Beings,” “Love Thy Friend as Thyself,” Lesson 3
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Question: While we read The Zohar, should we think about uniting with the 99% of humanity or only with those who have a point in the heart?

Answer: We should think about the whole chain: “Israel (the one who aspires to the Creator), the Torah (the Light that Reforms), and the Creator are one.” What’s the purpose of the Torah, the Light that Reforms? The purpose is for the 99% to be corrected. Israel is in the middle in order to organize this Light, bring it to the vessels (desires), and create a connection between their desires and the desires of the nations of the world so that the Light will pass through this adapter or transition and correct the nations of the world. In essence, the nations of the world are the object of influence; namely they need to be corrected.

Israel went through the breaking, passed the whole necessary preparation, and now also exists in the worst possible, broken state after intermixing with and becoming included in all the nations of the world. In addition, we still don’t know what happened to the ten lost tribes of Israel. All of this was necessary in order to bring the source of the upper Light in accordance with the nations of the world.

There should be an adapter in the middle, like Bina between Malchut and Hochma with Keter. Keter is the Thought of Creation; Hochma is the Light given to the creatures by the Thought of Creation; and Bina understands, receives, feels, and adapts the execution of this plan for the creatures with the help of its upper and lower Sefirot (GAR de Bina and ZAT de Bina).

Therefore, Israel as a whole is called “Bina.” On one hand, they should make themselves similar to the Creator since they were prepared for this by the “merits of the patriarchs.” On the other, after their breaking, the destruction of the two Temples in spirituality, and their intermixing with the nations of the world in exile, they have the readiness to also be included in the latter. Thus they can be in GAR de Bina, which is us in the process of our studies while in connection between us and the Creator, as well as in ZAT de Bina, which is us interacting with the nations of the world, their education, the dissemination of the science of Kabbalah to them, and so on.

However, on their own the nations of the world are ZON, which require correction. These ZON that require correction also have our part, Zeir Anpin within them, and a part of Malchut, which is only them. Therefore, they also have already been included in Bina.

Thus, when we study, work, and realize any actions, we should also take into account the whole system. The end of an action is in its initial thought, and we need to see this whole creation, understand how we fit into it, and realize the Creator’s order—our mission.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/24/2011, The Zohar

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Writings of Rabash “Concerning Love of Friends”
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Chapter “Pekudei (Accounts),” “Six Degrees of the Sitra Achra,” Item 429, Lesson 18
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Part 8, “The Eser Sefirot of Olam ha Atzilut,” Item 6, Lesson 4
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love for the Creator and Love for the Created Beings,” “That Which You Hate, Do Not Do to Your Friend,” Lesson 2
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Writings of Rabash “You Stand Today, All of You”
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Chapter “Pekudei (Accounts),” “When They Went, They Went,” Start with:  “Below the pillars and the bases,” Item 407, Lesson 17
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Part 8, (Start with: “This matter began in the first ascent,”) Item 5, Lesson 3
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love for the Creator and Love for the Created Beings”
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