Question: While reading The Zohar, should we try to search for the connection between us in the mind or in the sensations?

Answer: We should search for it in our sensations. If we’re unable to find it, the mind should assist us. However, first and foremost we should try to find an emotional connection.

The Zohar describes the already existing connection between us. This connection will reveal itself as Malchut of the world of Infinity, full of the Light of Infinity, the presence and the revelation of the Creator. This is what we must aspire towards.

Hence, when reading The Zohar, we try to imagine the correct connection between us. Today the necessity for this type of connection between all of humanity is becoming apparent. This is why the wisdom of Kabbalah is being revealed to everyone. It demands from those of us who have received an awakening and have begun to study a bit before the rest to disseminate it in the entire world so that everyone could realize that we are in a crisis, that our current connection no longer works, and we must reveal a new connection between us.

This new connection cannot be discerned in the natural, egoistic way, as it was done before because this connection already exists in the global, integral system permeated by mutual guarantee, the system that is somewhat becoming revealed in the world. Therefore, a problem arises: A better type of connection manifests to us, but we still relate to it egoistically. The crisis is the gap between the desired state that is becoming revealed in the world and the actual state we are in. This is a crisis.

The reading of The Book of Zohar, the study of Kabbalah in its entirety, and all our efforts should lead us to a state where we become similar to the connection network that is being revealed between us. After all, it’s being revealed as far more corrected than we are in our broken state. When we analyze the situation, we ourselves say that the world has become interconnected, while we have not.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/2011, The Zohar

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The Book of Zohar, Weekly Torah Portion “Ki Tavo,” Selected Excerpts
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Shamati #127 “The Difference Between Kernel, Essence, and Added Abundance”
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Chapter “VaYakhel (And Moses Assembled)” “The Firmaments Over the Garden of Eden,” Item 321, Lesson 18
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Part 2, Chapter 2, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Chapter 8, Item 86a, Lesson 27
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Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, Item 120, Lesson 52
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Nation,” (Start with: “Humanity is headed slowly and gradually upward…’”), Lesson 15
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Shamati #109 “Two Kinds of Meat”
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Chapter “VaYakhel (And Moses Assembled)” “The Firmaments Over the Garden of Eden,” (Start with: “Once, the river that comes out of Eden…”), Item 310, Lesson 17
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Part 2, Chapter 2, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Chapter 7, Item 80, Lesson 26
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Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, Item 117, Lesson 51
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Nation,” (Start with: “While it is still possible to sit idly…’”), Lesson 14
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Shamati #111 “Breath, Sound, and Speech”
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Chapter “VaYakhel (And Moses Assembled)” “The Firmaments of Assiya,” (Start with: “Four lights open in those four openings out of these fire and water…”), Item 299, Lesson 16
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Part 2, Chapter 2, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Chapter 7, Item 73, Lesson 25
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Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, Item 114, Lesson 50
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Nation,” (Start with: “He explains: ‘In a time of ruin…’”), Lesson 13
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Question: If the Creator is my inner property, then who do I raise my prayer to?

Answer: You are raising it to that perfect property which you need to reach. To pray means to desire to obtain some connection with something you want to become closer to. A prayer is a desire, a need for connection, as it is said: “I desire!”

The connection can be external, meaning from a distance, or it can be close and more internal to the extent that there is no difference between us. In either case this is connection. There is nothing else in our reality besides being further or closer to something. I want to distance myself from something bad and be closer to something good to the extent that I become included in him or he becomes included in me.

The way that we feel our connection depends upon the spiritual degrees where we exist. If we sense the upper degree, then it is a more inner connection, where the AHP of the upper one exists in the GE of the lower one. If we sense the lower degree, we enter its inner part and act there.

However, there is nothing other than drawing further away or closer. My entire prayer and all desires are about this: to either become closer to something or distance myself from it.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/1/2011, The Zohar

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The Zohar, Chapter “VaYakhel (And Moses Assembled),” Item 226: It is forbidden to read in the book of Torah, but only one alone, and everyone listens and keeps silent so that they hear his words as though they had just received it from Mount Sinai. And above the one who is reading the Torah there should be one standing above him, ascending to the Torah, and keeping silent so that only one speaking will be heard and not two.

One should not forget that we are talking about one person. The one who reads the Torah and the one who listens to it, the nation, the Creator and the creature, the mountain and the pillar by which people are praying, all these properties exist in one person. All of them are his inner states. We have to recognize them within ourselves and find out what exactly every word or property relates to.

We are dealing with the revelation of the upper nature to the creature according to the similarity of properties in the degree of the corrections it undergoes. Reading means revelation.

If a person is unable to imagine the true state, it is better to not imagine anything. Otherwise he will begin to imagine a corporeal picture: How they take the book of Torah from a cabinet, bring it to the raised platform from where the Torah is read, and start reading it. That’s all. However, this is not what The Zohar is talking about.

True, these are all symbols reflected in corporeality. However, from them a person has to rise to the original form. Instead of the imaginary world that is being revealed to us now, he needs to reveal the true world: the desire to receive pleasure corrected in all of its parts that manifest in some form, as well as the book of Torah, the revelation of the Light within the desire.

Our desire is constantly changing. It is similar to the letters constantly flying out and becoming revealed, while the vowel marks (Taamim, Nekudot, and Tagin) fill the letters. This way a person reveals the Light within the vessel or desire. This is called the reading the book of Torah, about which it is said that a person has to write the book of Torah on his heart. The heart is all his desires.

Then all my desires, all my properties, and everything existing within me will turn into the letters of Torah. When I want to organize them correctly, I fill these letters with “tastes (Taamim),” “dots (Nekudot),” and “crowns (Tagin).” Then I have the text of the book of the Torah, which I live and sense on myself. This is my spiritual life. The person himself becomes the flow of the text of the Torah. No person is separate from the Torah or separate from the letters of the Torah. All of it is the person himself.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/31/2011, The Zohar

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Question: In the post “It Takes Preparation To Tune Into The Book Of Zohar” you wrote that “The Zohar is not revealed unless studied in a group. It’s impossible to study The Zohar alone because The Zohar was written by a group of Kabbalists who formed a complete Kli. All of the ten authors of The Zohar formed a complete Kli, the ten fundamental Sefirot. Each one of them represents a specific Sefira, a unique force that the Creator created as a complete Kli.”

Does listening to and reading The Zohar alone also attract the Surrounding Light?

Answer: Any contact with the text, even if you simply read it not knowing how to attract upon yourself its influence (see “Introduction to TES,” Item 154), nevertheless works on you but to a lesser extent. We always strive for the maximum effect of correction, and this is achieved either virtually or in a physical group.

Question: I live in the desert of California. There are no Kabbalah groups to study with out here. I do not want to give up the study of Kabbalah. It found me when I was empty and deeply yearning for answers and God. So much has been given so far, but what am I to do? It is said I must study with a group. I only have my books, the web, and this bothersome yearning inside. What can I do? To stop my study is as to say to a thirsty man, you have had a cup of water, now forget drinking here; go back into the desert and die. Please help.

Answer: I assure you that a virtual connection with us during the lessons and a physical presence at the conventions in the U.S. will suffice for your spiritual progress!
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Shamati #118 “To Understand the Matter of the Knees Which Have Bowed Unto Baal”
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Chapter “VaYakhel (And Moses Assembled)” “The Firmaments of Assiya,” Item 289, Lesson 15
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Part 2, Chapter 2, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Chapter 5, Item 64, Lesson 24
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Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, Item 112, Lesson 49
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Nation,” (Start with: “This is like the sin of Adam HaRishon…”), Lesson 12
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Shamati #17 “What Does It Mean that the Sitra Achra Is Called ‘Malchut Without A Crown’”
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The Book of Zohar – Selected Chapter “VaYakhel (And Moses Assembled)” “Illuminations of the Fire,” Item 264, Lesson 14
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Part 2, Chapter 2, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Chapter 5, Item 54, Lesson 23
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Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, Item 109, Lesson 48
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Nation,” (Start with: “This is like the sin of Adam HaRishon”), Lesson 11
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