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The Secrets Of The Book Of Torah

Dr. Michael LaitmanThe Zohar, Chapter “VaYakhel (And Moses Assembled),” Item 217: The meaning of the book of Torah on this day. It is written, “And they read in the book, the Law [Heb: Torah] of God, distinctly, and they sensed and understood the reading.”

The secret of the book of Torah becomes revealed only between us. If we manage to create a space between us, which on one hand will be determined by the level of hate between us, separating us from each other, and on the other hand above the hatred, will create a connection between us, the hatred will give us the power of resistance, “a resistor,” while the connection between us will provide us with the current to operate this resistor.

Then, the work becomes revealed based on the current running through the resistor: We can operate an engine, heat or cool it down—anything can be done. These two opposite forces can benefit us when each one acts against the other.

Everything depends on the type of resistance that becomes revealed. The ego is constantly exploding, showing many opposite forms, detachment, hate, and the rejection between us. We want to remain in the same connection and love, but since our ego is constantly changing, our relationships also experience transformations.

The Light is at absolute rest, but our desire to receive pleasure is constantly changing, manifesting itself in various forms without any break. Therefore, we are constantly revealing new states called Partzufim. Thus, if we want to reveal the secrets of The Book of Zohar or the book of the Torah, they are only revealed in the connection between us.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/31/2011, The Zohar

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Revealing The Shechina Between Us

Dr. Michael LaitmanThe Zohar reveals to us the Shechina (the connection between us) by describing different situations while using all possible forms, images and different language.

If we wish to connect to what we’re reading, even without understanding what we are reading about, it means that we want to come to know the learned material. We wish to be in this net that connects all souls, which The Zohar reveals. We wish to be among the souls that aspire toward the Creator in the holy Shechina. “Holy” means that this net acts in mutual bestowal, in mutual guarantee.

When reading The Zohar and wishing to reveal the Shechina between us, we attract the Light from the states, which are concealed from us behind the words of The Zohar that returns us to our source—the Creator.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/30/11, The Zohar

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Pushing Through The Skies

Dr. Michael LaitmanThe Book of Zohar, Chapter “VaYakhel [And Moses Assembled]” Item 132: “To the south, Hesed, there is an appointee, Psagniah, who governs the Avir on that side, and several other appointees and ministers are there with him. The keys of the Avir on that side were given to him, and all who are in trouble pray a prayer to their master out of their plight, out of the shattering of the heart. If the utterance is as it should be, it rises to the Avir on that side and that appointee accepts it and kisses it. When he kisses it, he starts and says, ‘The Creator will have mercy on you and will be filled with mercy for you.'”

Of course, we do not understand what is written here. We do not even need to delve into these mysterious images. We only need to know one thing, what is being talked about here are the states, which a person goes through while raising his prayer. This is how he feels when it ascends onto higher and higher levels, pushing through the skies.
“Pushing through the skies” means that with the help from the above, when the Light exerts influence on him, the person sees how his intention is being perfected more and more. And so it continues until his prayer ascends to the levels of the great mercy and the person receives the answer to his plea. That is why we have to try to simply flow along with the text, desiring for this to happen to us.

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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/25/11, The Book of Zohar

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