Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder,” “Come Unto Pharaoh-2”

Writings of Rabash, Letter 22

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, “Excerpt Items for Passover,” “The Exodus from Egypt,” Item 1

Torah, “Shmot,” Verse 6, Item 2

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Freedom” 

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Preparation for the Lesson

Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder,” “Come Unto Pharaoh-2”

Writings of Rabash, Letter 66

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, “Excerpt Items for Passover,” “The Exodus from Egypt,” Item 153

Torah, “Shmot,” Verse 2, Item 23

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Question: Why is it customary to have a meal on Pesach evening when the entire family sits around the table?

Answer: Pesach is a special holiday because it symbolizes the birth of the Israeli nation. It says that it is only after the exodus from Egypt that they become a nation, and that we cannot be called a nation as long as we are separated and divided, and the egoistic force tears us to pieces. It is only when we resist these foreign forces and try to connect that we discover the force of unity that ties us and that we become a nation. Therefore the Israeli nation today is not called a nation according to the true Kabbalistic definition.

Comment: This state of division was very strongly revealed during the elections in Israel that ended not too long ago and divided the nation into many parties and movements. The internal division is increasingly growing and deepening.

Answer: These elections were very harmful to the nation since we celebrate the fact that we have conflicts and that we hate one another. During the election’s propaganda, we emphasized these differences and everyone tried to harm the other as much as he could. This is terribly harmful to our nation, although it is called democracy. After all, the entire basis of the Israeli nation is unity above all the obstacles and the differences.

Question: But, what should we do if our opinions differ?

Answer: This is a very good thing! It is actually the connection between plus and minus that generates energy. It is good that we don’t share the same opinions. We only must learn how to connect above all the differences. Therefore, the connection to which the wisdom of Kabbalah brings us is far from being a simple idea. We must find the special force in nature that will help us unite despite our differences and oppositeness. The opposite opinions remain, but we know how to make peace between us above them so that love will cover all the sins. This is a very profound principle. We are both sinners, you and I, but we build a bridge above the hate we feel towards one another.

The Book of Zohar tells us that Rabbi Shimon’s ten students who sat in a cave and wrote this book hated each other so much when they began to study at midnight they wanted to burn one another. But, to the extent that they studied together and made efforts in order to gradually build the bridge above their burning hatred, they reached spiritual revelations about which they tell us later in The Book of Zohar. Such a bridge can be built only above opposite opinions.

Question: Does that mean that whenever we have disputes, we always can build a bridge above them?

Answer: We can always build a bridge above our disputes, and moreover, it is forbidden to pressure a person to force him to concede and change his opinion. The more different his opinion is from the others, the better it is.

Question: So, what will build the bridge between us?

Answer: For example, we can take an electric or electronic system that actually works thanks to the fact that it burns energy as a result of the potential gap between two electric wires that reach it. When we are in a conflict and opposite one another because of our egoistic nature, and, at the same time, connect above it, these two levels create spiritual attainment within us. We attain the spiritual world in the potential gap when we discover and get to know not only our current corporeal world, but also the upper world. The attainment of the spiritual world is called a soul.
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From Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 3/15/15

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Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder,” “Come Unto Pharaoh-2”

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpts, “Your Right Hand, O Lord, Majestic in Power,” Item 295 

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Exile and Redemption”

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Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder,” Article 16

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, “Excerpt Items for Passover,” “Your Right Hand, O Lord, Majestic in Power,” Item 287

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “This Is for Judah” 

Writings of ARI, “Shaar HaKavanot,” Pesach 

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Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder,” “But the More They Afflicted Them”

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, “Excerpt Items for Passover,” Item 274 

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 15 “Histaklut Pnimit,” Item 55

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “This Is for Judah” 

Writings of ARI, “Shaar HaKavanot,“ Pesach

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Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder”

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, “Excerpt Items for Passover,” Item 251 

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 15 “Histaklut Pnimit,” Item 44

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “This Is for Judah” 

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Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder”

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, “Excerpt Items for Passover,” Item 117 

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 15 “Histaklut Pnimit,” Item 24

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Inheritance of the Land” 

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The Book of Zohar, “Night of the Bride”: All the days of exile are called night, for this is when the Creator’s face is concealed from Israel, as the impure forces rule and separate His loyal servants from Him. Yet, this is the time when the bride unites with her husband…

The union between the bride and her husband (The Zohar uses the word “husband” instead of “bridegroom”) occurs thanks to the Torah and Mitzvot (Commandments) of the righteous, referred to as “those who keep the Torah…”

The point in the heart, the spiritual awakening during the long exile—which means in the duration of six thousand years—grows only by darkness, by the feeling of exile. We must turn this darkness into Light each time until, after the six days of action, we reach the seventh day of the seventh millennium, a state of total Light.

Therefore, all of our work is to accept the state as darkness, as night, and turn it into day. We determine that the state, the feeling we have received, is day and not night.

It seems as darkness with regard to our ego, with regard to the desire to enjoy, and with regard to our desire to bestow it seems as an opportunity and as Light.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/21/14, The Zohar

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Writings of Rabash, “Dargot HaSulam,” Article 936

Writings of Rabash, “Dargot HaSulam,” Article 930 

Writings of Rabash, “Dargot HaSulam,” Article 932 

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” Item 20

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