Preparation for the Lesson 

Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” Article 12

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts “Sukkot” 

Sukkot 

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Workshop 

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts “Sukkot“

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace,” “Proof of His Work by Experience” 

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Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” Article 12

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, “The First Person” 

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace,” “Proof of His Work by Experience”

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Shamati #36 “What Are the Three Bodies in a Man”

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts “Yom HakiPurim”

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 43

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, “Table of the Answers for the Meaning of the Words,” Item 23

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace,” “Necessity to Practice Caution with the Laws of Nature”

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Shamati #68 “Man’s Connection to the Sefirot“

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts 

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace,” “Necessity to Practice Caution with the Laws of Nature”

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Workshop

Shamati #122 “Understanding What Is Written in the Shulchan Aruch“

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts “Introduction” “Two Points,” Item 122

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 43

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace,” “Proof of His Work by Experience”

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Workshop

Lesson on the Topic: “Preparation for the Convention”

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts “Introduction” “Two Points,” Item 121

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace,” “Necessity to Practice Caution with the Laws of Nature”

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Lesson on the Topic: “Preparation for the Convention”

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts “Introduction” “Two Points,” Item 120

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Item 43

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love for the Creator & Love for the Created Beings,”

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Question: What is the force of bestowal?

Answer: We do not know what it is in our world. My entire “I” is the ego or the force of reception. I do not know what it is to “bestow,” and I do not know what “neighbor” means. I can only feel my neighbor do good or bad things to me; I can express my solidarity with him, but I do not feel anything outside of me.

In other words, I represent a certain black box, and I only live through the things that go inside it and that make an impression on me.

I do not know what is happening around me. All I know is the impressions that the things around me make on me. This is why we say that we experience the entire perception of reality inside us.

I am not able to come out of myself and feel what is happening around me, as if my senses were a mile away from me. I think that I see something a mile away, but this is not true. My imagination paints everything for me.

The property that helps me feel the things outside of me (whether they exist or not) is called the property of bestowal. We do not have even the slightest degree of it.

However, when we begin to work on mutual bestowal in the group, according to the principle of “love thy neighbor as thyself,” we begin to acquire a certain need for obtaining the property of bestowal.

Only after this do I begin to read, let us say, The Book of Zohar together with the group. Through this, we evoke the influence of the force of bestowal over us.

So far, I do not know what bestowal is, but Kabbalists tell me that it is a wonderful force.

Since this book speaks of phenomena that happen outside of you, you need to read it together with the group, and, if you really want to attain the property of bestowal and you are connected with your friends above your ego, then the Light that Reforms, the force contained in the Torah, will come during the reading of The Zohar, and you will begin to acquire the property of bestowal against your ego.

As it is written, “I have created the evil inclination; I have created for it the Torah as a spice, for the Light in it reforms.”

Once you acquire the property of bestowal, you will begin to perceive things outside of you, that is, the upper world. The exit into the spiritual word has levels. You will be able to attain infinity to the extent of your entrance into the spiritual world.
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From the Lecture at the Study Center, Kabbalah for the Nation, “Perception of Reality” 11/23/10

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It says in The Book of Zohar that Moses asked the Creator for mercy after the death of Aaron’s sons: …if those living in this world will repent and return to You, who will bless them? The Creator answered him: “You are telling Me that? Tell that to your brother Aaron, since he has been trusted with the blessing Above and below, since he is the element of attaining mercy.”

The point is that the contact with the Creator occurs through the attribute called a priest (Aaron) in a person.

A blessing is the descent of the Upper Light in order to correct a person. The Light can only go through Aaron the priest, which means through this hierarchy. It cannot be any other way. It is impossible to come in contact with the Creator any other way.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/06/14

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