Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah (Giving of the Torah),” Item 7-8 (12.7-8.2003)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 21, “When One Feels Oneself in a State of Ascent”

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Question: The people of Israel were afraid to leap into the Red Sea (Yam Suf – Final Sea) until Nachshon decided to do this. It seems that it was not easy to do.

Answer: Indeed it is not easy. We see that difficulties arose in all stages of the spiritual process. There are always those who were ready to turn back. Our ego is so multi-layered that it does not immediately give us the opportunity to escape from it or at least to define it as bad.

It is difficult for a person to nullify himself before others. If I do not act first, it means I would prefer someone else to. Is this a desire for love and unity? At the moment, this has not been clarified yet. And we see that after that the “golden calf” and many other problems were to appear.

Question: What does “Nachshon’s leap” symbolize?

Answer: There is a quality in a person that can go above reason: “Better death than such a life.” So the person leaps into the sea, come what may. Of course this is not our present state. The act called “Nachshon’s leap” requires preparation.

It is required to pass to the next stage, but are we prepared to carry it out? In the meantime, we are far from realizing it, even though this moment is quickly approaching. There is no doubt that we are in the stages of redemption. Peace and perfection are achieved in the connection of hearts. This is our salvation; this must replace the current state of Egypt. Therefore all of our work, study, and dissemination are aimed at connection and unity. Only with the help of connection and a good mutual relationship can we be saved.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalists Write: The Night of Passover Seder” 3/4/13

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Question: What property does Nachshon ben Amminadab, who was the first to jump into the Red Sea, symbolize in a man?

Answer: The Gematria (numerical) value of the name Nachshon ben Amminadab indicates the height of his spiritual condition is a property of pure Bina.

It is this quality that enables him to withstand the wall of water. On one hand water is a soft quality that is the basis of life, and on the other hand it is a hard property since it is manifested as Gvurot, the force of judgment.

The hard and soft forces hidden in water can only be moved by rising above egoism. Nachshon is able to do this because everything moves aside for a person who breaks away from egoism since he completely adheres to the Creator.

There is no empty space in the world: it is either reception (egoism) or bestowal  (the property of the Creator). After rising above the ego, you do not enter a vacuum, you enter but the property of the Creator, as Noah did when he entered the ark. So it is here, you enter the property of bestowal, as if in a cocoon, and exist in it. This is the effect of Nachshon. The sea harms someone, as in the story of the flood, and someone else gets to be saved.

Thus the actions of Noah and Nachshon are the same actions that occur at different levels of egoism and return to their original place in the four stages of development. This takes place at each stage. This is what spiritual advancement consists of.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 4/30/14

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Question: How can I find the part of the Creator within me?

Answer: The quality of bestowal that arises in you in relation to others is the quality of the Creator within you.

Question: How do I discover this quality? How can I recognize it? I might just be fooling myself.

Answer: Try it out with others, and you will see whether it is there or not and to what extent. When it truly appears, you will feel the Creator.

Question: Is it only at that moment that one can find the Creator within oneself? Is there nothing before that?

Answer: Nothing.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Creator Within Me” 8/2/10

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 115

Is an Embryo Male or Female?

In our corporeal world, an embryo can be either male or female. In spirituality, a person goes through various states: still, vegetative, animate, speaking, angelic, and resembling the Creator. Each of these states contains thousands of stages.

This means that every soul undergoes development, first as Nekeva and then as Zachar, and again Nekeva and then Zachar. However, in our world, these alternating states take on a fixed physical form, either male or female, because, relative to spirituality, our world is still, meaning it does not change.

Thus, every stage in spirituality, every action, every quality, everything that exists and constantly changes there, assumes a fixed and unchanging form in our world, as it happens with an embryo.

Beyond this, there is also variation in the types of souls. It depends on which part of Adam HaRishon the desire originates from. The soul is an individual desire within the general soul called Adam HaRishon, and its nature depends on which part of this spiritual body it comes from.

Within the body of Adam HaRishon, there are numerous distinctions, right side, left side, above, below, above the chest, below the chest, and so on.

Likewise, cells within the human body differ from one another. Each cell contains something unique, functions and behaves differently, and connects with other cells in various ways that are characteristic of it.

This is also true in spirituality. Souls interconnect in the same way. Our physical cells are merely a result, a copy, a physical manifestation of what takes place in spirituality.

From this, we can understand how vastly different we are from one another, yet at the same time, how we are all interconnected as parts of a single body.

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And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea­shore… and the people feared the Lord… (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 151, “And Israel Saw the Egyptians“).

Question: The process of leaving Egypt was accomplished by a leap of faith above reason.

The Creator miraculously demonstrated His full support to the people. Why were they afraid?

Now in fact, there is also a miraculous occurrence: thousands of people around the world are doing the same act of unification. Why are we afraid and not happy with anything?

Answer: Because after having shown our desire to leave Egypt, we fell under the power of Pharaoh, who would not let us go.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/19/25, “Nachshon’s Jump and the Parting of the Red Sea”

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Question: It is written that a person can discover love in a good way or with harsh judgments. How is this related to the feeling that I stand before the King and can reveal this love in two ways?

Answer: This is a feeling; therefore, I cannot convey it to you. Either you desire to increase good within yourself and thus come closer to the Creator or you demand something to come closer to the Creator.

That is what we do in life. You can ask, cry, and thus draw closer, or make a demand.

In principle, a person should reach such love for the Creator with which the Creator loves him. But this is practically an unattainable degree. That is the end of all corrections.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/19/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is Greatness and Smallness in Faith?”

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Question: They say that everything depends on the intention. We see actions, and they can be the most benevolent, but intentions are not visible. If we could see a person’s intentions, what would we see?

Answer: Today, if our intentions were to be realized in the world, then the world would cease to exist.

Question: Are these our intentions?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: So today our intentions are to destroy?

Answer: Absolutely!

Question: Selfish, terrible?

Answer: The destruction of others, everyone, and everything.

Question: Is that why they don’t manifest?

Answer: Yes, we are not given strength.

Question: Are they not given strength precisely because they would be destructive?

Answer: Of course.

Question: And at what point will we be given strength? And then what will we see?

Answer: When we have the right intentions in accordance with the plan of nature, then we will begin to receive the strength to realize it.

Question: Tell me, what intentions should we have?

Answer: To come closer, to unite, to connect, to comprehend the highest level of nature, to reveal mutual connection, love.

Question: If this intention were revealed, what would have been revealed to us, what would we have seen?

Answer: That we are initially in a single system and all our attempts to exist up to now have been only in the opposite direction—to break this system.

Question: And what should be done to reveal these intentions of ours?

Answer: To try with all our might to break through the wall of this egoism, which does not give us the opportunity to either realize, make any movement, connect somehow, or ask.

Question: Is it important to ask?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And at what point will I ask?

Answer: When you see that you really want to, but you can’t.

Question: What prevents the Creator from just giving us this and that’s it? Why does He need our work?

Answer: If you don’t want it, how can I give it to you? That would be forced. There is no such thing in the spiritual world.

Question: So the conclusion is this: He must bring us to the state that we ask for: “Give us the opportunity to break out of our selfishness”?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: So the conclusion is this: He has to show us that our selfishness is destructive, murderous.

My Response: But if He shows us, then we simply will not be able to exist. We need to strive for this ourselves, and then, as we strive, we will realize that we are in the opposite state, and we will ask.

Question: So our whole task is to strive for connection, for unity, as you say, for kind thoughts?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You use such simple words all the time. Good thoughts? And then we will see that we can’t do it and ask: “Give us this opportunity!” Is that the plan?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/8/25

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