Bring Your Heart and Mind Closer Together

557Question: Rabash’s articles pull me to a state I am not yet at, but want to be. After this, when we begin sorting them out, the mind and the egoistic nature turn on and seek some kind of justification.

How can I make sure that the entire ten and I will catch up with the state of Rabash and the desire of the heart?

Answer: The fact that you feel the difference between your mind and your heart is already good. The fact that you can even control yourself is also very good.

Now, you just need to check whether you agree with your heart and mind and whether you can bring them closer to each other. Then, you will feel what is essential in them and what is secondary.

The bringing together of heart and mind depends on how one aligns oneself with the Creator, the group, and the teacher. And then it turns out that he can simultaneously work in both the heart and the mind.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Understanding What Is Written in Shulchan Aruch

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The Influence of The Book of Zohar

209Comment: The article “Rabbi Shimon’s Exit from the Cave” is, in principle, very difficult to understand, just like other articles in The Book of Zohar. But you say they should be read as a magical remedy, a segula.

My Response: A Segula is a certain property that unfolds as you use it. In other words, it is an action that affects you even if you read it without understanding anything. And you change according to what reveals to you.

Question: Suppose a person has read this article. How can he check what has changed in him?

Answer: From reading one article, he cannot do anything yet. But gradually, by reading The Book of Zohar and going through all the properties and circumstances described in it, he begins to feel changes within himself.

Question: For example, we talked about fear. Is there a way I can check if I have developed a fear of the Creator?

Answer: Yes. You can check to what extent you have thoughts about what is said in the Torah is true and worth following. For example, if you start experiencing fear that you will not be able to fulfill the main commandment of the Creator, “love your neighbor,” then this may be a criterion that the book is influencing you. And if the awe does not arise, it means something needs to be changed.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 12/24/23

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Praise the Creator

243.07Question: It is said that one should praise the Creator at night. in what situations can this advice be used?

Answer: Whenever you can, use it.

Question: Is it possible to use it when you feel a descent, when it is difficult for you to pray?

Answer: From any state.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/23, Writings of Rabash “What Are Truth and Falsehood in the Work?”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—60

630.2Question: Do we only need to be concerned with correcting desires, and the agreement of the heart will be the test?

Answer: Heart and desire are the same thing. If you check your desires, it means you check your heart.

Question: When I try to stay on the subject, I notice that I am failing hopelessly. Why?

Answer: To show you where you are. Therefore, this is good.

Question: We do not want to pray with our hearts because we fear losing. How can we stop being afraid of losing the feeling of this illusion, i.e., our egoistic life? Where is my ten in all this?

Answer: You need to find the ten. You need to feel the ten. You just need to adhere to the heart of your friends.

Question: It is said: “Do not judge a friend until you are in his place.” Does this mean that we should completely abandon the assessment of the actions of our friends? Or is it not worth dwelling on it? What should be our attitude to this?

Answer: The main thing for us is to take care of coming closer to a friend so we can understand him correctly. After that, we can do other actions.

Question: A prayer from the heart should be such that we are not afraid to lose all our egoistic desires. Why?

Answer: A person must be willing to lose all his egoistic desires to be able to connect with the ten. That should be his prayer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Understanding What Is Written in Shulchan Aruch

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Life Outside the Body

712.03In our world, we are all connected through animalistic senses: vision, hearing, smell, touch, and tactile sensations. A person must go beyond their boundaries in order to begin to feel the upper, that is, what is above the corporeal senses. This is not something mystical, but something that a person does not perceive in his physical body now, but it exists around us!

The technical devices we use now give us a very small additional range of sensations. They only expand them, because behind the devices there are people who still translate these huge expanding ranges into information accessible to them, otherwise they will not understand what is happening with the device. It turns out that we do not go beyond ourselves.

Therefore, we do not need to invent all kinds of devices, but to correct and expand ourselves: “Do we have this in us?”

Kabbalah says that when a question arises in a person about the meaning of life, it means that he has a need to expand the perception of his five senses. Not in expanding the spectrum of frequencies in each sense organ, but in expanding oneself into some new area.

If you want to truly deepen your perception, you must radically change it from reception to bestowal, i.e., begin to contact the environment not in your senses, but outside of them, because they limit you. They refer to your animalistic body.

How can you leave the body as if it were not there? How can you make yourself feel life outside of yourself, not disturbed by your body? Then you can talk about something that really exists objectively. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah deals with, as it does not study at all what we perceive in the body.

Therefore, when people say: “What about vision, and hearing” I have nothing to say. Kabbalah immediately rejects all this, leaving it to psychology and other methodologies, this is their business. It has no connection with those desires, qualities, and thoughts that an ordinary person has because all this relates to the same quality of reception.

We need to move from the quality of reception to the quality of bestowal, i.e. neutralize ourselves by absorbing all perceptions, learn to exit ourselves and feel the space undisturbed by our body the way it really is. This is called “exiting the body,” “exiting into the spiritual world.”

Then it does not matter whether your body is alive or dead. After all, you begin to feel everything with completely different qualities that have nothing to do with your physical body. Therefore, this wisdom reveals to us the eternal perfect world. And you, to the extent of adaptation to it, to the extent of your coexistence with it, to the extent of your consolidation in it, become eternal and perfect.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Eternal and Perfect” 12/1/11

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Correction of Rabbi Shimon

923Question: After a long stay in the cave, Rabbi Shimon’s body was covered with holes and sores. Rabbi Pinchas began to cry and said: “Woe that I have seen you so.” What do holes and sores mean?

Answer: Holes and sores symbolize rusted metal. Before that, Rabbi Shimon’s body was as if covered with an iron shell, meaning something very hard and reliable. And now this iron shell was struck by rust, and it began to crumble.

Therefore, Rabbi Shimon replied to Rabbi Pinchas: I would not have been rewarded with the revelations of the secrets of the Torah, for he was awarded all the great sublimity of his wisdom during those 13 years of hiding in the cave.

Question: And he also added: Happy I am that you have seen me so, for had you not seen me so, I would not be so. How should we understand this?

Answer: Rabbi Pinchas was a great Kabbalistic scholar. The fact that he saw Rabbi Shimon as if covered with rust suggests that Rabbi Shimon reformed while sitting in the cave, did everything he could for his people, and now he can safely leave the cave and teach.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 12/24/23

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 1/21/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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Taste in the Torah

509Question: What does it mean to enjoy the taste in the Torah?

Answer: This means that a person can be filled with the Torah and thus expand their Kelim, their inner feelings.

You should really try to define all your actions through taste. That is what it says: “Taste and see how good the Lord is.”

You should feel any of your actions as if by their taste, for your own sake or for the sake of the Creator, tasty or tasteless, how much, and so on.

Question: The Torah is called the state of perfection. What is the state of perfection and how can it be achieved in the ten, in the connections between us?

Answer: It is precisely in the connections between you that the state of perfection can be achieved.

When you unite more and more, then in connection with each other, you create a place where you can discover everything that the Creator wants to give you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/5/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Two Discernments in the Torah and in the Work”

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Concealed Information of the Universe

65Rabbi Pinhas was regularly before Rabbi Rehumai, by the shore of the Sea of Galilee. A great and elderly man was Rabbi Rehumai, and his eyes grew weak.

He said to Rabbi Pinhas, “Indeed, I heard that Yochai, our friend, has a gem, a good stone, a son. I looked in the light of that gem, and it is as the illumination of the sun from its sheath, illuminating the entire world” (Zohar for All, “Rabbi Shimon’s Exit from the Cave,” 185).

This is about the fact that the great sage Kabbalist Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai has a son, who by the age of 13 began to reveal himself as an expert in the Torah. Further the text talks about the daughter of Rabbi Pinchas, the wife of Rabbi Shimon, the mother of their son Rabbi Elazar.

Question: Why is the concealed information of the universe transmitted in such a narrative style? It seems that there should be some formulas here, something more interesting.

Answer: If we attained the inner part of the Torah, we would extract a lot of data from it. Why does the article talk about some guy and a girl who get engaged to each other, about their relatives who are friends with each other? What does The Book of Zohar even say?

In fact, it says that the time has come to reveal the inner part of the Torah. For this, it is necessary to revive the connection between the generations of fathers and children and thus reveal the inner essence of The Book of Zohar.

After all, by son and father it means souls. The son is our next spiritual state.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 12/24/23

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