The Zohar, Chapter “Lech Lecha (Go Forth),” Item 4: People should observe the work of the Creator. After all, all the people do not know and do not consider what the world stands on and what they themselves stand on.

What does the world rest on? It rests on desire. What are people grounded in? They are grounded in desire. The Zohar is speaking of the types of desires the world and we rest on and how we can change these desires. After all, everything that happens within our desire makes up the reality that we experience.

Our perception of the world hinges on how we change our desires. In his article, "The Creator’s Concealment and Revelation," Baal HaSulam writes that nothing changes outside of us. And it is solely our responsibility to replace our perception of this world with the perception of the World of Infinity.

From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/12/10, The Zohar

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Dear Friends, please ask questions on the passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.

Who Is a Kabbalist?

In the souls of the great righteous [those who have become equal to the Creator in the quality of bestowal] there is everything: all the good and evil [their evil, corrected to good, and the evil that is the ego of the entire world which they correct], and they suffer for everything [include in themselves all of the world’s uncorrected desires so as to prepare them for correction by their owners] and receive pleasure [supreme attainment] when they turn [correct by including within] all the evil into good.
- Rav Kook, Orot Kodesh, 3, 153

No generation is without chosen individuals [Yechidey Segula] on whom the Creator’s spirit rests, to whom Elijah the prophet is revealed and teaches the secrets of the Torah. [This refers to the special people who are able to attain the Creator even in the period of Galut (exile) out of the spiritual qualities and prohibition on their attainment. In our time of exiting Galut, this attainment is available to all people.]
- Rav Chaim Vital, “Preface to the Book, Etz Chaim”

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We are incapable of receiving into our desires all the Light of bestowal that is prepared for us at once. The solution to this problem is simple: to receive it in small “doses,” generation after generation, and let billions of people and not just one person work on this in each generation. In this way, we will receive all the Light into one joint vessel of our common soul.

The goal, however, is to collect all the broken parts of the common soul that were deliberately shattered from Above and now feel separated and hostile to each other. The hatred that exists between us encompasses the entire force of connection which was meant to reveal itself by us “receiving in order to bestow.” However, this failed to happen and led us to “receiving for our own sake.”

So, this dividing force transforms itself during the breaking into its opposite and is now at the disposal of the created beings. By correcting hatred in all prior generations and within the multiple parts in each generation, all we do is recover the connections between separated souls. In other words, our goal is not to receive the Light for the sake of bestowal, but to re-connect the splinters that emerged after the breaking. By attaining connection, the creature will reach the power of bestowal and, later on, attain “receiving in order to bestow.”

We have to realize that correction of the state of separation between us and construction of relationships based on bestowal and love is our distinction. Not only did the Creator shatter us into multiple particles; most importantly, they were separated by hostility. To correct them means to collect and connect these particles back together. We have to pay attention to this rather than concentrate on the Light that becomes revealed within us. The Light that corrects our desires, the Light of love and bestowal, has to descend to us before anything else.

From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/14/10, “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

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The Zohar, Chapter “Lech Lecha (Go Forth),” Item 104: When the Ruach comes out of this world and enters the cave of Adam HaRishon and the patriarchs, they give him there a letter as a sign, and he goes to the Garden of Eden. When he approaches, he meets the Cherubim there and that flaming sword which turns every way. If he is rewarded, they see the letter that is the sign, open the gate for him, and he enters. If not, they repel him outside.

When we read The Zohar, we should imagine a greater or a smaller desire to bestow or only the desire to receive, that is, we should envision changes in bestowal. That is the entire spiritual world. However, these variations contain all color shades and all gradations of qualities. Everything we read in The Zohar is about changes in the quality of bestowal which manifests as such in our perception.

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The Zohar tells us about the Upper World, which we reveal inside of us. Everything described in this book occurs inside us. In fact, we perceive our world in the same way. The difference between the worlds or perceptions is that we perceive this world individually, within our egoism, while the Upper World is perceived collectively within our relationships and the connection between us.

Connection through mutual bestowal and love is called the soul, and what we perceive in this soul is called the spiritual world. By making corrections in ourselves we correct the initially broken connection (Kli) and thus reveal different qualities of the connection that The Zohar talks about. The common connection of all parts of the soul or creation is called the Creator. The entire spiritual world is comprised of different types of connections, which are called Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, different angels, as well as still, vegetative, animate, and spiritual objects. These are all revealed in the connections.

Today we perceive our world and think that it exists on its own. However, this is an illusion. The truth is that we perceive a type of connection between us that we call by this name. The last or lowest level of connection among the parts of the soul (the particular souls) provides a sensation of a bad connection that is called “this world.” When we attain the absolute connection of all parts of the universe, this connection is called the World of Infinity because it is an unrestricted connection without any finite limits. It is, indeed, beyond space and time.

Between the full connection in the World of Infinity and the complete absence of connection in this world, there are five levels of connection or five worlds called Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. We actually exist in only one reality which is the World of Infinity, but our perception of it depends on our attitude toward the connection. This involves 1) egoism or reception, and 2) bestowal or love. Our life is a sensation of the quality of connection between the parts of reality.

If we want to reveal the true world and understand, attain, and enjoy it, we have to try to see ourselves as more connected when reading The Book of Zohar. Then we will begin revealing a greater connection and the Upper World. This method to reveal the Upper World is called “We shall do and we shall hear” (Naase ve Nishma).

From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/10, The Zohar

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Our goal is to bring all of humanity to absolute connection. Our spiritual simulator represents the virtual space where we feel the connection between us, and consequently it will become spiritual. By developing in it gradually, step by step, we will continuously feel greater unity. We will begin to feel the soul, the quality of mutual bestowal. Subsequently such spiritual communication will become the foundation for creating a society according to the principles of connection between the parts of the common soul, which Baal HaSulam describes in the articles “The Last Generation” and “Building The Future Society.”

This communication will continually include new systems of society and government with all of the services and relationships, starting from the level of this world and continuing on to the spiritual connections. In order to express the evolving model of society, the structure will take on various forms and create various virtual platforms on the internet to the extent that these connections are built between friends – all members of the society.

All the spiritual worlds, the Creator, and the perception of reality are revealed by changing and correcting the inner connection between us. The spiritual stimulator allows us to hasten spiritual development and head in the right direction. Individual participation in this stimulator will give a person an opportunity to evaluate, feel, and check the state of development that he is truly in.

(This video was made by our long-time friend and a member of Bnei Baruch from Boston Doctor Alexander Angelov.)

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The more we unite, take part in common actions such as Conventions and unity evenings, and communicate within the “Stimulator” system, general waves of Upper Light will begin to roll over us and gradually cast us up to the shore of the Upper World. We will then discover that there is a multitude of people swaying together in one wave to carry out a common spiritual action. The Upper Force acts synchronously in regard to a great number of people. Therefore, the intensity of this spiritual desire and the Upper Light surrounding it are revealed in this union. This begins to influence all of humanity, and is called the dissemination of the science of Kabbalah.

People will begin to subconsciously feel this phenomenon due to the fact that we are all connected as one soul. Even those who did not see or hear anything about this will inevitably begin to sway on the same wave, feeling the presence of the spiritual movement in the world. The world will become more sensitive to the influence of the Light.

In this manner, we are influencing the whole world with the waves that we create together. We are raising and lowering the whole world – raising sparks of bestowal and lowering egoism. More and more sparks of bestowal are making their way to the top and people are beginning to ask about the meaning of life. Thus we are hastening the process of correction.

From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/10, “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

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Question: What do I do if every time I hear “faith above reason,” I immediately imagine some egoistic benefit?

Answer: We can’t think otherwise. Any altruistic qualities that ever appear in a person come from “Above” as a result of the Light that Reforms which affects us and brings us to equivalence with the Creator. As long as we don’t feel the need to bestow without some personal benefit, we have to do whatever it takes to cause the Upper Light to influence us and give us this quality.

If I am aware that I am not able to desire selfless bestowal, it shows a good understanding of our nature which a person doesn’t usually possess. This awareness is also brought about by the impact of the Light and is a sign of our advancement toward spirituality.

The Upper Light “draws” its properties on my egoism, which allows me to discern what bestowal “outside of me” means. Likewise, it instills in me a desire to have the attribute of selfless bestowal that doesn’t require reciprocity. If a person attains such awareness, he is on the way to the Machsom, the entrance into the spiritual world.

From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/26/10, Article “15th of Av”

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The Klipa, like a shell protecting the fruit until it ripens, works this way for us the whole time until we reach correction. It preserves us until we become ready and ripened. Then we’ll be able to break free and shed the covering.

However, until then we do not feel that there is a shell, like a wild, unripe apple in which there is no difference between the inner part and the peel: Everything is similarly sour and green. The more a fruit grows, the greater the difference develops between the covering and the inner contents. First the peel is firm, but gradually it separates from the fruit itself, and the more it develops the thinner the peel becomes. If we leave the peel intact, the fruit will finally explode and break away from its skin.

In much the same way, a person grows until he reaches maturity. And as soon as all of our qualities are ready, we throw away and get rid of the Klipa.

Until now we were constantly lured by something in front of us and ran ahead in life, like a donkey lured by a carrot. However, now this whole system stops working. There is nothing more for it to do since we have already been prepared through it. The Klipot are the Creator’s loyal assistants; they reared us and allowed us to ripen. This is why they stop attracting us. Do you think that the Creator ran out of carrots? He has a multitude of other kinds of bait, but we no longer need them. We have reached the upper threshold of our degree and now need to ascend to the next one.

Therefore, nothing else attracts us ahead, there is nothing left to run after, we feel emptiness, and the future does not attract us. We need to come through this shell (Klipa) into the Upper world, like a worm that climbs into the light from a bitter radish.

From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/14/10, “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

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During a Kabbalah Convention we bring together all our forces of bestowal to create one common, collective force. Afterwards, because of this force, a new egoistic desire becomes revealed. We then begin to work on it by ascending with “faith above reason” despite our unwillingness. At that point we find that new people join us, and that’s because we have acquired the strength to take care of them. We affect the common soul, the only creation, with our actions. We gather the forces of bestowal from each person and thereby form one small soul which is equivalent to the single soul of Adam in the state of the World of Infinity. As a result, we awaken all of the souls through our efforts, and they begin to “vibrate” together! This is the dissemination of Kabbalah. We don’t need a lot of materials about the goal and correction. People will simply feel that the source of the Upper Force is here. However, it will only happen if we will create a common soul, a collective force. From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/10, “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot”
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