Daily Kabbalah Lesson — Laitman.com

April 2024
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

Entries in the 'Daily Kabbalah Lesson' Category

Borrow Desires from the Egyptians

Posted on April 26th, 2024

Question: What are the “vessels of the Egyptians?”

Answer: They are egoistic desires in their purest form. The golden vessels symbolize the degree of Behina Dalet, the silver ones symbolize Behina Gimel.

Question: We are learning that I should rise above my egoistic desires as much as possible, not use them, and unite with my friends. What does it mean that I borrow these desires from the Egyptians?

Answer: You ask the Egyptians for desires and intentions to bestow, and you use the little light they have.

You use it in your egoistic desires that go through the stage of recognition of evil, your oppositeness to the Creator. Thus, you begin to rise above egoism by gradually rejecting it. This is when your exit from Egypt begins.

Question: The vessels the children of Israel borrow from the Egyptians, do they bring them along into the desert, or do they later bring them into the land of Israel?

Answer: These are very good Kelim (vessels); they keep them. Later, at each stage, we can delve into what happens to them.
[328200]
From the 1^st part of the the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/16/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Need to Borrow Vessels from the Egyptians?”

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Midnight Is the Time to Start Acting

Posted on April 26th, 2024

Question: How do we collectively find the true, correct Hisaron (deficiency) during the night time?

Answer: At night we cannot find anything; there is no light. During this time, a person is under the influence of egoism, under the influence of uncorrected or even evil forces.

Therefore, at night we do nothing, and we act only when morning begins, i.e., from midnight.
In this, we take an example from King David who always woke up at midnight and began writing Psalms.

Question: On Passover night, the body is limited both in thoughts and desires. What is this state?

Answer: It is a state of feeling the exile in Egypt.
[328068]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Exodus from Egypt”

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Holidays, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

When Efforts Turn into Action

Posted on April 26th, 2024

Question: Which is more important: to be happy with the revelation of evil or to ask for a way out of Egypt?

Answer: The joy of revealing evil is not yet a finished action. And the request to leave Egypt is already a more conscious state.

The children of Israel cried out to the Creator to bring them out of Egypt. At the same time their similarity to Him was that they wanted to get out of their state and achieve the opposite: liberation from egoism.

Question: If we feel bad and we try to escape from this place, does it also come from the ego?

Answer: A place is a desire. We try to escape from egoistic desire, to make efforts, and to ask the Creator to help us do this. To our weak efforts, like those of a small child, the Creator gives His help, and then our efforts turn into action. This is how we ascend the steps of the spiritual ladder to the Creator.
[327981]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And It Came to Pass in the Course of Those Many Days”

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Prayer and Intention, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Look for Justice

Posted on April 26th, 2024

Question: Is it necessary to pursue justice to come to equivalence of form with the Creator? What does it mean?

Answer: To pursue justice means that in any degree you have to look for the basis of what justice is, which means to search for the Creator constantly because that is when you will find Him.

It is said: “Strive for the truth.” That is, because you adhere to justice (Tzedek), you will come to the Creator, who is that quality.

Therefore, in any place, any decision, we must find that justice is the basis of everything.

Justice is one of the types of revelation of the Creator. By pursuing justice, you, by following this path, achieve the inheritance of the land.
[327558]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue”

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Nothing But Connection

Posted on April 26th, 2024

Question: We are required to awaken from below. Is there anything special about Purim that we still need to do?

Answer: We do not need anything other than connection. The Creator created the desire to receive and shattered it into many parts. And we need to gather them so that they become like one person with one desire.

All these parts are in us. We are broken parts, so our desire to unite leads us to a state of correction.
We must constantly turn to the Creator with a request that He unite us into one common whole.

And when He does, we will have the opportunity to ask Him to fill our common desire with the upper light. This state will be called Purim.
[327643]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/24/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Haman Pockets”

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Holidays, Prayer and Intention, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Become a Channel to Pass the Light

Posted on April 26th, 2024

Question: Is there a difference between annulling yourself before the Creator and opening yourself to the Creator?

Answer: These are different things. Annulling oneself before the Creator means absolutely nullifying oneself. For example, you can imagine yourself as a tube through which light passes from one place to another and you are only the walls of this tube.

Comment: It seems to me that opening yourself is also being a tube, not a cork.

My Response: No, there is still a difference. These are very complex states; we will study them later. I cannot even describe them right away.

Question: During the lessons, I feel pleasure coming over me, and I have a fear that I am beginning to receive it, to absorb it. What kind of inner work should be done here in order not to agree to accept pleasure for my own sake?

Answer: No, you agree to accept, just make yourself a tube through which you will pass all the good things you receive from above to the group and to the whole world.

Question: What trace does light leave in me when it passes through me, as if through a tube?

Answer: A feeling of fulfillment, joy, gladness, and connection.
[327592]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue”

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Two Mandatory Steps of Spiritual Work

Posted on April 26th, 2024

Question: How can we feel the love of the Creator and the love of the Creator for us through love of friends?

Answer: We cannot feel the love of the Creator so easily and quickly come to states of coming closer or moving away from Him. This is all attained gradually. Just like in our world when we get to know someone, it is only after we get used to each other that states of closer or more distant arise between us, and so on.

Therefore, first we need to study Kabbalistic articles that talk about connection between the friends in the group, and then about the connection of the group with the Creator. These are the two most necessary steps for everyone, both women and men. Without this we will not begin to feel the upper world that is above us and controls us without our feeling it.

And in order to feel it, to feel the Creator who controls us through it, we need to be in good, kind connection with each other. This is our main task.

Question: We have come, we have made efforts, and each of us wants to fulfill some kind of spiritual desire. How can we still feel any fulfillment through these small efforts? And what can they manifest themselves in right now?

Answer: It takes time, a lot of time, but gradually, more and more, we will begin to understand what forces we are dealing with, what the form of our connection is, and begin to feel it. This will lead us to our friends and to the Creator, and everything will connect together.
[327625]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/5/24, Writings of Rabash “Love of Friends – 1”

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

What Does the Righteous See?

Posted on April 26th, 2024

Question: We know that a righteous is one who fully justifies the Creator and sees everything as perfect. But the righteous Mordechai saw a flaw in the people, he saw the division. So was he a sinner at that moment?

Answer: No, the righteous see the picture as it is. It is not about eyes being closed. The righteous sees a clear picture of the entire universe.

We constantly check what state we are in, each relative to himself and each other.

When there is connection, unity, and love between us, we have spiritual power. We can do something. If we do not, we are powerless.

We must get closer to each other to be like one man, Adam, similar to the Creator. That is the kind of unity we should have between us.
[327554]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/21/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Is a Certain People”

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Perception, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Questions about Spiritual Work—109

Posted on April 26th, 2024

Question: When we walk together on the path, what is our roadmap to stay on it without deviating?

Answer: Your roadmap is your increasingly warm attitude toward your friends and their increasingly warm attitude toward the Creator. You just need to open your heart, warm it from within more and more, and get used to living like this.

Question: What form of our connection can provide nourishment to the world?

Answer: By uniting as one person with one heart, we fully connect to the Creator and can receive everything we need from Him.

Question: How can we avoid being stubborn donkeys in the field?

Answer: Hold onto your friends and ask the Creator. It seems simple, but it is difficult to implement.

Question: If the ten connects correctly, the next state should be better than the previous one. How can we evaluate this correctly?

Answer: The state may be higher, but whether it is negative or positive depends on the individual, on what level they should be, and how they should realize this degree.
[327617]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/5/24, Writings of Rabash “Love of Friends – 1”