The Meteor Is Already Close

Question: If the upper force is good, why is it revealed in an unpleasant way, pressuring us?

Answer: The higher power pressures us from above in that it aspires to be discovered. Whereas, we are found below as separated, crushed, rejecting and hating each other. The pressure of the upper force from above increases our problems, because He wants to be discovered, but is not.

All of the problems pop up because of the approach of the Creator to us. If you are not adapted to Him, then His approach awakens negative reactions in you.

Question: I don’t understand how the approach of the Creator could be perceived as negative. It would seem that this would be the opposite; wouldn’t it be necessary to awaken some kind of positive results?

Answer: Imagine that you are a child. Your mother comes to you and asks: “Have you completed your homework?” And you haven’t prepared your lessons. So your mother threatens: “Watch out, I will come back in another hour to check if you have finished your homework!” As the hour passes you begin to be afraid of when she will come back because you still haven’t done anything.

How will her approach be felt in this case: good or bad? If you don’t comply with her demand, you feel her approach as unpleasant, you don’t want her to come to check you. Isn’t this so?

And now the same thing is happening with us. We are not carrying out those actions that we must carry out. We don’t want to become like one person with one heart, where all ofIsrael are friends, connected with mutual guarantee (Arvut). We are not becoming like those that we must be, and so the approach of the Creator awakens troubles, disasters, and wars within us and around us.

All of these are the result of the nearing of the Creator. The Holocaust was a result of His approach. That is how the approach of the upper force is revealed if we don’t adapt to it.

So we must prevent the blow through a remedy: Begin getting closer to each other, connect so that we approximate ourselves to the approach of the Creator. Then we will accept this approach as better and better, to the state in which the upper force will be completely clothed in us. There is no better state than this!

Question: Is the upper force like a meteor that is approaching our Earth?

Answer: The higher power is not approaching us with the speed of a meteor, which is 30 kilometers per second. This is a gradual process that began a long time ago. But essentially this “meteor” is already close, and its speed is increasing all the time. The inner and outer tension has grown.

After that a period of calm could come. But even if it comes, it will be for a very brief time. Periods of calm will become more and more compressed, whereas the tension will grow exponentially. This is because we are on the threshold of the general correction and the Creator is obliging us to carry out the correction, meaning to connect among us.

We must come to a state of “And you shall love your friend as yourself,” no matter how unrealistic this may seem to us. The higher power is prepared to force us into this through its pressure. But it is desirable to begin to study the wisdom of Kabbalah because from it, we discover how to attain this in ourselves before we are pressured from above with full force. We can reach this connection ourselves in a good way, without coercion.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalists Write: Preparing the People of Israel for Light” 8/20/14

Where Is Our Sight Concealed?

Question: Sight for us is what we see, so what is spiritual sight?

Answer: You actually don’t see anything. It is the mind that sees, and in the spiritual world it is quite clear.

Question: So why do I need the two openings in the form of eyes and all the reflected light that I receive?

Answer: All our body is merely a kind of glued together “papier-mâché.” We actually don’t feel anything in our hands, our tongue, our nose, our ears, or our eyes but only in our brain and even deeper than that, in our desire.

A person’s body is the scenery, the continuous external display of our internal attributes. It is made especially so that you will see that there is someone before you. Still, everything that you see and feel is only inside you, in your brain, or rather in your desires. Since we work at the level of the material world, it seems that everything depends on external sensors or detectors called senses.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/20/14

Humanity On The Threshold Of Divorce

The entire method about which the Torah speaks, from the firstAdam (man) until entering the land of Israel, is the process within a group of Kabbalists who discover the evil within the group while working on the spiritual connection between them.From then on, only good is discovered.

The discovery of evil is all the hatred that separates people and is discovered to the degree that they want to connect. However, now instead of quarreling over various insipid matters, if humanity would want to connect, it would not need to discover the evil. All of their evil is found within the people of Israel. Therefore, the nations of the world cannot correct this evil alone. They do this with the help of the people of Israel and reach correction all at once.

After all, if the true evil of the ego were revealed in them at the moment that they begin to connect, the world would be drowning in evil. They really would be devouring each other down to the bone. So, the work of connection was given only to the people of Israel who are called the “stiff-necked people.”

The people of Israel do the work of connection and transform themselves into a “glue” that can connect all of humanity. They work together with the nations of the world, but their evil inclination is not revealed in this work.

This is an interesting concept. After all, the evil inclination is specifically revealed at the time of connection between people, and we need to work with that. The Torah tells us about this in all the stages of the wilderness. In other words, they are the stages of revealing the ego that is gradually discovered and corrected. It seems as if the children of Israel were wrong, transgressed, and violated the commands of the Creator. However, it is precisely in this way that they corrected themselves and prepared themselves for entry into the land of Israel.

After their entry into the land of Israel, they still needed to conquer it, but this was already a different war, which was the conquest of the nations in the land of Israel: This was the use of the ego through the power of bestowal that they previously acquired. However, in our day, in order to correct the entire human ego, it is necessary to conquer the entire world by means of the power of bestowal. The nations of the world are not obligated to fight with their evil inclination.

The whole Torah talks about the discovery of evil that is revealed through the inclination to connect. This is similar to what a young couple does when they go through all kinds of conflicts when they try to get along in their shared life. They communicate more and more through a shared kitchen, bedroom, living room, house chores, work, a joint bank account, and spare time.

Before then, they would meet somewhere from time to time, and this didn’t obligate them to do anything. Suddenly, they have lots of reasons to connect, and so the evil inclination is revealed in them.

The entire world now feels like a pair of newlyweds. So, it requires a method, the wisdom of connection, which is the wisdom of Kabbalah. This is required everywhere; in our time there is no possibility of connecting in any other way.

Why are people not ready to connect today? Why do so many couples divorce? It is because not only is the ego revealed but also the true evil inclination. This is because humanity must now be connected all over the globe and on all levels. So, everyone will be required to know the wisdom of Kabbalah that teaches how to overcome the evil inclination.

When you want to connect with your child, you must know how to do this, specifically with the help of the wisdom of Kabbalah. You need to learn to attract the Light that Reforms otherwise you won’t have a connection with your children. Today, parents lose connection with their children who reach adolescence around the age of 13, and, in another decade, this connection will already be weakened by the age of seven or eight, and even earlier.

Today, at the age of three or four, children begin to feel completely independent. For them, a parent is simply a tool for attaining a goal, which is the fulfillment of their desires and no more. Problems of this type will appear everywhere. It is impossible to attain connection without the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Everywhere that people try to connect, in the workplace or at home, they will discover their evil inclination. They will want to connect more and will not be ready for it. So, they will divorce. Even the terrorists are divided and are not ready to connect into one gang. There are so many groups and so many factions among them! The separation will keep on growing everywhere. Soon, everyone will sit in his house with a rifle, and that’s it.

The friends in a group of Kabbalists consciously work on the connection between them. Therefore, all of these phenomena become expressed among them in a very clear and obvious form. However, Kabbalists have the tools for working against their ego, against separation, and against hatred. The friends perform the role of the people of Israel, regarding all of the children of Israel, just as all the people of Israel do with respect to all of humanity. So, all of the people of Israel must work like a group of Kabbalists with respect to the whole world.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/7/14, Writings of Rabash

Mandatory Disclosure of the Wisdom

From “Who Are You, People of Israel”

As the world groans under the pressure of two conflicting forces—the global force of connection and the separating power of the ego, we are falling into the state that existed in ancient Babylon prior to the dispersion. Alas, today we cannot draw apart and sedate our egos. Our only option is to work on our positive force that balances the negative power of our ego.

The people of Israel, descendants of the ancient Babylonians who followed Abraham, must implement the wisdom of connection, namely the wisdom of Kabbalah. They are required to set an example to the whole of humanity, and thus become a “Light for the nations.”

The Key to Happiness

The laws of Nature dictate that we will all achieve a state of unity. However, there are two ways we can come to that happy end: 1) a path of world suffering, wars, catastrophes, plagues, and natural disasters, or 2) a path of gradual balancing of the ego, the path that Abraham planted in his disciples. The latter is the one we suggest.

The complete text of the brochure is here

The Daily Direction 9.28.14 In Relation To Rabash "Yahrzeit" (Anniversary of his passing)

Everything is open; we now enter into the New Year

I'm looking forward to reach a state that the tens will be all over Israel and that we could realize these connections between all the tens like cogwheels and we'll feel how much we're connected to each other, all people as one unit. And around it, just like pressing the clutch, we'll also enter the entire world to spin with us together with our cogwheels, and everyone will start spinning around in one harmony.

From this tendency the general force is being revealed more and more that the Creator drives everything, and we thought that we are doing it. We discover that only He did everything but now we're willing to discover it, and it seems that there is no “our” force but everything comes from Him. Our effort builds the sense to feel that "There is None Else Beside Him." Let's hope.

Everything is open the year ahead now we enter into the New Year and we hope to gain that. Baal HaSulam, Rabash, and all the Kabbalists before them until Abraham and Adam HaRishon, are all standing and supporting us, we'll succeed. Le Chaim! [Yahrtzeit Meal Rabash, 28.9.14]  

We received permission to enter

This year we were blessed to start realizing Rabbeinu's way: Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag. We began to feel the network of connection between us, between all creatures, with those we see and those that for now we don't recognize. The time will come and we'll feel everyone, the network between all souls, and that we are connecting everything, we could be the managers of the network, the ones who influence, advanced and progress all others to become active parts of this. What has happened to us last year is a tangible entrance into the systems of souls, that now each and everyone has the ability to begin to feel the network and engage with it. To start to discover there what is written in all the Kabbalah books and by that realizing our souls, which is the sum of all the friends' desires, all creatures and the great ones ahead of us. We received permission to enter and now it all depends on our unity and that we can spread out this great spring.

We'll make an effort to realize these 2 directions, one to unity and the other to spreading it out. We hope that this year will be very special and that we could really see what the Kabbalists gave us and the depths and height of attainment Rabbeinu Baruch Shalom, had. Then we will truly justify our name, "Bnei Baruch". Le Chaim! [Har HaMenuchut, Jerusalem, 28.09.2014]

Practical Advice by Rabash

Excerpts from Rabash’s articles about the society.

We have gathered here to establish a society for all those interested in following the path and method of Baal HaSulam—the way to climb the rungs of man, and not remain as a beast.
–“The Purpose of Society 1”

We have gathered here to establish a society where each can follow the spirit of bestowal upon the Creator. And to bestow upon the Creator, we must first bestow upon man, and this is called “love of man.”

Love of man can only be with self annulment. On the one hand, each of us should feel humbled, and on the other hand, we should be proud that the Creator has given us the opportunity to partake in a society whose members have but one goal: to discover the Creator among us.
–“The Purpose of Society 1”

By being together in a group, like brothers, with love of friends, we can rise to adhesion with the Creator. This ladder is called “the path of bestowal,” and it is against our nature. Therefore, to be able to achieve it, there is but one advice: love of friends. Through it, each can help his friend.
–“Love of Friends”

The advice for achieving bestowal and the rule, “love thy friend,” is love of friends. If each is annulled before his friend and mingles with him, the small parts that want love of man become a single mass, united into a collective force. And each person has such great strength, he can realize the love of man. And then each of them can achieve love of God.
–“According to What Is Explained Concerning Love Your Friend”

The greater the society, the more it can affect each member, and produce a stronger atmosphere of the greatness of the Giver. In that state, everyone feels that bestowing upon the Creator is the greatest thing that one could have.
Accordingly, each person is happy that he’s been awarded with being among people who are privileged with giving to the Creator. Then, everything that one does in order to achieve bestowal brings him joy and happiness.
Also, to the extent that we think of the greatness of the Creator during the gathering, we cause each one to feel the importance of the greatness of the Creator. As a result, everyone is in a state of joy all day long.
-“The Order of the Association”

Everyone should try to instill everyone with a spirit of liveliness, hopefulness, and energy. Each of the friends should overcome his disappointment from not achieving bestowal, and will receive, through the group, hope, the strength to prevail, and confidence that he will achieve perfection.
What he previously thought—that he did not have the strength to acquire the quality of bestowal because the obstructions were too formidable—now he considers these obstructions as nothing. And he received all that from the force of the society, since everyone tried to bring support, hope, and a new atmosphere to the group.
–“What to Ask of the Assembly of Friends”

The goal of the assembly of friends must be clear to all: this result should be that each friend will awaken to love the other. This is called “love of man,” and this is what we must talk about.
–“What to Ask of the Assembly of Friends”

“When authors (also people who count, in Hebrew) are envious, wisdom mounts.” This means that when all the friends regard the society as being of a high degree, both in thought and in action, it is natural that each of them will have to rise from his qualities to new qualities, which the society has begotten in him.
–“Concerning Above Reason”

“One does not deliver oneself from imprisonment.” Rather, only a friend can help a friend in decline, and lift him from his state to a state of liveliness, so he acquires strength and confidence as though his goal is very near now.
–“They helped every one his friend”

One who sees that the friends are at a higher degree than his, helping each other, realizing what they’re learning in action, and sees within reason that he is in utter lowness, it certainly affects him. It gives him strength to overcome his idleness, for otherwise he will remain behind the group.
–“Concerning Above Reason”

There is a special power to adhesion of friends: through it, thoughts traverse from one to another, and each person is integrated in the powers of the whole society.
–“The Need for Love of Friends”

If one has love of friends, he sees the friends’ merit, and not their faults. It turns out that if he sees a drawback in his friend, it is a sign that the drawback is in him. Therefore, now he should see that it is not his friend who needs correction, but he himself is in need of one.
–“The Order of the Assembly 1”

If everyone extols all the other friends as though they are the greatest in the generation, the environment will affect him as a great environment, because quality is more important than quantity.
–“The Order of the Assembly 1”

Two is plural. Thus, if two friends sit together and think about how to increase the importance of the Creator, they already have the strength to receive great reinforcement in the greatness of the Creator, by way of their own awakening. For this act there is a subsequent awakening from the Creator, and they begin to feel the greatness of the Creator.
–“The Order of the Association”

The benefit from society is that it can introduce such an atmosphere that there will only be work in order to bestow.
–“The Importance of Society”

It is permitted, and even a must to enjoy from an act of bestowal. Therefore, one should focus on a single point—appreciating that. This is expressed in paying attention to whom I turn, to whom I am speaking, whose commandments am I keeping, and whose law am I studying. In other words, we must seek advice how to appreciate the Creator.
Before a person is awarded with illumination from above, one must seek likeminded people, who are also seeking to heighten the importance of the Creator, to be in touch with the Creator, and to receive help from the society.
–“The Order of the Association”

To be integrated with one another, everyone should annul himself before the others. This is done by seeing the merit of the friends, and not their faults. However, those who think that they are higher than the friends, cannot unite with them.
–“The Purpose of the Society 2”

Every student must feel that he is the smallest among the friends, and then he will be able to receive the appreciation of the greatness from everyone. This is because only the smaller can be impressed by what the greater one appreciates.
–“The Order of the Assembly 1”

When he sees that the friends are at a higher degree than his own, it elevates him.
–“Concerning Above Reason”

People who agree to unite in a group understand that there is no disparity of opinions among them. They understand the necessity of the love of others. Hence, each of them will be able to make concessions for others, and they will be able to unite around that.
–“Concerning Love of Friends”

By gathering people who all agree that they must achieve love of others, when they annul themselves before each other, they are all integrated in one another. Thus, each friend accumulates a great force, according to the greatness of the society, and then he can execute the love of others in actual fact.
–“They helped every one his friend”

A “righteous” is one who wishes to keep the rule, “love thy friend as thyself,” whose only aim is to exit self-love and take upon himself the nature of love of others.
–“According to What Is Explained Concerning Love Your Friend”

In Memory Of Rabash

Today is the day of remembrance for my Teacher, Rav Baruch Shalom Levi Ashlag – Rabash. We are all nourished by what we received from him. He was the only person who understood Baal HaSulam, who continued his path, and who passed the method on to several of his students. The fact that we are able to advance using Baal HaSulam’s method, to see, hear, feel and understand what he wrote, is possible only thanks to Rabash.

Rabash used to write an article a week, and we have over 400 of his articles. In them, he provides explanation of the entire science of Kabbalah, including everything that regards a person’s inner work. Through these articles, he has given us an opportunity to enter the sensation of the spiritual world. He explained the entire method systematically, simply and accessibly, in a form that people could easily connect to.

The reason why he often quotes the Torah, Talmud and other Kabbalistic sources is in order to connect us to the original sources and to help us understand how their authors (Kabbalists) thought. This is how they conveyed their sensations to us.

There’s no doubt that if it weren’t for Rabash’s books, we would not be able to connect to the writings of Baal HaSulam. Without Rabash’s explanations, it would be impossible for us to “open” Baal HaSulam’s books.

I am grateful to the Upper Force for sending me such a great Teacher, through whom we have received Kabbalah. His life’s work was a spiritual breakthrough into a new level and the revelation of Kabbalah’s method to us.

Baal HaSulam also stated this method in his articles, but they remained concealed.  Rabash took his father’s materials and rewrote them in a form that the world could understand. He also transmitted it orally to his students.

Rabash was the first Kabbalist in the entire history of Kabbalah who began openly accepting students. After a year of studying with Rabash, I gave several lectures at Berg’s center. The lectures weren’t for the general public, but for the instructors. After those lectures,  all the instuctors left the Berg center, because they understood that what they were doing there was not Kabbalah at all, but rather just business.

I brought them to study with Rabash, along with an entire group of young, secular people. Altogether there were about forty people. Rabash was 77 years old at the time, and he had spent his entire life living in Bnei Brak – a Jewish Orthodox community, with an overabundance of prohibitions and restrictions. But despite everything, he was not afraid to accept all of these new, secular young men to be his students!

These people weren’t planning to return to religion; they came to him to study Kabbalah exclusively. That is how he started teaching Kabbalah to secular young men from Tel Aviv! This was the revolution he made, and it steered our world toward correction. This was a completely new phenomenon, such that the entire history of Kabbalah has never seen. It was the beginning of large-scale dissemination of the science of Kabbalah, as those forty students continued his path.

Rabash was a great revolutionary. He possessed a tremendous inner power that enabled him to do this, in defiance of his Hassidic community and his relatives.

Everything I have, I received from him. Our group, Bnei Baruch (the Sons of Baruch) is named after him. And I believe that we truly will merit becoming his spiritual heirs.

Let his memory in us be blessed!

The Daily Direction 9.28.14

All our sins are not in our actions but rather in our intentions

The actions are rolled upon us according to how well we succeed in correcting our intentions of previous actions. All our work is in intentions to bestow, since change of intention completely alters the quality of deeds. Therefore, what we’ll get and how we’ll develop depends on our intentions in previous actions, events, and cases for which we have succeeded or, God forbid, haven’t succeeded, in instilling the correct intention - that is the dynamics.

Everything is derived from all past situations that we need to continue correcting, intentions in all kinds of cases that are given to us. We should learn these intentions from each other, grow stronger by helping each other and enter a society that will help us not forget about them. We need to gather strength from everyone, and if the connection between us is correct, so shall our intentions be, and we will be able through the Reforming Light’s influence, to demand intentions of bestowal. Nothing is given to us besides the opportunity to make the right decision and to choose the correct act - to invite the Reforming Light upon ourselves. Each act should end by me being certain that I’ve brought satisfaction to the Creator, regardless of how much or whether at all I sense that. That is called a good deed, a successful act. (Zohar, 6th minute)

For what purpose are you doing this for? (Workshop)

We discussed this yesterday, “The end of every deed must begin in a thought (conception).” For what purpose, in the first place, are you doing the deeds? We have to bring satisfaction to the Creator, like in all those examples of the host and the guest, the equality of form, adhesion, that is what we should reach. Therefore, I start with “The end of every deed begins in a thought,” before I do anything I need to think that bestowal to Him is the purpose, and that is what I need to reach. I want to be granted an opportunity to bring Him satisfaction by our actions. Whether he knows it or not, at least I’m aware of it, this is not important, I don’t even want to think about it now. If I’m able to think in that direction, I can finally begin something, otherwise not at all. (Zohar, 40th minute)

We are thinking about our friend Anatoly Ulyanov. The question is, what exactly should we be thinking of?

Only if I am advancing towards bestowal and we all depend on each other, and this part which is revealed between us as an ill person asking for correction from all other parts.

The Creator enlightening us, bringing this as an example, so that we may see that here we should take care about correction, for it is a part of our soul. We have to care about it, to think about it, and then it can get better. I know that I should be asking, demanding and praying, that’s it. And praying means examining myself and judging myself, whether or not are my intentions genuine and correct. Because if they are, we wouldn’t be in the situation where part of us is in this form, this state of trouble, that is a result of our general corruption. It is impossible to have a cell or an  isolated  organ sick within a body, that is a defect in a whole system. That is - we’re all sick and we are all to blame. There are reasons why it’s targeted on a particular person, as it is written that the “Tzadikkim” (Righteous) are the first in line for the correction.  

If you’re asking, we should feel this as a dangerous illness among us within our collective soul, (Zohar, 9th minute)

Working in Tens

I promise you that within a few weeks you will feel that you cannot do without a Ten. [Part D, 31 min]

Working within a ten, when my friend is talking, what kind of demand do I need to have in order for this process to work?

You should be completely immersed in him. At this moment you do not exist but rather you are truly within him.

And what then? So where is the "me?" When your time comes to speak, it will be after the integration with everyone, and out of this integration you will speak. In this way you will be precisely you.

Because you cancel yourself and you leave the "Mishcha de Chivya" (the skin of the snake), then you are talking “out of” the integration with them.

This is your proper body, your inner body, in which you are linked with the others, this is your soul.

"Talk about it," I can hear what the friends are saying, I am included in what they say, in their desires, in their hearts and their thoughts, in everything.

I forget about myself, I’m gone and lost in them, include myself within them. And then, when my time comes to speak, then of course I speak out of my integration with them, it's called that I purchase my holy body, my real body, which is included in all of them.

So what is it then, when I give up on it (on my holy body)?

This is exactly my heart of  stone, The "Mishcha de Chivya" (the skin of the snake), and now I am parted from him. [Part A, 48 min]