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The Revelation of

The Book of Zohar

in Our Time


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The Revelation oThe Book o Zohar

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The Zohar Speaks to the Heart oUs All

Question: Whats the signifcance oThe Book ofZoharin Our Time? Are we now obligated to study

The Zoharin order to attain spirituality?Yes, its clear cut. Ive been waiting or that or a longtime and I didnt want to start the study oThe Zoharprematurely. I even said the contrary, Why shouldwe studyThe Zohar? One might have assumed thatBaal HaSulam composed the work o his lie or no

particular reason but, o course, thats incorrect. Theidea is that we had to be prepared or it.

Today, were beginning to study The Book o Zoharwith everyone because we have become o a sucientmass to attain a position allowing us to climb up the

same ladder together. Whoever can nulliy himselwith all o his might like a baby, studying together


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with us out o the desire to enter the eeling discussed

in The Book o Zohar, is welcome to join the study. Thisstudy doesnt require intellect and not many sketchescan be drawn or learned throughout. The Book o Zoharspeaks to the heart or the purpose o openinga persons emotions regarding the discernments obestowal and receiving. Hence, Baal HaSulam entitled

his commentary The Ladder rather than any othername.

The sections oThe Zohararent equal. Some parts aresimple in their language and depth and other parts aremore dicult. We wont study in order o the weekly

portions. Rather, we will begin with the simplersections and going orward, it is similar to what welearn about the order o clarications. When we haveentered emotionally, which is to say ater we havebecome accustomed to The Book o Zohars style andhave ocused ourselves properly, we will be prepared

to study other sections as well. Then, we wont onlyyearn, we will actually crave or The Zohar; we will


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develop a sort o particular appetite or it. The truth

is that there is no dierence between the depths oeach and every section oThe Zohar. Rashbi and BaalHaSulam interpreted them to their ullest spiritualdegree. The dierence is only with reerence to uswho are the students.

Excerpt rom the daily Kabbalah lesson, Nov. 19, 2009


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Its Time

Question: Whats so special about this periodcompared to previous ones or us to now beginstudyingThe Book of Zohar?

The dierence is in the preparation. We spoke aboutunity and related issues at great length until we realizednothing would help us other than unity.

We have always said that it was impossible to read TheBook o Zoharwithout a group but, now, we actuallyeel it on our own fesh. I believe that couldnt havebeen reached previously. Even though we discussedit, we werent yet willing to go and "cut the ego outo us" as, otherwise, we wouldn't attain anything.Previously, we didn't have the mindset to reach thatinternal decision.

I hope that today, with the help o the general eortand the help o the authors oThe Book o Zohar, we


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will attain that. I don't think we had the opportunity

to attain that prior to opening the televisionchannel which elevated us to another degree o ourinternality.

Excerpt rom the virtual lesson on The Book o Zohar, Nov. 15, 2009


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The Zoharas the Means orSalvation

Question: Is there a group eeling o the Creator?

There is personal, individual attainment and there

is group attainment. For now, were at the stage oindividual attainment and are attempting to shit intogroup attainment. Thats the uture o the world romour generation orward. The wisdom o Kabbalah hasbeen specically revealed today in order to lead theentire world to group attainment.

Thats the reason were now beginning to studyTheBook o Zoharwhich was composed by a group andis revealed only in a group. The primary issue is themutual connection among people that resembles theconnection among the members o Rabbi Shimon

Bar Yochai's group who wrote this book.As previously mentioned, the world stands beore a


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new era in which the revelation must be in a group.

Actually, the whole world is one group. Thats identicalto the events near Mount Sinai. Hatred existed amongpeople but they were told, "I you do not demand theCreator now, then here, with the hatred amongst you,shall be the place o your burial."

Despite the hatred, one condition was set beorethem which was to bond as one man with one heart.However, that's impossible as I hate everyone so muchthat I can't bear to look at them even i it costs me mylie! Then, the Creator, the Upper Force, is revealedspreading peace between these two opposites. The

spiritual vessel is the depth o the egoistic desire rombelow, the screen rom above, and the Upper Lightresiding between them.

We have to reach the situation in which, on the onehand, we hate each other, on the other hand, we loveeach other, and yet we demand the revelation o theorce o bestowal among us.


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Thats what stands beore our generation. Were in the

process o advancement toward global unity and thatswhy were studying The Book o Zohar. Were preparedor it, undoubtedly. We hope the world will also reachthe realization that such a possibility exists and that itwill happen peaceully.

Excerpt rom daily Kabbalah lesson December 4, 2009


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The Book of ZoharIs Open to All

Question: What should be the internal work o aperson watching the Internet or television duringthe reading oThe Zohar?

The Book o Zoharis an opportunity or us all to revealthe true reality within us. A person who organizes andsorts out our current reality, along with revealing itsinternality, senses within not only this world but thespiritual world as well. Then, he doesnt encounterany confict between the corporeal world seemingly

outside o him and the spiritual world inside himor between the concealed and the revealed. Rather,everything is revealed within his desires. Correctiono our desires allows us to open our ability to see themand to eel them.

Its important to stress that even people who arent asprepared as we are to perceive The Zoharcan join thestudies and gain the exact same qualities. Its similar


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to a baby born today. The adults provide him with

all o his needs based on what was prepared or themin previous generations and adapted to the level otodays world.

Thus, those inants joining us today who are ournew members can merit the exact same revelations we

expect and there is no dierence between us. Theywill hear to the extent they are willing to hear, to theextent o their unity with us, and their annulmentbeore the studies. When I hear that they are anxiousand anticipating, and perhaps even reverent o thisstudy, I am lled with joy because such a eeling is

a vital condition or connecting with The Book o Zohar.

Excerpt rom the daily Kabbalah lesson, December 7, 2009


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Preparation or Studying The Bookof Zohar

Preparation or studying The Zoharshould be specialand emotional. It should be a type o yearning

like craving or a loved one. There are no words todescribe it. This emotion should involve a little pain,a little desire, and a little love. It should be like asilent concern or the object o your desire, internaland constant, and a type o longing. It should be apreparation and not an assault. It shouldnt be crass or

intellectual, but a true inner bonding.Excerpt rom a Kabbalah lesson, Nov 13, 2009


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Constant Preparation or StudyingThe Zohar

The Zohar requires great preparation o us prior toits reading, while reading and ollowing the reading,

and actually, all the time. It elevates the individual toa certain degree rom which he mustnt all. From themoment he starts reading the book and onwards, hislie begins to operate on two levels. On one level, heexists within the text oThe Zoharand, simultaneously,on the level o beast as well. However, rom the

moment he is at the level o studying The Zohar, henever leaves it.

Hence, all the other scriptures we read should be anaddition or discerning and providing additional toolsto help us merge with this text. Everything, includingin regular lie and in our connection with riends,already constitutes an added contribution to perceive,to permeate, and to be amiliar with this book.


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Accordingly, each one should organize all o reality

and his entire lie.I remember that when I began studying The Book oZohar, it truly designated a type o change which wasa dramatic change or me. The power oThe Zoharisound in the way it stabilizes the individual and leads

him to a certain steady state in which he remains allthe time. The Zoharprovides us with a certain spiritand height and then, everything we do becomes anaddition which increases that height.



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The Condition or OpeningTheBook of Zohar

I think that studying about the three lines is thecritical area where one should demand eeling. This

is because working with the three lines is all-inclusive:restricting the desire to receive, elevating to Binah,merging with the Creator, receiving the orce obestowal rom Him on top o ones original desire, andbuilding the soul with receiving in order to bestowalong with the work o the ace. The three lines is

the comprehensive usable ormula or the creaturewithin the will to receive rom the beginning o ourwork until the end o correction.

While studying about the three lines, we shoulddemand reactions and eelings resembling those weexperience when engaged in internal struggles olie similar to cases in which we encounter an innerconfict such as when you must get up but cant, or


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when there is candy in ront o you and you debate

whether to eat it or not. I we turn that demand intoa general prayer, it will surely happen.

Excerpt rom the daily Kabbalah lesson, September 21, 2009


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greatest extent, and to live reality with a single desire.

The Creator created one desire and we exist withinit. The Book o Zohar tells us about that desire andall that takes place within it. We would like to see,understand, eel, and to experience everything takingplace within that entire desire called reality. Its o

extreme importance to continue that inspiration andthat enlightenment as much as possible when we leavethe lesson and not to let it be extinguished.

Excerpt rom the daily Kabbalah lesson, November 22, 2009


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The Approach toStudying

The Book of Zohar


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Awakening Mysel intoConsciousness

Some people thinkThe Zoharspeaks o morals as iturning to us as a kindergarten teacher would to herchildren, saying, "You should be nice to each other.Others think that The Zohartells us about the world

or spiritual mysticism way out there disconnectedrom us. Some think that The Zohartells us nothingbut, rather, it constitutes a certain connection separaterom us in a way understood only by Kabbalists. Andthen there are others who read it as a type o remedyor health or success in lie.

There are numerous approaches and were comprisedo them all. Were in an ocean o preconceived notionsregarding The Book o Zohar and we need to ghtthem. All o those notions exist within us and areinfuencing us through the public ater thousands o

years o viewing The Zoharthis way. Hence, we needto constantly work on ourselves.


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Out o all o those approaches, we choose the rst and

oremost one which is the perception o reality. In themeantime, were not adding our internal work to itwhich is called the work o the Creator. Its possibleto add many discernments and urther searching tothe study since The Zohartells us o a complete entity,o true reality, and the dierent discernments therein.

However, we dont wish to do so.

When we start studying The Book o Zohar, we desireto establish the proper approach to the written word.I dont care whats written; Ill know that aterwardwhen The Zoharopens to me, when the Surrounding

Light that it brings infuences me, when I begin to beinspired, and, to a certain extent, when I work withreality as its revealed.

In the meantime, I must only direct mysel the entiretime, upholding mysel, and maintaining my properapproach to the opening o the book. I dont open itmystically but I permeate the material itsel. I openthe book and I see my inner attributes which are


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only my desires and nothing else beyond that. My

inner, spiritual anatomy is depicted beore me. I dontopen my biological body but my soul which is alsomade o those same parts as my body. In addition, itincludes everything I see in the surrounding world aseverything exists within the soul. Those are the parts Iwant to identiy and to concentrate on now.

Thats how we need to teach ourselves to relate to TheZohar. The Zoharspeaks o the soul alone. The soulis the entire desire created by the Creator and I wishto discern all o its levels, attributes, and connectionswithin.

So, lets continue to maintain this approach all thetime. It can be compared to a baby who, beorebeginning to understand the world and respond to it,must rst see that the world exists. Thats why we playsomething or him or give him something shiny. Wewant it to enter his eld o vision and sight. Likewise,or now, we only need to discern the qualities spokeno in this book.


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Surely, were not capable o doing that on our own

but the approach, the exertion, is what allows theSurrounding Light to infuence us. This means, tothe extent we desire to be acquainted with the thingswe read, they seem to radiate their requency onto ussince all o reality is nothing other than requencies.

Every object and each discernment has a certainrequency. When I try to acquaint mysel withthem, I get a certain requency in response, calledSurrounding Light and senses begin to awaken inme. Since those senses exist in me, the Reshimoexists and I only need to orce mysel to draw near

to that rst image which is within me but not yet inmy consciousness. I need to orce mysel back intoconsciousness.

Excerpt rom daily Kabbalah lesson, December 24, 2009


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Being Impacted byTheZoharLike a Baby

Nature has set up a very strange entrance or man intothis world. When hes born, no one explains anything

to him upront. He isnt told who his mother and atherare nor given the emotions nor intellect acquired byprevious generations.

Hes born as "a piece o fesh" and later, begins to haveimpressions o this world such as heat, cold, darkness,light, sounds, noise, and silence. In the very beginning,

he eels nothing and responds to nothing. Only aterseveral weeks, we notice that he suddenly respondsdierently to various things. He starts responding tohis mother and to things that are done with him. Hestarts crying, laughing, and becoming aware o theworld. Suddenly, he has an internal drive to know hissurroundings and his body. Thats how he grows. Itsa true wonder.


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On the other hand, an animal is amiliar with his

world within the rst ew weeks. Ater a ew days, hecan already get along in the world to a certain extent.Thats quite dierent to man whos not capable odoing anything without help physically rom theoutside. I we were to leave him in the orest, he wouldgrow up like a beast by adapting to his habitat.

All o man's growth in our world results romimpressions, examples, behavior patterns, and ormsexisting in our world. We create orms and games orchildren to take apart and put together. We use colors,sounds, and everything possible. Its all in order to

develop a person so hell be ready to go out into ourworld. Instinctively, were built so that we wish to givechildren everything we have because, otherwise, hewont be t or lie. Thats a desire that arises in usnaturally and we cant infuence it in any way.

Its impossible to "plug man in" to a certain computerand load him with an array o knowledge withouthim gradually going through the necessary stages. We


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cant develop senses, responses or sensitivities other

than in a gradual ashion through various impressions.It usually takes approximately twenty years or evenmore. Actually, even we, the adults, are still learning.Were disappointed by not suciently knowing ourworld. Suddenly, at the age o 40, 50, or 60, we startthinking, "I I had only known this beore" Man

continues to develop throughout his entire lie.

The same applies in spirituality except that, inspirituality, one needs to discover where his motherand ather and his surroundings are. Where are theorms, the games, sounds, and colors, necessary or

his growth? I he doesn't receive them, he wont be tto emerge into the spiritual world; it wont open orhim and he wont recognize it.

Imagine leaving a newborn as is without investingin him but only sustaining him and no more. What would become o him? He would remain "a pieceo meat." Its the same with us. I we don't receiveconstant, new, and dierent impressions rom the


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outside, even when we don't understand them similarly

to a baby who doesnt understand whats happeningaround him, we wont be able to grow. In spirituality,we must ll ourselves with various infuences rom theoutside although these are truly external impressionsrom the spiritual world exterior to us. That infuenceis provided to us byThe Book o Zohar.

Hence, its such a unique book. No other book aectspeople like The Book o Zohar. A person who readsand hears can understand a little more, a little less, ornot at all. It makes no dierence. This book lls himwith all kinds o impressions and infuences o which

he, himsel, is unaware. However, gradually, similarlyto the period it takes or us to grow up, we studyTheZoharand receive constant impressions rom it. Thoseimpressions will permeate us and they, themselves,take care o our advancement.

O course, we will be accompanying the reading oThe Book o Zoharwith certain explanations in orderto allow people to connect with it to a certain extent.


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Yearning "to Understand What IsBeing Taught"

The Book o Zohar is divided into dierent portionsand some o which seem to be very "dry." Some

portions are written in the language o Kabbalah,others in the language o the Bible, and still others inthe language oHalacha(Jewish law) which discussvarious holidays and the like.

However, we need not pay attention to the wordsthemselves. It doesnt matter to me what the word is

that I hear since the Kabbalists took these words romthis world. The world itsel seems to have nothing todo with what they would like to convey to me. Whatsimportant to me is only to receive a sort o "innerpinch" or a sensation instead o the word.

Baal HaSulam writes in The Preace to the TalmudEsser HaSefrot, letter 255, that we should approach


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the scriptures with a strong desire and urge to

understand what is studied. Understanding meansto be excited, inspired, and connected. As its written,"And Adam knew Eve his wie," which means tohave an internal connection since its rom that desirethat we draw the Surrounding Light. In other words,knowledge means nothing; its only the desire thats

meaningul.

Thereore, its o utmost importance to me to desirea eeling o whats happening here rather thanunderstanding these words because its not possible toacquire the spiritual world with the intellect. We need

new vessels developed only through our desire whichdraw the Light that Reorms or the "SurroundingLight."

Surely these words dont evoke particular inspirationas they are very dry. However, i despite these drywords, I search or the emotion and the image thatshould be depicted within me or in my desire, thisgives me even greater benet than i I read and am


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impressed with other expressions or those written in a

dierent language such as that o the Bible, Halachah,or legends, or example. Even though the languageo Kabbalah is "dry," its actually the languagewhich evokes a greater deciency in us or spiritualadvancement.



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Perceiving Reality Like a Baby

Question: What should I desire to eel when I readabout "Elijah," or "Noah," or example?

Imagine youre a baby about to be born except that, inaddition to the "clothing" of a baby, you will also havethe understanding of a mature adult from the previousincarnation. How would you accept the world? How wouldyou open it? Imagine what you would feel as an infant.

In other words, you exist and your exterior exists, andboth of those matters are different; they are two separate

worlds. How do you now reveal the world? You knownothing but you try to absorb it. You have no reference foreach and every object. It can be compared to the NativeAmericans who didnt perceive Columbuss ships when theyapproached America's beaches since they had no patternsof those ships. You simply want to perceive, understand,and become familiar with the world in some way.

Excerpt rom daily Kabbalah lesson, November 28, 2009


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Aiming Mysel toward theGoal with the Words

The possibility o being able to change ourselves byreading a certain book is truly amazing in the way it

allows us to eel as i were in a world which, at thatmoment, cant be elt or even imagined. With everyslight change happening within us here, even i its onemillimeter toward that world, it already brings aboutso many huge changes like ascents, descents and allsorts o changes that we cant even comprehend.

Suddenly were hazy. Suddenly, we nd ourselves inthe darkness and in dierent moods. You suddenlyeel tall or suddenly you eel short. However, these stillarent spiritual changes but rather are psychologicalones resulting rom us becoming more sensitive tothe occurrences in our world. The true question ariseshere as to how that can be. Where is that orce, that"device," that causes such a great shit that I cant even


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explain? Certainly, the language o The Zohar is so

unique that I constantly search or ways to explainhow it works.

We have an unidentiable goal which is a separateand concealed world so distant and opposite to usthat we have no contact with it and no possibility o

identiying it. However, we can aim ourselves towardit i we have two things along the way. Similar to usinga rife, we have, rstly, a scope and, secondly, an intentwhich we use to aim at the target and we will denitelyhit it. How can that be done with TheBook o Zohar?Instead o a scope, we have a heart and a point in

the heart, and we have a mind which is undoubtedlyconnected to the heart supplying it with all its needs.Likewise, we have our ve senses.

In order to aim ourselves toward our goal, we need tounderstand that The Zohardescribes various imagesin the language o Midrashsuch as, "Every rst borno an ass you shall redeem with a lamb." It uses termssuch as "lamb", "mule", "ox", "cow", "Holy Temple",


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"sacrices", "Teflin o the arm", and "Teflino the

head"along with all sorts o terms rom the languageo the Midrashthat depict a corporeal image or us,meaning objects, actions and various things rom thisworld. I should expect that at a certain moment whilereading The Book o Zohar, I will begin to sense thedesires and qualities behind all o the amiliar terms

rom this corporeal world.

This is not about spiritual concepts like "in order tobestow", "intent to bestow", "Creator", or somethingrom some unknown world, rather its about myqualities to the extent that Im capable o depicting

them. In other words, I exist and behind every word,two things exist which are the physical image rom thisworld and the desires rom the spiritual world. I Imcapable o depicting these two concepts within me, iI am able to detect that behind every word there is adesire which increases, decreases, does something, or

connects with something, I begin to ascribe emotionsto them because the emotions are desires. I begin


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to notice how they exist within me and play with

me. They begin to live within me and thats alreadysomething great. Its a sign that Im aimed toward thegoal. That means that my other scope is aimed at thegoal and, even though I cant yet see the goal, I stillaim or it.

Excerpt rom the evening lesson "Zohar or All", January 30, 2010


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Ascending rom the Branches to theRoots

Question: Why do we need to understand thespiritual interpretation o every word oThe Zoharrather than its simple, physical explanation?

The Torahshouldnt be lowered to this world. We needto ascend rom the branches to the roots or rom thisworld upward. We shouldn't take the spiritual worldand lower it to our world. In any case, we don't havethe same rules in our world. What would we gain by

that? We would gain nothing more than unproductiveimagination.

All o the conusion in our reality stems rom peoplenot understanding spirituality and not being in it.They imagine what spirituality is and then clothe itin corporeal orces. For example, it would be as i Ihave the orce o giving in my right hand or the orceo receiving in my let hand or that my body has some


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parts which are more sacred than others.

All o those things are absolutely unacceptable. Wemustnt connect anything spiritual to things weunderstand and eel in our reality in this world.There is nothing sacred in our world. Theres nothingsacred in the still, vegetative, animate, speaking, or in

anything carried out in our world. The Book o Zoharis considered "holy" because its the means through which I can ascend into holiness. "I," meaning thepoint in the heart, belongs to the spiritual world orthe holy world and it resides within me. Contrary tomy entire nature, one little point exists within me and

through that means I can ascend to the holy world orto bestowal.

Still, its not the paper or the print which areconsidered holy. The letters in the book arent holy."Holy" is the unity between the Light and the vesselwhich is symbolized by that letter.



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The World Resides Within Me

When I approach reading The Zohar, I must do thatout o unity with the entire world or all o reality.Everything is within me. There is nothing other thanme and other than the Creator.

How can I include them all within me? I can includethem only i I sense them as my own: "As my own"means by love o them. However, even without usingthe term "love," I must approach the text rom mypoint which is rom the realization that man is a smallworld and the entire world is within me.

I stand beore the Upper Light or beore the Creatorwith all o the qualities and observations and with allthat I have. I dont imagine anything outside me. Ihave no history, no geography and no universe. Thereis nothing other than me, the Creator, and the screen

existing between us which is the relationship that Ineed to build with Him.Excerpt rom the daily Kabbalah lesson, December 15, 2009


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Viewing Reality Correctly

I I take all o the orms and explanations that Ilearned in school regarding the Bible, Jacob, Esau,Issac, Abraham and everything told in The Zoharandapproach the studying oThe Zoharsimilarly, I enter

a state o great conusion. I dont concentrate at all onwhat The Zoharis actually telling me. While reading,I need to emerge into space as i there is no Earth or asi it only appears that everything that once happenedto him actually took place. I need to understandthat time, motion, and place are imaginary notionsexisting in our mind alone and there is no such thing.I call reality the act that I imagine that somethingexisted two-thousand years ago and even go and digand nd certain bones. All o that exists within mymind and my emotions. However, I wish to elevate

to the correct discernments regarding the desirewith "reshimot."I wish to explore the desire with the"reshimot"and not that archaeology.


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I want to view this entire world as existing within my

desire and, truly thats where it exists. I must transerto the true perception o reality and not to what Iimagine. I want to view you as patterns or as gureswithin my desire and not only as bodies sitting herebeore me. I wish to see all o reality with my desireincluding the Creator. When that happens, it will be

"Malchut o Ein So"and I am located within her. Ineed to condense it all into one and to accept thateverything exists within one desire.

Why do I see so many gures, actions, operations,and motions dependent on time, motion, or place,

physically or spiritually? It results rom the Lightwhich the Creator created in me. It gradually leads meto the true, correct eeling. I I want to perceive thecorrect reality, I mustnt see something and relate to itas occurring outside o my desire. From the time we

were born, we have become accustomed to viewing this

movie in a ashion as i something is there outside o us.However, this entire movie takes place in our desire.


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We will have to conduct a "war" with ourselves time

and time again and convince ourselves that everythingtakes place inside the desire. This approach doesnterase reality because the desire is reality. Even whenI encounter something now, its the desire. Theeeling that something is happening around me nowconstitutes desires as well and orces depicted as such

beore my eyes.

Why don't you imagine that those orms you see onthe screen exist in the computer? This is because youknow that there are electrical orces stabilizing thatorm or you. In comparison, you arent aware o our

world, because you cant see the "screen" upon whichits being lmed. Baal HaSulam says that there is apart in the back o our head with a "camera" throughwhich we view the world as i it were outside o us.This means we also have a "screen" and all sorts oelectrical orces stabilizing the image we see. It only

seems like the stabilized image upon it is external.

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Trying is o Primary Importance

A person studying The Zohargoes through great andvarious changes. Firstly, he changes his ocus on liewhich means the matters to which he pays attentionto or not. Secondly, he becomes more introspectivein his inner emotions; thirdly, his relationship with

others changes and he makes more space or that.

A person studying The Zoharsuddenly starts to thinkabout the actions he reads in The Zoharand to viewthem as more internal acts than our world. Clearly,a person studying The Zohar, changes. The Zohar

changes him, calms him, makes him more internal,more serious, and more goal-oriented. The Zohar'sinfuence is very strong and is not at all dependenton the extent o his comprehension; rather on hisexertion or the extent to which he tries to perceivewhat is taking place here and whats being discussed.

Excerpt rom daily Kabbalah lesson, December 27, 2009


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The Reward is in accordance withthe Eort

The Book o Zohar deliberately leaves us room orexertion, room or attempting to understand and to

eel: "What is this? What or? Where is it within me?"Since all it describes takes place within each and everyindividual.

Even now I am perorming these acts that are spokeno in The Book o Zohar, since I am now in the worldo Innity as well. However, there are 125 degrees o

concealment o my true state between my presenteeling and the world o Innity. In order to returnto the eeling o the World o Innity, such a story isdeliberately presented to me, so I will try to nd withinme everything thats told therein. That searchingactually bears new qualities, vessels o perceptionand inner discernments within me, through which Ibegin to eel what I cant eel now. Otherwise, I wont


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The Correct Eort while StudyingThe Zohar

All o our ocus, our entire search, is always within. Actually it happens unconsciously even when

we use the spoken language, slang, we say, Hes ascattered person, whereas he is more extroverted,more introverted, more ocused, etc. Its because wesense thats how things operate in nature.

Each one o us has to search the more internal state.Actually, we will never be able to detect a higher state

than the internal one adjacent to us. I may imagine,antasize the World oEin So, but eventually I willdiscover that its the one right next to me, slightlyabove my current state.

Thereore all the orces I draw together and all o

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matters, those he didnt see or recognize previously.

Thats how we are. In the same text we will discovernew discernments, new connections, since everythingis measured by those who receive it. Thats all o our work. Nonetheless, this process will lead us to therevelation that the entire world is within us, thereore,

the riends impact on us must also maniest in thecommon thought o attaining this internality anddiscovering it. When we detect that internality, wereveal that were situated there together, that all o uscomprise this image. Each and every one discoverseveryone there, inside.

At a certain stage, all o these orces, all o the qualities,all o the discernments will accumulate, and there willbe no confict between them whatsoever. Thats thework. Hence, it makes no dierence how much weunderstand, rather it's the eort.



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OpeningThe Zohar

I am telling you rom experience that while readingThe Book o Zohar, only exercises help, more andmore exercises. Its not just an obtuse book, since iwe actually succeed in unblocking it, we can enter

through it, like through a locked gate, into spirituality.However, it can happen only i I want to sense myinner world in the entire text.

In that way, time and time again, day ater day,without even knowing how, all o a sudden, we will

advance to a situation in which we will begin tosense something. Suddenly, ater every single wordwe will eel inner reactions. Thus, similar to a babydiscovering the world, instinctively and naturally, wewill suddenly eel that a certain reality, a new world issuddenly depicted.



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Focusing on Reality

Try to penetrate the heart, with all o its thick layerswithin, and try to detect what is taking place in theselayers because something is happening; only we donot eel it. The Zoharis situated there, the Creator is

there, and the entire worldeverything exists thereinside, within the heart, within our desire, except Iam not conscious o that and I cant detect it. I amsimply sealed, as i intoxicated, unconscious o whatis truly happening within me. Ater all, were in the World o Innity and everything exists. The onlything we need to do is to try harder to enter inside,probe and scrutinize where each and every thing issituated therein.

It can be described dierently: Lets say we have acamera through which we should see the reality inside

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other actions, in order or the things The Zohartells

me to come into my ocus, and then I will be ableto see. Right now, everything is blurred and I canhardly see anything at all. Consequently, I look insidemysel and see which qualities I need to alter in orderto become closer to that, or it to enter my ocus, andor me to see those things with my inner camera.

Simply try, no matter rom which direction weapproach the issue, rather only the eort o searchingthe inner image is essential: What am I lacking inorder or it to happen? Where exactly in this imagedoes the whole o reality exist; I, all o the other souls,

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Making the Eort to Merge withThe Zohar

Question: While preparing or our lesson, we reada section which said that even i an individualdoesnt understand anything in The Zohar, he stillgains something?

Its incorrect that we do not need to understandanything, and that even a person who doesntunderstand gains something. A person gains,according to his eort to be included in what TheZoharsays. It doesnt matter i those are good things

or bad things, rather the importance is in passingthrough and experiencing them like an adventure.He should desire to fow with these waves The Zoharbrings, just like with an adventure book. He shouldlive it, be inspired, eel, cry, laugh everything; thatswhat he should desire. For a start, one needs no more

than that, and the mind will ollow later on.

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The Feeling o One Man withOne Heart

The Zoharis disclosure. However this disclosure canonly be within the will to bestow when he has some

kind o equivalence with the Light, since the Lightappears according to a quality similar to it. Meaning,to the extent one has the intent to bestow, to thatextent the book will open beore him. However, tothe extent one is not, the book will remain blocked,secret, hidden.

Thus, in order to direct ourselves correctly, rather thanout o the illusion that I would like to bestow untoall, may they all come orth, I am ready, the best andmost realistic thing to do is to make an eort to thinkthat were in one desire that includes within it all thepoints in our heart, all o our desires or spirituality.People sitting anywhere around the world watchingus right now, or here, watching tvwe all exist in one


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desire and cancel all the other desires, except or this

desire to slightly rise above our world, to unite andto eel as one man in one heart, and to some extentdiscover the Upper One. This intention should beconstant, and we need to keep it at least during thestudy.

In addition, we should remember that The Zoharonlyspeaks about a person and what takes place within eachand every one o us. It speaks about me, who wantsto discover spirituality, is comprised o everyone, andthat there is nothing else outside o me. The entireworld is within me, all o the observations are within

me, everything stated here wicked, righteous,Rabbi Shimon, Rabbi Haiya, Malchut, ZeirAnpin, Father and Mother, souls, worlds everything is inside me, just as we learned regardingthe perception o reality. There is nothing else.

So when I hear a certain word, I should think thatthere is nothing in the world right now, I am in a spacewith nothing in it, including the Creator. All is within


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me whereas outside o me there is nothing. The entire

book were now reading explains the topography tome, meaning my inner structure and what is takingplace within me.

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Everything Exists Only YourEorts Are Needed

The Torah speaks only o a persons internality, othe spiritual world existing within me. Desires to

bestow, instead o the will to receive, constitute thespiritual world.

At the moment, I perceive all o reality, everythingincluded in my sensations and emotions, within me and thats what is called this world, since I receiveit through absorption. Similarly, i I invert mysel

rom receiving through absorption to receiving bybestowing, I will reveal the spiritual world. So I needto be entirely ocused within, in order to detect thesediscernments within me.

You ask, why did they conuse us, the sages oThe

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such as: The bull ghting the cow, along with all

sorts o concepts; seeds, women, slaves etc, whator? One tells us oSephirotand worlds, the othertells about this world, about the labor o agricultureand the Holy Temple, whereas Moses tells us abouta certain history. Why do they tell us about what istaking place within us, in this ashion?

You do not yet understand, but trust them that bydeliberately conusing you in that ashion, they areable to direct you to enter the eeling o perceptionthrough bestowal. There is no world, no historyor worlds. Everything is in your will to receive.

However in order to lead that will to receive romreceiving inside itsel to using it to bestow by thatmeans, we must accept these images in this particularway. We need to make the eort to shit rom thisperception to another one. This eort leads us tosomething completely dierent.

Why? You do not know. Yet, just understand thatthere is nothing articial here. Rather, the images


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Moses expressed, or the sages o the Mishnah and

the Talmud or Kabbalists or those who wrote inthe language o the legends, are images describingthe Light and the vessel within us. There is nothingarticial here, as i someone were to suddenly writesomething, rather it happens naturally.

Hence, ater you hear it once, accept it and be sureo one thing only: You need to eel internally thatit speaks o you alone. Ask yoursel: How does thathappen? Which o my qualities, desires and thoughtsdo I label with all o these names; water, food,Creator, creature, Noah, wicked, righteous,

sons o Noah, all kinds o animals, the ark,the sky and earth? It makes no dierence. Everyword, even each letter and element comprising thatletter, each and every part, is actually a particulardiscernment within me. Who am I? I do not knowthat either. There is nothing other than one thing

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Just like a baby who doesnt know the language, is

not amiliar with or understands these words andwho doesnt comprehend why each and every letteris written such and not otherwise, so too do I wish todiscover everything rom zero right now. And then,when I discover everything rom zero, I reveal myseland the world and all thats within it, and thats what

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A Person is A Small World

Question: What is that special place toward whichThe Book of Zohardirects us?

The Zohardirects us only to open the world within

us, where there are all o the types o discernments: I,the world, the still, vegetative, animate, speaking andactually anything I can imagine, including mysel. Allo thats inside, within me. Thats how I should relateto mysel and The Book o Zoharwhich opens me tome. The Zohartells me about mysel, through all o

the historical and geographic observations I read in it.All o it takes place within me.

What does it mean takes place within me? I inact, am the screen, and the orce called the orceto receive is what paints all kinds o orms, characters

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o my will to receive. All o thats portrayed within my

desire, by the means o my will to receive.Baal HaSulam explains that within us there is a type

o photographic device which paints a pseudo-reality beore us. However, the act is that there isno reality, rather our will to receive acquires these

impressions rom the orce residing and operatingwithin it, which paints orms that we discern as still,vegetative, animate and human.

So, when I read The Book o Zohar, I have to pictureme as a small world, where everything is inside me the sea, mountains, colors, sounds, trees, people, and

everything taking place happens within me. Then, Igradually begin to shit rom the shapes The Zohardescribes to properties, qualities. Instead o readingnames and imagining animals, peoples, trees andeverything happening with them, I gradually shitto qualities, properties. They are only divided intotwo qualities bestowal and reception at dierentintensities and in all kinds o ways. This is how we


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should try to imagine these concepts.

As soon as I actually transcend into the world o theorces, I begin to see the truth: All o the orms I seenow are an imaginary world, whereas really theyare all orces, behind which I gradually identiy OneForce. Thats how we should read The Zohar.

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I Labored and I Found

Question :How does readingThe Zohar aect apersons emotions when he has just begun hisspiritual path?

For now its psychology: We read and attempt to enter

the text. A person entering the study is conused andincapable o nding himsel internally. Its not in vainthat its written, I labored and I ound. You havethe object o your labor, internal labor, rather thanmerely reading or hearing, but to constantly labor inthe attempt to connect this picture and invert it to the

true one as much as possible. It doesnt matter thatyou get conused at every given moment, run awayrom it and return once more. Thats actually good.But this eort, o signicantly trying to construct yourinternal world correctly at every moment is called Ihave labored, and later, I have ound will ollow,when you discover that which stands beore you.



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The Work o the Lord

While studying, a person should crave to know wherehe is, who he is, how he connects with the Creator,and how he reveals all o his qualities. Within themhe discovers: Thats me, reality, the system and thats

how I connect with the Creator. The entire world isinside me, and all that I discover is all o the souls.

The Zohar speaks exactly o this inner work. Heprovides us with what is called The eld that wasblessed by the Creator. By reading and searching or

all o those qualities and orces within him, The Zoharenables a person to nd the components o the soul,the extent to which he is capable o being in thesequalities or not, and what he is lacking in order to bein each and every one o them. The states a persongoes through, probes and discerns thats the true

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The Zohar tells us about the way to build this

connection between us, and the other details we readare insignicant. Thats because The Zohar speaksonly about the way I open my soul, thus eeling andconnecting in contact with the Creator.

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Searching or The ZoharWithin Me

The Zohar speaks o the internal scrutiny I mustconduct within. Not a single word here is about this

world, but only about a persons inner world. Man isa small world.

I must delve within me and nd which of my

qualities reect each word written here. There

are only two qualities within me: reception and

bestowal, nothing more.

Start digging inside and search, as i in the dark withthe light o a candle, where those two qualities residewithin you, the wayThe Zoharreers to them.

And then within you, a new space with a vast arrayo qualities o reception and bestowal will begin to berevealed, and all the words oThe Book o Zoharwillnd their place therein.


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Like a child who gradually learns to sense the world

around him, so a new internal world will be createdwithin you. Then you will realize that even this world,to which you are accustomed, is sensed within you.

In this manner The Book o Zoharchanges you. Butthis happens only i we search within or all thats being

read, without trying to judge everything intellectually,as something external to us.

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meantime I only hear, but I want to know it. Its all

my desire, its within me.I I want to know this desire, yearning or it like ababy, the Surrounding Light reaches me rom a clearerstate and shines toward me, and I begin to slightlysense that state. I begin to ascribe a eeling to each

such discernment one is not so pleasant, anotheris slightly more pleasant, one is lower, one is higher.Thats how I advance because we have nothing otherthan the eeling.



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Seeing the True Reality

When we sit with The Zohar, we read about theelements existing in our spiritual vessel. What is thespiritual vessel? It depends on my attitude. There isno corporeal vessel or spiritual vessel rather it depends

on the person. The spiritual vessel is revealed whenI begin to approach mysel and the entire world asone desire created by the Creator, which I only senseas thousands o desires, dierent qualities, movingin separate directions and or varied purposes eachis dierent, all is shattered and scattered in everydirection. From a state o not seeing the cause o whatis happening and where it all is going, I have to beginto approach it as one single entity, as one vessel, oreverything I see is my soul.

I have to assemble all o these data realistically to the

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In the meantime I do nothing, enabling the Light to

operate. As written: There is nothing new under thesun. I relate to everything as always and request theLight to scrutinize the correct picture called worldor me, these desires whether they are mine or not,whether they are inside or outside o me. I am stillconused. But gradually by studying I draw the Light,

try to be with everyone, think that were one vessel,and through that I begin to see the correct reality.

It can be resembled to a newborn baby beginning tosense reality he doesnt know where he is headedor what he is about to eel. Similarly, we also do not

know and do not need to know where were going.It will be revealed. How? It doesnt matter to me.Kabbalists only provide us with certain simple rules You should crave and i we do crave, we wonthave to do anything urther. Our action is only toopen ourselves as much as possible to the direction

rom which our new order should arrive.

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The Way to Enter the Feeling o theSpiritual World

I am teaching you how to "ocus" on the spiritualworld. To the extent you develop eyes or it, you will

be able to see it and then you will understand andeel. Its written "We can only judge what we see" and"I we do not attain, we wont know." What will yougain by knowing names i you haven't attained them?Thereore were now learning how to attain theseconcepts. "Attainment" means that its clear to me

through all my senses and intellect; I am in that state,I live it, am immersed in and comprised o it, it is I.

Were speaking o the way we enter that eeling. Similarto the way an inant enters this world, naturally andsimply. Can we give intellectual reasoning? What can we explain to him? First, he must be lled with allkinds o impressions. Aterwards, he attains variousobservations: This is hot, thats cold, this is light, thats


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dark, this is hard, thats sot, etc. As a result he begets

intellect, which teaches him that this is good or himand thats bad or him. He is drawn to this but not tothat. However, all o thats only ater he reveals thoseobservations. Similarly, were now about to revealthe spiritual reality, and thats what were discussing.Hence, there is no point asking me "What is that on

the inside?" because its not up or discussion. I wantus to learn only about the way to enter such a eeling. We have to take the way we view this world anddeliberately "break the ocus." Not to see this world,rather to ocus on an entirely other spot, to ocus onit attentively and begin to see through it alone. Itresembles 3-D pictures, or when you look at them,at rst you do not see anything. However, when wedo not look at the picture's surace, when our ocusis spread out instead o ocused on the picture itsel,rather attempting to somewhat enter it, we begin to

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Yearning Is the Prayer

Prior to every portion we read rom The Zohar, we have to return to the intention. Were nowdealing with the internal Torah, revealed withina person. We have all kinds o thoughts, later

all kinds o desires are awakened in us, and wealso have all kinds o qualities; and within theircore, the spiritual reality were reading about isrevealed. Hence, all o our concentration andanticipation should ocus on revealing this realityinside, within us.

I should constantly tend to that, to try to seewhere and how I respond to it: Is anything withinme shiting in correspondence with these words?Even imagine it, it doesnt matter. Try to locatethese internal motions, and the yearning itsel

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we will add our interconnection to the habit,

since The Zoharwas written only in order to buildthat connection.

And even this interconnection, is not amongstthe bodies, rather inside, within us. Within me,all o the points o all o the souls exist, each

and every one, and I have to construct thatconnection within, between what is called the "I"and the image, the model o all the rest o thesouls. Within that connection I build my internalspiritual vessel, within which Divinity will berevealed. In other words, all concentration should

be internal.It makes no dierence which words we read. Wecan read words that remind us o names or placesrom the Bible, or all kinds o plants and animals,or work in the Holy Temple, or all sorts o humanactions, such as love, hate, birth, or death. It makesno dierence. We have to constantly rememberthat they all reer only to my internal phenomena.


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I do not hear the word itsel, rather wish to locate

what is behind it, the response I should have towardit, and only then do I understand the meaning othe word. It is so, because the words themselveshave been taken rom this world, but they shouldlead me to an inner sensation o the internal world,the Upper world.



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Hardships as Blessings

We should relate to The Zoharas a remedy. What Iread is not important, whereas the searching itselis, the desire to locate in me all thats happeninginternally. There are times when a person succeeds in

that and he "fourishes," reacting internally to everyword, and sometimes he doesnt. However, we haveto understand that i we say that primarily during thestudy oThe Zohar, it is the eort put orth, so actually,the dicult times when I exert mysel yet nd nothingin the text, but orce mysel to continue, those are themost useul times or my advancement; much morethan other times, in which I seem to be able to nd apositive reaction or every word in the text, discoverdiscernments within me and am inspired. In short,"The opinion o "Torah" is opposite o the opinion o

the landlords," as Rabash, my teacher used to say.In act, in situations when its dicult or us to


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penetrate the text, we achieve a great deal rom every

tiny eort, compared to situations in which you areinspired and do not exert yoursel, rather allow yourselto go with the fow, and thus lose out. In other words,particularly the times when a person hangs on withhis teeth are the most ecient. Those

are the conditions or actual work, in which we haveto try to concentrate ourselves inward, urther andurther and to locate that particular word or concept within us, that combination o them, etc. By theseeorts, we grow, like a baby.

Sometimes, when I work on texts, it takes me three

or our hours to enter the text and see something. Iknow nothing can be done, other than the exertionthat must be made and the time that needs to pass.Actually, those hours when I anticipate entering it arethe best hours or advancement.

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to gain, and you are being told that now is the time to

exert yoursel. Bring your strength, ocus yourselves,try and you will succeed. So let's not miss those thingsand "open" ourselves, search inside us or all thediscernments o which The Zoharspeaks.



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Yearning or Sanctity in the Dark

When I read The Book o Zohar, I should yearn tosense that it speaks o me. It tells me in a very strange way, somewhat weird, what is happening insideo me, and me alone. I have a liver, lungs, kidneys,

spleen, digestive system, etc. Besides those systems, Ialso have emotions and that alone is spoken about inthis book. Within that eeling there are many desires,qualities, thoughts, urges o sorts. I have to ask mysel:Other than my fesh, who is the human being insideme and what do I see? Exactly what the authors oThe Zohardescribe here to us. Within this "person"inside me, there are qualities called "Jacob", "Esau","ox" "ass", "birds, trees, Adam, and Noahs ark.Tree is a very special desire in me, a unique quality.The "ark" is a special quality within which I can hide

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me? In truth, it doesnt give me anything, nothing at

all. However, by trying to locate these things, a orcecalled The Light that Reorms reaches you, and orit you should yearn. Lets say you leave the lesson andsay to yoursel: I succeeded! Today I elt I understoodwho Jacob, Esau, Israel and others are. Well, so what?It means nothing. Its possible that the next time you

leave, you will say to yoursel: I didnt understandanything, everything is dry, I couldnt concentrate. Imanaged to make an eort to detect it inside me oronly a ew minutes. Yet, those ew minutes are yourprot.

Thats concealment. Only one who invests himsel,respecting these times when there is the sensation otastelessness and a lack o enlightenment, and yethe still wants to advance toward bestowal, he aloneprots.

Its not in vain that Baal HaSulam writes in the "ThePreace to the Talmud Esser HaSerot" that the stateso concealment are actually the ones in which you can


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exert yoursel, and show that you truly long to be near

the Creator. Its undoubtedly completely opposite toeverything were accustomed to in this world wherewe judge everything according to our egoistic eeling.

Hence, whoever works in the dark and eels itspointless, needs to understand that these situations

are very useul or advancement toward bestowal,to such an extent that with time, he wont wish orother states, rather will realize that the eort is thereward. Those moments in which you are beinggiven the opportunity to exert yoursel, withoutreceiving anything that revives your ego, your evil

inclination, your pride, understanding, intellect, oreeling yet you still have the opportunity to straina little and make immense eorts those are the bestsituations. The ability to reach such a point o contactwith Sanctity in the darkness constitutes the reward.During those states, you are clearly not being bribed

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They are the means or a persons growth. Surely, the

support o the society and the general inspiration andexcitement are vital, including our riends all aroundthe world. When you do not receive support romthe Creator (although it does appear rom Him) youcan long or the support o the group, and thats best.A public prayer is appropriate here, or true, correct

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Persistence and Exertion in theRight Direction

Question: What is more important while studyingThe Book of Zohar: Persistence, exertion or

intellectual preparation?Only exertion and persistence are necessary, withoutany intellect. In The Preace to the Talmud EsserHaSerot", letter 133, it describes the way a personattempts to climb a mountain as all the king's guardsconsistently stop him. He has to pass those guards,

be wiser, more persistent, and stronger. He has toovercome all o those hardships and somehow getup this mountain, thus being worthy o reaching theking.

Surely physical tness is not the issue here, wisdom

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right direction a group that assists you in directing

yoursel. Thats all thats needed persistence inrevealing the goal and patience in its attainment. I tellyou this out o my own experience and that o manyo my students.

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Constructing the CorrectApproach to Lie

Yesterday, someone asked me: "How should I behavein my lie when I hear that everything is inside, that

everything is within me? How should I view the world?How should I view my loved ones, my enemies, andin general everything that goes on around me?" Iunderstand that people get conused when they hearo various internal observations, but they have tounderstand that there is a desired situation and reality,

meaning what we sense exists, and "we can only judgewhat we see." Hence, we have to work and have totalk.

On the other hand, we aim ourselves to attain truervision, more internal, and independent o ego, ourwill to receive. We aim to disclose the concealment, toreveal the truth and to exist in a world o two orces:The orce o the Creator and the orce o the creature.


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Thats a dierent world rom the one we live in today,

where the orce o the Creator is concealed and onlythe orce o the creature is revealed. In addition, welearn that there is another reality, in which we see it allas two orces within us, with no reality outside.

However, these things arent realistic yet. Were

incapable o understanding that were in a movie andthat our lives change to the extent this movie changes. We still think something may happen with ourworld, since in the meantime we only see one angleo reality.

Hence, when we speak o what The Zoharwants to

bring us, we should still try to truly enter it, eventhough we will return to lie in our world aterwards.However, while I read The Zoharand am immersedin it, I have to truly be there, since I am still incapableo being in two worlds. In the meantime, I am onlyin my present state and thereore have to disconnectrom it and try to construct the true image. This islike a child who wishes to behave as an adult and or


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everyone to always treat him like an adult, rather than

occasionally.Thats how we should imagine it with all our sensesand antasize as much as possible, that o which TheZohar speaks, the new world in which we reside.Meaning, the attributes we now own and in which we

view our new reality. In this reality we live within ourdesires the desire o the Creator and in our desires,in two desires which are revealed as contradictorywithin us. We sense them and are situated betweenthem as a third line, as "I," and outside o me nothingexists: The two orces and the "I" situated between

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Raising the Point in the HeartAbove the Disturbances

At times during the lesson, a person's thoughtsregarding all kinds o corporeal problems take over,

as i he must solve them at this particular time.Corporeal" problems mean anything belongingto this world, through which we have to rise to thespiritual world.

These corporeal problems depicted beore us are ourtools, which, by overcoming them, we ascend. Indeed,

work, the bank, the supermarket, health, children, etc.are spiritual degrees that descended into this worldand stand beore you with all their conficting traits.The bank, the ATM, health, etc. are degrees throughwhich you have to push yoursel into spirituality, theyare a sort o dense and tight sieve through which youmust pass.


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The dicult conditions the Upper degrees create or

you cause you to eel the necessity or the Light thatReorms. Hence, particularly when times are dicultor a person, you should separate the point in the heartrom the pile o corporeal problems and thoughts andrise above them. I a person pulls himsel togetherand continues to consistently read and study The

Book o Zohar, then the obscurity, og and conusiondissipate.

The Light works upon us! Time will overcome whatthe mind cant. The Book o Zoharis particularly strongin that area. We only need to give it the chance to fow

reely through us. We should read each section oTheZohar, absorb it so it may ll all our cells and all oour anticipation.



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Above All Conusion andDisturbances Try Clinging

to the Friends

Question: How does our reading now, during the

lesson help us intermingle and attain the defciencyor the revelation o the Creator?

You should unite with all o the riends with your mindand emotion, however, primarily with the emotionand not with the intellect. Likewise, we need to do

this everywhere around the world and with the entireworld, since all o us those who understand, thosewho do not understand, those who are conscious, orpartially conscious, it makes no dierence were allparts o"Malchut"o "Atzilut." There is nothing below"Malchut"o "Atzilut." I we correct Her, everything

will turn into the world o "Atzilut," and will ascendeven higher into the world o "Ein So.


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Thereore, we must rst think about us all being in

the system. Secondly, we should desire to sense thatsystem. That system is me. Everything written andspoken about takes place within me alone "water","wicked", "righteous", "buildings", "breakings","destruction" no matter what, it all speaks o me.And not only o me, but what I am built o and in

that which I am included. I want to experience thoseparts, experience those images, those states o whichThe Book o Zoharspeaks.

The Zoharprovides you with the patterns: "Malchut"isin the orm o "Divinity", "maidservant", "mistress",

"destruction"; you are in a certain situation toward"Yesod", "Tieret", toward all thats situated belowthe Tieret. It constantly gives you various situationsand you need only to want to sense and actually residewithin them, since surely, were all situated in all othose states, images, and layers within us. All is there;

I need only to attain it, meaning to eel that pictureinside me.


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However, there surely is occasional haziness, sometimes

o the senses and other times o the intellect. Attimes theres conusion with other issues. Sometimesyou suddenly picture this world. It speaks o thedestruction o the Holy Temple, and all o a sudden,you think o the destruction in Jerusalem. How couldthat be? Yet, thats what you think. You begin to think

o Noah, Adam and Abraham, and about it all actuallyhaving taken place in ancient Babylon or all dierentkinds o such images. Sometimes you are in a stateo some dullness, causing you to picture all sorts ocorporeal orms.

Hence you get opportunities or exertion whereinyou can begin to concentrate once more and locatespirituality as i through binoculars, until it againbecomes clear to you and you enter it. Hence, byentering and exiting, you build yoursel anew eachtime.

Thus, "Its not the wise who learn", not with intellect,rather with patience. Read a portion and another


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portion, a week will pass and another one, perhaps

another month and then you will begin to eel howthis is working upon you.

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The Complete Kli (Vessel) orRevealingThe Zohar

The Zoharis not revealed unless studied in a group.Its impossible to study The Zohar alone because

The Zoharwas written by a group o Kabbalists whoormed a complete Kli. All o the ten authors oTheZohar ormed a complete Kli, the ten undamentalSefrot. Each one o them represents a specic Sefra,a unique orce that the Creator created as a completeKli.

Thereore ,only i we long to orm such a perect Kliamong us will we receive this message rom them, andhave it aect us. Otherwise, it wont happen. I westudy and try to do this in any way possible, we willvery quickly eel how this orce, which is concealed inThe Zohar, aects and unites us. However, we will beable to receive their message and slightly perceive itonly to the extent o our unity.


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Understanding means The heart understands, are

desires which are already set up to comprehend thespiritual message, that which they want to convey tous emotionally. Its not possible to study intellectuallyand i its possible it is then the potion o death.

Thereore, there must be a group which has been

prepared, has already reached a certain point odespair as a result o the phases it went through.In that group, there must be people who thoughto attaining spirituality alone and along their way,went through illusions and clarications o all sorts.At the end o all those discernments, ater they are

prepared to nulliy themselves to a certain extent andsee that they wont attain that alone only then itsworth approaching The Zoharand being included inall thats ound there. For then, they will already beprepared to merge, to be annulled.

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Revealing the Creator amongthe Souls

In order to understand The Book o Zohar we haveto unite, to nd the points o contact among us and

to try to reveal our interconnection. Through thisconnection we will be able to open The Zohar, sinceeverything it speaks o is ound among the souls,among our desires.

I we desire to bestow upon each other, our desires willbe called "souls." Then, in the connection among the

souls, we will reveal the "Creator," the Light that tiesand bonds us together. Thats what The Book o Zoharsays, it guides us how to reveal that Light. Hence, weshould think o the way to achieve unity, "Arvut"and"Love thy neighbor as thysel," in order to reveal theLight and The Book o Zoharwill assist us.

Excerpt rom the daily Kabblah lesson, November 24, 2009


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Mutual "Arvut"in the Study oThe Zohar

Question: What is "Arvut"while studying? Howcan I help the riend?

Arvut while studying means that i the riendsarent thinking o me and I am not thinking o them,mutually, nothing will happen. Its not enough to justread The Zohar, since we need to approach it withthe demand or correction. And correction is in unity.Hence, I want to help the others, and or the others to

help me. Thats why we have gathered here together.Among us we can reveal mutual bestowal, in which wewill be able to eel the Creator, the orce that createdus, the orce that sustains us, that same orce wereincapable o revealing without "Arvut," as took placeat the event o Mount Sinai.



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Unity Beore All

Question: While studying, I need to connectemotionally with the text, yet on the other hand, Imust also think about unity. However, i I think ounity, I distance mysel rom the text, whereas when

I think about the text emotionally, I distance myselrom the unity. How can I combine the two?

I will give you a tip. Imagine you are amongst theKabbalists who wrote The Zohar, amongst the sages oThe Zohar. Ten people sitting in a group, all o them

are great Kabbalists, and you are bonded with themin love, in unity and in everything, and you want tohear what they are saying. As i you are amongst them,invisible, like a young child. Try that i you can donothing else, perhaps it will help. But the bond musttake place. So i you arent able to unite with the riends

beside you, try doing that and you might succeed.

Excerpt rom the evening lesson "Zohar or All", November 28, 2009


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The Book of ZoharAects a Group

We need to understand The Book o Zoharaects thegroup, not the individual person. Hence, i we do notthink o the bond among us while studying, we willmiss the primary issue. We have to be united while

reading The Book o Zohar, and think only o unitingthe vessels with each word and in every discussion.

You may say: "But you always say that we should sensethe issues within us, that we need to enter and there, within our desires, search or the animals, the sh,

Noah, the Creator, the people within us, and work with them. Whereas here, you are again revertingback to the external group.

However, the group is not external. The group is thesorting out and the putting together o all the desires

within me that are called "exterior to me." EverythingI eel thats outside me is actually inside me. I have toconnect the concept o the I within me with the


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concept o externality, the others inside me. I do

not eel the others are outside my body, rather insideme, within my desires. Thats how my desires aredivided.

The wisdom o Kabbalah teaches us that thereis internality and externality o the vessel, the

surrounding and the interior, and that we shouldcorrect the internality along with the externalityby uniting them. Hence the group represents thedesires I attach to me. You may say: Wait, what is themeaning o connect everyone to me? Ater all I havedesires which I am incapable o correcting! Thereore

I reply that you attach them, sort them out and onlythen say: This, I am incapable o correcting, but itsmine, nothing exists that isnt mine.

Such an approach allows the person to include the

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invest even urther mutual eorts in it each time.

Each one o us should delve inside himsel, sort outand arrange these issues within him. Thats how weshould conduct ourselves throughout the day, romreading to reading oThe Book o Zohar. Only in thatway will we reveal wholeness and not be conused.



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The Obligation to Provide Everyonewith the Power to Cling to The

Zohar

There is the issue oArvut(mutual consideration)

while studying The Zohar. Hence, each one o usshould be committed to the surroundings; to clingto the topic we studied with all our orce, to gainimpressions rom it, and to sense it internally. Weneed or it to live in us throughout the day, and to want all o our riends to be in a continual, inner

eeling o those images and pictures which The Zoharbrings a person during the entire day.

Thereore, at work, business, home, or with theamily, we should ocus our attention and mind tothat place to the extent to which its necessary, whereas

we should ocus all the rest o our strength upon whatwe study and the things inspiring us in our lessons.


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In this way, each one will provide the surroundings

with the Arvut and the surroundings will providehim with Arvut, the necessities and the strengthto cling to that inspiration, so that the Light oTheZoharwill begin to aect us. I we do that, we willsimply begin to eel things we have never elt in thepast. It all depends on the necessity each one eels,

along with the commitment o each one o us towardthe surroundings, in true Arvut. When its so, wewill rapidly succeed in that.

Excerpt rom the evening lesson, Zohar or All, November 15, 2009


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Correcting the Connectionbetween Us

In many cases, The Zohar writes that all is one,and provides an explanation which connects various

things. I we also intend to see things that way, we willtruly begin to see how it accumulates and is revealedas one. Lets begin now, during this lesson, to do anexercise, or everything The Zohar describes to behappening between the others and me. Its actuallytrue, except that at times we may search inside and

at other times, outside, out o our skin, beyondus, external to us. The Zohar speaks only about theconnection between the others and me. Right,let, middle, and all the types o relationships onlyspeak o this connection.

Why? Because when this connection existed, therewas nothing to discuss, all was revealed, the vessel andthe Light were complete. However, the connection


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was then broken. And what do we need to do now?

To correct it. Hence, all o the wisdom o Kabbalahspeaks only o the way to correct the connectionamong us, among the souls. The souls denotes thewill to bestow within us.

All three lines, ten Sephirot, aces, worlds, one

hundred and twenty-ve degrees all o these areonly in the connection between each and every oneand in all, until everything is connected and completeadhesion is created.

Excerpt rom the daily Kabbalah lesson, January 31, 2010


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those Upper qualities inside us, and thus to resemble

Keter (Crown). In order to do that, we have to thinkabout the entire world and complete correction, orall the creatures to unite into one bundle, with theintention o bringing contentment to their Maker.Among all o those creatures, we have a large group inwhich we all bond together, and through this study,

the rest o the human pyramid is led to the sametask.

Its very helpul to think about that unity, at least oncein a while. That will cause us to correspond with theSurrounding Light, and then it will aect us. I wecompletely orget about it, i we become detached, itwont succeed.

I were in a eeling o envy, hatred, or in a state orejecting o unity, The Zoharwont help. As is writtenin The Zoharitsel, the riends arrive and discover thatthey hate each other, but then they overcome that,

until they begin to love each other. Its this particularprocess which is called the preparation or the studyoThe Zohar.


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We need to pay special attention to this part o the

wisdom o Kabbalah. The Zohar speaks to all, andits goal is only to connect. The moment there is aconnection, we sense what takes place within it. Thespiritual world maniests in the unity, the Creatorexists in the unity, and He is already there, we do notneed to do anything, except attain that picture which

already exists. All these degrees exist; we do not haveto do build them. We only need to adapt ourselves tothose degrees, and then, to the extent were adapted tothem, we will sense what is taking place within them.

Everything is attained only through the intensity

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Being One Vessel

Question: Does reading The Book of Zohartogether draw the Surrounding Light which cangreatly eect change in all o humanity?

I I identiy with all those reading The Book o Zoharright now, I receive what everyone receives, sincewere all one soul. I receive, to the extent that I amin this single soul, this single vessel. Whereas, to theextent that I disconnect and think o mysel, that I amincluded in them in order to receive something or

mysel, I receive nothing.I must be included in them, along with them, as onestructure created by the Creator. The Creator createdone person, and all o this division into oreign anddierent desires, is a gment o our imagination.

Who receives the Light arriving rom the Creator?The Malchut,Shechina,gathering all o the souls.


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I merit to the extent I have merged with all these

other souls in Malchut, to the extent I bring aboutthe coupling with Zeir Anpin.



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I You Arent In Malchut, You DoNot Exist.

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