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That’s not for me to say. My ten reads the upcoming lesson’s materials, which is a general recommendation from Dr. Laitman.
Shame is actually a good thing here, if one can honestly feel it. That’s not simple. It means, first of all, deeply identifying that all comes from the Creator, the “Good That Does Only Good to the Good and the Bad.” Since that is the reality that we don’t yet see, everyone will come to feel it, soon or later. And then, comes the shame. Then, there’s an appropriate, spiritual response to the Shame, which is why it’s a good thing. The focus though should be None Besides Him, Good that Does Good, and gratitude to Him. The shame is a natural upshot.
You mean will it be better to read that than the Rabash or Baal HaSulam? Do you know better what it is asking of you than Rabash or Baal HaSulam? – meaning does it lead to clearer, more targeted internal efforts on your part?
Holy still means you do all you’re told to do but without any addition of your own, no additional internal moves/yearning toward the Upper Light.
Baal HaSulam was once asked to write a Kabbalistic prayer book (by someone who did not follow the path of Kabbalah, but was interested in the prayer book the Kabbalist might write). Well, he wrote this introduction and never got to writing the prayer book itself. But it gives an impression of what a Kabbalistic prayer book might be like. It’s about the intentions, and for real intentions you need attainment of th spiritual world. So, all you can do in the meantime is simple prayers and actions to draw the Reforming Light, to draw closer to that.
Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah
Introduction to the Book of Zohar
Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot
Introduction to the Ladder Commentary
And I can already tell you that even a shallow proficiency in these requires a long time; not just in time, but in the Upper Light working on us so that we can understand. In other words, before the Zohar, we have our work cut out for us in the writings of Rabash and the other writings of Baal HaSulam. But you can study Zohar for All a bit, and we do it usually once a day in the broadcast from Petach Tikva.
