[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sean,

I believe these are the quotes:

1

Baal HaSulam, “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence”

The greatest wonder about this wisdom is the incorporation built into it. That is, through this wisdom, all the elements of the vast reality incorporate, coalesce and unify until they come into a single thing—the Almighty, who contains all of them together.

 

2

Baal HaSulam,”Man’s Actions and Tactics”

All the souls in the world must unite and merge into one soul, truly one, which emerges out of all the souls and they truly become one, as in the beginning of creation, when only one man [Adam] was created, and from his Zivugim [couplings], he engendered sons, and the sons follow in his ways, making Zivugim until this world is made, with seventy nations, and from within them, the seed of Israel. At the end of correction, they will merge into one another until all of them will become one man like Adam HaRishon.

 

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Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 33, “The Lots on Yom Kippurim and with Haman”

The world was created filled with so many people, each with his own thoughts and opinions, and all are present in the same world.

It is so deliberately, so that each and every one will be incorporated with all of the other’s thoughts. Thus, when one repents, there will be benefit from this Hitkalelut [mingling/ incorporation].

It is so because when one wants to repent, he must sentence himself and the entire world to the side of merit, since he himself is incorporated in all the foreign notions and thoughts of the entire world.

 

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Baal HaSulam, Letter No. 4

You lack nothing but to go out to a field that the Lord has blessed, and collect all those flaccid organs that have drooped from your soul, and join them into a single body.

In that complete body, the Creator will instill His Shechina incessantly, and the fountain of intelligence and high streams of light will be as a never ending fountain.

 

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RABASH. Article 1 (1984),”Purpose of Society – 2″

To be integrated in one another, each person should annul himself before the others. This is done by each seeing the friends’ merits and not their faults. But one who thinks that he is a little higher than his friends can no longer unite with them.

 

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RABASH, Article No. 14, “The Need for Love of Friends”

There is a special power in the adhesion of friends. Since views and thoughts pass from one to the other through the adhesion between them, each is mingled with the power of the other, and by that each person in the group has the power of the entire society. For this reason, although each person is an individual, he has the power of the entire group.

 

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RABASH, Article No. 17 (1987), “The Meaning of the Strict Prohibition to Teach Idol Worshippers the Torah”

It is impossible to receive the influence of the society if he is not attached to the society, meaning if he does not appreciate them. To the extent that he does, he can receive from them the influence without any work, simply by adhering to the society.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Verena,

We say “one studies where the heart desires,” so you could go through all these again – and no, you don’t really need to focus on memorization. Focus on the experience is better. They’re arranged sequentially. So, soon you’ll join the graduate program, and that’s where we dive more into the intentions and how to study. There’s no one, quick answer about how to study because the entire wisdom is how to position myself before the Reforming Light – with what thoughts, desires, intentions? Generally, we study with the intention to come closer to the Creator, which is the force of bestowal, which means to become like Him, since we come closer through Equivalence of Form, and not in any other way.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Deborah,

I’m not sure which question you’re referring to, but it’s not important; these terms a flexible since we can’t really know who belongs to what, according to the root of their soul. I think it probably referred to our general degree vs. the Upper Degree. So on our degree we have friends on the path, some of which are teachers; books; and all together we’re uniting to try to reach the Creator, here called GE.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

It’s a good, general overview.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

It’s correct to pray for the others to be connected, but it’s unnatural to do so; that’s why we need the wisdom of Kabbalah to give us such advice. Otherwise, we’d never think in that direction.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

I meant that we naturally request what is good for us, all the time. The request for connection or for others is not just not natural, but against one’s desire because the Shattering imparted a sensation of otherness and hatred for what is outside of me.

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