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I don’t know about fractals, but each one has the root of their soul, and so they get corresponding qualities. Eventually all their qualities find their full and perfect expression – possibly in a way one did not imagine.
One won’t know unless they reach the root of their soul. But generally whatever can be used to cause connection is good use of one’s qualities.
Still, there is an accumulation of bestowal, that he doesn’t even feel as bestowal. At first, he feels only the gift, and maybe doesn’t feel it as a gift; afterward, he feels the Giver. And then he has to do something. Because the feeling that he exists gets cancelled. Because He’s doing everything in me like a hand in a glove. “For Him,” “For me,” doesn’t factor in. I need to be like Him. Later, there is Malchut itself. But briefly, to feel as Malchut we need to feel the Creator’s love, and for that we first need to love Him.
To open the heart means to work on opening the heart of the friends because “one does not rescue himself from prison.” “Open” means that I am locked inside my feeling of myself and can’t feel others, and I need the friends to unlock my closed heart.
Hi Sean,
I believe these are the quotes:
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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.
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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.
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.
