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Part 4. Contact with the Upper One

A Spiritual Destination

Man’s task is to attain the highest degree in his advancement toward the Creator. That is the purpose of creation. The ladder of degrees between the Creator and us consists of 125 degrees, also called desires. Each desire constitutes a complete and separate degree and is different in each degree...

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Bitter and Sweet, True and False

In the spiritual world things can only exists in pairs: pleasure or the absence of it, sweet and true, false and bitter. The truth is always sweet and the lie is always bitter, and they always come correspondingly. But that situation doesn’t exist in our world...

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Independence

The Creator created everything - worlds, Partzufim, Sefirot, and man, yet they are not regarded as creation. The term creation relates exclusively to something that begins to express an independent will. People, who live in our world and perform actions, are not regarded as creatures in the full sense of the word; a creature is only one who has an independent desire for the Creator...

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Souls in the Path of Pain

Man was created with a complex corporeal body and what he does in this world affects it. Therefore, what we do in our world is important. If you had the possibility to do anything with an aim toward the Creator, that would be considered a spiritual act, though the act itself might still be completely ‘beastly’...

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Studying Kabbalah when You are Not a Kabbalist

When one practices the wisdom of Kabbalah and expresses the names of the lights and the intents related to his soul, the surrounding light immediately begins to shine and purify him from the outside. This way, the light brings him closer to holiness and purifies him by giving him a stronger desire for spiritual ascent, even if he is still unaware of it...

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The Language of the Kabbalah

The Torah is comprised of four languages: The Bible, the Halacha, and Talmud, which is like a legal language, the language of the Agada, which is a language of proverbs and tales, and the language of Kabbalah. All four languages deal with the same spiritual processes, and in fact with one thing only – how to approach the Creator and attain the purpose of creation...

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The Social Implications of Kabbalah

Adults from secular families, who begin to study Kabbalah, do not need to be afraid or embarrassed about the study of the Kabbalah, and neither should their families because they are only studying the structure of the world, the system of creation. For the time being, it is merely a theoretical practice, but in due time, they will be able to actively change the world for their own good...

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Kabbalah and Education

Kabbalists resolutely object to systems that coerce any kind of moral principals on man, especially on children. The reason is that Kabbalah maintains that the development is always personal and internal, defined by the individual himself. The result of it is that man changes for the better outwardly as well and has a positive affect on society...

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Adhesion with the Creator

When we are attracted to someone, we are immediately filled with joy, even without actual intercourse with that person. As in corporeal love, so is the case with love for the Creator. But in order to prevent us from being satisfied with mere desiring, the Creator makes us feel that our situation is a low one, lacking unity...

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Correcting Myself – Correcting the World

Our sensors are very unrefined. We cannot even feel what happens inside our own body, the molecular collisions, or the birth of new cells. Therefore, there are many changes that need to take place in order for us to start feeling anything...

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Man as a Spiritual Degree

As soon as a spark of spirituality appears in a person, even as an impulse that is still hidden from his eyes, he stops being satisfied with his life. He begins to search for something beyond money, honor, sex, food, power and knowledge, and doesn’t know where to find what he really wants. This is the first time he feels that there is something that does not exist in his surroundings in this world...

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A Mature Approach to Pain

As soon as a spark of spirituality appears in a person, even as an impulse that is still hidden from his eyes, he stops being satisfied with his life. He begins to search for something beyond money, honor, sex, food, power and knowledge, and doesn’t know where to find what he really wants. This is the first time he feels that there is something that does not exist in his surroundings in this world...

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