The Secret of the Letters

Lesson 4

To build the world with letters

• Luck (mazal) - a force that dribbles (nozel) drop by drop
• The wisdom of the letters - activating 27 forces correctly
• To build the world with letters
• The unutilized part of the brain is intended for investigating the spiritual world
• Meditation on 72 names? Psychological powers, not spirituality!
• Only in the meeting with spirituality man tastes what each letter is

Question: they say "change your name - change your luck". What is luck?

Luck means that we are at the last level of Malchut. Above us there are: Keter, Hochma, Bina, and Zeir Anpin.

From above Galgalta VeEynaim , which we do not attain accurately, descend lights. These lights descend in a way that is limited enough so that we would be able to tolerate them and use them to progress little by little into the spiritual world.

It is not easy work, and it takes a lot of effort.

We must expand our vessels of reception. Until then, if a person is willing to work and willing to accept the fact that he is moving forward towards the spiritual world, those lights called "Mazalot" (luck) act on him.

Mazal comes from the word nozel (liquid). Light that comes in drops, like liquid.

In Malchut there is a change, either to the side of bestowal or the side of receiving, a change of the upper force which affects us.

Mazalot (fortunes) are also forces that come from above, corrections in which the lights come down in drops. It is explained well in the "Talmud of Ten Sefirot".

If you change your inner spiritual place, which is where the light is received, then you will really change your luck, and change yourself through the light that comes down and fills you.

Question: In everyday spoken language, is there any meaning to the words?

In our language there is no meaning to words. We have no single word that can be linked to spirituality. By writing down all sorts of symbols, reading or speaking, I am not doing anything. I just utter words.

If I would be able to insert forces into the words, and with the forces emanating from me I would act on reality correctly, using twenty seven patterns in an organized way, then the words would have meaning. Letters would connect and form words, words would form sentences, and in such a way I would affect reality and merit the returning effect of reality on me in the form that I choose. That is how I build the world - with the letters.

But this depends on my knowing the power of the letters which is veiled in the screens. When I build bestowal upon the upper world with the letters MANTZEPA"CH, the letters from Malchut to Bina, letters of bestowal, I begin to direct my reality.

I choose for myself and determine my future. This is only in the condition that I acquire these forces.

Actually, the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us the understanding of the letters and how we can activate the twenty seven forces correctly.

Question: We learn that we have no ability to make a difference, that all is given, everything already exists, we simply are not there and are not able to see it or experience it, so how is it possible to affect the future?

We are in a reality, called "Ein Sof" (infinity).

Infinity means that reality has no limits, no shape. I sense out of infinity different things every time, according to my properties...

The wisdom of Kabbalah explains how to feel good. So good that I can feel eternal, above life and death, feel wholeness and unlimited development.

All of that can be felt now, if I only acquire and arrange correctly the right powers of those twenty seven letters.

To affect the future - that is what's called to bestow. There is no future, all is present, but the way in which I perceive reality will change, in an unlimited form, equal to everything that is around me.

The general law of nature is to push every part in it towards balance. To be in balance with the entire reality means to feel eternal, perfect, with no limitations, no pressures.

It is not the reality that we feel now, with which I keep a balance; but it is a truer reality, an embracing one.

Through the twenty seven patterns, I acquire those forces, by learning how to balance myself with the entire reality.

It is to reach equality of form - infinity.

Infinity is actually those twenty seven letters.

Question: Can you say something about those meditations on the 72 letters, names? To what extent can that help in the development?

If you believe in it - anything can help. Instead of seventy two letters take twenty seven, it doesn't matter, it is all the same.

I am not an expert in meditations. You activate through them psychological forces in which you believe.

If, for example, you take from a child his doll or his loved teddy bear - he will become ill from it. Give it back to him - he will become healthy again.

We are very attached to things, and all kinds of habits. So if you activate such forces, if you believe they work, you will get powers from them.

But these are psychological powers, they don't belong to spirituality. You are simply strengthened by a psychological force that you extract from yourself.

This is also the world perception of the people of India and the Chinese; it is the inclusive attitude from which emerged all religions - from that psychological force, which is the invention of man. There is no special supervision that descends to you from the upper world here.

We are talking about real attainment of the upper reality, a reality that you investigate with your own vessels and not some false imagination of all sorts of combinations, or shapes. You have to attain them.

So the seventy two letters is the level of A"B. It is a very high level that can only be reached by those who know how to make those combinations.

If you are not at that level there is no meaning in that.

That is why, in general, all of the ornaments, 'lucky charms' like the red string, holy water etc. have no relation to spirituality.

They help a person only because they awaken in him some inner confidence. That is how man is built, out of his psychological forces.

I am not criticizing, if it helps someone, that's good - let it help. But do not think that it belongs to spirituality. It is just occupational healing.

Question: A normal person uses between three to five percent of his brain. Is it possible that all the knowledge of Kabbalah already exists in my brain and I just don't use it?

Twenty seven percent of the brain is waiting for you to begin investigating the spiritual world.

So take care of it, you will need it.

It is truly so, imagine what it means to enter a wider scale of reality.

Question: Is the Gimatria that you've mentioned before part of the properties of the letter?

Gimatria is just a number, which includes twenty seven components. This is the gimatria of the vessel: Yud-Hei-Vav-Hei. Yud is ten, Hei is five, Vav is six, and together it comes out to twenty six.

This is the gimatria of the vessel - a number.

The vessel, combined with the light that enters it, for example - light that is equivalent to thirty, then thirty plus twenty six - is together fifty six. That is the form in which the person is at his inner state.

The truth is that I am not good at explaining about the letters in such a common simple manner. Because only through feelings, impressions, and meeting with the spiritual can man begin to understand, or taste what each letter is.

He then feels that this pulls him to the right, or to the left.

As man begins to contemplate, those shapes start to form in him.

Before the letters are formed there is no way to talk to the person.

In other words "he has no letters to work with".

That is why I recommend that you read the article of the letters in the first book of the Zohar called "Otiot De Rav Himnona Saba".

In "The Study of the Ten Sefirot" and in other sections of the Zohar there is much more material about the subject.

I wish that you all get into the spiritual, see the true letters, how they come and clothe your soul, and through them you will begin to discover eternity. Good luck.