Prayers

“With prayers, we long for the day of our salvation” (Psalm XVII)

• Production of a single “King/Ruler”. Single because when we view of imagine G-d, we will see “Him” as a single entity.
• Human reasoning consists of reducing everything to 1d points, even itself and then arranging them accordingly.
• Everything emerges at some point in 1d and the interaction with Elohim is at that point.
• The realisation that the experience of existence occurs at the point of engagement, whether one or multi-dimensional – this defines the point of the actual.
• Keter is the Infinity that is One. Chochmah is the line expressing the one manifesting its Infinite Nature in a finite creation.

God’ s Sovereignty

• His Mastery will be acknowledged by all
• “King"” as a concept - מלך, melech king
  • מושׁל - ruler
• Voluntarily proclaim Him King – the only True Ruler
• The righteous soul will live, the wicked soul will be extinguished. As G-d does not concern Himself with the trials and tribulations of the physical existence, but with the travails and successes of our souls.
• Human actions affect the world
• It is easier to proclaim G-d as King of the universe, than to accept Him as King over ourselves as individuals!

Spiritual progress

• We are part of creation
• The universe was created with all the souls
• At the time of our emergence, the multiplicity already existed. Ha’Shem Created all the “entities”. They descended down the tree in “quantum” like jumps, passing through the various “quantum” fields, until emerging as manifest beings.
• The union of body and soul vivifies the substance of the body – which is made up of essentially “dead” elements.
• The body holds the form of our identity here in 3d reality, while the soul, which is the identity that has been fashioned by HaShem, and is represented by the body, vivifies this manifest representation.

Limited view

• The soul is the vital force of the body. It is the living connection between matter and spirit. It is an expression of the glory of the body raised from the inertness of matter, exhilarating in the soul’s response to this contact
• It has its own limited and thus unique point of view.
• It is not a point, nor an intersection, nor a specific essence.
• Each one has a different soul. In fact, the soul might differ for someone at various stages of their lives.
• In the early stages of one’s life, one attention is concentrated on maintaining and nourishing the life of the body.
• As one grows, one becomes more cognisant of the higher essence of the soul.

Spiritual progress

• Spiritual progress is the ability to raise oneself to the level of identification with the Higher Mind, beyond that of contact with mind and spirit – to the realm of spirit (Ruach), beyond the higher soul (Neshamah), the breath of G-d, to the level of encountering the life force known as Chaya, the living soul, where one encounters the realm of revelation and prophecy.
• The more one rises – the “higher” one get – the closer one get to the highest purpose of one’s existence
• These revelations are not continuous, as if one could actually remain in that upper realm, but sporadic. Though few achieve it, nevertheless a moment in that space will change your life in what is known as a הנני - moment, a moment of pure “here and now” awareness.

First emergence

Everything wants to incarnate.

• In order for the manifestation to emerge, there has to be the place to receive it.
• Only if one can be aware of all the effects at one at any moment, could one possibly understand the full potential inherent in any action. This is nigh impossible, as these effects are, to all intents and purposes, infinite.
• Thus, one will need to become “aware” of the space that one moves in. Because of one’s finite view, it will seem as if we are moving along a continuous line that may seem straight to the participant. We then move in space and time (or space “moves” around – and in – you i.e., you become aware of this space, and you will eventually call this line “self” – as in my-self.
• Now we have a self, aware of a certain space in which it lives – which, we learn, is apparently filled (or becomes filled) with all sorts of densities, which become “things” as they become denser, until that space is packed with more and more “objects”. Eventually, that space becomes merely a container to house these precious objects.

Four Elements

• Water → Wants everything to be like it. Carrier of information (like light). Desire to meld with your waters. Beware of drowning in the waters (of information).
• Earth → Wants to absorb you, transform you and consume you. Beware of falling asleep in its arms.
• FIre → Wants your energy and will burn you. It burns bright, full of passion and glory, but only for a moment – till it has consumed that which nourished it.
• Air → Light and airy – it doesn’t care. And it seems like it is hardly there, unless it is blowing (ruach). But beware, the faster you move the harder it becomes, and the harder you push it, the stronger it pushes back (just like water).

4 dimensions

1st → point, alone, just you.
2nd → Other
3rd → Relationship with other
4th → Movement (need to be in sufficiently balanced relationship with other for there to be movement).

Love occurs only between two souls, between spirit and spirit - not two bodies.

Physically: Attraction
Emotionally: Wounding
Mentally: Constructs
Spiritually: Connection, love

Mishkan

Your spiritual level is determined by the places of darkness you and enter into and enlighten.

In this world we need to create a laboratory of the spirit. Whether we call it a temple, a monastery, or a synagogue, it must be a place of exploration and healing.

If we are to enter into the “reality” of the 4th dimension, taking into account the relative fluidity of that realm, we need a vessel to traverse this realm that will be able to include the energy (impact) of this realm on ours. We might just have been born with the perfect chariot for this journey — what we call “the human being”.

Sefirot

• Their powers combine to work coherently together.
• Two or more can manifest an event, or activate something.
• They “produce” thoughts and feelings and the action itself.
• We are a combination of the forces of the sefirot, thus expressing a unique essence.

Oral tradition

In the time before writing was common, we had far better memories than after. In addition, we paid much more attention to the spoken word, rather than the visual content. In addition, as life carried on at a far slower pace, we had more time to think about these things too.

As a sidenote, someone who memorises a religious text verbatim is lauded, whereas there are few who know the constitution of the motherland. Heck, how many know the words of their national anthem by heart?

Change

Change almost always comes from the fringe

Perhaps it is a corollary of Newton’s law: “Every body will continue at a constant speed unless acted upon by an outside force.”

Leader

A leader is one who can guide people into the upper realms. He would have to be one who had himself already experienced these realms, else he will be unable to bring anyone else into the Throne Room – assuming he was permitted.

It seems that, not infrequently, a poor or illiterate man can understand and receive the Teachings on a deep, instinctive level. It seems that he has a more fundamental grasp of the Teachings than many of the learned.