Kabbalah World Center - "Breaking the Iron Wall"

18) Every person has the ability to repair himself because the same Creator that made the evil inclination also created the
Torah to fix it. Therefore the Torah has the power to fix the desire that's in a person, the evil inclination. He who labors in
Torah and doesn't succeed in correcting his evil inclination, has been slack and did not put out either the sufficient "amount
of effort" or the "quality of effort".
"The Amount of effort" is determined by the amount of his available time that he spends studying Torah.
"The Quality of effort" is determined by how much of his mind and heart he devotes at the time of his study in order to
merit the light of the Torah, that brings faith to a person ; That he not labor in Torah without any intention to fix himself,
and not that he begins to learn in order to fix himself but at the time of learning removes his mind from this and wants just
to understand the text. The main factor is his quality of effort, because the evil inclination is not opposed to acquiring
wisdom, but when a person has the intent to kill his evil inclination, then his entire nature rises and interferes with him to
prevent him from thinking of fixing himself. Therefore a person has to strengthen mainly his quality of effort.
But only according to the degree that a person feels that his inclination is evil in not allowing him to reach good and
perfection to the degree that he hates his nature which doesn't allow him to reach his Creator, to this degree only will he
be able to repair himself at the time of studying.
19) It is written in the Talmud that he who labors in the revealed Torah five years and doesn't reach the level of "for its
own sake" will never reach it. Therefore if in the beginning it is difficult for a person to labor in the revealed Torah, it is
better that he involves himself in the wisdom of Kabbalah while in the revealed Torah he should only learn the relevant day
to day laws. This is not because its easier to learn the wisdom of Kabbalah than the wisdom of the revealed Torah, but that
through the learning of Kabbalah it's easier to bring out the light of Torah which fixes a person.
20)Why is a person obligated to abandon the learning of the revealed Torah, to learn only relevant day to day laws, and
the rest of the time to be involved only in Kabbalah?
21)The Torah is only attained through "fear of the Creator and "fulfillment of the mitzvot".
22)The purpose of life is to fight the evil inclination. The intermediary to accomplish this is the intent to repair oneself
during learning Torah. Kabbalah books as well as in the revealed Torah, indeed all books of Torah, speak exclusively of the
revelation of the Maker to his creatures. For this reason the Torah is referred to as "the names of the Creator". According
to the level that a person grasps Torah, that is, how the Creator is revealed to him, how the person feels the Creator
before him, on this level he designates Him with a name.
All of scripture was written down by those who understood the Creator. They conveyed their knowledge in different
linguistic styles : the language of Kabbalah, the language of the Torah and the prophets, the language of aggadah
(legends), and language of halachah. But in whatever idiom, they only wrote according to what they grasped in the upper
worlds, that is how they felt the Creator. In this respect there is no difference between any of the styles. This is also the
way that Moses received the Torah. He merited an understanding from the Creator of all the upper worlds, meaning a
complete knowledge of how the Creator is revealed to man and he wrote the Torah from the Creator, and afterwards, all
the different ways of understanding of the Creator put forth our holy books. They were all written by people that grasped
the Creator and wrote what they felt in Torah, in Prophets, in Writings, in aggadah, in Talmud. Together they are called
Torah because they were all written through divine revelation to man.
The revealed Torah on a simple level discusses mundane things like theft, damages, and other monetary laws. It is difficult
to see divine revelation in these things.
Therefore it is difficult to direct one's mind to the Creator and, therefore, to the purpose of his learning, namely, to merit
faith while delving into these laws. Therefore, if after five years of learning the revealed Torah a person hasn't fixed
himself, the Torah itself obligates him to abandon the revealed Torah and instead to toil in the wisdom of Kabbalah. In
Kabbalah it is much easier to extract the light of Torah and to direct his thoughts and heart to the Creator and to the
purpose of his learning. The wisdom of Kabbalah openly and clearly speaks of the actions of the Creator.
23) It is written in the Talmud itself that if a person doesn't reach "for its own sake "within five years of learning Torah the
reason only stems from the lack of intention in his heart, and not from his lack of skill or ability. The Torah doesn't require
skill only proper intentions of the heart. Only according to one's desire to repair himself (not according to his intellect) will