Introduction to the Book of Zohar (PDF) - Kabbalah Media Archive

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nity exist outside us. How can we prevent them from leading us to the
Klipot, away from the Creator? We shall discuss this at length later…
We continue studying “The Introduction to the Book of Zohar.”
In this Introduction Baal HaSulam tells us about the development of
the human soul – from a small Reshimo, which awakens in man, up
to the moment when he enters the spiritual world. First, in the form of
a spiritual embryo, then as a child, and later on – as an adult, man becomes
similar to the Creator and enters the sensation of eternity, infinity,
and perfection. He rises above life and death, feels life as an endless
process. Therefore, he naturally perceives his state in this world quite
differently.
Each of us aspires to achieve such a state because the people who
feel good do not come to Kabbalah. All of us need something, but mostly
we are restless because of the tormenting question about the point of
our life. The point of life can be attained as a result of the revelation of
the Upper World, the Creator, the entire universe in which we exist (it is
called the Creator on the highest level with regard to us). The remaining
lower levels are called the worlds.
Kabbalah explains how man can go through all these intermediate
states and rise from the level of this world to the Upper World, and then
reach the highest level of merging with the Creator. Since it reveals the
most important concerns in our life, man’s purpose, what he is going to
achieve from his efforts in this world, this wisdom is vitally important for
man. Because Kabbalah not only theoretically explains the existing reality,
but also ushers the person into the Upper World, it is also important
for the entire humankind.
We are just beginning to understand it and hope that others will
soon realize it too, thanks to our efforts. The only means for entering
the Upper World is the spiritual light that corrects us. We should expose
ourselves to this light, so that it will pull us out of this reality into the
sensation of the Upper World. Only during the studies can we tune our-
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