FOUNDATION COURSE KABBALAH

delicacy. What does that mean? In every situation you have to sort out the food and you leave
the waste behind. What is food? That depends on your development, your choices, your goal
etc. In this way we are all different. We all live in different worlds. Our choices are different
as well, there are 1001 different levels of life. For the law we are all the same people and
when everyone is corrected we will all come to the same level. Still there will be different
souls of higher and lower levels, this is correct because we see this in daily life as well. One
watches television and the other reads a book. There is also a difference in what you can see
on television or what book you read. Someone maybe likes to watch a soap, he feels life there,
al the emotions, he feels tears and that is food to him and nothing else.
In every situation we need to take out the food and leave the waste behind, the waste in that
particular situation. What is waste? That I can‟t find a taste there, I can‟t eat it. Then I have to
leave it, in every situation. What do you do in your spare time? Again you have to look at it:
take out the food and leave the waste behind. Every minute we are as it were torn by inner
strengths. Because that is how the world was made, good and evil, so we will actively choose
what is good for me, that is food. Food means something that is useful, useable. That is food.
We see that food isn‟t made naturally. We need to make food ourselves. Why isn‟t food given
from above? Food hasn‟t been given from above. For us there‟s only the crude material, not
the food. We have to make the food ourselves. We have to make choices and that is the cooperation
between the Maker and us. Grains, is that food? That is crude material just like
crude oil and we have to work on it. What is the difference between grains and bread or
biscuits? Why do we have to make it so difficult? Why can‟t we, just like a donkey, eat straw?
A donkey doesn‟t ask for bread. Only man wants to eat bread. Because it has been given to
man to make food of this and leave the waste. The separation process. Separate chaff from
wheat. That is the main principle of everything. That has been given from the Torah.
You always have to do this within yourself, there‟s no other way. You have to burn the chaff,
how? By working on yourself. Inner work. But don‟t burn all the chaff, it might be waste to
you now but later on it can be food because chaff is also food for the donkey. I use wheat for
the higher part of me and chaff I can use for my lower part, for the time being. You can use
everything, that is the most important principle. The entire correction is built on this. How do
we get the strength to make the separation between the chaff and the wheat? Between food
and waste? The more we work on ourselves, the more corrections we do, the stronger light we
get which is able to instigate new corrections, day and night, day after day. Therefore the
Creator of the world, the quality of the Only Creating Strength has given us the Torah and the
prescriptions. Torah has been given for the whole world. There is nothing else.
Prescriptions, what are they? We have seen that the last, lower hey is prescription.
Prescription is the mechanism, the instruction, and while we are carrying out the prescription
we can make a certain separation between food and waste. Through a certain something in
ourselves we are able to purify, to bring the food up and leave the waste behind. The waste is
what we can‟t eat or digest and that‟s what we call evil. In the end when we have done all the
corrections we do day after day, until all souls in the bodies of man have been purified, the
strength of the Mashiach will come. Only then. That is the plan of creation. When you know
how this plan works we can be aware of this every day and work on the execution of the plan.
That are the prescriptions, mitzvot. Later on we will also see in the gematria what a
prescription or mitzvah is and how it‟s composed in Hebrew letters. It is unimaginable how
much more principles and details we can derive from that language, that code. And that will
give us more strength to take out more food. Why was it made that way? Why is it not given
directly readymade? That wasn‟t in the thoughts of the Creator. Everything is given in the
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