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FOUNDATION COURSE KABBALAH

Part 2 - Kabbalah Arizal

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Here on earth, regarding the teachings, by learning Torah pshat – simple you will only reach<br />

Asiyah. So by learning Torah pshat, just like it is written, as a historical story, Moses went<br />

there etc. and doing the prescriptions with hand and feet, you will do this and not do that, you<br />

will only reach Asiyah. Our world is a part of Asiyah, it‟s an extension of our world. Then<br />

you only experience Asiyah, the lowest world and our world. If a person engages in the<br />

Mishna - the codifications of the teachings, the Jewish laws and the Midrash – the allegorical<br />

narratives (with the right intention because only reading out loud won‟t help because without<br />

the right intention it means nothing) then you already experience the world Yetzirah. When a<br />

person already learns the comments on the Mishna – the Talmud, 62 parts of thick books –<br />

then one experiences Briyah. And when someone learns Kabbalah then you experience and<br />

learn the world Atzilut every day. Of course you have to learn everything but the interesting<br />

thing is that everything that is higher contains what is lower in itself. That is the law. So<br />

someone who learns Kabbalah indirectly also learns Talmud, the Mishna and the Torah.<br />

Someone who only learns Talmud learns all of Briyah and Mishna and Torah. Mishna are the<br />

Jewish laws. People who only learn Torah like the Jewish populace feel nice and comfortable.<br />

They live in Asiyah. They don‟t need completion. But if you want to learn Kabbalah you have<br />

to make yourself receptive.<br />

You have to raise within yourself an inner intelligence, an inner drive for the higher, for the<br />

completion. The people who learn Torah don‟t need that. They like living in our world, it is<br />

beautiful, everything is fine. All is qualitative. When you learn Kabbalah you live in Atzilut<br />

all day long. Whatever you do Atzilut remains shining on you. Why? If you say to yourself:<br />

“I‟m a nobody, that‟s my goal in live” while you are young are you then able to reach a higher<br />

goal? No, absolutely not, because that‟s your goal. I don‟t mean a job or so. You have a goal<br />

in live and you have to accomplish that. A person can be a simple farmer and come to<br />

completion. Even sooner then a great professor, a Nobel prizewinner or Madonna. It is up to<br />

you. Most people say more, more, more but that farmer can already say no, I have enough. He<br />

has a feeling that he has enough and therefore he can reach his fulfillment. All of which we<br />

speak is qualitative, do you understand?<br />

That was just to make some comparisons. Nothing higher has been given to man then learning<br />

the spiritual of Atzilut. Why? In Asiyah you only have the light Nefesh. You receive the light<br />

Nefesh because Asiyah corresponds with Malchut. In Yetzirah you receive the light Ruach.<br />

You can try to learn the Mishna by heart, day and night but it has no higher strength, it can<br />

give you no higher strength then Ruach. Someone can learn Talmud by heart but he only<br />

receives a little Neshamah. Not really Neshamah but let‟s say Neshamah. In Atzilut you<br />

receive the light Chayah. The light of life. Everything comes from Atzilut and you can‟t<br />

receive that from all the others. Of course you can learn Kabbalah as your main dish and learn<br />

a little Talmud and other things. AR”I had the strength to learn it all. The spiritual comes from<br />

Atzilut. Of course all the others, Talmud etc. are absolutely spiritual as well but they only<br />

learn it for Asiyah, for our world. For the world which is adjacent to our world, it is just a<br />

little higher. But Atzilut is much higher and they don‟t want that. With all their beautiful<br />

rituals…. but it is not what the Creator wants. It is absolutely holy what they do but before<br />

they become mature and come to their development it won‟t help. Doing that without a person<br />

awakening for the spiritual and that he makes the inner movement, longs for the inner<br />

spiritual movement, is ridiculous.<br />

Now we come down, we have waited a long time for this. Which shortage is still there? We<br />

have said that Einsof is perfection and perfection wants perfection. Everything that is perfect<br />

can‟t create imperfection. Perfection has to create perfection. Therefore also our Maker is<br />

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