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Article "The Matter of Spiritual Attainment", 06.22.06 - 06.26.06
Article "The Matter of Spiritual Attainment", 06.22.06 - 06.26.06
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The Book of Zohar
Introduction to The Book of Zohar
Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot
Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah
Preface to the Sulam Commentary
Preface to the Book of Zohar
One Commandment
Remembering
The Meaning of Conception and Birth
Time to Act
Body and Soul
Peace in the World
The Love for the Creator & Love for the Created Beings
Exile and Redemption
Thou Hast Hemmed Me In Behind and Before
The Meaning of the Chaf in Anochi
The Wisdom of Israel Compared to External Wisdoms
Disclosing a Portion, Covering Two
Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah)
The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)
The Essence of Religion and Its Purpose
The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah
Matter and Form in the Wisdom of Kabbalah
The Peace
The Freedom
A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar
The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Philosophy
The Acting Mind
The Quality of the Wisdom of the Hidden in General
From My Flesh I Shall See God
This Is for Judah
Letters
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Talmud Eser Sefirot
General Preface
The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence
The Writings of the Last Generation
Building the Future Society
The Solution
Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot
Introduction to the Book, From the Mouth of a Sage
Messiah’s Shofar*
Concealment and Disclosure of the Face of the Creator
The Nation
The Prophecy of Baal HaSulam
Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah
Inheritance of the Land
600,000 Souls
The Bright One
Ha-Ilan (The Tree)
A Handmaid that Is Heir to Her Mistress
The Last Generation
Shamati Articles
1. There is None Else Beside Him
3. The Matter of Spiritual Attainment
4. What Is the Reason for the Heaviness One Feels when Annulling before the Creator in the Work
6. What Is Support in the Torah, in the Work
7. What Is the Habit Becomes a Second Nature, in the Work
8. What Is the Difference between a Shade of Kedusha and a Shade of Sitra Achra
10. What Is Make Haste My Beloved, in the Work
11. Joy with a Quiver
12. The Essence of One’s Work
13. A Pomegranate
14. What is the Greatness of the Creator
15. What is Other Gods in the Work
16. What Is the Day of the Lord and the Night of the Lord in the Work
20. LISHMA (for Her Name)
21. When One Feels Oneself in a State of Ascent
22. Torah Lishma (for Her Name)
23. You That Love the Lord, Hate Evil
25. Things that Come from the Heart
34. The Profit of a Land
36. What are the Three Bodies in a Man
43. The Matter of Truth and Faith
44. Mind and Heart
45. Two Discernments in the Torah and in the Work
5. Lishma Is an Awakening from Above, and Why Do We Need an Awakening from Below
9. What Are Three Things that Broaden One’s Mind in the Work
17. What Does It Mean that the Sitra Achra Is Called “Malchut without a Crown”
18. What Is My Soul Shall Weep In Secret, in the Work
19. What Is the Creator Hates the Bodies, in the Work
24. Out of the Hand of the Wicked
26. One’s Future Depends and Is Tied to Gratitude for the Past
27. What Is “The Lord Is High and the Low Will See”
28. I Shall Not Die but Live
29. When Thoughts Come to a Person
30. The Most Important Is to Want Only to Bestow
31. All that Pleases the Spirit of the People
32. A Lot Is an Awakening from Above
33. The Lots on Yom Kippurim and with Haman
35. Concerning the Vitality of Kedusha
37. An Article for Purim
38. The Fear of God Is His Treasure
39. And they Sewed Fig-Leaves
40. Faith in the Rav, What is the Measure
41. What is Greatness and Smallness in Faith
42. What Is the Acronym Elul in the Work
46. The Domination of Israel over the Klipot
47. In the Place where You Find His Greatness
48. The Primary Basis
49. The Most Important Is the Mind and the Heart
50. Two States
51. If You Encounter this Villain
52. A Transgression does not Put Out a Mitzva
53. The Matter of Limitation
54. The Purpose of the Work
55. Haman from the Torah, from Where
56. Torah is Called Indication
58. Joy is a "Reflection" of Good Deeds
59. About the Rod and the Serpent
60. A Mitzva that Comes through Transgression
61. Round About Him it Stormeth Mightily
62. Descends and Incites, Ascends and Complains
63. I Was Borrowed on, and I Repay
64. From Lo Lishma to Lishma
65. About the Revealed and the Concealed
66. The Giving of the Torah
67. Depart from Evil
68. Man's Connection to the Sefirot
69. First Will Be the Correction of the World
70. With a Mighty Hand and with Fury Poured Out
71. My Soul shall Weep in Secret
72. Confidence Is the Clothing for the Light
73. After the Tzimtzum
74. World, Year, Soul
75. There Is a Discernment of the Next World, and There Is a Discernment of This World
76. With All Thy Offerings Thou Shalt Offer Salt
77. One Learns from One's Soul
78. The Torah, the Creator, and Israel Are One
79. Atzilut and Bya
80. Concerning Back to Back
81. Concerning Raising Man
82. All Worlds
83. Concerning the Right Vav, the Left Vav
84. What Is “So He Drove the Man Out of the Garden of Eden lest He Would Take of the Tree of Life”
85. What Is the Fruit of Goodly Trees, in the Work
86. And They Built Store-Cities
87. Shabbat Shekalim
89. To Understand the Words of the Holy Zohar
90. In The Zohar, Beresheet
91. Concerning the Replaceable
92. Explaining the Discernment of Luck
93. Concerning Fins and Scales
94. And You Shall Keep Your Souls
95. Concerning Removing the Foreskin
96. What Is Waste of Barn and Winery, in the Work
97. Waste of Barn and Winery
98. Spirituality Is Called That Which Will Never Be Lost
99. He Did Not Say Wicked or Righteous
100. The Written Torah and the Oral Torah
101. A Commentary on the Psalm, "For the Leader upon Roses"
102. And You Shall Take You the Fruit of Goodly Trees
103. Whose Heart Maketh Him Willing
104. And the Saboteur Was Sitting
105. A Wise Disciple Bastard Precedes a High Priest Commoner
106. What Do the Twelve Challahs on Shabbat Imply
107. Concerning the Two Angels
108. If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two
109. Two Kinds of Meat
110. A Field Which the Lord Has Blessed
111. Breath, Sound, and Speech
112. The Three Angels
113. The Eighteen Prayer
114. Prayer
115. Still, Vegetative, Animate, and Speaking
116. Why Did He Say that Mitzvot Do Not Require Intention
118. To Understand the Matter of the Knees Which Have Bowed Unto Baal
119. That Disciple Who Learned in Secret
120. The Reason for Not Eating Nuts on Rosh Hashanah
121. She Is Like Merchant-Ships
122. Understanding What Is Written in Shulchan Aruch
123. His Divorce and His Hand Come as One
124. A Shabbat of Genesis and of the Six Thousand Years
125. Who Delights the Shabbat
126. A Sage Comes to Town
127. The Difference between Kernel, Essence, and Added Abundance
128. Dew Drips from that Galgalta to Zeir Anpin
129. Divinity in the Dust
130. Tiberias of Our Sages, Good Is Thy Sight
131. Who Comes to Be Purified
132. In the Sweat of Thy Face Shalt Thou Eat Bread
133. The Lights of Shabbat
134. Intoxicating Wine
135. Clean and Righteous Slay Thou Not
136. The Difference between the First Letters and the Last Letters
137. Zelophehad Was Gathering Wood
138. About Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person
139. The Difference between the Six Days of Action and the Shabbat
140. How I Love Thy Law
141. The Holiday of Passover
142. The Essence of the War
143. Only Good to Israel
144. There Is a Certain People
145. What Is Will Give Wisdom Specifically to the Wise
146. A Commentary on The Zohar
147. The Work of Reception and Bestowal
148. The Scrutiny of Bitter and Sweet, True and False
149. Why We Need to Extend Hochma
150. Prune unto the Lord, for He Hath Done Pride
151. And Israel Saw the Egyptians
152. For a Bribe Doth Blind the Eyes of the Wise
153. A Thought Is an Upshot of the Desire
154. There Cannot Be an Empty Space in the World
155. The Cleanness of the Body
156. Lest He Take of the Tree of Life
157. I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake
158. The Reason for Not Eating at Each Other's Home on Passover
159. And It Came to Pass in the Course of Those Many Days
160. The Reason for Concealing the Matzot
161. The Matter of the Giving of the Torah
162. Concerning the Hazak We Say After Completing the Series
163. What the Authors of The Zohar Said
164. There Is a Difference between Corporeality and Spirituality
165. An Explanation to Elisha's Request of Elijah
166. Two Discernments in Attainment
167. The Reason Why It Is Called Shabbat Teshuvah
168. The Customs of Israel
169. Concerning a Complete Righteous
170. Thou Shalt Not Have in Thy Pocket a Large Stone
171. Zohar, Amor
172. The Matter of Prevention and Delays
173. Why Do We Say L'chaim
174. Concealment
175. And If the Way Be Too Long for Thee
176. When Drinking Brandy after the Havdala
177. Atonements
178. Three Partners in Man
179. Three Lines
180. In the Zohar, Amor
181. Honor
183. The Discernment of the Messiah
184. The Difference between Faith and Mind
185. The Uneducated, the Fear of Shabbat Is upon Him
188. All the Work Is Only Where There Are Two Ways
187. Choosing Labor
186. Make Your Shabbat a Weekday, and Do Not Need People
189. The Act Affects the Thought
190. Every Act Leaves an Imprint
191. The Time of Descent
192. The Lots
193. One Wall Serves Both
194. The Complete Seven
195. Rewarded—I Will Hasten It
196. A Grip for the Externals
197. Book, Author, Story
198. Freedom
199. To Every Man Of Israel
200. The Purification of the Masach
201. Spirituality and Corporeality
202. In the Sweat of Thy Face Shalt Thou Eat Bread
203. Man's Pride Shall Bring Him Low
204. The Purpose of the Work
205. Wisdom Crieth Aloud in the Streets
206. Faith and Pleasure
207. Receiving in order to Bestow
208. Labor
209. Three Conditions in Prayer
210. A Handsome Flaw in You
211. As though Standing before a King
212. Embrace of the Right, Embrace of the Left
213. Acknowledging the Desire
214. Known in the Gates
215. Faith
216. Right and Left
217. If I Am Not for Me, Who Is for Me
218. The Torah and the Creator Are One
219. Devotion
220. Suffering
221. Multiple Authorities
222. The Part Given to the Sitra Achra to Separate It from the Kedusha
223. Clothing, Bag, Lie, Almond
224. Yesod de Nukva And Yesod de Dechura
225. Raising Oneself
226. Written Torah and Oral Torah
227. The Reward for a Mitzva–a Mitzva
228. Fish before Meat
229. Haman Pockets
230. The Lord Is High and the Low Will See
231. The Purity of the Vessels of Reception
232. Completing the Labor
233. Pardon, Forgiveness, and Atonement
234. Who Ceases Words of Torah and Engages in Conversation
235. Looking in the Book Again
236. Mine Adversaries Taunt Me All the Day
237. For Man Shall Not See Me and Live
238. Happy Is the Man Who Does Not Forget Thee and the Son of Man Who Exerts in Thee
239. The Difference between Mochin of Shavuot and that of Shabbat Minchah
240. Inquire Your Inquirers when They Inquire Your Face
241. Call Upon Him while He Is Near
242. What Is the Matter of Delighting the Poor on a Good Day, in the Work
243. Examining the Shade on the Night of Hoshana Rabbah
117. You Labored and Did Not Find, Do Not Believe
57. Will Bring Him as a Burned Offering to His Will
88. All the Work Is Only Where There Are Two Ways
182. Moses and Solomon
2. Divinity in Exile
82. The Prayer One Should Always Pray
3. The Matter of Spiritual Attainment
3. Comprehending the Spiritual - lessons
3. Comprehending the Spiritual - lessons
Article "The Matter of Spiritual Attainment", 06.22.06 - 06.26.06