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We are studying the essay Freedom of Will by Baal HaSulam and we are at the chapter called "The influence of the environment". We have learned the four factors that basically form everything, what is called the personality of an individual.
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The topic of today's lesson is the article "Freedom of Will".
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The first part of our lesson will be a continuation of the famous article by Baal HaSulam, "Freedom of Will". This fundamental article tells us that from all of the things in front of us, from all of our apparent opportunities, in reality we have to choose only one single thing in this life (and at the same time disengage ourselves), our most real opportunity: the opportunity to independently take a step towards the Creator. Because in anything else we are total puppets.
Once again, I welcome all the participants to this worldwide broadcast. Today we will continue the article "Freedom of Will" in the first part of the lesson, and proceed with the article "Foreword to the Commentaries of Baal HaSulam to the book Zohar" in the second part.
At the previous lesson we talked about how the individual relates to the majority or the crowd, and that the crowd or the surrounding society suppresses the individual.
Now we will examine the following section...
We are almost finished reading the article entitled "Freedom of Will" by Baal HaSulam. His articles should be studied gradually, like all material on Kabbalah. The text should be reread several times. Every time we attain a new level, we begin to see more in the text and to grasp the material more. There may be only a small amount of material, but the depth of its meaning depends only on the person. When a person reveals a broader world for himself, he then discovers that a single article contains the whole universe, including all of the actions that are going on inside of him and all of the means necessary for him to attain ultimate comprehension and perception. Almost every spiritual text contains all of those things, because each spiritual Partzuf and each spiritual detail contain the ten Sefirot. If we immerse ourselves into these ten Sefirot, then we will reveal the whole world, even the world of Infinity.