READING: BETWEEN AFTER MIDNINGHT AND DAWN WEDNESDAY

Baal HaSulam. Shamati, 98. Spirituality Is Called That Which Will Never Be Lost

LESON MATERIAL

98. Spirituality Is Called That Which Will Never Be Lost

I heard in 1948

Spirituality is called that which will never be lost. Hence, the will to receive, in the form it is in, meaning in order to receive, is called “corporeality,” since it will be canceled from this form and will acquire the form of in order to bestow.

A real place in spirituality is called “the place of reality,” since anyone who comes there, to that place, sees the same shape as the other. Conversely, something imaginary is not regarded as a real place since it is imaginary, and then everyone imagines it differently.

When we say “seventy faces to the Torah,” it means that they are seventy degrees. In each degree, the Torah is interpreted according to the degree one is in. However, a world is a reality, meaning that anyone who comes to any of the seventy degrees in that world attains the same form as all the other attainers who came there.

From this extends what our sages say, who interpret the verses of the Torah. They say that this is what Abraham said to Isaac, and other similar sayings of our sages. They would say what they would say, what is explained in the verses.

The question is, How did they know what one said to the other? But because those who achieved the degree where Abraham (or anyone) stood, they see and know what Abraham knew and saw.

For this reason, they know what Abraham said. It is likewise in all the sayings of our sages that interpret the verses of the Torah. All that was because they, too, attained the degree, and each degree in spirituality is a reality, and everyone sees the reality, just as all those who come to the city of London in England see what is in the city and what is said in the city.