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World Kabbalah Convention 2017 “All As One”

  1. The souls of Israel are all as one man and the division and separation is only from the side of the bodies.
    Shem Mishmuel, VaYikra

  2. The sign for the body’s complete correction is when one feels that one’s soul exists in the whole of Israel, in each and every one of them, for which he does not feel himself as an individual, for one depends on the other. At that time, he is complete, flawless, and the soul truly shines on him in its fullest power, as it appeared in Adam ha Rishon, as in “He who breathed, breathed from Himself.”
    This is the meaning of the three times of a person:
    A spark of a soul, the act by way of sparkling, as in prohibiting and permitting.
    A particular soul, one part out of 600,000. It is permanently completed, but its flaw is with it. This means that its body cannot receive the whole of the soul, and feels itself as being distinct, which causes him much pains of love.
    Subsequently, he approaches perfection, the common soul, since the body has been cleansed and it is entirely dedicated to HaVaYaH and does not pose any measures and screens and is completely included in the whole of Israel….
    Baal Hasulam, 600,000 Souls

  3. All those friends who do not love each other depart the world before their time. All the friends in Rashbi’s time had love of soul and love of spirit among them. This is why in his generation, the secrets of Torah were revealed. Rabbi Shimon would say, “All the friends who do not love each other cause themselves to stray from the right path.” Moreover, they put a blemish in the Torah, since there is love, brotherhood, and truth in the Torah. Abraham loved Isaac; Isaac loved Abraham; and they were embraced. And they were both gripped Jacob with love and brotherhood and were giving their spirits in one another. The friends should be like them and not blemish them, for if love is lacking in them they will blemish their value above, that is, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which are HGT.
    Ki Tissa [When You Take], Now Let Me Alone, 54

  4. The essence of repentance is to unite with each one with love and with one heart, to serve the Creator and lend a shoulder. Thus the world of repentance and the world of Rachamim and the world of acceptance are awakened. This is in reference to the saying “all are measured by the same measure” meaning that we must adhere and connect with each other and be locked in each other’s heart, and this is the meaning of the word “One”, to be one bundle, to serve the Creator with a whole heart..
    Maor VaShemesh, Secrets of Rosh Hashanah

  5. There is a special power in the adhesion of friends. Since views and thoughts pass from one to the other through the adhesion between them, each is mingled with the power of the other, and by that each person in the group has the power of the entire group. For this reason, although each person is an individual, he contains the power of the entire group.
    Rabash, Vol 1, The Need for Love of Friends

  6. Let one accustom himself always to place in his heart the love of friends, until the day he dies, and to increase in it until his soul adheres and they cling one to the other. And when they all become as one man the Creator will be one and dwell in their midst and they will receive from Him great salvations and mercies and be elevated with delight in body and soul.
    Pri HaAretz, Letter 30

  7. One must know that love is bought by actions. By giving his friends gifts, each gift that he gives to his friend is like an arrow and a bullet, making a hole in his friend’s heart. And although his friend’s heart is like a rock, still, each bullet makes a hole. And the many holes join into a hollow into which the love of the giver of presents enters.
    And the warmth of the love draws to him his friend’s sparks of love, and then the two loves weave into a garment of love that covers both of them. This means that one love surrounds and envelops the two, and they naturally become one person because the clothing that covers them both is a single garment. Hence, both are annulled.
    It is a rule that anything new is exciting and entertaining. Hence, after one receives the garment of love from another, he enjoys only the love of the other and forgets about self-love. At that time, each of them begins to receive pleasure only from caring for his friend, and cannot worry about himself
    The RABASH, Man as a Whole

  8. “You stand today, all of you” teaches that he assembled them… gathered them to make a covenant. (Rashi) “All of you” means that all of them took upon themselves the covenant of “Arvut”. (The holy “Ohr Hachaim”)
    We ask, why does it begin with plural, “all of you” and afterwards it end in a singular, “each one of Israel”? The intention “all of you” was included in “each one of Israel”, meaning that “every man of Israel” would be included in “all of you”, as it is written, “and the people encamped at the foot of the mountain”, as one man with one heart. And when there is love among the people of Israel, then they will succeed.
    Rabash, Vol 3, You Stand Today - A

  9. It is written, “And the people encamped, as one man with one heart.” This means that they all had one goal, which is to benefit the Creator. It follows…
    We should understand how they could be as one man with one heart, since we know what our sages said, “As their faces are not similar to one another, their views are not similar to one another,” so how could they be as one man with one heart?
    Answer: If we are saying that each one cares for himself, it is impossible to be as one man, since they are not similar to one another. However, if they all annul their selves and worry only about the benefit of the Creator, they have no individual views, since the individuals have all been canceled and have entered the single authority.
    Rabbash, Vol 2, Letter 42

  10. Once I have acquired this above-mentioned clothing, sparks of love promptly begin to shine within me. The heart begins to long to unite with my friends, and it seems to me that my eyes see my friends, my ears hear their voices, my mouth speaks to them, the hands embrace, the feet dance in a circle, in love and joy together with them, and I transcend my corporeal boundaries. I forget the vast distance between my friends and me, and the outstretched land for many miles will not stand between us.
    It is as though my friends are standing right within my heart and see all that is happening there, and I become ashamed of my petty acts against my friends. Then, I simply exit the corporeal vessels and it seems to me that there is no reality in the world except my friends and I. After that, even the “I” is cancelled and is immersed, mingled in my friends, until I stand and declare that there is no reality in the world—only the friends.
    Rabash Vol 2, Letter 8

  11. Hear me, my people. From the depth of my soul I speak unto you. From my inner soul, from the bond of life that I am bound up with all of you, and you are all bound up with me. From that same inner feeling that I feel deeper than all my feelings. Only you, only you, all of you, all your souls, all your generations, only you are the substance of my life. Within you I live, inside you, and in your collective unit my life has meaning called Life, and without you I have nothing. All my hopes, all my aspirations, all the substance of the value of life, all this I find in me only with you. I need to connect with all your souls, I must love you with everlasting love, and it is impossible for me to feel any other feeling. Each one of you, every single soul from among you, is a great and important spark of the eternal light that illuminates for me the light of life. Through your pipeline I feel everything, I love everything.
    Rav Kook, Orot HaRaya, Page 66

  12. And thus will Israel be a ‘holy nation’ and ‘gather together’ as ‘one man with one heart’. And then, when Israel return to their former state, satan (evil inclination) will be unable to deceive them through error and strange (outside) forces, since when they are ‘as one man with one heart’ they are like a wall of protection against the evil forces.
    Shem MiShmuel, VaYakhel

  13. 386) As they were of one will and one heart, and spoke in the holy tongue, it is written, “Nothing will be denied from them which they initiate”, and judgement cannot command them.
    And we, the friends who engage in the Torah, when we are of one heart and one will, it is even more so that nothing will be denied us that we wish to do.
    387) From this we gather that all people of dispute have no existence. At any time when the people of the world are together with one will and one heart, even though they rebel against the Creator, judgement did not rule them as it did in the generation of division. And when they separated, immediately it is written of them, “And the Lord dispersed them from that place”. Thus, those in dispute have no existence.
    388) Therefore, everything depends on the word of the mouth. When their tongues were confused, immediately, “And the Lord dispersed them from that place”. But of the future it is written, “Then, I shall turn all people to a clear language, for all to call the name of the Lord and to work for him with one shoulder. And the Lord will preside, king over all.”
    Zohar La’am, Noah, Sayeth the Lord - They Are One People.

  14. when humankind achieves its goal, with respect to the success of the bodies, by bringing them to the degree of complete love of others, all the bodies in the world will unite into a single body and a single heart, as written in the article, “The Peace.” Only then will all the happiness intended for humanity become revealed in all its glory.
    Baal Hasulam, The Freedom

will succeed.
Rabash, Vol 3, You Stand Today - A
  • It is written, “And the people encamped, as one man with one heart.” This means that they all had one goal, which is to benefit the Creator. It follows…
    We should understand how they could be as one man with one heart, since we know what our sages said, “As their faces are not similar to one another, their views are not similar to one another,” so how could they be as one man with one heart?
    Answer: If we are saying that each one cares for himself, it is impossible to be as one man, since they are not similar to one another. However, if they all annul their selves and worry only about the benefit of the Creator, they have no individual views, since the individuals have all been canceled and have entered the single authority.
    Rabbash, Vol 2, Letter 42

  • Once I have acquired this above-mentioned clothing, sparks of love promptly begin to shine within me. The heart begins to long to unite with my friends, and it seems to me that my eyes see my friends, my ears hear their voices, my mouth speaks to them, the hands embrace, the feet dance in a circle, in love and joy together with them, and I transcend my corporeal boundaries. I forget the vast distance between my friends and me, and the outstretched land for many miles will not stand between us.
    It is as though my friends are standing right within my heart and see all that is happening there, and I become ashamed of my petty acts against my friends. Then, I simply exit the corporeal vessels and it seems to me that there is no reality in the world except my friends and I. After that, even the “I” is cancelled and is immersed, mingled in my friends, until I stand and declare that there is no reality in the world—only the friends.
    Rabash Vol 2, Letter 8

  • Hear me, my people. From the depth of my soul I speak unto you. From my inner soul, from the bond of life that I am bound up with all of you, and you are all bound up with me. From that same inner feeling that I feel deeper than all my feelings. Only you, only you, all of you, all your souls, all your generations, only you are the substance of my life. Within you I live, inside you, and in your collective unit my life has meaning called Life, and without you I have nothing. All my hopes, all my aspirations, all the substance of the value of life, all this I find in me only with you. I need to connect with all your souls, I must love you with everlasting love, and it is impossible for me to feel any other feeling. Each one of you, every single soul from among you, is a great and important spark of the eternal light that illuminates for me the light of life. Through your pipeline I feel everything, I love everything.
    Rav Kook, Orot HaRaya, Page 66

  • And thus will Israel be a ‘holy nation’ and ‘gather together’ as ‘one man with one heart’. And then, when Israel return to their former state, satan (evil inclination) will be unable to deceive them through error and strange (outside) forces, since when they are ‘as one man with one heart’ they are like a wall of protection against the evil forces.
    Shem MiShmuel, VaYakhel

  • 386) As they were of one will and one heart, and spoke in the holy tongue, it is written, “Nothing will be denied from them which they initiate”, and judgement cannot command them.
    And we, the friends who engage in the Torah, when we are of one heart and one will, it is even more so that nothing will be denied us that we wish to do.
    387) From this we gather that all people of dispute have no existence. At any time when the people of the world are together with one will and one heart, even though they rebel against the Creator, judgement did not rule them as it did in the generation of division. And when they separated, immediately it is written of them, “And the Lord dispersed them from that place”. Thus, those in dispute have no existence.
    388) Therefore, everything depends on the word of the mouth. When their tongues were confused, immediately, “And the Lord dispersed them from that place”. But of the future it is written, “Then, I shall turn all people to a clear language, for all to call the name of the Lord and to work for him with one shoulder. And the Lord will preside, king over all.”
    Zohar La’am, Noah, Sayeth the Lord - They Are One People.

  • when humankind achieves its goal, with respect to the success of the bodies, by bringing them to the degree of complete love of others, all the bodies in the world will unite into a single body and a single heart, as written in the article, “The Peace.” Only then will all the happiness intended for humanity become revealed in all its glory.
    Baal Hasulam, The Freedom