Local Meeting 14
Topics for today
- The greatness of the teacher
- Preparation for the convention
If a line of a thousand blind people walks along the way and there is at least one leader amongst them who can see, they are guaranteed to walk on the right path and not fall in pits and obstacles since they follow the sighted one who leads them. But if that person is missing, they are certain to stumble over every hurdle on the way and will all fall into the pit.
(Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Book of Zohar, pt. 57)
…Those whose eyes have not been opened to the sights of heaven, and have not acquired the proficiency in the connections of the branches of this world with their roots in the upper worlds are like the blind scraping the walls. They will not understand the true meaning of even a single word, for each word is a name of a branch that relates to its root.
Only if they receive an interpretation from a genuine sage who makes himself available to explain the matter in the spoken language, which is necessarily like translating from one language to another, meaning from the language of the branches to the spoken language, only then he will be able to explain the spiritual term as it is.
(Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot”. Vol. 1. Part 1. Inner Observation)
…A person has the choice of going to a place where there are righteous. One can accept their authority, and then he will receive all the powers that he lacks by the nature of his own qualities. He will receive it from the righteous. This is the benefit in “planted them in each generation,” so that each generation would have someone to turn to, adhere to, and from whom to receive the strength required to rise to the degree of a righteous. Thus, they, too, subsequently become righteous.
Baal HaSulam. Shamati Article N.99.
Q&A
Convention Preparation
Workshop
How are we getting ready for the congress?
Important
For the upcoming Sunday Lesson we will send a recording from the convention. There will not be any live lesson. Next Meeting will be our local meeting, in one week's time.