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Lishma Is an Awakening from Above, and Why Do We Need an Awakening from Below?
What Is Support in the Torah, in the Work?
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What Is the Difference between a Shade of Kedusha and a Shade of Sitra Achra?
What Are Three Things that Broaden One’s Mind in the Work?
What Is “Hurry, My Beloved,” in the Work?
Joy with Trembling
The Essence of Man’s Work
A Pomegranate
What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?
What Is Other Gods in the Work?
What Is the Day of the Lord and the Night of the Lord, in the Work?
What Does It Mean that the Sitra Achra Is Called “Malchut without a Crown”?
My Soul Shall Weep in Secret – 1
What Is “The Creator Hates the Bodies,” in the Work?
Lishma [for Her sake]
When One Feels Oneself in a State of Ascent
Torah Lishma
You Who Love the Lord, Hate Evil
He Will Save Them from the Hand of the Wicked
Things that Come from the Heart
One’s Future Depends and Is Tied to Gratitude for the Past
What Is “The Lord Is High and the Low Will See”? - 1
I Shall Not Die but Live
When Thoughts Come to a Person
The Most Important Is to Want Only to Bestow
Anyone Who Pleases the Spirit of the People
A Lot Is an Awakening from Above
The Lots on Yom Kippur and with Haman
The Advantage of a Land
Concerning the Vitality of Kedusha
What Are the Three Bodies in Man?
An Article for Purim
The Fear of God Is His Treasure
And They Sewed Fig Leaves
What Is the Measure of Faith in the Rav?
What Is Greatness and Smallness in Faith?
What Is the Acronym Elul in the Work?
Concerning Truth and Faith
Mind and Heart
Two Discernments in the Torah and in the Work
The Domination of Israel over the Klipot
In the Place Where You Find His Greatness
The Primary Basis
The Most Important Are the Mind and the Heart
Two States
If You Encounter This Villain
A Transgression Does Not Extinguish a Mitzva
The Matter of Limitation
The Purpose of the Work – 1
Haman from the Torah, from Where?
Torah Is Called Indication
Will Bring Him Closer to His Will
Joy Is a “Reflection” of Good Deeds
Concerning the Rod and the Serpent
A Mitzva that Comes through Transgression
Round About Him It Storms Mightily
Descends and Incites, Ascends and Complains
I Was Borrowed on, and I Repay
From Lo Lishma, We Come to Lishma
Concerning the Revealed and the Concealed
Concerning the Giving of the Torah – 1
Depart from Evil
Man's Connection to the Sefirot
First Will Be the Correction of the World
With a Mighty Hand and with Fury Poured Out
My Soul Shall Weep in Secret – 2
Confidence Is the Clothing for the Light
After the Tzimtzum
World, Year, Soul
There Is a Discernment of the Next World, and There Is a Discernment of This World
On All Your Offerings You Shall Offer Salt
One's Soul Shall Teach Him
The Torah, the Creator, and Israel Are One
Atzilut and BYA
Concerning Achor be Achor
Concerning Raising MAN
The Prayer that One Should Always Pray
Concerning the Right Vav and the Left Vav
What Is “He Drove the Man Out of the Garden of Eden so He Would Not Take from the Tree of Life”?
What Is the Fruit of a Citrus Tree, in the Work?
And They Built Arei Miskenot
Shabbat Shekalim
All the Work Is Only Where There Are Two Ways – 1
To Understand the Words of The Zohar
In The Zohar, Beresheet
Concerning the Replaceable
Explaining the Discernment of Luck
Concerning Fins and Scales
And You Shall Keep Your Souls
Concerning Removing the Foreskin
What Is Waste of Barn and Winery, in the Work?
Waste of Barn and Winery
Spirituality Is Called That Which Will Never Be Lost
He Did Not Say Wicked or Righteous
The Written Torah and the Oral Torah – 1
A Commentary on the Psalm, “For the Winner over Roses”
And You Shall Take You the Fruit of a Citrus Tree
Whose Heart Makes Him Willing
And the Saboteur Was Sitting
A Bastard Wise Disciple Precedes a Commoner High Priest
What the Twelve Challahs on Shabbat Imply
Concerning the Two Angels
If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two
Two Kinds of Meat
A Field that the Lord Has Blessed
Breath, Sound, and Speech
The Three Angels
The Eighteen Prayer
Prayer
Still, Vegetative, Animate, and Speaking
He Who Said, “Mitzvot Do Not Require Intention”
You Labored and Did Not Find, Do Not Believe
To Understand the Matter of the Knees Which Have Bowed to Baal
That Disciple Who Learned in Secret
The Reason for Not Eating Nuts on Rosh Hashanah
She Is Like Merchant-Ships
Understanding What Is Written in Shulchan Aruch
His Divorce and His Hand Come as One
A Shabbat of Beresheet and of the Six Thousand Years
He Who Delights the Shabbat
A Sage Comes to Town
The Difference between Core, Self, and Added Abundance
Dew Drips from that Galgalta to Zeir Anpin
The Shechina in the Dust
Tiberias of Our Sages, Good Is Your Sight
Who Comes to Purify
In the Sweat of Your Face Shall You Eat Bread – 1
The Lights of Shabbat
Wine that Causes Drunkenness
Clean and Righteous Do Not Kill
The Difference between the First Letters and the Last Letters
Zelophehad Was Gathering Wood
Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person
The Difference between the Six Workdays and Shabbat
How I Love Your Torah
The Holiday of Passover
The Essence of the War
Only Good to Israel
There Is a Certain People
What Is He Will Give Wisdom Specifically to the Wise
A Commentary on The Zohar
The Work of Reception and Bestowal
The Scrutiny of Bitter and Sweet, True and False
Why We Need to Extend Hochma
Sing unto the Lord, for He Has Done Pride
And Israel Saw the Egyptians
For Bribe Blinds the Eyes of the Wise
A Thought Is a Result of the Desire
There Cannot Be an Empty Space in the World
The Cleanness of the Body
Lest He Took from the Tree of Life
I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake
The Reason for Not Eating at Each Other's Home on Passover
And It Came to Pass in the Course of Those Many Days
The Reason for Concealing the Matzot
Concerning the Giving of the Torah – 2
Concerning the Hazak We Say After Completing the Series
What the Authors of The Zohar Said
There Is a Difference between Corporeality and Spirituality
An Explanation to Elisha's Request of Elijah
Two Discernments in Attainment
The Reason Why It Is Called Shabbat Teshuva
The Customs of Israel
Concerning a Complete Righteous
You Shall Not Have in Your Pocket a Big Stone
In The Zohar, Emor – 1
The Matter of Preventions and Delays
Why We Say LeChaim
Concealment
And If the Way Be Too Far for You
When Drinking Brandy after the Havdala
Atonements
Three Partners in Man
Three Lines
In The Zohar, Emor – 2
Honor
Moses and Solomon
The Discernment of Messiah
The Difference between Faith and Intellect
The Uneducated, the Fear of Shabbat Is on Him
Make Your Shabbat a Weekday, and Do Not Need People
Choosing Labor
All the Work Is Only Where There Are Two Ways – 2
The Action Affects the Thought
Every Act Leaves an Imprint
The Time of Descent
The Lots
One Wall Serves Both
The Complete Seven
Rewarded - I Will Hasten It
A Grip for the External Ones
Book, Author, Story
Freedom
To Every Man of Israel
The Hizdakchut of the Masach
Spirituality and Corporeality
In the Sweat of Your Face Shall You Eat Bread – 2
Man's Pride Shall Bring Him Low
The Purpose of the Work - 2
Wisdom Cries Out in the Streets
Faith and Pleasure
Receiving in order to Bestow
Labor
Three Conditions in Prayer
A Sightly Flaw in You
As Though Standing before a King
Embrace of the Right, Embrace of the Left
Acknowledging the Desire
Known in the Gates
Concerning Faith
Right and Left
If I Am Not for Me, Who Is for Me?
The Torah and the Creator Are One
Devotion
Suffering
Multiple Authorities
The Part Given to the Sitra Achra to Separate It from the Kedusha
Clothing, Sack, Lie, Almond
Yesod de Nukva and Yesod de Dechura
Raising Oneself
The Written Torah and the Oral Torah – 2
The Reward for a Mitzva–a Mitzva
Fish before Meat
Haman Pockets
The Lord Is High and the Low Will See - 2
The Purity of the Vessels of Reception
Completing the Labor
Pardon, Forgiveness, and Atonement
He Who Ceases Words of Torah and Engages in Conversation
Looking in the Book Again
My Adversaries Curse Me All the Day
For Man Shall Not See Me and Live
Happy Is the Man Who Does Not Forget You and the Son of Man Who Exerts in You
The Difference between Mochin of Shavuot and that of Shabbat at Minchah
Seek Your Seekers when They Seek Your Face
Call Upon Him When He Is Near
What Is the Matter of Delighting the Poor on a Good Day, in the Work?
Examining the Shade on the Night of Hosha’ana Rabbah
All the Worlds
Prior to the Creation of the Newborn
An Explanation about Luck
A Thought Is Regarded as Nourishment
Let His Friend Begin
Study of the Ten Sefirot
The Bright Light
Tree of Life , with the Panim Meirot uMasbirot Commentary

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225. Raising Oneself

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One cannot raise oneself above one’s circle. Hence, one must nurse from one’s environment, and he has no other way except through Torah and much work. Therefore, if one chooses for oneself a good environment, he saves time and efforts since he is drawn according to his environment.

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