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Every person of his right mind who examines the reality before him finds in it two complete opposites. When one examines the actual erection of creation, there is an apparent and affirmed leadership of great wisdom and skill, both regarding the formation of reality and the securing of its general existence.

But those who examine the ensuring of existence of that reality can clearly see great disorders and confusions, as though there is no leader and no guidance. Every man does that which was right in his own eyes, building himself over the ruin of others, the evil thrive and the righteous are trampled mercilessly.

Bear in mind that this oppositeness, set before the eyes of every sensible person, has preoccupied humanity even in ancient days. Many methods try to explain these two apparent opposites in providence that occupy the same world.

Baal HaSulam
The Peace
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"Our world isn't bodies. It's souls."


 












-- Rav Laitman
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Honor is something that stops the body, and to that extent, it harms the soul.

Hence, all the righteous that became famous and respected,
it was a punishment.

But the great righteous,
when the Creator does not want them to lose by being famous as righteous,
the Creator guards them from being honored,
so as to not harm their souls.

Baal HaSulam, Honor, Shamati #181
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A man needs the Hissaron [need/deficit/shortage]that comes to him from a woman,
and a woman needs additional forces that come to her through the man.
They cannot advance without each other.
Therefore, spiritual advancement lies in their supplementation of each other.
A woman also reveals all the definitions that are called Abraham, Yitzhak [Isaac], Yaakov [Jacob], and so on.
These are spiritual definitions, Sefirot, and we are talking about the soul.
There is the female soul and the male soul.
We had prophetesses and matriarchs, and all of them were in spiritual attainment.

So where is the spiritual attained?
It is attained in the corrected Kli which has a male and a female part which are in a state of balance.
There are 10 Sefirot, the screen, and Ohr Hozer.
A revelation of the Creator occurs within the creature
when the Creator is revealed in regard to this soul
that is called Sarah, Rivkah [Rebecca], Rachel, Leah, Dvorah [Deborah], Huldah, and so on.
This is in fact the revelation of the Creator in the female soul.
And then all of these definitions are in the soul:
Hesed, Gvurah, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut
--they are in fact Abraham, Yitzhak [Isaac], Yaakov [Jacob], Moshe [Moses], Yosef [Joseph], Aaron, and David.

Rav Laitman, "About the Spiritual Advancement of Women", January 16, 2007

Sarah (Sara)

Meaning: (Female) ruler, mistress; (female) minister.

Sarah, Abraham's wife, was the first of the "four mothers" of the Jewish people.

"And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her, yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations, kings of people shall be of her." Genesis 17, 15-16

Rebekah (Rivka)

Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel, and Isaac's wife, was the second of the "four mothers" of the Jewish people.

"And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her, and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death." Genesis 24, 67

Rachel
Meaning: Ewe, female sheep.

One of the "four mothers" of the Jewish people. Jacob's second wife. Jacob worked for Laban, Rachel's father, fourteen years in order to marry her.

"Leah was tender eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved Rachel and said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter." Genesis 29, 17-18

Leah (Lea, Le'a)

One of the "four mothers" of the Jewish people. Leah and her younger sister Rachel were the two wives of Jacob.

"And Laban had two daughters, the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored." Genesis 29, 16-17.

Deborah (Dvora)

Meaning: Bee

There are two women in the Bible named Deborah. One of them is the prophetess Deborah.

"And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment." Judges 4, 4-5

Huldah (Hulda, Chulda)

Huldah was a prophetess in the time of King Josiah.

"So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe, now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college, and they communed with her." 2 Kings 22, 14

I love this---

And if you wish to listen, you shall feed on the fruit of the earth, 
for poverty, and torment, and exploitation shall be no more in the land, 
and the happiness of each and everyone shall rise ever higher beyond measure. 
But as long as you refuse to take upon yourselves 
the work of God in all the above measure, 
then Nature and its laws will stand ready to take revenge 
and it will not let go until it defeats us 
and we accept its authority in whatever it commands.

Now I have given you a practical, scientific research 
examined by experimental knowledge 
regarding
the absolute necessity of all people
to take upon themselves 
the work of God
with all their hearts,
and with all their souls,
and with all their might.


--Ba'al HaSulam, The Peace

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