BALAK

Shalom Shalom. This week’s DEVAR TORAH is BALAK, king of Moab, meaning to waste.
•     Understand the power of perception. The events external to us are like the screen at the cinema. The movie/event is temporary. We are to be like the screen; it is not harmed by what is on it. Just be a witness to it.  The sensation that we receive from the event is to be transformed into Stillness. It is designed to aid in reaching the Goal of Creation.
•    For Israel who are focused on the Goal of Creation, there is no weapon formed against it that will prosper. We are to transform the Knower into a visible manifestation of the Power to Know. In transformation, nothing can harm us. In stillness and peaceful, we will be saved. This gives us confidence. Uncertainty makes us vulnerable to what is on the screen.
•    Egotistical intention separates you from your higher self. Right action with egotistical intent separates you. You must have the right intention. Bilaam’s intention behind the action is wrong, selfish. Use introspection constantly to check your intention before speaking or acting. Use perception correctly then the mind will be under the control of the Spirit.
•    Bilaam is a prophet who ascends to Binah to see Israel. He ascends to Chayah I which has the sense of an “I”; it is dualistic. At Yechidah, there is no “I” but a sense of the ALL. Higher than Yechidah is One Life. The purpose of the correct Reshimo (pressures) is to bring out the hidden life. Acceptance rather than reacting against it. 
•    Recognize who you are. Have the right kind of self esteem. Israel is primeval, first born, the Soul People. We study our own soul. We have to have certainty and not doubt. There are no mistakes in life. Nothing happens by chance. If you are out of harmony with G-d, you can get back on track. 
•    Most creativity is used in an egotistical way - with a sense of “I.” Remove sense of “I” to be pure. All thoughts come from the Creator. Don’t try to do something about the thoughts. It is temporary. The “I” is developed by engaging with what goes across the screen.  Allow it to go and get control over the mind. Bilaam loses sense of “I” and enters into the prophetic, creativity. When the Spirit is on Bilaam then creativity begins. You can’t run out of creativity. You create; it is finished; stuff comes across the screen, then more creativity. Leave all emotions out of it. Purity is stillness - creativity comes out of purity.
•    Everything has a certain purpose, an immense value. Waste is an illusion of the mind; a superimposition based on ignorance. There is nothing to waste; it just needs arranged. We are to have dominion over the works of G-d’s hands. Events come as vibration, a blow that registers on the screen. You have the ability to determine it’s meaning. This is how to gain control. Israel became attached to what was playing across their screen. That put the blow in control. What causes the blow to have dominion over you is attachment whether affinity or aversion. Israel attached to Baal-peor and caused the universe/energy to be against them. Pierce within yourself attachments no matter what they are. Let go of it. 

CHUKAT

Shalom Shalom. This week’s DEVAR TORAH is CHUKAT which is the IVRI transliteration for decree.
•    A decree is given where we are to be obedient without actually understanding why. But once we perform the decree, then the understanding will come.
•    The red cow is an instruction given for those who are tamei because of death. Below the barrier, there is death; above the barrier is life, no death. Anything connecting you to Body Consciousness (this present world) is connecting to mental slavery. The Kohen (one who has ascended into CHAYAH I, CHAYAH II & YECHIDAH) is able to pull people out of slavery. The Kohen has to contaminate himself to aid those who are below the barrier. He is able to ascend and descend out of body consciousness at will. We have to discover that we are already the Truth of Being. A person has to desire to be free.    
•    In the portion, it says that Miriam died. Miriam did not die. What perished was the identification with the BEGED (clothing).
•    All problems have been weighed in the balance and if responded to correctly will aid us in the unfoldment of the Goal of Creation. In the past, Moshe struck the rock to get water. This time the Creator said to speak to the rock. Moshe went to memory for the solution. It was a similar situation, but required a new solution. Moshe and Aharon were still in mental slavery so they couldn’t go into the Land/High Level of Consciousness. We have to ascend into DAAT - all knowledge. In the prayer of meditation, we ascend into DAAT. The mind will move from attention on a seed to the mind modification of contemplation where information will come out about the seed. Truth of Being is that of all knowledge. To be free, one must be free from the comfort of memory for solutions.
•    Aharon did not die, but his existence in MALCHUT is not there. He goes into Being and will return until he has his light body. A righteous person lives in two worlds (OLAM HABAH and MALCHUT) because of mastery of ATZILUT (speaking world). Moshe and Aharon did not master the speaking world. Use the ability to look within and inspect what you are about to say before you say it. Mastery of the speaking world is how you build your spiritual body. If you don’t complete your spiritual body in the allotted time, then you come back. Evolutionary states are reached by a succession of changes from life time to life time. There are a lot of changes to go through before evolution. You experience it before manifestation.
•    Physical immortality is not belief or faith but experienced in the body - the mind must be transformed. The person who has transformed the mind will experience it. What is external to us is G-d revealed and G-d concealed.  From the perspective of the prophet, what is concealed is future events; what is revealed is the past. You want the ability to see beyond what is external. When something comes to you, see what is internal. Do this and the mind will eventually transform. The mind automatically sees what is internal. We complain because we don’t see that everything is G-d. Don't make decisions based on what you see externally. Work on transforming the mind.

 

KORACH

Shalom Shalom. This week’s DEVAR TORAH is KORACH which is the name of a person that caused rebellion Israel.
•    A name is something that has been given by the Creator in harmony with purpose. Purpose has been predetermined; no one can change it. We are immortal with a name that expresses purpose. We have been given the assignment to become visible. Work in harmony with purpose and the universe will work in harmony for us. We have everything necessary to do our purpose.
•    Dinim - strict judgment happens when the window of repentance is closed.
•    We have both an individual purpose and a corporate purpose. Corporate purpose is to be TIKKUN OLAM (repairers of the world); it is related to location for success. We are to return to the Land and fulfill the promise. This is the dream of Abraham. The fulfillment of dream/purpose comes through a multitude of purposeful activity. Purposeful activity is to be in harmony with purpose. All events that come to us are predetermined by the Creator. We are to respond with purpose. The event in this portion was predetermined and necessary. When an event comes to us, we have a choice of responding with purpose or reacting with the ego.
•    When you have Direct Experience, don’t think you know everything. It is not wise. It is a gift to use the mind in the right way. Sometimes when we see something, it looks unfair. There is One Life: things are destined to work a certain way. The universe is cycling - constantly balancing itself out. Wisdom is gained by keeping the door open, by not thinking you know everything. Go to Stillness, not memory.
•    More people die after Korach. Judgment brings a balance to the universe. Their intention came under judgment. They will cycle again and could come back right away under the same instruction. Intention is before desire. It is below the barrier. You have control over intention (the heart). If you don’t understand something, just listen, then understanding will come. Choose what thoughts to cling to. Use the mind in the right way to reflect the Creator. Aaron offered up incense, not animals, to stop the plague, to have an ascended state. Intention has to go up in smoke; intention from both the ego and the higher levels. The Creator is the Conductor - He knows what He is doing.
•    Korach said Moshe and Aaron had no right to elevate themselves because everyone in Israel is holy. He was correct. Isaiah 42:5,6. Everyone in Israel is called of God. We are called to be a light to the world. We are accountable. Even though everyone is Israel is called, there are a few that are chosen. Every tribe was represented by a staff with their name on it. The staffs were taken into the Tent of Meeting, a place of intensity. In this place of intensity, Aaron’s staff was the only one to blossom and produce fruit. In other words, the hidden life of the Creator that was inside came to the outside. This is what happens when one is chosen. The other staffs (tribes) remained unchanged; the hidden life in them didn’t come out - they were not chosen. 

SHELACH

Shalom Shalom. This week’s DEVAR TORAH is SHELACH which means send.
•     We travel in cycles going from one cycle to another cycle ascending up the SULAM (ladder). When the cycle is complete then there is a test. Going into the Land to spy was a test. The challenges should have brought about rearrangement. When they saw what was on the next level, they focused on the past and their limitations. Because they failed the test, they were not able to go into the Land/the next level. Answer the challenge with stillness and it moves you in an upward direction. Be consistent and don’t complain. Then they got into impatience. Patience is enduring without complaining. Complaining takes them into the wilderness for the next 40 years. After complaining, they move into defiance because of their identification with the ego.
•    CHAYAH I: the unfoldment of miracles. CHAYAH II: everything is a miracle. We are in a universe of becoming. Every event is a miracle aiding us to the Goal of Creation. CHAYAH II takes away complaining.
•    We need to separate from that which is corporeal (body consciousness) which is pain/pleasure. Being conscious of the BEGED (body) is to be weak. Being conscious of the Soul, you can’t be defeated.
•    We have to establish firmness - not being body consciousness. When you are no longer conscious of the body, you are able to maintain Pure Soul Consciousness (CHAYAH I, CHAYAH II and YECHIDAH). There is a sense of peace, stillness, bliss. Walk in firmness and the solution will appear when needed. Don’t claim firmness if you don’t have it, it is defiance. Faith will not deliver you.  
•    Torah is ETZ CHAIM (Tree of Life). We are to maintain Pure Soul Consciousness. Pure Soul Consciousness is maintained by eating of the Tree of Life.  
•    Offering bread to ECHAD is to sustain high levels of consciousness. Until you have completely entered in, you have experiences of the ego. Inner engineering - eat the bread of Torah (Root, RAZ), sustain it in the mind until it is automatic in the mind. A time will come when it is automatic - no longer wrestle with discrimination.
•    Unintentional sin is something that occurs with no inner intention. Intentional sin is idol worship (you and God), wrong perception, abuse of things through ignorance. Intentional sin is not allowed in a Jewish community.  Intentional sin wars against ascension.
•    No one has ever been stoned to death by the Jewish People for violating Shabbat. Picking up wood is insignificant, but doing something insignificant puts the whole universe against you. The Shabbat is a day of rest, to stay focused on the higher levels of consciousness.
•    After the Fall, Adam worked to sustain himself, not to do purpose. Purpose always out trumps work to sustain yourself. We are created to do purpose. Everybody is created to rest. Not everyone is created to work, but to refine the mind and establish it on the planet. They establish high levels of thought that affects nations. It takes a dedicated life, devotion. He does it every day not just on Shabbat. Totally devoted and there is no work.