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.