MATTOT

Shalom Shalom. This week’s DEVAR TORAH is MATTOT meaning tribes.
•    Devarim/words are supernal in nature. The Creator employs words to effect form, becoming what He speaks. Words have vibrations; they are the beginning of manifestation. Words create forms that are real or unreal, seen and unseen. It starts with intention. Pure intention comes out of stillness; impure intention comes out of the ego. Use introspection before speaking to see where the words are coming from. Impure words create unreal form that produces suffering. Speak words that are in harmony with Pure Soul Consciousness.
•    Sefa is an influential flow of energy. The teacher maintains upper level of consciousness. Those in his sphere of authority who are connected correctly will receive sefa from the teacher. The student honors the teacher with their substance. The teacher can sense sensitivity that opposes Pure Soul consciousness. When the teacher feels sensitivity of the ego, he lets it go and gets back to stillness. The student who is connected will receive sefa. Don’t speak about the leader behind closed doors; it is felt in the spirit.
•    Moshe is told to destroy the Midianites because they led Israel into sexual perversion. Pursuit of egotistical pleasure is separation from your higher self. Pure Soul Consciousness is more valuable than the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose of meditation is to maintain Pure Soul Consciousness. From it, sefa, words will come forth that are in harmony with Pure Soul Consciousness.
•    We are standing in the Whole of Reality. Adam and Eve’s descension made it so they couldn’t perceive the Whole of Reality. Perception must change to reach the Goal of Creation. False perception is the unreal world. The mind receives blows and produces ripples. The mind is to be transformed to Stillness reflecting the Soul. No matter what is thrown in, the mind remains Still. If the mind is reflecting the Soul, the Beged will be transformed. 
•    Spiritual warfare deals with discrimination between what is real and unreal. It is not good vs evil. The screen is still. Observe/witness what is on the screen. The priests simply watched. They didn’t get involved with the warfare. Witnessing is being like the screen - still. What is on the screen is an illusion. Practice consistently on being still. In stillness, they gained what was necessary for their corporeal well being.
•    Gad and Reuben wanted to stay outside of the Land. Moshe told them that if they aided the other tribes in reaching the Goal, they could stay. The person who stays can easily go back to their old identification. Aiding helps to maintain supernal identification.
•    Be among people who allow you to unfold your purpose. Your purpose is for others not yourself. Our forefathers were nomadic to maximize their purpose. Maximizing purpose brings satisfaction; doing other things does not. Fulfilling purpose is manifesting the hidden life in you.
•    Adam and Eve used free will to choose something out of harmony with the Creator. Make sure your will is in harmony with the Supreme Will. The Creator promised Abraham the Land of Israel. Some of his zera didn’t want to go into the Land. God allowed it, but it kept them below the barrier. They were given free will to choose the Creator’s Will. It takes total surrender, devotion.

 

PINCHAS

 Shalom Shalom. This week’s DEVAR TORAH is PINCHAS meaning black, negro, mouth of a serpent.
•    The Midianites used sex against Israel. Sex is a base desire that is used against us. Use sex for the purpose it was given - procreation. Israel was told to assault Midian. The assault is against their education. The current educational system perpetuates the ego, it enslaves the mind. We are an army of educators that employ the words of G-d to pull people completely out of the present world system to unfold the Goal of Creation.
•    Things happen in cycles. In the days of Noah, the sons of G-d got involved with sexual desire for pleasure. After the flood, Noah and his sons became the priests. In this portion, Israel is tempted by sexual pleasure which resulted in a plague. The plague was stopped by the actions of Pinchas. Because of his actions, G-d raised him up as an eternal priesthood. The priesthood did not become dominate until after the plague. In our time, we have experienced a plague. G-d is now raising up a priesthood that has not been seen before. Like Pinchas, it is dark skinned and has a mouth that is venomous to religion.
•     There is only One Life expressing itself in infinite ways. It is like a tree. The roots are in spirituality and the branches are in body consciousness. Like the leaves on the tree, as long as they are connected to the root, they have life. Separating from the root is separating from Life. The leaf falls to the ground; a new season and a new leaf comes (reincarnation). Remain connected to the Root through concentration on the highest level (Yechidah) and maintain it. Leaves represent the visible manifestation of what is in the Root.
•    A righteous man lives in more than one world. Physically he is in Malchut, spiritually he is above the barrier. There is a gate keeper at each level that keeps it open for those who are going ready to go in and keeps others from entering in illegally. There are certain requirements/standards that must be met before entering into a new level. The standards have to do with how you respond to challenges/blows. You dominate by responding not reacting. You must have a teacher who will aid you in ascension.
•    There are two worlds: real and unreal. The present world is unreal in space and time. It is hollow, ignorance, temporary. The real world is eternal, timeless, no space or time. Moshe exists in 2 worlds. He is taken to the mountain top to see into the Land and be gathered into his people. This shows the illusion of death. There is consciousness there. When a person transitions, there are things that are carried over: attainments, gifting, karma, vision. Moshe is given a vision that he carries with him now.  
•    Pinchas whose name means dark skin is given the eternal priesthood. Dark skin is associated with the priesthood. Purpose is not in name only but also predetermined Middot (qualities of the Creator). In each generation, there is a generational head that builds on the foundation that is already there. Abraham, Moshe and Yehoshua are generational heads. Each one introduces something that hasn’t been there. In order to be the next generational head, Yehoshua had some of Moshe’s majesty placed on him.