SHOFTIM

Shalom Shalom. This week’s DEVAR TORAH is SHOFTIM meaning judges.
•    Judgment is limited; it operates within Supreme Will. We will fulfill the Goal of Creation either before time or in the allotted time. HaRazon HaElyon will not be denied. Judgment, justice is not external but internal. It is based on intention and desire at the impression level. What is at the center of everything is Supernal/Infinite. Identification with the Beged is limited. Transform what is negative in the Beged and do the impossible. We are transforming at the impression level. Tohu (contrast), Bohu (balance) and Qoshech (darkness) need to be rearranged to establish balance. Balance is necessary to unleash potential. We are in a field of unlimited potential. To be imbalanced is to be swinging back and forth.
•    We are to establish the standards of Olam Haba in the earth - Hamachshavah Elyonah. God is good that does only good. There are three columns: the right and left is the tree of good and bad. Eating of the tree of good and bad causes suffering which leads to good. Consider the end.
•    In the portion we are told not to plant trees and pillars (seeds) that oppose the Creator. When you plant the seed of vengeance, it takes you completely away. It has to be transformed. Toleration - you can only take so much then quit. There is no quitting. Every time you quit, you start all over again. The Priesthood attend the altar 7 days a week twice a day. Focus on the altar and everything else will be taken care of.
•    Be confident in yourself. In our obedience we become one with the Creator. Ascend out of deficiency through servanthood. Idol worship is service that doesn’t fulfill the Goal of Creation. Worship is service. Be a servant to the Creator. Impressions can be transformed through service. We are working at the level of impression. It takes time to transform all of them. All of us has gifts. Your gift is what you specialize in. It is unlimited, always fresh, not an imitation, it is original. Your gift will bring about promotion if it is used in the right way to reach the Goal. Using it for egotistical purposes is idol worship. You have to deal with impressions first. Start out serving in the skills you have; serve and your gift will come out.
•    What the Creator speaks comes to pass. We will be a greater and mightier nation, an army that is immortal that comes to establish the standards of the Creator on the ground at Malchut. We set the throne of the Eternal. The throne is made up of Kohanim, Levites, Judges and officers. The throne of Echad will be set because of judgment. The dominion of the mortal man (ego) is taken away. The reigning influence will be immortal. The Kingdom will an everlasting Kingdom. The judges and officers must meet qualifications to set on one of these thrones. Qualification has to do with dominion. Dominion is within yourself, not over people. The blows we receive are like pebbles thrown in a pond that cause ripples (memory, impression). When that happens you are not in control. If the mind is rippling, it changes the way we reflect our true self. Dominion means when a pebble is dropped, the ripples are restrained. Remain the same when you receive blows. Be God in the event and judgment is correct. Shoftim must have control/dominate themselves.

SHOFTIM

 Shalom, Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by focusing upon the energy that is being experienced this week. To understand the energy, we shall gaze upon the opening words disclosed in the HAFTORAH. It is written, ANOCHI, ANOCHI HU M’NACHEI-HEM,” which is interpreted, “It is I, I am He who comforts you…” Isaiah 51:12. This statement implies that within the PARASHAT SHOFTIM is a revelation that gives rise to experiencing the NACHAMU (comfort) of ECHAD, Blessed Be His Name.

The question is, “What is it that we need comfort for?” The SIDRAH opens with the idea of ESTABLISHMENT. In particular, it is the establishment of a system purposed to administer JUDGMENT. Judgment may be described as ECHAD’S determinate council that guarantees what He has decreed will come to pass. The decree which is termed HAMACHSHAVAH HA ELYONAH, is the manifestation of UNLIMITED POTENTIAL.

Because (EIKEV) ECHAD is the SUPERNAL SPARK that is at the center of every CREATED THING, and ECHAD is unlimited potential, the time will come when ALL THINGS WILL MANIFEST THE SUPERNAL. This is the implication of ESTABLISHMENT (YAKIM).

YAKIM (establishment) in it’s unfoldment is like unto birth pangs. Therefore in the season of establishment, there is a great need for comfort. That we might have ERAV (certainty) in the season in which we undergo YAKIM, ECHAD reveals Himself to be that which will NACHAMU (comfort). No doubt this is a revelation that the ENERGY EXPERIENCED can only be comforted by the SUPERNAL. In other words, that which the EGO can provide will be insufficient. This is an admonition against seeking comfort from that which is corporeal in nature.

The ENERGY that is being experienced is predetermined to aid in the manifestation of the GLORY of ECHAD and our CONSCIOUS UNION with ECHAD is what will provide the NACHAMU. In this is the revelation of being the ALL made manifest, yea, the time has come to be clothed with the LIGHT.

 

SHOFTIM

Shalom, Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by focusing our attention on the opening scenario contained within the PARASHAT. The narrative unfolds with instructions on the establishment of just courts. The basic foundation of a just court is that of JUDGES and OFFICERS. Their purpose is to reveal righteous judgment.

It is important to note that TORAH is not speaking about this Present World, but rather OLAM HA BA, i.e., the world to come. This present world is the product of the EGO’S superimposition of itself on OLAM HA BA within the limitation of space and time. On the other hand, OLAM HA BA is eternal in nature where what is predetermined by ECHAD is disclosed. In other words, the instruction to establish just courts has to do with the structure of the UPPER FORCES.

The UPPER FORCES are qualities in PURE SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS. PURE SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS is a sensation experienced as being everything, i.e. the ALL. The SOUL is perceived as grades beginning with the lowest are NEFEST, RUACH, NESHAMAH, CHAYAH and YECHIDAH. Understanding the qualities of these grades will reveal that the SOUL is the CREATOR of the ALL. When the highest level of the SOUL is experienced, i.e. the YECHIDAH, the sensation of the ALL is the result. This result is being one with ECHAD.

Within the grade of SOUL termed YECHIDAH is the force termed SUPERNAL JUDGMENT. SUPERNAL JUDGMENT may be described as a determinate counsel that ensures that what ECHAD, Blessed be His Name, has predetermined will unfold. It is the force of Supernal Judgment that will give rise to the dissolving of the EGO’S superimposition of this PRESENT WORLD thus revealing OLAM HA BA.

The instructions to establish just courts are a disclosure of the unfoldment of the SYSTEM created by the SOUL to reveal It’s concealed nature in the manifestation of the GOAL of CREATION, yea, it is to aid in the transformation of the EGO into a vessel of light.

SHOFTIM

Shalom, Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by focusing our ATTENTION on the title of the PARASHAT. The title of the PARASHAT is SHOFTIM. The IVRI transliteration SHOFTIM is interpreted into the term JUDGES. In YISRAEL, judges were employed in the establishment of just courts. Judges are destined to employ G-d’s determinate counsel to ensure that what He has decreed will come to pass. Along with ten revelations of the UPPER FORCES, the combination of the two are essential in the UNFOLDMENT of the GOAL of CREATION as well as JUST COURTS.

    The maximizing of the potential that is concealed within the human conscious experience is PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY. PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY is a state of REGENERATION which is experienced as constant improvement. The constant state of IMPROVEMENT is the result of a connection that gives rise to the transformation of SECULAR DESIRES into supernal. The transformation occurs as the result of ascension into DIVINE INTENT. The employment of SUPERNAL JUDGMENT engenders the transformation of aspects of the desires revealing the DIVINE INTENT. There’s a conscious union with ECHAD in experience.

A conscious union with ECHAD experienced as STILLNESS, PEACEABLE, QUIETNESS and CONFIDENCE is what transforms the DEGENERATE STATE into that which is REGENERATIVE. The JUDGES in the SCENARIO represent MENTAL CONSTRUCTS that aid in the process of staying on the path of LIFE reveals the necessity of being brought into a COMPANY comprised of beings of ATZULUT as well as ADAM KADMON; indeed supernal help is needed in TRANSFORMATION.

The community that we are destined to be assigned to is a great portion of what is needed in the ASCENSION. Because the demand on the Jewish people is that of the ENTIRE population of EARTH, yea, we serve as PRIEST unto the NATIONS. This responsibility of establishing the path gives rise to our need to execute SUPERNAL JUDGMENT in all matters. Therefore, we encourage YISRAEL to continue in the path that has been predetermined for you in order to TEACH and be an example of what it takes to fulfill the GOAL of CREATION and manifest PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY.

SHOFTIM Part 2

Shalom, Shalom. We continue our focus upon the PARASHAT SHOFTIM by placing our ATTENTION upon the following passage found in the SIDRAH, it is written, “If there will be found among you in one of your cities, which HaShem, your God, gives you, a man or woman who commits what is evil in the eyes of HaShem, your God, to violate His covenant, and he will go and serve gods of others and prostrate himself to them, or to the sun or to the moon or to any host of heaven, which I have not commanded, and it will be told to you and you will hear; then you shall investigate well, and behold! it is true, the testimony is correct - this abomination was done in Israel - then you shall remove that man or that woman who did this evil thing, to your cities - the man or the woman - and you shall pelt them with stones, so that they will die.” (DEUTERONOMY 17:2-5) In this passage found in Torah, we are given the mechanics to be employed in PRAYER (TEFFILAH) on how to rid oneself from the experience of NEGATIVITY and EGOCENTRIC SENSITIVITY. It is further disclosed that when this mechanic is employed by HOST SOULS (NESHIMOT CHALLIOT) in the CORRECTION, it engenders a TRANSFORMATION of QUALITIES in the COLLECTIVE.

Witnessing a QUALITY that is based on the DESIRES of OLAM (the world) external to ONESELF in reality is beholding a QUALITY that belongs to the EGO. This EMET is based upon the idea that all of humanity comprises ONE COLLECTIVE SOUL. Thus to CORRECT the QUALITY that is SEEMINGLY experienced as being EXTERNAL is executed by CORRECTING ONESELF. This CORRECTION is done by CONFESSION, that is, embracing it as ONE’S OWN. EGOISM will oppose this operation by presenting the QUALITY as SOMETHING that is SEPARATED and OUTSIDE of the SELF. In truth, the WITNESS is that the QUALITY is not OUTSIDE of ONESELF because each SOUL is a PART of ONE COLLECTIVE SOUL. Thus when the WITNESS OCCURS as the experience of REALIZATION, the pelting with STONES is done by CONFESSION. The SIDRAH reveals that when this MECHANIC is employed in the prayers of the HOST SOUL (ISRAEL), then the QUALITIES in the COLLECTIVE (CITY) are transformed. Therefore as Jews, we are empowered to transform civilization through SELF CORRECTION which gives rise to the fulfillment of our CORPORATE PURPOSE of being TIKKUN OLAM.

SHOFTIM

Shalom, Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by placing our ATTENTION on the title of the PARASHAT. The title of the PARASHAT is SHOFTIM. The IVRI transliteration SHOFTIM is interpreted into the ENGLISH term Judges. The portion discloses that Judges were to be appointed in the LOWER WORLD in order to unfold RIGHTEOUSNESS. The term RIGHTEOUSNESS is indicative of the CONCEPT of MAKING ECHAD TRUE. The concept of making ECHAD TRUE is the product of exercising DIVINE JUDGMENT. DIVINE JUDGMENT may be described as ECHAD’S determinate counsel that ensures that what has been decreed by the SUPERNAL will come to pass.

The SHOFTIM that are to be appointed in the LOWER WORLDS are to REFLECT that which is in the HIGHER WORLDS, i.e. the higher levels of CONSCIOUSNESS. In the higher LEVELS of CONSCIOUSNESS, JUDGMENT is exercised in the HEART of what is termed the HOST SOUL. A HOST SOUL is a GRADE within the COLLECTIVE SOUL that aids the INDIVIDUAL SOUL as well as ITSELF in entering into a CONSCIOUS UNION with ECHAD. The assistance with the transformation of the INDIVIDUAL SOUL’S DESIRES of the world into the DESIRE to be ONE WITH G-d occurs as the HOST SOUL engages in the WORK OF CORRECTION. Yea, as the HOST SOUL CORRECTS, the qualities within ITSELF, CORRECTION OCCURS in the same QUALITIES within the COLLECTIVE SOUL at an UNCONSCIOUS LEVEL. Thus the more that the HOST SOUL transforms the QUALITIES WITHIN, the MORE the INDIVIDUAL SOULS PROFIT. It is in this way that JUDGMENT EXECUTED in the HIGHER WORLDS that the DECREE of ECHAD that the MANY become ONE is EFFECTED. Likewise to execute JUDGMENT in the LOWER WORLDS GIVES RISE to the MANIFESTATION of RIGHT ACTION in the RIGHT ENVIRONMENT.