VAYEIRA

Shalom Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by focusing our ATTENTION on the following foundational truth (EMET), that is, the journeys of our ABBA (Father) AVRAHAM are a revelation of the series of events that are destined to unfold the trek that is to be undergone by the Jewish People both on an individual and corporate level. The PERSONHOOD of AVRAHAM provides for his ZERA (seed) an ensample of the do’s and don’ts that if followed will give birth to the manifestation of Supernal Potential.

AVRAHAM is the disclosure of the path of CHAI (life) uncovering the SETER (mystery) of the manifestation of establishing a Conscious Union with ECHAD, Blessed be His Holy Name. Since AVRAHAM, many that have desired to walk on the WINGS of the WIND have been empowered to do so. Indeed AVRAHAM is ROSH TOLDOT, that is, the Head of His generation.

In the SIDRAH, the impetus behind the accomplishments of AVRAHAM are disclosed. What moves him to journey in the beyondness of ECHAD is the motivation behind the words and actions he employed. It is the motivation that belongs to a warrior. A warrior’s impetus is based on the principle of establishing the standards of his nation on foreign ground. Every where AVRAHAM establishes the standard of the G-d of YISRAEL, he builds an altar. It is this motivation that consistently unfolds ATTAINMENTS that lead to ascending into a Conscious Union with ECHAD giving rise to a visible manifestation of the invisible G-d. Yea, it is the establishment of the standards ECHAD on the ground that empowers him in the AKEIDAH, that is, the binding of YITZCHAK recorded in the 22nd chapter of BERESHITH (Genesis).

The AKEIDAH which is called a test given by ECHAD to AVRAHAM is one to reveal the value system to be employed. The choice to be made is whether to value the promise of G-d above the commandment of G-d. The commandment of G-d is His HAND. What has the greater value in the SUPERNAL hearing or receiving? Notice that it was AVRAHAM’S choice to complete fulfillment rather than the suffering that is experienced from CLINGING. No doubt the lesson is that one cannot receive what one is not willing to leave. To become ALL things, one must become NO THING.

 

VAYEIRA

Shalom, Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by focusing our ATTENTION on the following statement at the unfoldment of the SIDRAH. It is written, “וירא אליו יהוה באלני ממרא והוא ישב פתח-האהל כחם היום”, “HaShem appeared to him in the plains of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the heat of the day.” The PARASHAT begins with the description of AVRAHAM sitting at the entrance of the tent where he experiences an epiphany. The vision was a disclosure of ECHAD. No doubt he beheld the vision in his heart sensing to be ONE WITH G-d.

Out of the STILLNESS he experienced, begins the unfoldment of the narrative of the visitation of the UPPER FORCES seen as three men. The three men are beings that had made the attainment into a higher level of existence.

The level of existence that the three had attained was IMMORTALITY. Their appearance was to aid AVRAHAM in making the attainment to his next level of existence. They represented the SEFEROT DAAT, BINAH and CHOCHMAH, that is, knowledge, understanding and wisdom. The DAAT (knowledge) is not to be of assertion, but of experience. The BINAH (understanding) is that of SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT. The CHOCHMAH (wisdom) is a non-differential state in which ALL things are seen as one thing. The visitation will give rise to the transformation of desires experienced in the vessel of reception into the revelation of the TRUTH of BEING, yea, that he is ONE with G-d.
From the experience with the three men, a perception is learned dealing with the purpose of the EGO. AVRAHAM is given the revelation that the EGO is purposed to be used as the vessel to perceive the CREATOR. The vessel receives the potential to perceive from the CREATOR. Thus giving rise to the belief of existence separate from the Creator. Once the correction is made that the only separation is one of degrees, the CONCEALED POTENTIAL in the KLI, that is, vessel of reception, can manifest. This is what gives rise to the unfoldment of the GOAL of CREATION. Since it is but ONE CREATOR, that is, ECHAD, who occupies all of the vessels, connecting to the HIGH LEVEL of CONSCIOUSNESS will unite the vessels. This union is the return to the primordial state, that is, ADAM RISHON, the collective consciousness of ECHAD, the Creator.

VAYEIRA

Shalom, Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by focusing our ATTENTION on the opening scenario. The storyline begins with the appearance of HASHEM to AVRAHAM. No doubt the appearance of HASHEM to AVRAHAM is descriptive of an event termed an EPIPHANY. The epiphany was a manifestation, whereas AVRAHAM experienced a comprehension that was beyond the five senses. The comprehension was that of PURE SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS. Following the comprehension of PURE SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS, he lifted up his eyes and beheld three men.

The three men that AVRAHAM beheld were beings that had descended from the UPPER LEVELS of PURE SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS. Their appearance was to aid AVRAHAM in the next level of ATTAINMENT. AVRAHAM is an ensample to the Jewish People of the trek we are to make on the PATH of LIFE. The journey on the PATH of LIFE leads us to the GOAL of CREATION. The GOAL of CREATION is to manifest PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY and to continue to go far beyond. The continuance to go far beyond is based upon the principles that PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY is a regenerative state in which one experiences a constant state of improvement. The experience is one of GRADATION in which ATTAINMENTS are made. These ATTAINMENTS are demonstrated in the CHAI (life) of AVRAHAM as he manifest the concealed qualities of G-d that are latent within. His ATTAINMENT is a becoming. He becomes a REDEEMER, he becomes an INHERITOR, he becomes a FATHER, he becomes a PROPHET in the ASCENSION. The ATTAINMENTS are made as he employs the process termed the correction with the AID of BEINGS from the UPPER FORCES.

The correction may be described as the transformation of the points in the heart termed the DESIRES of the WORLD into DESIRES to be ONE WITH G-d. The transformation is the product of receiving the teaching of TORAH from a TEACHER sent by ECHAD, the RESHIMO that will provide the necessary challenges from without demanding TORAH RESPONSE along with a COMMUNITY of LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE. The combination of these components will render the proper environment that will aid in the EVOLUTION.

The opening SCENARIO of the VISITATION of the UPPER FORCES is a revelation of the process that will give rise to the unfoldment of the GOAL of CREATION. No doubt this is the implication of what the PSALMIST meant when he wrote, “You will make known to me the path of life, the fullness of joys in Your Presence, the delights that are in Your right hand for eternity.” Psalm 16:11.

VAYEIRA Part 3

Shalom, Shalom. We continue our focus upon the PARASHAT VAYEIRA by focusing our ATTENTION on the following passage contained within the SIDRAH, it is written, “Abraham arose early in the morning to the place where he had stood before HASHEM. And he gazed down upon Sodom and Gomorrah and the entire surface of the land of the plain; and saw and behold! the smoke of the earth rose like the smoke of a kiln. And so it was when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God remembered Abraham; so He sent Lot from amidst the upheaval when He overturned the cities in which Lot had lived.” (Genesis 19:27-29) In this passage of TORAH, what is being described in the LANGUAGE OF THE BRANCHES is the relationship of the TEACHER and STUDENT. It is this relationship that has been predetermined by the SUPERNAL that gives rise to the STUDENT’S ASCENSION into PURE SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS.

There are three components that are essential to the ATTAINMENT of PURE SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS. Those components are TORAH, a TEACHER and a COMMUNITY whose pursuit is THE GOAL of CREATION. The GOAL of CREATION is to become ONE with ECHAD.
As aforementioned, the passage contained in the SIDRAH is a revelation of the relationship of the TEACHER and the STUDENT. In this case, AVRAHAM who is the TEACHER has ATTAINED a HIGH LEVEL of CONSCIOUSNESS that enabled him to see into the CAUSE, i.e. PURE SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS. PURE SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS is descriptive of the HOLY of HOLIES in MISHKAHN DAVID. Entrance into the CONSCIOUS STATE termed the HOLY of HOLIES may be experienced as sensing what has been predetermined by the SUPERNAL. Is is AVRAHAM’S ATTAINMENT OF THIS STATE that is shared with his STUDENT, LOT. In other words, LOT is able to benefit by the ATTAINMENT of HIS TEACHER. This reveals that the principle of the relationship of a TEACHER and STUDENT in SPIRITUALITY is that the STUDENT is able to experience the ATTAINMENT of the TEACHER until he has ascended into the same level of ATTAINMENT.

The ASCENSION into the same level of ATTAINMENT by the STUDENT to that of the TEACHER requires effort. The effort is that the STUDENT must suppress his EGO and receive INSTRUCTIONS that may seem to OPPOSE. The OPPOSITION is experienced as the result of the EGO being opposite of ECHAD. Thus the revelation of the INSTRUCTION either grows the EGO or gives rise to experiencing the CONCEALED QUALITIES of ECHAD.

Within CREATION, the SUPERNAL is experienced as REVEALED or CONCEALED. When the SUPERNAL is experienced as CONCEALED, the sensation is one of suffering. The suffering in reality is the pouring out of INFINITE BLESSINGS that give rise to the TRANSFORMATION of the vessel from being one of reception to one of bestowal. It may be compared to water that is being poured into a balloon. The more water that is poured into the balloon, the more the balloon will stretch.

As demonstrated in LOT, the breaking off of a CONNECTION with ONE’S TEACHER will lead to a STATE of perpetual confusion, yea, the connections that are built between the TEACHER and the STUDENT, as well as STUDENTS with STUDENTS are ETERNAL, yea, for we are ONE COLLECTIVE soul comprised of TEACHERS and STUDENTS.

VAYEIRA Part 2

Shalom, Shalom. We continue our focus upon the PARASHAT VAYEIRA by focusing our ATTENTION on the following passage contained within the SIDRAH, it is written, “And HaShem said, Shall I conceal from Abraham what I do, now that Abraham is surely to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by him? For I have loved him, because he commands his children and his household after him that they keep the way of HaShem, doing charity and justice, in order that HaShem might then bring upon Abraham that which He had spoken of him.” (Genesis 18:17-19) In this passage found in TORAH, it is disclosed that the THOUGHT LIFE of AVRAHAM was under the GOVERNANCE of the SUPERNAL. THOUGHT is the product of AFFERENT and EFFERENT MENTAL WAVES traversing through the NERVOUS system, then experiencing pressure external to our physical bodies and returning with messages that form images with the sensation of seeing, hearing, smelling tasting and feeling. These images are formed with MIND STUFF on a SCREEN within the BRAIN. Thus whatever is external to us EFFECTS the way in which we think.

The purpose of EFFECTING our THOUGHT LIFE by the SUPERNAL is to aid in the ATTAINMENT of the GOAL of CREATION. The GOAL of CREATION is that we would realize and actualize our CONSCIOUS UNION with ECHAD. The actualization of the GOAL manifests as KNOWLEDGE, EXISTENCE (IMMORTALITY) and BLISS in our earthly vessels, yea, we were CREATED in order to experience INFINITE JOY. On the other hand, our experience of SUFFERING is purposed that we might be a part of the ATTAINMENT of the ETERNAL STATE of BLISS. To ensure that the process would not be DENIED, the Holy Blessed ONE of YISRAEL has created LOCATIONS that will EFFECT our thought LIFE in such a way that we ATTAIN the GOAL.

As aforementioned, the experience of SUFFERING is purposed in order that we might have a part in this CORRECTION that gives rise to the UNFOLDMENT of KNOWLEDGE, EXISTENCE and BLISS. The part that we have been given gives rise to the ACCELERATION of the PROCESS of ending SUFFERING. SINCE the THOUGHT LIFE is the product of OUR ENVIRONMENT, our ability to accelerate has to do with creating a COMMUNITY that is conducive to the PROCESS. Thus if a MINYAN will commit to create a COMMUNITY that will LOVE ONE ANOTHER as ONESELF, and the STUDY of TORAH led by a SPIRITUAL TEACHER, a THOUGHT LIFE can be developed that will engender the creation of heaven on earth and the MAXIMIZING of the SUPERNAL POTENTIAL that is LATENT within.

VAYEIRA

Shalom, Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by focusing our ATTENTION on the title of the PARASHAT. The title of the PARASHAT is VAYEIRA The IVRI transliteration VAYEIRA is interpreted into the English term “APPEARED.” The portion commences with the IDEA of the SUPERNAL appearing in the REALM of TIME and SPACE. To receive clarity concerning the IMPLICATION of the appearance of the SUPERNAL in time and SPACE, we must examine the nature of the APPEARANCE.

To comprehend the NATURE of the APPEARANCE of the SUPERNAL, we must look at the ROOT LANGUAGE. In other words, we must perceive the PRINCIPLES that ANIMATES the SCENARIO. Torah discloses that AVRAHAM was sitting at the entrance of the TENT. The TENT represents the PHYSICAL BODY that is occupied by his soul, the entrance of the tent is a reference as to the place where his SOUL enters and exits the PHYSICAL body. The entrance and exit of the PHYSICAL BODY (GOLEM) is located at the crown (KETER) of the head. The place where one may sit, that is, occupy, the entrance is what has been referred to by the sages as the 3rd eye. Thus in the ROOT LANGUAGE, the scenario is indicative of the practice of MEDITATION.

The practice of MEDITATION is experienced as MIND MODIFICATION. The MODIFICATION may be described as a MOVEMENT that commences at the STATE OF ATTENTION ascending to the FINAL STATE of CONCENTRATION. To MODIFY itself from the STATE of ATTENTION to CONCENTRATION, one must pass thru the INTERMEDIATE STATE termed CONTEMPLATION. In the STATE of CONTEMPLATION, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS and commentary are experienced concerning that which is being MEDITATED UPON. This experience is in REALITY the influence that BEINGS from the SPIRITUAL LEVEL engage with those who abide in body consciousness. It is the HEIGHTENING of the SENSES enabling one to receive REVELATION from the HOLY of HOLIES, I.E. PURE SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS, while occupying space and time. Thus the SPIRITUAL WORLD is perceived through MESSENGERS that have descended from the HOLY of HOLIES to the HOLY PLACE. This HEIGHTENING of the SENSES is referred to as CLAIRVOYANCE, CLAIRSENTIENCE, CLAIRAUDIENCE, and the LIKE. Since these are HEIGHTENED SENSES, they are not entrance into the HOLY of HOLIES, but the ability to discern those BEINGS who have DESCENDED into SPACE and TIME to aid with our DEVELOPMENT.