Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Academy Global Course 2025/26 [2026-05-03]
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This episode of the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Academy Global Course 2025/26 explores the foundational spiritual mechanics of Kabbalah, focusing on the transformation of reception into bestowal through the process of 'coupling by striking' (zivug de haka'a). The host, addressing a global audience, guides listeners through a deep dive into the allegory of the guest and host, illustrating how shame and rejection—initially barriers to receiving—become the very tools for spiritual advancement. By rejecting pleasure for egoistic reasons, the individual creates a screen (masach), which, when combined with the Creator’s persistent implores, leads to a new vessel of reception built on the intention to bestow. This process, rooted in the first restriction (tzimtzum), is not a static state but a dynamic, ongoing effort to align one's desires with the Creator’s nature. The episode emphasizes that true spiritual growth lies not in suppressing desire, but in transforming it through conscious intention. The host concludes by previewing the next phase of the course: practical application through small research groups and the eventual formation of a learning community, where these abstract concepts are realized in collective spiritual work.
Shame and rejection are not obstacles but essential tools for spiritual growth, transforming egoistic reception into altruistic bestowal.
The 'screen' (masach) is not a barrier but a dynamic force that allows reception only when aligned with the intention to bestow.
True connection with the Creator is achieved not through passive reception, but through active 'coupling by striking'—a collision of rejection and divine implores that generates new spiritual vessels.
The process of spiritual correction is ongoing and dynamic, resembling breathing: receiving light, rejecting excess, and returning to emptiness to prepare for the next cycle.
Spiritual advancement is not individual but communal—realized through small study groups and a learning community that embody the principles of equivalence of form with the Creator.
The Sacred Intention: Building a Vessel of Bestowal
“You understand what a great thing we're dealing with? How precious it is? How special? Compare it to anything else you do in life, going shopping. eating something. It's nice, it's important, it's necessary but understand what we're talking about now in the next 90 minutes. So it's very special and today we'll continue the process.”
The Guest and Host Allegory: Rejection as the Birth of a New Vessel
“Yet, as his friend implored him, and he rejected him. There is a collision here. His friend implores him, and he rejects him. New vessels for eating began to form in him.”
Coupling by Striking: The Dynamic Process of Spiritual Transformation
“The striking is with respect to the reception without the intention to bestow. And the coupling is done with a new intention toward the host. In other words, we have two forms of reception... the coupling is with the new intention, which actually makes me copulate with the Creator.”
The Screen and the Restriction: Understanding the Mechanisms of Correction
A detailed exploration of the screen (masach) as an anti-egoistic force developed through shame and resistance, distinct from the static first restriction (tzimtzum). The screen is dynamic and grows through effort, allowing for the reception of light in order to bestow, not to receive.
The Inner Light and the Threefold Vessel: Rosh, Toch, and Sof
The episode delves into the structure of the corrected vessel, explaining the three parts: Rosh (head) for calculation, Toch (inner light) for reception, and Sof (end) for emptiness. The surrounding light (ome kif) applies pressure, creating a dynamic cycle of reception, rejection, and renewal.
“New vessels for eating began to form in him. Since the power of his friends' pleading and the power of his own rejection as they accumulated finally added up to a sufficient amount that turned the measure of reception, into a measure of bestowal.”
“The striking is with respect to the reception without the intention to bestow. And the coupling is done with a new intention toward the host. In other words, we have two forms of reception... the coupling is with the new intention, which actually makes me copulate with the Creator.”
“Suffering is the feeling of the oppositeness between us and the Creator. The closer we come, even before we get there, but just the effort that we make to become like the Creator, By that we will decrease our suffering.”
Host
Guests
Creator
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Baal HaSulam
person
screen
other
Rav Dr. Michael Eitman
person
restriction
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reforming light
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coupling by striking
other
inner light
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Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah
book
soul
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