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Question: How do we build the intention to bestow on the desire to receive?

Answer: Initially we only have the desire to receive, and we try to ask the Creator for the desire to connect together instead in order to be able to bestow to Him.

Just as He wants to bestow to us, we must bestow to Him. It turns out that we are doing the same work: “I am to the Creator, and the Creator is to me.” In this way, we reach the goal.

Question: If we receive taste and pleasure when we work together, do we pass these pleasures to the Creator? Or does He automatically receive pleasure from this work?

Answer: No, we receive pleasure from spiritual work because we are doing it for the sake of the Creator.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/23, Writings of Rabash ‘What Is, “The Shechina Is a Testimony to Israel,” in the Work?’

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Question: It is said that there is none wiser than the experienced. But at the same time, does the state of wisdom of life experience contradict confidence in the Creator and connection with Him?

Answer: No, this is incorrect. It is the wisdom of life that leads a person to the correct attitude to life, even if he begins to doubt his abilities.

The sources say that when you have the power of holiness, then you will have something to answer. This means that you will have the opportunity, the strength, the confidence, and the wisdom to respond correctly to your body and your mind.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Confidence Is the Clothing for the Light“

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In other words, one can please a limited body with one’s work and effort, which is either a passing guest or an eternal one, meaning that one’s energy remains in eternity. (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 30 “The Most Important Is to Want Only to Bestow“)

Question: What is the difference between the feeling of pleasure in the quality of “a passing guest” and the quality of “an eternal one”?

Answer: If you don’t think about yourself, that you want to get something, then everything goes fine. And if you keep thinking “Where is my pay? Where are my earnings?”, then you have nothing left. It all disappears as if it dissipates in the air.

The purpose of creation is to delight the creatures. This is what the Creator wants. But He wants to give them real pleasure: eternal, infinite, unlimited, and imperishable.

Therefore we must reach a state where we are ready to rise above our egoism and think only about how to be able to receive and give unlimitedly, meaning to expand our Kelim (vessels). And then we will have the right attitude to the nature of the Creator and to the nature of the world.

Question: A person gets pleasure from giving to others. How does this differ from the pleasure that is called the quality of a passing guest? How at the same time can one not slip into enjoying for oneself?

Answer: The difference is very big because, according to your intention, you can go from receiving for yourself to receiving for the sake of bestowal. And thus you move from one world that is egoistic to another world that is altruistic.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/27/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Most Important Is to Want Only to Bestow“

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Question: What helps us to strengthen our faith and not fall into doubts? How can we support each other in this in the ten?

Answer: First of all, we must unite in the ten. Moreover, we must unite in such a way that we do not have any questions as to whether we are connected to each other or not, or whether we help each other or not. All these issues must be resolved.

We are absolutely sure that we are connected to each other and therefore connected to the Creator.

Question: Do I understand correctly that only to the extent of my faith, without any doubt, can the Creator honor me with the quality of bestowal?

Answer: This is first. And second, the first is not even as important as the fact that you want to have a sense of faith. Meaning, you want to fully relate to the Creator the way He relates to you. That is the most important thing. I want to bestow to the Creator everything that is in me, and in this case it does not matter to me how much I receive and what He gives me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/27/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Most Important Is to Want Only to Bestow“

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