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Overcome the Burden of the Heart

528.01Question: Why, when a friend has some trouble, does resistance arise in the ten to work with his Hisaron (lack)?

Answer: Because this is not your own need, but supposedly someone else’s. The Creator deliberately burdens your hearts so that you overcome this.

Question: Does the Creator, by this, want to show that the friend himself, in prayer to Him, will feel the strength to rise and unite all friends?

Answer: No, the friend himself cannot do anything. He can only raise a prayer to the Creator and ask Him.
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From the 1st part of  the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/29/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘There Is No Blessing in That Which Is Counted,’ in the Work?“

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In the Common Field of Unity

942Question: What kind of work should take place in the ten when the Creator pushes it away and then calls it to Himself?

Answer: In the ten, we must work, trying constantly to come closer to each other and then to the Creator.

There are no other possibilities here except to create a common field of unity around us from which we turn to the Creator, convince Him to help us, and bring us closer to Himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/2/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Call Upon Him When He Is Near“

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530Question: Will dissemination work allow us to receive the light of the Creator without feeling shame?

Answer: Yes, of course. After all, at that time you attract additional desires to yourself, place them under a common screen, and ask for them to be filled with light so that the Creator corrects them and raises them to His level. What more could there be? Therefore, it turns out that the most important thing is the work in the group.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 11/2/23

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In Thoughts about the Creator

934Question: How can we stay only in thoughts about the Creator or at least quickly return to them?

Answer: It is with the help of a group. It is difficult to do this alone. It is necessary to study, read, and listen all the time. But it is much easier to do this with the help of a group.

When you are surrounded by the thoughts and statements of your friends, when you hear them all the time, you will be able to constantly remain in thoughts about the purpose of creation, about coming closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Depart from Evil“

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On the Approach to the Creator

528.01Question: Once you said that we are created out of heavy and lazy material, I feel it more and more. Is it right to ask my friends to pressure me, or is it better to ask the Creator to correct it?

Answer: Each of you is becoming increasingly egoistic every day and therefore needs pressure and help so that your friends can pull you with them. That is deliberately done by the Creator so that you feel the need to connect with each other and thus move forward.

If you constantly talk about it, then it will be much easier for you to raise MAN for each other from the heart.

You should get a gradual feeling of approaching the Creator. Through this, you will see what will happen next.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/23, “Fighting the evil inclination”

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589.02Question: Let’s say a person invests in spirituality and does certain actions, what are the stages of his investment through these actions?

Answer: A person’s investment begins long before he begins to study Kabbalah.

In general, any action in our world, even if it is unconscious, forced, or directed only to maintain one’s body, is still recorded and taken into account. But it is taken into account not as personal, but as part of a machine that moves a person forward as a stage of evolution and instinctive development.

Then, when the person begins to act more or less consciously or even still forcibly, he looks at others and does the same; for example, the way it happens in our world group.

Look at what thousands of friends are doing. They are engaged in dissemination, are awake at night, translate materials from one language to another, and so on.

A person does not even understand why he is guided in this way from above. He feels the need: “I have to do this. This is how I feel that I belong to something big.”

Gradually, these actions become more and more conscious. There is a feeling in them that at first did not exist at all. Understanding arises in them.

After all, when you do the same thing all the time, you delve inside it. The action itself expands your perception, through your contact with what you are doing. You begin to feel the material that you are working with, the way it behaves, its response; Its model starts to be created in you. This is how we advance.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Congress Is a Spiritual Contribution” 11/29/11

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Why Did the Good Creator Create an Evil Person?

294.4And so, Lord our God, instill fear of You upon all that You have made, and dread of You upon all that You have created; and [then] all works will be in awe of You, all the created beings will prostrate themselves before You, and they all will form a single band to carry out Your will with a perfect heart. For we know, Lord our God, that rulership is Yours, strength is in Your [left] hand, might is in Your right hand, and Your Name is awesome over all that You have created (Machzor for Yom Kippur).

Question: Why does this day of atonement prayer state that it is necessary to fear the Creator?

Answer: The fact is that it is very difficult for us to understand the imbalance between an absolutely good Creator and an absolutely evil person that was created by the same good Creator. Why? It is precisely to make a person realize the reason he was created like that and to start feeling a desire to be like the Creator.

Question: What is the reason?

Answer: It is just so that we start wanting to be like the Creator.

Question: Does it mean that I am very far from Him and want to be like Him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it deliberate that I am far from Him?

Answer: Initially.

Question: What does it mean that they will have fear of the Creator?

Answer: This is already an appeal to the Creator. It is when people will feel that all this comes from Him, so that they are afraid and ask Him for correction.

Question: What does it mean when it is said, and they will prostrate themselves before You?

Answer: They will wish to subjugate to the good inclination of the Creator.

Question: What does, and they all will form a single band to carry out Your will with a perfect heart,  mean?

Answer: This is when everyone will help others so that everyone together will be in goodness and in love for the Creator and for everyone.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/18/23

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Don’t Miss the Opportunity

243.04Question: What is the force of the Creator and the strength of His hand?

Answer: This is what the Creator must do to pull us out of egoism and raise us a little closer to Himself.

This is the work of the Creator. And we must always be focused on each other and the Creator so that we do not miss the slightest opportunity to turn to Him for help.

If we do not turn to the Creator, we lose contact with Him. He constantly wakes us up, but if we don’t respond, then the connection disappears. This continues until the next opportunity presents itself, when the Creator will be able to turn to us again and awaken us to a connection with Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/2/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Call upon Him When He Is Near“

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 11/17/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is ‘He Who Has a Flaw Shall Not Offer [Sacrifice]’ in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 6, Item 1

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar

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Selected Highlights

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