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Posted on August 31st, 2025
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Question: When we read Kabbalistic books, is it necessary for us to always look for the connection between the root and the branch?
Answer: We must remain in this all the time; otherwise, we will not enter into the material and will not absorb what is being said.
Question: How can we connect to the one root common to all when studying The Study of the Ten Sefirot?
Answer: Our root is the Creator. We must strive to make Him as mutual as possible for all by connecting among ourselves and in Him.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/21/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
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Question: How can one “thank for the bad as for the good”?
Answer: RABASH gives an example of a father who gives his son one dollar every day, and one day suddenly gives him five dollars, to the great joy of the son. And the next day, he goes back to giving just the usual one dollar.
So why does the father act this way with me? He wants me to relate to him with love, and the shortfall of four dollars, which I now lack, I should make up with my love, with my bestowal! That I should look not at how much I receive from Him, but at how much I can thank Him.
Because of the fact that I suddenly received five dollars from Him, I expanded my desire, but from the perspective of receiving. And now I can fill this additional desire with bestowal. That is, He gave me the opportunity to expand my desires and to rise to greater bestowal.
But I must work on this. All the time, every day, I received one dollar and was grateful to the father for that dollar. And suddenly, one day the father gave me five dollars. My desires expanded, I received greater pleasure, and naturally I was grateful to the father. But for what was I grateful? It was for having received the extra four dollars!
The next day, from yesterday’s height, with an enlarged appetite, I already expect again to receive five dollars, but I get the same one dollar as before. Now I feel an empty desire of four dollars. What am I to do with it? Fill it with the light of love, the light of bestowal, of gratitude!
Now I understand that the father is giving me the opportunity to give to Him precisely in this empty vessel by filling it with the light of Hassadim instead of Hochma. He fills my desire with the light of Hochma, and I fill His with the light of Hassadim. From where else could the possibility to bestow come, if He does not empty my desire?
How could I thank Him and connect with Him even more strongly, become more similar to Him, if He did not first give me greater fulfillment and then take it away? And then again give more, and again empty it. As it is said: “The clothing of the light and its departure create a vessel fit for use.” Now I have a vessel.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/11, Writings of Rabash “The Merit of the Little One”
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Question: Suffering helps us adjust our direction toward the Creator. In addition, we must constantly be ready to hear the voice of the Creator. How do these work together?
Answer: Suffering, in a sense, moves us forward. But what really matters is whether this suffering comes, not from our egoism, but from the fact that we do not feel our proper place in creation, in all of Malchut. If we are not in our place, we feel it as a lack of balance of forces. Therefore, we must try to gather ourselves, our feelings, our goals, and strive toward the Creator in a more correct way.
Question: Aren’t we preparing every day to hear the voice of the Creator?
Answer: That you must ask yourself. It all depends on how connected you are with each other and whether you form a Kli, a group of ten, directed toward the Creator and desire to draw closer to Him.
Question: So readiness to hear the voice of the Creator is not my personal desire, but a group one?
Answer: Both yours personally and the group’s. The main thing, however, is the group’s desire.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/25, “Being Sensitive to the Calling of the Creator”
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In the place where you find His greatness, there you find His humbleness (Shamati 47). We are under the rule of the egoistic desire that attaches importance only to the pleasure it can receive and cannot feel what is happening inside another person. This quality is called pride. It is not a flaw; it is simply a trait given to us from above.
If a person has a strong, developed egoistic desire, he or she does not feel others. The stronger one’s own desire, the more it locks one into sensing only oneself. A person cannot truly feel another at all; one only considers what loss or gain one may get from them.
To actually feel what is happening inside another, one must exit oneself and be in the spiritual world. Therefore, it is no wonder that we all feel detached from each other. In our world, we call this trait pride. But true pride exists only in the spiritual world where it awakens in a person in relation to the Creator.
When a person begins to correct himself, a special desire to receive awakens in him that compels him to disregard the Creator, to feel above Him, and to strive to rule on his own. It manifests in various forms, against which a person receives ten blows known as the plagues of Egypt.
He cannot lower and humble his pride by himself and requires special help from above. The more one humbles oneself, one accordingly reveals the greatness of the Creator in that place, and the more one discovers how humble the Creator is.
Humility is a symbol of perfection. Only one who feels some lack in something and wishes to fill himself, to feel himself in power, he demands honor, power, and recognition of being above others. But if a person is in perfection, this is the degree of Bina, and desires only to bestow (Hafetz Hesed). He needs nothing and therefore does not evaluate himself in relation to others at all!
On the contrary, if one feels oneself in perfection, a person wishes to convey this wonderful sensation of perfection to everyone. After all, it is the nature of the good force to do good, and the same desire to do good arises in the creatures when they acquire a good nature.
This is what happens with us if we can reveal the greatness of the Creator. And this depends only on us, for the Creator does not change, only we change so we can see Him as great. And then we reveal in our sensations that He is humble, because we ourselves have become the same. We perceive everything only within our own qualities.
If we discover that the Creator is great, it means we ourselves have become great. And if we reveal that the Creator is humble, it is a sign that we have become humble. This is how the law of equivalence of form works, and how we advance toward the cognition of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/12, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness”
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Question: How can the revelation of evil on the 9th of Av be corrected on the 15th of Av, on the holiday of love? After all, the holiday of love refers to a couple in love, while the 9th of Av is the day of the destruction of the Temples, meaning it relates to the entire people of Israel.
Answer: Both of these days relate to a couple in love, only we do not see it. The couple in love is the people of Israel and the Creator. All creations, all the desire to enjoy created by the Creator, is like a woman, Malchut, Shechina, in relation to which the Creator acts as a man, a bestower.
If there is no unification between us, then we cannot be a vessel, a place, for the revelation of the
Creator so that He may reign in us and we can merge in an embrace, a kiss, in spiritual unity. There are three levels of spiritual merging with the Creator: “embrace,” as it is said: “His left hand is under my head, and His right hand embraces me,” then “kiss,” and then “union.”
Therefore, the actions of the same name in the material world also symbolize the connection between those who love each other. And in the spiritual world, these concepts signify a very sublime connection between man and the Creator.
That is why the 9th of Av symbolizes the terrible breakage, which is the cause of all troubles and misfortunes. After all, good and evil are determined only by how much we draw closer or distance from the upper light, from the upper force, the Creator.
The 9th Av is the source of all destruction, and the 15th Av is the source of all goodness. But since we have not yet reached this goodness, we do not feel the true power of this day and we perceive it as a holiday of ordinary lovers.
In the same way we underestimate Purim and perceive it as a children’s holiday. Unfortunately we are still in exile and do not see obvious symptoms of redemption. Redemption is already near, but we have not yet reached it, and therefore we do not know what spiritual “embrace,” “kiss,” and “union” are.
The whole Torah speaks only about the relationship of this couple: humanity and the Creator, and not about earthly young women dressing up in white garments and going to dance in the vineyards on the day of love, the 15th of Av.
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From the conversation 7/30/15, “New Life 600 – The 15th Of Av – The Holiday Of Love”
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Question: In attainment, does a Kabbalist actually feel the spiritual root in the objects of our world? If not, then how can we say that he investigates the spiritual world empirically and not through a speculative integration of opposite concepts?
Answer: This enters us gradually in the process of study, and we begin to receive everything correctly.
Question: Sometimes Baal HaSulam takes concepts of our world and seems to dismantle them. Is he trying in this way to replace the material concept with spiritual perception?
Answer: Yes, he also has such methods.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/21/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #56 “Torah Is Called Indication” (11.10.21)
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 111, 112 (8.23.2006)
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Question: What is the subconscious from the perspective of Kabbalah?
Answer: In Kabbalah, there is no such term.
Question: It is clear that 99% of all events in a person’s life happen as if above him, that is, unconsciously. He simply reacts instinctively to everything perceiving only a small fraction. In Kabbalah, do you become aware of all 99% of events?
Answer: In Kabbalah, there are exercises that we instinctively come to trying to create such conditions in which the upper light, the Creator, begins to manifest within us so that we begin to feel Him inside, and become more receptive to His influence upon us.
We must catch the inner voice of the Creator within us. These are special conditions. They usually come when we tune ourselves correctly in the group.
By uniting with friends and preparing the kind of relations between us in which the Creator can be revealed, we catch His inner voice. The sensor for perceiving the Creator is our connection.
Question: How can one determine that this is not the voice of egoism, but the voice of the Creator?
Answer: A person feels it, and at the same time discovers that the revelation of the Creator still occurs within his egoistic qualities. But this pushes him forward.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/11/2018,”The Journey To Self-Discovery. The Basics Of Inner Work”
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