Question: Right now I am in the lesson with the friends trying to understand what is written in TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot). How do the processes described there manifest with respect to me?

Answer: All of them must take place within us, and gradually we will begin to discover that this is indeed how we develop.

Question: At the moment, it looks to me that it is like I’ve never seen a computer, but someone tells me about it. That is one thing. But when it is in front of me, when I can touch it and take it apart it is a completely different kind of study. So how can I begin to “touch” and “take apart” what is described here?

Answer: Gradually, through the process of study, you will begin to feel the movement of the Creator toward you, or the movement of the light toward you, as well as what comes from you: your desires, how they change, and how the light that comes from the Creator depends on your desires. All of this we will come to feel through our own experience.

Question: In order to begin to feel this, what should I listen to within myself?

Answer: Only to what is happening within you, nothing more.

Question: How should I track the states of good or bad, pleasures coming and going, and so on?

Answer: All of this you will feel in time. The light will influence everyone, including you, and in this way all of us will change.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/15/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that all the discussed matters of restriction and withdrawal of the light speak exclusively about the level of perception of receiving in the Kli at the central point. Does this mean he is describing a state in which he attains this as a Kli?

Answer: No, he is not describing the sensation in the Kli, but rather what we must gradually begin to reveal for ourselves.

We can attain this through the books, with the help of the study material, and we can perform these actions upon ourselves according to what he writes in his works. We need to make a restriction (Tzimtzum), screen (Masach), reflected light (Or Hozer) for ourselves, and work with them.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson  8/18/25 ,”The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What does it mean that the light restricts itself evenly in the central point?

Answer: It means that there is no preference given to any particular direction or quality. That is why everything happens in a circle.

Question: The restriction that the Creator made toward creation is the greatest quality of bestowal carried out by Him toward us. If we make a restriction toward Him, will this be the same quality of bestowal toward the Creator?

Answer: Try, and you will see.

Question: What action must we perform now in order to delight the Creator and make a restriction?

Answer: I don’t know, you must clarify that for yourself.

Question: Can we say that the desire to receive in our world does not grow but only rises and becomes purified, and therefore we lose the ability to enjoy it?

Answer: No, we are drawing ever closer to the desire to bestow. We are beginning to understand it more and more, and we feel ourselves coming nearer to it.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/25,”The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: It is written: “Everyone judges according to his corruption.” On one hand, a Kabbalist sees that the world is full of bad conditions and wars. On the other hand, he understands that it is he who has done all of this and associates himself with it. How can these two states be combined? How is it possible?

Answer: When a person looks at the world, he sees himself, his own reflection. He understands that all of this is within him. But he cannot correct anything on his own, so he is given a group (a ten). He has nothing to blame himself for. He accepts everything as a given.

A person can blame the Creator. He himself has nothing to do with it. It is his corrupted soul, which is given to him so that he could correct it.

The more he corrects himself, the sharper his vision becomes, and he sees the world as even more corrupted because even the smallest flaw appears to him as something very big. At the same time, he has no claims against the Creator except one—to receive the light of correction from Him. And he is grateful to the Creator for this because by absorbing his negative and already corrected positive qualities of the world within himself, he begins to attain the greatness of the Creator and become like Him.

Question: Does this mean that a Kabbalist has no claims against anyone but himself?

Answer: Not against himself either because everything is done by the Creator. The Creator is the root of all states, of everything that exists, and therefore, all appeals must be to Him. The only thing to clarify is how one should appeal to Him. Why did the Creator give us precisely such bad qualities? Why did He help connect them with Himself? What should we do with them?

Question: If people had no claims against each other but only against the Creator or themselves, would the world look different?

Answer: You would not correct the world by not having claims. If no one had them, everyone would just be animals. On the animal level, one devours another but without claims. People should have claims against each other, and at the same time understand that their root is the Creator. He deliberately broke our souls so that we would try to unite them and fail, not succeed, and then ask Him to correct them and to become His partners in the correction of the soul.

Then we would clearly understand what He wanted from the very beginning, why He created one soul, broke it into parts, and after that, He is turning to us so that we would take up its correction and ask Him to help us.

And with each small movement toward the correction of the common single soul we ask Him for help, become His partners, and thus we attain His level. The final state of humanity is to become equal to the Creator.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 2/18/2018

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Question: While listening to The Study of the Ten Sefirot, what is the condition for it to be revealed between friends and to not lead a person astray?

Answer: It will not lead you astray anywhere. You will advance. Therefore you need to think only about how you can be together in your advancement, and you will see that this is indeed so, that it influences you more.

Either you will remain in what already exists or you will move forward, try to understand what is happening, and increasingly feel which qualities you lack in order for the light to shine from itself upon you. Then you will understand everything.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson  8/18/2025 ,”The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that there are three preceding stages in which the desire to bestow prevails over the weak desire to receive. Does this mean that at a certain stage both the desire to bestow and the desire to receive exist simultaneously? How can that be at the same time?

Answer: Even in material life this happens, when we want to bestow a little and also to receive, since we consist of two opposite desires.

Question: But we study that we consist only of the desire to receive.

Answer: Yes, but when we have a choice to receive or to bestow, then we weigh what is more advantageous for our desire.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Question: What is an “object” in spirituality?

Answer: An object in spirituality is the desire to receive the light.

Question: There is a feeling that we are ripening for the revelation of the qualities of the ten Sefirot within the ten. How can we help each other accelerate this process?

Answer: We must try to implement what we read in the articles and in The Study of the Ten Sefirot. From this it will become clearer to us what we need to do, how, in relation to whom, and so on.

Question: What is explained in The Study of the Ten Sefirot is the science of spirituality, and it hardly touches our everyday life. To what extent are the concepts of restriction that we study in spirituality connected to restriction in everyday life, when I restrain myself from various excesses? How much does this help in spiritual advancement?

Answer: It helps a lot in spiritual advancement. I can say this with absolute certainty.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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These ascents are like rungs of a ladder, set and arranged degree by degree until it is completed and achieves its goal. And you should know that the quality and quantity of these rungs is set in two realities:
1) the existence of material substances,
2) the existence of spiritual concepts.

In the language of Kabbalah, they are called “from above downward” and “from below upward” (Baal HaSulam, “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence“).

The descent of the desire from above downward and the ascent from below upward is a gradation of our egoism. As we descend from above downward, the ego manifests as increasingly corrupted, but during the ascent from below upward, it will appear increasingly corrected.

Question: So nothing disappears? In fact, we ascend those very steps by which creation descended?

Answer: Of course! There is no other way. Egoism was created opposite to the light; the light filled it, fitting it precisely, and together they form the ladder of spiritual elevation.

Question: What is the difference between the order of the descent from above downward and the order of ascent from below upward?

Answer: The ascent from below upward happens through our unity and our appeal to the Creator for help to rise and become similar to Him.

Question: Is humanity still threatened by further descents?

Answer: No, there will be no more descents. What is corrected is corrected forever!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/18/18, Writings of Baal HaSulam ‘The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence’

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