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Spreading Light from Above to Below

548.02Question: What is the spreading of the light downward, and why is it called potential?

Answer: The spreading of the light from above downward takes place from a small desire to a greater desire.

In other words, it is the spreading of the light from the Creator to the created beings, and then within each created being to that place where this desire is revealed, until it reaches its true state completely filled with light.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Actions of the Righteous

232.01Question: What does it mean that we are studying Torah with the intention of not cutting ourselves off from the Creator, but being connected to Him?

Answer: We can do anything, but there is a force in the universe we all exist in. If we want to receive changes in us from this force, then we imagine such an action that can cause the influence of the upper light on us, and then we change. Our intentions change, what we want from our actions. These are the changes that the action of the righteous brings about.

The intention to bestow means that you do not want anything for yourself, but wish to act only for the sake of the Creator. It is clear that none of us has such an intention. But as it is said in TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot) that we can attract this light and this force that will correct us. Then we will have intentions to act for the sake of the Creator in what we see as such an opportunity.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/26/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Adorn Oneself, or Adorn Another?

608.02Question: What is the difference between the desire to adorn oneself and to adorn another?

Answer: To adorn oneself is simple egoism and to adorn another is perhaps already altruism: from oneself to another.

Question: Does the Kli adorn itself or does the light adorn the Kli?

Answer: The adorns itself by giving the light the opportunity to highlight its properties of similarity to the light, that is, the properties of bestowal.

This happens in the reflected light.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Questions about Spiritual Work—256

213Question: Baal HaSulam sometimes adds in the text: “Think about it and understand it well.” What points does he want to make? What kind of work should we do?

Answer: Gradually, we will feel it all. There are things that cannot be explained in words because understanding comes as a result of working together.

Question: You said the Creator is the first to awaken the light and creation itself cannot cause anything.
However, it is said that “I awaken the dawn, and not the dawn awakens me.” So what am I awakening if I cannot do anything?

Answer: You can accompany the Creator’s actions with your own actions. The lower can do it.

Question: Does the growth of Aviut, which attracts the light of Hassadim, come from the side of infinity or from creation?

Answer: From the side of creation.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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The Result of a Person’s Efforts

167Question: It is written that creation must, through its desire, attract a greater fulfillment than the measure of the light spreading within it from the Creator. Why are we obligated to attract greater fulfillment than what comes to us from the Creator?

Answer: We practically have almost no influence on what comes from the side of the Creator. However, the fact that we can raise our desire for a greater fulfillment with light than before, this is what deserves attention. After all, this is precisely the correct result of a person’s efforts. That is why we speak about our striving in this way.

Question: It would seem that the creation is always the result of the light. And yet suddenly, it can make itself capable of receiving more than what was initially embedded in it. Where does the creation get such ability?

Answer: The creation can choose exactly which desire it wishes to be fulfilled with, in what measure, and in what form, and then the Creator acts in accordance with this desire.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Go Forward and Reveal

212Question: What does it mean to find the force of the oneness of the Creator in the multitude of forms of creation in our world and to become a recipient of His good filling? What is the correct impression from the revelation of this power in us?

Answer: We reveal the Creator in all His actions and begin to understand that they are intended only to indicate to us that there is nothing else in His plan but to reveal to us, absolutely the entirety of creation, so that we could see how much He thinks only of our good. And this should become our nature: go forward and reveal.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/31/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 9/14/25

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #65 “Concerning the Revealed and the Concealed” (11.19.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 9, Item 34

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Book of Zohar, “Rejoicing in Holidays and Not Giving to the Poor”

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