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Question: What does it mean to open the heart? What is power over the heart?
Answer: Power over the heart means that I can direct my heart and decide how it should work, whether it will be open or closed to others, strive forward together with someone or not, and so on. This is the work within the heart.
Question: When we make an “attack” on our own heart, what is our main mistake?
Answer: That is something each person must discover for themselves. Matters of the heart cannot be handed over to another. In general, we can talk about it, but in essence, only you can precisely determine it for yourself.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/7/25, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”
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Question: Rabash writes that I must awaken my friends’ hearts. Do I have to commit myself, or does the Creator oblige me to do it?
Answer: It does not matter if it comes from you or the Creator. But you must awaken the hearts of your friends. The most important thing for you is to be united with everyone and to awaken their hearts.
Question: The congress is approaching, and it seems that each one attending must add an extra effort to achieve our common goal. What is this super effort?
Answer: To unite for the sake of feeling the Creator in the center of our unity.
Question: How can we eliminate fears and doubts that arise along the way?
Answer: There is no way to do it individually. Only together by holding on to each other and working together on the recommendations of Rabash will we be able to come out of the darkness into the light and at the same time not lose anything but gain.
Question: If some friends cannot attend the congress virtually or physically because of work, how can they connect to their tens?
Answer: Connect in any way you can through devices, phones. Do everything in your power.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/5/25, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”
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This is the meaning of the words in The Zohar (Tikkunim): “Invert Ratzon [desire] and you will find Tzinor [pipeline]…” It means that the pipeline is opposite to the desire for it compels its desire and does the opposite of what it wants.
When we discuss the vessel in general, meaning the vessel and the screen together, we define it by the name “pipeline.” When discussing the light, the vessel, and the screen together, meaning the light that is clothed in the measure of the pipeline, it is defined by the name “line,” and when we discuss a vessel in which there is no screen, we define it by the name “circle” (Baal HaSulam, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“).
Malchut, the creation, the desire to enjoy, acquires the properties of bestowal within itself due to all kinds of requests, prayers, and demands. These new properties of bestowal combine with its natural property of receiving; from this combination of the two opposites—the desire to enjoy and the intention to bestow clothed in it—a new vessel (Kli) is born. The desire to receive takes the form of bestowal, and in the form of such bestowal, the connection between the fourth stage and the root, creation and the Creator, is revealed.
Everything happens inside creation. In that round sphere (Igul) that existed before, a line (Kav) now stretches. In other words, we see how the creation frees up a space within itself where the Creator can enter. It creates this place out of its new, empty desire it develops!
This is not the desire it received from above, from the Creator, because then it would have been the desire to enjoy, the fourth stage itself, which wants to fill itself. But creation adds new desires to all those in it from nature to reveal the properties of bestowal. When this property of bestowal comes to a person, there is already a place where it can clothe itself and exist.
This is how the Creator clothes Himself in creation, and we reveal Him. That is why He is called the Creator (Bo-Reh), which means “come and see.”
In this manifestation of the Creator, we reveal a certain order, a connection between us called ten Sefirot. The first Sefira, Keter, is the Creator, the last is creation, Malchut, and the intermediate Sefirot are relations between them in both directions: from Keter to Malchut and from Malchut to Keter.
In these Sefirot, there are also direct (Yeshar) channels of connection between the Creator and creation, and round Sefirot (Igulim), also a connection, but one that creation cannot yet realize on its own, feeling it only in one direction, from the Creator to itself. The guest feels that the host wants to give him almost the entire world of infinity in addition to what he received in a narrow tube, like a thin ray of light (line). However, the guest cannot yet accept this infinity and feels it is a surrounding light.
So, there is a line, that is, a pipe filled with light, like a cave which, when filled with water (the light of Hassadim), is called a well. All the light is revealed inside this tube, which is called a line.
Everything else remains surrounding for now, like round vessels (Kelim) and round lights.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/27/2011, The Study of the Ten Sefirot
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Question: Can we say that the Kli (vessel) of a ten becomes included in an even greater Kli?
Answer: Undoubtedly. All Kelim (vessels) are included within one another.
Question: So does that mean the ten itself shouldn’t really exist separately, but should merge into others?
Answer: Don’t dictate what “should” be! From what you feel, you must understand that this is what the Creator is sending you, and that is what you must work with.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/5/25, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #134 “Wine that Causes Drunkenness” (12.24.2021)
2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #80 “Concerning Achor be Achor” (12.23.2021)
3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 4, Chapter 1
4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar, “The Tenth Commandment”