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Posted on November 15th, 2025
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The left line signifies going with knowledge and seeing the world uncorrected. That is, I see that the world suffers from a multitude of problems, my friends are full of shortcomings, and the Creator is no better. I criticize everything because my desire to enjoy has grown and has become revealed, and I speak out of it. This is called the left line.
But this is a line and not a simple dissatisfaction with material life, I am criticizing spiritual work, the group, our progress, and the perfection of our work. The left line pushes me away from spiritual work, but does not completely throw me into material things. Otherwise, it will no longer be the left line but plain egoism.
The left line in my work indicates that I want to move toward connection with the group and the Creator, but I am unable to do so. I can weigh and count exactly what I cannot accomplish and why. This is called the left line.
The greater the frequency with which we reach the middle line from any state, the greater the progress and acceleration in our work. From these points, we build a middle line that gains such force that the Creator is revealed inside it.
The middle line does not exist in nature; we build it, and therefore it is said: “You created Me.”
If we do not help ourselves, no one will. After all, we are already in the ten, and in it, everyone is responsible for all. The Creator brings me to the right place and says: “Take it for yourself.” And if I do not take it, then I do not; that is my free choice. The Creator will not do anything else. Later He will help me through suffering, but who knows when that will be?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 9/6/2020, Work with Faith above Reason
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Creation is an empty desire, while the Creator is Light. How can this emptiness be connected with the Light; they are two complete opposites? Otherwise, creation, whose very nature is an empty will to receive, would remain empty forever.
How can these two opposites be joined? After all, according to the law of equivalence of form that governs all of nature, they cannot draw near or unite, like polar opposites. Therefore, there is a need for to mix the will to receive and the will to bestow.
In the Rosh (head), the intention to receive for the sake of bestowal arises. But in the Guf (body) awakens the egoistic force, to receive for one’s own sake. Thus a shattering occurs between the head and the body, a loss of connection between them, the inability to think and act in unison.
One thought resides in the head, yet a completely different desire is in the body. The heart and the mind are no longer together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/7/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”
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Due to the congress, we felt ourselves moving slightly away from our ten and closer again, like a pendulum swinging back and forth, changing the degree of our connection with each other or with the Creator and our attitude toward the study. Strength and desire diminish, weakness sets in, and then strength comes back. Each full period of the pendulum’s movement back and forth, rising and falling, does not pass unnoticed; it leaves an imprint on us.
It seems that a person of strong faith should always find the strength to overcome any state without losing connection with the Creator, either in sorrow or joy as if nothing could shake him or disconnect him from the eternal union.
But in reality, this is not the case. A person who aspires to the Creator experiences constant changes. They must feel greater and greater weakness, but at the same time know how to achieve more confidence and adhesion with the Creator. Thus one keeps advancing and growing.
If a person doesn’t feel such changes in himself, no powerlessness and uncertainty, no descents, and fear of straying from the right direction toward the Creator and the purpose of life, if they don’t worry about this, then this is precisely a serious cause for concern.
One needs to engage with the group as quickly as possible, with all one’s might, so that through it the person can begin to receive the surrounding light that will change him or her.
If it seems to us that everything is in order and nothing bothers us, then it is time to worry.
In this world, the one who advances without feeling a heavy burden is considered strong. They add another ten kilograms to his back and he keeps walking, another twenty and he keeps going as if nothing happened. This is a strong man, a hero!
But in spirituality, it is the opposite. A hero is someone who is very sensitive to every gram added to him along the way and immediately turns to the Creator with a request to correct the lack of confidence and strength to bestow.
Spiritual advancement is different; it is in increased sensitivity. The Creator adds to us in quality and quantity, and we always have the opportunity to ask Him for new strength through the environment, and so advance.
Advancing on the path depends only on the changes one feels, which the Creator awakens in him. Each time, I need to understand my weakness and how to strengthen myself in order to continue. Naturally, I lack faith and the force of bestowal. Therefore, I increasingly need the environment and the Creator to add to it, to turn to the Creator through it, and thus to continue on the path.
Everyone needs to check for the changes the congress induced in them. One feels rejection, another feels attraction, and a third one has fog in his mind and feelings. Some cannot find themselves in the ten; they look at the friends and do not feel them and see them in their heart as before. Involvement in the larger ten affected him in such a way that he lost the old connection he had with his friends.
There are many post-congress phenomena we cannot ignore while we wait to get back to our usual routine. I need to check what is happening to me and why, and how the congress has affected me. This is very important.
Everyone in the ten feels differently, and we need to check whether we can return to our previous state or whether our new state is much clearer, higher, and sharper.
After all, we began to appreciate the connection between us more, and understand why we return to our ten to be together. We not only follow the advice of the Kabbalists, but we already realize that without it we will not have the confidence or strength to advance; there will be nowhere to draw strength or to turn to the Creator from.
The ten turns into a spiritual source for us, a spring. We feel enabled to stabilize ourselves in it and return to correction. Each of us has a special property, like the ten Sefirot. Therefore we are very different. But we are connected by a common work and a common goal. Thus, from ten people, and no less, we can form a complete attitude toward the Creator.
The ten turns into a Kli, a tool, we can change something with, influence something with, and connect with a wider or higher level.
The center of the ten is a tiny needle’s eye through which I pass into the spiritual world. To do this, I have to restrict all my thoughts and desires and compress them into one point to lead me to the upper world through the center of the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/16/19, “Hardening of the Heart – An Invitation to Ascend”
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What is faith above reason? Within reason means according to our understanding, according to the mind of a person in this world that is based on egoism.
Accordingly, a person perceives, feels, makes decisions, and acts. That is called “according to my opinion.” But above my opinion is the opinion of the upper one, and therefore I must replace my opinion with His, with the opinion of the Creator.
But I do not know the Creator’s opinion; it reaches me through my ten. If I connect with them, then by gradually annulling myself and merging with my friends, I replace my opinion with theirs.
This is not a simple substitution of one for another, otherwise I would become an angel, a kind of spiritual animal. Rather, I perform this act above my reason; I retain my own opinion, and rise above it. Thus, I occupy two levels, and in the difference between them I discover the perception of a spiritual human being.
Nothing in a person’s sensation is destroyed or erased. In fact, one acquires an additional nature, the Creator’s nature, and thus attains “faith above reason.” He has his own knowledge, and above it, faith; and he exists between the two.
The Creator did not create our desire to enjoy in vain. It is the foundation that constantly accompanies us so that “darkness will shine as light.” The darkness of my egoism, my opinion, supports the higher opinion that stands above it. Precisely from the contradiction between them, I attain the greatness of the Creator against the insignificance of the creature.
We do not annul ourselves or lose anything within us. While standing firmly on both feet, we build the middle line, and only in this way do we establish ourselves as a human being, Adam, “similar to the Creator.” Everything that exists in this creation is received from the Creator, but by the person’s own decision.
The Creator gives me an adapter that connects me to Him: this is the ten. This adapter is very complex, but there is no choice. I must connect it and use it, however many years it takes. I must annul myself, otherwise I will not connect to the group, because my plug does not fit its socket.
Within my friends dwells the Creator, who helps me unite with them more and more until I begin to reveal Him within them. I begin to work with the Creator through my friends, for they are my soul, and the Creator is the light that fills that soul.
The main thing is to integrate into the environment, and then I begin to receive opinions, desires, and thoughts, not just from a higher degree, but of an entirely new quality. For within the group exists “faith above reason,” a new perception not inherent to a person of this world.
Therefore there is no other way. One must annul oneself, enter the group, and leave one’s prior experience behind for now. We are speaking of an adult person with much life experience and knowledge, yet relative to the group one makes oneself into an embryo, a zero. And when a person begins to receive knowledge from it and grow, one builds faith above reason on the basis of one’s former qualities, thoughts, desires, one’s previous “self.” One cannot exist without the other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/23/19, Writings of Rabash “Concerning Above Reason”
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