Question: It is said, “Buy, but do not sell.” On the other hand, I must disseminate and bestow. How do these two things connect? How should this be understood?

Answer: It means that one must constantly care about their connection with the Creator; don’t exchange it for anything else, only expand it.

Question: We learn that there is a hierarchy of desires: food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge. Should I distinguish which force of desire or which line of connection can bring me back to the Creator?

Answer: It will be shown to you. You can draw closer to the Creator either through connection on the right side or connection on the left side.

Question: In our world there are examples where parents give everything to their children, but the children end up hating them, or for instance, a wealthy relative helps everyone, yet everyone secretly despises them. Could it happen, God forbid, that instead of loving the Creator, a person comes to hate Him because He gives them everything?

Answer: No, this is impossible with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/13/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 56

What Additional Desire Can We Gain from Society?

We can gain an additional desire for Godliness from society. This is the entire matter of the soul’s fragmentation into many parts. If the collective soul had not divided, we would be unable to determine anything. In its original state, the soul is one vessel full of light, completely sealed, where everything comes from above—Reshimot (records), lights, and desires. When the light departs, the vessel remains as it is, but without light or desire. It would fall and become corrupted even as a single part. Then the light would return, awaken the vessel, and cause it to begin moving.

However, the division of the collective soul into many parts lets us (on our own level and not above it) make an act of free choice. Since the action is on our level, we can take additional desire from other parts; that is, we can be inspired by them. It is impossible to take the original desire of other parts.

We do not determine the meaning of “I” and answers to the questions: “Who am I?” “What am I?” and “How does the Creator give to me?” They are the vessel. We cannot change the contents of the vessel or determine the light that will enter it. The light within the vessel determines our state, thoughts, and desires. The only free choice we have is to be inspired by the adjacent vessel because we are connected at the root. If we were not connected there, it would be impossible to be inspired by a friend.

Two vessels that were connected at the root became separated when they descended into the corporeal world. When they seek to connect in some way, they perform an act of unification, similar to their connection at the root. They seemingly unite the two desires into one. If one takes a desire that is seemingly corrected—a yearning for spirituality, a desire for the Creator—from a friend, regardless of how corrected it is, it is as if they connect the two vessels together above.

This is the only action we are given as free choice, and as a result, we create two vessels within ourselves and also receive the friend’s desire. We then draw light from above that belongs to both souls. In such a way, it is possible to integrate the desire of every friend.

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah),” Item 19

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The connection of speaking to the Creator brings him life, if he appreciates the fact that he is conversing with the Creator (Rabash, Article 3, “What It Means that the Name of the Creator Is ‘Truth’”).

Question: What should we add to elevate the value of and strengthen connection with the Creator?

Answer: Think only about the fact that when you unite, your connection with the Creator becomes stronger, more profound, and you need nothing else.

When each person in the group expresses themselves in relation to it, when you can all unite and focus your desire on the Creator, you thereby form the vessel (Kli) in which you will receive His response.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/25, “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”

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Question: You said that my role in the group is to help my friends reveal the Creator. What should I do to dissolve into my friends?

Answer: On one hand, I dissolve into my friends, and on the other hand, I am as if above them, trying to determine their movement, their fate.

Question: Which is preferable?

Answer: There is no preference here, because there is a time for both. There is a time to scatter stones and time to gather stones.

These are two sides, right and left, that must always be present in our work. We should not neglect either. There cannot be a plus without a minus. This is how we should act.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”

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Question: Can I evaluate my progress relative to the state of the group?

Answer: If you study The Book of Zohar (especially this book) even though it doesn’t tell you anything and seems so incomprehensible, distant and even repugnant to your entire being, you don’t understand it at all, and its characters and actions seem absurd, yet, despite all this, you accept it as a necessary tool for connecting with the source of the upper force that can change you, and you use it.

It’s like a child who doesn’t know or understand but is compelled by nature to nullify themselves in relation to adults, to learn from them, and to mimic them like a little monkey without understanding what they are doing simply because that is what adults do. Similarly, we, by naively following the guidance of Kabbalistic texts and recognizing that they contain the source of some transformative force, suddenly begin to feel that they are working on us.

Initially, we are given a certain desire for this, a realization that there is no other way, and a group that can push us in this direction. But in the end, what is required is patience.

This involves studying the material, participating in dissemination efforts, and working within the group over months and months. Then suddenly you begin to feel that something is happening to you, something is working. You change. You suddenly feel a deeper understanding of what is going on interspersed with periods of greater confusion. This is the path.

It is a period of serious formation, a transition from one world to another. It is not simple and takes a significant amount of time. But this is the essence of our entire history, all those millions of years of development that are now approaching their critical, culminating point of realization when we transition into another state, another dimension.

All of this is about to happen to us, to those who seriously work on themselves, who wish to adopt this spiritual framework represented by The Book of Zohar, and pass through it into the other dimension.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Signs of Advancement” 3/11/10

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Question: We are talking about our state for tomorrow. Where does this depiction come from? Does the Creator give us some light or does my ego fantasize this?

Answer: When we imagine our future, we say that we desire it. Where do the knowledge, sensation, and necessity for this future state appear in us? Where does this ultimately come from?

We study that originally, we existed in a good state when we were united and the Creator manifested within us. The only thing He manifested was in the small state (Katnut). This is the state of the system Adam that was created by the Creator before its breaking. Then the upper light, meaning the entire influence of the Creator, focused on this system and destroyed it.

What does “destroyed” mean? It became connected between all parts of the system as pure egoism that separates all the parts so that a feeling appears that is the opposite of the Creator. It is similar to what we do with our kids when we want to teach them to be more independent, to feel life better, and begin to understand it. We gradually distance them from us and they do the same according to their nature.

Thus the Creator entered into us and filled the distance between us with the property opposite to Him, the property of receiving, not bestowal. Now we have to turn this property into His property, but by our request.

Therefore, each time we want to be closer to one another we will sense that we hate one another even more and repel one another. This sensation will only get stronger.

On the other hand we will be asking to unite because in unity between the broken parts we include ourselves in each other and the Creator together into one system. Then instead of tearing us apart, the Creator will connect us.

In the state of the breaking, He is called “Pharaoh,” but in the state of unity “Creator,” “Upper Force.” This is how it works.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”

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Question: How can you not make mistakes and know you are addressing the Creator? Is there some kind of verification?

Answer: No, address Him however you wish, make any mistakes; the main thing is to be in touch with Him all the time.

Do whatever you want, just don’t break the connection with Him. The most important thing is to maintain uninterrupted dialogue all the time.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/21/18, “Let’s talk about the Creator”

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Question: You said that from our collective feeling we become worthy of the Creator’s response to our request. At what point will this happen?

Answer: We become worthy of the Creator’s response the moment our desires and requests to receive and to bestow align with the Creator’s will toward us. Then we become interconnected.

I receive from the Creator what He sends to me, or I send to the Creator and He receives it. A two-way connection is formed between us. Many Kabbalistic sources speak about this. So we will quickly understand how this connection is established and experienced.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/25, “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”

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