How can we strengthen the tens? I believe this can only be achieved through mutual study and mutual work.

Mutual study means connecting to the lesson, discussing it among yourselves, and creating a common field in which everyone works together.

But the most important thing is collective dissemination. When you write, process, and translate materials, and post them in various sources, you create a connection among you. In this way, the Creator relates to you as one organism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: Does the Creator send us sometimes unnecessary desires to confuse us so we can accurately choose the true ones?

Answer: If He does so, then this is also help.

Question: How can we emerge from this confusion correctly and use it to come closer to Him?

Answer: It will pass. You will go through many such states, and eventually, it will all clear up.

Are you confused? Write down your tangled thoughts and send them to us, and our friends will analyze them and respond to you.

Question: Why does the Creator allow us to make mistakes?

Answer: So that we have something to correct.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Act Is What Decides”

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The world must not be corrected in religious matters before economic correction is guaranteed for the entire world (Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation).

A state that decides to adopt an altruistic system must understand what to do and how to influence its citizens, i.e., how to adjust itself in one direction or another in order to demonstrate the desired path to everyone through this variation.

Baal Sulam emphasizes that this economic component is so important that it will become the foundation without which it is impossible to move forward in ethical principles.

As a result, until a person reaches a certain economic condition, he will not be able to think about spiritual matters, as his material needs will occupy his concerns.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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Question: When we strive to reveal love, hatred is also uncovered. This leads us to fear or a sense of paralysis. What should we do next?

Answer: If you imagine that the Creator is before you, and He is presenting this to you, then why should you feel fear? It is said that one must love hatred just as one loves love. This is called “kissing the stick that strikes you.”

The fact is, there can be no light without darkness. Therefore we can advance toward spiritual revelation only by accumulating various negative impressions. And when we gather them and sufficiently enrich ourselves with negative impressions, we will then be able to reveal positive impressions, which are called the “Creator” or “light.”

At this point, we need a group to support us, so that we do not fall into despair or a sense of powerlessness from the small negative influences we encounter. We must understand that all of this is revealed to us by the Creator. He adds darkness to us so that later He can reveal the light, as the revelation of light requires very great darkness. As it is said: “The advantage of light is revealed through darkness.”

Thus, a very deep darkness is necessary, where a person realizes that in all their feelings, desires, and impulses, they are egoists. They see themselves as a thief, as brazen, as someone who does everything “for their own sake,” and not just for their own sake, but to ensure that nothing benefits others.

Essentially they see themselves in all their flaws, in their egoistic miasma, and they feel repulsed by it. Yet even so, much more darkness is needed for the light to manifest within it.

Therefore we must be prepared for this. And here the main thing is the group, because without it, it is impossible to endure.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What does patience transform into in the state of Lishma?

Answer: Into humility.

Question: Every day, we write a prayer in the ten. Is there value in sharing these prayers in the general chat to form a collective prayer for the world Kli?

Answer: Yes, it is beneficial because it fosters mutual integration of one group’s prayer into another group’s prayer.

Question: While we are not yet in Lishma, does every act of bestowal have a bitter taste?

Answer: As long as you are in Lo Lishma, any act of bestowal has either a bitter taste or no taste at all.

Question: As we progress, should we sort out good and bad desires, meaning come closer to the good ones and distance ourselves from the bad ones? What is the force that enables this?

Answer: It is our desire to ascend, unite, and feel something good, kind, and upper. That is what we must strive for.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Shamati 20 “Lishma (for Her sake”

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Question: Does the black point, my “I,” nullify itself before the Creator? Will it disappear or will it remain a black point?

Answer: Why should it disappear? If it disappears, I would cease to exist. This black point must always remain because it separates me from the Creator, without it, the “I” would vanish.

Therefore it remains, but around this “I,” I create a complete equivalence of form to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: We feel that we have reached a certain level of mutual inclusion. But if the connection needs to be stronger, fear arises, a fear of commitment. What is the connection between this fear and our commitments?

Answer: Fear is a very useful feeling. It keeps us from many problems, prevents us from making mistakes, from running away from difficulties, and instead encourages us to ask for strength to rise above them and move forward. One must realize that neither the fear nor the problems ahead matter to me anymore. I am not afraid of dying, and I no longer wish to live the way I do.

I set a condition: I want spiritual ascent, to detach from the egoism in which I exist. I desire to rise above it and act independently of it. This feeling will come; it is near to you. We will master it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 12

When the Soul Descends to This World, When Does the “Point in the Heart” Awaken?

Only after the soul has passed through the four levels (and the division is always into four) does it reach the fifth level, that of Keter, which encompasses all the others. Then the soul encounters a new desire: the “point in the heart.” After undergoing a process of refinement through many incarnations, we acquire this desire, the “point in the heart,” which connects us to spirituality because it belongs to the spiritual world, not to us people.

Since this desire comes from above, from the spiritual world, nothing in this world can develop it. Only the light that shines upon it during the study of Kabbalah can do so. If we develop this desire by reading books that describe the spiritual reality that are written from a spiritual source by a Kabbalist of the spiritual world, then the light reaches that spark within us, the point in the heart, which causes the spark to come alive, expand, and develop. Without the wisdom of Kabbalah, it is impossible to nurture and develop this spark.

From the moment we receive the point in the heart, everything depends on us. In our previous incarnations, our animalistic desire developed and the entire world opened before us. The world and society provided fuel and challenges to develop the desire to receive. Once the point in the heart awakens, nothing in this world can stimulate us to develop it, and we find ourselves needing to seek out the appropriate company and books that will nurture it.

It is the task of Kabbalists, especially now, to provide each person whose point in the heart has awakened with books and resources for advancement. This is the purpose of disseminating written materials from the upper world. Without doing so, we have no means by which to develop spiritually. Indeed, many people suffer in this world because they lack such resources. Why do they suffer? It is because these resources have not reached them. Why have they not reached them? Everything has a reason, but ultimately, this is the role of those who engage in Kabbalah.

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Question: We need to reach a state where all the pleasures we experience are directed for the sake of the Creator. How can we cultivate this state within ourselves?

Answer: We cannot achieve this on our own. However, if we gradually direct ourselves toward this goal and relate our actions to the Creator so that He may accept them, then corresponding sensations, desires, and intentions accumulate within us. As a result, when we have gathered enough strength in our intentions, we are granted the quality of Lishma (for the sake of the Creator).

I was created as an egoist, and my primary concern is to fulfill my own egoism. But if I rise above my egoistic desires and prioritize only my friends and the Creator, it turns out that I am working for their sake. This constitutes the transition from “for my own sake” to “for the sake of the Creator.”

Question: But in order to transition to “for the sake of the Creator,” should there be a filter “the Creator and friends” before each of my desires and only then reception?

Answer: Yes, absolutely. First, there must be an intention: for what, for whom, and for whose sake am I performing this action?

Question: So does the intention of Lishma inherently contain the power to scrutinize and separate what is for the Creator and what is not, what I can receive and what I cannot? In other words, is it a calculation?

Answer: Yes, it is a calculation. Moreover, it is a calculation within feelings, knowledge, and sensations where you can precisely identify the state you are in in relation to Lishma.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Shamati 20 “Lishma [for Her sake]”

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