Question: Are “righteous” and “clean” two degrees in our work?

Answer: Yes, these are two states. In the Shamati article 135, it is said: “The clean and righteous do not kill,” which means do not kill within yourself your correct sensations.

Question: If I cannot understand the article, but feel that there is something special in it, can I ask the Creator to reveal it to me?

Answer: You can always ask the Creator. As a rule, He has to answer, not exactly as you want, but He will answer. So ask as much as possible.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Clean and Righteous Do Not Kill”

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Question: If someone leaves the ten and justifies his departure by the fact that the Creator decided so, what should be done in this case?

Answer: The Creator does not decide anything for a person. He only moves him away a little to give him the opportunity to get closer.

It is like flirting. The Creator kind of pushes us away by giving us the desire to distance ourselves, but in any case it is flirting. It is just to draw us closer.

We need to be very sensitive to the fact that holiness is running away, and immediately ask the Creator to bring us closer.

Keep making efforts and pray all the time that the Creator will show you His true attitude.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/1/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is ‘Hurry, My Beloved,’ in the Work?”

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Question: Do we all go through the same states or can we connect with friends who have experienced certain unpleasant states and go through them easily and quickly?

Answer: You can learn this relatively, but in general it still will not save a person. One must decide how such states will pass. Of course, if a person is associated with a group, then he or she passes through them quickly.

In principle, you should help your friends in everything and at the same time check how much you can help yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/2/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “If I Am Not for Me, Who Is for Me?”

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Question: Can a sense of shame help you escape from honor?

Answer: Sometimes by running away from honor, we can get the opposite effect. A person can begin to think that he is entitled to even greater honors: “Look, I ran away from them; now I should have more!”

And here we have to make the right calculation. The main thing is to annul yourself before the ten and ask the Creator for a self-account.

Question: We understand that for egoism, the most important indicator is honor. And what is the most important criterion for a Kabbalist to advance toward bestowal, which is akin to honor?

Answer: There are several aspects to this. The question is how much we can unite in order to provide a place for the Creator to be revealed between us. This is important.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/3/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Honor”

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Question: What should we do if someone wants to exit the ten, and says that this does not suit them? How should we treat this?

Answer: Leave him and continue your movement without him. In Kabbalah, we should not force anyone. As it is said, there is no coercion in spirituality.

But this person will not move forward without being in the ten. This is the law. Some people have been in the group for ten years and it is as if they are not in it.

When a person wants to disconnect from holiness, it is holiness that precedes him and throws him out of the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/1/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is “Hurry, My Beloved,” in the Work?”

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Question: In order to bring contentment to the Creator, should my efforts at the beginning of the action be felt as my own or as the Creator’s desires? That is, should I feel that He is acting and I am with Him?

Answer: No, you should feel them as, your efforts.

The required amount of effort depends on the level of a person’s soul, on how he attracts the Creator, on the way he comes closer to Him, on previous and future states, and on many reasons that we do not have the opportunity to explore.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/2/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “If I Am Not for Me, Who Is for Me?”

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Question: What is the difference between restricting and annulling yourself?

Answer: Restricting egoistic desires or annulling oneself is the same thing.

Question: How can you work in the group with the Sitra Achra (egoism)? Is it possible to scrutinize my states in the ten if I do not have this perception and have doubts?

Answer: You will not scrutinize it anywhere except in the ten, only in the ten.

Question: What does it mean to accept all the degrees that exist in the world?

Answer: Everything that comes to me I must return to the Creator.

Question: At our root in the Creator’s plan to delight His creations, there are degrees of creating the desire to receive, active and actuated, shattering and correction, work and reward. If we are to be like our root, is it necessary to be aware of these degrees and realize every desire according to them?

Answer: As far as we understand them, we are realizing them. The main thing is that we should be like those influences of the Creator we will receive.

Question: What are we missing in developing hatred of egoism?

Answer: Seeing how much egoism prevents you from achieving the best possible degrees.

Question: Is business possible within a group of friends, and what can it lead to?

Answer: No, by no means. Business within the group is prohibited. The connection should be only spiritual.

Question: It says: “Anyone who is proud, the Creator says, ‘He and I cannot dwell in the same abode.” What does it mean to be proud? We are so small, we are learning to annul.

Answer: Precisely because we are so small, we like to be higher than others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/30/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Does It Mean that the Sitra Achra Is Called ‘Malchut without a Crown’?”

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

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Question: What does it mean that we connect with individual souls? My friends in the ten are like separate souls. Where is the part of the soul that I connect with in them?

Answer: The desire of friends for spirituality, the point in the heart is his private soul. You should try to connect with each of them so that you can be together in one common soul.

Gradually you will become closer and closer, at different levels, and from this connection forms a common soul.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “One’s Soul Shall Teach Him”

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