Question: Is it worth talking to the ten about actions through force, or is it an individual inner work through which we seek a connection with the Creator and ask for strength to overcome resistance?

Answer: We can talk about it a little bit among ourselves, but preferably less. In any case we need to cheer each other up.

Usually, in the ten, we show only good aspirations and not those that distance us from each other. The main thing is to be all together as if we are embracing and moving forward. There are no boundaries in this regard.
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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: There is a little puzzle, three frogs were sitting on a log, one decided to jump. How many frogs are left on the log?

Answer: This is an old puzzle. “Decided to jump” and “jumped” are not the same thing.

Question: Exactly! So, three frogs are still sitting on the log. Sometimes, we think we’ve jumped, but in reality, we’re still deciding whether to jump. I have a question: How do you make decisions correctly?

Answer: You can make a decision correctly if you absolutely know its outcome in advance and are already in that outcome. It’s like looking at the present from the future.

Question: So, you have to anticipate and foresee the result?

Answer: Absolutely! What else is a decision for? It’s a decision about the future.

Question: You sort of place yourself in it and then make the decision?

Answer: Of course.

Question: When you decide, do you have to jump right away? Is there any time for reflection?

Answer: If you have decided definitively, rechecked yourself, and conclusively decided, then you must act. Otherwise, every minute is a delay.

Question: Tell me, how do you reassess? Do you reassess yourself? Measure seven times…

Answer: No. I don’t know about seven times, but you have to assess. Because it shouldn’t depend on your momentary mood or any conditions. It should be a normal, firm decision.

Question: So, if you made the decision, after all these checks, you have to jump?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But what if you made the wrong decision? Checked everything, did everything, and made the wrong decision.

Answer: How do you know it’s wrong?

Comment: You ended up not where you wanted.

My Response: But that’s after the decision.

Comment: After I’ve already jumped.

My Response: After implementation?

Question: Yes, exactly. I realized I made the wrong decision. What should I do about it?

Answer: Do nothing.

Question: But I beat myself up over it! Checked everything, jumped, and everything’s wrong?!

Answer: There’s nothing you can do. Nothing more to do, nothing to blame.

Question: Don’t blame yourself?

Answer: No, under no circumstances!

Question: How do you not fall into doing so?

Answer: Attribute all that to the Creator.

Question: So, measure beforehand and after it happened…

Answer: The Creator did it. Absolutely clearly, the Creator.

Comment: That is, we have now come to the golden rule. I check everything…

My Response: I decide, I act, and the rest is up to the Creator.

Question: And then the result is the Creator?

Answer: Yes.

Question: No regrets, nothing?

Answer: Nothing. That’s how it was intended from the beginning.

Question: So, He was spinning me around from the start, I was reassessing it and it wasn’t me doing it? He was the one twisting me?

If one could live like this, there would be nothing to regret at all.

Answer: Then live like that.

Comment: “Live like that”! If only we could learn to live like that.

My Response: Don’t regret anything and don’t think about anything at all! Everything is arranged from above.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/11/23

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Question: I am trying to understand the mechanism of transitioning from a state where you clearly see the faults of a friend in a group to a state where you rise above this and suddenly begin to see his best qualities. How does this happen?

Answer: You must imagine that your friend is above you. As if you bow before him and treat him with respect; you consider him great, and thus you start to want to adhere to him.

Then a special connection appears between you, because you, by wanting to rise to his level, want to get closer to him, hold onto him, and the same with each of the ten people. This way you rise together with them.

Your nine friends treat you exactly the same way you treat them. Therefore, you get a Kabbalistic ten, a group that elevates itself.

Question: Why does this happen?

Answer: Each of the ten contains a piece of upper energy, upper light. If you want to highlight this piece, to raise it, and if you treat all nine friends as greater than you, then you kind of hold onto them and they raise you. And everyone, in relation to everyone, does the same.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/16/24

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Question: The Malchut of the upper is the Keter of the lower. How do they merge in similarity? In Malchut, as it is said, there is a calculation. And in Keter, it turns out, there is no calculation?

Answer: Keter has no calculation. If they ask from it, it gives. We must bring our desires to receive into the Malchut of the lower one in order to pass them on.

And then our desires will rise to Keter, from it the light will pass to Malchut, and from there we will receive it.
Question: You said that there is no Malchut without Keter. Is there Keter without Malchut? Can they be considered as a whole?

Answer: No, Keter exists without Malchut. But what is its purpose? In bringing all the Sefirot to the very end and Malchut will also become giver like Keter.
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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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Question: How can we feel pain for the Creator?

Answer: There is no pain in you because there is no Creator in you.

To feel it, you need to work in accordance to the recommendations of Kabbalists and not the way you want.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/30/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘As I Am for Nothing, so You Are for Nothing,’ in the Work?”

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Question: There was a new level felt at the congress, and today there is a feeling that all the friends are in my heart. I am very afraid of losing this feeling. What should I do, how can I give it back to the Creator?

Answer: Just think about what you want to receive from each one, the common desire for the Creator that exists in the group. Connect all these desires together and give them to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/31/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Man’s Connection to the Sefirot”

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Question: How can we use a situation for advancement when the Creator is playing with us, as if moving away?

Answer: We ask the Creator not to move away, but to come closer.

We must resist and discuss this topic together. This is a common problem. It will arise for each one at different times.

Therefore, it is necessary to draw strength from each other and immediately turn to the Creator with a request that He lift you up.
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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: Before the fall, Adam was in holiness. Where did this holiness go after the fall, because now we have to start all over again as if from scratch in the world of Assiya? Is holiness preserved somewhere?

Answer: No, holiness is not preserved. It is broken.

But that does not matter to you. You must pick up the fragments of the broken Kelim and unite them into whole vessels.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/31/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Man’s Connection to the Sefirot”

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