Question: How can I lift a friend’s spirit if I myself am in a descent?

Answer: You should come to the lessons and meetings in order to lift your and everyone else’s spirits, and do not fall onto the group without preparation, with your negative mood.

Question: What should we do when a friend has a problem and we feel it, but he does not ask for help from the group?

Answer: We must, without naming names, perform actions that will help everyone to gather together, connect, and correctly aim ourselves at the Creator.

As a result, we will get what we are yearning for—the next, spiritual, degree.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention “Life in the Ten” 1/28/24, “Each One Shall Help His Friend,” Lesson 3

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It follows that when every person regards himself as nothing in society, then he regards himself as a heel compared to the society, while they are the head, the body, and the higher organs. When each one thinks of himself in this way, they make the gates of abundance and every lushness in the world open up to them… (Maor VaShemesh, Ekev).

Each individual should imagine what they should be like in a group, in the ten. If they consider themselves the smallest, insignificant relative to the friends, then they actually obtain the right connection with the others, and thus they all unite under the Creator.

Question: To do this action correctly, do I need to either imagine myself as small or my friends as big?

Answer: It is better to do both, whichever is more convenient. Either your friends are big, and you are the same as you were, or you are small, and they are bigger than you and are even growing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/26/24, “Preparation to “Life in the Ten” Convention”

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Each day we must give to the Creator everything that he has been through, whether Mitzvot or transgressions, and begin anew (Rabash, Letter No. 29).

Question: While working in the ten and in the group, very often we take inspiration from past conventions. What does the article mean when it says: Give to the Creator everything that we have been through whether Mitzvot or transgressions and begin anew?

Answer: Every day, we must start with a clean slate, as it is written: “Each day, they will be as new in your eyes.” In this way we start every day with a clean slate; based on yesterday’s and past achievements, I do today’s work much better.

Question: But Rabash writes to forget the past. What should I forget?

Answer: You are not interested in what happened. You take only the work you can do and the data you have today.

Question: What can I take from yesterday?

Answer: You are already taking everything you have from yesterday. But the most important thing is that you do not want to repeat yesterday, every day should be as new in your eyes.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/24/24, Writings of Rabash “Letter 29”

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Question: You have told us that we are attracting the light of Hassadim within the ten to enliven everyone. What does it mean to enliven everyone with the light?

Answer: To revive everyone with the light means that everyone would see, be convinced, feel, and realize that the entire world can become connected in the light of the Creator, in the light of Hassadim. After that, the Creator will manifest Himself in this world as the light of Hochma.

Attracting the light of Hassadim and passing it to the world is possible only through love for each other, by involvement, by mutual help, and annulling oneself toward others.

Question: Can each of us and every ten in general pass the force of the entire group to humanity, or is it necessary to be in attainment to be able to do this?

Answer: Definitely! For this, it is necessary to be in attainment; otherwise, what can you convey?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/16/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Why We Need to Extend Hochma”

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is the ‘Torah’ and What Is ‘The Statute of the Torah,’ in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 7, Item 23

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Question: In Kabbalistic articles, it says it is a necessity to strive for equality among ourselves. Why specifically toward equality? What does a person gain when he reaches this state?

Answer: In a group, one should strive to be able to help his friends as much as possible. This is your movement forward and the advancement of all the friends. As you set a good example to your friends, each begins to work the same way. As a result, all of you reach the goal.

Question: But what is this state—equality? What is its benefit? When I am higher than a friend, I understand that I can inspire him. When he is higher than me, I can learn something from him. And what do I gain if we are equal?

Answer: Equality as such cannot exist at all because we are all different. Everyone has natural spiritual roots, another soul. And therefore, each person can enrich the other.

When Kabbalah students unite with each other, all their spiritual roots unite and form what is called the Tree of Life. That is, by merging, they can evoke a great light from above, which reveals the entire system of creation to them.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/16/24

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Question: Rabash writes that a person who studies Kabbalah can create an atmosphere that allows him to work only for the sake of bestowal.

How does the hour or two a day that a person dedicates to meeting like-minded people affect him in a way that he wants to be in a completely opposite quality? How does this happen?

Answer: He connects with his friends in spiritual work and study, and as a result, if he merges with them, then such a group is obtained, such a general force that reveals the universal upper light that fills the ten, this group.

Therefore, being united with his friends into one common whole, a person begins to realize the meaning of creation, its reasons, and its purpose.

All this creates such an internal stable state with which a person enters more and more into the upper world that one begins to see the surrounding nature more and more deeply.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/16/24

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Question: You often say that the minimum number is two. And yet, how can the little tens be sure at this convention that they will receive support, that they are like a full-fledged Kli?

Answer: This is what the convention is organized for, so that all the small groups come together and form one big Kli. Therefore there is no need to worry that there are groups of three or four people. It does not matter; we unite together into one Kli and turn from it to the Creator.

There are several thousand of us, and therefore small groups are included in all the others.

Question: In spirituality does each of us have one’s own work and no one else will do my work for me?

Answer: We each have our own and at the same time joint work. Therefore no one will do either one of the jobs for us. Our job is to ask the Creator to help us. This is the most important thing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/24/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Known in the Gates”

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Question: Sometimes I feel such a state of my corruption that I do not want to exist like this. But the state changes and it seems I can still live like this. Does everyone have their own measure of these conditions or is it somehow related to the total mass of people going through the correction? What does it depend on?

Answer: It depends on you. In any case, you should look for connections with your friends and then with the Creator.

Question: Can these changing states be regarded as degrees of coming closer to the Creator?

Answer: Of course.

Question: How do I understand if this is my personal state or the general state of a ten, a group, or humanity?

Answer: I will only say one thing. Any of our individual, personal states are anyway included in the general state of the ten, the group, and the entire world Kli.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Three Conditions in Prayer”

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