Question: In The Study of the Ten Sefirot, it is often repeated that the Creator’s thoughts are not our thoughts. How can this verse be turned into an area of work?

Answer: The fact is with the Creator everything comes from the desire to give, and with us everything is from the desire to receive. Therefore it is written that our thoughts are not His thoughts, and our actions are not His actions.

Man has nothing of his own except the primordial small egoistic desire. Even if you try to grasp the Creator’s thought, this thought is also from Him, despite you considering it your own.

Everything comes from the Creator. Our thoughts, desires, and actions are determined only by Him who we are trying to reveal.

Question: Once we reveal this, what will happen next?

Answer: We will completely agree with it, even though it seemingly destroys our egoism. Where are we then? We are nowhere. We are only the Creator’s thoughts.

Comment: It is hard to accept that I am practically not here.

Answer: Once we attain this, we will begin to feel our connection with the Creator.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot(TES)“

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Question: What does the correct covenant between us include, that even the Creator takes care of it?

Answer: The correct covenant is when we are concerned and cherish the connection between us and all the time take care that our connection is strengthened more and more.

Question: How can we come to the covenant in feelings if we have not yet come to the correct spiritual connection?

Answer: It does not matter; keep trying. You can do it. Just help each other and try to reach a state where you are all together in one Kli.

Question: Is it possible to build the covenant of salt with the teacher?

Answer: It is better to do this with the Creator.

Question: Does our covenant depend on the measure of the desire that the Creator will receive pleasure from it?

Answer: Yes, in the end all our actions should be with the intention to bring contentment to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson) 11/15/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “On All Your Offerings You Shall Offer Salt“

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Question: If the covenant of salt is the covenant of our hearts, do we need to describe some points of this covenant or will they play no role?

Answer: They will not play any role. Here everything depends on the purity of the heart and thoughts. This is the most important thing.

People who study in our groups, if they are also spouses, have a lot of help from above from the Creator. They can really achieve a lot if they mutually help each other in spiritual matters.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/15/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “On All Your Offerings You Shall Offer Salt“

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Question: Rabash’s article “The Life of Sarah” talks about the inner work of a person when he conquers the nations of the world within himself and wants to be Israel.

It seems that all this is said about the unity of all the people because we are talking about the Knesset Israel. Does the correction go from one to all?

Answer: Ten is the minimum necessary to reveal the Creator and the spiritual world. Next comes an even larger assembly called the Knesset Israel. “Knesset” comes from the word “Kinus“—assembly, to gather. Israel is all those striving toward the Creator. Therefore, there is a group, a ten, or many people.

Question: How is Knesset Israel different from the Holy Shechina?

Answer: Israel is every person regardless of what society, state, people, or nationality he belongs to. If he strives to reveal the Creator, he is called Israel (Yashar El—straight to the Creator).

The Holy Shechina is the community of all people striving to unite with each other to create a place for the Creator where He can be revealed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/11/23, Writings of Rabash “The Life of Sarah“

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In the “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” it is said that the shattering is the process where light (pleasure) enters an unprepared desire.

This happens when a person wants to receive something for his own sake. But while he makes these attempts, he sees that he is not succeeding because the entire inner nature of our world exists based on the property of bestowal and love, on the property of the Creator, and we want to use the property of reception and acquisition. Therefore, a mismatch occurs between us and the Creator.

Question: According to the law of the first restriction, light cannot enter an unprepared desire. How did it happen that the light still entered it, and therefore, the shattering occurred?

Answer: Initially, there was no such prohibition; it was never manifested anywhere. Therefore, when the light entered the desire to receive, then, due to their opposition, the light was shattered into tiny sparks, and the desire was shattered into tiny particles.

This happened only once in nature and cannot happen again. Therefore, today our task is to assemble all the shattered desires and fill them with those sparks of light that scattered from the explosion.

Question: Is this a deliberate process?

Answer: Of course, there is nothing accidental; everything follows a common law.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 10/10/23

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Question: Did the process of the breakage of the general system happen gradually or instantly?

Answer: The process of the breakage took place instantly, but in stages. That is, only one action of the breakage occurred, but it descended in stages. Starting from the largest stage, the common vessel was gradually breaking and crushed into smaller parts until the smallest stage.

Question: Does the breakage mean that the upper light ceased to control our desire and, as it were, gave us freedom?

Answer: No, it did not cease to control our desire. While being in this broken desire, we are disconnected from the upper light, and therefore, do not feel its impact.

Question: Do I understand correctly that the breakage was necessary to mix the altruistic desires of the Creator and the egoistic desires of the creation, which allows the manifestation of life in our world? After all, life is a constant bestowal and reception.

Answer: Yes. Therefore, all our work in the corporeal world is to realize that reception is against the upper law of nature, against the Creator and bestowal, mutual unification is for Him, for His sake.

In principle, in every creation and, naturally, in every person there is a spark of inclination toward bestowal. Otherwise, we could not exist.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 10/10/23

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Question: How can you completely hate your foundation—the desire to receive?

Answer: If you feel that it is the desire to receive that separates you from the Creator, then, thinking about this, you begin to hate your egoism and gradually move away from it toward the quality of bestowal.

As you reject egoism, you begin to respect the power of the Creator, love Him, and try to get closer to the quality of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/9/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “You Who Love the Lord, Hate Evil“

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Question: Why is it so difficult to work for bestowal, and how can this action be made easier in spiritual work?

Answer: To work for bestowal is not only difficult, it is impossible. This property does not exist in us at all; so talking about it is like saying, “Fly like a bird.” What can we do? Still work for bestowal.

Despite the fact that we do not have such a property, which we could turn on in order to work for bestowal, it is formed under the influence of the upper light, and we must come to this through the group.

Question: Does our methodology make this work easier?

Answer: It not only makes it easier, but directs, explains, and strengthens us. The methodology is everything.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/12/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Peace in the Work?“

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Question: Do we fulfill the Torah out of darkness or out of a desire for light? What is the difference?

Answer: Try to create connections between all the elements of creation, and you will see how close you are to fulfilling them. That is when you will feel if you are in the light or the dark.

Question: How do we resolve the eternal conflict between the evil inclination and the need to work for the sake of the heavens?

Answer: To do this, we are given a ten, a group, in which we are and with which we can get out of our own egoism. Get more involved in each other and see how much strength you have to move forward.

Question: How can we come to the feeling of darkness if we lack Kelim of bestowal?

Answer: You should feel from your efforts what you lack and pray that you will have Kelim of bestowal.

Question: How can we receive strength and mind from the Creator only for the formation of the soul and not ask egoistically for ourselves?

Answer: Only by doing good for the group to unite them even more.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/23, Writings of Rabash “What Does It Mean that the Torah Was Given Out of the Darkness in the Work?“

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Are the Two Discernments before Lishma?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 6, Item 24

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot

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