During the work, he felt that he could not overcome the evil in him, it is because he was still not rewarded with entering Kedusha. However, he believes that as soon as he enters Kedusha the Sitra Achra will be canceled as a candle before a torch (Rabash, Article No. 3 (1987) “All of Israel Have a Part in the Next World“).

Question: What causes the transition from one degree to another in spiritual work?

Answer: Over time we will feel it for ourselves. Now, we just need to go deeper into ourselves and feel that first degree, which, in principle, we may already be in.

Question: The article mentions several times that you need to believe. For me today, the word “believe” is perceived in two ways. Does it have something to do with spiritual degrees?

Answer: This concept is connected with the quality of faith in the Creator. If you do not feel the Creator at all, how can you ask Him for anything? Therefore, this first feeling is the weakest. But still, a person should already have a connection with the Creator. And then he needs to develop the quality of faith.

Question: It turns out that faith is an active inner action, right?

Answer: Yes, not at the first degree, but at the second.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/23, Writings of Rabash “All of Israel Have a Part in the Next World“

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Question: We say that a person should nullify himself before the ten. What exactly should he nullify?

Answer: He must nullify his egoism, not his opinion, but his egoism. Therefore, he must have a desire to diminish himself before his friends and place himself under the control of the ten.

Then he, as the lowest, will be able to connect with his friends and rise with them.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘Every Day They Will Be as New in Your Eyes,’ in the Work?“

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Question: It is said that when a person stops the connection with the Creator, even for a moment, it is considered that he has violated the greatest prohibition, and then the upper agrees with the thought of the lower. What does it mean?

Answer: This means that as much as a person evaluates his actions as a plus or minus, his actions are evaluated from above, i.e., they bring him closer or further away from the Creator. A person determines the degree to which he rises or falls.

It turns out that as far as he sees his transgression as grave, this determines the force of his prayer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Round About Him It Storms Mightily“

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Question: How can we work correctly with negative examples in the environment, which sometimes affect us more than the positive ones and distance us from the source?

Answer: We try not to see them, according to the rule all crimes will be covered by love.

Question: What is the difference between the big and small commandments?

Answer: There is no difference between them, all the commandments are the same. There are commandments concerning all people, and they are the main ones. And there are commandments concerning the person himself or something else, and they are secondary.

Question: We can avoid the state of forgetfulness only by working for bestowal and multiplying good deeds in the ten. So why do they still arise despite the fact that you try to work for bestowal?

Answer: Since we cannot stay in a good state, egoism rises in us, and we fall into it again.

Question: Is it taken into account above how a person evaluates himself or how the group evaluates him?

Answer: The group’s assessment is taken into account.

Question: In order to feel the giver in the ten, we must awaken a point in the heart so that it connects us, and we, constantly receiving pleasure, feel Him?

Answer: No, you will not be able to constantly feel pleasure and the giver. You will be able to achieve these states to the extent that you become givers yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Round About Him It Storms Mightily”

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Placing the Hanukkah Candle on the Left Means in the Work”

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Question: We all unite and ask the Creator for peace in the world so the nations do not suffer disasters but prosper. It is said that if you constantly pray about it, the answer will come immediately.

But people have always asked for that. Why do some nations suffer more than others? Does this mean they are on the path of hastening time (Achishena) more than others? How does this work, what can be done about it?

Answer: The best thing is to unite with each other and turn to the Creator with all problems, and then you will hear from Him where you were wrong in the ten, how to correct yourselves, and how to get closer to the Creator. That is basically our whole work.

If you are united, you can turn to the Creator with anything you want.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/14/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Two States“

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Question: If from our connections in the group and in the community, we feel increasing pressure from the upper, then how do we accept this correctly in order to move to a new degree?

Answer: It depends only on how connected a person is with his friends.

Question: If we make efforts to unite, can we say that everything else will pass and catch up by itself?

Answer: Nothing passes by itself; you have to ask and pay for everything. The price is the amount of egoism you have to overcome in order to connect with others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Descends and Incites, Ascends and Complains“

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Comment: I was given the feeling that there is no love in my heart, and what used to seem like love turned out to be something contrived by egoism.

My Response: This is right; this is in fact so. How can we have love for others? It is only for ourselves.

Therefore you need to work on yourself, connect with your friends, and ask the Creator to give you the force of bestowal, then you will have the attraction to others.

Question: What is a sure sign of pure love for friends?

Answer: The fact that you think only about them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Descends and Incites, Ascends and Complains“

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Question: What does it mean that the Creator fills the emptiness in me?

Answer: He gives you answers to what you ask for and fills the emptiness through that.

Question: What is the right way to turn to Him so that He does it?

Answer: Ask Him to reveal Himself in the emptiness that He created in advance. You feel it and ask Him to be revealed in it.

Question: Is He sort of at my beck and call like someone serving my desires?

Answer: And so what? You are asking Him to be revealed in this emptiness in order to bring Him contentment.

Question: How do I feel this request?

Answer: This question is not for me. As much as you go deeper into spiritual work, you will reveal your feelings.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Pomegranate“

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