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The Result of a Person’s Efforts

167Question: It is written that creation must, through its desire, attract a greater fulfillment than the measure of the light spreading within it from the Creator. Why are we obligated to attract greater fulfillment than what comes to us from the Creator?

Answer: We practically have almost no influence on what comes from the side of the Creator. However, the fact that we can raise our desire for a greater fulfillment with light than before, this is what deserves attention. After all, this is precisely the correct result of a person’s efforts. That is why we speak about our striving in this way.

Question: It would seem that the creation is always the result of the light. And yet suddenly, it can make itself capable of receiving more than what was initially embedded in it. Where does the creation get such ability?

Answer: The creation can choose exactly which desire it wishes to be fulfilled with, in what measure, and in what form, and then the Creator acts in accordance with this desire.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Go Forward and Reveal

212Question: What does it mean to find the force of the oneness of the Creator in the multitude of forms of creation in our world and to become a recipient of His good filling? What is the correct impression from the revelation of this power in us?

Answer: We reveal the Creator in all His actions and begin to understand that they are intended only to indicate to us that there is nothing else in His plan but to reveal to us, absolutely the entirety of creation, so that we could see how much He thinks only of our good. And this should become our nature: go forward and reveal.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/31/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 9/14/25

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #65 “Concerning the Revealed and the Concealed” (11.19.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 9, Item 34

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Book of Zohar, “Rejoicing in Holidays and Not Giving to the Poor”

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Form the Vessel of Bestowal

599.02Question: We have been trying for so long to form a vessel of bestowal and still cannot squeeze the desire to unite out of ourselves. Is this the recognition of evil?

Answer: Yes, this is the recognition of evil.

Question: And should we pray to the Creator from this point?

Answer: In general, it should be taken into account.

Question: Why does the Kli of bestowal come to us from the state of prayer as a reward for efforts and not as a matter of fact?

Answer: But what efforts do you have? In what?

Question: In uniting with the friends, in all the inner and outer spiritual work that we perform.

Answer: Try to unite with the friends, and you will see whether you have responsibility, the force of attainment, and everything else. Try, and then tell us.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/31/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Don’t Distance from the Light

231.01Question: You said that we must hold on to the light. What does this mean?

Answer: I meant that we must always think about not distancing ourselves from the light, not making any separations between us and the light. This is very important.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/1/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Absolutely Everything is Relative!

702.02Question: What does it mean, “that which is not attained, we do not call by a name”?

Answer: In the wisdom of Kabbalah, unlike in philosophy and the perception of our world, there is nothing that exists by itself. Everything exists only in my perception and sensation. And only about this do I have the right to speak.

There is no Creator, no creation, no worlds, nothing that we could call existing. Only I feel that this exists, I think, I see. Only in this way can I say something about it. Everything is perceived within my senses, depends on my attitude, and is entirely relative to me.

Therefore, we speak only about what a person reveals and attains. The Creator in Hebrew is called “Bo-Re,”  “Come and See.” There is no Creator without creation.

The quality of bestowal, which is revealed inside our Kelim according to the equivalence of form with something outside, unattainable to us, we call Creator (“Come and See”): “Look what I saw!”
But I perceived Him in my organs of sensation, which changed within my transformed qualities. This change is within me.

I say: “The Creator has clothed in me!” Why? “Look at the form I have taken!” This form I call Creator. I do not point to Him Himself, but speak about the form clothed in my matter. This form I call Creator. The matter, the will to receive, has taken on the form of the desire to bestow.

Therefore, we evaluate and define everything only relative to the person attaining, and never outside of him. All the worlds are my Kelim, my vessels of perception. They only appear to me as existing outside.
In my inner desire I perceive myself, and in my outer desire I perceive the world since my Kelim are divided into internal and external. But when they unite together, I will have 10 Sefirot of the soul, and then the world will disappear, everything will enter into me.

Now I feel all those around me as existing outside, because my Kli is incomplete, broken. If it were whole, I would not distinguish anyone around me. I would perceive everything as the world of Ein Sof (Infinity).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/09, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Introduction to the Book ‘From the Mouth of a Wise Man’”

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The Fundamental Property of the Kli

1.02Question: There are many types of lights. For example, the light of Hassadim is a request from the creation that is constantly being clarified and changed. Can we say that the light can only be called Hassadim when the request becomes very precise, very specific? Or can it still be of different types?

Answer: It is best when we do not run away from the terms “Ohr” and “Ohr Hochma,” since they tell us how the Kli, the desire to receive, relates to the light and shows itself to it, and how it attracts the light and receives it. That is, this is the fundamental property of the Kli.

Question: You said that this is like a request for merging. Can this be expressed as a need to love?

Answer: Yes, you are right. We can say so.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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You Must Try Really Hard

17.01Question: Where does the lower one get the ability to generate the light of Hassadim from the bottom up?

Answer: The lower cannot generate anything; he can only ask. As a result of his requests, the upper, by fulfilling them, builds the lower, causing new properties in him.

Thus, it turns out that there seem to be certain actions in the lower properties of the Kelim, but in reality, they only reveal what the lower one lacks in order to approach the upper one and receive from it.

Question: How can we, as a ten, generate the light of Hassadim in relation to the Creator?

Answer: You cannot do this yet because you have no connection with the upper one. For this, you must try very hard.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Does the Creator Answer Us?

209Question: Is the system that Baal HaSulam described in TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot) revealed to us as the Creator’s answer to our question?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How can we construct this question to reveal what Baal HaSulam wrote?

Answer: Read what you are studying and try to formulate several questions based on what you have read. Then you will see if the Creator answers them.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/31/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Questions about Spiritual Work—255

219.03Question: It is written in TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot) that the spiritual cannot be divided into parts. What does it mean?

Answer: This means the influence of the upper level on the lower level forces it to change.

Question: Is the fourth stage (Behina Dalet) the place where creation feels shame?

Answer: Yes, the place where the Kli feels the influence of light is its fourth stage.

Question: It says the light came out in full, but returned as a line. What is the light in the line relative to the light that came out?

Answer: The line is the influence of the four parts of the light on the four parts of the desire when each part in the desire (in the Kli) changes under different influences of the light.

Question: You said we need to delve deeper into the nature of the interaction between the light and the Kli. Why is it so difficult to grasp the point where the separation occurs for the first time?

Answer: Read the original sources, and you will understand the correct definition of each property.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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