Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #195 “Rewarded – I Will Hasten It” (6.16.2022)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 4, Chapter 2, Item 10

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3rd part of the Lesson — Conversations of a Kabbalist with His Students During the Day

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Question: How can you check whether you are applying your 100% effort toward the group’s common center so that a proper circle is formed?

Answer: One hundred percent effort in the group can be checked by whether you are left without a single thought about yourself because you understand that all your attainments, even egoistic (Lo Lishma) ones exist only in its center.

There is no other place where you could reveal anything greater than earthly, material life except in the group’s central point. And now, all together, like children in a kindergarten, try to make a circle!

But where is that center? How do you find it? There is no center; it is an imaginary point. First you must make the circle, and then you will find its center. This approach is accepted in the spiritual realm.

In the material world, you first choose the center and then draw a circle around it with a compass. In the spiritual world, we reveal the central point in which the Creator is found precisely by building the circle. And then we reveal Him. We proceed from below upward in our revelation.

Within a single person, there is nothing to be done; he will remain at the degree of animal desire. But if he builds a circle with other people, a human form, Adam, is formed, that is, one similar to the Creator. If everyone is in balance, in harmony, all connected, that form that resembles the Creator, is called Adam, a man.

How then do we by our common efforts build the circle among us? All the writings of RABASH about the group explain that. Each must annul himself relative to the others in order to receive from them the greatness of the goal. And the goal is the attainment of mutual bestowal.

We all together apply a single common effort toward one another, and all together toward the Creator. This is called: “Israel, the Torah, and the Creator are one.” After all, we all wish to build among us a network of mutual connections that covers and fills the entire circle we construct. And when we complete it, we reveal the Creator in the center of that constructed circle.

We sense Him throughout the whole network that covers this circle and stretches between us, but His root is in the very center.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/27/11, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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We all understand how important prayer is, which emanates from our connection with each other, from a common heart. It has the power to rise directly to the Creator and enter into Him so that He will feel that we are all directed in only one direction: toward the connection between us and Him. Let’s hope that we will be able to do this. May the Creator help us!

The main thing is to achieve the right prayer, the right desire, by uniting all hearts into one heart, and from it raise our request to the Creator. We will try to create this common force, which is all directed at the Creator, and it will help us rise to the Creator and embrace each other. And then we will surely receive the same answer from Him. The Creator will embrace us all together and unite us into one body with this embrace.

Proper prayer is a request that comes from our common heart and reaches the “heart” of the highest level. Each of us joins this common heart, which aspires directly to the Creator and is included in Him. We have no other desire, and there is no other place for us but to feel ourselves at this central point of connection between all of us and in union with the Creator.

The task of every person at the congress is to find a way to unite with his ten and all the other tens into one big spiritual Kli, and to unite this common Kli with the Creator. That is, to unite into “one man with one heart” and thereby reveal the Creator.

We all cancel ourselves out and want to unite together into one desire in order to feel and reveal the Creator in this desire. Even if we are still far from each other, our desire to unite will bring us closer and raise our bond to the height of “one man with one heart.” And from this point, we will feel fused with the Creator into one whole.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 10/9/25, “In One Prayer,” Lesson 1

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Question: What is the reality of the restriction of the light? Why must the created being be limited in order to perceive this light?

Answer: Any spiritual state can be felt only if it is limited. The boundary of the Kli means that the Kli cannot receive more than its measure. It is precisely through its ability to set such a boundary that it gains the possibility to receive the upper light within that limitation.

Question: Does this mean that in the state of complete correction these boundaries disappear?

Answer: In complete correction, everything is entirely different.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: We are supposed to receive the light in order to pass it on to our friends. How should we correctly approach this understanding?

Answer: You must appeal to the upper Partzuf, the Partzuf of Adam Kadmon. It is He who grants you the ability to perform restriction (Tzimtzum), to establish a screen (Masach), to raise reflected light (Ohr Hozer), and to receive in order to bestow (Lekabel al Menat Lehashpia).

All these actions can only be carried out with His help. The upper Partzuf must perform these actions upon you after you express your desire for them to take place.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #113 “The Eighteen Prayer”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #213 “Revealing the Deficiency”

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 4, Chapter 2

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4th part of the Lesson — Conversations of a Kabbalist with His Students During the Day

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41. What is a “circle” ?

If there is no discernment of above and below among the four phases of the will to receive, it is regarded as a circle (like an image of a corporeal circle, where there is no discernment of up or down). Because of that, the four phases are regarded as four concentric circles one inside the other, where it is impossible to distinguish up from down in them (The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Questions and Answers on the Meaning of Words”).

A “circle,” in which there is no difference between top and bottom, does not mean a desire that simply cannot be measured or evaluated, and therefore we cannot tell what is more important (higher) or less important (lower) in it. Nor does it mean a single, solid desire that contains no components and naturally has neither top nor bottom.

A “round desire” is a verified set of desires united by a special mutual connection in which they are completely equal and have neither “top” nor “bottom.” This is what is called a “circle” or a “sphere.”

But in relation to what can we measure and confirm that all these desires are equal and form a circle? Within this circle, there is one special point common to all these desires—the center of the circle. And in relation to this center, all the points (desires) are equal; therefore, they form a circle.

This center is not some additional, separate desire. It is their common unity, and they themselves create this center. And therefore, in relation to this center, each acts equally toward the others. Each one may possess his own strength and character, but in their relative form there remains complete equality—and that is why it is a circle.

This is precisely how a group is built in the form of a circle if each one acts with one hundred percent of his ability in relation to the common desire (the central point).

If all the desires of Malchut of the world of infinity, an infinite multitude of desires, unite together in one common center, and each applies proportionally equal effort, then the resulting form is a circle.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/27/11, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: On what thought should one concentrate in order for the potential of receiving upper light to be truly realized? What should I think about?

Answer: You should think about how to understand your teacher, what Baal HaSulam, wrote for you.

I don’t know how many times I have read it, but probably not less than a hundred times. Try to imagine all the time that you are participating in this action.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Akudim are regarded as the ten Sefirot of the Toch of the first Partzuf the reality that follows the first restriction, called Adam Kadmon. Prior to that there weren’t any Rosh, Toch, Sof in the upper light, but rather the upper light filled the entire reality (Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 4, Chapter 1, Inner Light, Item 8).

Question: What are the ten Sefirot of the world of Akudim?

Answer: The collective ten Sefirot related to this entire structure are called “Akudim.”

These are Kelim, desires that are filled with lights and exist around us in order to let some part of the upper light through to us. With their help we can gradually, step by step, approach the upper light, begin to feel it, enter into some kind of connection with it, and thus go further higher and higher.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/18/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Prayer must be in a group, otherwise the Creator will not hear it. We learn this from the structure of the ten Sefirot, from all of our spiritual work.

The Creator is Keter (the crown), above which there is what is called Kutso shel Yud, the highest point of Keter, the highest Sefira. That is contact with Him.

Only after I “grasp” all my friends, am ready to include them in myself and do everything necessary for them to agree to unite, am ready to be the lowest, the smallest in relation to them, then I can hope that they will respond to me in kind and a group will be formed, i.e., a structure in which the quality of bestowal, the Creator, will be revealed.

In this movement it doesn’t matter how much I fall, because advancement cannot be continuous. It is always start-stop, like the swinging of a pendulum in a clock. We cannot swallow a great egoism and rise above it, then take on another great egoism and rise again. We can only work with milliseconds, microseconds. It is by such micro-doses that we move forward.

Therefore, to the extent that we have mutual guarantee (Arvut) and the support of the group, we can receive a greater descent from the Creator and accordingly make a greater ascent.

Our descent comes from the Creator. It is always calculated by Him in advance so that we can rise voluntarily and consciously. He never gives us descents in which we collapse without knowing where we have fallen. They are always, as in a mother-child relationship, measured and precisely calibrated so that by gathering ourselves a little after the fall, we can find some strength within and begin to rise again.

So we must not think that the Creator wants to break us. He only wants to lower us slightly so that we may see the next level of our already broken egoism and begin to raise it. Just as we draw water from a well bucketful by bucketful, lifting it upward, that is how we work.

The fact that we seemingly lose the higher degree is not a loss, but precisely the first stage of ascent, the left side. Movement forward begins with the left foot, with the revelation of evil that the Creator prepared in advance. Then comes its compensation by the right line. That is how we advance.

That is why Baal HaSulam says that as soon as we wake up in the morning, we must immediately take upon ourselves the work of uniting with one another and with the Creator, from that very moment. This is extremely important! If I keep this thought in me at all times, then everything works out quickly and easily.
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From the International Kabbalah Congress in Moldova 9/7/19, Lesson 4

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