When we open The Book of Zohar again and again and after some time the initial inspiration fades.

This inspiration is given to us from above, just like the point in the heart with which a person comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah. This awakening from above (Itaruta deLeila) is given to us by the upper force.

Naturally, with this “fuel,” with the desire of the upper one, a person rushes forward with shining eyes and wishes more and more to feel what lies hidden inside the book, what exactly is being said about him. After all, he is awakened from above to a connection between himself and the book.

And then this inspiration fades. It fades because new desires come to a person, desires for which there is no awakening from above, from the Creator.

He is obliged to add an awakening from below to them from himself, and thus advance each time through his own search for answers to the questions: “What do I need this work for? Why?”

The Creator wishes that a person would each time reveal by himself the importance of the upper one, the urgent necessity of connection with Him, and the significance of all the means of attaining this connection, The Book of Zohar, so that he would again and again search within himself for all these inner definitions.

And here the person comes to a state in which he must understand that he is engaged in the “work of Bezalel,” to build the spiritual vessel, the Temple, with all its contents, within himself. This is immense, gradual work that requires extensive preliminary preparation.

In truth, the person himself does not accomplish anything; all that is required of him is readiness, desire, and intention.

Everything was carried out by the power of Bina from above, but through awakening from below. This is precisely a person’s work. This is what it means that he performs it.

Therefore, our work, on one hand, consists of making efforts and carrying out clarifications at every step.
But on the other hand, this work is called “the work of the Creator” because it is performed by the Creator, and not by man.

A person must only reach a desire, a request, a prayer, “half a shekel,” and the rest is done by the Creator, “the Creator will complete it for me”).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/10, The Book of Zohar

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Question: What practical work can delight the Creator? Is it searching in the group for a common Hisaron (lack)? Is it to come to a common Hisaron so that the Creator could fill it? After all, bestowal to the Creator is delight for Him. Do you advise to engage in this in the group?

Answer: Not only do I advise it, but there is nothing else worth engaging in! One must engage precisely in this. Thus, we can unite with one another in order to reveal yet another possibility to receive from the Creator with the intention to delight Him, exactly as He acts toward us.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/15/25, “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 #54 “The Purpose of the Work – 1” (11.9.01)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 105

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 4, Item 20

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “Heaven and Earth”

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Question: What does restriction mean for me right now, during the lesson?

Answer: You cannot make any restriction right now because you still do not feel what is happening when we read The Study of the Ten Sefirot. Therefore, during the lesson we must be close to what the text conveys, to what it describes as much as possible.

And later on we will be able to determine exactly what is being talked about: who is speaking—the one who receives or the one who bestows; where the action is proceeding—from the upper to the lower, or from the lower to the upper, and so on.

But for now, we should simply read attentively and try to picture what will happen with us if we exist in the qualities of bestowal and reception.

Question: What does it mean to imagine spirituality?

Answer: In spirituality to imagine means that I understand the meaning of what is happening and try to picture myself as being inside the action described in the book.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: While reading The Study of the Ten Sefirot, we are supposed to feel what is happening. But how can we use our mind? Can we direct it toward spirituality, or should we somehow disconnect it?

Answer: We should try to understand what The Study of the Ten Sefirot is talking about. In other words, if it speaks about receiving light, reflecting it, making the place of reception smaller or bigger, all this we should try to depict to ourselves in some way.

And gradually we will begin to sense what is actually happening in the spiritual world between spiritual objects.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot” 

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Question: On which pleasures must one make a restriction in order to receive for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: It is on the desires to receive so that I have the possibility to receive for the sake of bestowal and only in the desires in which I want to bestow.

Question: Then must these desires somehow be transformed?

Answer: Yes, we are constantly shuffling them. And after we clarify each of them, we can begin to connect them with one another and direct them toward ourselves, toward the Creator, and so on.
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Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that the light was restricted in order to give the creations room to develop.

But we study that the light was restricted because of the shame of creation. Why did the restriction occur?

Answer: Indeed, the reason for concealment of the light is, on one hand, to give creation freedom, not to put pressure on it with force from above, and on the other hand, so that creation could, according to its decision, come closer to the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/15/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: How does Malchut of the world of infinity feel the desire to create worlds and make creatures?

Answer: It all happens inside her. She does not have to receive it from somewhere far. The light acts on her, reveals her desire, and fills it. We are studying the consequences of this process.

Question: It turns out that Malchut is impressed by the Creator, Keter. Then where does shame come from?

Answer: Since Malchut has not yet united with the Creator, there remains a difference between her and Him. The Creator gives absolutely everything, but she only receives from Him, and at the moment, cannot do anything about it.

Question: But does Malchut of the world of infinity still feel the Creator’s intention: the creation of worlds?

Answer: No, she feels that on the one hand, the Creator is concealed, but on the other hand, He reveals Himself in what He gives, fills, and everything that comes from Him, according to His will. Therefore, there is a difference between them.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/15/2025, “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 #53 “The Matter of Limitation (11.8.2021)”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 103-105, (8.16.06)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 10, “What Is the Degree One Should Achieve in Order Not to Have to Reincarnate?” (1984)

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “On the Night of the Bride”

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Question: The spreading of the light after the restriction occurs in the form of lines according to the measure of desire. What determines the measure of desire?

Answer: The measure of desire depends on the desire itself, on what it is that I want. And how much I desire must be weighed and assessed: Which light do I wish to receive, do I want it for myself or for the sake of the Creator. And then we can work with it.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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