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Whose Decision?

77Question: Was the fact that the light left the fourth stage and then again filled the first three stages a decision of the light or the Kli?

Answer: From the material we are studying, it is clear to us that this was the decision of the Kli. The light affects the Kli, fills it, and forces it to change in accordance with its nature.

We begin our study with the concept of the light and what is Kli. Then we learn how the different parts of the Kli gradually change, how much the person himself changes, and how he reaches a state where he completely corresponds to the light that evokes certain properties in him.
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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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The Long Dream of Creation

744This entire reality, upper ones and lower ones alike, in its final state of the end of correction, was emanated and created with a single thought. That single thought performs all the operations; it is the essence of all the operations, the purpose and the essence of the labor. It is by itself the very perfection and the sought-after reward, as Nachmanides wrote, “one, unique, and unified” (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Vol. 1, Part 1, ” Inner Observation”).

Everything was made for the purpose of creation: “to delight the created beings.” This includes all creatures and all actions, and all their sensations, the awakening of the created beings, and their attainment of complete equivalence to the Creator in the end of correction, as the fulfillment of this entire purpose. All of this is experienced by the created beings as a process they pass through, as though changes are taking place within them.

But in truth, both the created beings and all the actions carried out with them, all their feelings, the states they go through, all the worlds, Sefirot, and Partzufim that arise—this entire grand process of development that appears to us—is already contained within the purpose of creation, in the thought of the Creator, apart from which nothing exists! There is nothing else; we exist in His thought, and within it we go through this entire process of development. We live inside His thought!

Therefore, by this one thought the world was brought into being, created, and arranged, and in it the world will reach its final correction. Everything is contained only in the Creator’s purpose, that is, in the relation of the light to the created being, to whom He wishes to give goodness and bring to the state of absolute good.

And it only seems to us as though we exist independently and perform some actions, make efforts, turn in prayer, receive an answer from above, and conquer entire worlds, Partzufim, Sefirot, vast expanses. But all this we merely imagine in accordance with the purpose of creation.

Naturally this does not in the least diminish our work and efforts, even in our world, which is not considered to exist at all. Baal HaSulam says that when our eyes are opened, we will understand that until then we were as though in a dream.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/15/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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In a Single Movement Forward

938.02Question: What will the upcoming congress give us in hastening time, especially if it will be in one prayer? How important is the participation of each friend in it?

Answer: The main thing is to be connected with the friends, to strive to understand one another, and to perform the same actions in support of each other.

In this way, we will gradually come to a state where our present and future will be bound only with a single movement forward. That is, we will look at our state in the group as a whole, as being inside a kind of instrument that can accelerate and move us from degree to degree.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Feel Each Other with Your Hearts

942Question: We carry out many actions in the ten, but do they really hasten our spiritual time? Or until we come to prayer is our engine of spiritual time not yet set into motion and accelerated?

Answer: The most important thing is your prayer—how much each of you invests into it from within yourself, and in the end a common desire with a common intention is born. It is precisely this that will bring the result.

Try to feel one another with your hearts. And that is enough.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Become as One

938.04Question: You say that the ten must become as one. What is this state?

Answer: One means that we, each of us, gather together into a single unit, into a single quality—the quality of mutual bestowal. And there are no other relationships, not toward the Creator nor to each other.

All the other qualities of a person are connected to the quality of bestowal. I annul myself, I connect with others, I feel myself lower or higher than the others in order to influence them with the greatness of the goal. I try to unite them together, to imagine the Creator in place of each of them. By this we come to the quality that is called “one.”

Question: Do we attain this state only for a short time or must we hold it constantly?

Answer: This state comes for a single moment, but as soon as we attain it, we reveal the Creator.

In the very next moment we fall, and everything disappears, the sensation of the Creator vanishes, serious disturbances arise in us, up to hatred, and the work above them begins once again, which leads to the quality of “one, unique.” And again we reveal the Creator.

And so, step by step, we advance toward the goal, each time attaining new worlds.

Thus, for now, we must only think about our ten. If it is surrounded by proper tens in my group and in other groups, then we feel a great addition of strength from the other such tens. Therefore, I am interested that there be as many of them as possible, and that they be as strong as possible. But, in principle, my spiritual work is concentrated within my own ten.

Over time, a kind of good competition may be encouraged here, which will push us forward. Only it is still too early to speak about this. We must treat it very carefully. But it will come.
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From the 4th lesson of the congress in Moscow, 5/3/16

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 9/19/25

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #86 “And They Built Arei Miskenot” (12.5.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Book of Zohar, “The Second Commandment”

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The Concept of Time

910Question: We understand how to use time in the material sense. But how is this concept used in spirituality? Why does Baal HaSulam give us the concept of time?

Answer: Baal HaSulam gives us this concept so that we can see ourselves unfolding within time, and thereby change ourselves in accordance with it.

Time is entirely an invented, artificial notion. There is nothing in it that truly exists in nature. It is given to a person only so that he may realize the possibility of changing his life.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 9/18/25

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #49 “The Most Important Are the Mind and the Heart” (12.4.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #75 “There Is a Discernment of the Next World, and There Is a Discernment of This World” (12.4.2021)

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

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Book of Zohar, “The Commandments of the Torah, the First Commandment”

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“Unique and Unified”

23521. What is “unique and unified” (Part 1, Inner Observation, 1)
Unique indicates the upper light that shines and rules over all the many degrees, which are different from each other, to the point of inverting them and equalizing them with His unique form. “Unified” indicates the end of that rule, meaning after He had already equalized and returned their form to the state of “unique,” as He is (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot).

Our entire path is the attainment of greater and greater unity until we reach complete unity.
And when we merge into one, we reveal within us the “unified.”

This very state is called “unified,” and it includes all the previous forms within itself.

We see the degrees as completely different, even opposed and contradictory to one another, but the One who arranges all of this for us is called the “Unique.” And in relation to Him, all this appears in a completely different way. He has only a single action, yet it seems to us as though entirely different actions are taking place.

We are unable to unite all this together, yet we call Him “Unified” because in passing through all the many and opposite states, we reveal that in all of them acts one single form and one single purpose.

In this lies the whole root of our work. On our part, we discover within ourselves all kinds of actions, qualities, and states, different, alien, and opposite. But we must strive to unite them together, to bring them to unity, to the root.

From the root emanates unity; yet in our sensations, it divides into a very large number of various manifestations and actions in order to show us our separation, our lack of unity.

If we unite all this together and bring it to one root, since within all these forms there exists one thought and one relation, then we will attain this unique and unified root.

All these forms that appear to us as different are testimony to our own flaws and corruptions. And precisely because of this, we must ascribe and bring them to the unique and unified form.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/21/2011, The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Rise to the Next Degree

239Question: Can we say that the result of our future form is the Creator’s answer—MAD?

Answer: Yes, although the Creator’s answer is not His final decision regarding us, but, in any case, it fits together into a puzzle where we can express all the previous actions of the Creator in one action regarding Him.

Only in this way can we rise to the next degree.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/10/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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