Question: 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 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/1/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: 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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Question: 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 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: 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 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: 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 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/31/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: 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 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/2025, “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 #62 “Descends and Incites, Ascends and Complains” (11.17.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 130, 131 (10.29.2021)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 4, “What Is the Prayer for Help and for Forgiveness in the Work?” 1988

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Book of Zohar, “Who Is This?”

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Question: The reflected light forms the Kli of bestowal, which includes the light of Hochma, clothed in the light of Hassadim. What is the relationship between the reflected light and the light of Hassadim?

Answer: The reflected light (Ohr Hozer) is produced when the Kli finds the strength not to participate in the passage of the light through itself.

It protects itself from the influence of the light and thus comes to a state where, from that moment onward, it wishes to receive the upper light only for the pleasure of the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Reality is presented to a person in the form of “He and His Name are One,” but we perceive only the Name. How can one discern Him precisely in this name?

Answer: The Creator does not decide for a person in which state he wishes to be in connection with the upper light. We are not yet able to reveal this.

Question: Now the friends are asking you questions, and I find that I am waiting for your answer. At the same time, I lose the very question because my desire to receive is greater than entering into the need of the friend. How can I make the friend’s desire in clarifying the question my own?

Answer: I think you simply need to read the same text several times and include yourself in it more attentively. Then you will develop a clearer connection with it and a more directed desire toward it.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question 44. What is “vacant” (Part 1, Chap 1, Inner Light, 4)

This is a place that is prepared to receive corrections and wholeness (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Vol. 1, Part 1).

A place in spirituality is called desire. And the desire can be “empty,” ready to accept corrections, or not ready for it; that is, it can be suitable or unsuitable for filling.

So how does one check if a desire is ready to be filled? A simple, initial desire is not enough, you need to prepare yourself for correction and filling! Therefore, a mere desire is not yet a “place.” A desire that is suitable for use is called a “place.”

Baal HaSulam gives the following example: if a person has an empty stomach that can hold several pieces of bread, this does not mean that he has a “place.” After all, if he is in a bad mood or has some problem, then he does not feel hungry. He is overcome by other concerns.

Therefore, an “empty place” is not just an emptiness, but a readiness to accept corrections or fillings. That is, a certain development is necessary within the desire to enjoy so that it reaches a state called “place” through four stages. And only when the desire develops to the final, fourth stage (Dalet), can it decide for itself whether it wants to be filled and what kind of correction and filling it needs. That is when it turns into a “vacant place.”

And in fact, we reveal the “place” and not the Creator Himself outside of this place as an abstract form not clothed in matter. We reveal only matter and the form clothed in matter. And that is why the Creator is also called “place.” The light is also a manifestation within the place of desire, a form clothed in matter. And outside of this place, we have nothing to speak about.

Therefore, when it is said about commandments of man in relation to the place, it refers to the desire that has received the correct form. It is to this correct form that we turn, and for us it represents the Creator (Bo-reh), that is, “come and see.”

“An empty place is a place ready to receive corrections and perfection.” And everything else is just an “empty stomach,” unable to receive food because a person is immersed in other concerns. It is not called an “empty place.”

“Empty,” by definition, is a place that has been sufficiently corrected to resemble the quality of bestowal, which will be called the Creator, “come and see.”
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson “The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” 7/6/11

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