Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #34 “The Advantage of a Land” (10.25.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 65, 66 (7.10.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 2 “Concerning Love of Friends” (1984)

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “The Donkey Driver”

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Question: The article says we have to give the ox everything it needs or it cannot work. But if the ox is the quality of receiving for oneself, what can we give it from the spiritual work so that it does not receive for itself?

Answer: I do not know. But the Creator must know. I cannot set conditions.

It simply states that it is in our power to fulfill everything we need to do to start working for the Creator and to give Him as much as we can. The rest is up to the Creator.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/8/2025, “To be as an Ox to the Burden and as a Donkey to the Load”

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Question: What helps a person consciously, through the path of light, come to the absolute annulment before the Creator?

Answer: Efforts are needed when a person sees that all of one’s properties repel one from the connection with the Creator. Then a person gets a desire to break away from the forces that act upon him and create such a state within him. In this case, by breaking away from the Creator he finds himself.

Such a moment is necessary here, because before he had states when he thought that he was winning. In reality, it was simply distancing, and he had a good feeling about it.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/3/2025, “Devotion”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #34 “The Advantage of a Land” (10.25.21)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” 63-64 (07.09.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 9 “One Should Always Sell the Beams of His House” 1984

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “You Are in Partnership with Me”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #34 “The Advantage of a Land” (10.25.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 63, 64 (7.9.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 9 “One Should Always Sell the Beams of His House” (1984)

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “You Are in Partnership with Me”

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Question: How can we in the ten obtain faith in the sages? Right now our motivation is mostly envy or shame before our friends.

Answer: That is true, but we have to start with something, and it does not matter with what.

Therefore, it is better to begin with what everyone already has and gradually connect your mind and thoughts to what RABASH writes.

Question: Can we say that at first we work for the sake of our friends, the next stage is faith in the sages, and then it is for the love of the Creator? Let’s say we make efforts, and those efforts hold us. How do we then rise from “for the sake of friends” to faith in the sages, with which we can “blunt the teeth” of our egoism so that the body works under the yoke?

Answer: Here you need a slightly different approach. Wait, we will see.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/9/2025, “To be as an Ox to the Burden and as a Donkey to the Load”

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Question: Should a correctly formed desire and correctly directed work ultimately give a feeling of heaviness in the work?

Answer: In principle, it should not be like that. We should reach a state where all the work is a gift to us, and in this way move forward.

Question: But does a person still experience some sense of burden, or does one really move with ease? Or does a person consciously make an effort and therefore feel some heaviness?

Answer: No, the feeling of heaviness is an indication that you have not yet attained the quality of bestowal.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/8/2025, “To be as an Ox to the Burden and as a Donkey to the Load”

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We must work in faith above reason, ignoring our own feelings “like an ox to the burden and a donkey to the load.” Once domestic animals like the ox and donkey were free, living their own lives in nature with their own family, their herd. But now their entire life is devoted to fulfilling the master’s demands. They sold themselves for a feeding trough and are ready to do whatever work the master requires.

In the same way we must agree to do all the work according to the Creator’s will, “like an ox to the burden and a donkey to the load.” But for what reward? For nothing but the bare minimum needed to exist. I want nothing for myself, only to exist, and for what purpose? Only to fulfill the Master’s will so that He would love me as His ox or donkey.

Why does the master feed and clean his animals? Because they work. That is exactly what I want and nothing more. I need to humble myself to pure intention.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/19, “Burden of the Heart – An Invitation to Build a Striving for the Creator”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #34 “The Advantage of a Land” (10.25.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 61-63 (7.9.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 1.1-1 “Purpose of Society” (1984)

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “You Are in Partnership with Me”

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Question: Does the dialogue between a person and his desire to receive happen when he is in Lo Lishma or in Lishma?

Answer: A person is not yet in Lishma. The dialogue between him and his desire to receive happens before that. It is the degree that allows him to rise to Lishma.

Question: So I must receive this strength from the Creator in order to ascend? Since the strength of faith in the sages comes only from the Creator?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: In that case, should I turn in prayer to the Creator so that I have this strength to rise and perform an act of bestowal?

Answer: That depends on the person, how he positions himself in relation to the Creator, desiring to be in adhesion with Him in all states: in descents, ascents. Yesterday, today, tomorrow, he wants to simply be connected with the Creator.

If he strives toward this state, then he begins to see how he can be connected with the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/9/2025, “To be as an Ox to the Burden and as a Donkey to the Load”

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