Question: What do the Kabbalists mean when they say: “Everything must begin and end with the Creator“?

Answer: It is said that everything must begin and end with the Creator because the Creator is the cause of everything that happens in me; since I include this entire universe, I feel it, it is imprinted in me.

Through everything that I feel—inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature and people—the Creator speaks to me and helps me tune myself so that through these sensations I can come to Him and sense Him.

If I act in this way, I begin to understand the language of the Creator, how He speaks to me through all the influences on me, through my inner qualities, and how I treat myself. It is precisely He who initially evokes all my sensations and realizations in me.

He makes me understand that He does this so that I would want to discover Him in everything, as the root cause of myself, my sensations, and thoughts, and then try to figure out from what I received from Him in my heart and mind how I can find Him through this picture. By sensing the entire picture, I perceive it as His dialogue with me.

This is how the Creator communicates with me, without hiding behind this picture, and I must evolve in order to be able to feel Him. After all, when you are talking to a small child who still does not know how to speak, he is kicking his arms and legs, looking at you, and not knowing how to understand you. But gradually, through such efforts, he begins to understand you more and more.

The same thing happens with us. Like a small child, we must “kick” with all our qualities and capabilities and try to understand through this picture that is constantly imprinted in us what He wants to tell us by this; we must penetrate through it with a penetrating vision and see the Creator.

Everything that happens around us resembles a mother who bends over a child and speaks to him, and he does not know how to react to it. This is exactly how we should feel in relation to the world, and then we will gradually enter into contact with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/20/13, “Group and Dissemination”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #31 “Anyone Who Pleases the Spirit of the People” (10.22.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 60 (7.5.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 25 “In Every Thing We Must Discern Between Light and Kli” (1985)

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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: We keep praying, but we see that every day we become more and more separated. Why does it work that way?

Answer: Because you need to clarify very precisely that you have nothing else but the need to unite. When you truly feel that, your future state will appear before you: connection with everyone without any conditions. That is what you need to achieve.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/3/2025, “Devotion”

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If you do not see a strong aspiration for spirituality in your friends, if you are not impressed by the environment, not inspired to bestow, then it means that you yourself are not investing in it. Start investing yourself in your friends, and you will see how they begin to influence you in return.

It is a very simple formula! I connect with the group, and together we reach a state where we begin to influence each other.

Our circle then becomes a spiritual vessel (Kli), where all our desires for spirituality unite, all the points in the heart, and above them, an anti-egoistic screen forms: our mutual bestowal.

Now, when we are all influencing one another, we must examine whether we are doing this for the sake of bestowal to the Creator. If yes, then we have a screen and reflected light. And immediately, the upper force is revealed to us in accordance with the similarity of our qualities.

I → Group → Soul—that is the entire formula!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/23/10, Writings of Rabash “Concerning Love of Friends”

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Question: Why can our work contradict the teacher and the Creator? How can we act in harmony with the Creator and not be in opposition?

Answer: Once we are corrected and begin performing proper actions, we will then see how it is possible to be in harmony with the Creator and not contradict Him.

Until then we will always feel that we want to draw closer to the Creator, to be like Him, yet we experience various contradictions. These contradictions actually point us in the direction of proper closeness with the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/3/2025, “Devotion”

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Question: When a person does not want any addition to spiritual work, is that an essential condition for correct prayer or the result of it?

Answer: I think such a feeling arises as a result of the correct attitude toward the Creator, toward His work, and toward the purpose of creation.

Question: It is written that a person “wants to go with eyes shut and believe in the Creator. And he does what is within his power.” What is within our power?

Answer: What is within our power is to do everything He requires of us. Everything the Creator asks of us, we can and must fulfill.

Question: What is the burden of the kingdom of heaven? How can there be a burden if it is holy, if it is connected with the Creator?

Answer: A person feels that he is under the pressure of the kingdom of heaven (Malchut Shamayim), and it weighs on him.

Question: Is this the beginning of a person’s work?

Answer: Probably, it does not really matter. Let us keep moving forward. We will figure it out later.
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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: Is self-sacrifice similar to bestowal for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: No, the point is that self-sacrifice and bestowal both come to a person from above, and in those states they feel a connection with the Creator. This reflects a very serious attitude toward the Creator, toward oneself, and toward the bond between us.

Each time we touch a bit of this state and we will continue to do so. In every excerpt we read, there is something of this state within it.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/29/2025, “Winning the War”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #28 “I Shall Not Die but Live” (10.22.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 58, 59 (7.3.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 29 “The Lord Is Near to All Who Call upon Him” (1985)

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “The Vision of Rabbi Hiya”

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Question: Is it correct that an obstacle that arises is overcome through the formation of a new form as a result of greater unity in the ten?

Answer: Yes, continue and you will see how to express this more clearly.

Question: The ego resists accepting a new form. How can we break it more effectively?

Answer: Do not pay attention to the ego. Try to be together, to feel one another, and from that shared feeling, turn to the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/2025, “Winning the War”

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Question: If everything comes from the Creator, how can a person make decisions on their own? What does that mean?

Answer: A constant feeling of imperfection comes from the Creator. That is, not forces of perfection that would supposedly help a person, but on the contrary, greater and greater forces showing him how imperfect he is. And this compels him to demand perfection.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/3/2025, “Devotion”

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