Question: When we conduct a workshop in our ten, because we know each other, we feel each other’s qualities and what they can add to the circle. It feels like very internal and intimate work. How can we work when we hear answers from friends from the other tens?

Answer: We must try to accept them as our internal qualities, and feel them that way. And they will feel you in themselves in the same way. You must accept what your friend says and what he feels as if it were coming from you.

Question: Let’s say I am at a workshop with a friend: he says something, and I am trying to feel it. How do I accept it as mine?

Answer: As closely as possible, as if it were happening inside you. This is how you should treat each friend in the ten and all of them together, because the ten is your soul. Only for now do you feel it as something outside of yourself.

When you begin to feel it as something within you, then through this you will come to a connection with the Creator. He will reveal Himself within your connection as the one who creates and fills it.
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From the 2^nd part the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/6/24, The Conditions for Studying with Friends

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The wisdom of Kabbalah is not like yoga or any other methods or religions that say that we must eradicate the ego. Kabbalah differs from all other systems on this point. We do not eradicate egoism, but use it to create an even greater connection between us despite it and above it. Then this connection will be much higher than the one that was between us before the shattering of Adam.

It is said: “Everyone who has more egoism is greater than others.” Therefore, do not be offended by your egoism, do not curse it, do not try to level it, destroy it, or annul it. There is no need. We must constantly think about how to create the right connections between us above it. This approach is purely Kabbalistic, there is nothing like it anywhere else.

In Kabbalah, you remain the same egoist you were, and on each degree, you become an even greater egoist. This is called growth along the left line, and in the right line you must correct yourself. And so, one above the other. That is why it is said that all transgressions are covered with love. There can be no love without transgressions.

So do not worry about the fact that you are egoists, that you are the most disgusting people on earth, and sometimes are offended by the fact that you are like this. This is all done by the Creator. As it is said: “Turn to the Creator who created this, He will correct everything.” Moreover, our appeal to Him so that He can correct what He has created brings Him contentment and gives us the opportunity to rise above our egoism.

And so, we rise all the time. Left leg—egoism rises, right leg—we rise above it in the quality of bestowal. Reception—bestowal, reception—bestowal, there are two lines, and we are in the middle line. The middle line is called “Adam,” similar to the Creator and consisting of black and white.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: How can I explain the state when there are no questions? I am in harmony with myself and I have no desires or questions.

Answer: People tend to ask all kinds of questions, from small to great. We are talking about those who have deep questions about the meaning of the universe, the meaning of suffering, the meaning of life, in particular, about what happened, is happening, and will happen to me, how I can change my destiny, and so on. There are many questions.

But sometimes they disappear, and a person becomes like a plant, even less. His questions really disappear, and without them, without the desire to learn, to know, to grasp, and to find, we exist on a still level. After all, our entire development is built on the fact that we feel questions, solve them, bring their solution closer to us, and thus develop.

Therefore, the more questions a person has, the greater the potential for his development. This comes from his desires. He may not be developed yet, he may not have answered his questions yet, but it is quite possible that he will answer them.

The disappearance of questions occurs for two reasons. First, the Creator (the light) has moved away from you, there is no feeling of the Creator in you, you do not even strive for knowledge of this world, for anything. You do not need anything: everything is calm, good.

This is the concealment of the Creator, because His approach causes all sorts of life questions in the people of our world.

Second, there are people next to you or just a person who can answer all the questions, and you suddenly feel calm, because you seem to connect to him, you do not yet realize the answers, but you understand that they are there.

The presence of such a person next to you neutralizes, calms, your questions and desires disappear. But this passes, egoism takes its toll, requires further development, and you move forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “One Commandment”

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Question: How do we reveal our evil inclination? Is it individually or together in the ten?

Answer: We do not need to reveal the evil inclination. It will be revealed to the extent that we can work with it.

We should strive only for good: for good inclination, for good roots, for good actions. And the evil inclination will be revealed in us according to how strong we are to overcome and correct it.

Question: But it does not reveal itself more than we can overcome?

Answer: Yes, that is correct.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Generations”

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Question: What are the chosen people?

Answer: The chosen people are the souls who gather together and raise MAN to the Creator so that He will bring MAD to them, and they would unite with the help of this light and receive a portion of advancement to the Creator.

This nation carries a unique ability (Sgula) inherited from their forefathers. It awakens in every person who studies Kabbalah regardless of who he is by origin.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/24/24, Writings of Rabash “Abraham Begot Isaac”

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Isaac said to put order in all the follies, meaning he raised all the calculations of sleep, roasting, and eating to Kedusha (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 560, “Generations”).

Question: How can one begin to raise such things to holiness and should this be done?

Answer: Of course, we need to constantly do this, to raise our connections, our thoughts, our desires, and our intentions higher and higher to the Creator, to holiness, to the quality of bestowal and love. We will try to do this as much as possible.

This is a process where we wish to receive fulfillment from the Creator for our thoughts and desires.

Question: In order to do this, does a person need to agree with the ten or can he begin this work independently?

Answer: He can do this independently, but it is better if he first agrees with his friends. After all, the Creator does not respond to individual requests. He needs the entire Kli. Therefore, before each action, you must turn to the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Generations”

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In matters that are above nature, it is impossible to pray (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 357, “Abraham Begot Isaac”).

Question: What are these things “above nature”?

Answer: Above nature is what we cannot pray for because have not reached that level, it is above our head, above our prayers.

In order to pray for the quality of bestowal, which is above our nature, we need to enter a state that explains the situation in which the Kabbalist who composed this prayer was. Then we will begin to understand and reveal the prayer that a person must raise in his state. We are, as it were, replenishing his work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/24/24, Writings of Rabash “Abraham Begot Isaac”

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Question: What is the balance between receiving and bestowing forces in the ten? How can one achieve the correct balance?

Answer: This doesn’t happen immediately, it’s a gradual process. A person must examine all their actions, both in good and evil inclinations, in egoism and in bestowal. Once they do this, they can be confident that they are properly discerning between them and acting with good intentions for the Creator or if bad desires remain for the sake of the Sitra Achra (the other side).

In any case, your actions, even if incorrect or egoistic, will still reveal to you where you are and what needs to be done.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Sent”

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Question: Is there any specific order to our connection in the tens? Should we first pray for the ten and then for the world Kli?

Answer: Currently we are not yet a Partzuf with a Rosh, Toch, Sof, ten Sefirot, and surrounding circles of light. We are merely a point around which concentric circles of light radiate.

This point does not yet influence the concentric circles. However, when it transforms into a Partzuf and begins to receive light into itself, then it will affect the surrounding light with its inner light.

Since the Kli is inherently common and includes all souls, even the inanimate, vegetative, and animate parts of creation, the question arises: how should we approach dissemination and in what order?

First and foremost dissemination should be directed toward the Jewish people, as they were once united.

Next, it should extend to the nations of the world, in accordance with their proximity to the process. Gradually, this influence should expand further and further.

For example, if you live in Germany, all German-speaking groups represent the primary field you can influence. Today, however, the Internet makes the entire world accessible to everyone.

Nevertheless, it is essential to consider the readiness of different civilizations. Europe and America are the closest to correction. Other parts of the world are currently more distant from the correct striving toward unity and bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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