Question: Our ten experienced a very strong descent, and now we have risen. We decided to meet physically. What advice would you give us?

Answer: By all means, it is good. Physical actions give something, but, in principle, they do not symbolize anything.

Just pick a couple of good articles that talk about unity between you, and discuss them when you meet; you will feel how much you are already internally connected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Discernments in States”

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By uniting among us, we enable the upper force to positively influence us. Previously, its light caused negative disturbances within us because it was opposite to our nature.

And since now we strive to resemble the upper force, these states of connection and bestowal become similar to it, and to the extent of this similarity, we begin to feel it, not only the effects of its influence on us, but the upper force itself. This we call the revelation of the Creator.

Although in essence little is required to achieve this, attaining the spiritual world is not easy. It demands many efforts and stages. This is how we progress.

Later as we unite more deeply with the help of the upper light, we begin to build conscious connections that we initially call a spiritual embryo, followed by small spiritual states, greater spiritual states, and transitions from one degree to another.

We constantly work with our egoism and strive to connect with it correctly. The Creator forms increasingly egoistic ties between us—oppositions, contradictions, and rejections of one another—and we continuously build positive connections above them. In doing so, we reveal the upper force.
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From Preparation to the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/19

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Question: What does it mean to subordinate the force of receiving to the force of bestowal since there is no coercion in spirituality?

Answer: Yes, but you want the force of bestowal in you to be above the force of receiving.

Question: What makes it submit? Love?

Answer: The Creator does. A person can cause the beginning of the Zivug (combining the force of receiving with the force of bestowal), but it happens only under the force of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Discernments in States”

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Question: Often we follow the instinctive impulses of our nature and only later realize that something is wrong. If I am unable to change anything, I ask the Creator to correct me. How do you learn not to blindly follow your nature?

Answer: To do this, we need to understand what the Creator requires of us and with the help of what actions we can satisfy Him. And then everything will be fine.

Question: There is a material world and the upper world. The upper world is felt nearby, among friends. How do we learn to feel the upper world in a multidimensional, sensory, and conscious way within yourself, and not somewhere nearby?

Answer: Try to feel it, and you will see that you are gradually approaching it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/5/24, Writings of Rabash “The Meal of a Wicked One”

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Question: What needs to be done to be given a soul?

Answer: Unite the desires of the people in the ten into one great desire to bestow so that it resembles the Creator in some way.

It is the common soul of the ten. It may be that some feel it and can already use it, and others still cannot.

Question: What does it mean to do good in the ten?

Answer: To do my best to help each friend with whatever he needs to advance.

Question: But this is not enough. We do not have many needs for the ten to grow.

Answer: Try to do what your friend wants so your forces join his forces, and he would achieve what he wants.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Discernments in States”

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This is the meaning of “‘Folly of follies,’ said Kohelet,” meaning that he assembled all those follies into Kedusha, and from them come great unifications (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 560, “Generations“).

Question: How can we transform “folly of follies” into holiness?

Answer: This is something we accomplish gradually.

Even if we do not clearly understand what we are doing, the Creator continually distances us from one another and from spirituality each day. Yet we persist in striving to draw closer to Him. Thus no matter what, we are engaged in this work.

Question: How exactly can this be brought into holiness? For instance, if we are working in the ten and the Creator disconnects us, do we then reunite?

Answer: This process naturally shifts to another degree. As soon as you complete what you were required to do on your current degree, you transition to a different degree, even if you do not feel it and do not think about it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Generations”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “To Bestow in Order to Bestow”

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Question: If the intention is hidden from me and I am always inclined to justify myself, how can I delve deeper into my intention?

Answer: If you always want to justify yourself, you will not be able to delve deeper into the intention. To achieve this, a great power from above is needed that would tear you away from your egoism, and then in a neutral state you will be able to understand what the Creator requires of you.

Question: How can we do it? After all, if the intention is hidden from me, I do not know what I am delving into. Maybe I am going in the wrong direction.

Answer: This can only be done by the power of prayer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar

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We live in a transitional period, from a state of hibernation of humanity to the aspiration to the Creator, that is, to the revelation of the meaning of life.

The revelation of the meaning of life is also just a transitional process where we must rise to the next new state. The transition begins when we start questioning what the meaning of life is: “Why do we need all this? For what?”

The nature of our life, no matter how hard we try, and we really do try very hard, shows us that it is useless and meaningless. As a result, people get detached from the surrounding world; people replace their pleasures with drugs, the most universal means of calming oneself and turning oneself into a plant. After all, this is better than suffering: switch off and that is it.

But since the plan of nature surrounds us and embraces us on all sides, we are inside the system, and escaping from life by using drugs will not help us at all. That is why humanity is trying many ways to somehow calm itself down.

Look at what is happening in the world, what transformations are taking place everywhere, entire nations are moving from one place to another, Europe is filled with refugees.

And this is not the same migration that happened a thousand years ago when the peoples of Asia began to move to Europe. Now this is a very serious process, a process of intermixing; people still must answer the question about the sense of life and admit that there is no meaning to existence at our level.

What can we do? We need to reveal Kabbalah and explain to them that there is a meaning to life; it is in the transition of a person to the next level. Man, “Adam” in Hebrew, is from the word “domeh,” which means “like the Creator.”

They must know that there is a method that is specifically created for us; our progress and development should raise us to the next level. After all, the next level must manifest in us, if not in this lifetime, then in the next. Our next life cycles will still force us to reach the level of similarity to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What does it mean in practice to ask the Creator to make the right choice for us every time? How can we hear the response of the Creator?

Answer: Ask, it does not matter how—cry out, sing; the main thing is to address Him. Then He will surely fulfill your request, and quickly.

Question: What inner state allows a person to recognize what the good inclination is?

Answer: We can recognize it only if we rise to the degree of bestowal.

Question: How can one become a person capable of making the right choice?

Answer: This happens when we unite and ask the Creator to make the right choice for us.

Question: How can we sense the inner struggle of the two inclinations, good and evil, in our friends, and how can we help them direct it correctly?

Answer: You must feel this yourselves, both within yourself and within the group.

Question: What is the difference between the revelation of egoism and attainment?

Answer: The revelation of egoism creates the conditions for attainment. Everything we attain, we attain through the revealed egoism.

Question: How can we ensure that the seed of the good inclination grows stronger than the evil inclination?

Answer: Develop it and nurture it with good deeds.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Rabash “And Isaac Was Forty Years Old”

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