Question: You said that knowledge is what we feel in egoism. Does this mean that faith is what we try to build above it, that is our soul?

Answer: Yes, knowledge is egoism and faith is altruism, the opposite quality when I act not for myself, but for another.

The Creator shattered egoism into many parts so that I could work either from my own egoistic part or for the sake of others. This becomes my altruistic component.

If the Creator had not broken the vessel, I would have no way to achieve the quality of bestowal. To whom would I bestow? Now, however, I am compelled to bestow to someone outside myself. This other person was once part of me. We were all together in one body before the shattering of Adam. Now they are outside of me, which is why I hate and reject them.

But if I work on them as though they were with me in one desire, in one body as a single whole, then I am acting altruistically.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: Sometimes we say we should strive to reveal the Creator and sometimes we should go by faith above reason. Why should we go blindly?

Answer: To go by faith above reason means to walk with the eyes of the Creator, not blindly. You will not see the spiritual world with your egoistic view, you see only if you rise above egoism.

Therefore, the condition is given to go by faith above reason. You just need another sensory organ, and you are being directed to it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “A Prayer Lishma“

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Question: It is said that a person has both a good inclination and an evil one, and he must test whether his body agrees to fulfill a certain commandment. On the spiritual path, the body (our evil inclination) always disagrees with the good inclination. What does it mean to gain its agreement?

Answer: You must make some effort as if you genuinely wish to fulfill the commandment, and feel how much it contradicts the nature of creation. Then step back from this and find the strength to ask the Creator to help you perform the same action.

Question: And if I performed the action and made a mistake?

Answer: Then you made a mistake. This means you can ask the Creator to explain to you that you were wrong, that you performed a bad action, perhaps even a terrible, awful one, against the Creator, but now you’ve realized this and deeply regret it. In such a case, the action is erased, as if it never happened.

Question: In the work of the ten it often happens that some friends agree to take a certain action toward unity while others believe it is incorrect. How can we be guided by the fact that it’s better to act and see if the action was right or not?

Answer: You must carry out everything you believe is necessary in practice. Even if the action was wrong, unproductive, or against the Creator’s will, you will still learn a great deal from it. Therefore, under no circumstances should you hold yourself back; do everything you can.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Act Is What Decides”

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How can we strengthen the tens? I believe this can only be achieved through mutual study and mutual work.

Mutual study means connecting to the lesson, discussing it among yourselves, and creating a common field in which everyone works together.

But the most important thing is collective dissemination. When you write, process, and translate materials, and post them in various sources, you create a connection among you. In this way, the Creator relates to you as one organism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: Does the Creator send us sometimes unnecessary desires to confuse us so we can accurately choose the true ones?

Answer: If He does so, then this is also help.

Question: How can we emerge from this confusion correctly and use it to come closer to Him?

Answer: It will pass. You will go through many such states, and eventually, it will all clear up.

Are you confused? Write down your tangled thoughts and send them to us, and our friends will analyze them and respond to you.

Question: Why does the Creator allow us to make mistakes?

Answer: So that we have something to correct.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Act Is What Decides”

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Question: When we strive to reveal love, hatred is also uncovered. This leads us to fear or a sense of paralysis. What should we do next?

Answer: If you imagine that the Creator is before you, and He is presenting this to you, then why should you feel fear? It is said that one must love hatred just as one loves love. This is called “kissing the stick that strikes you.”

The fact is, there can be no light without darkness. Therefore we can advance toward spiritual revelation only by accumulating various negative impressions. And when we gather them and sufficiently enrich ourselves with negative impressions, we will then be able to reveal positive impressions, which are called the “Creator” or “light.”

At this point, we need a group to support us, so that we do not fall into despair or a sense of powerlessness from the small negative influences we encounter. We must understand that all of this is revealed to us by the Creator. He adds darkness to us so that later He can reveal the light, as the revelation of light requires very great darkness. As it is said: “The advantage of light is revealed through darkness.”

Thus, a very deep darkness is necessary, where a person realizes that in all their feelings, desires, and impulses, they are egoists. They see themselves as a thief, as brazen, as someone who does everything “for their own sake,” and not just for their own sake, but to ensure that nothing benefits others.

Essentially they see themselves in all their flaws, in their egoistic miasma, and they feel repulsed by it. Yet even so, much more darkness is needed for the light to manifest within it.

Therefore we must be prepared for this. And here the main thing is the group, because without it, it is impossible to endure.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What does patience transform into in the state of Lishma?

Answer: Into humility.

Question: Every day, we write a prayer in the ten. Is there value in sharing these prayers in the general chat to form a collective prayer for the world Kli?

Answer: Yes, it is beneficial because it fosters mutual integration of one group’s prayer into another group’s prayer.

Question: While we are not yet in Lishma, does every act of bestowal have a bitter taste?

Answer: As long as you are in Lo Lishma, any act of bestowal has either a bitter taste or no taste at all.

Question: As we progress, should we sort out good and bad desires, meaning come closer to the good ones and distance ourselves from the bad ones? What is the force that enables this?

Answer: It is our desire to ascend, unite, and feel something good, kind, and upper. That is what we must strive for.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Shamati 20 “Lishma (for Her sake”

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Question: Does the black point, my “I,” nullify itself before the Creator? Will it disappear or will it remain a black point?

Answer: Why should it disappear? If it disappears, I would cease to exist. This black point must always remain because it separates me from the Creator, without it, the “I” would vanish.

Therefore it remains, but around this “I,” I create a complete equivalence of form to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: We feel that we have reached a certain level of mutual inclusion. But if the connection needs to be stronger, fear arises, a fear of commitment. What is the connection between this fear and our commitments?

Answer: Fear is a very useful feeling. It keeps us from many problems, prevents us from making mistakes, from running away from difficulties, and instead encourages us to ask for strength to rise above them and move forward. One must realize that neither the fear nor the problems ahead matter to me anymore. I am not afraid of dying, and I no longer wish to live the way I do.

I set a condition: I want spiritual ascent, to detach from the egoism in which I exist. I desire to rise above it and act independently of it. This feeling will come; it is near to you. We will master it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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