Question: We need to reach a state where all the pleasures we experience are directed for the sake of the Creator. How can we cultivate this state within ourselves?

Answer: We cannot achieve this on our own. However, if we gradually direct ourselves toward this goal and relate our actions to the Creator so that He may accept them, then corresponding sensations, desires, and intentions accumulate within us. As a result, when we have gathered enough strength in our intentions, we are granted the quality of Lishma (for the sake of the Creator).

I was created as an egoist, and my primary concern is to fulfill my own egoism. But if I rise above my egoistic desires and prioritize only my friends and the Creator, it turns out that I am working for their sake. This constitutes the transition from “for my own sake” to “for the sake of the Creator.”

Question: But in order to transition to “for the sake of the Creator,” should there be a filter “the Creator and friends” before each of my desires and only then reception?

Answer: Yes, absolutely. First, there must be an intention: for what, for whom, and for whose sake am I performing this action?

Question: So does the intention of Lishma inherently contain the power to scrutinize and separate what is for the Creator and what is not, what I can receive and what I cannot? In other words, is it a calculation?

Answer: Yes, it is a calculation. Moreover, it is a calculation within feelings, knowledge, and sensations where you can precisely identify the state you are in in relation to Lishma.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Shamati 20 “Lishma [for Her sake]”

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Question: Suppose a person faces a choice. The first option is that they absolutely cannot work without receiving a reward; the second option is that their true work can only be done without any reward.

At this point, fear arises as they have no different nature to choose the second option. Where can they find the strength to choose the second option?

Answer: They receive this strength from above, from the Creator, only from Him.

You must raise your desires together with the friends and strengthen them between you. Then turn to the Creator through the friends and to the friends through the Creator. As a result, the desire to work without any reward will arise within you.

Question: When we act in the ten, we make an effort again and again, but no result is visible. What else can we base our knowledge on to overcome disturbances?

Answer: On connection! And from the point of your connection, turn to the Creator. Through this, you will begin to understand what He desires.
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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 start working in the ten, we encounter blows. How should we work with this?

Answer: Even one person moving forward receives a pushback that throws him backward and all the more so if we are engaged in drawing closer in the ten. It is like a shot from a gun when the bullet flies forward and the gun recoils. This is how it always should be according to the law of conservation of energy.

We exist in the physical world. It does not matter that we call this world spiritual; there are still clear laws of action and reaction in it. Therefore, any spiritual advancement will also cause rejection.

We must take this into account, and even if we feel some kind of rejection, we must still recognize it as a physical law. For this reason, we need to treat them as laws we study about the surrounding world.

The science of Kabbalah teaches us how we can understand the extent of our progress from the negative reactions we experience. This is an absolutely clear process that lies before the person, and it should be clear to him how to deal with it.

We study that the most important formula that we need to implement is called “love will cover all crimes.” The more love develops, the more hatred manifests, and we must cover one with the other. And this is always the case; in family life and in relationships between people, we must always understand that such law is in effect.

If people knew this, they could create the correct society, the correct family, the correct relationships. They would never quarrel, they would not fight; they would realize that everything is accompanied by plus and minus, minus and plus.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: In 2013, we started working in tens. We exerted a lot of effort and resources to set the rules for building a ten and achieving the right intention. We have always tried to give this content to groups as a basis, but we failed.

Could now be a good opportunity to use these rules in the ten?

Answer: Indeed, we have common rules, but each time they are perceived differently because desires constantly change in us and, consequently, the combinations between us. That is, our common network of desires is changing. Therefore, the connection conditions seem different to us all the time. This is how it will continue.

Seeing they are changing—and they are deliberately eluding us—we must ask the Creator to unite us. At the same time, we do not rely on our common sense, knowledge, or understanding when we seemingly tighten bolts with our tools and simultaneously come to a connection between us. The fact that we cannot succeed in uniting ourselves is on purpose. Only the Creator does this.

In the end, before He does this, we must form a cry for His help, or we will not succeed!

To come to this cry, we must try our best to ensure our success and finally realize that nothing comes of it. That is when we will genuinely cry out, and everything will work out.

Generally, all you say is correct, but one element is missing—only the Creator unites us.
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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 “Parashat Toldot“

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Comment: From the beginning of the lesson, a prayer was formed in the heart for all the friends to rise to Lishma in order to delight our teacher for the efforts he makes for us, and by this, to give contentment to the Creator.

My Response: Thank you very much! In principle, we have to do everything to support each other. This is the most important foundation of our unity.

We should desire to see all of us, men and women, regardless of where we are from or who we are, united in one desire so that this desire becomes the most important for us, and in it we unite and reach the state of mutual bestowal.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Shamati 20 “Lishma [for Her sake]”

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Question: What are obstacles?

Answer: Everything that hinders you from fulfilling the command of the Creator.

Question: Do we always have the power to overcome obstacles?

Answer: Not always. When we do not have it, we ask for it.

Question: In a state of confusion, how do we keep the intention on the Creator, overcome obstacles, and rise? Where do we get the strength and understand we are on the right path?

Answer: Only from the group, from connection with friends.

Question: How do you get the power to overcome obstacles in the ten to bring contentment to the Creator?

Answer: It depends on your desire, on whether you want to get the power to overcome the egoism that prevents you from fulfilling the desire of the Creator.

Question: How do we overcome individual obstacles to benefit the ten?

Answer: It depends on your intention. If you want the whole ten to receive the force of bestowal, connection, and love as a result of fulfilling the commandments, that is how it will be.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/12/24, Writings of Rabash “Overcoming”

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Question: If I am unsure whether my action is directed toward bestowal or not, and some friends are “for” and some “against,” does this mean there is a place for free choice?

Answer: This is not a free choice but an egoistic one.

To come to the true choice, you must rise above this state, transcend egoism, and then perform actions that can lead you to free choice.

Question: How can the Creator be involved in this process?

Answer: Pray! Ask.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/12/24, Writings of Rabash “Overcoming”

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Question: Can a teacher be a friend? When does a teacher become a friend, and does he become a friend?

Answer: It depends more on the student, on whether the student can understand that his teacher is his friend. It is not easy.

Question: So the teacher is ready to be a friend on his own?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it the student’s effort?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And then the second part of the question is: who was your teacher to you?

Answer: Today, of course, I can say that he was the person closest to me, a friend, a teacher, it doesn’t matter how you say it. But it is true on his part.

Question: What kind of life wisdom do you consider the most important thing to live by?

Answer: In general, the wisdom of life, according to my belief, is that a person desires the revelation of the Creator and agrees to accept Him as He reveals Himself to him.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/28/24

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Question: When a person’s desire to receive awakens, they raise it through the ten to the Creator. What does it mean that this desire is corrected by the Creator, and how does it then transform into “Lishma“?

Answer: The desire to ascend to the Creator is expressed in a sense of need for Him. This need is prayer. It ascends to the next, higher degree. From there, light descends, and a connection between the upper and the lower begins. On this basis, the lower one is corrected, changes himself, and thus movement occurs from below upward. The result of this connection is the spiritual screen.

Question: So the very contact with the Creator changes a person. Is this what it means to receive a screen? And after that, they can already act for the sake of the Creator?

Answer: Yes.

Question: It turns out that the most critical point is when I raise MAN, and the Creator begins to influence me? How can we, as a ten, reach the state where we raise MAN, and He begins to change us?

Answer: Visualize it, start acting, and it will happen on its own.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/24, “On the Verge of Lishma”

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