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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Question: How can we transform our ordinary life into commandments and connect everything to the Creator?

Answer: To do this we need to understand the meaning of the Creator’s directives. Everything in our lives can be directed toward actions for His sake.

Through the results of our actions, we will feel what we’ve accomplished and how much closer we’ve come to the Creator, and so on.

Correctly working with commandments means fulfilling them to bring Him contentment.

Question: But what if I still don’t understand what that means?

Answer: Then simply strive to be closer to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/12/24, Writings of Rabash “Overcoming”

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Question: What is the free spiritual action of “Israel” that fulfills the Creator’s commandment?

Answer: To be like the Creator.

Question: What is the correct way to work above disturbances in order to be in true bestowal to the Creator?

Answer: The correct work is not to listen to your egoism but to do what is pleasing in the eyes of the Creator.

Question: We live in a world of action. How can we act in a way that allows only good, not evil, to flow through us?

Answer: This can be achieved only by fulfilling the commandments. Fulfilling the Creator’s desires is considered a commandment. By carrying out His will, we gradually distance ourselves from evil and move toward good.

Question: How can one “circumcise” his evil inclination? Do we negotiate with it, confront it aggressively, promise it some reward, or make a sacrifice?

Answer: You must turn to the Creator and ask Him to remove all egoistic desires from you, nothing more than that.

Question: How can the entire group construct a screen together, or is this an individual effort?

Answer: It depends on the connection between you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Act Is What Decides”

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