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Help Everyone Draw Closer to Bestowal

939.01To become a partner with the Creator in the desire to bestow to others means that a person wishes to reach a state where they do everything to help people attain the quality of bestowal, that is, to transform their inherent egoistic desires into altruistic ones.

Therefore, the correct daily implementation of the connection between the ten and the Creator involves our striving to help everyone in the world draw closer to the quality of bestowal, to connection with others, and to collective correction.

Question: What should the ten hear from the Creator once they are connected?

Answer: They should hear how exalted the Creator is in His thoughts, how all-powerful He is in His actions, and how His actions influence everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/24, Writings of Rabash, “Go Forth”

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Springboard for a New Degree

938.02Question: When we reach out through love of friends toward love of the Creator and it does not work, it is perceived as a failure, as a blow. How can this be justified and turned into a springboard for a new degree?

Answer: The entire ten should embrace and try to squeeze out all sorts of thoughts and feelings that prevent you from merging with each other.

Squeeze out all the bad, all negative emotions, like pus from a wound. It is purification when you fill the freed-up emptiness with a positive feeling.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/24, “Parashat Noah”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 11/20/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 141/b>

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “On the Verge of Lishma

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Selected Highlights

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The Importance of Participation in the Ten

528.04Question: We meet in the ten every day for half an hour. Some friends are often in such a state that they do not come to the meetings because they feel that they cannot give the others the importance of the goal or could even harm the ten.

What should you do: not come or come anyway?

Answer: There is nothing worse than absence. If a person could have come to a lesson or a meeting of the ten but decided not to attend, there is no excuse for this. After all, any participation of his somehow moves the ten forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Special States of the Soul

293.1Question: On one hand the light is constant; on the other the lights come on holidays and on Saturday (Shabbat). Does our perception change because of this?

Answer: The light changes only relative to people, but in reality it is unchanged. It is absolutely even and infinite, and fills everything, and all the usual sensations that unfold on the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh day (Shabbat) and further into holidays and special dates are special states of our soul.

They will exist until we completely correct it. As soon as we correct our common soul, everything will turn into one continuous light, into a single day.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Subtleties of Perceiving the Environment

928Question: How does the ten correctly feel the deficiencies that it perceives from the environment?

Answer: How does the ten properly receive all the feelings, desires, lacks, influences and so forth from the environment? There is no single, straightforward answer to this question.

The ten’s perception is based on the relationships between the friends because a ten is ten Sefirot that form a specific structure of interconnection. Depending on the combination of these ten egoistic parts, they create a certain spiritual structure.

Then, to the extent that this structure resembles the Creator even in the smallest way, it perceives Him through the law of equivalence of form. Just as in our world we perceive only what we can generate within ourselves.

In reality, I do not feel what is around me, but rather what I can create within myself, and then I seem to see this world as if it were outside of me. However, in truth, it is within me. This concept is studied in the topic of the perception of reality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—196

281.02Question: What does spiritual love mean in the group?

Answer: Spiritual love in the group is our connection with each other when everyone feels their dependence on others and the need to be in such unity with them that in this connection they gradually reveal the Creator and the entire spiritual world.

Question: How do we understand our purpose both materially and spiritually?

Answer: Your purpose for being in this world is to ascend to the Creator and be connected to Him.

Question: What is the role of the group in strengthening the spiritual path and protecting against the influence of an egoistic environment?

Answer: It is one hundred percent help to each other. Without it, there is no way to reach even the lowest spiritual level.

Question: How on one hand can you boldly express yourself in the group and on the other hand be afraid to bring your selfish expectations into it?

Answer: You will soon feel how taking part in learning elevates and cleanses you of all selfish desires.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/24, “We have gathered here”

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Accept It as a Rule

243.01Question: We have the opportunity to attend the lesson every day. If negative situations occur in life, they act as a repelling force. There is also an attracting force when we are drawn to it on our own. There are some obligations that just feel shameful not to come to the lesson. What would be the most effective way to draw friends to the lesson?

Answer: They simply need to accept it as a rule: I do not miss this daily lesson. Whatever I can do, I will do just so I do not miss it. That is all.

Question: At one point, you made the decision not to miss lessons. Was that a sense of responsibility to the teacher, to the Creator, or an internal feeling? What kept you committed?

Answer: What kept me committed was the fact that Rabash, a few other friends, and I were the male part of the lesson. I knew that I needed it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/9/24, Writings of Rabash “Seek Peace and Pursue It”

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The Reason for Spiritual Advancement

629.4Question: Everyone has complaints and grievances toward the Creator, as well as feelings of discontent. But when I do not feel these myself, I go to the chat and write something uplifting and positive. And if my post is ignored, I experience a lot of internal work: “Why are they not inspired?” Is this the right form of work?

Answer: Absolutely not! Under no circumstances should you look for negative phenomena that would drive you forward.

Negative experiences push you toward the goal, but you should not seek them out on your own. Your focus should be on advancing positively, which happens when you search within yourself for issues related to the greatness of the Creator: why you do not feel His greatness enough, His vastness, and His presence filling all of creation. But you should not intentionally provoke a sense of negativity or incorrect relationships with friends. Do not awaken the left line.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Fight Your Heart

155Question: Are the actions of bestowal always repelled by our stony heart?

Answer: Yes, the actions of bestowal are always against your stony heart.

Question: You understand this perfectly well with your mind, but your heart does not agree. You perform these actions, but your heart hardens even more. What is this state, and how do you work with it?

Answer: Fight your heart. Ask the Creator to correct it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/24, Parashat Noah

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