Why is it said that a soul like Baal HaSulam descends into our world only once in ten generations? The fact is, this soul is incredibly great, and its attainment requires tremendous effort.

Therefore, it descends into the world only once every few generations when there are many souls ready to rise from one spiritual degree to another. Through their collective effort, they can reach the heights described by Baal HaSulam.

Through all our efforts in studying the wisdom of Kabbalah and our actions toward unity, we wish to include ourselves in his soul, and to the extent that we achieve this inclusion, we can touch, even slightly, his greatness. Everything depends on our desire to rise above our current state and reach greater unity, through which alone we can attain spirituality.

By reaching a certain level of attaining this degree, we must try to clothe ourselves in Baal HaSulam’s spiritual garment, which is exceptionally high, hoping that the Creator will have mercy on us and allow us to understand, feel, and somehow glimpse this state.

That does not depend on us alone, but on the desire of the upper to reveal itself within us and, through us, influence all of humanity. We must not forget this, so that together we can feel this immense responsibility and strive to bring the whole world closer to the Creator.

Our group is the result of the work of the great Kabbalists who lived before us, who have extended to us the end of the thread that connects us to the Creator. We must grasp this thread and use it to ascend.

Through our closeness to one another, through connection and mutual inclusion, we will be able to feel more elevated qualities and higher states, and in doing so, we will oblige the Creator to raise us up to Him. That is already near, and we hope we will succeed in achieving it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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Question: How can we correctly build a chain of connection from our unity through you with Rabash, Baal HaSulam, and all the great Kabbalists?

Answer: Through prayer.

Question: Is the connection with the Creator and the connection with the great teachers throughout the generations the same?

Answer: No, first, there is connection with the great teachers and through them with the Creator.

Question: The generation of the ARI  before Baal HaSulam and Rabash is considered the last generation. Does that mean that we are not waiting for anyone else?

Answer: Actually, we do not have to wait for anyone. Everything the Kabbalists revealed in the past lies before us. We can use all this to rise together to the Creator and achieve the highest state through it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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Today we commemorate the memory of the great Kabbalist, Baal HaSulam. Rabash wrote about his father and teacher: “Baal HaSulam made it so that if an ordinary person follows his way, he can achieve Dvekut [adhesion] with the Creator just like a dedicated wise disciple.”

Over time it has become easier to fulfill this requirement of coming closer to the Creator, understanding and feeling Him, and establishing some contact with Him. In our days, every person must strive to attain adhesion with the Creator, and this is why we learn through the methodology of Baal HaSulam and Rabash how to achieve this.

Baal HaSulam brought about a tremendous change in the methodology of studying the wisdom of Kabbalah. Before Baal Shem Tov it was generally unclear how to advance in order to come closer to the Creator and establish a connection with Him. Thanks to the work of Baal Shem Tov, this methodology became clearer, but it was still not meant for ordinary people; it was only for great Torah scholars who had dedicated their entire lives to this. There were significant limitations on this path.

However, thanks to the work of Baal HaSulam, this goal became more achievable. Even a simple person, by learning from a wise Kabbalist, could now come closer to the revelation of the Creator.

That is, the strict condition that existed previously (of requiring one to study the entire Torah in order to proceed to the study of Kabbalah) that allowed only a select few to attain the revelation of the Creator and adhesion with Him is no longer in place.

After Baal Shem Tov this task became simpler and more accessible to a greater number of people. By virtue of their desire and aspiration, they could break through this barrier and through their prayer achieve contact with the Creator.

This simplification did not happen by chance but because the world is advancing and the entire nature of creation is revealed more and more. People evolve and are capable of understanding and grasping more. The desire to reveal and attain the Creator and to connect with Him is increasingly awakening in ordinary people who had not previously studied the Torah.

This awakened desire draws them to the study of Kabbalah, to reveal the Creator with its help. The only thing required of a person is to give their heart to this, to feel that their heart needs it. That is, a person simply needs a desire for revelation, as strong as possible, which draws them toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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Question: You once said: “If other people do not forgive you, the Creator will not help you.” Whom and how should we ask for forgiveness; do we ask directly or is it a work in the heart?

Answer: In whichever way. It is work in the heart and a direct appeal with words. You must surely cleanse yourself before others and then you can be the same before the Creator.

Question: What is the main thing in asking for forgiveness?

Answer: You should realize your mistake or bad quality and ask for forgiveness, that is, the opportunity to rise above it.

Question: Is asking for forgiveness a correction?

Answer: Yes, a person should apologize for the state he was in.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Sorrow of the Shechina – 2”

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Question: What is faith above reason in absolute form—when no manifestations in this world can influence the perception of the spiritual path?

Answer: It is not true that manifestations of our world cannot influence us. On the contrary, through a person who feels them, we can influence the manifestation of spiritual forms of all kinds of connections between us, receiving or giving.

Question: Can we then say that faith above reason is complete confidence in the plan of the Creator? That is, it is a state when a person does not doubt that regardless of his problems and material desires, the plan of the Creator is the absolute good.

Answer: Yes, that is absolutely right.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Happy Is the Man”

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Question: What should I do to bestow to the friends and to the Creator?

Answer: You must relate to the friends in the same way you relate to the Creator. By this you will delight Him.

You will ask the Creator to give you the ability to bestow upon Him in the same way that you want to bestow to the friends, and vice versa, to bestow to the friends as you wish to bestow to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/24, “Rosh HaShana”

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All secrets of nature are hidden in our unity—there is no other remedy for broken souls. Therefore, we use the method of Baal HaSulam in all stages: rising above egoism, joining into tens, and moving toward unification into one man with one heart.

Baal HaSulam expressed the whole science of Kabbalah in a new, rational, and very open form that it is difficult for the world to accept. He brought each person closer to his purpose. We only need to unite into one man with one heart and raise a prayer to Him from this unity so He will manifest in us.

On one hand it seems that time passes and all this cannot be done, but on the other hand, we see that generations are advancing to the extent that they can realize the conditions given by the spiritual environment.

In fact, this progress cannot be considered slow, as some complain. Apparently, we do not understand how huge, lavish, and simply infinite the whole universe is. At our stage, we want to perform actions immediately at the highest level. But until we achieve sufficient force of action and its required accuracy, we will remain on the path.

Only through connection with other people can we turn to the Creator correctly. The more connected I am to the friends on the path, the closer I am to the Creator. We need to enclose ourselves as much as possible within the boundaries of the ten, the Kabbalistic group, and inside it, we will find everything Baal HaSulam wanted to convey to us.

Every day we must try to raise the ten to an ever higher level. If everyone in the ten wants to do this and knows that their spiritual score depends on it, we will succeed.

I hope we will go through the holidays with full seriousness and begin to reveal what relates to our souls. Every day I see my students more and more collected, united, and in agreement with the steps the spiritual forces are taking us through. If we want to accelerate the ascent to the next degree, an attack is required from us through unification with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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Question: Due to what does the birth of the soul occur? Is it the Creator’s choice?

Answer: A person’s inner Reshimot (informational spiritual genes) begin to awaken and require growth.

Question: How can we sincerely put a king above ourselves if we do not feel it yet?

Answer: It happens gradually. You cannot do it in your mind, but you can strive for it. The main thing is for you to know there is this particular path before you.

Question: It is said that everything is in the hands of the Creator. But what is it? Is this one of the feelings of the oneness of the Creator?

Answer: Everything is in the hands of the Creator, and everything is in the hands of man who accepts this plan and wants to work with it.

Question: Why did the Creator arrange for man to annul himself and make space for Him? What is the purpose of this?

Answer: In this way, a person rises above his animalistic pleasures, sensations, and decisions, and can be truly independent of everything, just like the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/24, “Rosh HaShanah”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 85 “What Is the Fruit of a Citrus Tree, in the Work?” Writings of Rabash, Article 893 “The Fruit of a Citrus Tree,” Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 102 “And You Shall Take You the Fruit of a Citrus Tree’

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Study of the Seven Ushpizin”

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Question: What is the correct connection in the ten that will lead the whole world to happiness?

Answer: The correct connection is when we are so connected to each other that the Creator will enter our connection and will not be able to leave.

We will hold on to Him in such a way that the link with Him will become stronger and stronger. Then we can be together. That is, the connection between us and the connection between us and the Creator will be the same.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/24, Rabash,“Happy Is the Man”

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