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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 4/12/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “He Who Hardens His Heart”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom”

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Selected Highlights

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Attract the Upper Light

165Question: How important and necessary is it to read articles and pass them through the four phases of direct light?

Answer: We cannot yet pass anything through the four phases. We do not have that ability yet. Just read the sources, try to attract all the light that can come to the egoistic desire, illuminate it, and correct it.

By working in the ten, you raise your desires from below, and the light descending from above corrects and fulfills them.

Question: What does it mean to awaken vessels in order to reach greater bestowal through them?

Answer: It depends on what we desire. If we truly want to develop new vessels of bestowal (Kelim de Hashpaa), then we draw the upper light from above, and it illuminates those desires in which we can receive for the sake of bestowal to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/20/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Lots”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—101

630.2Question: If there is such an awakening from above as the desire to cling to our teachers Baal HaSulam and RABASH, what kind of awakening is expected from us from below?

Answer: Desire and prayer. The desire to find out what our teachers have bequeathed to us and to fulfill it.

Question: On one hand we must use the methodology we are studying, and on the other hand we want to get what the Creator gives you. How can we combine our work and the expectation that only He gives anyway?

Answer: We must do everything we can and expect the Creator to make His distribution. But in principle, only the Creator determines everything.

Question: Can a friend artificially create conflict in the ten by criticizing another friend or rudely addressing her, motivating this with the desire to give the group a reason for internal group work?

Answer: It is forbidden to criticize anyone in the group.

Question: What does it mean the Creator chooses the lot?

Answer: It comes down from above.

Question: What happens to a sinner in Purim?

Answer: Purim is just a holiday. In general, what happens to all of us is what the Creator decides.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/22/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Lot Is an Awakening from Above”

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Unite into One Common Whole

935Question: Do we already have Kelim of Haman, or do we still need to grow them?

Answer: We do not need to grow anything; we only wish to receive these Kelim of Haman and the Light of Mordechai in them.

To do this, we must look for ways to unite, although we are all egoists. By turning to the Creator with a request for unity above egoism, we will be able to receive a common Kli, a common desire, suitable for receiving the upper light. It is our work.

Question: What do we lack in unification to come to this request, and would the Creator raise us?

Answer: Together you must compress into one common whole. Strive for a single desire that you could direct to the Creator so that He would correct it and fill it with the light of Mordechai.

There is nothing complicated here. Connect your desires and ask the Creator to fill them with the highest light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/24/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Haman Pockets”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 4/11/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is, ‘For I Have Hardened His Heart,’ in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom”

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Selected Highlights

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How Can You Make the Creator Like You?

599.02Question: How can we not make mistakes and choose only what the Creator gives?

Answer: Always stick together, strive to the Creator, and ask Him to govern us.

Question: How can we bring Him contentment?

Answer: The Creator chooses you according to your actions. He is guided by nothing else.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/22/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Lot Is an Awakening from Above”

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Internal Сonnection with Great Teachers

165Question: How should we build an internal connection with our great teachers—with Baal HaSulam, Rabash, and with you, and through them with the authors of The Book of Zohar—in order to gradually approach an understanding of what they want to convey to us?

Answer: We must build our unity starting with the types of connections that now exist between us in mutual assistance and mutual connection with each other.

We can reach a state in which we exist as if in one body into which we will begin to receive the spiritual light—the light of The Book of Zohar.

And so we will gradually approach an understanding of what this book wants to tell us.

We need to perceive our teachers as closely as possible, as if they fill us. And the more we strive for them, the closer they will approach us. Eventually we will begin to feel them existing directly within us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “To Understand the Words of The Zohar”

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For the Sake of Connection with the Creator

938.02Question: Which part of my personality should I sacrifice while working in the ten, and which part should I keep?

Answer: You must sacrifice everything that is in you in order to achieve greater unity with your friends.

Together you must be ready to sacrifice absolutely everything so as to rise above your egoism and be connected with each other and with the Creator.

Question: Should we also sacrifice some of our animalistic manifestations, views, and ideology?

Answer: No, not necessarily yet, and later you will see that they correct themselves.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Anyone Who Pleases the Spirit of the People”

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What Does the Creator Expect from Us?

938.07Question: There are states when it is not at all difficult for a person to make efforts and the work itself brings him joy. But as soon as the desire increases, he cannot do even an ounce of what he did before. Why does spiritual work become a heavy burden for him?

Answer: You must ask the Creator for help and find out why you are given such heavy states. They can be caused by thousands of problems.

Question: What reaction does the Creator expect from us when sending us tasks and setting conditions?

Answer: The Creator wishes for you to be in absolute connection with each other and for Him to be able to reveal Himself within it. Then you will feel Him, will clearly fulfill all His laws, and in accordance with their implementation, ascend higher and higher on the rungs of the Sefirot and worlds.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/19/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “All the Work Is Only Where There Are Two Ways – 2”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—100

281.02Question: Why is it so difficult to think that there is none else besides the Creator?

Answer: Because it ties your hands.

Question: How do we work with the outside world when we follow the Torah’s instructions?

Answer: The outside world does not feel this. It is not in this sector.

Question: Should I voice my questions, or can I study silently?

Answer: You can study silently, but if you study together with friends, everyone should know about it.

Question: How do we agree with our soul so that it helps us, prays for us, and holds us?

Answer: Talk to it all the time, address it, and ask the Creator for this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/19/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “All the Work Is Only Where There Are Two Ways – 2”

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