However, before we achieve the completion of the degree, we cannot know anything for certain. This is called “learning first, understanding next.”

A little one, who begins to eat bread, still has no knowledge, but only of the bread. And when beginning to grow, he begins to understand that there is a reason for the bread, which causes the shape of the bread (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 166, “Two Discernments in Attainment”).

Question: How can one feel the attainment of the spiritual degree if it is impossible to talk about the final result?

Answer: In our world we also do not see the final state, but gradually, from degree to degree, from state to state, we attain partial causes and results, then another cause, and another partial result. And so we rise through the steps of attainment.

Question: By uniting in tens, how do we transfer some states from one to another if it is impossible to fix something in common?

Answer: But this is how we learn. That is not yet attainment, but simply steps to the Creator like in school and as in life. As explained in the example of a child who through the fact that he is given bread to eat, begins to understand where it comes from and what it is. So it is here.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Two Discernments in Attainment”

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Question: When we form a prayer in the ten, what should we wish for: for the influence of the Creator to spread in the world or for people to simply have an easier time?

Answer: In principle, it is the same, it depends only on the degree of the revelation of the Creator. Either He reveals Himself very slightly, and then it becomes easier for people, better, or He reveals Himself a little more, and then humanity’s eyes are opening.

We have come to a state where we desperately need His revelation, otherwise we simply will not survive.

The Creator has already brought us to the point where we must realize that we need to grab onto Him and move with Him to the general correction.

Comment: I have such a desire for the Creator to come into the world and begin to govern. This desire just weighs heavily on me.

My Response: This is what the Creator wants to achieve.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Field that the Lord Has Blessed”

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Se’arot mean Hastarot [concealments], from the word Se’ara [storm]. It is known that “The reward is according to the sorrow.” This means that when there are Se’arot, it is a place for work. And when corrected, hair comes over the storm, by way of “This is the gate to the Lord” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 101, “A Commentary on the Psalm, ‘For the Winner over Roses’”).

Correcting storms means rising above all doubts and disagreements and uniting with the Creator.

We must rise together to the level of the Creator’s gate and ascend to the place of the sons of Korah. The Sons of Korah (b’nei Korah) represent the level of Bina, and above it is the level of Hochma.

Therefore, the main thing for us is to rise to the level of Bina, and when we acquire its qualities—the qualities of bestowal, we will be able to enter all the gates.

Question: What is the sensation of “the gate of the Creator”?

Answer: We cannot convey spiritual sensations to each other. They can only be felt if a person enters the gate of the Creator and ascends to that place.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/14/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Commentary on the Psalm, ‘For the Winner over Roses’”

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Question: Is it possible to say that I want to get into a habit that the next time a disturbance shows up, I will react by not getting stuck in it?

Answer: You can say what you want. Anyway, you are being led by the path necessary for your soul.

Question: What kind of mutual guarantee should we build between us to avoid straying from the path and staying connected?

Answer: Always justify your friends.

Question: How can we remove the disturbances in the relationship between the ten, the group, and the Creator? How can we enter the congress correctly by renewing our relationships?

Answer: Every day, a person must cross out his past and start the day from a new page, especially at a convention.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/21/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Matter of Preventions and Delays”

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “Moses Went – 1”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Question: If we perform all the external work, what about the internal work that helps us cling to the degree of a righteous person, and what actions will lead to ascent?

Answer: Clinging to a righteous person can only be achieved by fulfilling his wishes, i.e., studying and coming closer to friends. Everything we learn is the desire of a righteous person. And if, to some extent, it becomes the desire of the student, then the student is considered to be coming close to the righteous person.

Therefore, we can merge with the Creator only by creating closeness between us and the Creator over all the circumstances that He sends us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/16/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Why We Need to Extend Hochma”

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Question: We are in the state of a child who eats bread and does not understand where this bread comes from. What is the similarity to the Creator here?

Answer: By eating bread, we gradually begin to attain its roots. This is called attaining the Creator. This is how we grow.

Question: How can we achieve the state of eating bread?

Answer: This does not depend on us, but only on our spiritual roots, because those who are drawn to the study of Kabbalah have one common spiritual beginning—for men, for women, for everyone. Therefore, we were assembled in one group and given the opportunity to be connected with each other, to get to know each other better, and move toward the goal together.

Question: But a child who eats only receives. What is his bestowal?

Answer: We are also receiving in the meantime.

Question: But how can we bestow?

Answer: We are trying to bestow by the fact that we want to connect and get closer to the Creator. It is as if we are extending our common Kli to Him. And when it becomes similar to what the Creator wants to give us, then we will be able to be in contact with each other and with the Creator and discover the upper world for ourselves. We are already on the way toward it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 1/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Two Discernments in Attainment”

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Question: You say that the whole force of the Creator is peace. At the same time, the left line is created by Him for the development of creation. So why should we fight against it and correct it?

Answer: We need to correct its use. We do not destroy anything but only find the right balance between the right and left lines.

Question: Does it mean that both lines must somehow agree with each other and come to the Creator, to the middle line?

Answer: Exactly when they negotiate and will agree, this will be the appearance of the middle line. It does not exist. It appears only when both lines are connected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/20/24, Writings of Rabash “What Does It Mean that the Ladder Is Diagonal, in the Work?”

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Question: What does it mean that I am restrict myself and want to start working in the right line?

Answer: It means that you stop doing something with the desire to receive and develop only intentions and desires to bestow.

Question: How do I begin to reintroduce the left line considering that the desire is still under restriction?

Answer: Gradually the light will come closer and give you more strength to work with your desires. In this way, you can gain control over the left line.

Question: What does it mean that on one hand the desire to receive is under restriction, and on the other hand, I can still use it for something?

Answer: It depends on the purpose. The key is not in using the desire, but in the intention,: for what purpose you want to use it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/20/24, Writings of Rabash “What Does It Mean that the Ladder Is Diagonal, in the Work?”

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Malchut has no more than a dot, a black dot that has no white in it.

If one accepts that dot as the core, and not as something superfluous that one wishes to be rid of, but moreover, he accepts it as adornment, it is called “a handsome abode in one’s heart” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 127, “The Difference between Core, Self, and Added Abundance”).

We must see in the black dot the place of connection with the Creator. We receive it as holy, as white, but we see it as black because we perceive it in our egoistic desires.

Question: Is the state of merging with the Creator always derived from the black dot?

Answer: There cannot be a state completely filled with light. There must always be black dots. But we should not fear them; we must understand how to work with them. Thanks to these black dots, we can illuminate them with light in the group and progress along them until complete correction.

If we relate to the black state as benevolent because it comes from the Creator, everything will be fine.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/9/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Difference between Core, Self, and Added Abundance”

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