Question: Is the state of ashes a descent to the inanimate degree or a transition to the human degree?

Answer: The state of ashes can be at any degree; it is when a person simply loses a sense of where he is, with whom he is connected, and so on.

Question: What determines which quality currently dominates us?

Answer: It depends on what degree a person is at.

Question: Does the ten as a whole also go through all four degrees: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and speaking?

Answer: Partly, we have to go through all these degrees individually and all together.

Question: Should our dissemination include different degrees or focus on some of them?

Answer: No, it should not. You have to disseminate in a way that it will be clear to everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Still, Vegetative, Animate, and Speaking”

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Similarly, in spirituality, first, one needs to receive from below upward. At that time, he can only receive and not add.

But afterwards, in the second state, one can add as well (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 166  “Two Discernments in Attainment”).

Question: What do we receive from below upward: Hissarons (deficiencies) of the nations of the world or do we collect those sparks of light that fell into Klipa?

Answer: We collect all the sparks that have fallen into our egoism. We do not want to work with egoism, but we collect all the sparks and raise them, and from this our holy image begins to be created, which is aimed only at bestowal.

To do this, we try to be closer to each other and ask the Creator to connect us so that we feel who we are and what state we are in.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Two Discernments in Attainment,”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “Concerning the Importance of Society”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 24 “The Main Thing We Need”

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 7, Item 3

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4th part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic, “Preparation to ‘Life in the Ten,’ Convention”

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Question: What does the Creator judge, our egoistic flaws or our yearning toward Him in bestowal and connection? Is the result of this judgment our coming closer to Him?

Answer: Yes, the Creator judges how close you want to get to each other. He wants you to be connected into one whole and to give Him a place between you in which He could be revealed.

Question: What if we do not have this feeling?

Answer: Just start doing it, prepare a place for Him, and then you will feel Him approaching you and entering between you.

In fact, if you think about the Creator and want to do everything for Him, then you are pretty much in a very correct direct connection with Him, only this connection has not been revealed yet, but it will be revealed in the near future.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Torah Lishma”

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Question: What kind of effort allows us to see that all judgments are fair, merciful, and are the best way for us?

Answer: By treating everything that happens to us through the condition of bestowal and love, we begin to see that everything comes to us from the Creator with love and care.

Question: The ascent from one degree to another happens in faith above reason. Is the ascent above egoism performed in the same way?

Answer: The ascent above egoism only occurs in faith above reason. There is no other way. Work in egoism is work in faith and reason, but work on egoism is in faith above reason.

Question: Why is the desire to receive faith above reason not considered egoistic? After all, gradually we feel in our work that it is much more beneficial to work in faith; a feeling of the Creator, light, joy, and love appear. Why is this not egoism?

Answer: Because the conditions to reach this state are anti-egoistic.

Question: Should we feel after the actions of bestowal that we have given 100% according to the measure of the Creator’s desire? Or should there still be a deficiency, a feeling of imperfection, that we did everything possible, but we could have done more?

Answer: It is precisely these feelings that pass through all of us. That is, it always seems to me that I can do a little more and I need to add something else. This is right.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/24, Writings of Rabash “Torah Lishma”

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Question: When we see a judge judging the world, what should we correct: our attitude toward the court or toward the judge?

Answer: We must correct our attitude toward the court, and eventually we will correct our attitude toward the judge, the Creator.

The Creator sets all kinds of conditions for us all the time, and we have to turn these conditions from bad conditions into conditions of friendship.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Torah Lishma”

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Spiritual advancement lies in closer connection between friends, in turning to the Creator, and in revealing the Creator from a common point of unity. This state indicates that you are together with the Creator.

In this case, you can raise the point of unity to the level of permanent unification. There is nothing complicated about this, it is as easy as one, two, three. The only problem is that you do not want to listen to it and hear it.

Question: How can I turn to the Creator from the point of connection if I am an inveterate egoist and do not feel anyone except myself?

Answer: Try to turn to the Creator as a representative of your group, and this is how you will advance. Each one turns to the Creator on behalf of the ten, asks, and demands that the Creator move you forward.

Question: So when I try to formulate this request, I immediately imagine my friends, the ten, and I think from the state of connection?

Answer: You feel them all together, and from this common feeling you turn to the Creator.

Question: But if everything is predetermined from above, as Kabbalists say, then my friends’ destructive habits also come from the Creator. Can studying Kabbalah correct them?

Answer: We can correct anything we want if only we act in accordance with the laws of the spiritual world.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/29/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, “Praise the Lord, All Nations,” in the Work?”

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Question: What exactly should the mouth and heart be equal in since not everything that roams in the head and heart can be expressed in the ten?

Answer: You can say anything. I think that our friends are ready to understand and accept everything you say.

Question: What if it offends and leads a person astray?

Answer: So think before you speak.

Question: If the heart and mind have come to a state that they are important to each other, can they convey through the mouths the importance of unification to the group?

Answer: Even without uttering a word, you influence the group and become one with your friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Understanding What Is Written in Shulchan Aruch”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Does ‘The King Stands on His Field When the Crop Is Ripe’ Mean in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 7, Item 1

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Each degree in spirituality is a reality, and everyone sees the reality, just as all those who come to the city of London in England see what is in the city and what is said in the city (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 98 “Spirituality Is Called That Which Will Never Be Lost”).

Question: When we are united by some common desire, do we feel the light in it the same way?

Answer: No, everyone feels it individually.

Question: Then how can we have the same feeling if different people, different tens, connect?

Answer: Baal HaSulam gives an example that all visitors to London experience approximately the same impression.

Comment: But someone comes to London for shopping, someone to visit, someone to visit the royal palace.

My Response: It is exactly the same as you. The attainment of the spiritual degrees takes place in accordance with your needs.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Spirituality Is Called That Which Will Never Be Lost”

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