This is the meaning of “I am black, but beautiful,” because if you can accept the blackness, you will see that I am beautiful (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 127 “The Difference between Core, Self, and Added Abundance”).

Question: What does it mean to accept blackness?

Answer: Accepting blackness means not seeing any qualities of bestowal and love, but despite the fact that we find ourselves in black egoistic thoughts that pull us down, we must make efforts and climb the degrees of spiritual correction.
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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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Question: What does it mean to be in the lesson?

Answer: It means to be present in the lessons and strive to unite everyone so that all the friends are connected to each other and through you to the Creator. And the correct global connection is when each of the ten fulfills this condition.

Question: How can we prepare for this?

Answer: There is no need to prepare; that is how you act when each of the ten wants all the friends to connect with the Creator through him.

Question: Can we help each other rise above the egoism that is unfolding between us?

Answer: Of course you can. You must help your friend by showing an example, hug him, cheer him up, keep him from falling, and be in constant connection with him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 1/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Torah Lishma”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “Letter 29”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 6, “Cause and Consequence, ‘Seder Siba ve Mesubav,’” Item 34

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3rd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic, “Preparation to ‘Life in the Ten,’ Convention”

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Question: How can we attract the light of Hochma, clothe it with Hassadim, and receive it in a good way and not through suffering? Does it depend on us or on the readiness of the world?

Answer: It is written: “Thanks to righteous women, the children of Israel came out of Egypt.” So if not everything, then a lot depends on women. Therefore, I appeal to women so that we think about and strengthen this part of our Kli.

Naturally, as is customary in our organization, we have absolute and complete equality. We do everything that is necessary with the same effort, both women and men.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/24, “Preparation to the Convention”

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Advice to a person who has begun to study the wisdom of Kabbalah: “Do anything you want, just do not leave!” Do not leave the group, this society, this place where the Creator brought you from the very beginning and said: “This is your destiny! Here you can advance. You have been given this place, and I will wait for you at the end of the road.”

This is how you need to treat this opportunity given by the Creator, and it is very important to stick to this path and hold on to this environment as much as possible. I know from my own experience that sometimes a student has a burning desire to run away, to give up everything, but there is no choice, one must try to hold on.

Moving to another group or another ten is a big problem. After all, the environment has already made room for this person, and now one is obliged to fill it. The ten must work on him and connect him with itself, like an organ with a body.

We know how complex and dangerous an organ transplantation is, and what complex preparatory work and subsequent rehabilitation it requires until the foreign organ takes root and starts working like a native one. The same thing happens to a person when changing tens.

The Creator organizes the ten and the best conditions for advancement for us. But we think that we can change it as we want. Of course, in our egoistic perception of reality, we see it in this way. But in fact, this is wrong. We must take this very seriously.

I do not know now whether this will be a strict condition until the very end of the correction because before us there are stages that no group in this world has ever gone through. But for now, we must try to tie ourselves to the ten in such a way that the departure of any friend feels like the cutting off of an organ from the body.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/23, Writings of Rabash “What Does It Mean that Moses Was Perplexed about the Birth of the Moon in the Work?”

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Question: How or through what action do we accustom ourselves to prayer so that our hearts agree?

Answer: We explore our thoughts and desires and try to bring them closer to each other.

Question: Are there any example of how to do this?

Answer: When you hear what your friends say, try to be with them in your heart.

Question: The best state for my friends is when they are in faith above reason. Then they have no claims against the Creator. How can I help them have faith above reason? Or is this still a group action? What means are there besides prayer?

Answer: Nothing exists except prayer. You and each of us must listen to the friends and be with them with all our hearts because connection happens precisely in the heart.
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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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Question: The Creator demands us only to unite. How can we check in the ten whether we have achieved unity?

Answer: Checking for this happens when you feel the same opinions, desires, and aspirations when communicating with each other.

Then it follows that you work as if out of one common heart.

Question: In order for our prayer to be accepted, do we all have to realize in the mind of the heart that we cannot unite?

Answer: The Creator shows us this. We should strive to unite, as if we are speaking from a common heart, from a common desire, from a common intention, but at the same time, we will feel some difference between us. The Creator does this to bring us closer and closer together.
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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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Question: When we rise above evil, do we not just cover it up because we need to ascend to the point of love. What is this feeling?

Answer: Do you want me to convey feelings to you?! How is that possible?!

Question: But what kind of love is this?

Answer: It is impossible to convey. It is a feeling that arises from the inner unity of hearts.

Question: Then, how do we rise above evil, overcome it, and transform it into love?

Answer: Unite the hearts.
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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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Question: It is said: “Do not believe in yourself until the day you die.” How can a person be sure that he has attained this or that degree?

Answer: When a person attains spirituality, one does not doubt that it is the truth and that only it has the right to exist.

Attainment speaks about the revelation of the truth, that this is exactly what exists.

Question: How does confidence in attaining a degree differ from our usual opinions and feelings, which change rapidly under the influence of the environment?

Answer: Any spiritual realization is true and unchangeable Even when it is replaced by other attainments, in itself it has the right to exist, and it remains.
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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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Question: You said that the attainment of true reality is the attainment of spirituality. Is there a concept of an imaginary spiritual reality?

Answer: If it is imaginary, then it is not real.

Question: When we read about the righteous in the lessons, feel the state they were in, and thank them that such information comes through them, can we say that we are at some degree of spiritual attainment?

Answer: No. That is not yet a degree, but this is a preparatory state.

Question: I see my flaws in my friends. Does it mean that by praying for them I ask the Creator to correct me?

Answer: Yes, because you cannot ask for yourself since you are an egoist, but you can ask for your friends.

Question: At each degree, the main thing is faith above reason, which elevates us. But we must also desire the revelation of the Creator. Do these two desires—to reveal the Creator and go by faith above reason—not cancel each other?

Answer: No, they do not cancel each other. You will see how much faith above reason opens your eyes.

Question: By gaining experience from mistakes that do not lead to connection and bestowal, we develop some skill of how to avoid mistakes. Can this be called preliminary attainment, or is this some kind of psychological level of correction?

Answer: No, you should just rely on integrating with the group, and then, together with the group, your mistakes will be minimal.

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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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