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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 1/12/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “When Should One Use Pride in the Work?”

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

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With a Staff in Hand

232.05Question: A person leans on a staff when walking. What is spiritual support?

Answer: It is faith above reason. The staff symbolizes this quality. Everyone must annul themselves before the others to realize it in the ten. Then it is considered walking forward with a staff in his hand.

You must correct your desires from reception to bestowal to receive faith above reason. This is only possible in a group because one person cannot do it.

Question: How can you be in faith above reason, in complete faith in dissemination?

Answer: Ignore the failures and thank the Creator for giving you the opportunity to disseminate. In our world, you are His representatives.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/30/2, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Staff and the Serpent”3

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Questions about Spiritual Work—53

268_03Question: Why should receiving the Torah happen at the top of the mountain?

Answer: “Mountain” (Har) comes from the word “Hirhurim” –  doubts. Doubts constantly fill a person on the spiritual path, but despite them, he still goes forward and climbs the mountain, although it is not easy.

Question: What happens to a person when he receives the Torah?

Answer: He reveals the Creator, is filled with the upper light, and feels himself in the upper world. At the same time, our world does not disappear anywhere. It is just that a person feels like he exists in both worlds.

Question: What should we do when hatred appears between friends?

Answer: We all must attack this hatred together and try to remove it by any means: tear it up, trample it down, burn it.

Question: If a person studies the Torah with an open heart but without a calculation of intention, does he receive its light?

Answer: He receives it. In any case, the study of the Torah attracts the upper light to us: small or big, leading him forward or not, it gives some light.

Question: What is our mistake on the path when we walk, make efforts, and the Torah suddenly becomes the potion of death instead of the elixir of life?

Answer: This happens because you are striving for egoistic fulfillment. But you still keep making efforts, and eventually, the light of the Torah will be replaced by the light of purification, and you will know everything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/29/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Giving of the Torah – 1”

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Prepare the Heart for Feeling the Creator

237Question: It is said that our effort is the work of the Torah. What does this mean? Is this internal work or physical work?

Answer: You will not help yourself or others with your physical work, only with your heart.

To the extent that you want to connect with your friends in your heart, you prepare your heart for feeling the Creator and revealing His light in the common Kli, in the common desire—yours and your friends.

Question: Why is it that only a small number of people are awarded with revealing a point in the heart?

Answer: There is probably no need for more.

When we connect with each other, we will be able to influence the whole world, and the world will feel how much it needs this knowledge and will begin to move toward everyone. Then, the light will fill us to the extent of our collective desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/27/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is He Will Give Wisdom Specifically to the Wise”

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Coming Closer to Each Other Is the New World Order

275Question: You said that we should organize ourselves so that our connection defines the new world order. How do you see this, and how should we organize ourselves so that our connection defines it?

Answer: Every day every person on Earth should feel that he is entering into a new relationship with everyone, and that through this new relationship, he treats the Creator differently. In this way, he ascends the degrees of spiritual elevation.

Question: What is the Creator for all the people on Earth?

Answer: The upper force.

Question: What kind of relationship should every person on Earth enter into with everyone daily?

Answer: Coming closer to each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/28/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, “The Children of Esau and Ishmael Did Not Want to Receive the Torah,” in the Work?”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 1/11/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What is ‘He Who Defiles Himself Is Defiled from Above,’ in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 6, “Inner Observation,” Item 14

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Last Generation”

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How Can We Keep Connection in the Ten?

599.02Question: How can we keep connection in the ten constantly? Sometimes, it lasts for an hour, and sometimes, it disappears somewhere in a second. What can we do?

Answer: If the connection disappears in a second, you must immediately restore it. All the time, constantly thinking about it, like a young mother who leaves her child at home, and all her thoughts are only about what is going on with him and how he is doing.

That is how we should think about the ten. Keep it together all the time with your thoughts, your desires, and your embrace.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/29/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Giving of the Torah – 1”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—52

281.02Question: What does spiritual freedom mean in the ten?

Answer: This is a state where you feel connected to each other and the Creator. At the same time, you begin to rise above all material problems and do not feel that they are pulling you down.

Question: How can material pleasures be transformed into spiritual ones?

Answer: There is no difference in pleasures. If they are for the Creator’s sake, then they are spiritual, and if, for your own sake, they are material.

Question: Are the feeling of being as one and the feeling of “I” close to each other or opposite?

Answer: They are opposite. Your feeling of “I” should disappear. Instead, there will be a feeling of “we.”

Question: What does freedom from the angel of death mean?

Answer: Complete liberation from egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/28/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Every Act Leaves an Imprint”

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Acquire Contact with the Creator

276.02Question: How can we learn to love something that is initially against our nature or higher than nature and act out of love and not out of envy or pride?

Answer: We can force ourselves, persuade ourselves, and push ourselves toward a connection with the friends because within this connection we acquire contact with the Creator.

And although this is entirely against our nature, and we do not want it, to find contact with the Creator, we approach friends and are ready to be with them together, in an embrace, in one single desire.

Question: How can we understand that one should desire wisdom?

Answer: We want a connection with the Creator, so we want to acquire wisdom. Wisdom is the thoughts and the desires of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/27/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is He Will Give Wisdom Specifically to the Wise”

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Tempting Lights

120Question: It is said that there are many lights that a person receives while in adhesion with holiness. Therefore, when they entice a person to attract good into their qualities, they receive this light.

What does it mean that they tempt a person?

Answer: The fact is that the light descending on us from afar attracts us. And the desires that it shines into are egoistic, so they confuse a person and drag him to themselves. Thus, when we approach it, we lose all these lights.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/30/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Staff and the Serpent”

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