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Only In the Ten

530Comment: In one of Rabash’s articles about the group, he writes that when friends gather together, they raise the importance of each other and the Creator, raise a prayer, and then they feel that now they have earned great wealth.

I think that this is the way we create the screen.

My Response: Yes, this is how a screen is created; it is when people unite with each other and want to help each other. In this unity, the screen is formed between them.

Question: Is there any other way to build a screen?

Answer: No. Only in the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 12/20/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And They Sewed Fig Leaves“

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How Can I Acquire the Quality of Forgiveness?

507.03Question: You said that the main thing is to forgive your friends. Is the act of forgiveness the result of working with egoism when I can set myself up like this, or will I be able to perform this action only if the quality of bestowal comes?

Answer: Of course it is better if the quality of bestowal comes. From it, you will forgive everyone, love everyone, and get closer to everyone.

Question: And if I do not respond to evil, is that forgiveness?

Answer: Not responding to evil is good. Although this may not always be true, but in general, it should be so.

Question: Let’s say I do not respond to evil, but it remains inside. How should I work with it? Perhaps we should still ask for the quality of bestowal? After all, no matter how I twist my egoism, I still feel that there is no quality of forgiveness in egoism.

Answer: That is right, there is not. Egoism accompanies us almost to the final correction. Only at the last stop does it jump off and disappear. Then we see that, in principle, it helped us achieve our goal.

You are just starting to work on yourself, so there is still time; all this will come, both the quality of forgiveness and the quality of all-forgiveness. In the meantime, try to be as friendly as possible to each other. The main thing is to get closer in hearts in the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And They Sewed Fig Leaves“

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New Year’s Garland From Heart To Heart

572.02I think that the coming 2024 year will be better than previous ones.

Humanity is slowly but steadily approaching the understanding of how to get out of this dangerous state it has brought itself. Everything will be fine!

We must remember that everything depends on us, on how we are connected with each other, and from this connection we turn to the Creator. This is the main force in the world that will defeat all wars and all the forces of evil.

Let’s all hug together, unite from heart to heart, and then we will see how silence, tranquility, and peace descend on this world from above.

I wish you all the best! Good luck!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/31/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Are Three Things that Broaden One’s Mind in the Work?”

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From the Needs of the Heart

627.1Question: I invest 25% of my efforts out of my potential into physical life. There is no desire. Yet, I am ready to be involved in spiritual work 100%.

But the material life distracts me and prevents me from investing all my efforts into spiritual life. How can I act in material and spiritual life to collaborate with the Creator and perform all actions for His sake?

Answer: The fact is we were born and exist in a certain world, in a certain environment, and therefore must act based on it. It is necessary to have a family and children and also try to move forward and get closer to the friends and the Creator.

Don’t worry about investing more here, less there, etc. Life takes its course, and the Creator always takes what a person can give and take. The main thing is to be in inner balance in material and spiritual life.

In material life only do what is required of you. But in spiritual life, everything comes from the heart’s needs, from what the Creator requires of you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/17/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Action Affects the Thought“

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The Greatness of the Friends is Equal to the Greatness of the Creator

942Question: Why, instead of the greatness of the Creator, do you feel more the greatness of your friends, as if they had swapped places?

Answer: Because they are closer to you, you understand them better and react more strongly to them. So this is a good sign that you are getting closer to each other. The Creator is not jealous of you.

Question: Is it necessary to cultivate the greatness of the Creator in my eyes and reduce the greatness of the friends?

Answer: No way. Both the greatness of the friends and the greatness of the Creator must be on the same level.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/15/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness“

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Raise Your Questions to the Creator

509Question: It happens that when you turn to the Creator, there is a feeling of inspiration and relief, and sometimes, on the contrary, there is a feeling of dissatisfaction and emptiness.

What does this mean?

Answer: It means that you are dissatisfied with the Creator.

Question: If I feel depressed in relation to what is happening in the world, does this mean that I lack faith above reason? How do I switch to the positive?

Answer: Connect to your friends and raise your head to the Creator, but not physically. Just raise your questions to the Creator with a request for Him to answer them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/21/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?“

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Higher Knowledge

276.04Question: It is said that the determination of whether our actions relate to holiness is made in relation to knowledge, because in holiness there is knowledge, while in the Sitra Achra there is not. But does the Sitra Achra also feed on the knowledge of holiness?

Answer: But the Sitra Achra does not manifest the knowledge of holiness because it represents the light of the Creator, which manifests itself precisely in the intention to bestow, in the intention to be connected with others.

But in this case, first you attract the light of Hassadim, and then the light of Hochma manifests in it. This is called higher knowledge.

Question: Which actions in the ten are good deeds that pertain to holiness and reveal joy?

Answer: Actions of giving, rapprochement, love, and desire to help friends, such actions are beneficial and help us get closer to the Creator and to the purpose of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/22/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy Is a “Reflection” of Good Deeds“

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Shake up a Person

289This means that when the Creator wants the wicked one to repent, He makes the netherworld so low for him that the wicked one himself does not want to be so. Hence, one needs to pray pleadingly that the Creator will show him the truth by adding to him the light of the Torah (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 47 “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness“).

Question: What does the fact that the Creator sends great trials to some people, but does not seem to send any trials to others depend on?

Answer: It depends not on the person himself, but on the root of his soul. Each of us receives signals that control us from there.

Question: If a person is in a peaceful state, does this mean that the Creator has to send him trials?

Answer: Yes, the Creator needs to do make him shake himself up a little.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/15/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness“

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Questions about Spiritual Work—51

253Question: We say that a person should be like a guy who thinks about a girl all the time. The girl in this example is the Creator. Who is the ten in this example?

Answer: The ten is a society that sets up a guy to connect with a girl.

Question: To build the right screen, do you need to know and keep the commandments, or is it just a work with the intention?

Answer: For now this is only work with the intention.

Question: What is the difference between faith and the Kelim of bestowal?

Answer: Faith is the quality of bestowal. And we need the Kelim (vessels) of bestowal in order to raise our faith to the Creator from them.

Question: You say that prayer must be complete so that it does not remain in the air. On the other hand, you say that the Creator will correct our prayer if it is wrong. Which prayer do we leave up in the air, and which one will the Creator correct?

Answer: The Creator decides this.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/25/23, Writing of Rabash “The Main Difference between a Beastly Soul and a Godly Soul”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 1/5/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Torah Exhausts a Person’s Strength,’ in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Disclosing a Portion, Covering Two”

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Selected Highlights

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