Question: If we receive some answers from the Creator, but then we cannot follow them, what does this mean? Does it mean that we lack His greatness?

Answer: Yes, it means that you have already left this area, and therefore you do not feel the Creator. Try to connect with the friends and turn to the Creator together.

Question: How can I recognize the Creator’s answer to my question?

Answer: If you have a question and insistently ask for an answer, then gradually you begin to feel the Creator’s answer in your mind.

Question: Could it happen that the answer we receive will become irrelevant after some time?

Answer: It can. Then you should ask a new question.
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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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Question: Is it possible to soften my heart with the help of individual prayer and free it to receive the Creator? If it is possible, then how can I correctly build the intention for this individual prayer?

Answer: I think it is very difficult to do this alone. It is better if all the friends in the ten ask together with you.

Question: Should they ask with me or for me?

Answer: With you and for you, and all together for someone, it does not matter. The main thing is to turn to the Creator.

Question: How do we prepare to stand before the Creator with a true prayer that He will answer?

Answer: Every day, in every appeal to the Creator, we must ask Him for the same thing, the most important thing is to have a connection with Him through the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/24/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “My Soul Shall Weep in Secret – 1“

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Question: What should we focus on more in spiritual work: on the greatness of the teacher who constantly guides us or on the greatness of the ten?

Answer: The teacher exists as if from the side. You incorporate in the ten, and together with the ten you strive to the Creator.

The teacher teaches you, supports you, guides you, and pushes you, but he is still like an outsider. Of course, you get the direction, the strength, the examples, the language, everything from me.

Nevertheless, the main thing is to strive through friends only to the Creator, to be in alliance with them and fly to the goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/25/23, Baal HaSulam “Choosing Labor“

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Question: We strive for an emotional understanding of reality through our good connections. But Baal HaSulam writes that the mind is the closest garment to the soul. Why is it the mind and not the feeling?

Answer: We need the mind because through it we comprehend our feelings, analyze, explore, and reveal them. Therefore, it is impossible without the mind, but without feelings nothing can happen at all. The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about feelings.

Question: How can I force myself to act against my will because the desire is inside me, and the action is outside? And how does one understand that the commandments do not need intention?

Answer: Try to determine what your desire is and to whom you directed. And at the same time, check your intention. The direction of desire is the intention.

Question: Our priority is to work on the heart. But we all strive to be worthy of faith above reason, which means rising above reason. Then it is not clear what reason is for?

Answer: To rise above it or we will not be able to comprehend spirituality. By rising above reason, we enter spirituality.

Question: How can love be analyzed correctly if you are afraid of losing it?

Answer: Hold on to it, develop it all the time, do not be ashamed of it, and then everything will be fine.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/17/23, of Baal HaSulam “The Action Affects the Thought“

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Question: You say we must correct the connections in the ten and pray for our friends. How does one pray for friends if their behavior irritates you?

Answer: That is wonderful! It means you have something to pray for and ask the Creator that you will have the right attitude toward your friends so that you constantly forgive and justify them although you accept each other with hostility.

Question: How can we maintain a connection with the Creator when it seems there is no Creator and you see your friends as uncorrected?

Answer: This is similar to how a mother leaves small children in a room, goes out, and closes the door behind her, but she watches them from afar and sees what is happening with them. So it is with you.

You feel that you are forgetting that the Creator is constantly among us, inside us, and around us, and under no circumstances should we leave this fact behind. Therefore, there is nothing we can do here except constantly be careful not to throw the Creator out of sight. Otherwise, we fly out of the real world and from real feelings.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/19/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “She Is Like Merchant-Ships“

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What It Means that ‘Law and Ordinance’ Is the Name of the Creator 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, Item 4”

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Disclosing a Portion, Covering Two”

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Selected Highlights

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People ask about this, “Why did a spirit of folly enter? So he would sin.” He said that since there is a rule that “The eye sees and the heart covets,” if a person sees something bad, whether in sight or in thought, he must come to covet it (Rabash, Article No. 5, (1988) “What Is, ‘When Israel Are in Exile, the Shechina Is with Them,’ in the Work?”)

Question: In this excerpt, it is written about the way a person comes to a descent. How at such a stage, when you just saw something or thought about something, can you immediately come to some kind of understanding and repentance and not develop a thought that leads us away from the purpose of creation?

Answer: We constantly encounter the possibility of falling into egoistic temptation. At first, you look at something without realizing what it is, then you sort of photograph it in yourself, and then you start to relate to it with feelings.

Here you have to stop yourself, not give free rein to your feelings, and switch to something else, that is, look for the opportunity to bestow, connect with friends, unite, and only then add your feelings.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/23, Writing of Rabash “What Is, ‘When Israel Are in Exile, the Shechina Is with Them,’ in the Work?”

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Question: What does the greatness of the Creator is what He gives mean?

Answer: The Creator should not give anything else. If he raises His greatness in you, then in this way He spiritually elevates you, and you no longer need anything.

You will be able to answer all your questions, understand more deeply what we are studying, and you will have the opportunity to go with faith above reason. Thus, you will gradually come to a sense of the upper world.

But do not sit and wait. If you want to get an impression of the greatness of the Creator, then you must act by any means. The most important thing is to do this through getting closer to your friends.
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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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If a person has now made up his mind to take upon himself the burden of the kingdom of heaven for eternity, it is considered wholeness (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 58 “Joy Is a ‘Reflection’ of Good Deeds”).

Question: What does taking upon oneself the burden of the kingdom of heaven mean?

Answer: It means that we accept the authority of the Creator upon ourselves. Just as we put a yoke on a horse to plow a field or transport something, so are we ready to take upon ourselves the instructions of the Creator in order to be under His authority all our lives. This is what we must do.

Question: What can keep us in spiritually forever?

Answer: The upper light, under the influence of which you will feel that you are constantly moving toward reaching the highest goal that exists in our world, in the entire universe, and in all worlds.
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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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Question: What is the mind? Where is it located? Why do we use it? Is it our brain or not?

Answer: Of course the mind is our brain. But we are talking about the spiritual mind, the inner part of our consciousness that we can control. We call it knowledge.

Question: Are we connecting with the Creator through the mind?

Answer: Yes, if we make an effort to do this, we will succeed. However, I want to say that no matter what, all our attempts and efforts that we make trying to ascend to the Creator will nonetheless have their positive consequences—if not now, then later.

Question: What is the difference between mind and knowledge?

Answer: Knowledge is simply accumulation of data. And the mind is the brain’s ability to process the information received, systematize, and use it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/18/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Difference between Faith and Intellect“

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