Question: How from individual work on exiting the will to receive do we connect together in the ten?

Answer: Each of you should be above the individual will to receive and yearn to connect only in the will to bestow. In this way, you perform the appropriate actions and the Creator influences them with His light, and you gradually enter into the will to bestow.

If you show your friends an example of a desire to connect with them, then the upper force passes through this example, which influences them as well.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 11/10/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘You Will See My Back, But My Face Shall Not Be Seen,’ in the Work?“

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Question: It is written: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” We are constantly revealing layer after layer of egoism in us to the point where we really begin to hate ourselves.

How then can I love my neighbor as myself if I hate myself?

Answer: You should try to love your neighbor. Today you are still in egoistic feelings, but you love yourself. In the same way, start loving others. This is “love your neighbor as yourself.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 11/9/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “You Who Love the Lord, Hate Evil“

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Question: Should the group develop anticipation of pleasure about future degrees and refresh memories of good states that were in the past?

Answer: Yes, absolutely. This supports a person on the spiritual path.

Question: What is the life force, and how do we receive it from time? After all, there is no time in spirituality.

Answer: To the extent that you want to rise above your nature of reception and yearn to be in nature of bestowal, you begin to come closer to spirituality, you receive new forces, and you discover the source of these forces—the Creator.

Question: What is the life-giving force of holiness? Does it exist within us now?

Answer: The life–giving force is the force that holds you and gives you the strength to learn, hear, come to lessons, interact with friends, and so on. Of course, you have it within you. If this force did not exist, you would be completely exhausted.

Question: How can you convince the body that it is obliged to receive life force from spirituality?

Answer: Constantly tell it about it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/08/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Vitality of Kedusha”

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Question: When a person comes into contact with Kabbalah a little and sees it as hard work, he begins to use it to justify himself, not the Creator, friends, or the whole world. Can we say this is how the world’s nations learn to serve their king and pray to idols?

Answer: No, this is incorrect. If the science of Kabbalah is hard for a person, this does not mean he can use it as it suits him.

Comment: Let us say I find out that everything is from the Creator and stop making efforts in something. In a way, I am relieving myself of responsibility by saying everything is from Him.

My Response: No. You are not finishing the second part of the sentence. Everything from the Creator is what is given into your hands to correct.

Comment: When the work feels difficult, they tend not to finish the second part of the sentence.

My Response: But what can you do? If you run away midway, you will not get to the end.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/7/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Handmaid Who Is Heir to Her Mistress“

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Question: How should each friend feel bestowal in the center of the ten?

Answer: Everyone should feel that they are connected with all the members of the group and want to rise together with them and cling to the Creator.

This is the right aspiration, the right action, and the right feeling.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is a Great or a Small Sin in the Work?”

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But now that he has accustomed himself to work in order to bestow, he is rewarded with delighting in the Creator, and the work itself renders him pleasure and vitality. This is considered that the pleasure, too, is specifically for the Creator (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 20. Lishma [For Her sake]).

In the state of Lishma, meaning working for the sake of bestowing to the Creator, a person feels selfless love for Him. A person receives this quality instead of self-love. He thinks only about how to give contentment to the Creator.

Question: To acquire the quality of Lishma, do I have to make an effort every time and think about the Creator, or does it come to me naturally, just like self-love?

Answer: No, you must constantly make efforts to keep this quality in you. Then, you will already act without effort, motivated by love.

To the extent that you really begin to treat the Creator with love, you will begin to feel Him, His desire, His movement toward you.

Question: When we try to cover everything with love, for example, during conventions, can we all come to Lishma together in this way?

Answer: We can. The forces of the Creator have no boundaries. He can give to everyone at once.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/29/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Lishma [for Her sake]“

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Question: Why do doubts about what the Creator is come to a person?

Answer: Because you do not have a clear connection with the Creator yet.

Question: But then how can we turn to Him?

Answer: Turn to Him as much as you can. Gradually, the Creator will be revealed to you more and more in accordance with your requests.

Comment: It feels like He is pushing me away.

My Response: This is done on purpose so you yearn for Him more.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/29/23, Writings of Rabash, “What Is, ‘There Is No Blessing in That Which Is Counted,’ in the Work?“

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Question: What does it mean to look at the correction, not the flaw?

Answer: The fact is that a flaw is only good because it pushes us to correct it. And when we already learned the correction, we understand what the meaning was in showing us our own flaws.

Question: It feels like if we focus on a flaw in the left line, then it is wrong and we need to focus on correcting it. What exactly should we do?

Answer: Strive for a corrected state.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/29/23, Writings of Rabash, “What Is, ‘There Is No Blessing in That Which Is Counted,’ in the Work?“

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Question: I have discovered that before prayer, getting closer to the Creator always proceeds from suffering, following the example of King David. How can I overcome this problem?

Answer: Do not pay special attention to suffering, but aim only for connection, and you will see the suffering fall and disappear.

Comment: But sometimes it hinders.

My Response: Of course, this is done especially to hinder you so you can weigh how much you prefer connection over suffering.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/23, “Conduct War Like King David”

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Question: What can help me ascertain where the truth is and where the lie is?

Answer: First, one should not aim for what is easy and lies nearby. This is what the evil inclination advises us.

The most important thing is to be inside the group, not afraid to fall, and not to listen to any conclusions, neither those on the left nor those on the right, but to be as much as possible directed to the Creator.

The direction toward the Creator is that you must think about the best for everyone. This is a very important difference between a correct conclusion and a wrong one.
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From the 1^st part of  the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/23, Writings of Rabash “It Is Forbidden to Hear a Good Thing from a Bad Person“

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