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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 11/5/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is, ‘A Ladder Is Set on the Earth, and Its Top Reaches Heaven,’ in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 1, Item 9

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “A Handmaid Who Is Heir to Her Mistress”

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Selected Highlights

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How Can We Turn Torah into the Light of Life?

568.01Question: In Rabash’s article “What Is, “Rise Up, O Lord, and Let Your Enemies Be Scattered,” in the Work” it says that Torah gives a person medicine. What medicine does the Torah give in our group work?

Answer: You get a small illumination, a little upper light, and you begin to better understand where you are. And so you advance.

Question: How do we turn Torah into the light of life rather than a poisonous potion?

Answer: It depends only on our intention. If we want our turning to the Creator to elicit a corresponding reaction from Him, we must unite and ask Him for only one thing—to draw us closer to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/23, Writing of Rabash “What Is, “Rise Up, O Lord, and Let Your Enemies Be Scattered,” in the Work?“

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Suffering is A Lack of Connection with The Creator

276.02Question: It is written in Baal HaSulam’s article “The Eighteen Prayer” that there is a commandment to pray for suffering. How can we do this correctly?

Answer: By suffering we mean a lack of connection with the Creator, with friends, with all of humanity. Praying for suffering correctly means that I am not asking the Creator to take it back, I am not asking not to cause it in me.

Through suffering He reminds me that I am not corrected. Therefore, I ask Him to correct me, and then, to the extent that I am corrected, I will begin to feel the world differently.

Question: What does a Kabbalist suffer from?

Answer: The Kabbalist suffers from the fact that he wants to love more, but is not yet able to. The point is that there is a limit to the extent his heart is in the intention of bestowal. I want more, but I do not have the strength yet.

Question: What do we pray for when the Creator already cancels suffering?

Answer: We pray that we correct ourselves and treat each other with love, and then the suffering itself will disappear.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/19/23, “The Eighteen Prayer”

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Fight Against the Evil Inclination

600.02Question: What should a person do when he reveals the evil inclination in him and does not have the strength to ask the Creator to correct him? He is even ready to fight with the Creator.

Answer: Be closer to your friends. Ask them for help and fight with them against the Creator.

Question: What if he treats his friends badly so they cannot tolerate him and want to separate from him?

Answer: Talk to your friends and make sure that everyone understands that the main thing is to be against the evil inclination, against egoism, and you must unite in this. Then you will win.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/26/23, Writings of Rabash “Come unto Pharaoh – 1“

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Cultivate Rapprochement

022Question: Now it has become noticeable that someone is already more ready for internal relationships in the ten, while someone else is on the way to it. Do these friends have to somehow manifest themselves in relation to others, or should it be only their internal attitude?

Answer: In the ten, it is necessary to constantly cultivate rapprochement between friends and not hide it.

There are friends who do not understand at all why getting closer to each other is necessary. By the way, those who have great egoism will go further and higher, as it is said: “Everyone who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater.”

He will need a lot of time and effort to correct himself, but he will rise above the rest. Therefore we cannot calculate who is better or who is worse, but only in comparison with what is at the moment. Inside the ten, everyone has to take care of everyone.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/02/23, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Renew the Relationship with the Creator

565.01Question: What does it mean to renew the relationship with the Creator?

Answer: Every time I feel myself in a new state, I have to turn to the Creator again, feel that there is none else besides Him, and thus move forward.

From the fact that I want to reveal “there is none else besides Him,” I have to renew my relations with the friends again, strengthen the connection with them, and advance in this way.

We generally have three points: I, the group, and the Creator. I must always try to see them together in one desire, one goal, and one action, and constantly take care of it.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/11/12, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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The Right to a Desire

549.02Question: I have a feeling that the Creator created our group for something great. I cannot do anything about it; my desire is to correct the world. But it seems egoistic. Do I have the right to such a desire?

Answer: Of course you have the right. Any desire that exists in a person is from the Creator, and then a person has to think about how and what to do with this desire in order to come closer to the Creator.
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From the 1st part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 10/01/23, Lesson 4 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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For Joy to Win!

547.05Question: It is written in the sources that the upper light dwells in a place of joy. But our actions to unite are always in overcoming the ego and the rejection between each other, which are not in joy. It is always an effort, it is always hard. How can we connect these two things?

Answer: This should be done gradually in mutual support of each other. If you understand what needs to be done, then you should talk to each other how you achieve this, with what efforts, and so on.

And you will see that it is not so difficult. If you already have some kind of mutual understanding of what is happening between you, then you will overcome everything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Measure of Faith in the Rav?“

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Two-Way Connection

942Question: You said we should turn to the Creator from a global connection. How do you know we are in such a connection?

Answer: You must be connected to each other so that everyone feels the friends. And from this global connection, starting from your lowest level, rise higher and higher to the Creator and only together make a request to Him until the Creator begins to answer you. Such a two-way connection will be constantly between you.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 11/3/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is the Preparation to Receive the Torah in the Work? – 2”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 1, Item 8

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

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Selected Highlights

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