Question: We meet in the ten every day for half an hour. Some friends are often in such a state that they do not come to the meetings because they feel that they cannot give the others the importance of the goal or could even harm the ten.

What should you do: not come or come anyway?

Answer: There is nothing worse than absence. If a person could have come to a lesson or a meeting of the ten but decided not to attend, there is no excuse for this. After all, any participation of his somehow moves the ten forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: How does the ten correctly feel the deficiencies that it perceives from the environment?

Answer: How does the ten properly receive all the feelings, desires, lacks, influences and so forth from the environment? There is no single, straightforward answer to this question.

The ten’s perception is based on the relationships between the friends because a ten is ten Sefirot that form a specific structure of interconnection. Depending on the combination of these ten egoistic parts, they create a certain spiritual structure.

Then, to the extent that this structure resembles the Creator even in the smallest way, it perceives Him through the law of equivalence of form. Just as in our world we perceive only what we can generate within ourselves.

In reality, I do not feel what is around me, but rather what I can create within myself, and then I seem to see this world as if it were outside of me. However, in truth, it is within me. This concept is studied in the topic of the perception of reality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What does spiritual love mean in the group?

Answer: Spiritual love in the group is our connection with each other when everyone feels their dependence on others and the need to be in such unity with them that in this connection they gradually reveal the Creator and the entire spiritual world.

Question: How do we understand our purpose both materially and spiritually?

Answer: Your purpose for being in this world is to ascend to the Creator and be connected to Him.

Question: What is the role of the group in strengthening the spiritual path and protecting against the influence of an egoistic environment?

Answer: It is one hundred percent help to each other. Without it, there is no way to reach even the lowest spiritual level.

Question: How on one hand can you boldly express yourself in the group and on the other hand be afraid to bring your selfish expectations into it?

Answer: You will soon feel how taking part in learning elevates and cleanses you of all selfish desires.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/24, “We have gathered here”

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Question: We have the opportunity to attend the lesson every day. If negative situations occur in life, they act as a repelling force. There is also an attracting force when we are drawn to it on our own. There are some obligations that just feel shameful not to come to the lesson. What would be the most effective way to draw friends to the lesson?

Answer: They simply need to accept it as a rule: I do not miss this daily lesson. Whatever I can do, I will do just so I do not miss it. That is all.

Question: At one point, you made the decision not to miss lessons. Was that a sense of responsibility to the teacher, to the Creator, or an internal feeling? What kept you committed?

Answer: What kept me committed was the fact that Rabash, a few other friends, and I were the male part of the lesson. I knew that I needed it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/9/24, Writings of Rabash “Seek Peace and Pursue It”

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Question: Everyone has complaints and grievances toward the Creator, as well as feelings of discontent. But when I do not feel these myself, I go to the chat and write something uplifting and positive. And if my post is ignored, I experience a lot of internal work: “Why are they not inspired?” Is this the right form of work?

Answer: Absolutely not! Under no circumstances should you look for negative phenomena that would drive you forward.

Negative experiences push you toward the goal, but you should not seek them out on your own. Your focus should be on advancing positively, which happens when you search within yourself for issues related to the greatness of the Creator: why you do not feel His greatness enough, His vastness, and His presence filling all of creation. But you should not intentionally provoke a sense of negativity or incorrect relationships with friends. Do not awaken the left line.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: I see all my friends in the ten as righteous because the Creator stands behind them, and the importance of the Creator is above all for me. Is it correct to view my friends in this way?

Answer: No, it is not necessary for all your friends to appear as righteous in your eyes just because the Creator stands behind them. The Creator is behind each of us, and how He wishes to manifest Himself relative to each of us is His private governance. Therefore you should look at the individual state of each friend.

Question: Yes, but I can justify them with faith above reason. That is my work, is it not?

Answer: That is your work. But you cannot see your friends as absolute righteous in every state they go through. I understand that you want to see them that way because they are governed and filled by the Creator. Nevertheless, you must regard them as acting desires in our world.

Question: Still, I must justify them and make them righteous in my eyes, right?

Answer: And if you are mistaken?

Comment: But justifying them is my annulment; I annul myself before them.

My Response: You are annulling yourself, but what about them?

Comment: Outside of me, there is only the Creator.

My Response: Exactly, as it is said about Noah, that he was righteous in his generations.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/24, Parashat Noah

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Question: Metaphorically, the ark is the desire for bestowal where we invest our efforts to unite. What are we taking there? How do we shape it in the right way?

Answer: We bring only our good connections and our correct attitude to what we have to reveal.

Question: Is the state in the ark during the flood temporary or should we get used to the idea that this will be our permanent state?

Answer: No, it is a brief state. We have to pass through it to enter the still waters.

Question: How do you pass through the highest waves in the ten to reach the goal?

Answer: The higher the waves, the more we are afraid of them; therefore we must be closer to each other and hold on to each other, then we do not have to fear any trials at sea.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/31/24, Writings of Rabash “Gopher Wood”

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Question: Both the light of Hochma and the light of Hassadim are present in the Ark.

Where do they come from?

Answer: Only from our efforts, which consist of the fact that, as we work on the desire to receive, we want to bring it to a state where we can receive the light of Hochma clothed in the light of Hasadim.

Question: Is the Ark some experimental ship where all this has already been realized, and can we learn it now?

Answer: Of course, we do not do all this in matter, only in our spiritual efforts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/31/24, Writings of Rabash “Gopher Wood”

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Question: Is the recognition of evil the removal of the “white gloves”? Can we bring this into the group?

Answer: No, by no means. No one should know about this. Kabbalah is called a secret science because no one knows what is going on inside you.

Sometimes you can discuss this with your friends, but only in the third person, abstractly, as if it is not happening to you.

Question: That is, I can feel complete negativity and am aware of it. Is this “taking off the gloves”?

Answer: If you allow yourself to feel complete negativity, you have ensured that you can work with it correctly and control it. But in the group, in the ten, you can only bring the positive, regardless of what is inside you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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This is the meaning of “Cover with pitch inside and out,” since there must be the light of faith there. (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 343, “Gopher Wood“)

Question: How can we strengthen our ten so that the light of faith resides there?

Answer: We achieve this through various actions aimed at unity.

Question: If we start having questions like “Who?” and “What?”, does it mean we need to strengthen our faith?

Answer: Certainly. In the ten, we strengthen it through faith above reason.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/31/24, Writings of Rabash Gopher Wood

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