Question: When can we say that a person has reached Lishma?

Answer: When all his intentions are only for the sake of the Creator.

Question: Does this happen in a fragmented state or is it a given?

Answer: This happens in the general state between man and the Creator.

Question: If I want to feel what the author of the article felt, what the teacher feels when answering questions, when I listen to the questions of my friends, and being in the ten thank the Creator for creating all the conditions for me to come to Lishma, do I thus come to Lishma?

Answer: You have this opportunity, but whether you reach it or not depends on you, on how much you will put your desires, efforts, and work into it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/24, Writings of Rabash “And the Lord Saw”

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Question: How does a person differentiate between the light of Hochma and the light of Hassadim in their inner work?

Answer: The difference lies in the very vessel, in the desire itself: either I strive to be in the light of Hochma or in the light of Hassadim. These are opposite things: we receive the light of Hochma in the vessels of reception, while the light of Hassadim is received in the vessels of bestowal.

We should strive to create such a state of connection between us where both the light of Hochma and the light of Hassadim will fill us, and we will be able to retain them within ourselves.

Question: What does it mean to fill a person with the light of Hassadim?

Answer: It means we draw them away from receiving so that they remain in the quality of bestowal at all times.

Question: In the group of ten, we try to bestow upon our friends and ask the Creator to grant us this quality. At what point can we begin to care about the vessels of reception?

Answer: A person should not focus on their own vessels of reception. We should only care about how to bestow upon our friends. In doing so, we will correct ourselves to the point where our vessels become entirely vessels of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/31/24, Writings of Rabash “Gopher Wood”

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Question: What is the mutual dependence of the ten on the Creator and how should it be realized?

Answer: The Creator and the group of ten are interdependent both in positive and negative ways. This means that the group of ten must understand that in its desire to move forward toward the Creator, it influences Him, and He changes them accordingly.

Therefore, the most important thing for us is to relate to the Creator in a way that allows Him to feel, correct, and elevate us higher. Only then will we reach the purpose of creation; without this, it is impossible.

By striving in the ten toward the purpose of creation, we direct ourselves clearly toward Him, and nothing can prevent us from this except ourselves.

Thus, we need to clearly understand what we seek from our path, from ourselves, and from our request to the Creator, that is, from our prayer. By examining this, we correct ourselves on the path to the purpose of creation. Otherwise, we will not achieve it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/24, Writings of Rabash “And the Lord Saw”

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Question: What does it mean that “the righteous himself should know that his offspring should be good deeds”?

Answer: They should see the results of their efforts.

These results are reflected in the unity that emerges thanks to the efforts of the one who is righteous among you and in the feeling that you must remain together in such relationships.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Noah Was a Righteous Man”

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The fruit bearing tree is a sign of Kedusha, and one that does not bear fruit is a sign of Tuma’a and is called an “indecent wise disciple.”

This is as it is written, “the fruit of a righteous, a tree of life.” What are the fruits of a righteous? Mitzvot [commandments] and good deeds (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 883, “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”).

Question: What is the “fruit tree” of the ten that bears fruit in due season?

Answer: It is a tree that absorbs a lot of water and, therefore, grows in good soil and a good place and produces many fine fruits.

Question: How do we care for it to reach the correct degree?

Answer: By watering it on time and trimming dry branches. There is a lot of work involved in taking care of garden trees. Ultimately, you will have a fruitful tree that will nourish you well.

Question: What do we consider fruits in spiritual work?

Answer: Our corrected qualities.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/24, Writings of Rabash “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”

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Question: We often hear the phrase: “one man with one heart.” If the heart is a desire, doesn’t the entire world Kli want to reveal the Creator? What do we still lack to become one man with one heart with one desire to attain the Creator?

Answer: We only lack the correct work in the heart: to open it in relation to friends, connect everyone within our heart, and reach connection with the Creator.

Question: Are we not mature enough for this, or are we lazy, or are we not yet supposed to reveal this?

Answer: Perhaps you are not yet mature enough. But mostly, you are held back by a certain inertia, where you cannot convince yourself to rise above yourself.

Question: I can judge for myself: I feel very comfortable in our society; it’s so good, so beloved, it truly opens the heart. And within this cocoon of love, the thought arises, “Why move further?” What should we do about this?

Answer: This is a problem. The point is that you must forcefully break the shell (Klipa) in which you are encased and try to emerge into the fresh air. Moreover, everyone must do this together.

Rise above yourself, to a new degree. Feel that on this degree, you are indeed in some state of elevation, and from this state, begin to connect with each other, and direct this connection toward the Creator.

Question: Is it possible to do this if I do not see that this is relevant for the ten now?

Answer: That cannot be! This is precisely what you must work on. It will only become relevant through your simultaneous effort when each person “comes out of themselves,” connects with their friends, and in a common desire, connects with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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Question: When we are thrown from spiritual degrees, how should we correctly combine annulment before the will of the Creator and efforts on our part?

Answer: A person needs to accept what he receives from the Creator and try to correct this state together with his friends.

He must climb upward with closed eyes toward the quality of bestowal. But only through the group! Alone, he will not succeed.

Question: What qualities should a person have to avoid falling from spiritual degrees?

Answer: The qualities of bestowal, connection with friends, and, if possible, love for the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Sorrow of the Shechina – 2”

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Question: Why does the Creator give taste and smell to some but not to others? What does it depend on?

Answer: It is impossible to explain because we do not know the spiritual root of each of us. No one compares themselves to others. Everyone simply wishes to be together. Therefore, we must act as instructed, as we are obliged, and in the future, this will be revealed to us.

Question: How should one work in the group if there is no taste or smell?

Answer: Be devoted to your friends without any taste and with eyes closed; strive for unity with them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/22/24, “Sukkot”

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Question: Do I understand correctly that unity with the Creator is not just adhesion to Him, but a state in which a person completely annuls himself, becomes a channel for the light, and allows it to manifest in others without even being attached to the feeling of unity itself?

Answer: Yes, you are correct. You gave a very good definition!

Question: Should we feel joy in recognizing the force of the Creator that is moving us?

Answer: Absolutely, we must reach a state where all our actions, thoughts, and intentions bring contentment to the Creator.

Question: Who is dearer to the Creator: a person who has been righteous all their life or a wicked who has become righteous?

Answer: A wicked who has become righteous.

Question: What comes first: my desire to bestow to my friends because I want to bestow to the Creator or receiving energy from my friends that makes me strive more toward the Creator?

Answer: The Creator comes first. In our thoughts and actions, He is always first. It is for His sake, in principle, that we do everything.

Question: We have accepted the condition of mutual responsibility. But most people do not devote themselves to love for others, thereby causing suffering for the entire nation. Can we, Bnei Baruch, reach the desire of Lishma without the help of the entire nation?

Answer: Yes, even if we have just one united ten.

Question: I want to love a friend and see her as righteous, but I cannot because I see in her the same quality that is uncorrected in me. This quality in me acts as a wall between me and the Creator. How can I love my friends in what I do not love in myself? How can I rise above this?

Answer: Ask the Creator to correct this quality within you, and then you will no longer perceive it in your friend.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Noah Was a Righteous Man”

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In the beginning of the year, a person is judged according to his actions, and he is sentenced how much Torah he will learn at this time.

Hence, if his actions in the beginning of the year were righteous, he is allotted much rain. Afterward, they reverted from their way, meaning he sinned, and then he is considered wicked (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 883, “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”).

On Rosh HaShanah, at the beginning of the year, it is determined who among the people will be righteous and who will be wicked.

Question: How can we always be righteous to receive a good fate?

Answer: Consider all your friends as righteous except yourself. That way, you will never be mistaken.

Question: If my friends are righteous and I am wicked, then who is a “whole man”?

Answer: Let everyone see themselves as wicked and strive to rise from this state to draw closer to the Creator and justify Him. That is the best approach.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/24, Writings of Rabash “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”

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