Question: You said that love of friends is where we meet the Creator.

Where exactly do I meet the Creator?

Answer: You meet the Creator in getting closer to your friends.

Question: I tune myself to this work, feel the friends in my heart, and feel love for them. What is manifested in this love as the Creator?

Answer: A common desire, aspiration.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Before we grow up, we derive pleasure specifically from Lo Lishma (not for Her sake), regarded as “clothing of falsehood.” This is called “shadow,” “concealment,” and then there is room for work, and we derive vitality from false things. Afterwards, when we are rewarded, we receive the light of faith (Rabash, Letter 12b).

Question: There is a false clothing, a concealment that I am in most of the time, and there is a shadow of faith, a place for work. How can you not make a mistake when you are in concealment?

Answer: It is possible to avoid mistakes only in connection with friends. Then you will have different options to choose from that constantly change places and meanings. You quickly begin to understand where you are, where the truth is, and where the falsehood is, and in this way rise toward the truth.

Question: Do the sufferings of the soul lead to turning away from false pleasures toward true ones?

Answer: Yes, this happens when a person truly feels that all the earthly pleasures that people enjoy do not touch him. He wants something eternal, real.

Therefore, move forward and always choose the highest possible pleasures that you want to direct to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/16/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 12b

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Question: How can we improve our work in the ten? Should we pressure it?

Answer: No, you do not need to put pressure on the ten. You need to encourage your friends in some alternative ways so that they understand you, agree with you, and together you turn to the Creator.

There should be no pressure on each other at all. It can only be directed toward turning to the Creator. All other pressures are bad and unproductive since a person cannot do anything on his own.

Apart from turning to the Creator, one has no other means of action at one’s disposal. None! So, in this we must help each other, and best of all, by example.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What should I demand from the ten?

Answer: You can only demand one thing from the ten—that they support you in your connection to them and, through this, in your connection to the Creator. The Creator reveals Himself within the ten, so the way you relate to the ten is how you relate to the Creator.

We may not yet fully understand this; we do not yet feel it. Our attitude toward friends and toward the Creator does not yet feel identical to us even though we have read about it many times in the articles of Rabash. But ultimately, we will reach this understanding.

The main thing is to constantly direct ourselves through the ten toward the Creator so that we pray for the ten. After all, the ten is our vessel, our soul, where He will be revealed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What is the most important thing in studying Kabbalah? How can we achieve our goal faster?

Answer: Only by connection. The fact is that the initially created single desire was shattered into many parts, and we need to put all these parts together. As soon as we begin to collect them, we will begin to feel a completely new phenomenon—the upper world.

Question: How can we accelerate this connection?

Answer: Only by working together. The spiritual world is felt in the ten. The ten is a template, the skeleton of the spiritual Kli. We must connect our desires, and when they are correctly connected to each other, the spiritual world, the Creator, will be immediately manifested in them.

Question: Will everyone in the ten experience the same feelings?

Answer: No, each will feel it based on the root of his or her soul and how much he or she is connected with others.

Question: Does this mean that our most important work is to annul ourselves before each other?

Answer: Yes, this is where it all begins. In Kabbalah, this is called restriction (Tzimtzum).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: How can you help a friend experience joy and pleasure in spiritual work if he has no taste or smell in it and does not have the strength to justify the Creator?

Answer: How will you convey this to him if he does not yet have such tastes?

Question: Maybe with prayer, or words, some kind of support?

Answer: You can give him any kind of support, but what will he feel about it?

He must have a personal desire for spiritual work even if he does not enjoy it yet.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/22/24, “Sukkot”

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Question: On ordinary days, our ten is always very united and active. But on special days, during holidays, and at conventions, we constantly experience disunity. What are we doing wrong?

Answer: You need to bring weekdays closer to special days, appreciate holidays in advance, and prepare to be in a special prayer to the Creator on these days.

Question: What does it mean to truly serve the Creator?

Answer: Serving the Creator means fulfilling His desires. The Creator acts however He wishes: in us, through us, and outside of us.

Question: How can we feel or understand that it is He who is acting?

Answer: You cannot. You must believe the Kabbalists who tell you this. There is no other way for you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/24/24, “Eighth [day] of Assembly and Simchat Torah [The Joy of Torah]”

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Kapot [pans] mean Kefia [coercion], when one assumes the kingdom of heaven coercively. This means that even when reason disagrees, he goes above reason. This is called “coercive mating” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati, 85, “What Is the Fruit of a Citrus Tree, in the Work?”).

Question: What does it mean to implement unity in the ten coercively, and how can we do that?

Answer: It is called “coercively” because we are required to achieve connection in the ten through faith above reason whether we want it or not. If we do this, everything will work out. In this connection, we will find everything.

If I have already come to connection in the ten, then from there I have a direct path to the Creator. I begin to understand what “in the ten” means, what connection is, how I can achieve it, what it gives, and how it is manifested within me. I need nothing more; through this, I correct myself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/24, “Sukkot”

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We see about the citron that the adornment is in it precisely before it is suitable for eating. However, when it is suitable for eating, there is no adornment in it anymore (Baal HaSulam, Shamati, 19, “What Is ‘The Creator Hates the Bodies,’ in the Work?”).

Each of the four plant species—etrog (citron), palm branch, myrtle, and willow—has inner qualities that we must somehow identify, unite, and do spiritual work for their common connection.

Question: If a person feels the splendor of the Creator, he might think: “How can I enjoy this alone?” Should he somehow hide it from himself?

Answer: No, there is no need to hide anything. Simply move forward, invite friends and others to unite and reveal the Creator among themselves.

Question: Does the whole group need to achieve the quality of splendor where there is taste and fragrance in the spiritual work?

Answer: No, each person reaches it in their own time.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/22/24, “Sukkot”

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One should say, “When will my deeds come to be as the deeds of my fathers?” Through it, one is rewarded with being a “branch of the holy fathers” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati, 85, “What Is the Fruit of a Citrus Tree, in the Work?“)

Question: What does it mean that a person is the result of all the fathers?

Answer: When a person is connected to the Creator, the root of all the fathers manifests within him because he reaches it in his spiritual attainment.

Question: So can I have the same attainments that the fathers had, and know and sense it all?

Answer: I do not think it will happen all at once. But to some degree you will feel your direct connection to this. First, you must simply desire to be connected to both the feminine and male parts of the global vessel (Kli), and then, as you proceed, you will discover what it means to be in mutual connection with everyone.

To be a branch of the holy fathers means that a person supports everyone, helps everyone, and draws everyone toward mutual dependence with the entire global Kli.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/24, “Sukkot”

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