Question: How can you find joy in the work without taste or smell, and how do you do it with a quality of adornment rather than neglect?

Answer: It depends on whether you feel who you are giving your efforts to.

Question: Where do we get this joy from? Is it from uniting in the ten or thinking you are working for the Creator?

Answer: From uniting in the ten because this is how we approach the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/20/24, the topic “Sukkot”

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Question: What does it mean to love the Creator? Whom should I love?

Answer: You must love everyone except yourself, because you yourself are what stands in opposition to the Creator. Therefore, to the extent that you cease loving yourself, you will rise above yourself and draw closer to the group (the ten) and to the Creator.

Question: If I need to love everyone else but not myself, how does this relate to “love your neighbor as yourself”?

Answer: The point is that just as you egoistically love yourself, you must altruistically love your neighbor.

Question: You say we should rise above our disagreements. But what if there is someone in the group whom I find unpleasant?

Answer: That is exactly where you need to rise above your dislike for them and correct your attitude. How? Ask the Creator to help you do this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: I look at a friend whom I do not accept, and I see myself before me; this is an image of me. If I cannot ask for myself, whom do I ask for because it is my image in front of me?

Answer: It is opposite you. What does it mean to see another person in front of me? I see my negative qualities. If I had the corrected properties, I would not see anyone as bad. Therefore, ask for correction so that you see everyone as fully corrected.

What else can you ask for? For the Creator to correct others? This is only possible in the ten where we mutually help each other.

Here is a dilemma: to pray for the world to be better or to correct yourself not to see the world as evil. This is individual and shared work.

When you ask for your correction in order to relate to your friends in the ten correctly, you are not asking for your ego. You are asking to correct yourself, to rise, and thus correctly interact with them, become interconnected, and help them. This is not considered asking for yourself because you are asking for the ten. Therefore, there is a condition: turn to the Creator only through the ten.

We must ask constantly, as it was said: “May you ask constantly ask” i.e., constantly be praying.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: Baal HaSulam was in adhesion with the Creator. How can we reach such unity with the Creator in our neighbor?

Answer: That is not simple. You have to be connected with each other, and from your common connection you have to plea the Creator so He will tie you together even more strongly and will include you in Him. We cannot ask for more, and we do not even need more. As it is said: “In Him my heart will delight.”

Question: Rabash writes that Baal HaSulam made it so that an ordinary person could achieve Dvekut [adhesion] with the Creator when before only great disciples could do so.

Can we now improve our methodology so that every person could achieve adhesion with the Creator like a real sage?

Answer: If we achieve what we are supposed to achieve, then we will understand how we can help everyone. This will be the result of our spiritual work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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Question: We conceal ourselves from the Creator’s light. But the Creator is already concealed from us. He is not perceived in our vessels (Kelim) as good and benevolent. So what are we concealing ourselves from?

Answer: The fact is that we do not yet have the true vessels, i.e., desires, in which we can feel the Creator and maintain a constant connection with Him. Therefore, we must strive to find a connection between ourselves and the Creator in every state we experience.

Question: What can be considered a constant state amidst all the changing impressions?

Answer: This needs to be measured relative to the person.

Question: Will our efforts to feel the Creator’s will, to be connected with Him, and to justify everything that happens be considered a constant state?

Answer: Yes, if you reach this through your connection with the friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/18/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 12 (1)

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Question: Is it possible to see or feel that another person has done inner work within themselves?

Answer: Usually this is felt not just from inner work, but also through external signs: how you connect with others and how you participate in lessons and various events. It shows.

Question: Is your group the joy and adornments gifted to you by the Creator?

Answer: Ultimately that is exactly what it comes down to. If you think that way, then you are doing well.

Question: It is said that a person in prayer is in the Creator’s palace, close to Him. Upon receiving an answer to the prayer, he leaves that palace. Does this mean that in prayer, we seek not the answer but the prayer itself?

Answer: In prayer, request, and response we always seek to stay connected with the Creator.

Question: Are the adornments the corrected desires of my friends? Can this be taken as a basis for our work?

Answer: Absolutely. That is elevation, where you exalt specific qualities and they are considered the adornment of the entire group.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/24, Writings of Rabash “An Article for Sukkot”

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Question: What fulfillment do we ask for during our ascent toward the Creator?

Answer: We ask the Creator to fill us with light, which will correct us and draw us closer to the Creator to the extent that we feel included in Him, and through our connection with the Creator, we will adhere to Him and feel what He feels.

Question: How can we become included in His feelings?

Answer: Ask for it. How He will do it, we do not know. Perhaps we will find out later, but for now, just ask.

Question: Does a Kabbalist become included in the Creator and feel His mood and sensations?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/24, Writings of Rabash “According to the Sorrow Is the Reward”

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Question: What does it mean to “use your desires for the benefit of others”?

Answer: Just as you understand what is good for you, think about what is good for others.

Question: What is the ultimate result of realizing a desire for the benefit of another in their feelings?

Answer: That you wish only good for them.

Question: Should they feel this good in my desire to bring them pleasure?

Answer: What they should feel, I don’t know. But in principle, they will feel something from it.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/24, Writings of Rabash “An Article for Sukkot”

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Question: Shadow and light come to us from the Creator. How can we ourselves create the shadow in order to dwell in the clouds of glory?

Answer: Shadow is called concealment. If you cover up the Creator, meaning you do not wish to attract Him, then this is how you advance toward His revelation.

Question: Do we become closer to the Creator when we perceive our corporeal world as a temporary dwelling?

Answer: Certainly, without a doubt.

Question: When we listen to the sources, the mind tries to interpret them in its own way, translating them into a language it understands. Should we stop and try to feel the text as it is?

Answer: First listen to what the mind says before rejecting it. Then start thinking about how to bring it into a more suitable form.

Question: During the holidays of Rosh HaShanah and Sukkot, are there any special lights at work?

Answer: Yes, these are special opportunities, special lights.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/18/24, Writings of Rabash Letter 12 (1)

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Question: What are the vessels (Kelim) of the ten that are ready to receive the light of the Torah?

Answer: When we connect with each other and wish to come closer ourselves to the desires of the Creator, we reveal within ourselves such qualities that explain to us what spiritual desires mean. Then we draw closer and closer to these desires through our own qualities.

The collective spiritual desire of the ten is the desire in which they want to exist in order to bring contentment to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/18/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 12 (1)

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