Question: What ensures that a ten in mutual integration can carry out the work that the Creator expects from them?

Answer: A corrected ten is one that operates as a single entity. In it, each person fulfills their role, supports one another, and helps everyone reach their maximum capacity to integrate with each other.

This ten is constantly in a state of asking the Creator to give them more light for growth. By absorbing this light, they grow and draw closer to the Creator.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/16/24, “Continuing the Congress With an Ascent”

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Question: We are at the finish line coming to the convention. Tens are working to their limit if I can put it that way. What is more important at this point: to connect strongly or to ask the Creator to connect us?

Answer: When do you think you will be able to achieve connection?

Comment: When we ask Him together.

My Response: That is exactly what needs to be done.

Comment: So it is essentially one action made up of two parts. Our goal is to connect, but we cannot do it on our own, so a prayer to Him arises.

My Response: Yes, you do so every day until you see that you are connected.

Question: Will the Creator let us know?

Answer: Of course.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/10/24, “Growing Stronger in the Ten”

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For this reason, at the time of the giving of the Torah, when they had no doubt that this was the voice of the Creator, it is called “seeing,” as it is written, “I and you shall have no [other Gods], we heard from the mouth of the Creator” (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 940, “The Point in the Heart”).

Gevura is the force of the Creator with which He influences us so that we receive strength from Him and can become bestowers.

This is an anti-egoistic force because the Creator is 100% anti-egoist. If we receive a little of this force from Him, we will also become anti-egoists to some extent, and to this extent we will be able to feel the upper world, the Creator, everything: infinity, eternity, perfection. Everything that is impossible to attain in egoism.

Question: At what point do we receive this force and begin to feel it?

Answer: Every day you advance a little. But for now, you do not feel it, like a newborn child who is growing but does not know that he is growing and only afterward begins to realize it more and more.

Question: How can we receive this force now at the congress? I really want to enter these sensations.

Answer: I understand you, but it is not easy. You must be so devoted to your friends so that the connection with them, and through them the connection with the Creator, becomes the most important thing in your life. You must take care that they succeed. Here you will have to open your heart and knead it a little to make it softer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Rabash, Assorted Notes, 940, “The Point in the Heart”

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While he was imparted the desire and thought to at least occasionally do holy work, even in the simplest possible way, if one can appreciate the importance of this, according to the importance one attributes to the holy work, to that extent he should give praise and thanks for it (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 26, “One’s Future Depends and Is Tied to Gratitude for the Past”).

Question: It seemed to me that the convention was conducted on a much lighter note compared to previous ones. It felt like we didn’t exert ourselves as much; there weren’t deep clarifications during the lessons, although from the first moments, a pressure from above was felt.

After the convention, a dense cloud of pleasure descended upon us. It’s unclear whether we deserved it or if it’s an advance that still needs to be earned.

Answer: No, you don’t need to “earn” it; you deserved it. You made a great effort to come, and it wasn’t easy to physically get here. Therefore, all of this was well earned by you.

I am confident that we will begin to better understand our mutual connection and ascend higher and higher on the rungs of the ladder leading upward.

Question: In fact, I want to express deep gratitude for such a powerful convention. Can this gratitude be strengthened by analyzing everything we’ve gone through, or does it come naturally through feelings?

Answer: I believe it is gratitude for the past, present, and future. Baal HaSulam writes that a person says to the Creator, “I thank You for all Your mercy toward me,” meaning for the past. And thanks to this, they can immediately say with confidence, “And for all that You will do for me in the future!”

In other words, a person is grateful to the Creator for everything He has done for them in the past, and for everything He will continue to do from this moment onward. There is no doubt that we will feel the Creator’s benevolent attitude toward us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/24, “Continuing the Congress with an Ascent”

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Question: What is this simultaneous state of merging, love of friends, and love for the Creator, and how do we properly realize this state?

Answer: The correct realization is when we truly connect to achieve love for the Creator and merge with Him. But this is impossible without first uniting among ourselves.

Question: What does it mean that each friend has the potential for love of the Creator?

Answer: They know they must come to love the Creator, which is only possible through love for friends. Therefore, they have come to learn how to achieve this.

Question: When my failure to love my friends was revealed, but I did not have time to pour out my heart to the Creator and I feel shame and resentment toward my actions, is that not enough? Do I need to repent and fix everything in prayer? Or is understanding based on our sources, like Rabash writes that I am guilty, enough?

Answer: That is not enough. You must realize your opposition to the Creator. Only then can you ask Him to correct you. And afterward you will begin to make efforts to gradually manifest the Creator’s qualities within you.

Question: When we are practically in the greatness of the Creator, where should we direct this strength?Should it be to individual work, self-correction, greater love of friends, or greater love for the world?

Answer: Direct it where your heart leads.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/10/24, “The Ten as an Environment for Spiritual Development for Everyone”

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Question: For a Kabbalist, what is the magnetic field that helps the point in the heart and egoism to exist?

Answer: Our heart is an organ that attracts everything it likes and rejects everything it dislikes. We must place a screen before our heart and engage not with what pleases us, but with what can destroy our egoism and connect us with the Creator. In other words, we must connect with our friends through our heart, and in this way, we will draw closer to this.

Question: How does the point in the heart turn into a screen (Masach)?

Answer: It happens under the influence of the upper light. If, in unity and prayer, you turn to the Creator, you will attract the reforming light (the light that returns to the source), and it will begin to correct you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Rabash, Assosrted Notes, 940, “The Point in the Heart”

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If granted, it is a potion of life; if not granted, it is a potion of death (Rabash, The Social Writings, “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’”).

Question: What does the concept of being granted consist of: my own efforts, the efforts of my group, or what is allowed to us from above by the Creator for us to go through together?

Answer: “To be granted” means that a person is granted permission for spiritual ascent, for moving from one degree to the next, from that one to a higher one, and so on. They have nothing else and can have nothing else.

If they are correctly attuned to the attainment of the upper world, then that is their only goal. Each time a person ascends one more step, he is awarded spiritual powers and by attaining them, one gradually ascends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/24, Rabash, The Social Writings, “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’”

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Question: There are situations when a friend makes great efforts to come to a congress, invests himself in duty, and is faced with a situation where he does not feel mutual care from another friend. And then he cannot justify the friend. What one do in such cases?

Answer: If a person cannot justify another, then this is his problem. We must perceive any friend as an ideal one who does absolutely everything and strives with all his might toward the spiritual goal. If we see him not quite like this but worse, it means that we need to correct ourselves and rise to a level where we begin to see everyone as absolutely righteous, and to the same extent see ourselves with them.

Question: How can I participate in this, how can I help, justify, or do something to raise a person?

Answer: How can you justify yourself? I do not know how to justify myself in such a case. I can see some flaws in others, but they point to what I need to correct in myself. Then I am grateful to the Creator and the friend for revealing my flaws to me.

And in general, the world before me should appear to me absolutely corrected, that the Shechina, the presence of the Creator, is clothed in everyone, and everyone fulfills all the desires, all the conditions of the Creator. And if I do not see this, then in fact I need to correct myself to a level where I will see everyone completely corrected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/15/24, “Continuing the Congress With an Ascent”

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Question: What is the independent measure of receiving pleasure in the vessel of bestowal?

Answer: The independent measure of pleasure in bestowal is a question with an underlying meaning. If we resolve this question correctly, the task before us will transform from a general one into a specific one, and from a specific one into a general one.

At that point, the distinction between me and the general vessel will disappear. Through being interconnected, we will perceive ourselves as a single united whole.

Pleasure is the result of our actions toward one another and toward the Creator.

Question: While receiving pleasure, how can one maintain the intention for His sake?

Answer: Continuously think about the possibility of receiving for the sake of the Creator in order to become one whole with Him.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash “A Congregation Is No Less than Ten”

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Question: When a friend falls and it is extremely difficult to get out of the state. How can the group help?

Answer: The group should descend to the friend’s level, connect with him, then draw the Creator’s strength upon themselves and begin to rise together with the friend, like an elevator. We take the fallen friend “into ourselves,” and he rises together with us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/24, “Continuing the Congress With an Ascent”

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