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For Everyone Else’s Sake

524.01Each of us must be Malchut that does not receive anything but only gives. She cancels herself, reflects the light coming to her, and only in this way works for everyone else.

In other words, if I have a group, I must think only about them and how to push them forward. Each group member should think about the same thing and in no case about themself.

This is the work of the friends in the group. Then, the group forms ten Sefirot between them that are interconnected by the properties of bestowal. In them the Creator is reveals Himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/20, “The Ten”

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Erect a Spiritual Structure

938.05Question: The only real adapter to the upper system that we can cling to is you, our teacher. How should we use the strength we receive from you?

Answer: I don’t even know what to tell you because my work is to shape you, gather you, and organize you. I feel how you should complement each other to form a certain structure.

It comes together like blocks or bricks, but there is no binding material like cement to hold them together yet. I help you assemble this structure and do it together with you, but it is up to you to ask the Creator to bind it together. That is how it works.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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The Group Is the Womb for the Spiritual Embryo

945Question: Today we are discussing the topic of conception (Ibur.) How should I care for the ten so that they won’t expel me from their circle and to avoid premature birth or rejection?

Answer: Rejection or what is commonly referred to as miscarriage is very rare. Throughout the nearly 6,000 years of Kabbalistic history such actions were observed only during the exodus from Egypt. It is a very unpleasant phenomenon when pregnancy is interrupted or there are complications during birth.

Such things occur, but are very rare; in practice almost all end well. So you have nothing to worry about or fear. If you are in the group and constantly care for it, there are no problems and everything will be fine.

Our entire work is built on self-annulment, i.e., the annulment of the quality of reception relative to the quality of bestowal. Therefore, only the group can become the womb in which you develop, the mother who cares for you, and you, in turn, care for it.

This is the kind of work where you support yourself in a state of embryo and gradually develop. But an embryo can only form in a state of self-annulment.

What does an embryo in the mother mean? It is a living being that originates from a drop of seed and then gradually develops. During this time, it is completely subordinate to the maternal organism, and this continues for nine months. In spiritual development it can last seven, nine, or twelve months. But that is not important; the main thing is that we must understand the system itself. Conception occurs in the group, and the group must be in the quality of bestowal, in the Creator.

Imagine that you are with the group within the Creator, in the quality of bestowal, love, and you must completely annul yourself along with the whole group before the Creator.

That is, your existence in the mother is the period of your inception. And the development of all your strengths, thoughts, desires, everything, is necessary only for you to unite and become similar to your upper mother, that is, the quality of bestowal, the quality of love, the Creator, in whom you develop. This is how it happens.

So imagine the state we must reach to achieve the degree of spiritual birth. It may seem fantastic, difficult, unattainable, and impossible. No, it is not. In fact, it can happen, and very quickly. Nine months of spiritual development are not the same as nine earthly months; they can pass in a short time.

Therefore, we need to think about how to make ourselves like an embryo. This means gathering in tens where each friend must annul themselves relative to the others, and all together they must annul themselves relative to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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The Group as a Teacher

767.2Question: How necessary is it for a teacher to be physically present at unity activities in which students must independently perform actions?

Answer: There is not a single spiritual teaching that is not transmitted from teacher to students. In any circumstances, wherever you are, wherever you wander in your search, you will see that there is always a teacher and there are students.

We have a special relationship here. I hope to prepare you for a state where you will replace me with a group, when the group will act as a teacher, guide, instructor.

In addition to the teacher, administration is also needed. Everything should be organized as in our world. And instead of the teacher, there will be the group itself. You will correctly feel the unity, reveal the Creator in it, and this will lead you forward, this will be your teacher.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Can We Limit Ourselves to One Ten?

938.04Question: Why can’t we take, say, ten men, and put them in an “aquarium,” and everyone else will take care of them and fulfill the principle of mutual guarantee?

Answer: We do not need to take care of them! Let them take care of each other, that is a different matter! But if the Creator gives us, not ten, but ten thousand people today, what can we do?

Today, tens of thousands strive for unity as a solution to the world’s problems and to attain the upper world.

Wherever I go, people recognize me. In Greece, the hostess of the house we rented rooms from said, “I know you.” In Chișinău, the owner of a small hotel we stayed at exclaimed, “I did not know you booked our rooms!” It turns out many people know us. Millions!

In any country, people stop me on the street, greet me, ask questions, and talk. We are very well-known. Therefore, we cannot limit ourselves to ten people. It would not help in fact, it would be counterproductive. Why did the collective soul shatter into many parts? So it would be easier to correct them.

If we break large egoism into smaller parts, each part is easier to correct. In our world, we solve any problem by breaking it into smaller problems, solving each, and then combining them. It is the only way.

You cannot do anything beyond what is given from above. If these conditions are revealed to you, you must act within them. You are given a system of correction, and what to correct is revealed from above.

These are the conditions: this world, these problems, this crisis. Work with them. We must understand this is the best and most correct way.

Question: Is it necessary for one ten to succeed or all the tens?

Answer: Ideally, all should succeed, but even a part is possible. Everyone strives to give everyone what they need for correction, and after that, it is an individual effort for each.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/20, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

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How Do We Engage with a Friend’s Question?

231.01Question: How do we engage with a friend’s question? And how do you work with these questions?

Answer: I try to feel every question within myself as if I am asking it. I must feel each question on your level, the way you present it, and feel it on my level, the way I would ask it.

I must feel the difference between these levels and figure out how I can understand your question at my level and answer it at your level. Try to do the same with each friend’s question. You cannot imagine how much you will enrich yourselves, each of you! Therefore, you need to try to enter into your friend.

Children usually ask the most challenging questions. A child’s question may seem naive, but it is very complex. We are not used to such questions.

Additionally, the questions you ask help me create a connection with the person asking. How else can I enter these questions and they, me? In the lessons with you, I gain much more than each of you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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We Have Something to Return To

942Once, we were all together in one desire, in what is known as ‘Adam’s soul,’ filled with light. Then that state fragmented and in each of us remained a spark of that light, which used to fill us with the qualities of bestowal, love, and mutual connection.

Now, it is just a spark without a course, without any direction. Therefore, we can say that there is something in us, but we do not know what.

The questions arise: what can we ask from our friends, and what can we absorb from them to fuel this spark and turn it into a light that fills my great desire, which will help us return to that same soul to immense desire and fulfillment?

From our past state, we retain Reshimot (spiritual informational records) that we have something to return to and something to start with.

So we must urge and prod each other to truly desire to find ourselves in that state again.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/20, “The Ten” 

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Understand the Creator’s Capabilities

530Question: Some principles make it apparent to a person what he is annulling before the ten.

What should be considered a foundation in the ten if everyone follows his heart? After all, this irritates us: one heard the teacher one way and the other heard him differently.

Answer: It will continue for a long time until your impressions of the group and what we are going through begin to coincide. Therefore, the contradictions that arise regarding your friends are very useful.

After all, everything in each of us comes from the Creator. And everything that contradicts our friends in each of us also comes from Him.

See how the Creator stirs up all kinds of contradictions with one movement. And all this so that we can better understand His capabilities. So let’s move on and see what happens to us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 34

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A Way to Connect to the Creator

938.03Question: Now all the friends from my ten have been distributed between different tens. What should I focus on: my ten or the one I am placed in?

Answer: It does not matter. You do not have to stay in your ten. Instead, try connecting with strangers.

They are all similar to you. They have the same states, goals, and understanding that they must nullify themselves and be connected with others in agreement and mutual guarantee.

Therefore it makes no sense for you to be associated with those you know in this world purely physically, externally, or psychologically. You should enter into the same spiritual contact with strangers.

Let’s say I am sitting at the end of the table with five to six people around me. I will discuss some issues and have a workshop with them; that is a ten for me. If I connect with it now, I can already reach the Creator.

In the next lesson, I will be with another ten, a third, and a fourth. Thus, I always look for ways to connect to the Creator.

On the contrary, it is terrific if you act this way. It will teach you how to grasp any state to cling to the Creator through it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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The Creator in Man

963.5Question: According to Kabbalah, the Creator clothes Himself in every person, in each of us. For example, when you talk to someone, do you perceive that person as the Creator speaking through them?

Answer: It depends on my focus and what I need from the interaction.
If I need to respond to someone on their level so that they understand me, I engage with them on that level rather than connecting with the Creator within them.

In this case, I view the person not as an individual, but as nature. They appear to me not as a personality but as a part of nature through which the Creator manifests in relation to me. So, I do not see the person before me. I see a mass of nature, of humanity, through which I observe the Creator, His actions, and His attitude toward me.

However, when I wish to see the person and his individuality, I need to perceive the Creator as He descends to the level of that person, wants to elevate and shape him, and He addresses me.

Then I address that person directly, while considering the Creator’s influence on him and my own influence on that person so that our influences—mine and the Creator’s—align within him and enable him to rise.

Question: Is this such a complex scheme? Do you separate people into two streams?

Answer: Of course! If it is a person with a point in the heart who needs to move forward, if it is my student with whom I must interact this way, I relate to them as the Creator does—as a unique, distinct spiritual individual and not just a mass.

This approach applies only to people with a point in the heart who work on themselves and reach a level where they represent a spiritual individuality. There are not many such people. But there are not supposed to be many of them.
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From KabTV’s “I got a call. The Creator in Man…“ 3/20/10

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