This is similar to ten people standing and looking at an airplane flying from afar. To the onlookers, the plane seems like a tiny dot. But some of the people have binoculars that magnify the plane several times in size. However, each of them has a different set of binoculars—one has binoculars that magnify significantly, and for another, it magnifies less.

It follows that one sees the plane as four meters long, another says it is three, and yet another says it is only two meters long. They are all reporting what they are actually seeing, but still there are differences between them. Yet, the differences make no change in the plane itself, for all the changes are only in the eyes of the perceivers (Rabash, Letter No. 19).

Question: How can we discern the forms of spiritual connection between us through the “common binoculars” of the ten?

Answer: Because we are oriented in different directions, we cannot consider the common binoculars of the ten.  In order to obtain “common binoculars,” we must combine our visions and hearts toward one goal. And then we will see the Creator.

Question: Rabash writes that names (Partzufim) appear only in relation to the person who attains. How can we see something spiritual together since this is a personal experience?

Answer: It will come.

Question: Is it right for us to discuss at least something elementary? For example, how do we feel the importance of the goal in the ten or the level of connection?

Answer: Sure, discuss it.
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From the 1^st part of the the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/5/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 19

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Question: I feel that I cannot cope with my ego! Should I tell my friends about it or keep it to myself?

Answer: That you cannot cope is clear. But don’t look to discuss these issues with your friends as they have their problems. Instead, seek connection with the Creator.

Be wholeheartedly connected with your friends and at the same time turn your heart toward the Creator.

There is no need to involve your friends because you are in one state and each of them is in a different one. The most important thing is to seek connection with the Creator, and based on your connection with the group.

Question: So should I pretend that I am in a good mood?

Answer: Of course, always keep your friends in good spirits. Especially when you are in a low state.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/20, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What is this state where my egoism desires the Creator? And even not just the Creator, but the quality of bestowal. How, while denying bestowal, can I want it? What is this state?

Answer: Gradually, under the influence of studying and working in a group, the importance of the quality of bestowal will arise within you.

You will feel how you begin to respect this quality; it becomes valuable to you because by possessing it, you can transcend time and space. There would be no difficulty or problem for you because the quality of bestowal is above our world.

Our world is the quality of reception, while the upper world is the quality of bestowal.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/20, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: I feel my egoism has grown significantly. You said, “Either we annul egoism, or we elevate the importance of spirituality.” What should I do?

Answer: You should be glad that more and more egoism is revealed in you. You distance yourself from your friends; you do not want them, you do not want a group or any connection with others. These are all signs of growing egoism, and you should be glad about it.

That is, the left line develops in you, the growing ego, and the right line, correction, working with the ego despite it, must be aimed toward connection.

You must attract the upper light in order for it to create a second force in you, the force of attraction, so you will have two forces: the right and the left.

The fact that egoism is growing and you feel that you do not love your friends, do not want them, and push them away, are all signs of closeness.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/20, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: You said that the ten is a device that can captures the spiritual field. How can we feel that we have become this device?

Answer: Just as a compass captures the magnetic field, so do we. By gathering together, we create an instrument for perceiving this field, and it orients us, moves us, and nurtures us.

As the compass needle starts to turn in the magnetic field, we work in the ten until we begin to feel the spiritual field between us, which shapes us and moves us forward.

This is an inner sensation for each person to the extent that one annuls oneself before the ten.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/20, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: Often a person comes to study Kabbalah out of despair and is searching for the meaning of life. When does a person need a group?

Answer: When a person, according to the state of his soul and according to internal preparation in this life or previous lives, is ready to begin the right advancement toward spirituality, then he is brought into the group.

But that does not mean anything. Some people come to the group and start getting used to it very quickly. They understand that it needs to be done like this: I am in a group and must fully connect myself with it, and then together, as a team in the army, we will attain the upper world, the Creator.

Some people come to the group, but internally disagree that they should be connected to the rest. For what?! How? What does connection have to do with it?! The Creator develops them in advance in arrogance, pride, etc. In general, it is hard for them.

They do not understand at all what it means to get closer to others, to connect, i.e., they go through a completely different development system, knocking about and twitching. However, if they stay on this path, they will eventually reach great heights, but after a longer time than the others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/20, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What does it mean that the ten should measure the result of their work in the Kli of bestowal?

Answer: The extent to which the ten progresses in the Kli of bestowal is the extent to which it measures its advancement in spirituality.

A sign of real bestowal in the ten is the revelation of the Creator within it.

Question: How can we determine our collective readiness to meet the face of Shechina?

Answer: The tighter you all feel together in the ten as one person with one heart, the closer you are to the face of Shechina.
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From the KabU Retreat in Holland 6/1/24, “The Creator Is in the Ten”

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Question: What does it mean that the ten reveals the face of Shechina? Is it some kind of sensation between the friends?

Answer: Yes, if there is no common sensation, how can the Creator be felt? A single person cannot feel the Creator. One must be connected with others, bestow, receive, and form a complete feeling, a complete Kli, together with them.

Question: How is this complete Kli different from the usual connection between friends in the ten?

Answer: It differs in the essence of connection when the friends connect to reveal the Creator, not for themselves, but for the entire world. That is the direction they act in.

Question: Suppose we, at our gathering, try to build the intention to reveal the Creator for the sake of the entire world. What should happen in our connection for the face of the Shechina to manifest there?

Answer: You should feel that you are gradually getting closer to the state where the Shechina reveals within you. When this happens, the ten will feel the manifestation of the Creator.
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From the KabU Retreat in Holland 6/1/24, “The Creator Is in the Ten”

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Comment: You said that desire is primary. This threw me into a stupor because desires arise in my brain.

My Response: No, the Creator initially created desires, and then they began to take on various magnitudes, meanings, and forms, which we see as inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human degrees. In general, there are only desires in nature, only desires.

Question: If these desires arose in my brain, how can I correctly convey them to my friends and society and try to prove that they are correct?

Answer: There is nothing to prove. Each person has one’s own desires and is occupied only with them.

Question: And how do we create a common desire to sail together and unite?

Answer: It depends on your goal, and if you have only one, the Creator, you will unite your desires in Him.

Question: According to my feelings, everyone has their own Creator. Everyone creates Him by himself even though we are together. How do we create a collective Creator correctly?

Answer: Strive for a common goal, and you will understand how to act among yourselves.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/24/24, Writings of Rabash “Mind and Heart”

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Question: Kabbalists often say, “Let us think about our friends” or something similar. Does the concentration of thought change some material things in our lives?

Answer: Thought is the most important thing we have, even though our thoughts are not pure because in reality everyone thinks about themselves and not about others.

Although we think about others only when we want them to make us feel better, I could not even think about anything else because I am an absolute egoist, and this is my nature. Still, in this inner movement, in this impulse, there exists some small element of a different, unique attitude toward a friend in which I somehow realize inside myself that I cannot do without him.

I might not want this, but the Creator arranged everything this way. What can I do? I have to love him involuntarily, without knowing what loving means. Nevertheless, something like this should happen in the future. They say it is necessary.

In other words, there are many such artificial movements, but since they are in the general mechanism, they bring the light of correction upon us. I ask for my correction despite not wanting to change. It works like a child who does not know what he wants. Nevertheless, it works.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. We are Thinking about our Friend!“ 3/11/10

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