Question: How do we use spirituality in the ten?

Answer: You just have to convey to your friends your correct feelings and help them. Think about the fact that you want to please the other, fill him, and help him.

Success or failure in spirituality depends on persistence and attention.

Question: Will there ever come a time when spirituality will come first?

Answer: It is up to you and your friends to convince each other that there is nothing more important than spirituality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Anyone Who Pleases the Spirit of the People”

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Question: Our words are limited and cannot always convey our feelings in prayer. How can we elevate our prayer to the Creator without words?

Answer: Words say nothing. Open your heart, and that is all. A person needs words also, but not the Creator.

Question: What changes in the perception of reality for a person in adhesion with their friends and the Creator?

Answer: They see the whole spiritual Kli in connection with the Creator and move further toward the goal of creation.

Question: You say that we should be an example for each other. Should we be afraid of standing out from the rest?

Answer: Do not hide, fear, or be embarrassed under any circumstances. Show everyone a good example.

Question: Strong egoism resists a state of lowliness. Does this mean that it wants to be worthy of good deeds?

Answer: No, strong egoism wants everything for itself.

Question: During the lessons, we experience great inspiration. How can we share this with the world, and what is the point of working in a group of ten?

Answer: It is your heart. You should fill it with inspiration and then gradually spread this impression from it throughout the world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/14/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Whose Heart Makes Him Willing”

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Question: It is said that we can merge with the Creator emotionally and attach ourselves to Him with our hearts. But we have the Torah and studying with our minds. What is the advantage of studying with the mind?

Answer: Some people strive to understand the Creator intellectually and technically. And some wish to understand Him emotionally within themselves. It all depends on the person.

We approach the Creator both with our minds and feelings. Often we attain Him more intellectually, and then there are periods when it happens more through emotions, and in this way we gradually move toward Him.

It is like walking on two legs: right-left, right-left, taking steps like that. The same applies here. Sometimes you may feel Him through your intellect, and other times through emotions. We need to progress in both ways.

Question: How can we properly balance the preferences of some for emotional study and others for knowledge-based study in the group? How do we avoid misunderstandings on this basis?

Answer: Gradually, you will start understanding each other because you are required to unite in all your inner qualities. For instance, one person might currently perceive everything through reason, while another through the heart, and then it may switch. You will have to manage this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Torah and the Creator Are One”

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Question: To raise the importance of participating in lessons and meetings, which is preferable: to scrutinize this issue or to create a warm, kind atmosphere and wait for the Creator to raise the importance?

Answer: Both are needed.

But most important is the importance of friends, the importance of the Creator, the importance of the path, and the importance of the ascents so we can move forward all the time.

Question: How can we build a large Kli of bestowal so that the Creator notices it and fills it if, from lesson to lesson, we see the importance of many other things not related to bestowal?

Answer: You should pay special attention to bestowal and strive for it because only in this quality will you feel the Creator, not in anything else.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/14/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Whose Heart Makes Him Willing”

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Question: How important is the Hisaron (the need) of the lower one in the ten? How important is his appeal to the friends to correct material suffering?

Answer: Any one of the friends turning to the ten is very inspiring and shakes everyone up. Then  everyone tries to respond with the proper answer.

That is very important. Without the Hisaron of the lower one you cannot correct material suffering.

Question: If we fail to correct something in the spiritual, it immediately passes into the material plane. Given the material problem, how can we learn what we must correct in the spiritual?

Answer: You cannot figure it out, at least not in your state. But what you can do is make every effort to combine all your actions and all your thoughts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And the Saboteur Was Sitting”

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Question: We have a sense of self-awareness that we are a reality that can receive and bestow light. In the quality of the Creator, we feel ourselves as part of a single system with Him. How do we reconcile these two qualities in the work of the ten since they are essentially different?

Answer: Yes, they relate to different qualities, but we must try to combine them. Gradually, we will succeed in doing so.

Question: How can we strengthen the intention to bestow in the ten?

Answer: We need to talk about it more, and while performing actions, you should try to feel that you are uniting and turning to the Creator. Then longing toward Him will be stronger, and you will come to His revelation.

Question: Can a person studying Hasidic texts embrace the dissemination of Bnei Baruch and begin to strive for the Creator?

Answer: Of course. That person needs to get acquainted with what we do. We want to reach the feeling of the Creator. That is what he should engage in. He needs to read our books and immerse himself in them a little.

Question: If a person is part of a whole and included in the system, how can he pray for others without thinking about himself? What is unconditional love? How can one love unconditionally at all?

Answer: I do not know how to explain it because it is a feeling. You have to try to let these feelings pass through you, through your connections with the friends, and then you will have the opportunity to understand what this is about.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Torah and the Creator Are One”

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Question: Each of us is engaged in working with our desires. The influence of the light leads to their correction, which is an individual attainment. But what does it mean to add one’s friends‘ desires to this picture? How do we approach these desires and reveal them to reach a common attainment?

Answer: This is a difficult task that we must engage in at every step. Therefore, we must carefully monitor where our thoughts are, what we talk about, what we learn, and what we read. And this must be done without departing from spiritual boundaries.

Question: In the ten’s work, there is an understanding that one must feel the desires of the friends, but unfortunately, there is no internal impression. What is the correct approach here: to clothe them or to come out to their desires?

Answer: We simply need to unite in our desires. We must agree to connect with friends in such a way as to become “one person in one heart” so that there are no differences between us so that we always think about one common goal and strive only for it.

Question: Ultimately will we come to the point where, in our mind, we will feel and define ourselves concerning the Creator and ask for correction? Can we achieve this in the ten?

Answer: Of course, I do not doubt it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “World, Year, Soul”

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Question: Why does Baal HaSulam use the concept of sightly to refer to flaws rather than purity, for example? What is considered sightly?

Answer: Sightly refers to the purity of thoughts, care for one another, help, and support, everything a person reveals in their heart regarding the friends.

Question: When I conduct internal scrutiny and become increasingly convinced that I belong to this sightliness less than others, inevitable disappointment and despair come. How do I correctly present my flaws to the Creator?

Answer: Just like that, bring them to Him so He may correct you. Do not hesitate, but come to Him, ask, cry, and demand that He correct all your flaws.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Sightly Flaw in You”

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Question: Is it true that our material sufferings should lead us to turn them into spiritual ones? And how do we do that?

Answer: It depends on finding out how much you understand that, in principle, there are no material problems.

Only spiritual problems descend into our world and are clothed in various material phenomena, no more than that.

Question: If we unite, material problems will remain anyway, but we will go through them faster. How can we tune in to the fact that they will not leave, but we will be able to work with them through the reforming light?

Answer: You must imagine that all your problems will lose their negative appearance, and you, on the contrary, will succeed in your advancement toward the Creator, and material problems will gradually disappear.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And the Saboteur Was Sitting”

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Question: What will help you quickly recognize material and spiritual disturbances as help and realize that nothing is an obstacle, but on the contrary, it would awaken and give even greater striving to the group, to the Creator?

Answer: If you find out what stands in your way to uniting in the ten and turn to the Creator so that He strengthens your unity and gives you even more strength to connect, everything will be fine.

Question: How do I keep an internal connection with the ten during the day?

Answer: I do not think that is possible. You will still fall-rise, fall-rise. After all, there is no such condition in the world as to stay in one place.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And the Saboteur Was Sitting”

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