Entries in the 'Group Work' Category

Everyone Has Their Own Work

507.05Question: You said that a woman’s desire runs in depth, and a man’s desire in breadth. How does this connection and filling happen? How can we feel this point in the ten?

Answer: This is not your work, but the work of the Creator. You only have to identify your flaws and pray for their correction.

Question: Is it enough just to ask the Creator to correct a flaw? What else is required of us?

Answer: Only to ask for complete correction.
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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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032.01Question: It happens that you ask for a friend and immediately feel how the Creator helps him. And sometimes it seems that you want to help and ask, but the person cannot accept this help, and you feel that the prayer is not going through. Are there any conditions for a person to be able to accept help?

Answer: If you open your heart, then most likely he will open his own and accept your help. It all depends on you.

The influencer, the giver, must be absolutely selfless, like the Creator. Then he can hope that his action will be correct.
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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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962.2Question: If my desire to fulfill another person stems from a desire to do good to them, then to check my attitude toward them I need the evil inclination to check whether I am acting above hatred, separation, or rejection. Is this the flaw?

Answer: The evil inclination is inherent in us from the beginning, so absolutely all of your desires have a flaw.

But you can see how much you are within these flaws only when you start working on connection with your friends.
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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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Expression of Feelings

600.02Question: Spirituality is an internal feeling of a person. How should we express these relationships between us externally?

Answer: By participating in the internal life of the group, of the ten.

Question: Should we externally express these internal relationships between us?

Answer: Yes, do not hesitate to openly express them.
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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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938.01Question: How do we work correctly when revealing differences in impressions and perceptions? Should we leave them as they are, perceive them as a wealth of impressions, or argue and prove to each other what is better and what is right?

Answer: Focus only on the love between you. Will it be such that the Creator appears in it? Between us, we must form a quality similar to the Creator and then He will be revealed in it. The quality revealed between us should be mutual love. Let us try to connect so that the Creator can appear to us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “World, Year, Soul”

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Breaking away from the Ground like a Rocket

935Question: When a person wants to become Israel, but realizes that the body does not let them work for bestowal, what do they turn to the Creator with? What do they ask for? Is it to adhere to the friends to receive a new deficiency?

Answer: If a person’s deficiency (Hisaron) increases, will they have more opportunities to come to bestowal, to progress? Of course not. They will not be able to progress, even with the lack they currently have.

Therefore, we expect a greater connection between us and an aspiration toward the goal. Then, we can hope that we can cry out to the Creator in such a way as to become capable of rising above our initial state. That is the hardest thing—to break away from the ground like a rocket.

Question: What does the most minimal but common deficiency in the ten mean? How do we come to it?

Answer: By despising your egoism and trying to break away from it by any means.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/9/24, Writings of Rabash “If a Woman Inseminates”

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Feel Your Friends’ Desires

934Question: In order to be in the intention to bestow, do you have to feel the Hisaron for that desire?

Answer: You need to feel the Hisaron (the need) to feel your friends’ desires, absorb their aspirations, and raise a prayer for them.

Question: You said if one does not ask the Creator correctly, a person may not reach final correction.
How do I ask the Creator correctly?

Answer: First of all, do it together with your friends. Then, you will see how you can advance together and ask for more and more.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/14/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Book of Zohar”

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290Question: When you reveal the evil in yourself or a friend, how can you use these moments to advance in the ten?

Answer: When evil manifests itself in each of us, we must all try to accept this evil as common and rise above it. In this way, we will accelerate our progress.

Question: If a person overcomes hatred and climbs Mount Sinai, it means he has learned to love. Is it hard work to learn to love?

Answer: In general, yes it is hard work.

Question: How can we develop such a desire for the Creator that the need for the greatness of the Creator is felt as the need for breathing and that only this revives us and gives life?

Answer: Think about it, then your thoughts will turn into prayer and force the Creator to help you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/3/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Torah, the Creator, and Israel Are One”

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212Question: What does it mean to learn the ways of the Creator?

Answer: It means to learn the correct ascent toward the goal of creation.

Question: The Torah was given to us for the sake of attaining unity, so we need to constantly strive to unite with soul and heart. How can we transition from an individual approach to mutual connection to unity in the ten?

Answer: With the help of the upper light that unites us and affects our connection. In this way, we begin to feel ourselves as one common whole and feel what this evokes in us.

Question: What does it mean that the Torah will teach a person? Why doesn’t a person learn, but the Torah teaches him? It feels like the Torah is active, and the student is passive.

Answer: Yes, a person simply opens himself to the influence of the upper light, the influence of which is called the Torah. And a person acquires an understanding of what he is doing and where he is ascending.

Question: We are approaching the women’s congress. It is as if we are at the finish line, but internally we are sleeping. What is the importance of this day? We are all worried about what is happening in the world and here is such a chance. How do we not miss this chance?

Answer: We have such a chance every day. Pray, ask in any words.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/3/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Torah, the Creator, and Israel Are One”

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281.02Question: It says that spiritual correction occurs at midnight. Why exactly at midnight?

Answer: Because it is the time of the revelation of the Shechina.

Question: The more you imagine yourself and your friends near the Creator, the more evil thoughts arise like we are no longer worthy to be near the Creator. What does this indicate?

Answer: It means that you must continue. The Creator made us so ugly; therefore, He cares for us to change and ascend.

Question: What does establishing oneself in faith by quantity and quality mean?

Answer: Quantity is determined by how many times you try to approach the Creator during the day. And quality is determined by what you ask from Him, how you wish to join Him. Then, you will have the proper connection with the Creator.

Question: Where is the line between hatred for evil and self-flagellation so as not to turn into a fool who sits and eats his own flesh? What can protect us from falling into this state?

Answer: If I turn to my friends, they will definitely hear me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/14/24, Writings of Rabash “The Daily Schedule”

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