Question: We united and felt how important it was to raise the importance of the Creator and be in unity. But this feeling keeps getting weaker. We are losing what we had gained. How can we strive for more together, not individually?

Answer: Try, but it comes very slowly. The Creator is waiting for you to achieve unity. That is exactly why He takes pleasure in giving you bigger and bigger tasks to unite you in your desire.

Excite the Creator with your prayers so He deals with your questions and does not move away from you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Rewarded—I Will Hasten It”

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That is, if there is Hesed in the world, the Shechina is in the world, as well, and vice versa (Rabash, Article No. 4, “Concerning Hesed [Mercy]“).

Question: When there is no mercy in the world, why is there no Shechina?

Answer: If there is no light of Hassadim in the world, then the Shechina cannot come into the world and reveal itself. It is waiting for the light of Hassadim, the property of Hesed (mercy), to appear in the created beings.

Question: Can we attract the light of Hassadim in the ten?

Answer: Yes, in the ten we can cause the revelation of the Shechina by uniting and mutually aspiring for each other—friend to friend.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning Hesed [Mercy]”

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Question: What are the sensations I feel in the ten: love, inspiration, and fluttering of the heart?

Answer: This is what the Creator sends to you. So, in any case, thank Him and reciprocate these feelings.

Question: Fear and awe come from the greatness of the Creator and the greatness of the friends.
Do these two properties help us reach the middle line?

Answer: Fear and awe coexist in such a way that they create the right attitude toward others in us that will be the middle line where you can bestow to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy with Trembling”

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Question: What does it mean to be in the same circle with friends?

Answer: Studying together, conducting workshops, and participating in various events that bring you closer together and advance you toward the Creator mean that you are in the same circle with friends.

Help them, and they will help everyone else in the ten. In this way, you will all rise together because a person ascends spiritual degrees through being lifted by the group.

Question: How can we learn to accept praise from the ten and not feel shame?

Answer: No, we should praise the ten and praise the Creator for giving us the friends thanks to whom we can advance. Everything we receive from the environment we attribute to the Creator because it is He who gives the friends the desire to lift up the entire ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Raising Oneself”

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Question: We see spiritual qualities of a friend in how he makes efforts, and we appreciate them. But his egoistic qualities are the same as mine and do not allow us to get closer to each other. How can we work with this so that it does not interfere with spiritual connection?

Answer: You must overcome your contradictions with him, force your way through his attitude, and then you will understand how it is done and act correctly.

Question: And if you cannot overcome your egoism?

Answer: Ask him to help you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Let His Friend Begin”

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The efforts that one makes are but preparations for achieving devotion. Hence, one should grow accustomed to devotion, since no degree can be achieved without devotion, as this is the only tool that qualifies one to be rewarded with all the degrees (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 208, “Labor”).

Question: What does it mean to lose yourself for the sake of a new degree? Is that sacrificing oneself without knowing the state we are going to?

Answer: It means losing your egoism, to stop feeling it. Without this, we will not be able to rise to the following degree. Therefore, we must be ready to sacrifice our ego.

Question: Do we sacrifice our qualities or some levels of the desire to receive?

Answer: In principle, we do not sacrifice anything. We agree that the upper light gradually annuls our egoism. Before any new state comes to us from the Creator through our friends, we must annul ourselves and be ready to help each other in everything.

We need to be in this direction all the time, to want to get closer to the Creator, to turn our state in such a way as to be in unity with Him. The main thing is to not stop and move forward. There is a better future prepared for all of us.

Question: How can we effectively build a new level so that it is in love and bestowal?

Answer: To do this you just have to love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Labor”

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Question: How should we work internally and externally when a desire to convince and defend our opinion to others appear when scrutinizing Kabbalistic sources?

Answer: This is not right and it shouldn’t be like this. Try not to get involved in such matters at all.

Let everyone express their opinion, and then find out why it is this way and different way. But everything should be decided at a roundtable, preferably when the ten is complete.

Question: What follows from what: individual work from the work in the group or the work in the group from the individual attainment of the internal work?

Answer: It is interconnected. You cannot determine one of the parameters. They always affect each other and mutually determine each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Rewarded—I Will Hasten It”

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Question: How can one practically discern the difference between their current ten and the same ten on ascent to a spiritual level?

Answer: Try to lower yourself to the level of the ten and agree to unite with friends under any conditions. In this case, you will feel connected with them, which will be enough to start the spiritual ascent together.

Question: What is a spiritual ten in which we should establish a connection at a higher level?

Answer: A spiritual ten is my ten. However, until now I have not experienced this state, nor have I felt it.

Question: What will be revealed in it then?

Answer: Connection with the light, with the upper world.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Foreword to The Book of Zohar”

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Question: What does it mean to feed on the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and speaking levels in the ten?

Answer: All these four levels are below the level of Human. Your task is to absorb them within yourself and internally elevate them to the level of bestowal. That happens through unity within the ten, but best of all through prayer.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Foreword to The Book of Zohar”

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Question: What is the difference between a desire of the  Creator and a quality of the Creator?

Answer: The Creator has only one quality—to bestow, to fulfill, to saturate. His desire is to see a person who does what He has directed him to do to receive the upper light from this and be fulfilled with it.

Question: We come to the group with a point in the heart. At what moment can we assume that we have some kind of soul?

Answer: From the moment you start thinking about it.

Question: Is there a difference between mind and knowledge?

Answer: Of course. The mind is the ability of our brain to process data, and knowledge is what we accumulate in ourselves as a result of processing data.

Question: When you feel negative about the actions of another person, suddenly the thought comes to you about what would you do if you really loved him? Is this the voice of the Creator?

Answer: That is the voice of the Creator. This is the opportunity to fulfill the commandment.

Question: Do all the commandments have to be fulfilled only within the ten or beyond it as well?

Answer: We study the commandments inside the ten, and we fulfill them both inside and outside the ten in everyday life.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And You Shall Keep Your Souls”

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