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The Names of the Creator—Attainment of His Properties

610.2He is called El, Elokim, Shadai, Tzvaot, EKYEH, so they would know Him in each and every attribute (Baal HaSulam, Foreword to The Book of Zohar, #40).

Question: The names of the Creator correspond to the ten Sefirot. Is it their filling or their naming?

Answer: These are ten Sefirot with light in them.

The name of the Creator consists of the Kli and the light that fills it. Kabbalists express their achievements in almost identical names. These names make it easier to indicate what you are suggesting. Just like in our world, if you talk about someone or something, you express some particular perception of this object, nothing more.

Question: What does it mean that the Kli of the ten takes such a form that it can accept the light or the name of the Creator, for example, El, Adni, or Eki?

Answer: It all depends on the level at which a person unites all the concepts of his relationship with the Creator. In what he is similar to the Creator, he senses this measure of similarity in himself, measures it, and thus names the Creator.

Just like in our world, you say some person is smart and has some kind of feature. That is, you call it that through your perception of its properties.

Question: Concerning the Creator, can I measure and verify this?

Answer: By comprehending the Creator, you measure your likeness to Him. And everyone who reveals Him on the same level calls Him the same way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/21/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Foreword to The Book of Zohar”

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Let’s Turn Our Life into a Spiritual Ascent

933Our life is a field blessed by the Creator, on which we must grow our spiritual future. And it depends only on us what kind of harvest we will gather from this field.

Everything depends on how we treat this soil from which it should grow, our attitude to working together in the field of all of us, and our attitude to the Creator. After all, the Creator gives this earth the strength to grow crops according to our desire.

Therefore, everything depends on the work between us and our appeal to the Creator. The field is the connection between us in the group and the Creator. And we need to ask the Creator to unite us more so that our common prayer reaches Him and so He gives strength to the earth to grow fruits on it.

This prayer depends only on our desire to achieve a result together and our willingness to put all our strength and hopes into this achievement, then a genuine prayer will be born from us turning to the Creator, which will awaken and oblige Him to give a harvest to our field, as it says: “My sons defeated me.”

That is how we will feel, attain, and discover the whole world, called the field. The world will open up before us like a book, and we will move forward together as one soul, one force, where everyone depends on each other and is connected to each other. That is when we will reveal that we really have a field of life blessed by the Creator in front of us.

We want to receive the strength and knowledge from the Creator of how we can work with our lives to turn them into an uplift and raise them to the degree of the spiritual world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Field that the Lord Has Blessed”

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Reveal the Ten Sefirot

938.05Question: What does it mean that a person attains the ten Sefirot for the first time?

Answer: Attaining the ten Sefirot means that a person goes through all their properties that are imprinted on him, associates with them, and becomes like them. Thus, he passes through the world of Atzilut.

Question: How do these properties pass through the worlds and become imprinted on them?

Answer: Each property manifests itself before a particular world and by passing through it, gets colored. as it were, in it, and moves on.

Question: Suppose we want to reveal ten Sefirot in the ten. Everyone feels unity and connection with the friends. What does it mean that the ten Sefirot are starting to manifest in this, and each property has attained this feeling?

Answer: A person feels himself consisting of these properties, wants to feel the Creator in each of them, and thus reveals them within himself.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 2/12/24

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Overcome All Fears

508.1Question: All my fears arise because my desire to receive is not satisfied, and this causes anxiety. But I want to shift my concern to whether I can bring contentment to the Creator and whether I am doing it correctly. What is the prime support for each of us in this transition? Where can we find the strength for it?

Answer: Usually we draw strength from the understanding that there is no other way, that we have friends beside us who think the same and are in the same circumstances. We must overcome these fears, uncertainties, and doubts that knock us off the path to our goal. We must overcome them by all means.

Question: Is it possible to race ahead of these obstacles and awaken love?

Answer: No, you must understand that all these obstacles are designed to correct us. Without feeling them, we cannot correct them, and the world will not come to a sense of balance.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”

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The Field Where the Future World Will Grow

934The ten (a Kabbalistic group of ten friends) can be perceived as a field in which we are obliged to do certain work.

If our work is correct, our future world will grow in this field, the correct, kind one. In this field we will find the Creator who blessed this field. In this way, we can move forward on the spiritual path.

We are looking for the Creator in our life, where is He? We want to reveal Him, turn to Him, meet with Him, and advance in our lives by following Him or being next to Him, no matter how, as long as we are together with the Creator. It is like a little child who does not know where to go, but he sticks to his mother right next to her and walks with her.

If a person connects with friends and completes the full ten, this group becomes a holy society where one eventually finds the Creator. This whole group is like a field blessed by the Creator, and together with them, one can move toward the goal of creation.

The Creator gave you this group so you could achieve the goal of creation. But this field may remain bare and unseeded or even overgrown with weeds and thorns without yielding useful fruits.

Or maybe, on the contrary, you connect with your friends, strengthen them, and wish that a good harvest would grow in this field, which could provide the whole world, all of humanity. Then this field that is overgrown with thistles will turn into a fertile arable land blessed by the Creator.

To do this, we need to unite and thank the Creator for caring for us and leading us to the end of correction. And the more we unite and become closer to each other internally, the more we will strengthen our connection, called the field, until we realize that we need the blessing of the Creator. And without the help of the Creator, not a single seed will sprout from the earth.

Therefore, all our work consists of connecting and turning to the Creator, asking Him to help us work properly in this field, and to grow such a harvest that can saturate and fill all creations.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Field that the Lord Has Blessed”

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A Remedy for Getting Rid of Fears

514.02Question: Can a person get rid of fear for him or herself?

Answer: Maybe, if the person is in fear for others.

Question: What if one feels no physical fear, but only awe of the Creator? Is this fine?

Answer: Yes, that is a good kind of fear.

Question: How do you overcome the fear of losing your group and friends?

Answer: By asking, only by asking. We have no other appeal to the Creator other than prayer. Therefore, ask.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”

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To Attract the Light of Correction

938.05Question: How can we build an intention to be giving in relation to the environment?

Answer: Our intention is to receive for the sake of the Creator. And what does it mean for the sake of the Creator? When we connect with each other in a single ten, twenty, thirty – it doesn’t matter, then in this way we attract the upper light, and it corrects us.

Question: When the Creator gives a strong desire to unite, how can we not waste this light? Is it enough to hold everyone in your heart and lift them up to the Creator?

Answer: No, you won’t keep anything that way. You must immediately connect with your ten and rise together using this light, this excitement that you have felt in yourself.

Question: Some friends believe that we should create a “magnet” of unification, and then the Creator Himself will attract it.

Answer: Don’t expect anything from the Creator, act on your own, and if you can’t, then ask the Creator to help you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Raising Oneself”

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The Purpose of Disturbances

562.02Comment: It says that if fear overcomes us, we must investigate and study that it is not by chance.

My Response: You must understand what you are asking for or you will receive a reverse reaction from the Creator and will not be able to identify that it comes to your appeals to Him.

Question: But, in essence, we have constant contact with the Creator through the ten. When I realize that I have become detached from it and connect this with the Creator, that He did it so that I think little about the ten, and through the ten about Him, how do I correctly engage in the work?

Answer: The Creator never creates such obstacles for us. He does not want to detach us from the ten or from the purpose of creation. It all depends only on us.

Disturbances are meant to make us even more attached to the Creator and to turn to Him with requests more often.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”

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Whole Stone—Complete Faith

514.02There must be a “small stone,” but it must be “complete,” meaning sufficient to keep the whole of the Torah and Mitzvot based on the “small stone,” and only then is it called “complete” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 170, “You Shall Not Have in Your Pocket a Big Stone”).

A small stone is small faith (above reason), and a large stone is great faith (reason).

A person must have a “small stone.” For him to fulfill the Torah and Mitzvot based on faith, this stone must be whole. It means we must strive for faith, whether small or large, but complete, not broken into parts.

Therefore, we look not at the size of the stone, but at its integrity—how much the integrity of faith allows us to fulfill the Torah and commandments together.

When we strive for one goal, strength, faith, and action, we see how the Creator unites and turns us into one solid stone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “You Shall Not Have in Your Pocket a Big Stone”

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What Is the Difference between Fear and Trembling?

962.3Question: Fear comes to us as a result of the Creator’s distance or nearing. How can we develop trembling due to the lack of connection with the Creator?

Answer: Think about it more than you do now and try to get closer to your friends. Be sure that the Creator specifically gives you such states so that, despite them, you still feel yourself moving toward the Creator.

Question: What is the difference in the work of building a Kli out of fear or out of trembling?

Answer: Trembling is more worrying, and fear is much worse than trembling.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”

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