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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Question: Should the desire to get closer to a friend be mutual or is my desire alone enough?

Answer: In order to connect with a friend, your desire alone is not enough. It is important to find out why you want to get closer to your friend.

There are billions of people in the world. Why do you want this particular person to be your friend? Why do you want to become his friend? What does it mean to be a friend? I am for him, and he is for me. This is a big problem.

Where will there be room for the Creator between you? That is, here you need to imagine the correct combination of both of you and the third one—the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Let His Friend Begin”

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Question: Rabash writes that we are always trying to escape from the work that the Creator has assigned to us. What kind of work am I trying to escape from and what should I do to ensure that I agree to it?

Answer: This is work in connection with friends, with all those who are outside the upper world. But you are ready to be connected with them and to provide them with everything that is missing for their elevation.

Comment: But I am always in tension, which makes me think about my friends and care for them. This internal pressure keeps pushing me away. I do not want to be in it all the time.

My Response: You have to get used to it.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is ‘Eating Their Fruits in This World and Keeping the Principal for the Next World’, in the Work?”

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Question: What does every place where there is a lack becomes a place of faith mean?

Answer: When a person lacks something and does not know how to achieve it, he turns to faith. In this case, a desire emerges inside him that develops to the level of similarity with the Creator.

Question: How is this lack formed in us? We unite in the ten, we strive for perfection, and it appears that our Kelim are growing all the time. How does this happen?

Answer: It happens under the influence of the upper light that affects us and expands our Kelim.

Question: I understand that at the time of the lesson I attract a miraculous property (Segula) that corrects me, but here I do not. How to find this indicator?

Answer: This is an internal feeling. There is no other way.

We need to rise spiritually to a level where we attract desires and the light that magnifies these desires, to the point where we can feel the entire universe within us.
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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: Our spiritual environment includes friends representing very different cultures and traditions. How do we learn to appreciate and accept all the richness and diversity correctly?

Answer: We are absolutely not interested in these cultures and traditions. Our interest lies solely in connection to become one person with one heart. That is what we want to feel above everything else without considering anything else.

Question: Can we examine the goals of each person at our meetings?

Answer: No, we must select one common goal that is most relevant for us today and pray for it.

Question: Why did the Creator give us the right environment and, in addition, the illusion of this world? What does He want?

Answer: He wants you to identify your spiritual desires, refine them within yourself, and pray for the Creator to answer them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Raising Oneself”

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Question: When we talk about a friend’s flaws, do we mean his internal qualities or some external actions? For example, we made a commitment to come to the lesson on time, but my friend does not come, and of course, I see this. Should I justify this flaw?

Answer: In fact, Kabbalists say that everything that I see as wrong in others is only because it is in me. That is, I see in another person a reflection of my bad qualities.

Comment: Yes, but…

My Response: Your reaction is entirely justified, but this is generally true. A corrected person will never see bad qualities in anything or anywhere, even when facing the most disgusting and blatant egoistic properties! Because he does not resemble these properties.

Question: Let us say you and I are in the same group. Do you notice that I am absent from the morning lesson? Do you make excuses for me? Do you think it is your fault that I did not attend the lesson?

Answer: Yes, I am guilty too.

Question: Do you have any complaints against me?

Answer: No. Only regarding myself. But here we are talking about a very high level.

Question: Until we have reached this high level, how should we react when we see damage caused to the group by a friend? Does everyone have to justify?

Answer: You must correct yourself until you see the whole world corrected.

Question: If I alone see some flaw in a friend, I can still say that it is in me, but when all the friends see this flaw, this is an entirely different state. Right?

Answer: It does not matter. We must reach a state where we see the world corrected, and only the Creator manifests there. Regarding this state, we see ourselves as somehow still uncorrected. Therefore, there is no such condition that could not be justified in our world.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/16/24

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“Not all who want to take the Lord may come and take. This is why we need the righteous of the generation. By adhering to a real teacher, whose desire is only to bestow, and then one should do things that his teacher likes, meaning hate what his teacher hates and love what his teacher loves, then he can learn Torah that will not be a potion of death (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 245, “Prior to the Creation of the Newborn”).

Question: What does it mean to bring contentment to the teacher, and how does this manifest itself in the ten?

Answer: The teacher requires only one thing from you—to approach the Creator through the ten all the time. That is all. Do you want to be liked? Do this action, nothing else is needed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Prior to the Creation of the Newborn”

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