Question: What should we do if someone wants to exit the ten, and says that this does not suit them? How should we treat this?

Answer: Leave him and continue your movement without him. In Kabbalah, we should not force anyone. As it is said, there is no coercion in spirituality.

But this person will not move forward without being in the ten. This is the law. Some people have been in the group for ten years and it is as if they are not in it.

When a person wants to disconnect from holiness, it is holiness that precedes him and throws him out of the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/1/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is “Hurry, My Beloved,” in the Work?”

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Question: What is the difference between restricting and annulling yourself?

Answer: Restricting egoistic desires or annulling oneself is the same thing.

Question: How can you work in the group with the Sitra Achra (egoism)? Is it possible to scrutinize my states in the ten if I do not have this perception and have doubts?

Answer: You will not scrutinize it anywhere except in the ten, only in the ten.

Question: What does it mean to accept all the degrees that exist in the world?

Answer: Everything that comes to me I must return to the Creator.

Question: At our root in the Creator’s plan to delight His creations, there are degrees of creating the desire to receive, active and actuated, shattering and correction, work and reward. If we are to be like our root, is it necessary to be aware of these degrees and realize every desire according to them?

Answer: As far as we understand them, we are realizing them. The main thing is that we should be like those influences of the Creator we will receive.

Question: What are we missing in developing hatred of egoism?

Answer: Seeing how much egoism prevents you from achieving the best possible degrees.

Question: Is business possible within a group of friends, and what can it lead to?

Answer: No, by no means. Business within the group is prohibited. The connection should be only spiritual.

Question: It says: “Anyone who is proud, the Creator says, ‘He and I cannot dwell in the same abode.” What does it mean to be proud? We are so small, we are learning to annul.

Answer: Precisely because we are so small, we like to be higher than others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/30/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Does It Mean that the Sitra Achra Is Called ‘Malchut without a Crown’?”

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Question: What does it mean that we connect with individual souls? My friends in the ten are like separate souls. Where is the part of the soul that I connect with in them?

Answer: The desire of friends for spirituality, the point in the heart is his private soul. You should try to connect with each of them so that you can be together in one common soul.

Gradually you will become closer and closer, at different levels, and from this connection forms a common soul.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “One’s Soul Shall Teach Him”

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Question: In his articles, Rabash gives an example that parents see only positive qualities in their children and only negative qualities in their neighbors’ children. He is talking about natural love.

How does this happen in a group with strangers?

Answer: In the group, by working on myself, I gradually begin appreciating my friends because they agree to follow the path to spiritual attainment with me and participate in our common spiritual ascent. Therefore, I respect them, love them, and want to help them in everything. And they, in turn, treat me the same way.

Question: Based on your experience, do you continue to see the faults of your friends and only rise above them, or do you not see them at all?

Answer: I perfectly see all their faults since they are revealed in my egoistic desire. But in my corrected desire, I begin to see the opposite—the successes of my friends, their spiritual differences, and how high they are above me. It turns out that I have opinions about my friends, and I rise with them.

In addition, we are integrated in each other. That is, each member of the ten works to raise his or her friends above themself, and in this way we, as it were, raise ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/16/24

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Question: Rabash writes that everyone should see their friends‘ greatness because that is the only way you can receive some value from them. He introduces a new concept called faith above reason. Even if you do not see your friend’s greatness, you must go by this faith. How is this possible? After all, a person has no control over his feelings.

Answer: The fact is that each of us is hidden from the other. We cannot see the other in a state of complete revelation. Therefore, there is only one advice. You must respect and appreciate your friends for being on the spiritual path with you and raise them as much as possible.

That is how we should treat our friends in the group. A group is preferably ten people who study together and share their feelings.

To the extent that a person can elevate a friend in this way, can raise and hold him above himself, he also rises above himself. He receives forces that he takes from others, and at the same time, he gives his force to this cooking pot. Then, he is rising spiritually together with everyone.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/16/24

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Question: What should I do if I want to engage in Kabbalah, but do not have the strength to work in a group? There is a feeling that the group is more interested in material things than spiritual ones. I do not know how to change this perception; therefore, I feel I am distancing myself from Kabbalah and the group.

Answer: That is incorrect. You should talk to someone in the group about it. They will tell you whether they agree with your assessment or not.

Question: What if there are friends who also feel the same way?

Answer: You need to talk to everyone together in the ten and stop the descent.

Question: Is this the group’s downfall or just mine?

Answer: No, it could be a descent of the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/1/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is ‘Hurry, My Beloved,’ in the Work?”

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Question: During the past congress, there was a clear feeling of Rabash, as if he was among us. When we feel the teachers, how can we convey our gratitude to them through you?

Answer: Through your heart directly to them.

Question: Now everyone in the world Kli has a lot of “gold,” “bags of gold.” And we all need to go upward. What should we do with the “gold”? Should I throw it out or add more?

Answer: You should exchange it for a connection between you. Give all your “gold” in exchange for connection in the ten.

Question: It is easier for me to address the Creator as you, Rabash, or Baal HaSulam. That is, it is like a thread of wisdom. And what is next, above, is it impossible to imagine?

Answer: You do not need to imagine or try to do it. It will come when it is necessary, in the most needed form.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Happy Is the Man Who Does Not Forget You and the Son of Man Who Exerts in You”

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Question: What does it mean that a person corrects the inner body and reveals the NRN of Nefesh of the world of Assiya? Are these some degrees of connection?

Answer: A person corrects his or her desires, which first rise to the level of the world of Assiya, then to the level of the world of Yetzira, then to the level of the world of Beriya, and the world of Atzilut. There are four degrees before us that we must climb.

This correction occurs in connection in the ten, when you discover the Creator, the light, inside your unity with the friends.

Question: How does a person understand that now he or she has risen to the degree of the world of Assiya and not just experiencing a feeling of connection with one’s friends?

Answer: At the level of the world of Assiya, a person still does not understand this. One must ascend to Yetzira and Beriya. At the level of the world of Beriya, a person comes to understand where one is and what is happening to him or her. Then comes the world of Atzilut.

Question: Do these degrees have anything to do with the connection between friends? What is added in these details: Assiya, Yetzira, Beriya? Is this some kind of connection density?

Answer: Yes, it adds a feeling of unity with friends and the ability to hold the light in their connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/31/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Man’s Connection to the Sefirot”

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Although it seems as though he is a great person, he should nonetheless look into his actions and think, “What makes me great?” (Maor VaShemesh, Ekev).

Question: It says a person should find what he is respected for. Does it mean that I go to the group for the sake of respect?

Answer: You come to the group not for respect, but to put yourself next to your friends so that you are the smallest of them, and they are the great in everything. And when you have such an inner attitude toward them, you will be able to start receiving a certain amount of spiritual energy from the Creator.

Question: But if I cannot do it and I have to consider myself the smallest, how do I get rid of the resentment against my friends?

Answer: You should, on the contrary, thank them not verbally, but internally for giving you such conditions, and you can put yourself even lower. And then a carpeted path awaits you.

You are all valuable elements that the Creator has created in humanity because you are the closest to the Creator and bring the upper light from Him to all humanity. Therefore, you must respect your friends as the greatest and most important.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/26/24, ”Preparation to ‘Life in the Ten’ Convention”

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Question: How can one dissolve into the world Kli to affect the world to come toward peace?

Answer: It depends on your prayers, words, and thoughts. If you want peace in the world and all your friends to come together in one heart, that is how it will be.

Question: How do I let go of the control over all my states and go by faith above reason?

Answer: Let them go. What the Creator will do to you will happen.

Question: It says: “One should only take care not to harm the society.” How can we harm society?

Answer: By the fact that we would rise above zero in our pride.

Question: Should the connection of the ten and all of Bnei Baruch take place simultaneously?

Answer: No, by no means. It may happen that today you will have a spiritual ascent and the rest of the ten in a month or two.

Question: What kind of intention should the ten build to raise the proper prayer?

Answer: So that we can all be united. So that everyone aspires to be the last, but he will be the first.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah 1/26/24, ”Preparation to “Life in the Ten” Convention”

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