Question: Sometimes the thought comes to mind that we want to “receive” the Creator. But we know we belong to the Creator and He can do what is good for us. Then it turns out that the place for efforts disappears, and He does everything for us, as it were. How can this be correlated?

Answer: Everything is much simpler. By turning to the Creator, I know that only He can change my state, save me from any bad state, and raise me to a good one.

I should not doubt that the Creator will provide all this for me. I am in such an environment, a group, a ten, which is sure that the Creator has the possibility to change our states from negative to positive.

In principle, everything depends on Him, but I have to do everything that depends on me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson1/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Three Conditions in Prayer”

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The essence of the assembly is for everyone to be in one unity and for all to seek but one purpose: to find the Creator (Maor VaShemesh, VaYechi).

Question: We will have many different actions at the convention. How exactly do we hold on to being in unity and “finding the Creator“?

Answer: We have no other goal. We want to connect with each other, discover the Creator, and come closer to Him.

He, for His part, will influence us and help us unite and reveal Him. This is how we will meet.

The most important thing for us is the Creator. He is between us, fills us, raises us, connects us, and leads us to complete correction where we adhere with Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/25/24, Preparation for the “Life in the Ten” Convention

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Everything you will hear, see, and feel at the convention, you must keep within yourself in order to pass on to others. In addition to lessons, you will have all kinds of virtual meetings. Try to briefly convey to each other your inspiration and desire for connection so that we are all in the same heart, meaning in the same desire.

We must give ourselves to the common desire to unite, so that everyone connects through us and there is a single desire in which we reveal the Creator.

To give oneself means not to have any desires of your own, but only the desire to connect everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/25/24, Preparation for the “Life in the Ten” Convention

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Question: How can we create such an atmosphere at the convention that the state of connection is our only desire and nothing distracts us from it?

Answer: You enter the convention completely empty of all your duties, deeds, and thoughts. There is nothing but thoughts of unity, only about it, nothing else.

Question: How do we seriously approach the work of creating a unified desire?

Answer: You must agree on this with each other before the convention—don’t utter empty words but only what is necessary to connect your hearts.

Question: What should our attack on connection look like during the convention?

Answer: To connect with each other so that there is no free space either in everyone’s heart or between us. We will succeed; you will see. You will suddenly feel that you have the strength, the desire, and the thoughts that you can do it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/25/24, Preparation for the “Life in the Ten” Convention

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Question: If there is a sense of detachment in relation to the connection, then what should our orientation be when everything is open and there is nothing definite?

Answer: You must break all the bad ties between you, instead restore good ties, and think only about how to turn into one big Kli together. You do not need anything else, just to become one single heart.

Question: What does it mean that as the differences are corrected they disappear? After all, everyone has their own root of the soul, and connection allows you to reveal even more clearly the individual characteristics of each desire.

Answer: Although the individual characteristics of each are revealed more clearly, the direction is the same. The meaning of spiritual ascent is for everyone to unite and create a single network that will connect all hearts.

Question: I feel like I do not know how to connect all the World Kli in my heart. But I know you can do it. Can I add my intention to yours?

Answer: Please, I am open to everyone in the world, absolutely everyone. Therefore, join me, I will join you, and together we will strive for complete connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/25/24, Preparation for the “Life in the Ten” Convention

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Question: On the eve of the convention, I experience two states: excitement and joy. I would like to know which of them should I pay more attention to?

Answer: We should be glad that we have the opportunity to come a little closer to the Creator, and we are together on the path to this.

Question: What is this inner work of everyone at the convention that will be broadcast outwardly so that those nearby can hear and see something from everyone about the work of the Creator?

Answer: We need to feel our desire in such a way that it comes from the heart and affects the desires of everyone. After all, we want to be so connected with each other that everything that we have in our hearts is fulfilled.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/25/24, Preparation for the “Life in the Ten” Convention

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How can we, together with our friends, invite the Creator to our meal? This is not difficult at all. The Creator is not proud and does not require a special invitation.

If we have even a slight desire for Him to be among us, He will come and be with us at our meal and at our gathering.

There is no force in the world softer, more yielding, more understanding, and more responsive to us than the Creator. Certainly, He will be with us at our Kabbalah convention.

But if we want to be with Him, that is a completely different and more complex question. For this, we need to acquire His qualities and get closer to Him together and feel this closeness as the greatest reward among all existing in reality.

Then we have this chance. However, only to the extent that we are ready to become similar to Him, to this force, which is immense not because of its great power, but due to the willingness to lower Himself and secretly help each of us in such a way that we do not feel it. This is entirely opposite to our egoistic nature.
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From the talk at the meal, 1/13/24

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Question: How do you get out of this dead state when you seem to have been thrown out of the general desire?

Answer: Pray, ask, and cling to the group, to the friends, with all parts of the body.

Question: So you can cling not only to the ten, but also to a wider environment?

Answer: It is possible to cling to a wider environment, but in the ten it is mandatory.

Question: But the wider, the easier it is?

Answer: I think you will get lost there. It is best to start in the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/22/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Cannot Be an Empty Space in the World”

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Question: It is said that one must have desires elevated above all the desires of the world. And at the same time, we are taught to put aside our desires and follow the aspirations of our friends. What should I do? Should I pay more attention to my desire or my friend’s?

Answer: First of all, you need to pay attention to your desires, check how different they are from the desires of the ten in order to get closer to them. And if your desires coincide with the desires of the ten, you raise them together to the Creator. And then you check how much they coincide with the desires of the Creator.

Question: How do I check if they coincide?

Answer: You will feel it inside you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/22/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Cannot Be an Empty Space in the World”

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Every time he feels that distance to a greater extent than he thought, it causes him no contention (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 172 “The Matter of Preventions and Delays“).

Question: Should we calculate the distance from the Creator in our work?

Answer: There is no need to calculate anything. In any state you should always work toward coming closer to the Creator.

If you all work together and support each other, you will always have the right aspiration to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/21/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Matter of Preventions and Delays”

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