Question: Does how a person goes through a descent affect the final result?

Answer: Almost not at all. The main thing is to pass through the descent quickly and rush to new ascents.

Question: When there is no feeling of descent, does it mean there are no ascents or that not enough work is being done?

Answer: If a person does not feel descent, this is a sign that he is not investing enough in his studies and connection with his friends.

Question: You once said that when we are in a strong connection, we can ask the Creator for something big. Can we demand precisely such a connection from the Creator?

Answer: You can. You can demand everything from the Creator.

Question: How do we turn a descent into an ascent so that darkness shines like light?

Answer: If we apply a descent to the present state, it increases the light.

Question: When a person is in an ascent, he forgets that there is a descent and it is necessary to preserve this Kli. How do we keep it precisely in the state of ascent?

Answer: While in the ascent, a person can save his state only if he checks himself and sees that there is a state even higher than this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/20/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Time of Descent”

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Question: How do I treat states when it is unclear what the purpose the Creator gives them to me for is? How do I go through them correctly?

Answer: Just ask Him. Moreover, if you think that everything you go through you receive from Him, you have the right to turn to Him and ask any questions.

Question: When I am in the state of “storm,” it is as if it exposes me. At this moment, there is no time to ask the Creator questions. Would it be right just to grit my teeth, shut up, and stop myself?

Answer: Lie low and keep it to yourself. Slowly release what you want to say from your heart. Let the Creator gradually hear all this without words.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/14/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Commentary on the Psalm, ‘For the Winner over Roses’”

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This is why they wanted to continue their friendship from before, from the time they were in the form of “Lord, I heard the report of You, and I am afraid” (Zohar, Beresheet 4:7). This means that with the strength they had extended from the past, they could endure the states and go from strength to strength. (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 101, “A Commentary on the Psalm, ‘For the Winner over Roses’”).

Question: What does it mean to continue a friendship as if this is a state that we can artificially take out of thin air? How does one continue a friendship?

Answer: To continue a friendship means to want concealment to go away and revelation to appear, the storm to subside so a soft, good state can be established in which we can connect.

The stronger the state of the storm, the more connected we become to each other. Even though the storm hinders us and separates us, on the other hand, it makes us cling to each other.

To continue our friendship, we need to help each other get out of our hurricane state that erases everything between us and does not allow us to connect.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/14/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Commentary on the Psalm, ‘For the Winner over Roses’”

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Question: When you feel that you are in a sacred environment where everyone shares the same love for the same thing as you, there is a sense of a tremendous gift. I would like this gift to spread to other people as well. How can we make others feel the same, common love?

Answer: Approach your friends and together organize a request to the Creator for Him to manifest Himself more.

Question: Should we ask the Creator for blessings on this work every time?

Answer: Always! In the ten it is expressed in the desire to receive strength and knowledge from the Creator about how to work with your life in order to raise it 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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Question: We must attract the light of Hochma within reason. How can we check in the ten that we do it for true reason?

Answer: It is only with the help of the light of Hassadim when you want to bring everything to life with this light.

Question: What is the difference between attainment and knowledge?

Answer: When you are talking about full attainment or full knowledge, there is no difference. But when we go through the stages of spiritual attainment, there is a difference between attainment and knowledge.

Question: The sources say that there are many paths in the Torah. Does this mean that every soul has its own path? Or are there many different paths to the goal in Kabbalah?

Answer: No, in the end we must all connect and move along the same path to achieve complete correction.

Question: Is it possible to say that the ten in itself is a righteous man?

Answer: No, the ten must reach a state where they will be united and be called righteous. And at each degree, it will be like a different ten. So its every righteous person will always look different.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/16/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Why We Need to Extend Hochma”

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Question: The Creator twists and turns us, and raises us. What is the solution for a ten to become like an embryo and understand what He is doing to us?

Answer: You must decide to hold on to each other and turn together. Whatever the Creator does, let Him do what He wants, but you do not let go of each other.

The most important thing everyone should receive from the ten is a willingness to connect into one single system called a Kli. Under your general pressure, this system will move toward the Creator until it catches Him itself. That is your task.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Two Discernments in Attainment”

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Question: What does it mean to come to the temple and want to take the Creator?

Answer: It means to get to know the Creator, i.e., achieve the same qualities as the Creator, come closer to Him, and be in contact with Him.

Question: What is “striking the lion first and defeating him?” What kind of work is this?

Answer: This work is to be unafraid of any obstacles on our way and boldly go forward.

Question: How can you fight laziness when you are too lazy to make an effort?

Answer: Make an effort against laziness. Besides, you have friends. So together, put pressure on your laziness and stifle it.

Question: I make efforts, but the Creator takes and turns everything around. Why does what seemed right turn out to be wrong?

Answer: It does not matter. The Creator can do as He sees fit, and you do as you see fit. Thus, you will come to a mutual solution.

Question: We must work in joy. But when we feel the joy, we do not see a lion (obstacle) on the road. So where are the efforts we are making?

Answer: You should see with your efforts that you are approaching the lion, seizing it, and putting it away.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/15/24, Writngs of Baal HaSulam “A Sage Comes to Town”

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Question: I want to become similar to the Creator. What particularly attracts and gives me greatness of the Creator is His self-annulment, His humility, and the fact that He does everything and does not manifest Himself anywhere. How can one achieve this annulment, how can one achieve such a blessing?

Answer: It happens naturally. When a person engages in Kabbalah correctly, under the influence of the upper light, he receives such an impact from above that he becomes humble. What does he need? Just to lean on the Creator. This means to desire nothing except that all the goodness emanating from the Creator into this world will pass through the soil and the shoots will sprout.

Question: We are approaching the convention now. What advice would you give on how to achieve this annulment in the world group right at the convention?

Answer: Think that we all must be together in mutual annulment toward each other, and then from us will grow exactly the crop that needs to grow in the field and will feed all people in the world, both spiritually and physically.
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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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Question: How can the world Kli tens properly merge into the convention?

Answer: I open my heart to everyone. Let everyone enter it. Everything that I receive from the Creator, I am ready to give to everyone. I constantly take care of this connection between us. Then we will succeed.

Question: But we will go through many different states at the convention. Something will distract me, maybe even throw me out of the state of unity. How do I stick to this particular point?

Answer: Don’t get distracted. Stick to all the hearts, gather them in your hands, and hold them together as one common heart. This is the only way you will feel constantly connected with the whole Kli and with the Creator. The main thing is to think about unity, about the common heart of the convention.

Question: Precisely when I work in the ten?

Answer: You don’t work in the ten, you work in everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/20/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Time of Descent”

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Question: Now at the convention, we will gather with friends in the tens and try to feel the internal connections between us. How can we come together to the first condition of the prayer that only the Creator can correct us?

Answer: Talk about this with your friends and make sure that they think the same way that only the Creator can correct your condition.

Question: And how can we together with the whole world Kli cultivate this common cry?

Answer: To do this, you should try together to get as close to each other as possible, embrace everyone, feel the vibrations of your friends, and unite with them so that there is no space between you.

Come together, bring yourself closer to a global connection, and we will make a big correction in the world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Three Conditions in Prayer”

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