Question: It happens that when you turn to the Creator, there is a feeling of inspiration and relief, and sometimes, on the contrary, there is a feeling of dissatisfaction and emptiness.

What does this mean?

Answer: It means that you are dissatisfied with the Creator.

Question: If I feel depressed in relation to what is happening in the world, does this mean that I lack faith above reason? How do I switch to the positive?

Answer: Connect to your friends and raise your head to the Creator, but not physically. Just raise your questions to the Creator with a request for Him to answer them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/21/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?“

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Question: It is said that the determination of whether our actions relate to holiness is made in relation to knowledge, because in holiness there is knowledge, while in the Sitra Achra there is not. But does the Sitra Achra also feed on the knowledge of holiness?

Answer: But the Sitra Achra does not manifest the knowledge of holiness because it represents the light of the Creator, which manifests itself precisely in the intention to bestow, in the intention to be connected with others.

But in this case, first you attract the light of Hassadim, and then the light of Hochma manifests in it. This is called higher knowledge.

Question: Which actions in the ten are good deeds that pertain to holiness and reveal joy?

Answer: Actions of giving, rapprochement, love, and desire to help friends, such actions are beneficial and help us get closer to the Creator and to the purpose of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/22/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy Is a “Reflection” of Good Deeds“

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Question: We say that a person should be like a guy who thinks about a girl all the time. The girl in this example is the Creator. Who is the ten in this example?

Answer: The ten is a society that sets up a guy to connect with a girl.

Question: To build the right screen, do you need to know and keep the commandments, or is it just a work with the intention?

Answer: For now this is only work with the intention.

Question: What is the difference between faith and the Kelim of bestowal?

Answer: Faith is the quality of bestowal. And we need the Kelim (vessels) of bestowal in order to raise our faith to the Creator from them.

Question: You say that prayer must be complete so that it does not remain in the air. On the other hand, you say that the Creator will correct our prayer if it is wrong. Which prayer do we leave up in the air, and which one will the Creator correct?

Answer: The Creator decides this.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/25/23, Writing of Rabash “The Main Difference between a Beastly Soul and a Godly Soul”

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Question: If we receive some answers from the Creator, but then we cannot follow them, what does this mean? Does it mean that we lack His greatness?

Answer: Yes, it means that you have already left this area, and therefore you do not feel the Creator. Try to connect with the friends and turn to the Creator together.

Question: How can I recognize the Creator’s answer to my question?

Answer: If you have a question and insistently ask for an answer, then gradually you begin to feel the Creator’s answer in your mind.

Question: Could it happen that the answer we receive will become irrelevant after some time?

Answer: It can. Then you should ask a new question.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/21/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?“

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Question: Is it possible to soften my heart with the help of individual prayer and free it to receive the Creator? If it is possible, then how can I correctly build the intention for this individual prayer?

Answer: I think it is very difficult to do this alone. It is better if all the friends in the ten ask together with you.

Question: Should they ask with me or for me?

Answer: With you and for you, and all together for someone, it does not matter. The main thing is to turn to the Creator.

Question: How do we prepare to stand before the Creator with a true prayer that He will answer?

Answer: Every day, in every appeal to the Creator, we must ask Him for the same thing, the most important thing is to have a connection with Him through the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/24/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “My Soul Shall Weep in Secret – 1“

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Question: What should we focus on more in spiritual work: on the greatness of the teacher who constantly guides us or on the greatness of the ten?

Answer: The teacher exists as if from the side. You incorporate in the ten, and together with the ten you strive to the Creator.

The teacher teaches you, supports you, guides you, and pushes you, but he is still like an outsider. Of course, you get the direction, the strength, the examples, the language, everything from me.

Nevertheless, the main thing is to strive through friends only to the Creator, to be in alliance with them and fly to the goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/25/23, Baal HaSulam “Choosing Labor“

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Question: You say we must correct the connections in the ten and pray for our friends. How does one pray for friends if their behavior irritates you?

Answer: That is wonderful! It means you have something to pray for and ask the Creator that you will have the right attitude toward your friends so that you constantly forgive and justify them although you accept each other with hostility.

Question: How can we maintain a connection with the Creator when it seems there is no Creator and you see your friends as uncorrected?

Answer: This is similar to how a mother leaves small children in a room, goes out, and closes the door behind her, but she watches them from afar and sees what is happening with them. So it is with you.

You feel that you are forgetting that the Creator is constantly among us, inside us, and around us, and under no circumstances should we leave this fact behind. Therefore, there is nothing we can do here except constantly be careful not to throw the Creator out of sight. Otherwise, we fly out of the real world and from real feelings.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/19/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “She Is Like Merchant-Ships“

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Question: The first commandment of the Torah is trepidation before the Creator. Should I fear that I cannot implement the Creator’s commandments?

Answer: Yes, because the Creator’s commandments are the laws of nature. If we implement them, we feel in harmony with nature. And if not, then we experience their negative consequences on ourselves.

Question: So I have a choice: I can follow them or not. So are these not laws like the law of gravity that I must observe?

Answer: These are somewhat different laws, but have the same effect as physical laws. If we ignore them, we are punished for it.

But we must remember that the laws of the Torah apply to a person’s relationship to the world, to his own kind, that is, their difference from the physical laws of nature, which apply to the level of inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature, including humans.

The laws that we study in the science of Kabbalah apply to relationships between people and between people and the Creator (the supreme governing force).
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 12/10/23

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Question: How can you check whether a person is in touch with the Creator or not? Who is that inner voice that one constantly talks to?

Answer: It is him, himself.

Question: There is confusion here. On the one hand, it says: “There is none else besides Him,” i.e., all thoughts of a person come from the Creator. So, is it Him after all?

Answer: It is Him. But the fact is that man does not see the Creator and does not feel Him. He simply acts as directed by the Creator, establishing the necessary connections in the group with his friends who strive for the same goal.

Thus, heading toward one goal, they gradually change from beings who only want to receive into people who want to bestow.

Thats is the gradual approach to the Creator, likeness to Him.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 12/5/23

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Reception of pleasure—when one receives for one’s own benefit—removes him from cleaving to the Creator.

And this is why we gather here—to establish a society where each of us follows the spirit of bestowing upon the Creator. And to achieve bestowal upon the Creator, we must begin with bestowal upon man, which is called “love of others” (Rabash, “Purpose of Society – 1”).

Instead, one should receive pleasures that bring contentment to the Creator. This means that the creature will want to bestow upon the Creator and will have fear of the Creator, of receiving for oneself, since the reception of pleasure—when one receives for one’s own benefit—removes him from cleaving to the Creator.

Question: Is bestowing upon one’s neighbor and loving one’s neighbor the same?

Answer: Love is a feeling, and bestowal is an action in intention, in thoughts.

The society Rabash writes about consists of selfish individuals who come together with the goal of reaching the Creator and realize their goal through bestowal and love for others. In such a way, we must train ourselves to bestow upon the Creator.

Question: Why can’t one work with Him directly?

Answer: And how would you reveal the Creator if you lack the qualities that He has? It is precisely through drawing closer to others and connecting with friends toward the same goal that you gradually acquire the quality of bestowal that is already the quality of the Creator. You become more similar to Him, start feeling Him, and thus draw closer to Him.

Comment: But a person talks with the Creator within himself.

My Response: These are just his internal ideas, not what happens. To connect with the Creator, we need the same qualities that He has.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 12/5/23

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