Entries in the 'Group Work' Category

View from Concealment

963.6Question: It is easy to feel shame in our world. Why is it so hard to feel it about the Creator?

Answer: The fact is that we do not feel the Creator and do not imagine Him, and that is why it is difficult for us to feel what He feels, what He has from us, and what we receive from Him. For us, this is all a closed account. Therefore, our state is called concealment.

Question: You can still feel shame about the group because we get a lot from it. But is it difficult to imagine that the Creator is behind the group?

Answer: When you begin to come closer to the group, then you will start to feel the Creator behind it. To feel Him, one must strive with all one’s soul to connect with the group.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 11/2/23

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Overcome the Burden of the Heart

528.01Question: Why, when a friend has some trouble, does resistance arise in the ten to work with his Hisaron (lack)?

Answer: Because this is not your own need, but supposedly someone else’s. The Creator deliberately burdens your hearts so that you overcome this.

Question: Does the Creator, by this, want to show that the friend himself, in prayer to Him, will feel the strength to rise and unite all friends?

Answer: No, the friend himself cannot do anything. He can only raise a prayer to the Creator and ask Him.
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From the 1st part of  the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/29/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘There Is No Blessing in That Which Is Counted,’ in the Work?“

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In the Common Field of Unity

942Question: What kind of work should take place in the ten when the Creator pushes it away and then calls it to Himself?

Answer: In the ten, we must work, trying constantly to come closer to each other and then to the Creator.

There are no other possibilities here except to create a common field of unity around us from which we turn to the Creator, convince Him to help us, and bring us closer to Himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/2/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Call Upon Him When He Is Near“

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The Main Thing Is the Work in a Group

530Question: Will dissemination work allow us to receive the light of the Creator without feeling shame?

Answer: Yes, of course. After all, at that time you attract additional desires to yourself, place them under a common screen, and ask for them to be filled with light so that the Creator corrects them and raises them to His level. What more could there be? Therefore, it turns out that the most important thing is the work in the group.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 11/2/23

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In Thoughts about the Creator

934Question: How can we stay only in thoughts about the Creator or at least quickly return to them?

Answer: It is with the help of a group. It is difficult to do this alone. It is necessary to study, read, and listen all the time. But it is much easier to do this with the help of a group.

When you are surrounded by the thoughts and statements of your friends, when you hear them all the time, you will be able to constantly remain in thoughts about the purpose of creation, about coming closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Depart from Evil“

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On the Approach to the Creator

528.01Question: Once you said that we are created out of heavy and lazy material, I feel it more and more. Is it right to ask my friends to pressure me, or is it better to ask the Creator to correct it?

Answer: Each of you is becoming increasingly egoistic every day and therefore needs pressure and help so that your friends can pull you with them. That is deliberately done by the Creator so that you feel the need to connect with each other and thus move forward.

If you constantly talk about it, then it will be much easier for you to raise MAN for each other from the heart.

You should get a gradual feeling of approaching the Creator. Through this, you will see what will happen next.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/23, “Fighting the evil inclination”

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Everything for the Sake of the Creator

276.02Question: When a person is in a state of descent, what is the right way to ask for the help of the group to go through this? And after one overcomes everything and rises to the Creator, how can he or she pass this state to the group instead of starting to enjoy for his own sake?

Answer: He must annul himself before the group and perform with it all the actions that it desires in order to be included in it. Only by integrating with the group will one feel how he can help his friends, and continue to do this in accordance with his personal qualities.

That is, he directs all the strength that he receives to filling the desire of the group, which also includes his desire.

Question: You once gave us this exercise: do everything we do in life with the intention for the sake of the Creator. How does this habit help us? How quickly does it lead us out of the intention to receive for ourselves, or is it just deception?

Answer: It may be deception, but it still takes us to the next level because the habit becomes second nature.
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From the 1st psrt of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/7/23, Writings of Rabash “Why Life Is Divided into Two Discernments”

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Yearning for Bestowal

939.02Question: How from individual work on exiting the will to receive do we connect together in the ten?

Answer: Each of you should be above the individual will to receive and yearn to connect only in the will to bestow. In this way, you perform the appropriate actions and the Creator influences them with His light, and you gradually enter into the will to bestow.

If you show your friends an example of a desire to connect with them, then the upper force passes through this example, which influences them as well.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 11/10/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘You Will See My Back, But My Face Shall Not Be Seen,’ in the Work?“

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Questions about Spiritual Work—26

281.02Question: Should the group develop anticipation of pleasure about future degrees and refresh memories of good states that were in the past?

Answer: Yes, absolutely. This supports a person on the spiritual path.

Question: What is the life force, and how do we receive it from time? After all, there is no time in spirituality.

Answer: To the extent that you want to rise above your nature of reception and yearn to be in nature of bestowal, you begin to come closer to spirituality, you receive new forces, and you discover the source of these forces—the Creator.

Question: What is the life-giving force of holiness? Does it exist within us now?

Answer: The life–giving force is the force that holds you and gives you the strength to learn, hear, come to lessons, interact with friends, and so on. Of course, you have it within you. If this force did not exist, you would be completely exhausted.

Question: How can you convince the body that it is obliged to receive life force from spirituality?

Answer: Constantly tell it about it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/08/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Vitality of Kedusha”

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In the Center of the Ten

938.07Question: How should each friend feel bestowal in the center of the ten?

Answer: Everyone should feel that they are connected with all the members of the group and want to rise together with them and cling to the Creator.

This is the right aspiration, the right action, and the right feeling.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is a Great or a Small Sin in the Work?”

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