Reception for the sake of bestowal is love. Bestowal for the sake of bestowal is mercy. The difference between them is that love is when you are ready to give everything, and mercy is when you as if do a favor to another.

Question: Let’s say I have received pleasure from bestowal and I must transfer this pleasure to the Creator, humanity, and the group. How can I do it practically?

Answer: You connect yourself with a group, you wish to unite your friends and direct them to the Creator in order to receive from the Creator forces that would bring you closer to each other and to all the people in the world.

In connection with the friends, you should try to reach a state where you will have a common desire to bestow, and you will be able to work with it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/9/23, “Habit becomes A Second Nature”

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Question: In our work, we acquire habits. Every day we come to the lesson, meet with the ten, and perform many other actions according to the usual program. How does they all become Kelim (Vessels) for the quality of bestowal, for spiritual attainment?

Answer: A person does not know how this happens. The light influences a person and gradually leads to an increasing understanding that the benefits of bestowal far exceed the benefits of reception.

Then one weighs: it is better for me to give, say, five dollars than to receive it. This is how it works.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/9/23, “Habit becomes A Second Nature”

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Question: How do we rely on the Creator in our sensations? How can I understand that my actions really bring contentment to Him and not to my egoism?

Answer: You must pass your actions through the group. If you bring contentment to the group, and your friends want to bring contentment to the Creator together with you, then you are acting correctly.

An indicator of receiving pleasure for the sake of the Creator is that as soon as you forget about Him, the pleasure stops.

Question: How do we correctly pass pleasure to the Creator?

Answer: It depends on the intention. You must gather as a group that is united by a common intention and common efforts to bring contentment to the Creator. And you should want to see and to feel that you all are connected with each other and with the Creator; that is how you pass the pleasure to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/10/23, “Habit Becomes a Second Nature”

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Question: When preparing a meal for a group event, is there a difference between everyone building an intention at home alone, or is it better to get together and cook a meal with a common intention?

Answer: There is a big difference. If you prepare a meal together with a common intention, with common actions, if you help each other and set a common table your friends gather at, it means a lot. Cooking and eating together bring you closer together than a lot of lessons.

When preparing a meal, you need to think about the fact that you want to be together, in one heart, in one stomach, in one body. It brings people very close together. While eating, take your time, start to feel the taste in every part, in every spoon, in every piece of bread, in everything you do. You will see how much it connects you spiritually.

It is written both in the Torah and in The Book of Zohar about how nice and pleasant it is to sit at the table with your friends. You can be sure that such a meal brings you closer to each other and to the Creator.

Question: And what if the friends have decided that it is better for everyone to cook at home and bring the food to a common meal? Is it right?

Answer: This is also possible, but then it’s not a common task. Perhaps you don’t have the space and opportunities. We have special conditions for this in the Bnei Baruch center—a large, good kitchen. All meals are prepared only by our own people; we do not hire anyone from the outside.

So come and participate in the mutual preparation. We invite everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/9/23, “Habit Becomes a Second Nature”

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Question: I believe that I love my friends. But do we know how to love correctly? Is it possible to learn this?

Answer: You must strive to do everything possible for your friends to reveal the Creator. This is our main task.

If a person thinks about this and roots for, that is, cares deeply, that his friends and in general all the inhabitants of our world will reveal the Creator, he will do the greatest work and the greatest favor for himself.

Question: Why does it hurt so much to feel the impossibility of uniting?

Answer: Because this is the very goal of creation, and we must reach it, but we see that we are not capable, that we cannot.

Then the entire program of creation, the entire program of life, collapses. What should you do? There is only one option left: unite with friends and demand from the Creator that He does it for us. We will come to this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/8/23 “Habit Becomes a Second Nature”

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Question: At the moment, we do not have external constraints that would force us to stay in a virtual connection. How do we get back to physical meetings? What is the difference whether we work in the ten or gather together with all the tens? There are no restrictions but they remained within us, and we got stuck in them.

Answer: I see that after the virus there are many changes in each of us and between us, between the tens, and in general groups. There is nothing we can do about it. We must understand that such changes must obviously take place.

We, in Israel, also have big changes in the groups, in numbers, in connections, and in the way we unite. I think that it will take some more time, and maybe it will turn into a new state and not somehow return to the past.

Every one of us must work in their group. The tens are by no means canceled; the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about their necessity. Connection of the tens, however, will begin when we come closer to the common desire. As it is said in the Torah when they entered the Land of Israel, they began to unite and correct themselves. I hope this will all become clear soon.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/12/23, Writing of Rabash “The Importance of Faith that Is Always Present”

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Question: How can we make it so that we do not constantly justify egoism but make it work for us?

Answer: The best thing is to do it with love. When I try to develop love for friends, my egoism moves somewhere to the side.

Question: How can I avoid justifying any of my actions by the statement “There is none else besides Him” since this removes all responsibility from me?

Answer: Integrate with the group more, and then it will become clearer what you are doing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/3/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Question: When preparing for each meeting or lesson, I have to scrutinize the reason I want to feel the greatness of the Creator. If I have no such habit, does it mean the basis for spiritual work has not been built?

Answer: It is desirable to have one or two questions prepared in advance on the topic we are studying, then listen to the lesson and ask new questions.

Question: Sometimes I am in a state where I am already thinking about my friends, so that they come to a meeting, overcome obstacles, and feel the greatness of the Creator. And the state of thinking about myself disappears. Is this state more similar to the Creator? Should there be any stages in this work?

Answer: The main thing is to bring hearts closer together. You need nothing else. You should constantly remind each other about this. After all, the moment you leave your hearts and do not direct them to get closer to each other, you immediately crumble. Think all the time about the way to be in one heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/3/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Question: How can we always be in search of the Creator? We are constantly looking for something, and some things lead us away from the search for the main thing in life. How can we not make mistakes and look only for the Creator?

Answer: I think it is necessary to talk more often with your friends about the need to unite with each other in such a desire, in such an intention, in such a thought that you could attract the Creator to yourself.

What for? So that He fills you and raises you to His level. This is what you desire.

Take all your friends, even the entire world group, connect them all mentally and turn to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Question: There are states in the ten when you feel ascent, joy, and love for friends. It seems that everything is fine. But suddenly friends leave with great criticism. Does it mean that we do not see the real state of the friends in the connection but only our egoism?

Answer: It happens in different ways. How can we rise above egoism without revealing it?

Question: How do we step over our states and see what friends really feel?

Answer: You have to imagine this even if you do not see it. You have to justify them.

Of course, you may not notice that a friend is feeling bad. Therefore, we need to talk about it and try to think good about everyone.

Question: In developing sensitivity to friends, we experience two polar states: either you are completely insensitive or, to the contrary, you are very worried and overreact about anything. How can one control this sensitivity?

Answer: I cannot advise anything. Keep going and you will see that you will still come to the correct result. Just continue, every day, so that there is something new in your relationship and in your appeal to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/23, “My Heart Is Slain within Me”

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