Question: What is required for the development of the soul? How does the process occur? How can you understand and feel that you are on the right path?

Answer: Only one thing is required for the development of the soul: to begin to develop it by drawing closer to others. For this, we usually build small groups that we call “tens” because it is desirable that the group is comprised of ten people, but it can be fewer than ten. By drawing closer to each other in the ten, people begin to feel certain spiritual laws that operate within it.

This is a very interesting state. We can make of ourselves a laboratory in which we will feel ourselves under the influence of a special force, or the Creator.

In other words, as we start drawing closer to each other, we begin to feel how the Creator manifests between us, and as we move away from each other we feel how He distances from us. The Creator is in the center of this small group, and this is how we can define, clarify, and reveal Him. This state does not come immediately, we need to approach it. Give it a try.

By building the connection between us in spite of the egoistic forces that push us away, we will begin to feel it. It is the rapprochement above rejection that will cause a certain sense of the revelation of something in us. This “something” will be the harbinger of the attainment of the Creator. It is quite complicated and doesn’t come immediately, but it is precisely what our workshop is in practice.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/7/19

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Therefore, it is a must for every nation to be strongly united within, so all the individuals within it are attached to one another by instinctive love. …This does not mean that all the people in the nation, without exception, must be so. It means that the people of that nation, who sense that harmony, are the ones who make the nation, and the measure of happiness of the nation and sustainability are measured by their quality. (Baal HaSulam The Nation)

The force that strengthens the nation depends on its similarity to the upper force, which is oneness; that is, it is able to unite. Such a nation can overcome any difficulties as they manifest as breakings and imperfections that require correction. Therefore, we will have to encounter many problems so that we can cover all crimes with love, strengthening and uniting more and more. This is the way that perfection will be revealed.

Every time greater crimes are revealed, we must build an opposite state, with love above it, and with no despair or retreat. This is how the world is built and how it must reach correction.

How can the European nations achieve unity with the staggering number of refugees? The refugees only help the European countries understand that unity must be established above all differences. We need to see the wave of refugees as sent from the upper force: destruction for the sake of correction.

Fifty years ago, it was impossible to imagine the current refugee situation in Europe. Europeans protected themselves considerably, they preserved every nation’s uniqueness: Germans, French, Italians… . The borders were rigid and distinct.

Suddenly, everything began to change swiftly. According to the upper program, everyone must reveal the shattering they are in. How else can the necessity for correction be revealed if not by the introduction of a foreign force? Thus, several million people enter Europe who are foreign in culture, education, religion, and behavior. There is no greater opposite force.

As a result, the Europeans are beginning to understand that there is no choice: the only thing to do is to unite. They are yet to reveal how to come to such unity. No matter how unrealistic it may seem due to religious differences, the most acute and irreconcilable, there is no other option.

Europeans realize that they have to find the key to connection and unity. This key is found, first and foremost, in the integral method of connection explained by Kabbalah: covering all crimes with love. This is realized with the help of the upper force. We cannot achieve unity on our own; we can only create conditions where through Israel, a connecting channel, we will cause the upper force to act on masses of people.

In order for this to happen, we need their compliance: the way they talk and act will start to change. It makes no difference that only yesterday they were fundamentalists, no matter what religion they were practicing, the way they thought, or which of the seventy nations they were a part of. Everyone will become as one nation.

The main thing is that Europe is undergoing challenges and we must provide a solution. Therefore, uniting is very important, all the Kabbalistic groups across Europe and the entire world, especially now before the Bulgarian congress. This is how we will be able to bring the light of unity and oneness to Europe. Europe is becoming more and more engulfed in darkness, in the feeling of helplessness, despair, of being faced with no way out. But we will see how contradictions will begin to subside, opinions will start changing, as will thoughts and desires. Everything is resolved in thought and the thoughts will become new.

How is it possible that those who were fierce fundamentalists, nationalists, unwilling to talk to anyone who differs from them in the slightest would suddenly change? The upper light is able to reform anything. As He is intensifying the darkness right now, so will He correct it. The main thing for us is to be the conducting channel for Him—this is our work.¹
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/13/19, Unification of the People (Nation)
¹ Minute 4:00

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Question: Is there any personal responsibility in the work toward the Creator and the group?

Answer: Toward the group, I commit myself to reach, together with them, the quality of complete connection and bestowal.

My responsibility to the Creator is to reach connection with Him because it is for this purpose that He created me. By doing so, I reach my most comfortable, best, and highest state.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/7/19

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Question: Can there be a physical rejection of people in the group as a disturbance from the Creator for realizing my spiritual potential?

Answer: I would say that that is a blessing from above. This is good! You are given an example of your egoism—how much you cannot stand others.

That is, you have an absolutely clear discernment of where and how you should correct yourself and, at the same time, how to measure your progress in relation to your friends, qualitatively and quantitatively. It will be clear to you.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/23/19

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Question: There are situations in which a tsunami of emotions and feelings overwhelms you, and you sit and don’t understand what is going on with you! You certainly understand that everything is coming from the Creator. What should one do in situations like these? Should I continue to sit, go out, or try to extinguish this within me? Or should I simply surrender to the emotions and go with the flow?

Answer: I cannot say what to do; you must choose. But each time you to try to act so you will be in maximum connection to the Creator as the source on which your current situation depends.

Question: Do I or we in a ten have some kind of influence on the process of ascents and descents in other tens or groups?

Answer: We are all in a single system, and therefore, to some degree, you naturally influence everyone. If one real ten will emerge in our world group that will constantly work with the Creator, then we will all feel it. I hope that this will be soon.

Question: Is there a difference between a thought, a prayer, and physically coming to a convention and supporting a friend? Or are both necessary?

Answer: I cannot say because each circumstance needs to be considered individually, but in every case it is advisable to take advantage of all the possibilities.

Question: Is a ten a state of readiness to approach each other?

Answer: A ten is a skeleton, a framework of everything that the Creator created.

Question: How can you work with thoughts in which you want to do something bad to someone and you cannot get rid of them, even if you understand that they are from the Creator?

Answer: What this means is that you don’t understand that this is intentionally coming from the Creator precisely so that you will be connected with Him and you will determine that, “There is none else beside Him,” (Deuteronomy 4:35) and that the Creator cannot give you bad thoughts like these about others.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/12/19

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Question: It is written, “Do speak to the sagging friends to join us.” (Baal HaSulam, Letter No 12). Before each congress many friends feel that their urge to connect fades a little. How can I appeal to the heart of the friend? With what?

Answer: Just ask for them, nothing else is required. That is first.

Second, naturally, before the congress, there is a division into those who rush to the congress, and those who, as if back off.

It depends on how much effort a person has made, and how ready he is, which affects him by pushing him either forward or backward.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 2/12/19

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Question: How can I protect myself from weakening because of the negative words and emotions that I often get from others studying Kabbalah?

Answer: You should treat this very simply: There is no one else; there is only the Creator. He dresses in all the friends who seem to exist to you, and through them He conducts His exercises on you.

Suddenly it seems that the friends are saying something to you, or neglecting you, or humiliating you. In fact, it is not them, but the Creator who treats you this way. Therefore, always pay attention to them, but keep in mind that you receive it from the Creator.

Therefore, you should see the Creator behind each friend. Then you will have no complaints about them but only about yourself or the Creator.

Question: Does all this come from the Creator for the purpose of our advancement?

Answer: Certainly.

Question: Does humiliation advance a person?

Answer: Every moment of your life is meant only in order to advance you. The Creator constantly drags you to Him, even when you do not feel it. This is what He does.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 6/23/19

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Question: How do we pay for the quality of bestowal and the discovery of the Creator?

Answer: We pay for it with patience and with very great diligence, which is not easy. There is nothing in the whole world that is just given, freely, all the more so spiritual fulfillment, the discovery of the upper world.

The main thing is intention within a group. If you create a group and direct it to resonate correctly with the upper world, you will immediately begin to feel it.

Question: What is at the foundation of a request when a ten turns to the Creator? Is it a deficiency or is it still the greatness of the Creator?

Answer: It is the greatness of the Creator. It will draw you forward, directly toward the goal.
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From a Virtual Lesson, 04/07/19

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Question: Suppose one friend rose above himself, he feels the connection between us in the ten and the revelation of the Creator. The other friend, at this moment, does not feel this, he has different thoughts.

Should this happen at the same time or each one in turn; for example, today—one, tomorrow—the next one, the day after tomorrow—me?

Answer: Everyone will feel it at different times until you begin to feel the unity together, and only then does the Creator begin to reveal Himself in it. You must come to the point when inside yourself you live constantly in this collective solidarity. This is the group.

After all, a group is not just ten people sitting next to each other. The group is what they have separated from their egoism, they want to be above it, to unite in this and feel the Creator in order to give to Him, to exit themselves, but already together as one. Now, they are looking for where He is in order to give it all to Him, as if giving Him a bouquet of ten roses.

In The Book of Zohar, this state is compared to a rose among thorns. The rose (Hebrew: Shoshana) is Malchut. Shoshana is from the word “kick in the teeth” because it is very difficult to exit yourself, just as if a person gets hit in the teeth. Thorns are all the other qualities that you cannot connect to each other. In general, this is a big job.

But it cannot be that this happens today with you, tomorrow with another friend, then with a third, etc. You have to come to a state where you constantly work on it together, and your community and its direction to the Creator are the most important for you. This is the core of your existence, your life. Only this is worth living for. Everything else is as a small addition in importance!

Question: Can we discuss, in our daily work in the ten, how each of us feels about this and how to come to this?

Answer: In general, you can. Just try to treat each other with love because if a friend talks about how he wants to connect with the ten, then everyone else needs to be very careful not to take it lightly because you could cancel out the group’s combined effort.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian 4/4/19

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Question: You said that when a bad thought comes to me, I shouldn’t resist it or reject it. So what should I do with it?

Answer: You have to work on it. Working on it means taking this thought with you all the way into the midst of the center of your ten, into the center of your small group, and making it disappear in your connection. Imagine you have a group where you unite as one whole, like soup cooking in a pot. When a thought comes, you throw it into this “soup” so that it completely dissolves in it.

The way it affects your group is the way it was meant to happen. The main thing is for the group to be ready to adapt this thought inside it, so that it dissolves in it completely. Then you will be able to see the right outcome of it.

Question: So, can I tell my friends in the group about this thought? Or is it enough to just think about it and it will be worked on inside the group?

Answer: You don’t have to tell them about it or you may choose to seek their advice. Gradually, based on your involvement in the group, you will see if you can consult your friends or if you still feel uncomfortable, etc…
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/3/19

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