Entries in the 'Group Work' Category

What Can We Rely on along the Path?

528.04Question: The primary sources say that if there is faith, no support is needed. But we rely on the group, the teacher, and the Creator always. Why should not there be any support?

Answer: The group and the teacher should always be there since each of you exists within them. You must strive to have a connection through the group and through the teacher to the Creator.

Question: It says that the inner point in the heart relates to the inheritance of our ancestors. How do our ancestors help us in merging with the Creator?

Answer: They are constantly pulling us along and thereby helping us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/3/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Torah, the Creator, and Israel Are One”

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Grasping onto the Creator

509Question: What do you do in a state of complete disappointment and lowliness when you do not feel a connection with the group and consequently do not have the opportunity to connect with the Creator?

Answer: When feeling your lowliness, insignificance, and absolute hopelessness in your attempts to connect with the group, you should try to sense joy from reaching the right point.

When a person sees that he is incapable of doing anything, he has the opportunity to grasp onto the Creator and see that the Creator gives him a chance to rise.

Question: Can the suffering of our friends due to our insufficient unity in the group be equated with the suffering of the Creator?

Answer: Yes, then we can respond to the Creator exactly as He requires from us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/5/24, Writings of Rabash “Three Prayers”

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No Need to Wait Hundreds of Years

625.04Question: Our egoism is designed in such a way that it does not want to reveal evil. How can we sweeten it so as not to fear this revelation? Is there any thought or trick?

Answer: No. It will not be possible to sweeten, deceive, or twist egoism.

Question: How can we not run away when evil is revealed?

Answer: If you can unite, you will not scatter. But if you do run away, then that is what you deserve. You will start coming together again in hundreds of years. So ask the Creator to keep you together.

Question: The basis of hatred is egoism. But we say that hatred for hatred should arise. What is the basis of that hatred that should arise against egoism?

Answer: Love for love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/14/24, Writings of Rabash “The Daily Schedule”

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Unite with Your Neighbor

263Question: What does it mean to unite with one’s neighbor and bring everyone to the level of faith?

Answer: To unite with one’s neighbor means to feel that you cannot approach the Creator, the truth, or the purpose of creation without them.

Question: Why do we have such low sensitivity to the power of separation among us? What will help us realize the division in time and come from this point to the point of unity?

Answer: Only the connection between us, we need to ask and pray for it to strengthen. And to develop sensitivity to the feeling of these points, we need to think more about strengthening the connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/3/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Torah, the Creator, and Israel Are One”

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Fears Shape Prayer

624.01When fear comes upon a person, he should know that there is none else but Him  (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 138, “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”).

Question: There are many kinds of fear. What are the ones mentioned in this article?

Answer: Any of them! Sometimes you are filled with some completely stupid fear, sometimes more serious fear, sometimes fears based on problems that exist between you, and so on. It does not matter. The main thing is that you are busy connecting with the Creator and want to put this connection in order.

Question: How can this fear manifest in working in the ten?

Answer: It is very simple. Your fears form a prayer with which you turn to the Creator. Nothing else is needed, just to raise a prayer.

All fears must pass through us. We must identify them and connect with the Creator through them. Fear is what correctly guides us toward the goal of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”

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The Force Leading to the Creator

934Question: As it is said: “Torah, Israel, and the Creator are one.” It is clear there are friends with whom we unite, and there is the Creator that we want to reveal together. But what is this force between us that we must attract so that it leads us to the Creator?

Answer: It is the quality of mutual bestowal of everyone to everyone. To the extent you can realize this quality among yourselves in the ten, you advance toward the Creator and become similar to Him.

Question: What does it mean to correct ourselves with the friends into the vessel (Kli) of Adam HaRishon?

Answer: It means to discover our connection in one vessel, in one ten, and from this connection, direct our desires for rising toward getting closer to the Creator. We want to rise to His level to comply with what the Creator expects.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/3/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Torah, the Creator, and Israel Are One”

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What Is Considered Luck in Spiritual Work?

938.01Question: When the ten feels that it reached success, i.e., the state of “embrace with the Creator,” how can it return pleasure to the Creator for this luck?

Answer: To do this, one must rise above oneself and perform an act of bestowal with the friends. In this way, we create a state among ourselves where we receive the upper light for the sake of the Creator.

Question: If a person is rewarded with faith above reason, can this be considered luck?

Answer: Yes, this is also luck.

Question: Nevertheless, luck largely depends on the root of the soul, and the environment cannot influence success 100%, right?

Answer: The environment can influence a person, and a person can influence the connection of their soul with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Explaining the Discernment of Luck”

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A Single Desire

935Question: Are our little requests that are combined into a common prayer of the ten the light we return to the Creator?

Answer: No, the light is not between you; you do not return it to the Creator. You act only to create one desire between you that is capable of receiving a little of the light the Creator wants to give you. And by this action, you delight the Creator.

Question: How do we feel the light of the Creator in the ten?

Answer: Like the desire to do everything just for the sake of friends.

Question: What action attracts more light?

Answer: Just to connect even closer with each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/1/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Sweat of Your Face Shall You Eat Bread – 2”

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Merit and Luck

571.02Question: As is written: “Sons, life, and nourishment do not depend on merit, but on luck.” What does this mean?

Answer: This means that the results of a person’s efforts, aimed at having sons and other fruits of his labor, depend not on the effort itself, but on the influence of the Creator on those efforts, on how much effort a person puts into becoming a conduit for the upper light.

Question: How do we free ourselves of regret and suffering that the Creator rewarded us according to merit rather than sending luck? What should the correct prayer be?

Answer: The correct prayer is a request for the success of your friends and that you will hold onto them and rise together with them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/29/24, Weitings of Baal HaSulam “Explaining the Discernment of Luck”

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A Small but Common Achievement

524.01Question: We are egoists. How can you moderate your egoism that wants everything at once and be content with a small, but common achievement for everyone?

Answer: We perform many actions and turn to the Creator with many requests.

Each of them, as it were, returns to us. Thus, we divide what we receive from the Creator into small parts, and little by little, we receive for His sake.

That is how we gradually get closer to the Creator, in the ten, and not each individually.

We must reach the Creator in a state where we can beg Him to give us a small part of His light, which we can endure to receive for the sake of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/1/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Sweat of Your Face Shall You Eat Bread – 2”

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