Question: We are a young ten. We feel that we have made significant progress over the past few months while preparing for the convention. However, there is often a feeling that to truly make a breakthrough, an extreme situation is necessary, something similar to the intensity of your caring for your teacher for two months or having a non-stop convention for three months. Should we, perhaps, create conditions to truly foster an extreme situation?

Answer: Extreme situations can arise at any moment without any special reasons.

However, you must understand that entering the volume of spiritual vessels, lights, and levels happens with those who genuinely desire it, who exert effort, and pray, meaning, they ask the Creator for spiritual advancement. Therefore I urge you not to neglect this.

I have never seen anyone who could claim with absolute certainty that what one has achieved in spirituality was received as a gift from above without any effort on his part. No, it depends on a person himself, at least 90%, and the Creator adds the rest.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/25, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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The Zohar interprets what our sages wrote: “Three things broaden one’s mind. These are a handsome woman, a handsome abode, and handsome Kelim [vessels].”

It says, “A sightly woman is the Shechina [Divinity]. A sightly abode is his heart, and sightly Kelim are his organs” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 9, “What Are Three Things that Broaden One’s Mind in the Work?”).

Question: How can the Shechina be revealed in our common home, the human heart?

Answer: If we want to feel the Creator’s attitude toward us, there can be no restrictions. We will feel how much we strive for the Creator and wish only one thing, that He would fulfill all our desires.

To organize the “common home” of the ten correctly, we just need to unite among ourselves and support each other in our proper connection. Then we will reach the point where all our desires will form one common desire, to attain the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/8/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Are Three Things that Broaden One’s Mind in the Work?”

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Question: We are work in the ten to try to come to the revelation of the Creator. How does the switch in intention occur so that we do this for Him, not because we want to enjoy it, but to bestow to Him?

Answer: We want to reveal that the Creator illuminates everything around and nothing else is needed. If the Creator acts with His light on all creation and is satisfied with it, then we do not need anything else. That is how we should try to think and act.

Question: How can we always keep the need, not just to feel good, but for Him to be pleased with us in our hearts?

Answer: It depends on the magnitude of His revelation to us. Then we will be happy with Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 3/7/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Difference between a Shade of Kedusha and a Shade of Sitra Achra?”

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Question: How realistic is the idea of a spiritual system in practice?

Answer: The fact is that there is nothing else beside it. It is the only true creation that exists. It only seems to us that we are separate elements disconnected from one another, like the swan, the crayfish, and the pike that pull in different directions.

This is intentional so that we can reveal unity, integration, perfection, and harmony precisely through this opposition. These “swan, crayfish, and pike” must find mutual understanding despite their differences—one soars in the sky, another lives in the water, and the third moves on land. When we understand that despite our varying natures we must unite toward a single goal, to complement each other, only then will each of us find our own perfection.

Question: But what if everyone tries to create their own system?

Answer: It is a natural human tendency to establish oneself, and this drive exists in everyone. However, as we progress the upper light will influence us more and more. It will correct us and place the greatness of the Creator and the revelation of His system above our personal ambitions.

Moreover, it will elevate the importance of all other people in the world above ourselves by developing love for them within us. When you love, the one you love becomes more important to you than yourself, just as a child is to their mother. This is what defines the nature of love.

That is why we cannot demand that beginners be completely selfless and altruistic. Gradually, the light will correct them and give them that capability.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Implementation of the System” 6/21/10

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Question: What are the conditions for receiving salvation from the Creator?

Answer: The very first condition is that you feel it. A person feels that he exists under the power of the Creator and he wants to liberate himself from that. And here a question arises “What for?” If it is just for no reason, then obviously this is wrong.

A person has to realize what forces hold him under the Creator, what he has to obtain in order to rise above this limitation, and how liberation from these limitations would impact him, his group, and his friends.

This is where his work on himself begins, he organizes himself in the new form by acquiring the properties of the Creator.

Question: You said that one has to realize what forces hold him under the Creator. What does this mean?

Answer: It means that all egoistic properties and their various expressions do not allow us to become liberated from the Creator, to distance ourselves from Him, and be spiritually independent.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 2/24/25, “Great is repentance, for it reaches unto the throne”

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Question: Souls are Kelim that receive lights from the worlds. How do we attain the worlds and their lights in the ten?

Answer: We attain them through our connection.

Question: Is our goal to become the world or the soul?

Answer: The soul. Meanwhile, the world is the feeling souls have of the state they feel among themselves.

To the extent we attain the soul, we also attain the relation of this soul to a higher level, to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/2/24, Wriitings of Baal HaSulam “The Matter of Spiritual Attainment”

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Question: It was not an easy congress. There is a quiet war going on, and everyone is running from their egos. How can we stay together in such a state, not run away, and remain calm and patient?

Answer: If we had precise “potentiometers”—special knobs that we could twist toward greater involvement in revealing these sheets, papyri, tablets, and so on, then we would understand what we are talking about.

I feel that if you can, you should get together once a week, not physically, but virtually. Then we can answer questions, write, and discuss what is close to us. Let’s try this. We formed a solid idea about the group; it would be a pity if it disappeared.

Question: It feels like we are being launched into free sailing in tens. What is this level? How do we survive and reach the Creator?

Answer: The ten is like a small ship that can cross rivers and oceans, and your whole group is the crew of the ship. Therefore you can safely cross the ocean.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/25, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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Question: How should one act practically when bad thoughts come, and how does one elevate them to holiness? What are these actions within the ten?

Answer: Everything depends on how connected you are with the ten, how much they lift you up, or whether you bring them down.

It is a similar calculation to school assignments, where you are given several conditions and need to find something common between them.

Question: So if I take the right actions toward my friends, can I essentially prepare myself for this state and go through it quickly?

Answer: Relatively quickly.

Question: You said that a person can bring the ten down. Does that mean that when he acts mechanically without opening his heart, he is essentially not fulfilling his task? Is that what it means to “bring the ten down”?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/25, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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Question: How can one maintain a state of constant service to the Creator rather than in prayer?

Answer: We must try to remain merged with the Creator at all times despite any changes that seem good or bad to us; we need to perceive them all in one direction, with one purpose influencing us. Then we will understand Him more quickly.

Question: We have the concept of intention, which, as I see it, serves as a trigger in inner work. How does a person’s intention help him transition from a state of descent to ascent?

Answer: Intention means that a person who seeks to be closer to the Creator chooses from all their possibilities the one that would bring them nearer to Him.

Question: What work should we do throughout the day to maintain the inner connection with the ten?

Answer: Strengthen your connection with the Creator based on the connections and bonds that manifest between you.

Question: How can one speed up the process of emerging from a descent to reach the recognition of evil?

Answer: I can say only one thing: strive toward the point of connection between a person and the Creator from any state you go through. From any state! Because all these states are given to us by the Creator with only one purpose so that at this point He reveals in us, we discover Him.
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From Daily Kabbalah lesson 2/24/25, on the topic “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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Question: Is the descent given to me for individual work or work in the ten? Is one obliged to turn to the ten not to deprive it of the opportunity to work at a given moment?

Answer: That is right. A person should turn to the ten, turn to the Creator, in order to connect his friends together through himself.

When he feels he is succeeding, he should proceed to the next operation. And the next series of steps is when he is already striving to discover himself in the Creator.

Question: How do I know if I am helping the Creator?

Answer: It depends on your constant desire. If you want to feel the Creator all the time and help Him, you will eventually be given this opportunity.
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From Daily Kabbalah lesson 2/24/25, “Continuing the Convention with an Ascent”

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