Question: What is the active mind that we reveal in our connection?

Answer: In our connection, we reveal what is above us and governs us. All these discerned qualities and revelations are what we call “the Creator” (Boreh).

Question: What should happen during a ten’s gathering so that, above our own qualities, we can reveal this governing force, this mind? How should we properly strive for it? What needs to be done?

Answer: To achieve this, you need to clarify among yourselves how to realize what is written in the Torah.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Acting Mind”

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Question: If the realization of a descent is an ascent, what is the state of joy when you want to inspire the group? Is it egoism?

Answer: Not necessary. It may not be ego. The fact is every state must be checked.

Let us say you are inspired. Is this inspiration from the Creator or you? Of course, in the end, it all comes from the Creator. No feeling, no thought can arise in us except from Him. The worst and the best thoughts still come from the Creator.

Your participation in this depends on the root of your soul and on the kind of relationship you have with the group. In general, connecting with the group and striving forward regulates the steps we must take.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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Question: The more we progress, the more our animalistic desires grow. How can a group or a “ten” help a friend rise above these desires to draw closer to the Creator? In what form is this help expressed?

Answer: In every possible way. How can a “ten” assist any friend in any state whatsoever? First and foremost, through example.

Beyond example, there is mutual support and unconditional assistance. But generally speaking, it is through example. Examples can be both positive and negative.

I can demonstrate my dedication and aspiration toward the Creator by providing a positive example to my friend. Conversely, I can unintentionally hint at a negative example. However, this is very difficult to define precisely. One must be cautious about this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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The more you invest in the group, the more difficult states you will encounter, states designed to help you rise above them. And you will come to appreciate these states because the group will create and sustain an environment where it is seen as positive when egoism reveals itself. This gives you a reason to turn to the Creator through your friends.

As for relationships with your friends, the law is very simple: “From love of your neighbor to love of the Creator.”

This means that you must first realize this in your connection with each other, and only then in your connection with the Creator. The connection with the Creator is revealed in the center of the group, in the bond between friends.

Where they feel their common center, the connection with the Creator will manifest from their shared state, from what is called a minyan. A minyan is a “ten.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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Question: On what basis is the Creator revealed?

Answer: The Creator is revealed in the opposition between darkness and light, when there is a certain condition of rejection of friends in the group and a certain condition of their rapprochement in the group.

In the difference between the dark and light forces, reception and bestowal, when we make a restriction, screen, and so on, the Creator begins to be revealed.

Attaining the Creator presupposes two qualities that are opposite to each other and coexist with each other, since they are necessary only for becoming like the Creator, only for His revelation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: In which group is it easier to work, a physical or virtual one? I have both a virtual ten and a physical one. In my virtual ten, I do not know people personally, and their personal qualities do not bother me. It is easier for me to communicate with them spiritually than in a physical ten because a person’s physical qualities distract me from spiritual work.

Answer: A physical and virtual group are different things.

In a physical group, I perceive my friends as physical beings. This often creates a sense of rejection or regulates our relationships based on the perception of their physical traits. In a virtual group, I perceive my friends less as physical entities, which makes it easier to establish what can be called supra-material connections. Which is better for spiritual development?

First of all, it is excellent that you are analyzing how your perception of a physical group differs from a virtual one. You are correct that a virtual ten is more abstract and does not hinder your efforts to connect. However, this approach is flawed; it is an escape from egoism. Instead of challenging your ego, you are lulling it to sleep.

What you like seeing in others from a distance, you see; what you do not like, you avoid. But this will change. Over time, you will realize that if there is an opportunity to move from a virtual ten to a physical one, you should take it for more intense and conscious spiritual advancement.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: In the world group, there are people who have been studying for many years, and there are newcomers just joining the group. Does this mean that some third force above our level is needed to help us unite?

Answer: A spiritual force above our level acts upon us to the extent that we are capable of realizing it.

The Creator eagerly awaits the opportunity to draw us closer to Him. However, for this to happen, we must unite. The higher we aim to ascend, the more united we must be. One depends on the other.

If, according to the timeline of history, we are meant to already be united, but have not yet achieved this, the light from our future state of unity shines back onto our current lagging state. However, it shines from its reverse side, and we experience suffering.

All the suffering we feel in our time stems from the delay in our spiritual development. This suffering comes from the light, from the Creator, solely because we are not advancing toward Him at the required pace. Therefore, we must accelerate our progress, and we will see an entirely different life.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What does the “right line” mean for us who are studying Kabbalah? We do not have a sense of the Creator or a sense of bestowal, and very often we find ourselves in a dead-end situation where what we think is bestowal turns out to be strong reception.

Answer: That is true. In fact, it will always be like this because progress goes step by step. What was previously your right step turns into the left, and with the help of the left, you attain the right again.

If before you thought that connecting with a friend through some specific action was an act of bestowal, now you realize that, in fact, it stemmed from your egoism. But at that time, you did not see it that way.

In spirituality, we grow just like children do. A child also believes they are playing at being an adult. There is nothing humiliating about this; on the contrary, it is something to consider. This is how everyone grows.

You see it in newcomers, how they get confused, do not know what is what, and do not even understand where they are. This is natural. But when the field of forces that govern our world is revealed to you, you will be amazed at how blind you were before!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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A person receives a complete need and desire for the Creator to help him since he sees that otherwise he is lost; not only is he not progressing in the work, he even sees that he regresses. That is, he lacks the strength (Baal HaSulam, Shamati, 1, “There Is None Else Beside Him“).

When I begin to understand that the whole picture of the world comes from the Creator, and that He gave me only a tiny micro-desire to reveal Him, I realize that I am unable to act. That is, the small desire itself is me, but I cannot control my thoughts or strength with this desire and thus explore it.

Therefore to properly direct a person to the Creator, a person keeps losing Him. Although he finds the Creator as the source of his worldview, in the end, the Creator is concealed. Attempts fail, and the person seemingly falls.

Here, the group that can help me is especially important. Since I am in a state of connection with my own kind, I can rely on them. I fell, they rose, one of them fell, I pull him along, and so on. Everyone pulls a friend out of the river of selfishness, which takes him somewhere to the side.

That is why it is said, “Those who trust in the Creator renew their strength.” That is, those who see that there is nothing else in the world besides the Creator, and that they can only grasp the Creator through the group, otherwise He will not be revealed, they renew their strength at every moment. It turns out that the fall itself, especially if it occurs in a group, is the reason for the rise.

If it is not me, then it is my friend; if it is not my friend, then it is me. In this way, we can constantly rise.
If a person is alone and in descent, this state can last for many months, until the Creator sends him the force of ascension. We know this for ourselves. This condition sometimes stretches for several weeks, and I cannot do anything about it; I cannot pull myself out of this swamp.

That is how I can determine if I am in the right group. If I am in the right environment, I should not feel like falling because our correct interactions in the group always revive us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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Question: How can one come to the correct action without intention?

Answer: Without intention there are no correct actions.

Question: Then how can I come out of the state where the evil inclination says that there is no sense in doing something, that it is all useless and may seemingly harm?

Answer: In this case you should leave your efforts, join the ten and participate with them in their actions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Sent”

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