Question: Can the ten influence the accuracy of the intentions of friends in the work?

Answer: Certainly, it depends on the ten.

Question: Let’s say I want to change my intention. What does the result depend on: on the strength of my desire, on the strength of the prayers of my friends, or on the mercy of the Creator?

Answer: It depends on many parameters.

Question: How does the ten change the intention of a friend? Only by prayer or by something else?

Answer: No, not just by prayer, by anything they can.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Sent”

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Question: How can the ten change my intention? What other actions are there besides prayer?

Answer: The ten can show you their intentions, and you will see how much your intentions differ from theirs.

Comment: But I see everything through my ego.

My Response: It does not matter; it is all gradually being removed. You just have to keep going. In another year or two, you will see this “skin” come off of you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Sent”

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Question: Is the group like a core that preserves the center both on the left and on the right?

Answer: The group represents the soul; that is, ten people (Minyan) united together by the common goal of attaining the Creator and are called “soul” (Neshama).

By working with each other according to the Kabbalistic methodology, they can consciously move forward, and they choose the pace at each step.
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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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Comment: We are egoists. We cannot cultivate love for the Creator if we don’t first have love for a child, for family, or for a profession, because all of this can be dedicated to the Creator.

My Response: This will not be bestowal to the Creator. I am not saying you should cancel your love for your child, but do not think that by annulling egoistic desires you can delight the Creator. The Creator does not need this at all.

Question: So can we bring contentment to the Creator only through our unity, love for friends, reading something together, and feeling something positive in that?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/5/24, Writings of Rabash “The Meal of a Wicked One”

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Question: If egoism is fuel, how can it disappear? What is this state?

Answer: The Creator can neutralize egoism partially or even completely, as He created it for His own purposes. Therefore, if He wishes, He elevates it; if He does not, He removes it.

Question: When I am satisfied with myself, is this always the evil inclination? And when the ten is satisfied with me, is this the result of working with correct intention?

Answer: Usually, yes.

Question: If the evil inclination is increasingly revealed and the level of tension rises, how can such processes be covered with love?

Answer: Gradually, not all at once, but piece by piece, fragmentarily.

Question: Can we as a group reach a state where there are no stains at all, only the pure quality of complete bestowal of everything we receive, with the entire flow of received light fully directed to the Creator?

Answer: That is the final correction (Gmar Tikkun).

Question: You said we can change the intentions of our friends by uniting everyone within ourselves and raising MAN (prayer for correction). Is this the best approach?

Answer: It is the only way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Sent”

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Question: In the group we learn to direct all our intentions and actions toward the Creator for the benefit of a friend. But we have no control over our hearts, and we have egoistic intentions. What determines the success of a single common group action in bestowal?

Answer: The general success depends on how connected you are with each other. This is the most important thing!

I cannot influence the Creator alone and neither can you, nor anyone else. But the group as a whole, even if it is a weak group, can.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Sent”

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Question: How can a person verify that his actions come from love for his neighbor and not from self-interest even if he sincerely strives to follow this path?

Answer: The extent to which a person deceives himself, whether he feels it or not, will appear later. In the meantime, we must do everything we can to evaluate in ourselves the actions that arise in our lives, in us, and try to correlate them with the group.

Question: If a person discovers that his desire to love his neighbor is associated with the expectation of reward, what should his next step be in order to gradually move closer to bestowal?

Answer: He must performs acts of bestowal, encourage the group to do the same, and check how this changes the attitude of the Creator toward them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Sent”

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Question: Criticism that comes from the evil inclination is always wrong; it has flaws and pulls you into wrong thoughts. How can we resist it?

Answer: Try to divide it into many parts, egoism in a person and altruism in a person, compare them, connect them, and move forward with them.

The correct criticism of the evil inclination is determined in the group when I try to choose the right advice over the wrong advice and thus begin to feel where it is in me. This is the best method.

Question: Sometimes you may need to reorganize a ten or add something. There is a very subtle moment here when I seem to have to do something, and we, as a ten, must reorganize. Where is the good and the bad here?

Answer: This can only be determined in practice. Constantly check and control what is talking in you, and then you will be able to separate the action of “Esau” (the evil inclination) from the action of “Jacob” (the good inclination).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Sent”

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This is why it is called “evil inclination,” for it argues that if one wants to engage in Torah and Mitzvot, he must first of all be completely white, without any stains or dirt, meaning that everything will be for the sake of the Creator. If he cannot aim for the sake of the Creator, it is not worthwhile to exert in vain (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 375, “Jacob Sent”).

Question: Why does the evil inclination in the image of Laban use the requirement of absolute purity of intention to stop a person? How can one understand that even imperfect actions have value in spiritual work?

Answer: The fact is that Laban is the highest purity. Therefore, we can use this property to whiten our black thoughts.

To work correctly with whitening actions, you need to try to check at least the actions you should do, compare them with the correct actions, and whiten them, including the wrong actions into the right ones.

Question: When is the best time to clarify the purity of your intention: in class, in a group, or on your own?

Answer: These are your internal actions, which you should immediately begin to separate when reading articles: this refers to Esau, this refers to Jacob, this refers to the Creator, this relates to man, and so on.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Sent”

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Question: What does “a perfect building in which the Creator dwells” mean? How can we build it in the ten, in the connections between us?

Answer: Through complete bestowal to one another, we can reach a state where we will be only in bestowal. From this state, we will build a house of holiness, a temple.

Question: What needs to be added to our work every day in order to build, not a traditional egoistic unification, but instead a house of holiness for the Creator in the ten?

Answer: When rereading the primary sources, you must try to do as they instruct, and each time you will feel something new. Then everything will be alright.

Question: Do Kabbalists somehow envision this building in the heart?

Answer: The building in the heart is Malchut, because the heart is desire. What we want to build in our heart is a palace for Malchut.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/24, Writings of Rabash “Delight Them with a Complete Building – 2”

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