Question: Why does it seem too heavy and make me want to stay in the darkness when I feel the Creator’s love ?

Answer: Such difficulties, troubles, and obstacles are given to us deliberately to develop a true desire for the Creator within us.

Question: How can we, as a ten, reach the boundary of “above our strength”?

Answer: Together. When we understand that not a single one of us can fulfill even the easiest, smallest commandment of the Creator unless we help each other.

Question: If each person, to the extent of their contribution, can feel the Creator within the ten, how can we achieve a unified sense of the center of the group and the Creator? After all, everyone contributes according to their own capabilities.

Answer: It doesn’t matter; the direction remains the same.

Question: How can we develop the desire to delight the Creator to bring him contentment?

Answer: For this, we must think about Him. The thought must come in this particular form: I will do something specifically to bring Him contentment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/12/24, Writings of Rabash “Overcoming”

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Question: Baal HaSulam and Rabash left us a treasure in the form of the Shamati articles. How can we learn to work more deeply with these articles to strengthen our connection and feel each other more?

Answer: First, read an article, and then make an effort to dissolve into the group. Then, read another article, and once again dissolve into the group. Alternate in this way, and each time you will see completely different states, whether in the same article or in different ones. It all depends on you and it will be perceived as new each time, critically new.

My teacher Rabash always opened the notebook with the Shamati articles recorded in it before sleep, read a few lines, and then fell asleep. This notebook was always beside him.

Imagine the degree of Kabbalist he was, and what he saw in these articles that we read now—those of us who do not even understand what the spiritual world means. He had already ascended and descended through all the degrees, played his scales like on a piano, moving up and down through the entire space of the spiritual world, reading the same articles we are now reading.

Therefore everything depends on how connected we are with each other, in order to express from ourselves the attribute of bestowal in caring for the ten. And in this measure, we will feel Shamati.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What is a friend in the ten?

Answer: A friend is called “haver.” “Haver” comes from the word “hibur,” connection. Connection implies that we are different in our natural desires and at the same time united together in one goal.

Let us say there is one Kli and a second Kli, and they cannot connect with each other, but they can work to achieve one goal in which they unite, meaning, we unite only in the Creator and in no other way.

Egoists who are ready to annul their own egoism in order to unite in the Creator, to be incorporated in Him, are called friends. It is either women or men, but of the same gender. Only the Creator can connect us, and we can only ask Him about it. Even if this is not a real prayer, we can still ask.

If a person chooses the goal of attaining the Creator, then it can only be achieved by uniting different desires into one goal. Therefore it is said that the smallest group is two people.

But in order to create a whole group, it is desirable to be ten. Rabash writes about this in one of his first articles, not nine people and not eleven, but precisely ten. Why is this so? We study this from the unfolding of the four stages of direct light, from the structure of the ten Sefirot.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: How can one reach the correct, true prayer at a convention?

Answer: All those attending the convention must understand why they are coming and what they will ask of the Creator. I come to the convention to be in such a connection with others that would give us a common force capable of breaking through the wall between us and the Creator.

Therefore, I come to the convention to unite with others, to be influenced by them, and to be inspired by how well they can do this, how they are managing, and the strength and opportunities they bring. I see friends who have traveled from far away, who are eager, who understand that there is a chance to break out of the shell in which we are trapped.

Baal HaSulam gives the example of a worm that lives in a radish, feeding on its bitterness, it thinks the whole world is like that. But when it pokes its head out, it sees sunshine, light, and hears birds singing: “Ah, what a beautiful world! Where was I before?”

This is what we need: to break through the shell of the radish we are in because beyond it, we see nothing. We come to the convention to absorb each other’s impressions and inspiration and together turn to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What is connection and my care for friends, for the group, for the ten?

Answer: This comes gradually when you make many efforts and realize that they do not give you anything. Then in complete detachment, you finally begin to understand that you have to follow the path indicated by the Kabbalists.

Therefore, you need to turn to the center of the group, and within the connection between you ask not for yourself, but for the others. By asking for them, you are actually asking for your spiritual self. And when you ask only for yourself, you ask for the physical self. And all of this a person begins to reveal only from his defeat when he sees that he is at a dead end.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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We have a very complex relationship with the Creator. On one hand He is a friend; on the other, a master, and from yet another perspective, a correcting, fulfilling force.

The Creator is everything. He cannot be defined as a single entity. Everything I feel at any moment, everything I relate to, receive from, or connect with is all the Creator.

Then the group fades away in my perception. It becomes my Kli, that is, the feeling through which I sense the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: It is said that creation cannot do anything without the Creator since everything originates from Him. So what is the role of creation and where is the transition to what the Creator does?

Answer: The creation must do everything possible to reach the goal on its own. By creation it is meant a ten, a single person is not considered to exist at all.

If the ten is constantly exerts, it begins to feel that it is impossible for it to reach this goal.

Therefore it begins to call upon the Creator. It is written about this: “And the children of Israel cried out from the hard work.”

When they call upon the Creator, their prayer ascends to Him, and He answers them by bringing them out of Egypt—out of egoism. That is how it works.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What is a common prayer?

Answer: A common prayer is a very difficult action. For now, it is best for you to turn to the Creator personally, each with their own feelings, their own problems.

Later you will start feeling you have the same problems and feelings. To be sure that you can justify and correct them, you need to turn to the Creator together.

This state will come; it is close. You will see that from a single person, it is only a preliminary, small step toward real contact with the Creator. We cannot interact with Him individually, each on our own, especially in our state, when we are on the threshold of complete correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: To ascend the degrees of human, we choose a group and a Kabbalistic society where we practice love for our friends and mutual guarantee.

At the same time, we isolate ourselves from other environments so they do not negatively influence us. Will this isolation not mean retreating from real life and our responsibility for what happens in the world?

Answer: First, you currently do not yet bear any responsibility for what happens in the world.

Second, as you gradually ascend, you will expand your horizon. You will see how you influence other groups, how all groups together influence the Creator, and how the Creator relates to each group. We will study all of this, and study it in practice.

Do not be afraid of anything. The main thing is not to miss lessons and to strive to gain as much knowledge about spirituality as possible.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/24, for Graduates of MAK – the International Academy of Kabbalah in Russian, “We have gathered here”

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Question: As a future Kabbalist, how can I help a friend come closer to the Creator?

Answer: First of all, you are already considered a Kabbalist. You can help him by further strengthening your connection with him and supporting him.

Question: In the ten, I see everyone as perfect, even if I notice flaws, I can immediately nullify myself. But in the corporeal world, egoism overwhelms me and prevents me from quickly seeing that I am the one who needs correction, not others. Why does this happen?

Answer: Because in spirituality, you have the support of the group.

Question: How should we “make (ourselves) a Rav” of our friends who teach us so they become a channel of connection with the Creator?

Answer: You should respect all your friends as if they are above you. There is no harm in listening to them as teachers.

Question: When we study sources, it is not difficult to see our friend as a teacher. But when it comes to lesson-related questions, some sort of struggle arises among us, and we cannot even make a decision. How should decisions be made in the ten?

Answer: Solely according to who your teacher is, what he says, and what you accept from him.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/6/24, “The Conditions for Studying with Friends”

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