Question: What does restriction mean for me right now, during the lesson?

Answer: You cannot make any restriction right now because you still do not feel what is happening when we read The Study of the Ten Sefirot. Therefore, during the lesson we must be close to what the text conveys, to what it describes as much as possible.

And later on we will be able to determine exactly what is being talked about: who is speaking—the one who receives or the one who bestows; where the action is proceeding—from the upper to the lower, or from the lower to the upper, and so on.

But for now, we should simply read attentively and try to picture what will happen with us if we exist in the qualities of bestowal and reception.

Question: What does it mean to imagine spirituality?

Answer: In spirituality to imagine means that I understand the meaning of what is happening and try to picture myself as being inside the action described in the book.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: While reading The Study of the Ten Sefirot, we are supposed to feel what is happening. But how can we use our mind? Can we direct it toward spirituality, or should we somehow disconnect it?

Answer: We should try to understand what The Study of the Ten Sefirot is talking about. In other words, if it speaks about receiving light, reflecting it, making the place of reception smaller or bigger, all this we should try to depict to ourselves in some way.

And gradually we will begin to sense what is actually happening in the spiritual world between spiritual objects.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot” 

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Question: On which pleasures must one make a restriction in order to receive for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: It is on the desires to receive so that I have the possibility to receive for the sake of bestowal and only in the desires in which I want to bestow.

Question: Then must these desires somehow be transformed?

Answer: Yes, we are constantly shuffling them. And after we clarify each of them, we can begin to connect them with one another and direct them toward ourselves, toward the Creator, and so on.
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Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Right now I am in the lesson with the friends trying to understand what is written in TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot). How do the processes described there manifest with respect to me?

Answer: All of them must take place within us, and gradually we will begin to discover that this is indeed how we develop.

Question: At the moment, it looks to me that it is like I’ve never seen a computer, but someone tells me about it. That is one thing. But when it is in front of me, when I can touch it and take it apart it is a completely different kind of study. So how can I begin to “touch” and “take apart” what is described here?

Answer: Gradually, through the process of study, you will begin to feel the movement of the Creator toward you, or the movement of the light toward you, as well as what comes from you: your desires, how they change, and how the light that comes from the Creator depends on your desires. All of this we will come to feel through our own experience.

Question: In order to begin to feel this, what should I listen to within myself?

Answer: Only to what is happening within you, nothing more.

Question: How should I track the states of good or bad, pleasures coming and going, and so on?

Answer: All of this you will feel in time. The light will influence everyone, including you, and in this way all of us will change.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/15/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that all the discussed matters of restriction and withdrawal of the light speak exclusively about the level of perception of receiving in the Kli at the central point. Does this mean he is describing a state in which he attains this as a Kli?

Answer: No, he is not describing the sensation in the Kli, but rather what we must gradually begin to reveal for ourselves.

We can attain this through the books, with the help of the study material, and we can perform these actions upon ourselves according to what he writes in his works. We need to make a restriction (Tzimtzum), screen (Masach), reflected light (Or Hozer) for ourselves, and work with them.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson  8/18/25 ,”The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What is an “object” in spirituality?

Answer: An object in spirituality is the desire to receive the light.

Question: There is a feeling that we are ripening for the revelation of the qualities of the ten Sefirot within the ten. How can we help each other accelerate this process?

Answer: We must try to implement what we read in the articles and in The Study of the Ten Sefirot. From this it will become clearer to us what we need to do, how, in relation to whom, and so on.

Question: What is explained in The Study of the Ten Sefirot is the science of spirituality, and it hardly touches our everyday life. To what extent are the concepts of restriction that we study in spirituality connected to restriction in everyday life, when I restrain myself from various excesses? How much does this help in spiritual advancement?

Answer: It helps a lot in spiritual advancement. I can say this with absolute certainty.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: It is said: “Anything that we do not attain, we do not know by name.” This refers to the essence itself, the very core. We are strongly reminded not to forget this.

What is the reference point for attainment? When can we actually name this essence?

Answer: When your desires develop to the point that they are suitable for receiving the light, then the light shines within your desire. At that moment, it gives a clear definition of itself, of you, and of the action. Right now, it is still too early to speak about this in detail, but it will come very quickly.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/14/2025, The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Question: What elements make up the spiritual sense organ called the “screen” in Kabbalah, and how does it function?
Answer: The screen is not a primary, but an auxiliary spiritual sense organ.

The point is that if we possessed properties aligned with the Creator and with one another, we would not need any screens; we would just tune into a single frequency and that would be enough.

The problem is that in order to reach the level of that frequency where connection with the Creator and with a friend becomes possible, I must rise above myself. The level of elevation is called the screen.

To rise above oneself is only possible in proportion to the magnitude of one’s egoism. For example, if I have ten kilograms of egoism and I am able to rise above it, then I can transmit myself toward the Creator. Through Him—meaning through the system called “Elokim,” “the Creator,” “HaVaYaH”—I can pass spiritual influence to any participant in that system, to the extent of my ascent.

This elevation allows me to correctly connect with others and interact with them on the same level.

My side of the communication must be compatible, like in our modems, with the communication of the other person. But essentially, when we enter into a unified system, all of this is harmonized by the upper force. The light equalizes all frequencies.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah,” 4/1/18

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Each time we must choose the best possible environment, meaning, to see the friends as more corrected than what my egoism shows me. Naturally, this doesn’t mean jumping from one place to another. While remaining with the same friends, I must continually elevate their level in my eyes and value them more and more. This depends solely on me, not on them.

It is forbidden to discuss the spiritual state of a friend, only his external actions. In truth, we do not know the inner spiritual state of our friends. We only need to see what is happening with them and to help each one be in the most correctly inspired state possible.

Question: Am I not allowed to criticize a friend or say he’s in a descent?

Answer: No. We can only do this through the group: by the whole group rising, we lift him as well.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah,” 2/4/19

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Question: What did Baal HaSulam add to the correction of the soul that the ARI started?

Answer: The ARI himself did not write anything. It was his student Marhu (Chaim Vital) who wrote, and his writings were published over the course of three generations after the death of the ARI.

Baal HaSulam explained and systematized the entire teaching of the ARI. Before him, the teaching of the ARI was not arranged in a structured way, and therefore, it was impossible to study it properly. Many who began studying the ARI would eventually switch to studying the works of the Ramak.

I myself studied the Ramak until I discovered Baal HaSulam. I saw many Kabbalists who preferred studying the Ramak instead of the ARI because the books of Ramak are clear and organized.

The writings of the ARI were not structured. Baal HaSulam systematized, detailed, explained, and arranged them: the three lines, the first and second restrictions, the Creator and the created being, the definitions of the worlds, Sefirot, Partzufim, NRNHY KHB, ZON, and he even created a collection of diagrams of the upper worlds in the book Elan.

Although some parts are missing that he could have systematized further (like Adam HaRishon, the impure worlds of BYA), it seems he chose not to deal with them. Without Baal HaSulam, we would not have the method of the ARI. It would be impossible to understand the ARI.

Today when we read other Kabbalists, we understand them only because we are familiar with the works of Baal HaSulam. Without him, we would be confused.

Whatever you read, whether it is the books on Hasidism, the Ramak, or the Agra, you only understand them because you studied Baal HaSulam. Without the articles of Rabash, we would not be able to understand what is required of us and what the work of the Creator truly means.

Without these two Kabbalists Baal HaSulam and RABASH who complement each other, we would not have the correct approach to the method of correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/8/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam Preface “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

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