How can you practically work with intention when you receive corporeal pleasure?

It does not matter whether I receive spiritual or corporeal pleasure, I must thank the Creator for it. Any pleasure can be clothed in the intention for the sake of bestowal. To do this, you need to analyze the pleasure received and surround it with your attitude toward the Creator and want to thank Him for the pleasure given to you.

I understand that pleasure comes from the Creator and I want to accept it with blessing, in reflected light, that is, in my response to the Creator. And I feel how this brings me closer to the Creator. It is as if the Creator takes a step toward me, gives me pleasure, and I, respond to Him with my grateful attitude, also take a step toward Him, and we become closer to each other. This means that I can now receive pleasure in the Kelim of bestowal.

The Creator dresses in corporeal clothes, because only in such low clothes are we still able to feel the pleasure given to us. The Creator is present in everything we enjoy: in a piece of bread, in sweet sugar, in a sip of water, in pleasant smells and sounds. The Creator clothes in all this and that is why we notice different changes.

When we unite and receive pleasure, we can bring contentment to the Creator. After all, it is He who, every moment and in every state, brings His light into every form of pleasure, unity, and mutual bestowal.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”

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Our life is a field blessed by the Creator, on which we must grow our spiritual future. And it depends only on us what kind of harvest we will gather from this field.

Everything depends on how we treat this soil from which it should grow, our attitude to working together in the field of all of us, and our attitude to the Creator. After all, the Creator gives this earth the strength to grow crops according to our desire.

Therefore, everything depends on the work between us and our appeal to the Creator. The field is the connection between us in the group and the Creator. And we need to ask the Creator to unite us more so that our common prayer reaches Him and so He gives strength to the earth to grow fruits on it.

This prayer depends only on our desire to achieve a result together and our willingness to put all our strength and hopes into this achievement, then a genuine prayer will be born from us turning to the Creator, which will awaken and oblige Him to give a harvest to our field, as it says: “My sons defeated me.”

That is how we will feel, attain, and discover the whole world, called the field. The world will open up before us like a book, and we will move forward together as one soul, one force, where everyone depends on each other and is connected to each other. That is when we will reveal that we really have a field of life blessed by the Creator in front of us.

We want to receive the strength and knowledge from the Creator of how we can work with our lives to turn them into an uplift and raise them to the degree of the spiritual world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Field that the Lord Has Blessed”

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Question: As is known in our world, fear is based on desire. That is, if I am afraid of something, it will happen. Is it possible to change fate if, with the help of prayer in the ten, all fears translate into trembling before the Creator? What kind of prayer should it be?

Answer: It should be an ordinary request that a person supports at the highest level he is able to.

Then, the Creator cancels the fear that He caused in a person and replaces it with another feeling, a more favorable one. After all, a person no longer needs to feel fear because he does everything to rise above the degree of fear to connect with his friends and the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”

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Question: What should the prayer be like so that a person receives mercy from the Creator?

Answer: Prayer should come from the heart.

Comment: But we always pray from the heart.

My Response: Precisely this “always” kills everything. The quality of prayer depends only on your heart, on whether you are thinking about how to turn to the Creator.

Prayer is an effort. But it depends on when and in what.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Completing the abor”

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Even [stone] is called “faith” (stones to weigh with) (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 170, “You Shall Not Have in Your Pocket a Big Stone”).

Question: It is said: “Let there not be in your pocket a great stone or a small stone.” Does this mean that there is a preferable level of working with faith: above it or without it?

Answer: You do not need to pay attention to whether the stone is light or heavy. You need to learn to handle any load with faith above reason.

A person should always be prepared to have a stone with which he can weigh his wrong thoughts. And it does not matter what it is: big or small.

Question: Does this mean that we take these stones from the outside and not from our acquisitions?

Answer: We take these stones from our egoism.

Question: What does it mean that faith must correspond to the will to receive?

Answer: The point is that you answer any questions that arise in your mind based on faith, faith above reason. Therefore, you should ask the Creator to shine His light upon you, your egoism, and your desire, and then you will be able to be in faith above reason.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “You Shall Not Have in Your Pocket a Big Stone”

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Question: You say the upper light affects us and expands our Kelim, vessels.

But my vessels are in my friends, so it turns out that I can only ask for mutual inclusion through self-nullification. Is this how one can think of expanding the vessels?

Answer: Think in whatever way is more convenient for you, and the Creator will arrange everything. The upper light performs thousands of actions every moment, so focus not on how it is done, but on the fact that you want to attract the light.

Question: What does the ten gain from praying for other tens, all of Bnei Baruch, and the whole world? Is this the formation of vessels of bestowal?

Answer: Yes, this expands the vessels of bestowal. Through praying for everyone, you primarily help yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Rewarded—I Will Hasten It”

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Thus, the correction depends entirely on the connection of the letters ELEH the MI through MAN. This is why this correction is called “the holy tongue,” (Rashbi, Zohar for All, “Heaven and Earth”).

MAN is our desires. In rising to the upper world, they get included in its system and prompt parts of the upper world to connect with each other.

In this way, the nature of all worlds will start uniting and pulling toward each other. Then humanity will realize that it is included in the general nature of the world. Then it will begin to act logically and directly, in accordance with this system.

MAN is the raising of a prayer, a desire. The connection of any part occurs when raising MAN, a prayer occurs. If you want to connect with someone, you have to ask the upper force to do it.

Question: Why didn’t nature give us the strength to do this ourselves?

Answer: It will give that to you to the extent that you can use it for the benefit of everyone.

Question: But why should I ask for this? Let us say I made an effort and was given that, but no, I have to make an effort, ask, and pray.

Answer: This happens so that you really understand whether or not you are able to interact correctly in the world with all its parts.

Question: It is still not clear why the upper force shouldn’t give a person, after his efforts, the opportunity to connect with another part?

Answer: That is what it gives him.

Comment: But it says here that we need to raise a prayer.

My Response: So, this is effort. The effort itself is prayer.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 1/21/24

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Question: What is the difference between a desire of the  Creator and a quality of the Creator?

Answer: The Creator has only one quality—to bestow, to fulfill, to saturate. His desire is to see a person who does what He has directed him to do to receive the upper light from this and be fulfilled with it.

Question: We come to the group with a point in the heart. At what moment can we assume that we have some kind of soul?

Answer: From the moment you start thinking about it.

Question: Is there a difference between mind and knowledge?

Answer: Of course. The mind is the ability of our brain to process data, and knowledge is what we accumulate in ourselves as a result of processing data.

Question: When you feel negative about the actions of another person, suddenly the thought comes to you about what would you do if you really loved him? Is this the voice of the Creator?

Answer: That is the voice of the Creator. This is the opportunity to fulfill the commandment.

Question: Do all the commandments have to be fulfilled only within the ten or beyond it as well?

Answer: We study the commandments inside the ten, and we fulfill them both inside and outside the ten in everyday life.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And You Shall Keep Your Souls”

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Question: Let’s say you come to the lesson and only read the text with everyone, or you come to the lesson, read the text, and pray for your friends, or you come to a lesson and see that you have no strength, and you ask the Creator to give you the strength to pray for your friends and to be in the intention. Do these options attract the light of the Torah differently?

Answer: Certainly, the preferred option is the one that most awakens the prayer to the Creator. It depends on what you want from the reforming light that returns to the source.

Ideal is the desire to awaken all the friends, the ten, the group, and to rise together with them to the Creator and provide Him with a common Kli so He can fill it up to the final correction.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/14/24, Writings of Rabash “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

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The garden of Eden means the ascent of Malchut into Bina where she receives Hochma, as Eden means Hochma. And then Malchut, called “garden,” receives Hochma in the form of “Eden,” and this is “the garden of Eden” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 84, “What Is “He Drove the Man Out of the Garden of Eden so He Would Not Take from the Tree of Life”?”)

Malchut is the lowest degree. Raising Malchut into Bina means correcting Malchut when it rises to the level of Bina with the help of prayer (MAN), receives light, and corrects itself so that it can use its desire for the sake of bestowal.

Question: Is the lowest degree our connection in the ten or my personal work?

Answer: This is the initial work of any person, it is one’s connection with the ten. If a person does not have connection with the ten, one does not go anywhere.

As a result of connection, you gain strength and confidence that you are acting correctly, and then go down and raise MAN.

With this MAN, prayer, you turn to the Creator, and He lifts and corrects you. And you, based on your corrected state, begin to correct all ten Sefirot in the place from which you ascended.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is ‘He Drove the Man Out of the Garden of Eden so He Would Not Take from the Tree of Life’?”

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