Question: Right now countless processes are happening in my body that I am not aware of and do not feel. They are at work within me and at every moment they determine my state. Do the processes described in The Study of the Ten Sefirot influence me now, or will they only influence me once I reveal the spiritual?

Answer: They will influence you later on, when you grow up.

Question: So right now I am completely separated from this? There is nothing in the sense that these processes are forming my thoughts and desires right now?

Answer: They are forming them, but you do not feel it yet.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What needs to be done to strengthen the Creator’s influence on me so that the desire is renewed more quickly?

Answer: For this one must work on oneself: ask more questions and participate more actively in discussions of the material. After reading a section from The Study of the Ten Sefirot, try to find its meaning and its purpose and “cling” to what the book is speaking about.

One way or another everything will work out, but acceleration is possible only through mutual desire.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: You always warn us not to look back, like Lot’s wife who looked back at Sodom and turned into a pillar of salt. So when we are filled with great inspiration after a congress or a dissemination event, does it mean we should not recall it, but instead strive forward to the next degree?

Answer: Not looking back means not wanting to remain in a previous state. But it does not mean that a person should cut himself off from the past as if it does not exist. One must learn from yesterday in order to continue today in a better state.

A person should not want to be in the state of yesterday, but in the state of tomorrow. That is what it means, “to not look back.”

But this has nothing to do with Sodom. Sodom is when one truly wishes to return to a previous degree, which has already been revealed as a corrupt state. One cannot return to it anymore.

If I have decided that my previous state was corrupt and unsuitable for correction, for advancing toward the goal, toward bestowal, then I have no choice: I must finish with it and move forward.

There are people who look back, return, and wish to remain in past states, to be “small.” This contradicts development, and we are forbidden to do so.

The means for this is the group. If I try, even a little, to integrate into the group, then I will always receive my future state from it, regardless of the state of the group or of myself. Therefore, we always have the possibility to move forward and not backward.
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From Kabbalah Lesson 3/24/10 on The Book of Zohar

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Question: In a verse of the ARI it says that infinite light filled all of creation. As he develops, does a Kabbalist work specifically with this simple light?

Answer: In this statement, the simple light is mentioned only briefly, but afterward, we will need to analyze this concept together with the ARI. As we penetrate deeper inside, we will begin to understand what he is thinking about and what he wants to convey to us.

Question: Should our attitude toward the words of the ARI and the words of Baal HaSulam be the same, or should we relate to them differently?

Answer: Our attitude toward the words of the ARI must be absolute. That is, whatever he says is absolutely true, and this is how everything must be understood.

As for the words of Baal HaSulam, we must also relate to them as completely true and precise, but they are already built on penetrating into the texts of the ARI.

Therefore, the main text is the ARI, which stands above Baal HaSulam.

Question: What is the Inner Light (Ohr Pnimi) that Baal HaSulam writes about?

Answer: There are many details here that we will analyze as we go along in the text.

Question: With what feeling should we read a verse of the ARI? What should we desire at that moment?

Answer: You should desire to understand what these words are, what meaning is within them, and what the ARI wants to pass on to us.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/14/2025, “Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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When we open The Book of Zohar again and again and after some time the initial inspiration fades.

This inspiration is given to us from above, just like the point in the heart with which a person comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah. This awakening from above (Itaruta deLeila) is given to us by the upper force.

Naturally, with this “fuel,” with the desire of the upper one, a person rushes forward with shining eyes and wishes more and more to feel what lies hidden inside the book, what exactly is being said about him. After all, he is awakened from above to a connection between himself and the book.

And then this inspiration fades. It fades because new desires come to a person, desires for which there is no awakening from above, from the Creator.

He is obliged to add an awakening from below to them from himself, and thus advance each time through his own search for answers to the questions: “What do I need this work for? Why?”

The Creator wishes that a person would each time reveal by himself the importance of the upper one, the urgent necessity of connection with Him, and the significance of all the means of attaining this connection, The Book of Zohar, so that he would again and again search within himself for all these inner definitions.

And here the person comes to a state in which he must understand that he is engaged in the “work of Bezalel,” to build the spiritual vessel, the Temple, with all its contents, within himself. This is immense, gradual work that requires extensive preliminary preparation.

In truth, the person himself does not accomplish anything; all that is required of him is readiness, desire, and intention.

Everything was carried out by the power of Bina from above, but through awakening from below. This is precisely a person’s work. This is what it means that he performs it.

Therefore, our work, on one hand, consists of making efforts and carrying out clarifications at every step.
But on the other hand, this work is called “the work of the Creator” because it is performed by the Creator, and not by man.

A person must only reach a desire, a request, a prayer, “half a shekel,” and the rest is done by the Creator, “the Creator will complete it for me”).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/10, The Book of Zohar

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Question: Can I return to the illusory past in order to change my present?

Answer: Returning to the past is forbidden! Whether you are capable of doing it or not does not matter. You must focus only on the future. Only the future! Remember this, and under no circumstances, even if you ever have the opportunity, should you return.

Question: Can we say that by changing our attitude toward the past, we change the past, and by changing a quality in the present, we change the future?

Answer: Let it be so for now. Later you will correct it yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/28/19

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Question: What practical work can delight the Creator? Is it searching in the group for a common Hisaron (lack)? Is it to come to a common Hisaron so that the Creator could fill it? After all, bestowal to the Creator is delight for Him. Do you advise to engage in this in the group?

Answer: Not only do I advise it, but there is nothing else worth engaging in! One must engage precisely in this. Thus, we can unite with one another in order to reveal yet another possibility to receive from the Creator with the intention to delight Him, exactly as He acts toward us.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/15/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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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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