Question: It is said that through pleasure and joy, a person attains fulfillment of both external and internal Kelim, which leads to an expansion of knowledge. What internal and external Kelim are being referred to?

Answer: These are the desires to be filled and to feel the Creator within oneself.

Internal Kelim are those that remain with me and always belong to me; I perceive them as my own. External Kelim are those that I must attract.

Question: How can one correctly attract these desires in connection with friends?

Answer: We work with the desires of our friends, combine them, and fill one another. It depends solely on us, on how much we see the unification of these desires.

Question: But in order to see the greatness of our friends, we have to work through obstacles. Does the effort to work above all these obstacles relate to external Kelim?

Answer: Not to external, not to internal, but to those that are being revealed. Desires are revealed within me, and I want to work with them either above them or below them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/8/24, Baal HaSulam “What Are Three Things that Broaden One’s Mind in the Work?”

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Question: What does it mean to hold on to the Creator during descents?

Answer: Holding on to the Creator during descents is when it doesn’t matter at all how you feel about the Creator. What matters is how He feels about you. Pay attention to this.

Question: How can I focus on His attitude toward me rather than on the state I am going through right now?

Answer: It depends on how you evaluate yourself. Do you help the Creator reveal Himself in the world or not? If you help Him reveal Himself in the world, and this is the most important thing for you, then you bring the Creator closer to yourself, or you yourself come closer to Him.

Question: In moments of descent, can I hold on to my ten, to my friends?

Answer: You can hold on to your friends, but this is still an intermediate state. You must transition from it to the Creator.

Comment: When a descent occurs, the only means left are the friends in the ten, our meetings, lessons, and dissemination.

My Response: That is enough. If you gather all of this together and direct it as coming from the Creator, you can receive enormous strength from it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/25, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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The Shechina appears within the organs, filling the outer and inner Kelim. This is called “broadening the mind.”

This is obtained through envy, lust, and honor, which bring a person out of the world.” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 9, “What Are Three Things that Broaden One’s Mind in the Work?“)

Question: What is lust?

Answer: Lust is a person’s mature desire for the Creator in order to receive Him in his Kelim, to be filled with Him, to feel Him, and thus to recognize that only the revelation of the Creator can lead him to perfection.

Question: The quality of envy manifests as a feeling of envy for the power possessed by the Creator. In this case it is a desire for power, like a Klipa that not everyone can handle. Why is it that a Klipa is revealed that cannot be handled?

Answer: This is in the power of the Creator. What He desires, He reveals.

His desire to give a person an ascent, a descent, or a transition from one level to another all depends on His plans for the next level.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/8/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Are Three Things that Broaden One’s Mind in the Work?”

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Question: Are you afraid that you might be disconnected from the spiritual system?

Answer: There is fear on my part. I am afraid.

Question: And what if it is meant to be?

Answer: It doesn’t matter. I still don’t want it. Why should it be like this?! If I act correctly, run the program, and operate within it, why should this happen? I want to attain complete unity with the Creator through understanding His ways.

You want to say: “If you are still afraid that you might be disconnected, it means you are not yet fully devoted to the Creator, you have not yet given yourself to Him with all your soul.” That is true. And I do not want this. I do not want disconnection.

In everything else, do with me as You wish! But let me attain this program so that I can justify You; otherwise, I will not be able to do so. That is, this goal—this fear of falling out of attainment—is not an egoistic fixation on myself.

Question: So is it possible to negotiate with the Creator in some way?

Answer: No, not to negotiate, but rather to compel Him to lead you further, to not let go, to hold on, to force Him, just as a small child compels an adult.

Our goal is very serious. Therefore the desired attitude toward the Creator is one where on the one hand you recognize His greatness, and on the other you understand that you can influence Him. And He desires this! Because in doing so you pursue the same goal as He does: to achieve complete mutual understanding and unity.

Question: So is there really a choice between these two things you are talking about?

Answer: The choice lies in your attitude toward what is happening, not in what is happening itself.

Question: But then why are you afraid that you might simply be disconnected? Does it depend on the students or on you personally?

Answer: What it depends on, I do not know. I do not see the entire picture of governance. I only know what I have been able to attain from the beginning of my path until this moment. And what lies ahead, I do not know.

Therefore I cannot say whether it depends on me, on the students, or on something else. I do not know, and I do not need to. It does not matter whether I know or not. What matters is my attitude toward it. I want to justify the Creator in all His ways, and for this reason, I do not want to be disconnected from attaining His program and uniting with it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. To Exist in Attainment” 6/27/10

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A person’s spiritual need can be fulfilled only if we agree with the actions of the Creator in darkness. After all, in the light of revelation, it is easy for us to agree that the Creator has done good to us. But it is precisely in darkness and concealment that it must be said that these too are actions of the Creator.

A person feels that he has no connection with the revelation of the Creator in his world, and that this connection depends on him, on whether he strives for it or not. The Creator wants to bring a person to the understanding that everything depends on his connection with the Creator. And then the revelation of the Creator to a person is called light and connection, while separation from the Creator is called darkness and evil. And so a person progresses from evil to good, from darkness to light. Any advancement is a sequence of concealment and revelation of the Creator.

The Torah gives us a solution. If we act for the sake of taking a step toward the Creator, then we will perceive any revelation of the Creator as happiness. However, if we do not strive to come closer to Him, then we will perceive the revelation of a new state as evil.

Invite and draw the Creator into what is happening so that it becomes revealed that it was the Creator who acted is the solution.

We cause all the evil and misery in the world by choosing the force of evil. But if we choose the force of good, then peace reigns in the world. Our only choice is to attribute everything that happens to the Creator. And the more of what happens in reality that we can attribute to the Creator, the more we strengthen this force of “There is none else besides Him.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/1/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: We are a young ten. We feel that we have made significant progress over the past few months while preparing for the convention. However, there is often a feeling that to truly make a breakthrough, an extreme situation is necessary, something similar to the intensity of your caring for your teacher for two months or having a non-stop convention for three months. Should we, perhaps, create conditions to truly foster an extreme situation?

Answer: Extreme situations can arise at any moment without any special reasons.

However, you must understand that entering the volume of spiritual vessels, lights, and levels happens with those who genuinely desire it, who exert effort, and pray, meaning, they ask the Creator for spiritual advancement. Therefore I urge you not to neglect this.

I have never seen anyone who could claim with absolute certainty that what one has achieved in spirituality was received as a gift from above without any effort on his part. No, it depends on a person himself, at least 90%, and the Creator adds the rest.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/25, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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Question: How can one avoid being emotionally trapped in different states? These states can be positive like joy and happiness, or they can be heavy, lead us astray, and bring negative thoughts. How can one adhere to the source during such times?

Answer: We must understand what the source desires and align our own desires with it. Then everything will work out for us. However, you must practice. Practice!

Question: Will there come a time when emotions stop taking over?

Answer: No, they will always be present, and they will continue to challenge you and play with you. It is not easy. I advise you to read as much as possible in the language you are most comfortable with, and you will begin to understand what Baal HaSulam and Rabash really want to convey.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/25, Continuing the Convention With an Ascent

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Question: It is said that habit becomes second nature in the work. What should we become accustomed to?

Answer: We must understand that everything we perceive in our world, we receive as it passes through our senses.

Therefore we do not see ourselves or others correctly; everything is distorted in an egoistic light.
When people speak about something close to them, they distort the truth, either by embellishing it, or on the contrary if they dislike someone, distorting it in the opposite direction.

We must rise above these distortions, and then we will see the world in its true light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Difference between a Shade of Kedusha and a Shade of Sitra Achra?”

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One must first purify his heart to be a sightly abode by annulling the will to receive for himself and accustoming himself to work so all his actions will be only in order to bestow.

From this extend sightly Kelim, meaning his desires, called Kelim, will be clean from reception for himself. Rather, they will be pure, called “bestowal” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 9, “What Are Three Things that Broaden One’s Mind in the Work?”).

Question: It is said: “And then his desires, called Kelim, will not only be purified of egoism but will also be radiant with their qualities of bestowal.”

It follows that the concepts of “purifying from egoism” and “the quality of bestowal” are distinct. But is our purifying from egoism not the same as being in the quality of bestowal?

Answer: There can be various nuances here. In principle, if we fill our egoistic desires with the quality of bestowal, then there remains no free space in them for any form of reception from the Creator. This is sufficient.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/8/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Are Three Things that Broaden One’s Mind in the Work?”

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In Kedusha [holiness], however, it is called “Under its shadow I coveted to sit, and its fruit was sweet to my palate.” In other words, he says that all the concealments and afflictions he feels are because the Creator has sent him these states so he would have a place for work above reason (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 8, “What Is the Difference between a Shade of Kedusha and a Shade of Sitra Achra?“).

Question: Can it be said that the state of “Under its shadow I coveted to sit, and its fruit was sweet to my palate” is more productive for the development of the soul?

Answer: Correct. That is why this state is praised. It is precisely in such states that a person turns to the Creator in order to come out of the shade and embrace Him.

Question: Is there a prayer for the Creator to always keep me in this state so that I could pray from the shade?

Answer: No, it is impossible to remain in that state constantly because one negates the other. I cannot be in the shade and at the same time admire the “fruit,” meaning the revelation of the Creator. The shade is not His revelation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Difference between a Shade of Kedusha and a Shade of Sitra Achra?”

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