Question: Our ten experienced a very strong descent, and now we have risen. We decided to meet physically. What advice would you give us?

Answer: By all means, it is good. Physical actions give something, but, in principle, they do not symbolize anything.

Just pick a couple of good articles that talk about unity between you, and discuss them when you meet; you will feel how much you are already internally connected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Discernments in States”

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Question: What does it mean to subordinate the force of receiving to the force of bestowal since there is no coercion in spirituality?

Answer: Yes, but you want the force of bestowal in you to be above the force of receiving.

Question: What makes it submit? Love?

Answer: The Creator does. A person can cause the beginning of the Zivug (combining the force of receiving with the force of bestowal), but it happens only under the force of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Discernments in States”

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Question: Often we follow the instinctive impulses of our nature and only later realize that something is wrong. If I am unable to change anything, I ask the Creator to correct me. How do you learn not to blindly follow your nature?

Answer: To do this, we need to understand what the Creator requires of us and with the help of what actions we can satisfy Him. And then everything will be fine.

Question: There is a material world and the upper world. The upper world is felt nearby, among friends. How do we learn to feel the upper world in a multidimensional, sensory, and conscious way within yourself, and not somewhere nearby?

Answer: Try to feel it, and you will see that you are gradually approaching it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/5/24, Writings of Rabash “The Meal of a Wicked One”

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Question: What needs to be done to be given a soul?

Answer: Unite the desires of the people in the ten into one great desire to bestow so that it resembles the Creator in some way.

It is the common soul of the ten. It may be that some feel it and can already use it, and others still cannot.

Question: What does it mean to do good in the ten?

Answer: To do my best to help each friend with whatever he needs to advance.

Question: But this is not enough. We do not have many needs for the ten to grow.

Answer: Try to do what your friend wants so your forces join his forces, and he would achieve what he wants.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Discernments in States”

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This is the meaning of “‘Folly of follies,’ said Kohelet,” meaning that he assembled all those follies into Kedusha, and from them come great unifications (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 560, “Generations“).

Question: How can we transform “folly of follies” into holiness?

Answer: This is something we accomplish gradually.

Even if we do not clearly understand what we are doing, the Creator continually distances us from one another and from spirituality each day. Yet we persist in striving to draw closer to Him. Thus no matter what, we are engaged in this work.

Question: How exactly can this be brought into holiness? For instance, if we are working in the ten and the Creator disconnects us, do we then reunite?

Answer: This process naturally shifts to another degree. As soon as you complete what you were required to do on your current degree, you transition to a different degree, even if you do not feel it and do not think about it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Generations”

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Question: If the intention is hidden from me and I am always inclined to justify myself, how can I delve deeper into my intention?

Answer: If you always want to justify yourself, you will not be able to delve deeper into the intention. To achieve this, a great power from above is needed that would tear you away from your egoism, and then in a neutral state you will be able to understand what the Creator requires of you.

Question: How can we do it? After all, if the intention is hidden from me, I do not know what I am delving into. Maybe I am going in the wrong direction.

Answer: This can only be done by the power of prayer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar

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Question: What does it mean in practice to ask the Creator to make the right choice for us every time? How can we hear the response of the Creator?

Answer: Ask, it does not matter how—cry out, sing; the main thing is to address Him. Then He will surely fulfill your request, and quickly.

Question: What inner state allows a person to recognize what the good inclination is?

Answer: We can recognize it only if we rise to the degree of bestowal.

Question: How can one become a person capable of making the right choice?

Answer: This happens when we unite and ask the Creator to make the right choice for us.

Question: How can we sense the inner struggle of the two inclinations, good and evil, in our friends, and how can we help them direct it correctly?

Answer: You must feel this yourselves, both within yourself and within the group.

Question: What is the difference between the revelation of egoism and attainment?

Answer: The revelation of egoism creates the conditions for attainment. Everything we attain, we attain through the revealed egoism.

Question: How can we ensure that the seed of the good inclination grows stronger than the evil inclination?

Answer: Develop it and nurture it with good deeds.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Rabash “And Isaac Was Forty Years Old”

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There is no blessing greater than if one’s deficiencies are taken from him (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 820, “The Discernment of ‘In Everything’”).

Question: Why is it a blessing when there is no Hisaron?

Answer: The absence of Hisaron may not be because it does not manifest, but simply because the Creator does not require anything from a person.

“Requires nothing” can be a positive property and can be a negative one. Therefore we are always faced with the need to find out what condition a person is in.

To make the presence of Hisaron a blessing, you need to combine the desire to receive with the ability to give.

Then you can direct yourself as you like, and your actions will always be similar to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/24, Writings of Rabash “The Discernment of ‘In Everything’”

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Question: If the main thing is to attract the light, why do we analyze the structure of the worlds described in TES in such detail in the lesson?

Answer: We do not aim to analyze the detailed structure of the worlds; we only try to gather some details to participate in what Kabbalists tell us.

But when studying TES, like all else, we first have to think about the soul, where all the elements I read about exist and all phenomena occur.

Kabbalists, who have discovered the quality of bestowal within themselves, analyze what actions can be performed in it and write about it. Apart from this, there is nothing, either we are in an imaginary reality of this world, which does not exist and then disappears, that we live in as in a dream, or we reach the genuine reality of bestowal, the reality of the Creator.

After all, there is “None else besides Him,” and if something exists, it is only there. TES tells us how this true reality is revealed to us within our desires.

To the extent I enter into this reality and discover it acting in me, to the extent I join and identify myself with it, I can write about it as a Kabbalist. And other Kabbalists do the same. That is, we all write about the same connection with the eternal upper light and what we reveal in it from our black point of creation, a point out of nothing.

When I reach contact with the light, similarity with it, I feel different phenomena beginning to occur in me, manifesting in me from top to bottom (the light of Hochma) or in width (the light of Hasadim). These phenomena give rise to all sorts of feelings in me; I describe them since I have the opportunity to express them in words and sounds.

But all our impressions come from that black point that encounters the light and becomes like the light. This is the whole science of Kabbalah—the revelation of light inside the black point of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/12/11, TES, Vol. 6, Part 15, p.40

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What does the proper incorporation of each individual in the ten mean?

If we connect with one another and feel the Creator at the center of our unity, it means we are in proper connection with each other. When everyone removes their individual egoistic desires and strives only to uplift one another, then everything will work out correctly.

Question: What speeds up of correction of the desires of the ten, and how can we achieve it?

Answer: Speeding up the correction of the desires in the ten is possible only if we constantly think about it and act for the sake of it at all times.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Rabash “And Isaac Was Forty Years Old”

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