Question: Can a Kabbalist not reveal, and accordingly not correct broken desires? And why?

Answer: There are desires that are very difficult to reveal. Therefore some Kabbalists do not fully reveal themselves to the upper light and thereby correct themselves.

Question: Is it necessary to protect corrected desires, and how do they help uncorrected desires?

Answer: Corrected desires help other desires get closer to correction.

A Kabbalist must gradually move from weak desires to stronger ones, from those that have not suffered much from the fall, to the tougher, greater desires that have seriously suffered from the fall into egoism. In this way, a person gradually moves forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Question: Let us say a person has been awarded the sense of adhesion with the Creator and considers the bestowal that he makes as a gift from the Creator. Can he ask to receive for the sake of others?

Answer: If he purely bestows and has no desire to receive for himself and does not want to use it, then he can ask to receive for the sake of a friend.

Question: How can I tell if this feeling is genuine and I did not invent it myself?

Answer: There is no way. Just act. As a result, you will begin to feel which of your desires were genuine or false and what you can do with them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/24, Writings of Rabash “The Discernment of “In Everything”

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In other words, through reinforcement in Torah and work, he was rewarded with repentance from love, when sins became as merits (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 354, “Abraham Gave All that He Had”).

In order to strengthen in the Torah and in the work, each member of the ten, despite having multiple obstacles of all kinds, must try to break through them and connect with the Creator in such a way that all the obstacles further strengthen his connection with the Creator and attach him to Him.

And when sins become merits, you feel how the Creator’s attitude toward you changes, and you begin to understand that everything you previously evaluated as bad was actually for your benefit.

Question: What does it mean “to be rewarded with a response out of love”?

Answer: It is a state when a person asks the Creator to give him strength to relate to the Creator with love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Abraham Gave All that He Had”

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Question: How much love can I receive in order to pass it on to my group?

Answer: If it is true love, then there is no limit to receiving love and no limit to giving it. The whole problem is in receiving love that does not turn out to be limitless. Baal HaSulam writes that boundless love turns into hatred in us. We cannot answer it because we cannot limit it in our Kli.

Therefore, if parents endlessly love their child, then they disfigure him. After all, he does not have the opportunity to feel where the boundaries are. As a result, he begins to hate his parents. It comes from nature. He gets the desire to pierce them, to do something in spite of them, because they do not set boundaries for him with their love.

It is a well-known principle that we receive everything in our Kli in a limited form. Thus, when we give something to another, we must explain these boundaries, convey them along with our love: “I love you from here to here and no more.”

By nature, we are very limited and do not perceive infinity, which we will be able to feel only with complete correction. Therefore, if you give infinite pleasure to a small Kli, it turns into hatred. In no case should you do that.

But you can always add love to our work. Do not be afraid, you are still far from making it endless.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: Will states of hatred in spiritual work constantly arise, and must they always be covered with love?

Answer: The Book of Zohar says that the students of Rabbi Shimon, who wrote this book together, experienced such intense emotions toward one another that they wanted to kill each other. This refers to great Kabbalists on high spiritual levels.

Therefore, if you think that your minor negative attitudes toward others will simply transform into good ones, don’t; such hopes are futile. On the contrary, even more irreconcilable feelings toward others will arise within you, so that you will ask the Creator to change them.

He will correct them, and simultaneously awaken deeper egoistic desires in you in which you will feel even greater hatred. Then you will ask Him for even more correction, and He will continue to correct them.

This is how, step by step, hatred followed by love, hatred followed by love, you will move forward.

Thus, the greater a person becomes compared to their friend, the greater their egoism because the previous levels of egoism have already been corrected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Comment: Sometimes I feel hatred for the teacher and it is completely unexplainable.

My Response: Hatred for the teacher is an absolutely natural state and you do not have to conceal it. I will tell you why. Who is causing all the problems in your life?

Question: It used to come to the point that it seemed to me that it would be better if I leave completely, that I would feel good. It was this way. What should I do with this feeling? How can I not leave the group?

Answer: But you haven’t left.

Question: Yes, but this may happen again. I am afraid to leave.

Answer: This is the key that you will stay. You have to be afraid; otherwise, you will go down to the level of an animal.

You see where the world is heading to. What is the use of people living, no matter how good their lives are? At the same time, we have a clear path in front of us, and the first spiritual steps are beginning to unfold. I am happy that the sensations of the spiritual path, spiritual steps, and spiritual ascent are awakening in my students.

But the most important thing for us is to control the two forces, the positive and the negative, and advance forward on two legs. It means revealing the negative force and covering it with a positive one: left-right, left-right.

Why is the left first? It is because we are created in the desire to receive pleasure, in egoism. If it did not exist, we would not have any possibility or any necessity to connect with the Creator. Therefore, it always begins with the left: “And there was evening, and there was morning, one day.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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The true joy in spiritual work is the reward of faith above reason.

Is there joy in faith above reason? Of course, there is. The greatest joy is there because in this state a person is fully included in the Creator.

We should feel that we are pleasing the Creator in the ten. This should be our demand.

Question: How important is acting out joy when you do not feel it?

Answer: You need to tune in to joy and bestowal, and you will see how quickly this will advance you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/20/24, Writings of Rabash “Serve the Creator with Joy”

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Question: How does the Creator open a person’s eyes and heart to His greatness?

Answer: The Creator does this with the help of light, and then a person receives the corresponding sensation.

To live in the ten in the greatness of the Creator means that each of the friends and all together they think only about how to reveal His greatness and move forward under the influence of this sensation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/20/24, Writings of Rabash “Serve the Creator with Joy”

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Question: How can we properly correct those uncorrected desires that may have been hanging between us like heavy weights for years?

Answer: The fact is that we approach increasingly heavier desires gradually. The Creator reveals to us precisely the level of desires that we are capable of correcting.

Therefore, we should not run away from them, but, on the contrary, we should constantly bring them before the Creator. And then we will feel what is wrong between us, between us and the Creator. This is our work.

When a person moves forward and wants to be in harmony with the Creator, then he sees which of his desires contradict correction and hinder him. At that point, he turns to the Creator and asks for His help.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/17/24, Writings of Rabash “Abraham Arose”

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If an animal were to kill intentionally, it would have been a human act (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec).

Question: Do we kill intentionally? We humiliate, we call everything we can murder. Why are we so offended when we are called animals?

Answer: A person must realize his place in nature and understand that he must consciously intend to grow up and fulfill his destiny.

Question: That is, become a human being?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is your understanding of becoming human?

Answer: To become a human being is to reveal the Creator and follow His laws.

Question: What are His laws?

Answer: Love your neighbor as yourself is the most general law of all nature. And then there are specific laws about how we should create a society, help each other, and so on.

Question: So in principle, it is the proper offense for a person when he is called an animal: “Are you an animal”?

Answer: Of course.

Comment: But we see that animals help each other.

My Response: Animals work on instinct. Therefore, if they want to help or do something to each other, then it is an instinct. This is not a problem of choice.

Question: So it is as if they cannot do it any other way?

Answer: No.

Question: Can a person do it differently?

Answer: Yes, a person has a choice, and therefore he has to want one thing and try to change himself and be different.

Comment: This possibility of choice is inherent in us, does it spoil everything? And all the time, for some reason we choose to belittle another, kill, or something similar, and free ourselves from everything.

My Response: It makes us feel better.

Question: In which case will we feel better if we raise another, start loving, and so on?

Answer: If we raise others, we will feel fulfillment, pleasure, peace, etc.

Question: That is, I do something good for someone else, and that makes me feel good. Is this a possible option?

Answer: It is possible, but then the question arises: am I doing it in order to feel like this or in order to be like the Creator?

Comment: That is, if I do it in order to feel good…

Answer: So, this is an egoistic phase.

Question: That is, this is one of the egoistic phases? And it turns out that I have not come out of anything?

Answer: No.

Comment: And if I do it to be like the Creator…

Answer: This is a completely different reason.

Question: Is it supposed to be, is this the reason?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What does it mean to be like the Creator?

Answer: The Creator is a property of bestowal and love. If we want to get closer to this property and treat all those around us or at least some part of them in this way, then in this way we become like the Creator, achieve common feelings with Him, and this is the goal of our development.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/15/24

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