Question: When a person’s desire to receive awakens, they raise it through the ten to the Creator. What does it mean that this desire is corrected by the Creator, and how does it then transform into “Lishma“?

Answer: The desire to ascend to the Creator is expressed in a sense of need for Him. This need is prayer. It ascends to the next, higher degree. From there, light descends, and a connection between the upper and the lower begins. On this basis, the lower one is corrected, changes himself, and thus movement occurs from below upward. The result of this connection is the spiritual screen.

Question: So the very contact with the Creator changes a person. Is this what it means to receive a screen? And after that, they can already act for the sake of the Creator?

Answer: Yes.

Question: It turns out that the most critical point is when I raise MAN, and the Creator begins to influence me? How can we, as a ten, reach the state where we raise MAN, and He begins to change us?

Answer: Visualize it, start acting, and it will happen on its own.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/24, “On the Verge of Lishma”

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Question: How can we transform our ordinary life into commandments and connect everything to the Creator?

Answer: To do this we need to understand the meaning of the Creator’s directives. Everything in our lives can be directed toward actions for His sake.

Through the results of our actions, we will feel what we’ve accomplished and how much closer we’ve come to the Creator, and so on.

Correctly working with commandments means fulfilling them to bring Him contentment.

Question: But what if I still don’t understand what that means?

Answer: Then simply strive to be closer to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/12/24, Writings of Rabash “Overcoming”

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Question: What is the free spiritual action of “Israel” that fulfills the Creator’s commandment?

Answer: To be like the Creator.

Question: What is the correct way to work above disturbances in order to be in true bestowal to the Creator?

Answer: The correct work is not to listen to your egoism but to do what is pleasing in the eyes of the Creator.

Question: We live in a world of action. How can we act in a way that allows only good, not evil, to flow through us?

Answer: This can be achieved only by fulfilling the commandments. Fulfilling the Creator’s desires is considered a commandment. By carrying out His will, we gradually distance ourselves from evil and move toward good.

Question: How can one “circumcise” his evil inclination? Do we negotiate with it, confront it aggressively, promise it some reward, or make a sacrifice?

Answer: You must turn to the Creator and ask Him to remove all egoistic desires from you, nothing more than that.

Question: How can the entire group construct a screen together, or is this an individual effort?

Answer: It depends on the connection between you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Act Is What Decides”

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Question: While reading numerous excerpts from the primary sources, our attitude toward the Creator changes significantly. An incredible love for this state arises, which is something difficult to describe. It is a kind of elation, an inclusion in something extraordinary. How can one receive correctly, so as not just to enjoy, but also to bring contentment to the Creator?

Answer: How can you receive correctly? You must receive only if you can turn this reception into bestowal. Then you agree so that by receiving from the Creator, you can bestow to Him, and be closer to Him.

Question: When reading the sources, I always try to build an intention. Is this intention itself already an act of bestowing, and then it is okay to enjoy?

I struggle to grasp this moment because an extraordinary delight comes from the light, greatness, and wisdom of the Creator revealed in the reading. How can I avoid being consumed by this and instead immediately bestow to Him?

Answer: No, you must definitely be impressed. It is these impressions that we must turn into the opposite, into an attitude toward Him as the source of these impressions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/12/24, Writings of Rabash “Overcoming”

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Question: Is an advancing ten characterized by beginning to feel concern for others?

Answer: Yes, that is correct. A correctly advancing ten begins to feel not only its internal work, but also its work toward others, toward the surrounding world, all of humanity, and even the inanimate, vegetative, and animate parts of nature. Much change lies ahead for us.

The fact is that we ourselves consist of inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels of nature. This is why we perceive the external world in these four forms: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human.

We must reach a state where we truly care for and think about the general correction of everything imaginable, because all of it is me.

All that I perceive inside and outside of myself is, in essence, me. My perception is simply divided into internal and external Kli (vessel). This is what we study in the advanced parts of Kabbalah: Galgalta veEynaim, AHP, or Mocha (brain), Atzamot (bones), Gidin (tendons) are the internal part, and Basar (flesh) and Or (skin) are the external part.

In other words, everything I can conceive of is within me. Therefore, caring for everything and correcting everything constitutes the complete correction of a person’s soul.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: If we work on love in the ten and gather the friends’ Hisaron, we get concerned that we have nothing to give the ten.

How can we open our hearts to receive more love and pass it to the ten?

Answer: There is no problem because you can add to love endlessly. When women say they have nothing to give, it is all the more surprising because they always claim there is no limit to love. You can always add kindness, feeling, concern, compassion, and impression. It is endless.

Look at how a mother hovers over a child lying in a stroller. She looks at him constantly, fixes something, covers her a bit from the sun, always finds another thing to do. She is continually looking for something to add.

This is love—when you need to constantly add to those you love, in this case, to the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What is the correct way to act when you are in descent? Should you go through this state alone or go to the group and pretend to be joyful?

Answer: Definitely go to the group! It does not matter what you have to do, whether it is playing at being joyful or even crying together with everyone, just only in the group!

As soon as a person leaves it, disconnecting from their friends, they lose contact with spirituality. The group is their connection to the spiritual world.

Question: What practical actions can we take to help a friend who is in descent so that the entire group can rise to a higher level?

Answer: If one friend is in descent, the entire group should come together as one and, with their thoughts and prayers, strive to pull that friend up. You will be amazed at how capable you are of doing this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/24, for Graduates of MAK (the International Academy of Kabbalah in Russian), “We have gathered here”

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The Keter of the ten is our perception of the Creator, of who He is. He exists above us and directs us, and everything we do is solely to connect with Him. This perception of the force that organizes everything within us and to which we relate is called Keter, like a crown that adorns the head.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What should I do with the feeling of instability in my perception of the world?  Deep internal dissatisfaction and uncertainty are revealed, which creates a need for the calming voice and explanations of the teacher. Is this a sign of incorporation in the ten?

Answer: No, the teacher has no connection to the work of the ten. I cannot interfere in its work.

You have to figure it out for yourself and get involved in it so that using what you hear from me you implement it within the ten and thereby attain the revelation of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: Is it possible to go through all disturbances on the physical level without blows, just within the group, and how can we achieve this?

Answer: It depends on how you relate to the disturbances. Let’s say a disturbance arises. But because I exist on the physical level, how could I perceive it if it were not physical? I do not have any other sensations besides corporeal ones, so I experience them this way.

Since we are on the animate level, naturally, all disturbances emerge within us on this same level.

It is clear that these include our bodies, our families, our lives, work, and relationships with others. All of them constitute our world, and we experience various disturbances within it.

In fact, the whole world is one continuous disturbance. If we reach a level where these disturbances no longer matter to us and instead we feel only spiritual disturbances, this world will gradually fade from our perception or take up only a minimal part of it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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