Question: What is a group? After all, groups are different. There are groups of people with a point in the heart. They know about Kabbalah, and I enjoy talking to them and interacting with them. And there are people with whom I just have friendly relations. Is this also a group?

Answer: A Kabbalistic group is a group that preferably consists of ten people, who, together with you, are striving for such a connection that the Creator will be revealed between you.

It has nothing to do with other groups. That is, you must organize relationships between you that are similar to the qualities of the Creator. Then the Creator will reveal Himself according to the law of equivalence of form in your relationships with your friends. That is it.

And all sorts of fabrications—some other group or something else—is all nonsense. They only distract you, and you will achieve nothing here or there.
[335716]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

Related Material:
Independence of a Group
A Real Group
The Group As A Spiritual Entity

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work, The Tens - No Comments →

This means that vitality is called “light” and “pleasure,” and pleasure is spirituality. It is a rule that there is no light without a Kli (vessel), meaning there is no such thing as pleasure without clothing. For this reason, the whole difference is not in the pleasure, called “light,” but in the clothing, meaning in the Kli, since there is a clothing of falsehood, and clothing of truth (Rabash, Letter No. 12b).

Question: How do we in the ten measure whether we are in mutual connection with the Creator to gradually reveal ourselves and bestow to Him?

Answer: We need to check what we derive pleasure from. If our pleasures come from false clothing, we are still in an incorrect contact with the light of the Torah.

But if we have already reached a contact where the clothing of truth begins, we have reached the goal and can rise more and more in the clothing of spiritual holiness.

Question: What kind of pleasure can we receive from the Creator in active unification in the ten to give Him the proper measure?

Answer: The pleasure of uniting with each other and organizing a group with a common opinion: to reveal the Creator and show our love for Him.
[335907]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/16/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 12b

Related Material:
Connection With The Group Is Connection With The Creator
Toward Connection with the Creator
For the Sake of Connection with the Creator

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work, The Tens - No Comments →

The correct Kli of the ten is formed when ten friends want to unite all their desires, goals, and intentions for the sake of the Creator.

We need to strive to get closer to the Creator so that He can be revealed to us as much as possible, and we can use His properties and His power. In this case, we will have the quality of bestowal and become like Him.

Question: How should the ten repay the Creator for the true reward of adhesion with Him?

Answer: By wanting to be like the Creator.
[335925]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/24, Writings of Rabash “According to the Sorrow Is the Reward”

Related Material:
The Common Heart
True Deficiency
The Ten Is A Standard Spiritual Vessel

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Prayer and Intention, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Every day of the Sukkot holiday ends with a festive meal where we await the arrival of the “guest of honor”—the highest quality named after one of the forefathers. Each day a new quality arrives; in total there are seven qualities, seven forefathers.

Every quality basically emerges from Keter, from Ein Sof, and we allow it to develop and reveal itself at the expense of the properties that are lower in relation to it. In this way we come to the complete structure of the soul.

First we clarify all ten Sefirot, i.e., the forces acting in the soul. Now we must try to collect all these Sefirot together in order to see how each subsequent Sefira emerges as a result of combining all the previous ones that gave birth to it, and exists thanks to them.

We teach how all the forces or qualities are incorporated in one another and thanks to their desire for correction, in the end they all reveal all of them.

Initially everything was concealed in the primordial forces, and then it is revealed.

And the correction on the day dedicated to Joseph includes all the corrections that occurred before him. This is how it is actually revealed. All the Ushpizin, the honored guests, ultimately became one whole.
[336140]
From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/22/24, “The Seven Ushpizin”

Related Material:
The Second Day of Sukkot—Isaac, Overcoming
Sukkot: Adhesion With A Single “Embrace”
Ushpizin—Degrees Of The Upper Light

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Holidays, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

One should be in the form of “willows of the brook,” tasteless and scentless. And one should delight in this work, even though he feels no flavor or fragrance in this work. And then this work is called “the letters of Your unified name,” by which we are rewarded with complete unification with the Creator (Baal HaSulam, Shamati, 85, “What Is the Fruit of a Citrus Tree, in the Work?”).

Question: How can we come from work where there seems to be no taste to a high degree of “the letters of Your unified name”?

Answer: When we get a taste for the quality of bestowal, we get a taste for spiritual work.

Precisely because you have no taste initially and you force yourself to work that you may develop a taste for bestowal, for the right connection, which you will begin to feel. We need to gradually understand this and hold on to this point of connection constantly.

Question: How can a person with no taste in the work not simply endure this state but transition to the property of bestowal?

Answer: The fact is that you cannot force it. Therefore, even if you fail to feel the closeness to the Creator in the quality of bestowal, you must continue to strive for this.

Those who do not abandon this goal and always want to reach adhesion with the Creator in the quality of bestowal eventually attain this quality and begin to feel it.

One develops different Kelim of bestowal, and begins to feel his new relationship with the Creator in them.

Question: Let’s say a friend does not have the strength to participate actively in all our events. What can he hope for? Could he find strength at the next stage, or can there be some internal switch?

Answer: Imagine that you remember your childhood, how you wanted to befriend someone, but that person did not want or understand it. So what could you do? You had to invent some tricks to attract him to you. In the same way, we need to involve our friend in our studies and gradually bring him closer to mutual bestowal to the Creator.
[336086]
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/24, “Sukkot”

Related Material:
Feel the Taste of Bestowal
Looking For A Real Taste Of Bestowal
Taste in the Torah

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: What does it mean to acquire the tastes of the Torah in the ten?

Answer: It means to correctly receive each of the four types of manifestation of the Creator in the soul.

Question: A person who has been studying Kabbalah for a long time needs some kind of nourishment from the light. But there are friends who rarely attend classes and apparently do not receive the taste that would attract them. How can this taste be conveyed to them?

Answer: There is not a way to do so; just like in our world: only the one who tastes, feels it.

You just need to try to connect together and attempt to feel this taste. Then even those who do not yet have it will begin to feel it. This will push them forward.

Question: There are moments in our work when everyone feels passion, fire in the work. And it happens that people lose this taste. How can we ensure that a person always feels the bright taste of spiritual work?

Answer: It is not easy. In order for a person not to lose his taste, you must connect and drag him into your connection in which you could convey your tastes to him.
[336037]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/20/24 on the topic “Sukkot”

Related Material:
Taste in the Torah
A Taste Of Spiritual Unity
A Taste That Cannot Be Compared To Anything In This World

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work, The Tens - No Comments →

Question: Before crossing the Machsom, it is impossible to perform a selfless act. But we get the impression that we are doing something selfless for the sake of the group. How can we reveal that this is not quite the case?

Answer: You will receive such revelation from the Creator. He will shine His light on you, the quality of bestowal, and you will feel this quality against the background of your quality of reception. In this way, you will feel the gap between you and the Creator.

Question: Still, this is an unpleasant revelation because I feel that I am acting for my own sake. How can we sweeten this state so that we have the strength to continue; not to despair, but to move forward?

Answer: You are doing this intentionally in order to reveal your difference from the Creator.
[335869]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/24, Writings of Rabash “According to the Sorrow Is the Reward”

Related Material:
True Bestowal
Yearning for Bestowal
The Power of the Intention to Bestow

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: How can you find joy in the work without taste or smell, and how do you do it with a quality of adornment rather than neglect?

Answer: It depends on whether you feel who you are giving your efforts to.

Question: Where do we get this joy from? Is it from uniting in the ten or thinking you are working for the Creator?

Answer: From uniting in the ten because this is how we approach the Creator.
[336042]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/20/24, the topic “Sukkot”

Related Material:
Enjoy Working for the Creator
Kli of Joy
Please The Creator

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work, The Tens - No Comments →

Question: What does it mean to love the Creator? Whom should I love?

Answer: You must love everyone except yourself, because you yourself are what stands in opposition to the Creator. Therefore, to the extent that you cease loving yourself, you will rise above yourself and draw closer to the group (the ten) and to the Creator.

Question: If I need to love everyone else but not myself, how does this relate to “love your neighbor as yourself”?

Answer: The point is that just as you egoistically love yourself, you must altruistically love your neighbor.

Question: You say we should rise above our disagreements. But what if there is someone in the group whom I find unpleasant?

Answer: That is exactly where you need to rise above your dislike for them and correct your attitude. How? Ask the Creator to help you do this.
[335998]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

Related Material:
“And You Shall Love The Lord”
Practice Love For The Creator
Treat Your Neighbor As Yourself

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work, The Tens - No Comments →

Question: I look at a friend whom I do not accept, and I see myself before me; this is an image of me. If I cannot ask for myself, whom do I ask for because it is my image in front of me?

Answer: It is opposite you. What does it mean to see another person in front of me? I see my negative qualities. If I had the corrected properties, I would not see anyone as bad. Therefore, ask for correction so that you see everyone as fully corrected.

What else can you ask for? For the Creator to correct others? This is only possible in the ten where we mutually help each other.

Here is a dilemma: to pray for the world to be better or to correct yourself not to see the world as evil. This is individual and shared work.

When you ask for your correction in order to relate to your friends in the ten correctly, you are not asking for your ego. You are asking to correct yourself, to rise, and thus correctly interact with them, become interconnected, and help them. This is not considered asking for yourself because you are asking for the ten. Therefore, there is a condition: turn to the Creator only through the ten.

We must ask constantly, as it was said: “May you ask constantly ask” i.e., constantly be praying.
[336001]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

Related Material:
Everyone Judges According To His Corruption
Everyone Is Responsible For Fixing The Whole World
Responsible For Others

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Prayer and Intention, Spiritual Work, The Tens - No Comments →