Question: What will help us realize our interdependence within the ten and the world group and maintain the intention to bestow before each action?

Answer: Just as we currently want to receive everything for ourselves, we should desire to bestow everything to our friends in the ten and through them, to the Creator. Bestowal indicates that I think about my friends and ask the Creator for them to receive everything they desire.

If the ten can unite and direct all its desires to the Creator, it means that there is a force of bestowal within it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/22/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Mitzva that Comes through Transgression”

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Question: What is the revelation of the Shechina to the created beings?

Answer: It is the revelation of all souls connected correctly. When a person attains this, the entire vessel the Creator made is revealed and  He is ready to fill it. The revelation of the vessel is more than just feeling the ten; it is Malchut of infinity.

Question: Should I first feel the suffering because the ten is not receiving the light of correction, and then the ten should feel the suffering of the Shechina?

Answer: No, it is you who should suffer that you cannot correct the Shechina because all your friends should gather in it, and you want them to have the intention to pass the collection of all your desires to the Creator.

Question: How can I inspire the ten to think about the Shechina and build an intention in one direction? After all, I do not know what is in the hearts of others.

Answer: It does not matter what is in their hearts. You just need to talk about this among yourselves, and gradually, through your conversations, the upper light will begin to work on the heart of each friend.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/22/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Mitzva that Comes through Transgression”

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Question: What do we connect if we feel everything differently?

Answer: We connect our Kelim. When they become larger and deeper, we begin to feel our similarity to each other in them. If we connect to create a common Kli, then in this common Kli we begin to attain the Creator.

Question: How can we come to such a perception of reality that everyone is in complete unity?

Answer: With love, everyone should strive for love.

Question: What is the reason for the transition between our understanding of the relationship between the Kli and the light, and the actual, practical comprehension of these relationships in our receiving Kelim?

Answer: The attainment of the connection or dependence of the light on the Kli is the attainment of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/21/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “All the Worlds”

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Question: How do we distinguish self-sacrifice from narcissism?

Answer: You need to approach yourself soberly, look at all your shortcomings, weigh your strengths, and evaluate how you can overcome these shortcomings on your own.

Question: The more efforts we make in self-sacrifice, the more suffering increases. Why does this happen?

Answer: This is how you feel now. It is in self-sacrifice that we will feel great joy and adhesion with the Creator.

Question: Self-sacrifice seems easy when it is a one-time movement. But this is a serious and lengthy process. How can I feel it? It is easy to jump up once with your saber drawn. How does one live in self-sacrifice?

Answer: Every minute, every second, jump out with a saber against your internal enemies.

Question: Is self-sacrifice an individual or a group state?

Answer: This is an individual state.

Question: Is there a difference if I sacrifice everything to adhere to the Creator or so that my friends will do it?

Answer: There is a big difference. When you sacrifice yourself for the sake of your friends, then it is indeed a great sacrifice and a great action.

Question: Can self-sacrifice be fictitious? After all, everything we do is a game.

Answer: No, self-sacrifice is not a game. You are actually sacrificing something relatively dear to you.

Question: Can we say that true love is self-sacrifice? If I do not sacrifice anything for my friends, does that mean I do not truly love them?

Answer: Not only do you not love them, you hate them because you have the opportunity to come closer to them in love, but you push away this opportunity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Labor”

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Question: It is said that spiritual phenomena change according to the state a person is in, and a person experiences a different form each time according to his or her imagination and sensory organs. We are developing the sixth sensory organ, which according to sensations is also divided into five parts. Is this why we perceive spiritual phenomena and objects differently?

Answer: We are all created in a common likeness and we have the same senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. Nevertheless, they give their unique reflection and their perception for each person.

Let us say you put a candy in your mouth and you describe what it is like: sweet, pleasant, invigorating, and so on. But I do not understand this because this is only possible if I can feel the same perception of this candy in my sensory organs.

We have no other way to compare the sensations of one person with the sensations of another.

Therefore, it is said that everything we attain, that is, that we receive and reveal, happens only in relation to our properties.

Question: At the same time, the great Kabbalists, who were in a state of attainment, perceived spiritual objects and phenomena in the same way. Does it mean that we will never reach the same feeling that the Kabbalists reached?

Answer: While we are each in our own perception, yes. But as we develop, we will begin to understand the limitations of our receiving, we will begin to develop our feelings more and more, and thus we will become closer and understand each other more.

When this will happen is difficult to say. In the future, we will reach a state where our feelings will be equal and we will have exactly the same perceptions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/21/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “All the Worlds”

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Question: Sometimes it seems that you exert a lot of effort but the Creator, on the contrary, moves away from you. What does this mean? Does it mean that the Creator wants you to put more effort or that perhaps the efforts are incorrect?

Answer: No, the Creator has actions that are similar to the movement of a fleeing deer, as it is said: “My beloved is like a gazelle.”

It seems to us that the Creator is running away from us, but it is similar to how a deer runs away from a hunter and turns back to see if the hunter is chasing it or not.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Completing the Labor”

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Question: At what point does the attainment of the upper world take place?

Answer: Attainment of spirituality takes place when the Creator wants it to be revealed to a person. There is no definite moment.

Question: What should we strive for more: to correct our nature or to attain?

Answer: It is the same thing. Correction is the means, and attainment is the consequence. The degree of attainment depends only on a person: how much he wants to rise and become like the Creator.

Question: What do we attain when we connect with the Creator?

Answer: We attain our common Kli, the influence of the Creator on it, and how our common Kli in turn affects the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/21/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “All the Worlds”

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Question: What should the prayer be like so that a person receives mercy from the Creator?

Answer: Prayer should come from the heart.

Comment: But we always pray from the heart.

My Response: Precisely this “always” kills everything. The quality of prayer depends only on your heart, on whether you are thinking about how to turn to the Creator.

Prayer is an effort. But it depends on when and in what.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Completing the abor”

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Even [stone] is called “faith” (stones to weigh with) (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 170, “You Shall Not Have in Your Pocket a Big Stone”).

Question: It is said: “Let there not be in your pocket a great stone or a small stone.” Does this mean that there is a preferable level of working with faith: above it or without it?

Answer: You do not need to pay attention to whether the stone is light or heavy. You need to learn to handle any load with faith above reason.

A person should always be prepared to have a stone with which he can weigh his wrong thoughts. And it does not matter what it is: big or small.

Question: Does this mean that we take these stones from the outside and not from our acquisitions?

Answer: We take these stones from our egoism.

Question: What does it mean that faith must correspond to the will to receive?

Answer: The point is that you answer any questions that arise in your mind based on faith, faith above reason. Therefore, you should ask the Creator to shine His light upon you, your egoism, and your desire, and then you will be able to be in faith above reason.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “You Shall Not Have in Your Pocket a Big Stone”

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Question: When spiritual and material desires are so intermixed that it is hard to distinguish them, what should we do about it?

Answer: I think this will gradually sort itself out and you will see which desires are spiritual and which are material.

Question: It seems material desires are pulling spiritual desires along with them. Is this an illusion?

Answer: No, this is indeed so. Material desires gradually turn into spiritual ones.

Do not worry, it will all be corrected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Rewarded—I Will Hasten It”

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