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Harmony of Heart and Mind

942Question: What exactly should the mouth and heart be equal in since not everything that roams in the head and heart can be expressed in the ten?

Answer: You can say anything. I think that our friends are ready to understand and accept everything you say.

Question: What if it offends and leads a person astray?

Answer: So think before you speak.

Question: If the heart and mind have come to a state that they are important to each other, can they convey through the mouths the importance of unification to the group?

Answer: Even without uttering a word, you influence the group and become one with your friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Understanding What Is Written in Shulchan Aruch”

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Attain the Spiritual Degree

276.03Each degree in spirituality is a reality, and everyone sees the reality, just as all those who come to the city of London in England see what is in the city and what is said in the city (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 98 “Spirituality Is Called That Which Will Never Be Lost”).

Question: When we are united by some common desire, do we feel the light in it the same way?

Answer: No, everyone feels it individually.

Question: Then how can we have the same feeling if different people, different tens, connect?

Answer: Baal HaSulam gives an example that all visitors to London experience approximately the same impression.

Comment: But someone comes to London for shopping, someone to visit, someone to visit the royal palace.

My Response: It is exactly the same as you. The attainment of the spiritual degrees takes place in accordance with your needs.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Spirituality Is Called That Which Will Never Be Lost”

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“We Shall Do and We Shall Hear”

707“Let us make man,” who is destined to put doing before hearing (Rashbi, Zohar for All “The Flower Buds”).

All degrees of nature, all its forces, participate in coming to such a development when man emerges from nature. The inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human degrees manifest themselves sequentially until the appearance of man.

It is said: “We shall do it and we shall hear.” The fact is that in order for a person to attain spirituality, he must first perform an action, and then he will hear. Hearing is the quality of bestowal, Bina.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 1/7/24

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“I Am Black, but Beautiful”

261This is the meaning of “I am black, but beautiful,” because if you can accept the blackness, you will see that I am beautiful (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 127 “The Difference between Core, Self, and Added Abundance”).

Question: What does it mean to accept blackness?

Answer: Accepting blackness means not seeing any qualities of bestowal and love, but despite the fact that we find ourselves in black egoistic thoughts that pull us down, we must make efforts and climb the degrees of spiritual correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/9/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Difference between Core, Self, and Added Abundance”

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For the Sake of Friends

938.01Question: What does it mean to be in the lesson?

Answer: It means to be present in the lessons and strive to unite everyone so that all the friends are connected to each other and through you to the Creator. And the correct global connection is when each of the ten fulfills this condition.

Question: How can we prepare for this?

Answer: There is no need to prepare; that is how you act when each of the ten wants all the friends to connect with the Creator through him.

Question: Can we help each other rise above the egoism that is unfolding between us?

Answer: Of course you can. You must help your friend by showing an example, hug him, cheer him up, keep him from falling, and be in constant connection with him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 1/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Torah Lishma”

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What is Fate?

633.3It is written about in the book, Tree of Life, by the Ari, “There is not a day that is like another, or a moment that is like another; there is not a person who is like another… Rather, each one must correct that which belongs to his part” (Rabash, Article 10, 1984 “What Is the Degree One Should Achieve in Order Not to Have to Reincarnate?”).

Question: Who determines the part I need to correct?

Answer: It was already determined before you were born, before you realized you existed. Therefore, you must attain and correct yourself as much as you can.

Question: Can we say this part is related to fate?

Answer: Of course, this is the fate of man. Fate is the part of the egoistic desires one must correct.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/2/24

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The Origin of Souls

264.01All of the souls extend from the soul of Adam HaRishon, for after he sinned in the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, his soul divided into 600,000 souls (Rabash, Article 10, 1984 “What Is the Degree One Should Achieve in Order Not to Have to Reincarnate?”).

Adam HaRishon is a system of desires, which in the beginning were as one desire, and then shattered into 600,000 parts, then into many more parts, and more, so that in each of the created beings, there is some part of the common soul “Adam.”

Therefore, during our lives, and even during several life cycles, we need to try to change those egotistic desires that we reveal in ourselves into altruistic ones.

To do this, we must be in a group, among friends, learn correction from them, and they must learn from us, and through our efforts, we will help each other rise from egoism and obtain actions of bestowal and love.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/2/24

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The Most Important Commandment

294.4Question: In the article “What Does the Rule, “Love Thy Friend as Thyself,” Give Us?,” Rabash explains that with the help of this rule, you can come to love for the Creator. Then why are there all the other actions and fulfillment of the commandments?

Answer: How else will we come to love for the Creator? We must move from love for the other to love for the Creator. We cannot develop this feeling in ourselves in any other way.

After you already have some direction of love for your friends for the Creator, the rest of the commandments will be fulfilled.

Question: If the main law of the Torah is “love your neighbor,” after implementing it can we fulfill all the other commandments? Or, on the contrary, do we complete all the commandments first and then come to love?

Answer: No, you need to do both. But the most important commandment is still “love your neighbor.”

Question: The article says: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Rabbi Akiva says: “It is a great rule in the Torah.” It follows that if we keep this rule (Klal), all the individual elements (Prat) are already included in it, i.e., we will come to these elements automatically, without any effort, and there is nothing more for us to do.

What is the order of our correction?

Answer: In principle, it does not matter what it is. The main thing is to do it. Try to be closer to others in your heart.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 12/19/23

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Thanks to Women’s Support

632.3Question: How can we attract the light of Hochma, clothe it with Hassadim, and receive it in a good way and not through suffering? Does it depend on us or on the readiness of the world?

Answer: It is written: “Thanks to righteous women, the children of Israel came out of Egypt.” So if not everything, then a lot depends on women. Therefore, I appeal to women so that we think about and strengthen this part of our Kli.

Naturally, as is customary in our organization, we have absolute and complete equality. We do everything that is necessary with the same effort, both women and men.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/24, “Preparation to the Convention”

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At the Intersection of Opposing Forces

207A person was created with the egoistic desire to receive for oneself so that everything would be only for one’s own benefit. He considers only this. That is the purpose of his life.

But the purpose of creation is for a person to reach the highest level of creation, that is, to acquire the property of bestowal and love for the whole world. In this way, one reaches one’s full, absolute development.

Thus, two opposing currents meet here. The first is egoistic, when a person takes everything to himself; the second is altruistic when he must give everything from himself.

These two opposing forces exist in nature and determine everything that happens to us.
It is on this basis that we study the wisdom of Kabbalah, which helps us make the transition from egotistic desires for our sake to altruistic desires for the sake of the whole world.
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