Question: Rabash writes that there must be equality in the group; otherwise, you will not receive the importance of the goal.

Why is equality one of the principles of spiritual work?

Answer: We must very precisely ensure that in the group everyone respects and loves each other, yearns for connection with each other, and no one is more or less than the rest. This is the work with your egoism.

Question: In this case, how can we learn from others?

Answer: You can learn from the other when you consider him important. The condition you set for yourself is to imagine each friend as your teacher. In this case, being in a group where everyone is bigger than you, you will have the opportunity to learn from everyone.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 12/5/23

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Question: The reason the creations do not receive pleasure lies in the difference of form between the Creator and the creations. The Creator is giving and the creations are receiving.

This causes shame in creations and as a result the Creator must conceal Himself. But why does a person have to be ashamed if the Creator made him this way?

Answer: The Creator created the property of shame with the purpose that through our own efforts and with His method we would gradually rise from the animate level to the level of the Creator, the highest level in the spiritual world. We must come to this state.

Typically the force from above brings a person to a group. There he sees people similar to him and he wonders: “How can I be connected with them? How can I get closer to them according to the principle “love your neighbor as yourself?’”

This helps him feel what the property of the Creator means and gradually rise to His level.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 12/5/23

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Question: It happens that when you turn to the Creator, there is a feeling of inspiration and relief, and sometimes, on the contrary, there is a feeling of dissatisfaction and emptiness.

What does this mean?

Answer: It means that you are dissatisfied with the Creator.

Question: If I feel depressed in relation to what is happening in the world, does this mean that I lack faith above reason? How do I switch to the positive?

Answer: Connect to your friends and raise your head to the Creator, but not physically. Just raise your questions to the Creator with a request for Him to answer them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/21/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?“

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Question: It is said that the determination of whether our actions relate to holiness is made in relation to knowledge, because in holiness there is knowledge, while in the Sitra Achra there is not. But does the Sitra Achra also feed on the knowledge of holiness?

Answer: But the Sitra Achra does not manifest the knowledge of holiness because it represents the light of the Creator, which manifests itself precisely in the intention to bestow, in the intention to be connected with others.

But in this case, first you attract the light of Hassadim, and then the light of Hochma manifests in it. This is called higher knowledge.

Question: Which actions in the ten are good deeds that pertain to holiness and reveal joy?

Answer: Actions of giving, rapprochement, love, and desire to help friends, such actions are beneficial and help us get closer to the Creator and to the purpose of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/22/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy Is a “Reflection” of Good Deeds“

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This means that when the Creator wants the wicked one to repent, He makes the netherworld so low for him that the wicked one himself does not want to be so. Hence, one needs to pray pleadingly that the Creator will show him the truth by adding to him the light of the Torah (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 47 “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness“).

Question: What does the fact that the Creator sends great trials to some people, but does not seem to send any trials to others depend on?

Answer: It depends not on the person himself, but on the root of his soul. Each of us receives signals that control us from there.

Question: If a person is in a peaceful state, does this mean that the Creator has to send him trials?

Answer: Yes, the Creator needs to do make him shake himself up a little.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/15/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness“

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Question: We say that a person should be like a guy who thinks about a girl all the time. The girl in this example is the Creator. Who is the ten in this example?

Answer: The ten is a society that sets up a guy to connect with a girl.

Question: To build the right screen, do you need to know and keep the commandments, or is it just a work with the intention?

Answer: For now this is only work with the intention.

Question: What is the difference between faith and the Kelim of bestowal?

Answer: Faith is the quality of bestowal. And we need the Kelim (vessels) of bestowal in order to raise our faith to the Creator from them.

Question: You say that prayer must be complete so that it does not remain in the air. On the other hand, you say that the Creator will correct our prayer if it is wrong. Which prayer do we leave up in the air, and which one will the Creator correct?

Answer: The Creator decides this.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/25/23, Writing of Rabash “The Main Difference between a Beastly Soul and a Godly Soul”

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Question: If we receive some answers from the Creator, but then we cannot follow them, what does this mean? Does it mean that we lack His greatness?

Answer: Yes, it means that you have already left this area, and therefore you do not feel the Creator. Try to connect with the friends and turn to the Creator together.

Question: How can I recognize the Creator’s answer to my question?

Answer: If you have a question and insistently ask for an answer, then gradually you begin to feel the Creator’s answer in your mind.

Question: Could it happen that the answer we receive will become irrelevant after some time?

Answer: It can. Then you should ask a new question.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/21/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?“

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Question: Is it possible to soften my heart with the help of individual prayer and free it to receive the Creator? If it is possible, then how can I correctly build the intention for this individual prayer?

Answer: I think it is very difficult to do this alone. It is better if all the friends in the ten ask together with you.

Question: Should they ask with me or for me?

Answer: With you and for you, and all together for someone, it does not matter. The main thing is to turn to the Creator.

Question: How do we prepare to stand before the Creator with a true prayer that He will answer?

Answer: Every day, in every appeal to the Creator, we must ask Him for the same thing, the most important thing is to have a connection with Him through the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/24/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “My Soul Shall Weep in Secret – 1“

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Question: What should we focus on more in spiritual work: on the greatness of the teacher who constantly guides us or on the greatness of the ten?

Answer: The teacher exists as if from the side. You incorporate in the ten, and together with the ten you strive to the Creator.

The teacher teaches you, supports you, guides you, and pushes you, but he is still like an outsider. Of course, you get the direction, the strength, the examples, the language, everything from me.

Nevertheless, the main thing is to strive through friends only to the Creator, to be in alliance with them and fly to the goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/25/23, Baal HaSulam “Choosing Labor“

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Question: We strive for an emotional understanding of reality through our good connections. But Baal HaSulam writes that the mind is the closest garment to the soul. Why is it the mind and not the feeling?

Answer: We need the mind because through it we comprehend our feelings, analyze, explore, and reveal them. Therefore, it is impossible without the mind, but without feelings nothing can happen at all. The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about feelings.

Question: How can I force myself to act against my will because the desire is inside me, and the action is outside? And how does one understand that the commandments do not need intention?

Answer: Try to determine what your desire is and to whom you directed. And at the same time, check your intention. The direction of desire is the intention.

Question: Our priority is to work on the heart. But we all strive to be worthy of faith above reason, which means rising above reason. Then it is not clear what reason is for?

Answer: To rise above it or we will not be able to comprehend spirituality. By rising above reason, we enter spirituality.

Question: How can love be analyzed correctly if you are afraid of losing it?

Answer: Hold on to it, develop it all the time, do not be ashamed of it, and then everything will be fine.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/17/23, of Baal HaSulam “The Action Affects the Thought“

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