“This is called “a handmaid who is heir to her mistress,” since the very power of the mistress—the control of the internality—is by the force of our wisdom and knowledge, as it is written, “we are distinguished, I and Your people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.”
Now, the handmaid has stepped forth and prides herself in public that she is the heir of this wisdom” (Baal HaSulam “A Handmaid Who Is Heir to Her Mistress“).

Mistress means the desire to reveal the Creator and the handmaid is external aspirations.

The problem is that now the external part of the knowledge of nature prevails in the world. That is completely wrong because it turns all the devices and governance of the world upside down. It turns out that people do not want to perceive the inner part of nature, study it, and master it. That is how all sorts of other teachings appear.

Even though, initially the handmaid’s aspirations were intended to single out the mistress, it turned out that she seized the place of the mistress and rules instead of her and hides behind something else, which is lighter, more pleasant, and more understandable. Therefore, people do not want to do the hard work of revealing the Creator.

Question: If we are talking about a ten, how can we determine that the handmaid has taken or is beginning to take the place of the mistress?

Answer: This is a very serious issue. In principle, it all depends on how a person feels and what he is drawn to—either to reveal all sorts of secrets of the universe or to follow the recommendations of the Creator. That is the difference.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Handmaid Who Is Heir to Her Mistress“

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“The four phases in the desire are the four letters HaVaYaH, which are KHB TM (Keter, Hochma, Bina, Tifferet, Malchut)” (Baal HaSulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES). Vol. 1. Part 1. “Inner Observation”).

Question: How do Kabbalists attain HaVaYaH? Do they attain it as something whole, including all the elements, or in parts?

Answer: HaVaYaH is a system that starts from the Creator and ends in the depths of creation. Kabbalists attain it as something complete.

We study the desire that changes under the influence of the Creator. In other words, we learn how the Creator influences the desire until He brings it to the best state.

Attainment of HaVaYaH begins with the Kabbalist dissolving into it, if I may say. He understands that everything in him is created by the Creator or received from the Creator, and there is nothing from himself.

Question: If so, how does he reveal the entire structure of the development of the desire, from the Creator to the creation?

Answer: The Creator shows him how opposite to the upper light he was created, and in these two opposites, he attains the entire creation. The Creator does not need darkness and light, but man needs them to pass through all the intermediate phases between him and the Creator. That is how his spiritual development occurs.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/11/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)”

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Question: Every desire revealed in us is preceded by four discernments of the direct light. How can we reveal this to see the Creator’s actions behind all our desires?

Answer: Only in our connection with each other can we reveal the system of unity, along which the light passes through all our friends onto each of us.

The light must pass through them, reveal itself in each of them, and then you, who are at the last degree, will also be able to reveal it. Friends stand above you because they are higher than you, and they are the degrees by which the light descends to you, from above to below.

Question: How do we connect with them in order to rise from below?

Answer: You have to help them, add your desires to them, your Hisaron, your pressure. And then, by this, you will push them up, rise with them, and receive the light you evoke in them.

This system is the ten Sefirot in which each of us works from Malchut to Keter, where Keter is the Creator and the intermediate degrees between Keter and Malchut are all your friends.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot, (TES)”

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Question: What is wrong in our current state that dissatisfies the Creator?

Answer: He is not satisfied with our condition. He wants us to draw closer to each other internally all the time, to apply spiritual force, and then all together to draw closer to the Creator.

Question: Why should the suffering of creation be great?

Answer: Real suffering is a feeling of lack of correction. Therefore, the more we advance, the small distances from each other cause us great suffering.

Question: How do we properly undergo corrections so that there is no rejection from each other in the form of suffering?

Answer: In any case, there must be rejections otherwise we will not recognize where else there are qualities that need to be corrected. Egoism must manifest itself because without it we will not understand what to correct.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/11/23, Writings of Rabash “What Does It Mean that the Creation of the World Was by Largess?“

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Question: What can be called the mercy of the Creator toward the creation?

Answer: The mercy of the Creator is in the fact that He gives us the opportunity from such a low state in which we are cut off from connection with Him and our friends to reach adhesion with them and with Him.

This can be checked by the following criterion: We do not think about anything and anyone except the Creator, and all our actions are aimed only at filling and delighting Him.
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Fromthe 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/11/23, Writings of Rabash “What Does It Mean that the Creation of the World Was by Largess?“

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Question: Baal HaSulam’s article “What Is ‘A Habit Becomes a Second Nature,’ in the Work?” says that because of this rule, we feel a taste of reality.

But when something becomes a habit, we just stop feeling the taste and are looking for something new. What does the taste of reality mean, and how do we even understand that this is reality and not our fantasies?

Answer: We have no way of understanding what is reality and what is not. We are not able to feel it. We perceive what the Creator gives us, so this is our reality.

Question: The article says that when two objects have the same feeling of reality, they are in adhesion. At the same time, it says here that the reality of the Creator is unattainable. How can we come to adhesion?

Answer: We do not know that. I act according to how I perceive others, including the Creator. That is all. We cannot check whether our feelings are true or not.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is, ‘A Habit Becomes a Second Nature,’ in the Work?”

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Question: How is the shattering of the single system of Adam HaRishon manifested in our world today?

Answer: It is manifested in the fact that all of nature is egoistic, built on so-called materialistic laws, and we live in it according to the same laws.

But the wisdom of Kabbalah is gradually being revealed and explains that there is a completely different nature that we do not see in our world, an altruistic one, based on properties of bestowal and good mutuality.

Now we are approaching a state where we have no other choice but to begin mastering this second nature—the nature of bestowal and love; otherwise, we will not be able to exist.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 10/10/23

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Question: In your blog you wrote that with the help of the shattering, the Creator gave us the opportunity to exist and express ourselves. After all, if the parts of the common soul were not broken, we would not be able to build the image of the Creator and feel ourselves. How can we understand this?

Answer: It is precisely because we feel others (beside ourselves) that we can transition from receiving to bestowing and thus, through us, correct the entire nature.

We can correct inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature, and achieve mutual bestowal and unification and thus reach complete connection.

Question: How can people build an image of the Creator in their relationships?

Answer: The image of the Creator is absolute bestowal, complete love or rather, not He Himself but His powers. People can and will have to come to the properties of absolute bestowal and love.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 10/10/23

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Question: What is intention?

Answer: Intention helps you engage with me so that I can influence you more.

And if you bring me a gift, you will get more from me, not because I owe it to you, but because you will demand more from me! Then you will hear me more, feel me to be more obliged, and absorb more from me.

We are in a world where we can start interacting, literally from very primitive, simple egoistic relations, and even below egoistic, the most mundane. They will influence our spiritual relations with each other, the beginning of the spiritual perception.

Our world is wondrously created as a prerequisite for spiritual ascent; it is where you can begin developing completely from scratch without relating to the next world in any way!

Question: Within a Kabbalistic text, what does your intention mean, and how does it work?

Answer: I live in it, and you are in connection with me; therefore, it is all transmitted to you.

I make no intentions in regard to you; I just absorb the text. I am at the particular level this text writes about, and you, in relation to me, get a small part of it. After all, there is a need on your part to receive from me. Therefore you raise your desires to me, and I raise my desires to feel what the text says even higher, to the Kabbalist who wrote it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Set an Intention?” 12/3/11

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Question: How can we work on increasing hatred for the desire to receive when there is some fear of awakening hatred inside?

Answer: If you are connected to the ten, you can awaken this evil and not be afraid that it will charge at you like an angry dog. The main thing is to connect with your friends, and then you will succeed.

Question: We know that without love, there is no hate, and without hate there is no love. Can we use this law, or is it too early?

Answer: You have to love the love and hate the hatred, push away the feeling of hate and attract to yourself the feeling of love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/9/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “You Who Love the Lord, Hate Evil“

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