Question: It is written in the sources that the upper light dwells in a place of joy. But our actions to unite are always in overcoming the ego and the rejection between each other, which are not in joy. It is always an effort, it is always hard. How can we connect these two things?

Answer: This should be done gradually in mutual support of each other. If you understand what needs to be done, then you should talk to each other how you achieve this, with what efforts, and so on.

And you will see that it is not so difficult. If you already have some kind of mutual understanding of what is happening between you, then you will overcome everything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Measure of Faith in the Rav?“

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Question: You said we should turn to the Creator from a global connection. How do you know we are in such a connection?

Answer: You must be connected to each other so that everyone feels the friends. And from this global connection, starting from your lowest level, rise higher and higher to the Creator and only together make a request to Him until the Creator begins to answer you. Such a two-way connection will be constantly between you.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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At every step of the spiritual path, the main role is played by the intention to achieve the desire of the Creator.

It is possible to build the right intention through the fact that we connect with our friends, slowly begin to think about others, and thus come to a state where our thoughts and actions are focused on taking care of them. We ask the Creator to help us in this, and we thus achieve the quality of bestowal.

Question: If we are in the ten together scrutinizing the intention, should we not come to some kind of scrutiny of who has the right intention and who does not?

Answer: No, everyone scrutinizes their own intention.
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From  the 1^st psrt of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/25/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Measure of Repentance?“

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Question: I can demand mutual guarantee from myself, but how can I bring all my friends to it?

Answer: By being an example.

Question: If I honestly conduct an internal analysis, I find within myself the area of distancing from some people in the ten. Outwardly, this is not manifested in any way, but do I need to work and dig inside myself in order to reveal this?

Answer: It is said about this: “if the Creator does not build a house,” that is, a Kli, none of our attempts will help. Ask the Creator. Only this will help.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/02/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: How is a blessing felt in a prayer?

Answer: A person feels that any response from the Creator is practically a blessing.

Question: How does my prayer help correct others?

Answer: The most desired prayer for the Creator is when we pray and ask for others and not for ourselves. It is by asking for the other that we correct, as they say, all their transgressions and they begin to feel better and easier.

This is how the whole world is corrected. Therefore, we must pray for others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/19/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 113 “The Eighteen Prayer“

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Question: In what regard should the upper force have mercy on us?

Answer: In regard to the fact that you are callous, that you want everything for yourself, and that in no case do you ask for others. We ask the Creator to have mercy on us egoists, and to teach us to ask for others.

Question: What does it mean to ask for the unnecessary in my prayer?

Answer: This means that it is unnecessary for me personally. I have to ask for everyone, for the whole world.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/19/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam Shamati 113 “The Eighteen Prayer“

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People who come to the congress first of all invest in themselves. This is the only real contribution! Everything else burns out.

They come, pay, and are ready to participate in everything because they feel that everything else is worthless!

I remember when I started studying Kabbalah, I was told: “What are you doing? You are 30 years old! First, take a walk, earn money, and travel around the world! You have not been anywhere yet! Why are you burying yourself? And when you are close to 60, closer to retirement, you will start studying the future of the world.” I heard it often from people. “So young…” That’s it. What will you do?

Question: How does the accumulation process work? How does a person invest himself?

Answer: As a shareholder, one invests in a common sensor, and it becomes a part of him or her.

This is really a contribution to the most reliable bank! This is not Bank of America, but an eternal, perfect bank! How much effort you put into it, it is all yours!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Congress is a Spiritual Contribution” 11/29/11

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Question: What does the first restriction mean?

Answer: The first restriction is an action when the desire to receive created by the Creator decides that it will receive pleasure not for its own sake, but only for the sake of the Creator.

Meaning, all the pleasure received from the Creator the creation will receive not in order to enjoy, although it was created in this way, but in order to feel how it gives to the Creator.

In other words, the light cannot enter the egoistic Kli. In the spiritual world we cannot enjoy for our own sake. And the fact that in our world we do it for ourselves, it is only in order to prepare us for a real spiritual sensation.

Therefore, it is impossible to use the connection with the Creator for your own sake. This is called the law of the first restriction.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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Question: What are these attributes: mercy, truth, justice, and peace? Are these special forms of desire in a person, as in the carrier of these attributes? Where did this come from?

Answer: This came from human nature, which gradually developed these attributes in itself. They are manifested in us in this way.

Question: But we study the development of desires in the wisdom of Kabbalah, and here some attributes appear in a person. How does this relate to the nature of the person and to his development?

Answer: This is directly related to our nature. Based on it, all four attributes develop in us and oppose each other.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/25/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Peace in the World”

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Question: We are all different in the ten. Some demand to be pressured since they realize this is the way for them to advance. Others, on the contrary, say there is no coercion in spirituality. How can we properly apply this pressure in the ten? What is the correct formula?

Answer: Do not be afraid of pressure; you just need to behave correctly in the ten, as clearly as possible,  and then all problems will be solved by the Creator Himself and not by us. We only need to properly relate to the states we are in.

After all, everything that happens is done by the Creator, and we must ask Him to correct the imbalance between us, which determines all the negative events in our lives.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/23, “Fighting the Evil Inclination”

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