“What is repentance like? When He who knows the mysteries will testify that he will not return to folly.” …

 In other words, when will one be certain that he has been granted complete repentance? For this, one is given a clear sign: “When He Who knows the mysteries testifies that he will not return to folly.” This means that he will attain the revelation of the face, at which time one’s own salvation will testify that he will not return to folly. (Yehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag [Baal HaSulam], “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 56). 

Question: What is “testimony”? Does a person have a new basis for making decisions in order to evaluate their actions differently?

Answer: The Creator shines a special light upon a person from a certain degree, and this indicates that he will not fall below this degree.

He has a new foundation, which depends on the light of the Creator influencing him.

And above that he has freewill, and he must climb the degrees of the spiritual worlds by himself. He himself is now looking for ways to advance further and continue his journey and his ascent.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”

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Question: There is a feeling that we run away from our work all the time. How do we not run away from disturbances? How can we rise above the necessary, and how can we raise the necessity? And what is the difference between them?

Answer: The main thing is to be in connection with your friends more and more until all the points of action build the correct line in front of you.

Question: Is it possible to determine exactly what we are raising and what we are rising above?

Answer: We rise above our egoistic demands, feelings, sensations, and goals. And we raise our striving to the spiritual.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”

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Question: Is it true that all our failures are new Kelim (vessels)?

Answer: Both successes and failures are all new. We must treat both equally.

The most important thing is to gather them together, to understand that they all come from the Creator, and to wish to connect them with your future correct state.

Question: I can’t let go of the fear of losing the ten and the spiritual path because without the ten I am nobody. How can I deal with this fear?

Answer: That’s right. Without a ten you are nobody. You can’t fight fear alone either, only through the ten. You need to hold on to your friends, and fear will help you not let them go. Fear is good; it is help from the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”

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Question: What does the concept of kindness without any additions mean?

Answer: It is an absolute, pure good without any egoistic additions to the extent that we can isolate it and hold only on to it.

Question: How can we move from egoistic to pure love in the ten? Do we do it ourselves, or does the Creator transition us due to our requests?

Answer: As much as we want to be in a real non-egoistic connection between us, we are closer to the Creator. He is correcting our connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/17/23, “To Come to Feel Others”

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Everyone in the group has various temptations that distract them from the spiritual path. In order not to stray from the correct path you need to rely on your friends; otherwise, you will not be able to sustain and go straight to the goal.

Although they have the same temptation, if you hold on to each other and go precisely this way, choosing the spiritual environment all the time, you will definitely get to the goal.

At the same time, you should not put pressure on your friends, but only show them how committed you are to the goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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Question: For many years we have been going through unconscious development during which our desire to be filled, to receive pleasure, has constantly evolved. And what is conscious development?

Answer: Conscious development is when we begin to understand that we cannot live with just the desire to enjoy, to be filled. In addition to the desire to receive, we also want to be in the desire to bestow. And here the problem arises: How can we develop within the desire to bestow?

Here the wisdom of Kabbalah comes to our aid. Through the study it becomes clear how to develop this in ourselves.

The science of bestowal is the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is in contradiction with all sciences, methods, and theories that without exception deal only with the desire to receive, upon which the whole nature of our world is based.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 8/27/23

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Question: How can we understand whether we have reached a new degree of connection or have simply forgotten the conflict we had? For example, in ordinary life, we fight and after a while we calm down as if nothing had happened. How does it work in the ten?

Answer: This is not how it works in the ten. We should not calm down, but should look for a solution to the issue: let us, despite all our calculations, try to come closer and connect with each other and there we will find the right solution.

In our community, we have to rise above the situation. We should do nothing but ask the Creator to connect us. Despite the fact that there is a problem, the Creator will solve everything: the upper light will come and raise us.

Although all this is still in some abstract categories for us, in feelings it happens exactly in such a way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”

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By studying Kabbalah, a person gradually begins to feel how the quality of exiting oneself arises in him or her. This is the birth of a new quality in a person; it is the quality of bestowal, which, in general, does not exist in our world.

It creates a certain area in a person, called a Partzuf. A Partzuf is conscious work with pleasure. The fact is that when a person wants to become similar to the spiritual quality, he must master the quality of love, the quality of bestowal to others. Therefore, by expressing his positive attitude toward others, he begins to formalize it in the form of a desire for coming closer to others, in the form of connection, bestowal. If he acts like that, then he becomes a Kabbalist.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 8/27/23

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It is all one, for He and His name are one, as it is written, “That they may know that You alone, Your name is ‘the Lord’” (Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Book of Zohar,” “Two Points“).

This is about the fact that even through opposing qualities, egoistic ones that are seemingly unpleasant, the uniqueness of the Creator and His greatness is still attained.

Question: What does “He and His name are one” mean?

Answer: He is the Creator, and His name is His manifestation in all creations. Everything we see is merely a manifestation of the Creator within us.

Ultimately, through everything that exists within us, no matter how negative and opposing our qualities may be, we attain the Creator and reveal that His manifestation is an expression of love and bestowal.

Question: In the end, all of humanity and each one of us in every moment in time—in the past, in the future, and in all the states that humanity has gone through—will discover that even in His most negative actions, there was a manifestation of love and bestowal?

Answer: Absolutely! Complete, singular, and unified! And what seemed negative to us was because our qualities were opposite to His.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 8/6/23

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Question: What does it mean to revive the dead in spiritual work?

Answer: The revival of the dead is the revival of dead bodies. The body refers to the desire that does not want to do anything in any case and is content to simply remain as it is. This desire is called dead.

We need to be concerned with bringing dead bodies to life, i.e., helping each other revive our dead desires and raising them above ourselves.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/14/23, “All my Bones Shall Say”

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