Reception for the sake of bestowal is love. Bestowal for the sake of bestowal is mercy. The difference between them is that love is when you are ready to give everything, and mercy is when you as if do a favor to another.

Question: Let’s say I have received pleasure from bestowal and I must transfer this pleasure to the Creator, humanity, and the group. How can I do it practically?

Answer: You connect yourself with a group, you wish to unite your friends and direct them to the Creator in order to receive from the Creator forces that would bring you closer to each other and to all the people in the world.

In connection with the friends, you should try to reach a state where you will have a common desire to bestow, and you will be able to work with it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/9/23, “Habit becomes A Second Nature”

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Question: How can work for the Creator be by coercion, without pleasure?

Answer: It may not be the best, but if we can force ourselves to do something for the sake of the Creator even when we do not experience any pleasure, it is still considered bestowal—work to correct our desires.

I cannot force myself to have fun and be happy because I am doing some work. But if I still do it, then I am interested to know what I achieve as a result of doing it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/10/23, “Habit becomes A Second Nature”

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Question: In our work, we acquire habits. Every day we come to the lesson, meet with the ten, and perform many other actions according to the usual program. How does they all become Kelim (Vessels) for the quality of bestowal, for spiritual attainment?

Answer: A person does not know how this happens. The light influences a person and gradually leads to an increasing understanding that the benefits of bestowal far exceed the benefits of reception.

Then one weighs: it is better for me to give, say, five dollars than to receive it. This is how it works.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/9/23, “Habit becomes A Second Nature”

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Question: How do we rely on the Creator in our sensations? How can I understand that my actions really bring contentment to Him and not to my egoism?

Answer: You must pass your actions through the group. If you bring contentment to the group, and your friends want to bring contentment to the Creator together with you, then you are acting correctly.

An indicator of receiving pleasure for the sake of the Creator is that as soon as you forget about Him, the pleasure stops.

Question: How do we correctly pass pleasure to the Creator?

Answer: It depends on the intention. You must gather as a group that is united by a common intention and common efforts to bring contentment to the Creator. And you should want to see and to feel that you all are connected with each other and with the Creator; that is how you pass the pleasure to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/10/23, “Habit Becomes a Second Nature”

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Question: When preparing a meal for a group event, is there a difference between everyone building an intention at home alone, or is it better to get together and cook a meal with a common intention?

Answer: There is a big difference. If you prepare a meal together with a common intention, with common actions, if you help each other and set a common table your friends gather at, it means a lot. Cooking and eating together bring you closer together than a lot of lessons.

When preparing a meal, you need to think about the fact that you want to be together, in one heart, in one stomach, in one body. It brings people very close together. While eating, take your time, start to feel the taste in every part, in every spoon, in every piece of bread, in everything you do. You will see how much it connects you spiritually.

It is written both in the Torah and in The Book of Zohar about how nice and pleasant it is to sit at the table with your friends. You can be sure that such a meal brings you closer to each other and to the Creator.

Question: And what if the friends have decided that it is better for everyone to cook at home and bring the food to a common meal? Is it right?

Answer: This is also possible, but then it’s not a common task. Perhaps you don’t have the space and opportunities. We have special conditions for this in the Bnei Baruch center—a large, good kitchen. All meals are prepared only by our own people; we do not hire anyone from the outside.

So come and participate in the mutual preparation. We invite everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/9/23, “Habit Becomes a Second Nature”

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Question: I believe that I love my friends. But do we know how to love correctly? Is it possible to learn this?

Answer: You must strive to do everything possible for your friends to reveal the Creator. This is our main task.

If a person thinks about this and roots for, that is, cares deeply, that his friends and in general all the inhabitants of our world will reveal the Creator, he will do the greatest work and the greatest favor for himself.

Question: Why does it hurt so much to feel the impossibility of uniting?

Answer: Because this is the very goal of creation, and we must reach it, but we see that we are not capable, that we cannot.

Then the entire program of creation, the entire program of life, collapses. What should you do? There is only one option left: unite with friends and demand from the Creator that He does it for us. We will come to this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/8/23 “Habit Becomes a Second Nature”

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Question: Each of us has different thoughts and desires. How do we add the right intention on each of them?

Answer: Do not go so deep into every desire. We just want all the desires we work through that lead us forward to keep us in bestowal, in love, and in connection. This way we will move constantly.

We very much welcome disturbances because we are sure that they are all sent by the Creator with one purpose—to bring us closer to Him.

Question: When an obstacle comes, can we add the intention to bring contentment to the Creator to it?

Answer: Of course. We are trying to replace the obstacles that push us apart and distance us from each other with the forces of connection, and this gives special contentment to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/8/23, “Habit Becomes a Second Nature”

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Question: I feel pain because of what is happening in my country. How can I make it so that I feel pain from the lack of adhesion with the Creator and yearning for Him?

Answer: We must ask for both. On one hand, ask the Creator to connect us and give us the quality of bestowal, love, and connection. On the other hand, ask that we rise above our egoism and thus become more spiritual.

Question: I notice that the greatest egoistic pleasure I experience is when I control something, promote something of my own. Then it becomes unpleasant, I experience the feeling of shame and abomination. How can I escape from this?

Answer: It should influence you not because it is unpleasant, but because it is against the Creator. Then you can ask to be raised out of this state.

Question: How can I stay in a state of lowliness before the Creator, in awareness of His greatness, and the fact that there is none else besides Him? It keeps slipping away.

Answer: If you keep trying to do this, you will understand why you are given such conditions and states. You will have the right discernment of the way the Creator educates you.

Question: When I want to ask you a question, I have fear and trembling. But when I turn to the Creator or to my friends, there is no such fear. Is this a manifestation of egoism?

Answer: Practice. Speak on your own the words of appeal to the friends, appeal to the Creator, and appeal to me. In this way, you will slowly develop a habit.

Question: Is it possible to ask the Creator to tremble before the friends?

Answer: Of course. Anything you want.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/23, “My Heart Is Slain within Me”

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In order to bring contentment to the Creator, we must pursue the goal of coming closer to Him, to the property of bestowal, to all the people in the world in every action, in every word, and in every thought.

While doing this work, we feel that we are gradually getting used to it. Although we are experiencing resistance, in general, we can move forward.

This is how we must advance until the Creator gathers our efforts together and until we gather all the efforts. Then the Creator will answer us with complete correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/8/23, “Habit becomes a second nature”

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The thought of creation is to delight His creations, and no pleasure is perceived by the created being while he must be separated from the Creator. Moreover, we learn that the Creator craves to dwell in the lower ones (Introduction of The Book of Zohar, “Two Points”).

Question: If the Creator desires so much to dwell in the lower ones, that is, to delight them, then what is the problem? Why are we not receiving pleasure?

Answer: The problem is that the lower ones should acquire the same desires and the same qualities as the Creator. Then He will be able to dwell in them according to the law of equivalence of qualities.

Comment: On the other hand, people in our world receive pleasure during their lifetime and are not connected to the Creator.

My Response: These are not the pleasures that The Book of Zohar is speaking about. It speaks about upper pleasures. The upper ones mean that you are connected with the whole universe, galaxies, and everything that can be. These are qualitatively different pleasures.

In spirituality, we receive pleasure from attaining the inner system of the universe, how everything is connected, mutually complements each other, and leads everything to unity and perfection.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 8/6/23

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