Asking for help from the Creator is our work. We think that asking for help means not working. But spiritual work should be completed at every step through my prayer—when I contact the Creator, address Him through the group, and receive from Him. I keep renewing my connection with Him.

And that is why our work is all based on prayer, request, gratitude, and a single direction all the time. I must constantly update my contact with the Creator because this is the most important thing. That is why He prepared all this for me, so that I can build my connection with Him.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/9/21, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #121 “She Is Like Merchant-Ships”

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Question: What does an abomination mean?

Answer: An abomination means to prefer the quality of reception over the quality of bestowal.

Question: Does it mean that we are constantly in this abomination?

Answer: The fact is that we have a very limited capability to give more accurate interpretations. To do this we need to enter a certain style of explanation.

Comment: We cannot say that our world is entirely immersed in abomination, after all, it does not know the other part, bestowal.

My Response: Our world is actually nothing. You cannot identify it in any way. There is no quality of bestowal to oppose it and there is nothing to compare it with.

But when a person begins to use the world not for one’s own sake, but for the sake of others, for correction, for the revelation of the Creator, then new opportunities immediately appear for him, and the correct advancement begins.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/27/21

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Question: Why is it forbidden to be related to the “conquered nations”?

Answer: Because you conquered them, they are subordinate to you, they do not have freewill. Of course, you can do whatever you want with them. But know that they will not forget and will always be against you.

Question: So they cannot be corrected?

Answer: No, correction happens if they live together with you, imbued with your ideas, your ideals. They are circumcised and in the third generation they can become equal to you. Even more, they can be very high—like the whole family of King David.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/27/21

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The upper light that comes to a person in response to his efforts, which connects him and makes him suitable for spiritual action, is called a blessing. Therefore before each action, we need to come to a blessing.

Blessing means that I have reached restriction, screen, and reflected light, and therefore I can already receive direct light and work with it to the measure of my blessing. The force of bestowal I acquired within my will to receive is called a blessing.

Therefore before each action it is first of all necessary to reach a blessing: to bless the Creator for giving me the opportunity to perform an action with the intention to bestow.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/9/21, Baal HaSulam. Shamati, 121. She Is Like Merchant-Ships

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Question: Are there any desires that do not need to have limits placed upon them?

Answer: I would say no. But in order to bring spiritual states closer to us, we can say that I can use everything that I need for bodily existence without even thinking that I am using it egotistically because my nature compels me to do this.

Question: Is there a connection between spiritual curtailment and fasting in our world?

Answer: In principle, when a person begins to reduce his egoistic desires, thoughts come to him that it may be less worthwhile to use all kinds of fillings of our world. Perhaps then he will be closer to the spiritual state? These are natural questions for beginners.

Question: In many spiritual practices and religions there are customs of fasting, meaning not eating food and even not drinking water for some time. Does it have something to do with the roots of the contraction?

Answer: Yes, it is connected, but this is not a direct consequence. I would say that these are customs.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/16/21

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Question: Is the restriction a one-time action or should it be done every time?

Answer: It should be done constantly, Each time is different, depending on the circumstances. Some pleasures come to the Kabbalist, and he constantly calculates whether he can use them or not since he is, at the same time, a conductor of light into our world.

Question: What is it that comes to a Kabbalist?

Answer: Let’s say you get a million dollars every day.

Comment: But this is unrealistic. If I did receive a million dollars daily, I would, of course, do the calculations.

My Response: You could if you are able not to receive it.

Question: Is a Kabbalist constantly being given such proposals from above? It turns out to be an interesting life!

Answer: What do you mean “interesting”? It turns out that his life is in constant tension, and he must behave correctly.

At the level at which you are, begin to create the conditions that enable you to fulfill your wish to correct the world. And then you will see how ever greater powers and knowledge will come to you. And then, maybe, millions of dollars as well. It all depends on how much you are able to implement them correctly.

Question: Here, of course, you need to understand the most important thing, the goal: For the sake of what am I implementing it?

Answer: It should be only for the sake of the upper force of bestowal and love in the whole world, in all of nature.

Question: How is this different from a simple calculation? I was created by nature in such a way that I have an automatic program that makes decisions, and I am in agreement with it. And here, as you say, you have to think, make some effort. For what?

Answer: If you wish by your volitional effort to become similar to the higher nature, the Creator, then you must look for how to become similar to it. And to be like this force means to do good.

Question: Yes, but in a person there must be some kind of inclination for this. Why should I become like this power? Especially if you say that this is the force of love and bestowal, and nothing will come of it for me.

Answer: You will get nothing from this and you won’t get anything for it.

Question: Then why?

Answer: To be like the Creator. Otherwise, you want to work for a fee. It won’t work.

Nature has laid forces, desires, in us and they will lead us to this. But with our thoughts, thinking about it, we can hasten this metamorphosis. And although it seems unrealistic, there is no choice. Everyone will come to this.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/16/21

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Comment: Kabbalists write that the Creator has no thought of Himself. That is, the Creator is a force that does not even think whether He exists or not. This is somehow strange.

Answer: It is strange for us. The Creator is simply another force of nature opposite to us. Just like every moment we think only of ourselves, there is a force opposite to us, the Creator, who never thinks of Himself in any way. He thinks about things other than Himself.

Question: Is there something else beside us?

Answer: In general, yes.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/16/21

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Question: Why do we have difficulties studying the material when the second restriction (Tzimtzum Bet)  is explained?

Answer: Because the first restriction is made upon the egoistic desire to receive that is naturally in us.

And with the second restriction, it is not entirely clear what it operates on. It operates on the fact that there is no opportunity to receive but only to become like the property of bestowal with no reception.

That is, there is this first opportunity when I receive and my intention is to receive for the sake of the Giver in order to give Him pleasure. And the second one is when I do not receive because I cannot receive in order to please Him.

Question: Can you give an example? Let’s say, I have several million dollars, and I do not use it at all because I understand that I will use them for myself and will not be connected with the upper force and it is important for me to be in touch with it. This is the first state.

The second state is when I determine that I can use some part, for example, a $100,000 not for myself, but for others. And then to the extent that I use this opportunity for the sake of others, I am connected to the Creator. Is this correct?

Answer: Yes. But this is not the second restriction. It is just using whatever resources you have.

If you do not have a Masach and you can only close yourself from receiving, then this is called the first restriction. If in addition to this you have the opportunity to fulfill yourself for the sake of others, for example, to receive something for the $100,000 in order to pass it on to others but nothing for yourself, then this is already using forces over the first restriction.

And if you cannot realize the second option, then maybe you have the opportunity to make yourself just like others without receiving. But these are purely spiritual concepts, and then you will become like others, not receiving.

Question: So can you give some examples of the second restriction in our world?

Answer: Yes. When you receive something from someone and pass it on to someone else; for example, if you received a million from someone and you have the strength not to take it for yourself but to pass it on, just as Bina receives from Keter and passes it down.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/16/21

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Question: Why is it specifically through the body that the development of the soul to the human level takes place?

Answer: The development of the soul does not happen through the body. We exist in the body in order to develop the soul and to be independent of its development. So that I, while constantly on the animate level and starting from it, could develop the soul.

It is not dwelling constantly in the soul, but being able to change it, to make circuits, to ascend constantly, to be independent of your spiritual state, to descend into the body again and ascend to the new degree of the soul again; to descend again and ascend again, and so on.

The soul is the organ in me that I correct and fill. While working on my soul, I exist separately, just like, for example, I would create some kind of mechanism and work on it. I abstract from the soul and look at it objectively. That is why there is a necessity for such a state as our physical existence.

After all, by looking at yourself from the outside, you become more objective. One can ascend the levels of his soul because he also has a body in which he exists.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Individualist” 1/15/10

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Question: What does the sound of the horn mean?

Answer: It means softening of the properties of Malchut by Bina where egoism is corrected to bestowal.

Comment: It is written in the Torah that when the people of Israel heard the sound of the horn, they started to shout and the walls of Jericho fell down.

My Response: When Malchut is gradually corrected under the influence of Bina, the walls of egoism are being destroyed.

Bina can influence Malchut in such a way that its qualities begin to connect with the qualities of Malchut. But this is a long process.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/27/21

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