Question: What does uniting the ten in order to manage the creation mean?

Answer: The ten and the whole creation are the same thing. The ten is the same system but on a smaller scale. What we do in the ten impacts the whole creation to the same degree as the ten’s resemblance to it.

If we can somehow connect in the ten by resembling the laws of mutual bestowal that are in the general creation, we impact the whole world to the extent that we try to implement these laws on top of our egoism. Moreover, our impact is also very strong because we are small and weak beginners.

It seems that the more we grow, the more we will be able to impact everything. In fact, on one hand, we seemingly have a greater impact but, on the other hand, we have less of an impact. This is like the impact small kids have on the world. It is not great in power, but it is great in its impact.

This means that we pay much more attention to children than to adults. The world must be attentive to them and act for them since they are the central part of the world and its future.

So, by the power of the attribute of bestowal and its quality, we impact creation to a great extent qualitatively and very little by force. This will change later because we will speak about spiritual worlds and not about our egoistic world.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/5/19

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Hanukkah is the first holiday we celebrate in our spiritual development. The entire Torah speaks only about the spiritual development of man, and in fact, Hanukkah is barely mentioned there because this state has not yet reached the reception of the upper light. It is just a preparation for corrections.

Hanukkah is the development of man to the level of Bina, the first spiritual stage, bestowal for the sake of bestowal. And we want to come to this through our connection in the group, above our egoism, the desire to receive pleasure, above mutual rejection, and all the obstacles that prevent us from achieving unity.

The first stage of unity is called Hanukkah, “parking.” When we reach it, gain the power of bestowal, then we understand that this is a means to begin to comprehend the Creator after this step, no longer just through the intention to bestow, but through the act of bestowal, the realization of this intention in practice, in our desire.

This will already be reception for the sake of bestowal, the practical reception of the upper light for the sake of bestowal, which makes us similar to the Creator and opens our dialogue with the upper force: “I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine.”

However, this will happen only later, and for now, we must acquire the intention to bestow on all our desires, that is, to achieve bestowal for the sake of bestowal, which is symbolized by Hanukkah, “parking” on the path to correction.

Hanukkah is a way out of darkness. After all, we do not see the spiritual world, the true reality; we live in complete darkness, locked inside our egoism. And if we want to correct these desires into bestowal, then we go to the light of bestowal. Therefore, Hanukkah is called the festival of light. We begin to open our soul and learn to use it correctly, light the light of mercy, Hassadim, within the soul.

If a person’s desire is corrected, if the power of bestowal is acquired, the light of Hassadim, then after the holiday of Hanukkah one can already begin to use it for receiving for the sake of bestowal, filling the soul with the upper light NRNHY and becoming like the Creator.

Hanukkah is a transition from darkness, from the desire to enjoy, to the light, the desire to bestow, and that is why it is called the festival of light. The tradition of lighting candles on Hanukkah in our world symbolizes the inner spiritual corrections that need to be made in your soul.

The enjoyment of bestowal for the sake of bestowal is that we rise above our egoistic desire. The miracle of Hanukkah lies in the fact that we ascend to the level opposite to the desire to receive pleasure: from Malchut to Bina.

Desires to receive pleasure within a person that resist spirituality are called Greeks. There is seemingly a war between the Greeks and Israel, but of course, this does not refer to countries of this world but only to spiritual concepts.

The Greeks are the desires to enjoy within each of us, the Maccabees are the intentions for bestowal, and the war is between those who want to act for themselves and those who call for bestowal. Such a confrontation occurs within each person.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson lesson 12/10/20, “Hanukkah”

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Hatred, rejection, disagreement, and misunderstanding are in essence the opposite form of the Creator, the opposite form of unity. From that, we gradually come to the attainment of the Creator.

The more we develop from generation to generation, the more we feel ourselves as individualists separated from others. Yet, if we cover all crimes with love, we will be able to connect above all differences.

The difference between rejection and connection, between hatred and love, gives the intensity of the revelation of the Creator. This difference remains as the depth of desire on top of which the connection arises: restriction, screen, and reflected light. Then between the minus and the plus, we feel the power of the revelation of the Creator who, like glue, connects all the opposites together.

This is why the Creator broke the common soul of Adam HaRishon, entered with all His force between its broken pieces, and stayed there in His opposite form so that we could reveal Him from His opposite to understand love from hatred, unity and connection from rejection and misunderstanding, until we come to complete adhesion.

Therefore, connecting the parts of Adam HaRishon into one system or revealing the Creator who is gluing us together is one and the same.

The work is simple: between me and my friends is the Creator in the opposite form, which , through my efforts, request, and prayer, I transform from the force of rejection into the force of connection, adhesion, so that the darkness will shine as light. In the place of endless hatred, the black abyss between us, the strongest light will appear, the connection and love of a great strength precisely because of the revealed darkness.

We understand that reality consists of good and evil, that one cannot be without the other and both are equally important because it is in the connection between them that the Creator is revealed. It is very difficult to keep hatred when love comes. We do not want to think about hatred, we are drawn to love with all our heart. It is a much harder job to hold on to hatred and not throw yourself into the ocean of love.

However, we must consist of both of them, and only then do we stand opposite the Creator. The Creator is a single force of absolute good. We, however, include two forces and build a middle line between them with the help of the Creator, who is there with us.

We have to get used to the fact that every person always includes two opinions, two forces, two opposite desires. In the correct creation, two forms of nature must be combined, and in the middle between them, we want to establish the Creator so that “He who makes peace above will make peace upon us and upon all Israel.” By understanding the difference between good and evil, light and darkness, we reveal the upper force upon the contrast of opposite states. If we try to reveal good and evil, hatred and love, separation and connection, rejection and attraction between friends, we will reveal the Creator between us and build a middle line.

Hatred and love support each other like oil and a wick, which together light up a candle. There must always be resistance (a wick), an inability to connect, and, at the same time, oil and light. This is how we build the correct attitude to reality.

Therefore, all the attempts of the world to come to good will only lead to even greater revelation of evil until we realize that we need a different method for our existence. We cannot destroy each other by eliminating all opposites, as egoism would like. On the contrary, it is by using all the opposites that we can construct the middle line. This will now become evident everywhere in the world, especially in the most developed countries.

Opposites remain, but all transgressions are covered with love. If we do not follow this path, we will not be able to create and maintain a family, raise children, or achieve peace between parties within the country and between countries. We will become a destructive force in nature. Inanimate matter, plants, and animals can exist because they are controlled by nature and instinctively act correctly. Humans, however, can only exist if they find the middle line.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/7/20, “Middle Line”

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The main thing is that we constantly strive to connection, to maintain unity. We have been separated from above, and we connect again. This is how we work together with the Creator: He separates us, we connect, He separates us again, we connect again.

We must realize our connection with the Creator in this mutual work. And then, in the disconnections that He causes in us and the connections between us through which we connect with Him, we begin to distinguish His language—like Morse Code: dot, dash, beep, beep…

The Creator Himself makes the disconnection, and we ask Him to connect us. Then in all these actions, we begin to feel the Creator and understand what He wants to tell us, like in a coded radio message: beep-beep-beeeeep-beep…

We feel the Creator speaking to us through the entries and exits of the light into our Kli and explaining what more advanced forms we need to reach in order to come closer to Him. The Creator teaches us how to come closer and closer to Him.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/9/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

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If we overcome the resistance of the egoism allotted to us according to the root of the soul to the fullest and reach connection in the ten, then the Creator can be revealed between us.

The opposition between light and darkness, separation and connection, reaches such a point that this contrast between egoism and holiness is sufficient to make darkness shine as light. The first light is revealed in us, the light of Nefesh, and we enter the path of light.

The tension between disconnection and the yearning to connect reaches such a magnitude that it makes the light turn on, like a light bulb that lights up on 220 volts. The intensity of our connection and our opposition becomes so great that darkness begins to shine as light. From the darkness, we invite and draw the Creator into our connection.

To the extent that I get used to appreciate the dark states in which I have no desire, no mind, no correct thoughts, and know that they connect us, I turn on the light in my dark soul, that is, I reveal the Creator more and more.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/9/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

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We feel how the coarseness of the egoistic desire (Aviut) is being revealed between us in the ten. This is only a small part of the rejection, hatred, and distance that really exists between us.

Only a small fraction of this hatred is revealed to us, the fraction that we can overcome. The more distant we naturally feel in relation to each other and the extent despite that we draw close and unite in one heart despite that, the bigger our spiritual Kli will be.

Our distancing is our Yesod, the foundation of the Partzuf. And connecting in some desires, despite the resistance, is the inner part of the Partzuf where we can work together in receiving for the sake of bestowal relative to the Creator. This is how we build the head and body of the spiritual Partzuf.

Everything is built on the fact that there is a great desire to receive pleasure that divides us, a huge hatred, like with the disciples of Rabbi Shimon in whom hatred flared up more and more every day. But they overcame it, united over this hatred, and thus they built the body of the Partzuf and an appeal to the Creator, that is, the head.

In this form, they began to practically reveal the qualities of the Creator, building their spiritual Partzuf, and climbing the steps of the ladder.

With each step, distance and hatred, unity and love grow, as well as similarity to the Creator, the common power of love. This is how we rise until we correct ourselves to perfect, absolute love.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/1/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

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Question: Let’s say that I feel that I cannot justify the Creator either in my mind or in my heart. Nonetheless is this a state of awareness?

Answer: Yes. There is a very smooth gradation that can go from double concealment to  single concealment, then back to double and again to single. This is because when we go forward, by correcting our sensations all the time, we correct them in ascents and descents, ascents and descents.

The ascents and descents give us the feeling of a double or single revelation of the Creator, and then concealment, and then revelation. In other words, these states alternate all the time.

Despite the fact that concealment pushes me away, I do not see the Creator, and I do not understand Him, I am always in some doubts and contradictions, I still do not leave this work and insist on understanding and distinguishing Him. Then the Creator is gradually revealed to me.

I begin to feel that everything comes from Him, and everything has its own reasons, which are intentionally manifested in relation to me and give me the opportunity to be in double or single concealment, and in double or single revelation, so that I would always feel the contrasts between darkness and light. After all, it is with these contrasts that I begin to understand what the principle of His control over me is and how I should respond to this with feedback.

Basically, I need to reach a state where neither double nor single concealment obscure Him from me.

By rising above myself in any darkness, I will feel how to behave correctly, and the darkness will never separate me from the Creator. On the contrary, it will be helping me to be connected to Him by rising above it.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 1/14/19

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Question: The great Kabbalist the Ari wrote that there are five kinds of desires. Two categories are my inner desires. They are close to me, so I care about them. And there are three more categories of desires that are outside of me that include people I cannot take care of because I feel them as strangers.

When I apply the method of Kabbalah, will I feel their desires much closer than I feel my own today?

Answer: Yes. As much as your mortal, temporary body is now dear to you, to that extent you will feel that they are your eternal, perfect soul, and you will invest in them more than supposedly in yourself.

Comment: It is hard to believe that this is possible.

My Response: It is possible. You just need to see the correct connection.

The Creator does not require anything that you are not able to do. But He invites you to change your point of view so that you determine that what exists outside of you is more important than you yourself today.

Question: Where is the Creator here?

Answer: The Creator is a common force of nature that created everything, divided everything into two parts and sets the condition: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” This is the minimum, but in fact, you must love your neighbor more than yourself. And then you will take care of your soul, of your eternal state, eternal potential, and not of yourself as an animal, temporary and flawed. Thus, you will come to a completely different sense of the world.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 1/28/19

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The Book of Zohar tells us how its authors, Rabbi Shimon’s students, gathered before the lessons and each time revealed a new depth of creation and described it in this book. Before they focused on the lesson, they felt such enormous hatred between them that they were ready to kill each other. This is how big their egoism was.

We have to learn how to rebuild the connections between us, at least with the same inclination, according to the same system. This means building another floor above us, “love will cover all crimes.” The crimes and the sins remain, and a connection is built above them between us. This is how we exist in two worlds at the same time: in our world and in the spiritual world.

By trying to focus ourselves on each other in the ten, we awaken and summon the gradual impact of the surrounding light unto us, and with its help we need to build a second floor in each ten. We need to demand this from the Creator, to do everything that depends on us on our level: to pray, to cry out, to ask Him, and then we will succeed. We will begin to feel that we ascend above everything that we know and above our reason, above the perception of the world, and that we begin to see it differently, synthetically, so that despite our first egoistic floor, we can see that everything is absolutely globally connected.

Then all the problems and differences disappear, and instead, they begin to complement each other, which is the spiritual system of connection. This is actually what we need to learn. We engage in it in the tens and in our study.

This is the goal of our study,  our lives in this world, as we return to the corporeal state again and again and restore and rebuild the connection between us that covers all the discrepancies and disagreements that will remain and grow between us more and more. This is how it works.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/6/19

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The Creator performs the breakage on His own—and we ask Him for connection. In all of these actions we feel the Creator, understand what He wants to say through an encoded program. We feel how through the exits and entries of the light, the Creator teaches us how to approach Him, closer and closer.

The most important thing is to always strive for unity, to preserve unity. From above we are being divided, but we unite. Therein lies our reciprocal work with the Creator. He tears us apart—and we connect. He tears us apart again—and we reconnect again. We have to be aware of our connection with the Creator in this work.

A person must exert every effort to try to reveal the Creator, who fills the entire universe. This is possible only through the ten, by disappearing and dissolving in the friends, getting absorbed inside them so much that you’ll feel how the Creator stands behind all the friends, waiting for you to reveal Him.
From Twitter, 12/10/20

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