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Questions about Spiritual Work—229

570Question: How can one maintain a state of constant service to the Creator rather than in prayer?

Answer: We must try to remain merged with the Creator at all times despite any changes that seem good or bad to us; we need to perceive them all in one direction, with one purpose influencing us. Then we will understand Him more quickly.

Question: We have the concept of intention, which, as I see it, serves as a trigger in inner work. How does a person’s intention help him transition from a state of descent to ascent?

Answer: Intention means that a person who seeks to be closer to the Creator chooses from all their possibilities the one that would bring them nearer to Him.

Question: What work should we do throughout the day to maintain the inner connection with the ten?

Answer: Strengthen your connection with the Creator based on the connections and bonds that manifest between you.

Question: How can one speed up the process of emerging from a descent to reach the recognition of evil?

Answer: I can say only one thing: strive toward the point of connection between a person and the Creator from any state you go through. From any state! Because all these states are given to us by the Creator with only one purpose so that at this point He reveals in us, we discover Him.
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From Daily Kabbalah lesson 2/24/25, on the topic “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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Link the Creator and the Ten

938.07Question: Is the descent given to me for individual work or work in the ten? Is one obliged to turn to the ten not to deprive it of the opportunity to work at a given moment?

Answer: That is right. A person should turn to the ten, turn to the Creator, in order to connect his friends together through himself.

When he feels he is succeeding, he should proceed to the next operation. And the next series of steps is when he is already striving to discover himself in the Creator.

Question: How do I know if I am helping the Creator?

Answer: It depends on your constant desire. If you want to feel the Creator all the time and help Him, you will eventually be given this opportunity.
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From Daily Kabbalah lesson 2/24/25, “Continuing the Convention with an Ascent”

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Avoid Closing Yourself Off in Prayer

942Question: On one hand, you say we need to take action: “Since you created me with certain qualities, give me the strength to pray.” But I am afraid I might do something wrong and harm myself. Guide me properly so that I do not close off in prayer and so I can convey its essence to the ten.

Answer: Get together with your friends and begin to briefly describe your state so as not to lose the path you are charting.

Once you manage to do this, select excerpts from prayers which are the most appropriate for your state, with all the additions. Incorporate your requests into this prayer. You will see how everything turns out well.

Question: Does the strength of a prayer depend on the root of the soul?

Answer: The strength of a prayer depends only on a person’s inner root. In general, when something is truly revealed in Kabbalah, it is revealed much more simply and more comprehensively. The main thing is not to give up, to study, write questions, and refer to the source.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/25, Great Is Repentance, for it Reaches Unto the Throne

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How Can We Renew the Strength of the Ten?

938.03Question: We were greatly impressed by the unity at the convention. Now we are back home. There are burning impressions inside, but something has changed. How can we renew the strength of the ten under the new conditions after the convention so that we can truly achieve a real ascent to the Creator?

Answer: I would advise you to correspond more frequently between the tens and constantly strive to rise.

We have already formed an impressive spiritual community. It is mostly you. There are 20 to 30 more people who did not attend for various reasons. So draw closer to us, join in, and we will help each other. I do not see any significant problems in our advancement.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/25, Continuing the Convention With an Ascent

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How Should We Regard the Past Convention?

214Question: How should we regard the past convention, as a foundation for the future work of the ten or as returning to some pleasant moments? I am afraid that one might get stuck in this.

Answer: Of course, one can get stuck, that is obvious.

The most important thing is the constant and increasingly precise determination of the ultimate goal. That comes first.

Secondly, we must always determine to what extent the ten I am in is pushing through the distance between me and the Creator. At the very least, this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/25, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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Can We Join the Righteous?

961.2Question: What should be the prayer in order to become included in the righteous ones?

Answer: Ask the Creator to keep the friends together and all of you to be concerned about a single state. Then you will have a common serious memory that will not disappear.

Question: Can we demand that the Creator raise our friends to the level of our forefathers and that they would feel what Rabash, Baal HaSulam, or you felt?

Answer: It is unrealistic, but you can ask for it. If you keep asking about something constantly, not about the same thing but still more or less, then you will find a necessity to enter this state once again and sense it. I recommend it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/25, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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The Main Thing Is the Prayer to the Creator

558Question: It is written that the ideal prayer comes from the bottom of one’s heart. You say that when we constantly ask for something, it becomes a necessity. Suppose today my heart asks for mutual guarantee (Arvut) in the ten and tomorrow or maybe in a week for something else. How can this be combined?

Answer: What is in a person’s heart and that he can raise this prayer to the Creator is the main thing. One should try to feel the Creator as the embryo of the state from which it developed.

Question: What does it mean to feel the Creator as an embryo?

Answer: This is felt in relation to me. His influence on me is very small; therefore, unfortunately, I cannot make bigger efforts so that He fills me completely.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/25, Continuing the Convention With an Ascent

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Questions about Spiritual Work—228

281.02Question: We are advised to start with empty space. But what about the thoughts and information that came through the light? We cannot exclude them. We rely on them entirely.

Answer: If you consider yourself capable of attaining a new connection with the light, then do so.

Question: Why does the Creator completely erase certain concepts that were instilled in me?

Answer: So that you can realize them anew.

Question: Are we obligated as a ten to help other tens after the convention?

Answer: You are obligated to care for other tens and their advancement. Then you too will benefit.

Question: Empty space is a place where there is no authority of the heavens. How can we feel the spark within it on which we can rely and elevate it to holiness?

Answer: When you reach such states, you will perceive them somewhat differently, and you will no longer have these issues.

Question: You said that what the mind does not accomplish, time will, and if we do not understand something, we should not be afraid, understanding will come.

A friend advises me to engage in dissemination. He says: “You know languages, you are articulate. You need to disseminate. Why are you not doing it?”

But I am afraid that I do not fully understand something, and if a student asks me about it, I might answer incorrectly. Should I fear my incomplete understanding of the material and refrain from dissemination?

Answer: You have no right to refrain from dissemination. You are obligated to constantly renew and revive the connection between yourself and the Creator.

Question: Do I understand correctly that the past congress was a deeper form of work?

Answer: This congress should lead each of you to the proper personal attainment of the Creator.
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From Daily Kabbalah lesson 2/23/25, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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Correct Spiritual Actions

275Question: How should we handle the light that we received at the congress? After all, if we bring everything to our ten, we will simply overwhelm it with this volume. If we return it to the world, is the world ready to receive it? Or should we trust the Creator and return to Him one hundred percent of the light?

Answer: There is no need to return anything to the Creator. Such searches for “What can I take from here to bring to the Creator?” are incorrect actions.

The Creator wishes to see us in the right spiritual actions. And they are such that we must connect with each other and, in our common Kli of unification, reveal Him, His aspiration to draw us to Himself. This is what we must bring to Him and continue this path together with Him.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/22/25, “Continuing the Convention with an Ascent”

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So that Prayer Dwells Forever in Your Heart

938.02World Kabbalah Convention, Connecting to Lishma, Lesson 4

Question: Why does prayer become true only when a person feels completely lost?

Answer: Because he has absolute certainty that right now he needs the Creator and that nothing can help him except Him.

We must strive to reach this state.

Question: How can we reach a state when prayer forever dwells in the heart?

Answer: To achieve this, it is necessary to be under the influence of a good group where everyone is seeking the Creator, calling upon Him, turning to Him, and based on this, advancing forward.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/21/25, Lesson 4

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