Entries in the 'The Tens' Category

How to Feel the State of the “Garden of Eden”?

938.05Question: How can one make efforts to feel the state of the Garden of Eden in the ten and join the righteous?

Answer: First and foremost, it is essential to thoroughly delve into the excerpts from the primary sources that we read. Then, try to accept them in your heart and mind, understanding that everything we read should enter us through hearing or sight. After this, we must do everything possible to immerse ourselves in what is being discussed.

In this process, we aim to reach the highest point of our unity which is called the “Garden of Eden.”
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/20/25, Lesson 2

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Through Connection with the Friends

528.01Question: If we feel the evil inclination in ourselves and want to correct it, we can ask the Creator for help because only He has the power to change our nature. But what can we ask of the teachers, of the righteous?

Answer: The same as of the Creator.

Question: What is the difference then?

Answer: You are surrounded by your friends, you feel each other, you can rise and fall relative to each other. But if you relate to your friends only as to those who are above or below you, this is insufficient.

Question: Does this mean that I need to feel connected with my friends and from this connection turn to the righteous and teachers with the same requests as to the Creator?

Answer: No, through your connection with friends you must turn to the Creator, because the group of friends must lift you up and lead you to the Creator.
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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—227

543.02Question: What should be done to thank the Creator?

Answer: If you feel gratitude toward the Creator for what He is doing for you now, all you can do is bow before Him and surrender to Him, so that He continues working on you further.

Question: To rise, do you need to feel your own pain or the pain of others?

Answer: Your own.

Question: How should we turn to the Creator in states of descent and hopelessness?

Answer: In such states, you must stop all your internal sensations and raise them to the Creator. This will be the most correct and reliable action.

Question: Is joy and gratitude toward the Creator also correction?

Answer: Not “also,” this is the correction.

Question: How can we—those who haven’t yet reached spiritual understanding—raise the importance of this work in the ten? Since when we go home now, part of us simply feels spiritually dead.

Answer: You are still and will be for some time under the direct guidance of the Creator. So keep this in mind. Everything that happens to you is a result of external influence. Try to write down the most vivid phrases, appeals to the Creator, and make them key for yourself. After that, we will go together.
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From Daily Kabbalah lesson 2/22/25, “Continuing the Convention with an Ascent”

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After the Congress: Steps in the Spiritual World

253Comment: Usually after a congress we say that there is no need to cling to what we have experienced. But for some reason this time there is a strong desire to hold on to the feeling of unity.

My Response: You are beginning to feel the common Kli and receive Ohr Makif (surrounding light) from it. It starts to lift you up, protect you, and hold you within itself. That is why, as we start from this Congress and move forward, it is very important to begin to take some steps on your own in the spiritual world, in spiritual connection.

You have tens, and you have a connection among them. In each country there are 10, or 20, or even 30 tens. I am ready to visit you, and ready to give online lessons from here. So it all depends on you, on how you organize yourself.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/22/25, Continuing the Convention with an Ascent

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Deepen the Kli of the Ten

528.01Question: How can we translate the width of the Kli we created at the congress into depth?

Answer: I do not think you can make such actions yet. But you will be able to very soon.

In the meantime, it is important to try to reproduce the sensitivity you experienced at the congress. You should lift this out of your heart as often as possible because if there is a suitable time and you do not use it to revive the states you have experienced, you are robbing yourself.

Question: You said that faith in the sages expands the Kli and makes it more subtle. What is a more subtle Kli?

Answer: It is a stronger Kli that is capable of absorbing all the sensations and changes in the ten and raising it to the level it was at the congress.

In order for you to have a more subtle Kli, each member of your ten must try to always be ahead of everyone or at least care about its sensations.

Question: What is the relationship in the work of a subtle Kli to the thickness of the revealed Aviut?

Answer: There is an infinitely large distance between them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/25, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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What Changes In A Person?

167Question: We come to Kabbalah to change ourselves. What exactly changes in a person: the mind, the heart? Right now, at the convention, I need to set a goal for myself and understand what I should focus on in order to help my ten through myself. Should it be my heart, my mind, or my feelings?

Answer: All of them—your heart, your mind, and your feelings.

Question: But I do not control my feelings; they are given to me by the Creator, are they not?

Answer: But through what you do control, you also influence your feelings.

Question: Should I constantly talk about this in the ten? I cannot just let it pass through me.

Answer: Talk about it.
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From Daily Kabbalah lesson 2/15/25, Writings of Rabash “Associating the Quality of Mercy with Judgment”

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Become Closer in our Hearts

938.07World Kabbalah Convention “Connecting to Lishma,” Lesson 3

Question: What could be done now to achieve Lishma?

Answer: For this you need to assemble such a ten that would reveal to you the internal structure of the entire universe, and then you could feel how you are approaching its center.

Question: What efforts must be multiplied in order to enter Lishma?

Answer: Becoming closer in our hearts is the only thing we lack. Each one must examine his own heart, what he really desires, and thus appeal to his friends and strive toward the common goal.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/21/25, Lesson 3

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Seek Contact with the Creator

276.02World Kabbalah Convention”Connecting to Lishma,” Lesson 3

We must feel like we are seeking contact with the Creator so that it is constant, does not disappear, and strengthens more and more. We need to constantly strive to renew it, so that all our friends hold on to this connection and think every minute about how we can cling even more tightly to the Creator and under no circumstances tear ourselves away from Him.

Let us try to do this practically, when everyone wants to sharpen all his or her feelings and everything that is in each one, so that one’s inner striving is directed only toward the Creator, so much so that the person is not interested in anything else besides this.

Whatever we do in the world, in life, at work, or in the family, the most important thing is that every moment of life brings us closer to the Creator. We have to live with this.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/21/25, Lesson 3

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938.03World Kabbalah Convention “Connecting to Lishma,” Lesson 1

Question: As I understand it, a person in the state of Lishma is aligned with one thought, with one desire of the Creator. What is this thought of the Creator, and how can it be isolated and cleared from the hundreds of desires that are constantly arising, even now during the lesson?

Answer: At the convention there is a certain atmosphere that everyone can enter. Then our thoughts and desires become more powerful.

When thoughts and their actions that manage our feelings unite and reach a certain magnitude, then we will feel that we have our internal Kli—desire and intention. From this moment onward it will be easier for us to return to these thoughts.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/20/25, Lesson 1

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Pleasure from Unity

630.2Question: We feel pleasure from our unity. How should we relate to it? When it comes, you want to freeze and not move at all.

Answer: Do not enjoy it like an ordinary egoist. Enjoy the fact that you can attract this pleasure through your friends.

Question: But how do we do this?

Answer: Tell yourself that you want to see this pleasure coming to you through your friends.

Question: Can we try to internally give this pleasure to our friends?

Answer: No, you cannot imagine any pleasures with which you fill others. It is unnatural. We will talk about this later.
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From Daily Kabbalah lesson 2/17/25, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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