Question: Criticism that comes from the evil inclination is always wrong; it has flaws and pulls you into wrong thoughts. How can we resist it?

Answer: Try to divide it into many parts, egoism in a person and altruism in a person, compare them, connect them, and move forward with them.

The correct criticism of the evil inclination is determined in the group when I try to choose the right advice over the wrong advice and thus begin to feel where it is in me. This is the best method.

Question: Sometimes you may need to reorganize a ten or add something. There is a very subtle moment here when I seem to have to do something, and we, as a ten, must reorganize. Where is the good and the bad here?

Answer: This can only be determined in practice. Constantly check and control what is talking in you, and then you will be able to separate the action of “Esau” (the evil inclination) from the action of “Jacob” (the good inclination).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Sent”

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Question: What does “a perfect building in which the Creator dwells” mean? How can we build it in the ten, in the connections between us?

Answer: Through complete bestowal to one another, we can reach a state where we will be only in bestowal. From this state, we will build a house of holiness, a temple.

Question: What needs to be added to our work every day in order to build, not a traditional egoistic unification, but instead a house of holiness for the Creator in the ten?

Answer: When rereading the primary sources, you must try to do as they instruct, and each time you will feel something new. Then everything will be alright.

Question: Do Kabbalists somehow envision this building in the heart?

Answer: The building in the heart is Malchut, because the heart is desire. What we want to build in our heart is a palace for Malchut.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/24, Writings of Rabash “Delight Them with a Complete Building – 2”

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Question: How can we begin to derive pleasure in the ten from truth and not just from what is clothed in a lie?

Answer: Pray, ask. We have no other means.

Question: What does it mean to acquire “clothing” for pleasure, and how can we do this?

Answer: The clothing for pleasure is the reflected light, which is obtained through working with the screen. Therefore, the first step is to acquire the screen.

Question: The intention to bestow is built over the desire to receive, but the essence of the desire to receive remains. Thus, intention exists as a thought and thought serves desire, the essence of which is only reception. Then how does the desire to bestow awaken?

Answer: The desire to bestow awakens gradually. It comes from the Creator, through the group, and from the friends.

Question: How does intention differ from the Creator’s light?

Answer: Intention exists in us only in potential, within the desire, but not yet in its realization.

Question: Why would a spirit place itself in the confined space of matter?

Answer: So that the person in whom this spirit resides would desire to attain the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/24, Writings of Rabash “Delight Them with a Complete Building – 2”

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Question: The need to change intention depends on the number of bestowing actions performed by a person. How can one work on both action and intention simultaneously if everything is determined by quantity?

Answer: No, quantity is not measured. Both quantity and quality are always considered together.

Question: Suppose I can “fire away” actions in the ten or in dissemination like a machine gun, thinking that the intention will come on its own. Alternatively, I could check each action, ensure the intention is incorrect, and ask the Creator for help. Which approach is correct?

Answer: The second one.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Discernments in States”

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Question: When we say, “We are building a home for the Creator,” what is the measure of personal responsibility in this action and the measure of responsibility of everyone in the ten? Are they equivalent, or is everything based on personal responsibility?

Answer: It all depends on the quality of the ten. We must accept our states as revealed in us by the Creator for which we must rise and account to Him, that is, address Him at the level of these states.

Question: What determines the quality of the ten?

Answer: The quality of the ten depends only on the following components: how seriously the friends take their work, how much they strive to get closer to the Creator through it, how much they want to join the Creator to help Him. And He will help them, and together they jointly create a tremendous spiritual structure, one for all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/24, Writings of Rabash “Delight Them with a Complete Building – 2”

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Question: How can I correct myself in the ten to reveal the holy Shechina of Israel? Do I have to physically live in Israel for this, or is it enough to be in virtual connection with others?

Answer: In order to reveal the holy Shechina, it is not necessary to live in Israel. It is enough to strive for connection with the Creator, to think about that constantly, and to desire to draw it closer to yourself.

Question: How does anger affect a person’s spiritual state? What tools can be used to overcome this property?

Answer: We must not only overcome the properties of anger, but also all negative traits that can distance us from the Creator. We need to detach ourselves from them.

Question: What does it mean when a person falls from his degree?

Answer: It means that the desire he previously had for the Creator and His actions disappears, and he falls.

Question: How can the ten develop such qualities that Malchut will be called by the name “Adon”?

Answer: You need to simply accept the Creator as the supreme force that governs you. In this case, He is called “Adon.”

Question: How can one be inspired correctly by the desires of friends?

Answer: Lower your head and try to feel what your friend is experiencing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/1/24, Writings of Rabash “And Behold, the Lord Stood Over Him”

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Question: What kind of work is “return from awe” and “return from love” in the ten?

Answer: With return from awe, a person is in awe of the Creator and wants to reveal the same state in his friends.

And return from love is when one feels love for the Creator and wants all his feelings, thoughts, and intentions to be imbued with this feeling.

Awe is the first property. Love comes later because love for the Creator is an immense, unlimited feeling for Him as the source of everything in us—what we feel, experience, and think.

Question: What should I do if I discover I have no awe yet?

Answer: Strive to connect with your friends, and you will convey these feelings to each other. You must work on it together and constantly expand and deepen this feeling, and infect others with it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/1/24, Writings of Rabash “And Behold, the Lord Stood Over Him”

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Question: It is said that the ladder (Malchut) is set upon the earth, and the rulers of all nations ascend and descend on it. What does this mean?

Answer: It means that the ladder of spiritual ascent is meant for everyone. All who wish to draw closer to the Creator must master the process of ascending it.

Question: How can one reach Malchut to begin ascending the spiritual ladder?

Answer: We strive to determine where we stand in relation to this ladder and work with it in such a way that we are constantly ascending.

Question: How can this be defined within the tens?

Answer: It does not matter. Wherever you are, you must imagine how you can ascend while bringing joy to the Creator through the results of your efforts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/2/24, Writings of Rabash “A Ladder Set on the Earth”

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It is specifically when one becomes worthy, when he inverts reception into bestowal, called “receiving in order to bestow,” there is peace between them (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 240, “Discernments in States”).

A person desires to transform reception into bestowal, and the Creator performs this action.

Therefore, our task is to feel that we want to be in the desire to bestow and to ask the Creator to create this desire within us.

If all the members of the ten wish to receive for the sake of bestowing to the Creator and unite in this shared desire, a vessel (Kli) is formed between them that is worthy of correction and generates equivalence with the Creator.

Question: How can we, in the ten, become worthy of receiving for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: You will certainly achieve this. The Creator will give to you, and you will receive not for yourselves, but for all the other friends in the ten with the purpose of connecting it into one movement back toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Discernments in States”

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Question: What does it mean that a person has performed a Zivug (a connection between the force of reception and the force of bestowal)?

Answer: If a person has a desire to bestow and arranges things so that the desire to receive is revealed before him, then when these two desires are combined, a Zivug occurs between them, meaning a combination that brings light into both states.

Question: We understand that without the help from above, we cannot perform a Zivug. How is our active participation expressed in this process?

Answer: Your active participation is expressed in the fact that all of you strive to unite with one another in order to reach a common desire to bestow.

Question: Does going through all the states mean experiencing each and every perception of the friends?

Answer: Not entirely, they experience many states that you do not need to go through. You only need to see how you can help a friend, connect with him, and unite.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Discernments in States”

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