Entries in the 'The Tens' Category

Hold on to the Thought of Love

527.03Question: How can I hold the line of wanting to love my friends and bestow to them without waiting for them to love me back throughout the day? Because when some obstacle arises, it is over. I am already in receiving mode, and it feels like I don’t even want to overcome that obstacle. That is, the importance fades, and the goal shifts.

How exactly can I hold onto this thought within the ten?

Answer: You must hold onto this thought, onto the connection between you as if it were a rope keeping you from drowning. If you let go, you will completely forget about your life and its purpose. That is how you need to act.

Question: And if I feel like I cannot overcome the obstacle, can I tell my friends: “Help”?

Answer: Of course, you can. You can fall and cry out. As long as that fall is genuine.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/27/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “ A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar

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How Can We Correct the Flaws in the World?

938.03Question: The flaws we see in reality are created by the Creator so that we can correct them through unity in the ten and with the world group. How can this be done?

Answer: We try to unite with each other despite being distant and even opposite to one another because the most important thing is to maintain connection with one another.

In this way, we measure the height of our ascent according to our connection above the problems given to us by the Creator.

Question: How can I see the world group through the ten and participate in it from the ten?

Answer: This is a challenge. For this, we need to advance further.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Read Your Heart

938.07What can a person enjoy during the lesson? A person can enjoy the fact that today he is much closer to his friends than he was yesterday.

To achieve a deeper connection with the Creator and to bestow to Him, you need to open up more to one another.

Then a greater Kli (vessel) will form, and you will feel each other more deeply.

In the group of ten, there is no need to reveal anything except the heart—what you desire in your life!

Question: But in our work, we rarely talk about this. We write prayers and read articles. How do we correctly speak about what we desire in our lives?

Answer: Open your heart and read what is written in it.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/27/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar”

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The Creator Is the Center of the Ten

544Question: What is the common attainment of the Creator’s thoughts in the ten?

Answer: To attain the Creator means to attain the upper force of nature. The common attainment of the Creator’s thoughts in the ten is the common alignment of all participants’ thoughts toward one another and from their center toward the Creator.

Question: We have often read that everyone can point to the Creator in the center of the ten. How can this be done from our collective feelings when we gather together?

Answer: It is good that you have such a question. Try it. Perhaps not immediately, but gradually, you will be able to direct your heart or your pointing finger toward the Creator. This is the center of your group—nothing more, nothing less.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/30/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar”

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Accept Friends as Our Inner Qualities

938.03Question: When we conduct a workshop in our ten, because we know each other, we feel each other’s qualities and what they can add to the circle. It feels like very internal and intimate work. How can we work when we hear answers from friends from the other tens?

Answer: We must try to accept them as our internal qualities, and feel them that way. And they will feel you in themselves in the same way. You must accept what your friend says and what he feels as if it were coming from you.

Question: Let’s say I am at a workshop with a friend: he says something, and I am trying to feel it. How do I accept it as mine?

Answer: As closely as possible, as if it were happening inside you. This is how you should treat each friend in the ten and all of them together, because the ten is your soul. Only for now do you feel it as something outside of yourself.

When you begin to feel it as something within you, then through this you will come to a connection with the Creator. He will reveal Himself within your connection as the one who creates and fills it.
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From the 2nd part the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/6/24, The Conditions for Studying with Friends

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Strive Only for Good

022Question: How do we reveal our evil inclination? Is it individually or together in the ten?

Answer: We do not need to reveal the evil inclination. It will be revealed to the extent that we can work with it.

We should strive only for good: for good inclination, for good roots, for good actions. And the evil inclination will be revealed in us according to how strong we are to overcome and correct it.

Question: But it does not reveal itself more than we can overcome?

Answer: Yes, that is correct.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Generations”

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Turn to the Ten

528.01Isaac said to put order in all the follies, meaning he raised all the calculations of sleep, roasting, and eating to Kedusha (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 560, “Generations”).

Question: How can one begin to raise such things to holiness and should this be done?

Answer: Of course, we need to constantly do this, to raise our connections, our thoughts, our desires, and our intentions higher and higher to the Creator, to holiness, to the quality of bestowal and love. We will try to do this as much as possible.

This is a process where we wish to receive fulfillment from the Creator for our thoughts and desires.

Question: In order to do this, does a person need to agree with the ten or can he begin this work independently?

Answer: He can do this independently, but it is better if he first agrees with his friends. After all, the Creator does not respond to individual requests. He needs the entire Kli. Therefore, before each action, you must turn to the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Generations”

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Seek Balance

232.05Question: What is the balance between receiving and bestowing forces in the ten? How can one achieve the correct balance?

Answer: This doesn’t happen immediately, it’s a gradual process. A person must examine all their actions, both in good and evil inclinations, in egoism and in bestowal. Once they do this, they can be confident that they are properly discerning between them and acting with good intentions for the Creator or if bad desires remain for the sake of the Sitra Achra (the other side).

In any case, your actions, even if incorrect or egoistic, will still reveal to you where you are and what needs to be done.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Sent”

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The Sequence of Unification

942Question: Is there any specific order to our connection in the tens? Should we first pray for the ten and then for the world Kli?

Answer: Currently we are not yet a Partzuf with a Rosh, Toch, Sof, ten Sefirot, and surrounding circles of light. We are merely a point around which concentric circles of light radiate.

This point does not yet influence the concentric circles. However, when it transforms into a Partzuf and begins to receive light into itself, then it will affect the surrounding light with its inner light.

Since the Kli is inherently common and includes all souls, even the inanimate, vegetative, and animate parts of creation, the question arises: how should we approach dissemination and in what order?

First and foremost dissemination should be directed toward the Jewish people, as they were once united.

Next, it should extend to the nations of the world, in accordance with their proximity to the process. Gradually, this influence should expand further and further.

For example, if you live in Germany, all German-speaking groups represent the primary field you can influence. Today, however, the Internet makes the entire world accessible to everyone.

Nevertheless, it is essential to consider the readiness of different civilizations. Europe and America are the closest to correction. Other parts of the world are currently more distant from the correct striving toward unity and bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Questions about Joy on the Spiritual Path

939.01Question: How can we build a desire in the ten so that we feel good and bring joy to the Creator?

Answer: First of all you need to think about what you do for the Creator and only then for yourself.

Question: I am happy that I have the Creator, the teacher, and the friends, and I do not want any more joys.

Answer: That is the correct state.

Question: It is written that the measure of joy testifies to the measure of truth contained in the faith. If we are not in joy for a long time, what does this mean?

Answer: It means that you have no faith.

Question: Is joy a consequence that arises after the correct connection and good deeds in relation to the ten or the Creator?

Answer: It does not matter. But joy is always a consequence of a good deed.

Question: I want not just to rejoice, but to deserve joy.

Answer: Try to deserve it by raising the Creator higher and higher and connecting everything that happens with Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/21/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning Joy”

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