Entries in the 'The Tens' Category

Feel the Boundless Embrace

938.02Question: How can you feel the whole ten?

Answer: You cannot feel the ten as a whole unit. It happens only in extreme, borderline conditions. But you can try to imagine a ten that is above everything or is all concentrated in one point. You can imagine friends who embrace you and you embrace them, and this embrace is boundless.

You must feel it. Feel it!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Rabash “And Isaac Was Forty Years Old”

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Where Can We Find Love for the Creator?

530Question: Where can one find love for the Creator?

Answer: Among friends. If you want to be together with them and to support them, then among them you will find your love for the Creator. Otherwise, you will not find it.

Question: What is love for the Creator?

Answer: That you must discover for yourself. Love for the Creator is revealed through the love for friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/24, Writings of Rabash “Isaac Sowed in That Land”

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Cover Egoism with Love

939.01Question: There are friends for whom you even feel love and before whom you are ready to annul yourself and to care for them. But there are also friends for whom you feel unfounded hatred that you do not understand. Where can you find the strength to cover this hatred with love?

Answer: Only by asking the Creator to show you that everything you feel toward anyone is aroused in you by Him, personally by Him.

And then you will see that the person has absolutely nothing to do with it. The Creator simply awakens such feelings in you toward this person in order to educate you.

Question: Sometimes during meetings in the ten we achieve some kind of unity, and in such moments, I feel love for a friend I used to hate. But then it passes. How can I hold on to this moment?

Answer: You do not need to hold on to anything! Just thank the Creator for replacing your hatred with love for that person, and ask Him to give you the same love for everyone in the ten, and then for everyone in the world. It does not matter who—ask for an equal attitude toward all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—207

963.5Question: What does it mean to be a partner with the Creator in the act of creation?

Answer: It means that through your efforts, you strive to achieve a connection among all the friends and then between them and the Creator.

Question: Can we say that the material level of the group’s unity fills our minds while the spiritual level of unity fills our hearts?

Answer: Yes, we can say that.

Question: When a person begins to work for the sake of bestowal, does he have any support other than faith?

Answer: He has no other support. Only the connection with the friends and faith in what he attains through that connection.

Question: In my inner work or in the group’s work, should there be no sense of humiliation?

Answer: Absolutely not! On the contrary, we should take pride in being engaged in the work of the Creator.

Question: What should we ask for to transform foolishness into holiness?

Answer: Ask for a proper, normal, and healthy connection among all the friends. This is the most important thing, and it will keep you on the right path.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Generations”

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Joy Should Be Mutual

939.01Question: There is division in our ten. Some of the ten are only for joy and some are in different states. So the ten set a condition that everyone should gather together only in joy, and if you are in a descent, you should turn off the camera. Is this correct?

Answer: When a person goes to a meeting in the ten, he must be in an elevated mood. This is a mandatory condition; otherwise, the Creator will not accept his prayer.

Question: The more I study, the feeling of joy in me calms down more and more. It is as if it is hiding inside.

What should joy be like? Is it a feeling that you hide inside or should everyone see that you are happy to serve the Creator?

Answer: Joy should be common and all-encompassing in that you and your friends express your common desire to reach the Creator in order to bring Him your desire and fill Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/20/24, Writings of Rabash “Serve the Creator with Joy”

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The Virus of Bestowal

942Question: The world exists on mutual bestowal. How can this concept be developed within the ten?

Answer: Mutual bestowal within the ten means that each of you cultivates love for your friends and is focused solely on this.

Question: What if a friend is not actively participating in the circle of bestowal within the group? Can the others bring her into the circle, and how?

Answer: They can, but it is very difficult. It requires literally infecting her with the necessity of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Generations”

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Get Used to the Connection with the Creator

293.1Question: You always look optimistic. Is it possible to learn optimism from you?

Answer: Since there is a Creator above me who guides me, then, of course, I am constantly in joy and constant connection with Him.

If you believe the Creator controls everything and there is no one besides Him, then you must be connected to Him all the time and feel eternity and perfection. Get used to this and thank the Creator.

Question: Should we come to the ten with a smile, kindness, and warmth, regardless of whether you are an optimist or a pessimist?

Answer: In any case you must do what the Creator requires of you. Then you will see where you may get an opportunity to thank Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/21/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning Joy”

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Blessing in Everything

938.04Question: What does it mean to receive blessings from all sides?

Answer: From women, from men, from those who are distant and those who are close, from friends, and the Creator, a person must strive to restore and maintain his connection with all these sources. Gradually he will begin to sense that he can receive fulfillment through these connections.

Question: What does it mean to receive a blessing in the ten?

Answer: It means that within the ten, there is a feeling of the Creator addressing them. In this case, they can connect and direct the connection emerging between them toward the Creator. In this way, they establish contact with Him.

Question: How can perfection in the ten be achieved?

Answer: By each person desiring to receive with the intention to bestow to the other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/24, Writings of Rabash “The Discernment of “In Everything”

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Dance of the Soul

938.02Question: What is the inner dance of the ten that gives unceasing joy?

Answer: If we are constantly looking for an ascent, then we will naturally begin to descend and rise from it. Such ascents and descents are called a dance that we must remain in; that is, we need to constantly seek how to rise to spirituality and beware of being lowered.

Our egoism will always work to lower us, and we must be grateful to it for the opportunity for another ascent. This is the correct work with our egoism.

Question: Is this ascent of the soul, the dance of the soul, and love for the Creator a support within knowledge?

Answer: No, all this is above knowledge. Within reason we do not see, feel, or sense any taste.

Question: How can you make the ascents and the descents happen at a fast pace so that the joy never stops?

Answer: You must be responsible for the state of spirit in your ten, and then you will achieve a lot.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Joy that Comes from Dancing”

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The Cumulative Process Over the Years

528.04Question: When we study the Torah in the ten, we read it first as a text. What happens to us when we suddenly begin to see, as Baal HaSulam writes, the upper worlds: Yetzira, Beria, and Atzilut?

Answer: These are levels of attainment, levels of connection, and levels of mutual influence between you and the Creator. At some point, you or the ten begin to feel these levels and everything that happens in a different key, like a child who has grown up and now feels the world and others differently.

Question: How does this happen with a Kabbalist? Does he come to the lesson, read the text as it is, and can rise to the sensation of the upper worlds? Or is it some kind of cumulative process over the years?

Answer: For a Kabbalist, this is a cumulative process. In addition, he is at a certain level to begin with.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/21/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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