Question: How can we practically feel the Shechina between us? Should we feel it simultaneously or at different times, each one inside oneself?

Answer: Everyone in the group should feel it, but not necessarily at the same time. Some may feel it now, some in a week, others in a month, etc. But everyone should come to feel it.

Question: How long will our trials last before we attain the Creator?

Answer: For as long as you are engaged with your egoism. As soon as you rise above it, all trials will end.

Question: Rabash’s article “Purpose of Society – 1,” says: And although we have not yet achieved this goal, we have the desire to achieve it. And this, too, should be appreciated by us, for even though we are at the beginning of the way, we do hope to achieve the exalted goal.

Is “we hope” because we cannot vouch for others?

Answer: No, this is because we hope for the help of the Creator, who will elevate us and give us correct, good thoughts and actions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/24, for Graduates of MAK—the International Academy of Kabbalah in Russian, “We have gathered here”

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Question: Why does it seem too heavy and make me want to stay in the darkness when I feel the Creator’s love ?

Answer: Such difficulties, troubles, and obstacles are given to us deliberately to develop a true desire for the Creator within us.

Question: How can we, as a ten, reach the boundary of “above our strength”?

Answer: Together. When we understand that not a single one of us can fulfill even the easiest, smallest commandment of the Creator unless we help each other.

Question: If each person, to the extent of their contribution, can feel the Creator within the ten, how can we achieve a unified sense of the center of the group and the Creator? After all, everyone contributes according to their own capabilities.

Answer: It doesn’t matter; the direction remains the same.

Question: How can we develop the desire to delight the Creator to bring him contentment?

Answer: For this, we must think about Him. The thought must come in this particular form: I will do something specifically to bring Him contentment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/12/24, Writings of Rabash “Overcoming”

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Question: Baal HaSulam and Rabash left us a treasure in the form of the Shamati articles. How can we learn to work more deeply with these articles to strengthen our connection and feel each other more?

Answer: First, read an article, and then make an effort to dissolve into the group. Then, read another article, and once again dissolve into the group. Alternate in this way, and each time you will see completely different states, whether in the same article or in different ones. It all depends on you and it will be perceived as new each time, critically new.

My teacher Rabash always opened the notebook with the Shamati articles recorded in it before sleep, read a few lines, and then fell asleep. This notebook was always beside him.

Imagine the degree of Kabbalist he was, and what he saw in these articles that we read now—those of us who do not even understand what the spiritual world means. He had already ascended and descended through all the degrees, played his scales like on a piano, moving up and down through the entire space of the spiritual world, reading the same articles we are now reading.

Therefore everything depends on how connected we are with each other, in order to express from ourselves the attribute of bestowal in caring for the ten. And in this measure, we will feel Shamati.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What is a friend in the ten?

Answer: A friend is called “haver.” “Haver” comes from the word “hibur,” connection. Connection implies that we are different in our natural desires and at the same time united together in one goal.

Let us say there is one Kli and a second Kli, and they cannot connect with each other, but they can work to achieve one goal in which they unite, meaning, we unite only in the Creator and in no other way.

Egoists who are ready to annul their own egoism in order to unite in the Creator, to be incorporated in Him, are called friends. It is either women or men, but of the same gender. Only the Creator can connect us, and we can only ask Him about it. Even if this is not a real prayer, we can still ask.

If a person chooses the goal of attaining the Creator, then it can only be achieved by uniting different desires into one goal. Therefore it is said that the smallest group is two people.

But in order to create a whole group, it is desirable to be ten. Rabash writes about this in one of his first articles, not nine people and not eleven, but precisely ten. Why is this so? We study this from the unfolding of the four stages of direct light, from the structure of the ten Sefirot.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What is connection and my care for friends, for the group, for the ten?

Answer: This comes gradually when you make many efforts and realize that they do not give you anything. Then in complete detachment, you finally begin to understand that you have to follow the path indicated by the Kabbalists.

Therefore, you need to turn to the center of the group, and within the connection between you ask not for yourself, but for the others. By asking for them, you are actually asking for your spiritual self. And when you ask only for yourself, you ask for the physical self. And all of this a person begins to reveal only from his defeat when he sees that he is at a dead end.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: It is said that creation cannot do anything without the Creator since everything originates from Him. So what is the role of creation and where is the transition to what the Creator does?

Answer: The creation must do everything possible to reach the goal on its own. By creation it is meant a ten, a single person is not considered to exist at all.

If the ten is constantly exerts, it begins to feel that it is impossible for it to reach this goal.

Therefore it begins to call upon the Creator. It is written about this: “And the children of Israel cried out from the hard work.”

When they call upon the Creator, their prayer ascends to Him, and He answers them by bringing them out of Egypt—out of egoism. That is how it works.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: As a future Kabbalist, how can I help a friend come closer to the Creator?

Answer: First of all, you are already considered a Kabbalist. You can help him by further strengthening your connection with him and supporting him.

Question: In the ten, I see everyone as perfect, even if I notice flaws, I can immediately nullify myself. But in the corporeal world, egoism overwhelms me and prevents me from quickly seeing that I am the one who needs correction, not others. Why does this happen?

Answer: Because in spirituality, you have the support of the group.

Question: How should we “make (ourselves) a Rav” of our friends who teach us so they become a channel of connection with the Creator?

Answer: You should respect all your friends as if they are above you. There is no harm in listening to them as teachers.

Question: When we study sources, it is not difficult to see our friend as a teacher. But when it comes to lesson-related questions, some sort of struggle arises among us, and we cannot even make a decision. How should decisions be made in the ten?

Answer: Solely according to who your teacher is, what he says, and what you accept from him.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/6/24, “The Conditions for Studying with Friends”

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Question: What are “weeds” in our desire, and how can we identify them if we’re egoists?

Answer: “Weeds” are egoistic desires that you try to use for spiritual purposes.

Question: But as an egoist, I don’t realize how this affects others. How do I gain the ability to see these weeds as harmful?

Answer: Because you are in a ten supported by the group’s collective opinion and by the entire world Kli this creates the conditions within you to perceive reality in this way.

Question: Does that mean friends should point out what in me are weeds?

Answer: They are already pointing it out. All your negative thoughts about the group, yourself, the Creator, and advancement all come to you from spirituality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/24, Writings of Rabash “Go Forth”

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Question: How does one let go of the past desire to receive? Is this something individual for each person or is it shared within the whole ten when we are united?

Answer: Essentially it is individual for each person. However, at various stages of correction, we unite and collectively receive certain desires, intentions, and opportunities from the Creator.

Question: If I cannot do anything on my own, can I pray to the Creator to give the ten the right desire, and then I, too, will receive it together with them?

Answer: Absolutely correct! We can do this, and it will indeed lead us to connection between us and with the Creator, with the purpose of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/24, Writings of Rabash “Go Forth”

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Question: How can we practically take off the “white gloves,” meaning leave the artificial demonstration of good-hearted relations?

Answer: Removal of the “white gloves” should be slow, conscious, and only to the degree that you can control your states and circumstances.

When you control your states, you can allow some negative thoughts and feelings in relation to your friends, but at the same time you understand that the Creator triggers them on purpose, otherwise they would not appear.

We are not doing anything on our own. Even if we think that we are doing something, it only seems to us that way. The Creator is doing everything—there is none else besides Him.

When I let myself go a little this way and feel my bad relations with my friends in the group, I begin to understand that it is given to me to rise. It means I do not deny, cancel, or conceal my bad thoughts and feelings about my friends, but rather rise above them in spite of my current thoughts about my friends.

Overall, I feel that my attitudes to them are correct. What else can I do? This is why despite the fact that they are correct I want to be above them and control them this way.

It means you control the left line when you slightly unveil your egoism and allow yourself to feel the criticism toward your friends. At the same time, you are building the right line within yourself when you turn to the Creator and ask Him to give you the power to rise above this criticism. Thus you have two lines. This is already the beginning of creation of the soul that you will have to build. It is not even you, but rather the Creator when you ask Him.

Therefore, it is a good thing that you have always treated each other “with gloves.” However, it might be time to start taking them carefully off. When you do it consciously, by allowing negative thoughts you will feel as the owner of your state from both the negative and the positive sides.

You will see that your good state and your bad state are not yours, they come from the Creator. Also, the decisions to make bad and good states are not yours either. They also come from the Creator. And after that between these bad and good states and thoughts you will sense the Creator Himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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