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A Compass for Spiritual Development

942Question: What is the correct perception of the ten?

Answer: The correct perception of the ten is when I begin to imagine it as uniting into a single, unified whole within which the Creator resides. That is, the attribute of bestowal and love connects them together and is revealed within them. This structure is the connection of the soul with the Creator.

If I imagine it this way and desire to be included in it, this becomes like a compass for me, like a true direction in my development.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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When There Are Different Opinions in the Ten

36Question: When friends have very different opinions, it creates problems in the tens. What is the correct approach to resolving problems in the tens?

Answer: Each person can keep their own opinion. This does not bother anyone. But at the same time, one should focus on the connection within the ten and the revelation of the Creator within it.

You will never be able to align your opinions. Even if it seems that you think alike, you will not be able to check your thoughts. It may sound the same for a moment, but no more than that.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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What Closeness Leads To

938.03Question: We all get our knowledge from the right sources, from lectures and workshops. What can we add or take away to elevate a friend, to support them without belittling them?

Answer: Perhaps there is nothing we need to add or take away. If we put in the effort to come closer, then we genuinely form a unified Kli.

As we draw closer to each other, we draw closer to the Creator and can understand what exactly He wants from our ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/6/24, The Conditions for Studying with Friends

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Melt the Hearts of Stone

942Question: How do we break hearts of stone?

Answer: You need to attract all your friends into one common connection. When you are in it, you should work on making this connection like a boiling bath in which stones melt.

The stones are all the friends’ hearts. By boiling together, they melt and become one big stone. We must go through this.

To accelerate our spiritual growth, we need to be as close to each other as possible. It is best to compress into one heart and ask the Creator from it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/24, “We have gathered here”

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If There Are No Contradictions

600.02Question: Should I voice internal contradictions in the ten to improve our work?

Answer: No, you should not. But you can discuss this topic when you read the relevant excerpts from the articles. Then you can speak for yourself, not about your personal states, but rather about what is written about it in the articles.

Question: And if there are no contradictions, is this an indicator that the work has come to a stall?

Answer: If there are no contradictions, it is very bad. If you do not fight with the Creator several times a day, you have problems with Him. A person should feel that he is dissatisfied with the Creator, that he disagrees with His governance, and that everything is wrong and should be different.

All this is sent to him by the Creator so that a person begs Him to help him justify all these feelings. Then he becomes righteous and justifies the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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The Ten Will Help You Stay Connected

282.01Question: I often find myself in a state of descent where I do not want to go to the group, nor do I want to disseminate. But I feel that the ten is my only salvation since it constantly brings me back.

Answer: That is very good. Both of these feelings are given by the Creator. He will push you out of the ten even more, and the ten will help you stay connected, as if pulling you out of a prison or a turbulent river of everyday life in which you are drowning.

So everything is fine; you just need to put in more effort.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Is It Possible to Measure the Development of Tens?

938.02Question: Is there any way to measure development in the ten? For example, such and such a relationship in the ten is the first grade of education. The manifestation of other relationships is the second grade of study, etc. Do I know that for the first ten years of working in the ten, I spent in the first grade, the second ten years in the second grade?

Answer: You have to feel it for yourself. I cannot tell you anything because it cannot be expressed in words. That is, when you start to see, not just feel, but compare your possible states, then you can talk more specifically about your feelings.

And so there is nothing to talk about, like with a baby with whom they are cooing and that is it. So let us hope that soon you will start babbling.

Question: Is there any sensory parameter that you can rely on? Let us say I cannot get up for class, which means I am in second grade; I cannot talk to my friends, which is a plus for me, third grade.

Answer: There is no such thing. At each stage, in each state, negative and positive forces manifest themselves, and in this way you adapt them to yourself, and learn from your own experience. And to tell you in advance which classes you are taking will not help anyway. I can, for example, name all 125 steps that we should climb, but they will not tell you anything.

AB, SAG, Ibur, Yenika, Mochin, ascents, and descents—you study all this, but you still do not have adequate sensations, and therefore you do not know where you are. When the appropriate sensations come, you will immediately begin to give them names from what you have studied.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Help Everyone Draw Closer to Bestowal

939.01To become a partner with the Creator in the desire to bestow to others means that a person wishes to reach a state where they do everything to help people attain the quality of bestowal, that is, to transform their inherent egoistic desires into altruistic ones.

Therefore, the correct daily implementation of the connection between the ten and the Creator involves our striving to help everyone in the world draw closer to the quality of bestowal, to connection with others, and to collective correction.

Question: What should the ten hear from the Creator once they are connected?

Answer: They should hear how exalted the Creator is in His thoughts, how all-powerful He is in His actions, and how His actions influence everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/24, Writings of Rabash, “Go Forth”

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Springboard for a New Degree

938.02Question: When we reach out through love of friends toward love of the Creator and it does not work, it is perceived as a failure, as a blow. How can this be justified and turned into a springboard for a new degree?

Answer: The entire ten should embrace and try to squeeze out all sorts of thoughts and feelings that prevent you from merging with each other.

Squeeze out all the bad, all negative emotions, like pus from a wound. It is purification when you fill the freed-up emptiness with a positive feeling.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/24, “Parashat Noah”

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The Importance of Participation in the Ten

528.04Question: We meet in the ten every day for half an hour. Some friends are often in such a state that they do not come to the meetings because they feel that they cannot give the others the importance of the goal or could even harm the ten.

What should you do: not come or come anyway?

Answer: There is nothing worse than absence. If a person could have come to a lesson or a meeting of the ten but decided not to attend, there is no excuse for this. After all, any participation of his somehow moves the ten forward.
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