Question: How does the ten correctly feel the deficiencies that it perceives from the environment?

Answer: How does the ten properly receive all the feelings, desires, lacks, influences and so forth from the environment? There is no single, straightforward answer to this question.

The ten’s perception is based on the relationships between the friends because a ten is ten Sefirot that form a specific structure of interconnection. Depending on the combination of these ten egoistic parts, they create a certain spiritual structure.

Then, to the extent that this structure resembles the Creator even in the smallest way, it perceives Him through the law of equivalence of form. Just as in our world we perceive only what we can generate within ourselves.

In reality, I do not feel what is around me, but rather what I can create within myself, and then I seem to see this world as if it were outside of me. However, in truth, it is within me. This concept is studied in the topic of the perception of reality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What does spiritual love mean in the group?

Answer: Spiritual love in the group is our connection with each other when everyone feels their dependence on others and the need to be in such unity with them that in this connection they gradually reveal the Creator and the entire spiritual world.

Question: How do we understand our purpose both materially and spiritually?

Answer: Your purpose for being in this world is to ascend to the Creator and be connected to Him.

Question: What is the role of the group in strengthening the spiritual path and protecting against the influence of an egoistic environment?

Answer: It is one hundred percent help to each other. Without it, there is no way to reach even the lowest spiritual level.

Question: How on one hand can you boldly express yourself in the group and on the other hand be afraid to bring your selfish expectations into it?

Answer: You will soon feel how taking part in learning elevates and cleanses you of all selfish desires.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/24, “We have gathered here”

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Question: Everyone has complaints and grievances toward the Creator, as well as feelings of discontent. But when I do not feel these myself, I go to the chat and write something uplifting and positive. And if my post is ignored, I experience a lot of internal work: “Why are they not inspired?” Is this the right form of work?

Answer: Absolutely not! Under no circumstances should you look for negative phenomena that would drive you forward.

Negative experiences push you toward the goal, but you should not seek them out on your own. Your focus should be on advancing positively, which happens when you search within yourself for issues related to the greatness of the Creator: why you do not feel His greatness enough, His vastness, and His presence filling all of creation. But you should not intentionally provoke a sense of negativity or incorrect relationships with friends. Do not awaken the left line.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: I see all my friends in the ten as righteous because the Creator stands behind them, and the importance of the Creator is above all for me. Is it correct to view my friends in this way?

Answer: No, it is not necessary for all your friends to appear as righteous in your eyes just because the Creator stands behind them. The Creator is behind each of us, and how He wishes to manifest Himself relative to each of us is His private governance. Therefore you should look at the individual state of each friend.

Question: Yes, but I can justify them with faith above reason. That is my work, is it not?

Answer: That is your work. But you cannot see your friends as absolute righteous in every state they go through. I understand that you want to see them that way because they are governed and filled by the Creator. Nevertheless, you must regard them as acting desires in our world.

Question: Still, I must justify them and make them righteous in my eyes, right?

Answer: And if you are mistaken?

Comment: But justifying them is my annulment; I annul myself before them.

My Response: You are annulling yourself, but what about them?

Comment: Outside of me, there is only the Creator.

My Response: Exactly, as it is said about Noah, that he was righteous in his generations.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/24, Parashat Noah

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Question: Metaphorically, the ark is the desire for bestowal where we invest our efforts to unite. What are we taking there? How do we shape it in the right way?

Answer: We bring only our good connections and our correct attitude to what we have to reveal.

Question: Is the state in the ark during the flood temporary or should we get used to the idea that this will be our permanent state?

Answer: No, it is a brief state. We have to pass through it to enter the still waters.

Question: How do you pass through the highest waves in the ten to reach the goal?

Answer: The higher the waves, the more we are afraid of them; therefore we must be closer to each other and hold on to each other, then we do not have to fear any trials at sea.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/31/24, Writings of Rabash “Gopher Wood”

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This is the meaning of “Cover with pitch inside and out,” since there must be the light of faith there. (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 343, “Gopher Wood“)

Question: How can we strengthen our ten so that the light of faith resides there?

Answer: We achieve this through various actions aimed at unity.

Question: If we start having questions like “Who?” and “What?”, does it mean we need to strengthen our faith?

Answer: Certainly. In the ten, we strengthen it through faith above reason.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/31/24, Writings of Rabash Gopher Wood

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Question: What does it mean that through connection, the ten realizes the true property of Bina?

Answer: We can define Bina as egoistic qualities that we unite to achieve one, single correct action—to be above egoism. This is how the ten builds their ark.

The Ark is a spiritual creation—ten men build such states among themselves that help them pass any sea. They do not drown, but rather swim across it calmly.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/31/24, Writings of Rabash “Gopher Wood”

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Question: What is Noah’s merit before all of humanity?

Answer: His merit is that relative to his generation and his actions, he was righteous.

Question: What is the spiritual movement of the ten?

Answer: The spiritual movement of the ten is a state in which all friends connect to express a collective attitude toward the quality of bestowal.

Question: What correction should we make together as a ten to progress?

Answer: To become righteous means to ask the Creator to reveal this quality to you.

Question: If I recognize all my desires, both righteous and wicked, and relate them to the Creator, is this the quality of a righteous?

Answer: Not yet, but it is already on the path to the quality of “righteous.”

Question: How should we see our world?

Answer: We should see our world as one in which we act and can correct through our attitude toward each other and the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/24 , “Parashat Noah”

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When he becomes righteous in terms of the practice, he is rewarded and becomes whole in his heart, as Even Ezra said (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 342, “Noah Was a Righteous Man“).

An absolute sinner who has merited to become pure is a person who has found flaws in all his actions and corrected them.

One can leave the degree of sinner and become righteous only through connection with the Creator.

Question: What good deeds can you do in the ten to become righteous?

Answer: Help everyone in the ten unite and rise to the level of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/24, Parashat Noah

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Question: In the ten, we work with desires that can be corrected. At the same time, should each friend focus on their own pure desire and ask from it for the connection of the ten?

Answer: Yes, but they should also feel what others are asking for, so as not to stray too far from them.

Question: What does it mean to work with these desires and become included in them? Every day, we meet in workshops and read sources. Should I find my friend’s highest desire and connect to it?

Answer: No, you should simply find your own “self” within you—your own desires, connect with them to the Creator, and in this way draw closer to Him. Then everything will work out for you.

Question: If strong corporeal desires for my own sake arise within me through my prayer, that does not mean they will be fulfilled, right? In other words, the Creator will do what He needs to.

Answer: No, the Creator will only do what He needs to as a last resort. He wants you to recognize for yourself which of your desires are good and kind and which are foolish and harmful.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/31/24, Writings of Rabash “Gopher Wood”

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