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Seek the Force that Draws You Forward

528.03Question: How can the ten move forward? Which force is better for it to use: pulling or repelling? After all, it happens that in daily routine actions, the ten moves at a normal speed and not with acceleration.

Answer: You should seek the pulling force more and then it will become easier to get out of the state of descent and indifference. You will strive to belong to the pulling force and the movement forward.

Where should you look for this power? In the Creator. Only in the Creator!

When you talk to each other about the Creator, you should feel that there is a force in the ten that pulls you forward. Ultimately it will truly manifest itself in you.

Question: Can we say that we initiate the pulling force with the help of prayer, and the force of repulsion is initiated by the Creator when we do not turn to Him?

Answer: In both cases we must seek the Creator and direct ourselves to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Forces within Man”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—190

281.02Question: What is the light of faith?

Answer: It is the light hidden in the actions that a person performs through the power of faith.

Question: How can we be ready to receive what the Creator wants to give?

Answer: It depends on how prepared the ten is for this.

Question: What desires do we use to build the screen of our spiritual Sukkah?

Answer: Any desires through which we can bring joy to our friends.

Question: What is the pleasure in the concealment of the Creator?

Answer: The pleasure lies in the fact that we can draw closer to Him precisely from the state of concealment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/16/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 12b

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Work inside the Ten

938.07Question: Is trust within the ten necessary for what we are striving for? What is the foundation for such trust? How should it be born within the ten?

Answer: It is born gradually from the fact that you pray together, turn to the Creator together, and thus form a united group. Then the Creator can feel this group. As a result, you will receive a response from Him.

Question: We do work in the ten and we come together with our hearts. How can we understand that the Creator evaluates our work? What should we focus on?

Answer: Focus on the fact that He is constantly helping you.

Question: Is it possible to clarify the states and desires we receive in thought within the ten?

Answer: Of course it is possible. Try it and you will find where the boundary is that you should not cross in your communication with friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Forces within Man”

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The Common Heart

929A proper and solid foundation for building a spiritual Kli is a connection between you that cannot be imagined in this world.

It is a purely internal connection between all hearts in the group, where together you represent a single pulsating heart. This should be the shared feeling among you. Ask the Creator to feel the one heart together.

Question: How can we check the essence of our unity in the ten?

Answer: It is very simple. Gather together, imagine that you are in one heart, and from that heart alone desire to speak with the Creator and, in fact, with everyone in the world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/16/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 12b

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Don’t Deprive the Creator

630.2Question: How does a person’s spiritual development happen? Does one begin to find joy in both spirituality and corporeality? Or should there be no joy before entering spirituality and then a sudden shift to spiritual joy?

Answer: No, a person can find joy in their small achievements or insights that they experience on the way to fully developing their desires.

Question: Some people in the group have a certain fear of rejoicing in our unity and connection. But there should be joy in the fact that we were able to unite and feel some upliftment, right?

Answer: Of course. It is foolish to think that it is not good to rejoice. If you do not rejoice, you deprive the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/8/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is Joy?”

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What Does the Creator Want the Most?

938.02Question: I feel like we do not have enough time to work in the ten because there is so much to work on and it is unclear where to start. What does the Creator want the most?

Answer: The Creator wants us first and foremost to feel united within the ten.

This unity should create a platform on which we stand, and it should never slip away from under our feet.
We should all fit on this platform, even if there are hundreds of us, hold each other’s hands, and strive to fill ourselves as much as possible with the light of the Creator.

When we reach such a state, we will experience a special feeling where it does not matter what happens next. What matters the most is that we hold on to one another. That is all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/9/24, Writings of Rabash “Seek Peace and Pursue It”

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If Someone Distances from the Ten

528.03Question: If the Creator separates a person from the ten, what does He want to say to him and the whole ten?

Answer: The Creator wants to say that He does not want to bring a person in this form closer to Himself. Therefore, let him show to everyone—himself and the Creator—that he is ready to “die” to get out of the egoistic state and think only about his friends and the Creator.

Question: Is willingness to “die” an egoistic desire? Does it feel the opposite of gratitude?

Answer: It all depends on what a person is willing to “die” for. For whom, for what? You must figure it out.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—186

281.02Question: We want a high level of development and are thinking not only of our group but of the entire global community and the whole world. How can we pour it all into the world?

Answer: Pour it out all you can. Turn to the Creator and glorify His actions, what you have come to, and what is yet to come.

Question: It is said, “And He was saddened in His heart.” What does it mean?

Answer: This means that a person is always accompanied by a sense of suffering, feeling the suffering of the Shechina.

Question: Which flaw in the work of the ten saddens the Creator the most?

Answer: When a person forgets about Him and prides himself on his abilities, powers, etc.

Question: When the Creator drops one off a degree, a person loses a Kli. Can this be called spiritual death?

Answer: No, this is a spiritual fall but not death.

Question: How do you feel your actual state as acutely as possible?

Answer: Open your heart.

Question: What is the difference between a sincere confession to oneself of one’s sin, of one’s true intentions, and a confession out loud, for example, to like-minded people?

Answer: There is a big difference. It depends on the depth of realization.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Sorrow of the Shechina – 2”

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One Condition for All

944Question: It is said that prayer is the main Kli (vessel) for the presence of the Shechina. How can we find out our common Hisaron (deficiency) so that our prayer, our common Hisaron really becomes a Kli for the presence of the Shechina?

Answer: We want to find a common desire, aspiration, and intention in which we would all fit and want nothing else.

Question: What should be the purity of the request so that everyone has literally one thought?

Answer: The vision of our state in the final goal. We can see and feel this based on the fact that together we awaken the desire for the Creator, and He shapes us accordingly.

Question: How would you describe this state in the final goal that we should equally imagine?

Answer: I would imagine it as one desire, one state for everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/5/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 34

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The Ten Is Your Soul

528.01Question: I should always ask for my ten. But I have many friends all over the world. Is it right to ask for your ten first, then for the whole world Kli, and then for the whole world?

Answer: Let’s say you have many friends in the world Kli besides your ten. How should you ask? First for your ten, then for them? Or through your ten for them? Or leave your ten and ask for them?

The question is very specific, and I advise you to understand it clearly. You have nothing outside the ten. The ten is your soul. And if you ask for something or someone else, you should ask only through it.

You can ask your friends to unite to ask for someone outside the ten. But it must be a request from the whole ten. You cannot take your mind off it for anything else.

You can physically help someone in the world, but spiritually, you can only care for someone through your ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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