If you have been practicing the Torah Lo Lishma for more than three years, as Rabbi Yosi says, and five years, as the Tana Kama says, then the Braita warns you that you will not see a good sign in this path you are treading! (Baal HaSulam, Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot)

Question: Is it correct to tie the study of Kabbalah to a specific timeframe?

Answer: The group (the “ten“) is obligated to set certain goals for its development. Therefore, regardless of the timeframes indicated by the Kabbalists—whether it takes three years, ten years, five years, or fifteen years—you must still feel where you are.

Question: How should we formulate this goal for ourselves?

Answer: As it is written, the best is to see a good sign in the work within three or at most five years. If we do everything required of us, within this time we will achieve within our ten the revelation of the Torah, the Creator, and the spiritual path.

Question: How can we tell if our ten has reached this point?

Answer: You will start to feel this as you move forward. Just as when driving a car, the road opens up before you, so too, the path will be revealed to you gradually.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Question: Who is considered to be a spiritually mature person?

Answer: Someone who tries to understand why the Creator treats them this way.

Question: What helps us become spiritually mature?

Answer: Being connected with one another and discussing the states we go through together.

Question: By uniting in the ten, we are healed from egoism by the light of the Creator. And the most powerful means of healing is prayer, right?

Answer: Yes, that is correct.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/24, Writings of Rabash “The Lack Is the Kli [Vessel]”

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Question: How can we raise the Hissaron (deficiency) to the Creator through our friends in the group? What are the practical mechanics of this action?

Answer: The fact is that I cannot personally be connected with the Creator. I must achieve a connection with Him through the group, through my friends.

Only through the connection with them do we eventually reach the state where we turn to the Creator, and He can respond to us through these same states.

Question: In our world a diagnosis results from contact with a doctor. Does the revelation of the evil inclination testify to contact with the Creator?

Answer: Yes, the revelation of the evil inclination is indeed evidence of contact with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/24, Writings of Rabash “The Lack Is the Kli [Vessel]”

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Question: Can we accelerate exiting descents by observing commandments in the corporeal world, in addition to studying and our connection?

Answer: I don’t know what you mean. In our world observing commandments is what we learn in the wisdom of Kabbalah: receiving the Creator’s light and getting closer to Him to bring Him contentment.

Question: When the Torah becomes the potion of death, should we try to avoid this state since we cannot immediately form the right intention? Or does this state come as a result of serious mistakes?

Answer: No, these states come from great effort and deep prayer.

Question: What does it mean to act on our own when there are doubts in decision-making?

Answer: You should act according to your spiritual state, and everything will work out for you.

Question: What is missing in longevity that exists in eternity?

Answer: In longevity, there is still unfinished work, while in eternity, this work is complete.

Question: If a ten already feels like it is in a state of dust, where should it start to rise?

Answer: From lifting itself from the dust, meaning by adding more and more desire to bestow, to fill, through actions and prayers, and thus elevate itself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/25/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Must Be Received with Both Hands”

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Therefore, on Rosh Hashanah, one begins one’s work anew. Additionally, the days of the ten penitential days are called “days of forgiving and atonement of sins,” so a man will have every opportunity to join in the work of the Creator once more, even though he’s been so remote from the work (Rabash, Letter No. 34).

Question: What should I repent for after Rosh HaShanah if I have to cross out the past?

Answer: Based on how the present moment unfolds, you should determine your current state in relation to the Creator and attribute all your actions to that state.

Therefore, you have nothing else but to connect with your friends and inspire them toward the goal of creation. In this way, you justify the actions of the Creator.

Question: Should I also process the states that occurred before Rosh HaShanah?

Answer: No, but they serve as the foundation for what you feel now.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/5/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 34

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Question: What actions do you expect from us, as a group of ten, in the New Year? Should we bring you joy and through you bring pleasure to the Creator?

Answer: In the New Year, as in the previous year, as 50 or 150 years ago, the same conditions remain—that we desire to help each other ascend to the Creator with the intention of bringing Him pleasure and through our actions bring Him joy.

Question: You said that we must change the state of the world through our unity.

If during the holidays we offer a collective one-minute prayer during the lesson, could that help shift the state of the world?

Answer: If anything can help, it is a prayer. If we genuinely desire to unite and from that unity raise a prayer to the Creator—that is what is needed. Nothing else will help us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”

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Question: How can one open their heart to the Creator so that He takes us out of egoism?

Answer: This is precisely why we study the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is to understand how to receive everything the Creator wants to give us, which can only happen through the connection between us.

Therefore we must strive to connect above our egoistic desires, and to the same extent, the Creator can be revealed within us.

Question: How can one desire to know the Creator Himself and not just what He gives?

Answer: It depends on your readiness to connect with the Creator rather than receive from Him. You must be ready to accept what He wishes to give in order to connect with Him and bring Him contentment through that connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”

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Question: What does “That which is revealed in Malchut is what is bestowed upon the lower ones” mean?

Answer: A person, on his or degree, reveals their desire to connect with the Creator and with the lower ones, meaning with the other friends. Then, the Creator is revealed within all of them together.

Question: What is the common desire of the ten directed at bestowal to the Creator?

Answer: It consists of the individual desires of the ten, which connect to be directed toward the Creator so that He would feel them. The desires connect without interfering with one another at all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”

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Question: After the revelation of the Creator, can a person say that now he is like the Creator?

Answer: No, the revelation of the Creator actually puts a person in his proper place. The person takes this place and understands who he really is.

Question: By performing the Creator’s work, are we essentially substituting Him in all His actions?

Answer: No, that has never happened, does not happen, and will never happen.

Question: What actions can a ten take to compel the Creator to reveal Himself?

Answer: Compel Him with a strong, healthy desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”

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Question: The convention is over. We are returning to our permanent tens (groups), and I am already trying to focus only on my ten. It is difficult for me to do this without including the entire world group. Can I continue with my ten and include all of Bnei Baruch?

Answer: Of course, include the entire world Kli (vessel)! What else is it for? Please go ahead.

That is precisely what our movement is about—from love of friends to love for the Creator, because the Creator is the whole world Kli united together and the entire upper light is revealed in it.

In other words, the Creator is our absolutely corrected state, the desire with the intention, filled with infinite light. Only in this way can we imagine the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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