Question: What does it mean to be in union with the Creator in a state of lowliness?

Answer: Despite not having any prerequisites to rise, I am ready to be with the Creator in any state, even the lowest ones.

Question: When I read the study material, if there is a desire to give in the heart but the mind does not understand what is studied, does it mean that I am not disconnecting from myself and not connecting with the Creator?

Answer: It does not matter. The main thing is that you are aware of this. From here the correction will begin.

Question: Who can plead with the Creator to pull a person out of the filth, himself or his ten?

Answer: The person himself. And if he cannot ask for himself, he asks his ten to do so.

Question: What does it mean not to doubt the greatness of the Creator?

Answer: It means feeling that there is no one higher than Him, and in fact, there is none else beside Him.

Question: Where is the truth if some friends feel progress and others do not?

Answer: The truth is with those who feel progress.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Raises the Poor from the Dust – 2”

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A person raises the lack that he has and asks the Creator to satisfy his lack (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 579, “I Will Remove the Stony Heart”).

In order to awaken the Creator and achieve a true deficiency in the ten, we must come together in a single circle, as one vessel (Kli), and turn to Him with a request to help us feel Him, and thus bind all of us into one unified Kli.

The realization of the true deficiency of the ten will occur when we feel that we are connected with each other like the particles of Malchut and elevate a collective desire upward so that the Creator will manifest within it. That is when He will reveal Himself within us and fill us. This is called connection with the Creator.

Question: Can we call it a true deficiency when there is a desire to bestow, but no strength to do so?

Answer: No, that means there is no desire. If there is a desire, there is strength. If there is no desire, there is no strength.

Question: How can the ten always be ready to remain in the same awakening as the Creator?

Answer: The ten doesn’t know this. We simply need to try to ascend to the Creator and unite with Him through our collective efforts, and it will gradually happen. The Creator will approach us, reveal Himself within us, and allow us to attain Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/24, Writings of Rabash “I Will Remove the Stony Heart”

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Question: We talk a lot about caring for humanity and becoming a transmission link between the Creator and the world. Can we do this work at our current stage or are we just preparing the groundwork for the future?

Answer: We are still in a state that even if we do not ask for the whole of humanity, but only for our ten, it will be enough. Although a complete prayer is when we ask for the entire chain, the whole Kli, the whole soul of Adam. Then it definitely works.

However, asking means feeling a desire, a need, an intention. Therefore, first you need to think about it and then turn to the Creator. And if we ask in the following way—I ask for ten, the ten asks to be included in the whole global Bnei Baruch, the global Bnei Baruch asks to be included in all of humanity—this is a complete prayer.

Question: How can we raise this sensitivity? Is it only by a demand to the Creator?

Answer: No, we can raise it mainly by discussing it among ourselves, listening to our friends, and thus increasing its importance.

Question: So is our task at this stage only to ask for humanity in this chain?

Answer: What other task is there? Practically we have one request: help us create such a desire, called a Kli, that You could fill and bring to similarity to You.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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Question: What should our collective inner action as a ten be in relation to the Creator?

Answer: The collective inner action of the ten should be the desire to bestow to the Creator and to be able to receive for the sake of bestowal because the Creator only wishes to bestow. Then a connection with Him will arise and you will receive in order to bring Him contentment.

The Creator wants to fill everyone with the upper light, absolutely everyone. Your task is to ensure that you can receive it for the sake of bestowal. In this way, you will establish a complete connection with the Creator.

Question: What is the joint action of the common Kli with the Creator?

Answer: Our common Kli must unite in such a way that it can bestow to the Creator.

The Creator will shine His light upon us, and we will shine back with the reflected light. We are not the source of the light; we can only receive in order to bestow back to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/24, Writings of Rabash “He Who Comes to Purify Is Aided – 1”

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Question: A question about prayer. When you want to ask for something, do the words have any limits? How can I expand my request?

Answer: First of all, you can talk about this with your friends. Secondly, there are texts written by Kabbalists that are considered canonical prayers. There is nothing particularly special about them, just requests to the Creator for various kinds of help, identification of connection, development, and so on.

Any such appeal develops a person if they reflect on these words written by the Kabbalists. All prayers were written by great Kabbalists.

More than 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem, there was a group of Kabbalists called the Great Assembly (Knesset HaGadola). Before their time, there were no prayers at all because everyone knew how they should ask the Creator to establish their connection with others. Therefore, there was no need for any prayer books.

But these Kabbalists felt that people were on the verge of falling from the spiritual level, so they wrote a collection of prayers. This is what we use now.

What are these prayers about essentially? Only about the connection between us. We need to understand these words. But in general, they praise the Creator as the quality of bestowal, love, the highest quality of nature. They talk about how He does not forget us and strives to bring us closer to each other so that He can dwell within us. And we try to realize all of this, to bring joy to our parent just like good children. That is all; there is nothing else.

So you can use these prayer books. But, in principle, prayer is what a person feels in their heart. That is the first thing. Secondly, prayer is also considered correct self-assessment. After all, the verb “to pray” (Lehitpalel) means “to judge oneself.” This is what a prayer is all about, that I judge my actions, the circumstances I find myself in, and how I can rise above them.

It is important to understand that an ascent follows an unbreakable rule: “From love for the creations to love for the Creator.” It is only through this sequence and no other. We can appeal to Him only if we have a ten, only if we strive to gather all of humanity into a ten and offer the Creator the opportunity to fill them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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Question: In one of your answers, I heard that the reward will come as a desire to bestow. But my evil inclination finds it painful to bestow. Does this mean there is no reward for me yet?

Answer: You must understand that the desire to bestow in a person is directed from above, and in some way it raises one to the level of the Creator. Therefore there is no need to reason, based on our earthly standards here.

Question: I understand that you are talking about spiritual bestowal. But how can I stop expecting this reward? Or how can I know there is some kind of connection between me, the ten, and the Creator?

Answer: To do this, one must include oneself in the group and the group must strive to unite with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/24, Writings of Rabash “One Who Restrains Himself in Strife”

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Question: There are states in the ten where there seems to be enough of everything. But everyone always has some kind of Hissaron because we see what is happening in the world. Is it worthwhile calculating to add a new Hissaron to the ten that I feel at this moment? After all, this is contrary to raising the friend’s spirit.

Answer: If you strive to raise the friend’s spirit, that is exactly what you do. In Kabbalah, everything depends on what you consider necessary to do right now.

Your entire life should be divided into some stages of your attitude to your friends, books, songs, and everything. In other words, you must clearly understand for whom, for what, why, what, and when you need to do it. And then you will not have any problems.

Question: So I can always reveal the true state, that there is a lack of bestowal from me, from the ten, to the world Kli and the whole world.

It turns out that there are my personal feelings and my prayers, and there is what the ten’s state is. And if I bring too much Hissaron, will my friends lose faith in this?

Answer: No, don’t worry. Everything passes through the Creator. Therefore, all our requests and thoughts are smoothed out and come to the friends in the right form. And if it is not in the proper form, then this, too, is the Creator’s decision.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/24, Writings of Rabash “A Near Road and a Faraway Road”

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Question: What should I focus on in my work in the ten?

Answer: Focus on making the ten more precious to you than yourself because it is your spiritual vessel, your soul. Consider how your soul, the eternal spiritual level, should be more valuable to you than your body. The body is the temporary animalistic level, but the soul is the eternal spiritual level and through it you enter attainment of the Creator.

Therefore, the most important thing is to have several friends within whom you feel your soul resides. Let’s say there are a few people, maybe five or six, and in them your soul exists. This is crucial. You feel that without them, you have no soul.

If you constantly depict yourself in relation to your ten in this way, you will soon notice the changes that are occurring between you. It will be the Creator Himself who starts to speak with you in this way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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Question: You said we build the reflected light from Malchut to Keter with a ten. How? What is this action?

Answer: Try to feel it. Ask the Creator, and try with your friends to be connected so you have the reflective ability of the Kli where instead of receiving, you are ready to bestow. You can reflect the light in a ten if you have a common desire.

Question: Can we say that the common desire is the Malchut of our ten?

Answer: Yes, it reflects the direct light that comes to it.

Question: In our common desire, do we first feel the light, or do we try to bestow, build an intention and reflected light?

Answer: First, you make a restriction (Tzimtzum) and build a Partzuf of reflected light in the opposite direction, from receiving to bestowal, so that your Malchut becomes like Keter.

Malchut de Or Yashar (direct light) is Keter de Or Hozer (reflected light). And vice versa, in the reflected light, each Sefira located above the Malchut of the reflected light is clothed with properties corresponding to it. In this way, you compare yourself with the Creator.

Question: What does it mean that we rise at least a little above our Malchut in the direction of bestowal?

Answer: To rise means that you are ready to accept all the light that comes to you and forces you to accept it only after you make a restriction (Tzimtzum), a screen (Masach), and a reflected light (Ohr Hozer) on it. Then this light can clothe you and fully reveal itself in you.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 36

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Question: How can we, as a group of ten, draw closer to fulfilling the commandment to love one another?

Answer: Imagine that you are in a group of ten. You see it in front of you either mentally or physically. Now imagine that each of you must extend a thread of love to all the others. This network of love that you want to feel is essential. In this network, you will eventually begin to sense the Creator.

Question: How can this love be checked at any time?

Answer: By observing your reactions and the reactions of the Creator. To sense His response, you must explore all the possibilities and see where you can be closer to the Creator and where you are further away.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Suffering and Joy”

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