Question: Do we need to be concerned about the advancement of friends who do not want it?

Answer: There is no need to, you won’t drag them against their will.

Question: What if we are in the same boat?

Answer: It doesn’t matter. A person must work on achieving what he wants himself. We can only help him if he wants to.

The people in our group give their consent a priori to advance with us, so we care about them but not about others.

Question: Should we oblige them to show up at least twice a week?

Answer: No, leave them alone. This will only make it worse for you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering”

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Question: How can you find your personal inner need for the Creator?

Answer: Gradually ask the Creator about everything; He will help you approach this.

Question: What do we, Bnei Baruch, need to do for all of us to cry out to the Creator and ask for mercy for all of humanity?

Answer: You need to unite more and more with each other in your ten and raise a collective prayer to the Creator, and you will succeed.

Question: What can be called Katnut (small state) in our relationships?

Answer: Katnut is a particular measure of filling for Malchut, which accepts this filling and considers it sufficient for the time being.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/24, Writings of Rabash “Prayer”

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Question: How is the bread of shame felt in the heart and not in the mind? What actions do you need to perform in the ten in order to receive the Creator’s blessing on the bread of shame?

Answer: Unite and turn to the Creator from the center of your unity. Then you will feel how much your appeal will immediately deserve a response.

Question: There is confusion between corporeal and spiritual shame. How does the bread of shame feel in spirituality?

Answer: When you reach the sense of shame for your actions, you will feel what the taste of shame is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “The Path of Truth”

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Question: How can we develop our collective deficiency for the light in our ten while maintaining an atmosphere of joy?

Answer: Why does this prevent you from being joyful?

Question: If there is a state of joy from unity in the group, it seems that everything is already good.

Answer: Are you in adhesion with the Creator?

Question: No, rather in a good connection between us.

Answer: So what is this, kindergarten?

Question: If it is still kindergarten, then what is lacking in this effort?

Answer: There is a lack of desire to connect with your friends in such a way as to create a place for the revelation of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering”

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Question: If friends have a desire to work together, how can we help them reveal a deficiency (Hissaron) for spirituality?

Answer: Read about this in the ten before or after our lessons so they can hear and see where you are getting these articles from. Engage them.

Question: Group work is clear, but can individual work with the sources help? Is it necessary, and what is its importance?

Answer: Individual work with the sources is effective when you get explanations of what is written in them.

If you do not know and are just guessing, it will not help you much.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering”

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Question: Which questions to ourselves, to the soul, and to the group of ten prepare the Kli (vessel), the Hissaron (deficiency), above reason?

Answer: When you ask the Creator, each other, and the group of ten about things that are essentially within you, but you do not yet feel, you are practicing faith above reason.

This means you do not know, feel, or believe yet, but you want to reach a degree where your faith will give you that sensation. This is called faith above reason.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering”

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Question: If a Kabbalist expects some special event in the future, how does he combine the two approaches: liberation from egoism now and waiting for a special opportunity after some time?

Answer: This comes from the surrounding light (Ohr Makif), from his vision of the future.

Question: Sometimes you tell very impatient students: “Calm down, this is a long path; it isn’t quick.” How should they combine these two approaches?

Answer: One must be very impatient while simultaneously developing patience within oneself.

Question: At every meeting of the tens, should we check the inherent extremes?

Answer: Yes. From here comes revelation and understanding. As it is said: love will cover all transgressions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/27/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 13

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Question: Do I understand correctly that a person should accept concealment as equivalent to revelation, and this can only be done with the intention for the Creator?

Answer: Not quite. There is still a difference between concealment and revelation. We should strive for revelation while ensuring that concealment does not discourage us.

Question: Can our illnesses and various corporeal problems be considered components of the process of purification from egoistic love?

Answer: No, illnesses and other issues may help in some way but not in a direct sense.

Question: What is the greatest harm I can cause to my ten?

Answer: The greatest harm you can cause to your ten is to try to tear your friends away from unity and movement toward the goal of creation.

Question: If my desires seem unrealistic to me, but they are directed toward goodness and love, should I let them go or continue to strive for them?

Answer: Continue to strive for them, and you will see that at least some of them will turn into real actions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/24, Writings of Rabash “Affliction Precedes Mercy”

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Question: To save something, you need to acquire it. Where can I get a great desire to run toward general unification, toward you, and receive everything you want to convey? Where can we get true Hisaron (deficiency) to make His desire ours and accept everything He wants to give us for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: From the Creator, the Creator is the source of everything we need; therefore, with any desire, we must turn to Him and ask.

Question: Do we ask for ourselves, our friends, or the entire world Kli?

Answer: As you wish.

Question: Is it necessary to protect the unification achieved in the ten?

Answer: Certainly, if you always think you want to increase unity, you will definitely not lose it.

Question: Is it possible to influence the Hisaron of the ten?

Answer: You can influence each other with your actions and words.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Good Taste in Small, Corporeal Things.”

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Question: Is it right to remember good impressions from previous connections in the ten and use them to reveal new connections in a new ten, or should we start from scratch and not take anything from the past?

Answer: You do not need to start from scratch. Start with the good connection you already have with the upper and wish to strengthen it.

Question: You say, “Open your heart.” Who opens the heart first: the person or the Creator?

Answer: The Creator always opens a person’s heart, but this is already a response to a person’s prayer.

Question: Love should come from above when we feel friends closer than ourselves. How can we hasten this?

Answer: Try to relate this way to the Creator.

Question: What comes first: love for the Creator or love for friends? Do we come to love the Creator through the love of friends or vice versa?

Answer: You can do it both ways. Generally, we come to love for the Creator from the love of friends. We still do not know what love is, and we can mistake almost any good feeling for it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/27/20, “The Spiritual Power of a Physical Gathering”

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