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Questions about Spiritual Work—69

255Question: Is it possible to say that I want to get into a habit that the next time a disturbance shows up, I will react by not getting stuck in it?

Answer: You can say what you want. Anyway, you are being led by the path necessary for your soul.

Question: What kind of mutual guarantee should we build between us to avoid straying from the path and staying connected?

Answer: Always justify your friends.

Question: How can we remove the disturbances in the relationship between the ten, the group, and the Creator? How can we enter the congress correctly by renewing our relationships?

Answer: Every day, a person must cross out his past and start the day from a new page, especially at a convention.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/21/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Matter of Preventions and Delays”

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Seek a Blessing from the Creator

936Question: When you feel that you are in a sacred environment where everyone shares the same love for the same thing as you, there is a sense of a tremendous gift. I would like this gift to spread to other people as well. How can we make others feel the same, common love?

Answer: Approach your friends and together organize a request to the Creator for Him to manifest Himself more.

Question: Should we ask the Creator for blessings on this work every time?

Answer: Always! In the ten it is expressed in the desire to receive strength and knowledge from the Creator about how to work with your life in order to raise it to the degree of the spiritual world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Field that the Lord Has Blessed”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—67

245.10Question: Can the memory of a past perfect state be a way of returning from an imperfect state to the next perfect state? Or is this knowledge not necessary to remember?

Answer: Usually, we strive to be in new states. Therefore it is better not to remember the old ones. Even if you remember, it will not give you anything at that moment. Every time, everything happens anew.

Question: If I see my ten as perfect and I attribute this perfection to myself as well, since I am part of this ten, is this pride?

Answer: No, if you get such a feeling from the ten and want to join, it is not pride.

Question: How can pride in the work help develop humility?

Answer: To kill one’s pride, a person must become proud that he is destroying it.

Question: The feeling that you are already perfect is like a film on your heart that does not want to reveal self-love. How do you remove this film from the heart?

Answer: The best way to cleanse the heart from its surrounding film is to rub one heart against another.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/18/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Sing unto the Lord, for He Has Done Pride”

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281.02Question: We must attract the light of Hochma within reason. How can we check in the ten that we do it for true reason?

Answer: It is only with the help of the light of Hassadim when you want to bring everything to life with this light.

Question: What is the difference between attainment and knowledge?

Answer: When you are talking about full attainment or full knowledge, there is no difference. But when we go through the stages of spiritual attainment, there is a difference between attainment and knowledge.

Question: The sources say that there are many paths in the Torah. Does this mean that every soul has its own path? Or are there many different paths to the goal in Kabbalah?

Answer: No, in the end we must all connect and move along the same path to achieve complete correction.

Question: Is it possible to say that the ten in itself is a righteous man?

Answer: No, the ten must reach a state where they will be united and be called righteous. And at each degree, it will be like a different ten. So its every righteous person will always look different.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/16/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Why We Need to Extend Hochma

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Hold on to Each Other

945Question: The Creator twists and turns us, and raises us. What is the solution for a ten to become like an embryo and understand what He is doing to us?

Answer: You must decide to hold on to each other and turn together. Whatever the Creator does, let Him do what He wants, but you do not let go of each other.

The most important thing everyone should receive from the ten is a willingness to connect into one single system called a Kli. Under your general pressure, this system will move toward the Creator until it catches Him itself. That is your task.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Two Discernments in Attainment”

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The Still Level in the Ten

528.02Question: What is the state of the still level in the ten?

Answer: The indicator of the still level in the ten are the very initial feelings of spirituality. At this level, we do not yet experience the quality of bestowal.

The initial, spiritual thing is when we read the articles of Rabash, Shamati of Baal HaSulam, and feel that they develop us.

Question: What facilitates the development of the transition to another level?

Answer: The fact that we are constantly studying and learning from our materials.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 1/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Still, Vegetative, Animate, and Speaking”

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Let Everyone into Your Heart

942Question: How can the world Kli tens properly merge into the convention?

Answer: I open my heart to everyone. Let everyone enter it. Everything that I receive from the Creator, I am ready to give to everyone. I constantly take care of this connection between us. Then we will succeed.

Question: But we will go through many different states at the convention. Something will distract me, maybe even throw me out of the state of unity. How do I stick to this particular point?

Answer: Don’t get distracted. Stick to all the hearts, gather them in your hands, and hold them together as one common heart. This is the only way you will feel constantly connected with the whole Kli and with the Creator. The main thing is to think about unity, about the common heart of the convention.

Question: Precisely when I work in the ten?

Answer: You don’t work in the ten, you work in everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/20/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Time of Descent”

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Convention: Making a Big Correction in the World

938.03Question: Now at the convention, we will gather with friends in the tens and try to feel the internal connections between us. How can we come together to the first condition of the prayer that only the Creator can correct us?

Answer: Talk about this with your friends and make sure that they think the same way that only the Creator can correct your condition.

Question: And how can we together with the whole world Kli cultivate this common cry?

Answer: To do this, you should try together to get as close to each other as possible, embrace everyone, feel the vibrations of your friends, and unite with them so that there is no space between you.

Come together, bring yourself closer to a global connection, and we will make a big correction in the world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Three Conditions in Prayer”

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How Can You Move to the Right Line?

547.06Question: How can a person move to the right line from some neutral state?

Answer: I do not think that a person can instantly move to the right line because he still has a lot of various properties that are opposite to the Creator.

You must collect the correct attitude toward the Creator from your ten, demonstrate it to everyone, and ask for confirmation that you have the correct attitude toward the Creator. Then a right line will begin to appear.

At the same time, you develop strength in the right line. In this case, you attract the whole Kli to this line, and thus reach its correction, but only through yourself. Then the rest of your friends should follow you.

In other words, when you call on the ten to unite with a certain intention, for a certain purpose, and the ten agrees and unites with you, then they are already together in the right line.

Question: How can I check if I am in the right or only in the left line?

Answer: You are in one line if all three lines come together for you, and you are in the right line only when you are able to be in connection with someone and fully justify what comes to you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning Help that Comes from Above”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—64

249.01Question: When a friend has obstacles and problems in the ten, it seems so simple and easy that I want to give advice. But is it better to show an example or continue to sort out the situation?

Answer: It is best to show an example. If this example is displayed correctly, it is necessary to repeat it.

Question: What is a free, strong desire to merge with the Creator?

Answer: A free, strong desire is a desire that is freed from Klipot and rushes to the Creator.

Question: Are the various temptations of the material world the biggest obstacles for us, or is it still a bad relationship between us?

Answer: In fact the biggest obstacle lies in the relationship between us in the group. The obstacles may be of a completely different type, but that is the reason.

Question: There are states when, after connecting with friends, you feel lightness and joy from connection, and sometimes there are states when serious heaviness occurs. Are both of these states correct or not?

Answer: Both are correct. In general, all states are necessary because all of them, one way or another, twist us and direct us to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “With a Mighty Hand and with Fury Poured Out”

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