Question: You say we must correct the connections in the ten and pray for our friends. How does one pray for friends if their behavior irritates you?

Answer: That is wonderful! It means you have something to pray for and ask the Creator that you will have the right attitude toward your friends so that you constantly forgive and justify them although you accept each other with hostility.

Question: How can we maintain a connection with the Creator when it seems there is no Creator and you see your friends as uncorrected?

Answer: This is similar to how a mother leaves small children in a room, goes out, and closes the door behind her, but she watches them from afar and sees what is happening with them. So it is with you.

You feel that you are forgetting that the Creator is constantly among us, inside us, and around us, and under no circumstances should we leave this fact behind. Therefore, there is nothing we can do here except constantly be careful not to throw the Creator out of sight. Otherwise, we fly out of the real world and from real feelings.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/19/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “She Is Like Merchant-Ships“

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Question: You said that a ten can open any gate in spirituality. Which ones exactly?

Answer: There are many gates that we have to go through, but the most important gate is the gate of tears. When a person has no strength left to turn to the Creator and is convinced that he is a loser and nothing will help him, then he bursts into tears and the Creator opens the gates to him.

Everyone who comes closer to Him passes through this gate.

Question: What should you ask Him at the moment when you really see that you are a failure?

Answer: Explore what you need, and ask for it.

Question: But what about the quality of bestowal? We are studying that we should ask precisely for it.

Answer: But if you don’t have any impulse for that, then what are you going to ask for?

Question: Is it important to just ask for what you lack, or to ask to be in connection with the Creator?

Answer: It depends on what you choose. Don’t make me choose for you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/24/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “My Soul Shall Weep in Secret – 1“

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Question: We seem to be working hard in the ten. We constantly pray, but I understand that I cannot grasp this truth because of the lack of time that corporeal life takes away and because of the large volume of source materials, and our lack of proper efforts and limited abilities. What should one do when there is such dissatisfaction?

Answer: Stop beating yourself up. You need to be satisfied with what you are in, that the next step is always revealed to you that the Creator loves you, the teacher loves you, everyone loves you, and this is a guarantee that you will reach the goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/15/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness”

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Question: In the amplitude of the race of our ten and the Creator, He is constantly ahead. Even if we descend, He is still ahead of us down there. How can we outrun Him or at least stick to Him?

Answer: Why should we overtake Him?

Remark: But we have to defeat Him; we are His children.

Answer: It is possible to defeat the Creator only if we lower ourselves. The more we annul ourselves, the closer we get to the Creator.

Question: How can we lower ourselves so we end up at the top?

Answer: To do this, we must completely annul ourselves as if we do not exist in desires, intentions, actions, or anything. And then we will be able to cling to the Creator, and be at the highest and, at the same time, the very bottom.

Question: Is it possible now, in our condition?

Answer: We must try. We are trying to do all these actions and movements. And when will it work out? I think maybe soon.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/15/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness“

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Question: If we show love in the ten, can it sugar-coat egoism and do harm?

Answer: No, love can never harm.

Question: If it is not a sincere manifestation of love, but manipulation and lies, what should I do in such a situation?

Answer: Continue to love. You should feel that those who want to advance together support each other only with love, not criticism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Hanukkah”

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Question: What does it mean that we have to choose work above reason every time, even in a situation where we see an opportunity to work within reason?

Answer: Working within reason does not lift us up the spiritual ladder. Only work above reason corrects and connects us.

Question: What is our next common state that we need to reach? What should be our ultimate goal, and where should we aim every day? For example, athletes have training every day, and their ultimate goal is to win the World Cup. What will be our victory in our championship?

Answer: We will reach victory only when we rise above reason in faith and try to constantly stay at this level.

Question: When can I make scrutinies with my friends?

Answer: At any time you can scrutinize where you are and try to reveal the common desire that you are in.

Question: How in the ten can we come to the realization that the force pushing us out of egoism is in it? How can we surrender to its influence and feel the common heart of the ten in order to reach a new state?

Answer: Rely on each other, then the Creator will be revealed between you and will start supplying His force to you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/16/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And Israel Saw the Egyptians“

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Question: Why is it that the biggest resistance of egoism arise when studying the Torah and making scrutinies in the ten?

Answer: It is specially arranged from above so that egoism does not allow you to engage in your correction because this work is directed against it.

To practice the Torah means to engage in your egoistic properties and gradually cause them to be affected by the upper light, the Creator.

In this way, you will change from egoist to altruist. And every person and the whole world will change also.

Question: How can we influence each other and inspire the ten to study the Torah with joy?

Answer: Only by example, there is no other way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Hanukkah”

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Question: To what extent can a person thank and bless the Creator?

Answer: Until complete, perfect adhesion.

Question: Should we come to the feeling of one single Hissaron (Desire)?

Answer: Everyone should have a Hissaron regarding the Creator. But it may become united and closer to final correction.

Question: You said there are simply descents and descents with an illumination from above. What is the connection between a person’s sensitivity in spiritual work and the illumination from above during the descent?

Answer: One determines the other.

Question: How can we, the ten, correct the place for receiving the upper blessing?

Answer: This place becomes corrected through the mutual connection of all the friends in the ten.

Question: It is hard to live in this world. Why should we, Kabbalists, give birth to children because they will not be happy? If we stop breeding, will the Creator’s game with us end?

Answer: No, according to Kabbalah, we must give birth, raise children, and teach them the correct fulfillment of the Creator’s will.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/16/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Prohibition to Bless on an Empty Table, in the Work?”

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Question: It is said that one must love the Creator with both an evil inclination and a good inclination. How can we apply this in the ten?

Answer: This is what we do. First we want to be connected with each other by a good inclination, that is, only by bestowing. Then we try to add the evil inclination to it and work together with both of them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/23, Writings of Rabash the Assorted Notes “What Is Hanukkah”

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Question: What is the difference between a pause and detachment in a person’s inner work?
How do I find out which of these states I am in if I continue to do the same things externally, but inside do not know what state I am in?

Answer: Ask yourself whether you are in internal tension and whether you are working against your egoism all the time or just forget about it. We have to be constantly against the ego.

Question: When I try to be at the point that there is none else besides Him and the good and does good and I ask the Creator to stay at this point, where is the bestowal to the Creator here?

Answer: The fact is, you want to reveal the upper light to correct your group’s egoistic desires, connect with the rest of the ten, and thus work for the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Hanukkah”

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