Question: What do we lack to attract the force of the Creator?

Answer: You only need to open your hearts in the ten, connect them into one big heart, and turn to the Creator so that He fills it.

Question: Supposedly, a small child throwing a fit in a store understands what toy he wants. But we do not know what connection we demand from the Creator.

Answer: That is why Kabbalah is called a concealed wisdom

Question: Should we ask for this feeling to appear to us?

Answer: It will not appear clearly anyway; it will be somehow concealed because the main thing for you is the connection with your friends and not what you receive in it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Revealed and the Concealed“

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Question: How beneficial is it for my ten if I feel that my friends have been working in Lishma for a long time and only I am in Lo Lishma?

Answer: This is not right. You should treat them as standing on a higher degree than you but not perceive them as being in Lishma because this will confuse you on the spiritual path.

Question: When a ten is rewarded with raising MAN for the sake of the Creator and receives the force of bestowal, where should it direct this force correctly?

Answer: If you have the force, you should use it only to connect friends and share it with everyone in the ten.

Question: How does the Creator decide who to reward with Lishma and who not?

Answer: Are you asking me? Ask the Creator.

Question: Of all the feelings that we have, what is the most valuable quality to accurately focus on for a gradual transition from Lo Lishma to Lishma?

Answer: Love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/4/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “From Lo Lishma, We Come to Lishma“

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Question: If our main job is to connect, then what is the stop during Hanukkah?

Answer: When we fight with our egoism, we begin to feel how weak we are; we cannot cope with it and feel that we need some kind of stop or break.

If we stop and ask the Creator to help us find the right approach to the war against our common egoism in the ten and in the world, then there is hope that the Creator will help us.

This is what Hanukkah symbolizes; it is the week when we stop the war and do not run away; we realize that we need to get stronger and unite even more with each other.

In this case we will be able to return to the fight against egoism and defeat it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/23, Writings of Rabash “Greeks Have Gathered Around Me”

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Question: Which is sweeter for the Creator: my intention to bestow or the intention from the united heart of the ten?

Answer: From the united heart of the ten.

Question: How can I and the ten please the Creator?

Answer: By helping your friends. This is your first step, help your friends in everything in order to unite and move toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 12/4/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “From Lo Lishma, We Come to Lishma“

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Question: We feel the quality of Israel in us that pulls us forward. What changes must happen in a person and a ten for the quality of Israel to be a permanent guiding star? Or is it gradually weakening and needs to be nourished?

Answer: The quality of Israel must be strengthened because it weakens constantly. This quality is unnatural for people, so we need to hold on to each other and be an example for each other.
In principle, the quality of Israel is based only on our aspiration to connect with the Creator.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/4/23, Writings of Rabash “The Spies“

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Question: If you feel a connection with friends from another ten more than the connection with friends from your own ten, what is the problem here?

Answer: The problem is only in you. You are shown that the connection with your ten is not that important for you.

To solve this problem, you must bow your head down to your friends in the ten.

Question: We must see the ten as perfect and exalt it. But some friends say: “We are still small, we are unworthy, we are still nobody.” Is this normal?

Answer: No, it is necessary to exalt the ten in any conditions and under any circumstances.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/3/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is “The Lord Is High and the Low Will See”? – 1“

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Question: Does the Creator feel pleasure when I return to Him, through the reflected light, the pleasure He filled me with? After all, He does not feel a lack of anything.

Answer: Yes, you can be sure He receives pleasure from you.

Question: By annulling ourselves in the ten, do we allow our friends to elevate or lower us?

Answer: The main thing is to annul. It does not matter what I may experience at the same time: ups or downs. The main thing is that I nullify myself.

Question: What is humility?

Answer: Humility is when you accept the greatness of the Creator on any terms. The main thing is to come closer to Him.

Question: How does my egoism transform when I suppress it constantly, try to be good, and do not show it in a group?

Answer: It is hard to explain, but eventually, we will understand how our egoism turns into the correct Kli from the point of view of joy and the point of view of grief. We will see its unique transformations later.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/3/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is “The Lord Is High, and the Low Will See”? – 1“

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Our sages said, “What is Hanukah? Our sage taught,” etc. We see that Hanukah has the letters of Hanu (parked/paused) Koh (here/thus far), meaning that on the 25th of Kislev (third Hebrew month) they had a pause in the war, as pausing happens specifically in the middle of the work. The pause in the middle is in order to muster strength in order to be able to continue the work (Rabash, Letter 53).

Question: What does it mean for us to pause in order to muster strength? What should we focus on?

Answer: You need to focus on connecting with each other and in such a way that it will lead us to the following degree where you work in mutual desires.

The pause on the spiritual path is a respite before an attack. I really hope that you will succeed at least partially.

Question: What does it mean to work in a mutual desire?

Answer: To work hoping for success in the mutual yearning to connect with each other and then with the Creator.

To do this, you need to open your heart to the friends in the ten, connect your hearts, and direct this united heart toward getting closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/7/23, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 53

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Question: What is modesty in spiritual work?

Answer: Modesty is when a person does not demand anything other than to go out into receiving for the sake of bestowal (Lishma). If that is all he thinks about, it gets passed on to everyone else.

Question: It is said that when the body gets used to working against the desire to receive, a person has the means to work to bring pleasure to the Creator. What means are Baal HaSulam and Rabash talking about?

Answer: Do what you believe gives pleasure to the Creator. If you do not know this, join your friends and do it with them.

Question: How do we correctly perceive the inner essence of the Torah so that this can improve the quality of connection in the ten, strengthen the unification, and reveal the Creator between us?

Answer: Read the article we are studying in class together once a day. And you will see how everything will go smoothly.

Question: How do we, together with our friends in the ten, form a Kli in prayer?

Answer: You form it from your attachment to the Creator, your excitement of Him. So, no matter what you do, you are doing a group action.

Question: What determines the strength of the Kli in prayer?

Answer: Your unity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/30/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Lishma Is an Awakening from Above, and Why Do We Need an Awakening from Below?“

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Question: What does it mean to cancel your individuality?

Answer: If you give yourself fully to helping everyone in the world, then your desire and qualities connect with everyone’s and help everyone.

Question: What does it mean to be together in the ten so that the Creator raises us?

Answer: It means to be connected, and through the connection, to turn to the Creator so that He raises you.

Question: What is the correct reaction to accusations and slander from someone?

Answer: Show him that you accept it within a quality of goodness.

Question: I see my friends as great, but if someone corrects me, I immediately start blaming her internally and externally. In this case, how can I accept what my friend wants to correct in me? And in general, can she correct something in me?

Answer: No, your friend can only give you an example; only you can correct yourself or rather only the Creator, according to your request.

Question: What does it mean to go deeper into our studies?

Answer: To go deeper means to seriously study what Baal HaSulam writes.

Question: You have many more descents than all of us combined. How do you exit the state and go through a descent correctly?

Answer: I fly up, and that is it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Descends and Incites, Ascends and Complains“

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