Question: If a person has no Hisaron (desire, need), he or she is dead. How can one acquire this desire in such a state?

Answer: Only through friends. A person has to cling to them, receive a desire from them, and work with it.

Question: What can motivate someone to cling to friends if they have no feeling?

Answer: It doesn’t matter that they have no feelings. He needs to see how much he is unable to be like others.

Envy, honor, and passion take a person out of this world. That is, one surely watches others and envies them; this will save you.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/29/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘There Is No Blessing in That Which Is Counted,’ in the Work?”

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Question: What helps us reveal the forms of the Creator’s conduct in the ten?

Answer: Our desire for unification helps us. We must try to unite, and if we do it in a wrong way, the Creator will correct us.

Question: What will help me understand the difference between my daily aspiration in the ten for unification and the form the Creator seems to be showing me? What should I pay attention to?

Answer: You should pay attention to your friends. The Creator clothes Himself in your friends. You must feel through them what unfinished relationships you still have with them, and you will understand how to approach the Creator.

Question: How to be honest with friends and yet not to push them away?

Answer: For that, you simply need to raise the greatness of your connection with your friends higher than anything else in the world. As they say: either unification or death.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Preparation to Receive the Torah in the Work?-2“

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This is similar to what is written in the “Introduction to Panim Masbirot” (Item 16): We should thoroughly know the two types of scrutiny applied in us: The first scrutiny is called “scrutinies of good and bad,” and the second scrutiny is called “scrutinies of true and false.”

The first scrutiny is a physical active force, which works through the sensation of bitter and sweet. It loathes and rejects the form of bitterness because it feels bad, and loves and attracts the form of sweetness because it feels good.

In addition to them there is the human species, in whom the Creator has imprinted an intellectual active power, which works in the second scrutiny: rejecting falsehood and vanity by loathing to the point of nausea, and attracts true matters and any benefit with great love. This scrutiny is called “the scrutiny of true and false.” This applies only to the human species, each according to his own extent.

Know that this second active force was created and came to man because of the serpent. By creation, he had only the first active force from the scrutinies of good and bad, which was enough to serve him at that time (Rabash, “What Is a Great or a Small Sin in the Work?”).

Question: How does our egoism help us recognize them every time?

Answer: Egoism shows us where we are and where we want to go. We fall from this level and find ourselves in egoism. Thus, we get two marks: the highest and the lowest. Thus, we can already navigate how to ascend through bestowal and how to descend through reception.

In order to use egoism as a springboard for determining truth and lies and to continue to follow the Creator and not the ego, you unite your egoisms in the ten and rise above the common ego.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is a Great or a Small Sin in the Work?”

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Question: We listen to the lessons, work in the ten, and participate in dissemination, but there are moments when egoism traps you and says: “Take a rest—you have worked a little and that is enough.”

How can you refuse to follow the lead of the ego at this moment? After all, you need to strengthen yourself, and it pulls you back. Can you advise us what to do?

Answer: Look at each other, and you will see how to work.

I am looking at you, at men and women who are all on my one screen, and I see and feel how each one of you, to a different extent, of course, strives to be closer to the Creator. And all this is achieved by rapprochement with the friends.

In this way, we move together toward the goal of creation, and by connecting closer and closer we achieve one heart, one opinion, one desire, and inner unity. This is the end of our correction.

A person in this world needs nothing more. Nothing. One must carry out worldly affairs only to the extent that one’s body requires in order to exist, and direct everything else only toward getting closer to everyone in the soul, and then, in this common soul—to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/23, “One’s Future Depends and Is Tied to Gratitude for the Past”

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Rather, they should calculate how many corrections they must do in order to have ransom for their souls to the Creator, meaning that they will not look at the deficiencies, but at the correction of the deficiencies, by which their soul, which was in the Klipot, will emerge from them and cling to the Creator (Rabash, Article No. 18, 1989. What Is, “There Is No Blessing in That Which Is Counted,” in the Work?).

Question: Is it necessary to make calculations from the states of our path?

Answer: How will we know what we are asking for otherwise?

Question: But we have never summed up in the ten how well we are advancing. What are we missing?

Answer: A person should feel himself where he is, where he is being pulled, and in which direction he is moving.

Question: Before I do this kind of work, I have to adjust myself correctly. The article says that the blessing should be before and after. How can we bless in order to perform this calculation correctly?

Answer: It means that you bless the Creator for allowing you to see your uncorrected desires, and then you bless Him for correcting them.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/29/23, Writings of Rabash ‘What Is, “There Is No Blessing in That Which Is Counted,” in the Work?’

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Question: On one hand we ask for mercy in the ten, for the Creator to connect us. On the other hand, we are grateful for all the judgments that are coming down on us. How do we equalize these two forces in order to receive the middle line for the correct prayer?

Answer: The judgments descending on us are the obstacles that we must overcome in order to properly build ourselves in one desire. Then we will be exactly like the Creator. That is all.

We need to understand that the Creator’s impact on us is necessary only in order to properly attune us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/23, Writings of Rabash ‘What Is, “The Shechina Is a Testimony to Israel,” in the Work?’

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Question: What is required of us so that the Creator holds us and there is a spiritual connection in the ten?

Answer: It requires bonding between you so that you are united by hearts. When you feel like such a ten, then it will be possible to turn to the Creator about mutual work.

Question: When we read the sources, there is so much faith in them that it enters and accompanies us all the time. How do we not lose it, but add to it, if we can add anything at all to the faith of the sages?

Answer: Of course you can, if you hold on to each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Confidence Is the Clothing for the Light“

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Question: Does it make sense to ask the Creator in prayer to transfer all the wars and external work inside the heart, inside the tens?

Answer: We must achieve victory over our egoism by any means and connect with the Creator within the connection between us, in the ten, in the group. Practically, this is our job.

Question: How do we achieve this connection without falling into egoism?

Answer: Only by prayer.

Question: External actions push us to a strong prayer, to a cry. Does it make sense to move all this work inside?

Answer: Of course, this is our duty.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/27/23, Writings of Rabash “Man Is Rewarded with Righteousness and Peace through the Torah“

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Question: Should I be responsible for a friend in the ten who is not yet ready for mutual guarantee?

Answer: No. In the ten, we reach mutual guarantee only with those who in turn can be in mutual guarantee. Therefore, it is called Arvut Hadadit, mutual guarantee.

Question: Let us say I guarantee for a friend, but the Creator shows me that he devalues it.

Answer: It means that your guarantee is worthless.

Question: Should we conduct a periodic revision of the mutual guarantee and verify what exactly we are responsible for?

Answer: Every time, in the morning, afternoon, and evening, you should check your state of aiming toward the fulfillment of the mutual guarantee; start and end a day with this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: In Baal HaSulam’s article “What Is the Measure of Faith in the Rav” it is written that a person cannot determine the ascents and descents. Can’t I be sure whether I am in ascent or in descent?

Answer: In general, of course, you can. But we are often not able to determine this. If we take offense at something or condemn something, that is, sometimes our egoism pushes us out of the correct assessment, then we have no choice but to start all over again.

Question: What does a deadly poison mean and how do we prevent it in the ten?

Answer: The deadly poison is the egoism of each of us, the most terrible thing there is, and we need to run away from it anywhere we can. That is, it is as if I am standing on a balcony and jumping from the hundredth floor.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/21/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 10 “What Is the Measure of Faith in the Rav?“

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