Entries in the 'The Tens' Category

If a Friend Is Weak

938.01Question: Can we fight the evil inclination instead of a friend who has weakened and fallen?

Answer: Practically, no. You must be very connected to each other and replace each other in all circumstances. Then in the lower states when you disconnect and distance from each other, you will also be able to make up for him. But that will be later.

Question: How can we help a friend until he enters the battlefield?

Answer: Invite him to participate in this work with us.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/20/2025, “Winning the War”

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There Is Nothing Better than Being in a Ten

275Question: A new friend recently joined us. We sincerely wanted her to become part of the ten. But after some time, she began criticizing our work. She started pointing out how things should be done “correctly,” and eventually announced that she wanted to leave. What should we do? Should we try to keep her?

Answer: I do not think you should try to keep her. If she is criticizing your work and wants to leave, let her go.

Nevertheless, you must clarify things among yourselves and understand that there is nothing better than being in the ten and constantly rising together with the ten. The path you take and the questions you discuss are not so important. What matters is that you have a common intention toward unity among you and with her, and in this way, move forward together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/21/2025, “Winning the War”

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Strive to Bestow to the Creator

938.02Question: Does the depth of connection with the Creator correspond to the depth of connection with the friends?

Answer: We feel depth to the extent that we are in connection with the friends, and to that same extent we can channel it toward the Creator.

Then we will be on the same “wavelength” with Him: we as receivers and He as the bestower.

Question: You said that we must strive to bestow to the Creator through the ten. How can we discern which actions are bestowal and which are receiving from the Creator?

Answer: Act according to how you understand it. That will still lead you to the correct connection between you and the Creator.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/2025, “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”

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The Question of Overcoming

938.07Question: It is written that we should always be in overcoming. Then there is a question whether my path is correct when I work with a group, with a ten, and all of a sudden I feel pleasure and enjoyment. Does it mean that I am making a mistake and that on the contrary, I have to find paths where I have to overcome something? Is this correct?

Answer: It is correct if you feel that you constantly want to be fulfilled with the light of the Creator to a greater degree. At the same time, you will be in connection with your friends because they give you strength and their volume that you can fulfill like a conductor of the light from the Creator to them. In this way everyone will rise.

Question: Then what do I overcome?

Answer: You overcome your egoism that pulls you down.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/21/2025, “Winning the War”

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How Can You Fill Your Friends’ Hisaron?

599.02Question: How do I fill my friends’ Hisaron (deficiency)?

Answer: By helping them, by your actions. Find out what they want and try to be with them in it.

You are a giver because you see what your friend needs and you help him achieve it. That is how it works.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/22/2025, “Winning the War”

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Create a Common Kli

938.02Question: How is our making concessions toward one another in a ten related to a common Hisaron (deficiency) appearing?

Answer: In this way, you want to feel what the other feels, and he does the same toward you. This creates a common Kli.

Each of you tries to unite in the other’s desire to bestow: the first in the second and the second in the first.

Question: When we annul ourselves before our friends, we can receive from them. But what can we give them in this state?

Answer: You unite with them in order to create a common Kli. A friend bestows to me, and I bestow to him to the extent that we can unite.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/25/2025, “Winning the War”

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Spiritual Battlefield

528.01Question: What should I do if I do not feel my evil inclination or, on the contrary, I feel it, but I do not mind, I enjoy it and want to receive more and more?

Answer: You must conduct your internal analysis. Everything that is in you and pushes you toward the goal of creation is the good inclination. Anything that isolates you from the goal of creation is the evil inclination.

Every time from morning to evening, and in the evening when you finish your day, imagine yourself under the power of the good inclination. This is what you do during the day, this is what you fight.

Question: You said that morning lessons are a battlefield. But in addition to them, during the day we also have workshops in the ten, meetings of friends, and group events. Is this also our battlefield?

Answer: Yes, this is your battlefield. It is not necessary to face the enemy, because you unite with each other so that everyone reveals even greater negative qualities in themselves. This is the battlefield.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/20/2025, “Winning the War”

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Unite For the Sake of the Creator

943Question: If we reach the point of complete self-nullification, do I reveal the Creator instead of my friends?

Answer: You reveal your friends, and within them, you reveal the next degree, connection with the Creator. This is the very point of prayer in which the ten should unite.

We must unite for the sake of the Creator so that we have a Kli in which to reveal Him. After all, this is our true goal to the extent that we can unite despite our egoism in order to reveal Him. This is our work.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/25/2025, “Winning the War”

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Who Manifests the Answers Within Us?

528.04Question: How does the connection of disturbances occur?

Answer: Disturbances are carried out under the influence of the Creator. He deliberately evokes them within us because they compel us to connect with one another and to clarify why we have such qualities, where they come from, what the purpose of creation is, and how we can draw our friends into the ten.

This is the Creator’s work and our response to these questions. He manifests them within us.
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From the 1st part from the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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A Prayer at the Grave of a Righteous Person

935Question: Could you explain how the place where we raise a prayer is connected to the strength of that prayer? Yesterday, a part of our group went to Radun, and we prayed at the grave of a righteous person. Everyone felt the power of that prayer.

Answer: That is exactly how it should be. First of all, it is a special place. And second, it is because you genuinely wanted it. At that moment, you felt that your desires were aligning. They did not contradict each other, but rather complemented one another.

If you continue to act this way with regard to all your desires, then you will form such a unified desire that it will surely have an impact on the Creator.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/2025, “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”

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