Entries in the 'The Tens' Category

How Do We Compose a Proper Prayer?

940Question: What is the correct way to compose a daily prayer? One option is for it to be a long, well thought-out prayer. Or is it better to leave it as it is where each friend contributes a suggestion from the feelings of the morning lesson? Can you suggest some way to  compose a prayer in a ten?

Answer: Once or twice a week, you can compose an individual prayer from each person, and then talk about it, compare prayers, bring them to one form, to one goal. This can give progress.

Question: What does individual prayer mean? So that we can compare and analyze it later?

Answer: It does not matter. Do as much as you can. It is not scary. In a few days, we will return to connecting our waves, our hearts, and then we will talk about it.
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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 War Against the Evil Inclination

253Question: What does it mean that I go to war against the evil inclination?

Answer: It means you want to fight all those thoughts and desires that are against unity, against rising toward the Creator; you want to erase them and not to listen to them.

Question: Our work is regular, according to a schedule: the lesson, Zoom meetings, and dissemination. What can we add to this to truly turn it into a war against the evil inclination?

Answer: That depends on your thoughts and on your goals, on whether you will actually do something or not. And if you do, then with what intention and how it will be expressed.

That is why the war against the evil inclination within us is never-ending. The Creator waits until we become convinced of this. Only then can we genuinely ask Him to pull us out, to free us, from the power of the evil inclination over us.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/18/2025, “Winning the War”

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The Only Path to Adhesion to the Creator

934Question: Are the efforts to adhere to the Creator a personal task or one that must be done in the ten?

Answer: The point is that the entire essence of personal work lies in integrating into the ten, although this might take a whole lifetime or even more than one.

Look at how long humanity has wandered before finally beginning to understand that there is no other choice but to work on unity. Otherwise, we are out of alignment with the nature of Earth itself, and it will erase us from its surface. How much time, suffering, and effort were needed for this realization!

All the work done before joining a group is merely preparation for the real work. Once I begin to integrate into it, it is as if a progress bar starts crawling forward, showing the percentage of the program being downloaded. To the extent that I incorporate myself into the group, I make room for the thought of creation to enter and fill me.

The more I empty the place from myself and engage myself in the ten, the more the thought of creation can fill my connection with the group. This is called a corrected Kli (vessel). In this form, I become filled, and reach similarity and adhesion with the Creator. This adhesion continuously deepens and strengthens.

The work toward adhesion with the Creator is only possible in a group of ten. In earlier times, that is, in previous stages of humanity’s development, this was not the case, and there were other ways to achieve adhesion with the Creator. But in our time, this is the only path.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/19, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Pull Each Other Out of Darkness

600.02Question: If I experienced a descent due to some corporeal cause and was able to use that descent for a spiritual ascent, but the corporeal problem did not go away, how should I relate to it?

Answer: You should not worry about that; rather, be concerned about how to move forward on your spiritual path.

Question: How can we help a friend who is in a descent and for whom corporeality is more important than spirituality?

Answer: We study this all the time. You can even read nothing else besides the materials from our congress.

Most of the lessons are about how we unite and thereby pull each other out of the darkness into the light. That is all there is to it.
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From the Lesson #5 World Kabbalah Convention 5/24/2025, “Descents as a Springboard for Ascents”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—235

263Question: How can we express our gratitude daily to both the teacher and the friends in a way that strengthens the unity between us?

Answer: You should show an example of drawing closer to the group that attended the morning lesson as the leading group. In this way you will always control the advancement.

Question: What is the best way for us to picture the next spiritual degree we must rise to?

Answer: The next spiritual degree is built on the fact that today you annul yourself more than you did yesterday.

That is how you allow the upper light, the Creator, to move you forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/26/2025, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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Pray for the Collective

938.03Question: How can I pray correctly for the collective and ask the Creator for them if my heart only wants to pray for myself?

Answer: Try to think in a way that you genuinely want to ask for the collective, for the group, for those close to you, and for your friends. It all depends on how much you think about this.

Question: When I see a discrepancy in every point and ask for correction, but I ask for myself, how can I make that prayer for the collective?

Answer: Add the words that you are praying for everyone to it.
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From the Lesson #6 World Kabbalah Convention 5/24/2025, “A Prayer of Many to Reveal the One”

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We Are Obligated to Ask

938.04Question: How can we connect with other tens if each ten is a whole world in itself?

Answer: That is not your concern. Everything is done by the Creator: He lowers and raises the tens in relation to one another.

He has far more data about each group and combines them according to a specific path. Therefore, don’t pay attention to how or where we are.

Ask, you are obligated to ask.
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From the Lesson #4 World Kabbalah Convention 5/23/2025, There Is None Else Besides Him in the Ten

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Questions about Spiritual Work—232

281.02Question: Let’s say a ten is working to reach a state of faith above reason. What is the correct path: to reach a state where faith above reason becomes absolutely perfect or to strive to attain upper reason?

Answer: In principle, both are necessary. That is why I cannot say specifically what exactly this ten needs. To answer that, one would need to know them more closely.

Question: If I see my friends as great, corrected, loving, and helpful, does that bring us closer to the Creator?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Lesson #2 World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/2025, “Believing that the Creator Is Good and Does Good”

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The Channel of Connection with the Creator

939.01Comment: I have a feeling that each of us has their own channel of connection with the Creator.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Should we examine the channel of connection that our friends have?

Answer: That’s none of your business. Disconnect from that thought. Be yourself, and on that level try to be with the entire ten.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/23/2025, Lesson 4, “There Is None Else Besides Him in the Ten”

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The Path Leading to The Creator

221How can one constantly maintain a state of unity with the teacher, the friends, and the Creator? Try to find that inner point within yourself that is awakening right now and illuminating the path that is leading you to the Creator; grasp it and never let it go.

It is from these points of unity that the path is built. It is a path on which we grow stronger and draw ever closer to the Creator. Each person connects to Him in a unique way, in a form that exists only between that individual and the Creator. One must constantly ask for this unity.

The next point of connection along the path depends on how ready my heart is for it, that is, how corrected it is through my attitude toward all the previous points I have already passed.

My yearning for the Creator is the force that brings me back to unity after every fall. And if I am not in unity, then I must remain in constant prayer.

The heart’s readiness to unite with the upper one requires its expansion, and the heart expands through my desire to unite with the friends in the group or the ten.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/5/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Things that Come from the Heart”

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