Question: What is the combination of the ten Sefirot de Igulim and the ten Sefirot de Yosher?

Answer: It is their mutual expansion; the ten Sefirot de Yosher spread within the ten Sefirot de Igulim.

Question: In the Rosh (head) there is the light of the entire degree, and the seven lower Sefirot are filled according to the screen (Masach). The decision about this process is made by Malchut de Malchut. But does the Rosh itself not yet perform independent calculations?

Answer: Everything is determined by Malchut de Rosh.

Question: Does the quality of bestowal arise at the moment of restriction (Tzimtzum)?

Answer: Yes, bestowal manifests in the Kli when the Kli is in a state of restriction.

Question: Are the ten Sefirot de Igulim in the world of Adam Kadmon the initial foundation of the screen from the side of the Kli?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/4/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #174 “Concealment” (12.23.2001)

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International Kabbalah Convention, “Preparation to the Lesson 5”

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International Kabbalah Convention, “A Prayer in the Ten,” Lesson 5

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Question: Is there a difference in the inner work we perform on the calendar’s new year’s day compared to any other day?

Answer: In the upper worlds, there are roots that can awaken their influence upon us when we turn to them.
The corporeal calendar has almost no effect on the quality of our appeal. If we think about it, there are thousands of different calendars in the world with days, weeks, months, various holidays, and forces that supposedly influence humanity.

We need to understand only one thing: if we wish to attain good outcomes, then on any day, in any month, in any year, we must turn to the Creator, to His power, to His mercy.

In this way, we will feel the degree we appeal to and advance by its strength.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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We are completely at the mercy of nature and are guided in all our actions, both in the body and in the soul. Yet Kabbalists say we have freedom of choice, otherwise there would be no point in creating all of creation if the upper force had predetermined everything that happens within it.

However, freewill exists above our current life, solely there, where we wish to rise above our egoistic nature, in a higher dimension, in the quality of bestowal.

Only in this ascent from one degree to another can we choose to rise under the blows of nature if we do not wish to use our freewill and do not make our own effort, or to advance of our own accord in the same direction, that is, to see it as the desired goal. When we seek the forces that can help us make this ascent, there we find our freedom of choice.

Kabbalists explain that freedom of choice exists only in building the right environment. In any case, I advance under the influence of the environment; only I do not usually choose it myself.

But I can choose my environment consciously and thereby accelerate my progress and change the nature of my ascent. Instead of being tossed about under the blows of fate like a beaten animal, I can rise by a beautiful path, by my own desire, full of feeling, understanding, and inner strength, as befits a human being.

If I examine the goal, wish to draw closer to it, and understand that to accelerate my development I must draw more light than comes to me naturally, then I make use of the means given to me, which is called Torah, the upper light that draws me and returns me to the source.

Regarding this work, it is written that if we leave it even for a single day without realizing our freedom of choice, we are stopped for two days in our development, and prevented from advancing independently. The natural upper forces begin to act upon us.

It is not enough simply to lose the amount of effort we did not invest; this would not teach us anything. Therefore, we must receive a punishment slightly more than our fault, so that when a stronger obstacle arises next time we will be careful not to stumble over it.

Thus the spiritual law states: “If you leave Me one day, I will leave you two.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/9/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam “If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two”

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Question: How do you view Kabbalistic art from the perspective of painting? What do you think of the idea of ​​creating educational cartoons for children, and what would you envision these cartoons to be?

Answer: Kabbalah is just beginning to unfold. It awaits you. You will receive spiritual insights from us and begin to further develop Kabbalah and reveal it to people in various aspects. You will be able to tell, demonstrate, and allow them to feel what attaining the higher world brings us.

You will begin to create all kinds of manuals, textbooks, and tasks for both children and adults that will develop them and bring them closer to a sense of the higher world and the correct state of being between people.

I believe there is room here for all forms of creativity. Even drawing, which was never a feature of Kabbalah. It will become possible to somehow depict feelings, especially for children.

As you study Kabbalah, try to explore ways in which you can use your art to express something to others, so that they can better understand the message of Kabbalah. Think about this.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 3/10/19

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Our entire world is made up of images of receiving because in our desire to enjoy, in our dark material, there is nothing. When a little light shines into it, and this desire is slightly impressed by the light, then various fluids, waves, and shifting currents arise within this desire.

These build within us, within our feelings and mind, the sensation of this world. After all, our world is not the true reality, but what we imagine in our feelings and minds from the light that faintly illuminates desire within in such a tiny, weak, unreal form, since there is no connection between desire and light.

When we unite and a desire is formed that has the power of unity from all its parts, then light manifests within the desire as it unites above the separation that exists between its parts. Accordingly, the light is revealed within it, and then within desire, within the heart and mind, the true forms of light, of bestowal, are revealed.

Whereas in our world, false forms of bestowal unfold within our desires and thoughts, like dark shadows that paint images on a wall. Therefore, we must strive to attain a true picture of reality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/7/11, “The Zohar”

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Know for certain that since the time of the ARI to this day, there has not been anyone who understood the method of the ARI to the fullest…

And now, by the Creator’s will, I have been rewarded with a conception [impregnation] of the soul of the ARI, not because of my good deeds but by a higher will. It is beyond me, too, why I have been chosen for this wonderful soul, with which no one has been granted since his passing until today (Baal HaSulam, Letter 39).

We know nothing about our work. It is unknown for what purpose certain people are given unique abilities. This will become clarified only at the end of the general correction when all of us will unite into one Kli (vessel) and will see how much we truly depend on one another.

Therefore, Baal HaSulam writes that he does not know the reason why he was chosen “for this wonderful soul.”

Question: If one looks at this from an egoistic point of view, a person may ask: “How can he say about himself that he is the soul of the Ari?! Maybe it only seemed to him?”

Answer: As in any science, this is a statement of fact. Baal HaSulam had to say it for the confirmation of what he accomplished in the world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 10/16/16

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