Question: Where does the lower one get the ability to generate the light of Hassadim from the bottom up?

Answer: The lower cannot generate anything; he can only ask. As a result of his requests, the upper, by fulfilling them, builds the lower, causing new properties in him.

Thus, it turns out that there seem to be certain actions in the lower properties of the Kelim, but in reality, they only reveal what the lower one lacks in order to approach the upper one and receive from it.

Question: How can we, as a ten, generate the light of Hassadim in relation to the Creator?

Answer: You cannot do this yet because you have no connection with the upper one. For this, you must try very hard.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Is the system that Baal HaSulam described in TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot) revealed to us as the Creator’s answer to our question?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How can we construct this question to reveal what Baal HaSulam wrote?

Answer: Read what you are studying and try to formulate several questions based on what you have read. Then you will see if the Creator answers them.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/31/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: It is written in TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot) that the spiritual cannot be divided into parts. What does it mean?

Answer: This means the influence of the upper level on the lower level forces it to change.

Question: Is the fourth stage (Behina Dalet) the place where creation feels shame?

Answer: Yes, the place where the Kli feels the influence of light is its fourth stage.

Question: It says the light came out in full, but returned as a line. What is the light in the line relative to the light that came out?

Answer: The line is the influence of the four parts of the light on the four parts of the desire when each part in the desire (in the Kli) changes under different influences of the light.

Question: You said we need to delve deeper into the nature of the interaction between the light and the Kli. Why is it so difficult to grasp the point where the separation occurs for the first time?

Answer: Read the original sources, and you will understand the correct definition of each property.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: How can I compel myself to investigate the upper worlds within myself, when this external world increasingly presses on me and tempts me with temptations and distracts me from the goal?

Answer: It is arranged so deliberately! Nothing is outside the will of the Creator, who specifically “washes” you in this way within your own egoism so that you may attain Him. Not a single thought or feeling arises in you that would hinder you. Everything is directed only toward attaining the unity and singularity of the Creator.

Question: But you say that the Creator does not exist, that He is only the measure of my attainment and revelation. Then who is it that “washes” me; is it myself?

Answer: No! It is the Creator who loves you in this way. He is the one who sets all this before you. You must turn to Him, “There is none else besides Him.” From Him alone come both the bad and the good.

Question: What tools are needed in order to investigate what is spoken of in Kabbalah?

Answer: Whoever engages in Kabbalah discovers these tools within himself.

Question: So a person is not born with these tools?

Answer: A person is born with a predisposition for them.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 4/15/2019

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It is known that the nature of every branch is equal to its root. Therefore, the branch desires, loves, and covets every conduct in the root, and does not tolerate and hates any conduct that is not in the root. This is an unbreakable law that applies to every branch and its root. Because He is the root of all His creations, everything in Him, and which is extended directly from Him, is pleasurable and pleasant to us (Baal HaSulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot –  Inner Observation).

The upper force, the Creator, is the quality of bestowal. We love what exists in Him and not Him Himself. For example, I love to eat well, but I do not love to cook food; I want to have a lot of money, but I do not want to work hard.

We love to enjoy what is in the Creator. However, in order to attain this, we must acquire His very qualities, yet we cannot; for us it is completely unrealistic and seems very distant and unpleasant.

Question: In what way do I, and my nature as a branch, coincide with my root?

Answer: In that which is good in the Creator is also good for me. All the fulfillments represented by the upper Light are pleasant to me: He created me this way. The only problem is that I am opposite to the Creator in qualities.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 7/8/18

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Question: The reflected light forms the Kli of bestowal, which includes the light of Hochma, clothed in the light of Hassadim. What is the relationship between the reflected light and the light of Hassadim?

Answer: The reflected light (Ohr Hozer) is produced when the Kli finds the strength not to participate in the passage of the light through itself.

It protects itself from the influence of the light and thus comes to a state where, from that moment onward, it wishes to receive the upper light only for the pleasure of the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Reality is presented to a person in the form of “He and His Name are One,” but we perceive only the Name. How can one discern Him precisely in this name?

Answer: The Creator does not decide for a person in which state he wishes to be in connection with the upper light. We are not yet able to reveal this.

Question: Now the friends are asking you questions, and I find that I am waiting for your answer. At the same time, I lose the very question because my desire to receive is greater than entering into the need of the friend. How can I make the friend’s desire in clarifying the question my own?

Answer: I think you simply need to read the same text several times and include yourself in it more attentively. Then you will develop a clearer connection with it and a more directed desire toward it.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: (from 11-year-old Idan) If the Creator spoke with people in the Bible and in the Pentateuch, why does He not speak with us now? And if He does speak with us, with today’s generation, then how can we know about it?

Answer: The Creator is constantly speaking to you, but you do not hear Him. He lives in your heart and addresses you, but you do not want to open your heart!

He knocks on your heart as on a door, but you do not open because you do not hear His knocks, you lack hearing, Bina, the quality of bestowal. If someone knocks on the door and you have a hearing problem, you do not hear it. The “ear,” hearing in spirituality, is the level of Bina, the force of bestowal. If you were receptive to bestowal, to love of your neighbor, you would hear that He is addressing you.

Question: What does He say?

Answer: He says: “Let’s embrace! Let’s be together.” But to embrace the Creator means to be like Him, to live in the quality of bestowal and love of one’s neighbor, and this, I do not want! “Give me something for me personally, then come! But with what You are offering me, do not come! I do not want to open to You.” This is what we say to Him.
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From KabTV’s “Ask Kabbalist,” 4/18/2010

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