This is the meaning of “Cover with pitch inside and out,” since there must be the light of faith there. (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 343, “Gopher Wood“)

Question: How can we strengthen our ten so that the light of faith resides there?

Answer: We achieve this through various actions aimed at unity.

Question: If we start having questions like “Who?” and “What?”, does it mean we need to strengthen our faith?

Answer: Certainly. In the ten, we strengthen it through faith above reason.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/31/24, Writings of Rabash Gopher Wood

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Question: Besides my ten, whom should I consider close in order to love as myself? It is very difficult to understand how to relate to the people closest to us in the physical world, the members of our family.

Answer: We must perceive all our relatives and in general all the people we sense in the world as parts of our desire, and respond correctly by accepting them as part of ourselves.

The world is my reflection. If I see something flawed in it, it only indicates that I am not corrected. If I were corrected, I would see the world as absolutely kind and good, in complete bestowal and love. And if I see it otherwise, it is because everyone who judges does so from his own uncorrected state, from his egoism. This is the first.

Second. I must treat my relatives as one should treat family in this world: husband, wife, children, parents, and so on. That which I am obliged to do for them in this world, I have to do.

This is very difficult, especially when they start demanding precisely because I am studying Kabbalah. Then I limit them, saying, “This is what I can do, but no more.” After all, the soul—our eternal component—is something I cannot compromise, even though my parents, who have done everything for me, are very dear to me.

But if I do what is necessary for my soul, I will be doing the very best for them. The very best! If they knew how great the work I do for my soul is, they would definitely support me.

But since they do not know, do not see, and do not understand, they do not support me. So what can I do? The Creator created everything in such a way that I still have to give them what I can on the corporeal level, but I alone am responsible for my soul.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What does it mean that through connection, the ten realizes the true property of Bina?

Answer: We can define Bina as egoistic qualities that we unite to achieve one, single correct action—to be above egoism. This is how the ten builds their ark.

The Ark is a spiritual creation—ten men build such states among themselves that help them pass any sea. They do not drown, but rather swim across it calmly.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/31/24, Writings of Rabash “Gopher Wood”

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Question: You said we should try to build everything around one center, and for the Creator to rise higher and higher from it. How do we do it correctly?

Answer: Our job is to constantly strive to feel the Creator at the center of the whole Universe and thus try to find Him there.

Basically, what are we looking for? We seek someone loving, caring, thinking, and realizing everything that happens to us. This is the Creator. We are looking for where this force is hiding. And if we start looking for it in ourselves and between us, we will quickly find it.

Question: In our world, we are under the influence of all kinds of forces. How can we find a connection with this particular force that is behind other forces and influences every time and not waiver to the left or the right?

Answer: To do so, we need to aim toward the center of our organization, and then we will find the Creator in it. And the center of our community, as Baal HaSulam, Rabash, and other Kabbalists write, is our common heart.
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From  the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Question: What is Noah’s merit before all of humanity?

Answer: His merit is that relative to his generation and his actions, he was righteous.

Question: What is the spiritual movement of the ten?

Answer: The spiritual movement of the ten is a state in which all friends connect to express a collective attitude toward the quality of bestowal.

Question: What correction should we make together as a ten to progress?

Answer: To become righteous means to ask the Creator to reveal this quality to you.

Question: If I recognize all my desires, both righteous and wicked, and relate them to the Creator, is this the quality of a righteous?

Answer: Not yet, but it is already on the path to the quality of “righteous.”

Question: How should we see our world?

Answer: We should see our world as one in which we act and can correct through our attitude toward each other and the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/24 , “Parashat Noah”

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When he becomes righteous in terms of the practice, he is rewarded and becomes whole in his heart, as Even Ezra said (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 342, “Noah Was a Righteous Man“).

An absolute sinner who has merited to become pure is a person who has found flaws in all his actions and corrected them.

One can leave the degree of sinner and become righteous only through connection with the Creator.

Question: What good deeds can you do in the ten to become righteous?

Answer: Help everyone in the ten unite and rise to the level of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/24, Parashat Noah

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Question: In the ten, we work with desires that can be corrected. At the same time, should each friend focus on their own pure desire and ask from it for the connection of the ten?

Answer: Yes, but they should also feel what others are asking for, so as not to stray too far from them.

Question: What does it mean to work with these desires and become included in them? Every day, we meet in workshops and read sources. Should I find my friend’s highest desire and connect to it?

Answer: No, you should simply find your own “self” within you—your own desires, connect with them to the Creator, and in this way draw closer to Him. Then everything will work out for you.

Question: If strong corporeal desires for my own sake arise within me through my prayer, that does not mean they will be fulfilled, right? In other words, the Creator will do what He needs to.

Answer: No, the Creator will only do what He needs to as a last resort. He wants you to recognize for yourself which of your desires are good and kind and which are foolish and harmful.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/31/24, Writings of Rabash “Gopher Wood”

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Question: What is an easy commandment, and what is a strict commandment?

Answer: A commandment is not measured its weight or by how much precious metal or something else it contains.

A commandment is measured by how much it enables a person to reach the Creator, to take another step toward Him, then another, and so on. That is how we measure the size of a commandment.

Question: What is easier for a person as a commandment: to stop receiving or to attain faith above reason and bestowal?

Answer: The hardest thing is faith above reason.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/31/24, Writings of Rabash “Gopher Wood”

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