Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood, and cover with pitch inside and out (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 343, “Gopher Wood”).

The Ark of the ten is built from our desires to overcome all distances between us and the Creator and to arrive in a good state to the connection with Him.

The correct work of the ten involves overcoming the waves that try to break our ark. We work against them to hold onto each other and steer the ark forward.

A ten that can withstand the flood consists of ten friends who understand that they can reach the purpose of creation only if they help each other.

In this way, by holding onto each other, they direct their ship toward the highest waves, and the main thing is to reach the correct destination.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/31/24, Writings of Rabash “Gopher Wood”

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Question: You said that many of your students are already beginning to feel or are nearing the feeling of the first degrees. Is there a certain potential that can be unlocked and reached at each of our lessons and meetings? Or is everything generally open and dependent on one’s preparation?

Answer: Everything is open, and everything depends on a person’s preparation and inclusion in his ten.

Even if the ten is small and weak, but he is included in it, like Rabbi Yossi Ben Kisma in his disciples, then for him, this ten becomes his soul in which he reveals the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: Why do the closest people in the physical world like husband, wife, children, or parents not want to hear anything about Kabbalah or understand that need of a loved one for spiritual development? How can we explain this phenomenon from the point of view of spiritual roots?

Answer: The explanation is very simple; it is because they are the people closest to you, meaning this is your personal egoism, and it only seemingly exists in them but not in you. Thus, its action on you is even greater.

Therefore, one has to understand that all of them—a spouse, children, relatives, even coworkers, and the world in general, all of them, are you, all of those are yours: your soul, you Kli. The only thing is that for now you do not feel this Kli as yours. However, later you will feel that all of them are you, and there is no one else besides you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: It is written that if a person is unworthy, he is thrown down from above. What does it mean and how can one overcome this state?

Answer: Unworthy means that with the inclinations that a person has, he cannot rise from his egoism to the property of bestowal and love.

Question: Is there any prevention so this does not happen?

Answer: Prevention is very simple; we need to value our states and not neglect them.

In any state, even if you fall, you must look for a way to rise. Here, a request to the Creator, a prayer is necessary.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Sorrow of the Shechina – 2”

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Question: Why does a person feel a connection with the Creator only in difficult states, in depression?

Answer: Because in good states, they do not feel it. They are too preoccupied.

Question: How do we erase sins? Through what actions?

Answer: We erase sins solely through our repentance.

Question: What is the main motive of the Creator regarding a person when He deprives them of strength for spirituality?

Answer: There is no such motive. The Creator may temporarily deprive a person of strength to shake them up, prompting them to reflect on why they lack a connection with the Creator. Without this connection, they will never be corrected.

Question: When we speak of the anger of the Creator, we are talking about the disparity between our qualities and the qualities of the Creator. That is, this is a manifestation of our ego. Why do we constantly anthropomorphize the Creator, saying He is angry, He hates, and so on?

Answer: To make our disparity with the qualities of the Creator and His state—toward which we must cleave—more understandable to us.

Question: Why does the Creator take away all accumulated memory of Him?

Answer: So that you begin work on a new level.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/24, Writings of Rabash “And the Lord Saw”

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Question: We want to follow the path of truth, starting with Lo Lishma (for our own sake). We try to move forward on our own even though we know that everything is governed by the Creator. How can we understand what He wants from us through His actions?

Answer: All Kabbalists speak about this. The Creator desires our aspiration toward Him to be like His aspiration toward us.

And then, by mutually moving toward each other, as it is said, “I am for my Beloved, and my Beloved is for me,” we will reach a state where we meet the Creator halfway.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/24, Writings of Rabash “And the Lord Saw”

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Question: How can we understand that the Creator has been revealed? Is it expressed in feelings or in some special way?

Answer: The Creator reveals Himself when the vessel (Kli) is ready. If ten people are connected in mutual help and love on the very first degree that they can create between them, and they turn to the Creator to form and support this degree, then the Creator establishes the connection between them and supports it.

The Creator serves as the guarantor that they will hold on to each other, and only then can He be revealed within the connection He has created from them. All that is required from them is the request.

Question: What does it mean to turn to the center of the ten?

Answer: Turning to the center of the ten means to the point where everyone comes together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: When can we say that a person has reached Lishma?

Answer: When all his intentions are only for the sake of the Creator.

Question: Does this happen in a fragmented state or is it a given?

Answer: This happens in the general state between man and the Creator.

Question: If I want to feel what the author of the article felt, what the teacher feels when answering questions, when I listen to the questions of my friends, and being in the ten thank the Creator for creating all the conditions for me to come to Lishma, do I thus come to Lishma?

Answer: You have this opportunity, but whether you reach it or not depends on you, on how much you will put your desires, efforts, and work into it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/24, Writings of Rabash “And the Lord Saw”

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