If you have been practicing the Torah Lo Lishma for more than three years, as Rabbi Yosi says, and five years, as the Tana Kama says, then the Braita warns you that you will not see a good sign in this path you are treading! (Baal HaSulam, Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot)

Question: Is it correct to tie the study of Kabbalah to a specific timeframe?

Answer: The group (the “ten“) is obligated to set certain goals for its development. Therefore, regardless of the timeframes indicated by the Kabbalists—whether it takes three years, ten years, five years, or fifteen years—you must still feel where you are.

Question: How should we formulate this goal for ourselves?

Answer: As it is written, the best is to see a good sign in the work within three or at most five years. If we do everything required of us, within this time we will achieve within our ten the revelation of the Torah, the Creator, and the spiritual path.

Question: How can we tell if our ten has reached this point?

Answer: You will start to feel this as you move forward. Just as when driving a car, the road opens up before you, so too, the path will be revealed to you gradually.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Question: At the convention, we always experience a spiritual ascent, after which I feel confident that I will regularly attend lessons, disseminate, write articles, and edit texts—do everything. Of course, this is a temporary state. How can I use this feeling without getting stuck in thoughts about myself?

Should I take this responsibility upon myself first, or should I think about my friends, and ensure that they have the strength to do the same? How can I avoid disappearing until the next convention?

Answer: If you disappear until the next convention, you will just become an auditor who arrives only to attend, observe, and listen—nothing more. The most important work is the daily effort between conventions, in order for you to regret such a state’s existence.

To return to a passive state after the convention is much worse than if you had not attended at all. You came, you connected, you filled yourself, and then you left, which spilled it all out. You did not add anything to yourself or others; it is a complete loss. Beware of this state. Life may end with a more negative balance than when you began.

If there is no dissemination, then all of it is in vain! Look at what Baal HaSulam, Rabash, and all the great Kabbalists write about this.

You were chosen, not to sit and listen to the teacher’s beautiful words, but to bring the world to correction. If you are not doing that, it is better to do nothing at all. Go and rest. I am speaking seriously.

You cannot imagine what will happen to a person who has received an attraction from above in order to bring the Creator’s will into the world through them, and they do not fulfill it. It is said about this: “It would have been better for them not to have been born at all.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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Question: Sometimes you say that the Creator does not exist, that He can only be revealed in bestowal and good relations between us. So to whom do we pray if the Creator has not yet been revealed?

Answer: It does not matter that the Creator has not been revealed relative to us. We simply ask Him to understand us, come closer to us, and bring us closer to Him.

Question: How can we feel the Creator’s desire toward us at every moment?

Answer: For this one must strive to be in bestowal toward the Creator. Then, through the equivalence of form, you will sense His attitude toward you. Through His response, you will feel that you have made the right step toward Him. And to always be ready for the Creator’s response, we must consistently and clearly approach Him, and not leave it from time to time, but continuously gain strength of pressure on the Creator, strength of drawing closer to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Happy Is the Man”

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Question: Is my healing dependent on the correction of the entire society? Will it only fully happen when the final correction happens?

Answer: That is correct.

Question: Does this mean I need to become a healer or a doctor for someone else?

Answer: No, you simply need to try to solve your problem and understand that it is not just your personal problem but a global one.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/24, Writings of Rabash “The Lack Is the Kli [Vessel]”

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Question: You said that when we manage to connect with the light and open our hearts, it is the right time to demand to work instead of our friends. What is this work instead of the friends?

Answer: Working instead of the friends means that you can take on the tasks that lie before them and solve them yourself.

Question: When I take on a friend’s task, does that change the direction of the work for the entire ten?

Answer: If you change the goal, gather your strength, and act in a new direction, then you indeed change the overall direction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/26/24, Writings of Rabash “From Lo Lishma to Lishma”

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Question: Who is considered to be a spiritually mature person?

Answer: Someone who tries to understand why the Creator treats them this way.

Question: What helps us become spiritually mature?

Answer: Being connected with one another and discussing the states we go through together.

Question: By uniting in the ten, we are healed from egoism by the light of the Creator. And the most powerful means of healing is prayer, right?

Answer: Yes, that is correct.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/24, Writings of Rabash “The Lack Is the Kli [Vessel]”

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Comment: I do not have closer friends than my group. But because of my job, I cannot come to the group regularly.

My Response: If it is difficult for you to change your job for some reason so that you can spend more time with the group and study, then there is nothing to be done. You have to keep working.

My teacher Rabash worked in road construction all week far from home and far from the lessons. He would come home for just one day a week. And this went on for many years. It is up to you.

If you can find an easier job without losing your salary, then change it. But if not, it is okay. On the contrary, maybe when you are at work, but deeply wish you could be with the group and feel anxious about it, those feelings also elevate you.

Question: If the Creator has given me this situation, what should I do to be closer to Him?

Answer: If you have the opportunity to change jobs without losing materially, but would be able to participate more in the group and in study, then of course, you should do it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: I clearly recognize that I have the most terrible properties. But the Creator gave me a lifeline: He gave me a teacher, friends, and the sources. How can I reach the middle line from the state I want to escape?

Answer: The Creator gave you a heart and it should help you feel where you exist: either inside the house with the host (with the Creator), or outside of the house without the host (without the Creator), or like a horse who receives what it is supposed to receive but no more than that. Here it all depends on where you feel yourself. The Creator wants us to see ourselves next to Him, together with Him, in His house.

Comment: But I want to escape this terrible state I am in.

My Response: Frankly I do not see anything bad in you that you could complain about to the Creator. You have been given everything that the Creator gives to a person in our world, a special person, and you have to take it, be grateful, and try to show to the Creator how you relate to Him.

Question: I want to find the correct path so I could give contentment to the Creator. There is a need for annulment, I annul myself; I have to pray, I pray. What else can I do in order to give Him contentment?

Answer: Nothing more. Just bond with the Creator and that is all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/24, Writings of Rabash “A Horse to Ride On”

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