Before we grow up, we derive pleasure specifically from Lo Lishma (not for Her sake), regarded as “clothing of falsehood.” This is called “shadow,” “concealment,” and then there is room for work, and we derive vitality from false things. Afterwards, when we are rewarded, we receive the light of faith (Rabash, Letter 12b).

Question: There is a false clothing, a concealment that I am in most of the time, and there is a shadow of faith, a place for work. How can you not make a mistake when you are in concealment?

Answer: It is possible to avoid mistakes only in connection with friends. Then you will have different options to choose from that constantly change places and meanings. You quickly begin to understand where you are, where the truth is, and where the falsehood is, and in this way rise toward the truth.

Question: Do the sufferings of the soul lead to turning away from false pleasures toward true ones?

Answer: Yes, this happens when a person truly feels that all the earthly pleasures that people enjoy do not touch him. He wants something eternal, real.

Therefore, move forward and always choose the highest possible pleasures that you want to direct to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/16/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 12b

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Question: What does it mean to come to the lesson with the intention to purify myself? How can I check if I truly have that intention?

Answer: Analyze what you were thinking about before the lesson.

Question: Is it possible that someone gets up for the lesson every day simply out of habit?

Answer: That is why you do not see serious results from your studies. Sit for a moment before the lesson and think about yourself, your state, and what lies ahead.

Gradually, you will see what thoughts, feelings, and requests you can bring to the Creator.

Question: But how can I check my focus on the request for purification? After all, a million different thoughts and requests can come up.

Answer: That is exactly why you should ask, in your own words.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/24, Writings of Rabash “According to the Sorrow Is the Reward”

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Question: What should one do when a person feels his or her spiritual vessels are empty and neither knowledge nor actions fill them?

Answer: It is necessary to check whether this is really the case and then systematically work through those properties that a person does not see in oneself.

Question: Could it be that these vessels have already fulfilled their purpose and need to be transformed?

Answer: No, don’t think about converting them. They will acquire the necessary form themselves.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/20/24, “Sukkot”

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Question: How can we improve our work in the ten? Should we pressure it?

Answer: No, you do not need to put pressure on the ten. You need to encourage your friends in some alternative ways so that they understand you, agree with you, and together you turn to the Creator.

There should be no pressure on each other at all. It can only be directed toward turning to the Creator. All other pressures are bad and unproductive since a person cannot do anything on his own.

Apart from turning to the Creator, one has no other means of action at one’s disposal. None! So, in this we must help each other, and best of all, by example.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What should I demand from the ten?

Answer: You can only demand one thing from the ten—that they support you in your connection to them and, through this, in your connection to the Creator. The Creator reveals Himself within the ten, so the way you relate to the ten is how you relate to the Creator.

We may not yet fully understand this; we do not yet feel it. Our attitude toward friends and toward the Creator does not yet feel identical to us even though we have read about it many times in the articles of Rabash. But ultimately, we will reach this understanding.

The main thing is to constantly direct ourselves through the ten toward the Creator so that we pray for the ten. After all, the ten is our vessel, our soul, where He will be revealed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What is the most important thing in studying Kabbalah? How can we achieve our goal faster?

Answer: Only by connection. The fact is that the initially created single desire was shattered into many parts, and we need to put all these parts together. As soon as we begin to collect them, we will begin to feel a completely new phenomenon—the upper world.

Question: How can we accelerate this connection?

Answer: Only by working together. The spiritual world is felt in the ten. The ten is a template, the skeleton of the spiritual Kli. We must connect our desires, and when they are correctly connected to each other, the spiritual world, the Creator, will be immediately manifested in them.

Question: Will everyone in the ten experience the same feelings?

Answer: No, each will feel it based on the root of his or her soul and how much he or she is connected with others.

Question: Does this mean that our most important work is to annul ourselves before each other?

Answer: Yes, this is where it all begins. In Kabbalah, this is called restriction (Tzimtzum).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: The third stage of governance is reward and punishment. But man is still not perfectly righteous because he lacks the commandment of love. So what will help him come to the third stage? Why is he striving for this?

Answer: It is to please the Creator.

Question: This is without wanting to love the Creator? Does he not consider the commandment of love at all? Is he trying to, but has not achieved it yet?

Answer: No, he has no need to love the Creator yet.

Question: Then why should I want to please Him?

Answer: Such a desire is born in you before the need to love Him appears.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/25/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Question: How can you help a friend experience joy and pleasure in spiritual work if he has no taste or smell in it and does not have the strength to justify the Creator?

Answer: How will you convey this to him if he does not yet have such tastes?

Question: Maybe with prayer, or words, some kind of support?

Answer: You can give him any kind of support, but what will he feel about it?

He must have a personal desire for spiritual work even if he does not enjoy it yet.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/22/24, “Sukkot”

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