How Can We Speed​​ Up Spiritual Growth?

942Question: The Creator corrects our souls slowly and in portions. Is it possible to speed up the stages of spiritual growth, and what does it depend on?

Answer: It depends on your connection in the ten. If you turn to the Creator on your own, this is one thing. But if several friends ask together with you, and even better the whole ten, the Creator answers immediately and as directly as possible.

In spirituality, we can only strive for ever greater connection. In this way, we protect ourselves from losing important elements of our path along the way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Good Taste in Small, Corporeal Things”

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Gather All the Broken Pieces

939.02In order to create a relationship between us, which is called the spiritual world, we need support. Therefore, Kabbalists say that since one person alone is insufficient in the entire scope of the universe, 600,000 souls were created, i.e., the main vessel (Kli) in a shattered state.

Subsequently, this main vessel further divided into millions, even billions of particles.

As egoism manifests more and more, the number of these particles increases so that each one, like an individual atom, can correct itself and connect with other particles based on correction, on the basis of the qualities of bestowal.

Initially, these particles were connected to each other by the Creator’s force in the quality of His bestowal. Then this quality of the Creator disappeared, ascended. Now, we must begin to once again attract the upper light into the connections between us so that it reassembles us into the structure called “Adam.”

Thus, as stated in Baal HaSulam’s Letter 4: You lack nothing but to go out to a field that the Lord has blessed, and collect all those flaccid organs that have drooped from your soul, and join them into a single body – into a single desire. This is what we must engage in. This is our only task. We should have nothing else before our eyes.

In this world, I act automatically: I work, take care of my body, my family, and everything else. But why do I do all this while living as if in a dream? It is in order to connect with other souls and reveal the Creator to the extent of our connection. The Creator manifests as the light that connects the separate shattered parts.

If this is so, then it is natural that the Kabbalists, who began to attain these states individually, immediately realized that this must be done together, formed a group in which people mutually help each other and create such combinations of desires and aspirations that helps their connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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The Value of Each Friend

938.03Question: How do we determine what we need to stay on the spiritual path, what we should discard and what else to develop?

Answer: We must constantly develop and increase the connection between us and the Creator.

To increase the connection in the ten means to need each other more and more. I look at my friends and see that I cannot do something without a particular friend or something else without another one. This one sets an example for me, this one annoys me, but all of this pushes me to work on myself. That is, every person in the ten is necessary; that is what the Creator does.

Question: If I have a negative impression of a friend, is it still very valuable? Is this some kind of important signal from the Creator?

Answer: Sure. Least of all I expect positive feelings from them, on the contrary, negative feelings are more suitable for my work on myself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Good Taste in Small, Corporeal Things”

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Don’t Stray from the Spiritual Path

945Question: How can we constantly check that we have not strayed from the spiritual path?

Answer: It is only in a group when you unite and feel that you are all at a single point, in a single desire, everyone leaves his “I,” unites with others, and comes to merge with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 17

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 8/16/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Letter 20”

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Receive from the Teacher

530Question: Why is everything that students receive from their great teacher not called bread of shame?

Answer: Were you ashamed of what you received from your parents?

Comment: No.

My Response: See, this is natural. I understand it, feel it, am proud of it, satisfied, and happy.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “ The Path of Truth”

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The Confidence of a Kabbalist

566.02Question: How is the confidence of a Kabbalist expressed? How is it conveyed to the outer world?

Answer: The confidence of a Kabbalist comes solely from their connection with the Creator. To the extent of their union with the Creator, they are confident that they will not make mistakes, that they will convey to people what they need, and thereby help them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “ The Path of Truth”

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The Beginning of the Realization of the Egoistic Human Nature

290Question: Baal HaSulam writes that there are two paths to realizing the idea of Kabbalah. The first is the natural path of development, a path of suffering. The second one is the path when people, after some educational process, will be able to advance to altruistic properties consciously. How can this take place?

Answer: The preliminary stage of the second path of development is realizing the evil of our egoistic nature. I think it is already happening.

In other words, all current confrontations, crises, and wars between Russia and the Western World have to change humanity gradually and show that no one wins anything in a war and there are no victors.

We are practically going through this state. We means all of humanity. That is because at the end of the days, meaning at the end of human development, we will not be dividing ourselves into countries, not even into continents, but instead, we will begin to aspire to rise above our nature. That is much bigger than mutual agreements between people, countries, etc.

Even though we do not realize it yet, I hope we are already starting to learn the laws that will bring us to complete correction.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 7/11/24

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So Everyone Can Feel the Love of the Creator

237Question: In our world, we know what it means to love parents, children, men, women, and friends. How is the love for people similar or different from the love we develop within ourselves?

Answer: We want the love we can channel from the Creator to pass through us to all people so that everyone feels they are receiving love from Him.

Question: I see in the external world how people are closed in themselves and don’t see others. Within our society, I understand everything: there is prayer and personal example. But what should we do in the external world?

Answer: Gradually, people will develop and also desire to have the quality of bestowal. Wait a little bit; we are just beginning our work. We need to write and speak more about this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Anyone with Whom the Spirit of the People Is Pleased – 2”

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