Question: Can you share your experience of how you lifted the spirit in the group when you friends felt tiredness from putting in efforts?

Answer: How can I tell you? First, any of our states are always movement forward. Always! As it is said: “One is elevated in sanctity and never lowered.” Therefore, even if it seems to you that you are falling and going backward, it only seems that way. It is designed that way, like a wheel that turns forward – backward, forward – backward, but moves forward.

Second, as soon as you feel that the awareness of the importance of the goal, the mood, the intention, and the prospect disappears, you should immediately, without delay, sit down to some serious work translating, processing texts, writing on Twitter, on Facebook, it does not matter where; that is, engage in either translations, writing, or disseminating—some kind of effective work. This helps a lot. And most importantly do joint activities in the group.

The states when a person falls are actually good states. The fact is that falling in your egoistic qualities adds egoism. Egoism was hidden, and now you have been given a bit more of it, which means you can start working over it and rise. You will fall again due to an addition of egoism and will start working over it and rise again. In this way, you will constantly be falling—rising, falling—rising.

Therefore, falling is actually moving forward, rising, but along the left line in the development of egoism. In the right line, you are given a sense of rising. But still, in both states you are moving forward.

Question: But if I see that a friend has lost heart, how can I lift his spirits?

Answer: There are many different ways to do this: talk to him, study together, sing together, have meals together, and so on. Try to do everything you can.
[330788]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

Related Material:
How The Soul Grows
Connect And You Will See
Falling For The Sake Of Rising

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Each of us must be Malchut that does not receive anything but only gives. She cancels herself, reflects the light coming to her, and only in this way works for everyone else.

In other words, if I have a group, I must think only about them and how to push them forward. Each group member should think about the same thing and in no case about themself.

This is the work of the friends in the group. Then, the group forms ten Sefirot between them that are interconnected by the properties of bestowal. In them the Creator is reveals Himself.
[330849]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/20, “The Ten”

Related Material:
The Ten—A System Of Ten Sefirot
The Ten—A Device For Revealing The Creator
The Ten Is The Violin Of The Creator

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Question: The only real adapter to the upper system that we can cling to is you, our teacher. How should we use the strength we receive from you?

Answer: I don’t even know what to tell you because my work is to shape you, gather you, and organize you. I feel how you should complement each other to form a certain structure.

It comes together like blocks or bricks, but there is no binding material like cement to hold them together yet. I help you assemble this structure and do it together with you, but it is up to you to ask the Creator to bind it together. That is how it works.
[330594]
From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

Related Material:
Following The Teacher Who Sees The Way
The Connection Between Teacher And Student
Devotion To The Teacher

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Teacher, Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Question: Today we are discussing the topic of conception (Ibur.) How should I care for the ten so that they won’t expel me from their circle and to avoid premature birth or rejection?

Answer: Rejection or what is commonly referred to as miscarriage is very rare. Throughout the nearly 6,000 years of Kabbalistic history such actions were observed only during the exodus from Egypt. It is a very unpleasant phenomenon when pregnancy is interrupted or there are complications during birth.

Such things occur, but are very rare; in practice almost all end well. So you have nothing to worry about or fear. If you are in the group and constantly care for it, there are no problems and everything will be fine.

Our entire work is built on self-annulment, i.e., the annulment of the quality of reception relative to the quality of bestowal. Therefore, only the group can become the womb in which you develop, the mother who cares for you, and you, in turn, care for it.

This is the kind of work where you support yourself in a state of embryo and gradually develop. But an embryo can only form in a state of self-annulment.

What does an embryo in the mother mean? It is a living being that originates from a drop of seed and then gradually develops. During this time, it is completely subordinate to the maternal organism, and this continues for nine months. In spiritual development it can last seven, nine, or twelve months. But that is not important; the main thing is that we must understand the system itself. Conception occurs in the group, and the group must be in the quality of bestowal, in the Creator.

Imagine that you are with the group within the Creator, in the quality of bestowal, love, and you must completely annul yourself along with the whole group before the Creator.

That is, your existence in the mother is the period of your inception. And the development of all your strengths, thoughts, desires, everything, is necessary only for you to unite and become similar to your upper mother, that is, the quality of bestowal, the quality of love, the Creator, in whom you develop. This is how it happens.

So imagine the state we must reach to achieve the degree of spiritual birth. It may seem fantastic, difficult, unattainable, and impossible. No, it is not. In fact, it can happen, and very quickly. Nine months of spiritual development are not the same as nine earthly months; they can pass in a short time.

Therefore, we need to think about how to make ourselves like an embryo. This means gathering in tens where each friend must annul themselves relative to the others, and all together they must annul themselves relative to the Creator.
[330524]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

Related Material:
A “Miscarriage” Is Going Back
A Healthy Diet For The Embryo
The Embryo’s Worries

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work, The Tens | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Question: How necessary is it for a teacher to be physically present at unity activities in which students must independently perform actions?

Answer: There is not a single spiritual teaching that is not transmitted from teacher to students. In any circumstances, wherever you are, wherever you wander in your search, you will see that there is always a teacher and there are students.

We have a special relationship here. I hope to prepare you for a state where you will replace me with a group, when the group will act as a teacher, guide, instructor.

In addition to the teacher, administration is also needed. Everything should be organized as in our world. And instead of the teacher, there will be the group itself. You will correctly feel the unity, reveal the Creator in it, and this will lead you forward, this will be your teacher.
[330488]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

Related Material:
Make Yourself A Teacher And A Group
Connection With The Group Is Connection With The Creator
Make Yourself A Teacher And A Group

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Teacher, Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Preparation to the Lesson

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Last Generation”

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “Letter 75”

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

3rd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic: “Equal As One: There Is No Strong Friend, There Is a Strong Society”

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Listen to an Audio Version of the Blog
Download:MP3Audio

Filed under: Audio Version of the Blog | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Question: Why can’t we take, say, ten men, and put them in an “aquarium,” and everyone else will take care of them and fulfill the principle of mutual guarantee?

Answer: We do not need to take care of them! Let them take care of each other, that is a different matter! But if the Creator gives us, not ten, but ten thousand people today, what can we do?

Today, tens of thousands strive for unity as a solution to the world’s problems and to attain the upper world.

Wherever I go, people recognize me. In Greece, the hostess of the house we rented rooms from said, “I know you.” In Chișinău, the owner of a small hotel we stayed at exclaimed, “I did not know you booked our rooms!” It turns out many people know us. Millions!

In any country, people stop me on the street, greet me, ask questions, and talk. We are very well-known. Therefore, we cannot limit ourselves to ten people. It would not help in fact, it would be counterproductive. Why did the collective soul shatter into many parts? So it would be easier to correct them.

If we break large egoism into smaller parts, each part is easier to correct. In our world, we solve any problem by breaking it into smaller problems, solving each, and then combining them. It is the only way.

You cannot do anything beyond what is given from above. If these conditions are revealed to you, you must act within them. You are given a system of correction, and what to correct is revealed from above.

These are the conditions: this world, these problems, this crisis. Work with them. We must understand this is the best and most correct way.

Question: Is it necessary for one ten to succeed or all the tens?

Answer: Ideally, all should succeed, but even a part is possible. Everyone strives to give everyone what they need for correction, and after that, it is an individual effort for each.
[330907]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/20, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

Related Material:
Like Cells In The Body
A Ten The Size Of The World
Gather The Parts Of The Collective Soul

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Dissemination, Group Work, Spiritual Work, The Tens | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Question: How do we engage with a friend’s question? And how do you work with these questions?

Answer: I try to feel every question within myself as if I am asking it. I must feel each question on your level, the way you present it, and feel it on my level, the way I would ask it.

I must feel the difference between these levels and figure out how I can understand your question at my level and answer it at your level. Try to do the same with each friend’s question. You cannot imagine how much you will enrich yourselves, each of you! Therefore, you need to try to enter into your friend.

Children usually ask the most challenging questions. A child’s question may seem naive, but it is very complex. We are not used to such questions.

Additionally, the questions you ask help me create a connection with the person asking. How else can I enter these questions and they, me? In the lessons with you, I gain much more than each of you.
[330648]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

Related Material:
Taking Care of the Friends
Feel the Friend
An Effort to Understand Each Other

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Kabbalah Study, Spiritual Teacher, Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Consequently, as long as the individual is troubled with concerns for himself, he is unfit to begin observing the Mitzva “Love your friend as yourself.”

The spiritual structure is perfect. It cannot be that one part of it works and another does not because the integral inclusion of everyone in everyone determines the conditions that are both necessary and sufficient for everyone to be completely corrected. That means that each person must feel their inclusion in absolutely everyone and everyone in them.

Apart from the small particle Malchut, which is within me, everything else is from everyone else. Only one point of Malchut within me is mine. Therefore, it can only work to unite everyone within me. Your point of Malchut is intended only to unite everyone within you. And so on.

The integral system presupposes a simple combination of its parts where each part consists of only one point, which annuls itself and works entirely for the sake of bestowal. And what does it give? That which it receives from the Creator. And to whom does it give it? It gives it to all those points within it from all the other parts. It is all simple.

In principle, no person has anything except what they receive from the Creator and what they give to others. And who are they? Nobody, a zero. But they make themselves this way; they receive everything from the Creator on one side and give it all to others on the other while themselves are a conduit from the Creator to the others. That is the work of each element of the integral system. That is what we must achieve.

And then there is nothing to fear, think about, or discuss. One must simply be a transitional element from one to the others—from the Creator to the creations and from the creations to the Creator. That is the best state where everyone is free and perfect!

In this state, there is everything from all creation—one attains a complete sense of the Creator, the entire world, and all souls within themselves. On one hand they are equal to Adam, the collective soul; on the other hand they are within the filling of this soul. Thus, everyone includes both creation and the Creator within ourselves, even though we are merely one point.
[330981]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/20, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

Related Material:
Correct Yourself, Correct The World
What To Correct: Myself Or The World?
There Is No One Closer To A Child Than His Mother

Filed under: Adam-The Common Soul, Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Mutual Guarantee, Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →