Connection between the Tens

938.05Question: You said that there is a lack of connection between the tens. We mostly focus on connection within the ten. What is connection between tens?

Answer: The connection between tens should be like the connection between all people: each one shall help his friend. But for one ten to help another, we need the upper force, the Creator, to whom we pray to take care of the other ten. This is what we can do, as it is said: “He who prays for his friend receives first.” Therefore, by turning to the Creator with a request to take care of a certain ten, we will feel how this works on us.

Question: How do we build this work correctly? For example, which ten should my ten take care of?

Answer: Tens that are close to you both linguistically and geographically.

Question: So should each ten take care of another ten?

Answer: No, it is not about taking care of them in a way that helps them rise. On the contrary, by helping them, you yourself ascend and become more similar to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 2

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Prayer—Impact on The General System

595.03When a person does some corporeal lust, the lust is not regarded as a construction because it is only temporary. When the lust passes away, nothing is left of it, such as eating and drinking, and so forth. But when one learns or prays, this exists after the action, too (Rabash, Notes 690 “This World and the Future”).

Question: What remains after our spiritual action, study, and prayer?

Answer: The overall impact on our relationship system remains. After all, the fact that we were in prayer for unification and uplift is all the impact on the system.

Question: How can we build the right intention so that the system really changes and we correct something in our prayer, in our studies?

Answer: This is what Rabash writes about. If a person means that through his actions and prayers he wants to rise, then gradually this affects the system, and it lifts him up.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/11/24, Writings of Rabash “This World and the Future”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 8/8/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Letter 34”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”

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3rd part of the Lesson – Lesson on the Topic “Uniting for the Sake of Humanity”

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294.2Question: Is the perception of all the Creator’s actions as rewards one of the spiritual goals?

Answer: In general, yes. The Creator does only good and treats us as His children.

Just as we punish children when we want them to be better and remember some things cannot be done, so does He.

Question: I really don’t want to get punished. What main corrections should I make so as not to suffer?

Answer: Treat everyone around you kindly and pray to the Creator that you want to be closer to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/16/24, Writings of Rabash “Concealed and Revealed in His Providence”

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By Analogy with a Newborn

537Entering any world, the period of adaptation to it, the accumulation of initial knowledge with which we further develop, is the same in our and in the spiritual world. It is the same nature.

There is nothing unnatural about it. On the contrary, it is as natural as the development of infants to the level of little people. We are just the same. We have no other way but to learn from them.

Here he lies, just born: people start cooing to him, and he responds; they try to stir him up somehow, and he gradually responds; the adult smiles, he smiles.

He learns literally everything. And in this way, he programs himself from the adult, because in fact he is an empty desire in which there is nothing yet. He needs to be filled with knowledge, skills, impressions, and to create some connections inside. You can make anything out of him.

Similarly, with our desire for spirituality, we free up a certain area for ourselves and say: “This is the area I want to program now and fill with spiritual impressions, not of our world.” And if you want this, you have to act like a newborn baby who hasn’t become a little human being yet.

This is precisely what Kabbalah offers us. And we can do this because you don’t need to be smart here! You just need to understand that in this way you will enter the upper world.

Therefore, it is necessary to consciously go through the stage again that you went through in this world unconsciously when you were born. Nature pushed you there. And now nature demands that you consciously do so, consciously place yourself as a newborn relative to the upper world, and want to adopt all the impressions and properties from it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. We Are Thinking About Our Friend!” 3/11/10

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Good Deed

600.02Question: What does it mean to inform the Creator about an action I do for bestowal?

Answer: You can inform Him about any action you did for His sake. It does not matter that the Creator knows, understands, and accepts your thoughts; when you also inform Him, it stays with you for a long time.

Question: How should I inform Him about my actions?

Answer: Like a friend.

Question: What does a good deed mean in general?

Answer: If you want to bring contentment to the Creator as a result of your action, that action is good.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Action and Thought”

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Reshimot—Records of Past States

36Question: Why are Reshimot called “the past”? In my perception, Reshimot are what is being revealed to me now. For me, it is kind of the future.

Answer: Reshimot are impressions and records of my past states. They may currently determine my tastes, actions, and choices, but they originate from the past.

Question: I am unaware of the many Reshimot I have yet to discover. So does it mean that I always return and encounter the past?

Answer: Reshimot are the light that was in us and disappeared. Its impressions are called informational, spiritual records.

Question: These are Kelim (vessels) for me. But right now, I cannot use, for example, the Kelim that I do not feel. Am I, as if, expanding my perception to enjoy these Kelim? Is this what I still need to do?

Answer: You still have much to do.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/10/24, Writings of Rabash “Receiving Pleasure from Three Kelim [Vessels]”

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I Want to See the World as Corrected

237Question: We learn that when my Kelim (Vessels) are corrected, I will see my friends as corrected, right?

Answer: Yes. Everything negative you perceive in the world—people, the group, yourself, or anything else—is yours. These are all your negative qualities.

Question: When my Kelim are corrected, will the light pass through these corrections further, and will something outside also change? Should I see that this is happening?

Answer: Not necessarily, not immediately, and not according to what you want to be corrected. Otherwise, you will be working for a reward.

Question: There is another point; it is said that one who prays for the collective receives correction first. Is there a catch here? Every time I encounter this, it does not sit well with me. I want the correction to be outside.

Answer: Then pray for that.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reward for Work in Spirituality”

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This World and the Future World

928Question: What do the future world and this world mean?

Answer: The future world is the one you do not feel right now, but it will soon reveal itself within you. This world is what you experience at the moment.

Question: It says that the masses can only receive rewards in the world to come, while those who work individually can receive rewards even in this world. What does it mean to work individually, and how can one receive in this world?

Answer: By studying the wisdom of Kabbalah in a group and trying to address the Creator, you do individual work.

With the help of the group, you elevate yourself and address Him. Then, in this world, you receive the reward—the revelation of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reward for Work in Spirituality”

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