Audio Version Of The Blog – 2/3/24
Posted on February 3rd, 2024 at 10:55 pm
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Question: How do we ensure we are not deceiving ourselves in the ten?
Answer: It is not easy. Gather together and be open with each other. Check how much you can be transparent with one another. Unite so that nothing remains outside your connections, and attack your egoism.
Question: Does this mean we completely annul ourselves?
Answer: In general, yes. The ten should reach a state where everyone feels each other and starts helping each other rise higher and higher, and even higher. This is how you work on yourselves. You need to learn this. But learning this is possible only through practice.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/18/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Sing unto the Lord, for He Has Done Pride”
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Question: To work in spirituality, we must make efforts. Some friends say: “But everything comes from the Creator. I will sit from morning until evening and do nothing.” What is the difference between our efforts together and the condition of there is none else besides Him?
Answer: Everything that the Creator did, He did so that people, His creations, would continue what He had planned. Moreover, He has prepared all the problems in the world in advance, and they all appear in accordance with our development to push our further growth.
Therefore, you must try to understand the sources correctly, and then you will understand everything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Field that the Lord Has Blessed”
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Question: What does it mean to enter the palace, and what are the changes in a person regarding his work?
Answer: To enter the palace of the Creator means to be with Him in conjunction with your and His external form as one whole. It is not a merger with the Creator, but a convergence with Him.
Question: How do you overcome all obstacles that the Creator gives? How can you avoid thinking that the door may be closed and open it?
Answer: It is possible only if several people move in the same direction and press the door together. The rejecting forces are not stronger than you. It all depends on how much you are in it together.
Your task is to merge with the Creator, that is, to cling to the property of bestowal, to the property of giving, to the property through which you can connect with all creations.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Sage Comes to Town”
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Question: What should I do if it seems to me that my desire is greater than that of my friends? Do I need to annul my desire?
Answer: No, on the contrary, include the friends in yours and you continue to expand your desires and direct them to the Creator.
Question: When I ask myself why am I following this path, I get an answer from my mind—so that everyone can achieve final correction. But on the level of feelings, I cannot connect with it. How do you ask yourself the right question so that the mind awakens a feeling?
Answer: Ask the Creator to allow your feelings to unite and rise to Him.
Question: It says there must be a desire for both the spiritual or the material. Is it possible to say that the material is the external performance of actions and the spiritual is the intention for these actions, and they should be as one?
Answer: Yes, although we should not emphasize the physical execution. The most important thing for us is to strive for a spiritual desire for bestowal.
Question: How can a person develop feelings and determine what harms and what benefits him?
Answer: Everything that brings him closer to his friends and together with his friends to the Creator is for his benefit.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/22/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Cannot Be an Empty Space in the World”
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It is written in The Zohar (Mishpatim, 4:11 in the Sulam): “Come and see. When a person is born, he is given a soul from the side of the beast, the side of purity, the side of those who are called holy Ofanim (Rabash, “What Is the Degree One Should Achieve in Order Not to Have to Reincarnate?”).
Question: Nefesh is the lowest level. Which level is the highest?
Answer: The highest level is Yechida. The spiritual degrees are in the following order from lowest to highest: Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, and Yechida.
Question: It is said that a person is given a Nefesh, soul, from the property of an animal. What is the property of “animal”?
Answer: This is the average soul at the level of the animal body. The term animal refers to egoistic desires.
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Question: As far as I understand, the first step that needs to be taken to see the ladder of spiritual ascent and start working is restriction.
What is the difference between restriction and annulment?
Answer: The annulment of egoism is simply an annulment when a person switches from one state, from one relationship to another, as if excluding his egoism.
But it happens sometimes that he needs to gradually reduce his egoism in order to see what state his connection with the group and with the Creator is in. Thus, he gradually learns the possibilities of his actions and the reaction of the Creator.
Restriction means that he stops using his desire that he used before.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/20/24, Writings of Rabash “What Does It Mean that the Ladder Is Diagonal, in the Work?”
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It is as the verse says in the name of the righteous: “You are idle, you are idle; therefore, you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord our God’” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 150, “Sing unto the Lord, for He Has Done Pride”).
Question: Sacrifice is like atonement. But we need to work in the ten so should we should strive for unity and not sacrifice?
Answer: Yes. But to strive for unity, you need to make a sacrifice. You sacrifice your egoism, various qualities, and perhaps your attachment to earthly matters to ascend to the Creator.
Question: It is said: “Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord our God.” How do you free yourself from pride, by thinking that you have already offered the Creator the proper sacrifice since He brought you closer, as if He owes you?
Answer: You have to start all over again. If a person feels that the Creator owes him, it is the worst feeling.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/18/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Sing unto the Lord, for He Has Done Pride”
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In the verse, “Sing unto the Lord; for He has done pride,” it seems that “prune” is like “[The Lord is] my strength and song.” This means that we should always prune and cut the thorns off the Creator’s vineyard (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 150, “Sing unto the Lord, for He Has Done Pride”).
Question: What is this vineyard where we have to clear everything of thorns?
Answer: This is our life. We must accept it and transform ourselves within it so that we can enjoy all its fruits without fearing anything.
In corporeal life you pick a bunch of grapes, squeeze, extract the juice, and drink it. In this way, you obtain a concentration of the vitamins you need. In a metaphorical sense, it means that you absorb the best from the world and can consume it.
From a spiritual perspective, the wine made from grapes symbolizes the concentration of the Creator’s light. By uniting with each other, we together as if squeeze the grapes, and from the point of unity turn to the Creator. In response, He fills us with light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/18/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Sing unto the Lord, for He Has Done Pride”
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