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Everyone Has Their Own Tasks

Posted on December 18th, 2023 at 7:49 am

Question: What does it mean that the Creator puts His soul into our actions?

Answer: The Creator gives you inner strength, understanding, awareness, and advancement toward a state in which He will reveal Himself in you. It is called that He gives a person a soul.

When this will happen depends on you and on the Creator. You have to do your work, what is assigned to you, and the Creator will do His work when He sees fit.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 12/6/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Revealed and the Concealed“

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Bring Contentment to the Creator

Posted on December 18th, 2023 at 7:43 am

Question: Which is sweeter for the Creator: my intention to bestow or the intention from the united heart of the ten?

Answer: From the united heart of the ten.

Question: How can I and the ten please the Creator?

Answer: By helping your friends. This is your first step, help your friends in everything in order to unite and move toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 12/4/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “From Lo Lishma, We Come to Lishma“

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Bring Everyone Closer to the Creator

Posted on December 18th, 2023 at 7:41 am

Question: I often feel sorry for the nations of the world, like as for small children because the Creator has not brought them closer to Himself.

What should I do with this feeling?

Answer: It is our task to bring people closer to the Creator. When we are sure that we understand everything correctly and are already at the minimum spiritual level, then we will be able to turn to the people of the world and try to pull them up.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/5/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Man’s Pride Shall Bring Him Low“

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Enhance the Quality of Israel

Posted on December 18th, 2023 at 7:38 am

Question: We feel the quality of Israel in us that pulls us forward. What changes must happen in a person and a ten for the quality of Israel to be a permanent guiding star? Or is it gradually weakening and needs to be nourished?

Answer: The quality of Israel must be strengthened because it weakens constantly. This quality is unnatural for people, so we need to hold on to each other and be an example for each other.
In principle, the quality of Israel is based only on our aspiration to connect with the Creator.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/4/23, Writings of Rabash “The Spies“

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The Creator Is Indebted

Posted on December 18th, 2023 at 7:32 am

Question: Why is it that in Lishma when we are in adhesion with the Creator, He is considered indebted to us?

Answer: Because a person believes that if he performs an act of bestowal, then the Creator supposedly owes him.

That is an incorrect state, but it occurs when you fall from Lishma (for the sake of the Creator) to Lo Lishma (for your own sake).

A person thinks that he has done something good to the Creator and does not understand that it was the Creator who gave him the thought to perform this action.

Only after he completely corrects the will to receive for his own sake does the Creator cease to be indebted to him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/4/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “From Lo Lishma, We Come to Lishma“

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What Does the Creator Need?

Posted on December 18th, 2023 at 7:29 am

Question: How does one work properly with pride on the spiritual path?

Answer: To the extent of a person feeling superior to others, he feels himself in a descent compared to them.

Conversely, as much as he can annul himself, he feels his state to be higher and closer to the Creator. In principle, when we almost completely nullify ourselves, we approach Him.

You do not feel or see the Creator because He is concealed. He does not need your honors and special treatment. He wants you to change yourself, become like Him, and let others not even know about it.

Therefore, the wisdom of Kabbalah is called the wisdom of concealment. After all, a person who wants to ascend into spirituality conceals himself more and more from others like the Creator, and, accordingly, no one prevents him from becoming like the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/5/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Man’s Pride Shall Bring Him Low“

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In an Intermediate State

Posted on December 18th, 2023 at 7:26 am

Question: Before we attain individual governance, we attain the full measure of reward and punishment. What does this mean?

Answer: Reward and punishment is an intermediate degree to full faith in the Creator when a person is in various states and tries to fulfill His desires.

Question: In the intermediate state, how can you not perform actions for fear of punishment or for the sake of receiving rewards, but actually perform them for the sake of the Creator?

Answer: This is the inner feeling of a person. It is impossible to express it in words. We will distort them anyway. Therefore, we try to transition from Lo Lishma (for our own sake) to Lishma (for the sake of the Creator), and gradually we will have the right feelings.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/4/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “From Lo Lishma, We Come to Lishma“

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Who Is the Problem?

Posted on December 18th, 2023 at 7:20 am

Question: If you feel a connection with friends from another ten more than the connection with friends from your own ten, what is the problem here?

Answer: The problem is only in you. You are shown that the connection with your ten is not that important for you.

To solve this problem, you must bow your head down to your friends in the ten.

Question: We must see the ten as perfect and exalt it. But some friends say: “We are still small, we are unworthy, we are still nobody.” Is this normal?

Answer: No, it is necessary to exalt the ten in any conditions and under any circumstances.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/3/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is “The Lord Is High and the Low Will See”? – 1“

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Questions about Spiritual Work—43

Posted on December 18th, 2023 at 7:14 am

Question: Does the Creator feel pleasure when I return to Him, through the reflected light, the pleasure He filled me with? After all, He does not feel a lack of anything.

Answer: Yes, you can be sure He receives pleasure from you.

Question: By annulling ourselves in the ten, do we allow our friends to elevate or lower us?

Answer: The main thing is to annul. It does not matter what I may experience at the same time: ups or downs. The main thing is that I nullify myself.

Question: What is humility?

Answer: Humility is when you accept the greatness of the Creator on any terms. The main thing is to come closer to Him.

Question: How does my egoism transform when I suppress it constantly, try to be good, and do not show it in a group?

Answer: It is hard to explain, but eventually, we will understand how our egoism turns into the correct Kli from the point of view of joy and the point of view of grief. We will see its unique transformations later.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/3/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is “The Lord Is High, and the Low Will See”? – 1“