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Based on the Connection

527Question: If during the connection in the group something opens up between us within reason, should we raise it as a group above reason? If so, what is the right way to do it?

Answer: If something is revealed to you within reason, then based on the connection between each other, try to rise above reason together, and then you will succeed. Try.

Question: Will this effort come from our good connections?

Answer: You will see it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Wisdom Cries Out in the Streets”

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Become a Tool in the Hands of the Creator

294.4Question: How do I become a tool in the hands of the Creator?

Answer: Completely annul yourself before the Creator and thus continue your work throughout the journey.

You have a mind and a heart that you must glue to the Creator so that what comes from Him fills them. Then, you will be able to do whatever the Creator desires.

Question: But it is a problem for us to agree with everything that is happening. Is there something else needed?

Answer: If you want to perform such exercises in the ten, it is best to focus on the desire that the Creator fill your mind and heart and that all your actions, thoughts, and decisions would come only from connection with Him. That is being a slave to the Creator.

Question: Why does slavery of desire always lead us to a dead end, but being a slave of the Creator promises us absolute freedom?

Answer: That is His wish.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Wisdom Cries Out in the Streets”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—94

282.01Question: The degree of overcoming faults in us determines what stage we are at. If we add gratitude to the Creator and our friends, how does this affect the degree?

Answer: Gratitude strengthens this degree. It does not lift us, but strengthens the degree.

Question: What does it mean to be in a spiritual framework?

Answer: It means constantly being in connection with the Creator.

Question: Lately I have felt a great responsibility to not bring hatred into the world. When I feel hatred, I fear that I am destroying it. What is the correct prayer in this state?

Answer: The most correct, simple prayer is to ask the Creator to be revealed to everyone in this world, and then everyone will understand why they live and how to live.

Question: After reading an article, everyone takes something out of it according to their feelings. How can we synchronize so we come to one common understanding and feeling?

Answer: It depends on the Creator. He cannot yet give all of you a common impression of some spiritual objects at the same time. You are yet lacking a common Kli for this.

Question: Did I understand correctly that no one in the ten can attain the next degree until everyone does the previous one?

Answer: No, this is not entirely true. A person can rise and independently incorporate in different tens. It is still ahead of us. The main thing is to strive for connection.

Question: What can we do with the desires of the material world that are constantly growing?

Answer: As much as possible, they should be satisfied, but not at the expense of connection in the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “World, Year, Soul”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 3/29/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “And the Lord Appeared to Him at the Oaks of Mamre”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar

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Selected Highlights

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Constant Examination

938.07Question: With what or with whom can we compare ourselves in the ten? Is it possible to take an ideal ten as a benchmark and compare ourselves with it?

Answer: No, we cannot see the ten outside of ourselves in the correct form, not at all. We must examine our ten and aim it toward the Creator. By identifying our egoistic qualities within it, we ask the Creator to correct them.

A person must constantly examine himself regarding how he evaluates his friends and whether he looks at them with a good or evil eye.

Question: Can we combine all the desires accumulated during the day into one desire and bring it to the ten?

Answer: No, a person has many different desires that change throughout the day. One must identify them, unite them, and elevate them, and turn to the Creator and ask for their correction. This is what everyone in the group should do.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Sightly Flaw in You”

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Learn from the Creator by His Actions

294.2Question: Should we desire to adhere to the Creator because this makes us partners and helps Him fulfill the purpose of creation?

Answer: The Creator does not need our help. But we should go exactly according to our feelings and learn from the Torah.

The most important thing our teachers tell us is to learn from the Creator by His actions. And His actions are bestowal, love, and unity.

Question: How can I verify that I am performing all actions based on connection with the Creator?

Answer: If you perform these actions based on connection with your friends and want to come closer to the Creator, then you can perform these actions with the Creator. But first, there must be unity in the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Wisdom Cries Out in the Streets”

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Commandments that Must Not Be Violated

253The issue of “shall die and not breach” applies only to three Mitzvot [commandments]: idolatry, bloodshed, and incest (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 88, “All the Work Is Only Where There Are Two Ways – 1”).

Idolatry (Avodah Zarah) means that a person is forced to worship some idols, i.e., to magnify someone or something as if it were the Creator or a part of the Creator.

Incest (Gilui HaRayot) is when a person is compelled to commit adultery with, suppose, someone else’s wife. From the spiritual point of view, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife” means do not be jealous of another person.

Bloodshed (Shfichut Damim) is when he is compelled to kill others. But we must not harm anyone. In these three cases, a person is obliged to restrain himself and not violate these conditions, even if he is threatened with death.

Question: Is it possible to disconnect from the Creator in these cases?

Answer: No, all three conditions consist precisely of not disconnecting from the Creator under any circumstances.

A person is responsible only to himself and to the Creator for observing these three commandments.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/6/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “All the Work Is Only Where There Are Two Ways – 1”

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Service to the Creator

237This means that he believes that the servitude is the actual reality.

Afterward, it is the opposite: His whole work compels him, his reason. In other words, the Dvekut impels him to work.

However, he believes that everything he sees within reason is all above reason. And this was not so before, when everything that is in the form of above reason is within reason (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 205, “Wisdom Cries Out in the Streets”).

A person believes that serving the Creator is the true reality, and this is how it should be.

Servitude (slavery) implies that we do not act according to our own reason and do not make our own decisions, but rather, we carry out commands.

Afterward, it is the opposite: His whole work compels him, his reason. In other words, the Dvekut impels him to work. That is, initially a person went into servitude against his desires, but when he reaches servitude, he sees that the adhesion compels him to it.

However, he believes that everything he sees within reason is all above reason.

All that he sees within knowledge in his feeling in a clear way is above reason. Whereas before he arrived at this, his faith was within reason. That is, there was a coup within him.

We still cannot understand this. This article is difficult for us at the moment, but to come closer to spirituality, we must read such articles. They say that everything we see above is below. Everything we see in this world below is above in the spiritual world. Based on this, we can say that we will come to the opposite.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Wisdom Cries Out in the Streets”

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Despite Reason

232.05Question: Is faith above reason an action or a state that leads to action with the right intention?

Answer: Faith above reason is a state, and based on it, you can perform actions in faith above reason. If you can perform actions despite your reason, desire, and understanding because it is required, it can be called faith above reason. We need to work on it constantly.

Question: What is true knowledge?

Answer: True knowledge emanates from the light and is clothed in our corrected qualities.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Wisdom Cries Out in the Streets”

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Correct Flaws in a Timely Manner

530Question: If we talk about spiritual beauty, can it be said that this is the revelation of qualities through the ten? In other words, by displaying my qualities, do I recognize flaws in myself, or do my qualities still reveal themselves and the ten helps me turn them around?

Answer: Until you come to absolute integration between you in the ten, flaws will manifest in each of you, and will affect the others. Therefore, you will constantly need to take care to correct your flaws in timely manner, each time in something different.

Question: Do I see these flaws through the ten or does the ten show them to me? How do they manifest in us?

Answer: Usually, they manifest in connection with friends. But, in general, they are revealed by the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “A Sightly Flaw in You”

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