Entries in the 'Group Work' Category

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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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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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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One Subject with the Strength of the Ten

938.01Question: If someone in the ten reaches a higher degree, do the others also end up on it or does everyone stay on their own degree?

Answer: Imagine that now your entire ten is in our lesson. We are all trying to unite, and the whole ten strives to be like one person in whom all desires, all goals, and all intentions come together. This is the state we strive to reach, and we will achieve it.

Then we will be one subject who wants to attain the Creator. But the strength in it will be from ten, the intention from ten. In accordance with this, we will break forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “World, Year, Soul”

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Everyone Has Their Own Work

507.05Question: You said that a woman’s desire runs in depth, and a man’s desire in breadth. How does this connection and filling happen? How can we feel this point in the ten?

Answer: This is not your work, but the work of the Creator. You only have to identify your flaws and pray for their correction.

Question: Is it enough just to ask the Creator to correct a flaw? What else is required of us?

Answer: Only to ask for complete correction.
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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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Toward Each Other

032.01Question: It happens that you ask for a friend and immediately feel how the Creator helps him. And sometimes it seems that you want to help and ask, but the person cannot accept this help, and you feel that the prayer is not going through. Are there any conditions for a person to be able to accept help?

Answer: If you open your heart, then most likely he will open his own and accept your help. It all depends on you.

The influencer, the giver, must be absolutely selfless, like the Creator. Then he can hope that his action will be correct.
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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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What Does Connection with the Friends Reveal?

962.2Question: If my desire to fulfill another person stems from a desire to do good to them, then to check my attitude toward them I need the evil inclination to check whether I am acting above hatred, separation, or rejection. Is this the flaw?

Answer: The evil inclination is inherent in us from the beginning, so absolutely all of your desires have a flaw.

But you can see how much you are within these flaws only when you start working on connection with your friends.
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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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