Question: External influences often unsettle us. How can we keep from these hindrances and enter the lessons with even greater effort?

Answer: The fact is, there is nothing that would unsettle us. On the contrary, we need to look at these actions as extra help because we are given an additional measure of egoism. It seems that it pushes us further back, but in reality this is only so we would unite even more with each other and with the Creator above it.

Therefore, we cannot consider everything that happens to us as obstacles. These are the interferences we rise above. Just as at school we were given all kinds of tasks that needed to be solved, so it is here. Of course, we must make efforts to solve these problems, cling to what separates us, repels us, rejects us, and distances us, but still look at it positively.

Then, we will have a common aspiration forward. Then we will always be happy, no matter the problems.

Question: So the strengthening with which we must enter the lesson is to overcome the obstacles?

Answer: What else is there to rise above if not obstacles? Therefore, whoever the Creator wishes to bring closer faster is given greater obstacles.

Question: How can we keep holding on if we are being pushed away from each other more and more and need to make maximum effort?

Answer: It seems to you that you are holding on to an old place. You are rising all the time.

At the same time, you need to constantly make internal efforts, do not fall behind, do not distance yourself from your friends, from your tens, from the topic of the lesson. Always feel like you are together.

After all, our task is to reveal ourselves as being in the same connection, in the same field, in the same system called the soul.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/20, “The Ten”

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