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In Your Own Words

Posted on November 23rd, 2023

Question: How do we pray for what we lack?

Answer: In your own words. Tell me in your own words what you think you lack in order to be fully connected with your friends and with the Creator.

On the other hand, what in your egoism would you like to get rid of in order to adhere to your friends and to the Creator?

Comment: I literally hate my egoism.

My Response: Great! So you have something to ask for.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/5/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘A Ladder Is Set on the Earth, and Its Top Reaches Heaven,’ in the Work?“

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The Sin of the People of Israel and the Nations of the World

Posted on November 23rd, 2023

Question: What is essentially called the sin of the people of Israel, and what is the sin of the nations of the world?

Answer: They are both egoism. But the egoism of the people of Israel is central and fundamental, and the egoism of the nations of the world is much smaller and not so dependent on each other.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 11/5/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘A Ladder Is Set on the Earth, and Its Top Reaches Heaven,’ in the Work?“

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“According To the Tree of Life”

Posted on November 23rd, 2023

Question: What is the tree of life?

Answer: The tree of life is our path, which we walk not opposite to the Torah but clearly according to the Torah. Everyone connects with others by ties of kindness, love, and mutual assistance, closer and closer, from person to person. Then it is believed that people are going according to the tree of life.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 11/3/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Giving of the Torah – 2“

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First And Second Restriction

Posted on November 23rd, 2023

This is the meaning of our sages’ words (Beresheet Rabbah, end of Portion 12): “In the beginning, He contemplated creating the world with the quality of judgment [Din]. He saw that the world could not exist and brought forward the quality of mercy [Rachamim] and associated it with the quality of judgment” (Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” Item 58).

We want to receive pleasure; it is our nature. The first restriction says that it is forbidden to receive from the Creator for our own sake; we will not receive anything and will remain in the emptiness.

The Creator, as if, raised the quality of Malchut into Binah, meaning mixed the quality of judgment with the quality of mercy. After all, the world cannot exist, but only by restrictions. Therefore, even in our world, we can not only receive, but also give something, albeit purely egoistically.

The second restriction is the prohibition of using egoistic Kelim even for the sake of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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