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Posted on December 21st, 2023
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Question: Rabash writes that in proportion to the multiplication of good deeds, the Creator gives us gifts, as is customary between lovers. What kind of gifts are these?
Answer: Gifts are the revelation of the Creator’s actions. From them, we will understand the system we are in between us and the Creator.
Question: What are the actions of Maase Merkava (action of creation) and Maase Bereshit (primary action)?
Answer: These are actions of our assembly as we connect in the ten: men, women, and then all together we help each other. There are a lot of different nuances here.
Question: What volume should a friend’s prayer take up in my prayer?
Answer: I do not think it can be measured. You have to make sure that your friend’s heart is together with your heart.
Question: How do we hold on to the Creator in the group?
Answer: By holding on to Him together.
Question: How do I keep my friends in the group?
Answer: Hold on to the Creator and your friends and be a conduit between the Creator and them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/9/23, Writings if Rabash Letter No. 43
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Question: How does a person feel the pause between wars with an evil inclination within himself?
Answer: He is changing his work from bestowal to reception.
If before he could only bestow, and through it bring contentment to the Creator, now he can also receive and at the same time do the same to the Creator.
Question: What is changing in the transition from just bestowing to the Creator, to receiving from Him for the sake of bestowal?
Answer: The change in our desires takes place. Either I bestow and bring contentment to the Creator or I receive and bring contentment to the Creator. This is a very big difference.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/23, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 26
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Comment: There are commandments relating to the Creator, to one’s neighbor, or a person himself that we can understand. And there are commandments that relate, for example, to the Temple, the land of Israel, and to inanimate nature.
My Response: That is right. We must have a certain intention, purpose, and a specific attitude toward nature, home, animals, in general—to everything. Through our relationships, we can get closer or move away from each other. Therefore, it is very important to keep the commandments.
Question: The sources say the purpose of all commandments is to unite creation. How, for example, is the commandment about cultivating land related to the uniting creation?
Answer: You need to know how to treat the land, nature, water, air, everything to keep nature as healthy, whole, and holistic as possible. That is in the commandments.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/21/23
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Question: Some commandments can be explained logically, for example, washing hands helps maintain a person’s health. Observing the Sabbath commandment is also understandable, people need to rest.
But some commandments are completely inexplicable; they are just some actions to perform. How can this be understood?
Answer: The fact is we do not understand everything in nature.
In principle, commandments are a little irrational from our perspective; they lack common sense.
However, if we had a deeper understanding of nature, we would grasp where these instructions, which we call commandments, originate.
The point is that everything in them stems from an understanding of the higher nature. And if we delve deeper into the environment around us, we will see that all commandments are as rational and necessary as those we can comprehend and analyze.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/21/23
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Question: How are the qualities of “father,” “mother,” and “embryo” implemented in the ten?
Answer: All your inner movements toward each other add up together, and you form one single mother and one single father.
By connecting your desires, you reach a state called the “uterus,” the place where the embryo develops, i.e., interconnection, mutual bestowal, and love. In it, the Creator is revealed between you.
Parents in spirituality are your friends who help you and pull you up.
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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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Question: People who know the concealed part of the Torah are Kabbalists. But does a Kabbalist also have a part he has not yet attained?
Answer: Each person, even those who have already revealed the Creator, has a part that they attain and a part that they have not. We are not yet in the final correction.
Therefore, we always go in faith above reason, remove a small portion from the concealed part of the Torah, and turn it into revealed to us.
Question: The concealed part of the spiritual action is called a “candle commandment.” How should one act in the ten to reveal the light of the Torah?
Answer: By coming closer to each other with your hearts until you discover that fire and light are revealed inside them.
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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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Question: Why are there commandments that can be performed as external actions, like putting on tefillin, etc. and others that can only be performed internally, such as, “do not make an idol,” “exalt the Creator,” and so on?
Answer: This suggests that there are commandments under which we must internally adjust ourselves to a certain attitude toward a person or some action. The most important thing in fulfilling these commandments is our attitude.
There are commandments in which the main thing is not the attitude toward someone or something but the physical fulfillment itself. Therefore, the commandments differ from each other. But this does not mean that each of them is more or less important relative to the other; rather, it is that they can be sorted according to such criteria.
Question: Why does Baal HaSulam say that there are only two commandments in the world: reception and bestowal?
Answer: It refers to a person’s actions. That is why Baal HaSulam calls them commandments of reception and commandments of bestowal. That is, we must learn how to receive from any person, from the world, and from nature, and bestow in accordance with this. We practically do nothing else.
Question: Does this have something to do with the division of the 613 commandments into commandments to perform an act or to abstain from an act?
Answer: No. This is a completely separate division.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/21/23
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