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Posted on May 20th, 2024
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Inna writes:
I cannot stand being disliked; I have been this way since childhood. I always do my best to be loved: I give gifts; I do everything I’m told. And here I see how my people are disliked. I have been living here for 30 years and I feel ready to give up everything just to be loved. But on the other hand, I understand perfectly well that you can’t buy love that way. So what should I do?
Answer: Look for ways to get closer to other people.
Question: They don’t want us to be here. What kind of heart do you want to open to them? They say, “Maybe we will love you, just so you are not here.”
Answer: No, we are not talking about that. We received this from the Creator, and we cannot give in.
Question: Then what actions can we make to be loved? If you and I both have that desire, what should we do?
Answer: Show them our love, and if they do not agree, we are ready for war.
Question: What does it mean to show them love without giving in?
Answer: That we love them in our hearts. But if they do not agree to reciprocate, then we will be forced to fight.
Comment: Hamas is still nearby, here next to us. There is Hezbollah.
My Response: We can show that we want peace, we want friendship. If you are strong, you can say that.
Question: Is this the law of the East?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So, we must be strong for this?
Answer: Yes! This comes first!
Question: Do we have to show them this strength, that we are strong?
Answer: Yes, we must.
Question: Once Jabotinsky wrote an article: “The Iron Wall.” He said then that they will not back down from getting us out of here unless we create an “iron wall.” They must understand that this is impossible.
Does this enter into a state of love for us? Is this the construction of an “iron wall” that makes it impossible to throw us out of here?
Answer: Yes, that is the priority. We need to understand that, on one hand, we must come to peace with them, to mutual understanding. And on the other hand, we must always think about our security and not giving them the opportunity to capture us, conquer us, and so on.
That is the psychology of our neighbors, and there is nothing difficult to figure out here. Whoever they are, if they are our neighbors, especially our neighbors, then they are always against us.
Question: And we must show our strength?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And at the same time show that we are ready for peace, for communication, and so on?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Are these two states even possible, that you show strength and the second, that you are ready for peace?
Answer: Of course.
Question: So what is our miscalculation? We even sent them money, supplied them with gas, and more.
Answer: None of that does anything.
Question: What will?
Answer: Only strength.
Question: And what about what you always say that we must internally love our neighbor as ourselves, and so on? Where do you attribute this: to strength or to some other part?
Answer: To strength.
Question: Is that strength?
Answer: Yes.
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Then, when he sees that he is powerless to do anything for society, there is room for prayer to the Creator to help him and give him strength and desire to engage in love of others (Rabash, Article 17, “The Agenda of the Assembly”).
As a rule, a person does not have the strength to do something for the sake of others because it is against his nature. We are egoists, inherently focused only on ourselves. And here you must incorporate into your friends, think about them, and envision yourself merging with them.
Therefore Rabash says you must exert efforts, then you will see that you do not have the strength to get closer to them, and then you will turn to the upper force.
Question: It turns out that all this is just to appeal to the upper force?
Answer: Yes, this is important because only from there can you get help.
Question: And why is it arranged in such a way that a person cannot, through his own efforts, achieve the importance of his friends for himself?
Answer: Because we can only exert efforts in egoistic actions. But here, it means rising above egoistic forces into the realm where only altruism, bestowal, and the importance of others reign. All these qualities must develop among us and prevail.
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Question: What should I consider the point of no return, that this is my friend and I am going with him to the end until I fully realize my love for him?
Answer: The point of no return is your ultimate goal.
Question: In the process of spiritual work will I always find out if this is the friend with whom I should build love?
Answer: Yes, you can agree with each other that you will go to the end together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love of God and the Love of Man“
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Question: What does it mean to connect with the Creator in a supernatural way?
Answer: It means that you use everything you have at your disposal, in all your senses.
To strengthen a stable connection with the Creator, first and foremost you must be in a strong connection that leads to unity. To the extent that you are united with each other, the Creator will listen to you; otherwise, He will not.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/5/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?”
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Question: How does a person determine whether their pain stems from distancing from the Creator or from lacking fulfillment of desires? After all, there is confusion that occurs in the descent.
Answer: Everyone should integrate with their ten and reveal their reaction to what the Creator does. Then all the friends will have a clearer picture of what is happening to them.
Question: If someone in the ten experiences suffering from a lack of fulfillment, can we build a true spiritual deficiency above this? Or is it the individual work of each?
Answer: No, this can be a group effort.
Question: What should our prayer be about?
Answer: Prayer should always be about coming closer to the Creator. Then suffering will disappear.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/24, Writings of Rabash “But the More They Afflicted Them”
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Question: In the article “Jacob Went Out,” Rabash writes that when a person rises to a higher degree and feels it, this feeling violates the principle of faith above reason. And through violation of this principle, a person is thrown back down.
Is it possible to feel the upper degree without violating the principle of faith above reason?
Answer: Yes, that is how we rise. When we receive information from an upper degree, we try to ascend to it, hold ourselves in faith above reason, and simultaneously receive whatever is possible within reason. And so we continue.
Question: Am I working with a sense of the upper degree but with a sense of where I want to go in the next moment?
Answer: One must feel this since one can understand everything only in action.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Went Out”
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Question: How can we consciously go through all the states as corrections that bring us closer to the Creator?
Answer: If we relate everything to the Creator, want to understand what is happening to us, and ask Him to bring us closer to Him, then we act correctly.
Question: If we begin to translate all negative states into the idea that He is sending them to us, then is this a correction and not a punishment?
Answer: There are no punishments at all. Correction is not a punishment. The Creator always straightens us up.
The correction of Kelim is a state when, after the work done, in those places where we have experienced troubles, suffering and blows, we feel gratitude and love.
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In spirituality, there are no letters, as I have already elaborated on before. All the multiplication in spirituality relies on the letters derived from the materiality of this world (Baal HaSulam, Letter 14).
Letters are a record of the forces that a person must evoke when reading Kabbalistic texts. That is why Kabbalists when they work on texts, relate their feelings to words and letters and at the same time, can change their powers and impact the environment.
Question: What letters do we need?
Answer: We need practically all letters. And there are only a few of them in Hebrew, only twenty-two. It is said that it is the shortest alphabet of all.
Some alphabets include forty-seven letters and close to sixty, but here are only twenty-two.
Therefore, we need to understand what each letter suggests, what it implies, and what combinations of forces are in it. This is very serious.
When a person begins to approach the meaning of the letters, he feels how they are playing in him. And then he reads them differently. He is no longer in a hurry because each letter evokes a resonance, a reaction in him. In such a way, he gradually begins to feel what the text wants to convey to him.
It is said: there is no renewal in the light, but there is creation, that is, when it is necessary to convey movement over the letters, and the form of the higher ones is revealed.
The form of the higher ones is the following degree. And movement atop the letters means that a person, desiring to reach the next degree, forms an intention above his interests, i.e., not for himself.
In principle, we need to connect with letters in our feelings. Then we can understand what the Kabbalists want to convey to us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter 14
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