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Posted on May 30th, 2024

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Questions about Spiritual Work—127

Posted on May 30th, 2024

Question: Is recognition of evil a necessary part of faith above reason?

Answer: It is necessary because we are all evil.

Question: Where do the right intentions come from? From reason or faith above reason?

Answer: From the light of the Creator.

Question: How can I stop myself from criticizing the seemingly unworthy behavior of a neighbor?

Answer: You just need to stop yourself to criticize others. It is unacceptable.

Question: In the ten we unite, support each other, and feel great pleasure, but do not associate it with the Creator. It is hard to keep Him in focus all the time. How do we return this pleasure to Him?

Answer: You must connect yourself, the Creator, pleasure, and all other elements of this connection. You will see that everything will be easy to do this way, easy.

Question: What helps us rise above evil so that the Creator honors us with goodness?

Answer: We must desire sincerely to rise above evil, and the Creator will help.

Question: What is this force that reveals evil? Am I revealing evil or the Creator?

Answer: The Creator. The Light of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/9/24, Writings of Rabash “The Order of the Work”

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Food for the Soul

Posted on May 30th, 2024

Question: It is said that the food for the soul is faith. What else can fill the soul besides faith?

Answer: Any impulse to bestow is between you and between you and the Creator. It fills the soul.

Question: We always have food for the soul: we have a teacher, primary sources, and friends. How can we increase the desire for the reward to receive vessels of bestowal?

Answer: It depends on how you are connected. You must constantly show each other how important it is.

Question: If the Creator takes away the connection that nourished your soul, then does one need to look for another connection or try to awaken what He took away?

Answer: Perhaps what He took away is no longer usable and we need to look for something new. Try it. Do not delay; you must immediately respond to such conditions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Knowledge and Faith”

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How Should We Respond to the Creator?

Posted on May 30th, 2024

Question: You said that I should try to return to the Creator my reaction to what I see in the world and what I discover in life. What does it mean?

Answer: This can be said differently: respond to the Creator to what He awakens in your mind and heart.

Question: And how should I respond to this?

Answer: I do not know how you feel. After all, everything that happens to you and in the world is by the Creator.

Question: What is the correct response to the Creator for everything He does with a person?

Answer: Thank the Creator. But you have to feel this within yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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Follow the Teacher

Posted on May 30th, 2024

Question: How does one avoid confusing faith above reason with faith below reason?

Answer: Faith above reason is faith despite reason. Faith below reason is when you invent faith, which does not require any work.

Question: Do we need to confirm that a righteous person is righteous?

Answer: No, it is absolutely not necessary. Faith above reason can arise without any connection between a person and his teacher.

Question: How do we find the righteous man we follow in the ten?

Answer: You need to turn to the teacher teaching you and do actions that help you adhere to him so that you can follow his words as truth.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith and Reason”

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Feel the True Reality

Posted on May 30th, 2024

Question: Is our ultimate task to feel the correct reality within ourselves, that is, to move from the external picture of the world to the internal one?

Answer: Of course! Undoubtedly. We must arrive at the correct picture of the universe without any distortions. After all, it is precisely egoism, which deliberately acts as an obstacle for us, that projects our inner reality outward and shows it to us as if it exists outside.

At present, within myself, I only feel my inanimate, vegetative, and animate states. But my human state I sense outside of myself because I am an absolute egoist.

To the extent that I become connected to external objects, accept them as my own, with participation, with sacrifice, even with love, to that extent, I feel them within me, as a mother feels the fetus within her, and to that extent, the entire universe seems to enter me.

Question: Is this already the end when I feel the entire universe completely?

Answer: Yes, of course, the end! Because this is the culmination of my unity with all of nature. When all of nature enters me, and I feel it within me and become an integral part of this nature, then the sum of all these impressions, parts, is felt within me as my adhesion with the Creator, with the highest common thought of nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We don’t Know it” 1/12/12

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Commitment of the Kabbalist

Posted on May 30th, 2024

Question: At one time, while giving lectures, you mentioned the New Age movement but stopped doing it. Why?

Answer: I do not remember why I touched upon that movement. I have always taught pure Kabbalah based on the sources of Baal HaSulam. All the years of my life after the age of 30, I have been doing only this and do not hide that I do not know all the other sources well.

I do not engage in comparative analysis between Kabbalah and, say, Sufism, religions, or philosophies. Not at all! I am a specialist specifically in the field of Kabbalistic methodology.

And every time, I am convinced of how pure, strict, and sharply directed toward the goal of creation it is and how much it is the goal of our evolution. That is why I have no desire to be engaged in anything else! I am not interested in any New Age! There is no need to talk about that at all.

I am not interested in anything other than a deep internal understanding of the upper world through the methodology of Kabbalah because I see how it works.

It takes a person many years to study it, but it fully, tangibly introduces him to a new world that reveals itself to him in his attainment, sensation, in all his states, past, and future. He understands, feels, and comprehends everything within himself!

When you see this, you recognize it when it forms in you and no longer have any questions about other methods that people have invented. You remain only with this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference between Kabbalah, Science and New Age” 1/28/12

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A Soul Divided in Half

Posted on May 30th, 2024

Question: Why do we feel that there are some good and evil people and deeds outside of us?

Answer: This is our internal and external perception of reality since everything inside is depicted to us as kind, our own, and everything outside is harmful, evil, alien.

Question: As a rule, a person, no matter what he does can always justify himself. And how can we justify those “scoundrels” that we see outside?

Answer: You should reveal that it is you. Through understanding, reflection, and then through correcting yourself with the help of the surrounding society, to the point that you begin to perceive the world that way.

Question: You often talk about the world as a part of yourself, but at the same time sometimes you say: “They, they, they…”. What do you mean by “they”?

Answer: They are my thoughts, qualities, and feelings that I perceive as existing outside of me. That is, these are my thoughts, but I do not agree with them.

Question: Do you treat them as external factors?

Answer: Of course! How else?

Question: In this case, what is your task? To change these qualities?

Answer: By working on yourself make these qualities feel positive, and then to this extent they will become mine, in my explicit feeling. And to the extent that they do not clearly feel like mine, they will seem external to me.

Being in the spiritual world means that I feel both bad and good qualities, and in general, the whole world exists in me and at the same time outside of me. This duality helps me to correct myself faster and feel the whole world as my personal inner whole, like the ten Sefirot of my soul. And there is nothing but this soul, and all that I perceive is all its parts.

Question: How often do you see progress in your change of perception?

Answer: This progress is start-stop, impulsive, which can be compared to a tiger before a jump: first it sways, and then jumps, then sways and jumps again. And every time you jump, attainment is achieved, the inclusion of some additional, supposedly former external, area.

We study in Kabbalah that the soul was divided into internal and external parts: Galgalta veEynaim–AHAP. Or to the root-soul-body (Shoresh-Neshama-Guf), which a person feels in himself, and to the garments and structures, that is, buildings and the world (Levush-Heichal), which he feels outside himself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We don’t Now It” 1/12/12