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Posted on June 2nd, 2024
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Question: What does it mean to be in a natural connection with the Creator? What does this give a person?
Answer: This gives a person the opportunity to see the whole world as the Creator sees it, to influence others as the Creator, and so on.
When a person is in some kind of contact with the Creator, it gives him fuel for the next stage called “love your neighbor.” A person receives such an ability and can already love by being in connection with Him.
Question: What is the difference between the altruistic quality of bestowing to one’s neighbor and loving one’s neighbor?
Answer: The altruistic property of bestowing to one’s neighbor is not based on universal laws. It is just that society, as a result of its development, concludes that this is better, more convenient, and safer. Therefore, it accepts this condition or agrees that it is good. But in fact, this property is opposite to our nature.
After all, if we want to come to absolute unity among us, to “love your neighbor as yourself,” we must change our nature. It is not enough for us to say that the law of the Creator is an altruistic attitude toward each other. Everyone needs to be internally convinced that our current nature is absolute evil and that that the similarity to the Creator offered to us is absolute good.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 5/9/24
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Question: When should we pray for our correction and when for a friend?
Answer: First pray for your friends and then for yourself.
Question: Besides asking the Creator for a friend, can I help him with the power of my thought?
Answer: Of course you can. It will be better than asking the Creator for him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Power of Thought”
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Question: Why did the Creator let us be born in a physical body without a soul? After all, if there were no body, there would be no evil inclination.
Answer: No, the evil inclination is not related to our body, to our flesh. The evil inclination is our egoistic desires.
Question: What does it mean: “I thank You for returning my soul with compassion”?
Answer: It means thanking the Creator for wanting to advance you under any circumstances.
Question: How can we not lose the work that the Creator gives us?
Answer: Engage in it all the time and try to move forward.
Question: If the Creator gave me a chance and a gift to do an action of bestowal and then emptiness comes, what should my work be?
Answer: Ask the Creator to give you more such states.
Question: Can automatic gratitude to the Creator become heartfelt, and how does this happen?
Answer: How this happens, I do not know, but it can happen.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”
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Question: Can we say that at some point in history humanity took the wrong path?
Answer: Of course! Since the time of Aristotle and Plato.
At one point they shouted: “Under no circumstances give science away to the ignorant! They will misuse it, they will sell it to the rich, they will put it at the service of progress!
But we need spiritual progress, not technological progress! We cannot open universities to everyone!
Science should be pursued only by people who with its help want to understand the meaning of life, the lofty matters that lie beyond the boundaries of our world!”
Science should develop only in the form in which it raises a person above our world! Anyone who might use it for evil purposes has no right to engage in it!
Even the invention of, say, a special meat grinder is also evil. You do not need it, and you can live without it! After all, in the end, it is by adapting science to our world that you begin its development.
There is no other way, either external development or internal. The world followed the external path of development. Historically, this happened 3,000 years ago.
Question: But was there another option for development? Or did we still have to go through this stage?
Answer: It is hard to say because in order to understand the answer to this question, you need to be in two worlds, in the duality that we are talking about.
Everything comes from the Creator, and at the same time depends on our freewill, on our choice.
We are not able to compare these two free functions; our mind is not adapted to this. To understand this, you need to be in both worlds: the spiritual one and ours at the same time. Then you will not have contradictions; you can perceive absolutely opposite facts and information as complementary and not mutually exclusive.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Dead-End Path of Human Development” 1/24/12
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Question: Is it possible to call your powerlessness in front of the evil inclination a punishment?
Answer: It is possible, but it is not necessarily a punishment because the Creator helps you through this.
Question: Which is better to do right now: to ask the Creator for mercy or to be grateful and be glad that He is working with me?
Answer: It is always good to give thanks, but sometimes you have to ask.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Knowledge and Faith”
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Question: How can we reveal the force of thought above reason in the ten?
Answer: By acting in faith above reason, we grasp the higher degree with this faith.
Reason comes later and is clothed in the faith that we have achieved in this way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Power of Thought”
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Question: When we try to annul ourselves in front of our friends, criticism immediately arises about what we see in them. How can we work with it?
Answer: We have a desire to criticize everyone and not leave any actions we see without criticism.
This quality is inherent in us initially in the form of desire. But if we do not want to agree with it, then we gradually eradicate this desire from ourselves.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Receiving from the Friends the Force of Faith Above Reason”
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Question: For thousands of years all religions have been saying that there is no knowledge, there is only faith. Many of us came to Kabbalah to comprehend the Creator, that is, to gain knowledge. It seems there is some contradiction here.
Should we have both knowledge and faith or is faith only above knowledge?
Answer: The point is that the faith we practice in the wisdom of Kabbalah is not an ordinary faith, but faith in the fact that the Creator is the upper force of nature.
It is precisely Him that we attain in our mind and feelings by becoming like Him in the measure of bestowal. In this way, we begin to understand the Creator and the world He created.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Working In Faith Above Reason”
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