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Posted on July 19th, 2024
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Question: At conventions we usually gather in random tens. What is the path that I should I take with it? What should I strive for?
Answer: To annul yourself in order to connect with the ten in one integral, small system where each of us practically disappears and we feel something common: integrality, mutual complementing of everyone in everything.
Sometimes we go from the perspective that we need to bestow to the Creator, and for this, we must connect. Or we can take another path: first think about the friends, not to mention the fact that this is necessary for establishing contact with the Creator. Both ways are valid. This is called “commandments between people and the Creator.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for convention”
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Question: How can we develop the habit of mind that everything comes from the Creator and everything is the Creator in our senses?
Answer: Forcibly keep yourself in it all the time.
Question: Do habits of mind have to go through a certain cycle?
Answer: Yes, but it is all close to us. We must understand that what seems spiritual to us—the Creator, and so on—is much, much closer than we think.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/1/24, Writings of Rabash “Ruin by Elders—Construction; Construction by Youths—Ruin”
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Question: Does our joy and gratitude from playing spirituality depend on how well we fulfill the Torah and commandments?
Answer: It depends on how you strive for connection with the Creator.
Question: It is said that the Creator wishes to delight creation not because of a lack (Hisaron). Does this mean that we too should act without Hisaron?
Answer: The Creator has a great Hisaron in drawing us to Him. We need Hisaron for the connection of friends and then for the collective ascent to the Creator.
Question: Does the fire of shame draw us closer to Him or repel us?
Answer: The fire of shame only brings you closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/27/24, Writings of Rabash “Woe unto You Who Await the Day of the Lord”
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Question: When I sit in a lesson with my ten, a lot of unrelated thoughts run through my head. I understand that during the lesson I should pray for my friends to be able to bestow to them. How can I succeed in this?
Answer: First of all, during the lesson, we should initially think about how to help everyone unite. I was brought here by various egoistic goals and rewards. But now that I am here, I should think about how to do what will benefit others, and I do not need any personal gain. My benefit will be only in bestowing to others. Then I will truly exist in the spiritual space.
Question: But what is the process itself? I understand that I need to ask the Creator for my friends. How do I do this? How can I check whether I have asked or not?
Answer: This will manifest in gestures, words, thoughts—in everything within you. If you do it only for others and not for yourself, it is felt. A person kind of floats in the air; at this time, he is considered an angel. An angel is a natural altruistic force.
Question: What should I do with the resistance that increases?
Answer: Work on it. This is how you acquire the screen, meaning you ask the Creator to give you the ability to act correctly.
Comment: But the resistance stops me.
My Response: No, you must ask. Ask and act. Act and ask.
Question: Is it enough to just remember this?
Answer: Try not to leave this state. If you do, return immediately! Meanwhile, ask the Creator not to throw you out of it again. After all, it was He who made you forget and leave the thought about your friends.
Start working, and you will see how a different order of thoughts will gradually form within you; you will begin to exist outside yourself. This will slowly allow you to distance yourself from your “I,” from your egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for Convention”
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Question: Are the souls that are here today the same souls from past generations or are they, as it were, new awakenings?
Answer: A soul is a desire aimed at attaining the quality of bestowal, at connecting with others. Each time it is new because it goes through all sorts of changes. So it cannot be said that it is the same soul as before. There is no such thing.
You can rise to the same level that Abraham was on, and then you will literally feel everything that he felt as if you dwell in him. It is not the same soul, but what is called Ibur Neshamot—the impregnation of souls.
Question: When people awaken spiritually, must they necessarily have a Reshimo from a previous state, or is it a new awakening?
Answer: There is nothing new. The Creator created one unified soul called Adam from the word “Domeh (similar), that is, similar to the Creator. Then it shattered into many parts, each of which is a private soul that is in each of us and in general in all people in all generations.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/20, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”
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Question: How can you combine exerting effort and working in joy?
Answer: Why can’t there be joy when you make an effort?
Question: It seems that effort is a feeling of some kind of lack, an evil inclination, and you need to work on it.
Answer: You should ask to feel joy too.
Question: So joy should not precede effort?
Answer: As you ask, so it will be.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/24/24, Writings of Rabash “The Creator Observed Their Works”
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Question: What should prayer be like? After all, we must ask the Creator not only to take away suffering and, through this, to better connect with Him, but also to correct the shortcomings that caused this suffering.
Answer: No, we only need to think about how to change our relationship toward suffering and where it comes from.
Question: If we pray for help for a suffering friend, is the entire ten undergoing a general correction of our connections?
Answer: Yes, you must join as if immersed in it. Then everyone can give a little strength to reduce the friend’s suffering.
Question: With thoughts and feelings that you are in sadness, trouble, pain, and grief, do we show dissatisfaction with the Creator?
Answer: In general, this is true. You just need to figure out why you are dissatisfied and why the Creator wants to give you such a state. What can you do about it? How do you get out of this state? It is your job.
Question: What is the factor that influences the feeling of the Creator’s answer to prayer?
Answer: It is as much as I am connected am I with my friends and I can connect myself with them to have one united Kli.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/30/24, Writings of Rabash “A Request for Help”
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