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Posted on August 26th, 2024
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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that people are divided into two types: 10% are altruists and 90% are egoists. What is the root of this division?
Answer: This stems from the properties of nature. The light, when creating the vessel (Kli), forms it from ten Sefirot (emanations, parts). The uppermost part is Keter, the pure property of giving. Then come Hochma, Bina, Hesed, Gevurah, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut, which is the part most opposite to the property of giving.
Therefore, between Keter, the property of complete giving, and Malchut, the property of complete receiving, are all our other properties. Based on this, we can say that 10% of people living on Earth strive or would like to live in a society of giving, love, and mutual assistance.
Question: And 90% are pure egoists who only want to use others?
Answer: Not entirely pure, but generally inclined toward egoism to a greater and greater extent depending on what dominates in them: egoism or altruism. Nevertheless, closer to Malchut are those parts of humanity that possess enormous egoism.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 7/11/24
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Question: Can we say that a friend’s absence from a group meeting is a punishment for them? After all, we should judge ourselves, and it is more appropriate to justify our friends saying that they are fulfilling the Creator’s mission in the material world.
Answer: Yes if that is truly the case. But if it is not, then there is no need to lie.
Question: How can I truly know what the friend is doing and the reasons for their absence?
Answer: Then justify them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/7/24, Writings of Rabash “Hear, My Son, Your Father’s Morals – 1”
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Question: Does Knesset Israel (the assembly of Israel) include only corrected souls or do we also belong to it since we aspire to the Creator?
Answer: No, Knesset Israel includes only corrected souls.
Question: Then how is this different from the soul of Adam HaRishon?
Answer: Adam HaRishon is the collective vessel that includes absolutely all people, and we are only talking about a certain limited number of people who aspire to the Creator. Therefore, our goal is to become corrected, to enter Knesset Israel, and to be included in the Shechina
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/7/24, Writings of Rabash “Hear, My Son, Your Father’s Morals – 1”
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Spiritual work is not carried out by our mind. We need to adapt this program, install ourselves so that we work on a slightly different principle and so the program would be updated more and more at each of the 120 degrees. Each of them consists of many sub-steps.
Imagine if you sat down at your computer now, opened it, and saw that a familiar program became slightly different, and the next day it changed even more. And you must establish an increasingly complex, integral connection between you in which the particles begin to connect with each other into a system that begins to form a field from all sorts of straight lines of communication.
Spirituality is a field. In it there are no connections like “me – you,” “him – her,” and so on. Between all of us there is a kind of disk, and in it an infinite number of connections. I can be connected with everyone simultaneously, and this is constantly changing and leads to a general correction when this disk turns into a sphere. That is the gradual revelation of the Creator, the upper world.
Question: How does it turn from a disk into a sphere?
Answer: This is a qualitative change that happens by itself. Depending on our efforts, the program is constantly reinstalled and begins to include connections that were previously only linear: “me – you.” And suddenly, it starts to work in stereo, on many lines. There are also such examples in technology.
We only make efforts. In accordance with them, the program is reinstalled and creates new possibilities in us that we did not know about before. Although I create new efforts, I do not know what program I will receive. From below this is called MAN, and from above—MAD, a system that is revealed from above.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Question: How can we attain perfect faith so as not to sadden the Creator, but only bring Him contentment?
Answer: This is a fundamental question: How do we feel that He wishes to elevate us to the highest degree, and we also desire only that. When our desires align, we will indeed find ourselves on that degree.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/5/24, Writings of Rabash “He Is One and His Name, One”
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Question: You mentioned that in the article of Rabash “The Torah is Acquired Through Suffering,” it speaks not only about the sufferings of love; meaning, not just the inner experiences from the lack of the light of Torah. What other sufferings are mentioned?
Answer: First of all, we must feel sorrow over the fact that the Creator is concealed and that only we can reveal Him; otherwise, He will remain concealed, and that is not good. Secondly, your friends, like you, are still in concealment, and we ask for all the friends and for the whole world. The main thing is to ask.
Question: Can the sufferings of friends become my own deficiency (Hissaron)?
Answer: Typically a Hissaron is a personal sensation of the need for the Creator’s help.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering”
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Question: What is the spiritual essence of gratitude to the Creator?
Answer: We must thank the Creator for creating us and for bringing us to the method of Kabbalah through which we can enter a two-way connection with Him and reach certain degrees of connection. As it is said: “I am for the Creator, and the Creator is for me.”
Question: What does gratitude to the Creator mean as a spiritual action?
Answer: Speak about the feelings you have toward Him, about your hope to achieve a connection with Him through your friends. Ask both for your friends and for yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/24, Writings of Rabash “Prayer”
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Question: How should we assess our progress in a group: by the extent to which hatred is revealed among us or by the effort we collectively make in the group?
Answer: Both. We should assess our progress by the revealed hatred and by how we overcome it. If significant hatred is revealed between you and the group is unable to overcome it, that is still a substantial achievement. However, this does not guarantee anything for the future. In spirituality, there is no favoritism. Without effort, we cannot expect results.
That is why we see that many groups have fallen apart. They thought, “We’ve done enough. Why do we need to keep making efforts? Everything will come on its own from here.” But nothing comes on its own. At every stage, we need to rethink, reformat, and move forward.
Moreover, each stage is opposite to the previous one according to the law of “negation of negation.” The next step is opposite to the previous one; it is above it and contrary to it. What seemed one way to me in the previous state no longer seems that way because my achievement at the previous degree, which was considered holiness (Kedusha), becomes egoistic and unacceptable at the next degree and is called Klipa—an impure desire.
Therefore, I cannot use my previous clarifications, achievements, or knowledge for the new degree. Thus, the ascent in spirituality always happens with closed eyes, disregarding anything I once knew, felt, or determined. Everything must be absolutely new. That is why it is said: Everything should always appear as new in your eyes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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