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Posted on August 29th, 2024
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Question: What creates joy, or what does it form from the feeling of being satisfied with little: serving the King for an individual or for the entire world group as a whole?
Answer: To be satisfied with little is generally wrong. The fact is that when we receive some small return from the Creator, the spark of light sent by Him turns inside us into a huge fire of love, understanding, and gravitation toward Him.
So it is just a saying that you have to limit yourself to something small.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/24, Writings of Rabash “Prayer”
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Comment: You said that our movement follows the law of “negation of negation.” So past experience does not help us and turns into a Klipa. .
My Response: This is intended for you to annul yourself before your friends and before the Creator. When you annul yourself, it becomes clear to you how to act.
Question: How does the popular quote work here: “There is none so wise as the experienced”?
Answer: When you annul yourself before your friends and before the Creator, you begin to understand how to make a new state from the past one. It is only by annulling yourself! Then the upper light will create a new state in you.
Question: You say that we only need to change our intention. Is the quality of the intention either zero or 100 percent?
Answer: The entire system is calibrated precisely in intentions. The ladder (Sulam) is a constantly changing intention over our egoistic desires in strength and quality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Theft in the spiritual sense is the result of our uncorrected qualities. We can do this either consciously or unconsciously.
Question: Does the severity of the punishment depend on whether the person does it consciously or not?
Answer: Of course it does because a person judges himself. If he realizes that he has committed a theft, this realization already has lifted part of the punishment. But if it happened unconsciously, then he will “sort of” receive a punishment. Let him reflect on it, as he needs to learn from this.
Question: Why is it that if a person sins in the spiritual sense once, he is forgiven, but if he repeats the sin and says, “I have eaten and will eat again,” he is punished?
Answer: The first time, he sinned in a moment of weakness without thinking. But he received punishment for this. That is, the cause is the theft on his part, and the effect is the punishment. That means he must work on it, find out from whom he received the punishment, and understand what it brings to him in action, life, and the world. Therefore, the second time, it is no longer forgiven. In this case he is held fully accountable.
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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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At that time, he knows that he needs lowliness, so he searches for some fault in himself (Rabash, Assorted Notes 459, “Because of Humbleness and the Fear of the Lord”).
Question: How does the individual arrogance of the ego conclude it needs to be humbled?
Answer: When a person does not achieve his goal and constantly remains in one place, a state that lasts for years, he realizes he needs to bow his head before others. This allows him to turn to the Creator for correction.
Question: Do I understand correctly that this is an endless process?
Answer: No, there is an end. Everything has an end.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/24, Writings of Rabash “Because of Humbleness and Fear of the Lord”
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Question: Can we say that each subsequent spiritual state is a reward? And that it all depends only on our perception? Do good or bad feelings not matter, but what matters is realizing this state through faith?
Answer: No, we should always examine what is before us and how it can divide into good and bad actions.
Then, we must discern which actions would appear pleasing in the eyes of the Creator, align with His nature, what He does with His creations, and how it might be opposite to it.
We need to learn how to assess this, decide what to do, and thank the Creator for correcting us in this way along the path.
A person who feels the governance of the upper force over themselves, sees the reward in acting correctly without making mistakes and that his or her actions benefit the world and the Creator.
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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: Our goal is to reach the state of the Creator. The Creator is love. But what happens to hatred?
Answer: Hatred is necessary to create love above it. We cannot come to the feeling of love if hatred does not lie at its foundation. In nature, there are only two mutual feelings. You cannot say there is light without darkness or a positive without a negative.
We are accustomed to the idea that the opposite exists automatically in our world. But in the spiritual world, it is not automatic. Even in our world, take any system that we build, can you perform an action without a counteraction? You cannot, whether in mechanics, electronics, or anything else. The same applies to spirituality. There, these are fundamental laws: the positive force is the Creator, and the negative force, what He created, is the creation. And that is all there is.
Therefore, when you say, “The Creator’s attribute is to give,” I do not know what “giving” is by itself. It is the Creator; I do not feel Him. I can only know Him if this attribute is clothed within me. And since I am the property of receiving, how can I reveal the Creator in the attribute of receiving?
That is what the science of Kabbalah deals with, the science of revealing the Creator. It teaches that you must take control of your property of receiving, make a restriction, not consider it as the force with which you work, but only as the force over which you work, and start creating the attribute of giving above the attribute of receiving.
Otherwise, you will not be able to do anything because the attribute of giving is created in you as a reflection, the opposite of your attribute of receiving. Therefore, we build the Creator within ourselves, create a likeness of Him. Out of what? Out of our egoism when we make on it a restriction (Tzimtzum), screen (Masach), and reflected light (Ohr Hozer), and thus create a reflection of the Creator, like in a mirror that is the reflected light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Question: What should replace shame?
Answer: Gratitude.
Question: Is the awe before the teacher similar to the awe before the Creator?
Answer: No, there is no awe before the teacher, before the Creator yes, because everything is in His hands.
Question: How can we check if we are approaching the purification of our collective Hisaron from impurities toward a pure desire to bring contentment to the Creator?
Answer: To the extent that you invest such feelings in your prayer, that is how it happens.
Question: It seems the Creator is cultivating beings similar to Himself here on earth. Can we say that we all must become creators according to the upper plan?
Answer: No, that is incorrect. We simply need to reach a state where we understand and feel Him as one person understands and feels another.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/24, Writings of Rabash “By Your Actions, We Know You”
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The thing is that we have to know that all of the souls extend from the soul of Adam HaRishon, for after he sinned in the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, his soul divided into 600,000 souls. This means that the one light that Adam HaRishon had, which The Zohar called Zihara Ila’a [upper brightness], which he had in the Garden of Eden at once, spreads into numerous pieces (Rabash, Article 10, “What is the Degree One should Achieve In Order not to Have to Reincarnate”).
Thus, we now have discrete states, separated and distanced from each other, even in some aspects opposite to one another. Any state different from another is in some way its opposite. These uncombined, elementary, fundamental states do not resemble each other in any way although they are all fragments of one single desire—Zeir Anpin on the level of Keter of the world of Atzilut. This state is divided into 600,000 parts.
The shattering occurs on a spiritual level even before we begin talking about our existence and sensations.
Following this, the descent of the shattered particles into our world happened, which means a gradual spiritual coarsening and distancing from the quality of bestowal and the quality of connection between them. Naturally, the light within each particle diminishes more and more, and each particle seemingly falls lower and lower in its state until it reaches the lowest state—a coarsening of desire to the point of becoming egoistic, manifesting increasingly in the desire of Adam.
His inner part, his inner nature, which initially does not reveal itself, seems to shed its outer shells that came from the Creator, and his own structure, his own desire, his own nature—the desire to receive only for oneself that is, an absolutely egoistic desire enclosed within itself—becomes more and more apparent. This desire is the human being in our world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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