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What Should a Newbie Pray for?

281.01Question: What can you advise a person who has just joined our system? What should he pray for?

Answer: He still cannot pray. He does not feel what, why, and to whom. One does not have any components of genuine prayer.

Therefore, there is no need to demand anything from him. Let him listen. Let him be present. The surrounding light will gradually affect him, and he will improve. Therefore, the only advice is to develop an awareness of the importance of the environment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Ruin of Kedusha [Holiness]”

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Raise a Prayer

239Question: What change should I feel when I raise my prayer?

Answer: You should feel that the Creator responds to your prayer, lifts you a little toward Him, and you understand more where you are, with whom you are connected, and how you can take part in the general correction.

Question: But at the same time am I asking not for myself, but for the entire soul?

Answer: Yes, but you are involved in it; it comes from you, so everything is credited to your account.

Question: We mainly work in the ten, and I first focus on my friends. How can I switch from my friends in the ten to the entire soul?

Answer: We do not quite understand how this is done yet, but we will get there. We only need to master this path when a person, based on his small egoistic desire, receives an impetus, rises closer to the Creator, tries to contact Him, and asks to use all his spiritual desires, his entire soul in this connection.

Question: Are all my spiritual desires something that also applies to my friends?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Ruin of Kedusha [Holiness]”

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Remember the Taste of the Reward

235Question: Suppose there was enjoyment and then it disappeared and left an impression, a memory, a Reshimo. Why do we forget this sensation?

Answer: This is a problem. Everything that once was and has passed gradually fades away. That is why we need to make efforts to renew the correct impression of what once was.

Question: How can one reach the sensation of the taste of reward?

Answer: If you have a reward, then you will feel the taste, and this taste needs to be remembered.
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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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A Good Student of the Creator

572.02Question: How, despite the fact that the Creator loves us very much, can one avoid complacency and continue to prove selfless love to Him? What does it mean to be a good student of the Creator?

Answer: A good student of the Creator is someone who strives to understand the Creator’s desires for them and fulfills those desires. They believe that if they do something for the Creator, it is not a reward for their feelings, but rather the Creator is paying attention to them, and they will have to account for it later.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/11/24, Writings of Rabash “Laboring and Finding”

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How Can We Want to Bestow?

534Question: Creation is just the desire to receive. Did the Creator instill in us the ability to bestow, or do we need to ask Him for this?

Answer: We need to ask. We have no abilities or desires to bestow. Only if the Creator influences us with His light can our egoistic desires become altruistic.

Question: How can we move from all our desires to one that is not present in us? How can we want something we cannot even imagine?

Answer: First, desire, not for yourself, but for the Creator and strive not to receive, but to bestow.

From this, you will see that your desires to receive are opposite to those to bestow, so one cannot simply replace the other. There must be a transformation within a person. That is how it happens.
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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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The Beginning of the Growth of Souls

933The reason those people agreed to unite into a single group that engages in love of friends is that each of them feels that they have one desire that can unite all their views, so as to receive the strength of love of others (Rabash, Article 8 “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 2”).

The Creator gathers such souls from all over the world. We see how people suddenly find us, start listening, organize, unite, and come to conventions. This happens under the influence of the upper light, which draws ever closer to us. As a result, we gradually rise like sprouts from the earth.

This is how the article “The Flower Buds” in The Book of Zohar begins: “The flower buds have appeared in the land.” This is how the souls grow.

People are given the desire to unite into a group and an explanation that this is necessary for them to come closer to each other up to the point of loving one another. In our world, the word “love” has become so worn out that it manifests as something purely egoistic.

But when we begin to apply this concept to our friends, we start from the premise that we are one soul. There can be no greater connection between individual souls than when we unite into one integral whole. The general program of creation drives us toward this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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How Do I Get a Royal Gift?

938.07Question: The Creator gave us a group, a ten. If everything is good, well-established, and comfortable in it, is this proof of our connection with the Creator? How can we strengthen this connection?

Answer: You can strengthen the connection only by working together as one person with one heart, and all your thoughts and desires will be directed to bestowing something to the Creator.

What is there between you that you can give to Him? Raise your requests to Him.

Question: What practical actions do we need to take in order to create a Kli capable of receiving the royal gift of spiritual pleasure?

Answer: Unite with each other, be as close to each other as possible, and ask Him to connect and fill you even more.
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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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Questions about Spiritual Work—162

252It is impossible for an individual to obtain inner light before one is rewarded with repentance (Rabash, Assorted Notes, #459, “Because of Humbleness and Fear of the Lord”).

Question: What is this repentance?

Answer: Getting closer to the Creator.

Question: What can we bring from the individual to the collective besides intention, prayer, and actions toward connection?

Answer: Nothing more is needed.

Question: In what state should a person reach the feeling of humbleness each time to be granted help from above?

Answer: Only in the state of the right prayer, the right request.

Question: Throughout life a person experiences different states, from individual to collective. What does he take with him at the end of his earthly journey, the individual or the collective?

Answer: Only the part that can ascend to the Creator.

Question: What will be the signs in the work in the ten that we are growing in mutual annulment, humbleness, and fear before the Creator?

Answer: You will feel that your thoughts and intentions align and that you all understand how to work and understand the sources together.

Question: Why does the Creator sometimes erase the memory, the sense of His greatness?

Answer: So that we have space to work and can again realize why we act this way toward each other and Him.
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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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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 8/30/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Letters 60 & 44”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Sulam Commentary, Item 57″

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3rd part of the Lesson – Lesson on the Topic “The Power of Internal Dissemination of the Ten”

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Selected Highlights

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