The Prayer that is Accepted First

239Question: How does prayer affect us?

Answer: It acts on us through the Creator in such a way that later we can see what we are changing for.

Question: How do we achieve the prayer of the poor? Can we condition ourselves so this prayer is the one that is accepted first?

Answer: We can. That is why it is written that the most important prayer is the prayer of the poor who feels he has nothing and asks the Creator.

Question: What is the difference between prayer and plea?

Answer: A plea is probably much harder than prayer because it is an urgent request coming from the heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Three Prayers”

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Appreciate the Time Spent Together

506.1If he does not appease her, he will not stay the night with her because their desire must be as one, without coercion (Zohar for All, Beresheet – 2, “Reconciliation and Receiving Permission”).

Comment: When a married couple has already formed, many people believe that they live together, have a common way of life, joint affairs, and agree that their relationship seems to fade away, becomes forgotten.

My Response: No, it should not be that way, because that is how all relationships end. That is why it is said: “If he does not appease her, he will not stay the night with her.”

Question: Why is it said: “Stay the night with her”?

Answer: First, it has always been customary that in the house a woman has her own section, while the husband, children, and male relatives have the other section. For example, all the men go to dine in the women’s section and then return to their own section to sleep.

Question: Is this a kind of spiritual law? What is it based on?

Answer: It is based on our nature. First, you must go to your wife and please her with whatever you can: give her a gift or at least a bouquet of flowers. Then she shows you her favor by coming to you.

Question: Why can’t we always be in the same space?

Answer: No, that is not good because you cannot be together all the time. Negligence and other negative feelings start to creep in. On the contrary, this distance helps to maintain a spiritual relationship.

Question: Why has humanity rejected this spiritual law of dividing the home into male and female sections?

Answer: We live, as in the song by Vysotsky, “There is only one bathroom for 38 rooms.” Our way of life has kind of canceled it. But there should be a house divided into two sections so that the woman understands that this is hers. And the man might only have a folding bed in his section, and that is enough for him.

Question: How can we achieve that kind of distance like 300 years ago in our time? Can it be maintained today to improve relationships?

Answer: I think so. It is good when the husband and wife each have something separate, and there are hours when they spend time together. Then, perhaps, they will value the time spent together more.
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From KabTV’s “Man and Women” 7/30/24

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If We Want to Draw Near the Creator

947Question: When I see my ten’s corporeal Hisarons (deficiencies), do I need to ask for their fulfillment for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: As for corporeal Hisarons, I do not know; you decide on this issue yourselves. In general we should feel what we lack from what we want to express in prayer to the Creator.

We need to understand that if we want to get closer to Him, we must strive for the property of bestowal. Therefore, asking for the property of bestowal so that you can be closer to the Creator, understand Him more, and thus bestow to Him is a serious prayer.

Question: I want to feel not only the Hisarons of the ten, but also that of the world Kli. How can I do this?

Answer: This is slowly forming in each of us. What the whole world Kli wants, in general, is in each of us; only it manifests gradually. So do not worry, this will happen soon.

Once you direct your feelings through the ten to the Creator, you will feel how your intentions become realized.

Question: As we unite in the group, we all work for the sake of bestowal. How can we increase our Kelim of bestowal and expand our Kli?

Answer: The more we think about how to turn to the Creator, the stronger our friends will be, and the more we will feel the desire to receive what we ask the Creator for.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Three Prayers”

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Integrate into Friends’ Prayers

938.04Question: I see how my friends in the group are trying to create a collective prayer. How can I strengthen and support it?

Answer: Join them.

Question: What is the mechanism of this process?

Answer: Pay attention to what they are asking for. You can hear it. And you will see if you can join their requests. It is advisable to find reasons to join their prayer. It is very beneficial.

Question: To attune oneself to the Creator, do you need to pray for several hours? How can you shorten this time to always stay connected with the group and with the Creator?

Answer: It is not necessary to pray for a long time. The main thing is that you try to do it from the depth of your heart.
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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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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 8/27/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Letter 47”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Sulam Commentary, Item 50″

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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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The Roots of Altruism and Egoism

243.03Question: 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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Justify the Friend

527Question: 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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The Difference between Knesset Israel and the Soul of Adam HaRishon

937Question: 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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Spirituality Is a Field

537Spiritual 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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