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Posted on September 3rd, 2024
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Question: How can we distinguish between obstacles given to us as a test of our determination (which we must overcome) and those given to us to guide us onto the right path?
Answer: Obstacles that we are not meant to overcome appear as actions we must take for the sake of others, and therefore, they are considered good obstacles on the path.
Bad obstacles, on the other hand, stand as barriers separating us from the Creator, and thus, we must go against them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/15/24, Writings of Rabash “What to Ask of the Creator—to Be His Servant”
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Question: Should we work with obstacles by overcoming and eliminating them?
Answer: If obstacles arise on our path toward achieving the purpose of creation, then we must go against them.
Question: Some people are supported by their families in their study of Kabbalah, while others are seemingly led away from these studies by their families. What does this indicate? What does the Creator want to give through such obstacles?
Answer: The Creator wants to give a person the opportunity to overcome these obstacles.
Question: Who is the true worker in the eyes of the Creator?
Answer: The one who cares about correcting the collective Kli (vessel).
Question: Are my personal doubts also obstacles? Should I clarify them or pray to the Creator?
Answer: Pray to the Creator and clarify them.
Question: Everything that happens to us, including obstacles, comes from the Creator. To verify this, one might observe how these obstacles are later resolved; the problem arises and it turns out that everything is for the best. Can one see how all obstacles are resolved?
Answer: No, this is completely incorrect. You should not spend time on this. It will lead you away from the correct attitude toward the Creator, nature, and everything in general.
Question: What is the connection between the feeling of a blow I experience internally when an obstacle comes to me and the feeling of connection?
Answer: The connection between these two feelings is that through the blows, you sense how distant you are from the source of the blow, and through unity, you feel how close you are to your friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/15/24, Writings of Rabash “What to Ask of the Creator—to Be His Servant”
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Question: How can we care for the Creator and serve Him? How can I, a tiny bug, do something for the Creator?
Answer: You can do what pleases the Creator, and by doing so, you help Him in arranging the entire universe.
Question: How can we guess the desires of the Creator?
Answer: The Creator desires our closeness with each other and with Him. This is something we clearly understand. Everything else we can attain when we ask Him for it. Then He will reveal Himself to us even more. We will find out exactly what He wants and what else He requires from us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/24, Writings of Rabash “A Near Road and a Faraway Road”
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Question: Why does the body surrender and allow a person to work for the Creator only when there is true love for Him?
Answer: This is the effect of the light. Sometimes the Creator allows people to feel such an attitude toward Him. This is done so that a person can understand what it means to be closer to the Creator or further away from Him.
Question: You said that peace is correction through love. Is it appropriate to ask the Creator to send peace to the world? Or is that too much?
Answer: No, it is not too much. However, it is best if this is tied to you and your ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/24, Writings of Rabash “A Near Road and a Faraway Road”
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Question: In order to pray for society, one must first join it and feel the Hisaronot (deficiencies) of others. But now we are discussing the need to pray for the Shechina (Divinity) to raise it from the dust. In this case, does a person not feel one’s neighbor’s Hisaron?
Answer: He does. The Shechina in the dust is a state in which a person feels suffering for everyone, for the entire Kli. One feels like he is part of the broken Shechina.
Question: I thought that the Shechina in the dust is when we are self-centered and feel separated from each other.
Answer: It doesn’t matter. Even in egoism, we still feel that we are together. Egoism does not connect us, but we are as if in one egoistic hole.
Question: What do you still need to ask for? To feel the Shechina? It is said that you cannot ask for yourself, but if you do not feel the desires of others, then the prayer will not work.
Answer: A person should imagine what “Divinity in the dust” means. Even if he is not particularly successful at this, he must still try to imagine that all souls are far from the Creator in the pit of egoism.
Question: But we are trying, on the contrary, to raise society higher and imagine that everyone is corrected except me. Does it turn out that I should only pray for myself?
Answer: No, we must pray for all souls so that they unite and the Creator can shine in them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Cast Their Seed Among the Nations”
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Question: How can one come to a greater taste in Torah and in prayer so as to not be afraid of obstacles and to unite more with their help?
Answer: It depends on how much you invest in your spiritual path, and how much you ask the Creator to clear the path for you to allow you to advance and to give you the physical and mental strength to overcome everything that arises in front of you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/15/24, Writings of Rabash “What to Ask of the Creator—to Be His Servant”
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Question: If the Creator is the goal throughout the journey and unification and love of friends are the means of revealing the Creator, then it turns out that this is an egoistic action. Will there be a moment when the means are more important than the goal?
Answer: Then what is special about the very action of unification if it is not aimed at achieving the result of merging opposite parts above your individual egoism?
Comment: But reaching adhesion seems rather selfish: I want, I desire, adhesion.
My Response: This is an action above the ego, which does not disappear. You remain divided into parts, and an even greater differentiation of egoism manifests in you.
At every moment, you feel the inner division and opposition growing between you, not as between primitive people, but as between developed people in whom there are disagreements about tastes in cooking, art, life, and so on.
At the same time, you begin to feel exactly how your mutual complement emerges above all this in attaining the Creator since He is comprehended in the difference between you and your correct unity. We have no other tool to sense Him, to model Him, in ourselves.
We must necessarily consist of opposite properties that can combine. Thus, from their combination we will understand what the Creator is; He belongs to another state above this world, which is something we cannot comprehend. But when we model this state in ourselves and arrange it, we begin to understand it, but still from the opposite.
In fact, we do not feel the Creator, but something we create in ourselves. Therefore, the Creator is called Boreh—”Bo – Reh,” “come and see.” Come, that is, create Him in yourself, and then you will feel Him, get to know Him.
We create this as black and white—two opposites that unite into one single whole and complement each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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