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Posted on September 13th, 2024
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This is the meaning of “If he is rewarded, he takes his share and his friend’s share in the Garden of Eden” (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 285, “A Person Builds a Building”).
The Garden of Eden is the degree at which we are connected with each other and with the Creator and we feel Him in the connection between us. Thus we complete our efforts and reveal that we are in a state filled with the light of the Creator, His presence, and His help to us. Accordingly, we wish to fill Him with our love and our connection.
The part of the neighbor is that part that is most corrected in each friend and that can connect with the other vessels in the ten.
Question: How can one be rewarded with drawing this part of the friend?
Answer: Through constant thoughts of connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/24, Writings of Rabash “A Person Builds a Building”
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Question: How can we, as a group of ten, draw closer to fulfilling the commandment to love one another?
Answer: Imagine that you are in a group of ten. You see it in front of you either mentally or physically. Now imagine that each of you must extend a thread of love to all the others. This network of love that you want to feel is essential. In this network, you will eventually begin to sense the Creator.
Question: How can this love be checked at any time?
Answer: By observing your reactions and the reactions of the Creator. To sense His response, you must explore all the possibilities and see where you can be closer to the Creator and where you are further away.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Suffering and Joy”
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But in the future, when he engages Lishma, he will build for himself so that he himself will benefit from his work.
We should also interpret “this world.” When one engages in Torah and Mitzvot for his own sake, when the aim is to receive, he cannot benefit from the building he is building.
An hour of Torah and an hour of prayer is similar to a brick over a brick. By this, a large building is made, according to the value of one’s work in Torah and Mitzvot (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 285, “A Person Builds a Building”).
If we want to draw closer to the Creator, we must unite among ourselves. Therefore, this rapprochement and mutual incorporation in the ten forms a certain area between us, i.e., the very house we enter.
Then, we discover that according to what we have built, the Creator is revealed. This is how it works: we build a place, and the Creator fills it.
It is said that I will build and live in this home and not another. “I” refers to the one who desires to create a house from bricks, where each brick is a desire that I combine with other desires and create a common structure.
Properly placing spiritual bricks from lesson to lesson means that all the friends think about how to draw closer to the Creator and take part in this process. The common spiritual brick of the ten in the construction of the Temple is mutual help and joint prayer.
Question: Is each home a separate structure or part of our common Temple?
Answer: If you wish, you can build the Temple together; if not, then it is built only by the one who performs the correct actions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/24, Writings of Rabash “A Person Builds a Building”
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Question: Can it be considered that my intention comes from the Creator if it aligns with my desire and is directed toward goodness and love?
Answer: The fact that your intention aligns with your desire does not necessarily mean it came from above. You should not think that way. It might be correct or it may not be at all.
Question: It is said that there is none else besides Him. What does that mean? Does that imply it does not depend on Him, but only on us?
Answer: Of course, That is why we engage in Kabbalah—to align our actions and intentions with those of the Creator so there is no difference between us and the Creator. That is called adhesion (Dvekut).
Question: How can a person know if he or she has set the intention correctly? After all, there is the general intention of the group and there is a personal intention. How can one sense the correct intention?
Answer: The correct intention can only be understood by asking the Creator for it and receiving it. In doing so, you feel that it comes from the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/21/24, Writings of Rabash “The Concealed Things Belong to the Lord Our God”
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In this world, a person builds a building and another ruins it. But in the future, he will not build and another will dwell.
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Afterward is called “future,” meaning a world that approaches and comes, as it is written in The Zohar, and which the sages call “coming to Lishma.” At that time, they will not build but engage in Torah and Mitzvot, and then sit, but he himself, for because his aim is Lishma, the secrets of Torah are revealed to him and he becomes as a flowing stream (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 285, “A Person Builds a Building“).
Question: Does this mean that the perception of the world is not in the sensations of reward and punishment, but in faith above reason?
Answer: Yes, of course. But the main thing is that together we are engaged in creating a place where the Creator will manifest with all His attributes, the laws of nature. We participate in this ourselves and thus correct ourselves.
Question: How important is it that there be peace in the house?
Answer: “House” refers to the ten, in which there should be a common understanding of what we are doing, why, and how we are moving forward. All of this must be coordinated among us. Therefore, there should be no contradictions in the house.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/24, Writings of Rabash “A Person Builds a Building”
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Question: What does true bestowal mean? Is it when my desire to receive becomes giving?
Answer: It means that I work on our connection in such a way that I receive everything for the sake of bestowal, channel the light of the Creator through myself, and pass it on to others.
As a result, I too am filled, but my goal is to fill everyone else.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/24, Writings of Rabash “A Person Builds a Building”
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Question: What can each ten do before the convention so that everyone feels only ascent during the convention?
Answer: To achieve this, the ten must first unite and arrive at the convention in this united state. Since there will be many such tens at the convention, you will be able to receive a lot of light that will correct you, and after the convention, you will feel how much you have risen.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/24, Writings of Rabash “One Who Restrains Himself in Strife”
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Question: In the article “The Concealed Things Belong to the Lord Our God,” Rabash talks about a situation where a person is seen as righteous in the eyes of society, but is a sinner in their personal work. Does this mean he is talking about some kind of false righteousness?
Answer: That doesn’t matter. From the perspective of society, it is seen that he fulfills everything and behaves like a righteous person. But within himself, he sees many flaws and therefore feels that he is still a sinner.
Question: What is the danger in a person considering himself righteous?
Answer: It leads him away from correct actions. He cannot draw closer to the Creator. In principle, if he considers himself righteous, then he should already be somewhere close to the Creator.
Question: Could it be the opposite, that in the eyes of society a person is a sinner, but he is righteous in intention?
Answer: These are very rare cases. Usually, this is done by the Creator Himself to protect the person or to do something special with him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/21/24, Writings of Rabash “The Concealed Things Belong to the Lord Our God”
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