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A person raises the lack that he has and asks the Creator to satisfy his lack (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 579, “I Will Remove the Stony Heart”).
In order to awaken the Creator and achieve a true deficiency in the ten, we must come together in a single circle, as one vessel (Kli), and turn to Him with a request to help us feel Him, and thus bind all of us into one unified Kli.
The realization of the true deficiency of the ten will occur when we feel that we are connected with each other like the particles of Malchut and elevate a collective desire upward so that the Creator will manifest within it. That is when He will reveal Himself within us and fill us. This is called connection with the Creator.
Question: Can we call it a true deficiency when there is a desire to bestow, but no strength to do so?
Answer: No, that means there is no desire. If there is a desire, there is strength. If there is no desire, there is no strength.
Question: How can the ten always be ready to remain in the same awakening as the Creator?
Answer: The ten doesn’t know this. We simply need to try to ascend to the Creator and unite with Him through our collective efforts, and it will gradually happen. The Creator will approach us, reveal Himself within us, and allow us to attain Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/24, Writings of Rabash “I Will Remove the Stony Heart”
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Question: We talk a lot about caring for humanity and becoming a transmission link between the Creator and the world. Can we do this work at our current stage or are we just preparing the groundwork for the future?
Answer: We are still in a state that even if we do not ask for the whole of humanity, but only for our ten, it will be enough. Although a complete prayer is when we ask for the entire chain, the whole Kli, the whole soul of Adam. Then it definitely works.
However, asking means feeling a desire, a need, an intention. Therefore, first you need to think about it and then turn to the Creator. And if we ask in the following way—I ask for ten, the ten asks to be included in the whole global Bnei Baruch, the global Bnei Baruch asks to be included in all of humanity—this is a complete prayer.
Question: How can we raise this sensitivity? Is it only by a demand to the Creator?
Answer: No, we can raise it mainly by discussing it among ourselves, listening to our friends, and thus increasing its importance.
Question: So is our task at this stage only to ask for humanity in this chain?
Answer: What other task is there? Practically we have one request: help us create such a desire, called a Kli, that You could fill and bring to similarity to You.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”
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Question: What should our collective inner action as a ten be in relation to the Creator?
Answer: The collective inner action of the ten should be the desire to bestow to the Creator and to be able to receive for the sake of bestowal because the Creator only wishes to bestow. Then a connection with Him will arise and you will receive in order to bring Him contentment.
The Creator wants to fill everyone with the upper light, absolutely everyone. Your task is to ensure that you can receive it for the sake of bestowal. In this way, you will establish a complete connection with the Creator.
Question: What is the joint action of the common Kli with the Creator?
Answer: Our common Kli must unite in such a way that it can bestow to the Creator.
The Creator will shine His light upon us, and we will shine back with the reflected light. We are not the source of the light; we can only receive in order to bestow back to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/24, Writings of Rabash “He Who Comes to Purify Is Aided – 1”
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Question: The main prayer is the only one and it is different everywhere. Somewhere it is to have complete faith; somewhere it is to love your neighbor as yourself or to be as one person with one heart, or to raise Shechina from the dust. Can a student somehow connect all these things with himself?
Answer: In general, yes. They are the same thing.
Question: In the ten, do we need to come to an understanding of what is important for us and where we are going?
Answer: In the ten you must come to the understanding that all your aspirations, intentions, prayers, and requests should be aimed at asking the Creator to connect all of you and fill you like a vessel. Then, as the components of this vessel, you will reach your purpose.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/24, Writings of Rabash “A Person Builds a Building”
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We have only one prayer to pray—to raise the Shechina [Divinity] from the dust, and by this all the salvations will come. (Rabash, Notes 36 “Who Hears a Prayer”)
The Shechina in the dust is our common desire to unite with each other in order to reveal the Creator in this unity according to our qualities.
“Shechina” comes from the word “Shochen” (Dweller), which is called the Creator. Therefore, the state of the general desire that remains in a state of breakage, in a lack of understanding of where and how it is located, is called Shechina in the dust.
But gradually we unite the disparate desires, raise them, exalt them in our eyes, and the Shechina as if rises from the dust, and is able to contain the Creator in its new state.
In this case, the Shechina becomes the Temple, and it is filled with the light of the Creator or, it is possible to say, the Creator Himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Who Hears a Prayer”
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Question: You said that if there is no desire to bestow to the Creator, bestowing to friends is impossible. On the other hand, we say that it is from bestowing to the creations that we transition to bestowing to the Creator. So is the effort to love a friend without a prior desire to bestow to the Creator an incorrect effort?
Answer: It is incorrect. What are you directing your effort to? As it is said: “The end of an action is in its initial thought.”
Therefore, you should first direct yourself toward an action for the Creator, and then consider how you can begin this action.
It is quite possible that you will need to start by working with friends and then draw closer to bestowing to the Creator.
Question: What helps us build the correct intention?
Answer: An appropriate attitude toward friends. If you desire to give to them, this will lead you to the correct intention regarding the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/24, Writings of Rabash “He Who Comes to Purify Is Aided – 1”
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Question: The Hisaron (deficiency) of a sinner is in justifying the actions of the Creator, but what is the deficiency of a righteous person?
Answer: The Hisaron of a righteous person is in fulfilling the actions of the Creator.
Question: Can the feeling of being righteous be given by certain forces that further hinder a person from transitioning to faith above reason?
Answer: On the path, anything is possible. The main thing is to not be afraid and keep moving forward, keep asking, keep questioning. When will I receive it? When will I have strength? When will I have knowledge? When will I be above reason? And so on.
Question: If the right line represents a righteous person and the left line represents a sinner, then what is called the middle line?
Answer: It is when I work above reason.
Question: What is the proper feeling in a person’s egoism after he has nullified himself before his friends?
Answer: It is the feeling that you have created a place where you can feel the Creator.
Question: Sometimes, after annulment, there is a feeling of being lowered and sometimes of inspiration. Are both correct, or is one preferable?
Answer: Annulment is best.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/24, Writings of Rabash “Righteous and Wicked”
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Question: A question about prayer. When you want to ask for something, do the words have any limits? How can I expand my request?
Answer: First of all, you can talk about this with your friends. Secondly, there are texts written by Kabbalists that are considered canonical prayers. There is nothing particularly special about them, just requests to the Creator for various kinds of help, identification of connection, development, and so on.
Any such appeal develops a person if they reflect on these words written by the Kabbalists. All prayers were written by great Kabbalists.
More than 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem, there was a group of Kabbalists called the Great Assembly (Knesset HaGadola). Before their time, there were no prayers at all because everyone knew how they should ask the Creator to establish their connection with others. Therefore, there was no need for any prayer books.
But these Kabbalists felt that people were on the verge of falling from the spiritual level, so they wrote a collection of prayers. This is what we use now.
What are these prayers about essentially? Only about the connection between us. We need to understand these words. But in general, they praise the Creator as the quality of bestowal, love, the highest quality of nature. They talk about how He does not forget us and strives to bring us closer to each other so that He can dwell within us. And we try to realize all of this, to bring joy to our parent just like good children. That is all; there is nothing else.
So you can use these prayer books. But, in principle, prayer is what a person feels in their heart. That is the first thing. Secondly, prayer is also considered correct self-assessment. After all, the verb “to pray” (Lehitpalel) means “to judge oneself.” This is what a prayer is all about, that I judge my actions, the circumstances I find myself in, and how I can rise above them.
It is important to understand that an ascent follows an unbreakable rule: “From love for the creations to love for the Creator.” It is only through this sequence and no other. We can appeal to Him only if we have a ten, only if we strive to gather all of humanity into a ten and offer the Creator the opportunity to fill them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”
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Question: In one of your answers, I heard that the reward will come as a desire to bestow. But my evil inclination finds it painful to bestow. Does this mean there is no reward for me yet?
Answer: You must understand that the desire to bestow in a person is directed from above, and in some way it raises one to the level of the Creator. Therefore there is no need to reason, based on our earthly standards here.
Question: I understand that you are talking about spiritual bestowal. But how can I stop expecting this reward? Or how can I know there is some kind of connection between me, the ten, and the Creator?
Answer: To do this, one must include oneself in the group and the group must strive to unite with the Creator.
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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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