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Posted on September 26th, 2024
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Question: You said we should either work on our own flaws or the flaws of our friends. Which is more beneficial?
Answer: When a person works on his or herself.
Question: How is a heart of stone different from a heart of flesh?
Answer: The heart of flesh is actually the heart of stone.
Question: If I try to feel my friends as myself, how should I deal with their egoistic desires?
Answer: You should not take on the egoistic desires of your friends. You should distance yourself from them and allow them the opportunity to understand and correct their own qualities. A person cannot correct someone else’s desires.
Question: Is a pure heart the heart of the group and a heart of flesh a personal heart? Or are they the same?
Answer: No, a pure heart is a heart completely corrected of egoism, even in one person, while an egoistic heart is filled with egoistic desires. These are two opposite states.
Question: There is always a contradiction between body and spirit. How can one strengthen the spirit?
Answer: By being connected with good friends.
Question: If I constantly, many times a day, reveal my own evil, where in this endless prayer for my own correction should I include a prayer for my friends, and what should it be like?
Answer: It should be one united prayer where you care both for the correction of your own heart and the correction of your friend’s heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/8/24, Writings of Rabash “One Learns Only Where One’s Heart Desires”
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Question: We have a healthy egoism that drives us, and there is also what is called the evil inclination. How can we learn to distinguish between them?
Answer: Try to discern this based on your connection with one another. You should be in a state of maximum closeness with each other, and then you will begin to notice various nuances in your relationships. At that point, it will become easier for you to turn to the Creator and ask for His assistance.
Question: What will allow us to speak with the Creator directly?
Answer: Being in the same qualities and aspirations as He is.
Question: How important is it to have the desire to reveal the Creator?
Answer: This is the most important reason for you to engage in the wisdom of drawing closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Internality and Externality”
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Question: Can we say Zeir Anpin is like a Rosh (head) in relation to Aba ve Ima?
Answer: No. Zeir Anpin (ZA) defines Aba ve Ima‘s actions by raising MAN to it, but ZA is not a Rosh.
It starts the action like a small child screaming and asking, which affects the adults who care about him and give him what he needs.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Sulam Commentary, Item 50″
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Question: You said that we should not allow the forces of nature to confuse us. How can a person make an internal choice to understand that they are not confusing, but helping him?
Answer: If he places himself in the most neutral state possible, he can correctly assess what influences him, why he reacts in a certain way, and will be able to choose the right path.
A neutral state begins with one nullifying one’s ego before one’s friends. This is the most important alignment. Without it, a person will have no reference point for how to position oneself neutrally in relation to one’s friends and to perceive them as upper ones with regard to oneself.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/24, Writings of Rabash “According to What Is Explained Concerning “Love Thy Friend as Thyself”
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Question: What is the difference between descent and exile, and how can we work with it?
Answer: Descent is the revelation of additional egoistic desires that I need for an ascent. That is, a descent is for the sake of an ascent because one thing cannot be without the other: I fall in order to rise.
Practically, a descent is a part of the ascent. We even have a song: “We are falling upward, we are soaring above ourselves,” which is true. When a person engaged in spiritual work experiences a descent, he is glad because it brings him additional opportunities and understanding of issues he could not identify before.
We must understand that our egoistic intentions, desires, thoughts, and feelings do not just happen to be revealed in us. We see that no one around us thinks like that: “Oh, how egoism is revealed in me!” Have you heard this from any leader or anyone else? There is no such thing.
But if we feel this, we should rejoice because the material for our ascent is being revealed. We call it a descent, but in fact it is an ascent along the left line. And in parallel, in the right line, we are already building our ascent in bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”
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Question: What does coming together in spiritual space mean and how do we do it?
Answer: Coming together in spiritual space means gathering our spiritual desires so that they give us a common desire, new in quality and strength, to accomplish something spiritual in the unification of the common Kli, in transmitting of the common light, so that we feel that we want it, that we desire it passionately. Then, the unification between us and the Creator occurs, Zivug deHakaa (coupling by striking).
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash, “A Congregation Is No Less than Ten”
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Question: How do we increase the desire to become similar to the Creator in the group? How can the group help us develop or generate Hisaron?
Answer: We must raise our desires, our common Hisaron, to the Creator and urge Him to correct and fill it. That is what we expect from the Creator.
Question: How are the heart and Hisaron interconnected?
Answer: What the heart feels is Hisaron. Hisaron is the desire to become a vessel for the Creator. When your desire aligns with the desire of the ten, this is a correct Hisaron.
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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: Let’s say I experience suffering and understand that the Creator sent it for the purpose of correction. Then the suffering becomes a correction for me, through which I bring pleasure to the Creator and establish a connection with Him. Where can I get pleasure from the connection through suffering if I do not have Kelim of bestowal yet?
Answer: You will not be able to derive pleasure through suffering. Do not lie to the Creator.
Comment: But if we understand that suffering came from Him, it does not feel so bitter.
My Response: No, connection with the Creator does not feel like bitterness. That is impossible. There is nothing better than the light. All suffering arises from the absence of light.
Question: Then how do you turn it into joy?
Answer: Correct yourself through connection with friends.
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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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