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Posted on October 10th, 2024
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Question: How can one balance annulment with pride in serving the Creator and the group? What should you do when you want to annul yourself, but at the same time you recognize the importance of the goal and the value of your intention?
Answer: Agree to feel these great states with the intention “for the sake of the goal,” but under no circumstance should you desire to receive them for yourself.
Question: We are taught to see our friend as great, yet he annuls himself. This feeling is irritating. I don’t want him to lower himself because he is in fact worthy of us elevating him.
Answer: His annulment does not affect the way you perceive him.
Comment: But I see the contradiction: he lowers himself, but he is not really like that.
My Response: Then try to raise him in your own eyes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/25/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Must Be Received with Both Hands”
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Question: What is the correct connection in the ten according to what we are building?
Answer: It is the closest connection between us when everyone feels the ten in complete unity. Then the Creator can reveal Himself in us to the fullest extent.
Question: What is the correct connection according to what we expect from the Creator, according to His desire?
Answer: For this, we must completely annul ourselves before each other and be connected in such a way that whatever each one receives is shared by all.
Question: What then determines the extent of the Creator’s desire to reveal Himself in the lower ones?
Answer: The extent to which He reveals Himself to the lower ones is the measure of His desire to be revealed. We can desire His revelation only to the extent that we reveal our own capabilities.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”
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Question: Why is it important to maintain love in connection rather than simply enjoying the light of life?
Answer: Enjoying the light of life is an egoistic pleasure. But if you are speaking about spiritual closeness with the Creator, you must put a ladder in front of you and at each step clearly define how you will ascend it.
Spiritual love between friends is the connection between you sustained by the Creator. You are connected with Him and with the ten, and by helping each other, you will constantly ascend this ladder toward the Creator.
Question: How can we imitate the qualities of bestowal, persistence, and consistency in spiritual work through love for one another?
Answer: Through effort. Consult with each other, make a single or a few united decisions, and follow them. Then you will see what works and what does not.
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From 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 required for everyone to unite, and is it even possible?
Answer: Not only is it possible, but it is necessary, and it will definitely be achieved as it is a predetermined program of creation.
The only problem is us.
We already exist in this perfect state initially, but we do not feel it, as for example, a small child does not perceive the world he is in.
Our task is to open our eyes and see the real world we live in, because today it is hidden from us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”
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Question: I feel it is fairly easy to cancel corporeal pleasures. But when tastes in spiritual work come, what should we do with them: fight them or raise a prayer for the Creator to take them away?
Answer: Not in any case! We must rise above pleasures but not kill or erase them. On the contrary, the Creator wants us to enjoy. The last stage of all corrections is absolute pleasure when the light completely covers all the Kelim.
Therefore, we must definitely seek greater pleasure. The only problem is that these great pleasures should be connected with the Creator and our Kli, and we do not replace the Creator with pleasure.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/25/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Must Be Received with Both Hands”
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Question: Is the level of Moses the highest spiritual level, or are there higher ones?
Answer: No, there are no higher levels. The level of Moses represents the ultimate annulment before everyone.
Question: Rabash said the same about Baal HaSulam, that the Shechina spoke through his throat.
Answer: No, that is not the highest degree.
It means that to the extent a person had a desire, they attained the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”
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“And I will bless you in all that you do.” This is the meaning of “We will do and we will hear” (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 940, “The Point in the Heart”).
Question: How do we transition from the level of “we will do and we will hear” to “we will do and we will see”? What gets added?
Answer: This depends on the people. The Creator sends us what He wants to convey, and it is up to us to determine on which level we will receive it—hearing or seeing.
We need to elevate ourselves to the level of vision, because vision is a perception in which there are no doubts. This is why witnesses to events are those who have seen something and can testify about it.
Hearing is also a high level, but it is not sufficient. To come into contact with the Creator, we must rise to the level of seeing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash “The Point in the Heart”
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Question: Does the Creator want us to be connected with Him every moment?
Answer: Yes.
Question: How can someone in the modern world, where we encounter various people and their desires, interact with them without disconnecting from the Creator throughout the day?
Answer: There are times when you cannot detach from something important or special, and in this way, such impressions accumulate within you.
Question: So is the only solution to shut yourself in a room with the teacher and friends and never leave?
Answer: No, that will not help either. That is artificial.
In general, you should indeed connect with friends and feel that you are up against the collective egoism and that it is essential to come together and overcome it in order to connect in a mutual desire to bestow.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/19/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Things that Come from the Heart”
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Question: Should we eventually organize everything so that every person in the world ends up in a ten?
Answer: If we receive an order from above, we will act accordingly. In other words, if a feeling of the Creator’s will is revealed in us, we will have to fulfill it.
Question: How can we sanctify our vessels? What does that mean?
Answer: It means that the light gives them a greater desire for bestowal.
Question: What does it mean not to yearn for the light as a source of pleasure, but to yearn for it as the quality of bestowal?
Answer: Receiving energy from the light is different from enjoying the light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”
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