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Posted on October 20th, 2024
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Question: Annulment is when a person does not have the feeling of the bread of shame. How can one accept this low state without feeling shame? Is it possible?
Answer: Of course, it is possible. It is not necessary to take it personally that I am so low or fallen. That is the creation that the Creator created, and I have to give Him my personal steps and put everything in its proper place.
Question: How can we draw life forces, not from the Klipot, but from the holiness of working for the Creator?
Answer: You need to ensure that any contact with spirituality evokes a sense of tremendous upliftment within you and gives energy to your desires for advancement and attainment.
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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: How can we help our friends on the spiritual path?
Answer: In principle, this help should be mutual since we can only attain the spiritual world if we unite into one group. When we help our friends, we help ourselves.
If several people, not necessarily ten, unite with each other, they correct their egoism. The Creator specifically created the ego, which distances us from each other so that we can try to be attracted to each other and form a single system.
We cannot completely unite because each of us is an individual egoist. Still, we can, despite our egoism, make a restriction on ourselves, not use the ego, and create altruistic connections between us.
That is, we remain egoists within ourselves, and between us we form altruistic relationships, even love.
If we gather together in such a system in which there are many egoists closed within themselves, but they try to unite with good forces, then the surrounding light of the Creator acts on them and unites them into a structure called the soul or Adam since it becomes bestowing like the Creator. That is the state we need to achieve.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”
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Question: What is the right environment for realizing the point in the heart?
Answer: In any point that attracts us with its corporeal pleasures there are three sources of attraction: envy, lust, and honor. We must use them so that on one hand we work with them, and on the other hand we distance ourselves from them.
Rabash writes about it in Note 119. Hence, Klipot [shells/peels] give one an awakening to enter Kedusha because they want to be rewarded with great lights. That is, the Klipot themselves want to come to the light and thus push a person toward actions where spiritual light is present. This is called Lo Lishma [not for Her sake]. Afterward, from this Lo Lishma, he can be rewarded with Lishma.
It turns out that the system of Klipot is very interesting. On one hand, they collect spiritual pleasures, attainments, understandings, and feelings, and thus attract a person. But on the other hand, they do not provide proper fulfillment. Instead, they irritate and pull the person even more toward them.
In this way, a person develops a great desire and a genuine longing to connect with the Klipot. However, when a person is within them, he begins to feel that it is precisely envy, lust, and honor that pull them away from these pleasures. Therefore, being in the Klipot helps a person not to immerse in them further but rather to free himself from them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/26/24, Writings of Rabash “From Lo Lishma to Lishma”
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Question: When a person strives toward the Creator above their suffering to bring Him contentment and is willing to work without any taste, where does the feeling of joy come from?
Answer: It comes from the fact that the person is advancing toward the Creator. The state of Hafetz Hesed (one who desires nothing for themselves) is impossible without joy.
Question: If there is no joy, does this sadden the Creator?
Answer: Of course. To generate joy, one must constantly think about it. The more you think about it, the easier it becomes to express it later.
Question: Do the three states Hafetz Hesed, the process of correction, and the corrected state bring equal contentment to the Creator?
Answer: Certainly not. They bring contentment to the Creator only to the extent that a person can process these states, bring them closer to oneself, and turn to the Creator with the help of each state.
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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: By canceling our egoism, do we cancel reality?
Answer: No. What does it mean, “I annul egoism”? Can I not enjoy it? Can I not feel anything in it? Do I just cancel it?
Even if we work on annulling every day, do we see that it does anything? It depends on how much you feel like zero, that is, nothing, worthless, compared to the Creator.
Question: But what is our reality? The more we learn, the more it seems that this is an unreal reality.
Answer: No, reality is real. Only we must understand that everything depends on our appeal to the Creator. To this extent, the Creator will make everything become real.
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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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When one’s intention is for the sake of the Creator, he wants the annulment of reality. That is, he agrees to serve the Creator without any vitality or pleasure, a complete annulment of the spiritual reality (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 97, “The Torah Must Be Received with Both Hands”).
Question: What kind of work is this without pleasure and strength?
Answer: Pleasure and strength come and go, but we must think about how to serve the Creator and want to work for Him. We must tune in to direct all our desires, thoughts, and intentions to the Creator. Only based on the connection we restore in this way can we consider ourselves in a desire that He welcomes.
Comment: But we learn that it is impossible to perform even the slightest action without pleasure.
My Response: The point is that it does not matter whether He gives us pleasure for fulfilling His desires or not. It does not matter because the main thing is that we fulfill them.
Question: In principle, I should enjoy what the Creator bestows. And if I agree to annul all kinds of pleasure, do I not annul approaching the goal by this?
Answer: No, you reveal that in this case you work for the sake of elevated pleasures, but you address them to the Creator.
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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 happiness of a Kabbalist?
Answer: The happiness of a Kabbalist is that he knows which of his actions can be desirable in the eyes of the Creator and he can perform them.
Question: Where and how does a person find the deficiency (Hisaron) for a constant connection with the Creator that makes him happy?
Answer: I do not think that a person can be in a state of constant Hisaron. This is a very high state.
But if he desires this and always pursues the goal of being able to always bestow to the Creator, then the Creator meets him halfway, and the person receives such conditions that he can constantly bring contentment to the Creator.
Question: Should he be afraid of losing this connection?
Answer: Yes, there should be fear, a great fear.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/24, Rabash, “Happy Is the Man”
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Question: Every day in the ten’s prayers we praise the Creator and believe that He is good and does good. We annul ourselves and want to serve Him. Is this considered spiritual attainment?
Answer: This is not yet a spiritual attainment, but it is a certain spiritual force that you strive for and accumulate among you in your connections. Ultimately it will turn into a powerful collective force that will push you out of egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”
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Question: Is our task not to try to solve anything ourselves but to once again ask the Creator to come closer to us and thereby accept any of His decisions?
Answer: Our work comes down to the fact that we want to be connected to the Creator, to adhere to Him, and that is it. After all, any other action would always be incomplete and imperfect except for the one that leads us to adhere to the Creator.
Therefore, we need to think about it, which is the easiest thing because we should not interfere with the Creator’s care for us.
Question: How do we interfere with Him taking care of us?
Answer: Perhaps with your wrong requests.
We must always strive to be as close to each other as possible, to help each other as much as possible, and to imagine as much as possible that we are in a continuous and great connection with each other. And to the extent of the quality of this connection, we can reveal the Creator. Attaining the Creator is our most significant task—something that the world lacks so much.
As a result, we will reveal the Creator to the whole world and thereby give Him maximum pleasure, since His property of good that does good is revealed to both sinners and righteous. Then the entire world Kli will be filled with the light of the Creator.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”
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