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We are not yet able to fully appreciate the greatness of the Sukkot holiday. It is a very significant and special holiday. During this time, the connection between all people and the Creator is revealed as we praise Him. He accepts our blessing, creates the correct connection between us, and elevates us to the degree of the final correction.
This applies not only to Kabbalists but to the entire people of Israel and, in fact, all the people of the world. Therefore, each person has the opportunity to thank the Creator for the spiritual elevation experienced during the holiday of Sukkot.
Sukkot is an internal state a person goes through on certain calendar dates alongside others who are in the same attainment and sensation.
The covering of the sukkah is made from what are called “the waste of barn and winery,” which come from places where human food is produced: bread and wine. Even from this waste, we can derive spiritual benefits if we relate correctly to everything given to us in this world. This means that I justify the Creator in all that happens and perceive everything as beneficial, even if it initially seems unfavorable.
In other words, I justify the work of the Creator completely, in everything He sends me, including the “waste of barn and winery,” and I thank Him for everything in the full measure. For me, the Creator is perfect and nature is perfect.
Everything that is revealed to me in my work to draw closer to the Creator is the result of the Creator’s work. Even the part of the work that seems like unnecessary waste, I must elevate and turn into a covering over my head, i.e., transform it into faith above reason, into holiness.
From one part, I managed to make “bread and wine,” and from what remained, which I couldn’t use as “food,” I make a covering above reason. I don’t discard anything from the Creator’s work; I even use the “waste” because the Creator commanded me to do so.
On regular days, I wouldn’t be able to use this, but Sukkot is a special time when there is no waste at all. Everything received from the Creator’s field can be elevated above the head as a roof. If I do this according to the Creator’s instructions, it becomes holy work.
Each Jewish holiday symbolizes and explains certain laws of nature, the nature of a person’s spiritual work, and their path of connection with nature. That is why it is so important for us to observe all the conditions of the Sukkot holiday. The further we progress, the more strongly we will feel this.
Kabbalists understand the forces at work each day and how to use them most effectively for the correction of the world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/18/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 36
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Question: You said that our world is not empty; souls live in it. Can we say that we are all companions in misfortune because we ended up in this lowly world?
Answer: Why in misfortune? Our world is indeed the lowest, but it was created by the Creator so that from it we could ascend to Him. Therefore, we have a great task. We are special.
So do not say the Creator did such a thing! He did everything absolutely right. We will eventually see how justified all His actions and intentions are.
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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: In which Kelim does a Kabbalist feel correct spiritual joy?
Answer: In the Kelim of bestowal. He feels joy from the fact that he acts for others, for the Creator.
Question: How can one truly enjoy working for the Creator?
Answer: The Creator’s desire is for us to be in constant maximum connection with each other and to reach Him directly based on this connection. These two areas need to be prepared and strengthened.
Question: How can you annul oneself correctly in order to feel the joy that pleases the Creator?
Answer: To do this you need to go through several states: first, completely annul yourself, then imagine yourself in the quality of bestowal, which you include in the Creator, and then you will be able to feel this state and will rejoice in it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/8/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is Joy?”
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“Turn away from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it” (Psalms 34).
There are two forces in the world that give man the motivating force that will compel him to revoke his rest force. That is, the force of rest, which is in the qualities of the soul, yields to two other forces, meaning become revoked, and by this the soul takes upon itself the force of movement: 1) the rejecting force, 2) the attracting force.
The rejecting force is from something bad and loathsome that compels one to run away. The attracting force is good and nice things that one is compelled to chase. However, a single force, whether attracting or rejecting, is insufficient to revoke the force of rest.
“Turn away from evil” is called the “rejecting force,” if a person feels that it is bad. “Do good” is called the “attracting force” if a person feels that this is good and he must chase it and obtain it.
“Seek peace and pursue it.” (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 219, “Seek Peace and Puruse It“)
Question: How can we rely on these feelings if we are not yet corrected? Should we experience them somehow?
Answer: You should experience them. You should explore them. You should understand where they lead you and what the Creator wants from you when He gives you such desires.
When you know this, then all your desires will become very clear, and you will move only toward the right goal.
Question: What helps us not get confused between the traditional choice of “pleasant—unpleasant” and the true choice of “striving for good and avoiding evil”?
Answer: It helps that we strive to get out of the control of good and evil, which we want to feel instead of “good—bad.” We must realize this aspiration in our connections and help each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/9/24, Writings of Rabash “Seek Peace and Pursue It”
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Question: What is the internal movement where you can switch yourself to connection with the Creator, although you do not clearly feel Him?
Answer: It happens when a person realizes that everything that has happened to him, has happened by the Creator’s will, and now it is time for him to make his movement toward the Creator. And that is how he acts.
Question: How can one force himself into a state of connection with the Creator?
Answer: Through the same exercises we always do. The Creator purposely gives us these exercises to confuse and cool us. And we, on the contrary, strive to rise up to Him.
Therefore, create strength, ask Him in unison with the whole ten that He raise you to Himself, that you want to take hold of each other and Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”
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Answer: You can ask not only during obstacles but at any time.
Question: How can I clearly catch the Creator’s response and not just the response of my mind?
Answer: Ask to understand His obstacles correctly, to draw the right conclusions, and to discover the Creator’s joy in your proper response to the obstacle.
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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: Rabash writes those who have a point in the heart are given the opportunity to know they can enjoy spiritual things. Therefore, we look at those who enjoy material things as small children. Such a state can lead to arrogance. What should we do about it?
Answer: Nothing can be done about it. You just need to understand what I enjoy and what I strive for. Then, everything will fall into place.
Question: If joy is the illumination of the Creator and fulfillment, can we turn judgments into joy, and how can we do it?
Answer: For now it is enough to determine whether you are in a state of connection or similarity with the Creator or not. The rest will come.
Question: Through our prayers, requests, and appeals, we hold on to the Creator. We feel that we are growing in our own eyes all the time, and this gives us joy. On what point should all our attention and thoughts be concentrated?
Answer: On what I am doing for the Creator at the moment. Just because I feel good doesn’t mean anything.
Question: What is there to rejoice about on the day of judgment?
Answer: About the fact that we have tried during this year, as in prior years, maybe even more successfully, to raise ourselves to the level of the highest court. This is a very high level.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/8/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is Joy?”
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Question: Who reveals Hisaron (deficiency) to a friend: one’s evil inclination or the Creator?
Answer: The Creator.
Question: Can a person raise his own Hisaron to the Creator or do his friends have to?
Answer: He does it with them together.
Question: We often raise our friend’s Hisaron to the Creator so He would connect us on a new level. But there is a fear that a person’s condition could change, and he would be filled in his egoistic Kelim; for example, he will be cured, find a job, etc. How do we work with that?
Answer: We do not consider the side effects because the most important thing for us is to feel united in a single intention in which the Creator would be revealed.
Question: How can we wish to come to a single prayer? Is it very hard?
Answer: It is not very hard. You must start from afar and gradually narrow the field of view so the Creator is in its center.
Question: So we don’t have to wait for some abstract Hisaron, but should work with one the Creator reveals to us now?
Answer: Of course. At any given moment, you can manifest it.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/5/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 34
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Question: How can we make our prayer truly effective?
Answer: You need to encourage each other so that everyone feels a desire to rise higher and pull everyone else along, like when climbing a mountain. Then you will receive the Creator’s response, which will definitely satisfy you.
Question: Can Kabbalists encourage each other like this to make a collective ascent during a lesson or a congress?
Answer: Of course, they can. That is exactly what they do. It only seems to us that an ascent can happen in one move, but that is not true. Here we encounter problems that we must solve at every moment and divide our spiritual progress strictly according to our capacities; meaning, we need to give it more attention in order to remain in the quality of bestowal and constantly ask the Creator to fulfill us.
Question: We say that we do not strive for suffering but for unity. But if there is no suffering, I would not want to ascend. How do we break this cycle?
Answer: Your friends will help you with that. When you feel yourself in an ascent, through your connection with them, you will also feel yourself in a descent. This will create the desire in you to connect with them and rise together.
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