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The quality of Isaac, who is “left,” there is also the quality of “right,” which is Hesed, and from there it receives life (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 316, “Adam HaRishon – 2”).
Question: When I perform an act of connection with the friends, I awaken the light upon myself and truly feel warmth and ease.
But then, suddenly, some disturbance arises, and I have to raise a prayer to return to the state of connection. Does the quality of “Isaac” come from this disturbance or my intensified yearning toward the Creator? What is this quality?
Answer: We need all the qualities because in the common Partzuf, when it reaches complete correction, all these qualities are fully expressed, and none are redundant.
Question: So is it like a push from inner desires that have not yet been revealed but they strengthen my yearning for spirituality?
Answer: Yes that is correct.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/24, “The Seven Ushpizin”
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The Sukkah is made of four walls and a thatch. We should understand the meaning of walls and the thatch, which is waste of barns and vineyard. It is known that there are four sides, and above and below. These are called HGT and Malchut, and Netzach above and Hod below. (Rabash, Assorted Notes 892, “An Article for Sukkot”).
The thatch (roof or covering) of the Sukkah symbolizes the screen, which is the most essential part of the Sukkah. The four walls represent the conditions necessary for us to have a screen over us, meaning we must follow the rules for building a Sukkah.
Building a Sukkah means constructing the soul under new conditions. When we build it and complete the construction, we receive a corrected soul, which we essentially built by ourselves according to spiritual laws but with the forces received from above.
Question: Should each person build their own Sukkah, or should we do it together? What do you recommend?
Answer: You do not have to build a physical Sukkah, instead imagine that you are ready to stay in this state for an entire week, doing everything necessary because it is your inner state.
I think by next year, we will be ready to build a spiritual Sukkah between us, and then we will feel that we are inside it.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/24, Writings of Rabash “An Article for Sukkot”
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Question: You recently said that spiritual work requires order. What order are we talking about?
Answer: This refers to the order of our work to draw closer to the Creator when we are constantly looking for more and more prayers, requests, desires, and intentions.
Thus, we wish to get closer to the Creator with the help of all the means available to us.
Question: When we make extra efforts in our work, we accept the light and associate it with the merits of our forefathers, is there a need to bring spiritual intention into everyday physical actions thereby translating them into spiritual actions?
Answer: Certainly. All we talk about all the time is that we need to focus on actions that we can connect and direct to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/24, “Sukkot”
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Question: How does a Kabbalist check the state of “There is none else besides Him,” firm faith, and good deeds?
Answer: He turns to the Creator and asks the Creator to reveal his true state to him.
Question: And does the righteous always realize that evil does not have greater power than good and that he can overcome it with prayer?
Answer: If he is already righteous, then yes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/22/24, “Sukkot”
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Hoshanah is like a plea for salvation. A person asks the Creator to save him, and to achieve this state a person must go through many stages. When a person comes to study the science of Kabbalah, he does not know exactly what he is looking for at first.
Gradually, as a result of his studies, he receives new values in life and then begins to understand what is worth asking for, whom to ask, and what he wants to be saved from. He has to undergo very difficult internal scrutiny to stop asking for solutions to his life problems or salvation from minor or more severe obstacles.
A person does not understand whom to turn to, what other upper force, the Creator, or other nature? He knows only his material life, this world. Others, on the contrary, imagine the Creator is punishing them for misdeeds and ask for leniency. Time passes until a person understands whom and what to ask for after he despairs from understanding life, destiny, or revealing heaven with his own forces.
He feels a black cloud suddenly descending on him, and then, on the contrary, everything clears up and becomes transparent, understandable, pleasant, and easy. Then again, an incredible heaviness falls on him, a dullness in his mind and heart.
This is how we go through many states until we decide that we are entirely controlled from above because we are creatures under the control of the upper governance. A general upper force governs everyone individually and everyone together, doing whatever it wants with us. A person despairs regarding changing anything and loses all hope to influence the upper force.
It will take a long time before one finally believes the Kabbalists that we can change our fate. However, it is impossible to turn to the upper force alone because it hears only a complete request, that is, a group prayer, from ten people together.
Perhaps we gather ten people, but everyone asks for something different. How can we know the hidden aspirations of someone else’s heart that even the person himself may not be aware of?
We need one desire for all ten people, one common heart, and then the Creator will gradually perform the act of correction so we understand what we want and what is worth wanting, and move toward the state of “I am for my Beloved, and my Beloved is for me.”
In fact, this is the whole work, which is why we have fallen into the state called “this world,” into complete concealment, an imaginary reality as Kabbalists explain.
We imagine ourselves in some kind of world, on the globe, divided into different nations, in a vast universe. It is all an illusion. In reality, there is only the upper world. But where is it? After all, we do not feel it.
We do not have such organs of perception to sense that the material is illusory while the spiritual exists. We still need to come to this point to see that our current “reality” is only a screen hiding the truth and to reveal this actual world in our new senses. It all depends on our correction.
Instead of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste, we will acquire new organs of perception: Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, and Malchut. By rising above our desire to enjoy, in giving above receiving, in faith above reason, we will reveal the true reality.
We will feel ourselves existing in two worlds at once: in this world, in an imaginary reality, and also in the true reality, in the spiritual world. One world is depicted in the desires to enjoy, and the other in the desires to bestow.
The path is open before us. There is no doubt we are advancing, and the Creator, all the forces of nature are leading and accompanying us, organizing, gathering together, protecting, and screening.
We need to accelerate their impact on us because Israel, that is, people who seek to reveal the Creator, have the power to speed up time. If we work as a transitional channel between the Creator and all mankind, we will merit the Creator’s care and accelerate our development.
The night of Hoshana Rabbah is a common big, complete request, with all the forces and all the necessary corrections. The light that returns to the source penetrates through the covering of the Sukkah and corrects the desire to enjoy below the screen.
Thus we will become worthy of being one union. The main thing is not to forget that the ultimate goal is to correct the whole world and bring it to the Creator so He can rejoice in His creations. Let us strive and succeed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, “Hoshana Rabhah”
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Question: Lately I feel that nothing is more important than achieving connection with the Creator and that we don’t have much time for it. Yet, at the same time, there is a certain calmness that we will do it that we just need to move in the right direction. How can we maintain this sense of agreement and calmness, and at the same time strive toward the Creator?
Answer: You need to stay more connected with each other, in groups, and pay attention to where your desire is directed.
It must be aimed directly at the Creator, who can only reveal Himself through the right connection between you. After all, only He can help you sense Him and your connection with Him.
Then everything will be fine.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag
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Question: What is the light of faith?
Answer: It is the light hidden in the actions that a person performs through the power of faith.
Question: How can we be ready to receive what the Creator wants to give?
Answer: It depends on how prepared the ten is for this.
Question: What desires do we use to build the screen of our spiritual Sukkah?
Answer: Any desires through which we can bring joy to our friends.
Question: What is the pleasure in the concealment of the Creator?
Answer: The pleasure lies in the fact that we can draw closer to Him precisely from the state of concealment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/16/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 12b
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