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Question: Is the correct prayer made up of thoughts, actions, feelings, or all of these together?
Answer: When a person asks from the heart, he does not make a calculation: 20% of thoughts, 30% of feelings, 20 to 30% of experiences. He simply asks from the heart.
Question: How can a ten come to one united prayer? We are all different. We all came to Kabbalah at different times, and each one has his own opinion. One wants to study, another wants to pray, a third wants to answer, one hisses at the other: “Be quiet, I can’t hear the teacher,” and so on.
Answer: It is precisely this discrepancy between people in the ten—when one is in one state, the other is in another, and the third is in a third—that gives the correct result. This one wants to pray and that one wants to study; this one wants to disseminate and that one believes that the most important thing today is to make a film for dissemination.
Each one has his own states, so everyone should understand that merging them into a single direction toward the Creator will bring the correct result. Each one from his own point.
So there is no need to worry that all people are different. They will always vary more and more in the ten. But if they strive toward the Creator, then He unites them together.
That is why it is said: “In Him our hearts will rejoice,” meaning in Him we unite. This is very important. We will not be united until we are incorporated into the Creator.
Comment: But when I look at others, I see that they are not in the Creator.
My Response: We do not check who is in the Creator and who is not. We all strive toward the Creator, each one as much as he can and in his own way.
If we try to unite outside of Him, it means a unification of egoists, and nothing will come of it. The Creator will make us even greater haters of each other. But if we try to unite in Him into a single whole, then we will succeed. Simultaneously with the feeling of unification, we will begin to feel the Creator and reveal Him in the connection between us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, Questions and Answers
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“What does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear Me?” (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 31, “How I Love Your Teaching”).
This means that a person feels stress, like before an exam when the examinee is asked and must give an answer. He understands that his future depends on this answer. This state is called “awe.”
Question: What does it mean that a Kabbalist is in awe of the Creator?
Answer: A Kabbalist feels he still does not meet the expectations of the Creator, and therefore trembles. It is like he is passing an exam to see if he meets the Creator’s aspirations.
After all, the Creator wants you to be successful students, to understand the Torah and its laws correctly, and to try to implement them in your relations.
Question: How can we create a feeling between us that we are genuinely standing before the Creator right now, that He is watching us, that we feel it, and are under strain?
Answer: It depends on the person, on how seriously he takes the Creator’s attitude toward him, and on his response to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/24, Writings of Rabash “How I Love Your Teaching”
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Question: It is said that “The Creator is good and does good.” But you are saying that the Creator is both good and bad. How should I envision the Creator?
Answer: That is an excellent question. After all, is there anyone else besides Him? There is nothing in the world except the Creator, the only one, who is kind, positive, and loving. So where do all the evil, hatred, and suffering come from? They stem from the concealment of the Creator. Only from that.
Therefore, the Creator said: “I created evil.” This means, “I created concealment of Myself.”
This concealment is what we must remove, and we can do so only through the connection between us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”
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Question: It feels like we have run against some kind of wall. The evil inclination has already been revealed, beyond this wall lies the Torah, but breaking through it seems impossible. And we are running in circles, lending shoulders to one another to try and climb over the wall, ready to dig underneath it, helping our friends. This even fills us with pride: “Yes, it is hard work, but we are doing something important.” How do we stop running in circles and simply ask the Creator to let us through?
Answer: You have actually answered your own question.
Question: The problem is that the evil inclination clouds our consciousness.
Answer: Well then you have something to work against.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”
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The need for man’s work in order to receive the Lishma from the Creator is only in the form of a lack and a Kli [vessel]. Yet, one can never obtain the filling by himself; it is rather a gift from the Creator (Baal HaSulam, Shamati, 5, “Lishma Is an Awakening from Above, and Why Do We Need an Awakening from Below?”).
Question: Does the taste of Lishma reveal itself only from within the darkness?
Answer: Yes that is correct.
Question: What should I do if I am afraid of the darkness?
Answer: See it as a gift from the Creator that He gives you the sense of evil within the darkness. Then you will want to escape the darkness because you will feel the evil within it.
But gradually, as you come to know the darkness, the evil, and the source of that evil, you will see that you need to escape not from the darkness itself, but from the distance from the Creator. Then everything will be fine.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/27/24, “On the Verge of Lishma”
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Afterward, he comes to a state of “Noah walked with God,” meaning that when the Creator is revealed to a person, when he begins to feel the existence of the Creator, he has no choice but to annul as a candle before a torch. (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 342, “Noah Was a Righteous Man”)
To annul before the Creator as a candle before a torch means to do everything the Creator wants from us and not demand more from Him. Just let us be what He wants us to be.
Question: How can I establish feedback to understand how the Creator wants to see me?
Answer: He wants you to be righteous (Tzadik). A righteous person is one who justifies all the actions the Creator performs on him.
It is said that a person should as if deceive himself and while seeing reality as his eyes see it still accept everything as perfect.
Even when he sees his existence as imperfect, he still believes that all this comes from the Creator and accepts it as perfect.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Noah Was a Righteous Man”
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Question: Should we come to a common desire? If so, which one? Or are we just building intentions?
Answer: The final state that the desire created by the Creator must reach is called “receiving from the Creator for His sake.” I cannot convey this state. This is precisely what is described by the words “receiving for the sake of bestowal.”
To do this, you need to gather absolutely all the desires created by the Creator, which are broken, separated from each other, and are increased by the upper light 620 times, and begin to connect them in order to attract the upper light to them.
If I have an urgent need for the Creator to correct my egoistic desire into an intention for His sake, then I can safely turn to the Creator, ask for it, and He will do everything.
This is our work; there is nothing else. It is actually quite simple. The only thing is that we need to be in this direction all the time, in one thought.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”
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Question: There are two forces in a person. One of them originates from the evil inclination and causes suffering. This is the pushing force. The second force is the force of attraction that comes from the good inclination.
How important is it to determine the forms of future states in order to know exactly which one to transition into?
Answer: I think it is more correct if we identify each of these states with our egoistic or altruistic work and thus quickly move out from them.
Question: By calling egoism the evil inclination and acknowledging its existence, I am as if strengthening it. On the other hand, how then can I let the Creator correct it?
Answer: You just have to clearly define the evil inclination, acknowledge it within yourself, and then perceive it only when you need it. If you have the strength to start rising above it, then carry out this action. You will see how much the evil inclination helps you, more so than the good.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Forces within Man”
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Study of Ten Sefirot,” Item 130
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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “On the Verge of Lishma“
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