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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 7
When Is Prayer Complete?
We reach a complete prayer when our heart fully agrees with the Creator, and there is nothing between us and the Creator to disturb the sensation that “He is good that does good.” Consequently, our prayer aligns with what is written in the Siddur (prayer book) or with what is written in Part 12 of The Study of the Ten Sefirot: the sacrifices, the Shema, the Eighteen Prayer, and so on.
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Question: What are “weeds” in our desire, and how can we identify them if we’re egoists?
Answer: “Weeds” are egoistic desires that you try to use for spiritual purposes.
Question: But as an egoist, I don’t realize how this affects others. How do I gain the ability to see these weeds as harmful?
Answer: Because you are in a ten supported by the group’s collective opinion and by the entire world Kli this creates the conditions within you to perceive reality in this way.
Question: Does that mean friends should point out what in me are weeds?
Answer: They are already pointing it out. All your negative thoughts about the group, yourself, the Creator, and advancement all come to you from spirituality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/24, Writings of Rabash “Go Forth”
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Question: How does one let go of the past desire to receive? Is this something individual for each person or is it shared within the whole ten when we are united?
Answer: Essentially it is individual for each person. However, at various stages of correction, we unite and collectively receive certain desires, intentions, and opportunities from the Creator.
Question: If I cannot do anything on my own, can I pray to the Creator to give the ten the right desire, and then I, too, will receive it together with them?
Answer: Absolutely correct! We can do this, and it will indeed lead us to connection between us and with the Creator, with the purpose of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/24, Writings of Rabash “Go Forth”
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Question: It is said: “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord.” What does it mean to trust in the Lord?
Answer: We are talking about a person who takes everything that the Creator created for himself, and from this builds a path to the Creator, that is, tries to become like Him, to reveal Him.
Question: How can we try to convert everything that happens into bestowing to the Creator, into a connection with Him?
Answer: Imagine that at every moment of your life you have such an opportunity. And then you will see how you can turn all your actions, thoughts, desires, and intentions in order to ascend to the Creator, to become closer to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/24, Writings of Rabash “Go Forth”
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Unto your seed will I give this land (Rabash, Assorted Notes 344, “Go Forth”).
Descendants are our next actions when I take on some obligations and strive to fulfill them, to change myself, and to take additional actions.
That is, it is the result coming from the previous state. This happens at every step of the ascent on the spiritual ladder.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/24, Writings of Rabash “Go Forth”
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Question: How can we practically take off the “white gloves,” meaning leave the artificial demonstration of good-hearted relations?
Answer: Removal of the “white gloves” should be slow, conscious, and only to the degree that you can control your states and circumstances.
When you control your states, you can allow some negative thoughts and feelings in relation to your friends, but at the same time you understand that the Creator triggers them on purpose, otherwise they would not appear.
We are not doing anything on our own. Even if we think that we are doing something, it only seems to us that way. The Creator is doing everything—there is none else besides Him.
When I let myself go a little this way and feel my bad relations with my friends in the group, I begin to understand that it is given to me to rise. It means I do not deny, cancel, or conceal my bad thoughts and feelings about my friends, but rather rise above them in spite of my current thoughts about my friends.
Overall, I feel that my attitudes to them are correct. What else can I do? This is why despite the fact that they are correct I want to be above them and control them this way.
It means you control the left line when you slightly unveil your egoism and allow yourself to feel the criticism toward your friends. At the same time, you are building the right line within yourself when you turn to the Creator and ask Him to give you the power to rise above this criticism. Thus you have two lines. This is already the beginning of creation of the soul that you will have to build. It is not even you, but rather the Creator when you ask Him.
Therefore, it is a good thing that you have always treated each other “with gloves.” However, it might be time to start taking them carefully off. When you do it consciously, by allowing negative thoughts you will feel as the owner of your state from both the negative and the positive sides.
You will see that your good state and your bad state are not yours, they come from the Creator. Also, the decisions to make bad and good states are not yours either. They also come from the Creator. And after that between these bad and good states and thoughts you will sense the Creator Himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”
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Question: The light highlights a flaw in a friend that is in me because there is no other way I can see it. What are my actions?
Answer: If you see a negative quality in someone, you must ask the Creator to correct you until you stop seeing this negative quality in a friend.
Question: To keep repeating it as a constant prayer: “Correct me!”?
Answer: Sure.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/6/24, “The Conditions for Studying with Friends”
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Question: Is the path or the goal more important in spiritual work?
Answer: I would say they are equal. I must treat every step on the path with the same respect and value as the final goal.
Question: What is more critical: the effort in the ten or the correct way to learn?
Answer: No one can tell you about the correct way to learn. As for the effort, you should feel that you are making it against your egoism, against your desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”
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Question: What is the screen of the ten, and how can it be increased?
Answer: The screen of the ten is the organ that Kabbalists wish to create among themselves to sense the Creator. Within it, they reveal the connection between themselves and the Creator, and in this way, they can advance.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/24, for Graduates of MAK – the International Academy of Kabbalah in Russian, “We have gathered here”
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