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The World Convention “Connecting to Lishma,” Lesson 4
Question: Tell me, how is it possible that with such a degree of attainment, you can calmly answer any question with “I do not know” or “I cannot answer yet”? I believe this is the highest degree of attainment.
Answer: Yes, as Shakespeare said: “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Of course, I do not know everything, and there is a lot. But we learn and advance supporting each other.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/21/25, Lesson 4
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Question: There is a very high concentration of love at the convention, and everyone feels it. We read that we must awaken the hearts of our friends.
What else can we do so that this concentration can be felt anywhere in our world Kli and especially by those who could not come?
Answer: You just need to think about them, write, and contact them.
Question: All ten of us came here except for one friend, and it was as if part of my heart remained there. How do we collect all our parts here including that friend?
Answer: The most important thing is that if you and your friends imagine that you are in one single desire; you want to feel only that. Then it will work out.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress
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Question: We come to Kabbalah to change ourselves. What exactly changes in a person: the mind, the heart? Right now, at the convention, I need to set a goal for myself and understand what I should focus on in order to help my ten through myself. Should it be my heart, my mind, or my feelings?
Answer: All of them—your heart, your mind, and your feelings.
Question: But I do not control my feelings; they are given to me by the Creator, are they not?
Answer: But through what you do control, you also influence your feelings.
Question: Should I constantly talk about this in the ten? I cannot just let it pass through me.
Answer: Talk about it.
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From Daily Kabbalah lesson 2/15/25, Writings of Rabash “Associating the Quality of Mercy with Judgment”
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After each ten reaches its center and desires to act from this center toward the Creator, it obtains the same aspiration to connect as a single ten with other tens. Then the collective force present in the entire ten unites with the collective forces of other tens, and their common force begins to act. It is as if two drops of water merge into one, and the law that acted on each drop separately now acts on both of them together.
At the convention, we need to quickly go through all the steps leading us to general unity.
First, we unite within our own ten to become as one person, and then from our common center, we seek the central points of all other tens.
The center of the group is the state we want to achieve. When we already feel our ten united as one person with one heart, we want to connect with other tens.
Every gathering has a purpose, a collective force that comes from the center of our unity, from the center of the convention. At the convention, we must try to feel how we direct this force from the center of the convention to the center of all reality where our meeting with the Creator takes place. According to how we strive toward this common center for all of us, we will be able to feel Him.
The group feels that it is increasingly uniting and merging into a single whole, and then from this unity, we want to extract a force directed straight to the Creator.
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From Daily Kabbalah lesson 2/15/25, Writings of Rabash “Associating the Quality of Mercy with Judgment”
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Opening one’s heart is not easy at all. Even if it seems to me that I have managed to open my heart, it does not necessarily mean that it has truly opened. It is possible for the heart to remain closed, perhaps even more than before.
That is why we should listen to what Baal HaSulam says, strive to understand him, and put it into practice: One cannot correct one’s thought, but should only aim the heart – make one’s heart straight to the Creator. Then all of his thoughts and actions will naturally be to bestow contentment upon his Maker (Shamati 68).
If a person carries out such spiritual work, they open their heart more and more, and progress forward. The heart represents desire, and when he corrects his heart…, the heart will then be the Kli in which to place the upper light. And when the upper light shines in the heart, the heart will grow stronger and he will add and supplement continuously.
The heart shows a person the path to strengthen and move forward. There must be a sense within the heart that one is on the right degrees, ascending accordingly.
One must constantly check where the heart is leading. Then, the person will feel whether the heart is pulling them in a specific direction or allowing them the freedom to act.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress
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Question: What is the courage of the heart?
Answer: The courage of the heart is when a person feels that they can rise up now and become as if a representative of all the people gathered at the convention.
Question: How can we build and maintain such a connection so that we can instantly react and even anticipate the attacks of the evil inclination?
Answer: We must truly imagine how we can be in a state where everyone is connected to one another.
Question: How does the group rise to the Creator?
Answer: The group rises to the Creator to the extent that it becomes connected.
Question: What is this desire that opens our hearts and even persuades the Creator to unite us?
Answer: Ask the Creator, not me.
Question: What is spiritual war?
Answer: Spiritual war is when I fight with my Kelim (egoistic desires).
Question: We learn that the evil inclination is the separation between us and the Creator is the connection between us. Can we try to interact with each other not through the membrane of our egoism but through the Creator now so that He would be like a conduit between us?
Answer: That is correct. This is how we should act. But how? I cannot tell you that. But you have already guessed half of it; so keep trying.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress
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World Kabbalah Convention “Connecting to Lishma,” Lesson 3
Question: When I realize I have no strength, I ask for it from the upper force and receive it; then egoism appropriates it for itself. How can I avoid this?
Answer: The main thing is understanding that the Creator is not in us but between us. And if I am directed at Him, I can strive for the desire of the vast mass of souls He is in.
Therefore, what happens makes no difference to me. The main thing is that I want to be connected to the Creator. I do not want to lose this connection for a single moment in any state. Then everything will work out.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/21/25, Lesson 3
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