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Posted on March 4th, 2025
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This is a group of people who have gathered to be together in one place, under one leader, to be together. With superhuman courage they face up to all those who rise against them. Indeed, they are brave men with a strong spirit, and they are determined not to retreat one inch. They are first-class warriors, fighting the war against the inclination to their last drop of blood, and their only wish is to win the battle for the glory of His name (Rabash, Letter 8).
Question: About whom did Rabash write in this letter? About people who gathered together for the first time? Or about a group that had worked together for a long time, and whose members had finally become bold and determined?
Answer: Rabash wrote only for his students. That is how we should also perceive what he writes.
We must strive to be together as one man with one heart. Moreover, each person should look around and see if someone needs their help. That is the most important thing.
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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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We need to experience the states called “day” and “night” so that we can integrate both into our goal. If we work in this way, all the efforts we make during the convention will accumulate to a degree sufficient for achieving the goal, and we will reveal the Creator within our common connection. This defines the success of the convention.
The state of night is different from the state of day in which a person is full of strength, inspiration, feelings, and clear understanding of the states they are going through. Still, we must try to gather and unify all the states we go through into one shared state—evening and morning, one day—where everything is good.
Day is when I feel how the light illuminates my relationships with others, and through them my relationship with the Creator. Everything is filled with the light of the day, the light of the Torah.
Night, however, is different. When night is sent to us from above, we must learn to behave in a way where all our thoughts, desires, and actions are only for the sake of accepting the lack of light and reaching unity, which reveals new desires within us.
We learn from both states night and day, which in the end must complement each other, merge into one day where “darkness will shine like light,” and all the states we have passed through will serve our attainment and adhesion.
The light will shine like day because in both darkness and light we must reveal the Creator’s attitude toward us, understand what He wants from us, and draw closer to each other until we reach complete unity (congress).
It is said that a person must stand guard both day and night, meaning they must integrate all states, both open like day and concealed like night, until within all of them together our connection with the Creator is revealed.
During the day we feel our connection with the Creator openly, within reason, through our striving to draw closer to Him. This is the work of the day. But the work at night is entirely different because at night the Creator is concealed, which makes it difficult for us to perceive and feel Him, and to turn to Him.
Yet whether it is day or night, no matter the conditions we find ourselves in, we must strive toward the upper force and try to invest everything we have—our hearts, desires, actions, thoughts, and prayers—so that we can unite together and draw the Creator into the center of our connection.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress
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Question: How can one bare one’s heart for a perfect prayer when egoism does not allow one to be honest with oneself?
Answer: It does not matter whether egoism allows it or not. When we are in an environment like a convention, our main goal is to awaken the upper light. Then it will become clear to us how far we are from the collective attainment of the Creator.
We must never look back and think, “How can I achieve this? This is holding me back and that is holding me back.” Nothing is holding us back! Even the most difficult questions that arise do so only to push us to rise above them and take another step forward.
Question: And what is that step right now?
Answer: That we unite even more and take this step together.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/21/25, Lesson 4
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Question: This is my first time at the convention, and I am feeling excitement and awe. I can’t put into words the love and emotions I am experiencing here. But my ten had no opportunity to come, so I brought them with me in my heart.
What can I do to make my ten feel the love and light I have experienced here?
Answer: Immerse yourself as much as possible in what you feel here so that this sensation penetrates you as deeply as possible. Your ten will feel it through your heart. You’ll see, they will feel it.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/20/25, Lesson 1
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Question: If each person becomes a guarantor for another, does that mean personal needs completely disappear? Or is there still space for individual effort and responsibility?
Answer: Even though we unite and each person wants to be a guarantor for others, in the end, we discover our collective mutual responsibility. By coming together, we fulfill our common desire.
Question: How does this collective responsibility affect the personal freedom and independence of each individual?
Answer: It does not. We simply begin to think, perceive, and feel as a group of friends. They all unite within our heart, and it expands. So, let’s move forward and experience this.
Question: How can one expand their heart to include all the hearts of the world Kli? Or should one, instead, include their heart into the hearts of others?
Answer: No, you should expand your heart by genuinely desiring to be together with others in a single common desire and intention.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/20/25, Lesson 1
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Question: It is said that we should pray for the strength of faith in order to come to Lishma. But faith is the sensation of the Creator. How can we avoid getting confused and ensure that faith is not just our fantasy?
Answer: We need to strive for the revelation of the Creator. Gradually such aspirations and motivations will form in a person that will lead him to contact with the Creator. So you should keep going.
Question: If a person’s mind is not able to understand what Lishma is, how can he practically enter the work?
Answer: By trying to rise through the degrees of the spiritual ladder, a person perceives different states that will lead him to Lishma.
Question: Why do we detach ourselves from the external world and not ask the Creator to correct it? Is this not important? Or can we not help the world until we ourselves reach Lishma?
Answer: First we need to independently reach Lishma, and then from that degree draw all the living beings in the world toward it. That is how it works.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/21/25, Lesson 4
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Preparation to the Lesson
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 5, “Lishma Is an Awakening from Above, and Why Do We Need an Awakening from Below?”
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 26, “Who Will Not Lift Up the Face”
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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 2, Сhapter 1, Item 2
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