The most important thing for us is to master the methodology of approaching the Creator, which is achieved through the connection of friends within the group. After all, it is impossible to perceive the Creator or invoke His influence upon oneself without practicing this within oneself.

It is as if we construct the image of the Creator within ourselves. This is why the Creator is called “Bore”—”Bo-u-Ré”—”Come and See.” “Come” means to form this shape within yourself, to come to it, and then you will study it within yourself.

You cannot study the Creator outside of yourself. There is no such concept as “outside oneself” in a person. It may seem to them that they perceive something external. In reality, everything is felt within oneself, just like when working with a computer. If we see something on the computer, we are not interacting with something outside of it. It is all within the computer.

The same applies to us. It seems to me that there are some images outside of me, that I see, hear, and feel something external, a world beyond myself. But these are just incorrect perceptions. In reality, everything is experienced within us.

Therefore all our actions boil down to creating conditions within ourselves that form the image of the Creator inside us. Our most effective state is when we turn to Him because this turning consists of our desire, the feeling of what we have today, and our awareness of who or what we must become in the next moment—not today, but tomorrow.

Although “today” and “tomorrow” are merely two different yet closely connected states, in this way we express our desire, awareness, and understanding of who we are at this moment and what we should become in the next.

If these actions are correctly directed toward the Creator and properly define the initial and final states, we thereby draw the Creator’s light, a special force that fulfills our desire. It is then that changes occur within us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”

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Our correct attitude toward the Creator is manifested only if we are in a group of our own kind, and we see the manifestation of the quality of bestowal, the quality of love, which are unreal qualities among friends that are not of our world; and at the same time we see how the group respects these qualities, how it welcomes, elevates, and values them.

Then I can learn from this and understand that I too want to bestow and to love because for this I will be appreciated, respected, and my egoism will be filled by it.

You might say that this way is leading us to even greater egoism. Of course. But still, at the same time, this work is also against oneself. That is, I can ask the Creator: “Give me the quality to better and more correctly treat others.” It is still an egoistic quality for my own sake, but I want to draw upon myself the light that would begin to change me.

And here we begin to enter into a completely different system of relationships. That is, although I am an egoist who is asking the Creator to make me seemingly a more egoistic being, it is egoistic in the spiritual sense of the word, but in the world where I exist, it is not egoistic.

It turns out that there are two consequences to my action. On the one hand, I ask to fill my egoism with vanity and respect of others in order to realize my envy in advancing forward.

On the other hand, the light that affects me changes me in the opposite direction. It evokes in me the quality of bestowal, and then I suddenly discover that the qualities of bestowal are valuable in themselves, that I want to exist in them even without any consequences for my egoism.

Gradually, this happens. This is how we come to the new states.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 41

What Are the Right and Left Lines in Relation to Developing Feelings?

The right and left lines are relative. In the preparation stage of our spiritual development we do not yet know the spiritual form of these lines. With a desire to receive for oneself and a desire to bestow, the latter is called the “right” and the former the “left,” and both divide into various forms.

Below the barrier, when everything is still Lo Lishma (not for the Creator’s sake), the right and left lines are determined by importance. Raising the importance of the Creator is called “right,” while raising the importance of what the body demands is called “left.”

When we cannot yet work with these lines, the main focus is scrutiny. Intellectual scrutiny is our entire work. If this scrutiny can be combined with feeling, we might achieve in one hour what others achieve in a week. This explains why reading and discussing Kabbalistic articles is so exhausting, as rapid work requires significant energy.

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Question: What kind of friend implements mutual guarantee in a good thought?

Answer: It is any of your male or female friends who can make a connection between you and the Creator.

A realized good thought for the sake of a friend is your realized wish for him.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/30/24, “Arvut on the Way to Lishma“

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Question: You were asked: “What miracle would you like to see?” And you answered: “That all the people of Israel would enter into a connection with the Creator.” Whom did you mean by the people of Israel?

Answer: All those who can unite into one heart are called the people of Israel regardless of who they are and what they are.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Unity Day 12/29/24, “Miracles Happen When We Unite”

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We have a group, a society, an atmosphere where thoughts circulate around us that all our progress comes from the revelation of greater and greater egoism. Therefore when egoism is revealed within us, we do not despair or fall, but rather joyfully embrace these revelations.

Here one can determine the state a person is in as they go through several stages.

The first stage is when a person is horrified by their negative qualities and seeks to run away from them, to turn away, to close their eyes and not feel them! Then they begin to accept these qualities as a given, as something that must be. After that they start to see them as necessary for their advancement.

Finally they come to feel them as a gift when the Creator reveals to them their true evil, the very evil He created within them.

At this point a person feels good about it because the Creator is working with them. The Creator awakens these negative traits within them, traits so vile that they are revolted by them. You feel worse than an animal, worse than anything imaginable. But this is exactly how it should be.

This is created by the Creator so that a person can, from this state, turn to Him and ask for correction. It is said: “I created the evil inclination, and I created the light for its correction.” And you exist in the middle, between these two qualities of darkness and light, and only ask for the evil to be revealed.

You then draw light onto this evil, and once again evil is revealed, and again you draw light. This is how you move forward—step by step, left-right, left-right.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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Question: You said that we should not allow evil to develop. Is this the work that needs to be done to go through the four stages of correction?

Answer: The four stages of correction will take place in you automatically, each time in a different form.

There is no way you can approach them with your mind because, at the time when evil is revealed, you are in your feelings, and all your thoughts disappear. No common sense will help you; your feelings take over. Therefore it all depends only on the environment in which you are.

Understand that as soon as we move from degree to degree and evil is revealed, we are controlled from above! The only thing that can help you is the environment that you create in advance so that it serves as a damper, a brake, that absorbs some vibrations and shocks and gives you help and support. This is the ten in which you work.

If there is no ten, your progress will be very limited, very shallow, and only partially successful. You will still move forward because you exist within the vast collective world Kli, but it will not be the same. So take this into account.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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Question: When I study and read sources myself, I do not understand anything at all. But now when you read them and we go through them together, they are perceived in a completely different way.

Answer: Of course. That is exactly why I am here. Without explanations you would not understand anything. Millions of people can read these sources and still understand nothing. Additionally, there is an internal, emotional, spiritual transmission from teacher to student.

However, your preliminary work with the sources is still beneficial because you familiarize yourself with them directly through your own feelings and perception.

Now you see how it can all be explained from the next degree. I explain things just one degree above where you currently are, no more, and I try not to overcomplicate it. On the contrary, I try to break it down for you and serve it like baby food on a spoon.

But even if you put in effort without understanding anything, that effort becomes the desire into which you later receive light, revelation, and understanding. So it is not in vain.

For example, before attending Rabash’s lessons, I used to read The Study of the Ten Sefirot and other sources. Questions would arise, and I would write them down and dig into them to develop some analytical ability that would allow me to absorb more from my teacher.

In other words, it is not about understanding, but being prepared to understand what the teacher will say. That you hear things differently from your teacher is a good thing. That is how it should be.

At the next degree, everything becomes simpler and simpler still. And the simplest of all is the simple upper light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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