Question: How can you ask for others when you feel like you have lost the taste for it?

Answer: That is actually a good thing.

Question: Should I continue working mechanically?

Answer: Absolutely! Working mechanically is the best thing you can do. It is the beginning of a new degree.

The thing is, when there is no taste, you are not demanding anything for yourself. When there is no taste, no desire, you are able to pray for others. But this is a small state.

A big state is when you deeply desire to fulfill yourself, yet you still pray for others. Right now you are being prepared for that.

So pray for others and you will see that taste will appear: “But what about me?! What’s happening to me?”—and this is how you will gradually rise above these desires.
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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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We need to try to feel the collective that will be present at the congress and pray for everyone, including even ourselves. Rabash writes that a person must pray for the entire society, for the entire world Kli, and include oneself within it.

The essence is that when I imagine the souls, I must also imagine that the Creator is present precisely within them. And within me? Within me, He exists in a form that prompts me to relate to Him and to this collective in a special way.

In principle, He distinguishes me negatively, as if I am not like this collective: He is within them, but not within me. The Creator desires for me to awaken His revelation within myself in a specific manner.

The most important thing is to pray for others as if they were your own child. It is very simple. If you pray for them in this way, it means you are integrating into the correct relationship with the Creator because He also relates to everyone as to His children, whom He wishes to nurture and elevate.

Then you will form a connection with Him, similarity to Him, and an understanding of Him. Suddenly you will begin to feel His attitude toward everyone, through which you will come to understand yourself and your mission. This is the most reliable path.

You become the Creator’s partner. After all, each of us must become His conduit and similar to Him, which means that you act as you believe the Creator acts in the world.
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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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Question: What is the difference between asking for the group of people physically present at a congress and asking for all the friends who are in the state of the congress?

Answer: Do not confuse these states. Each time we are in different states. And even being in the same state, I can feel myself either as a small child among the friends, as equal to them, or above them. From these three states called embryo, small state, and great state, I can turn to them and to the Creator.

Question: And what is the difference between asking for the friends with whom I am physically at the congress and for the friends who are not physically near me?

Answer: What difference does it make where I am with them? I ask that the Creator raise and correct us. What do distances have to do with it?

I turn to the Creator with a request, with my impression of the friends I am with right now. Wherever a person comes from, he includes everything in himself. That is, I ask for the entire Kli; otherwise, I do not appeal to the Creator fully.

For the Creator, all of us and in general everything that exists across all times, all events, everything that can possibly be imagined is just one single desire created by Him. There is nothing else here, and therefore, there is no need to complicate things.

What difference does it make to me how many of my friends stayed at home and how many of them are here with whom I feel physically closer now and with whom I am further away. It does not matter. It is enough to ask the Creator to help them, and He will help them.
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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 42

What Is the Difference Between Being Thrown in a “Catapult” and Being a “Fetus,” Seeing End-to-End?

The difference is immense. A “fetus” (Ubar) sees from one end to the other because it nullifies itself, and thus its experiences do not overwhelm it. In contrast, someone thrown in a catapult moves between extremes and becomes entangled in them. Every state dominates them and immerses them completely.

A fetus is unaffected because it possesses a screen (Masach). It passes through extreme states without being controlled by them. However, those in a catapult are ruled by each state and demonstrate their weakness and helplessness.

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Question: When states are revealed in which it seems to us that we are in bestowal, how do we return to our nature that is far from bestowal?

Answer: Why would we want to return to our egoistic nature? I want to always remain in the quality of bestowal. If I desire to come closer to the Creator, why would I want to distance myself from Him?

He Himself will distance me to the extent and in the form necessary for my next state. What my next state will be—negative (left line) or positive (right line)—I cannot say. That is not my concern.

My task is only to exert the proper efforts and assess the state I am currently in relative to the group. This is precisely what I must continuously analyze and strive to improve.
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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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Question: When a person is in a good state, he forgets about the Creator. When he is in a bad state, it seems like there is a rule of not attributing it to the Creator. Where is the guide that should and is able to help bring everything to the Creator between these states?

Answer: Generally, such a channel is the group that helps one take a position from which he can begin to justify the Creator. Or the Creator Himself arouses in a person a desire for something non-spiritual and at the same time gives him an understanding that this action comes from Him.

Or we can put it another way, the desire for something other than the spiritual is given to him so that by realizing it comes from the Creator, he can properly direct himself by his own efforts.

Question: So the Creator, along with any sensation, always gives a person the opportunity to turn to Him, to justify Him?

Answer: I cannot always say that because there is also a double concealment.

Single concealment is when a person realizes the concealment he is currently in comes from the Creator; i.e., there is a higher reason. Double concealment is when the reason disappears.
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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: What can you do when you want to make efforts yourself with your mind, your feelings, your hands, feet, and head without the help of the Creator, without any help?

Answer: If I want to perform some actions myself without the help of the Creator, I am working within the framework of this world, and unfortunately, in practice, I cannot advance spiritually.

In other words, independent actions without turning to the Creator are actions of our world. The actions of the spiritual world are only our appeals to the Creator.
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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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Question: Should we strive to detect a split in the ten?

Answer: No! Always envision the ten in an ideal state. That is it! There is no need to criticize it. You do not need to “repair” the ten.

If you think that you should investigate the breakage, search for it, and disclose it, then you are deeply mistaken. There is nothing to search for! Always look for only the good, only the positive!

And then, if a negative thing appears, it will manifest itself in a stream of positive movement and will be corrected simultaneously. That is the only way!

Under no circumstances should you engage in any negative feelings, investigations, or introspection. You certainly cannot practice self-flagellation. You must stop this.
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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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