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1st part of the Lesson — Conversations of a Kabbalist with His Students During the Day
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Question: We want to follow the path of truth, starting with Lo Lishma (for our own sake). We try to move forward on our own even though we know that everything is governed by the Creator. How can we understand what He wants from us through His actions?
Answer: All Kabbalists speak about this. The Creator desires our aspiration toward Him to be like His aspiration toward us.
And then, by mutually moving toward each other, as it is said, “I am for my Beloved, and my Beloved is for me,” we will reach a state where we meet the Creator halfway.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/24, Writings of Rabash “And the Lord Saw”
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Question: How can we understand that the Creator has been revealed? Is it expressed in feelings or in some special way?
Answer: The Creator reveals Himself when the vessel (Kli) is ready. If ten people are connected in mutual help and love on the very first degree that they can create between them, and they turn to the Creator to form and support this degree, then the Creator establishes the connection between them and supports it.
The Creator serves as the guarantor that they will hold on to each other, and only then can He be revealed within the connection He has created from them. All that is required from them is the request.
Question: What does it mean to turn to the center of the ten?
Answer: Turning to the center of the ten means to the point where everyone comes together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”
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Question: When can we say that a person has reached Lishma?
Answer: When all his intentions are only for the sake of the Creator.
Question: Does this happen in a fragmented state or is it a given?
Answer: This happens in the general state between man and the Creator.
Question: If I want to feel what the author of the article felt, what the teacher feels when answering questions, when I listen to the questions of my friends, and being in the ten thank the Creator for creating all the conditions for me to come to Lishma, do I thus come to Lishma?
Answer: You have this opportunity, but whether you reach it or not depends on you, on how much you will put your desires, efforts, and work into it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/24, Writings of Rabash “And the Lord Saw”
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Question: How does a person differentiate between the light of Hochma and the light of Hassadim in their inner work?
Answer: The difference lies in the very vessel, in the desire itself: either I strive to be in the light of Hochma or in the light of Hassadim. These are opposite things: we receive the light of Hochma in the vessels of reception, while the light of Hassadim is received in the vessels of bestowal.
We should strive to create such a state of connection between us where both the light of Hochma and the light of Hassadim will fill us, and we will be able to retain them within ourselves.
Question: What does it mean to fill a person with the light of Hassadim?
Answer: It means we draw them away from receiving so that they remain in the quality of bestowal at all times.
Question: In the group of ten, we try to bestow upon our friends and ask the Creator to grant us this quality. At what point can we begin to care about the vessels of reception?
Answer: A person should not focus on their own vessels of reception. We should only care about how to bestow upon our friends. In doing so, we will correct ourselves to the point where our vessels become entirely vessels of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/31/24, Writings of Rabash “Gopher Wood”
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Question: What is the mutual dependence of the ten on the Creator and how should it be realized?
Answer: The Creator and the group of ten are interdependent both in positive and negative ways. This means that the group of ten must understand that in its desire to move forward toward the Creator, it influences Him, and He changes them accordingly.
Therefore, the most important thing for us is to relate to the Creator in a way that allows Him to feel, correct, and elevate us higher. Only then will we reach the purpose of creation; without this, it is impossible.
By striving in the ten toward the purpose of creation, we direct ourselves clearly toward Him, and nothing can prevent us from this except ourselves.
Thus, we need to clearly understand what we seek from our path, from ourselves, and from our request to the Creator, that is, from our prayer. By examining this, we correct ourselves on the path to the purpose of creation. Otherwise, we will not achieve it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/24, Writings of Rabash “And the Lord Saw”
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Question: What does it mean that “the righteous himself should know that his offspring should be good deeds”?
Answer: They should see the results of their efforts.
These results are reflected in the unity that emerges thanks to the efforts of the one who is righteous among you and in the feeling that you must remain together in such relationships.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Noah Was a Righteous Man”
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Question: Rabash writes that a person does not know where he will be better off, like Israel during the Exodus from Egypt, with the sea ahead and Pharaoh behind.
How does one get out of such a state when he does not know what to do?
Answer: The best course is to ask the Creator to provide you with good energy, a good force. Then, you can emerge from this state as if trying to pull yourself up from a swamp or out of deep waters by your own efforts. That is how it will happen.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Forces within Man”
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