Question: I look at a friend whom I do not accept, and I see myself before me; this is an image of me. If I cannot ask for myself, whom do I ask for because it is my image in front of me?

Answer: It is opposite you. What does it mean to see another person in front of me? I see my negative qualities. If I had the corrected properties, I would not see anyone as bad. Therefore, ask for correction so that you see everyone as fully corrected.

What else can you ask for? For the Creator to correct others? This is only possible in the ten where we mutually help each other.

Here is a dilemma: to pray for the world to be better or to correct yourself not to see the world as evil. This is individual and shared work.

When you ask for your correction in order to relate to your friends in the ten correctly, you are not asking for your ego. You are asking to correct yourself, to rise, and thus correctly interact with them, become interconnected, and help them. This is not considered asking for yourself because you are asking for the ten. Therefore, there is a condition: turn to the Creator only through the ten.

We must ask constantly, as it was said: “May you ask constantly ask” i.e., constantly be praying.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: Baal HaSulam was in adhesion with the Creator. How can we reach such unity with the Creator in our neighbor?

Answer: That is not simple. You have to be connected with each other, and from your common connection you have to plea the Creator so He will tie you together even more strongly and will include you in Him. We cannot ask for more, and we do not even need more. As it is said: “In Him my heart will delight.”

Question: Rabash writes that Baal HaSulam made it so that an ordinary person could achieve Dvekut [adhesion] with the Creator when before only great disciples could do so.

Can we now improve our methodology so that every person could achieve adhesion with the Creator like a real sage?

Answer: If we achieve what we are supposed to achieve, then we will understand how we can help everyone. This will be the result of our spiritual work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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Question: We conceal ourselves from the Creator’s light. But the Creator is already concealed from us. He is not perceived in our vessels (Kelim) as good and benevolent. So what are we concealing ourselves from?

Answer: The fact is that we do not yet have the true vessels, i.e., desires, in which we can feel the Creator and maintain a constant connection with Him. Therefore, we must strive to find a connection between ourselves and the Creator in every state we experience.

Question: What can be considered a constant state amidst all the changing impressions?

Answer: This needs to be measured relative to the person.

Question: Will our efforts to feel the Creator’s will, to be connected with Him, and to justify everything that happens be considered a constant state?

Answer: Yes, if you reach this through your connection with the friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/18/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 12 (1)

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 121

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The seventh day of the Sukkot holiday, which completes the holidays, is called Hoshana Rabbah (The Great Salvation). Every day we ask the Creator for salvation, and now, on the last day of the holiday, we must combine all our requests into one big cry: “Save us!” After all, we kept asking, but salvation did not come.

This seventh day is dedicated to King David who feels there is no great, final salvation for the entire people of Israel yet. As the king of Israel, Sefira Malchut, he feels this most of all and therefore cries out to the Creator, and we need to join in this cry.

On the night of Hoshana Rabbah, it is customary for everyone to check whether he has a shade, the perfect faith, clothing for the light. Night, darkness, comes precisely to the place where light should be revealed. And if we pray and ask as we should, light comes inside this darkness, and then it seems much stronger than usual.

Faith is the condition on which the light can shine, and nothing can overshadow it. We call this night Hoshana Rabbah because the light comes to those Kelim who need it, demand it, and ask for it to be revealed. This is a consequence of all the past days of Sukkot as a result of which the light appears. And to the extent of this light comes the great salvation, Hoshana Rabbah.

A person checks his shade, that is, how much effort he exerted, despite concealment, and merited salvation, the light. Throughout the Sukkot festival he asked to be in the shade, that is, he asked for faith. And now, by his shade, he checks how correctly he walked the path and prepared himself for the great light that should be revealed during Hoshana Rabbah.

As a result of this request, we receive the great light of Hoshana Rabbah that leads us to correction. This light gives us a huge shade within which we can reveal the huge light of the great salvation, Hoshana Rabbah.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/23/24, “Hoshana Rabbah”

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Through the Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] that a person does, they bring upon him thoughts and desires to want to purify himself (Rabash, Assorted Notes 158, “According to the Sorrow Is the Reward”).

Question: Doesn’t the desire for purification come after a person has felt a state of purity sent to him from above by the Creator?

Answer: No, we cannot act that way. We move from our impurity, from our inner dirt, toward correction. Therefore, we cannot speak of a corrected state manifesting in us before the uncorrected state does.

Question: So does this mean that anything we might be experiencing now as a state of purity is a lie?

Answer: At this point, yes, of course. We do not yet have truly corrected vessels (Kelim). Therefore, all our so-called purity is only uncorrected vessels, which are relatively corrected compared to our egoism.

But even if we are working without constantly thinking about purification, the light in the Torah and the books we study still influence us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/24, Writings of Rabash “According to the Sorrow Is the Reward”

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Question: How can we combine two lines in our work: wholeness (gratitude) and deficiency (Hissaron)?

Answer: It is through connection with the upper degree. On one side there is the upper degree, and on the other, you, the lower degree; make your connection with it as close as possible.

That is done through prayer on the level of feelings. You do not even need words; you simply enter a state where you want to draw closer to the upper.

Question: You mentioned the Psalms. I also love them, but I am not sure if they are the state of the left or right line.

Answer: For us, they are the middle line. Even if you can identify right or left lines in the Psalms, for our level, they represent the middle line, which is higher than us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/18/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 36

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Question: Is it possible to see or feel that another person has done inner work within themselves?

Answer: Usually this is felt not just from inner work, but also through external signs: how you connect with others and how you participate in lessons and various events. It shows.

Question: Is your group the joy and adornments gifted to you by the Creator?

Answer: Ultimately that is exactly what it comes down to. If you think that way, then you are doing well.

Question: It is said that a person in prayer is in the Creator’s palace, close to Him. Upon receiving an answer to the prayer, he leaves that palace. Does this mean that in prayer, we seek not the answer but the prayer itself?

Answer: In prayer, request, and response we always seek to stay connected with the Creator.

Question: Are the adornments the corrected desires of my friends? Can this be taken as a basis for our work?

Answer: Absolutely. That is elevation, where you exalt specific qualities and they are considered the adornment of the entire group.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/24, Writings of Rabash “An Article for Sukkot”

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Question: What fulfillment do we ask for during our ascent toward the Creator?

Answer: We ask the Creator to fill us with light, which will correct us and draw us closer to the Creator to the extent that we feel included in Him, and through our connection with the Creator, we will adhere to Him and feel what He feels.

Question: How can we become included in His feelings?

Answer: Ask for it. How He will do it, we do not know. Perhaps we will find out later, but for now, just ask.

Question: Does a Kabbalist become included in the Creator and feel His mood and sensations?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/24, Writings of Rabash “According to the Sorrow Is the Reward”

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