Question: I feel some kind of mystery behind the number “600,000.” Is this feeling correct?

Answer: “600,000” is a purely symbolic marking of the number of souls that must unite to fully reveal the Shechina. Therefore, you should not cling to the number.

The main thing for us is to be together in mutual help and fulfillment of one another so that we can feel the entire Kli, the entire soul together. Then we will succeed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”

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Question: Can a person have power over his “horse” (body)? Doesn’t the system work so we work for the Creator and receive light from Him, which corrects my “horse” and my entire desire to receive?

Answer: As a rule, the horse takes the owner’s care of him for granted. But if so, why does the owner keep him in the stable rather than his home? It is because at home, a horse can smash and dirty everything.

Therefore, the owner builds a stall for it and keeps it there only for the horse to serve him; otherwise, he would not have put him there.

A person believes he is the master of his body, which is like a horse. He tells his body: “I give you so much food and care, not because I love you, but because you can work for the Creator. I cannot work for the Creator directly; I can only work through you. And what I give you, you receive only to the extent that you direct yourself to the Creator. If you work this way, you fulfill my intentions and further my actions—for the sake of the Creator.”

Therefore, it is considered that the horse belongs to its owner and receives everything necessary from him to benefit the owner. This is called “for the sake of bestowal.”

This is how a person performs good actions for the Creator, for himself, and his “horse.”

Question: How can a person determine what restrictions should be imposed on his “horse” at a given time?

Answer: To do this, he just needs to know his “horse” and do everything for its good work. That is, a person does not think about the Creator, and does not think about himself or the “horse”; he thinks of how to do a good deed for the Creator through the “horse.”

Question: What if, due to these restrictions, the “horse” starts bucking and behaving worse?

Answer: Then we need to get the “horse” in order. The “horse” must understand that what the owner does to it is necessary.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/24, Writings of Rabash “A Horse to Ride On”

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Question: How can one open their heart to the Creator so that He takes us out of egoism?

Answer: This is precisely why we study the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is to understand how to receive everything the Creator wants to give us, which can only happen through the connection between us.

Therefore we must strive to connect above our egoistic desires, and to the same extent, the Creator can be revealed within us.

Question: How can one desire to know the Creator Himself and not just what He gives?

Answer: It depends on your readiness to connect with the Creator rather than receive from Him. You must be ready to accept what He wishes to give in order to connect with Him and bring Him contentment through that connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”

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Question: What does “That which is revealed in Malchut is what is bestowed upon the lower ones” mean?

Answer: A person, on his or degree, reveals their desire to connect with the Creator and with the lower ones, meaning with the other friends. Then, the Creator is revealed within all of them together.

Question: What is the common desire of the ten directed at bestowal to the Creator?

Answer: It consists of the individual desires of the ten, which connect to be directed toward the Creator so that He would feel them. The desires connect without interfering with one another at all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”

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Question: How can we raise the greatness of the Creator to such a degree that we would not be able to do anything without the intention to bestow?

Answer: It does not depend on a person’s attitude; it depends on the revelation of the Creator through one’s friends. If you are determined to attain the Creator and turn to your friends with this request, prayer, or demand, then everything will work out for you.

Question: What can help to reach a new degree of connection in the ten that would give more faith in the Creator?

Answer: Blindly drawing closer to your friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”

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Question: After the revelation of the Creator, can a person say that now he is like the Creator?

Answer: No, the revelation of the Creator actually puts a person in his proper place. The person takes this place and understands who he really is.

Question: By performing the Creator’s work, are we essentially substituting Him in all His actions?

Answer: No, that has never happened, does not happen, and will never happen.

Question: What actions can a ten take to compel the Creator to reveal Himself?

Answer: Compel Him with a strong, healthy desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”

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Question: Is gratitude something that comes from above, or do we need to acquire it as a certain skill when, despite of everything and in spite of everything, we are in joy and gratitude?

Answer: The most important problem of our world is selfishness, which separates us from each other. At congresses we become involved in something common and make all sorts of movements toward each other, maybe even artificial ones. There is no natural love between us. We are the same as all earthly creatures.

Therefore by making efforts and coming together, we caused a great outflow of kindness from above from the Creator. Now we need to take this benefit into ourselves, digest it and continue on.

Question: Why is it so important for Kabbalists to be grateful to the Creator?

Answer: The Creator feels our reaction to His actions. If we react correctly to the fact that He gathers us, brings us closer, and forms one common desire from us, then by recognizing His attitude toward us we raise His greatness, His role, and His value in our eyes. In this way we deserve to be treated kindly even more.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/24, “Continuing the Congress With an Ascent”

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Question: In the state of ascent I do not feel the obvious evil inclination within me. Do I still have to ask the Creator to correct it?

Answer: If you do not have a clear feeling that you are in the state of a descent, then you cannot ask the Creator for correction. But you have to depict to yourself that you definitely are in a descent, that you are resisting it, and therefore are waiting for the ascent.

Question: But if I do not feel like I am in descent, nevertheless, do I still have to depict that I exist in this state?

Answer: No, but you have to prepare yourself for the ascent. It is from this point of view that you need to imagine that you are in descent. That is how to find the evil inclination in yourself that you clearly do not feel at this moment and ask for its correction.

Question: How can I resist the descent and prepare for the ascent?

Answer: Resisting the descent and preparing for the ascent is the same thing. You just have to constantly ask for an ascent, for connection with the Creator, for strengthening the group and yourself in it, and then you will not have any problems. This is very important.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/24, “Continuing the Congress With an Ascent”

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