Question: You said that friends who do not want to study should not be touched because this will be worse for both them and us. Lately you have said we must be more patient with such friends, but at the same time forces arise in the ten that tear us apart from the inside and weaken us. How can we protect ourselves from this?

Answer: You must create conditions in the ten that make it convenient for everyone to study and pray so there is a common desire to reach the ten and move forward.

Question: We will not drag them by force if they do not want to study. What then? How can there be suitable conditions for everyone?

Answer: A lesson is a lesson. In class you need to be serious and united with others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering”

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Question: What is the basis of prayer?

Answer: The basis of prayer is your request: What do you want from the Creator? You should think it over carefully, talk to each other, and decide what is important for you to ask the Creator for. Then you will form a really serious prayer.

Question: Should the basis of prayer be from the group or can it be individual for each person?

Answer: Individual prayer is rarely accepted. The Creator clearly answers the prayer that comes from everyone in the group and only from the heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Three Prayers”

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Question: What is more effective to ask for: attainment in Torah or a constant lack of it? In other words what is it better to ask for, the Kli or the light?

Answer: The light. When the light comes, it fills you and leaves you with the correct desire afterward. Therefore, one should constantly strive for the light of Torah.

Question: How does the light of Torah come to us in faith above reason when there is neither deficiency nor suffering? Maybe this is already merging with the Creator?

Answer: Hold on, it does not happen that quickly. Usually, a small illumination comes to you that supports and guides you forward. This mainly happens because there are many of you. That is the only reason.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering”

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Question: How close are we to the Creator?

Answer: You are always close to the Creator. The question is whether the Creator is close to you. This needs to be clarified.

Question: Through what signs can we determine that the Creator is close to us?

Answer: This can only be felt in the heart. Continuously feel the desire to attain the Creator in your heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering”

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Question: How can we maintain the intensity of our connection with the Creator?

Answer: Constantly think about Him.

Question: But when you focus on the thought, prayer, and gratitude, it feels like the ego cannot handle it and you just fall apart.

Answer: The Creator does this on purpose so that you renew your connection with Him again and again, and again. And so constantly.

Question: Can my heart be open while the ego still controls me?

Answer: Try to keep your heart open to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/24, Writings of Rabash “Prayer”

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Question: Which prayer is not pleasing to the Creator?

Answer: Egoistic ones.

Question: It is said that you need to bring your desire closer to the desire of the Creator and then He will answer your prayer. What is this process?

Answer: To desire what He desires, and He only desires our correction. Therefore, a person who strives for correction comes closer to the Creator.

Question: Which prayer is more important for the Creator: the prayer of many, or the cry, tears, and true repentance of an individual?

Answer: The prayer for everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/24, Writings of Rabash “Prayer”

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Question: What should we pay attention to so that we understand that our desire to receive is truly being corrected and purified?

Answer: To feel this you must attract all your aspirations to a certain center of desires and gather the center of the group to attract the reforming light to all these desires. That is when you will feel the correction.

Question: Will the landmarks be only in feelings, in states, or could there be some rational calculations here?

Answer: No, only sensory ones.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/24, Writings of Rabash “Affliction Precedes Mercy”

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Question: Do we need to be concerned about the advancement of friends who do not want it?

Answer: There is no need to, you won’t drag them against their will.

Question: What if we are in the same boat?

Answer: It doesn’t matter. A person must work on achieving what he wants himself. We can only help him if he wants to.

The people in our group give their consent a priori to advance with us, so we care about them but not about others.

Question: Should we oblige them to show up at least twice a week?

Answer: No, leave them alone. This will only make it worse for you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering”

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