How Can We Be Worthy of the Creator’s Love?

527Question: How can we love people correctly in order to be worthy of the love of the Creator?

Answer: You must constantly convince yourself that to the extent that you are like the Creator in His attitude toward people, to that extent you will be close to Him. This is called the law of similarity of properties.

First, we are talking about love for the ten. To do this everyone in their ten must try to behave as they imagine the Creator behaves and demands the same from him or her. Gradually, a person will develop a feeling of the friends in his aspirations toward them, and the properties of the Creator, His love, and His qualities will be revealed in him.

Question: By loving our friends, we feel the love of the Creator. Is it the same love?

Answer: This is not the same love, not the same feelings, but gradually one will be combined with the other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Anyone with Whom the Spirit of the People Is Pleased – 2”

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Why Does the World Need a Lot of People?

944Adhering to the Creator is a task that must be achieved by each of us in this world. That is why we are gathering together. After all, if we existed as one person, like as our prototype Adam, we would not be able to achieve anything.

The fact is, our feelings come from egoistic qualities. But if we are in a state where we feel something outside of ourselves, then we can begin to work on ourselves.

Therefore, one person is not enough in the world, but several people are needed, at least ten. If we mean that we must attain complete union with the Creator, then it is possible only through ten stages, as we study from the four stages of direct light.

In other words, the originally created egoistic desire had to be divided into many parts. Depending on how much this desire develops and becomes more and more opposite to the Creator, we are divided into more and more particles, that is, people, each of whom carries an egoistic element that can be corrected.

If only a few people were not separated by egoism, this collective object would not be able to correct itself. Therefore, we are divided into structures such as individual atoms so that any combinations can be created from them.

That is similar to various chemical elements of which there are not so many, only slightly more than a hundred, and the multitude of compounds they create between them. The result is life in its endless, eternal, perfect movement.

The molecules of inanimate elements are connections of atoms. When molecules combine, they can produce something, generate something from themselves, and make their own copies.

From what the Creator created, we see that everything must break apart and fall to the lowest level and then assemble into atoms, atoms into molecules, then more complex structures in which life, reproduction, division, and so on appear.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 8/11/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Letter 29”

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What Should I Do with My Free Time?

629.4Question: Each of us has weak points: some love to watch TV and some like to surf YouTube even though they understand that they could spend this time usefully for the sake of the Creator reading the sources or doing something for the group.

How do you feel about, for example, writing a memo to yourself that from now on, instead of a watching a TV series, I read sources for the sake of the Creator and put this note in some visible place? Could this work?

Answer: It might work. Why not?

Question: Is this how I can limit myself?

Answer: Yes, certainly.

Question: Is it that simple? Where is the fight?

Answer: There is no need for any fight. What do you do in your free time? Engage in some sports and prepare for lectures and lessons a bit. And everything will go smoothly.

Question: While having fun or searching for new means of earning money, a person may think he is doing something necessary. He justifies himself all the time, and these unnecessary actions become necessary.

Answer: You are pampering yourself. If a Kabbalist has some free time left, he mainly engages in sports.

Question: Can we say that we will not get anywhere if we do not chop our desire to receive into small pieces, and only the part that deals with the Torah, Mitzvot, lessons, and dissemination will remain?

Answer: Yes, until it becomes a habit.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/18/24, Writings of Rabash, “Action and Thought”

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Everything Should Be Balanced

628.2Comment: You give us a certain level of free time. But we have such states when egoism confuses this with what is absolutely necessary. Someone might start neglecting their health or family relationships, rest, or something else.

My Response: Everyone has a head on their shoulders, and everyone, in principle, can understand what they are sacrificing to spend more time on studying or working on dissemination. This should be balanced.

How many hours a day does Kabbalah take for you? Take, for example, an average number: a maximum of two hours. No more is needed. If you systematically devote two hours a day to the study of Kabbalah, you will see how quickly success comes to you.

Moreover, it should be arranged so that it is not an overload for you; otherwise, you will not be able to endure it for long.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Action and Thought”

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The Basis of Coming Closer to the Creator

527.03Question: It is written that the desire to know spirituality or to deny it is the same thing, why?

Answer: Because both bring you closer to the Creator. I yearn to be closer to Him, to understand Him, and even if this causes some rejection within me, it does not matter.

What really matters is that it affects me and I try to react to it in some way. There are materials from Kabbalists where they criticize the world, its structure, and even the Creator Himself. This also influences their success and pushes them forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 7/19/20 “Connecting into One Soul”

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How Does the Question about the Meaning of Life Awaken?

938.05Question: How can our connection awaken the eternal question about the meaning of life in other people who do not study Kabbalah? Is awakening these questions influenced only by dissemination or also by our internal spiritual work in the tens?

Answer: Our internal work influences it to some extent, but to a very small degree. The main thing, in principle, is teaching.

Gradually, a large group of people will form who can teach, explain, and answer questions. Then this internal society will begin to emit certain qualities, the qualities of the Creator, the qualities of the Universe.

Therefore, keep studying, and the most important thing is to stay connected with each other. Because the simplest, even the highest knowledge will not be of any use if it is not tied to others.
It is the quality of the ten that breaks the boundaries of nature and spreads in all directions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/19/24, “Connecting into One Soul”

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For the Sake of the System

594Question: I no longer derive pleasure from anything, and I even feel that I cannot bring pleasure to anyone else because I no longer remember what it is like. How, then, can I bring contentment to the Creator, and what action should I take for this?

Answer: There are such concepts as commandments. Do whatever you want for the sake of the Creator, and everything will be fine.

Question: But the Creator is an abstract system. How can I do something for it?

Answer: This system is connected to your mind, your nerves, your desires, and your intentions. So perform actions for its sake, then you will quickly see how it responds to you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Action and Thought”

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