Question: What is the difference between forming a union of love and connection in the material world and in the spiritual?

Answer: A material union is based only on material benefits and promises, while a spiritual union depends solely on a shared aspiration toward a common goal.

Question: So does this mean there is no light from the Creator when people form a union in the material world?

Answer: No, there is nothing from the Creator. For that, there are lawyers, judges, and so on. They can be consulted.

Question: If our group has the sole desire to attain love for the Creator, but we are still in the material world, how can we determine that we have formed a spiritual union in the group and that the Creator is the guarantor for us?

Answer: The Creator is not a guarantor for anyone. We must be guarantors for each other. You should thoroughly study the article on mutual responsibility.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Today – 2”

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Question: Can we ask for elevated spiritual things even if we are not yet similar to the Creator?

Answer: The thing is that when you engage in this, you draw upon yourself the upper light, which corrects and elevates you.

Question: Can it be said that a vessel of bestowal is compassion, which can attract the light of Hassadim and can the light of Hochma be received in a vessel of compassion?

Answer: No, that is impossible. These are entirely different levels of desire. Level two is a vessel of bestowal. Level four is a vessel of reception.

Question: Eternity is adhesion. It is written in TES that if there were no line (Kav), creation would be merged with infinity. Why must the light enter through the Kav step by step and gradually?

Answer: This is necessary for the development of creation so that it becomes similar to the Creator and capable of receiving the light from Him and then giving the light back, thus becoming equal to the Creator. So, gradually, we will begin to perceive all of this correctly.

Question: Is there a difference between organizing a common desire in a ten, a group, or all of Bnei Baruch? Is it one vessel or different vessels?

Answer: These are similar vessels, but it all depends on the number of units in each vessel—whether a ten, a group, or a global vessel. There is, of course, a difference.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Run My Beloved”

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In the article “The Last Generation” Baal HaSulam explains that the biblical principle of love your neighbor as yourself will manifest itself in our world in the future in a social system called communist altruism in which most people will become altruists—not naturally, but after correcting their egoism.

This will be manifested in the fact that they will work for society 12 hours a day and enjoy it.

Question: Actually the picture is not very cheerful. It is hard to imagine that people will work so many hours. On the contrary, they say that, in principle, people will work less, a couple of times a week for three or four hours or even less than that. Perhaps it all depends on what will be considered work?

Answer: Yes, the fact is that there will indeed be much less work, people will work less, but they will have other activities. They will engage in self-improvement. This will be considered their work.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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Question: In several articles Baal HaSulam analyzes and criticizes the communist system, which, in principle, corresponds to a primitive communal system, that is, life in communes. He says that we will return to this state anyway. How can you explain this?

Answer: The thing is that in primitive communities people were governed by completely different forces. People felt equal and no one had any surplus.

What they extracted from nature in the form of food or plants, they used immediately.

They had no desire to hoard because everything would spoil, and if there was any excess, they would simply give it to the common fund.

According to Kabbalists the kind of social system that should exist in the last generation is that everyone works, everyone understands that they depend on everyone, and no one runs away from their responsibilities; on the contrary, everyone strives to contribute what they can.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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Thus, one who connects with his wife should make peace with her and sweeten her with words. If he does not appease her, he will not stay the night with her because their desire must be as one, without coercion (Rashbi, Zohar for All, Beresheet – 2, “Reconciliation and Receiving Permission”).

The Book of Zohar talks about the kind of relationship a husband should have with his wife and how to earn her favor.

Question: Why does The Zohar specifically write that a man can earn his wife’s favor through his words?

Answer: How else? There is even a popular saying that a woman loves with her ears.

Comment: But on the other hand, a man proves his masculinity through actions and not words. They say that if you just talk, you are not a man.

My Response: You should act in a way that is comfortable and acceptable to her.

Question: What does The Zohar mean by “make peace with the wife”?

Answer: It means that a husband should seek to win her over, endear himself to her, lift her spirits, and then she will be favorable disposed toward him. The Book of Zohar and the Torah in general have much to say about how one should love their wife.
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From KabTV’s “Man and Women” 7/30/24

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Question: How can we properly revive the state of connection between friends?

Answer: You must strive for the same state you are already in and for even greater ones. Then you will feel that your connection is not broken but that it is being restored more and more.

You must constantly maintain the connection between you and your friends and between you and the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Today – 2”

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A person must try not to want anything, and that his only desire will be to bestow contentment upon the Creator and not for his self-love, but for the love of the Creator. This is a great effort because it is against the nature with which he was created (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 545, “Laboring and Finding“).

Question: What is this state where a Kabbalist is always in the desire to bestow?

Answer: It is a state where the Creator is great in their eyes. Because of this, they want to bestow to Him. This is our attitude toward someone who is above us.

Question: What does it mean: I want to bestow to Him? Do I look for some ways, or do I do this through connection with the ten?

Answer: In any way possible.

Question: But isn’t this some kind of intimate, tangible connection with someone you feel?

Answer: At first it may not be so personal or intimate.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/11/24, Writings of Rabash “Laboring and Finding”

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Question: What is the difference between love and friendship between friends?

Answer: The difference is significant. Love binds people very closely. And friendship can be at a distance, cooler, because they do not need to be directly connected to each other.

Friendship and love are difficult to define although the differences between them can be pointed out. Love is when I feel such a connection with another person that we cannot be separated; we are as if glued together. Each of us understands friendship well because many people have such relationships.

Question: How do you maintain friendship between friends in a state of hatred?

Answer: We must not allow ourselves to be in a state of hatred; we must always maintain a connection to the point of love. And if hatred does appear, you need to convince yourself that it is necessary to check whether this feeling is correct or is just an indicator to the person, like some kind of disease that you need to get rid of as soon as possible.

Question: How do you get rid of hatred? What is the most effective way?

Answer: I think that there is no a single recipe for all cases. But you can remember the good days you had, how you loved each other, forgave each other, wanted to feel closer, and now you lack precisely this.

We must understand that love can be achieved with a only few in the world, so it must be protected. Even friendship is not just about having a warm relationship because it comes and goes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Today – 2”

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