The Experience of Past States

256Question: It is said that we should not receive any support from yesterday. But we cannot forget and erase everything indiscriminately. We have the experience of past states. How do we properly use it in our work?

Answer: Continue, what was yesterday, you continue today.

Question: What if we realize that some experience weighs us down, and we do not know how to make it better and the tension remains?

Answer: You need to learn to erase it and start the next day anew because you do not want to carry all the various burdens that have remained in your heart from yesterday or from past times with you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/4/24, Writings of Rabash “And You, Israel”

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Mutual Understanding

528.01Comment: You said that if a friend joins the group, he thereby obligates himself to follow its laws, and we can judge him by the group’s laws.

On the other hand, you say we should not pressure him, he should do as much as he can, and you advised us to show him an effective example.

My Response: From the friend’s side there is an obligation to completely annul himself before the group, gradually, not from the first day. And from the group’s side, there should be an understanding that this is done gradually, not immediately. And in this way it influences everyone.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/8/24, “Equal as one: There is no strong friend, there is a strong society”

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How Do We Come under the Single Authority?

937Question: How can a ten come under the rule of one?

Answer: First and foremost you need to unite among yourselves and become like one person with one heart. Then you will be able to approach the Creator and see how similar or different you are.

Question: We gather together, seem to unite, work together, and raise a prayer. What does it mean that we come under the authority of one?

Answer: By annulling yourselves before each other, you become equal with the Creator and cling to Him. By nullifying your desire to receive, your egoism, in relation to Him, you become one.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/8/24, “Equal as one: There is no strong friend, there is a strong society”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 7/30/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Letter 18”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 27 “Three Lines – 1”

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3rd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “The Importance of Participating in Social Activities”

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Information Transmitter

548.02Question: When you hear yourself on a recording, for example, speaking during a lesson, do you clearly see how the upper force transmits information through you?

Answer: Of course, I feel it. Is there anything of my own in me? Possibly, but only when I am alone. When I am with others, I am not myself; I am merely a conduit through which something is transmitted from above. In this state, I try to adapt the information, convey it, and make myself the most suitable instrument for perception by external vessels, souls, that is, people. I try to find examples and diagrams, while simultaneously integrating with what descends to me, with what I contact from above.

I am entirely focused on being this buffer, this adapter, between the degree I can currently reveal for myself and my recipients, lowering it to the level they are at, and conveying it in the most accessible form for them.

Comment: For example, when someone is engaged in creative work, they often do not understand how it happens. They feel that it is not their achievement, but rather that information comes to them somehow. I see that you often say, “Ask a question, and you will receive an answer.”

My Response: It is not mysticism. It is actually internal work. Creative people also partially feel this way. Why do you need to ask a question? Because when I hear a question, I feel the student asking it, and I understand at what level I need to give the answer. I need to receive the question first; it is not possible otherwise.

These were the dynamics between me and Rabash, where I compelled him to descend in his answer to my level and much lower as much as possible. This prepared him for conducting lessons with other students.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Representative of God!“ 3/13/10

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Don’t Wait for the Answer

289Question: I try to love my friends and see their good qualities. And when I cannot, I try to ask the Creator to cover it. Should I expect any results from this work? Or is it enough for me to sit and wait for the Creator to answer me? What conclusion can I draw from this if I do not get an answer?

Answer: First of all, even though you are asking the Creator a question, don’t wait for the answer. Keep asking more new questions, because unlike you and me, the Creator does not need time to understand what you said to Him, to think of an answer, and somehow react to it. This only happens on the material level.

With the Creator none of this is needed! He is within you. As soon as you ask, the answer is immediately given to you. Whether you feel it or not is a different question. Therefore, you can keep asking without waiting for the answer, as the moment you ask, the answer is already there.

Don’t wait for the answer. Remember at least this.

Question: Okay. Should there be some kind of result?

Answer: No result, if there is one, there is one, if not, not. But you continue.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the convention”

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Read the Original Sources

209Question: Should we adopt a law so that we no longer take offense at a friend, no longer are angry with a friend, but see in him or her as a manifestation of the Creator?

Answer: If this applies to friends and not to dissemination, to the work of the organization itself, then it is worth it.

Question: Maybe we should formulate ten laws based on the articles of Rabash?

Answer: Do this, please. Do you know how many notebooks I have in which I wrote, drew, and took notes all the time? Work with this.

But most importantly, after the lesson, read the articles and choose the most significant sentences from there. It is very important. Choose from the lesson materials and maybe from what I said.

In principle, if I speak, I already focus my attention on this. So this is already clearer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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The Driving Force of Development

115.06The recognition of the evil in our nature is the first stage of a person’s development; it is when they begin to understand and grasp the essence of their nature, and where they start their earthly life from. It begins with being a small egoist, with an increasing desire to consume the entire world.

Question: There has always been a debate in society: is a person born an egoist or does the environment make them that way?

Answer: A person is born an egoist. Baal HaSulam says that a person is born as a small egoist. Then nature and the egoistic society in which we live, until now, develop this egoism and leave no other path for development. It is the growth of egoism alone that drives a person’s development.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 6/27/24

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Connect Every Moment to Holiness

938.03Question: In Rabash’s Letter 77, it is written that every moment clarified, analyzed, and added to holiness enters the domain of holiness. How can we correctly identify, analyze, and connect each moment to holiness?

Answer: To do this, you need to be in constant prayer, in connection with your friends, and in understanding that your entire existence consists of moments your friends go through. In this way, you protect yourself so as not to fall.

Question: What is this constant prayer?

Answer: It is to hold on to your friends.

Question: How can I be sensitive enough and direct myself to exactly what my friends are going through and not myself?

Answer: You are going through the same thing they are going through. In addition, you have your moments, but the most important thing is that you are connected with them and go through all states together. You just need to feel dependent on them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/11/24, Writings of Rabash “A Request for Help”

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