Question: How can we constantly develop a yearning for the Creator, a yearning to see Him in everything?

Answer: Do not forget Him. I must always be busy with something connected with the Creator and make notes for myself to always return to it.

In everyday life news is broadcast around the world at the top of every hour in different languages, like this we must make a habit of constantly returning to the Creator.

Question: What is this complete trepidation before the Creator, and how can the entire world group and through it, the whole world reach it?

Answer: A person obtains complete trepidation before the Creator when he feels absolute dependency on the Creator, a yearning for Him, and is ready to give himself to the service of the Creator. In this way, one achieves the adhesion with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue”

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Question: Rabash writes that if a person does not strive for truth, he cannot live. But we see different people around us living in different ways. What is living in pursuit of truth in this case?

Answer: By life, we mean life in connection with the Creator. It can only be if you live in truth. Therefore, the search for the Creator is an all-encompassing aspiration.

You must strive for Him in prayer and request, and you must search to reach Him. All of our articles should direct you to the Creator.

Question: As you know, everyone has their truth, thanks to our egoism. How can the genuine truth be determined?

Answer: To do this, you must first feel true egoism, and then move from it to the genuine truth.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue”

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Question: In northern Kazakhstan, a natural disaster has left 75,000 families homeless. The peculiarity of this flood is that people are coming together and helping each other. But livestock and domestic animals are perishing and the water continues to rise. Is this akin to the Egyptian plague?

Answer: No, this is not akin to an Egyptian plague. But it is certainly a very distressing, unfortunate situation. Water can wash away absolutely everything.

Therefore, all people should pray that in the areas currently experiencing flooding, we can see the mercy of the Creator rather than such punishment.

Everything the Creator does is for our good. Even what we perceive as significant problems with nature, wars, and natural disasters, ultimately all will lead to the common good.

So there is no need to cry, no need to reproach the Creator, only ask Him to change His harsh attitude toward us to be merciful.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/10/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Beginning of the Month”

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Question: What does it mean that the power of faith above reason cancels out all the forces that exist in the world?

Answer: Faith above reason is a special force that raises a person above his reason. It can only be increased with the help of actions above reason.

If a person is in such faith, then it indeed cancels out all forces that exist in the world that could influence him and turn differently.

By rising with the help of this force, we reach the level of Bina.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/12/24, Writings of Rabash “He who Hardens His Heart”

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Question: If the effort is to not do something, how can we increase that?

Answer: There are efforts that must be made to not do something bad, even if you really want to.

Therefore, it is necessary to avoid such thoughts and actions.

We must constantly draw closer to each other and strive toward the Creator. But there are intentions and desires that are against it and pull us aside.

We must act against them, meaning not do something that does not benefit us and does not advance us toward the goal of creation.

So just close your eyes and advance toward each other, help your friends, open your hearts to them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/27/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “His Divorce and His Hand Come as One”

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Question: How do you prepare the hearts in the ten to feel the need for the Creator’s help if you feel that hearts are closed, that they are asleep?

It seems like you need help, but you cannot even ask.

Answer: Pray that all of you unite and ask.

Comment: I am praying, but it feels like it is getting worse.

Answer: No, it is not getting worse. It is just that you actually begin to see that the Creator is hidden from you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Looking in the Book Again”

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Question: What is the difference between a descent and exile?

Answer: It may be that a person does not feel the descent as an exile.

A descent is moving away from the Creator, and exile is the feeling that he had something, and now he has been expelled from it. Usually one can get out of exile only with the help of prayer.

Question: When we are in exile, we have a strong desire for the Creator. The need comes from the Creator. What else can I add besides gratitude?

Answer: Nothing, real gratitude replaces everything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/24, Writings of Rabash “The Meaning of Exile”

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Question: How does the Kabbalistic explanation of our world and the Passover holiday differ from the usual comments?

Answer: There are several levels of explanation of existence, its creation, development, goals, and tasks of a person in it. For example, you can talk about the Passover holiday about:

1. The historical period of slavery of the nation in Egypt,

2. The “slavery” of man in his egoism—Egypt—Pharaoh,

3. The development of creation—desire under the influence of the Creator’s light and its absence under the influence of darkness—Egypt—Pharaoh.

You can also speak at different levels about:

1. The mechanical performance of rituals, which are commonly called commandments,

2. The psychological fulfillment of the instruction “love thy neighbor as thyself,” as a general (Klal) instruction of the Creator, which includes all other instructions, as it is said in the Torah: “Love thy neighbor is the general law of the Torah,”

3. The Kabbalistic influence of the upper light on the worlds and through them about souls that go through the stages of their spiritual development—correction.
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