Question: I used to think that faith above reason leads to an ascent.

Answer: Of course, that is the way it is.

Question: Then how do you understand that faith above reason is only possible in ascents?

Answer: When you strive to ascend, you have faith above reason. First, there is an ascent, then faith, not the opposite.

Question: Does the ascent depend on us, or do we give only intention and effort, and then the Creator lifts us?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Knowledge and Faith”

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Question: When we read the articles, I have a growing regret that I cannot go beyond the boundaries of egoism. The text pulls you up because there is a completely different quality of existence. Is regret the beginning of a correct prayer?

Answer: Yes, this is already the beginning. Therefore, one should not leave the smallest awakening, but try to develop it all the time.

Small articles can be read many times a day. And in this way you will not allow yourself to stray far from the goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Those of Little Faith”

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Question: In prayer, should we ask for the level of faith and bestowal the Creator wants to give us?

Answer: Preferably. We do not know the level the Creator requires of us, but we can imagine it based on our feelings.

Question: What does this level depend on and how can we present it in order to give the Creator what we are asking?

Answer: It depends on devotion. If you sincerely intend to bestow through your actions, you will start to feel what you are doing concerning the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Those of Little Faith”

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Question: What is the essence of anger? What is this manifestation?

Answer: Anger is uncontrolled egoism. It absorbs many negative actions and emotions that result in a loss of self-control.

Question: Is there any point in sharing this state within the ten and asking for help in practical work?

Answer: Yes that is very beneficial.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Power of Thought”

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Question: What does it mean to be in a natural connection with the Creator? What does this give a person?

Answer: This gives a person the opportunity to see the whole world as the Creator sees it, to influence others as the Creator, and so on.

When a person is in some kind of contact with the Creator, it gives him fuel for the next stage called “love your neighbor.” A person receives such an ability and can already love by being in connection with Him.

Question: What is the difference between the altruistic quality of bestowing to one’s neighbor and loving one’s neighbor?

Answer: The altruistic property of bestowing to one’s neighbor is not based on universal laws. It is just that society, as a result of its development, concludes that this is better, more convenient, and safer. Therefore, it accepts this condition or agrees that it is good. But in fact, this property is opposite to our nature.

After all, if we want to come to absolute unity among us, to “love your neighbor as yourself,” we must change our nature. It is not enough for us to say that the law of the Creator is an altruistic attitude toward each other. Everyone needs to be internally convinced that our current nature is absolute evil and that that the similarity to the Creator offered to us is absolute good.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 5/9/24

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Question: When should we pray for our correction and when for a friend?

Answer: First pray for your friends and then for yourself.

Question: Besides asking the Creator for a friend, can I help him with the power of my thought?

Answer: Of course you can. It will be better than asking the Creator for him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Power of Thought”

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Question: Why did the Creator let us be born in a physical body without a soul? After all, if there were no body, there would be no evil inclination.

Answer: No, the evil inclination is not related to our body, to our flesh. The evil inclination is our egoistic desires.

Question: What does it mean: “I thank You for returning my soul with compassion”?

Answer: It means thanking the Creator for wanting to advance you under any circumstances.

Question: How can we not lose the work that the Creator gives us?

Answer: Engage in it all the time and try to move forward.

Question: If the Creator gave me a chance and a gift to do an action of bestowal and then emptiness comes, what should my work be?

Answer: Ask the Creator to give you more such states.

Question: Can automatic gratitude to the Creator become heartfelt, and how does this happen?

Answer: How this happens, I do not know, but it can happen.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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Question: Can we say that at some point in history humanity took the wrong path?

Answer: Of course! Since the time of Aristotle and Plato.

At one point they shouted: “Under no circumstances give science away to the ignorant! They will misuse it, they will sell it to the rich, they will put it at the service of progress!

But we need spiritual progress, not technological progress! We cannot open universities to everyone!

Science should be pursued only by people who with its help want to understand the meaning of life, the lofty matters that lie beyond the boundaries of our world!”

Science should develop only in the form in which it raises a person above our world! Anyone who might use it for evil purposes has no right to engage in it!

Even the invention of, say, a special meat grinder is also evil. You do not need it, and you can live without it! After all, in the end, it is by adapting science to our world that you begin its development.

There is no other way, either external development or internal. The world followed the external path of development. Historically, this happened 3,000 years ago.

Question: But was there another option for development? Or did we still have to go through this stage?

Answer: It is hard to say because in order to understand the answer to this question, you need to be in two worlds, in the duality that we are talking about.

Everything comes from the Creator, and at the same time depends on our freewill, on our choice.

We are not able to compare these two free functions; our mind is not adapted to this. To understand this, you need to be in both worlds: the spiritual one and ours at the same time. Then you will not have contradictions; you can perceive absolutely opposite facts and information as complementary and not mutually exclusive.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Dead-End Path of Human Development” 1/24/12

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