Question: Is it possible to call your powerlessness in front of the evil inclination a punishment?

Answer: It is possible, but it is not necessarily a punishment because the Creator helps you through this.

Question: Which is better to do right now: to ask the Creator for mercy or to be grateful and be glad that He is working with me?

Answer: It is always good to give thanks, but sometimes you have to ask.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Knowledge and Faith”

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Question: How can we reveal the force of thought above reason in the ten?

Answer: By acting in faith above reason, we grasp the higher degree with this faith.

Reason comes later and is clothed in the faith that we have achieved in this way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Power of Thought”

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Question: When we try to annul ourselves in front of our friends, criticism immediately arises about what we see in them. How can we work with it?

Answer: We have a desire to criticize everyone and not leave any actions we see without criticism.

This quality is inherent in us initially in the form of desire. But if we do not want to agree with it, then we gradually eradicate this desire from ourselves.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Receiving from the Friends the Force of Faith Above Reason”

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Question: For thousands of years all religions have been saying that there is no knowledge, there is only faith. Many of us came to Kabbalah to comprehend the Creator, that is, to gain knowledge. It seems there is some contradiction here.

Should we have both knowledge and faith or is faith only above knowledge?

Answer: The point is that the faith we practice in the wisdom of Kabbalah is not an ordinary faith, but faith in the fact that the Creator is the upper force of nature.

It is precisely Him that we attain in our mind and feelings by becoming like Him in the measure of bestowal. In this way, we begin to understand the Creator and the world He created.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Working In Faith Above Reason”

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “Letter 16”

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Question: What does it mean to be in the properties of bestowal, in the properties of faith based on reason, above reason?

Answer: This means that you do not take into account reason, knowledge, but only faith above reason and act in this property.

You need to clearly understand what your egoism requires of you, limit it, and include only those properties that are higher than the ego.

Question: Does the ten receive faith first and then each receives private faith from it? Or do we add up our private faiths into the ten and get the faith of the ten on a different level?

Answer: We receive a common faith, and we share it among us according to our efforts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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Comment: You say that dissemination depends on our internal unity. In theory, we want to convey some information. We gather together to do this.

My Response: We gather together for dissemination in order to unite and to find between us precisely the properties that connect us: mutual bestowal, mutual support, mutual guarantee, flexibility, connection, common bonding, even love.

We wish to clarify these properties. Why do we need all this? In order to then reveal the same properties in the rest of the world because the rest of the entire world (inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature), the entire mass represents the huge desire that must be completely, organically connected into one whole.

Then in this unified desire that is connected through common efforts, we will feel the property of bestowal and love, which we implement together. And this property of bestowal and love implemented jointly by us is called the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Meaning of Kabbalah Dissemination” 2/12/12

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Question: Based on our discussions, it seems important for us to reveal the Creator because we were chosen for this.

We should simply accept this as a fact and from this state form a prayer. What is special about such a prayer?

Answer: The fact that you want to find contact with the Creator and only through this contact, connection with Him.

Question: If I send a prayer to the Creator every morning after having united the hearts of all my friends by name into one heart, does this prayer have the power of the ten? How strong is this prayer even though I do it alone?

Answer: Ideally you should try to feel the response of the Creator in your common connection in the ten. If you persistently try to do this, you will start to feel it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Those of Little Faith”

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Question: When we listen to an article together, it goes through our feelings like music. But when we read it independently, we want to stop. Why?

Answer: Because you lose the support of your friends as you step out of that state.

Therefore, you need to persistently increase the state of unity within the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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