Question: The more effort I put into connection, the further away from it I am and the more hatred there is in my heart, literally a wall. Is the Creator’s answer to me the fact that He gives me the strength to act like a soldier—just do it and that is it? Or should I somehow get to the feeling of unity?

Answer: I do not know how much you will be able to get to the truth, but at least try with all your heart and with all your strength to aim for the Creator.

Question: What if I still want to get to the bottom of it?

Answer: Then you have to dig all over yourself. You must purify every feeling and every thought from egoism, and direct it to the Creator.
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From the 1^st paer of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/2/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Son of the Beloved and the Son of the Hated in the Work?”

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The thought of creation, called “to do good to His creations,” begins from Ein Sof [no end]. For this reason, we pray to Ein Sof, meaning to the connection that exists between the Creator and the creatures.

The beginning of the connection starts in Ein Sof, where His name is, which is the root of creation (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 54 “The Purpose of the Work – 1“).

Question: Ein Sof is something that we cannot attain, i.e., equivalence of form. What is this quality of His name and what does it mean to pray to His name?

Answer: His name is the result of attainment from below. When the light of the Creator enters our Kli, then we begin to feel His name.

When we are directed to the fact that the Creator is upper, He is the first, He is the Creator, He is good and does good, and there is none else besides Him, it turns out that we are directed only to the upper root.

Question: How do we pray to Ein Sof correctly? How does one direct oneself to it?

Answer: We are able to feel this only through love for our neighbor, otherwise it is impossible.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/5/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Purpose of the Work – 1“

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Question: If I see myself as evil in the outside world, but at the same time I feel love in the ten, where and what am I distorting?

Answer: You must make sure that in the outside world you are also perceived as exuding love. You must have that feeling about the whole world, even your enemies.

Comment: It is very difficult.

My Response: That is good. And now try to create a relationship of love over your rejection.

It is necessary to refresh the atmosphere. Do not be ashamed to tell each other about love, simply admit it  even though it may not be 100% true that we love each other.

Comment: But there must be an inner prayer.

My Response: That is when you will feel what prayer means.

I see that lately we have gradually begun to go through such internal states that will help us to get closer between us and the Creator. I am very proud of you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “First Will Be the Correction of the World“

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Question: How when I am in a ten can I come to despair and cry to the Creator?

Answer: If you are in the ten, try to be connected with it into one common whole, and you have the task ahead of you to reach the Creator, then you begin to see how impossible this task is for you and your ten. That is when you start crying to the Creator.

Question: Am I crying or should the ten cry?

Answer: You, first of all.

Question: Does it then turn out that I am disappointed in the ten?

Answer: No. You see that you are placing yourself above the ten, and you cannot agree with this.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/2/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Son of the Beloved and the Son of the Hated in the Work?”

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Question: What is the difference between the revelation of the Creator to a person, when we see the Creator behind each friend, and the fact that we look at the holy Shechina?

Answer: The difference is that if we want to get closer to the Creator, to His qualities, the quality of bestowal, connection, and love, then we cannot think about anything else. We must put everything on the rails, except what is necessary.

Necessities include caring for children and so on. And all the most important things we have in our souls should be directed to the Creator and connected with Him.

Question: What is the difference between directing yourself to the Creator or directing yourself to the observation of the Shechina?

Answer: Directing yourself to the Creator means to be only on the path to this. But seeing the Shechina or connecting with it is already reaching complete connection with the Creator.

Question: But the connection of the souls of Israel is the Shechina. Is this what we are yearning for? When we say that we want to unite, it is as if we want to see the Shechina between us.

Answer: Yes, of course. But that is the goal. This is not yet the desire we should be in.

Question: Then what should be the desire if the ultimate goal is to connect to Shechina for the sake of the Creator. Where is the Creator?

Answer: The Creator is reached through the connection between us, when we prefer to be connected with Him and with nothing else. This is the path to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/23, “Depart from Evil”

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Question: What is a Partzuf?

Answer: A Partzuf is a spiritual object that receives light for the sake of giving to the Creator and consists of three parts: Rosh, Toch, and Sof (head, trunk, and legs).

The head (Rosh) performs the function of receiving the upper light, feeling it, and figuring out how to work with it in order to receive it for the sake of bestowal, in the likeness of light. After that, the enjoyment of light passes from the head into the body (Toch) of the Partzuf and is felt there.

What the Partzuf cannot accept into the body is blocked by it for receiving, and empty desires remain from the waist and below (Sof), which cannot be filled for the sake of the Creator’s pleasure.

Question: In principle, we are talking about desires. Is the Partzuf a desire that is in every person, or is it a common desire of all mankind?

Answer: Both this and that. In general, we all represent the whole of humanity as one Partzuf. On the other hand, each of us and each part of us is also divided into Partzufim.

Just like in our world, if I see some type of pleasure, I automatically scroll through options in my head on how to optimally enjoy it. As I accept it, I feel this pleasure in myself. And there is still some part that I cannot accept for some reason. It is only in the spiritual that all pleasures are determined in relation to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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Question: Rabash writes that a person changes several times to a state where he sees that he is not able to give more force and wants to escape from spiritual work. Why do I have to go through the state of wanting to escape many times?

Answer: It is because our egoism is layered. While a person convinces himself that he must change, many actions take place over him for a long time.

Question: How does one withstand and not run away? Is this due to the strengthening of the ten or oneself?

Answer: Oneself and mostly the ten.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/2/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Son of the Beloved and the Son of the Hated in the Work?“

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Question: It is easy to feel shame in our world. Why is it so hard to feel it about the Creator?

Answer: The fact is that we do not feel the Creator and do not imagine Him, and that is why it is difficult for us to feel what He feels, what He has from us, and what we receive from Him. For us, this is all a closed account. Therefore, our state is called concealment.

Question: You can still feel shame about the group because we get a lot from it. But is it difficult to imagine that the Creator is behind the group?

Answer: When you begin to come closer to the group, then you will start to feel the Creator behind it. To feel Him, one must strive with all one’s soul to connect with the group.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 11/2/23

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