Prayer Is Our Weapon

935Question: Our only weapon is prayer. Honestly, I don’t know how to pray. It seems to me that even in a ten, we don’t pray as we should. Yet, if this is our foundation, it should be formed as the Kabbalists ideally did.

Answer: It’s not that simple. The most important thing is prayer. After all your efforts toward the Creator, He is reached only through prayer, what you raise to Him.

Just like, for example, your future depends on your boss at work, and you submit a request to him, stating what you want, why, and how. You should articulate this request in prayer.

Try it together with your friends, and the Creator, as the ruler of the entire world, will take that prayer and decide what to do with it. He might say that these folks need to struggle a bit more, find themselves, mutually annul themselves, and so on. And that’s how you will make progress.

It is said, “May God grant that one prays all day,” because during prayer, you examine yourself, correct yourself, raise one question, then another, a third, a fourth, and gradually, they all come into one. This is what you need to reveal. But it should come not from books or others, but from the depth of your heart.

Question: What would Rabash and Baal HaSulam tell us now? What advice would they give?

Answer: They would say only one thing: “Where is your prayer? You have a manager, where is your request?” And we don’t do this.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘Calamity that Comes Upon the Wicked Begins with the Righteous,’ in the Work?”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 10/29/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is, ‘There Is No Blessing in That Which Is Counted,’ in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Peace”

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Under the Control of the Creator

561Question: The Creator sends us all states and feelings. How can we work with the fact that He gives a feeling of hatred for hatred itself, which is revealed both in me and in some external manifestations?

Answer: This is very good. If we hate the quality of hatred in us, then we can move away from it, we can ask for its correction. This is wonderful.

Question: Does the pain we feel due to war, loss, and grief help in prayer? Or is immersion in this pain a denial of the control of the good Creator, and this pulls us in the opposite direction?

Answer: Don’t worry, the Creator makes a calculation in which direction to pull us and it doesn’t really depend on us. It depends on how He completely controls us from before and from behind.

And the pain you feel needs to be included in prayer. Everything will be fine, don’t worry, just focus.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/23, “Fighting the Evil Inclination”

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Faith in the Greatness of the Creator

610.2Question: It is said that there are two possibilities in the spiritual work: to receive a reward and not to receive a reward but to work because of the greatness of the Creator. Where does faith in the greatness of the Creator come from and what does it depend on?

Answer: Faith in the greatness of the Creator comes from what the Creator gives us. To the extent that we feel Him, to that extent there is faith in us.

Question: How can we increase the greatness of the Creator?

Answer: Through prayer. Through prayer and request. We have nothing else.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/17/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is an Optional War, in the Work? – 2”

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How Can We Hear the Voice of the Upper?

632.1Question: How can one hear the voice of holiness when egoism screams with pain and fear, throws fire, hides, and pushes away? How can we hear the voice of the upper?

Answer: Only through connection with friends. Nothing else. It is an extreme rarity that the Creator reveals Himself to one person. Usually, He is revealed in the connection between people.

Question: When we are looking for unity and a clear enemy appears, it is easy for us to unite. And when the danger disappears, we crumble again. How can we avoid the trap of uniting against someone?

Answer: There is no way. Only with time wisdom and strength are gained.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/11/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Urgent Need

528.03Question: What does it mean to connect the ten in a group?

Answer: This means that ten friends connect together in order to rise above their egoism in mutual assistance to each other. Absolutely all the friends should feel this.

In principle, all people in the world will gradually come to this either in a good way or not. But in the end, this need will be revealed to everyone.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/3/23, Writing of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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What Is Our Strength, Brother?

275Question: What does it mean to be strong today?

Answer: It means to be united. Nothing else! If we unite, then the Creator is with us.

Comment: You always have one answer.

My Response: Yes. We do not need anything else.

Question: What is unity? What do you mean by that word?

Answer: Unity is when everyone feels that they are for others and all are for one. There can be no slacking here. We should just stick together.

Question: On the one hand, you are saying what we have been saying since childhood. Remember the Three Musketeers? “One for all, all for one!” We really believed in this, loved this very much, and wanted to live like this. Where did all this disappear to later?

Answer: This disappeared because life pushed us to other values—everyone for himself and it does not matter how the others are. But now we are being taught, very seriously taught.

Question: Can this change only happen as a result of such teaching?

Answer: Of course. Otherwise, the Creator would not have given it to us.

Question: What is our move now? He made a move, a difficult, tragic one. What is our move?

Answer: Our move now is only to connect with each other and advance on the enemy.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/16/23

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In One Heart

959Question: After the pandemic and especially after the convention, we again felt the physical strength in our connection.

But now, when we need a greater desire for unity, we again have returned to virtual communication. How can we create a great desire for connection in a virtual way?

Answer: This is even easier than being together physically. Now we can think precisely about a virtual connection that is not within the framework of some physical relationship. We ask the Creator to connect us precisely in one desire, in one heart.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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