Question: When a friend sees a flaw in me and even starts talking to me about it, I understand that I am low in his eyes and he puts himself above me. I see this as a bad example on his part and a violation of the love of friends. How can I untangle it? How can we find a connection with the Creator here and relate everything to Him?

Answer: There is no need to untangle anything. You just need to move from your understanding of what Kabbalists write. Everything is going well. I do not see any problems. We just need more time and more desire to be connected with the Creator.

He sets up all this for us. We still have a lot of problems on the path, up to huge hatred between us.

There is no getting away from it. We will hate each other; we will be ready to kill each other. So it was written by the Kabbalists. This is how we will move forward. But the main thing is to still hold on to each other, despite the fact that there are such relationships.

We must understand that on one hand, the Creator reveals a special relationship between us: hatred, opposition, distancing. And on the other hand, no matter what, we must be in love with each other, although we are ready to kill each other.

This is how it is written about the ancient Kabbalistic disciples that when gathering together hated each other so much they were ready to kill each other. When they slowly began to enter their studies and attract the upper light on themselves, all this ended with the fact that they hugged and united in their hearts.

Therefore, in no case should we rely on what we feel today.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/23, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Importance of Friends”

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Question: My inner ten is in my heart, and I also want to bring everyone I meet at the convention into my heart and to keep them there. With what prayer for the group should I combine my inner work?

Answer: To unite all in one group as much as possible. No matter how many of you there are, five, ten, fifty, or a hundred people, no matter how many, you should not limit yourself in this. Everyone who wants to join each other during the convention can be together.

Question: What should we ask for the group at this time?

Answer: Connection of everyone into one single heart without any differences between us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: We have gathered, all of us so different, for one purpose. When for example a dish is prepared, all the ingredients combine to create a common taste.

Is it correct to keep the main goal in focus or gradually on intermediate goals that we reveal in our connection in order to acquire the quality of reception for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: It is best to keep the main goal in front of you and strive for it all the time because intermediate goals can confuse you. They will manifest, but still as intermediary.

Keep the main goal.
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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Question: What should be the perception of the physical group when we try to connect the three components: me, the group, and the Creator?

Answer: There is no physical group! In no way are you in a physical group!

What difference does it make who is where and at what distance from each other?! Do we have to sniff each other like dogs, or do we have to touch each other? What for?!

We rise above our senses. Why should I care what you look like and in general who and what you are?!

Of course we must have some initial common opportunities for exchanging desires, properties, and information. There has to be something there to start this process.

But when we begin this movement and exit the framework of our corporeal sensation, we yearn toward the general structure that we want to create from our inclinations to ascend, to find the meaning of life, and so on. And then that is it, it no longer matters who is who.

We see that people all over the world are studying with us: from Chile, Mexico, North America, England, Romania, Russia, etc.

During these days before the congress we will see 1,500 to 2,000 people here.

There is no stronger convention in the world than ours where people from all countries come here! They come to do serious work! This is amazing!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Spiritual Dollars” 11/29/11

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is, ‘Calamity that Comes Upon the Wicked Begins with the Righteous,’ in the Work?”

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Question: We spoke about shame often at this convention. Why is it that after every action, be it prayer or a duty, we experience doubts and I fear whether I did the right thing or not?

Answer: It is in order to move you even further in a more correct way and so that you assess yourself correctly. Therefore, this is good.

Question: At the convention, at the gathering of friends, one of us started talking and began to cry, and I also unexpectedly started crying like many others. Then, when the friends were talking at the meal, there was an instant connection. I have never seen such a concentration of the opening of the heart. But it was unclear what we should do next with this opening of the heart?

Answer: Grab the Creator, force Him to come down to you and fill you. This is what you should do. But it will come instinctively. You will succeed.

Question: How can we open our hearts to each other and the entire congress and at the same time think about the future so that our work will benefit the next generations the way we receive benefit from those who have gone through this path before us?

Answer: If we try to move forward in an ever-increasing connection between us, then undoubtedly the Creator will help us and accompany us, and so we will reach the goal.

Question: There is a feeling that there is some kind of confusion in our expression of love because there are constant clarifications. Where are we wrong? How can we more accurately do what you and Rabash advise?

Answer: You constantly make mistakes and stumble. At the same time, you always have to clarify what you stumbled over, where you fell, and how to get up and keep going. Keep searching!
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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Question: You said that it is beneficial to say a prayer out loud both in the ten and in person. Why is it important to pronounce, and when is it better to pray in silence?

Answer: When you speak your prayer, you connect with your friends, and there is nothing closer than that.

On the other hand if you are not in connection with them, it is better not to speak aloud. That is, a person who speaks reveals his soul so to say, and this can harm him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/18/23, “On the Merits of Silence”

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Question: I myself feel and I see on my friends that in the lesson we are being totally knocked out, especially when we read some article.

If I try to connect and pray, my strength—of which there is little left anyway—is immediately taken away from me. When I try to ask not for myself, I immediately switch off and fall asleep. How can we help each other be in thoughts and in prayer?

Answer: This is the correct state. Because you do not have the feelings to ask and pray for others yet. But if you constantly, despite any difficulties, ask, you will find that it is possible, and you will receive an answer.

If you connect with each other and embrace each other, you will see how much a common spiritual universe opens up before you. You will not be afraid, you will not get confused about anything, and everything will be open and clear.

The main thing is only to be open to each other, to open our hearts. This, of course, requires training, but all this is close to us.
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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Question: How can we reach such a level of mutual guarantee that both men and women feel the power of the mutual guarantee in the group and the heart itself shows what we are ready for at the next convention?

Answer: We study in the wisdom of Kabbalah that everything comes down to ten: ten Sefirot, ten levels of revelation of the Creator. But since we study this in all kinds of sources, we do not talk about it much.

Of course if a person just listens to us, then it seems unconvincing to him and these are just words for him. But if we really want to experience the Sefirot, the Partzufim, and the worlds, if we want to participate in this, then we need to be connected with each other.

After all, it is only through the intensity of the connection between us that we feel the upper world and begin to feel the Creator and ourselves in a state of eternity, above our world, which is the lowest of all worlds.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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