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Questions about Spiritual Work—224

281.02Question: What is the courage of the heart?

Answer: The courage of the heart is when a person feels that they can rise up now and become as if a representative of all the people gathered at the convention.

Question: How can we build and maintain such a connection so that we can instantly react and even anticipate the attacks of the evil inclination?

Answer: We must truly imagine how we can be in a state where everyone is connected to one another.

Question: How does the group rise to the Creator?

Answer: The group rises to the Creator to the extent that it becomes connected.

Question: What is this desire that opens our hearts and even persuades the Creator to unite us?

Answer: Ask the Creator, not me.

Question: What is spiritual war?

Answer: Spiritual war is when I fight with my Kelim (egoistic desires).

Question: We learn that the evil inclination is the separation between us and the Creator is the connection between us. Can we try to interact with each other not through the membrane of our egoism but through the Creator now so that He would be like a conduit between us?

Answer: That is correct. This is how we should act. But how? I cannot tell you that. But you have already guessed half of it; so keep trying.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress

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The Direction toward the Creator

942World Kabbalah Convention “Connecting to Lishma,” Lesson 3

Question: When I realize I have no strength, I ask for it from the upper force and receive it; then egoism appropriates it for itself. How can I avoid this?

Answer: The main thing is understanding that the Creator is not in us but between us. And if I am directed at Him, I can strive for the desire of the vast mass of souls He is in.

Therefore, what happens makes no difference to me. The main thing is that I want to be connected to the Creator. I do not want to lose this connection for a single moment in any state. Then everything will work out.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/21/25, Lesson 3

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Convention: Ascending the Spiritual Degrees

942Question: You said that starting from this convention and onward, you see that the center or core of the group will advance from convention to convention. How can one be in this center? What commitments should a person take upon themselves in order to progress? What did you mean?

Answer: I believe that from lesson to lesson, even at this convention, you will receive special assignments, instructions, and recommendations that will create a space between you where you will begin to reveal spiritual qualities, a spiritual field. What we will go through together, we will try to stay connected to this field at all times. Right now, we are not going to determine who enters this space and who does not, as that would be the wrong approach.

This is what I meant. We will be working exclusively on this spiritual field, which we ourselves create between us. From there, we will begin to ascend the spiritual degrees.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 2/15/25, ‘Preparation to “Connecting to Lishma” Convention’

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Questions about Spiritual Work—223

275Question: You always recommend that we think about unity. How can we help each other realize this condition?

Answer: Imagine that you are connecting with everyone and want to do everything so that your collective unity would reflect the upper light.

Question: At the convention, all the parts that fell from one soul have gathered. How do we now unite these parts? And is there a density of the unification, or can we unite more and more?

Answer: This is not your problem. This is done with the help of the upper light on the degrees of the Creator. So do not stumble over this.

Question: If we have no lack (need), then where is the place for prayer?

Answer: When the light affects you, then the deficiencies felt in the still uncorrected desires will appear.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/25, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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When Desires Unite

947Question: On ordinary days, when a lesson or Zoom begins, my inner egoism, this donkey, constantly resists; it doesn’t want to go to the lesson, it makes me look at my watch, and I tell it: “Shut up, leave me alone!”

But here, at the convention, there is so much love and so much light that this donkey sits silently, and it likes everything. Does this mean that the work has stopped?

Answer: No, the work has not stopped. You simply connect your desire with the desires of your friends, and this huge desire affects your feelings and presses on them. And all this leads to the fact that you will feel yourself together with your friends as one desire in the center of creation.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress

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Become Closer in our Hearts

938.07World Kabbalah Convention “Connecting to Lishma,” Lesson 3

Question: What could be done now to achieve Lishma?

Answer: For this you need to assemble such a ten that would reveal to you the internal structure of the entire universe, and then you could feel how you are approaching its center.

Question: What efforts must be multiplied in order to enter Lishma?

Answer: Becoming closer in our hearts is the only thing we lack. Each one must examine his own heart, what he really desires, and thus appeal to his friends and strive toward the common goal.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/21/25, Lesson 3

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Seek Contact with the Creator

276.02World Kabbalah Convention”Connecting to Lishma,” Lesson 3

We must feel like we are seeking contact with the Creator so that it is constant, does not disappear, and strengthens more and more. We need to constantly strive to renew it, so that all our friends hold on to this connection and think every minute about how we can cling even more tightly to the Creator and under no circumstances tear ourselves away from Him.

Let us try to do this practically, when everyone wants to sharpen all his or her feelings and everything that is in each one, so that one’s inner striving is directed only toward the Creator, so much so that the person is not interested in anything else besides this.

Whatever we do in the world, in life, at work, or in the family, the most important thing is that every moment of life brings us closer to the Creator. We have to live with this.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/21/25, Lesson 3

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Not A Single Word Without Love

527.02Tomorrow, the International Kabbalah Convention begins. Every second, new friends from all over the world are arriving, and tomorrow, they will be joined by friends from across Israel. In the physical center of the convention in Israel alone, more than two and a half thousand people will participate.

What guidance can be given here? Simply to wish each one to desire to feel others within their heart. This is the most correct and beautiful intention.

Strive to be as close to one another as possible, and do not utter a single word that is not aimed at clarifying love.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress

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An Indicator of Spiritual Work

938.02Question: Is it love or the fire in our hearts that is the indicator of bestowing to the Creator?

Answer: The indicator is the connection with the Creator. Initially it is not entirely accurate to call it love. However, after some effort we will start to feel what will happen if we strive correctly for the connection and what it will look like then.

Gradually we will begin to unite with others as complements to one another, as support for one another, and so on. Eventually we will develop a desire that will bind us, and we will receive a response from the Creator: who we are, what we are, and what we are going to attain.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress

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The Correct Tuning

202.0Question: How are thoughts connected to feelings?

Answer: Thoughts govern both the mind and the body. Therefore it is crucial for us to bring ourselves to a state in which we feel only one desire. If we achieve this, it means that we are tuned correctly.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress

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