1. Give us the strength for complete desire for unity and the property of bestowal. Give us the desire for unity and the property of bestowal.

2. Unite us in at least one answer to the question.

3. Let us see the root that is behind the words. Let us see that in fact we all desire the same thing.

4. Let us come to the same desire, to one question.

5. Give us the right prayer and the strength to raise it.

6. Creator, give us the strength to come to the prayer that will help You to be revealed to all humankind.

7. We ask for a single desire in the heart to reveal the Creator.

8. We want to come to the prayer that precedes the prayer and feel the point at which we must apply efforts.

9. Please help us understand what unity is.

10. Please help us feel a united, common prayer, a single desire, a single need.

11. Please help us reveal the true desire.

12. We demand the Creator to give us the desire to ask for others to raise MAN to reach the end of correction.

13. We demand to turn on the Light!

14. Creator, grant us the right to request a single prayer.

15. Creator, please give us a true desire and strength to become one soul again to give pleasure to You and to bring the world to correction.

16. Creator, please give the friends the desire for the prayer of many.

17. Creator, teach us how to pray correctly in order to see You in the other.

18. How can we come to the prayer before the prayer without prior blows, along the good path?

19. How can we learn to come to this state, to this prayer, which will lead us to adhesion with the Creator?

20. Teach us to pray at all times.

21. We are praying to be united

22. Unite all of our prayers into one to make it sound in unison.

23. We ask the Creator to give us the opportunity to unite our desires and to strengthen their power to such a degree that the men feel it and become united.

24. We demand to come to a united prayer.

25. We pray according to our state, for our intention to keep a constant focus on the Creator, that the Creator is always everywhere and behind everything.

26. Please help us come together now to the correct prayer.

27. Give everyone the Light to experience one desire that will help us become similar to the Creator.

28. Our Heavenly Creator, King of kings, please reveal Yourself to us.

29. Creator, let us all, the entire world Kli, correct one unified prayer and help us reveal You.

30. Creator, we ask you, give us a great new Kli with the properties of bestowal! Give us the Light of correction! Thank You, Creator, that You heard my prayer!

31. Open the gates for the Prayer of Heaven.

32. Creator, give us the desire to unite and come to a common prayer.

33. We ask for the correct desire because desire determines everything.

34. Creator, give us the strength to have the feeling of love and bestowal for the friend as for oneself 24 hours a day.

35. Creator, give us the desire for unity so strong and of such quality so that it becomes one for everyone.

36. We ask the Creator to give the friends the ability to unite and to bestow and to be like Him

37. We want the correct desire to achieve spirituality and ask the Creator for the early achievement of the Goal!

38. Creator, give us the desire to unite our points in the name of ascent and teach us the correct prayer.

39. We demand the revelation of the Creator between us and ask Him to lead us to go the most optimal way. Give us the strength and faith to trust the upper management and to accept all the states that we need to pass along this path.

40. We ask to feel the fear of a lack of desire to unite in order to feel you!

41. Creator, give us the desire to unite!

42. What exactly has to be the very first desire to start moving in the direction of spirituality?

43. We ask for the desire to unite everyone in order to reveal the Light of the Creator.

44. Give us the desire to want to unite.

45. Creator, let us feel Your love and teach us to love. And if this is not possible yet, give us strength to act as if we already love. Give us the strength to play love.

46. Let us feel a unified desire.

47. As a means to the true prayer, we ask You to give us the feeling of the importance of our present state and the state of the world.

48. Creator, take us and lead us to the property of bestowal.

49. We ask for unity to reveal the true desire.

50. Lord, let us all know You and become similar to You.

51. Creator, we demand that You give strength to the men of the world Kli to unite in order to ascend.

52. We wish that all achieve partnership with the Creator in revealing the Light for this world for the sake of giving pleasure to the Creator.

53. We ask the Creator to correct the connection between us and that we feel the need of the world for our unity.

54. Creator, let us give You pleasure.

55. We ask, we pray, in the end, we demand the Creator to give strength to you, our dear men, to unite, so, finally they bring us His Light and love. Please!

56. Give us this desire in which we will reveal Your love!

57. Creator, we ask You to unite us in one whole so that Your Light through our unity brings the entire humanity to unity.

58. Our ten people demand the Creator to reveal the upper Light, as the ten Kabbalists who wrote The Zohar, so that our desires to reveal the Creator come into resonance with the upper Light and reveal It, without waiting for 6000 years, but right now. And it is possible!

59. Lord, Creator! We cry and demand, here and now, give us a strong desire to reveal You between us and to unite in one prayer for correction!

60. We ask the Creator that the whole world be filled by Him!

61. Creator, our Heavenly Father, give us the strength to wish Your wish!

62. Accept the prayer of my friends and give the strength to ask for them.

63. Creator, help us become worthy of revealing You!

64. Give us the power to reveal the lack of desire to unite for You so that it will become our greatest sorrow.

65. We ask You to give all of us the strength and faith to play the game that opens a new reality, the one in which we are all united.

66. Creator, give us one collective desire for You.

67. We see that here and now in front of us there is a beautiful bride, who is expecting her Bridegroom. And we just ask Him to come.

68. The refrain: “Dad, Mom, I want to be like you.” Creator, let us feel everything that You feel.

69. We raise the prayer as a single women’s desire for the men to unite in order to attract the Light, which we will be able to transfer to all of humanity.

70. Creator! Give us the strength and the quality of bestowal so that we can bring the Light of correction to all humankind!

71. We demand the correction for the sake of unity of the men.

72. What do we lack in the prayer for many? How do we win the Creator, throwing us from this prayer, who puts obstacles before us in this work? Now and today!

73. Creator, give us a strong desire to unite and teach us how to give You pleasure.

74. We ask for the correct prayer.

75. Creator, lead all of humanity to You in joy.

76. Daddy of all dads, give us a real opportunity to pray for friends, everything else we can do.

77. Give us the strength to be honest.

78. Creator, let me see who I am so that my life turns into a relationship with You.

79. Creator, we ask you to unite all those who are able to unite at this time and to lead the rest. Give us the strength to evoke the desire to receive the property of bestowal.

80. We demand the revelation of the property of bestowal!
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Workshop 3

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In the previous workshop we reached the conclusion that we cannot do anything by ourselves. We tried to do everything in our power, but it led to nothing. That’s true! It led to nothing! There is no hope that it will lead to something! Why? Because we actually have no powers. Those who say that we cannot do anything are actually stating a fact.

We are merely egoists, and we can only work within our ego. We cannot do anything outside the ego; it isn’t in our power. We cannot do anything above the ego; we cannot actually advance and get closer to someone else. We can only do that when we see some benefit in it.

What can we do? Ask the Creator! Nothing else can help us since it is the only force in the world that does anything. We were given the chance to discover this, to discover that He is the only force that operates and no one else.

So all our work comes down to a request to attain a desire that will really oblige Him to help us.

But it isn’t easy to reach such a desire. It grows gradually. We have to think about when it will grow so that we will shout; we have to ask for it each time. This request should include all our desires, including the smallest ones, no matter what they may be.

They are not real intentionally, just like kids who whine, cry, and weep and get what they want no matter what by using our love for them. We have to behave in the same way with the Creator, to learn from this world how we should behave.

All the requests, the demands, the begging, and the pleading are generally called “prayer.”

A prayer is also a feeling in the heart. In fact, it isn’t a request but a feeling in the heart when a person checks himself and no matter what he sees he wants to turn to the Creator with what is in his heart. No matter if it is good or bad, no matter what: Take it and do what You have to do with me!

There can be different prayers: serious prayers and less serious ones, emphatic prayers, whatever; what is important is to pray. Everything is attained only by the power of a prayer, the power of the request. The stronger it is, the more firm it is, the more insistent it is, the better.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Workshop 3

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An appeal to the Creator, a prayer, in our state can be only collective. Otherwise, the Creator does not hear. He hears only when people gather together and come to the same opinion as one man with one heart, one mind, because, thus they create a collective desire.

What do they want? Him to correct, raise, fulfill them, and so forth.

One person is worth nothing, means nothing: Such a prayer does not exist. You can scream as much as you want, but it will be the voice of one crying in the wilderness. If ten people get together, then, no matter how they shout, even falsely, their plea will taken into account because they are trying to connect with each other.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Workshop 3

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We can cultivate a true desire for bestowal only if we actually work on it in the group. If a person leaves, it means that he is simply going in the wrong direction. Outside the group we can’t understand what a desire to bestow means at all. We have to make efforts, feel that we don’t want it, that it’s repulsive and painful; we escape the fact that we have to be connected with others. Only if we are persistent and stay in order to be connected in mutual guarantee, do we begin to understand what the attribute of bestowal means and to what extent we are far from it. Then comes the demand so that the force of bestowal will simply influence us because it is the source: It created us.

Now from this point of view, we can look at what is going on in the world. It seems that on the one hand everyone is mutually connected now and there is nowhere to run, all of humanity makes up one big group and this mutual connection is being revealed more clearly now but as a negative connection. However, at the same time people already begin to understand and to recognize that if there were a good mutual connection among us, we could create a wonderful humanity, a wonderful world.

But we can’t do it! It’s because our ego does everything that it can to separate us, it pits us against one another: this mutual hate, distrust, repulsion, etc. This means that the world is headed in the same direction we are but in small steps, gradually, according to its form, but still in the same direction. So it’s already possible to speak about this source everywhere.

The wisdom of Kabbalah is the inner psychology of the individual and of all of humanity. It is the continuation of the ordinary psychology. The point is that psychology has run its course and has been in a crisis for several decades now. The wisdom of Kabbalah is its substitute. It tells us about inner attributes, about the forces of nature, not only man’s forces but of the world around us, which means how man and the world around him reach a state of balance. This is actually the role of psychology: to bring a person to a state of balance with the world that surrounds him.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Workshop 3

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Question: During yesterday’s workshop, some circles weren’t able to reach a mutual agreement. How can we reach a mutual agreement during today’s seminar? What are we doing wrong?

Answer: I don’t think that you’re making any mistakes, just like you can’t say that a child is making mistakes. This is a natural process of growth, and it’s called education not mistakes.
I think that we got excellent results from yesterday’s workshop, regardless of the fact that not all groups spoke up. Perhaps they were too shy to disclose their conclusions. We must understand that even if yesterday we all had the same phrase, we still would think differently and imagine those words in our own way.

Ultimately, by uniting in the group, we reach a state called the “prayer of the many.” This is when all the mutual phrases, which are different for each person, unite into a mutual integral desire. This is what we have to achieve.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Workshop 3

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Question: I am sure that at this convention we will achieve something very high, powerful. But with this confidence, I feel an alarm, an additional animal fear for the world, a fear that others will not ask.

Answer: You have to ask for them.

Israel is now in a state before war. And atomic bombs, thousands of missiles, and everything else are at the ready from two sides. For every citizen of our country, we have perhaps, a few missiles from all sides. We understand that; otherwise, our people will not stir, and the Creator has to act in this way in order to bring the nation to its usual prayer, to the correct state.

But how can we come to this? That is why we, as a group, feel that we are responsible not for changing the actions of the Creator—that’s His business to decide—but for maximally directing us all at the goal and, thus, somehow try to win over all the others.

That is the solution to every problem. These problems are never solved physically. We see that the more people get involved in physical problem solving, the more they multiply other problems. So, sometimes, it may be enough for one person to ask for the world. And the fact that you cry is good, you cry for all of us.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Workshop 3

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Question: Do we receive the forces that advance us through our exertion, and then through them, rise above the ego?

Answer: It is through our exertion that we allow the Creator to affect us. It is only according to the measure of our correct efforts—and it’s even more correct to say attempts and not efforts—that through them we invite on ourselves the influence of the Creator. It is only by that.

Furthermore, the Creator is the field of bestowal. Just as there exists a field of gravity, a field of reception, there also exists a field of bestowal. It fills everything by itself and is permanent; its tension and intensity is identical in each point.

This means that the Creator relates to everyone, both small and great, in a completely identical way with love, with the attribute of bestowal. However, each one according to the measure of his efforts, yearnings, and exertions, invites upon himself greater impact from this field.

Question: Do the forces that throw us from the goal determine in which place and in which attribute we need to be located within this general system?

Answer: No one throws you. Besides that, this field is constant and permanent. It is revealed to us more and more in its increasing strength, its intensity, its illumination, its emanation, and its bestowal.

To the extent that its influence on us grows, we begin to feel worse and worse about ourselves since we exist in attributes that are opposite to it. The field affects even more a person who makes efforts and really becomes closer in similarity to the attribute of bestowal. He feels even worse with himself than do others.

Here the strength of the group is required in order to hold on and understand that it is the Creator who bestows on him in a special way, rejects him in a special way, so that in the end, he will attain the maximum desire through which he can be born, which means to come into initial contact with the field. At the time of the first contact with the field, it will, in any case, continue to operate and affect him. In any event, it will continue to reject him, but it already will be on the next level.

There, the rejections are of a different nature. They are more qualitative. It is not that the forces grow, but that the field operates in a wiser way, in a more meticulous way in order to invite and awaken in you a more qualitative development, the realization of this entire system, the same way as in school you go from grade to grade.

Question: Is the demand for the Creator like huge greed, hunger, or thirst?

Answer: The demand for the Creator is a necessity.

Question: The great need is not clear, for what?

Answer: No, that doesn’t exist: “It’s not clear why.” Gradually becoming closer to the Creator, you begin to understand what the attribute of bestowal is, and you begin to desire it. Otherwise, what do you need?

Advancement is progressive. It must be realized before you are born. You need to reach the point of your birth through two states:

• I am not able to do anything by myself;
• Only the Creator can help me attain the attribute of bestowal.

You must know, more or less, what you want: how much you want that world before you are born in it.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Lesson 3

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We had a very powerful and high quality convention in Kharkov, making a big step forward. This has advanced all our groups around the world. We have felt universal participation: Everyone was with us from all around the world, all connected. Let us hope that this will raise us to a higher, stronger, and more internal level of connection in comparison to the previous level.

It is clear that this success would have been impossible without all the preliminary work and self-sacrifice that everyone expressed to attain the goal of creation. I think that we have managed to feel it and realize it better. I am very grateful to all the participants and am proud of you. I am referring to all the organizers and all the participants of the convention who felt how significant this step forward was for us. I am glad that everything happened the way it did.

Let us hope that from now on we will continue to delve deeper into our connection and that inside it we will reveal how everything is determined by our appeal to the Creator. Even though right now I am referring to you, we must still thank the Creator for directing us, accompanying and advancing us towards Him, for having an upper force that guides us, and for having merited to advance towards it.

The main thing I wanted to convey to you at this convention is the feeling that when you are in a group that discusses, listens, and dances inside the notion of a “group,” then it holds you up. But the moment you leave this notion, even if physically you are still in the group, you immediately fall into your thoughts.

You had to feel this ascent every time when you are with our friends who influence you and possess your mind and heart, and a descent when for some reason you break your connection with them.

We needed to get a feel for how necessary it is to constantly be under the influence of the environment. Otherwise you immediately return to an animalistic state. I am only human when the group rules over me.

These two levels needed to become very clear to every person, and this goal is what the entire convention schedule was directed towards. If somehow we managed to reach this realization, now we need to strengthen it: to understand the extreme importance of the influence of the environment, which Baal HaSulam speaks of. This is my entire freedom of choice: to keep strengthening this environment in any way I can by increasing my susceptibility.

The environment must keep getting stronger and have a more powerful influence over me. Our mutual guarantee must manifest here: mine according to my attitude towards them and theirs according to their attitude towards me, to always keep me above my corporeal calculations. And this will lead us to modesty and devotion of the soul—the states which lead to the attainment of the goal.
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Excerpt from a Conversation During a Meal After the Kharkov Convention 8/20/12

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First of all, we need to determine exactly how we actually move on the spiritual path.

Trying to figure out where we are, where we should go, and how to find meaning in existence, we see that everything is closely connected, intertwined, and confused. Turning to human society, we see that everything is messy, unclear; everyone does what he wants, everyone has his own theory, his own philosophy of life. Overall, this is the mess in which we live. On the other hand, studying nature, we see that everything is logical, everything happens according to laws.

The question is why?

Because human society is not subject to the laws of nature. Our body obeys nature. In life, we also carry out the instructions of nature, but partially. And all that is human in us—not animal but namely human—we are absolutely on our own and do whatever we want.

How are we to organize this human in all of us? If humankind were capable of it, if it understood how to do it, then everything would be clear and correct.

Maybe too clear? Boring? Perhaps, in this case the illusion of freewill would disappear? Maybe we would have felt less flavor in the search, in life, in daring? Or not? Here is the problem that is hidden in humanity.

When I come to Kabbalah, when I finally try to use it to discover the meaning of life, when I, not only in theory but in practice, seek to understand the depth, the foundations of the world, to understand what drives it, how to participate in this and become as the whole world in my mind: perfect, eternal, infinite, then I find that I am confused.

This confusion happens because we need to constantly connect the two opposite ends of the universe: us who are at the bottom and just start asking questions and the most perfect, highest point: the Creator, that is, the fundamental force of this world that has created everything.

Between these two points there is a space that we know nothing about. If we find this link, if we fill it with the correct understanding of what is happening in this space, we will know everything.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Workshop 3

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Question: My question is regarding the qualities of reception and bestowal. Within these two properties, their symbiotic fusion, I feel like a complete altruist. How can I come to understand that this is not what I am?

Answer: There is no need for this! Not at all! You are a complete altruist. Continue to act this way in the group with all your heart, and you will gradually understand that you are a complete egoist.

Question: What is the difference between spiritual bestowal and bestowal in the corporeal world?

Answer: There is no bestowal in the corporeal world: It is a disguised egoistic desire to receive, to use another person. I do a favor for another because it is good for me, he will also do something good for me.

In fact, we are not able to perform any actions of bestowal. When have you ever given anything to anyone? Has this ever happened?

Comment: Always all the time.

Answer: You simply fail to see that all your actions are driven by egoism. Continue doing it, but in the group. Because outside the group none of it matters.

Start doing it seriously in the group, together with studying, together with dissemination, together with learning, bestow to your friends, involve them in something. But to bestow does not mean to boss them around. Give yourself! Start doing it, and you will suddenly see that everyone is bad, they do not want anything, you will see where you are, etc.

Comment: I am trying to do this, but this does not help me stop seeing myself as an altruist.

Answer: Lack of connection with the group: I have nothing more to say. This is the only thing that leads to the realization of the real evil. It does not happen on its own; so I am an egoist, so what. But evil directed against the Creator only manifests through the group.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Lesson 3 

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