Sometimes people complain that the spiritual path takes such a long time—years. But the only advice is to be patient and continue scrutinizing what exactly is necessary and the result will be revealed. Again and again, we should try to connect with the friends and turn to the Creator in order to ask once more.

A person alone cannot do much; the acceleration of time depends only on the group. If we unite, we can hasten time.

Therefore, one should calm down. If a person already understands that it is impossible to change their nature by their own efforts and that it can only be received from the Creator, then they must seek the right means that will lead them to the goal. Then he comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah, performs the actions advised by Kabbalists, and thus breaks through.

I think that very soon we will feel how we all are rising on the wings of an eagle.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/19/24, “Praying to Go Above Reason”

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Question: Will faith above reason always contradict reason? Or can we reach a state where this contradiction disappears?

Answer: Faith will always contradict reason. But it is through it that we can rise higher and higher, while reason will receive only what we attain.

Question: In Rabash’s articles, does the term “Adam” refer to an individual or the ten as one man?

Answer: No, it simply refers to an individual, one person.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/19/24, “Praying to Go Above Reason”

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Question: Toward what thought or feeling should we all strive simultaneously to move from a dead point? Can you give us some advice?

Answer: I constantly give you advice and hope you listen to it. You need to keep getting closer to each other, more and more. I do not see any problems. The fact is that it takes time.

You can read in the writings of Baal HaSulam or Rabash that this path takes ten, even twenty years. When I first heard this, I was ready to grab Rabash and demand he accelerate my spiritual progress.

But it is designed this way so that our efforts extend throughout the duration of our attempts, and in this way, we perform the complete work of connection.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/19/24, “Praying to Go Above Reason”

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Question: Man’s main job is to come to a sense of the Creator’s reality. Achieving It can only be through prayer. How can a person keep the prayer that he must come to this feeling within oneself?

Answer: Strive for the Creator always and keep the desire to attain Him in your heart.

Question: Reason prevents us from going in faith above reason. How do we use reason correctly so that it helps us rise above ourselves?

Answer: To do this you need to unite with each other so that everyone can help a friend rise a little bit. If you work together to influence everyone in the ten in this way, you will be able to rise.

Question: When there is a great desire to get closer to the Creator, it is a good state. But what if a person feels the Creator a little bit, then is it not very good anymore?

Answer: It is okay to keep developing this feeling and try to increase it.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Working In Faith Above Reason”

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Question: When we raise our prayer, should we strive to reveal the Creator or should we pray for the entire world Kli to reveal Him, or maybe even the whole world?

Answer: It is hard to say. It depends on who we are talking to.

In principle, it is important that a person who hears us feels how concerned we are about the internal state of the world. Through our dissemination, we want to convey our inner trepidation to humanity.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/19/24, “Praying to Go Above Reason”

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Question: If I am constantly fulfilled from meetings with my friends, what will lead me to cry out with the true prayer that we must come to? It seems to me that this joy and fulfillment after meetings takes me away from the goal.

Answer: There is a prayer that leads to the Creator, and there is a prayer that distances one from the Creator, which depends on what a person wants. Therefore, at first, we just want to find out how to unite between ourselves and the Creator in order to make Him bring us closer to Himself. This is the most important thing. This is what we want to achieve first of all.

Question: And how can I compel the Creator?

Answer: Through words, through prayer.

Question: But the Creator does not hear our words.

Answer: He hears, not your words, but your heart. It does not matter what language we speak; the main thing is that we experience the right feelings.

Question: But my heart is busy with fulfillment and pleasure; there is no place in it for crying, for prayer.

Answer: That is what you need to think about and decide which is more important to you: to feel the fulfillment of your heart or its emptiness. As soon as you want to feel the true state of the heart, that is, its emptiness, it will tell you how to proceed.

Question: So after every meeting, I should feel dissatisfied like you did when you studied with Rabash and felt empty and annoyed that you did not understand anything?

Answer: We must feel both suffering and joy.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/19/24, “Happy in Faith Above Reason”

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Question: A person feels longing for the Creator in a private sensation and most often this happens through descents and blows. What is the right form of longing for the Creator?

Answer: The right form of longing for the Creator is what a person lacks. He lacks a sense of the Creator. This is a very good state. From it, a person comes to a rapprochement with the Creator.

Question: Should one strive to feel longing for the Creator in one’s friends?

Answer: No, it is none of his business.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Working In Faith Above Reason”

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Question: What is the difference between the preparation stage and the state when a person is already in adhesion with the Creator? Is the stage of revealing evil behind us?

Answer: No, everything continues because the steps go up.

You rise’ there are problems, there is a solution, there is adhesion, and so on. And up again, and up again. Therefore, for us, this is only the beginning of the ladder of spiritual ascent.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Working In Faith Above Reason”

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Question: When we try to annul ourselves in front of our friends, criticism immediately arises about what we see in them. How can we work with it?

Answer: We have a desire to criticize everyone and not leave any actions we see without criticism.

This quality is inherent in us initially in the form of desire. But if we do not want to agree with it, then we gradually eradicate this desire from ourselves.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Receiving from the Friends the Force of Faith Above Reason”

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Question: For thousands of years all religions have been saying that there is no knowledge, there is only faith. Many of us came to Kabbalah to comprehend the Creator, that is, to gain knowledge. It seems there is some contradiction here.

Should we have both knowledge and faith or is faith only above knowledge?

Answer: The point is that the faith we practice in the wisdom of Kabbalah is not an ordinary faith, but faith in the fact that the Creator is the upper force of nature.

It is precisely Him that we attain in our mind and feelings by becoming like Him in the measure of bestowal. In this way, we begin to understand the Creator and the world He created.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Working In Faith Above Reason”

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