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The Right Form of Longing for the Creator

527.03Question: 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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And Again Up, and Again Higher

41.01Question: 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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Despite Criticism

942Question: 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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Not an Ordinary Faith

962.3Question: 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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The Light of Joy

572.01We have reason to rejoice! It lies in the fact that we are approaching the point where we can rise above egoistic desire and connect with the desire for bestowal, that is, with the Creator. Then we will receive all the upper light that will bring us joy.

That is how we are designed. Therefore, anyone who wants to attain true joy must connect himself with friends and with the Creator, and from there he will receive the light of joy that will fill him. Joy can be a material matter, and it can be spiritual. It all depends on what desires we fill. With material joy, we fill our desires to receive pleasure. But with spiritual joy, we reveal and fill the desires to bestow. And the difference between these two types of desires is like between heaven and earth.

By receiving spiritual pleasure, we feel ourselves above time, space, and movement. There is no time, no place, no movement, no changes.

We simply rise above matter, above our material world, even above our material selves, and this gives us tremendous strength to continue our journey further toward the Creator.

Let us hope that we all succeed in attaining such spiritual joy.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/24, Unity Day for Purim, Lesson 1, “The Joy of Unity“

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A Special Record in the Soul

293.1Every moment when I am in the ten, I feel how our connection is strengthening more and more in one form or another. I feel I am moving toward a state where we all will be in the same heart.

And the closer I get to this one heart, the more joyful I feel. I feel the Creator and the whole global soul above our world. That is the feeling we must try to achieve as soon as possible.

We are in constant motion, from the current point to the next, until the end of correction. Kabbalists promise us that we will achieve it.

Therefore, you need to be happy that you are on the path and have a goal in life that is above everything that lifts you to the top of the universe. The state of final correction is prepared for us and awaits us.

We should realize yet how lucky we are. But in fact, everyone has a record in the soul that distinguishes them from millions and billions of people who do not have this in their lives. They will start and end this life without achieving anything. And we, during this life, climb the spiritual ladder from degree to degree.

Therefore, we need to be joyful on this holiday of Purim, which symbolizes all our ascents. I am thrilled that more and more people are joining us daily, and the understanding is growing that we have a lucky ticket.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/24, Unity Day for Purim, Lesson 1, “The Joy of Unity“

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International Kabbalah Convention, “Faith Above Reason” – 5/19/24

1st part of the Lesson — International Kabbalah Convention “Praying to Go Above Reason,” Lesson 3

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2nd part of the Lesson — International Kabbalah Convention “Happy in Faith Above Reason,” Lesson 4

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Exit from the Material to the Spiritual World

931.03The unification we want to achieve is a unique state in which a person feels that he is canceling himself to zero, dissolving into his friends, and disappearing in them.

As he loses himself, he feels that he is leaving the material world and entering the spiritual world, and receives a new desire and a new sensation there that is already all spiritual.

He feels that at the center of all this sensation a higher force, the Creator, is waiting and desires him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/24, Unity Day for Purim, Lesson 1 “The Joy of Unity“

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International Kabbalah Convention “Faith Above Reason” – 5/18/24

1st part of the Lesson — International Kabbalah Convention “Working In Faith Above Reason,” Lesson 1

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2nd part of the Lesson — International Kabbalah Convention “Receiving from the Friends the Force of Faith Above Reason,” Lesson 2

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The Most Important—Unity of Hearts

282.02Question: After Passover, we plan to hold a congress in Uzbekistan. Many friends will come to elevate this region.

What do you recommend for us in preparation for this?

Answer: The only thing I recommend to you is the unity of hearts. Not in words, but in your heart to feel you have friends with you, that you want to connect your hearts together, and that this common heart will already be filled by the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/21/24, Writings of Rabash “When Pharaoh Sent the People”

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