Question: What should we do in order to reveal the Shechina between us at the Convention?

Answer: Just one thing: unity. There isn’t one action that depends on us besides coming closer to each other. This will enable inspiration to flare up among us, which will help us to unite .

We unite internally. It’s not necessary to hug each other, although sometimes the external actions do help. First of all, I have to understand that I will enter the spiritual world and acquire life on a higher level only if I ascend to a higher, more powerful desire to perceive everyone as parts of me.

However, that’s when a purely psychological problem arises: I reject them. That means I have to change my perception and attitude, and break through the inner fence between me and others.

To do this, I have to come closer to my friends so they influence me. Then they will suffuse me with their idea and goal, with the unity in which each of us will reveal the Upper Reality.

That’s why we are organizing the Convention and uniting with everything we have. This is practical Kabbalah.

In the past people used to think that Kabbalah predicts the future and deals with something supernatural. But there is nothing supernatural about it besides the transformation of our egoistic nature to an altruistic one.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/5/10, Writings of Rabash

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As I take off to the Convention, I leave everything I have in this world at home in order to come to a place of unification, to be born there in a new life. There is no place to run, the ways back are cut off, with no connection to the world. The world does not exist.

We need to prepare for such a state. I plan to spend these days precisely and only in this manner. I don’t think about anything else but this.

At home, at work, at the bank, and at the store, I prepare everything so that I wouldn’t have to think about anything over the course of these three days, as if flying to Mars with a one-way ticket. Nothing is keeping me here anymore; the bridges have been burned.
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From the Talk on the Arvut, 10/29/10

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Before the Convention, we should concentrate on the following three things:

1. We are confident in the fact that we exist in a good, powerful, and correct environment, and that we are revealing the path to mutual unity and mutual bestowal.

2. We concentrate our power of thought on seeking out the connection between us.

3. We are happy with our exclusiveness, glad for this special state and status that we have achieved.

Such conventions have not yet occurred. We all feel this by the intensity, pressure, and pleasant trepidation that permeate each of us. And all this comes from Above. It is great help from Above showing us that we should try to add something to it that we still lack, namely:

a. Joy and fulfillment of a spiritual ascent,
b. Confidence in achieving the goal, and
c. Inner effort.

I need to unite with the friends into a single network in order to reveal the mutual force called “the Creator” between us. Our whole work, all serious analysis is conducted inside every person, while on the outside we should radiate joy, ease, and confidence. There should be laughter on the outside and a burning flame deep within.
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From the Talk on the Arvut 10/29/10

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Question: Rabash writes that only when a person has done everything within his means will he turn to the Creator for help. But what about thoughts that I haven’t done everything and don’t deserve to ascend?

Answer: Nobody has done all they could. Keep making efforts and while you do, you will see that this instruction is accomplished.

The Klipa (shell) will always tell you that you haven’t done enough: “You know what, wait until the next Convention.” And you must answer it: “Stop promising me tomorrows, I want it here and now!”

Who will inspire you to respond like that? The environment will. It will multiply a person’s strength, when he bows his head and unifies with others.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/10, “And the Children Racketed Within Her”

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Question: If the will to enjoy attacks me during the Convention, I feel weak and “fall” down, is there an emergency number I can call or someone I can tell about it?

Answer: Every person will receive the phone number for emergency situations at the registration. But how do you put a call through to the “heavens”?

“The heavens” is the next level, and that means it is the group that is united as one and that I imagine as being in mutual guarantee and perfection. And it really does exist in this state. I can be outside of it or I can see myself as inside.

The “heavens” are the common desire or Kli of the higher level. It is all of us, but more consolidated. Spirituality does not exist in a ready-made form. We build it. Nothing exists in front of us. We contain Reshimot that gradually awaken. But they only awaken, while you enter various states and build them according to your desire and intention.

We create the worlds and levels ourselves. Before we act, there is only informational data from which we build levels. But there are no worlds before us. That is why you can imagine the future states only in the form of greater unity of our common desire or Kli.

That is where you should turn; this is “the heavens.” And they will respond, “If you want to, come closer, and if you don’t want to, then stay where you are.” It’s true that a person cannot pull himself out of prison, but he has to ask, demand, and make efforts to be helped.

If a person is not trying to be in one connection with us, then he does not receive the opportunity to advance. If you ask, “Who should I ask for help?” It is written, “I am looking for (asking) my brothers.” That is whom you ask for unity.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/10, The Zohar

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Question: How can the environment bring me to something other than my own egoism, when it itself is also comprised of egoists?

Answer: But you yourself choose the environment. The Creator has put a single desire and a common aspiration into a group of people, and He has gathered them here. They neither looked for nor needed one another, but He brought them together. They do not know where life will take them, but they differ from any other environment through their sparks and spiritual aspirations, which the time has come to correct.

I unite with my friends in order to establish a connection with their sparks, and this is the essence, this is my environment. One is pleasant looking, another is not so much, the third is quick-tempered, and the fourth a scholar, but I do not pay attention to the exterior forms because all of them pertain to the beastly properties of our world.

Instead, I look at the sparks that have ignited in my friends and are connected among them. These sparks are the consequence of the screen that connects us, and as I permeate further, I arrive at the place where it mends us together the same way.

Everything depends on the depth of immersion in our common “pie.” Its upper layer is the exterior, superficial view. And then I begin to look further inside. After all, an inner unity is now being manifested among my friends. I was brought to them so I would arrive at the essence, starting with the exterior impressions.

I can find this connection in any part of the world, and conceptually, I should not need to travel anywhere. All people are interconnected, but not all are already experiencing this desire to reveal their unity.

And so I have been pushed into this layer of humanity, which now needs to be corrected. That is, this layer has to reveal the common interconnection, and the Upper Light or the Creator within it. Now I try to discern this system as fast as possible, I am ready to be in it.

The mutual guarantee is the law of this common system, and the correction becomes revealed even more deeply. Nothing else exists; we are simply submerging ourselves deeper into this “pie,” the essence of the exterior images, the root of everything that happens.

I am always directed inward in order to find and strengthen the connection between us. During the Convention we concentrate on this simple intention.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/10, “And the Children Racketed Within Her”

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Question: What is required of me at the Convention? Should I be writhing in agony regarding my own birth or that of my friend’s?

Answer: Neither. Let everyone care only about tuning into the environment. This way one nullifies himself and becomes inspired with a friend’s desire. When every person does this, we automatically enter a deeper layer of our relationship.

Imagine a “pie” with many layers. On top I see the Convention participants, beneath them I see the friends, and even lower I see united sparks. With my eyes, I want to penetrate as deep as possible into the net that connects us, stretching across all the layers into Infinity. And this only depends on me.

One can jump impatiently or stand quietly, but regardless of what I do externally, the main thing is to concentrate as much as possible on the desire to reveal our inner connection which surely exists between all the creatures. Once I reveal it, I reveal everything in it.

For that I reject myself, striving to submerge even deeper in order to become a part of the common net, blending into it. This intention, this inner concentration is enough for me to begin to feel reality, the authenticity of the collective unity, more clearly.

In our world, we observe the consequences of a global interconnection, similar thoughts, and phenomena that appear in different people and different places. But all of this is the consequence; it is the “tip of the iceberg.” And yet there, deep down, is an unbreakable iron connection that binds us.

This connection is what we must reveal. The aspiration is enough. The rest will be revealed in it: the desires and the revelations that will lead us inward.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/10, “And the Children Racketed Within Her”

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Question: The Convention is our next state. What do we need to do now in order to come to it with the correct desire or demand?

Answer: At present, we still need the feeling of lack, aspiration, and longing, just as before an anticipated meeting and expectation of a joyous event. We need the desire to unfold the connection between us so that it would open in all its might and, within it, the force of bestowal, the Creator, the Light that fills this collective soul, would emerge.

Right now, we are preparing ourselves for this revelation. However, we should not seek the lack itself. Rather, we should constantly think about the desired state. As a result of this seeking, from my ideas about unity, I will start feeling that I don’t possess it. Because of this, the void (the desire) will appear within me. The Light creates the desire!

A person who doesn’t seek a good state of existence will not feel what he is lacking. After all, when you seek it, the Surrounding Light of that state affects you and increases your desire for it. You will yearn for the good states, for love and unification, and, accordingly, you will discover the opposite states: rejection and hate. In fact, we all act in two opposing systems: reception and bestowal, the left and the right lines.

Man is the reversed imprint of the Creator, the form of egoistic desire. All the Lights that affect us only turn our form inside out, bringing us to the authentic form from “for the sake of reception” to “for the sake of bestowal.” This is what the Light does with me. But in the beginning, I always discover the reverse or egoistic form.

If I aspire to the good form, then, inevitably, the descent will come, and I will discover hate and resentment. However, there is no need to dive into the depth of evil and make discernments. This egoistic form will emerge on its own and will force me to study it. Inasmuch as I make efforts to get rid of it, will I get to know all its details in order to transform it into bestowal.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/10, “This is for Judah”

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Question: What happens at the Convention?

Answer: Something very simple happens there. Imagine that we are in some kind of box. It contains our desires, each of which must unite with the desires of others and become included in them. Suppose there are 24 desires inside the box; then each of them will have a force equal to 24.

This is the first level of unity, the first spiritual level, when each person includes everyone else inside him once: 24 desires, and each of them consists of 24. This is the mutual guarantee.

If we attain the state, then we become equivalent to the Light of Nefesh, which then fills us. Why? It’s because we have attained the state where we are all included in everyone, where every person loses himself inside everyone and each one absorbs everyone inside him. This is the first level of our equivalence to the Light.

I have canceled myself in relation to others and acquired their desires as my own. This is called “love your neighbor as yourself,” and thus I become equal to the Light of Nefesh, which fills me.

Now if we increase the degree of our mutual inclusion and bring it to greater depth, I will include everyone else inside me and every other person will include 24 desires (24 x 24). In other words, I go from a small system of mutual inclusion to a more inner, qualitative, and complex system. Then instead of the Light of Nefesh I will be filled by the Light of Ruach, and thus I will ascend to a higher spiritual degree.

This way, to the degree of our mutual inclusion in one another, we reveal completely different forms of mutual inclusion. In order to receive the Light of Nefesh, this took place inside a two-dimensional plane, but in order to receive the Light of Ruach our inter-inclusion acquires the form of a three dimensional space. Then I already have a completely different attainment, one that includes depth. Gradually our mutual inclusion turns into a multidimensional system whose form resembles a honeycomb.

People are not coming to the Convention to study, but only for their souls to become mutually included. This happens on the inner level and a person does not know how. For three days you are among a huge amount of people and this connection constantly works inside you.

It turns from a point into a line, from a line into a square, and from a square into various other forms, until it turns into a sphere – the symbol of perfection.
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From the talk on 10/27/10

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