Question: Before the Convention many people complain that everything around them suddenly breaks including household appliances and furniture, objects fall out of their hands and break, or crumble right in their hands.

One gets the impression that the material world starts to disintegrate. Is this really related to the Convention that is approaching?

Answer: Of course there is pressure, discernment of the goal, a desire for it, its assessment, the realization of the price I have to pay for my goal, whether my friends correspond to this it, and so on.

However, this is a wonderful time. You should read about how people came out of Egypt: in fear, hurriedly, accompanied by the blows that came down on Pharaoh (egoism), and it happened in the dark.

Question: How should we relate to our friends from the past who used to be with us and left? Maybe we now have an excuse to contact them and invite them to rejoin us?

Answer: The Convention is a gathering of “points in the heart” from the whole world. Precisely now we all have a unique chance to create a single common Kli.

Many people were together with us physically and virtually for many years, participating in the work of the worldwide Kabbalistic group. Regardless of the reasons for their temporary distancing, we would be very happy to see all of them at the Convention.

Everyone who has ever been with us, who has embarked on the path of studying Kabbalah, are dear and close to us.

We are waiting for you! See you at the Convention!
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Question: Before the Convention how should we “make ourselves a teacher and buy ourselves a friend?”

Answer: It can only be done by way of unity; there’s nothing else for us to do. However, it has to be a wide and powerful action of bonding. We still have time.

We have to understand that there are descents, ascents, and difficult states awaiting us until the very last moment. We will experience sudden gusts of strong wind and the pressure of tall waves such as we have never felt before.

That is how dramatic the exodus from Egypt was. For 210 years everything followed its course, but before the exodus the preparation began, bringing very unusual states.

In any case, the more a person goes through at the preparation phase, the more serious the situation is and the greater chance he has of achieving his expectations.

From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/27/10, “Make Yourself A Rav, Buy Yourself A Friend”

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Question: At the Convention how can we combine the inner attack with care for the newcomers and for the whole world?

Answer: First of all, I am not focusing on the whole world, but on the participants of the Convention. Every person who is there and whose heart is there participates in it together with us.

The Convention is the assembly of all the hearts that are ready to unite in order to attain equivalence of form with the Creator. We are creating and connecting desires in order to become similar to the Creator, to reveal Him.

All of our desires aim to unite into one in order to reach mutual bestowal. In that bestowal, we will reveal the Upper Light, the Creator, according to the law of equivalence of form.

I am thinking only of the people who are taking part in this. Even if someone participates only slightly, like a child, he is nevertheless a part of it. Meanwhile, the entire rest of the world remains outside of my field of vision.

Of course, we will disseminate information through the mass media, but I only feel those who want to be a part of this mission. The Convention is an act of inner dissemination among us. It is our interconnection, our covenant, our mutual guarantee, the reception of the Torah. We aren’t holding it in order to say something to the world. Our actions are directed inwards and we don’t dissipate by paying attention to the externality.

At the Convention we are facing our common task just as if we were standing around Mount Sinai. That task is unity. A “tribe of slaves” comes out of Egypt and they run away in the darkness, not knowing or understanding anything. They don’t even know where to run. Instead of honor, there’s an escape; instead of confidence, there’s fear and helplessness. Yet this sensation is correct and good.

After that they come to Mount Sinai, the revelation of hatred, and make a decision to attack, to step out against it because they don’t have any other way to go. Every person has no way out; he has to decide here and now, and desire for it to happen. Every person has to want it with everything he has. How will it come true? That’s not my problem. The Creator will complete what I started, but I have to demand it.

Even if I don’t agree to it at the bottom of my heart, even if I am scared, I still scream like a child as if I really can’t survive without the mutual guarantee.
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From the lesson on 10/22/10, Writings of Rabash

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Question: Can a person who just got introduced to Kabbalah and arrives at the convention for the first time connect to it?

Answer: It doesn’t matter at what level a person is; he enters the collective field and feels that it is good. He will feel that it brings warmth, confidence, and protection. He will probably get an answer to some of life’s questions, and it will help him to solve problems within himself and at home.

The Upper Light gets revealed in the connection of people, it fills all cavities and flaws. Hence, everyone can feel that it is worthwhile to participate in unification. In the measure of one’s participation, the person will be able to connect to the Light, the wisdom of Kabbalah, and improve his life.

The wisdom of Kabbalah, contrary to religions, doesn’t claim that a person has to suffer. On the contrary, one should connect to the right environment (and he doesn’t even need to exert much effort to do so), and then he will start ascending on the beam of light.

All problems are solely from the lack of the Light in our life! And if we draw it to ourselves, we won’t feel any lack or serious problems: troubles, misfortunes, pain, and wars. Everything depends solely on the impact of the Light on our world.

It takes only a few minutes for a person to feel what a special place he has entered. Suppose he comes to the gathering, a cultural program: People sing, dance, and he may want to participate. If not, he could simply watch. He will feel warmth and lack of any personal pressure. So I don’t think that someone wouldn’t enjoy it.

People like this kind of atmosphere, even if they walked in accidentally, without seeking spirituality. After all, life usually doesn’t spoil us with such good moments, and people truly miss that.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/18/10, “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence”

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We have to prepare for the Convention. Some people are coming there completely ready; they already know that at the Convention we have to receive forces in order to continue the path.

There’s life after the Convention as well. We will still have to make many corrections inside us and in the world. Therefore the Convention offers us the opportunity to do inner work. Along with the inspiration, people conduct an analysis: “Right now I am inspired, I ascend above myself with the help of the group that influences me. The group is a factor of the goal’s importance and ascent above myself…”Some people perceive what is happening precisely in this way.

Others aren’t ready for this approach yet. They lose their heads, join the common flow, and aren’t aware of the situation. This is also a good thing: They will be inspired and the analysis might come later on.

At the end of the day everyone will benefit greatly from the Convention, even the participants that don’t really know why they came. We are also inviting all those who were with us at some point in time and who left for various reasons. Try to come to the Convention, to spend some time with us, and to check yourself once again.

Life often gives us situations where a person is “taken out of the game” and has to overcome and fight obstacles. However, leaving the spiritual path is unacceptable under any circumstances.

Those who have left now have the opportunity to come back, and I very much advise them to do so. I have seen how people who came back attained great results.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/26/10, “All of Israel Have A Part in the Next World”

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Question: How should we transfer the inspiration of the Convention to the following period of descent?

Answer: If we prepare well during the period of the Convention by strengthening the connection between us, then this connection will help us immediately attach the ascents to the descents.

We really do have the opportunity not to fall. To achieve this we have to prepare at the Convention in such a way that afterwards we won’t perceive the burdening of the heart and desires as evil, but as a means and an opportunity to ascend.

We have reached a special state – a great unity of people who are different, foreign, and distant from each other. In essence, we are all of Babylon, yet at the same time we are able to create a connection where we can use the example of unity we will receive at the Convention and then constantly remain in it.

We must only maintain the same inspiration, the same connection, and the same importance of the goal, holding on to the example we received, holding on to the force we attracted during the unity. Then we won’t have any problem rising up the spiritual degrees.

Unity fills us with energy and the realization of the goal’s greatness and importance. We have to act in a way that will prevent the subsequent states from becoming descents into darkness. We must see them as desirable and necessary ahead of time, according to the principle, “I awaken the dawn instead of the dawn awakening me.”

We await the darkness just as the Light because it offers us the chance to ascend.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/26/10, “All of Israel Have A Part in the Next World”

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Now, in the last days before the Convention, we have to be ready for the disturbances to grow stronger from all sides and we have to strengthen each other. We have to try to explain that there is no way out and movement forward is only possible by becoming stronger above the mind and feeling, like a “mule under a yoke and a donkey under a load,” meaning only by making efforts, without using our mind and feelings.

We have to try to receive such a great common force of unity from the group that inside it the Creator will dwell, “inside His nation.” That is how we will ascend!

Unlike all religions and “spiritual practices,” in Kabbalah we do not destroy egoism. Rather, we desire its development and accumulate the challenges it presents because we ascend above them.

Therefore, let every person come with his entire load of egoism no matter what it is. Precisely by using it as a basis, we have to create a connection with each other. Then instead of a short circuit that we get when there is no opposition between us, we will get a result by ascending above the opposition.

Therefore, the remaining time is very intense and critical, when we are being thrown into polar directions: between good and evil, confusion and clarity. We have to rejoice about the fact that we have achieved these states; the most important thing is not to remain indifferent.

And if a person finally comes to the Convention after going through all of this whirlpool, then he has something to come with! Then we will correct everything else together!
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/26/10, “600,000 Souls”

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Question: There are less than two weeks left until the Convention. How can we use this time most efficiently?

Answer: We have to use the days that remain to prepare: See and hear more, including music and songs, work with the article summaries that talk about the unity of souls (“Matan Torah,” “Mutual Guarantee,” “The Peace,” “600,000 Souls,” “One Law,” and so on). Most importantly, we have to try to feel that we are going towards unity.

We are about to make an attack on unity, and if we attain a powerful inner and outer pressure in order to feel how we are coming together, we will thereby awaken the Inner Light inside ourselves. Then we won’t remain with our external desire which is operated by the Surrounding Light, but will put forth all our efforts so the Surrounding Light will turn our vessels or desires from outer to inner, and then the Light will become revealed inside them as Inner Light!

The difference between these two Lights is vast because the Surrounding Light influences the external desires that aren’t yet connected and which are outside of the screen connecting us. The screen is a force enabling us to be above our egoistic desire so I could give to my neighbor and connect to him (“bestow for the sake of bestowal” or “receive for the sake of bestowal”).

If I acquire a screen over my will to enjoy, the desire to unite with everyone into one soul, then I transform from an outer vessel of the soul to an inner one. Instead of receiving an awakening from the Surrounding Light, I will feel the Inner Light inside of me! This is called the first spiritual level. This is the state I expect and plan to receive at the Convention.

Obviously, in the last days before the Convention there are many disturbances awaiting us: Suddenly you will lose the desire or the opportunity to attend, and then it will come back again; suddenly you will have no energy to get up for the lesson, will experience problems at home or at work, bad moods, and anything else. Yet we have to understand that this “burdening of the heart” is necessary! It is like crossing the Red Sea, like running away from Pharaoh, coming to Mount Sinai where we reveal hatred (Sina) and separation between us.

All of this is actually necessary for us. We have to bless these states and accept them with love and understanding! I hope that our friends all over the world will understand this and accept it precisely in this way. After all, it is precisely by virtue of correcting this separation and heaviness (Aviut) of the desire that we ascend.

If we don’t have these obstacles then we won’t have anything to correct! How, then, will we ascend, and what will we step over?
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/26/10, “600,000 Souls”

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Question: If a person isn’t sufficiently ready for the convention and attends, he will say, “This is all very nice. People are uniting and that’s not a bad thing.” However, he won’t feel that this unity holds something higher, something that it is different from other kinds of unity. Is it OK for him to leave the convention feeling this way?

Answer: Every person has his own goal in life. The convention is a gathering of people who desire to attain the Creator and the Creator can be attained if you love your neighbor as yourself.

We are not opposed to having the most different kind of people come to us. Let them see who we are. Even if a person is opposed to Kabbalah or to us in particular, this will help him to find out exactly why he is against it.

In any case, when we come in contact with any person, no matter what his connection with us, we pass a portion of Light to him and thus the whole world advances toward correction. This is exactly why the breaking occurred, except that it happened in a more dramatic state. The breaking was necessary to pass sparks of Light into Kelim that cannot receive the Light otherwise. After the breaking, we can pass the Light to everyone using different forms of connection, even ones that aren’t very pleasant.

Therefore, even if our enemies and opponents have a connection with us, it’s a good thing. This is a form of connection that isn’t “Panim be Panim” (face to face), but “Panim be Ahor” (face to back) or even “Ahor be Ahor” (back to back). In any case, it’s a form of connection. That’s why people sometimes desire to fight in order to come into contact with each other.

From the lesson on 10/22/10, Baal HaSulam’s Letter 17

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Question: How should we feel when we rise to “attack“?

Answer: We have to feel that this is our “last and definitive battle.” We are going “va banque,” all out till the very end, not leaving anything behind “for later.”

A person has to become part of this with his entire heart and soul. It’s a shame if he leaves anything inside, not finding use for it because what we have is a real chance.

Baal HaSulam writes that we are living in the days of the coming of the Messiah, in the last generation. All that’s left is to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah because the generation is ready for it. The decisive action depends only on us.

From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/22/10, “The Matter of the Will to Receive”

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