Question: We have gathered, all of us so different, for one purpose. When for example a dish is prepared, all the ingredients combine to create a common taste.

Is it correct to keep the main goal in focus or gradually on intermediate goals that we reveal in our connection in order to acquire the quality of reception for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: It is best to keep the main goal in front of you and strive for it all the time because intermediate goals can confuse you. They will manifest, but still as intermediary.

Keep the main goal.
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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Question: What should be the perception of the physical group when we try to connect the three components: me, the group, and the Creator?

Answer: There is no physical group! In no way are you in a physical group!

What difference does it make who is where and at what distance from each other?! Do we have to sniff each other like dogs, or do we have to touch each other? What for?!

We rise above our senses. Why should I care what you look like and in general who and what you are?!

Of course we must have some initial common opportunities for exchanging desires, properties, and information. There has to be something there to start this process.

But when we begin this movement and exit the framework of our corporeal sensation, we yearn toward the general structure that we want to create from our inclinations to ascend, to find the meaning of life, and so on. And then that is it, it no longer matters who is who.

We see that people all over the world are studying with us: from Chile, Mexico, North America, England, Romania, Russia, etc.

During these days before the congress we will see 1,500 to 2,000 people here.

There is no stronger convention in the world than ours where people from all countries come here! They come to do serious work! This is amazing!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Spiritual Dollars” 11/29/11

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Question: We spoke about shame often at this convention. Why is it that after every action, be it prayer or a duty, we experience doubts and I fear whether I did the right thing or not?

Answer: It is in order to move you even further in a more correct way and so that you assess yourself correctly. Therefore, this is good.

Question: At the convention, at the gathering of friends, one of us started talking and began to cry, and I also unexpectedly started crying like many others. Then, when the friends were talking at the meal, there was an instant connection. I have never seen such a concentration of the opening of the heart. But it was unclear what we should do next with this opening of the heart?

Answer: Grab the Creator, force Him to come down to you and fill you. This is what you should do. But it will come instinctively. You will succeed.

Question: How can we open our hearts to each other and the entire congress and at the same time think about the future so that our work will benefit the next generations the way we receive benefit from those who have gone through this path before us?

Answer: If we try to move forward in an ever-increasing connection between us, then undoubtedly the Creator will help us and accompany us, and so we will reach the goal.

Question: There is a feeling that there is some kind of confusion in our expression of love because there are constant clarifications. Where are we wrong? How can we more accurately do what you and Rabash advise?

Answer: You constantly make mistakes and stumble. At the same time, you always have to clarify what you stumbled over, where you fell, and how to get up and keep going. Keep searching!
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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Question: I myself feel and I see on my friends that in the lesson we are being totally knocked out, especially when we read some article.

If I try to connect and pray, my strength—of which there is little left anyway—is immediately taken away from me. When I try to ask not for myself, I immediately switch off and fall asleep. How can we help each other be in thoughts and in prayer?

Answer: This is the correct state. Because you do not have the feelings to ask and pray for others yet. But if you constantly, despite any difficulties, ask, you will find that it is possible, and you will receive an answer.

If you connect with each other and embrace each other, you will see how much a common spiritual universe opens up before you. You will not be afraid, you will not get confused about anything, and everything will be open and clear.

The main thing is only to be open to each other, to open our hearts. This, of course, requires training, but all this is close to us.
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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Question: How can we reach such a level of mutual guarantee that both men and women feel the power of the mutual guarantee in the group and the heart itself shows what we are ready for at the next convention?

Answer: We study in the wisdom of Kabbalah that everything comes down to ten: ten Sefirot, ten levels of revelation of the Creator. But since we study this in all kinds of sources, we do not talk about it much.

Of course if a person just listens to us, then it seems unconvincing to him and these are just words for him. But if we really want to experience the Sefirot, the Partzufim, and the worlds, if we want to participate in this, then we need to be connected with each other.

After all, it is only through the intensity of the connection between us that we feel the upper world and begin to feel the Creator and ourselves in a state of eternity, above our world, which is the lowest of all worlds.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: We study that the Creator is good and does good. But we see a lot of evil in the world: wars, murders, and crimes. How can we see this as a manifestation of the good Creator? Sometimes it seems impossible.

Answer: We cannot understand this yet. To do this we need to rise a little above our world, and then we will see in a perspective from the beginning to the end of creation what it should go through. Only to this extent will we be able to justify the Creator. Otherwise, in our eyes and in our properties there is nothing more terrible than the Creator.

Everything that happens in the world comes from Him. Therefore, evil is a manifestation of His governance. We must see ourselves as the chosen ones in order to change this governance from evil to good.

Therefore it is said: “I have created the evil inclination and gave the Torah to correct it.” The Torah is the upper light that we must attract upon ourselves, and to this extent we will begin to feel how our world turns into good. This is all entrusted to us. Let’s try to do it.
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From the 1^st part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 1 “The Work Is Mainly in the Heart”

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Question: I look at some friends who seem to conceal themselves, they never open up. Why do you always say: “Do not think about me, think about the Creator?” Where and what is the strength here?

Answer: When I came to Rabash, I saw six or seven old men sitting and studying different books. I did not understand these texts yet and actually did not know how to read them. It was very difficult: I knew nothing, did not understand, and did not see what the relationship between them was.

They hardly spoke to each other; only when reading books did they sometimes exchange one or two words.

But gradually, their language became clear to me, and I saw why they behaved this way—so as not to interfere with the general reading. I realized that they think about each other and help each other.

Nothing was visible from the outside. This is the work in the heart. Kabbalists even encourage us to hide what is in our hearts.

The opening of the heart occurs from within, in desires. But there was nothing there in words. If I were judging by their words, I would generally think that some old people were sitting there who have nothing to do, and they are just getting together and reading. What else should they do at the age of seventy?

But I do not think you will have to wait until you are seventy. You will reveal your feelings to your friends earlier, and they will reveal them to you. Without words!
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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Question: Egoism separates and splits everything, and the Creator glues everything together and makes it one. How, nevertheless, can we not divide the tens and even friends in the ten into individual people, but see the entire network of connections both inside the ten, inside the world Kli, and inside the entire world?

Answer: During the convention, the unity of all our friends is possible. It does not matter at all where we live and what languages we speak.

This is a convention, Kenes, from the word “Hitkansut (Assembly), mutual connection.

But if we are talking about a spiritual structure, then it is united in tens, and we should not break tens, but on the contrary, strengthen them.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: What does it mean to make room for the Creator in our connection?

Answer: It means that by uniting together we want the Creator to fit into our common desire, which we make up from our private desires.

When the ten completely unites and we want to be filled with the light of the Creator, then the light of Yechida that can fill our ten will mean the appearance of the Creator.

If we are united, nothing will interfere with the light.

Question: What determines how much and with what quality light will enter the Kli?

Answer: It depends on our feelings, desires, how much we have mutual rejections, and how much we rise above them and still want to be together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 9/28/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: I have a feeling that I am just a black dot in which there is nothing white. How can I accept and not condemn this state of slavery?

Answer: Each of us is a black dot, and this is our initial egoistic state.

We have to invert ourselves and become a white dot against the background of a black world. And then many more white dots will be added to us, and the world will become bright.
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From the 1^st part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 1 “The Work Is Mainly in the Heart”

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