Question: How can we connect and annul in front of friends who do not adhere to our method?

Answer: There is no need to connect with them or annul before them. What will you annul and connect? You must have a common goal and a common methodology to achieve this goal.

Rabash writes: “We have gathered here to establish a society for all who wish to follow the path and method of Baal HaSulam, the way by which to climb the degrees of man and not remain as a beast…”

That is, we take upon ourselves the condition that we are going to approach the Creator according to the method that Baal HaSulam and Rabash describe to us. You can say: “It is possible to do it through other techniques.” Please, you can be with them, but not with us. You cannot combine one with the other! With anything! No way!

The science of Kabbalah is not philosophy and not any other science or methodology! You cannot come in here and start figuring out how to diet, how to do some exercise or whatever!

There is nothing in Kabbalah that concerns the earthly body. And there is nothing in it to do with your spirit! Because it does not exist either. It deals only with attainment of the Creator and that’s it! Discard everything else. You can do it, of course, but know that it is at the corporeal level, which is at the level of your body and nothing more! Not a spiritual body but an animal.

Question: Is there a difference between partnership and spiritual connection?

Answer: Of course there is!

But partnership is like a company. And spiritual connection is inner unification that can occur only under the influence of the upper light over which I do not have control. At the same time, my friends and I ask the Creator to unite us.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1

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Question: You said that we should advance to the next degree. Can you describe it so we can aim ourselves at it?

Answer: The next degree is very simple to describe: it is the revelation of the Creator’s qualities in the good connections between us. After all, what we strive for—the quality of connection, warmth, and support—does exist.

The Creator was concealed and now He becomes revealed in us to the extent that we can create and attain this quality among ourselves. He is revealed according to the law of similarity of form.

Therefore, there is nothing unexpected here. Perhaps this is what is unexpected, but in general it always ends up with us tuning ourselves to perceive the Creator, which results in attaining Him. Thus, it is said: “My sons have defeated me.” We force Him to be revealed in us.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Deriving the Greatness of the Goal from the Friends” Lesson 4

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Question: What is the correct way to ask the ten for mutual guarantee?

Answer: You can simply express in words that you do not have enough strength to reach the quality of bestowal and ask the friends to help you in this.

There also should be an example. But the most important thing is to have it in feeling, in the heart. If the request is correct, then the Creator will make the friends feel how much you want to be their guarantor.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility” Lesson 6

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Question: You said that we should fill the empty space in the ten with ourselves, and now I have heard that this space is filled by the Creator. Who am I and what is my role?

Answer: Our role is to determine what empty space there is between us. I can’t reach my friend and get close to him, my egoism does not allow it.

Therefore, I ask the Creator to unite us through Himself. The Creator binds us with Himself. This is what we need to feel and to ask the Creator.

The most important moment in spiritual work is when we determine how far we are from each other, and at the same time we have the opportunity to get closer through the Creator.

We ask, demand, and beg Him to unite us. This is the most critical, the most necessary point in our advancement. Because it is this point that corrects us, unites the broken Kli (vessel).
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Asking the Creator to Fill the Place Between Us” Lesson 7

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Question: I cannot be a guarantor for my friends in different situations because I limit my freedom by doing this. What do I need to do in order to come to the desire to commit to the mutual guarantee?

Answer: Close your eyes and get incorporated in the group. Do everything they do. Try to get into their spirit.

Question: In the ten we are all making great efforts to unite. Sometimes I feel closer to one or two friends. I do not know if this is right or not and what to do about it? But I feel guilty about it.

Answer: You just continue and you will understand how to act more correctly. I cannot say anything because I will be stealing from you if I do. The search is a very important part of spiritual work.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility” Lesson 6

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Question: How does one connect faith in the sages with actions in the ten?

Answer: We should read and listen to what the sages tell us, and implement it in our relationships in the ten. This is called going by the faith of the sages.

Question: Does rising in faith above reason depend on how I am treated outside of our environment?

Answer: In no way! It depends only on how you imagine that the Creator fills the whole world.

Question: Is there a difference between feeling and sensation?

Answer: Feelings are our primordial data. And sensations are what we perceive in feelings.

Question: What should we do to get out of a descent, which is inevitable after a big ascent, as soon as possible?

Answer: If we are already beginning to feel that this state is a descent and we need the next ascent, then we act this way. And therefore, we go from ascent to ascent by taking the previous ascent for a descent. Try to realize this in yourself, and you will see that it is possible.

Question: Should we always play in front of our friends in the ten that we are in joy so that they are ignited by this joy and try to strive toward the Creator?

Answer: Yes, we must demonstrate to our friends that we are in an ascent, in inspiration, in joy. We are obliged to do this constantly, each relative to everyone.

Question: Can faith above reason become a habit through spiritual actions? Is it still a psychological or spiritual barrier?

Answer: This is purely a spiritual barrier. This is the Machsom that we have to go through. And there will be a lot of such Machsoms following it. So we need to learn to clearly ascend to the quality of faith above reason.

Question: When we reveal connection, joy also reveals itself, but at the same time, neglect and pride manifest themselves. What to do in this state?

Answer: Correct it! By starting with the fact that we can sit and cry from powerlessness, and ending with the fact that we shout to the Creator to do it for us.

Question: How can we address the Creator if He has not yet revealed Himself in the group? Is it enough to imagine that He is between us?

Answer: Of course, that’s enough. But at the same time it is necessary to turn to Him and try to make sensory contact, in the mind. And that this contact will constantly growing.

Question: Can the friends see that I am connected with them? And how can they do that?

Answer: They should hope that they will learn from what you show them. And you have to show how important they are to you and do actions to unite.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Going with Faith above Reason” Lesson 5

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Question: If we act in bestowal between friends, does this mean that we work in faith above reason?

Answer: In general, yes. This is the beginning, and then you will see what will happen.

Question: Do our views about the Creator also produce the corrections necessary for the revelation of the Creator in us? In what way?

Answer: Undoubtedly! How? Under the influence of the upper light that we awaken by our striving for each other and from within us toward the Creator.

Question: Rabash writes: …he must believe above reason and imagine that he has already been rewarded with faith in the Creator that is felt in his organs, and he sees and feels that the Creator leads the entire world as the good who does good. What are these organs that he is talking about in this passage? How does one feel them?

Answer: Organs are the qualities of bestowal. In my qualities of bestowal that I cultivate in relation to my friends, I will begin to reveal the Creator.

Question: Is it possible to consider as a state of closeness to the Creator when, through our prayers, a friend who left the group returns?

Answer: Yes, it’s good. After all, it was the upper light that acted.

Question: There are always some obstacles in our world, and we try to overcome them all together through prayer. Is that enough, or is there some other advice?

Answer: That’s enough for now, and then you’ll discover other possibilities.

Question: What does it mean to believe in the faith of the sages, how does one come to this?

Answer: We must take what Kabbalists advise us, what Rabash writes in his articles, as a basis, and implement it.

Question: How can we feel the Creator with all our organs if we have only five egoistic sense organs?

Answer: You have a lot more of them, millions of sensations: taste, color, whatever! We don’t know that yet. And then you will see how many different possibilities of sensations there are in us.

Question: What is the difference between a personal Kli (vessel) in faith above reason and a ten’s Kli in faith above reason?

Answer: By a personal Kli we mean a group. What other Kli could there be otherwise? You yourself are not a Kli. You yourself are just a black dot.

Question: How and in what does faith above reason differ from self-hypnosis?

Answer: Faith is higher than reason; it is a clear construction of a spiritual Kli (vessel) in accordance with what Kabbalists tell us. And here I have to follow the instructions written by Rabash, Baal HaSulam, and other Kabbalists.

Question: It is said to believe in the sages and walk the whole way with your eyes closed. What does it mean to “walk the whole way”?

Answer: The whole way means that you need to impose the quality of bestowal on all your egoistic desires when the screen (Masach) is above the egoistic desire (Aviut).
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Going with Faith above Reason” Lesson 5

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Question: You said that the most important thing is to reach unity, even at the smallest level. How can unity be divided into levels? Isn’t unity absolute: either we have it or we don’t?

Answer: Each level has its own measure of unity. We have a desire and against this desire we have the upper light. This is all graduated in 125 degrees and each degree has its own correction. Then there is an ascent to the next degree, the revelation of shattering and its correction, and so on. That is, everything repeats itself at each degree. However, these repetitions are completely different from each other.

Question: What is unity?

Answer: Unity is when you work toward one goal and that is what unites you.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1

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Question: Do we ask the Creator for different things every time or should we eventually come to one universal formula?

Answer: Practically our request is always the same. But since it comes from new conditions because our desire and intention change each time, it seems to us that we are in different circumstances all the time. Yet the request always remains the same: to unite. And its result should be the same.

In fact, the wisdom of Kabbalah is a very simple wisdom; there is nothing complicated about it. There is creation, the Creator, and a method to bring them closer to each other. But since we participate in this with our feelings and intentions, whole tragedies are played out in us. So, it will not be easy. This is the beauty of spiritual development.

Question: Do we have to constantly be in such connection with the friends and constantly search for this formula?

Answer: Constantly. We talk about it all the time and act on it.

Comment: But some of the friends periodically fall out of connection.

My Response: You must make sure that they do not fall out. Hold them all the time and each time start with a roll call: who is present, who is not present, why not, and so on. Your spiritual future depends on this.

Question: Is this the perfect prayer even without their participation?

Answer: You will not be able to do anything without them. Therefore, even egoistically, you should take care of their participation for your advancement.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Asking the Creator to Fill the Place Between Us”  Lesson 7

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Question: What was the first thing the Creator created before the shattering? You said that before the shattering, the desire was not egoistic. So what quality did it have before the shattering?

Answer: Before the shattering, there was the quality of reception, which was completely under the control of the intention to bestow at the level of Bina. This is called that Adam was in the Garden of Eden.

Then a desire was added that belongs to the quality of Hochma, to the light of Hochma. That is why a shattering occurred when not only a part of the Kli (vessel) that belongs to receiving for the sake of bestowal, but also to bestowal for the sake of bestowal, was broken. Thus, we have to start our work from scratch.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1

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