Question: I feel like I am the weakest and smallest in the ten. How can I protect myself from beating myself up?

Answer: There is no need to blame yourself. On the contrary, you should be grateful that you have been shown who you are. Rabash told me about such states: “Now you are the same rag as me.” Do you understand? Rabash! He told me.

The realization of one’s insignificance and weakness is the absolutely natural, correct revelation of one’s condition. And we cannot be different. Everything we attain is due to the revelation of the Creator in us.

No matter how much we grow, we constantly attain our greater insignificance relative to Him. But, on the other hand, since we cling to the Creator, we already measure ourselves relative to our similarity to Him. And this similarity, of course, is attributed to Him.
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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: When we feel that actions of bestowal give us egoistic pleasure, should we restrict our desire to bestow?

Answer: In no case should we restrict the desire to bestow if it is not in contradiction with connection.

If I feel that I will not be able to cope with the connection with my qualities, then I restrict them, but to the extent that I can remain in unity. The most important thing is unity, attaining unity, reaching unity. And at what level it is reached is not so important.

Even at its most minimal level, we are already in spiritual world and we are already giving the Creator the opportunity to be revealed between 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: How can we help our country and the people living in it move toward connection? And how do we affect them by our unification?

Answer: I would advise you to first of all develop the relationships between you. This is the most important thing. When the spiritual force, the property of bestowal, love, and connection appears in you at least a little, then it will simultaneously emanate from you and outside of you. This is what the masses will feel. But in the meantime, I do not think it is necessary to talk about it, advertise it, or do anything about it.

But spreading the general knowledge that a good connection between us leads to a better life is necessary. This is what we are doing all the time.

Question: How can we encourage each other to believe that it is possible to feel faith above reason?

Answer: This possibility depends only on you and on no one else. And the state of the world is arranged in such a way that if you want, you will necessarily and quickly achieve change. It all depends on the magnitude of your desire. So go ahead! Do not believe anyone that it is impossible, that it is hard. Our main problem in this world is to reveal the Creator, then everything will be clear to us. Good luck with this!
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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: In our world, it is accepted that the small is annulled before the great. But in the example of Rabbi Yossi Ben Kisma, this great teacher annulled himself before his students who knew nothing. What did Rabbi Yossi Ben Kisma gain from this?

Answer: He gained being included in people yearning for the goal. And it doesn’t matter that they were on a very small degree relative to him, a great Kabbalist. He gained by annulling before them.

Still he had his own egoism. So by annulling before them and thus becoming included in them, through these small uncorrected souls he was able to raise them along with him to the height of the degree he had reached.

Question: How can we receive the greatness of the goal from our friends?

Answer: I advise you to close your eyes and do everything that is written in the articles of Kabbalists even if you do not agree with it. You don’t need anything else.

The most important thing is to close your eyes, annul before your friends, and go along with them. No matter how big you are, take an example from Rabbi Yossi Ben Kisma.
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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: How can I feel that the Creator is behind the group?

Answer: When you reach connection with the group, then you will automatically see that the Creator is behind the group.

You cannot see the Creator Himself except when he is dressed in a group. Therefore, when you connect with the group, you will find that the Creator is in it.

You will never see Him outside of the group. The upper light can be felt only in a common Kli (Vessel).
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Adhering to the Friends” Lesson 3

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Question: Is annulment an act of free choice or an obligation?

Answer: If you want to develop spiritually, you must annul yourself. The reduction of egoism (Tzimtzum) is the very first condition of our spiritual development. And then we will develop in the property of bestowal, and this is faith above reason.

So, there is no choice here. If you do not want to, you will be brought to it anyway.

Question: Is the action of self-annulment to zero an action from above? Can I do it myself or does the Creator do it?

Answer: Everything comes from the Creator. But you act like you are doing it yourself. The Creator starts and ends everything. Only He does everything, and a person should try to participate in this. That is how it works.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Annulling before the Friends” Lesson 2

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Question: How are we able to see friends as great and join them?

Answer: It is no problem because everyone except me is great. To the extent that I annul myself in relation to them and take on their thoughts, views, and attitudes, to that extent I draw closer to them and enter the property of mutual guarantee (Arvut). Thus I move toward the goal.

I have to place myself in the group, like a drop of semen in the womb, and develop all the time. But this seed can develop only to the extent that it will form this womb around itself. This is how we should grow ourselves spiritually.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Adhering to the Friends” Lesson 3

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Question: Is egoism our enemy that unequivocally hinders us or a friend who helps build a ladder of ascent to the Creator?

Answer: Egoism shows us how opposite we are to the Creator, and it helps us a lot in this.

Question: When I find that my selfishness does not allow me to annul before the ten and see them above myself, how can the ten help me in this?

Answer: It is already helping you by showing you how selfish you are. And then you can only annul yourself in front of them and pray for help, from both the group and the Creator.

Question: How does one keep a balance between selfishness and the greatness of friends?

Answer: Keep it up so that all egoism gradually begins to work for unification, for the Creator.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Adhering to the Friends” Lesson 3

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Question: When we are in the state of descent and concealment, how can we keep mutual guarantee between us?

Answer: If we are in the state of descent and concealment, then we ourselves need to hold on with the help of the friends. And when I am not in a descent, I need to think about the ways I can support my friends.

This is how we work gradually, alternately, in waves: I for the friends, friends for me, and so on. We always position ourselves in such a way that all our negative and positive states mutually add up, and we advance straight to the goal.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility” Lesson 6

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When the evil inclination brings us foreign thoughts, this is the time to take these thoughts and raise them above reason. (Rabash, “The Whole of the Torah Is One Holy Name”)

Foreign thoughts are everything that separate me from the Creator, that is, egoism. These thoughts awaken in us on purpose so that we would rise above them and reveal the spiritual state.

At that time, we must ask the Creator to give us love between us in which, according to the law of equivalence of form, He Himself will be revealed. This will be the revelation of the Creator to the created beings.

Question: How can we rise above foreign thoughts if they constantly come back and try to distract us from the lesson?

Answer: This is actually wonderful! This means that you are given the opportunity to make another small correction every minute. It is impossible to enter the same river twice. Every time it is new conditions and new corrections.
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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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