Question: Should we pray when there is a reason from the Creator, or should we ourselves look for reasons and initiate prayer in the ten?

Answer: The reason for prayer is your desire to unite.

If you want to get closer and see that there are still great disagreements between you, you involuntarily turn to the Creator so that He will unite you more. The best prayer is when you ask the Creator for unification.

In this case, you really feel how much you lack this and how much strength you receive to realize the unification.

Such contact with the Creator is the most direct and the most reliable because He does not expect anything more from you. As it is written: “How good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together, as well.” Together—”gam yachad” (“together as well” in Hebrew), where “as well” means, as the Kabbalists explain, that “the Creator sits together with them as well.”
[337184]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

Related Material:
Connection—Above Everything
The Task of Unification
Goal and Means

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Prayer and Intention, Spiritual Work, The Tens - No Comments →

Question: What can we pray for, and what should we pray for?

Answer: We must pray for everything and turn only to the Creator because He is the source of everything that happens to us. There is nothing that does not come directly from Him.

The Creator is the forcefield that holds us together. We exist in this field, and when we pray, with our desires we arouse the desire of this field and its physical forces, which are still elusive for us because they work for bestowal.

We egoists work for reception, and this field is spiritual; it works for the sake of giving, and thus we do not feel it. But the moment we begin to ask for unification and rise above egoism, we become somewhat similar to the Creator’s field.

Then we influence it, and it affects us. These are the laws of physics. There is nothing supernatural here.
Therefore we can ask for anything, any little thing, from the work of a single cell to the whole organism to interaction with relatives, friends, and the world, with anything and anyone.
[337176]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

Related Material:
The Main Thing Is Prayer
So The Prayer Would Reach The Creator
What To Ask The Creator

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: Should the groups of ten be concerned about forming closer connections between tens? And what should they do together?

Answer: I am part of a specific group of ten because I want to reveal the Creator. I do not want to end my life like an animal with my bones rotting in the ground and nothing remaining of me. Once I reveal Him, I uncover a piece of eternity and perfection within myself, and that piece stays with me. That is it. I am already ascending from our world to the upper world, and it is already within me.

Therefore when I am in a group of ten, I strive to reach this level with it in order to attain the Creator so that He would act upon me through the ten, and through it I act upon Him. If I feel I can gain additional force from another group of ten, I encourage my ten to connect with them. In this way, we increase the Creator’s influence on us.

As it is said: “The greater the society, the higher the King.” That is all. But this only applies if I already have a group of ten where I am investing all my effort, and I see that another ten, and another, and yet another could help us. That is why we gather at the congress.

Even if we do not interact between groups of ten every day, we have this opportunity at the congress where we mix with one another. During each lesson at the congress, I sit in a different group of ten. I do not even know with whom or how. This provides tremendous advantages.

I absorb the desires of everyone in a spontaneous group of ten that changes during each lesson. In other words, I experience a variety of different influences, and this helps a lot.

I am speaking personally now about how I am impressed when I listen to various groups of ten, immerse myself in them, and return from the congress with completely different impressions than I had before. Even without sitting among the attendees, I can feel from afar how much this benefits me.

Therefore, integrating each group of ten into other groups is very beneficial. This can be done not only at the congress, but also in everyday life, preferably in your native language. When a group of ten feels that it would like to enhance its internal strength, it can connect with another group while maintaining its cohesion.
[336872]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

Related Material:
Accumulation of Experience
Working with a Random Ten
Convention: Absorbing Others

Filed under: Coronavirus, Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Events, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: You said that knowledge is what we feel in egoism. Does this mean that faith is what we try to build above it, that is our soul?

Answer: Yes, knowledge is egoism and faith is altruism, the opposite quality when I act not for myself, but for another.

The Creator shattered egoism into many parts so that I could work either from my own egoistic part or for the sake of others. This becomes my altruistic component.

If the Creator had not broken the vessel, I would have no way to achieve the quality of bestowal. To whom would I bestow? Now, however, I am compelled to bestow to someone outside myself. This other person was once part of me. We were all together in one body before the shattering of Adam. Now they are outside of me, which is why I hate and reject them.

But if I work on them as though they were with me in one desire, in one body as a single whole, then I am acting altruistically.
[337156]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

Related Material:
Becoming One
Spiritual Sine Wave
What Is The Soul?

Filed under: Adam-The Common Soul, Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: Sometimes we say we should strive to reveal the Creator and sometimes we should go by faith above reason. Why should we go blindly?

Answer: To go by faith above reason means to walk with the eyes of the Creator, not blindly. You will not see the spiritual world with your egoistic view, you see only if you rise above egoism.

Therefore, the condition is given to go by faith above reason. You just need another sensory organ, and you are being directed to it.
[337149]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

Related Material:
Our Role In Faith Above Reason
Raise Faith above Reason
How Can We Rise to Faith above Reason?

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Preparation to the Lesson

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar”

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “A Prayer Lishma“

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

Selected Highlights

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson - No Comments →

Question: It is said that a person has both a good inclination and an evil one, and he must test whether his body agrees to fulfill a certain commandment. On the spiritual path, the body (our evil inclination) always disagrees with the good inclination. What does it mean to gain its agreement?

Answer: You must make some effort as if you genuinely wish to fulfill the commandment, and feel how much it contradicts the nature of creation. Then step back from this and find the strength to ask the Creator to help you perform the same action.

Question: And if I performed the action and made a mistake?

Answer: Then you made a mistake. This means you can ask the Creator to explain to you that you were wrong, that you performed a bad action, perhaps even a terrible, awful one, against the Creator, but now you’ve realized this and deeply regret it. In such a case, the action is erased, as if it never happened.

Question: In the work of the ten it often happens that some friends agree to take a certain action toward unity while others believe it is incorrect. How can we be guided by the fact that it’s better to act and see if the action was right or not?

Answer: You must carry out everything you believe is necessary in practice. Even if the action was wrong, unproductive, or against the Creator’s will, you will still learn a great deal from it. Therefore, under no circumstances should you hold yourself back; do everything you can.
[337058]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Act Is What Decides”

Related Material:
Work With the Commandments
Attract the Attention of the Creator
Potential Mistakes

Filed under: Commandments, Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work, The Tens - No Comments →

How can we strengthen the tens? I believe this can only be achieved through mutual study and mutual work.

Mutual study means connecting to the lesson, discussing it among yourselves, and creating a common field in which everyone works together.

But the most important thing is collective dissemination. When you write, process, and translate materials, and post them in various sources, you create a connection among you. In this way, the Creator relates to you as one organism.
[337170]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

Related Material:
How Do We Come Closer to the Creator?
Strengthen the Tens
The Ten Is a Spiritual Structure

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Dissemination, Group Work, Spiritual Work, The Tens - No Comments →

Question: Does the Creator send us sometimes unnecessary desires to confuse us so we can accurately choose the true ones?

Answer: If He does so, then this is also help.

Question: How can we emerge from this confusion correctly and use it to come closer to Him?

Answer: It will pass. You will go through many such states, and eventually, it will all clear up.

Are you confused? Write down your tangled thoughts and send them to us, and our friends will analyze them and respond to you.

Question: Why does the Creator allow us to make mistakes?

Answer: So that we have something to correct.
[337065]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Act Is What Decides”

Related Material:
All States Come from the Creator
Despite the Confusion
How Does One Not Become Confused In Spiritual Development?

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: When we strive to reveal love, hatred is also uncovered. This leads us to fear or a sense of paralysis. What should we do next?

Answer: If you imagine that the Creator is before you, and He is presenting this to you, then why should you feel fear? It is said that one must love hatred just as one loves love. This is called “kissing the stick that strikes you.”

The fact is, there can be no light without darkness. Therefore we can advance toward spiritual revelation only by accumulating various negative impressions. And when we gather them and sufficiently enrich ourselves with negative impressions, we will then be able to reveal positive impressions, which are called the “Creator” or “light.”

At this point, we need a group to support us, so that we do not fall into despair or a sense of powerlessness from the small negative influences we encounter. We must understand that all of this is revealed to us by the Creator. He adds darkness to us so that later He can reveal the light, as the revelation of light requires very great darkness. As it is said: “The advantage of light is revealed through darkness.”

Thus, a very deep darkness is necessary, where a person realizes that in all their feelings, desires, and impulses, they are egoists. They see themselves as a thief, as brazen, as someone who does everything “for their own sake,” and not just for their own sake, but to ensure that nothing benefits others.

Essentially they see themselves in all their flaws, in their egoistic miasma, and they feel repulsed by it. Yet even so, much more darkness is needed for the light to manifest within it.

Therefore we must be prepared for this. And here the main thing is the group, because without it, it is impossible to endure.
[336975]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

Related Material:
Congenital Disease: Hatred Of Friends
Moving Upward With The Speed Of Light
Bring Your Hatred To The Light

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →