Question: If the intention is hidden from me and I am always inclined to justify myself, how can I delve deeper into my intention?

Answer: If you always want to justify yourself, you will not be able to delve deeper into the intention. To achieve this, a great power from above is needed that would tear you away from your egoism, and then in a neutral state you will be able to understand what the Creator requires of you.

Question: How can we do it? After all, if the intention is hidden from me, I do not know what I am delving into. Maybe I am going in the wrong direction.

Answer: This can only be done by the power of prayer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar

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We live in a transitional period, from a state of hibernation of humanity to the aspiration to the Creator, that is, to the revelation of the meaning of life.

The revelation of the meaning of life is also just a transitional process where we must rise to the next new state. The transition begins when we start questioning what the meaning of life is: “Why do we need all this? For what?”

The nature of our life, no matter how hard we try, and we really do try very hard, shows us that it is useless and meaningless. As a result, people get detached from the surrounding world; people replace their pleasures with drugs, the most universal means of calming oneself and turning oneself into a plant. After all, this is better than suffering: switch off and that is it.

But since the plan of nature surrounds us and embraces us on all sides, we are inside the system, and escaping from life by using drugs will not help us at all. That is why humanity is trying many ways to somehow calm itself down.

Look at what is happening in the world, what transformations are taking place everywhere, entire nations are moving from one place to another, Europe is filled with refugees.

And this is not the same migration that happened a thousand years ago when the peoples of Asia began to move to Europe. Now this is a very serious process, a process of intermixing; people still must answer the question about the sense of life and admit that there is no meaning to existence at our level.

What can we do? We need to reveal Kabbalah and explain to them that there is a meaning to life; it is in the transition of a person to the next level. Man, “Adam” in Hebrew, is from the word “domeh,” which means “like the Creator.”

They must know that there is a method that is specifically created for us; our progress and development should raise us to the next level. After all, the next level must manifest in us, if not in this lifetime, then in the next. Our next life cycles will still force us to reach the level of similarity to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What does it mean in practice to ask the Creator to make the right choice for us every time? How can we hear the response of the Creator?

Answer: Ask, it does not matter how—cry out, sing; the main thing is to address Him. Then He will surely fulfill your request, and quickly.

Question: What inner state allows a person to recognize what the good inclination is?

Answer: We can recognize it only if we rise to the degree of bestowal.

Question: How can one become a person capable of making the right choice?

Answer: This happens when we unite and ask the Creator to make the right choice for us.

Question: How can we sense the inner struggle of the two inclinations, good and evil, in our friends, and how can we help them direct it correctly?

Answer: You must feel this yourselves, both within yourself and within the group.

Question: What is the difference between the revelation of egoism and attainment?

Answer: The revelation of egoism creates the conditions for attainment. Everything we attain, we attain through the revealed egoism.

Question: How can we ensure that the seed of the good inclination grows stronger than the evil inclination?

Answer: Develop it and nurture it with good deeds.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Rabash “And Isaac Was Forty Years Old”

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There is no blessing greater than if one’s deficiencies are taken from him (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 820, “The Discernment of ‘In Everything’”).

Question: Why is it a blessing when there is no Hisaron?

Answer: The absence of Hisaron may not be because it does not manifest, but simply because the Creator does not require anything from a person.

“Requires nothing” can be a positive property and can be a negative one. Therefore we are always faced with the need to find out what condition a person is in.

To make the presence of Hisaron a blessing, you need to combine the desire to receive with the ability to give.

Then you can direct yourself as you like, and your actions will always be similar to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/24, Writings of Rabash “The Discernment of ‘In Everything’”

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Question: If the main thing is to attract the light, why do we analyze the structure of the worlds described in TES in such detail in the lesson?

Answer: We do not aim to analyze the detailed structure of the worlds; we only try to gather some details to participate in what Kabbalists tell us.

But when studying TES, like all else, we first have to think about the soul, where all the elements I read about exist and all phenomena occur.

Kabbalists, who have discovered the quality of bestowal within themselves, analyze what actions can be performed in it and write about it. Apart from this, there is nothing, either we are in an imaginary reality of this world, which does not exist and then disappears, that we live in as in a dream, or we reach the genuine reality of bestowal, the reality of the Creator.

After all, there is “None else besides Him,” and if something exists, it is only there. TES tells us how this true reality is revealed to us within our desires.

To the extent I enter into this reality and discover it acting in me, to the extent I join and identify myself with it, I can write about it as a Kabbalist. And other Kabbalists do the same. That is, we all write about the same connection with the eternal upper light and what we reveal in it from our black point of creation, a point out of nothing.

When I reach contact with the light, similarity with it, I feel different phenomena beginning to occur in me, manifesting in me from top to bottom (the light of Hochma) or in width (the light of Hasadim). These phenomena give rise to all sorts of feelings in me; I describe them since I have the opportunity to express them in words and sounds.

But all our impressions come from that black point that encounters the light and becomes like the light. This is the whole science of Kabbalah—the revelation of light inside the black point of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/12/11, TES, Vol. 6, Part 15, p.40

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What does the proper incorporation of each individual in the ten mean?

If we connect with one another and feel the Creator at the center of our unity, it means we are in proper connection with each other. When everyone removes their individual egoistic desires and strives only to uplift one another, then everything will work out correctly.

Question: What speeds up of correction of the desires of the ten, and how can we achieve it?

Answer: Speeding up the correction of the desires in the ten is possible only if we constantly think about it and act for the sake of it at all times.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Rabash “And Isaac Was Forty Years Old”

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Question: How should one properly handle situations where there is a shared understanding of the importance of connection and a desire for love of others, yet in specific aspects, emotions flare and make it impossible to achieve correction and grasp what the Creator wants from us?

Answer: Proper work in such situations involves never straying from the thought that this very work is what lies before you.

In all life situations, no matter who you interact or work with, no matter what stirs within you, your sole desire is connection with one another, so that you may gain greater strength to receive for the sake of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Generations”

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Question: How can I break away from my egoism that constantly grows?

Answer: Egoism does not grow beyond the measure it was initially created. It simply reveals itself more over time. You should rejoice in this revelation and attribute it to the Creator. This is how the Creator gives you the opportunity to correct it.

Question: There is a great fear of losing the ten because of my growing egoism. After all, I love them very much and I feel that I can harm them. What should I do?

Answer: You must convince yourself that using the desire to get closer to the Creator and receive from Him is the state of your entire ten. Therefore, do not be afraid to receive, to ask and receive again.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/24, Writings of Rabash “The Discernment of “In Everything”

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Question: You said that we connect intentions with the friends, and in this united intention we will be able to feel the influence of the Creator.

What does it mean to connect intentions with friends?

Answer: Connecting intentions with a friend means that you take the friend as an example and do everything possible to draw closer to them. It does not matter how much you force yourself.

In essence, there is no need to force anything. We just need to be together, in an embrace, trying to get closer with ever greater common desire.

Question: Should I take examples of bestowal that I observe in a friend and try to integrate with them?

Answer: Yes, you could say so.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar”

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Question: What is this good inclination that eventually will win, as it is said: “The elder will serve the younger”? What does it mean?

Answer: It means that a person must choose from the one who shows up last, as it was with our forefathers. After all, the power of good appears to us last.

Question: How can we serve it and choose it every time?

Answer: This is what our union is for, it is so we have the strength to always choose the power of benevolence.

Question: But a person cannot stay in the power of good; we constantly fall into evil. Is there freedom of choice here?

Answer: There is. A person makes a promise to move toward the Creator all the time and constantly strive for connection with his friends and upward to the Creator, against his egoism. By acting this way, one confirms and keeps the promise given to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Rabash “And Isaac Was Forty Years Old”

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