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Questions about Spiritual Work—185

115Question: When you stand before the Creator in trembling, like during an exam, and you’ve passed this exam, you experience a state of powerlessness because you’ve done everything you could. What is this state?

Answer: It is indeed a state of powerlessness because you have given everything according to all your feelings.

Question: The Creator knows what is in every person’s heart. So why do we still need to give an answer to the Creator? Is this like a reverse connection to the Creator?

Answer: Of course, you need to work on the connection with Him.

Question: If a person feels a longing for the Creator, what should they do with this longing?

Answer: Pray, pour it out to the Creator.

Question: How can we develop a deeper emotional closeness with each other?

Answer: Think about it more.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/24, Writings of Rabash “How I Love Your Teaching”

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What Should We Fight For?

961.2Question: What should we fight for every day, every minute, every moment? What is the spiritual battle in which the Creator must always prevail?

Answer: We must fight for all our actions, not only physical but also mental, to have a purposeful meaning; otherwise, we won’t move forward. We need to reach the point where our actions come only from the good inclination.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/9/24, Writings of Rabash “Seek Peace and Pursue It”

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The Creator Expects Unity from Us

557Question: How can the quality of suffering point to the action the Creator expects from us?

Answer: It is pretty simple. The Creator always awaits only one action—unification with others and a request for Him to fill everyone. That is all.

Question: Sometimes there is a lack of a specific connection with some part of the Kli, which we cannot always determine. Perhaps it is possible to understand precisely where this connection is missing from suffering.

Answer: Keep stubbornly moving forward, and you will see that the Creator exposes this connection and is waiting for you.

Question: You said we need to build connections based on our achievements, not on what we lack. So should we not pay much attention to what we lack in our connections?

Answer: You should be mindful of it, but not in a way that stops you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Happy Is the Man”

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The Transition to Lishma

232.05Question: If we are still not in Lo Lishma (receiving for our own sake), then where are we?

Answer: You are still in egoism. A sign that you have entered Lo Lishma is the ability to position yourself in a way that you can overcome your egoistic intentions.

The transition from Lo Lishma to Lishma happens gradually. At each spiritual degree, specific desires that are defined by that degree are revealed.

Question: Can a person, through a special awakening from above, immediately reach Lishma without going through Lo Lishma?

Answer: No, in no way. We attain Lishma only after we go through the state of Lo Lishma.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/26/24, Writings of Rabash “From Lo Lishma to Lishma”

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Give all Power to the Creator

961.2Question: We want to give all power to the Creator. How should we relate to the fact that some people try to seize power over others? What should the reaction in our hearts be in relation to the Creator?

Answer: Everyone works for themselves. Therefore, if my friend chooses something for himself in spirituality, I do not interfere.

Question: We see that there is a very fierce struggle for power. What should we do: nullify ourselves or pray for everything to change? It seems that we do not obey the Creator.

Answer: We must go through what Rabash writes about in our desires. And then we will develop the right attitude toward our actions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/24, “Rosh HaShana”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 10/27/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 100

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “On the Verge of Lishma“

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Selected Highlights

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What Drives a Person to Spirituality?

249.01Question: It is said that when a person enters spirituality, he no longer feels suffering from corporeal needs. What drives a person then?

Answer: The spiritual goal.

Question: How does this manifest in life?

Answer: In what they feel is lacking.

Question: And what does a person lack in spirituality?

Answer: Try to think what you lack when you come to a Kabbalah lesson.

Question: And what drives you personally?

Answer: The fact that I must teach you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Happy Is the Man”

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The Connection between the Body and Spiritual Advancement

559Question: If a person constantly falls ill after participating in physical congresses,  is there any connection between his physical body and spiritual advancement?

Answer: Yes, this may be because he enters a particular environment where all sorts of forces influence him, which he is not yet able to tolerate without going beyond the boundaries of health.

Thus, some people complain that after the congresses they feel like they are out of the ordinary framework of life. Not because something bad happens to them, but precisely because they receive the impact of the reward for seeking closeness with other friends.

Therefore, they experience severe deviations in different directions, which do not harm them. On the contrary, it makes them healthier.

After all, we learn from Kabbalah that every recovery is associated with an even greater sensitivity to illness.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/24, Writings of Rabash, “The Lack Is the Kli [Vessel]”

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Desire Before the Lesson

294.2Question: We say that we are correcting the connection between us. If I do not feel a Hisaron (deficiency) in my friend even though he has problems, should I work on my feelings and use shame? Is it correct not to wait for the Creator to reveal it to me but to somehow activate these forces within myself?

Answer: You wish to connect with your friends and find a new source of energy in your unity that will bind you together, reveal new qualities in you, and push you to make a collective step forward, which was not the case before. This is what you want to achieve.

Question: So should I simply disconnect from personal interests and focus on the collective desire to reveal the Creator?

Answer: Of course. You should have this desire even before the lesson.

Comment: But my friend’s corporeal concerns are my spiritual concerns. He may be facing problems right now.

Answer: Do not take that into account, it will only distract us from the goal.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/5/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 34

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What Did the Fall of Adam Lead To?

938.04Question: Could Adam HaRishon have revealed the Creator as the good that does good if he had not eaten from the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil?

Answer: That is correct. That is why the Creator orchestrated a specific fall for Adam so he would descend into his egoism and through this egoism come to understand the qualities of giving and love and transform it into altruism. It turns out that the Creator created the evil, and from this evil man makes good. And although we do not perceive it this way, in the end, we achieve this result.

It turns out that the Creator, who created us and our world, made us fall from our initial level and lose the attribute of faith. Nevertheless, we keep moving forward, unite with one another, and we thus reach a state of return where we can draw closer to the Creator and say with an open heart that we wish to be connected to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/24, “Rosh HaShana”

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