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Toward the Feeling of the Common Soul

938.05Question: How can we practically come closer to feeling the common soul?

Answer: You need to find connection with other groups or individual friends and try to be united in understanding the uniqueness of the Creator, the oneness of our desire, the Kli (vessel), and how we can help each other in this unification.

The entire work of the created beings essentially boils down to learning how to be connected with one another so that the Shechina can be revealed within them and the revelation of the Creator to people is not partial but complete. This is what we aspire to.

Question: Is the revelation of the Shechina a kind of collective feeling?

Answer: No, the revelation of the Shechina is felt differently by each person.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”

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Forces of Good

938.07Question: What are the forces of good that unite us?

Answer: When we try to unite, we receive good forces called the forces of bestowal from above, from the Creator. At the same time, I feel my friend’s desire for spirituality and support him in that, and he feels my desire for spirituality, for bestowal, for the Creator, and supports me in that.

Question: What does it mean to feel the desire of a friend?

Answer: What does he want? Basically it is the same as I do.

Question: What are those desires? If I have a family, a job, children…

Answer: No, all this relates to our animal state. You feel your friend’s desire to reveal the Creator. This means you are going toward the same goal, and together you will come to the Creator.

Comment: Some people manage to do it, and some do not.

My Response: Ultimately everyone will succeed. The only issue is when. Everything depends on a person’s efforts, the root of his soul, and many initial parameters.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Develop a Sense of the Uniqueness of the Creator

563Question: How should we relate to the emergence of physical problems in life?

Answer: If a physical problem arises before me, I must solve it physically and at the same time realize that the Creator gives it to me so that I constantly imagine that there is none else besides Him and that all problems, both good and bad, come from Him.

Our main problem is to perceive the world as an image sent to us by the Creator and identify everything that happens to us with Him. There is no other force in the world that controls everything, and all that seems to exist apart from Him, the Creator does specifically to confuse us.

Why does He confuse us? So that we develop a keen sense of His uniqueness. Then we will begin to feel His manifestation in everything that surrounds us so much so that everything that exists inside us in the heart and in the mind and outside of us in inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature, everything, is produced, determined, and sent only by Him.

Therefore, at any moment of life, we must surely aim ourselves at the Creator and always hold on to this from the moment we wake up to the moment we fall asleep. If we try to do this, we will very soon feel that the Creator surrounds us, we are in Him. Then, we will determine for ourselves that there is none else besides Him.

This is practically the whole science of Kabbalah. We do not need anything else in life. Once we feel we are inside the Creator and that He controls everyone and each person individually, we will immediately begin to clearly perceive the whole world, the entire reality. It will become apparent that we ourselves do not exist except for our only point of perception of the Creator. And everything else, this illusory world and other upper worlds, are His imprint in us.

But until we reach such a state that we exist in the Creator as a small point and everything else is Him, we need to perform actions in our world: work and provide for ourselves and our family. That is, we must exist in our world at the same time. But this will also change as we become more and more aware of the Creator who fills the whole world.

The science of Kabbalah leads a person to a state of sound, actual attainment of the basis of nature. Nature does not call: “Stop working, give up your life and think only about the Creator.” A person must take care of himself, attain the Creator, and gradually see how these two sensations of reality get closer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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The Most Important Thing in Spiritual Work

232.01Question: What is the most important thing in our work to build a common screen?

Answer: The most important thing in our work is to separate ourselves from the Creator and use all kinds of connections with Him.

Then we can attune ourselves so everything points to the Creator: our connections, work, and  the states we are in. If we approach the Creator correctly, all these means benefit us.

Question: The vision of oneself together with the Creator and all spiritual sensations get erased over time. Why do such exits happen?

Answer: It happens when a person has not yet learned how to work more precisely with their desires and intentions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/24, Writings of Rabash “A Horse to Ride On”

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Toward Higher States

233Question: From life to life we are engaged in unification. How can we preserve the memory so that we are born not as wild animals, but continue our work?

Answer: This does not depend on you. The only thing that depends on you is aspiration for spiritual ascent. And what happens to you next is an egoistic question. We do not even discuss it. In other words, everything that will happen will already be above the state from which you started.

You must ask every minute to be closer to your friends in the ten; this is the most important thing, and do not deviate from this. And then you will see what happens. There are still steps that we will go through together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/10/24, “Growing Stronger in the Ten” Convention

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 10/11/24

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 77″

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Mingling/Inclusion”

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, Chapter 1

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Selected Highlights

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Lift the Friends in Your Eyes

528.03Question: How can one balance annulment with pride in serving the Creator and the group? What should you do when you want to annul yourself, but at the same time you recognize the importance of the goal and the value of your intention?

Answer: Agree to feel these great states with the intention “for the sake of the goal,” but under no circumstance should you desire to receive them for yourself.

Question: We are taught to see our friend as great, yet he annuls himself. This feeling is irritating. I don’t want him to lower himself because he is in fact worthy of us elevating him.

Answer: His annulment does not affect the way you perceive him.

Comment: But I see the contradiction: he lowers himself, but he is not really like that.

My Response: Then try to raise him in your own eyes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/25/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Must Be Received with Both Hands”

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Correct Relationship

938.07Question: What is the correct connection in the ten according to what we are building?

Answer: It is the closest connection between us when everyone feels the ten in complete unity. Then the Creator can reveal Himself in us to the fullest extent.

Question: What is the correct connection according to what we expect from the Creator, according to His desire?

Answer: For this, we must completely annul ourselves before each other and be connected in such a way that whatever each one receives is shared by all.

Question: What then determines the extent of the Creator’s desire to reveal Himself in the lower ones?

Answer: The extent to which He reveals Himself to the lower ones is the measure of His desire to be revealed. We can desire His revelation only to the extent that we reveal our own capabilities.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”

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Connection Sustained by the Creator

945Question: Why is it important to maintain love in connection rather than simply enjoying the light of life?

Answer: Enjoying the light of life is an egoistic pleasure. But if you are speaking about spiritual closeness with the Creator, you must put a ladder in front of you and at each step clearly define how you will ascend it.

Spiritual love between friends is the connection between you sustained by the Creator. You are connected with Him and with the ten, and by helping each other, you will constantly ascend this ladder toward the Creator.

Question: How can we imitate the qualities of bestowal, persistence, and consistency in spiritual work through love for one another?

Answer: Through effort. Consult with each other, make a single or a few united decisions, and follow them. Then you will see what works and what does not.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/24, Writings of Rabash “According to What Is Explained Concerning “Love Thy Friend as Thyself”

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Predetermined Program of Creation

222Question: What is required for everyone to unite, and is it even possible?

Answer: Not only is it possible, but it is necessary, and it will definitely be achieved as it is a predetermined program of creation.

The only problem is us.

We already exist in this perfect state initially, but we do not feel it, as for example, a small child does not perceive the world he is in.

Our task is to open our eyes and see the real world we live in, because today it is hidden from us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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