Question: What kind of awakening should we give to the Creator after expressing gratitude to Him?

Answer: You should always try to talk with the Creator. This is everyone’s duty. A person must check what kind of prayer he is sending to Him.

Even if a person does not address the Creator, some desire still rises from every heart to Him because He controls the entire world and each of us. Therefore, we need to control where our heart is directed and how it relates to the Creator.

Question: How can we combine different contradictory states and still control the direction of the heart?

Answer: This is a long-term work on oneself aimed at rising above the states that arise in your heart and directing them to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/24, Writings of Rabash “Prayer”

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Question: How is the bread of shame felt in the heart and not in the mind? What actions do you need to perform in the ten in order to receive the Creator’s blessing on the bread of shame?

Answer: Unite and turn to the Creator from the center of your unity. Then you will feel how much your appeal will immediately deserve a response.

Question: There is confusion between corporeal and spiritual shame. How does the bread of shame feel in spirituality?

Answer: When you reach the sense of shame for your actions, you will feel what the taste of shame is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “The Path of Truth”

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Question: How can we develop our collective deficiency for the light in our ten while maintaining an atmosphere of joy?

Answer: Why does this prevent you from being joyful?

Question: If there is a state of joy from unity in the group, it seems that everything is already good.

Answer: Are you in adhesion with the Creator?

Question: No, rather in a good connection between us.

Answer: So what is this, kindergarten?

Question: If it is still kindergarten, then what is lacking in this effort?

Answer: There is a lack of desire to connect with your friends in such a way as to create a place for the revelation of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering”

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Question: You said that I cannot achieve spiritual love if I do not feel rejected by others, right?

Answer: Of course, what will you build your love on? If you simply feel love for someone, then this is corporeal, carnal love or some earthly attraction.

Let us say you like a friend, a child, a woman, food, etc., i.e., all categories of our main interests. But this is not what we are talking about. You can build love only based on rejection from a friend.

Question:  Let us say a friend for whom I initially have no feelings is sitting in front of me. I begin to strive for love, for unification with him, and in response to this, the Creator sends me rejection from him, right?

Answer: Yes if you really strive for a connection with him.

Question: Is my test that if I truly strive for connection with him, the Creator will certainly send me rejection from him?

Answer: Not right away. You will have to work with a friend, as is usually done in our world. Then, you will definitely begin to feel some kind of rejection. These are already spiritual sensations that are not typical of our world. You will even think: “Why did I suddenly hate him so much? I suddenly stopped liking this and that in him?” That is how spiritual qualities manifest themselves in him and you. Therefore, mutual rejection arises.

But if mutual attraction continues between you, and you embrace with pleasure, dine with pleasure, and communicate, then this is earthly companionship.

In Kabbalah, any connection is built only on rejection and hatred. Love is built by effort.

Question: What is the work of a friend regarding me at the moment when I strive toward him? Must he try to show me the same?

Answer: This is already difficult. Your friend may show that he is striving for you, or on the contrary, he demonstrates complete disdain. The Creator gives you all sorts of exercises.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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The sensation of connections between us is called the world. The worlds themselves do not exist. We should not think that when we climb the spiritual ladder, we enter the first, second, or third floor. These floors do not exist; they are all within us, and we form them from our relations with one another.

Therefore, the word “world” comes from the word “Nehelam”—disappearing or approaching. That is,  we are the ones who create the worlds, our specific relationships.

If they reach the above-egoistic properties at the first level, then we begin to sense ourselves in the world of Asiya. That is already a spiritual world, meaning a state where we can give and receive, but not in the same way as our world.

It seems to us that here we, too, give and receive. In reality, we only receive all the time since we are unable to give. Even if physically we give, we still pursue the goal of receiving. We can never do anything opposite to our original desire.

Therefore, everything that exists at the level of our world and in our state today requires correction. We have to establish connections between us where we always want to give to one another both in intention and in action, to fulfill one another and do something that the other one desires.

Thus we will come to the state where relations between us will begin to form the next world—a higher state where a property of bestowal manifests at the first egoistic level appears in us.

Therefore, there is more selfishness in everyone who rises higher. It is on it that he builds his relationships with others in giving to them and thus feels himself to be in an increasingly higher world.

He feels his existence in some property of bestowal, perhaps only to 5 to 10%, but this is already some revelation of the Creator. In this way, he begins to understand the concept of nature, its creation and origination, its development, and the transformations he and this nature go through. That is the way we go through our development.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Letters 40 & 28”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Sulam, Commentary, Item 27″

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3rd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Donations and Tithing”

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Question: How can you best focus on your friends, that is, on fulfilling them so as not to stray?

On the one hand friends are a tool. On the other hand, only through love for them can one reach the Creator. How can I guide myself correctly?

Answer: Try to treat your friends with the same love as the Creator treats them, and concern yourself with their unity so they are always occupied only with what the Creator sends to them.

Try to group them and direct them to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/24, Writings of Rabash “Affliction Precedes Mercy”

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Question: To align with the Creator’s attributes one needs to reach a very strong desire, akin to desperation. Does this mean one should completely give up his desires?

Answer: No. You simply need to make your aspiration for the Creator stronger than all your other desires.

Question: It is said that what a person strives for is what he is given. But if we strive and wish for the Creator to reveal Himself, why doesn’t He reveal Himself to us?

Answer: Because you do not desire it strongly enough yet.

Question: If the Creator is a desire for bestowal and our life is a material desire, how can they be united?

Answer: Continue on, and you will see that they unite and do not interfere with each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “The Path of Truth”

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Question: In our world, I am the desires of my body. If I remove these desires, is that self-annulment? How do I unite with my friends without seeing the desires of their bodies?

Answer: Try to rise above yourself, above your desires, and connect with each other solely with desires for bestowal and love. Ask the Creator to help you with this, and you will feel the response.

Question: So my individuality, my body, is egoism? Does this mean that without egoistic desires I can connect with everyone?

Answer: Absolutely right.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “The Path of Truth”

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Question: If friends have a desire to work together, how can we help them reveal a deficiency (Hissaron) for spirituality?

Answer: Read about this in the ten before or after our lessons so they can hear and see where you are getting these articles from. Engage them.

Question: Group work is clear, but can individual work with the sources help? Is it necessary, and what is its importance?

Answer: Individual work with the sources is effective when you get explanations of what is written in them.

If you do not know and are just guessing, it will not help you much.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering”

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