Question: In our world, we know what it means to love parents, children, men, women, and friends. How is the love for people similar or different from the love we develop within ourselves?

Answer: We want the love we can channel from the Creator to pass through us to all people so that everyone feels they are receiving love from Him.

Question: I see in the external world how people are closed in themselves and don’t see others. Within our society, I understand everything: there is prayer and personal example. But what should we do in the external world?

Answer: Gradually, people will develop and also desire to have the quality of bestowal. Wait a little bit; we are just beginning our work. We need to write and speak more about this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Anyone with Whom the Spirit of the People Is Pleased – 2”

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Question: It is said that when a person goes to the market to earn money, they should push away thoughts of private providence and act as if he is doing the work without the Creator. Can we not combine everyday actions with thoughts of the Creator? Why should we push these thoughts away?

Answer: No, you should not push away thoughts of the Creator. However, we should still not distance ourselves from global providence.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 16

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Question: How can we distinguish between the two impacts of the Creator on us to choose which to say first: “There is none else besides Him” or “If I am not for myself, who is for me”?

Answer: You need to cleanse your heart a little, and then you will understand the attitude of the Creator toward you.

Question: In which case will I have the opportunity to say: “If I am not for myself, who is for me”? Because it is always convenient for me to say: “There is none else besides Him.”

Answer: Of course, that is always better.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 16

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that we need to increase love for our friends because this is enough to compensate for all your deficiencies. How can we practically implement this advice?

Answer: This is something that friends must decide among themselves. When you start to reveal the faults in your unity, everything will work out accordingly.

Question: But love for friends seems like some kind of ephemeral feeling. How can we increase it among ourselves?

Answer: As it is said: “Love covers all transgressions.” Everyone in the group checks themselves and their attitude toward each friend, and then they see what needs to be corrected. This is your work for today.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/27/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 13

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Question: The sages say that a fool loses what is given to him. How can we not lose what is given from above in spirituality?

Answer: If you hold on to this together and not separately, then you will be able to hold on to everything that the Creator sends to you. He will give you important things as He sees you striving to lay hold of spiritual things together.

Question: How can we not be afraid of falling and how can we enlist the support of the Creator?

Answer: Be together in one ten and hold on to each other. Then you will not have these problems. You should feel like you are with your friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Good Taste in Small, Corporeal Things.”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Letters 15 & 32”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 125 “Definitions – 1,” Article 163 “Colors in the Work”

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3rd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Loyal to the Path: Following the Footsteps of Our Teachers”

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Question: Should a person feel ashamed that he cannot pray? He feels that his heart is not opening and experiences some kind of shame.

Answer: The person should still try to pray and read from the prayer book. Gradually, it will become clear to him what is written in these texts and how to turn to the Creator to learn something from such correct treatment.

Question: Should everyone pray according to the prayer book, or can they do it on their own if they feel that the Creator hears them?

Answer: You can do it on your own, but you still need to read the prayer book.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “The Path of Truth”

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Question: What is everyone’s spiritual uniqueness? How can we reveal it to unite not in desires, but in intentions where we are equal and everyone adds their own color to infinity?

Answer: You should try to rise above your ego and imagine that you already have the right qualities: love, desire to please others, and so on. If you act like this, you will succeed.

One’s spiritual uniqueness lies in the fact that he wants to fulfill another, although he does not understand how he does it in a way that no one else can in his place.

That is what the law of “love your neighbor as yourself” is about—investing in relations with friends.

Ninety percent of the followers can reveal their individuality and its realization only through the leaders. However, for the leaders to help them, the followers must exert the proper measurable effort. They need to try to be with such people who pull the group forward and thus act to correct everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Anyone with Whom the Spirit of the People Is Pleased – 2”

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All of the souls extend from the soul of Adam HaRishon, for after he sinned in the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, his soul divided into 600,000 souls.

This means that the one light that Adam HaRishon had, which The Zohar called Zihara Ila’a [upper brightness], which he had in the Garden of Eden at once, spreads into numerous pieces (Rabash, Article 10 (1984) “To What Degree One must Attain In Order To Not Reincarnate”).

The Creator created a desire opposite Himself, seemingly separated from Him. The Creator is the attribute of bestowal. Desire is a property of reception. But in the state in which it was created, desire does not experience opposition to the Creator. Therefore, it undergoes division into 600,000 parts.

Six hundred thousand is a conditional concept. In spirituality, there is no division into parts or stages. We divide it this way for ourselves to grade, label, weigh, and determine spiritual states. In reality, spirituality is a continuous field without any distinctions.

Only when we try to feel and understand it and we need to somehow grasp it in our feelings and thoughts, do we divide it relative to ourselves into gradations and facets, although it is indivisible.

For example, consider air. Suppose we are trying to define what air is; we must divide it relative to ourselves into some quantities, values, and qualities. By itself, it may not have them at all, but otherwise, we cannot grasp or define it.

Therefore, for us to comprehend the Creator, He specifically created within Himself the desire to bestow and give pleasure. However, He does not represent the desire to bestow, to fill, a good or evil desire—all these manifest only in relation to the creations.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: How is giving a bribe to the Sitra Achra different from the conditions when a person stands before the Creator in order to learn?

Answer: If I feel that I am standing before the Creator, I make very clear calculations: for myself or for the Creator.

In this way, I determine how much I can keep for myself and how much I should give. By clarifying what can be given for the sake of the Creator, I make a restriction on everything else.

I figure out how to divide the pleasure from my action. Therefore, everything here is based only on the correct calculations that come only with experience.

We must learn to work with the Sitra Achra because it will accompany us until the final correction (Gmar Tikkun).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/21/24, Writings of Rabash “Bribing the Sitra Achra”

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