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Mutual Understanding

528.01Comment: You said that if a friend joins the group, he thereby obligates himself to follow its laws, and we can judge him by the group’s laws.

On the other hand, you say we should not pressure him, he should do as much as he can, and you advised us to show him an effective example.

My Response: From the friend’s side there is an obligation to completely annul himself before the group, gradually, not from the first day. And from the group’s side, there should be an understanding that this is done gradually, not immediately. And in this way it influences everyone.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/8/24, “Equal as one: There is no strong friend, there is a strong society”

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How Do We Come under the Single Authority?

937Question: How can a ten come under the rule of one?

Answer: First and foremost you need to unite among yourselves and become like one person with one heart. Then you will be able to approach the Creator and see how similar or different you are.

Question: We gather together, seem to unite, work together, and raise a prayer. What does it mean that we come under the authority of one?

Answer: By annulling yourselves before each other, you become equal with the Creator and cling to Him. By nullifying your desire to receive, your egoism, in relation to Him, you become one.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/8/24, “Equal as one: There is no strong friend, there is a strong society”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 7/30/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Letter 18”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 27 “Three Lines – 1”

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3rd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “The Importance of Participating in Social Activities”

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Selected Highlights

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Don’t Wait for the Answer

289Question: I try to love my friends and see their good qualities. And when I cannot, I try to ask the Creator to cover it. Should I expect any results from this work? Or is it enough for me to sit and wait for the Creator to answer me? What conclusion can I draw from this if I do not get an answer?

Answer: First of all, even though you are asking the Creator a question, don’t wait for the answer. Keep asking more new questions, because unlike you and me, the Creator does not need time to understand what you said to Him, to think of an answer, and somehow react to it. This only happens on the material level.

With the Creator none of this is needed! He is within you. As soon as you ask, the answer is immediately given to you. Whether you feel it or not is a different question. Therefore, you can keep asking without waiting for the answer, as the moment you ask, the answer is already there.

Don’t wait for the answer. Remember at least this.

Question: Okay. Should there be some kind of result?

Answer: No result, if there is one, there is one, if not, not. But you continue.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the convention”

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Read the Original Sources

209Question: Should we adopt a law so that we no longer take offense at a friend, no longer are angry with a friend, but see in him or her as a manifestation of the Creator?

Answer: If this applies to friends and not to dissemination, to the work of the organization itself, then it is worth it.

Question: Maybe we should formulate ten laws based on the articles of Rabash?

Answer: Do this, please. Do you know how many notebooks I have in which I wrote, drew, and took notes all the time? Work with this.

But most importantly, after the lesson, read the articles and choose the most significant sentences from there. It is very important. Choose from the lesson materials and maybe from what I said.

In principle, if I speak, I already focus my attention on this. So this is already clearer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Connect Every Moment to Holiness

938.03Question: In Rabash’s Letter 77, it is written that every moment clarified, analyzed, and added to holiness enters the domain of holiness. How can we correctly identify, analyze, and connect each moment to holiness?

Answer: To do this, you need to be in constant prayer, in connection with your friends, and in understanding that your entire existence consists of moments your friends go through. In this way, you protect yourself so as not to fall.

Question: What is this constant prayer?

Answer: It is to hold on to your friends.

Question: How can I be sensitive enough and direct myself to exactly what my friends are going through and not myself?

Answer: You are going through the same thing they are going through. In addition, you have your moments, but the most important thing is that you are connected with them and go through all states together. You just need to feel dependent on them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/11/24, Writings of Rabash “A Request for Help”

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I Would Like To Be Proud of Both You and Myself

938.04Question: When we were singing one of Baal HaSulam’s melodies during the convention, I cried and saw that you also shed tears. Your inner pain seems to have blocked all the passages of my ego. I even lost all of my questions. What does this give me?

Answer: It corrects the heart, not specifically, but in general.

Question: So is it good? Is it possible to strive to feel your pain? It seems to me that there is nothing more powerful and stronger than this.

Answer: I feel like parents who have invested so much in their children, and the children are not very successful. I am sorry to say that about you. But in my eyes, you are still like that. Naturally, because of you, I am considered the same loser. Therefore, if I turn to the Creator regarding my children, which is you, this is what happens.

We must pray for each other and try to support each other. I think we are actually not in a bad state at all.

What we receive from above, we receive beyond all expectations. And then we will see what happens. It all depends on us.

Of course I would like to rejoice more and be proud of both you and myself, that is, to bring more contentment to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for Convention”

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Despite the Confusion

232.1Question: If there are many descents, confusion, and even not enough time to understand my state, how can I check that I am progressing correctly?

Answer: It does not matter that there are confusion and descents. The most important thing is that in your thoughts you are constantly striving toward the Creator. This is a sign that you are on the spiritual path.

Question: Until we include the Creator in our relationships, are we unable to ask Him to show us the way?

Answer: No, we can. We can ask the Creator to show us the way and to help us check if we are moving in the right direction.

Question: But our scrutinies constantly confuse us. Can we ask the Creator to take away these scrutinies and advance in faith above reason without them?

Answer: And how will you do this without scrutinies?

We need to clearly understand where the connection with the Creator is. Through which point of sensations does it come? This is what we are waiting for, asking for, and drawing closer to Him with. In the end, He reveals it to us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/2/24, Writings of Rabash “The Whole Earth Is Full of His Glory”

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Whose Desires Should We Fulfill?

41.01Question: Is there a difference for the Creator when we pass on the light and fulfill the desires of external people or our friends from Bnei Baruch?

Answer: If we fulfill the desires of our friends who are with us in the same Kli (vessel), then we are building a spiritual ladder. We are as if climbing its degrees toward the Creator.

Question: If we fulfill the desires of external people, are we not climbing this ladder?

Answer: No, we are merely creating an external environment, but it is not purposeful.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/9/24, Writings of Rabash “Man and His Role”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 7/29/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Letter 17”

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Selected Highlights

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