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Increase Pleasure

527.03We can increase and decrease pleasure, but in principle, it depends on our Kelim (vessels). If I think for a long time about my desires, try to connect them, and direct them toward a specific goal, toward a specific fulfillment, then by developing them in this way, I will feel greater fulfillment than what comes to me.

Question: Can each moment between the past and the future, which is life, be more clear, more pronounced, and tangible?

Answer: It can if we combine the present, past, and future, and relate them all to the Creator by understanding that all of it comes from Him. This fulfillment is limitless in time, in the intensity of sensation, as well as in the strength of our connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/10/24, Writings of Rabash “Receiving Pleasure from Three Kelim [Vessels]”

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In Mutual Fusion

276.02Question: What does it mean to be filled with spiritual pleasure?

Answer: To be filled with spiritual pleasure means giving everything I can; from this, I am filled. Even the smallest filling from bestowal is considered perfect.

I receive pleasure from giving it away, transfer it through myself to the Creator, and fill Him, and the Creator fills me.

And it turns out that He and I are in the same state: I receive from Him and give to Him, and He receives from me and fills me. Thus, we are in mutual fusion with Him.

Question: What defines true spiritual perfection?

Answer: True spiritual excellence is determined by the quantity and quality of your desire to fill others. You must become a transmission link connecting each comrade with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/3/24, Writings of Rabash “Wholeness and Deficiency – 2”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 7/26/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Letter 10”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 332 “Concerning Equivalence of Form”

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Selected Highlights

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Take a Step Forward

276.03Question: What should we do when we lack a feeling of the Creator? Should we suffer or calm ourselves?

Answer: The main thing is to keep moving forward, always try to advance yourself and the group.

To take a step forward, you need to understand the source of the divergence between you and the Creator more deeply. This way, you can quickly recognize your state and correct it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reward for Work in Spirituality”

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The Influence of the Surrounding Light

231.03Question: What is the surrounding light that influences our feelings of the future?

Answer: It is Ohr Makif (surrounding light), which surrounds us and shines from that future where we have already completed some part of our spiritual work.

Question: How can we increase it?

Answer: It depends on our vessels (Kelim). They depend on the respect for the future pleasure. If I, being the source of this pleasure that shines to me from the future into the present increase it, then my feeling of fulfillment will increase.

Question: Can we attract future pleasures through our spiritual work?

Answer: If we clearly imagine these states, we can attract them to us in advance and feel something similar now based on our past experience and our confidence that this future will definitely clothe within us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/10/24, Writings of Rabash “Receiving Pleasure from Three Kelim [Vessels]”

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Toward Complete Connection with the Creator

538Question: On one hand we all want to unite and follow you. On the other hand we understand that there are many great friends who have already done so much before us. How can we accept these internal contradictions where the bitter taste of vanity is felt alongside gratitude to the Creator for this path?

Answer: You need to understand that all contradictions come from the Creator, and they are all given to you mixed together intentionally so that you can sort each one out, separate it from the others, and direct it toward a better direction—toward complete connection with the Creator. Try to do this. Strive with all your heart to adhere to the Creator.

Question: As our desires grow, not only does receiving increase, but also the inner anger. How can we work with it so as not to express it outwardly? Even if we have learned to restrain it, what should we do at the moment we feel it?

Answer: Work with your intentions. Make them more and more similar to the Creator. This is our task.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/12/24, Writings of Rabash “Man’s Greatness Is According to His Work”

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Spiritual Scale: One to One

944Question: We say that we are moving toward spiritual conception (Ibur). Where are we headed now? How do you assess our current state?

Answer: We are moving toward such a unity where we will truly feel ourselves connected together like a small body. This is the state of Ibur where we have nothing but a common point formed from the connection of many points.

Question: Can this be felt in your own group of ten or in any random group of ten?

Answer: It makes no difference. In spirituality, there is no difference at all. We say a group of ten because there is nothing but that. And if there are thousands or millions of groups of ten, it is still one group of ten. It depends on the scale at which you measure it. You can increase the scale tenfold, a hundredfold, a thousandfold, a millionfold, and then narrow it back down to the minimal, rational one-to-one scale.

In spirituality, one to one is the ten Sefirot, the group of ten. It contains practically everything created by the Creator. In order to unite and correctly envision this group of ten, we sort of break it down into its components and then try to reassemble it, explore how we can connect, achieve some kind of conjunction with each other, and so on.

What does Kabbalah fundamentally deal with? It addresses the laws of communication between egoistic individuals guiding them to organize into a single integral altruistic system known as the ten Sefirot.

The scale, whether larger or smaller, does not matter. It is the same system. We do not need to correct the whole world, all ten billion people; we need to correct ten people.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Be Afraid and Pray

939.02Question: Usually a lot of people who just show interest in Kabbalah come to the congresses. You said that we have to reach such power that it is sufficient for everyone. This is an unbearable feeling of responsibility. Do we need to include a request for these people in our prayer for our friends?

Answer: We are obliged to consider everyone as our friends, everyone in the world who is with us in any form of unification: via the Internet, by telephone, it does not matter. They are all, in general, our friends, they all participate in some way in our striving forward, no matter what level each is at.

We have to think about them. We are pioneers, the forward-looking group. Therefore, we have to act this way.

Comment: When I pray for my friends, I periodically forget to include everyone else in my prayer, then it seems that my prayer is incomplete.

My Response: All this, of course, is formal. We do not need to pay individual attention to new people, we should automatically include them within ourselves and continue our spiritual work. For now, you cannot yet care for these friends to be with you. But it is necessary to be reminded about this.

Habit is second nature, you will gradually get used to thinking about them. And not only thinking, but genuinely empathizing and raising MAN together with them. You will feel that they are inside you.

Question: And what should we do with the feeling of responsibility that presses on us that we will not have enough power for everyone?

Answer: It is very good that you feel such pressure. It is wonderful! Be afraid! This is the best thing I can wish for you.

Be afraid, worry, suffer. All these are necessary feelings that push you to think about unity and to direct it correctly to the Creator.

Question: So, be afraid and pray?

Answer: Certainly. Without fear, there is nothing at all. Fear is the most correct, natural feeling of our empty desire. I am very glad that you feel this way. I wish this feeling for everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the convention”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—152

221.0Question: What is the desire to receive I can use for the sake of bestowal to others?

Answer: Anything that the other person wants. If you wish them success, you must use your desire to receive to pass it on to them.

Question: A person has 613 selfish desires. Are they first corrected to bestowing for the sake of bestowal, and then to receiving for bestowal?

Answer: Not all and not necessarily in a specific order. It varies for each person, but generally bestowing for the sake of bestowal is corrected first, followed by receiving for bestowal, from small pleasure to great.

Question: What does it mean that the Torah fills desires?

Answer: The Torah is the quality of bestowal, love, closeness, and peace. You must feel that these feelings fill your desires. Ask for it. Ask for yourself, your friends, for your group, for everyone.

Question: As a child, I saw how tefillin affected my parents when my father put it on. It strengthened their bond and created an even greater desire. How can we increase our desire in a way that we relate to it like tefillin?

Answer: We have a stronger influence—our connection. If we unite with each other and together turn to the Creator, there is nothing greater and higher than this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/4/24, Writings of Rabash “And You, Israel”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 7/25/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Letter 9”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 557 “Concerning Ohr Hozer [Reflected Light]”

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3rd part of the Lesson – Lesson on the Topic of “The Spiritual Power of a Physical Gathering”

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