Question: When we try to annul ourselves in front of our friends, criticism immediately arises about what we see in them. How can we work with it?

Answer: We have a desire to criticize everyone and not leave any actions we see without criticism.

This quality is inherent in us initially in the form of desire. But if we do not want to agree with it, then we gradually eradicate this desire from ourselves.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Receiving from the Friends the Force of Faith Above Reason”

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Question: For thousands of years all religions have been saying that there is no knowledge, there is only faith. Many of us came to Kabbalah to comprehend the Creator, that is, to gain knowledge. It seems there is some contradiction here.

Should we have both knowledge and faith or is faith only above knowledge?

Answer: The point is that the faith we practice in the wisdom of Kabbalah is not an ordinary faith, but faith in the fact that the Creator is the upper force of nature.

It is precisely Him that we attain in our mind and feelings by becoming like Him in the measure of bestowal. In this way, we begin to understand the Creator and the world He created.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Working In Faith Above Reason”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “Letter 16”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Sulam Commentary,” Item 17

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Question: What does it mean to be in the properties of bestowal, in the properties of faith based on reason, above reason?

Answer: This means that you do not take into account reason, knowledge, but only faith above reason and act in this property.

You need to clearly understand what your egoism requires of you, limit it, and include only those properties that are higher than the ego.

Question: Does the ten receive faith first and then each receives private faith from it? Or do we add up our private faiths into the ten and get the faith of the ten on a different level?

Answer: We receive a common faith, and we share it among us according to our efforts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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Question: Based on our discussions, it seems important for us to reveal the Creator because we were chosen for this.

We should simply accept this as a fact and from this state form a prayer. What is special about such a prayer?

Answer: The fact that you want to find contact with the Creator and only through this contact, connection with Him.

Question: If I send a prayer to the Creator every morning after having united the hearts of all my friends by name into one heart, does this prayer have the power of the ten? How strong is this prayer even though I do it alone?

Answer: Ideally you should try to feel the response of the Creator in your common connection in the ten. If you persistently try to do this, you will start to feel it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Those of Little Faith”

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Question: When we listen to an article together, it goes through our feelings like music. But when we read it independently, we want to stop. Why?

Answer: Because you lose the support of your friends as you step out of that state.

Therefore, you need to persistently increase the state of unity within the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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Question: What is the difference in work in faith above reason during descents and during ascents?

Answer: In descents, I do not have much faith above reason; it is hard for me to fulfill these conditions. That is why this state is called a descent. In an ascent, I am ready to do everything because I have strength, enthusiasm, and joy.

Question: How can we correctly add to the greatness of the Creator, and what is the practice that contributes to the growth of faith?

Answer: We must add the greatness of the Creator correctly in any state. We need to always strive for this.

If you act together with your friends, it increases and strengthens your faith in the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Knowledge and Faith”

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Question: Faith is like another planet. The importance of the Creator and awe of Him are understandable states. But what do we build faith out of? Out of what is close to us: patience, consistency, or something else?

Answer: This question cannot be answered briefly. Chazon Ish writes in the book Faith and Confidence that faith is called the subtle aspiration of the soul.

Question: Can we say that the quality of faith chooses itself when a person is ready and is transmitted to him in full? It is not me who attracts it, but it chooses me?

Answer: Yes, it descends on you. Correct.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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Question: When we nullify ourselves toward the teacher, it is as if we are included in his screen. There is a feeling that this happens outside of matter, that even the pain of the physical body is not as significant as this construction.

The spiritual we are building is a force without matter, right?

Answer: This is the force of your connection with the teacher, with the next degree in general.

By connecting to the teacher, you are connecting to his knowledge and faith. That is, you connect to him in faith above reason, like a small one to a big one.

Question: You are our teacher. But there is also Rabash, Baal HaSulam, the Creator, in this case, do we mean our direct teacher?

Answer: You connect, for example, to me, meaning that I connect to Rabash, Baal HaSulam, and the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith and Reason”

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Question: The more I immerse in the primary sources, the more I realize I am a quality or a detail set for general correction. How can I stop being afraid that the Creator will tell me I am not qualified?

Answer: He will not say that. While a person works, while a person wants to rise even closer to the Creator, the Creator does not throw him off.

Question: It is said that the Creator made Him feared. I disagree with that. I feel He is waiting for us to fill the emptiness with love, benevolence, and gratitude for being here, right?

Answer: Yes, this is not the fear of this world, but awe.

Question: Is faith above reason built by our mind, or is it an action against what the mind shows?

Answer: Faith above reason means that in your appeal or your imagination, bestowal, love, and connection are higher than their opposite properties.

Question: You said that there are sins, big and small. Does a sin that cannot be corrected exist?

Answer: There may be sins that cannot be corrected. But I cannot even imagine what kind of sins they might be because the Creator can do everything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Pomegranate”

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