Question: What is a higher request to the Creator?

Answer: A higher request to the Creator means that I include in my request all the higher desires of the group or, perhaps, of the entire world Kli.

Question: What happens is that you cannot formulate anything, and it feels like you are mooing like a cow, but cannot say anything. Is this also a form of prayer?

Answer: Yes, this is also a form of prayer. Do not worry. The Creator also responds to the mooing of a cow.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 48

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Our sages said: Open for me one cleft in repentance, as the tip of a needle, and I will open for you gates for wagons and carts to enter. (Writings of Rabash, Letter No. 48).

That means that the Creator expands our vessel, i.e., expands our desires and gives us additional ones. These are the actions of the Creator, and we should only ask Him for them.

A desire the size of the tip of a needle is a small initial desire with which a person can turn to the Creator. That is sufficient. The Creator does everything else.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 48

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Question: We realize the greatness of the Creator. How can one evoke love for Him?

Answer: This is a gift from the Creator. But we still need to invest more to show the Creator how much we desire a connection with Him. So we just need to keep going.

You must talk about this and ask that all your work will be spiritual, that is, for His sake. Desiring this, turn to Him so that He will help you rise above egoism so that you can think and ask for spiritual insight only for the sake of His contentment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith Within Reason”

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Question: What is the purpose of working on the intention during the lesson?

Answer: You want to reveal the Creator, cling to Him through your ten, and ask Him, along with the ten, to help you rise above your egoism, above your Egypt. This is your current job.

Question: How do the questions and answers of the world Kli help us in spiritual advancement?

Answer: They connect you more with each other and with the Creator.

Question: When you feel that you are completely in the pit of your ego and cannot pray for your friends, then should you ask the Creator to give you such an opportunity?

Answer: Yes, at least you have the opportunity to annul yourself in front of the ten and cling to it. And then you will sail with them wherever they go.

Question: How can we help lead our friends to prayer and request, especially those who cannot do it?

Answer: Try your best to involve them in your common intention so all of you will connect.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/19/24, Writings of Rabash “A Real Prayer Is over a Real Deficiency”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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

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In the matter of the lower Hey in the Eynaim [eyes], it means that a Masach [screen] and a cover was placed over the eyes. Eyes mean seeing and Providence, when one sees hidden Providence (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 123).

Eyes and vision symbolize the spiritual level, the light of Hochma. The concealment placed over the eyes signifies the concealment of the light of Hochma by the screen.

The upper governance is concealed from us only to the extent that we cannot receive it for the sake of the Creator. By attaining the governance, we feel the Creator but only to the extent that we can performs acts of bestowing to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/27/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “His Divorce and His Hand Come as One”

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When one dies, one does not take with him silver, gold, or jewels, but only Torah and good deeds. (Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom”).

Question: As a rule, it is unpleasant for a person to think about the day of his death. But this point gives the importance of choosing an environment and contributing to the group. How can you keep in focus the point that at the hour of death, nothing will help you but only the Torah and good deeds?

Answer: By death we do not mean the hour of death, but a new birth. That is how we need to understand death itself. Therefore, naturally, the Torah and good deeds are what accompany you and are what you enter a new life with.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Freedom”

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Question: What is faith?

Answer: Faith is confidence in something I cannot define in my thoughts and desires. That is, it is a desire to take on a higher degree of bestowal and connection although I know it is beyond my power.

Question: Are faith above reason and love two different things?

Answer: Yes, faith is a quality in which a person currently abides, and love is what is felt as a mutual integration of desires.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/18/24, Writings of Rabash “And he said, ‘When You Deliver the Hebrew Women’”

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This is like the source of the wheat: Although it changes a great deal by the three latter factors, it still retains the preliminary shape of wheat and will never take on the form of another species. (Baal Sulam, “The Freedom”).

Question: What lesson should we learn from the example of decomposing wheat in the work of the ten?

Answer: This example suggests that everything in a person changes except for one unchangeable parameter, which is his center, his basis. Therefore, we can change anything in ourselves, from very bad to very good, from death to a wonderful life.

All changes in these parameters depend on us, and what remains unchangeable in us is our primordial Reshimot (spiritual genes).

Question: Do we also need to change our form, decompose, and rot leaving only the original Reshimo in us?

Answer: Of course, this is what we do in connection with ourselves and with all of humanity.

Question: What should happen to each ten and to the world group? What does it mean that we will be reborn, rotted like wheat in order to sprout?

Answer: When you want to kill egoism in yourself, which practically exists under your pressure, or rather under your request to the Creator, then it will rot, and only its embryo will remain. And everything else will be replaced by the property of bestowal, love, and mutual connection. And then you will become a different person as if you are sprouting into a new world.

Question: Are the events that are happening now pushing us toward this rotting?

Answer: Of course, they push us to the point that we are convinced that we cannot live only with an egoistic quality and we need other forces—the forces of development.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/14/24, Wrtings of Baal HaSulam “The Freedom”

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Question: Who teaches us to work not for the sake of reception? Is this a quality of the Creator? Or is it a quality of the group or teacher?

Answer: The soul. It is said, “Man’s soul will teach him.” By going through all the states, a person gradually learns how he should relate and to what.

Question: To manifest goodness, a person needs to spend a lot of energy. Where can I get this energy to correct the evil inclination?

Answer: Also in the goodness. There is no other source of energy except the Creator.

Question: How do we get to a state that we cannot accept, in which we cannot stay, and from which we can already rise?

Answer: These are three different states. If you have the strength, if you have reached this point and can scrutinize it, figure it out and succeed.

Question: How does a Kabbalist relate to the pleasures of the material world?

Answer: He does not feel like he is making them. Therefore when he receives them, he has no real fulfillment. He is above that.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Spoke Regarding Four Sons”

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