Question: We have gathered, all of us so different, for one purpose. When for example a dish is prepared, all the ingredients combine to create a common taste.

Is it correct to keep the main goal in focus or gradually on intermediate goals that we reveal in our connection in order to acquire the quality of reception for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: It is best to keep the main goal in front of you and strive for it all the time because intermediate goals can confuse you. They will manifest, but still as intermediary.

Keep the main goal.
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is, ‘Calamity that Comes Upon the Wicked Begins with the Righteous,’ in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Fighting the Evil Inclination”

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Question: We spoke about shame often at this convention. Why is it that after every action, be it prayer or a duty, we experience doubts and I fear whether I did the right thing or not?

Answer: It is in order to move you even further in a more correct way and so that you assess yourself correctly. Therefore, this is good.

Question: At the convention, at the gathering of friends, one of us started talking and began to cry, and I also unexpectedly started crying like many others. Then, when the friends were talking at the meal, there was an instant connection. I have never seen such a concentration of the opening of the heart. But it was unclear what we should do next with this opening of the heart?

Answer: Grab the Creator, force Him to come down to you and fill you. This is what you should do. But it will come instinctively. You will succeed.

Question: How can we open our hearts to each other and the entire congress and at the same time think about the future so that our work will benefit the next generations the way we receive benefit from those who have gone through this path before us?

Answer: If we try to move forward in an ever-increasing connection between us, then undoubtedly the Creator will help us and accompany us, and so we will reach the goal.

Question: There is a feeling that there is some kind of confusion in our expression of love because there are constant clarifications. Where are we wrong? How can we more accurately do what you and Rabash advise?

Answer: You constantly make mistakes and stumble. At the same time, you always have to clarify what you stumbled over, where you fell, and how to get up and keep going. Keep searching!
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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Question: You said that it is beneficial to say a prayer out loud both in the ten and in person. Why is it important to pronounce, and when is it better to pray in silence?

Answer: When you speak your prayer, you connect with your friends, and there is nothing closer than that.

On the other hand if you are not in connection with them, it is better not to speak aloud. That is, a person who speaks reveals his soul so to say, and this can harm him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/18/23, “On the Merits of Silence”

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Question: I myself feel and I see on my friends that in the lesson we are being totally knocked out, especially when we read some article.

If I try to connect and pray, my strength—of which there is little left anyway—is immediately taken away from me. When I try to ask not for myself, I immediately switch off and fall asleep. How can we help each other be in thoughts and in prayer?

Answer: This is the correct state. Because you do not have the feelings to ask and pray for others yet. But if you constantly, despite any difficulties, ask, you will find that it is possible, and you will receive an answer.

If you connect with each other and embrace each other, you will see how much a common spiritual universe opens up before you. You will not be afraid, you will not get confused about anything, and everything will be open and clear.

The main thing is only to be open to each other, to open our hearts. This, of course, requires training, but all this is close to us.
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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Question: How can we reach such a level of mutual guarantee that both men and women feel the power of the mutual guarantee in the group and the heart itself shows what we are ready for at the next convention?

Answer: We study in the wisdom of Kabbalah that everything comes down to ten: ten Sefirot, ten levels of revelation of the Creator. But since we study this in all kinds of sources, we do not talk about it much.

Of course if a person just listens to us, then it seems unconvincing to him and these are just words for him. But if we really want to experience the Sefirot, the Partzufim, and the worlds, if we want to participate in this, then we need to be connected with each other.

After all, it is only through the intensity of the connection between us that we feel the upper world and begin to feel the Creator and ourselves in a state of eternity, above our world, which is the lowest of all worlds.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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We live in a time of war with the hope that every day will be the last day of the war. We have to strengthen the connection between us because only through our unification can we bring the Creator closer to us so that His power will protect us and bring peace to everyone.

We pray for our friends at the front, for other soldiers, and for those who were captured, and we hope that everyone will quickly return home in peace, in safety, and in good health. Let us continue to study Kabbalistic articles that help us turn to the Creator and ask for His help.

We must believe that everything that is happening comes only from the Creator, and He does everything in the most optimal way to bring us closer to Him. And if it seems to us that the Creator’s influence is not very good, then we are not ready for a different path.  We have the only way—to connect with each other and contact the Creator on the conditions that He now provides us.

Let’s ask the Creator to help us adhere to Him as quickly as possible so that we all feel the power of the upper governance over us and over the whole world and so we will understand that “There is none else besides Him” who is good and does good. Only because He wishes for our good does He perform such actions on us.. And if we unite even more, we will feel that the Creator is close and is leading us on the path of correction.

Behind every friend stands the Creator, the single upper force, beside which there is nothing. This force controls us and the whole world in general, including our haters and enemies. Therefore we need to understand the influence of the Creator and do everything so that His attitude toward us changes to goodness.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/23, “Growing Stronger in There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: All of us from Kyiv, first of all, want to express our love, affection, concern, and support to the entire Israeli Kli. We now know what war is and what you are going through.

How can we learn to be calm, but at the same time desperately ask the Creator for peace and for this correction? How can we look at this sensibly? Can you teach us?

Answer: I do not think I can convey my feelings to you and teach you. But gradually it will come. This will come to the extent that you feel that everything is in the hands of the Creator.

Question: In the hour of such trials that are now unfolding in Israel, can we Kabbalists allow ourselves to connect with the natural spontaneous hatred that is being revealed? How can we use good forces correctly to prevent explosions of evil forces?

Answer: We do not need to hate anyone; we only need to love our friends and try to come closer to the Creator through this love. That is all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/7/23, “Current Events in Israel”

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Question: We study that the Creator is good and does good. But we see a lot of evil in the world: wars, murders, and crimes. How can we see this as a manifestation of the good Creator? Sometimes it seems impossible.

Answer: We cannot understand this yet. To do this we need to rise a little above our world, and then we will see in a perspective from the beginning to the end of creation what it should go through. Only to this extent will we be able to justify the Creator. Otherwise, in our eyes and in our properties there is nothing more terrible than the Creator.

Everything that happens in the world comes from Him. Therefore, evil is a manifestation of His governance. We must see ourselves as the chosen ones in order to change this governance from evil to good.

Therefore it is said: “I have created the evil inclination and gave the Torah to correct it.” The Torah is the upper light that we must attract upon ourselves, and to this extent we will begin to feel how our world turns into good. This is all entrusted to us. Let’s try to do it.
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From the 1^st part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 1 “The Work Is Mainly in the Heart”

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Question: I look at some friends who seem to conceal themselves, they never open up. Why do you always say: “Do not think about me, think about the Creator?” Where and what is the strength here?

Answer: When I came to Rabash, I saw six or seven old men sitting and studying different books. I did not understand these texts yet and actually did not know how to read them. It was very difficult: I knew nothing, did not understand, and did not see what the relationship between them was.

They hardly spoke to each other; only when reading books did they sometimes exchange one or two words.

But gradually, their language became clear to me, and I saw why they behaved this way—so as not to interfere with the general reading. I realized that they think about each other and help each other.

Nothing was visible from the outside. This is the work in the heart. Kabbalists even encourage us to hide what is in our hearts.

The opening of the heart occurs from within, in desires. But there was nothing there in words. If I were judging by their words, I would generally think that some old people were sitting there who have nothing to do, and they are just getting together and reading. What else should they do at the age of seventy?

But I do not think you will have to wait until you are seventy. You will reveal your feelings to your friends earlier, and they will reveal them to you. Without words!
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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