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From Animal Desires to Human Desires

707Question: Why did the Creator create man in an animal body?

Answer: As we develop, we learn how much the body we are in helps us achieve the goal of creation.

Question: How do I move from animal desires within myself to human desires?

Answer: The difference between them is only in your connection in the group. You are obliged to help each other in this, otherwise you will not reach any state of connection with each other and will not come to the goal of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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One Nation as One Family

200.02In science, diversity of opinions and disputes are useful and help global advancement; but in politics disagreements, on the contrary, can lead to division in society and civil war. Is it possible to have different and even opposite opinions about what the character of the country and its purpose should be and at the same time feel like one nation and one family?

Everything is possible in this life only if we look at how to strengthen the connection between us despite all the differences of opinion. If the difference breaks our bond, then we should not reveal it until we have strengthened our connection.

Each step should begin with greater unity, and only then can we discuss where our opinions don’t match. And then, despite the fact that one thinks one way and the another thinks another way, we will decide how to unite, and from this unity we will see the answer.

In fact the answer is simple: the right decision is the revelation of the Creator. When the Creator reveals Himself in us, He gives us all the right decisions.

After all, society is not a laboratory where we can conduct experiments and verify an unambiguous result. It turns out that there are not those who are right and those who are wrong because the truth is above all our disputes. The truth is that “all transgressions will be covered by love.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/23, “A Dispute For the Sake of The Creator”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 9/21/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Concealed Things Belong to the Lord Our God,’ in the work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “General Preface”

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3rd part of the Lesson — Yom Kippur – The Day of Atonement

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Selected Highlights

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Under the Authority of the Creator

546.03Question: How can one overcome the state of ambiguity and isolation in spiritual work? Why is it given to a person and how does one treat it correctly?

Answer: All this will pass, along with all other actions of the Creator on us. The main thing is to ask. We need to feel that we are completely and unconditionally under the authority of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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Work on the Prayer

530Question: It seems to me that my friends and I are in different time frames, and everyone feels something different. It happens that one person feels that something needs to be done right now, and the whole group feels that it needs to be done later. What is the reason for our different senses of time?

Answer: It depends on the sensitivity of the heart of each one in the group.

Question: Yesterday a friend showed me an example of true love. But I want to run away from the burning shame that I will never be able to love my friends so much. How can I work with this state?

Answer: You are now going through a very good state. It cleanses you and brings you closer to the others. You should pray for everyone, including yourself, to feel that you all are in one heart. It must come true, if not today, then tomorrow.

Nothing will happen by itself. The Creator is the only one who can help you. We need to work on the prayer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—18

281.02Question: Why does the Creator send troubles to the righteous, and they depart from this world first?

Answer: Because they have to move forward.

Question: If you have already passed through lowliness and can be nothing, then what else can you ask the Creator for? I do not feel the need for anything anymore. “Save me!” but from what?

Answer: From the fact that you are distanced from your friends and cannot reveal the Creator in the connection between us.

Question: You always give the example of Rabbi Shimon whose disciples hated each other, but they did great work. Why would there be hatred between them?

Answer: They were doing great work—the connection between them—because they tried to be only in this aspiration, constantly, continuously, and in any circumstances.

Question: What prevents me from being honest with myself and why is it so difficult? After all, I harm myself and the ten. How can I correct this?

Answer: You are afraid to reveal that you are such an egoist. Everyone will know who you are, what you are, what thoughts you have in your head, and what desires you have in your heart. You want to embellish and hide it all. Stop worrying about it.

Question: Rabash writes that the Creator waits until one reveals what he has to do. I know what I have to do, and we have a long way to go. What do we need to worry about?

Answer: You only need to worry about the fact that when you connect with each other, you cannot experience love for the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 9/20/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “Purpose of Society – 1”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Rabash Memorial Day (Yahrzeit)

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Selected Highlights

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A Heart-Opening Convention

931.02The upcoming convention that will be held at the end of the month is called “Opening the Heart.” How can we prepare ourselves for the convention in order to really feel how we present the Creator with a heart ready to be purified?

Many people from different countries will come to the convention ready to join the global connection in order to feel like one man with one heart. And in this way, we will achieve a great force, and it will be easier for us to draw the Creator to us, as it is said: “My sons have defeated me.”

This convention is another step toward final correction. We can achieve anything we want during it; there are no restrictions on this.

After all, we live in the era of the Messiah, in the so-called “last generation,” and we study according to the correct methodology. Everyone only needs to direct their heart toward the connection with the ten, with hundreds and thousands, and thus all together to connect with the Creator.

We need to understand what it means to be together. After all, the convention is not just a gathering in one hall, but everyone needs to feel that he is ready to provide a place for everyone in his heart and mind.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/23, “Purifying the heart”

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Don’t Push Away Thoughts of the Creator’s Mercy

534Question: What are the subtleties of the concept of “righteous“?

Answer: A righteous person justifies the Creator after all causes and consequences. He cuts himself off from all scrutinies as if they do not exist and sees the goodness of the Creator in everything that exists. As it is said: “Even if a sharp sword is placed on his neck, he should not give up on mercy.”

Therefore, everything is not as it seems to us. The righteous man sees his destiny only in the fact that he wants to justify the Creator. And when he discovers that he cannot do it to the end, he feels like a huge disaster. In the end, this leads him to correction.

Our path is precisely to go through absolutely all adversities, to justify the Creator in everything, and to see His greatness and kindness.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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For the Sake of a Common High Feeling

528.01Question: In the ten, we are constantly trying to become one person with one heart, but the further we advance, the more our opinions differ. At the same time, we revealed that there was a very warm joyful feeling. Will we come to the point where everyone will be ready to gladly give up their “I” for the sake of this common high feeling?

Answer: It does not matter if your opinions are opposite. We are saying that everyone in the ten should be connected; everyone should have their own opinion, each with their own desire, with a point in the heart, and with the root of their soul.

Naturally, each of us is against the others, separated from the others. But we are building a common system above egoism, which separates and divides us. Therefore, we need to understand that the most important thing is connection above our separation and distancing. This is our work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/23. “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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