Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 9/15/23
Posted on September 15th, 2023
So is the nature—he craves and each time imagines that he is already marching on the highway. And suddenly, he looks back to the place from which he came, and then leaves the highway and reconnects with the uneducated people and follows them (RABASH, Letter 21).
The fact is that a person needs to leave the straight path in order to feel the need for the Creator’s help.
On one hand, if we do not have disappointments and all kinds of feelings of weakness on the spiritual path, then we do not need the help of the Creator. On the other hand, how can we descend into states where we need His help? We do not need to avoid difficulties. We just have to plunge into them and see that we cannot move forward, that the Creator specifically arranges all kinds of descents for us, from which we shout and ask Him to help us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”
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Question: How do fear and awe of the Creator combine with the fact that I can lean on Him at any moment, that He is literally my support?
Answer: Connect with the Creator as with a great friend. Awe of Him is not a fear of punishment; it is a great desire to connect with Him.
To transform fear for loved ones into awe of the Creator, include them in yourself and rise to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”
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Question: From about two years of age, a child wants to do everything by itself. We rejoice when we achieve some success on our own. In spirituality, we see that it is necessary to be disappointed in this “by myself.” What kind of metamorphosis should happen in us so that we do not strive for independent achievements, but only ask the Creator?
Answer: There is no way for us to get closer to the Creator. He specifically arranges for us to be disappointed, not to understand, and to feel weak. So, we advance in semi-darkness.
Therefore, you will not be able to run away from the inferiority complex that arises in you, from the feeling that you cannot do anything.
This is done on purpose so that we understand that there is nothing in us, that all spiritual force is only in the Creator, and that we need to receive this force from Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”
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And when he sees that he has already come to the village Kfar, i.e., to the quality of disbelief “kfira,” he begins to strive for faith again. (Rabash, Letter No. 21)
Question: What is this quality of kfar and how does it manifest itself?
Answer: This is rejection of the Creator, the upper force. This is a very big force that we should avoid.
Question: What does it mean to look back in our work?
Answer: This is to look at what a person has gone through. He has no right to look back and check himself. He should look only forward to where he is more connected with his friends and with the Creator.
Question: What does it mean to cling and hold on to friends, to rely on them?
Answer: It means to cling to them and help in everything you can, not to use them, but to do everything for their advancement.
Question: How do I understand what the Creator wants to convey to a friend through me so that my action is not from egoism, but precisely from the Creator?
Answer: In this case, you need to connect with your friends as much as possible, and then the Creator will be with you.
Question: With a huge desire to fully reveal the Creator, how do I overcome the fear of not having time to do it?
Answer: You will have a sense of security only with your friends, only from connection with others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”
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Question: You told a story about Rabash’s grandmother. When he was little and misbehaved, she did not punish him immediately but did so after two or three days. The same happens to us. After we have already misbehaved, we are told we did something wrong. How can we work with this so as to not just listen and run away but to properly use such situations for advancement?
Answer: To do this, you need to be connected strongly with the group. You will not have the strength to do it yourself and will run away.
Therefore, you need to feel the group. Not even to talk to them about it but just to feel what it means to be in a group. Then, you will have the strength to connect with the friends again and feel the Creator in the center of the group. In this case, your future is secured.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”
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Getting in and out of exile is a constant process. We take a step and get rejection from the Creator. We do not know how to advance further. We ask the Creator to help until we find a way to be drawn to Him and so we are attracted to the Creator again.
In other words, there may be a step forward, a step back, or maybe a step forward and two steps back. Then a person feels that instead of becoming stronger, better, and closer to the Creator, he, on the contrary, becomes even further away from Him.
But still, the main thing is not to retreat. Our biggest problem is that we get frustrated and weaken our efforts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/23, “The need for the Creator’s Salvation”
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Question: How can I understand that I am going backward relative to the group?
Answer: You have to look at your friends, see their actions and properties, and then you will discover how far behind you are. Checking whether you are going forward or backward can be only relative to the group.
Hold on to each other. You have no other way. Try to combine all the efforts of the ten. It is impossible to teach this.
You should talk and think about the greatness of the Creator, how much He wants to attract you to Himself and to create a place for you inside Himself. In this way you will advance.
Question: What is this state when “he will not turn back to folly”?
Answer: When he realizes that everything he is doing is folly and is on the verge that both the Creator and his friends can simply stop interacting with him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”
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“What is repentance like? When He who knows the mysteries will testify that he will not return to folly.” …
In other words, when will one be certain that he has been granted complete repentance? For this, one is given a clear sign: “When He Who knows the mysteries testifies that he will not return to folly.” This means that he will attain the revelation of the face, at which time one’s own salvation will testify that he will not return to folly. (Yehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag [Baal HaSulam], “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 56).
Question: What is “testimony”? Does a person have a new basis for making decisions in order to evaluate their actions differently?
Answer: The Creator shines a special light upon a person from a certain degree, and this indicates that he will not fall below this degree.
He has a new foundation, which depends on the light of the Creator influencing him.
And above that he has freewill, and he must climb the degrees of the spiritual worlds by himself. He himself is now looking for ways to advance further and continue his journey and his ascent.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”
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Question: There is a feeling that we run away from our work all the time. How do we not run away from disturbances? How can we rise above the necessary, and how can we raise the necessity? And what is the difference between them?
Answer: The main thing is to be in connection with your friends more and more until all the points of action build the correct line in front of you.
Question: Is it possible to determine exactly what we are raising and what we are rising above?
Answer: We rise above our egoistic demands, feelings, sensations, and goals. And we raise our striving to the spiritual.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”
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