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How Can You Stop Justifying Egoism?

294.3Question: How can we make it so that we do not constantly justify egoism but make it work for us?

Answer: The best thing is to do it with love. When I try to develop love for friends, my egoism moves somewhere to the side.

Question: How can I avoid justifying any of my actions by the statement “There is none else besides Him” since this removes all responsibility from me?

Answer: Integrate with the group more, and then it will become clearer what you are doing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/3/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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The Main Thing Is to Bring Hearts Closer Together

528.02Question: When preparing for each meeting or lesson, I have to scrutinize the reason I want to feel the greatness of the Creator. If I have no such habit, does it mean the basis for spiritual work has not been built?

Answer: It is desirable to have one or two questions prepared in advance on the topic we are studying, then listen to the lesson and ask new questions.

Question: Sometimes I am in a state where I am already thinking about my friends, so that they come to a meeting, overcome obstacles, and feel the greatness of the Creator. And the state of thinking about myself disappears. Is this state more similar to the Creator? Should there be any stages in this work?

Answer: The main thing is to bring hearts closer together. You need nothing else. You should constantly remind each other about this. After all, the moment you leave your hearts and do not direct them to get closer to each other, you immediately crumble. Think all the time about the way to be in one heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/3/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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In a Single Thought

165Question: How can we always be in search of the Creator? We are constantly looking for something, and some things lead us away from the search for the main thing in life. How can we not make mistakes and look only for the Creator?

Answer: I think it is necessary to talk more often with your friends about the need to unite with each other in such a desire, in such an intention, in such a thought that you could attract the Creator to yourself.

What for? So that He fills you and raises you to His level. This is what you desire.

Take all your friends, even the entire world group, connect them all mentally and turn to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Sensitivity to Friends

528.02Question: There are states in the ten when you feel ascent, joy, and love for friends. It seems that everything is fine. But suddenly friends leave with great criticism. Does it mean that we do not see the real state of the friends in the connection but only our egoism?

Answer: It happens in different ways. How can we rise above egoism without revealing it?

Question: How do we step over our states and see what friends really feel?

Answer: You have to imagine this even if you do not see it. You have to justify them.

Of course, you may not notice that a friend is feeling bad. Therefore, we need to talk about it and try to think good about everyone.

Question: In developing sensitivity to friends, we experience two polar states: either you are completely insensitive or, to the contrary, you are very worried and overreact about anything. How can one control this sensitivity?

Answer: I cannot advise anything. Keep going and you will see that you will still come to the correct result. Just continue, every day, so that there is something new in your relationship and in your appeal to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/23, “My Heart Is Slain within Me”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 8/23/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is the Meaning of the Purification of a Cow’s Ashes, in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Explanation of the Article, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Last Generation”

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Selected Highlights

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The Light of the Creator—Support and Help

549.02Comment: I can quiet my evil inclination only when there is the light of connection in the group. And when it stops shining, the evil inclination immediately takes possession of me.

My Response: Very good. This means that you must constantly ask to be influenced by the light of the Creator, the power of the Creator, which will keep you in the right state. Nothing else is required.

It cannot be otherwise. How do we have the strength to resist egoism? Only if the Creator will shine on us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/23, “My Heart Is Slain within Me—Selected Excerpts from the sources”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 8/22/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “The Difference between the Work of the General Public and the Work of the Individual”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Explanation of the Article, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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It Is Best to Show an Example

962.2Question: If I see that a friend is suffering from not being annulled, how can we work with it, and where is the place of my correction?

Answer: You have to give him an example of how to annul so that he sees what needs to be done and will do the same.

Do not tell him about the problem, it is better to show an example. Maybe he will understand.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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What Can Bring Contentment to the Creator?

243.04Question: The feeling of the Creator’s greatness is pleasure and joy. How do we accept this state correctly in order not to receive pleasure for our own sake, but to become a giver to bring contentment and delight to the Creator?

Answer: We must be ready for this. We want to reveal the Creator only to bring Him contentment. When we reveal the Creator, it will add great strength to our work.

Question: The Creator constantly gives us the opportunity to choose. How do we choose what will delight Him?

Answer: What will delight your friends will delight Him.

Question: And if we proceed from the corporeal world?

Answer: What can you give to the Creator from the corporeal world? Nothing.

He has everything: all the necessary Kelim and means to feel you in any state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/3/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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The Balance between the Material and the Spiritual

506.2Question: To the extent that we have a desire for the Creator and connection, material desires for this world are revealed in us. How do we work with them?

Answer: Perform them sequentially. You cannot give up this world, but you must establish a correlation between it and the spiritual world. Try to see where you have to make a correction at the beginning and then at the end.

Question: Should this balance be in intention or in action?

Answer: In principle, we want our intentions to coincide with our actions.

Question: If I want something material, should I build the right intention or make a complete restriction on it?

Answer: No. You have to make a plan for yourself for when you exercise a spiritual intention and when you fulfill a material one.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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