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Just Love!

530Question: How can we help friends who do not accept connection with other tens that are experiencing hatred and negativity?

Answer: You should say that any manifestations of hatred between you must be rejected. We need to rise above all calculations.

“Love your neighbor as yourself” does not include any past or present calculations: “I love him, but I do not like this one,” and so on. No. This is how we should treat everyone. There are no calculations, sufferings, tricks, or anything like this. Just love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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938.01Question: You said that when you give your friends freedom of action, then you will be free yourself. How can we give friends the greatness of the Creator correctly, so as not to put pressure on them or take away their freedom?

Answer: Open your heart to your friends and let the Creator influence them through your heart as He wishes.

Question: When we gather with our friends, we can see how selfish everyone is; they do not want to unite and exalt the Creator. But when everyone makes efforts on themselves and restricts their egoism, it turns out that everyone wants to work for Him and exalt Him. Can this common desire be considered a revelation of the Creator and His greatness?

Answer: No. On your part, this is a certain rapprochement with the Creator, but absolutely not His revelation in you and not equivalence of form.

Question: It is written that the work itself is the reward. And it is like we were waiting for something else.

Answer: You are waiting for the appearance of the Creator’s qualities in yourself.

Question: Rabash says that in order to annul one’s egoism, everyone in the ten must acquire the force of the whole ten. How can we do it?

Answer: It is very simple. Put everything together and share among everyone. It turns out that you form a ten, although, let’s say there are only four of you, and everyone has the strength of a ten. That is when you can perfectly, easily, annul your egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 8/11/23

1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 2”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “One Commandment”

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The Desire to Bestow Will Connect All Times

928Egoistic desire divides the times into the past, present, and future. After all, the desire to enjoy is not content with what it had in the past or will have in the future. It is tied to the present time in which it feels what benefit it has from the light that is clothed in it now.

However, in the future, the desire to bestow will unite all times: past, present, and future.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/23, Writings of Rabash “Three Times in the Work”

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281.02Question: What does it mean to feel the mutual and reciprocal love of a typical single soul?

Answer: It is possible to feel mutual love when we all connect, feel a common connection between us, and try to fulfill each other through it.

Question: How can we understand that we are ready to be born? How can we bring this state closer to the ten?

Answer: If you are ready to bestow to each other in the group, then you are ready to be born.

Question: If we have a middle line, will we still continue to divide everything into good and evil?

Answer: Of course. Egoism or altruism, we will always distinguish one from the other.

But after complete correction, all egoism will turn into altruism. Then we will not be able to distinguish anything. There will be no opposing knowledge, opinions, and desires, everything will work only in one direction—for the sake of the other.

Question: How do we check our willingness to give to the friends in the ten? What do we give them?

Answer: We give them our participation. How do we do this? We gather together and decide: from now on, let us rise to an even greater level of connection between us so that the Creator can come even closer to us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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The Greatest Reward

276.02For this reason, a person begins to work not in order to receive reward, but because of the glory of the King (RABASH,”What Does It Mean that Oil Is Called ‘Good Deeds’ in the Work?”).

Question: What does a person feel here? Does he not see a reward at all or does it still exist but in a different form?

Answer: To reveal the greatness of the Creator in our actions is the greatest reward; this is what we must imagine.

The reward is to bestow to the Creator because bestowing to Him will be receiving for us.

Question: What if there is a fear that when the Creator is revealed in the receiving Kelim, I will not be able to resist pleasure?

Answer: There is no one closer to you than the Creator. And there is no one kinder to you than the Creator. Therefore, there is absolutely nothing to fear. You have to be before Him the way you are before yourself, and even more. You can admit to Him what you cannot admit to yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Pray for Malchut of Infinity

934Question: You said that a person should pray for Malchut of infinity. What does it mean?

Answer: For the global Malchut, which includes absolutely everything.

Question: I connect with my ten and ask for the ten. Where is the connection with the global Malchut here?

Answer: The difference is only in scale. This cannot be divided into parts. Spirituality is not divided into parts.

Question: How do I move from the scale of the connection with the ten to the global Malchut?

Answer: It only depends on how much you increase or decrease the integration of parts.

Question: How can I increase the integration of parts when I feel connected with my friends in the ten?

Answer: Increase the incorporation and love.

Question: Is it within the ten or do I need to add something to it?

Answer: Within the ten. It does not matter how much you add, or how much you subtract.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/27/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, “Anyone Who Mourns for Jerusalem Is Rewarded with Seeing Its Joy,” in the Work?”

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Replace Suffering with Love

534Question: When there is some kind of suffering, trial, or problem that comes from the Creator, I realize there is a very strong need for Him, which is a trigger for prayer and connection with Him and with the group.

But when there are no sufferings and problems, it is very difficult to build a request on the same level. Why does this happen? What do we need to do so that we, ourselves, without suffering, but rather in the spiritual work in the group, can build the same Hisaron (deficiency)?

Answer: It is impossible to do this without suffering. Suffering is an integral part of the feeling in the Kli (vessel), it is its filling. Without suffering, we could not orientate ourselves in any way, neither toward the Creator nor against Him.

Comment: I remember moments when there were some difficulties and then there was a great Hisaron, great desire. But when the Creator “lets go” a little, then we are not able to feel the same strong desire.

My Response: That is right. Therefore, we cannot move forward without sufferings. But we must not exalt them. We just need to understand that without them we do not feel our real Kli.

Question: But I cannot ask the Creator to give me sufferings again, can I?

Answer: No, do not do that! You can replace them with love.

Question: How can you build love on the same level?

Answer: Ask for this! You should ask for love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/25/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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A Common Desire Is a Place for the Creator

935Question: You said, “Either you give thanks, or you give the Creator a place to work.” If a person has been awarded with a state of gratitude, how can one give a place to the Creator?

Answer: When you unite in one mutual desire to bestow, you open a place for the Creator.

Question: And how do Kabbalists give a place for the Creator to be revealed between them? How do they feel His manifestation in the group?

Answer: They invite Him, attract Him, force Him, and beg Him; they try in every possible way to attract the Creator to the group. And then they see the result; by connecting with each other, they form a common desire in which the Creator manifests Himself.

A common desire in the ten arises when you are striving for the same goal. You try to get closer to each other, and if you succeed, then you move on to connection of one ten to another, and so on. As a result, you should feel the general force that fills you, surrounds you, embraces you. This will be the beginning of the manifestation of the Creator.

Question: How can a desire be shared if each friend has his own taste, his own shade of this desire, feeling, and understanding?

Answer: You will feel that it is common because to this extent the Creator clothes in you. And He is one.

Question: Will we all feel together that the Creator clothes in us?

Answer: Not only all together in the ten, but all eight billion in the world. What is the difference?

Question: How can we make each of our actions precisely so that we guide ourselves correctly?

Answer: You just have to think about it, strive for it, and everything will work out. The Creator will tell you what you still lack, and you will correct yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 7/28/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 8/10/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Are Dirty Hands in the Work of the Creator?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 161

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Selected Highlights

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