Question: There are moments when the Creator, through Rabash’s article, gives out a key that opens clarification in the form of sensations inside the heart. How not to lose it? How can we work onward from these feelings?

Answer: One should not be afraid of losing them. And when it is necessary, you will find this key again.

Question: Does the Creator take these feelings from a person, or does a person lose them for some reason?

Answer: This feeling is in a person, he should not be afraid of losing it. The main thing is to get closer. The key is between us, and when we search for the Creator together, we find Him.
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From the 1^st 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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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 24, “Three Times in the Work”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 140

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “One Commandment”

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Question: In article 117, “Labored and Did Not Find? Do Not Believe” from Baal HaSulam’s book Shamati, it says: “That is, the sorrow, called “labor,” makes the Kli [vessel], so one can be awarded the reward.”

How can we understand that it is suffering that creates the Kli? What does suffering have to do with it?

Answer: Suffering means that I find myself unable to fill the Creator and therefore suffer.

Question: Regarding the suffering in the group, I somehow figured it out myself. But people around me are suffering. Could you advise me how to work with this?

Answer: Think about what you will do to make the Creator feel good about it. Act in such a way as to give pleasure to the Creator. And then you will see that through these actions you are doing good to the whole world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/26/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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Question: In the article “When the Creator Loves a Person,” Rabash writes that a person can experience a state where he feels he is worse than the rest of the people. Such feelings are a gift from the Creator.

If I feel with respect to the group that I am the worst of all and that they are advancing, I need to integrate with this group, but it seems to me that I will pull them down, I will harm them, and slow them down. If I feel that I am the worst of all, then how can I be useful to the group? How can I integrate with it correctly?

Answer: Any person is useful to his group, even if he is the worst. We learn from the Creator. There is a person who is useful in himself, and there is a person who transforms himself from harmful to useful, and then, in principle, he is doubly useful. We need to pay attention to where he comes from and how he changes, this is his merit.

Comment: What if a person meanwhile ran away, distanced himself from the group, and then felt that he did not finish something, did not complete it, that he had to stay in the group and make an effort? How can we work with this?

My Response: You will still have the opportunity to correct this at the next levels. Do not worry. Do not think about the past, always think about the future.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/20/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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Question: How can I ask the Creator correctly for Kelim (Vessels) of bestowal? Should I completely annul myself and want them only for my friends?

Answer: Desire that it will be good to all of you together and that from your connection you would be able to bestow to the Creator.

Question: What should I do if I feel great shame before the Creator and cannot ask Him for mercy because it seems that I am not worthy of Him?

Answer: Transfer these feelings toward your friends, and then everything will work out well.

Question: Is it possible to bestow to the Creator through the pleasures of the physical body?

Answer: I do not think so. At least, not in our condition because now this is absolutely impossible. So far, you cannot receive pleasure for the sake of the Creator and transmit this pleasure to Him. It will be self-deception.

Question: We usually remember our sufferings. How can these memories be used correctly in spiritual work?

Answer: Do not think about them, they will accumulate by themselves. You have to think about moving forward.

Question: If a person does not feel the suffering of his friends in the ten, can he imagine it in order to raise a true prayer for them?

Answer: Yes, he can. It is good that he imagines it, even if not in the correct way. Nevertheless, he will develop faster in this condition.

Question: When the Creator gives us rapidly changing states and feelings, what does it mean?

Answer: He is looking for a way to connect with you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/26/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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Question: How can we come to the feeling of real spiritual poverty through some material flaws so that it feels the same as our ego feels the flaws in this world?

Answer: Practically one has nothing to do with the other. I can have everything I want and at the same time feel absolutely penniless. And vice versa, I can be the poorest, but feel like a king.

Question: And how does spiritual poverty feel?

Answer: The way we evaluate it, that is how it feels.

Question: How does one come to it?

Answer: This requires only communication with friends. Then you will evaluate your states through the common connection between you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/26/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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Question: All suffering is from the desire to receive. But when we are in bestowal, is it a gift from the Creator?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You said that we can choose either the path of suffering or the path of love. But it often happens that one does everything to walk the path of love, and still receives suffering. Why?

Answer: We know this from our lives. First, we receive suffering, and then in suffering, we reveal love. One cannot be without the other.

Question: If a person does not feel suffering and obstacles in his work, does this mean that he is not in spiritual work at all?

Answer: Yes. There is no moving forward without resistance.

Question: There are times when I force myself to go to a lesson, to a meeting, or to a group. Does it harm the group?

Answer: On the contrary, it helps both the group and you very much.

Question: Can we say that suffering comes from the Creator in order to strengthen the quality of the connection between us and to unite us even more?

Answer: Of course. How else can He wake you up if not by suffering? An egoist can only be awakened by suffering.

Question: How is the Kli (Vessel) built? Is it built above my desire? Or can I work with the desire of a friend and help him build a Kli?

Answer: Both are good.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/25/23,”According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 7, “According to What Is Explained Concerning “Love Thy Friend as Thyself””

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

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3rd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “The 15th of Av: the Day of Love”

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Question: You said that we implement our choice by transforming the desire to receive into a desire to bestow. How do we do this?

Answer: The most important thing is the intention: what I do and why I do it. I do it only because this is the will of the Creator.

Question: Is it possible to work in this way with any desire that is revealed in a person?

Answer: If you know exactly what the Creator wants in one of your desires, then you can do it.

Question: How can I know what the Creator wants? How can I figure this out?

Answer: To do this, you must be inside the ten and be connected with your friends in such a way that you can try to bestow to them, set your heart toward them, and then you will gradually learn to direct yourself to bestow.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/24/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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Question: As we develop, the Creator reveals new portions of evil to us. And if evil manifests itself in the group somehow cyclically, like previous stages, how can we properly enter a new stage and break this circle?

Answer: Constantly pursue the same goal: I have to rise above my egoism and act in the direction of benevolence toward my friends in the group.

Question: If a person does not raise a prayer for the correction of his nature, is it the Creator who does not honor him with a dialogue with Him, or is it a person’s laziness?

Answer: The Creator waits until a person develops the necessary qualities that will put pressure on him from the inside and force him to come closer to Him anyway.

Question: Let us say a friend participates in lessons, makes maximal external efforts, and comes to meetings, but does not know what else can be added to bring more benefit to the ten, what could you tell him?

Answer: Nothing. Let him read articles about it, there are many of them. But, in principle, what he has to do is serve his ten and be with it in heart and soul.

Question: How do I know when to annul myself and when to lessen myself?

Answer: Ideally, we should always annul egoism and always include the desires of others instead of our own.

Question: Is it necessary to keep such a line when we lower and annul ourselves all the time?

Answer: Do not worry, you are not lessening or annulling yourself yet. But if you put others above yourself, then you will begin to feel the spiritual world in the difference between you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/25/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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