A group of ten is higher than any sage or Kabbalist because it is a collection of small, goal-oriented people who do not yet understand where they are and what to do. But they are striving for one common goal and have gathered together.

Therefore, their connection is higher in spiritual construction than one great Kabbalist. This is true because they build the Creator within themselves. Their state is more promising, and therefore the Creator engages with them more.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Deriving the Greatness of the Goal from the Friends” Lesson 4

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Love of Others”

Lesson on the Topic “Everything Is Obtained by the Power of Prayer”

Selected Highlights

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Question: What are the spiritual needs for which a mutual guarantee (Arvut) is needed?

Answer: We must build a spiritual Kli in which we can feel the upper world and the Creator. To do this, we need to be in connection with each other.

Correct connection is called mutual guarantee. The ascent of each individual above his egoism is called “faith above reason.”

Maybe you need to listen to the same lesson several times, try to collect what is said in its different points, and then you will have an inner understanding, knowledge, and feeling.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility” Lesson 6

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Question: What can we fill our neighbor with? What can we bestow?

Answer: There is only one thing we can do for our neighbor.  He is striving to rise to spirituality and this is what we wish for him and want to help him in this.

I don’t need to take him to a restaurant! I need to help him in his spiritual ascent because that is all he wants. And that is all I want. That is why we are together.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1

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Question: How can we create an artificial relationship template that will force us to demand to actually feel the friends?

Answer: You should talk and communicate with each other more. You can even write down what you are talking about. And you will gradually develop a common language. You will begin to understand each other more and thus get closer to each other spiritually and internally. Everything will come from this. You will begin to feel the Creator. So you need to work on it.

Question: Is it possible to outline a certain format that we would like to implement?

Answer: You can agree on mutual guarantee between each other, then fulfill it, and each time correct this agreement, make it ever-growing. Please, do it!

You are mature people and you must understand what state you are in, what you should come to and build your rapprochement to the correct state step by step.

This is serious work for both men and women. And the Creator helps us by alienating us, dividing us, and thereby promoting unity. Both in this and in that direction, a little bit of plus and then slightly increased minus, then more plus than minus, and after that more minus than plus. And so we go, gradually increasing the amplitude.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Asking the Creator to Fill the Place Between Us” Lesson 7

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Question: If a friend does not bring the spirit of joy to the group, does it mean that he is not working?

Answer: That is correct. He is not concerned about the group or thinking about his friends. The right attitude toward friends is first of all to encourage them.

Question: If a friend admits that he does not envy anyone in the ten right now, how can he advance? How can the group help him?

Answer: We need to work on him. There is nothing you can do here. Give him an example, talk to him, maybe do something else.

You need to increase your connection. The more you work with each other, the more it will affect him, and you are yet to see what will become of him.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Deriving the Greatness of the Goal from the Friends” Lesson 4

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Question: How can we reach the feeling that the Creator fills the whole world and act this way toward our friends?

Answer: If we connect with each other in the ten, then we will feel that the Creator fills the whole world.

We need to create our personal Kli (group vessel) and achieve such a connection between us that we begin to feel the revelation of the Creator. This is the most important thing. Everything else is only transient.

It is very important to unite in such a way that the Creator, the quality of love and bestowal, begins to manifest between us. And it will be revealed above our egoism. This is called faith above reason.

Question: Every path involves calculating the start and end point and identifying the shortest distance. What is the meaning of faith above reason in this trajectory?

Answer: If you go by faith above reason, then you take the shortest path from Malchut to Bina. And all this is done only by annulling and submitting yourself primarily to the group. To the extent of your submission to the group, you call upon yourself the illumination of the upper light, which moves you forward.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Going with Faith above Reason” Lesson 5

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 10

Selected Highlights

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Question: How do you manage to annul yourself in front of your students like Rabbi Yossi Ben Kisma?

Answer: What can I do? You see how you are forcing me to adapt myself to you. Unless it is in serious contradiction with the teachings of Kabbalah, with advancing, I annul myself before you. If you want to study something else—please. I may gradually correct this, but in general, I follow your requests and desires.

So it is written: “Train a child according to his way;” that is, as he wishes. You educate him, but in a way he can perceive. We must find an adequate approach to everyone so that they can get hold of the material. Do not present it by force but in a wrapping he can accept and swallow.

Even such a great Kabbalist as Rabbi Yossi Ben Kisma could not do anything alone and was completely dependent on his students. They were small, but there were many of them, and they wanted to come together for the upper goal. And he was ready to always be with them because only together can people reach heaven. This is what we hope for.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Deriving the Greatness of the Goal from the Friends” Lesson 4

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Question: How can we reach joy if there is an internal and external obstacle in the ten? You can understand this with your mind, but you cannot yet go above it and feel the joy of the obstacle in your heart. How can we relate to this in our work?

Answer: I understand that we cannot rejoice in obstacles on one hand. But this is precisely because we lack the support of the group.

As soon as we begin to feel the support of the group, this state turns from being an obstacle into something like a competition: how can I rise up and overcome it. And this obstacle becomes pleasure to me, like it is with athletes.

It all depends on the support of the group. If I am alone with some obstacle, then this is not good! I will spend a lot of time on this, the obstacle will return, and I will not know what to do with it. I will gnaw at myself.

We must deal with obstacles together! I must immediately plunge into the group, connect with my friends, and look at the obstacle from the point of connection with them. And maybe it will not exist at all because together with the group, I have already overcome it.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1

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