Question: Is it love or the fire in our hearts that is the indicator of bestowing to the Creator?

Answer: The indicator is the connection with the Creator. Initially it is not entirely accurate to call it love. However, after some effort we will start to feel what will happen if we strive correctly for the connection and what it will look like then.

Gradually we will begin to unite with others as complements to one another, as support for one another, and so on. Eventually we will develop a desire that will bind us, and we will receive a response from the Creator: who we are, what we are, and what we are going to attain.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress

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Question: How are thoughts connected to feelings?

Answer: Thoughts govern both the mind and the body. Therefore it is crucial for us to bring ourselves to a state in which we feel only one desire. If we achieve this, it means that we are tuned correctly.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress

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Question: What exercise should we do in our hearts to correctly direct our thoughts?

Answer: If your heart is open to your friends, you will clearly feel that what you understand now is exactly what they are saying. To direct your heart to a friend means that you wish to be united with them in one heart so that your desires align.

You want to feel the questions together as if you are the ones asking them and the answers as if you are the ones answering. This is very important.

You should imagine that the questions being asked are directed personally at you, and you are personally answering them. If you listen to the entire convention in this way, you will feel how you are being filled.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress

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Comment: I direct my heart straight to the Creator, and I feel that I prevent Him from clothing in it. And I cannot understand where I should strengthen myself—either in the power of Aviut (coarseness) that is directed toward the Creator or in the purity of my intention to bring Him contentment.

My Response: You need to strengthen yourself in unity with your friends who are present here so that throughout the entire congress you are with them as one whole.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress

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World Kabbalah Convention “Connecting to Lishma,” Lesson 1

Question: As I understand it, a person in the state of Lishma is aligned with one thought, with one desire of the Creator. What is this thought of the Creator, and how can it be isolated and cleared from the hundreds of desires that are constantly arising, even now during the lesson?

Answer: At the convention there is a certain atmosphere that everyone can enter. Then our thoughts and desires become more powerful.

When thoughts and their actions that manage our feelings unite and reach a certain magnitude, then we will feel that we have our internal Kli—desire and intention. From this moment onward it will be easier for us to return to these thoughts.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/20/25, Lesson 1

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Question: Yesterday there was a worldwide women’s gathering as preparation for the convention. At the end of the gathering we felt like one woman. How can we maintain this feeling and bring it into the convention?

Answer: You need to maintain the connection among all the friends so that there is such unity in which you promise not to separate from each other, and then everything will be fine. You will immediately begin to add more and more to the connections between you.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress

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To open the lock to the Creator with the whole ten means to achieve the closest connection of hearts, when everyone puts their whole heart into it. This common heart will become the key that opens the lock.

Each of us is just a part of the key. The mechanism of the lock and key must interact and influence each other in order to open the door the Creator is behind.

At the world congress, everyone who wants to engage in spiritual work will have the opportunity to open their hearts and connect with other friends from all over the world to realize this together.

Awe of heaven is my fear: will I be able to insert the key into the lock so it corresponds to all lock forms at all levels (inanimate, vegetative, animate, human)? I will turn the lock so everyone would see themselves conform to the advanced state, and the door will open.

Awe of heaven is the connection that exists between me and the Creator. The more I feel the awe, adjust  my key to the shape of the lock, and turn it, the more I connect with the Creator.

According to the forms I create in the key, the lock begins to open for me with this key. I hope the joint preparations for the congress will allow us to get closer, connect, and find the right shape of the lock and key in our connection, in a common embrace, thanks to mutual help and support. The ideal state at the congress is when absolutely everyone, without exception, participates in the common effort to open the lock.

The key is striving for the future, which everyone imagines a little differently. After all, not everyone is in the right state; in some way everyone’s state is incorrect. Therefore, one connects in the common key, wants to push himself and turn in the direction to the point where the lock opens.

A person alone cannot open the lock; we need to unite all our desires to achieve this. A congress provides the opportunity to complement each other by bringing all aspirations together. And then we will feel there is one common key, and with the help of prayer, we can reveal it.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/25, Preparation to convention “Connecting to Lishma”

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Question: With what mindset do we come to the convention, in what kind of unity, and what should we achieve as an individual group and as Bnei Baruch?

Answer: The main focus of the group’s work is preparing for the convention.

This means seeing the current state of our Kli, that in which we exist at the moment, meaning in Lo Lishma, and seeing how to gradually transform these qualities into Lishma.

This, in fact, is our preparation for the convention.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/25, Preparation to “Connecting to Lishma” Convention

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We must remember that we are all in the same boat and are parts of one soul.

That is why when such a large number of people striving for spirituality gather together, as at the upcoming convention, each person must understand that this is a gift from above. The Creator has given me the opportunity to participate in such a special event where parts of my own soul come closer to me.

And if I relate to them this way, understanding that I have found myself in an assembly of the closest souls ready to connect with me, and if each of us thinks and feels this way, then it will not be difficult at all!

Everything depends on preparation. I must constantly prepare myself and tune in to think, act, and feel exactly this way when I get there.

It does not matter whether it happens today in one place or tomorrow in another, time and space determine nothing! But this exercise, where I intentionally think today about how it will be tomorrow, will help me later when all the conditions come together at the convention to reach the necessary collective effort.

This is extremely important and determines everything. After that, it will be easy. It is like preparation before a battle.

If everything is ready, and you are ready to give everything for spirituality, you will see how everything unfolds exactly as you envisioned. If you have put in sincere and great efforts from the depths of your heart, everything will happen accordingly. There will be no unpleasant surprises, everything will be good.

Imagine a gang of thieves gathering in the dark, preparing for a dangerous mission to rob a bank. Each of them feels dependent on the others and cares about the group. We have something to learn from them.

The only difference is the goal. If the goal is egoistic and obvious, achieving unity is very easy and natural.

But if the goal is to attain bestowal, to rise above each person’s personal egoistic interests, then it becomes much harder.

Yet, even in examples of our world, we see the immense benefit that unity brings. The only problem is that nothing can sustain it except the upper light. Only love can hold a connection together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/14/10, The Book of Zohar

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Question: At conventions we are given strength that must be realized afterward, otherwise it will dissolve. What does this mean?

Answer: At the convention we achieve a certain connection with each other, and for the sake of that connection, we are ready to sacrifice some small egoistic fulfillments, pleasures, and weaknesses in this life. We are ready to give ourselves to achieve something higher.

Subsequently inspiration fades because the connection between us disintegrates. We cannot keep it from a distance.

We are small people. Everyone returns to their old ways, and, as a result, we lose mutual strength, plunge into our philistinism, and can no longer think so intensely about spiritual elevation, correction, the meaning of life, or how to really achieve it here and now.

So it turns out that we need some kind of constant connection, maybe not as intense as at conventions, but one which would excite, tug, prick us more intensely because we only occasionally remember and ask ourselves: “What will become of us?” We need to restore this connection somehow.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Congress for Connection!!!” 5/1/10

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