Question: You said that one needs to lose oneself in the friends. How can this be done?

Answer: Losing yourself among friends is, of course, not easy, but this is what we must do. It is when your egoism disappears, and you feel only your friends but not yourself.

Rabash writes about this in his Letter 8: “I simply exit the corporeal vessels and it seems to me that there is no reality in the world except my friends and I. After that, even the ‘I’ is cancelled and is immersed, mingled in my friends, until I stand and declare that there is no reality in the world—only the friends.” He has such a letter, and it is worth reading it.
[300831]
From the “Arava” Convention in Europe—Lithuania 2022, Lesson 1, 7/22/22

Related Material:
Between The Friends
Creative Annulment Before The Friends
The Creator Shines to Us through Friends

Filed under: Conventions, Events, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: We have always felt dependent on the men’s group and it is with great trepidation that we are now revealing that the men’s group also depends on us in some way. We want to find the place where we need to apply our effort, something that depends solely on us.

How can we come to such a prayer? How can we come to the point that depends only on women? We would like to give a helping hand to men who need us now, and we feel this.

Answer: There is no need to give any helping hand to men. You should just pray for them. Women, as I said, know how to do it. Pray for them, and you will succeed.
[300834]
From the “Arava” Convention in Europe—Lithuania 2022, Lesson 1, 7/22/22

Related Material:
A Letter To The Beloved In The Front
One Global Woman And One Global Man
The Power Of Women And Men: A Condition For Spiritual Ascent

Filed under: Conventions, Events, Prayer and Intention, Spiritual Work, Women's Spirituality - No Comments →

Question: Which of our actions will become the needle that pierces the wall between us and the Creator?

Answer: It is only in the connection between you that you will gradually be able to feel what in fact stands between you and the Creator. You have to work on connection and then you will feel what else separates you from the Creator.

Therefore, it is written: “From love for the created beings to the love for the Creator. The correction takes place in this order.
[300872]
From the “Arava” Convention in Europe – Lithuania 2022, Lesson 1, 7/22/22

Related Material:
When Do We Achieve Love For The Creator?
Love For The Creator Is Love For The Quality Of Bestowal
The Creator And The Creation: A Hand And A Glove

Filed under: Conventions, Events, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: What prayer has the Creator already put into our mouths?

Answer: Anything you feel for the Creator, you will discover that this is the prayer He put into you.

It will seem to you at first that this prayer is yours, the request is yours, and everything is yours. But in fact, this is not so. All of it is what He put into you initially.
[300875]
From the “Arava” Convention in Europe – Lithuania 2022, Lesson 1, 7/22/22

Related Material:
Turn To The Creator
Tuning In To The Creator
The Creator Hears All Prayers

Filed under: Conventions, Events, Prayer and Intention, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: There are two kinds of spiritual work: when I connect the friends in my heart and when I exit myself and as if dissolve in the friends. Is there any sequence and dependency in this work, and which work precedes which?

Answer: It does not matter. Later you will find out what sequence and variability exist between them. But the most important thing is when you will feel closer to a friend. After all, a friend stands on the way to the Creator. If you merge with him and come closer to him, then you come closer to the Creator.

A contact with the Creator is possible only within a friend. When you are fully integrated with him, there you can find your contact with the Creator.
[300878]
From the “Arava” Convention in Europe – Lithuania 2022, Lesson 1, 7/22/22

Related Material:
The Creator Shines to Us through Friends
Love Of Friends Is Our Common Treasure
An Elevator To The Spiritual World

Filed under: Conventions, Events, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

I will also ask that you make great efforts in love of friends, to devise tactics that can increase the love among the friends and revoke the lust for bodily matters from among you, as this is what casts hate, and between those who give contentment to their Maker there shall be no hatred. Rather, there are great compassion and love between them. (Baal HaSulam, Letter 11)

The most important thing for us is to break away from all these beautiful words. Because there are no words at all, there is only feeling in the adhesion between us by the inner inclination. In it we will define and reveal the Creator. Moreover, we will see that this is the simplest, shortest, closest feeling to us.

This is how we will discover what a spiritual quality is. It is only contact between desires, between people, everyone to everyone. There is nothing personal in this from anyone.

When these aspirations for each other, not for myself, but only for others, connect, they form a zone in which the Creator is revealed, a place where only mutual bestowal exists. We have to create this place between us.
[300748]
From the “Arava” Convention in Europe – Lithuania 2022, Lesson 1, 7/22/22

Related Material:
Baal HaSulam About The Commandment Of Love
Being Worthy Of Adhesion To The Creator
Adhesion With Infinity

Filed under: Conventions, Events, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: We gathered at the congress, but no one came as a whole ten, except for the Baltic students. What role does my permanent ten that stayed at home and is now in touch with us play in my efforts and the efforts of each of us?

Answer: At such gatherings, it is not necessary to divide into tens. You are all one ten wherever you are in the world right now. Whether you have been sitting at home near Vilnius or in Latvia, it does not matter. The most important thing is global connection. We see friends here from Russia, Georgia, Italy, Kiev, and the Baltic States.

So do not split up. In principle, you feel that you are all together, you study the same methodology, you belong to the same stream, direction, aspiration; you all belong to the same heart. I do not see any difference.
[300774]
From the “Arava” Convention in Europe – Lithuania 2022, Lesson 1, 7/22/22

Related Material:
Our Nearest Future
The Whole Convention Is One Group Of Ten
A Friend Who Is A Boss

Filed under: Conventions, Crisis, Events, Globalization, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: You said that women know how to ask. Every day we compose our prayers in every ten . What should we include in them now? How can we improve our prayers these days to come to a single heart?

Answer: We must feel what distances exist between us and how we would like to get rid of them so that our movement toward bestowal and love is directed from us to others, from each of us toward the others.

That is when we will feel whether we are ready to unite or not. Maybe we are not yet, after all.

Try to feel if there is motion between us only to bestow toward others but not back to yourself.
[300779]
From the “Arava” Convention in Europe – Lithuania 2022, Lesson 1, 7/22/22

Related Material:
The Woman’s Correction
The Role Of Women In Spiritual Work
Women’s Spiritual Purpose

Filed under: Conventions, Events, Prayer and Intention, Spiritual Work, Women's Spirituality - No Comments →

Question: Why is it always so hard to hold onto a constant prayer during the lesson? Why are we thrown out all the time? Why do we need these entries and exits in prayer?

Answer: This happens because you do not prepare yourself enough for it. If you were preparing for it more, asking the Creator not to be disconnected, to think correctly all the time, then it would be different.

Instead, you turn up at the lesson and only now you start thinking about what you should do. But you need to think about it during all the hours before the lesson or before such a gathering as we have now.
[300783]
From the “Arava” Convention in Europe – Lithuania 2022, Lesson 1, 7/22/22

Related Material:
A New Morning Depends On The Previous Day
With The Thought About The Creator
Only Preparation Counts

Filed under: Conventions, Events, Group Work, Prayer and Intention, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: Should we feel all the Hisaronim (desires) of our friends and raise them to the Creator or is there one that everyone has?

Answer: We must understand that all our aspirations, although expressed in different words and seemingly not similar to each other, are still internally translated into the same language and have the same meaning.

So, it does not matter. No matter what we say, we still have one goal, one system of moving toward the goal, one reason to come to it. In general, we understand each other, we experience the same thing.

And the fact that sometimes we cannot express what we want or that we have different languages does not matter. In spirituality, it all matches and again comes to one single desire, intention, and goal. And if we merge into it, we have to make a little effort and achieve it.
[300771]
From the “Arava” Convention in Europe – Lithuania 2022, Lesson 1, 7/22/22

Related Material:
In One Heart, In One Desire
The Point Of Melting The Heart
Prayer As A Manifestation Of Human Desires

Filed under: Conventions, Events, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →