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Come to a Single Prayer

938.04Question: Who reveals Hisaron (deficiency) to a friend: one’s evil inclination or the Creator?

Answer: The Creator.

Question: Can a person raise his own Hisaron to the Creator or do his friends have to?

Answer: He does it with them together.

Question: We often raise our friend’s Hisaron to the Creator so He would connect us on a new level. But there is a fear that a person’s condition could change, and he would be filled in his egoistic Kelim; for example, he will be cured, find a job, etc. How do we work with that?

Answer: We do not consider the side effects because the most important thing for us is to feel united in a single intention in which the Creator would be revealed.

Question: How can we wish to come to a single prayer? Is it very hard?

Answer: It is not very hard. You must start from afar and gradually narrow the field of view so the Creator is in its center.

Question: So we don’t have to wait for some abstract Hisaron, but should work with one the Creator reveals to us now?

Answer: Of course. At any given moment, you can manifest it.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/5/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 34

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So that the Creator May Fulfill Our Request

938.01Question: How can we make our prayer truly effective?

Answer: You need to encourage each other so that everyone feels a desire to rise higher and pull everyone else along, like when climbing a mountain. Then you will receive the Creator’s response, which will definitely satisfy you.

Question: Can Kabbalists encourage each other like this to make a collective ascent during a lesson or a congress?

Answer: Of course, they can. That is exactly what they do. It only seems to us that an ascent can happen in one move, but that is not true. Here we encounter problems that we must solve at every moment and divide our spiritual progress strictly according to our capacities; meaning, we need to give it more attention in order to remain in the quality of bestowal and constantly ask the Creator to fulfill us.

Question: We say that we do not strive for suffering but for unity. But if there is no suffering, I would not want to ascend. How do we break this cycle?

Answer: Your friends will help you with that. When you feel yourself in an ascent, through your connection with them, you will also feel yourself in a descent. This will create the desire in you to connect with them and rise together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”

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The Creator Expects Unity from Us

557Question: How can the quality of suffering point to the action the Creator expects from us?

Answer: It is pretty simple. The Creator always awaits only one action—unification with others and a request for Him to fill everyone. That is all.

Question: Sometimes there is a lack of a specific connection with some part of the Kli, which we cannot always determine. Perhaps it is possible to understand precisely where this connection is missing from suffering.

Answer: Keep stubbornly moving forward, and you will see that the Creator exposes this connection and is waiting for you.

Question: You said we need to build connections based on our achievements, not on what we lack. So should we not pay much attention to what we lack in our connections?

Answer: You should be mindful of it, but not in a way that stops you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Happy Is the Man”

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Give all Power to the Creator

961.2Question: We want to give all power to the Creator. How should we relate to the fact that some people try to seize power over others? What should the reaction in our hearts be in relation to the Creator?

Answer: Everyone works for themselves. Therefore, if my friend chooses something for himself in spirituality, I do not interfere.

Question: We see that there is a very fierce struggle for power. What should we do: nullify ourselves or pray for everything to change? It seems that we do not obey the Creator.

Answer: We must go through what Rabash writes about in our desires. And then we will develop the right attitude toward our actions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/24, “Rosh HaShana

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Desire Before the Lesson

294.2Question: We say that we are correcting the connection between us. If I do not feel a Hisaron (deficiency) in my friend even though he has problems, should I work on my feelings and use shame? Is it correct not to wait for the Creator to reveal it to me but to somehow activate these forces within myself?

Answer: You wish to connect with your friends and find a new source of energy in your unity that will bind you together, reveal new qualities in you, and push you to make a collective step forward, which was not the case before. This is what you want to achieve.

Question: So should I simply disconnect from personal interests and focus on the collective desire to reveal the Creator?

Answer: Of course. You should have this desire even before the lesson.

Comment: But my friend’s corporeal concerns are my spiritual concerns. He may be facing problems right now.

Answer: Do not take that into account, it will only distract us from the goal.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/5/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 34

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What Did the Fall of Adam Lead To?

938.04Question: Could Adam HaRishon have revealed the Creator as the good that does good if he had not eaten from the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil?

Answer: That is correct. That is why the Creator orchestrated a specific fall for Adam so he would descend into his egoism and through this egoism come to understand the qualities of giving and love and transform it into altruism. It turns out that the Creator created the evil, and from this evil man makes good. And although we do not perceive it this way, in the end, we achieve this result.

It turns out that the Creator, who created us and our world, made us fall from our initial level and lose the attribute of faith. Nevertheless, we keep moving forward, unite with one another, and we thus reach a state of return where we can draw closer to the Creator and say with an open heart that we wish to be connected to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/24, “Rosh HaShana

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The Condition for Attaining the Creator

938.02Question: What does the revelation of the Creator between us mean? How do we feel it?

Answer: The attainment of the Creator between us occurs when each person sees the Creator, who is revealed before him in others.

Question: While not on spiritual levels, can we reveal Him or not?

Answer: No. How could we? He is revealed only on condition that we unite and desire that our unity reveals the Creator to each of us.

Question: So are all the ideas that those who come to Kabbalah have about some connection with the Creator false?

Answer: In general, yes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”

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Everything Will Be Revealed to You

935Question: It is said that if a person does not believe that there is something divine present within the concealment, then he flees from the battlefield. We seem to understand this, but why is it so difficult to believe in practice that there is something divine present within the concealment?

Answer: I don’t think it’s difficult. And who creates this concealment? It is a special action of the Creator, and another special action is His revelation. Both are done by Him.

We need nothing but the right prayer, the right request to the Creator to remove this concealment. And when you feel that everything is revealed before you, you will simply be amazed at what you can see, feel, and be filled with. It will lift you up as if you have become a balloon.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”

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Become Aware of your State

530Question: How can you infect a ten with your Hisaron?

Answer: If we are connected to each other in the ten as much as possible and we begin to talk about our states, then we come to the realization of why we are together, why we cannot be connected more than now, and the reason for our spiritual illnesses and suffering. In this way, we come to the point of turning to the Creator and asking Him for healing.

Question: If a person physically suffers from some disease, is this help for a spiritual growth?

Answer: Of course this is help. After all, a person could be sick and not feel that he is sick, or die and not feel that he must die. Therefore, all feelings concerning pain, illness, and healing that the Creator evokes in a person are necessary in order to help him recover.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/24, Writings of Rabash “The Lack Is the Kli [Vessel]”

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Reach the Creator

938.03Question: How do we establish a dialogue with the ten as with the Creator that includes the whole world?

Answer: It depends on your states within the ten and outside of it.

Question: What is more important, dialogue with the ten or with Him?

Answer: Of course, dialogue with the Creator is higher, but without going through the ten, you won’t be able to reach Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/24, “Rosh Hashanah

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