Question: What is this simultaneous state of merging, love of friends, and love for the Creator, and how do we properly realize this state?

Answer: The correct realization is when we truly connect to achieve love for the Creator and merge with Him. But this is impossible without first uniting among ourselves.

Question: What does it mean that each friend has the potential for love of the Creator?

Answer: They know they must come to love the Creator, which is only possible through love for friends. Therefore, they have come to learn how to achieve this.

Question: When my failure to love my friends was revealed, but I did not have time to pour out my heart to the Creator and I feel shame and resentment toward my actions, is that not enough? Do I need to repent and fix everything in prayer? Or is understanding based on our sources, like Rabash writes that I am guilty, enough?

Answer: That is not enough. You must realize your opposition to the Creator. Only then can you ask Him to correct you. And afterward you will begin to make efforts to gradually manifest the Creator’s qualities within you.

Question: When we are practically in the greatness of the Creator, where should we direct this strength?Should it be to individual work, self-correction, greater love of friends, or greater love for the world?

Answer: Direct it where your heart leads.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/10/24, “The Ten as an Environment for Spiritual Development for Everyone”

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Question: For a Kabbalist, what is the magnetic field that helps the point in the heart and egoism to exist?

Answer: Our heart is an organ that attracts everything it likes and rejects everything it dislikes. We must place a screen before our heart and engage not with what pleases us, but with what can destroy our egoism and connect us with the Creator. In other words, we must connect with our friends through our heart, and in this way, we will draw closer to this.

Question: How does the point in the heart turn into a screen (Masach)?

Answer: It happens under the influence of the upper light. If, in unity and prayer, you turn to the Creator, you will attract the reforming light (the light that returns to the source), and it will begin to correct you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Rabash, Assosrted Notes, 940, “The Point in the Heart”

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If granted, it is a potion of life; if not granted, it is a potion of death (Rabash, The Social Writings, “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’”).

Question: What does the concept of being granted consist of: my own efforts, the efforts of my group, or what is allowed to us from above by the Creator for us to go through together?

Answer: “To be granted” means that a person is granted permission for spiritual ascent, for moving from one degree to the next, from that one to a higher one, and so on. They have nothing else and can have nothing else.

If they are correctly attuned to the attainment of the upper world, then that is their only goal. Each time a person ascends one more step, he is awarded spiritual powers and by attaining them, one gradually ascends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/24, Rabash, The Social Writings, “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’”

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Question: There are situations when a friend makes great efforts to come to a congress, invests himself in duty, and is faced with a situation where he does not feel mutual care from another friend. And then he cannot justify the friend. What one do in such cases?

Answer: If a person cannot justify another, then this is his problem. We must perceive any friend as an ideal one who does absolutely everything and strives with all his might toward the spiritual goal. If we see him not quite like this but worse, it means that we need to correct ourselves and rise to a level where we begin to see everyone as absolutely righteous, and to the same extent see ourselves with them.

Question: How can I participate in this, how can I help, justify, or do something to raise a person?

Answer: How can you justify yourself? I do not know how to justify myself in such a case. I can see some flaws in others, but they point to what I need to correct in myself. Then I am grateful to the Creator and the friend for revealing my flaws to me.

And in general, the world before me should appear to me absolutely corrected, that the Shechina, the presence of the Creator, is clothed in everyone, and everyone fulfills all the desires, all the conditions of the Creator. And if I do not see this, then in fact I need to correct myself to a level where I will see everyone completely corrected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/15/24, “Continuing the Congress With an Ascent”

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Question: What is the independent measure of receiving pleasure in the vessel of bestowal?

Answer: The independent measure of pleasure in bestowal is a question with an underlying meaning. If we resolve this question correctly, the task before us will transform from a general one into a specific one, and from a specific one into a general one.

At that point, the distinction between me and the general vessel will disappear. Through being interconnected, we will perceive ourselves as a single united whole.

Pleasure is the result of our actions toward one another and toward the Creator.

Question: While receiving pleasure, how can one maintain the intention for His sake?

Answer: Continuously think about the possibility of receiving for the sake of the Creator in order to become one whole with Him.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash “A Congregation Is No Less than Ten”

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Question: When a friend falls and it is extremely difficult to get out of the state. How can the group help?

Answer: The group should descend to the friend’s level, connect with him, then draw the Creator’s strength upon themselves and begin to rise together with the friend, like an elevator. We take the fallen friend “into ourselves,” and he rises together with us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/24, “Continuing the Congress With an Ascent”

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes there is nothing more natural or necessary than connection with the Creator because He is nature. Is it possible to convey this to the world, not through faith below knowledge or religion, but rather in or above knowledge?

Answer: No, imagine we are in a state where the Creator sends us some signals from His level, from His height. We cannot recognize them correctly. The only thing we can do is ask Him to draw us to Him. Only then will we begin to feel and understand Him more and come into contact with Him.

The feeling of the Creator can only be obtained through the path Kabbalah offers. All other paths are built on accustoming oneself to believing there is some kind of power.

Question: So without uniting people into tens, without a practical methodology, it is not possible to give it to the world?

Answer: No, nature is designed so that only through tens can we draw closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/15/24, “Continuing the Congress With an Ascent”

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Question: How can I stop viewing my friends as rivals and start seeing them as partners on the path to the Creator? How can I seem them as parts of my soul, without jealousy, comparison, or anger?

Answer: It is a challenge to move from hatred to love. It cannot be done in one leap, but it can be done gradually.

First of all, constantly ask the Creator to give you the ability to see only positive qualities in your friends. In this way, you will appreciate them for the good that is revealed to you.

Every person has both good and bad qualities, but you want to see only the good. It is like parents who see only the good in their little child, but if you ask others, what will they say about this child? Only negative things.

So it all depends on how we look at things. We should try to see everyone completely independently of our personal feelings, and then we will be able to see correctly. That is all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/24, Writings of Rabash “According to What Is Explained Concerning “Love Thy Friend as Thyself”

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Question: Right now, we feel that we have received the upper light and are searching for how to act for the sake of the Creator so it does not leave us. What should our unified action be to convey this attitude to Him?

Answer: For this, we must feel the Creator, connect with Him, and transmit to Him what is within us: our desires, our hearts. And then, everything will work out.

This can be broken down into several steps. First we need to unite all our hearts together. Then we connect our heart with the Creator and transmit our attitude from it to the heart of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/24, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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Question: What is the best way to form a desire to unite? Most of the time I am in imaginary pursuits and indifference, but I have to cling to something in a friend. But each friend is different. What should I pay attention to?

Answer: Pay attention to the fact that I want to cling to a friend and he wants the same thing. If you have a joint direction of desire, you will connect and form one common desire, a single form.

Question: But I do not feel this friend. Do I have to enter into some interaction with him?

Answer: Yes, this interaction will gradually find you. You will cling to it and through it to the friend. It starts with the fact that you want to unite with all your friends and reveal that you actually do not have a particular desire for this. You constantly forget about it, push it away, and therefore nothing happens.

Question: How can I unite with a friend who has no love for me? How can I get strength from connection with him?

Answer: You can gain strength by wanting to connect with him, even if you do not know him or feel distant from him. It is only through this desire that you begin to achieve any connection with him.

Question: Does the power we receive come from the ten or the Creator?

Answer: Only from the Creator.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention “Strengthening the Ten” 9/12/24, “Growing Stronger in the Ten”, Lesson 2

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