Entries in the 'Group Work' Category

In the Hands of the Group

938.04Question: What do you do when a person wants to nullify himself, performs this action, but then becomes passive and indifferent? What is the mistake here?

Answer: The ten should hold him in its arms, let him try, and you will help him.

Question: Let us say his opinion differs from the others, and the others do not accept his opinion. Then, the friend seemingly annuls himself, but at the same time, he loses strength and cannot do anything. What should he do?

Answer: It is true that he has no strength because he does not yet have real, correct desires. It is impossible to receive strength from egoism.

In principle, the main thing is to pray, to ask the Creator for strength, and to understand where he was thrown and in what state. From all this, he will receive the right feelings, from which he will slowly rise to the Creator. He will see that he needs to ask.

Question: How should the group act? You said that it should hold him in its arms. What kind of support is that? Should we say that you have a different opinion, but we still love you? Or should we listen to what he says?

Answer: No, it is not necessary to listen. If you hold him, he would understand this and want to gradually free himself from your help and learn to hold himself.

That is, he should gradually become independent. That means that in any circumstances, he will orient himself toward connection with the Creator through his friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Internality and Externality”

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The Temple Above Dust

935The person received an inheritance from his teachers not to let anything be built on this dust, except for the Temple (Rabash, Notes 804 “Raises the Poor from the Dust – 2”).

Dust is not soil, stone, or sand, but specifically, dust, meaning a part of the earth that is useless for anything.

When a person sees that they stand on dust, it indicates that there is no future, and they still do not have the foundation on which to build the Temple, a house of sanctity.

Question: To build the Temple, on our part, we need agreement with the Creator, patience, lowliness, and prayer. What does it mean to agree with the Creator?

Answer: It means agreeing that we are low in our desires and must unite with one another in prayer to the Creator to reach correction. That must be clearly understood both emotionally and intellectually. It is a good degree.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Raises the Poor from the Dust – 2”

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Through Internal Connection

938.03Question: At a convention, we will not always have the technical ability to be with our ten. It feels like we have to maintain an internal connection. How can we internally maintain this point of unity?

Answer: I do not think that we will always gather in the form we are doing today.

After all, you will not gather the ten that you will gather at the convention today every time, because next time others will come, and then others. Therefore we need to do something so that all this does not fall apart. I do not know how much it helps that we hold conventions. Maybe it does the opposite.

The thing is that people are used to working in their place, from their city, from their country. And here, everyone is mixing. Once upon a time, many years ago, this was good. And now we need to think carefully about what to do with conventions in the future.

Question: We are now virtually connected with our ten. What am I adding to the fact that now, while here, I want the friends in my ten to advance toward the Creator?

Answer: You transmit all this through your internal connection between hearts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/8/24, Writings of Rabash, “You Stand Today, All of You”

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How Do We Hear the Creator in the Ten?

945Question: Has each of us who studies at Bnei Baruch in one way or another heard the Creator at least once? Can this be said?

Answer: No, we are only preparing to hear Him.

Question: How do we hear the Creator in the ten?

Answer: If you are united with each other in the ten, then the quality of hearing will manifest in you. In other words, no one will hear the Creator individually, only together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash “The Point in the Heart”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—175

234Question: You said we should either work on our own flaws or the flaws of our friends. Which is more beneficial?

Answer: When a person works on his or herself.

Question: How is a heart of stone different from a heart of flesh?

Answer: The heart of flesh is actually the heart of stone.

Question: If I try to feel my friends as myself, how should I deal with their egoistic desires?

Answer: You should not take on the egoistic desires of your friends. You should distance yourself from them and allow them the opportunity to understand and correct their own qualities. A person cannot correct someone else’s desires.

Question: Is a pure heart the heart of the group and a heart of flesh a personal heart? Or are they the same?

Answer: No, a pure heart is a heart completely corrected of egoism, even in one person, while an egoistic heart is filled with egoistic desires. These are two opposite states.

Question: There is always a contradiction between body and spirit. How can one strengthen the spirit?

Answer: By being connected with good friends.

Question: If I constantly, many times a day, reveal my own evil, where in this endless prayer for my own correction should I include a prayer for my friends, and what should it be like?

Answer: It should be one united prayer where you care both for the correction of your own heart and the correction of your friend’s heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/8/24, Writings of Rabash “One Learns Only Where One’s Heart Desires”

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Ask the Creator for Assistance

938.07Question: We have a healthy egoism that drives us, and there is also what is called the evil inclination. How can we learn to distinguish between them?

Answer: Try to discern this based on your connection with one another. You should be in a state of maximum closeness with each other, and then you will begin to notice various nuances in your relationships. At that point, it will become easier for you to turn to the Creator and ask for His assistance.

Question: What will allow us to speak with the Creator directly?

Answer: Being in the same qualities and aspirations as He is.

Question: How important is it to have the desire to reveal the Creator?

Answer: This is the most important reason for you to engage in the wisdom of drawing closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Internality and Externality”

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Targeted Alignment

938.01Question: You said that we should not allow the forces of nature to confuse us. How can a person make an internal choice to understand that they are not confusing, but helping him?

Answer: If he places himself in the most neutral state possible, he can correctly assess what influences him, why he reacts in a certain way, and will be able to choose the right path.

A neutral state begins with one nullifying one’s ego before one’s friends. This is the most important alignment. Without it, a person will have no reference point for how to position oneself neutrally in relation to one’s friends and to perceive them as upper ones with regard to oneself.
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From the 1st part of 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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Together in Spiritual Space

944Question: What does coming together in spiritual space mean and how do we do it?

Answer: Coming together in spiritual space means gathering our spiritual desires so that they give us a common desire, new in quality and strength, to accomplish something spiritual in the unification of the common Kli, in transmitting of the common light, so that we feel that we want it, that we desire it passionately. Then, the unification between us and the Creator occurs, Zivug deHakaa (coupling by striking).
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash, “A Congregation Is No Less than Ten”

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Hisaron—Desire to Become Creator’s Vessel

528.01Question: How do we increase the desire to become similar to the Creator in the group? How can the group help us develop or generate Hisaron?

Answer: We must raise our desires, our common Hisaron, to the Creator and urge Him to correct and fill it. That is what we expect from the Creator.

Question: How are the heart and Hisaron interconnected?

Answer: What the heart feels is Hisaron. Hisaron is the desire to become a vessel for the Creator. When your desire aligns with the desire of the ten, this is a correct Hisaron.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/24, Writings of Rabash “I Will Remove the Stony Heart”

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Suffering is the Absence of Light

560Question: Let’s say I experience suffering and understand that the Creator sent it for the purpose of correction. Then the suffering becomes a correction for me, through which I bring pleasure to the Creator and establish a connection with Him. Where can I get pleasure from the connection through suffering if I do not have Kelim of bestowal yet?

Answer: You will not be able to derive pleasure through suffering. Do not lie to the Creator.

Comment: But if we understand that suffering came from Him, it does not feel so bitter.

My Response: No, connection with the Creator does not feel like bitterness. That is impossible. There is nothing better than the light. All suffering arises from the absence of light.

Question: Then how do you turn it into joy?

Answer: Correct yourself through connection with friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/24, Writings of Rabash “He Who Comes to Purify Is Aided – 1”

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