Question: Will we be able to achieve true pleasure without suffering?

Answer: It depends on the kind of suffering. There are sufferings of love when I strive for the one I love, and for me it is suffering.

Question: How can we begin to regret the lack of love so this suffering will bring us closer to the Creator?

Answer: We need to think about it and discuss it with our friends. In this way each of you will receive various definitions from others of what connection is, what separation is, how far you are from the Creator, and so on.

The Creator is waiting for you to understand where you are and how you are connected to each other and Him, which enables you to move forward. It all comes from above, from Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Suffering and Joy”

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Question: You said we build the reflected light from Malchut to Keter with a ten. How? What is this action?

Answer: Try to feel it. Ask the Creator, and try with your friends to be connected so you have the reflective ability of the Kli where instead of receiving, you are ready to bestow. You can reflect the light in a ten if you have a common desire.

Question: Can we say that the common desire is the Malchut of our ten?

Answer: Yes, it reflects the direct light that comes to it.

Question: In our common desire, do we first feel the light, or do we try to bestow, build an intention and reflected light?

Answer: First, you make a restriction (Tzimtzum) and build a Partzuf of reflected light in the opposite direction, from receiving to bestowal, so that your Malchut becomes like Keter.

Malchut de Or Yashar (direct light) is Keter de Or Hozer (reflected light). And vice versa, in the reflected light, each Sefira located above the Malchut of the reflected light is clothed with properties corresponding to it. In this way, you compare yourself with the Creator.

Question: What does it mean that we rise at least a little above our Malchut in the direction of bestowal?

Answer: To rise means that you are ready to accept all the light that comes to you and forces you to accept it only after you make a restriction (Tzimtzum), a screen (Masach), and a reflected light (Ohr Hozer) on it. Then this light can clothe you and fully reveal itself in you.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 36

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Question: How can I overcome the feeling of my insignificance? What can I hold on to in these moments?

Answer: These are not moments, but a constant feeling. It will grow gradually and then disappear. How can you cope with this? Only with the help of the friends, by inspiring each other and turning to the Creator together so that He can correct this state.

Question: Is it possible to open your heart to the friends in these moments?

Answer: Yes, you can, but only to your friends.
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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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Question: How can we correctly layout our plans so that they would be directed to the Creator?

Answer: Most important is aspiration to the Creator. A little lower in importance is everything that can bring you to an action for the sake of the Creator. Then there are other actions that together will lead you in the near future to work for the Creator, to unite with your friends, and to fulfill His desires.

In this way a person gradually creates a sphere in which he constantly turns with his friends, with the group, with our lessons, etc.

Within this sphere, a person begins to give importance to every direction, as if he weighs it. Thus, a clear system of aspirations is gradually organized in him: what is important, what is secondary, etc.

Question: During the day, a person experiences a lot of various influences on his decision-making, on his plans. Is he able to process every decision in his life through this network of priorities?

Answer: There is no need if these are corporeal goals; it is only the ones that are aimed at spirituality.

Question: For example, when I have to make some choice in life I weigh how it can get me closer to the Creator, how important it is for me or not. Is it possible to process my corporeal decisions through this measurement?

Answer: Yes, although in general, it is very far from the correct usage. It is possible to make a mistake.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/21/24, Writings of Rabash “The Concealed Things Belong to the Lord Our God”

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This is the meaning of “If he is rewarded, he takes his share and his friend’s share in the Garden of Eden” (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 285, “A Person Builds a Building”).

The Garden of Eden is the degree at which we are connected with each other and with the Creator and we feel Him in the connection between us. Thus we complete our efforts and reveal that we are in a state filled with the light of the Creator, His presence, and His help to us. Accordingly, we wish to fill Him with our love and our connection.

The part of the neighbor is that part that is most corrected in each friend and that can connect with the other vessels in the ten.

Question: How can one be rewarded with drawing this part of the friend?

Answer: Through constant thoughts of connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/24, Writings of Rabash “A Person Builds a Building”

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Question: How can we, as a group of ten, draw closer to fulfilling the commandment to love one another?

Answer: Imagine that you are in a group of ten. You see it in front of you either mentally or physically. Now imagine that each of you must extend a thread of love to all the others. This network of love that you want to feel is essential. In this network, you will eventually begin to sense the Creator.

Question: How can this love be checked at any time?

Answer: By observing your reactions and the reactions of the Creator. To sense His response, you must explore all the possibilities and see where you can be closer to the Creator and where you are further away.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Suffering and Joy”

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But in the future,  when he engages Lishma, he will build for himself so that he himself will benefit from his work.

We should also interpret “this world.” When one engages in Torah and Mitzvot for his own sake, when the aim is to receive, he cannot benefit from the building he is building.

An hour of Torah and an hour of prayer is similar to a brick over a brick. By this, a large building is made, according to the value of one’s work in Torah and Mitzvot (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 285, “A Person Builds a Building”).

If we want to draw closer to the Creator, we must unite among ourselves. Therefore, this rapprochement and mutual incorporation in the ten forms a certain area between us, i.e., the very house we enter.

Then, we discover that according to what we have built, the Creator is revealed. This is how it works: we build a place, and the Creator fills it.

It is said that I will build and live in this home and not another. “I” refers to the one who desires to create a house from bricks, where each brick is a desire that I combine with other desires and create a common structure.

Properly placing spiritual bricks from lesson to lesson means that all the friends think about how to draw closer to the Creator and take part in this process. The common spiritual brick of the ten in the construction of the Temple is mutual help and joint prayer.

Question: Is each home a separate structure or part of our common Temple?

Answer: If you wish, you can build the Temple together; if not, then it is built only by the one who performs the correct actions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/24, Writings of Rabash “A Person Builds a Building”

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Question: Can it be considered that my intention comes from the Creator if it aligns with my desire and is directed toward goodness and love?

Answer: The fact that your intention aligns with your desire does not necessarily mean it came from above. You should not think that way. It might be correct or it may not be at all.

Question: It is said that there is none else besides Him. What does that mean? Does that imply it does not depend on Him, but only on us?

Answer: Of course, That is why we engage in Kabbalah—to align our actions and intentions with those of the Creator so there is no difference between us and the Creator. That is called adhesion (Dvekut).

Question: How can a person know if he or she has set the intention correctly? After all, there is the general intention of the group and there is a personal intention. How can one sense the correct intention?

Answer: The correct intention can only be understood by asking the Creator for it and receiving it. In doing so, you feel that it comes from the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/21/24, Writings of Rabash “The Concealed Things Belong to the Lord Our God”

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In this world, a person builds a building and another ruins it. But in the future, he will not build and another will dwell.
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Afterward is called “future,” meaning a world that approaches and comes, as it is written in The Zohar, and which the sages call “coming to Lishma.” At that time, they will not build but engage in Torah and Mitzvot, and then sit, but he himself, for because his aim is Lishma, the secrets of Torah are revealed to him and he becomes as a flowing stream (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 285, “A Person Builds a Building“).

Question: Does this mean that the perception of the world is not in the sensations of reward and punishment, but in faith above reason?

Answer: Yes, of course. But the main thing is that together we are  engaged in creating a place where the Creator will manifest with all His attributes, the laws of nature. We participate in this ourselves and thus correct ourselves.

Question: How important is it that there be peace in the house?

Answer: “House” refers to the ten, in which there should be a common understanding of what we are doing, why, and how we are moving forward. All of this must be coordinated among us. Therefore, there should be no contradictions in the house.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/24, Writings of Rabash “A Person Builds a Building”

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Question: What does true bestowal mean? Is it when my desire to receive becomes giving?

Answer: It means that I work on our connection in such a way that I receive everything for the sake of bestowal, channel the light of the Creator through myself, and pass it on to others.

As a result, I too am filled, but my goal is to fill everyone else.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/24, Writings of Rabash “A Person Builds a Building”

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