Question: The Hisaron (deficiency) of a sinner is in justifying the actions of the Creator, but what is the deficiency of a righteous person?

Answer: The Hisaron of a righteous person is in fulfilling the actions of the Creator.

Question: Can the feeling of being righteous be given by certain forces that further hinder a person from transitioning to faith above reason?

Answer: On the path, anything is possible. The main thing is to not  be afraid and keep moving forward, keep asking, keep questioning. When will I receive it? When will I have strength? When will I have knowledge? When will I be above reason? And so on.

Question: If the right line represents a righteous person and the left line represents a sinner, then what is called the middle line?

Answer: It is when I work above reason.

Question: What is the proper feeling in a person’s egoism after he has nullified himself before his friends?

Answer: It is the feeling that you have created a place where you can feel the Creator.

Question: Sometimes, after annulment, there is a feeling of being lowered and sometimes of inspiration. Are both correct, or is one preferable?

Answer: Annulment is best.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/24, Writings of Rabash “Righteous and Wicked”

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Question: A question about prayer. When you want to ask for something, do the words have any limits? How can I expand my request?

Answer: First of all, you can talk about this with your friends. Secondly, there are texts written by Kabbalists that are considered canonical prayers. There is nothing particularly special about them, just requests to the Creator for various kinds of help, identification of connection, development, and so on.

Any such appeal develops a person if they reflect on these words written by the Kabbalists. All prayers were written by great Kabbalists.

More than 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem, there was a group of Kabbalists called the Great Assembly (Knesset HaGadola). Before their time, there were no prayers at all because everyone knew how they should ask the Creator to establish their connection with others. Therefore, there was no need for any prayer books.

But these Kabbalists felt that people were on the verge of falling from the spiritual level, so they wrote a collection of prayers. This is what we use now.

What are these prayers about essentially? Only about the connection between us. We need to understand these words. But in general, they praise the Creator as the quality of bestowal, love, the highest quality of nature. They talk about how He does not forget us and strives to bring us closer to each other so that He can dwell within us. And we try to realize all of this, to bring joy to our parent just like good children. That is all; there is nothing else.

So you can use these prayer books. But, in principle, prayer is what a person feels in their heart. That is the first thing. Secondly, prayer is also considered correct self-assessment. After all, the verb “to pray” (Lehitpalel) means “to judge oneself.” This is what a prayer is all about, that I judge my actions, the circumstances I find myself in, and how I can rise above them.

It is important to understand that an ascent follows an unbreakable rule: “From love for the creations to love for the Creator.” It is only through this sequence and no other. We can appeal to Him only if we have a ten, only if we strive to gather all of humanity into a ten and offer the Creator the opportunity to fill them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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Question: In one of your answers, I heard that the reward will come as a desire to bestow. But my evil inclination finds it painful to bestow. Does this mean there is no reward for me yet?

Answer: You must understand that the desire to bestow in a person is directed from above, and in some way it raises one to the level of the Creator. Therefore there is no need to reason, based on our earthly standards here.

Question: I understand that you are talking about spiritual bestowal. But how can I stop expecting this reward? Or how can I know there is some kind of connection between me, the ten, and the Creator?

Answer: To do this, one must include oneself in the group and the group must strive to unite with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/24, Writings of Rabash “One Who Restrains Himself in Strife”

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Question: There are states in the ten where there seems to be enough of everything. But everyone always has some kind of Hissaron because we see what is happening in the world. Is it worthwhile calculating to add a new Hissaron to the ten that I feel at this moment? After all, this is contrary to raising the friend’s spirit.

Answer: If you strive to raise the friend’s spirit, that is exactly what you do. In Kabbalah, everything depends on what you consider necessary to do right now.

Your entire life should be divided into some stages of your attitude to your friends, books, songs, and everything. In other words, you must clearly understand for whom, for what, why, what, and when you need to do it. And then you will not have any problems.

Question: So I can always reveal the true state, that there is a lack of bestowal from me, from the ten, to the world Kli and the whole world.

It turns out that there are my personal feelings and my prayers, and there is what the ten’s state is. And if I bring too much Hissaron, will my friends lose faith in this?

Answer: No, don’t worry. Everything passes through the Creator. Therefore, all our requests and thoughts are smoothed out and come to the friends in the right form. And if it is not in the proper form, then this, too, is the Creator’s decision.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/24, Writings of Rabash “A Near Road and a Faraway Road”

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We are at the final stage of the development and correction of humanity called the last generation. This is a special mission of the souls that are now undergoing correction and must enter the sensation and revelation of the upper world of the Creator and take all of humanity with them.

Before our time, there were many Kabbalists, but they attained the Creator individually, except for the special group of Rabbi Shimon. There were no other groups at all, just a few individuals who passed on the chain of this knowledge further and further.

Today, there are small Kabbalistic groups here and there working in different ways. Of course, I wish them success since any action is a joint action that awakens the common soul and leads us to complete correction. So individual successes still affect the overall success; therefore, it is very joyful to see the emergence of such groups.

But we are the first group that works for general dissemination within Israel and throughout the world for the sake of all of humanity. We represent, as it were, the brightest part of all souls, called the last generation.

Therefore, new properties are revealed in us according to the conditions we must fulfill to correct the whole Kli—the entire soul of Adam.

So we have a special account with the Creator. But for this, we must expand our ranks and disseminate more and more because dissemination is one of the conditions for our spiritual elevation.

In other words, the group is built in such a way that without dissemination, it immediately narrows and falls. Our whole life is only in dissemination, in growing, in constantly attracting new friends to us, and thus lead all of humanity to overall correction.

Moreover, this process is exponential. So, it does not matter to us how far we are from the goal today, as it seems to us. The main thing is to achieve the goal, and everyone else will gradually join us. They will begin to raise us to the extent that we start to rise.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: What should I focus on in my work in the ten?

Answer: Focus on making the ten more precious to you than yourself because it is your spiritual vessel, your soul. Consider how your soul, the eternal spiritual level, should be more valuable to you than your body. The body is the temporary animalistic level, but the soul is the eternal spiritual level and through it you enter attainment of the Creator.

Therefore, the most important thing is to have several friends within whom you feel your soul resides. Let’s say there are a few people, maybe five or six, and in them your soul exists. This is crucial. You feel that without them, you have no soul.

If you constantly depict yourself in relation to your ten in this way, you will soon notice the changes that are occurring between you. It will be the Creator Himself who starts to speak with you in this way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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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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