Entries in the 'Group Work' Category

Quality of Prayer and Spiritual Advancement

938.05Question: In a prayer is it possible to ask for us to be able to unite with each other and pass the full measure of light that the Creator wants to transmit through us to the peoples of the world?

Answer: Yes, it is possible.

Comment: What is the relationship between the quality of a collective prayer and the readiness of each ten? And vice versa, how does each ten depend on the collective prayer for its advancement?

My Response: It is a very close relationship. Therefore, we need to take care of one another and be critical of how each ten reveals itself in relation to others in order to provide the correct understanding of moving forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Run My Beloved”

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Fulfill the Desire of the Creator

600.02Question: Can there be unification without obligations?

Answer: No.

Question: Who sets these obligations?

Answer: Everyone who participates in the unification.

Question: And what if there are disagreements?

Answer: Gradually people begin to understand each other and agree on certain conditions, requirements, and issues.

Question: What should we invest in the unification to fulfill the Creator’s desire?

Answer: Whatever is required. The most important thing is a person’s readiness.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Today – 2”

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Preparation of the Desire for Connection

275Question: What is preparation of the desire for a new connection?

Answer: Preparation of the desire for a new connection means that I identify my desire that I deeply want to correct so that it becomes more pronounced and clear. With this desire, I turn to the Creator and ask Him to correct it, because I want to come to connection with my fellow friends through this desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Here Today – 1”

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Holy Divinity in the Ten

942Question: It is said you can receive the light of mercy from the Creator if you ask, not for yourself, but for the society, for the holy Divinity. What does it mean?

Answer: This means that you are asking for filling with the highest light of mercy, the light of Hassadim.

Question: We work in a group, but are we talking about the whole world here?

Answer: No, to feel this light in the group is enough. In other words, you can sense the holy Divinity in the ten.

The holy Divinity is a good relationship between you in the ten. Ohr Hassadim determines it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Run My Beloved”

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Effort beyond Human Strength

282.01Question: Baal HaSulam writes that the salvation of the Creator can only be found in effort beyond human strength. We constantly exert effort in our ten during daily lessons, meetings, and calls. But what does it mean to exert effort beyond human strength?

Answer: These are efforts that a person cannot make, but he still exerts in them and hopes that the Creator will add what is needed to his efforts.

Question: What are these efforts, for example, in the ten, that I cannot make? Is it some kind of addition, like another meeting or another prayer?

Answer: Mainly it is prayer. It seems like we are doing everything physically, yet we are not achieving the desired result.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 56

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Questions about Spiritual Work—166

963.4Question: What is the benefit of praying for my friends not only during the ten meetings but constantly, without a set schedule?

Answer: The benefit is that you will continuously channel your prayers and the Creator’s responses through you to them, and in doing so, you will become like a leader in the group, pulling them along with you.

Question: It is said that pure and impure are a matter of a person’s perception. When will we feel that we are pure? Should we check this somehow?

Answer: How will you check it? You can only ask the Creator to reveal your true state to you.

Question: Can we reach one single truth in the group?

Answer: That is how it will be, not now, but at the end of the path. It will be recognizing the revelation of a single desire for all and filling it with light.

Question: When a person finds their love and creates a family, a couple, isn’t this primarily an egoistic action? How should we treat this?

Answer: You should not treat this in any particular way. A person should check whether they are acting out of a good attitude toward others or out of an evil one. That is all.

Question: You said that it cannot be that the truth harms someone. In terms of dissemination, we cannot tell the whole truth there, can we?

Answer: You should always say what benefits people and what is pleasant for them. These two conditions must always be met. You are offering them a method by which they can reveal the meaning of life, its purpose, and how to achieve it. The third condition is to speak the truth. If you adhere to these three conditions, everything will be fine.
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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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Egoism of the Spiritual Degree

509Question: Let’s say I ask the Creator to change my qualities so that it would be possible to bestow and ask for friends. Am I asking for my private soul?

Answer: No, this is a mistake. This is egoism! Asking for yourself to be a bestower, to care for others, and so on is a mistake.

Comment: But I am asking to give it to me for the sake of bestowal.

My Response: No one needs it in order to bestow. And the Creator too. Bestowal can only be in unification. You have to ask for a structure, for the correction of the common Kli. Only from it can you bestow and do something through this structure.

Therefore, it is said: “An individual cannot separate from society and ask for himself, even to bring contentment to the Creator.”

This is not simple. There is a lot to figure out. It is a big problem. It is not so relevant for us yet. God willing that everyone will ask for themselves to be a bestower, to love friends, and so on. This is also egoism, but of the spiritual degree. But still egoism:

  • Give me the strength to love my friends.
  • Why should you be given strength? For what purpose?
  • I want to love them.
  • And why do you need to love?
  • I will unite with them.
  • Why do you need this unification?
  • In order to bring contentment to the Creator.
  • So, ask for that!

Ask for that. The most important thing for us is to understand that there is nothing else in front of us except the Creator and our common spiritual Kli, the soul, which must be similar to Him.

All we have to ask for is for this similarity of the soul to the Creator. That is all. Meaning, there is no me there, no friends, no group, nothing at all. There is a soul for which I ask.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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The Creator’s Preparations

943Question: What does it mean that the Creator will reveal Himself between us as the center of unification?

Answer: By creating us, the Creator gave us the opportunity and mind to understand and feel that He can be between us. He is ready for this. He made preparations for this, which is why we can discuss it today. The time has come when we can reveal the Creator in our unity.

Question: What does it mean that He made preparations?

Answer: He created all of reality, the globe and the people on it, and revealed Himself in relation to them. And after He reveals Himself, we, on our part, must take several steps forward toward Him.

Question: You said the strength of His revelation depends on the unification between friends. What determines this strength of unity?

Answer: It is impossible to measure. I understand that, technically, this could be measured. It will not be now, but later when we can feel the screen and feel with what force we are attracted to each other and how we hold the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Here Today – 1”

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The Congress Is One Ten

945Question: The congress is a big gathering. How can I feel that I have my ten at this huge congress?

Answer: The entire congress is one ten. All mankind is the Partzuf of Adam, his ten Sefirot. There are no more than ten parts.

The fact they are divided into tens, and tens, and more tens does not matter.

This is necessary so they all can make their own small, correct contribution to the common Kli.

Therefore, we must think about the general, because everyone at the congress wants to be together as one common whole.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Don’t Forget the Union Of Love

938.01Question: What can help us not forget that there is a connection of love with our friends and with the Creator and constantly maintain the singularity of the Creator?

Answer: Constantly think about it and live by it. Only in this way will you be able to maintain your connection with your friends and with the Creator.

Question: Is the attainment of the level of oneness the initial part of the request or the culmination of spiritual work?

Answer: This action is revealed at every degree. It is felt by you in response to your efforts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Here Today – 1”

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