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The Light that Gives Confidence

276.02Question: There is a state when you feel yourself standing before the king, striving to please the Creator, and you know exactly what you are giving. But suddenly, external circumstances dampen these impressions, and fear of the Creator appears, a trepidation that something wrong was done. Where does this fear come from, and how can we overcome it?

Answer: Fear of the Creator arises from the sensation of the lack of surrounding light (Ohr Makif). It is necessary to be even more united with the ten, and then everything will definitely change. Everything will be revealed and you will get a sense of confidence. After all, the surrounding light supports us and gives us confidence. That is why it is so important.

You must constantly think about the mutual connection between you, and then you will receive this light through others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/24, Writings of Rabash “Because of Humbleness and Fear of the Lord”

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Walk in the Ways of the Creator

528.03Question: Rabash’s article “Hear, My Son, Your Father’s Morals – 1” describes how a person can make a calculation in his mind and have some possibility of following the ways of the Creator. But the mind cannot see where we are headed. How can we see this commandment before fulfilling it?

Answer: You have to ask. You have to ask for everything, and then you will get a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Therefore, you will later have a picture of our world, of yourself, and where you are.

Question: What kind of opportunity is to walk in the ways of the Creator?

Answer: It is an opportunity to fulfill the laws of unification until we unite into the system of Adam HaRishon.

Question: So why does this relate to the calculation? When we perform an action of unification, should we associate it with payment for violations or some loss?

Answer: Yes, our scrutinies always consist of some kind of calculation: plus or minus, more or less, etc.

Question: What kind of payment should we expect?

Answer: That it will unite us all and lift us up.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/7/24, Writings of Rabash “Hear, My Son, Your Father’s Morals – 1”

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From the Common Desire

935Question: How can we connect with the Creator through the connection between us so that we can turn to Him?

Answer: Unite among you. And when you feel that there is something common between you, elevate that common desire so that the Creator feels your collective desire and wants to fill it.

Question: Where is the Creator in this collective desire?

Answer: Above it.

Question: What does it mean that the Creator is above our desires?

Answer: He feels all desires from top to bottom.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/24, Writings of Rabash “By Your Actions, We Know You”

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Rewarded with Holiness

938.03Where there is labor, there is the Sitra Achra [other side], for the Sitra Achra is in deficiency (Baal HaSulam, Letter 55).

Question: What does it mean that we exert efforts in our connection with friends, and how will we be rewarded with holiness?

Answer: As long as we remain in egoistic desires, our efforts pass through a heavy barrier.

The moment we become bestowers efforts disappear and we joyfully and easily acquire the property of bestowal and remain in spirituality.

Here and now, in one hour, we can do much more than over a very long time thanks to many actions in the upper world.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/5/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Letter 55”

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The Opportunity to Rise Above

938.07Question: We say that if hatred toward a friend arises within you, you should outwardly show them love. But if a friend shows hatred toward me, is it my fault?

Answer: There is no fault of yours here! The Creator deliberately places you in this situation so that you can rise above it.

Question: What is the correct reaction to this situation?

Answer: Embrace your friend. He is giving you the opportunity to rise above.

Why should you take offense at him unless it concerns joint work in dissemination, translations, or other matters where disagreements arise for the sake of achieving a better result?

Otherwise, everything else is meant only for you to annul yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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If We Want to Draw Near the Creator

947Question: When I see my ten’s corporeal Hisarons (deficiencies), do I need to ask for their fulfillment for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: As for corporeal Hisarons, I do not know; you decide on this issue yourselves. In general we should feel what we lack from what we want to express in prayer to the Creator.

We need to understand that if we want to get closer to Him, we must strive for the property of bestowal. Therefore, asking for the property of bestowal so that you can be closer to the Creator, understand Him more, and thus bestow to Him is a serious prayer.

Question: I want to feel not only the Hisarons of the ten, but also that of the world Kli. How can I do this?

Answer: This is slowly forming in each of us. What the whole world Kli wants, in general, is in each of us; only it manifests gradually. So do not worry, this will happen soon.

Once you direct your feelings through the ten to the Creator, you will feel how your intentions become realized.

Question: As we unite in the group, we all work for the sake of bestowal. How can we increase our Kelim of bestowal and expand our Kli?

Answer: The more we think about how to turn to the Creator, the stronger our friends will be, and the more we will feel the desire to receive what we ask the Creator for.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Three Prayers”

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Integrate into Friends’ Prayers

938.04Question: I see how my friends in the group are trying to create a collective prayer. How can I strengthen and support it?

Answer: Join them.

Question: What is the mechanism of this process?

Answer: Pay attention to what they are asking for. You can hear it. And you will see if you can join their requests. It is advisable to find reasons to join their prayer. It is very beneficial.

Question: To attune oneself to the Creator, do you need to pray for several hours? How can you shorten this time to always stay connected with the group and with the Creator?

Answer: It is not necessary to pray for a long time. The main thing is that you try to do it from the depth of your heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/24, Writings of Rabash “By Your Actions, We Know You”

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Justify the Friend

527Question: Can we say that a friend’s absence from a group meeting is a punishment for them? After all, we should judge ourselves, and it is more appropriate to justify our friends saying that they are fulfilling the Creator’s mission in the material world.

Answer: Yes if that is truly the case. But if it is not, then there is no need to lie.

Question: How can I truly know what the friend is doing and the reasons for their absence?

Answer: Then justify them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/7/24, Writings of Rabash “Hear, My Son, Your Father’s Morals – 1”

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Spirituality Is a Field

537Spiritual work is not carried out by our mind. We need to adapt this program, install ourselves so that we work on a slightly different principle and so the program would be updated more and more at each of the 120 degrees. Each of them consists of many sub-steps.

Imagine if you sat down at your computer now, opened it, and saw that a familiar program became slightly different, and the next day it changed even more. And you must establish an increasingly complex, integral connection between you in which the particles begin to connect with each other into a system that begins to form a field from all sorts of straight lines of communication.

Spirituality is a field. In it there are no connections like “me – you,” “him – her,” and so on. Between all of us there is a kind of disk, and in it an infinite number of connections. I can be connected with everyone simultaneously, and this is constantly changing and leads to a general correction when this disk turns into a sphere. That is the gradual revelation of the Creator, the upper world.

Question: How does it turn from a disk into a sphere?

Answer: This is a qualitative change that happens by itself. Depending on our efforts, the program is constantly reinstalled and begins to include connections that were previously only linear: “me – you.” And suddenly, it starts to work in stereo, on many lines. There are also such examples in technology.

We only make efforts. In accordance with them, the program is reinstalled and creates new possibilities in us that we did not know about before. Although I create new efforts, I do not know what program I will receive. From below this is called MAN, and from above—MAD, a system that is revealed from above.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Feel Sorrow that the Creator Is Concealed

538Question: You mentioned that in the article of Rabash “The Torah is Acquired Through Suffering,” it speaks not only about the sufferings of love; meaning, not just the inner experiences from the lack of the light of Torah. What other sufferings are mentioned?

Answer: First of all, we must feel sorrow over the fact that the Creator is concealed and that only we can reveal Him; otherwise, He will remain concealed, and that is not good. Secondly, your friends, like you, are still in concealment, and we ask for all the friends and for the whole world. The main thing is to ask.

Question: Can the sufferings of friends become my own deficiency (Hissaron)?

Answer: Typically a Hissaron is a personal sensation of the need for the Creator’s help.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering”

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