Question: What is the basis of prayer?

Answer: The basis of prayer is your request: What do you want from the Creator? You should think it over carefully, talk to each other, and decide what is important for you to ask the Creator for. Then you will form a really serious prayer.

Question: Should the basis of prayer be from the group or can it be individual for each person?

Answer: Individual prayer is rarely accepted. The Creator clearly answers the prayer that comes from everyone in the group and only from the heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Three Prayers”

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Question: What should we pay attention to so that we understand that our desire to receive is truly being corrected and purified?

Answer: To feel this you must attract all your aspirations to a certain center of desires and gather the center of the group to attract the reforming light to all these desires. That is when you will feel the correction.

Question: Will the landmarks be only in feelings, in states, or could there be some rational calculations here?

Answer: No, only sensory ones.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/24, Writings of Rabash “Affliction Precedes Mercy”

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Question: Do we need to be concerned about the advancement of friends who do not want it?

Answer: There is no need to, you won’t drag them against their will.

Question: What if we are in the same boat?

Answer: It doesn’t matter. A person must work on achieving what he wants himself. We can only help him if he wants to.

The people in our group give their consent a priori to advance with us, so we care about them but not about others.

Question: Should we oblige them to show up at least twice a week?

Answer: No, leave them alone. This will only make it worse for you.
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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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Question: How can you find your personal inner need for the Creator?

Answer: Gradually ask the Creator about everything; He will help you approach this.

Question: What do we, Bnei Baruch, need to do for all of us to cry out to the Creator and ask for mercy for all of humanity?

Answer: You need to unite more and more with each other in your ten and raise a collective prayer to the Creator, and you will succeed.

Question: What can be called Katnut (small state) in our relationships?

Answer: Katnut is a particular measure of filling for Malchut, which accepts this filling and considers it sufficient for the time being.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/24, Writings of Rabash “Prayer”

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Question: Is it enough for me to set a good example for the friend without expecting any reaction or should I still check his response?

Answer: You do not expect any reaction from your friend that would oblige you to continue setting positive examples.

You wait for your friend’s reaction to adjust your own, to change your attitude to an even more advanced one. That is, the direction is always positive toward getting closer to each other and greater mutual penetration into the quality of bestowal that would fill the space between you.

Question: What is the next degree in this situation?

Answer: The next degree in this situation means that despite rejection, you understand that you must move forward with reason, feelings, thoughts, and intentions. You keep yourself in a state of rejection and build a connection above it.

In such mutual internal tension, you move forward. If you think there should be some kind of love or romance here, this is certainly not Kabbalah. In Kabbalah, there are only two opposite states, one above the other. Then, you begin to ascend from our world to the next level.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: How is the bread of shame felt in the heart and not in the mind? What actions do you need to perform in the ten in order to receive the Creator’s blessing on the bread of shame?

Answer: Unite and turn to the Creator from the center of your unity. Then you will feel how much your appeal will immediately deserve a response.

Question: There is confusion between corporeal and spiritual shame. How does the bread of shame feel in spirituality?

Answer: When you reach the sense of shame for your actions, you will feel what the taste of shame is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “The Path of Truth”

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Question: How can we develop our collective deficiency for the light in our ten while maintaining an atmosphere of joy?

Answer: Why does this prevent you from being joyful?

Question: If there is a state of joy from unity in the group, it seems that everything is already good.

Answer: Are you in adhesion with the Creator?

Question: No, rather in a good connection between us.

Answer: So what is this, kindergarten?

Question: If it is still kindergarten, then what is lacking in this effort?

Answer: There is a lack of desire to connect with your friends in such a way as to create a place for the revelation of the Creator.
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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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Question: You said that I cannot achieve spiritual love if I do not feel rejected by others, right?

Answer: Of course, what will you build your love on? If you simply feel love for someone, then this is corporeal, carnal love or some earthly attraction.

Let us say you like a friend, a child, a woman, food, etc., i.e., all categories of our main interests. But this is not what we are talking about. You can build love only based on rejection from a friend.

Question:  Let us say a friend for whom I initially have no feelings is sitting in front of me. I begin to strive for love, for unification with him, and in response to this, the Creator sends me rejection from him, right?

Answer: Yes if you really strive for a connection with him.

Question: Is my test that if I truly strive for connection with him, the Creator will certainly send me rejection from him?

Answer: Not right away. You will have to work with a friend, as is usually done in our world. Then, you will definitely begin to feel some kind of rejection. These are already spiritual sensations that are not typical of our world. You will even think: “Why did I suddenly hate him so much? I suddenly stopped liking this and that in him?” That is how spiritual qualities manifest themselves in him and you. Therefore, mutual rejection arises.

But if mutual attraction continues between you, and you embrace with pleasure, dine with pleasure, and communicate, then this is earthly companionship.

In Kabbalah, any connection is built only on rejection and hatred. Love is built by effort.

Question: What is the work of a friend regarding me at the moment when I strive toward him? Must he try to show me the same?

Answer: This is already difficult. Your friend may show that he is striving for you, or on the contrary, he demonstrates complete disdain. The Creator gives you all sorts of exercises.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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The sensation of connections between us is called the world. The worlds themselves do not exist. We should not think that when we climb the spiritual ladder, we enter the first, second, or third floor. These floors do not exist; they are all within us, and we form them from our relations with one another.

Therefore, the word “world” comes from the word “Nehelam”—disappearing or approaching. That is,  we are the ones who create the worlds, our specific relationships.

If they reach the above-egoistic properties at the first level, then we begin to sense ourselves in the world of Asiya. That is already a spiritual world, meaning a state where we can give and receive, but not in the same way as our world.

It seems to us that here we, too, give and receive. In reality, we only receive all the time since we are unable to give. Even if physically we give, we still pursue the goal of receiving. We can never do anything opposite to our original desire.

Therefore, everything that exists at the level of our world and in our state today requires correction. We have to establish connections between us where we always want to give to one another both in intention and in action, to fulfill one another and do something that the other one desires.

Thus we will come to the state where relations between us will begin to form the next world—a higher state where a property of bestowal manifests at the first egoistic level appears in us.

Therefore, there is more selfishness in everyone who rises higher. It is on it that he builds his relationships with others in giving to them and thus feels himself to be in an increasingly higher world.

He feels his existence in some property of bestowal, perhaps only to 5 to 10%, but this is already some revelation of the Creator. In this way, he begins to understand the concept of nature, its creation and origination, its development, and the transformations he and this nature go through. That is the way we go through our development.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: How can you best focus on your friends, that is, on fulfilling them so as not to stray?

On the one hand friends are a tool. On the other hand, only through love for them can one reach the Creator. How can I guide myself correctly?

Answer: Try to treat your friends with the same love as the Creator treats them, and concern yourself with their unity so they are always occupied only with what the Creator sends to them.

Try to group them and direct them to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/24, Writings of Rabash “Affliction Precedes Mercy”

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