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Don’t Lose What Is Given from Above

947Question: The sages say that a fool loses what is given to him. How can we not lose what is given from above in spirituality?

Answer: If you hold on to this together and not separately, then you will be able to hold on to everything that the Creator sends to you. He will give you important things as He sees you striving to lay hold of spiritual things together.

Question: How can we not be afraid of falling and how can we enlist the support of the Creator?

Answer: Be together in one ten and hold on to each other. Then you will not have these problems. You should feel like you are with your friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Good Taste in Small, Corporeal Things.”

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Everyone’s Spiritual Uniqueness

938.01Question: What is everyone’s spiritual uniqueness? How can we reveal it to unite not in desires, but in intentions where we are equal and everyone adds their own color to infinity?

Answer: You should try to rise above your ego and imagine that you already have the right qualities: love, desire to please others, and so on. If you act like this, you will succeed.

One’s spiritual uniqueness lies in the fact that he wants to fulfill another, although he does not understand how he does it in a way that no one else can in his place.

That is what the law of “love your neighbor as yourself” is about—investing in relations with friends.

Ninety percent of the followers can reveal their individuality and its realization only through the leaders. However, for the leaders to help them, the followers must exert the proper measurable effort. They need to try to be with such people who pull the group forward and thus act to correct everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Anyone with Whom the Spirit of the People Is Pleased – 2”

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How Can You Understand the Answer of the Creator?

936Question: When we correctly raise MAN, the response from the Creator comes to us in the form of MAD. Is it possible to understand whether our MAN was accepted or not?

Answer: Of course, this can be understood through the attitude of the Creator toward me: I am for the Creator and the Creator is for me.

Question: We act in the center of the connection of the ten. How can we discern the attitude of the Creator toward us through our prayer?

Answer: Treat Him as correctly as possible, and after that begin to read His response in the relationships between you.

Question: What changes? Is it some level of unity between us?

Answer: Everything changes. Absolutely everything.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/24/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 8

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Put All the Images of the Creator Together

275Question: You said that everyone has their own Creator. When we unite and perceive each other’s Creator, what happens to Him? Does anything change?

Answer: The Creator combines all His images into one larger image.

Question: How does this affect our further interaction with Him?

Answer: If the unity is maintained, then you cling to Him even more, and if it is not maintained, then it is bad.

It is okay; you will gradually come to unity.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/24/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 8

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How Can You Love Your Neighbor?

530Question: It is easy for us to love people who are close to us in their qualities. But how can we make ourselves love people who are not like us?

Answer: I do not think you should do this. You should strive for what is revealed in the ten and try to establish friendly relations in it.

Question: What is hatred of others?

Answer: Hatred of others is dislike, a desire to move away from them, to distance oneself.

Question: How can we love our neighbor as ourselves? Do we need to see ourselves in him and love him?

Answer: You can imagine it this way, or you can imagine that your neighbor, whom you want to love, is connected with the Creator, and through him you will love the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Anyone with Whom the Spirit of the People Is Pleased – 2”

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How Can You Devote Yourself to the Spiritual Path?

281.02Question: Over the course of studying in the group of ten, we have developed trust in our friends and a sense of responsibility for our actions. But we are afraid that what we are doing is insufficient. How can we devote ourselves to the spiritual path without overthinking?

Answer: To some extent, the number of years you have been studying, the amount of effort invested, and your searches matter. But I do not think it is that critical.

The most important thing is how connected you are with each other. When those who know more and those who know less, those with greater desires and those with lesser desires, all come together, they create one common vessel (Kli). In this common vessel shared desires, shared aspirations, and shared questions lead to the progress of everyone.

Gradually, you will all find balance. Those who have been studying for five years and those for five months will reach a state where they think alike and immerse themselves equally in the material.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/19/20, “Connecting into One Soul”

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Toward a Feeling of Shared Love

938.07Question: How do you develop the need to feel your neighbor’s desire?

Answer: To do this, you need to be in contact with him, to feel him, and help him raise his desire for the Creator.

Question: We know when we are pleasing our father or mother. How can I take the Kelim of the higher one and feel I am pleasing my mother?

Answer: It is said about this that from love for one’s neighbor to love for the Creator. Start with your neighbors. Neighbors are group mates who can help you, and you can help them. And then move on to love for the Creator.

Through love for your neighbor, you form a connection with the Creator. And then you begin to receive strength from Him with the help of which you will feel shared love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Anyone with Whom the Spirit of the People Is Pleased – 2”

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Love People

294.2Question: What is the difference between loving friends and loving all people?

Answer: There is a big difference between these concepts because loving friends in the group is one thing, but loving just people is another.

Although I have to love both of them, i.e., feel their good and bad feelings as my own.

Question: We are studying how to treat our friends. What about loving people?

Answer: Wishing them well is how love for a person manifests itself. You must love people, and then the Creator will love you to the same extent.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Anyone with Whom the Spirit of the People Is Pleased – 2”

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From Immersion in Connection

938.02Question: There are generations of Boomers, X, Z, and Y. Now the Alpha generation is growing up. How do we create material that will be interesting to them?

Answer: I think the most important thing for you is to study the wisdom of Kabbalah itself, delve deeply into it, and try to connect it with the questions you receive from the world. It is very important to stay connected with your friends so that from your connection with them, you can form the right answers to all questions.

The point is that by immersing yourself in your friends and the connection with them, you will feel a kind of pleasure that fills you and explains everything to you. This is what you need to reach. When you reach this state, you will have the right foundation for moving forward.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 7/19/20, “Connecting into One Soul”

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Three Hours of Continuous Prayer

630.2Comment: At a congress every friend from the world group has a special opportunity to take part in kitchen duty. This opportunity is given only once. It lets us together form the right intention and opportunity and use it to connect with each other, which will delight the Creator and everyone at the congress.

My Response: Even if someone came from who knows where, can they only have kitchen duty once?!

Comment: Unfortunately, everyone gets only one chance of three hours to selflessly give to all the friends in the kitchen over the three days of the congress.

My Response: This is a big deal! These three hours are like three hours of continuous prayer. Maybe we do not understand this, so we just need to accept that it is so.

That is the most effective way to enter the upper world. Give these three hours all your heart and energy! Maybe this is why everyone came to the congress.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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