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A Strong Group

530Question: How can we promote knowledge about the Creator to the masses?

Answer: By disseminating information that there is a place where people study how to reveal the Creator.

Question: What is this strong group that promotes knowledge about the Creator and in what should its flexibility be manifested?

Answer: A strong group is a group that studies and works in dissemination. Its flexibility is manifested in its readiness to work with any member of the group and to adapt to them.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 7/13/24, “Equals, As One: No friend is strong, the Society is strong”

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Efforts and Reward

255Question: How can we receive a reward in the Kelim of bestowal? Let us say the pleasure of minimal unification is also a reward. Can we receive it in the Kelim of bestowal?

Answer: Yes, but we want to be rewarded for every action we take. If this is an act of bestowal, if we rise through it and can influence others and the Creator even more, this is the reward.

Question: How can we relate correctly to the fact that some put in a lot of effort that causes admiration, while others, as it seems to us, put in much less?

Answer: We cannot say exactly how much effort a person puts in. But we must respect anyone who does so.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/11/24, Writings of Rabash “This World and the Future”

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Develop Like a Child

528.01Question: When I think about my friends or we think about something together, how do we build our artificial actions correctly?

Answer: Our artificial, even semi-false actions eventually add up to one serious request, a demand that the light really change us.

But this happens only if we insert ourselves into its device, into its matrix, even if we do not want to but still trying to make it work, together, although in fact we are not together with our hearts yet, studying Kabbalah, although we do not know what we are studying and what we need from it. We sort of hide these unspoken conditions from ourselves and lie to ourselves.

But it does not matter. As a result, everything develops into conditions that are required for the system to start acting on us like on small children. This is the same system, the same technique by which babies develop.

As a child, they explained to us: “Look, this is this and this is that. This is added. This is subtracted.” That is, we are already beginning to perceive reality with our minds and feelings.

When I show my mind and feelings for our world, it is considered that I am already a small person. And then I can start accumulating information, adding it up, synthesizing it, analyzing it, but only from the moment when I am already a human being, let’s say from the age of five to six.

And before that, I am developing completely unconsciously. I look at adults and do the same thing, repeat what they say, do what they advise. We are also acting in relation to the spiritual world in the same way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. We are Thinking about our Friend!“ 3/11/10

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Clothe in the Desires of the Friends

933Question: I clothe myself with the desires of my friends in the ten until the Creator clothes these desires. What does it mean? How does this happen?

Answer: I cancel myself and put on the desires of my friends because I want them to be realized. It is when I clothe their desires with my desire so that they come true, then I reveal the Creator in them.

By this, I achieve the property of bestowal in the form it exists in a friend, and thus I comprehend the Creator. A friend gives me a Kli and I give him Aviut, and the Creator dresses in it.

Question: What kind of clothing do I expect in the desires of my friends? Should they have some sort of additional strength or filling? How can I check that I did my job well?

Answer: According to the result. And the result should be the revelation of the Creator! If I adhere to my friend correctly so that everything he wants comes true and I want him to succeed, I reveal the Creator in him.

I want to fulfill his desire using the property of bestowal. He gave me the format of this property he wanted, and I expanded it. A friend is like a screen on which the Creator is revealed to me.

My quality of bestowal operates in my friend because I want to help him, and the Creator reveals himself to me in his desire.

Think about it. It is a spiritual action! I cancel myself before my friend. I want to lead him to the Creator completely, to spirituality. And therefore, in his desires, when I work with my Aviut and give him Ohr Hozer, the Creator dresses in them, Ohr Yashar.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Unite in Attack

938.04Question: Why don’t you periodically shout “Attack!” at a convention so that the entire convention would instantly unite in one intention?

Answer: The fact is that I cannot be the commander-in-chief. This is not a spiritual approach.

The only thing I can say is that it is useful and good if you do this from time to time. Not to overuse it, but to unite in an attack during critical moments when you feel the spirit of unity fading or, on the contrary, at the peak of feelings and aspirations.

But it is not about shouting. It should be a quiet, but very sharp internal surge. So I will not shout anything.

I can shout, swear, and get upset when we deal with corporeal problems. But in the spiritual realm, different laws operate.

Question: What if you mentally command us to attack?

Answer: Then you will rise and follow me into battle. I will command you. I promise.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Mutual Understanding

528.01Comment: You said that if a friend joins the group, he thereby obligates himself to follow its laws, and we can judge him by the group’s laws.

On the other hand, you say we should not pressure him, he should do as much as he can, and you advised us to show him an effective example.

My Response: From the friend’s side there is an obligation to completely annul himself before the group, gradually, not from the first day. And from the group’s side, there should be an understanding that this is done gradually, not immediately. And in this way it influences everyone.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/8/24, “Equal as one: There is no strong friend, there is a strong society”

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How Do We Come under the Single Authority?

937Question: How can a ten come under the rule of one?

Answer: First and foremost you need to unite among yourselves and become like one person with one heart. Then you will be able to approach the Creator and see how similar or different you are.

Question: We gather together, seem to unite, work together, and raise a prayer. What does it mean that we come under the authority of one?

Answer: By annulling yourselves before each other, you become equal with the Creator and cling to Him. By nullifying your desire to receive, your egoism, in relation to Him, you become one.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/8/24, “Equal as one: There is no strong friend, there is a strong society”

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Connect Every Moment to Holiness

938.03Question: In Rabash’s Letter 77, it is written that every moment clarified, analyzed, and added to holiness enters the domain of holiness. How can we correctly identify, analyze, and connect each moment to holiness?

Answer: To do this, you need to be in constant prayer, in connection with your friends, and in understanding that your entire existence consists of moments your friends go through. In this way, you protect yourself so as not to fall.

Question: What is this constant prayer?

Answer: It is to hold on to your friends.

Question: How can I be sensitive enough and direct myself to exactly what my friends are going through and not myself?

Answer: You are going through the same thing they are going through. In addition, you have your moments, but the most important thing is that you are connected with them and go through all states together. You just need to feel dependent on them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/11/24, Writings of Rabash “A Request for Help”

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Whose Desires Should We Fulfill?

41.01Question: Is there a difference for the Creator when we pass on the light and fulfill the desires of external people or our friends from Bnei Baruch?

Answer: If we fulfill the desires of our friends who are with us in the same Kli (vessel), then we are building a spiritual ladder. We are as if climbing its degrees toward the Creator.

Question: If we fulfill the desires of external people, are we not climbing this ladder?

Answer: No, we are merely creating an external environment, but it is not purposeful.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/9/24, Writings of Rabash “Man and His Role”

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Guidance for Beginning Kabbalah Students

595.03Comment: We, the students of MAK Israel [KabU, Kabbalah classes for Russian speakers] would like to hear words of guidance and wishes from you.

My Response: The most important thing for you is to stay together. Gather together and strive to be increasingly focused on your goal.

You are only at the beginning of your journey. And, of course, many more revelations await you. But you have good conditions, and you will succeed. We are always at your service.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/19/20, “Connecting into One Soul”

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