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Questions about Spiritual Work—147

234Question: What efforts should we make to feel no difference between faith and knowledge?

Answer: Try to be aimed toward the sensation of the Creator constantly.

Question: How can we not miss moments of revelation of the Creator and be in constant interplay with Him?

Answer: It depends on you. The Creator is always ready. You should check what is better or worse when you can turn to the Creator, unite, and strive toward Him.

Question: What is this state when the shadow of the Creator is revealed to us?

Answer: It is the opposite state of the Creator. That is not a descent but doubt, a lack of faith, i.e., still some connection.

Question: How can we help a friend who separates from us?

Answer: Only by praying for him, and you will see how quickly he feels it.

Question: How can we judge light and darkness by the criteria of the Creator?

Answer: You have to learn this. We need to study the meaning of light as defined by the Creator, the meaning of darkness as defined by the Creator, and the difference between them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/27/24, Writings of Rabash “Woe unto You Who Await the Day of the Lord”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—146

281.02Question: Is it correct to use physical examples to aid in developing a spiritual community?

Answer: We should take examples only from the books of Baal HaSulam and Rabash and use them to evaluate every action.

Question: What seems beautiful to us is not always true; we can be influenced by trends or education. What is a “true” spiritual work?

Answer: True spiritual work is when I connect with my ten, hold them together through my efforts, and attract them to come closer to the Creator.

Question: Rabash writes that only the person himself must believe in the immense importance of being worthy of the king’s presence. What does this action “must believe” mean?

Answer: A person must believe that the upper force is guiding him toward the spiritual goal.

Question: Does our soul already know the truth? How can we make a “true” choice through the soul, even in worldly matters?

Answer: You do not know this yet, but ultimately, we will come to this, and you will receive notification of the truth from there.

Question: How can we keep ourselves above egoism if two friends are making remarks to each other in front of the entire group about how each should change?

Answer: You should talk first with one, then with the other. Ideally, the entire group should take it upon themselves to embrace them with warmth.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/26/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is Truth?”

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How Can We Advertise Spirituality?

530Question: The value of corporeal things depends on advertising. There is a prohibition against sharing one’s spiritual states and experiences in spirituality. How can we correctly advertise spirituality to friends?

Answer: We need to support friends who yearn to come closer to the Creator and then gradually we will come to feel what the Creator feels. By striving to be closer to Him, we will begin to see the world as the Creator does.

Question: So I say that a particular friend in the group is probably close to the Creator; therefore I envy him. Is that right?

Answer: Suppose you think so and are confident about it. You must be responsible for your words, especially when you speak about someone else.

Question: Then how do I advertise spirituality correctly?

Answer: You do not need to advertise it.

Question: I cannot speak about myself, but I can about a friend. How can I be sure that he is close to the Creator? Today he is close and tomorrow, God forbid, he might show a different side.

Answer: That is why you should not advertise. If a person constantly strives for the truth and desires to move toward it with friends from within their connection, this gives us confidence that he is on the right path toward the right goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/26/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is Truth?”

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What Can We Talk about in the Ten?

540Question: If you cannot talk about your sensations and feelings in the ten, what should you talk about?

Answer: It is not customary to talk about personal internal feelings in the ten since you can harm yourself and your friends by doing this.

What do we usually talk about? About the greatness of the group, the greatness of the Creator, and what we should strive for, not me personally but all of us together.

You cannot talk about what you are experiencing, how you feel, your emotions, and personal aspirations.
Basically we discuss what is written in the articles.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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What Are We Missing?

566.01Question: Why is it so difficult for us to support each other?

Answer: We do not feel connected to each other. Kabbalah explains that we are interconnected, integral, and in the same system.

Look at the ways in which all misfortunes that befall humanity teach us about integral interconnectedness.

What are people missing today? We have science, technology, everything you could want. The only thing we lack is a good connection between ourselves. It is so obvious! After all, if you look at humanity, what are people occupied with? They have everything except the awareness of how to make their lives normal. Yes, it is just to suffer less, not to mention that we can achieve anything!

The same applies to us in our tens. But why? We know what needs to be done to be correctly interconnected so that I can reveal the upper world in the ten so that my ten transforms into ten Sefirot and I begin to attain all 125 degrees within it.

To leave this world like that, to ascend to any degree as on a spaceship and simply look at this nature as nothing, why don’t we do it? It seems that we have everything, we know everything, we understand everything, there is a place, there is time, there is strength, there is everything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/20, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

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Attack on Egoistic Thoughts

947Question: All day I have been intensely working on the thought of how to ask for my friends in order to bring them closer to the state of Ibur (conception). How can I exert more effort in order to create a real state of attack to reach this level?

Answer: I see no other way than to act on my own, to ask for myself, and to ask for others so that we can all annul ourselves and become one common spiritual body that only thinks about annulling its egoism at the very first stage.

To annul oneself means to fully integrate into each other, to think only about others and not about oneself. In this way, we perform the most productive spiritual action that we are capable of today.

And further, based on the fact that we will go “out of ourselves” and as if entering others, a completely new state will arise—altruistic egoism, which we will apply for the sake of others, not for ourselves. This is what we need to do.

But right now, we really need an attack on our egoistic thoughts and calculations so that all of them are only for the purpose of getting included in others and working as if in the body of our friends, helping them. Therefore, it is said: “Let each one help his friend.” After all, each one cannot ask and pray for himself; only for others.

Question: When we turn to the Creator for our friends, how do we annul our own participation in this?

Answer: When I ask for my friends, I try to make it so that I do not think about myself, as if I do not exist, but only they do. And where is my personal involvement? My personal involvement is only in that I ask for them, that I extend my request on their behalf, but no more than that.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for The convention”

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Make the Truth More Valuable than Lies

234Question: Is truth feeling what the Creator feels and seeing the world as the Creator sees it?

Answer: Of course.

Question: How can one bring oneself closer to such sensitivity?

Answer: This is why we study. What we have been reading all this time we need to somehow absorb within ourselves and try to tune in to perceive reality above our egoism, against it, so that the truth is always more valuable than lies.

You need to constantly monitor that the ego does not rise above you. There is nothing more important than controlling how much you are above it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/26/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is Truth?”

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Turn to the Group for Support

938.01Question: What is the right way to resolve disagreements in the group? Where should we start?

Answer: Start with wanting to replace your current relationship with love.

Question: What is the importance of turning to the group for support?

Answer: By turning to the group you develop your connection with it, and it begins to act on you through the Creator.

This is very important.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/30/24, Writings of Rabash “A Request for Help”

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Shattering No Longer Threatens Us

610.2Question: When working on a mutual guarantee, how can one avoid approaching the precipice to which Rabbi Akiva’s disciples approached?

Answer: The question is valid, but don’t worry, you won’t get any closer to it.

The spiritual system works according to a specific plan, according to which the construction and destruction of the First Temple should have occurred. The First Temple is a spiritual level called Mochin de Haya.

Then the descent from this level began with the destruction of the First Temple. The people of Israel remained in this state until the construction of the Second Temple (Mochin de Neshama). All this was planned and clear from the initial state when Abraham’s group was forming in Ancient Babylon. They had to go through this.

Our generation has only one task: to rise to the third state, the Third Temple (Mochin de Yechida), when the light of the level of Yechida fills the final corrected creation to realize the connection between all souls.

Let us hope we can achieve this. At least we have the opportunity.

Question: Why can’t we implement this practically, like say with building a kibbutz?

Answer: We do not have such a spiritual opportunity. The point is not to build some buildings. We should not do this. We do not need to create, destroy, or rebuild anything in this world. We need to rebuild ourselves, rebuild our relationship, and based on this everything will change.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/20, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

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The Task of Unification

943Question: We learn that from love for creatures one comes to love for the Creator. It is impossible to unite without the help of the Creator. Does it mean that we first need to contact the Creator?

Answer: We must ask the Creator to unite us.

Question: Should we ask the Creator to build some kind of image?

Answer: You do not need any image! You need to ask the Creator to unite you. Then, as you begin to unite, you can ask Him to unite you even more. Then you will begin to work with Him, study Him, and connect with Him.

The first action is our unification. But for this, we need the Creator. We set the task of unification between us, and the Creator is an auxiliary force that we ask to help us in this. We then turn to Him to connect with Him even more. But until we unite with each other, we have nothing to turn to the Creator with because we do not yet exist at His level.

Question: To whom then do we turn?

Answer: We turn to nature, to the upper force, for help.

Question: What is this nature made of?

Answer: This should not interest you. You just need to get the force of connection.

First, we use the Creator to connect with each other. When we succeed in this, we turn to the Creator in order to begin to unite with Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for Convention”

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