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What Yields a Spiritual Result?

599.02Question: If it is important to include myself in the friends’ questions, should we hold a workshop where each person asks a question so that I can integrate with it?

When I do not understand how to respond mentally to a friend’s question, will I be able to raise a request to the Creator?

Answer: We can certainly become included in each other during workshops, but it is even better when we help each other.

You always have the opportunity to work together. Try to find such collective work that allows you to participate together in something, even if the actions are insignificant. Collective physical work is a pure gain. That is what I advise you.

Intellectual exercises, like questions, answers, and so on, hardly yield serious spiritual results.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Intention for Connection

275Question: What is the correct intention for reaching connection?

Answer: The desire for connection is the correct intention. We must see adhesion with each other as an essential and necessary goal.

If we connect in our aspiration toward the Creator, through this aspiration, we create a vessel (Kli) to reveal Him within us. This is our work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Reach the State of the Embryo

232.07Question: How can we continue to work on connection so that a spiritual miscarriage does not occur?

Answer: Our main task is to achieve the state of Ibur (embryo) where we unite in the ten. There should be ten people, no more. Less is possible.

As this happens, we will go through the so-called “three days of the absorption of the seed.” The seed that has penetrated the uterus must attach to its inner wall.

It takes three days, which symbolizes the three lines. In our world all this happens as a consequence of the actions of the spiritual world.

We must go through this state and fully attach ourselves as a group to the Creator in three lines.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Attention to the Friends

528.01Question: Should we constantly return our attention to our friends in the ten?

Answer: What does returning attention mean? I must always work that my attention is solely on them and continuously growing. That is not something you can do once every five or fifteen minutes. It needs to be continuous.

I would compare it to a woman who has just given birth to a baby; she constantly thinks about the baby. No matter what happens, she thinks only about the baby. That is how we should think about the group. There is no other example in our world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Bestowing, Receiving

549.01Question: How can I act while accepting everything from my friends in the ten and at the same time giving them everything?

Answer: Rabash writes about this in articles about the group.

Let us say if I am in a relationship with my friend, I am for him and he is for me, then in this way we convey our feelings to each other. Does giving back to him prevent me from receiving from him? It turns out that bestowing to him and receiving from him are all equivalent to bestowal.

It is the same with him. Whether he receives from me or gives to me, it all happens only for the sake of giving to me. Therefore, there are no problems in action, since the intention is the same—for the sake of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—142

281.02Question: When you join the ten, what ways can you open your heart to your friends and in what areas should you always be reserved?

Answer: One should keep one’s personal feelings in humility.

Question: If the friends do not share their inner feelings but mostly make efforts, how does the building of a connection, a common Kli, take place?

Answer: The friends gradually begin to feel each other, i.e., their place and spiritual work.

Question: If there is a big difference between internal and external work on the love of friends, how do we combine all this?

Answer: Do not get confused and solve the problem, you will see how the Creator solves it from above.

Question: It happens that one friend wants to implement the principle of “make yourself a Rav” about another. How do we start implementing this principle in the ten?

Answer: You just need to exalt your friend, how great he is, and how different he is from others. In this way, you make yourself a Rav.

Question: Is it possible to ask the Creator to convey the feelings that you experienced to the friends, for example, at the congress?

Answer: Ask, you can ask for it.

Question: How can we keep humility in the ten? What is worth talking about, and what is not worth talking about?

Answer: You can talk about humility without any restrictions.
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From the 1st part od tje  Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/15/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 33

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Correction Is Changing the Intention

255Question: What does it mean to let the Creator work on me?

Answer: To avoid such questions, you must understand the language of Kabbalah. The absolute, positive, and only existing force of creation is called the Creator.

Besides this force, there are small negative forces specially created by the Creator, which include us. We are made this way solely to attain the positive state, the Creator, from our negative state.

The Creator is a constant positive force. There are no changes in Him. When we say that the Creator nears or distances from a person, does something, or creates something—none of this is true. This force does not change or it would not be perfect.

Apart from it, an evil force called Adam was brought into existence; it is opposite to the Creator and must do everything possible to become equal to Him, to resemble Him. Precisely because the force of creation is evil, it can perceive the Creator as opposite to itself.

But it cannot change its nature on its own. The only thing it can do is receive the opposite, positive force from the Creator and sort of dress it on itself as its intention. In doing so, it remains egoistic, receiving, unable to change anything within itself. However, if it receives the intention to bestow from the Creator, it can work in receiving for His sake. That is what must happen to us. That is what we strive for.

Then we will become similar to the Creator. But similarity lies not in the action itself since we cannot emanate or bestow something from ourselves. We can only receive, but we can do it to bestow.

In other words, if we stand before the Creator and He wants to bestow to us, we need to add only the intention to bestow to our quality of receiving so we receive for His sake. Then we become similar to Him, equivalent, because in spirituality, not the action itself matters, but its meaning.

Receiving the intention to bestow is our correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Creating Pressure in the Ten

631.4Question: What does it mean to create pressure in the ten?

Answer: We need to create such tension between us that it pushes us out of this world, out of egoism, out of shattering, out of the distances between us. It should compress us together, and we should find a state where we are connected.

As soon as we touch this state, we will immediately feel the Creator within it.

Question: How can these groups that are far from us help create pressure on us? After all, we are here, and they are there.

Answer: What do you mean by these groups? We are all participating together in the spiritual process! It is a great armada. But most important is to set the direction and the overall tension toward universal connection.

We must create such an effort, such cohesion within ourselves, that everyone can participate. That depends on us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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One One Hundred Twenty Fifth Part of the Creator

929We wish to reach a true and serious connection. Therefore, we are working through all the conditions to feel the collective effort, leap, and internal pressure, the necessity for complete connection within which the Creator will appear.

The Creator is an absolute force, perfection. However, it weakens when this perfection descends to us through the entire system of worlds. Passing through 125 degrees becomes very tenuous, but we have yet to reach it from below upward.

We need to establish contact with this tenuous condition of perfection above us, connect with it, and become like it.

In other words, the connection between us should be similar to this small quality of the Creator—1/125th part of His state. That is what we must achieve.

I hope we will put in all our efforts to come together in one leap “as one man with one heart.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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From Physical Suffering to Suffering of Love

294.2Question: You wrote in your blog that the Coronavirus is nothing yet. There are more serious viruses in store for us, next-generation viruses that will affect our psyche, psychology, and bring chaos to the world.

Why? Won’t our work somewhat affect the positive outcome of events? Or are there things in the world that cannot be stopped in any way? We still keep moving forward, and you said that in the near future, at least one ten will break into spirituality.

Answer: If one ten breaks through—all of them will break through. This is first of all.

Secondly, we will, of course, be able to convert all future viruses into positive ones, and I am sure we will do this.

But we must understand that humanity’s development is the development of egoism. It goes on and sometimes gives positive results. However, all the positive results have run out, and there are only negative results in store for us. No matter how wonderful science or technology is, we no longer expect anything good from technological progress; humanity has finished this path.

Now it’s up to us. Therefore, Baal HaSulam writes that we are in the last generation, that is, in the generation when egoism has reached such a state that it must be corrected. That is what we are doing.

I do not think that we will be able to completely stop viruses because humanity still needs a “whip” to push them, to somehow make them aware of the insignificance of their nature and state and the need to do something.

It must be understood that suffering itself, no matter how unpleasant it may be, purifies a person. This is an undesirable path, but when it happens, it is still a cleansing. It causes one to awaken and start thinking about what he should do.

That is, suffering is useful, only it should not be physical, but the suffering of love when I have a feeling that I can achieve a connection with the Creator, but for some reason, I have not yet achieved it. Such a suffering of love is very useful. Let us try to have only this suffering.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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