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Demonstrate the Methodology in Action

937The upper light is acting upon us even now but very cautiously and in the opposite direction. It does not reveal itself to us; instead, it makes even greater darkness for us to feel a strong need for it. That is how it works.

When we begin to ascend the degrees of attaining the system of the upper connecting force, we will be able to speak to humanity in a completely different language. We will explain our methodology to them through our own experiences and demonstrate it in action.

We must reach this state because the nations will not strive toward the Creator and connection themselves. They are immersed in their egoistic desires and will suffer silently. If the point in their hearts, the desire to reveal the source of their lives, does not awaken in them, they will continue to live as they do. After all, desire determines the development of a person.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Incorporate into the Group

938.03Question: If a person excludes himself from the global spiritual process, does everything pass by for him?

Answer: It depends on luck, on the quality of the soul. Some souls develop slower, some quickly.

The man himself who has a soul does not know what kind of soul he has. He should just make every effort, and then whatever happens. Otherwise, he will not have freewill.

Question: So is it impossible to give a person a practical recommendation to get incorporated into the process?

Answer: Just get incorporated! He has a group and needs to glue himself into it, fall, dissolve into it, absorb as much as possible everything they do, think, say, absorb it into himself like a baby.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—140

281.02Question: Let us say I have an exciting question that I cannot find an answer to. What do I need to do: write on a piece of paper, turn to the inner teacher, or tune in to the fact that I will hear the answer through my friends, through the sources, through the lesson, through you?

Answer: We need to write and talk to our friends. Then, our inner state will change, and we will be able to understand ourselves more.

Question: How can I strengthen myself in direct connection with the Creator?

Answer: Exactly the way you want it to be. Think so, do so, say so, and ask.

Question: We have two places where we get energy from. That is an ordinary place where we live, and energy comes to us from the environment, loved ones, and even partially from the group. And there is an upper place where we turn to the Creator, do some actions through the ten, and receive energy from the Creator. Does it mean that protecting ourselves from the influence of the environment is to empty the lower part and receive energy only from our actions of bestowal?

Answer: No, keep asking, and you will see from practice how much will be distributed to your desires.

Question: Is it possible to eventually come to a state where we independently keep the restriction and decide for ourselves what not to receive, even if the Creator wants to give it us, but we live only from the action of bestowal?

Answer: Yes, this is also possible.
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From the  1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/7/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 21

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Become the Master of Your States

600.02Question: You said that we need to aspire silently to be with everyone in one desire: “I want to be with everyone in one desire.” This “I” confuses me a lot. After all, it should eventually disappear, right?

Answer: But over whom are you the master if not yourself?

Comment: I am not really a master!

My Response: Exactly, you are not a master, and that is why you should do everything to become the master of your state. You can make it so that the upper light begins to act on you and connect you with others.

Question: Does the light act on me or on the friends? After all, I should think about the friends…

Answer: It does not matter what you think about the friends. By thinking about them, you change yourself.

Question: So is the correct direction that I want to unite the friends and bring them to unity, to the Creator?

Answer: But you have to perform these actions on yourself. Then the connection will happen.

Comment: I want our work to be immensely beneficial for everyone.

My Response: To achieve this, you need to bring the entire system into order.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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The Need for the Upper Force

935When we unite in groups at the level of our world, we usually evoke only negative forces, like a man and a woman who initially form a union but then encounter various problems because each of them is an egoist. Therefore, in striving to unite, we must understand that we are doing this to feel the need for the upper force. This is possible only when great egoism arises between us, a desire to distance ourselves from each other and dominate others. If a group truly aims for connection, very serious centrifugal forces can emerge that tear it apart.

This is the most important thing that can manifest in people. If they understand this, they rejoice at the evil forces revealed between them. Then it becomes simple arithmetic.

To the extent that they discover evil forces between them, they must constantly clarify that they are revealing them and are glad of it. They specifically engage in connection because, during the process of drawing closer, one increasingly reveals the evil forces that repel them from others. It is this very evil that forces us to turn to the good, to the upper force, to the Creator, who can balance and unite us. This is the method of revealing the Creator.

In reality, it is not that complicated. We just need to constantly monitor ourselves and manage what is happening with our mind and heart. We unite in a group as the Kabbalists advise us because it is in this style of unity, which we aim to achieve, that we will reveal the impossibility of uniting and thus understand the need for the upper force, the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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What Is a Group?

938.04Question: When can a gathering of people be called a group that is working correctly?

Answer: A gathering of people is called a group when they have a common goal and understand how they should connect and according to what system. This means it is already a group studying Kabbalah. They have a leader and individuals responsible for ensuring that they meet, study, and participate in various activities.

In other words, a group is not just a bunch of people who got together in a bar or at a stadium. It is a serious assembly of people ready to connect to reveal the Creator between them despite their nature.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention

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The Teacher’s Pain

165Question: Every day for many years you have been awakening the hearts of your students. What do you feel when you see that the students you love do not have the importance of the lesson? What do you feel when you see they are absent?

Answer: I feel that I have not done enough.

Question: Does it hurt you?

Answer: On one hand, yes. But on the other hand, I understand that this is what is called the pain of raising children.

Question: What do you do with this pain?

Answer: I continue to work on you.

Question: In Letter 24, Rabash writes from the position of a teacher regarding students, not from the perspective of working between friends. How should we apply this? After all, friends do not see me as a teacher.

Answer: It does not matter. Act the same way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/8/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 24

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Signs of Spiritual Maturation

549.02Question: How can we properly connect to a common network of connections without harming the overall process?

Answer: A person cannot harm the general system because we are all under the influence of the upper governance. Therefore, although it may seem to one or others that he is bringing harm, in fact, it is not so. This is absolutely not true. No one can harm advancement.

In some groups in different countries and on different continents, all sorts of problems may arise in the spiritual growth of friends, but in general, they bring no harm. They help you figure out what is going on and to correct it.

If a person was in a group and then left, and even if the group breaks up as a result, it is okay. This means they are going through an internal maturation period.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Annul before Your Friends

524.01Question: When I participate in workshops, a revelation of evil occurs in me. I see some flaws in every friend: this one says the wrong thing, that one speaks softly, this one falls asleep, etc. These are the pictures drawn in front of me. How do we act correctly in such cases?

Answer: The advice is simple: be like a small child who sits between the big ones. Open your eyes and mouth, and take it all in like that. That is the best thing to do.

Give yourself completely to the general flow. What the friends say is good. Do not criticize them, even if they speak incorrectly. Take their words as kind, good, and true: “I want the same, and I am with them.” You will see how you come out after the workshop.

Question: Is there a point in working with the evil inclination? Is the main thing to be together with everyone in the process?

Answer: Of course! What kind of evil?! The evil is only in you. And the fact that you see it in others and criticize it is how you shoot yourself in the foot.

The Creator holds these paintings in front of you so that to the contrary you will annul yourself even more and try to penetrate them. All that you see that is bad in them is all in you.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/20, “Questions and Answers”

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Toward Final Correction

944Question: What is final correction?

Answer: Final correction is the attainment of being together with all souls in one common soul called Adam, from the word “Domeh,” “like the Creator.” We are like Him, and therefore He fills us.

We are like the Kli, and the Creator is like the light. That is the state when we are united together, and the Creator is in us. This condition is called Gmar Tikkun—final correction. We must achieve it.

It is attained in a ten by both men and women. There is no need to look for anything when everything is in one direction. You will see how many different states you will go through; it is simply incomprehensible to the mind, although it is only about desire and fulfillment. Filling affects desire, and desire reacts to filling. There is nothing else!

Look at what is happening in our world: millions of colors, sounds, billions of people, and a variety of inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature. And all this comes from only two parameters: the desire to receive and the desire to fill, to give pleasure.

Therefore, there is no need to look for anything else. You will see that this gives you a lot of sensations along the way! You will be amazed at how many states we can gather from all this.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/20, “Questions and Answers”

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