Entries in the 'Group Work' Category

Rise on Eagle’s Wings

595.05Sometimes people complain that the spiritual path takes such a long time—years. But the only advice is to be patient and continue scrutinizing what exactly is necessary and the result will be revealed. Again and again, we should try to connect with the friends and turn to the Creator in order to ask once more.

A person alone cannot do much; the acceleration of time depends only on the group. If we unite, we can hasten time.

Therefore, one should calm down. If a person already understands that it is impossible to change their nature by their own efforts and that it can only be received from the Creator, then they must seek the right means that will lead them to the goal. Then he comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah, performs the actions advised by Kabbalists, and thus breaks through.

I think that very soon we will feel how we all are rising on the wings of an eagle.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/19/24, “Praying to Go Above Reason”

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How Do We Accelerate the Path?

938.03Question: Toward what thought or feeling should we all strive simultaneously to move from a dead point? Can you give us some advice?

Answer: I constantly give you advice and hope you listen to it. You need to keep getting closer to each other, more and more. I do not see any problems. The fact is that it takes time.

You can read in the writings of Baal HaSulam or Rabash that this path takes ten, even twenty years. When I first heard this, I was ready to grab Rabash and demand he accelerate my spiritual progress.

But it is designed this way so that our efforts extend throughout the duration of our attempts, and in this way, we perform the complete work of connection.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/19/24, “Praying to Go Above Reason”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—133

583.02Question: Man’s main job is to come to a sense of the Creator’s reality. Achieving It can only be through prayer. How can a person keep the prayer that he must come to this feeling within oneself?

Answer: Strive for the Creator always and keep the desire to attain Him in your heart.

Question: Reason prevents us from going in faith above reason. How do we use reason correctly so that it helps us rise above ourselves?

Answer: To do this you need to unite with each other so that everyone can help a friend rise a little bit. If you work together to influence everyone in the ten in this way, you will be able to rise.

Question: When there is a great desire to get closer to the Creator, it is a good state. But what if a person feels the Creator a little bit, then is it not very good anymore?

Answer: It is okay to keep developing this feeling and try to increase it.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Working In Faith Above Reason”

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Strive For Connection

530Question: When we get together and do something, what element needs to be included in order for what we have in mind to work?

Answer: It is only striving for connection; nothing more. This connection is realized precisely within us because, in principle, there is no external world.

Comment: Every time we try to unite even more, we see that we are completely unable to do this.

My Response: Then you have the opportunity to ask. Ask for this from the common power that is hidden in this connection.

Initially, there is a connection between us, only it is hidden from us. And we have to dig deeper and uncover it, uncover it, uncover it.

Comment: However, the further a person moves, the more difficult it is for him to find connection.

My Response: But on the other hand, he has more opportunities. For example, if you are a great scientist, then your experiments and tasks are much more complex for you than for a laboratory assistant who mixes various substances in test tubes.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Meaning of Kabbalah Dissemination” 2/12/12

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Channel a Thought through the Ten

528.01Question: What does it mean to channel a thought through the ten and how is it implemented?

Answer: Channeling a thought through the ten means that I must be seriously, firmly, and constantly connected with my friends.

And everything that is in me: my thoughts, plans, and actions, I channel, not through myself, but through us. In this case, we unite and can act practically without any limitations.

Question: Should a student be concerned not to cause anger in the friends, not to provoke negative states in them, or is it only the concern of the one who reacts this way?

Answer: It is everyone’s concern because it hinders the entire group, the entire ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Power of Thought”

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Both Joy and Suffering

938.02Question: If I am constantly fulfilled from meetings with my friends, what will lead me to cry out with the true prayer that we must come to? It seems to me that this joy and fulfillment after meetings takes me away from the goal.

Answer: There is a prayer that leads to the Creator, and there is a prayer that distances one from the Creator, which depends on what a person wants. Therefore, at first, we just want to find out how to unite between ourselves and the Creator in order to make Him bring us closer to Himself. This is the most important thing. This is what we want to achieve first of all.

Question: And how can I compel the Creator?

Answer: Through words, through prayer.

Question: But the Creator does not hear our words.

Answer: He hears, not your words, but your heart. It does not matter what language we speak; the main thing is that we experience the right feelings.

Question: But my heart is busy with fulfillment and pleasure; there is no place in it for crying, for prayer.

Answer: That is what you need to think about and decide which is more important to you: to feel the fulfillment of your heart or its emptiness. As soon as you want to feel the true state of the heart, that is, its emptiness, it will tell you how to proceed.

Question: So after every meeting, I should feel dissatisfied like you did when you studied with Rabash and felt empty and annoyed that you did not understand anything?

Answer: We must feel both suffering and joy.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/19/24, “Happy in Faith Above Reason”

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Comply with the Creator’s Conditions

610.2Question: How can we perceive what constitutes reward and punishment for us and work with it correctly in the group?

Answer: Reward and punishment are opportunities to fulfill the conditions of the Creator. The lack of such an opportunity also belongs to the category “reward and punishment.”

Question: Do we have to imagine any forms of this area? Or, based on the fact that I do not think about it, faith above reason is born?

Answer: No, faith above reason cannot just appear in us. We must understand that we are under the influence of the Creator’s laws, the laws of higher nature, and therefore, must comply with them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Knowledge and Faith”

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When Faith Compels Action

261Question: What does it mean that regardless of my state, faith will compel me to action?

Answer: When you see that if you remain inactive, you will fall and drag others down with you, then this compels you to act and support others.

Question: How do you rise and fall to the degrees of friends to feel them while remaining on your degree?

Answer: For this, you must perform all actions and strive for your friends to rise with you, and you will unite on a common upper degree.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith Is Called Action”

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External and Internal Work

592.01Question: If I became entangled in evil, how can I get out of this state and what should I ask my friends for?

Answer: The best thing is to approach a friend or, if you do not have direct contact, write to him honestly, expressing that you regret your behavior, embrace him, and await his response.

Question: What if he responds that everything is from the Creator?

Answer: Then you need to work within yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Power of Thought”

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What Desires Should I Bring to the Ten?

530Question: Is my desire for more activity in the ten, more meetings, or some joint action egoistic?

Answer: It does not matter what kind of desire you have, this desire was given to you by the Creator to start with it.

Question: Can I bring this to the ten or should I restrain myself and not distract them?

Answer: You should bring only desires of bestowal, connection, and love to the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Those of Little Faith”

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