Question: You said we must perform actions to cling to the teacher. What other actions can we perform in the ten? We pray, attend lessons, and try to fulfill…

Answer: If you unite with each other and want to gain strength in the connection, with the help of which you can go against your decision, against your ideas, then you can already rise to the degree of faith above reason and thus move forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith and Reason”

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Question: How can we overcome the distance between the calculation of the mind that the Creator is kind and loving and our true feelings in the heart if they are different?

Answer: It will come to you. In the meantime, make calculations above the heart.

Question: Is faith a goal or a means?

Answer: Faith is a means of attainment, of feeling, the Creator.

Question: Not believing your feelings and your knowledge, but seeing and feeling everything through the perception of your friends is faith above reason. What happens to us if we succeed?

Answer: You will form a Kli with which you can ascend to the Creator.

Question: What does the force of faith depend on?

Answer: On your desire for unity in which you strive together toward the Creator.

Question: Who is the righteous of the generation, and how does he manage to receive knowledge directly from the light of Hochma?

Answer: A righteous person is one who reaches such a connection with the Creator when he receives light directly from the Creator, and we all connect to him together.

Question: How do you learn to turn off the first egoistic reaction of the heart?

Answer: Only by prayer. With any words, turn to the Creator to correct your heart.

Question: You often advise the whole ten, but we do not know how everyone heard you. Is the desired state of the ten when everyone has an opinion as we figure out how to implement Rav’s words?

Answer: It does not matter if the opinions are different or the same. The main thing is that you learn to work together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith and Reason”

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Question: When we follow you, we periodically receive the light of knowledge. How can the ten achieve such a state without interruption? What do we have to do?

Answer: Friends in the ten must follow the teacher’s instructions as if they know, understand, and see that this is how we do everything.

Together they support each other and thus follow their leader. Then gradually they begin to understand what they are lacking and how to obtain knowledge within faith so that faith will bring them knowledge.

Question: What should I demand from myself?

Answer: You must demand only one thing from yourselves and the friends: that all of you connect with the group in the center of our circle. From the center of the circle, you would look at the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith and Reason”

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Question: In the articles of Kabbalists it is written that there is complete and partial faith. What is the difference between them?

Answer: You do not know what will be revealed to you at the next level, but what has now been revealed in all your Kelim, when they are all filled with the light of Hassadim it means that you are in complete faith.

Partial faith manifests itself when not all of your Kelim are filled with Ohr Hassadim.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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Question: It is written in the sources that we fill the void between us with the greatness of the Creator. What is this empty space?

Answer: We fill such voids in our hearts where we previously felt nothing and never thought that there was something there with the greatness of the Creator.

The Creator grants us the opportunity to fill the empty space by the property of bestowal.

Question: Is it necessary to maintain material emptiness, that is, the desire to be content with only what is necessary in order to correctly realize spiritual emptiness?

Answer: You need to be in balance. A person must have both. One must calmly work with all one’s desires.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Pomegranate”

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Question: From the egoistic point of view, it seems wrong that building a connection with the Creator and afterward with our friends is easier than the other way around. How do you really build connection?

Answer: Building connection correctly means constantly inspiring your friends to reach a higher state together with them.

Question: So the connection is built with the Creator first?

Answer: There is no need to build anything with the Creator. With the Creator, everything will work out for you anyway. The main thing is to connect with the friends.

Question: The primary sources state that one needs to ask for the Creator’s help. If I ask for help from my friends, does it replace appealing to the Creator?

Answer: Those are not the same thing, but one does not interfere with the other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Pomegranate”

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Everyone should examine himself and see how much effort he is giving to the society (Rabash, Article No. 17, Part 2, 1984, “The Agenda of the Assembly”).

Question: How can we check for this? You can see on the outside that everyone is doing some work that depends on their character qualities, abilities, and free time. But how can you check one’s inner work, one’s thoughts?

Answer: Yes, you can still check the level of care one has before the gathering. One is ready to spend time, effort, and intention for friends to feel like a necessary condition that rightly influences him and helps everyone come into one unified whole.

Question: But how can he check this?

Answer: Only based on his feelings.

Comment: But this is not objective, feelings are subjective.

Answer: What can he do? That is all he and each of his friends have. As a result, when they gather together, they should talk about it, see how much they strive to connect, and how important each person is to everyone.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 4/4/24

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Question: Should each person take care of his own desire for the Creator, or should we ignite desire for spirituality in the ten?

Answer: Do not wait for igniting the desire. If you have no need for spirituality, then there is no point in studying Kabbalah at all.

When you start to cool down, you must integrate with your friends, obey them, and then they will pull you along with them.

Question: What desires can be taken from the world and attributed to the Creator?

Answer: Any, because it is all His work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/9/24, Writings of Rabash “The Order of the Work”

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Question: The more we become involved in studying and with the ten, the more we feel our lack. We move on only by understanding that we are still far from the Creator. Is that correct?

Answer: No, it is wrong. Advancement consists of revealing evil in each of you and the entire ten, and to the extent it is revealed, you are getting closer to the Creator and not moving away.

The fact that you feel more and more opposite to the Creator speaks precisely about your approach to the Creator.

Question: How can we raise prayers to the Creator for correction if egoism conceals the necessity to correct ourselves? Where can we get strength and depth?

Answer: Through friends, through the connection between you; you have to get it from each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Who Comes to Purify”

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“And then pray” means that everyone should examine himself and see how much effort he is giving to the society. Then, when he sees that he is powerless to do anything for society, there is room for prayer to the Creator to help him and give him strength and desire to engage in love of others (Rabash, Article 17, Part Two, “The Agenda of the Assembly”).

Question: In the article “The Agenda of the Assembly,” Rabash writes that after a person has checked himself, realizes he has no strength, and turns to the Creator, he must think that his prayer has been accepted.

What does it mean? Is it that you don’t receive an obvious answer, but must think your prayer is accepted?

Answer: Nobody receives an explicit answer from above. It is just that when we put a lot of effort into getting closer to each other and clinging to each other, all together in this circle of friends trying to achieve some kind of joint effort, we begin to understand how important it is for us, how necessary it is, and, in general, how real it is.

Question: It seems to you that you turn to the Creator but do not receive an answer. That is, the friends do not become important in your eyes. Is it different from how it works when what you ask is what you get?

Answer: No, they become important. There is no such thing as “asked and received.” Gradually, the friends become closer and begin to feel that there is truly a connection between them. And then they can test it in their sensations.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 4/4/24

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