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Complete and Partial Faith

514.02Question: 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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Fill the Void

509Question: 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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Build the Right Connection

947Question: 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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Hard to Check

528.04Everyone 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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The Need For Spirituality

032.01Question: 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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A Sign of Approaching the Creator

528.01Question: 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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Do We Get an Answer from Above?

261“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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Questions about Spiritual Work—123

281.02Question: We have many aspirations: unity, adhesion with the Creator, bestowal, and love. What should be the unified desire in which we will unite? Why are we missing the same point?

Answer: Everything you listed is one point, the point of our connection with each other and with the Creator.

Question: If a friend temporarily leaves the group due to disagreements so as not to disturb the others, how should we interpret the Creator’s actions in this event?

Answer: There is no such thing as someone leaving the group to avoid disturbing friends. It means that collectively the quality of connection is insufficient between you.

Question: What does it mean to be like the Creator?

Answer: To be like Him means to be connected with each other and the Creator in one knot.

Question: Can we say that markers of revealing the private governance are my strong feelings in the past, for example, envy that I experienced? Can we use the deficiency from the past, or only to the extent of revealing it in the present?

Answer: Only in the present.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/24, Writings of Rabash “The Lord Has Chosen Jacob for Himself”

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Three Discernments of Bestowal

567.04We should know what vessels of bestowal mean.

There are three discernments that we find in an act of bestowal:

1) He engages in bestowal upon others…in order to be rewarded for it. But if he weren’t confident that he would receive honor in return for it, he wouldn’t do what he does for others.

2) He engages in bestowal upon others and does not wish to be given any reward for his work, meaning another thing, something else. Rather, he settles for performing acts of bestowal. It is in his nature to enjoy doing good to others and this is his whole pleasure.

3) He is working in order to not receive any reward (Rabash, “Concerning Bestowal“).

Question: Is a person capable of the third form of bestowal where they do not receive anything at all for it? How is that possible?

Answer: We need to understand that this is indeed a form of receiving pleasure. This is what bestowal is. I respect the person for whom I perform selfless actions so much, I love and value him so much, and he is so great in my eyes that I am ready to do everything for him without any compensation.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 3/28/24

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Is It Possible to Work Directly with the Creator?

213Question: Is it possible to work directly with the Creator, for His sake, without regard for others?

Answer: No, first, a person must learn to work correctly with the environment, with others, not with just one, but with many, and only then can they achieve similarity to the Creator by receiving or bestowing only for the sake of others.

Question: What does the patent itself consist of? Suppose I wake up in the morning and start figuring out what I need to bestow to others. Do I walk around with these thoughts and just consider what to bestow to them?

Answer: No, you are simply thinking about what actions of yours can bring contentment to the Creator, how you can please Him, and what He would like to feel from you. If these actions are clear to you, then start gradually approaching them.
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