Entries in the 'Group Work' Category

To Let a Friend into Your Heart

938.04Question: How does one not let the will to receive break into the heart?

Answer: Actively resist it. By cultivating love for others in your heart, mainly for your ten, you will be able to reach a state of connection with the friends.

Question: But where can I get the strength to pray?

Answer: From each other. Everyone should help others through their correct example, and then you will never have problems with a lack of strength to show love.

Question: When we work on our connection, we ask the Creator that the heart really lets a friend in and starts sincerely loving him. But it is said that we need to connect with each other and with the Creator.

What is this addition of with the Creator?

Answer: The fact is that through the connection between you, you connect with the Creator. This is exactly what you have to reveal. In your unity, you will begin to feel the spiritual world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/12/23, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 44

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At the Set Table

506.3We should understand why there cannot be an upper blessing on an empty table. After all, the blessing is that the Creator wants to give to the created beings delight and pleasure. Thus, why must the receivers first prepare in order to make room for the blessing to be, meaning that they must set up a suitable place to receive the upper blessing? (What Is the Prohibition to Bless on an Empty Table, in the Work? Rabash, Article No. 16 (1989)).

Question: If the table we are supposed to bless is empty, then is this an opportunity to ask?

Answer: The table is all that we receive from the Creator. If it is empty, then the Creator does not offer us anything. We must feel that we are always at the set table, i.e., everything we receive comes from Him.

Comment: But you said that the Creator enjoys it when we turn to Him. And if the table is set, I don’t turn to Him.

My Response: In this case, your prayer is gratitude, not a request—because everything is in front of you.

Question: How do you arouse the appetite for a set table every time you reveal that it is set?

Answer: You don’t immediately reveal that the table is set. First you have to make contact with your friends, connect with them, develop a feeling of hunger, and only then you will see a set table in front of you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/16/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Prohibition to Bless on an Empty Table, in the Work?”

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How Can We Establish Correct Relationships

528.03Question: When a person receives an addition of desire, his goal changes. Does it mean that a person is now striving to rise above his friends and he does not need the greatness of the Creator?

Answer: A person constantly receives an addition of egoism, pride, etc. from above, and he must work on this all the time.

Then he will begin to understand how high the Creator is because He annuls Himself more than anyone by concealing Himself from our world.

Thus, you can only see Him to the extent that you are annulling yourself by feeling smaller than others.

Therefore, by annulling yourself as much as possible before your friends and raising them in your eyes, you will gradually establish the right relationships with each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/5/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Man’s Pride Shall Bring Him Low“

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Hasten the Process of Correction

527.03Question: My correction is a difficult and long path. I do not want to wait another 20 years to get to that. ​​What efforts should be made to hasten the process of correction?

Answer: If you think that the correction concerns only you, then you may have to wait another 2,000 years.

But if you think that the correction should be between you in the group, then you will very quickly feel what you need to do, and you will have time for everything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/11/23, Writings of Rabash “The Meaning of Sins Becoming as Merits”

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Be Member of the Group, Not a Guest

528.01Comment: You say that the criteria of spiritual work is my good attitude toward my friends. For example, I rarely come to the group. It suits me as everyone is very nice to me. It turns out, a good attitude is an insufficient criterion.

My Response: This is because you are putting yourself in the position of a guest in this way.

Come to the group regularly and try to connect to your friends between lessons and get closer to the Creator through them. If you miss this opportunity, it goes to your disadvantage.

You must be connected to the ten and be ready to perceive any states you feel for the approval of the Creator. Then, you will constantly feel you can come closer to Him every minute.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/11/23, Writings of Rabash “The Meaning of Sins Becoming as Merits”

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With Good to Everyone

599.01Question: When I am in a group, everything is fine. I feel a state of sublimity, gratitude, love, and the presence of the Creator. But outside the group, in the surrounding world, everything is completely different. What is this condition?

Answer: This is how it should be in the world around us.

Comment: I feel that I am becoming angry, unresponsive to others, closed, and constrained.

My Response: At first this is the correct state. But you need to understand that this is the way this world is, and you are being shown its real quality. Yet, you still have to show your good attitude not only to your friends in the group, but also to everyone around you.

Question: Should this relationship be mutual or only the way the Creator wants them to be?

Answer: It must be good.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/11/23, Writings of Rabash “The Meaning of Sins Becoming as Merits”

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What Is the Truth?

294.3Question: What is more important in our work, truth or love, and what is the difference between them?

Answer: We must discover the truth and start loving it because it is the only thing that exists in nature and we need to connect with it.

Question: What should I do if I do not see this truth in the friends?

Answer: You have to correct yourself, them, and the connection between you until you get a general feeling that you exist in the truth.

Question: Do we need to do this through truth or through love?

Answer: Love draws you closer to each other, and establishing the correct relationship is the truth.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/12/23, Writings of Rabash “Letter No. 44”

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The Power of the World Group

938.04Question: When our international group gathers together, do you somehow feel its common desire differently?

Answer: Yes. It is stronger and broader. It comes with greater necessity. It is more vivid and explicit.

People come from all corners of the world with very serious intentions, very serious desires. Their presence here strongly influences everyone. In essence, they evoke the primary desire that I work on.

These periods when all groups come together for congresses are the most powerful. And then, when we collectively enter the sensation of the upper world, meaning, we create above us a spiritual sensor with our common desires, we practically don’t even need to communicate with each other.

I remember traveling with Rabash to several Kabbalists he communicated with, and I would ask him, “So, did he reveal himself?” Rabash would reply, “No, he didn’t want to reveal himself. Although we talked to him, he internally closed himself off so much that I can’t say anything about him.”

Such a thing exists among Kabbalists. We have yet to come to that. The stages, the development, we are going through, have had no analogues in the world. And today, the whole world is returning to the perception of eternity and perfection, as we were at the beginning of our origin.

Therefore, to say that everything happening in the world now is analogous to what happened with Kabbalists throughout history, we cannot. Today, a completely new system is emerging—a true one! The Kabbalists of the past prepared everything for us.
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From KabTV’s “I got a call. The Power of the World Group” 12/2/11

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Against Egoistic Thoughts

507.05Question: What kind of effort is it in our work when faith constantly protects us from the entry of strangers into holiness?

Answer: This effort is aimed at preventing egoistic thoughts from interfering with us. We must protect ourselves from egoistic attitudes toward each other.

If everyone in the ten pays attention to this, then you will succeed.

Question: So we can assume that in the end this effort will benefit us?

Answer: This will be of benefit only when you selflessly love others and do not pay attention to whether they love you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/12/23, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 44

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Become Human

942We have gathered here to establish a society for all who wish to follow the path and method of Baal HaSulam, the way by which to climb the degrees of man and not remain as a beast (Rabash “Purpose of Society – 1”).

The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches a person to rise from our world to the spiritual world. That is a very high, unusual goal. Few people know about it, and even fewer people practice Kabbalah.

But we are studying and trying to implement this method to reach the goal that Kabbalah sets for a person: to rise from the feeling of our world to the that of the spiritual world and do it now, in this life, in this world, in our state.

Currently, we are in the state of a beast because we are guided only by our instincts, the desires of our body, which, in general, is also complicated, although not spiritual.

According to Kabbalah, to be a human means to be similar to the Creator.

Comment: But everyone imagines the Creator in their own way because He is concealed.

My Response: It is in order to understand what the Creator is and how to become similar to Him that the wisdom of Kabbalah is intended.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 12/5/23

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