Question: From the past state of connection and ascent, the state of burdening has come. How can we reignite our hearts and rise even higher?

Answer: We must understand that the state of descent is not really a descent, but an acquisition of new desires that were not revealed to you before. Therefore, you should be happy about this state because it indicates a future ascent, and you should connect with each other.

You need to develop a feeling between you that you are in a special state, constantly support each other, and come up with new actions and new opportunities.

It should be interesting for you to be together. You should have fun together. You should feel that by coming together, you are rising to the next degree and that the Creator is with you.
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From the 1^st part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 10/01/23, Lesson 3 “Overcoming the Burdening of the Heart”

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Question: If there are friends in the ten who are not ready to be in mutual guarantee, then is there perhaps the need to divide the ten?

Answer: This is an extreme case. What can you expect from a person who is just beginning to study? Like at school, in the first years the child does not understand where he is at all.

A person repeats, learns, and connects with friends, but only when he really begins to enter into the system of mutual guarantee, is it considered the beginning of his spiritual work. There is no need to count either by years or by some degrees, you just need to continue.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/3/23, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: How can I understand at every moment of my life that I carry the “suitcase” of the Creator, meaning that I work for Him and not for myself?

Answer: The suitcase represents actions of bestowing to the Creator. If they are easy, then the suitcase is the right one and the action is correct. But if it is hard, it means that you got confused somewhere.

Comment: It happens that at the beginning everything goes easily, and then a person wants to take more for himself, and takes the wrong suitcase.

My Response: It means that there is an incorrect connection between friends in the group. Here it is necessary to assess how easy it is to carry the suitcase. The connection imparts lightness to the suitcase.

Question: My suitcase is my ten?

Answer: No, these are your personal desires that you must correct, fill, and come with them to the end of creation. Everything in our life is tied up in relation to this suitcase that you must deliver to its destination.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/17/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Lishma Is an Awakening from Above, and Why Do We Need an Awakening from Below?“

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Question: You said we should check if our prayers are directed at the Creator. What is this check when we compose the prayer of the ten?

Answer: We must constantly check whether we are directed from heart to heart and whether all our hearts are together into one big heart that is directed to the Creator. That is our work.

We must try to imagine this in a group, in any of our connections, and from this unity, aim to the Creator.

Then, when we begin to feel the Creator within our connection, we will already feel Him and begin a different work—the spiritual one. Therefore, with the help of the problems that He causes in us, He tries to raise us to the next level and direct us to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/9/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: In the article “What Is an Optional War in the Work – 2” Rabash often uses terms such as “war,” “authority,” and “singular authority.” What message does he want to convey to us?

Answer: We are always at war because we consist of two contradictory forces. There are people who are just little egoists who think only about themselves like children or animals. They strive only to make themselves feel good.

And there are people who consist of two opposing forces that pull a person in different directions. One force pulls in the direction of bestowal, and the other one in the direction of reception. Existing between them, we must choose the side of the Creator, the side of bestowal.

How is it done? Precisely in the group. That is, war is essentially a choice: what we choose and what we fight for.

Question: There is a quote in the article, This is as it is written (Psalms 42), “My tear has been my bread day and night… .” What does it mean?

Answer: A person is sad while in a broken state, then from this state one gradually begins to draw strength for one’s ascent. Because of the fact that a person repents, one begins to understand that it is from this repentance that one grows. This is a necessary part of the process of spiritual correction.
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From  the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/17/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is an Optional War, in the Work? – 2”

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Question: Our only weapon is prayer. Honestly, I don’t know how to pray. It seems to me that even in a ten, we don’t pray as we should. Yet, if this is our foundation, it should be formed as the Kabbalists ideally did.

Answer: It’s not that simple. The most important thing is prayer. After all your efforts toward the Creator, He is reached only through prayer, what you raise to Him.

Just like, for example, your future depends on your boss at work, and you submit a request to him, stating what you want, why, and how. You should articulate this request in prayer.

Try it together with your friends, and the Creator, as the ruler of the entire world, will take that prayer and decide what to do with it. He might say that these folks need to struggle a bit more, find themselves, mutually annul themselves, and so on. And that’s how you will make progress.

It is said, “May God grant that one prays all day,” because during prayer, you examine yourself, correct yourself, raise one question, then another, a third, a fourth, and gradually, they all come into one. This is what you need to reveal. But it should come not from books or others, but from the depth of your heart.

Question: What would Rabash and Baal HaSulam tell us now? What advice would they give?

Answer: They would say only one thing: “Where is your prayer? You have a manager, where is your request?” And we don’t do this.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘Calamity that Comes Upon the Wicked Begins with the Righteous,’ in the Work?”

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Question: The Creator sends us all states and feelings. How can we work with the fact that He gives a feeling of hatred for hatred itself, which is revealed both in me and in some external manifestations?

Answer: This is very good. If we hate the quality of hatred in us, then we can move away from it, we can ask for its correction. This is wonderful.

Question: Does the pain we feel due to war, loss, and grief help in prayer? Or is immersion in this pain a denial of the control of the good Creator, and this pulls us in the opposite direction?

Answer: Don’t worry, the Creator makes a calculation in which direction to pull us and it doesn’t really depend on us. It depends on how He completely controls us from before and from behind.

And the pain you feel needs to be included in prayer. Everything will be fine, don’t worry, just focus.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/23, “Fighting the Evil Inclination”

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Question: How can one hear the voice of holiness when egoism screams with pain and fear, throws fire, hides, and pushes away? How can we hear the voice of the upper?

Answer: Only through connection with friends. Nothing else. It is an extreme rarity that the Creator reveals Himself to one person. Usually, He is revealed in the connection between people.

Question: When we are looking for unity and a clear enemy appears, it is easy for us to unite. And when the danger disappears, we crumble again. How can we avoid the trap of uniting against someone?

Answer: There is no way. Only with time wisdom and strength are gained.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/11/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: What does it mean to connect the ten in a group?

Answer: This means that ten friends connect together in order to rise above their egoism in mutual assistance to each other. Absolutely all the friends should feel this.

In principle, all people in the world will gradually come to this either in a good way or not. But in the end, this need will be revealed to everyone.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/3/23, Writing of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: After the pandemic and especially after the convention, we again felt the physical strength in our connection.

But now, when we need a greater desire for unity, we again have returned to virtual communication. How can we create a great desire for connection in a virtual way?

Answer: This is even easier than being together physically. Now we can think precisely about a virtual connection that is not within the framework of some physical relationship. We ask the Creator to connect us precisely in one desire, in one heart.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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