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Feel the Same as a Friend

530Question: How do we understand what we really invest into each other as much as we can? How can we increase our sensitivity to the other in order to feel what he or she needs at this very moment?

Answer: It depends on your attitude toward him or her. You have to put yourself in his place, make sure that you feel him. In this way, you will gradually reach a state where you will feel the same as he does.
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From the 1st 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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Who Will Help if not the Friends

934There is one main question: How can a person help himself get out of a descent? In fact, a trusted remedy that saves us in the most difficult conditions is the help of a friend. The friend is at the same degree, the same level, and in the same nature as me.

And if I am not able to save myself and rise from the state of falling, then I can do it with the help of a friend. When a friend connects with me, he can add strength, energy, and awakening to me, and thus save me.

Therefore, if we want to advance and climb the spiritual steps higher and higher, then we have the only means, which are to look for friends so that together with them, by helping each other, we can ascend into the spiritual.

There is no one to expect help from, except friends. The main thing is to support each other and hope that friends will help. In fact, the whole system is built in such a way that we must unite and move forward together. Therefore we have no other option but to help one another. We will all unite, and the greater the connection, the greater the ascent, the higher and higher we rise toward the goal of creation.
It turns out that it is possible to climb the spiritual ladder only to the extent that we unite and help each other.

It is necessary to understand that by helping a friend, I am actually helping myself. By wanting to give strength to a friend, to help him climb his spiritual degrees, I raise myself up. With the help of “they helped every one his friend,” we can rise higher and higher.

Once the final goal is reached, everyone connects with everyone, and everyone incorporates into a friend and a friend into him, and we all turn into a system similar to the first man, Adam HaRishon. But the power of this system, this Adam, becomes 620 times greater than what it was before.

Due to the fact that the Creator created this system and then broke us, He gave us the opportunity to connect above our egoism. And when we overcome our separation, our egoism, we raise ourselves to the peak of human existence 620 times higher than the one we had at the beginning of creation.

Therefore the more we connect and interconnect with each other, starting with a ten and then wider and wider, we get much closer to the final correction and eventually we will achieve it.
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From the 1st 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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In the Time of Difficult Trials

239Question: Are the things that are happening purposefully intended for the global Bnei Baruch or for the people of Israel or for the whole world?

Answer: For everyone to the extent that everyone participates in the world movement and its development.

All of humanity is connected in one will to receive that gradually undergoes its transformation, a change from the will to receive to the will to bestow under the influence of the Creator.

Therefore I cannot imagine any state other than to be connected with each other and in turning to the Creator, to convince Him to change our intentions to bestowal, to love, and to connection.

Question: Let us assume that we, Bnei Baruch, like good children, behave correctly and unite in the required way. How can we imagine this correct connection?

Answer: As a state where the entire world group is being included into the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/9/23, “Growing Stronger in There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Understand the Creator

528.03Question: If we unite minimally and build this state, will we be given even greater trials until the final correction?

Answer: Yes, naturally. Our egoism will grow; we will be given stricter circumstances to rise above them in mutual guarantee.

Question: Are completely corrected people absent from this reality; do they drop out of it?

Answer: No, they are just above it.

Question: How do we increase our sensitivity?

Answer: If we study, read, and discuss together, we have the opportunity to understand the Creator more out of understanding each other.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/9/23, “Growing Stronger in There Is None Else Besides Him”

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The Force of Unity

528.01Question: What does it mean that the force of unity inclines the whole world to the side of merit? How does this happen in the ten?

Answer: First of all, you must achieve connection between you. And then your force of unity, which you will achieve together, will reveal the Creator to you, will reveal the upper world, and you will see how everything really works.

Question: What is the beginning of the sensory form of the feeling of connection in the ten?

Answer: One desire and one goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/11/23, “Growing Stronger in There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Under the Condition of Convergence

592.02Question: As animals, we can fight with each other, we can be afraid. And how can we raise the importance and greatness of the Creator so that we break away from our animal, feel that the Creator is the most important thing for us, and so we will put what He wants from us first instead of what our animal is afraid of?

Answer: We can achieve everything only through our connection. The more tightly we connect, the greater height we will reach. There will be nothing to be afraid of, everything will be arranged perfectly and well. But this is only on condition of rapprochement between us.

Question: How can we see where this rapprochement is still lacking?

Answer: Check yourself with your ten; everyone should do so, and you will see that everything will be fine. Everything will be great! Nothing bad will happen!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/7/23, “Current events in Israel”

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How Can We Bring All Desires into One?

282.01Question: There are differences in our level of desire to attain the Creator. There are guys who want to advance quickly and devote their whole lives to the path, while others have less strong desire. How can we combine these desires into one?

Answer: This all happens only on the basis of unity.

What is interesting about unity? There are hundreds and thousands of people with different languages and mentalities, but when they unite, new qualities are obtained, and none of them remain what they were before.

Just as, for example, there is a big difference between raising a child among people who will influence him or leaving him in the forest to grow up alone. It is clear that nothing will come out of him.

It is the same here. We must constantly influence each other and set an example. If at a given moment I give an example to my friends, then in the next moment they influence me. This is where our progress lies.

To the extent that we think about others, to that extent and with this force the Creator thinks about us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Don’t Be Ashamed of Your Nature

583.01Question: I feel the hearts of my friends, but my heart is torn into pieces. I keep bumping into the wall of egoism when I try to open it. I feel terrible shame from the thought that if I open my heart, everyone will see that there is criticism, judgements, and all sorts of nonsense.

Answer: So what’s the big deal? First, the usual answer to this is: “Go to the Creator who created my heart this way, complain to Him.” Therefore, when a person reveals his bad heart, he should not be ashamed and hide.

He must try to rise up and ask the Creator to correct, in general, what the Creator Himself did. We have every right to turn to Him and demand that He correct our hearts.

The science of Kabbalah is built on the fact that we unite in asking and demanding correction. And the Creator initially says: “I created the evil inclination and gave the Torah to correct it.”

What does “the Torah to correct it” mean? This is the highest light that we can attract, and it will correct us; only it can do this. And our task is to discover our faults and evil, and ask the Creator for help. He specifically waits for us to beg Him because in this case we will draw closer to Him.

Everyone can ask the Creator, and He hears everyone, but we must push Him to action only from the group. There are thousands of people at the convention, and therefore, when you ask and speak, you connect with each other and unite in a common heart.

In ordinary life, we act in tens. And if the ten is united, it can influence the Creator so that He changes each of its friends. Good luck to you!
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From the 1st part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 1 “The Work Is Mainly in the Heart”

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Universal Integration

937Question: When Kabbalah speaks about the merging of two objects, does it mean integration with each friend or between each of us with the ten as the second object?

Answer: It is the adhesion of each one of us with a friend, the adhesion of each of us with the ten, the adhesion through my ten with other tens, and in general with everyone.

That is, there is multiple unification, multiplication, and combination of all our properties and desires that happen here. Then it turns out that we have a common vessel, a common desire, with common feelings where it is impossible even to understand where I am and where you are, where he is and where she is, and so on.

Everything merges together in one sphere, a sphere in which we see only one single force that created us, connected us, and brought us to it. We unite within this force without any difference between us. This is the connection of creation with the Creator.

Question: Do we connect and come to adhesion with each friend or with the ten?

Answer: You need to imagine the ten all the time and not break it down into individual friends, into individuals: this one is better or worse, this one is closer or farther from me. In no way you should do that.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Why Is the Force of the Group Needed?

931.02Question: There is the force of the group. We know that if the friends do not pray for me, I will not rise. My spirit is lifted only by them thinking about me. That is how I use it. But what for?

Answer: In order to rise and pull them along with you; just like today maybe they are pulling you along with them. After all, everyone helps the other and thus we achieve the goal.

We must unite into one single system called Adam from which we all scattered by our egoism and return again to this single desire where everyone supports everyone, holds on and clings to each other, and thus unite in one heart. Then we will begin to feel only one force between us and around us—the Creator.
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From the 2nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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