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Let’s Turn the World to Goodness

962.3We live in a time of war with the hope that every day will be the last day of the war. We have to strengthen the connection between us because only through our unification can we bring the Creator closer to us so that His power will protect us and bring peace to everyone.

We pray for our friends at the front, for other soldiers, and for those who were captured, and we hope that everyone will quickly return home in peace, in safety, and in good health. Let us continue to study Kabbalistic articles that help us turn to the Creator and ask for His help.

We must believe that everything that is happening comes only from the Creator, and He does everything in the most optimal way to bring us closer to Him. And if it seems to us that the Creator’s influence is not very good, then we are not ready for a different path.  We have the only way—to connect with each other and contact the Creator on the conditions that He now provides us.

Let’s ask the Creator to help us adhere to Him as quickly as possible so that we all feel the power of the upper governance over us and over the whole world and so we will understand that “There is none else besides Him” who is good and does good. Only because He wishes for our good does He perform such actions on us.. And if we unite even more, we will feel that the Creator is close and is leading us on the path of correction.

Behind every friend stands the Creator, the single upper force, beside which there is nothing. This force controls us and the whole world in general, including our haters and enemies. Therefore we need to understand the influence of the Creator and do everything so that His attitude toward us changes to goodness.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/23, “Growing Stronger in There Is None Else Besides Him”

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In Times of Severe Trials

293Question: All of us from Kyiv, first of all, want to express our love, affection, concern, and support to the entire Israeli Kli. We now know what war is and what you are going through.

How can we learn to be calm, but at the same time desperately ask the Creator for peace and for this correction? How can we look at this sensibly? Can you teach us?

Answer: I do not think I can convey my feelings to you and teach you. But gradually it will come. This will come to the extent that you feel that everything is in the hands of the Creator.

Question: In the hour of such trials that are now unfolding in Israel, can we Kabbalists allow ourselves to connect with the natural spontaneous hatred that is being revealed? How can we use good forces correctly to prevent explosions of evil forces?

Answer: We do not need to hate anyone; we only need to love our friends and try to come closer to the Creator through this love. That is all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/7/23, “Current Events in Israel”

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Opening the Heart without Words

527.03Question: I look at some friends who seem to conceal themselves, they never open up. Why do you always say: “Do not think about me, think about the Creator?” Where and what is the strength here?

Answer: When I came to Rabash, I saw six or seven old men sitting and studying different books. I did not understand these texts yet and actually did not know how to read them. It was very difficult: I knew nothing, did not understand, and did not see what the relationship between them was.

They hardly spoke to each other; only when reading books did they sometimes exchange one or two words.

But gradually, their language became clear to me, and I saw why they behaved this way—so as not to interfere with the general reading. I realized that they think about each other and help each other.

Nothing was visible from the outside. This is the work in the heart. Kabbalists even encourage us to hide what is in our hearts.

The opening of the heart occurs from within, in desires. But there was nothing there in words. If I were judging by their words, I would generally think that some old people were sitting there who have nothing to do, and they are just getting together and reading. What else should they do at the age of seventy?

But I do not think you will have to wait until you are seventy. You will reveal your feelings to your friends earlier, and they will reveal them to you. Without words!
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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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Strengthen the Tens

938.02Question: Egoism separates and splits everything, and the Creator glues everything together and makes it one. How, nevertheless, can we not divide the tens and even friends in the ten into individual people, but see the entire network of connections both inside the ten, inside the world Kli, and inside the entire world?

Answer: During the convention, the unity of all our friends is possible. It does not matter at all where we live and what languages we speak.

This is a convention, Kenes, from the word “Hitkansut (Assembly), mutual connection.

But if we are talking about a spiritual structure, then it is united in tens, and we should not break tens, but on the contrary, strengthen them.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Make Room for the Creator

938.03Question: What does it mean to make room for the Creator in our connection?

Answer: It means that by uniting together we want the Creator to fit into our common desire, which we make up from our private desires.

When the ten completely unites and we want to be filled with the light of the Creator, then the light of Yechida that can fill our ten will mean the appearance of the Creator.

If we are united, nothing will interfere with the light.

Question: What determines how much and with what quality light will enter the Kli?

Answer: It depends on our feelings, desires, how much we have mutual rejections, and how much we rise above them and still want to be together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 9/28/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Constant Connection

557Question: I was offended by my ten and the Creator. I flew to the convention from another country and six friends from my ten who live in Israel, did not come to the group meeting. How else can I ask the Creator for closer connection with my friends?

Answer: Be connected with them all the time, correspond, talk.

You have to establish a connection and be in constant contact with them. We need to understand that day by day the Creator raises egoistic desires in us more and more, and it will be more and more difficult for us to connect with each other.

Thus, we must ensure that the connection between us is stronger and constant.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/23, of “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Let’s Open Our Hearts

945A person who wants to feel the Creator must connect with the hearts of his friends, and then through them, inside them, he will feel the Creator. Our common heart, which we are building together, will be a place, a detector for revealing and feeling the Creator, and will allow us to connect with Him.

We need to build and keep such a heart in order to keep the connection with the Creator all the time. This is all in our power. The Creator really wants each of us to rise above our egoistic heart and connect with the hearts of our friends so that in this connection, we begin to feel, attain, and connect with the Creator, to adhere to Him.

This is the work we have to do at the convention and every day in general. We need to build the same state that should be at the complete correction of the world.

Who knows better than us how much the world needs correction and that it does not even know where to look for salvation? We must bring correction to the world and give it hope for a good future. All problems will be solved by our connection.

So let us try to connect our hearts into one heart in order to feel the upper force, our entire universe, and how all this infinity enters into our common heart. I hope that we will be able to open our hearts and begin to accept all humanity, all reality, and all the worlds there. Then we will feel that this entire infinite universe in which we exist is inside our hearts and that the Creator fills all this space.
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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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The Congress Takes Place in Our Hearts

938.03Let us try to open our hearts at the congress together as one heart—men and women. It does not matter what languages we speak or from what parts of the world we came; the main thing is that we have one common heart.

And since this heart is assembled from all sorts of parts that are so different and alien to each other, when we connect them together, this connection of hearts will open a vessel for feeling the Creator, who is one for all.

I need to open my heart to the feeling that I am doing my best for everyone and connecting with everyone. I invite everyone into my heart and I myself enter the hearts of my friends. And so we open our common heart, which is called “congress,” that is, a gathering.

We must feel that the congress is taking place in our hearts, which all merge into one heart as much as possible. Try with all our might to bring our hearts closer together until they merge into one whole in which we will begin to feel closer to the Creator. After all, He is there in this one heart, and if we want to reveal the Creator, then this is the path, the action that we need to perform.

There is no other way for a person who wants to reveal the Creator, and ultimately there is no other way for all of humanity. Otherwise, we will have to move forward through suffering and troubles in order to eventually realize that it is necessary to break the barriers that separate our hearts and unite these hearts into one heart.

Humanity moves forward year after year, day after day, through a sea of problems, only to eventually realize that there is no choice but to work toward unity. And this is against the entire egoistic nature of man, which is constantly trying to alienate us from each other. This distance is arranged by the Creator Himself, so that by fighting against separation we can feel the Creator more and more.

Initially, everyone sees everything through their egoism, the desire that is directed at themselves.

Therefore, there is no other way out but to get closer and unite everyone into one desire, which is what they call “to become like one person with one heart.” This is the goal of the Kabbalistic group.

Almost forty years have passed since Rabash wrote his articles about the formation of the group. And the Kabbalists of the past mentioned this thousands of years ago. And although people have changed a lot since then, the method of correction has remained the same.
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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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All the Billions of People as One Man

944The main thing is our connection. After all, every person has a piece of the common soul of Adam HaRishon, and in order to reach the connection with the Creator, we must connect with each other. This connection is implemented in the tens since ten is a special round number, equivalent to the entire general whole. Therefore, following the advice of Kabbalists, we will organize ourselves into tens.

Everyone must take care to be included in a ten, where everyone will be as one man with one heart. This connection is permanent and strengthens all the time. The power of this connection determines the degree to which we raise ourselves, up to the complete correction, up to true connection into one man with one heart.

This principle has been observed for thousands of years by Kabbalists, that is, people who want to rise spiritually and reach correction. On the basis of this calculation, we can evaluate the world, and the people, and check ourselves to what degree we are.

That is why it is so important to hold gatherings of friends where we meet and try to unite as one: one ten as one, ten tens as one, etc., more and more until the power of our connection gives us the feeling of the Creator. This is how we advance until the end of correction when all the billions of people will unite into one ten, into one common structure, the soul of Adam.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/23, Writing of Rabash “The Order of the Work, from Baal HaSulam”

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Revelation of the Soul

583.02Question: When we open our hearts in our connection, I feel unbearable longing. It is so strong that it is impossible to open the heart any further.

What is the other side of this feeling, and how can I use it for the benefit of my group?

Answer: You must connect all your feelings and direct them toward the unity of your ten, and then after the ten, to all the others.

It is necessary to try to come closer together so that you feel absolutely all the friends in your heart. This will be the revelation of your soul.

We think that the soul is something that must descend from somewhere, ascend somewhere, and move. The soul is our desires that are ready to connect and give a place for the Creator inside them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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