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Questions about Spiritual Work—16

534Question: When we feel that we have no strength to overcome, what can help us break through in prayer?

Answer: Only the help of the friends can help because the Creator responds only to the common desire, to the prayer of many.

Question: Does a ten have a common ego?

Answer: Yes.

Question: It can be difficult to talk about something sincerely, for example, that you are inferior to everyone or that you love the friends. What if we say the right words, but we do not feel it in our heart? How important is sincerity?

Answer: Even if you just say the words and do not feel them in your heart yet, it also works.

Question: Can prayer harm the one we are praying for if he has not yet reached the true intention?

Answer: No.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/23, Writings of Rabash “The Lord Is Near to All Who Call upon Him”

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Difficulties on the Spiritual Path

278.03 So is the nature—he craves and each time imagines that he is already marching on the highway. And suddenly, he looks back to the place from which he came, and then leaves the highway and reconnects with the uneducated people and follows them (RABASH, Letter 21).

The fact is that a person needs to leave the straight path in order to feel the need for the Creator’s help.

On one hand, if we do not have disappointments and all kinds of feelings of weakness on the spiritual path, then we do not need the help of the Creator. On the other hand, how can we descend into states where we need His help? We do not need to avoid difficulties. We just have to plunge into them and see that we cannot move forward, that the Creator specifically arranges all kinds of descents for us, from which we shout and ask Him to help us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—15

258And when he sees that he has already come to the village Kfar, i.e., to the quality of disbelief “kfira,” he begins to strive for faith again. (Rabash, Letter No. 21)

Question: What is this quality of kfar and how does it manifest itself?

Answer: This is rejection of the Creator, the upper force. This is a very big force that we should avoid.

Question: What does it mean to look back in our work?

Answer: This is to look at what a person has gone through. He has no right to look back and check himself. He should look only forward to where he is more connected with his friends and with the Creator.

Question: What does it mean to cling and hold on to friends, to rely on them?

Answer: It means to cling to them and help in everything you can, not to use them, but to do everything for their advancement.

Question: How do I understand what the Creator wants to convey to a friend through me so that my action is not from egoism, but precisely from the Creator?

Answer: In this case, you need to connect with your friends as much as possible, and then the Creator will be with you.

Question: With a huge desire to fully reveal the Creator, how do I overcome the fear of not having time to do it?

Answer: You will have a sense of security only with your friends, only from connection with others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”

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Feel the Group

938.01Question: You told a story about Rabash’s grandmother. When he was little and misbehaved, she did not punish him immediately but did so after two or three days. The same happens to us. After we have already misbehaved, we are told we did something wrong. How can we work with this so as to not just listen and run away but to properly use such situations for advancement?

Answer: To do this, you need to be connected strongly with the group. You will not have the strength to do it yourself and will run away.

Therefore, you need to feel the group. Not even to talk to them about it but just to feel what it means to be in a group. Then, you will have the strength to connect with the friends again and feel the Creator in the center of the group. In this case, your future is secured.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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934Question: How can I understand that I am going backward relative to the group?

Answer: You have to look at your friends, see their actions and properties, and then you will discover how far behind you are. Checking whether you are going forward or backward can be only relative to the group.

Hold on to each other. You have no other way. Try to combine all the efforts of the ten. It is impossible to teach this.

You should talk and think about the greatness of the Creator, how much He wants to attract you to Himself and to create a place for you inside Himself. In this way you will advance.

Question: What is this state when “he will not turn back to folly”?

Answer: When he realizes that everything he is doing is folly and is on the verge that both the Creator and his friends can simply stop interacting with him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”

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Raise the Striving for the Spiritual

237Question: There is a feeling that we run away from our work all the time. How do we not run away from disturbances? How can we rise above the necessary, and how can we raise the necessity? And what is the difference between them?

Answer: The main thing is to be in connection with your friends more and more until all the points of action build the correct line in front of you.

Question: Is it possible to determine exactly what we are raising and what we are rising above?

Answer: We rise above our egoistic demands, feelings, sensations, and goals. And we raise our striving to the spiritual.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”

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Kindness without Additions

528.02Question: What does the concept of kindness without any additions mean?

Answer: It is an absolute, pure good without any egoistic additions to the extent that we can isolate it and hold only on to it.

Question: How can we move from egoistic to pure love in the ten? Do we do it ourselves, or does the Creator transition us due to our requests?

Answer: As much as we want to be in a real non-egoistic connection between us, we are closer to the Creator. He is correcting our connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/17/23, “To Come to Feel Others”

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Support on the Path

514.02Everyone in the group has various temptations that distract them from the spiritual path. In order not to stray from the correct path you need to rely on your friends; otherwise, you will not be able to sustain and go straight to the goal.

Although they have the same temptation, if you hold on to each other and go precisely this way, choosing the spiritual environment all the time, you will definitely get to the goal.

At the same time, you should not put pressure on your friends, but only show them how committed you are to the goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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Find the Right Solution

530Question: How can we understand whether we have reached a new degree of connection or have simply forgotten the conflict we had? For example, in ordinary life, we fight and after a while we calm down as if nothing had happened. How does it work in the ten?

Answer: This is not how it works in the ten. We should not calm down, but should look for a solution to the issue: let us, despite all our calculations, try to come closer and connect with each other and there we will find the right solution.

In our community, we have to rise above the situation. We should do nothing but ask the Creator to connect us. Despite the fact that there is a problem, the Creator will solve everything: the upper light will come and raise us.

Although all this is still in some abstract categories for us, in feelings it happens exactly in such a way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”

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Attack from the Bottom of the Heart

931.01Question: How can we come together to a common attack from the very depths of our hearts in order to get out of the state of faithlessness?

Answer: You should talk among yourselves about the fact that the success of the entire operation depends on your attack now. When everyone tries to defeat their enemy inside them, then in the end you will feel that you are facing a common enemy.

In order to fight against egoism and not against each other, you must connect with each other and, as a result of the connection, fight with the ego.

Question: The external salvation of the Creator is the importance of connection, and the internal salvation is the war in man?

Answer: No, war is not salvation. We must see the help of the Creator in all our states, He pushes us forward to unity and to the feeling of one heart, one desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/23, “The Need for the Creator’s Salvation”

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