Entries in the 'Group Work' Category

Rising above the Animalistic Nature

942Question: How at the animal level can one act against the desire of the master, that is, work in the quality of bestowal?

Answer: When we want to rise above the animal level within us, we rise from the level of “Chai” (animal) to the level of “Medaber” (human). When we do this, we reject the animalistic qualities in us and acquire new ones. This is how we grow.

If we constantly try to adhere to the group, we will be able to protect ourselves from the animalistic nature relatively quickly and easily and will maintain human qualities.

External actions in the group between friends should be aimed at helping each other to rise above the animalistic nature.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/23, “To Come to Feel Others”

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A Degree in Attaining the Creator

938.04Question: How does one feel a friend as a degree in attaining the Creator?

Answer: A friend is not me; it is something from the outside. If I get used to the fact that I strive to connect with him, then this is already a degree on the path to connection with the Creator.

The desire to feel a friend is different from the desire to feel the other. These are different feelings.

We should try to feel the friend as ourselves, so close as if he is inside me. By this we prepare the Kli (vessel) for the revelation of the Creator within us.

Question: What do I want to give to the friends, or what do I want the Creator to give them?

Answer: You must first feel what they want, and then try to be an intermediary so that they receive it from the Creator through you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/16/23, “To Come to Feel Others”

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Internal Heart Massage

245.11Question: We are used to material gifts. How can we learn to give and receive gifts when we are connected virtually?

Answer: It does not matter. It is not about a material gift where you give me some kind of party favor or box tied with a ribbon. We talk about giving each other gifts in order to feel connected.

The point is that you want to give me something nice, and I feel that you are giving to me from the bottom of your heart and want me to feel it in my heart.

We need to soften our hearts a little so that they begin to feel each other. Start doing such internal massages, each on one’s own heart, so that we feel our attitude toward each other.

Try to do such exercises as if you are rubbing your hearts together. Try to feel each other through the heart so that everyone’s heart feels the hearts of others. It will work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/13/23, “To Give the Creator a Gift”

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Interchangeable Connection

938.02Question: How do you become included in the Creator in order to connect with everyone else there?

Answer: First we must connect with each other, from the love of friends to the love of the Creator. But sometimes we can also do the opposite because we are neither in this nor in that yet. Therefore, by wishing to connect with the Creator, we come closer to the friends. By becoming included in the Creator, we acquire strength and opportunity to connect with them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/13/23, “To give the Creator a Gift”

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Eternal Fire with the Creator Inside

275Question: I want to break through to the heart of every friend, but not everyone is ready to open their heart and accept you. How can one not lose the fire of love and continue to knock on his heart?

Answer: It is quite natural that a friend does not want to hear about it. This means he has healthy egoism.

You should try to reach him through other friends. Do not lose optimism because this is the purpose of creation. The “place” in the heart of a friend that you need to hit several times is your desire to be in his heart. In the end, everything will work out.

Question: I am sending “bullets” into the hearts of my friends, and they are sending “bullets” to me. The heart ignites, burns, and then it cools down a little. Is our task to turn the heart into an eternal flame? Can we survive it?

Answer: There are no problems. We can all burn together constantly with eternal fire, and the Creator will be inside it. He is the material that will burn within us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/13/23, “To Give the Creator a Gift”

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No One Will Be Superfluous

938.02Question: Can there be love between the Creator and the friends? After all, there is only me and my neighbor. What is the difference between love for a friend and love for the Creator?

Answer: We want to love the Creator together, to unite in Him. We cannot connect with each other in any combination: neither man with man, nor man with woman, nor woman with woman. This is possible only if we are included in the Creator and unite in Him.

And then no one will be superfluous; we will all complement each other. This is what we should strive for.

The main thing is to achieve connection and love with the Creator. And the friends should take the same part in this as you do. Therefore you must be connected with them in order to come from love for your friends to love for the Creator. And if love for your friends already exists at least in some minimal form and it warms you, then you should turn to the Creator and ask Him to dwell in your common feeling.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/23, “Giving a Gift to the Creator”

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Don’t Wither in the Ten

528.01The Creator gives a point in the heart and brings a person to a ten where he falls into the hands of his or her friends and feels safe. In this calm state, one begins to “fall asleep.”

And what should you do? You must take on some work in your own or in the world group and do it with all your might; otherwise, you will drown and wither in your ten.

Question: How can one come to a state where one person is responsible for the whole group?

Answer: When we connect, we turn into one man. This is how we appear before the Creator, as one man with one heart, one desire and one man from all of us together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/12/23, Writings of Rabash “The Importance of Faith that Is Always Present”

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Recognize the Qualities of Jacob and Esau in Me

568.01Question: How can I recognize the qualities of Jacob and Esau in myself and work with them correctly?

Answer: Jacob is the quality for the benefit of the friends; Esau is only for his own benefit.

Question: Why does a person more often work only with the evil inclination?

Answer: Because it is our natural work. We consist of an egoistic desire to receive for our own sake. Therefore, in the beginning, the quality of Esau awakens in a person.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/12/23, Writings of Rabash “The Importance of Faith that Is Always Present”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—12

263Question: If we are turning to you now so that you thank all the world’s tens from us for surrounding us, are we doing this as a gift to you personally?

Answer: Of course. The fact that you turn to each other and each time the connection between you becomes stronger and stronger, this is a great gift for me.

Question: Can we give gifts to the Creator if we ourselves feel a sense of lack and dissatisfaction?

Answer: You lack the love that you can give to your friends and receive from them. There will be no feeling of lack when you start developing this feeling within yourself.

Question: You said that before giving a gift, you need to find out from a friend what is important to him. Is it possible to do this in relation to the Creator, to scrutinize in the ten the Creator’s need for a gift from us?

Answer: Yes. Moreover, with the Creator you can behave in different ways: you can imagine the ten with the Creator in the center of the ten, or you can imagine the ten as one common whole inside the Creator. Try both ways.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson on “Giving a Gift to the Creator” 8/13/23

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How Can I Feel the Importance of a Friend?

963.1What helps me feel the importance and greatness of a friend? The fact that I am getting closer to him and I want to be together with him, and thus there already are two of us, and then there will be three, four, and so on until there are countless people who will work together on the recognition of the greatness of the friends.

To understand that a friend is as important and great for me as the Creator, I have to think more that he is on the path with me, that he is important to me, that without him I cannot reach the goal, and that he cannot do it without me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/10/23, “Habit Becomes a Second Nature”

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