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It Is Best to Show an Example

962.2Question: If I see that a friend is suffering from not being annulled, how can we work with it, and where is the place of my correction?

Answer: You have to give him an example of how to annul so that he sees what needs to be done and will do the same.

Do not tell him about the problem, it is better to show an example. Maybe he will understand.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—8

528.01Question: Is the request of the lower ones to bring us closer to the Creator from the bottom up or to attract the light to us from the top down?

Answer: It is to lift us up to the Creator from the bottom up.

Question: When feeling joy, each of us also feels and sees the joy of our friends. How do we understand that we brought contentment to the Creator and that He enjoys our good connections?

Answer: You must reach a state where you feel how the Creator relates to you. And it will be felt by you as joy.

Question: The Creator gives us all the states. We either run away from the battlefield or run after the Creator. How can we make Him bring us closer to Himself?

Answer: Try to gather all your friends into one common whole where there will be no difference between you. In this, you will feel closer to the Creator.

Question: Before asking you about something, some friends feel such intense awe that they are afraid to ask questions. How can we work with this feeling? Is it necessary to overcome it so as not to hesitate to ask?

Answer: I think there is nothing to be shy about. Questions should be asked. You can first discuss them between you in the group and then ask.

Question: You recommended to rise above all contradictions and unite in one heart. How do we work with these contradictions?

Answer: You should try to get closer to the Creator yourself and drag all your friends with you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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The Creator Understands Everything

942Question: Which efforts are more important: to love and see the greatness of the friends or to focus on love for the Creator?

Answer: The most important thing is to turn to the Creator and through Him try to solve all our problems, especially spiritual ones.

Question: So what is better: to the friends and after them to the Creator, or from the Creator to the friends?

Answer: It depends on what stage you are at. But it is best to turn to the friends, and with them to the Creator.

Continue to clarify your questions with the friends and with the Creator. Then everything will work out.

Do not worry about the fact that you may not be able to ask the right question. The Creator understands everything. It is said about this: “The Creator will finish for me.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Jump into a Good Future

935The difference between past, present, and future is only in the strength of our connection. If we connect, we compress time and jump into the future.

In fact, there is no time! It is only according to our inner effort to unite that we reveal our more corrected states. This means that we exist in time.
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From the  1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/23, Writings of Rabash “Three Times in the Work”

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Serve the Creator

115Question: Do I understand correctly that if the upper Malchut is not revealed at least to some extent, we have no opportunity to serve the Creator?

Answer: We have the opportunity to turn to the Creator and ask Him; this always works. The Creator is open to everyone and awaits for an appeal from each of us. The only thing is that we must be very consistent in this: ask, appeal, raise our offers, and requests all the time. And then, in relation to this, we will feel the attitude of the Creator toward us.

Question: Is serving the Creator a certain action? Can I ask and the Creator will do something through me?

Answer: Yes, the Creator will consistently carry out His attitude to others through you.

Question: And what does it mean to serve the Creator in a group?

Answer: First of all, it is the connection between you growing stronger and stronger until you merge into one common desire, and then you will discover the Creator in this desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Learn to Appreciate the Gifts of the Creator

275Question: The Creator gives us gifts all the time. He created the evil inclination to shade Himself, gave us a method so that we would feel how to approach Him. Now He is ready to give us the quality of bestowal. How can we learn to appreciate these gifts, recognize them, learn from them, and be grateful?

Answer: We should try to connect with each other so that there are no contradictions or disturbances between us that would prevent us from relating to the Creator with one feeling, with one heart.

Try to adjust yourself so that everyone has one single desire of the heart, and by turning it to the Creator, you will begin to feel the manifestation of the Creator to you in this desire.

Question: Is this a test that we have become closer to the Creator?

Answer: This is not just a test but an action.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Become an Intermediary between the Creator and the Friends

938.02Question: There is a place called “the love of the friends for me” and there is a place called “my love for the friends.” Are these different things?

Answer: Absolutely different. The love of the friends for me is manifested in their desire. “My love for my friends” is in my desire.

But the Creator reveals himself in both places: in my desire for the friends and in the desire of the friends for me.

Question: I suffer that I cannot bestow and bring contentment to my friends, and at the same time I rejoice that the Creator wants and can do it. I want to become an intermediary between the Creator and my friends in order to bring contentment to them. Is this the right desire, and how to come to it?

Answer: Everyone should be in such a state. And then everyone will unite with the Creator and with his friends to be a link between the whole group, everyone in the group, and the Creator. So, that is very good.

Question: How can you give to the group and not see the benefit for yourself?

Answer: With one’s heart. Try to include your friends in your heart and also enter into their hearts. And in this common mutual heart, you will always approach each other until you feel the Creator, that you are in Him and He is in you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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To Be Included in Common Request

936The feeling of the Creator’s greatness is a consequence of Him revealing Himself a little with respect to us. The question arises: how can one ask correctly for such a feeling for the friends? This is the result of our common work.

You can ask alone as well, but it is very hard and long work until He answers. But if you ask together with the ten, the Creator will not be able to refuse.

Question: Does the request for revelation of the Creator include any other actions, for example, our meetings?

Answer: Not meetings, but connection! As soon as you reach it, the Creator can be revealed in it.

Question: What is the difference between when we focus on asking and thinking about the revelation of the Creator, and the action when we talk about love of friends, but at the same time we wait for the Creator to be revealed? Are these different things?

Answer: They are different. It is necessary to clarify this. It is necessary to try more and more to combine all these desires, requests, and appeals so that they are arranged in such a way that you, your friends, and everyone in the world are included in this request.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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The Greatness of the Shechina

509Question: What is the Shechina (Divinity)?

Answer: The feeling in a person that the Creator clothes into him and fills him is called the Shechina. The Creator or Shechina are one and the same.

Question: How does the greatness of the Shechina in my eyes affect my friends and reality in general?

Answer: In a direct way. The greatness of the Shechina is the greatness of the Creator, the greatness of His force and the envelopment of the entire universe by His force. We have no other problems here, except to feel and reveal the greatness of the Creator. This is the most important thing for us.

Then we will be able to address Him correctly, not forget about Him, and understand that we depend only on Him. We need to tell all of humanity about this.

Everything in the world rests solely on revealing the greatness of the Creator. The first to receive it was a group of people that came out of Babylon. They called themselves “Yehudim” from the word “Yihud,” unity. At one time, they united with each other precisely in order to attain the Creator. They must correctly present the singularity of the Creator to the whole world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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The Taste of Dust in Spiritual Work

243.05Question: You said that the taste of dust is a state of indifference when one does not feel anything. But there is a feeling of rejection when I just want to run away. With indifference, it is still possible to do something through the mind, but with rejection, there is absolutely no strength for anything. What is the difference between these states?

Answer: The difference is very big. We must try to draw ourselves through the group to the Creator. It should all be in front of us. There is me and there is the Creator, and the group is between us. And I, embracing the group and being in it, carry myself and the group to the Creator.

Question: Egoism always wants to convince us that if we feel that this is bad, then this really is so, and it is better not to do anything. How should one act in this state?

Answer: Only through the group.

Question: If the group does not react and is inactive, do I also have to be inactive?

Answer: No, we still need to pull our friends through ourselves to the Creator. We need to show an example.

Question: How should one react correctly to the taste of dust in the work: agree, endure, or ask to renew the taste?

Answer: In different ways. I do not want to limit you in anything. The most important thing is for everyone to pull the group forward. You can consult with the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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