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Overcoming

528.04Question: What does it mean to work for the Creator? Is it when we work on overcoming rejection and disagreement, annul ourselves, and experience a state of lowliness from this?

Answer: It is necessary to overcome rejection only in the connection between us and not individually. It will not do anything. It is only in the connection. This is called overcoming.

Question: Is it when the ten connects and asks the Creator?

Answer: At least a few people from the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/1/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Above Contradictions

528.01Question: We separate spiritual studies and corporeal activities. What should we do if the confrontation between Kabbalists arises precisely on the corporeal level?

Answer: If a confrontation occurs between people who are working together, when they are creating something new, then it is right. That is how it should be.

If it happens at the usual everyday level when they are for example writing a book together and are in contradiction with each other, they can fight. But this fight is creative and does not interfere with their spiritual connection.

In all other cases, there can be no contradictions. As it is said: “Counters’ envy increases wisdom.” This is natural. This was written 3,000 years ago in the sayings of King Solomon.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Ruthless People” 9/17/11

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How to Accelerate Movement toward the Creator

631.1Question: We feel a great need for connection and a great desire to ask with all our might for our common correction and for freedom from egoism. How can we accelerate this movement?

Answer: Imagine that now we have the opportunity to get closer to each other more than usual and to attract the Creator. Ask and beg Him to join in our connection too.

We would like to make our connection absolutely good, mutual in form and content so that the Creator can fully be revealed in it and enjoy what we offer to Him.

And we would perceive His revelation in us as the Shechina, as an absolute, comfortable, pleasant revelation of Himself to His creations. That is why He created us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/2/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—7

963.4Question: If I carry a state of rejection to the ten, how do we work within the ten without falling into the left line and making it worse if the friends have a similar state?

Answer: Add up your states with the rest and achieve a positive effect.

Question: Why is it important to state the intention before the lesson? When I hear my friends, my heart opens. What happens when everyone says the intention and comes to the lesson with it?

Answer: You get a common intention. You connect with each other, and it means a lot. You open a common Kli, vessel.

Question: When we meet with other tens, we interconnect, open up to each other, unite, and feel great inspiration as if the Creator is between us. At our ten meetings, it all goes away and is erased as if we are shy and do not appreciate each other. How do we work with it?

Answer: The Creator shows you that you are not trying to keep yourself in a state of unity with each other all of the time. It is bad. There must be the importance of friends.

Question: It happens that during the lesson the head is empty and does not want to think, and the heart is full of love for friends, for the world Kli, for you, and for the Creator. Is this a normal state?

Answer: The normal state is when both are included in the work and you feel very close to each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Make a King over Us

1.02Question: In the group, we live inside different, dynamic states. What does make an effort to make a King over us mean?

Answer: You must elevate the Creator in your eyes so much that He becomes in your mind the only one who controls absolutely all of nature, including, of course, yours. Then you will always be in connection with Him.

Question: Let us say we have accepted the Creator in our hearts as a ruler, as a King. How can we work in this state?

Answer: Connect with each other to such an extent that the Creator is between you. Try to find the Creator in yourself, feel how He controls you, and you will feel it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 7/30/23 “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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When The Small One Is Above Everyone

236.02Question: The Creator loves me, but at the same time He torments me. We feel the most painful and massive suffering at the level of our world. There is a great desire for them to become “sufferings of love” where I want to connect with the friends and feel them as myself, but I cannot. How can we move from corporeal suffering to spiritual suffering of love?

Answer: It depends on you which sufferings are big and which are small. Take the Creator by the hand and bring Him to a friend who is ill, so that He can calm him down and heal him. Try to be more realistic about things, and do not just say: “I pray… I think…”. You lack a more real attitude.

Question: How can you combine self-annulment before a friend where you are the smallest one, and at the same time bring him to the Creator?

Answer: For this action, you are the smallest. But with the help of this action, you are the biggest. This is what is said about Moses: He felt and placed himself below everyone, and therefore was above everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Selective Impact of the Light

545Question: I feel that a burning evil is awakening in me toward my friends. And when I try to turn to the Creator through them, I eventually realize that this is evil in relation to the Creator. What am I doing wrong? How should I continue the journey?

Answer: Just keep going on and on and on. It is said about this: “What the mind does not do, time does.”

The light acts very slowly. Rather, not slowly, but selectively at every moment of time for every millimeter of the way without missing anything. It has no jumps, and therefore it seems to us that it acts slowly.

In fact, it all goes from generation to generation, from second to second, until it develops into one tape of time. And we will see the end of the correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 7/29/23 “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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Just Love!

530Question: How can we help friends who do not accept connection with other tens that are experiencing hatred and negativity?

Answer: You should say that any manifestations of hatred between you must be rejected. We need to rise above all calculations.

“Love your neighbor as yourself” does not include any past or present calculations: “I love him, but I do not like this one,” and so on. No. This is how we should treat everyone. There are no calculations, sufferings, tricks, or anything like this. Just love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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938.01Question: You said that when you give your friends freedom of action, then you will be free yourself. How can we give friends the greatness of the Creator correctly, so as not to put pressure on them or take away their freedom?

Answer: Open your heart to your friends and let the Creator influence them through your heart as He wishes.

Question: When we gather with our friends, we can see how selfish everyone is; they do not want to unite and exalt the Creator. But when everyone makes efforts on themselves and restricts their egoism, it turns out that everyone wants to work for Him and exalt Him. Can this common desire be considered a revelation of the Creator and His greatness?

Answer: No. On your part, this is a certain rapprochement with the Creator, but absolutely not His revelation in you and not equivalence of form.

Question: It is written that the work itself is the reward. And it is like we were waiting for something else.

Answer: You are waiting for the appearance of the Creator’s qualities in yourself.

Question: Rabash says that in order to annul one’s egoism, everyone in the ten must acquire the force of the whole ten. How can we do it?

Answer: It is very simple. Put everything together and share among everyone. It turns out that you form a ten, although, let’s say there are only four of you, and everyone has the strength of a ten. That is when you can perfectly, easily, annul your egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Pray for Malchut of Infinity

934Question: You said that a person should pray for Malchut of infinity. What does it mean?

Answer: For the global Malchut, which includes absolutely everything.

Question: I connect with my ten and ask for the ten. Where is the connection with the global Malchut here?

Answer: The difference is only in scale. This cannot be divided into parts. Spirituality is not divided into parts.

Question: How do I move from the scale of the connection with the ten to the global Malchut?

Answer: It only depends on how much you increase or decrease the integration of parts.

Question: How can I increase the integration of parts when I feel connected with my friends in the ten?

Answer: Increase the incorporation and love.

Question: Is it within the ten or do I need to add something to it?

Answer: Within the ten. It does not matter how much you add, or how much you subtract.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/27/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, “Anyone Who Mourns for Jerusalem Is Rewarded with Seeing Its Joy,” in the Work?”

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