Question: At workshops you often ask questions about the importance of measuring closeness to the friends, connection between them, caring for the friends, etc. And each time it makes us very upset, we get lost, because it is completely incomprehensible how to measure emotions in changing situations. So what is the purpose of these questions? And how can we properly approach working with them?

Answer: It is good that you are worried and feel that you do not perceive the questions and cannot give an answer to them. It’s already good! And then we will continue like this until a real feeling comes to you.

Question: It seems that all my efforts and ability to do the right things are not my own actions, but are the result of the group’s influence on me. So how can I stick to a group when I don’t feel their influence?

Answer: Just stick to it as you can, internally. There is no other way out. Start working on it all the time! And suddenly you will find yourself glued to the group.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Adhering to the Friends” Lesson 3

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Question: We say that initially my nature is egoism, and only a small point, a point in the heart, connects me with the Creator.

Now I have heard that we must come to a state where I am completely in bestowal and a small egoistic point is only the difference between me and the Creator. Is there a revolution going on here, or are they two different things?

Answer: No. I correct my egoism for bestowal, and I only have what initially, according to the Creator’s plan, separates me from Him—the desire to receive from the desire to bestow.

But everything that concerns my primordial desire to receive, I build in the likeness of the Creator. This will be the attainment of the Creator in me, the revelation of the Creator.

That is, these are the nine Sefirot. And Malchut is not corrected by itself because the desire to receive remains in it. It works only in reflected light, giving, rejecting, making restriction (Tzimtzum), and so on.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1

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Question: It seems to us that it is so easy to annul and see the friends above ourselves. Why is it easier for some friends and more difficult for others?

Answer: This is not as difficult to do as it is difficult to start hearing. Hear! There are people who seem to have heard about it, but it has not reached them yet. It may take several years or even decades until from the ear it reaches the middle of the brain, descends to the heart, and then from the heart rises again to the brain. And it takes thousands of years for humanity.

The problem is we do not hear! That is, we hear these words, but they do not reach us. We do not understand and do not accept their inner meaning. We cannot connect the correction of the world in any way with our attitude toward the group, let alone all of humanity.

We cannot accept that my attitude toward the group, my correction, and my friends’ correction really corrects the world, corrects me, and reveals the Creator in me. I cannot hear it, I cannot agree with it. Even if I hear and shake my head, it still  flies away from me later.

Therefore, mutual guarantee is needed, precisely in this, so that everyone in the group tries to work on absorbing the concept of rapprochement and love your neighbor.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Adhering to the Friends” Lesson 3

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Question: In an egoistic world, we are responsible for those we vouch for if they do not succeed. In the spiritual world, am I accountable to the upper force for the fact that a friend refuses to pursue the goal because I did not make enough effort to keep him in this direction? Is this my responsibility?

Answer: Yes, you are fully responsible for your friends.

We reach such states in our mutual guarantee where we see that there is no way for any of us to advance or even not to fall from the spiritual state unless there is support from the group. We become more and more dependent on the group.

As a result, we begin to understand that the group is that tube that connects the fetus in the mother’s uterus with the mother. The mutual guarantee, the group, is the bond between the fetus and the mother. We must feel first-hand how important the group is to us.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility” Lesson 6

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Rabash, “What to Look For in the Assembly of Friends”: Thus, the friends’ discussions of the greatness of the Creator awaken a desire and yearning to annul before the Creator because he begins to feel longing and desire to bond with the Creator.

This is exactly how we must act: talk more often about the greatness of the Creator because this will make us want to connect with Him more and more. Do not forget this.

Question: How to talk in the group about the greatness of the goal so it is heard?

Answer: Oblige everyone to talk about it and devote time for it every day. Each of you would prepare several sentences about the greatness of the goal, which he or she would read out in front of everyone. This should become a habit for you.

I cannot have the correct greatness of the goal, only that which I receive from my friends. People may be mistaken in thinking that they have greatness of the goal: “Of course I respect the Creator if He exists somewhere. I certainly respect the goal!” And so on.

There is no such thing in a person! It is unnatural.

The real greatness of the goal, the real attainment of the Creator, can be formed in each of us only in the group.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Deriving the Greatness of the Goal from the Friends” Lesson 4

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Question: Why did I have such strong fluctuations of good and bad states and feelings at this convention?

Answer: We have reached such a state where we really begin to connect in one common powerful Kli (vessel) that can accumulate such energy in our hearts that the Creator will be revealed in them. We are already approaching this state. In this regard, this convention is special. It is not formal, it is more internal, and it is already collective.

Question: It seems that at this convention we were dissolving in one desire. We felt differently than at other conventions. We wanted to advance and reach the goal. What does this show us?

Answer: This shows that we are already in the correct state and we only need to increase it. I feel the same way and I am very happy about this convention.

Question: The desire to unite brought us together. And women had a desire for a prayer of such strength that both the heart would respond and the mind would agree. What can we do to achieve this result?

Answer: You must mentally embrace the entire Bnei Baruch so that all of us can feel warm and joyful, light in the heart, and soft inside. And continue in this state. You can do it.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Adhering to the Friends” Lesson 3

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Question: What is a spiritual vessel? How does it break? How can we put the broken pieces together in a ten?

Answer: Let us say you had a good relationship with someone and then you broke up, i.e., you somehow separated from each other, can no longer be together, and do not have the connection you used to have. This is an example of before and after.

Now try to see how you can restore the former ties above hatred, all the way to love. This is how it works. The Creator deliberately broke us up, separated us, and distanced us, so that we would try to overcome this distance, oppositeness, and contradictions, and thus return to the previous state of unification, but 625 times stronger.

Then the small light we once had will multiply by five, by another five, and by another five to become 125 times greater than the small illumination supporting us now. It will turn into the light of Yechida that gathers and unites us.

We must go through all these stages. There is nothing to fear; the main thing is the principle of our work. The hardest part is the first degree. Then everything will start to move; the principle is the same.

Question: Where exactly do we feel the existence of the Creator, the reality of the Creator, the hand of the Creator? At what point?

Answer: This is felt in the heart of a person who really wants to have a heartfelt connection with his friend, with his group.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Asking the Creator to Fill the Place Between Us  Lesson 7

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Question: What is the connection between bestowal and faith above reason, and what is primary here?

Answer: Faith above reason is the Kli (vessel) that we create, and bestowal is the force, the work of the Kli directed at each other and at the Creator. We will gradually begin to feel all this.

Question: If I see all the friends in the ten as the Creator, does this mean that I am building the Kli of faith above reason?

Answer: Yes. The only question is, is it really so or are you deceiving yourself. But we are yet to learn to check ourselves, to measure, and to weigh faith above reason. And so we will move forward. Each stage will be different both in content and power.

Question: Is it called faith above reason when I already feel love toward the ten and that it is not a game?

Answer: In this case, it is considered that you must ascend to the next step.

In regards to the next step, you are still in an egoistic state. You will again have to apply the same methods as the rest, that is, to ascend by faith above reason because everyone who is higher, his egoism is greater. We cannot escape this work; it is the same for everyone.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Going with Faith above Reason” Lesson 5

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Question: How does one understand correctly what the group wants from me?

Answer: The group wants you to annul yourself, stick to it and become one with it. From the side of the group, this should be a requirement, an expectation from each of its members.

Question: What does it mean that my desires are needed only to fill the desires of another?

Answer: This is how we must act. This is called “for the sake of bestowal,” when everything I do is aimed only at filling others. And through them, the Creator. At the same time, I achieve similarity to the Creator.

Question: Are annulment and agreement with the group similar properties that will lead to annulment and agreement with the Creator?

Answer: Yes, of course. Nothing else is needed. Only to annul ourselves in relation to the group, and then we will act correctly in relation to the Creator. Because there is always a Creator inside the group.

Question: How does the state of the ten change when we all manage to annul?

Answer: Then, in connection with each other, within the ten, you begin to feel the revelation of the Creator.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Annulling before the Friends” Lesson 2

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Question: When rejection from friends appears, how should one work with it practically?

Answer: It is very simple: clench your teeth, raise the greatness of the Creator and the greatness of the goal to the point that you thank Him for giving you such contradictions and disturbances because it is now clear to you that by rising above them, you are rising to Him.

In our world, in our states, there is nothing more correct, more reasonable than when a problem is put before us. In this case, it is clear to you that if you overcome it, you will get closer to the Creator. That is, it is a hint and help from the Creator.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1

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