Question: How do we come to the point where everyone in the group is drawn to connection and unity? And how do we strengthen this aspiration for all mankind?

Answer: First you need to unite at least within your group, then in the world group, and then in the whole of humanity, gradually, step by step.

At least within the group you should constantly talk about this and realize that without achieving connection, you will not have a tool for attaining the Creator. Where will He reveal Himself?

You have to be in front of Him as one person with one heart. And if you do not achieve this, then the Creator will not reveal Himself. This is a physical law.

The Creator created one common Kli (vessel), which then broke. And now you want to reveal what was in it, and you have to assemble it on a minimal scale. Meaning you need to assemble one whole from your group, a small vessel, a small cup. And to the extent of your connection, you will reveal the Creator. The more you then enlarge this vessel, you will be able to reveal the Creator as  greater with all kinds of great properties.
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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: The Creator created something new from the world of infinity, and now He tells us: “You have made Me”? Isn’t there a contradiction here?

Answer: No. The Creator created an egoistic desire that grew to egoistic similarity to Him where on one hand we want to absorb absolutely everything into ourselves, and on the other hand, we begin to correct ourselves and become completely similar to the Creator.

That is, from what I can do with myself, I become completely similar to the Creator. And this will bring absolute unification and equalization of properties.

On the foundation of the black point that separates me from Him, and precisely because of it, I and He will never become one, but we will be in complete unity in all our properties above this point. We will feel the merging with each other because of the point that separates us.
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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: Faith above reason and loving your neighbor, are they the same thing or are there differences?

Answer: Faith above reason is the Kli (vessel) we must create and reveal in it the property of bestowal, love, and connection between us and the Creator.

Question: Are we supposed to imagine that between us in the ten there is only love?

Answer: Yes, that is what you should imagine. And it doesn’t matter what you feel. It means nothing! This is the only way. And then you will see that it is only egoism that twists and lies all the time.

Question: Sometimes during a workshop it feels like we are in great love. Could it be that in the beginning faith above reason comes as in moments?

Answer: It is quite possible that this is how it happens to you. And it is also true.
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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: In what situation can we ask for the power of faith?

Answer: We can ask for the force of faith in any situation and generate it between us at every moment.

To do this, we must imagine that the Creator fills the entire universe and we will act in the same way between us in the group. But only in the group, others will not understand you. If we work in this way in our relations between us, we can start feeling how the Creator really fills all the space, the whole world.

But then we will have to work in faith above reason; i.e., restrict our egoism and turn to the Creator only with the property of bestowal. This is the only thing we have to do—switch ourselves, or our attitude toward the Creator, into faith above reason.

And we will begin to feel what these words mean. They sound like a mantra: “Faith above reason.” What is it? It is not clear now. But we will gradually start feeling the inner meaning of these words.

Question: How can we receive faith above reason?

Answer: Imagine that you want to live in this fairy tale. That in fact there is no faith above reason, but you want to imagine it. Try. Make an effort as if you feel that the Creator fills the whole world and governs it as good that does good. And act that way in the group.

The group is the platform where you can work it all out and implement it.

Question: Does every friend have to imagine it or do we share it with each other?

Answer: You can talk among yourselves on this subject. But the most important thing is that everyone should care that such an attitude toward other friends appears in him. As the Creator is the good that does good, so each of the friends should treat others as good that does good.
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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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How can we change our egoistic intention, which was given to us by nature and always exists within us, without any doubts or clarifications? It is called the evil inclination, which was born first. And now we need to give birth to a good inclination.

And that is why we are working together on our evil inclination in order to build a good inclination within each of us through mutual guarantee. We turn to the Creator. as if to a bank, and say that we want to build a building of bestowal.

Each of us has not a penny to his name, but we sign the mutual guarantee. There are nine friends backing me up, ready to sign a guarantee that I will be in bestowal because they will support me. Since I am in their complete power, whether I want it or not, I will certainly be in bestowal.

This is how we come to the Creator, and everyone signs a guarantee for their friends. No one can be a guarantor for himself because he does not have such powers; where will they come from? But he can be a guarantor for a friend, and in this way we come to mutual guarantee. Then the Creator begins to invest His upper force in this mutual guarantee that we have signed.

What have we invested in this mutual guarantee? After all, no one has anything, so no one can pay anything for the other. But since we want to help each other, this very guarantee helps us start building a common building.

None of us can be the foundation of this common building, nor is anyone its owner. Only due to the fact that each supports the other, due to our mutual support, does this entire building stay upright.

This is how we build the spiritual building. There is nothing in it; it is maintained only by our mutual guarantee and by our appeal to the upper force. That is why this building is spiritual.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/30/22, “Faith Above Reason”

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Question: If I free my friends from my own shortcomings by exalting them, then what are my next actions?

Answer: If you hide your shortcomings from your friends, you steal from them because they will have nothing to rise above.

Our ascent lies in the fact that after seeing the negative qualities of others, I rise above them. That is, I begin to evaluate my friends not negatively, but positively.

This means rising above your egoism. When you see a friend in a negative way, you must reach a state where these negative qualities will appear positive. As it is written: “Love will cover all crimes.” Crimes remain and I cover them with love.

There is nothing else. No matter how negative we may be, we can be positively connected with each other. This is how we must learn to work.

Question: But if I exalt my friends and see them in full perfection, where does my previous view, when I endowed them with my qualities, go?

Answer: It stays. Nothing disappears. All your negative opinions about your friends and your own desires and thoughts all remain in the common Kli (vessel). And then the negative and positive parts will still work with each other in symbiosis.

Question: And if I do not hide my negativity, they have nothing to justify in me?

Answer: We should think about unity, love, and good relations, and how to instill them in each and everyone. We should not expose our egoism. But if it catches the eye of others, that is a different problem. Perhaps it is their problem that they feel this way, and they should work on themselves. We must be an example. This is already mutual work.
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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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A person cannot strive for the property of bestowal in a natural way because it is contrary to our nature. But if I try to change myself in a group, then I will begin to receive help both from the group and from the Creator. And then I can succeed.

The only thing that is required of me is a request, a prayer. It is the main thing. We must come to it. We should constantly try to develop it so that it is as general as possible and strong, it is the only one that works.

So it is written by Baal HaSulam and other Kabbalists that everything is achieved through the power of prayer, the power of asking the Creator. Since He created egoism, only He can correct it and direct it correctly.
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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: Does a person choose his environment?

Answer: No. As it is said in one of the articles of Baal HaSulam, the Creator brings a person to the desired state: “You place my hand on the good fate, to say, ‘Take this for you.’”

It depends on us only to strengthen ourselves in this way, or at least not to leave. Cling to it with your teeth and keep it that way.

Question: It is said that a person is obliged to nourish from his environment. What kind of nourishment are we talking about?

Answer: It means absorbing properties, values, assessments, and tastes from your environment.

Question: Why is dependence on a spiritual environment considered freedom?

Answer: Because you become free from your egoism.
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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 does the property of bestowal prevail precisely within the friends and not somewhere else? After all, we studied that the Creator is everywhere and He is pure bestowal.

Answer: But we do not see this. When we develop the quality of bestowal through our friends, we will see that the entire world is in this quality.

But now I am in a state where I feel that the entire world is egoistic. Therefore it is written, “Everyone judges according to his own flaws.”
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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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In order to gather the whole force of the light and spread it to humanity, we need to be highly interconnected. Then we will be able to become conduits of the highest light to the world. In principle, this is our task and our destiny. The Creator pushes us, and we must achieve it.

We must be the link between the Creator and all mankind. Therefore, on one hand, we need to somehow hold on to humanity, but the most important thing is to connect with the Creator.

We must know what the true commutation with the Creator and with the created beings means so as to turn, as Baal HaSulam writes, into a pipeline through which the upper light will pass to all humanity.
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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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