Question: How can I imagine bestowal as a good force if the beginning of this action happens in the quality of reception and my egoism does not perceive bestowal as good?

Answer: You play at it. As Rabash writes: He must believe above reason and imagine that he has already been rewarded with faith in the Creator that is felt in his organs, and he sees and feels that the Creator leads the entire world as the good who does good (Rabash, Article No. 28 (1987), “What Is Do Not Add and Do Not Take Away in the Work?”).

You need to attune yourself to it, and you will see that this is what happens. The fact that you used to see it in a completely different way was only because egoism painted a completely different picture of the world for you.

You must pull yourself by force to the correct picture of the world and create it in connection with your friends. You have to play at it all the time in the group. All the time!

Really, what is the problem? Did you not play games as a child? My whole life has been a game. Today, as a matter of fact, it is also a game. So stop pretending to be understanding, serious, and far from games. I advise you to start playing.

Question: Is playing in a higher degree and working in faith above reason the same thing?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Now, within reason, I try to see my friends higher all the time. And if I will come to constantly work in faith above reason, then what is the difference?

Answer: That you would not have to imagine to yourself that they are like that because you will actually see that they are higher than you.
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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: What can I give to the friends if I have neither bestowal nor love?

Answer: But you can help them, support them, demonstrate that you love others, help, and give a good example, even if you still completely disagree with them.

You still can do it. We are in a world of lies, therefore lying in the right direction leads you to the truth.
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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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The attainment of faith above reason should be developed in each of us with the help of a technique called mutual guarantee. We cannot raise and correct ourselves, but if we are in a group, then each can guarantee for the other.

We guarantee that we will inspire the friends, give an example, and support each other so that everyone understands how responsible he or she is for others, and in this way one also helps oneself

Our work, although it consists of correcting ourselves, it in fact leads to the correction of the whole world, and there is no difference between me and the world. I must take care of everyone.

Therefore, mutual guarantee is the law of connection between all individual souls into one single soul—Adam.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility” Lesson 6

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Question: How can we attract the light of the Creator to our connection so that it begins to work correctly in us?

Answer: Ask the Creator about this together. Only that! Agree among yourselves and ask.

Question: But how should we feel it? How should it manifest itself in us so that we understand that the light has influenced us?

Answer: You will feel it by the change in your attitude to the world, to your friends, and to yourself. The influence of the Creator should change the direction of your desire from the fact that you push others away to the fact that you will attract others. You will see how your view of the world changes from egoistic to altruistic.

This is the only thing that needs to change. Everything else will be the consequence of your internal changes.
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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: By fulfilling the law of mutual guarantee, we take care of all the needs of a friend. Does this include corporeal needs?

Answer: If necessary, we should think about physical assistance to a friend as well. But these are additional, extreme cases.

In principle, we are talking about spiritual help where I understand that by thinking about, supporting a friend, and inspiring him with the greatness of the goal, confidence, and my support, I help him advance. And so it should be, each one with respect to everyone at least in the ten, in the group.

Question: Is mutual guarantee a part of the self-cancellation, annulment?

Answer: Of course. In order to fulfill the principle of mutual guarantee, a person must first cancel himself. Otherwise, how can he think and care about others?
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility,” Lesson 6

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Question: When I see that everyone in the ten is above me and everyone is perfect, how can I make suggestions correctly in order to improve what we are doing?

Answer: If you could really, truly see the ten above yourself, you would not hide from it, but would look through it at the whole world, then you would simply see the Creator.

Then the ten would turn into a spiritual Partzuf, a spiritual Kli (vessel), and you would turn into its Malchut. The Creator would fill all the first nine Sefirot, and that would be the end of 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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The answer is that he wishes to achieve Dvekut [adhesion] with the Creator, called “equivalence of form,” meaning not to think of his own benefit. Thus, why is subduing a difficult thing? The reason is that he must revoke his own worth, and the whole of the life that he wishes to live will be only with the consideration of his ability to work for others’ benefit, beginning with love of others, between man and man, through the love of the Creator (Rabash, Article No. 30 (1988) “What to Look For in the Assembly of Friends”).

If I want to achieve adhesion with the Creator, and adhesion with Him can be according to the form, then I must completely annul my “I,” and do everything I do in life with the intention of loving everything that surrounds me. Only in this way will I achieve love for the Creator and gradually reveal Him to the extent of my love for others and be able to reach adhesion with Him.

We understand that the replacement of our egoism with the quality opposite to it is mandatory, necessary. Therefore, our work in the group is salvation for us! If it were not for the group, we would not have a transitional state—from love of the created beings to love of the Creator. I would not be able to do anything. I would be absolutely opposite to the Creator without any ability to come closer to Him and to start moving toward Him in any manner.

The group exists precisely so that I can start connecting with it, enter it, and annul myself toward it. To this extent, I begin to come closer to the Creator.

I have every possibility to control myself and be aware of how I am coming closer and what I am doing with this. And all of this is thanks to my connection with the friends.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Annulling before the Friends” Lesson 2

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The most important is for each and every one to annul himself completely and not think of himself as righteous or that he counts at all among the friends. He should only see that his actions do not blemish the society. Although it seems as though he is a great person, he should nonetheless look into his actions and think, “What make me great?” and annul himself completely.

It is known that in every ten there is Shechina [Divinity], and this is a complete level. In a complete level, there are head, hands, legs, and heels. It follows that when every person regards himself as nothing in society, then he regards himself as a heel compared to the society, while they are the head, the body, and the higher organs. When each one thinks of himself in this way, they make the gates of abundance and every lushness in the world open up to them. (Maor VaShemesh, “Ekev”)

If people annul themselves before each other, each one toward the group, then they create conditions in it for the revelation of the Creator. This is how we should act.

After all, by annulling yourself toward the others, learning from them, looking at them, and inspiring them, you create such a condition that the Creator is revealed within you. He will not be revealed within one person, but only in the attitude of a person to the group, and only to the extent that this attitude is correct.
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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: If everyone in the group annuls themselves, who will take the initiative during the nine months of our spiritual development?

Answer: The initiative is precisely to show how everyone annuls himself. This is a movement toward absolute zero, but it must have a clear vector and its own heroes.

Question: And what is the difference between the spiritual egoism that should be born in us and the egoism that we have now?

Answer: Spiritual egoism is directed toward the Creator.

Question: If the nullification occurs consistently, how can I keep annulling in the ten?

Answer: Get involved in the ten, start annulling yourself before it and you will see what powers you will have and how you can do all this.
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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: How can we increase the pace in the ten?

Answer: The pace of our advancement depends only on the mutual state between the friends and how much each one helps the other.

I cannot lift myself by my own hair, but I can do that through friends. To the extent that I help them, I elevate myself. It is much more efficient than if I could elevate myself on my own.

Helping others is the only means to rise. There is no other method. Therefore, we have a tremendous opportunity to rise. We are in a group where everyone understands what he should do and what others should do. Let’s help each other.
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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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