Question: You say that we attain the Creator in our sensations through our connection. I’m trying to take into account the two principles “there is none else besides Him” ​​and “good that does good.”

But the more I get closer to these two principles, I see a reality full of darkness, as if I were in a black hole. How can I come from this darkness to a state full of the glory of the Creator?

Answer: The feeling of darkness is a wonderful state; that is, you do not have any desires for bestowal, love, and connection with others. I understand you well.

But at the same time, from this inverse property, you can also feel the opposite, inverse state. So imagine it.

The fact that you feel egoism means that you are already beginning to perceive the creation, what the Creator created. He did not create anything other than egoism. And you, from this state, which you begin to attain, can come to the opposite: “What does it mean ‘the reverse of Him’”?

So it is said: “The manifestation of light from darkness.” The advantage of light out of darkness, the greatness of light out of darkness. So go ahead.
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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: How do we know if we have received the gift of thinking in faith above reason or if it is being activated through our work from below upward?

Answer: There comes a time when we begin to hear that we must go with faith above reason.

And although this is not practiced at all in our world, we must act this way because this is the only way to develop the property of bestowal in ourselves, in which we will begin to feel the higher world, the Creator and ourselves, our soul, on a completely different level.

To reveal the Creator between us means to treat each other as He does, benevolently and doing good. And then in the similarity of properties, we will reveal the Creator who fills everything.
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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 makes this lesson part of the convention? How is it different from any other morning lesson?

Answer: The lessons at the convention are one single connected chain that is aimed at a specific intention and at a specific purpose. In this respect, the convention is a serious moving organism.

Yesterday we were studying how to annul ourselves. We are studying it today as well, but according to a completely different principle. How I connect with the group in order to change myself? Meaning, I begin to relate to the group as a means through which I can change myself.

You can say, “But this is an egoistic use of the group.” Of course I am using the group. But I would not call it egoistic, because with the help of the group I want to get rid of my egoism, to suppress it. This is a completely different condition.

I have no other option if I want to change myself. I just cannot do anything else. What should I do if I want to come closer to the Creator, to become like Him, to reveal the Creator, to feel Him, and to enter the quality of eternity, infinity, and perfection? I want to know all this. It sits within me. This desire is given from above to each of us.

In order to actualize it, I have to do an action that is opposite to my nature, and only the group can do that. If I try to become gradually incorporated in it, even though I cannot and do not want to, then some kind of illumination descends upon me, this is what Kabbalists say. I begin to receive the upper force and it changes me. This is how I come closer to the Creator.

Therefore, the group stands between me and the Creator. It is necessary in order to rise to Him, to become more similar to Him. How do I become like Him? Through the fact that I form myself within the group by annulling myself before it.

Then I begin to see that the Creator is within the group. This is called “I dwell within My people.”

The people are the group that aims to become closer to the Creator. That is how we advance.
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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: It often turns out that everyone understands the material in their own way. Should we consider these differences?

Answer: I do not think we need to pay attention to how everyone acquires the material. We need to talk only about the right actions between us, which nature, the Creator, requires from us. And then we will really rise.

But to check each one himself and convey it to others, no. We need to show each other inspiration, the right actions.

I do not think we should be the same. On the contrary, we should be different, but should all strive to set the right example for others. Only the right example on the part of my friends can raise me up. This is how we act.
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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: You said that if each friend is included in the system of the ten, then at some point it becomes the system of ten Sefirot. How can we do it?

Answer: If each one of you starts canceling yourselves before the others, you will reach the state where the system of your interconnection will take some definite form. This will be perceived by you as a system of ten Sefirot.

You will begin to feel and sense in the properties of bestowal between you that a completely different form of interaction is being organized, interaction through bestowal, not through receiving, which you have always had and are accustomed to.

This form will be called the spiritual form of your state or your soul, and what you will begin to discover among yourself is your spiritual world, the upper light, in which its source, the Creator, will gradually manifest itself.
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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: If a friend understands what is the result of his environment, he sees that there are complex conditions and therefore moves away from the work, then what should be the attitude toward him? How can we help him?

Answer: We must do everything to help him, but by normal means: show how much we want him to be with us and to not leave, display how connected we are with each other and how much we realize that without our unification we cannot comprehend and reveal the Creator since He is revealed precisely within our unification as the central point where everything came from and where everything must return to.

We must find out all this together with him and influence him with our thoughts, prayers, and conversations, including with him so that he remains in the group. All the same, he will not go far even if he floats away somewhere for several years.

I told you how the students of Rabash returned, after having left him for 10 to 15 years, and suddenly by coincidence returned one Saturday morning. The door opened and the man entered as if he had just stepped out to pour himself a cup of coffee. He does not feel like he had been away for ten years! How can this be in human society? But in the Kabbalistic group it can. Just like that, I fell back into place. Therefore, we do not need to worry, everyone will come and undergo their corrections. But it is desirable that we help each other.
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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: How can we enhance our aspiration for connection with the Creator?

Answer: Only if we learn this from the friends; I must see them above myself.

If I do not see them that way, then I am not in a good state. This means that I must exert more and more in my studies and in the connection between us until I detect that I see them above myself. And then by yearning to connect with them, I begin to feel the essence of this connection, that is, the Creator.

Within my desires and my aspirations for the friends, I will begin to feel the property of bestowal and to some extent the property of love, and this will be 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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Rabash, Article No. 1 “Purpose of Society-1”: …the Creator has given us the chance to be in a society where each of us has but a single goal: for The Shechina [Divinity] to be among us.

The Creator gave us the opportunity to create such connections between us, such relationships that would be similar to Him in properties.

We do not want anything else! If we do not want to remain at the level of animals that live for a certain number of years and then rot, but wish to rise even egoistically to the level of the Creator (if we have such predispositions, that is good), then we must understand that the entire ascent means revealing the Creator between us!

This is the very first condition that a person must understand, realize, and accept and that initially, a priori, will be in all his actions: I want to reveal the Creator between us.

As soon as a person begins to realize that he must move only in this direction, he already enters into mastering the science of Kabbalah because he begins to draw closer to the property of connection with others and rejects properties that alienate him from others.

Both those and other properties remain in us and between us, they are all necessary. It is upon the oppositeness of these properties that we reveal the Creator, as it is written: “The advantage of light from darkness.”

Therefore, the most important thing is to approach the Creator and His revelation, which is the purpose of our existence and the existence of everything on Earth. This is the ascent from the animate level we are at now to the level of Adam. Not just “man,” but Adam from the word “Domeh, similar to the Creator.” To the degree of this similarity to the Creator, which we create in the connection between us, we will move forward.
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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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We should always check ourselves regarding the opinion of the group: do I agree with what I receive from the Creator or not? Do I agree with what I have in my life, in my spiritual advancement? Am I able to annul myself at every moment and say that I am receiving a full envelope right now?

And if I am dissatisfied with something in life, it is because I have eyes but they do not see. In fact, the Creator gives me a full envelope. And so I go and advance each time in joy and in faith. Despite the fact that every time I may see that there is a shortage: first one dollar from $1,000 is missing in the envelope, then two, then $100, and then $999.

And then I open this envelope and see that it is completely empty. There is nothing in it! And this is what I have received from the Creator? Of course because who else can you get it from except the Creator—there is none else besides Him.

And what is left for me? To be in joy! And this will mean that I have risen above the restriction and have adhered to the Creator, to His opinion, to His mind in full measure.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/20/22, “Faith Above Reason”

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Question: With what eyes do we see the true world?

Answer: We see the world that surrounds us through our egoism, but we want to see it not disturbed by our ego, the way it really is. We are approaching this state gradually, step by step.

How can I do this? I am trying to work it all out in the group I am in, i.e., trying to see it better and higher. If I grasp this, then I will see the world more deeply and transparently as the place where the Creator gradually manifests Himself to me.

Question: If in the corrected state the world is perfect, then why do we constantly say that it is degrading?

Answer: We speak according to how we see it. But this so-called degradation is designed to push us to our own correction so that we see the world perfect through ourselves.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Adhering to the Friends” Lesson 3

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