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When Emotions Run High

938.01Question: How should one properly handle situations where there is a shared understanding of the importance of connection and a desire for love of others, yet in specific aspects, emotions flare and make it impossible to achieve correction and grasp what the Creator wants from us?

Answer: Proper work in such situations involves never straying from the thought that this very work is what lies before you.

In all life situations, no matter who you interact or work with, no matter what stirs within you, your sole desire is connection with one another, so that you may gain greater strength to receive for the sake of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Generations”

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Don’t Be Afraid to Ask and to Receive

232.1Question: How can I break away from my egoism that constantly grows?

Answer: Egoism does not grow beyond the measure it was initially created. It simply reveals itself more over time. You should rejoice in this revelation and attribute it to the Creator. This is how the Creator gives you the opportunity to correct it.

Question: There is a great fear of losing the ten because of my growing egoism. After all, I love them very much and I feel that I can harm them. What should I do?

Answer: You must convince yourself that using the desire to get closer to the Creator and receive from Him is the state of your entire ten. Therefore, do not be afraid to receive, to ask and receive again.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/24, Writings of Rabash “The Discernment of “In Everything”

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Unite Intentions with Friends

945Question: You said that we connect intentions with the friends, and in this united intention we will be able to feel the influence of the Creator.

What does it mean to connect intentions with friends?

Answer: Connecting intentions with a friend means that you take the friend as an example and do everything possible to draw closer to them. It does not matter how much you force yourself.

In essence, there is no need to force anything. We just need to be together, in an embrace, trying to get closer with ever greater common desire.

Question: Should I take examples of bestowal that I observe in a friend and try to integrate with them?

Answer: Yes, you could say so.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar”

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Fulfill the Promise Given to the Creator

282.01Question: What is this good inclination that eventually will win, as it is said: “The elder will serve the younger”? What does it mean?

Answer: It means that a person must choose from the one who shows up last, as it was with our forefathers. After all, the power of good appears to us last.

Question: How can we serve it and choose it every time?

Answer: This is what our union is for, it is so we have the strength to always choose the power of benevolence.

Question: But a person cannot stay in the power of good; we constantly fall into evil. Is there freedom of choice here?

Answer: There is. A person makes a promise to move toward the Creator all the time and constantly strive for connection with his friends and upward to the Creator, against his egoism. By acting this way, one confirms and keeps the promise given to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Rabash “And Isaac Was Forty Years Old”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—208

231.03Question: The Creator addresses us each time through different states: depression, corporeal problems, lack of attainment, emptiness, through anything, and it is as if we refuse to connect with Him immediately. How can we shorten the time it takes to turn to Him?

Answer: I believe the best approach is to agree in advance to everything the Creator asks or demands of us. This is the most important thing.

Question: What is the place for blessing the Creator?

Answer: The place for blessing the Creator is our heart.

Question: What is this spiritual action—the covenant?

Answer: A covenant in the ten means that all ten participants agree to set everything else aside and work solely on uniting with one another. This covenant must be maintained by them at all times.

Question: We constantly pray in the ten; we ask the Creator for all the friends, for the world Kli, for Bnei Baruch, for you. But recently, we lack strength. Are there any means other than prayer?

Answer: No, there are no other means.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/24, Writings of Rabash “Isaac Sowed in That Land”

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Feel the Boundless Embrace

938.02Question: How can you feel the whole ten?

Answer: You cannot feel the ten as a whole unit. It happens only in extreme, borderline conditions. But you can try to imagine a ten that is above everything or is all concentrated in one point. You can imagine friends who embrace you and you embrace them, and this embrace is boundless.

You must feel it. Feel it!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Rabash “And Isaac Was Forty Years Old”

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Where Can We Find Love for the Creator?

530Question: Where can one find love for the Creator?

Answer: Among friends. If you want to be together with them and to support them, then among them you will find your love for the Creator. Otherwise, you will not find it.

Question: What is love for the Creator?

Answer: That you must discover for yourself. Love for the Creator is revealed through the love for friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/24, Writings of Rabash “Isaac Sowed in That Land”

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Cover Egoism with Love

939.01Question: There are friends for whom you even feel love and before whom you are ready to annul yourself and to care for them. But there are also friends for whom you feel unfounded hatred that you do not understand. Where can you find the strength to cover this hatred with love?

Answer: Only by asking the Creator to show you that everything you feel toward anyone is aroused in you by Him, personally by Him.

And then you will see that the person has absolutely nothing to do with it. The Creator simply awakens such feelings in you toward this person in order to educate you.

Question: Sometimes during meetings in the ten we achieve some kind of unity, and in such moments, I feel love for a friend I used to hate. But then it passes. How can I hold on to this moment?

Answer: You do not need to hold on to anything! Just thank the Creator for replacing your hatred with love for that person, and ask Him to give you the same love for everyone in the ten, and then for everyone in the world. It does not matter who—ask for an equal attitude toward all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Combine All Requests into One

282.01Question: How can one receive the Creator’s blessing and reach perfection in the relationships between a man and a woman who are engaged in Kabbalah?

Answer: I think that it does not necessarily have to be between a man and a woman. Between women, between men, it does not matter who and with whom. This is how we need to understand relationships in Kabbalah.

In principle, this is the same work; you just divide it into several parts. Try to combine all your requests into one, and then everything will work out perfectly.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/24, Writings of Rabash “The Discernment of ‘In Everything’”

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Study the Movements of the Creator

275Question: You said that in every movement coming from the Creator, we need to study whatever comes from Him. What does it mean that we see the Creator’s movements and study them?

Answer: We see how the Creator guides us. Maybe now we do not see it very consciously, but this is how it will be revealed to us. We must imagine that this work is not in us, but in the Creator who creates certain conditions around us and within us so that we move correctly toward the goal.

Question: We work with His manifestations. That is, does movement from His side cause some kind of reaction in us?

Answer: Absolutely, the Creator constantly makes changes and thus our qualities change, and what we see in front of us. This is how we move forward.

Question: When He influences me and reactions arise in me, which of them should I look at and what should I do with them?

Answer: They should all be directed in only one direction so that we unite with each other and unite with the Creator, and so that this global connection between us and the Creator would elevate us to the goal of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Generations”

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