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The Quality of Prayer

944Question: What should the quality of our prayer be?

Answer: The quality is very simple; it is from the heart. Open your hearts and the Creator will feel what is in them. Everything is attained only by the power of prayer to unite, to rise, and to kill egoism in us.

Question: How can we literally wrap everyone in one blanket of love and how can we connect everyone with one prayer?

Answer: You should discuss this among yourselves and ask the Creator to join in your request, your prayer. Then everything will work out.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Labors”

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Kill the Sinner within You

562.01Question: When a person hears the same constant question of the sinner in himself, what should he do to advance from this repeated question?

Answer: Turn to the Creator so that He can help him rise above egoism and see his condition from this height. Then he will advance correctly.

Question: It turns out that he constantly fails to reach the measure of this request.

Answer: There is a saying: God, grant that a person prays day and night.

Question: Can we help a friend kill the sinner within himself? Or is this an independent work for everyone?

Answer: Everyone must do this independently, but with the help of the environment. You can help a person, but he must act independently.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Labors”

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Before and After Exiting Egypt

625.07Question: What do we need to keep in the center of the ten in order to pass through the darkness when exiting Egypt?

Answer: The most important thing is to go by faith above reason paying no attention to any obstacles, taking one more step, and another step, and another. Thus, gradually, we will exit Egypt.

Question: If a person truly reaches a state where all his thoughts, desires, and aspirations are directed toward the Creator, then a second before and a second after exiting Egypt, how does his attitude toward the Creator change?

Answer: Before exiting Egypt, a person is in a state of pleading, begging the Creator to help him escape from there, to rise above egoistic problems.

And literally the next moment, he feels gratitude for what the Creator has done for him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Labors”

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Try to Find a Solution

543.02Question: What needs to happen within us and between us for our prayer to become correct? I would like to know what state we are in when our prayer does not reach the Creator.

Answer: It lacks caring for each other. This is not an easy action because we need to replace our own hearts with those of others.

Suppose there is a friend who involuntarily thinks only of himself. And there is you, who also involuntarily thinks of yourself. How can you exchange desires so that each one thinks in his heart, not of himself, but of the other? You need to think about this carefully. Perhaps you will find a solution.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/16/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 48

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The Creator Answers Everyone

504Question: What is a higher request to the Creator?

Answer: A higher request to the Creator means that I include in my request all the higher desires of the group or, perhaps, of the entire world Kli.

Question: What happens is that you cannot formulate anything, and it feels like you are mooing like a cow, but cannot say anything. Is this also a form of prayer?

Answer: Yes, this is also a form of prayer. Do not worry. The Creator also responds to the mooing of a cow.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 48

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For the Contentment of the Creator

962.1Question: We realize the greatness of the Creator. How can one evoke love for Him?

Answer: This is a gift from the Creator. But we still need to invest more to show the Creator how much we desire a connection with Him. So we just need to keep going.

You must talk about this and ask that all your work will be spiritual, that is, for His sake. Desiring this, turn to Him so that He will help you rise above egoism so that you can think and ask for spiritual insight only for the sake of His contentment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith Within Reason”

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Prayer of the Naive

936Question: What is a naive prayer?

Answer: A naive prayer is an unfinished, vague desire. It differs from the prayer of the poor in that the poor have a very clearly expressed desire. The property of the highest Malchut is called “poor and needy” because it is empty and cannot fill itself or take a single step forward. It is Malchut’s nature.

It wants to correct its Kli and fill it. The naive still need to understand how to act.

Question: How can we all reach the state of the poor together so that our prayer is heard?

Answer: In general, it is not complicated. At least it is not difficult to understand what it is. We have no understanding and feeling of what a person or indeed all of humanity should achieve.

Therefore we must imagine ourselves as one person with one heart and desire—imagine ourselves and all the world’s people living together and feeling common desires that we all direct to the Creator. It is called “being in one heart.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Exodus from Egypt”

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The Need for the Support of the Creator

289Question: It is written that you can come to the Creator only by hating your body, but the body is a spiritual shell. What does the body have to do with it?

Answer: By “body” in Kabbalah, we mean egoism, not our flesh.

Question: How can the Creator hate what He created?

Answer: He hates egoism and wants us to get rid of it.

Comment: But we have no choice. In any case, He will lead us to the goal of creation, either by an accelerated path (Achishena) or the path of suffering (Beito). It turns out that He does not give us a choice.

My Response: No. He gives us a little blow, and if we rush toward the goal of not getting rid of the blows, but rising above egoism and becoming like the Creator, He helps us.

So we pray that He will change, lift, push, and support us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith Within Reason”

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Goal and Means

243.07Question: When the Creator reveals the feeling of the quality of bestowal to us, the answer is that to preserve it, we need to ask only for connection or that He gives us the strength to pray for our neighbor. This is unclear. Why should we ask for anything other than this?

Answer: It is like asking for strength. Strength for what? This question remains open. Therefore, it is necessary to find out the ultimate goal.

Question: But we will never know it. We say that our goal is connection. Can we take this as the ultimate goal?

Answer: No, this is not an end, but a means. The goal is to attain the Creator—connection with Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 48

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Get Out of the Quagmire of Egoism

938.05Question: We have a strong desire in the ten to get out of Egypt, and prayer flows all day; we have the intention to give, the desire to unite, and the desire to merge all together. What else is needed to get out?

Answer: There is not enough connection between you. It is like you are standing in a square with thousands of people shouting, shouting to the Creator.

If you had joined forces at the same time, He would have immediately heard you and answered. You are still not connected. Therefore, alone, He cannot hear everyone.

Question: To unite, do we need to get out of egoism first?

Answer: Sure, one who is still in egoism cannot connect with anyone. And to get out of the quagmire of egoism, you need to lean on each other and grab hold of the Creator together.

Strive for contact with the Creator by addressing Him from the depths of your heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/10/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Beginning of the Month”

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