Question: There is group work and there is dissemination. What should be the internal clarification so that there will be no diversion to one side or another, so that there will be a harmonious integration inside me?

Answer: A harmonious integration is when you feel that nothing matters, that the external world, the group, the Creator, and you are all the same. Only then will there be a harmonious integration, at the end of correction. In the meantime, you will always have the problem of what to deal with. We have to judge according to the circumstances.

Of course, the main thing is the group and the state it is in, since if I don’t have that I have nothing to disseminate with and nothing to turn to the Creator with. I cannot turn to Him by myself.

So the group and its connection are primary. Then comes the attitude, that is, I am with the group as a collective revelation, the clarification of the Creator as the One who creates, corrects, and fills us.

Then, when you already begin to perceive this model, you can turn to the world, since it is better to turn to the Creator when you tie it to the whole world.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/18/12, Lesson 4

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Throughout the seminar, each group, each circle, must find a question that he would like to ask. Discuss it among yourselves, come to the state when this is really a very important question for you, the most important one, which you all agree to clarify from the bottom of your heart, and that is exactly the question you want to ask.

Do not yield to your friends now, like we usually do it, saying: “They are great, they are big, they know better; I bow before what I hear from them.” Here, it is the opposite: “No, I believe that my opinion is more important.” I want to captivate them with my opinion instead of our common work. So in no way can there be any concessions here, but on the contrary, the realization of the brightest prayer, its peak: what we should really ask! And it should be of the feelings and of the mind. It must combine everything that we really need in it.

“Chew it thoroughly,” analyze what you will ask for. Do as in a fairy tale: You are given one wish, once you will say it, it will be implemented!

Afterward, we will try to hear and possibly unite all of these desires. We will write them out, connect them all together, try to find what is the most common among them, and that will actually already be a collective prayer.

Most importantly, express yourself concisely, coherently, clearly, so that it will just break the heart!

First of all, we need to warm the hearts up so that they all become soft, melt, and unite into one. Then it will be possible to come to the collective agreement about what is important for us.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Workshop 3

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Baal HaSulam, Letter #32: In order for a prayer to be complete, a person must come to feel that closeness to the Creator is his lawful right and necessity, as if for an organ that is separated from the body. Because then he will be able to pour out the indignation of his heart before the Creator.

But at the same time, he must praise and thank the Creator for the closeness allowed to him, as if it is a high favor that he receives undeservedly. Because then, he will be able to feel a true gratitude to the Creator who chose him to serve Him out of all the people who stand before Him.

This is big and difficult work, composed of two such opposites that must always be combined in our heart. The second condition, which requires one to feel oneself as insignificant and distant from the Creator, while the Creator’s help as undeserved mercy, is much more difficult than the first. In most cases, a person stumbles precisely on this.

A person, who rises above the still, vegetative, and animate levels is someone who includes two forces in himself: reception and bestowal. These two forces he needs to multiply to the full measure determined in the thought of creation, to Malchut of the World of Infinity. Therefore, he must constantly work on increasing in himself the forces of reception and bestowal.

Without the force of reception, he won’t be able to reveal the Creator, while without the force of bestowal, he won’t be able to come closer to Him, that is, to adhere to Him. Both of these forces need to intertwine and support each other, and a screen binds them together in the middle line.

Work with these two forces is called prayer and gratitude. In prayer, a person must feel close to the Creator, asking and penetrating straight into the Creator’s heart. He needs to imagine himself inside the Creator, because one normally makes requests of someone who is close to him.

However, in gratitude, a person needs to feel himself as low and small, and the Creator as high and distant. Only then a person can be truly grateful for the fact that the Creator chose him specifically.

It turns out that you need to feel the Creator sometimes close, and sometimes distant, working with both of these directions in full force. And it is a lot more difficult to work on the second condition.
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From the Preparation to the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/21/2012

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1. Give us the strength for complete desire for unity and the property of bestowal. Give us the desire for unity and the property of bestowal.

2. Unite us in at least one answer to the question.

3. Let us see the root that is behind the words. Let us see that in fact we all desire the same thing.

4. Let us come to the same desire, to one question.

5. Give us the right prayer and the strength to raise it.

6. Creator, give us the strength to come to the prayer that will help You to be revealed to all humankind.

7. We ask for a single desire in the heart to reveal the Creator.

8. We want to come to the prayer that precedes the prayer and feel the point at which we must apply efforts.

9. Please help us understand what unity is.

10. Please help us feel a united, common prayer, a single desire, a single need.

11. Please help us reveal the true desire.

12. We demand the Creator to give us the desire to ask for others to raise MAN to reach the end of correction.

13. We demand to turn on the Light!

14. Creator, grant us the right to request a single prayer.

15. Creator, please give us a true desire and strength to become one soul again to give pleasure to You and to bring the world to correction.

16. Creator, please give the friends the desire for the prayer of many.

17. Creator, teach us how to pray correctly in order to see You in the other.

18. How can we come to the prayer before the prayer without prior blows, along the good path?

19. How can we learn to come to this state, to this prayer, which will lead us to adhesion with the Creator?

20. Teach us to pray at all times.

21. We are praying to be united

22. Unite all of our prayers into one to make it sound in unison.

23. We ask the Creator to give us the opportunity to unite our desires and to strengthen their power to such a degree that the men feel it and become united.

24. We demand to come to a united prayer.

25. We pray according to our state, for our intention to keep a constant focus on the Creator, that the Creator is always everywhere and behind everything.

26. Please help us come together now to the correct prayer.

27. Give everyone the Light to experience one desire that will help us become similar to the Creator.

28. Our Heavenly Creator, King of kings, please reveal Yourself to us.

29. Creator, let us all, the entire world Kli, correct one unified prayer and help us reveal You.

30. Creator, we ask you, give us a great new Kli with the properties of bestowal! Give us the Light of correction! Thank You, Creator, that You heard my prayer!

31. Open the gates for the Prayer of Heaven.

32. Creator, give us the desire to unite and come to a common prayer.

33. We ask for the correct desire because desire determines everything.

34. Creator, give us the strength to have the feeling of love and bestowal for the friend as for oneself 24 hours a day.

35. Creator, give us the desire for unity so strong and of such quality so that it becomes one for everyone.

36. We ask the Creator to give the friends the ability to unite and to bestow and to be like Him

37. We want the correct desire to achieve spirituality and ask the Creator for the early achievement of the Goal!

38. Creator, give us the desire to unite our points in the name of ascent and teach us the correct prayer.

39. We demand the revelation of the Creator between us and ask Him to lead us to go the most optimal way. Give us the strength and faith to trust the upper management and to accept all the states that we need to pass along this path.

40. We ask to feel the fear of a lack of desire to unite in order to feel you!

41. Creator, give us the desire to unite!

42. What exactly has to be the very first desire to start moving in the direction of spirituality?

43. We ask for the desire to unite everyone in order to reveal the Light of the Creator.

44. Give us the desire to want to unite.

45. Creator, let us feel Your love and teach us to love. And if this is not possible yet, give us strength to act as if we already love. Give us the strength to play love.

46. Let us feel a unified desire.

47. As a means to the true prayer, we ask You to give us the feeling of the importance of our present state and the state of the world.

48. Creator, take us and lead us to the property of bestowal.

49. We ask for unity to reveal the true desire.

50. Lord, let us all know You and become similar to You.

51. Creator, we demand that You give strength to the men of the world Kli to unite in order to ascend.

52. We wish that all achieve partnership with the Creator in revealing the Light for this world for the sake of giving pleasure to the Creator.

53. We ask the Creator to correct the connection between us and that we feel the need of the world for our unity.

54. Creator, let us give You pleasure.

55. We ask, we pray, in the end, we demand the Creator to give strength to you, our dear men, to unite, so, finally they bring us His Light and love. Please!

56. Give us this desire in which we will reveal Your love!

57. Creator, we ask You to unite us in one whole so that Your Light through our unity brings the entire humanity to unity.

58. Our ten people demand the Creator to reveal the upper Light, as the ten Kabbalists who wrote The Zohar, so that our desires to reveal the Creator come into resonance with the upper Light and reveal It, without waiting for 6000 years, but right now. And it is possible!

59. Lord, Creator! We cry and demand, here and now, give us a strong desire to reveal You between us and to unite in one prayer for correction!

60. We ask the Creator that the whole world be filled by Him!

61. Creator, our Heavenly Father, give us the strength to wish Your wish!

62. Accept the prayer of my friends and give the strength to ask for them.

63. Creator, help us become worthy of revealing You!

64. Give us the power to reveal the lack of desire to unite for You so that it will become our greatest sorrow.

65. We ask You to give all of us the strength and faith to play the game that opens a new reality, the one in which we are all united.

66. Creator, give us one collective desire for You.

67. We see that here and now in front of us there is a beautiful bride, who is expecting her Bridegroom. And we just ask Him to come.

68. The refrain: “Dad, Mom, I want to be like you.” Creator, let us feel everything that You feel.

69. We raise the prayer as a single women’s desire for the men to unite in order to attract the Light, which we will be able to transfer to all of humanity.

70. Creator! Give us the strength and the quality of bestowal so that we can bring the Light of correction to all humankind!

71. We demand the correction for the sake of unity of the men.

72. What do we lack in the prayer for many? How do we win the Creator, throwing us from this prayer, who puts obstacles before us in this work? Now and today!

73. Creator, give us a strong desire to unite and teach us how to give You pleasure.

74. We ask for the correct prayer.

75. Creator, lead all of humanity to You in joy.

76. Daddy of all dads, give us a real opportunity to pray for friends, everything else we can do.

77. Give us the strength to be honest.

78. Creator, let me see who I am so that my life turns into a relationship with You.

79. Creator, we ask you to unite all those who are able to unite at this time and to lead the rest. Give us the strength to evoke the desire to receive the property of bestowal.

80. We demand the revelation of the property of bestowal!
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Workshop 3

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In the previous workshop we reached the conclusion that we cannot do anything by ourselves. We tried to do everything in our power, but it led to nothing. That’s true! It led to nothing! There is no hope that it will lead to something! Why? Because we actually have no powers. Those who say that we cannot do anything are actually stating a fact.

We are merely egoists, and we can only work within our ego. We cannot do anything outside the ego; it isn’t in our power. We cannot do anything above the ego; we cannot actually advance and get closer to someone else. We can only do that when we see some benefit in it.

What can we do? Ask the Creator! Nothing else can help us since it is the only force in the world that does anything. We were given the chance to discover this, to discover that He is the only force that operates and no one else.

So all our work comes down to a request to attain a desire that will really oblige Him to help us.

But it isn’t easy to reach such a desire. It grows gradually. We have to think about when it will grow so that we will shout; we have to ask for it each time. This request should include all our desires, including the smallest ones, no matter what they may be.

They are not real intentionally, just like kids who whine, cry, and weep and get what they want no matter what by using our love for them. We have to behave in the same way with the Creator, to learn from this world how we should behave.

All the requests, the demands, the begging, and the pleading are generally called “prayer.”

A prayer is also a feeling in the heart. In fact, it isn’t a request but a feeling in the heart when a person checks himself and no matter what he sees he wants to turn to the Creator with what is in his heart. No matter if it is good or bad, no matter what: Take it and do what You have to do with me!

There can be different prayers: serious prayers and less serious ones, emphatic prayers, whatever; what is important is to pray. Everything is attained only by the power of a prayer, the power of the request. The stronger it is, the more firm it is, the more insistent it is, the better.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Workshop 3

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An appeal to the Creator, a prayer, in our state can be only collective. Otherwise, the Creator does not hear. He hears only when people gather together and come to the same opinion as one man with one heart, one mind, because, thus they create a collective desire.

What do they want? Him to correct, raise, fulfill them, and so forth.

One person is worth nothing, means nothing: Such a prayer does not exist. You can scream as much as you want, but it will be the voice of one crying in the wilderness. If ten people get together, then, no matter how they shout, even falsely, their plea will taken into account because they are trying to connect with each other.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Workshop 3

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We can cultivate a true desire for bestowal only if we actually work on it in the group. If a person leaves, it means that he is simply going in the wrong direction. Outside the group we can’t understand what a desire to bestow means at all. We have to make efforts, feel that we don’t want it, that it’s repulsive and painful; we escape the fact that we have to be connected with others. Only if we are persistent and stay in order to be connected in mutual guarantee, do we begin to understand what the attribute of bestowal means and to what extent we are far from it. Then comes the demand so that the force of bestowal will simply influence us because it is the source: It created us.

Now from this point of view, we can look at what is going on in the world. It seems that on the one hand everyone is mutually connected now and there is nowhere to run, all of humanity makes up one big group and this mutual connection is being revealed more clearly now but as a negative connection. However, at the same time people already begin to understand and to recognize that if there were a good mutual connection among us, we could create a wonderful humanity, a wonderful world.

But we can’t do it! It’s because our ego does everything that it can to separate us, it pits us against one another: this mutual hate, distrust, repulsion, etc. This means that the world is headed in the same direction we are but in small steps, gradually, according to its form, but still in the same direction. So it’s already possible to speak about this source everywhere.

The wisdom of Kabbalah is the inner psychology of the individual and of all of humanity. It is the continuation of the ordinary psychology. The point is that psychology has run its course and has been in a crisis for several decades now. The wisdom of Kabbalah is its substitute. It tells us about inner attributes, about the forces of nature, not only man’s forces but of the world around us, which means how man and the world around him reach a state of balance. This is actually the role of psychology: to bring a person to a state of balance with the world that surrounds him.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Workshop 3

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Question: During yesterday’s workshop, some circles weren’t able to reach a mutual agreement. How can we reach a mutual agreement during today’s seminar? What are we doing wrong?

Answer: I don’t think that you’re making any mistakes, just like you can’t say that a child is making mistakes. This is a natural process of growth, and it’s called education not mistakes.
I think that we got excellent results from yesterday’s workshop, regardless of the fact that not all groups spoke up. Perhaps they were too shy to disclose their conclusions. We must understand that even if yesterday we all had the same phrase, we still would think differently and imagine those words in our own way.

Ultimately, by uniting in the group, we reach a state called the “prayer of the many.” This is when all the mutual phrases, which are different for each person, unite into a mutual integral desire. This is what we have to achieve.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Workshop 3

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Question: I am sure that at this convention we will achieve something very high, powerful. But with this confidence, I feel an alarm, an additional animal fear for the world, a fear that others will not ask.

Answer: You have to ask for them.

Israel is now in a state before war. And atomic bombs, thousands of missiles, and everything else are at the ready from two sides. For every citizen of our country, we have perhaps, a few missiles from all sides. We understand that; otherwise, our people will not stir, and the Creator has to act in this way in order to bring the nation to its usual prayer, to the correct state.

But how can we come to this? That is why we, as a group, feel that we are responsible not for changing the actions of the Creator—that’s His business to decide—but for maximally directing us all at the goal and, thus, somehow try to win over all the others.

That is the solution to every problem. These problems are never solved physically. We see that the more people get involved in physical problem solving, the more they multiply other problems. So, sometimes, it may be enough for one person to ask for the world. And the fact that you cry is good, you cry for all of us.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Workshop 3

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Question: Do we receive the forces that advance us through our exertion, and then through them, rise above the ego?

Answer: It is through our exertion that we allow the Creator to affect us. It is only according to the measure of our correct efforts—and it’s even more correct to say attempts and not efforts—that through them we invite on ourselves the influence of the Creator. It is only by that.

Furthermore, the Creator is the field of bestowal. Just as there exists a field of gravity, a field of reception, there also exists a field of bestowal. It fills everything by itself and is permanent; its tension and intensity is identical in each point.

This means that the Creator relates to everyone, both small and great, in a completely identical way with love, with the attribute of bestowal. However, each one according to the measure of his efforts, yearnings, and exertions, invites upon himself greater impact from this field.

Question: Do the forces that throw us from the goal determine in which place and in which attribute we need to be located within this general system?

Answer: No one throws you. Besides that, this field is constant and permanent. It is revealed to us more and more in its increasing strength, its intensity, its illumination, its emanation, and its bestowal.

To the extent that its influence on us grows, we begin to feel worse and worse about ourselves since we exist in attributes that are opposite to it. The field affects even more a person who makes efforts and really becomes closer in similarity to the attribute of bestowal. He feels even worse with himself than do others.

Here the strength of the group is required in order to hold on and understand that it is the Creator who bestows on him in a special way, rejects him in a special way, so that in the end, he will attain the maximum desire through which he can be born, which means to come into initial contact with the field. At the time of the first contact with the field, it will, in any case, continue to operate and affect him. In any event, it will continue to reject him, but it already will be on the next level.

There, the rejections are of a different nature. They are more qualitative. It is not that the forces grow, but that the field operates in a wiser way, in a more meticulous way in order to invite and awaken in you a more qualitative development, the realization of this entire system, the same way as in school you go from grade to grade.

Question: Is the demand for the Creator like huge greed, hunger, or thirst?

Answer: The demand for the Creator is a necessity.

Question: The great need is not clear, for what?

Answer: No, that doesn’t exist: “It’s not clear why.” Gradually becoming closer to the Creator, you begin to understand what the attribute of bestowal is, and you begin to desire it. Otherwise, what do you need?

Advancement is progressive. It must be realized before you are born. You need to reach the point of your birth through two states:

• I am not able to do anything by myself;
• Only the Creator can help me attain the attribute of bestowal.

You must know, more or less, what you want: how much you want that world before you are born in it.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/17/12, Lesson 3

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