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The Main Thing Is the Prayer to the Creator

558Question: It is written that the ideal prayer comes from the bottom of one’s heart. You say that when we constantly ask for something, it becomes a necessity. Suppose today my heart asks for mutual guarantee (Arvut) in the ten and tomorrow or maybe in a week for something else. How can this be combined?

Answer: What is in a person’s heart and that he can raise this prayer to the Creator is the main thing. One should try to feel the Creator as the embryo of the state from which it developed.

Question: What does it mean to feel the Creator as an embryo?

Answer: This is felt in relation to me. His influence on me is very small; therefore, unfortunately, I cannot make bigger efforts so that He fills me completely.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/25, Continuing the Convention With an Ascent

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943Question: You say that we need to ask that our friends enter the common heart and feel it. I feel that with each passing day, it becomes more difficult for me to pray for my friends, to ask that they unite and reveal the Creator. My ego asks, “Why should you ask for them to do this?” What should I answer?

Answer: The fact is that only through connection with your friends can you reveal the Creator and unite with Him yourself. That is why you must constantly desire this.

Comment: It is difficult to feel this mutual dependence when I pray for my friends, and they reveal the Creator.

My Response: You turn to the Creator so that He reveals Himself to them. Your desire is not egoistic because you are asking for them. So keep asking.

Question: Do you pray for us?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What if we do not just talk about this but take it as a practical form of work? Before the convention we made a pact that we would all pray for each other, just as Israel did at Mount Sinai. Like in mutual guarantee: I pray for everyone, everyone prays for me, and each prays for the other.

Answer: Try it, and you will feel the result in the coming days.

Question: What result should we expect?

Answer: To reach unity in which the Creator will be revealed, and this revelation will lead you to the feeling of the entire world.

Question: Does the Creator take pleasure when we pray for each other?

Answer: That is when you will find out.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress

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Continuous Prayer

935Question: You said that the Creator answers constant prayer. What can our common constant prayer for our friends look like in practice?

Answer: If you constantly think about our common correction, you will soon feel how all your thoughts turn in its direction, that is, in the direction of the common desire, the common intention. And then you will see how they come true.

Question: Yes, but sometimes there is a disconnection, and everything scatters. How can we avoid this? How can we stay constantly connected to prayer?

Answer: I advise you not to think about it. As soon as you feel that a disconnection is happening, immediately return to your unity.

Question: I remember at the last convention, a friend asked, “What do you ask for?” and you gave this prayer: “Creator, unite all of Bnei Baruch into one heart, fill this heart with love, and pass it on to the whole world.” In our ten, we still hold on to this prayer.

Can you give us a form of prayer for this convention?

Answer: I believe I include myself in the wishes of your hearts. I am very glad that more men are present at this congress. This truly speaks about its real strength. Let’s just continue the convention, and in the end, we will reach a state where we truly begin to feel that each heart is filled by all the other hearts.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/20/25, Lesson 1

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How Do You Feel a True Need for Bestowal?

938.03Question: How can we cry out to the Creator and ask for the desire to bestow when there is no deficiency? How can one feel a true need for bestowal?

Answer: You need to unite with those like you and connect from your shared aspirations these feelings of the need for the Creator’s help. In this way, you will get to strive toward the Creator and demand His revelation.

Question: If there is no deficiency, will the Creator not fill us?

Answer: No, the Creator will shake you from side to side and create various situations for you until you feel the necessity to ask Him for the quality of bestowal.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/21/25, Lesson 4

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The Feeling of Faith

585.02Question: The sages write about dry land in which there is no strength to pray, there is no rain; that is, about a great egoistic desire without light. They also write about faith that should become our dwelling place in the world of bestowal. I cannot understand what needs to be added to that land where there is no rain for it to come to life?

Answer: The feeling of faith should become the universal fulfillment of a person. In this case, a person will begin to feel the Creator.

Question: Is it an addition or a correction?

Answer: It is a correction.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/21/25, Lesson 4

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936World Kabbalah Convention, Connecting to Lishma, Lesson 4

Question: We can talk endlessly about how much we invested in the congress and how we prepared for it. Now the congress is coming to an end. There is only one more meal left and it is over! That is it. There is no strength to pray. This is one point.

And the other point is that you are obliged to ask for all your friends. Everyone has come and wants to reveal the Creator. And the Creator wants to reveal Himself. It is such a crisis when you have to pray, but you cannot!

What should we do now? What do we ask for?

Answer: What to ask for? I cannot tell you. You need to figure out what your greatest ultimate desire is, the desire with which you want to turn to the Creator. This is what He must fulfill.

You can turn to Him with such a genuine request that He will have not dodge. He expects such a request from you.

Question: And what is a genuine request?

Answer: It is what you truly would like to receive from the Creator.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/21/25, Lesson 4

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Through Connection with the Friends

528.01Question: If we feel the evil inclination in ourselves and want to correct it, we can ask the Creator for help because only He has the power to change our nature. But what can we ask of the teachers, of the righteous?

Answer: The same as of the Creator.

Question: What is the difference then?

Answer: You are surrounded by your friends, you feel each other, you can rise and fall relative to each other. But if you relate to your friends only as to those who are above or below you, this is insufficient.

Question: Does this mean that I need to feel connected with my friends and from this connection turn to the righteous and teachers with the same requests as to the Creator?

Answer: No, through your connection with friends you must turn to the Creator, because the group of friends must lift you up and lead you to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/25, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—227

543.02Question: What should be done to thank the Creator?

Answer: If you feel gratitude toward the Creator for what He is doing for you now, all you can do is bow before Him and surrender to Him, so that He continues working on you further.

Question: To rise, do you need to feel your own pain or the pain of others?

Answer: Your own.

Question: How should we turn to the Creator in states of descent and hopelessness?

Answer: In such states, you must stop all your internal sensations and raise them to the Creator. This will be the most correct and reliable action.

Question: Is joy and gratitude toward the Creator also correction?

Answer: Not “also,” this is the correction.

Question: How can we—those who haven’t yet reached spiritual understanding—raise the importance of this work in the ten? Since when we go home now, part of us simply feels spiritually dead.

Answer: You are still and will be for some time under the direct guidance of the Creator. So keep this in mind. Everything that happens to you is a result of external influence. Try to write down the most vivid phrases, appeals to the Creator, and make them key for yourself. After that, we will go together.
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From Daily Kabbalah lesson 2/22/25, “Continuing the Convention with an Ascent”

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How Can We Hear the Creator’s Answer?

232.1Question: It is said one should thank the Creator for the past and for what will happen to him in the future. How can we help each other hear His answer correctly and thank Him?

Answer: How do we understand the Creator’s answer correctly? I would advise you to consider that you have received the answer, even though you do not understand it. Consider that the Creator clears all paths and ways to Him before you.

You can come and address Him, draw closer to Him, and demand from Him. But in fact this will happen when you accumulate your efforts and your requests and raise all this to the Creator. Then He will answer you.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/22/25, Continuing the Convention With an Ascent

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The Main Thing Is to Awaken the Upper Light

945World Kabbalah Convention “Connecting to Lishma,” Lesson 4

Question: How can one bare one’s heart for a perfect prayer when egoism does not allow one to be honest with oneself?

Answer: It does not matter whether egoism allows it or not. When we are in an environment like a convention, our main goal is to awaken the upper light. Then it will become clear to us how far we are from the collective attainment of the Creator.

We must never look back and think, “How can I achieve this? This is holding me back and that is holding me back.” Nothing is holding us back! Even the most difficult questions that arise do so only to push us to rise above them and take another step forward.

Question: And what is that step right now?

Answer: That we unite even more and take this step together.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention “Unite In Lishma” – 2/21/25, Lesson 4

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