Entries in the 'Prayer and Intention' Category

The Sequence of Unification

942Question: Is there any specific order to our connection in the tens? Should we first pray for the ten and then for the world Kli?

Answer: Currently we are not yet a Partzuf with a Rosh, Toch, Sof, ten Sefirot, and surrounding circles of light. We are merely a point around which concentric circles of light radiate.

This point does not yet influence the concentric circles. However, when it transforms into a Partzuf and begins to receive light into itself, then it will affect the surrounding light with its inner light.

Since the Kli is inherently common and includes all souls, even the inanimate, vegetative, and animate parts of creation, the question arises: how should we approach dissemination and in what order?

First and foremost dissemination should be directed toward the Jewish people, as they were once united.

Next, it should extend to the nations of the world, in accordance with their proximity to the process. Gradually, this influence should expand further and further.

For example, if you live in Germany, all German-speaking groups represent the primary field you can influence. Today, however, the Internet makes the entire world accessible to everyone.

Nevertheless, it is essential to consider the readiness of different civilizations. Europe and America are the closest to correction. Other parts of the world are currently more distant from the correct striving toward unity and bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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How to Delve Deeper into Intention

276.01Question: If the intention is hidden from me and I am always inclined to justify myself, how can I delve deeper into my intention?

Answer: If you always want to justify yourself, you will not be able to delve deeper into the intention. To achieve this, a great power from above is needed that would tear you away from your egoism, and then in a neutral state you will be able to understand what the Creator requires of you.

Question: How can we do it? After all, if the intention is hidden from me, I do not know what I am delving into. Maybe I am going in the wrong direction.

Answer: This can only be done by the power of prayer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar

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Develop the Desire to Bestow

283.02Question: What can a person do if he has no desire (Hissaron)? How can he listen to two other voices: bestowal for the sake of bestowal and reception for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: If a person has no desire, no Hissaron, he will not listen to anything.

The most important thing is to develop a desire to hear the Creator, to feel Him. If such a desire does not exist, we cannot do anything except pray for the Creator to grant us this desire in which we can discover what He wants to give us.

We must strive to receive from the Creator, not because we want to receive for ourselves, but because He desires it.

Question: How can one receive what the Creator wants?

Answer: It is said that a person can reveal his desires to receive from the Creator only if his intention is to use this reception to bestow to the Creator. That is what is called receiving for the sake of bestowal. That is the mindset we need to cultivate.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/24, Writings of Rabash “The Discernment of “In Everything”

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Make Peace with the Creator

715You can only help someone who is ready for help. A suffering person sees the world through his pain, which means he is deaf and blind.

Question: Is it impossible to help a person?

Answer: You cannot help when someone is suffering. He himself, through his suffering, must come to a state when he feels a world filled with bliss and goodness.

Question: Until one comes to this, can we help him?

Answer: No.

Question: Does it follow that a person has to undergo all the descents himself?

Answer: Of course.

Question: And no one can help him?

Answer: Practically… only with advice.

Question: Is it obvious that a prayer comes from a person, as well as from an animal? Even animals hurt, a cow prays, it moos. And a person prays asking for pain to go away. Is this a correct state?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, in fact, is one being led to turn to someone, namely, to turn to the Creator? Is that the reason he is feeling pain?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: This path is a bit brutal.

My Response: No, he is given a bit of pain to feel that he is not in a comfortable state, not in the right state.

Question: And he must bring it to the correct state?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So if I, feeling pain, look for a way out into a comfortable, correct state, then the pain will go away?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is the correct state?

Answer: When you are at peace with the Creator.

Question: Are we not at peace with the Creator?

Answer: No.

Question: What is being at peace with the Creator, what is it?

Answer: Being at peace with the Creator is having no demands. Not because you do not want or need to, but because you see the whole world as kind and pure.

Question: Is this the state we should come to?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/6/24

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The Overcoming the Creator Awaits

232.08Question: How can we know what overcoming the Creator expects from us?

Answer: When you get closer, then you will understand.

Question: I feel like He is putting pressure on me, that I have to overcome something somehow, but I do not understand what.

Answer: You must use all your strength to ask the Creator for the opportunity to connect the Creator to the whole creation through yourself: You are in the middle, the Creator is on your right side, all creatures are on your left side, and you connect them. Try this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Abraham Gave All that He Had”

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Joy for the Sake of the Creator

572.02Question: What is joy for the sake of the Creator?

Answer: We need to imagine what the Creator wants from us and what states He expects, then we can tell whether or not we give Him pleasure with our states.

We can feel our attitude toward the Creator, His attitude toward us, and at the same time advance.
We keep asking Him not to forget us and to include us in His work.

When we turn to the Creator, we should have joy from striving to connect with Him; this feeling fills us.

Every time, we should bless Him for the opportunity to feel even a little spirituality, a little of ourselves and others, and distinguish between approaching the Creator or moving away from Him. This is very important for us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/20/24, Writings of Rabash “Serve the Creator with Joy”

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Learning the Qualities of the Wise

943Question: How does the body learn the qualities of the wise? How can we help this happen?

Answer: We help the body by trying to unite and to raise a collective prayer. This is how we attract the upper light that corrects us.

Question: Can we assume that a small self-annulment gives us the strength for the subsequent slightly larger annulment?

Answer: Yes, it always happens that way. Therefore we never stop, but we constantly clarify even the slightest problems.

Question: How do we rise above mind and reason to learn the quality of the wise?

Answer: Only together through a collective prayer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/17/24, Writings of Rabash “Abraham Arose”

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What Does the Creator Respond To?

253 Very often we ask ourselves: What does the Creator respond to? The Creator responds to everything directed toward common correction, toward the purpose He expects from all of creation. Therefore, a true prayer is a prayer for connection.

Of course, everything else is also necessary, but it should be used as needed to ensure our requests are not overly egoistic.

The best way to turn to the Creator is when I pray for my friends. That is perceived absolutely clearly and aligns perfectly with His field, and thus, a connection between Him and me appears. This connection may not yet be obvious or tangible, but it is already a form of interaction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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So the Creator’s Answer Sounds within Us

232.1Question: You said we need to turn to the Creator so that He shows us how to act and we need to strive to fulfill this. How do we receive this recommendation correctly from Him?

Answer: It is very simple. Just as we work with one another, so it is with the Creator. It is even easier with the Creator. We turn to Him with a desire to find out what exactly He wants from us, and then we try to fulfill His desire.

Question: How do I know that it is His desire?

Answer: If we ask the Creator a question, then it is in this very channel that we feel His answer.

Ask and you will feel that the Creator is answering you. His answer will sort of resonate within you. But it is better if the request is built through the ten.

Question: To rise to the next degree, we have to imagine it. It is illuminated to us by the Creator, but we do not know what it is. How to imagine it?

Answer: You don’t have to suffer and imagine a new degree. You just have to find out what the Creator wants at this moment and fulfill it. And so it is each time, at every degree.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Act Is What Decides”

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Elevate the Importance of Prayer

571.02Question: In recent lessons we have been reflecting on what we lack in order to bring contentment to the Creator and came to the conclusion that we lack the importance of prayer. How can we elevate the importance of prayer across the entire world Kli?

Answer: The importance of prayer indeed depends on the entire world Kli.

We must think about this, strive for it, and continuously awaken an even greater desire within ourselves to turn to the Creator and ask Him to elevate us. Everything depends solely on our request and His response.

Question: Is it correct to turn to the Creator with the intention that only He can grant us the quality of bestowal and love?

Answer: Of course, that is exactly how it happens. However, to reach such a plea to the Creator, we must first feel how distant we are from Him and how incredible the Creator’s action is when He helps us rise.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/17/24, Writings of Rabash “Abraham Arose”

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