Question: Praying for a friend lifts a person above their body and frees them from egoism. Engaging in prayer for a friend feels like the highest reward. However, my ego puts up a wall in front of me that prevents me from entering this prayer, and it insists that I am unworthy. What should I do in this case?

Answer: What does it matter whether you are worthy or not. You simply desire to enter this state, and that’s it.

Even if you have not earned this reward, demand it anyway. None of us have earned anything. Absolutely nothing. That applies to everyone. So just demand it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/2/24, Writings of Rabash “A Ladder Set on the Earth”

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Question: What does it mean that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob established prayers?

Answer: Our forefathers, known as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, established three prayers. Abraham instituted the morning prayer, which is mandatory. Isaac introduced the afternoon prayer, which is also mandatory. Jacob established the evening prayer, which is optional—you may pray it or not.

This is what we need to know; everything else will come with practice and work on these prayers.

Question: How should one properly pray in the morning and afternoon? Should prayers be read from a prayer book?

Answer: Yes, read them as written in the prayer book. Ideally, pray together with the whole ten.

Question: We say that we should aim for constant prayer. But if there are divisions into morning, afternoon, and evening prayers, what about the times in between?

Answer: During those times, pray on your own.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/3/24, Writings of Rabash “The Way of the Land Preceded the Torah”

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Question: Can we relate the morning and afternoon lessons to the morning and afternoon prayers?

Answer: No, the lesson is a completely separate action.

Question: How can we accept the pleasures of this world and direct them toward love for the Creator? I am losing interest in the corporeal world and only derive enjoyment from morning lessons and connection. What does this state indicate?

Answer: It indicates that you are being directed to discern what the Creator gives you. In reality, you are receiving everything; you just lack the revelation of it.

Question: What is the true overcoming that ends in prayer?

Answer: True overcoming will always conclude with prayer and the realization that the Creator is giving you everything good.

Question: Darkness is the foundation for light. Can we say that the magnitude of the light is proportional to the depth of the darkness a person goes through?

Answer: Yes, we can. However, a person does not need to wait for darkness to experience greater light afterward. It doesn’t work that way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/3/24, Writings of Rabash “The Way of the Land Preceded the Torah”

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Question: What does it mean to turn to the Creator wholeheartedly?

Answer: “Wholeheartedly means all our thoughts, prayers, and goals are aimed only for the sake of the Creator. But we are not there yet. We do not turn to the Creator in complete bestowal between us.

Question: How do you direct all thoughts and desires to the Creator?

Answer: When you imagine that you have the desire for bestowal and ask the Creator for it, He will do it.

After all, the desire for bestowal must prevail over all desires revealed in you. This is a filter through which you look at all desires.

Question: If I have many different desires, how do I place this filter before them?

Answer: Importance! To the extent of the importance to you, be it the Creator or someone else, you will be at one level or another.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/24, Writings of Rabash “Delight Them with a Complete Building – 2”

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Question: What are the chosen people?

Answer: The chosen people are the souls who gather together and raise MAN to the Creator so that He will bring MAD to them, and they would unite with the help of this light and receive a portion of advancement to the Creator.

This nation carries a unique ability (Sgula) inherited from their forefathers. It awakens in every person who studies Kabbalah regardless of who he is by origin.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/24/24, Writings of Rabash “Abraham Begot Isaac”

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In matters that are above nature, it is impossible to pray (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 357, “Abraham Begot Isaac”).

Question: What are these things “above nature”?

Answer: Above nature is what we cannot pray for because have not reached that level, it is above our head, above our prayers.

In order to pray for the quality of bestowal, which is above our nature, we need to enter a state that explains the situation in which the Kabbalist who composed this prayer was. Then we will begin to understand and reveal the prayer that a person must raise in his state. We are, as it were, replenishing his work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/24/24, Writings of Rabash “Abraham Begot Isaac”

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Question: 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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Question: 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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Question: 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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You 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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