Question: 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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Question: 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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Question: 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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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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Question: 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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Question: 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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Question: When we compose a prayer together in the ten, it still doesn’t feel as internal as when you have a personal dialogue with the Creator. Did Kabbalists discuss prayers with each other and compose them, or is this a modern practice?

Answer: Kabbalists often spoke with each other, but only about ascending to the next degree.

Question: Should the prayer that comes from your heart align with the one we express in the ten?

Answer: Yes, a person cannot have multiple prayers.

Question: Let’s say I genuinely want to pray for my friends, for the world, for the sages, and that is my true pain, which I can awaken when I am alone. I can’t immediately articulate it in dialogue within the ten. Should I first try to tune into the prayer rather than just write something down, which might end up as a collection of words?

Answer: Yes, we must reach a state where there is a clear, unified yearning among the friends in the ten for moving forward, for the Creator, for a connection between them that evokes a response from above.

Question: How did Kabbalists prepare themselves for prayer? For us, it seems like we read texts and then quickly transition to prayer as if it is something evident. But preparation is the most important part.

Answer: This is the preparation. It is like tuning a musical instrument: if it is tuned correctly, the melody will be harmonious.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 20 “Lishma [for Her sake]”

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Question: Should we pray when there is a reason from the Creator, or should we ourselves look for reasons and initiate prayer in the ten?

Answer: The reason for prayer is your desire to unite.

If you want to get closer and see that there are still great disagreements between you, you involuntarily turn to the Creator so that He will unite you more. The best prayer is when you ask the Creator for unification.

In this case, you really feel how much you lack this and how much strength you receive to realize the unification.

Such contact with the Creator is the most direct and the most reliable because He does not expect anything more from you. As it is written: “How good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together, as well.” Together—”gam yachad” (“together as well” in Hebrew), where “as well” means, as the Kabbalists explain, that “the Creator sits together with them as well.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What does patience transform into in the state of Lishma?

Answer: Into humility.

Question: Every day, we write a prayer in the ten. Is there value in sharing these prayers in the general chat to form a collective prayer for the world Kli?

Answer: Yes, it is beneficial because it fosters mutual integration of one group’s prayer into another group’s prayer.

Question: While we are not yet in Lishma, does every act of bestowal have a bitter taste?

Answer: As long as you are in Lo Lishma, any act of bestowal has either a bitter taste or no taste at all.

Question: As we progress, should we sort out good and bad desires, meaning come closer to the good ones and distance ourselves from the bad ones? What is the force that enables this?

Answer: It is our desire to ascend, unite, and feel something good, kind, and upper. That is what we must strive for.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Shamati 20 “Lishma (for Her sake”

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Question: We need to reach a state where all the pleasures we experience are directed for the sake of the Creator. How can we cultivate this state within ourselves?

Answer: We cannot achieve this on our own. However, if we gradually direct ourselves toward this goal and relate our actions to the Creator so that He may accept them, then corresponding sensations, desires, and intentions accumulate within us. As a result, when we have gathered enough strength in our intentions, we are granted the quality of Lishma (for the sake of the Creator).

I was created as an egoist, and my primary concern is to fulfill my own egoism. But if I rise above my egoistic desires and prioritize only my friends and the Creator, it turns out that I am working for their sake. This constitutes the transition from “for my own sake” to “for the sake of the Creator.”

Question: But in order to transition to “for the sake of the Creator,” should there be a filter “the Creator and friends” before each of my desires and only then reception?

Answer: Yes, absolutely. First, there must be an intention: for what, for whom, and for whose sake am I performing this action?

Question: So does the intention of Lishma inherently contain the power to scrutinize and separate what is for the Creator and what is not, what I can receive and what I cannot? In other words, is it a calculation?

Answer: Yes, it is a calculation. Moreover, it is a calculation within feelings, knowledge, and sensations where you can precisely identify the state you are in in relation to Lishma.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Shamati 20 “Lishma [for Her sake]”

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