Question: It is said that prayer is the main Kli (vessel) for the presence of the Shechina. How can we find out our common Hisaron (deficiency) so that our prayer, our common Hisaron really becomes a Kli for the presence of the Shechina?

Answer: We want to find a common desire, aspiration, and intention in which we would all fit and want nothing else.

Question: What should be the purity of the request so that everyone has literally one thought?

Answer: The vision of our state in the final goal. We can see and feel this based on the fact that together we awaken the desire for the Creator, and He shapes us accordingly.

Question: How would you describe this state in the final goal that we should equally imagine?

Answer: I would imagine it as one desire, one state for everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/5/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 34

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Question: Who reveals Hisaron (deficiency) to a friend: one’s evil inclination or the Creator?

Answer: The Creator.

Question: Can a person raise his own Hisaron to the Creator or do his friends have to?

Answer: He does it with them together.

Question: We often raise our friend’s Hisaron to the Creator so He would connect us on a new level. But there is a fear that a person’s condition could change, and he would be filled in his egoistic Kelim; for example, he will be cured, find a job, etc. How do we work with that?

Answer: We do not consider the side effects because the most important thing for us is to feel united in a single intention in which the Creator would be revealed.

Question: How can we wish to come to a single prayer? Is it very hard?

Answer: It is not very hard. You must start from afar and gradually narrow the field of view so the Creator is in its center.

Question: So we don’t have to wait for some abstract Hisaron, but should work with one the Creator reveals to us now?

Answer: Of course. At any given moment, you can manifest it.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/5/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 34

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On the last day of the Sukkot holiday, we must combine all our requests into one big cry for salvation—Hoshana Rabbah. If we talked about it all the days of the holiday, studied, and wanted to feel what was happening to us, then, of course, at the end of the holiday we can collect all these occurrences and come to great salvation.

We want all the requests we raised during the holiday to come together and make us feel an immense need for great salvation.

We ask the Creator for salvation, that is for conditions under which the light can be revealed through us. We have been preparing for this all the days of Sukkot; otherwise, we would have neither the right desire nor the right shade. The cry comes through as a reward for the effort.

The Creator conceals how close we are to salvation with this shade if we turn to Him with this exalted and powerful request: “Creator, save us!”

Just as the Creator creates a shade for His light and gradually raises us stage by stage, we need to accept this shade and try to see it as a means to rise above reason, above the shade, to come to the light of faith. When we come to such a need, it is already the beginning of salvation.

The state when a person comes to the desire to live in the light of faith is called the night of Hoshana Rabbah. During all the days of the holiday, he revealed an ever-stronger inner desire for salvation, because every day, more and more light of correction was revealed to him. And he rejoices that he has reached a realization and a feeling that only the Creator can and is ready to save him.

The light of faith is revealed in the Kli that a person prepares by his refusal to receive the light directly and by his desire to remain in the shade. We need to achieve such a connection with the Creator when He shines on us, but we do not want to receive this light directly and push it away, wishing to resemble the action of the light in relation to the Creator.

Thus, our correct attitude toward the Creator is also called light. This is how we begin to feel the light completing all our work. The Creator gives us an example of how we can give to Him in the same way He gives to us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/23/24, “Hoshana Rabbah”

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Question: When you stand before the Creator in trembling, like during an exam, and you’ve passed this exam, you experience a state of powerlessness because you’ve done everything you could. What is this state?

Answer: It is indeed a state of powerlessness because you have given everything according to all your feelings.

Question: The Creator knows what is in every person’s heart. So why do we still need to give an answer to the Creator? Is this like a reverse connection to the Creator?

Answer: Of course, you need to work on the connection with Him.

Question: If a person feels a longing for the Creator, what should they do with this longing?

Answer: Pray, pour it out to the Creator.

Question: How can we develop a deeper emotional closeness with each other?

Answer: Think about it more.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/24, Writings of Rabash “How I Love Your Teaching”

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Alexander writes:

Today is a very foggy time. Everything that we once thought was understandable is incomprehensible. It is unclear if it is a man or a woman, if it is real news or if everything is rigged. It is unclear whether this is the leader of the country or his double. It is unclear whether this is being said by a human or an artificial intelligence, whether it is true or false. Everything is mixed up.

What is all this for? Why are we being driven to complete disbelief in what I see and hear?

Answer: This is really a serious matter. It is so that we would need in the Creator.

Question: Is it His doing to confuse everything for us?

Answer: These are His actions so that we would feel ourselves in a state of confusion so we would have no possible reasonable, correct action left except to grab hold of Him and cling to Him like a child.

Question: So we must be brought to such a state that we will turn to Him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is there any other way we can turn to the Creator? There are prayers, prayer books, religions. Aren’t these appeals to the Creator?

Answer: No, they don’t save you.

Question: Alexander asks another question: “Who should I believe today?” Is there anyone on this earthly plane who can be trusted?

Answer: Of course not.

Question: Is it possible to live without believing in anything, in anyone?

Answer: That is how we get used to it.

Question: So you think that the whole of humanity will be brought to such a state?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If such a request, a prayer to the Creator, were really raised, what would happen? Would He answer?

Answer: The Creator answers anyway, but we do not understand His answers. He tells us that if we go the right way, that is, give up our selfish goals, then we will raise ourselves to the next level of development.

We will be completely different there. First of all, we will not be immersed in ourselves, in egoists. We will strive to make it so that it is the same for everyone. And the most important thing for us will be to act in a way that we feel the need to hold on to each other together.

This is what the Creator wants to lead us to.

Question: Are you talking about the whole of humanity now?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is the relationship between people, between countries, between everything like this?

Answer: Yes., this is our next step.

Question: Why don’t we want to move toward it? It sounds very attractive, with all our reality.

Answer: Should I think about others? I cannot and I do not want to. This is what every person feels.

Question: And will the Creator give us this opportunity if we can turn to Him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But should I want this particular next step?

Answer: I have to come to it, to the fact that I must want it.

Comment: It seems that one can want it coming from something very bad.

My Response: So we are gradually getting down to it.

Question: That is, we will be brought to something very bad so that we ask: “Give us the opportunity to be together”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Alexander also has this question: “Is it necessary to break through to the truth? And how to get to it if necessary?” He says, “Everything around us is untrue, everything is a lie.”

Answer: And we do not know what the truth is.

Question: That is what he is asking: “What is the truth?”

Answer: We do not know that. So what are we going to fight our way to? Just because we do not like our current state does not mean we know how to get out of it. And it turns out to be what it turns out to be.

Question: He is asking you: “What do you personally call the truth?”

Answer: The truth is that in my eyes all people are exactly the same.

Question: Do you mean equality, equals?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, all people are equal?

Answer: All people. If I want to see it that way and go for it, then it is considered that it is true.

Question: Am I the same as them?

Answer: Absolutely! That is when we will find out what kind of truth it is, what kind of taste it has.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/24

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Question: It is said that if a person does not believe that there is something divine present within the concealment, then he flees from the battlefield. We seem to understand this, but why is it so difficult to believe in practice that there is something divine present within the concealment?

Answer: I don’t think it’s difficult. And who creates this concealment? It is a special action of the Creator, and another special action is His revelation. Both are done by Him.

We need nothing but the right prayer, the right request to the Creator to remove this concealment. And when you feel that everything is revealed before you, you will simply be amazed at what you can see, feel, and be filled with. It will lift you up as if you have become a balloon.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”

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A wise man came and gave him a cure that helped him. Later, when he came to the doctors to do tests for his illness, they determined that he was completely well and there was nothing wrong with him. Clearly, at that time he is delighted and cannot say that he has nothing from which to derive vitality. Instead, his joy is immense (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 137, “The Lack Is the Kli [Vessel]”).

What are true spiritual pleasures? These are the pleasures of being connected and being able to mutually help one another; it is rising from our personal problems to common problems necessary for collective healing. In this case, we call upon the Creator for help, and He gladly assists us.

Our problem lies in uncovering the actual cause of our suffering and asking the Creator to free us from it.

Question: What deficiency gives birth to true spiritual pleasure?

Answer: The desire to be spiritually healthy.

Question: What is the kind of faith during suffering that can work for bestowal only with the help of the Creator?

Answer: It is a special quality—a person’s faith that; first of all, one is striving not for healing but to understand the root of healing, its cause. Then, a person finds the method of recovery.

Such faith always arises from realizing one’s helplessness so that a person finds the Creator as the cause of everything happening to them.

The intensity of the request to the Creator depends on understanding the reason for our condition, which is that everything comes from Him. Therefore, we must ask the Creator to come closer to Him to reveal the true essence of all existence. In this way, we can move forward toward healing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/24, Writings of Rabash “The Lack Is the Kli (Vessel)”

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Today we commemorate the memory of the great Kabbalist, Baal HaSulam. Rabash wrote about his father and teacher: “Baal HaSulam made it so that if an ordinary person follows his way, he can achieve Dvekut [adhesion] with the Creator just like a dedicated wise disciple.”

Over time it has become easier to fulfill this requirement of coming closer to the Creator, understanding and feeling Him, and establishing some contact with Him. In our days, every person must strive to attain adhesion with the Creator, and this is why we learn through the methodology of Baal HaSulam and Rabash how to achieve this.

Baal HaSulam brought about a tremendous change in the methodology of studying the wisdom of Kabbalah. Before Baal Shem Tov it was generally unclear how to advance in order to come closer to the Creator and establish a connection with Him. Thanks to the work of Baal Shem Tov, this methodology became clearer, but it was still not meant for ordinary people; it was only for great Torah scholars who had dedicated their entire lives to this. There were significant limitations on this path.

However, thanks to the work of Baal HaSulam, this goal became more achievable. Even a simple person, by learning from a wise Kabbalist, could now come closer to the revelation of the Creator.

That is, the strict condition that existed previously (of requiring one to study the entire Torah in order to proceed to the study of Kabbalah) that allowed only a select few to attain the revelation of the Creator and adhesion with Him is no longer in place.

After Baal Shem Tov this task became simpler and more accessible to a greater number of people. By virtue of their desire and aspiration, they could break through this barrier and through their prayer achieve contact with the Creator.

This simplification did not happen by chance but because the world is advancing and the entire nature of creation is revealed more and more. People evolve and are capable of understanding and grasping more. The desire to reveal and attain the Creator and to connect with Him is increasingly awakening in ordinary people who had not previously studied the Torah.

This awakened desire draws them to the study of Kabbalah, to reveal the Creator with its help. The only thing required of a person is to give their heart to this, to feel that their heart needs it. That is, a person simply needs a desire for revelation, as strong as possible, which draws them toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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All secrets of nature are hidden in our unity—there is no other remedy for broken souls. Therefore, we use the method of Baal HaSulam in all stages: rising above egoism, joining into tens, and moving toward unification into one man with one heart.

Baal HaSulam expressed the whole science of Kabbalah in a new, rational, and very open form that it is difficult for the world to accept. He brought each person closer to his purpose. We only need to unite into one man with one heart and raise a prayer to Him from this unity so He will manifest in us.

On one hand it seems that time passes and all this cannot be done, but on the other hand, we see that generations are advancing to the extent that they can realize the conditions given by the spiritual environment.

In fact, this progress cannot be considered slow, as some complain. Apparently, we do not understand how huge, lavish, and simply infinite the whole universe is. At our stage, we want to perform actions immediately at the highest level. But until we achieve sufficient force of action and its required accuracy, we will remain on the path.

Only through connection with other people can we turn to the Creator correctly. The more connected I am to the friends on the path, the closer I am to the Creator. We need to enclose ourselves as much as possible within the boundaries of the ten, the Kabbalistic group, and inside it, we will find everything Baal HaSulam wanted to convey to us.

Every day we must try to raise the ten to an ever higher level. If everyone in the ten wants to do this and knows that their spiritual score depends on it, we will succeed.

I hope we will go through the holidays with full seriousness and begin to reveal what relates to our souls. Every day I see my students more and more collected, united, and in agreement with the steps the spiritual forces are taking us through. If we want to accelerate the ascent to the next degree, an attack is required from us through unification with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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Question: By canceling our egoism, do we cancel reality?

Answer: No. What does it mean, “I annul egoism”? Can I not enjoy it? Can I not feel anything in it? Do I just cancel it?

Even if we work on annulling every day, do we see that it does anything? It depends on how much you feel like zero, that is, nothing, worthless, compared to the Creator.

Question: But what is our reality? The more we learn, the more it seems that this is an unreal reality.

Answer: No, reality is real. Only we must understand that everything depends on our appeal to the Creator. To this extent, the Creator will make everything become real.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/25/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Must Be Received with Both Hands”

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