Entries in the 'Prayer and Intention' Category

Rise from a State of Lowliness

236.02Question: How can one come to true lowliness that leads to sincere prayer?

Answer: This happens when a person reveals that the very qualities, thoughts, and feelings they have regarding any upper goals are the lowest. They are really in the muck. And then they gain tremendous strength to ask the Creator to pull them out of this lowliness.

Question: Do we need to clearly define and recognize our flaws so the Creator can correct them?

Answer: Of course, how else would you ask if you do not feel this way?

Question: Is the degree of awareness of my flaw equal to the degree of the flaw itself?

Answer: This is unknown. Test it.

Question: If there is no awareness, should one believe that they feel the level of the flaw to correct it?

Answer: No, it does not work that way. You must feel it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Raises the Poor from the Dust – 2”

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How Can You Feel the Creator’s Answer?

557Question: What does it mean if you devote all your efforts to the Creator and constantly ask Him questions, but get no answers?

Answer: Either your desire is not genuine, not directed at giving, or you cannot understand His response.

Question: How can we feel the answer in the group? Or will it go through everyone separately?

Answer: You must feel it only in your common Kli, if only you will work with it. Therefore, in no case should you stand out, but on the contrary, you should unite with each other more and more tightly.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/24, Writings of Rabash “I Will Remove the Stony Heart”

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The Main Thing Is to Ask All the Time

558Comment: You said that we ask the Creator to fill us and to bring us closer.

My Response: Yes.

Question: But Rabash writes that the correct asking is not for fulfillment, but for Kelim (vessels). What is the correct way to address Him?

Answer: Ask for what you have a desire and intention for. And when the Creator reveals your Kelim, you will see what happens there.

Question: Our desires seek fulfillment, something good, light. But how do you ask for what Rabash advises?

Answer: Ask; it does not matter what. The main thing is to keep asking all the time. And gradually your desires will become more sharply directed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/24, Writings of Rabash “I Will Remove the Stony Heart”

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When Will the Creator Accept Our Work?

282.01Question: When working in a group, we find joy in our work for the Creator. How can we be sure that the Creator accepts our work?

Answer: You must feel it. If you unite among yourselves and in relation to the Creator, while desiring to give everything to Him, to be together with Him in everything, then you will feel that you are rising toward the Creator, and that He is descending to you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/6/24, Writings of Rabash “He Who Prays for His Friend”

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Promote the Property of Bestowal

528.01Question: Your teacher Rabash said that one can still attend a lesson without intention if he has already arrived. If we did not establish an intention of bestowal before the lesson or a meeting with the ten, where should we direct our thoughts?

Answer: At least part of the ten should be in the correct intention, and the others can connect to them. The most important thing is not to be passive. If I have even the slightest connection with the property of bestowal, I must promote or express it within the group.

Question: Can the greatness of the friends be a minimally sufficient intention for a group meeting?

Answer: Yes, you should strive for this. When you feel that through this, you are working for the sake of bestowal to your friends, you can hope this action will also lead to bestowal to the Creator. He will unite you all and bring correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/24, Writings of Rabash “He Who Comes to Purify Is Aided – 1”

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White Points on White Background

594Question: We are supposed to be in prayer all day, and before we even turn to the Creator, He will answer. How can we reconcile these two points? It seems like there are many blank spots.

Answer: Yes, each point is a blank spot, and they all connect together. But in order to connect them, you must continuously move forward. Gradually, you will see how your points blend into a common white background, on which your connections with your friends and the Creator will begin to emerge.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/24, Writings of Rabash “Who Causes the Prayer”

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The Soul Is the Intention to Bestow

608.02Question: The Creator gives the soul, which means intention. So does the quality of the intention define the soul?

Answer: The soul can only be formed when there is an intention to bestow. To the extent there is this intention, the upper light descends upon a person, shapes them, and creates them within the quality of bestowal. The intention to bestow is called the soul.

Question: How can we understand that we are coming closer to the soul? What are the correct indicators?

Answer: The indicators are the connection between you, and through it, the connection with the Creator. In this work, we only have two steps: to reach the quality of the connection between us in the ten and then to connect this ten with the Creator. That’s all. Nothing more is needed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/24, Writings of Rabash “He Who Comes to Purify Is Aided – 1”

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“I Asked God To Punish My Enemy”

624.07I asked God to punish my enemy. And God said to me, “No. He is destined to become your best friend” (Author Unknown).

Question: What should a person ask for if there is an enemy in front of him? How can it not be asking for help to destroy it? Please explain.

Answer: I don’t think it is necessary to ask for it, of course.

Comment: But this is an enemy.

My Response: This is only if it is a global enemy.

Question: Who wants to destroy me?

Answer: Not just me, but in general, to destroy everything around me.

Question: The Creator answers here: “He is destined to be your best friend.” If I keep this in mind even though I have an enemy in front of me, what is going on then, can you tell?

Answer: You are slowly adjusting to the fact that you can get closer to him.

Question: Is this the right way?

Answer: Yes.

Question: That is, over this hatred, over this whole situation, what he has done to me, I kind of forget everything and say: “You will be my friend”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can this be called a prayer?

Answer: Yes, it is a prayer, and it will happen.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/1/24

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The Fervent Desire of the Creator

239Question: When you were studying with Rabash and had certain complaints toward him, he would say: “Why didn’t you ask?” Is it the same request every time? Or does it change? What did he mean when he asked you that?

Answer: He meant that one must always turn to the Creator but only after properly clarifying the issue. That is, when I want to achieve such a connection with my friends that the Creator is revealed within it and by doing so I will give Him contentment because He desires to dwell within and fill the creation with everything He has.

This state is compared either to the suffering of a cow bursting from excess of milk, eager to give to everyone but no one is taking, or to the agony of a woman in labor who wants to give birth, but the moment of birth has not yet come.

Such a state is very intense. It is an inner state that the Creator experiences because the desire to bestow is much stronger than the desire to receive.

We need to imagine this state of His and prepare ourselves to ask, not because we want it, but because He needs it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli

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How Can I Determine Who I Am?

202.0Question: How can a person determine in which desire they acted as a righteous person and in which as a sinner?

Answer: They must feel it. If they do not feel it, they should perform actions characteristic of a righteous person, see whether they can actually carry them out, and ask the Creator for help.

Question: Can one trust their inner impression in this process?

Answer: No, they cannot.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/24, Writings of Rabash “Righteous and Wicked”

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