Entries in the 'Prayer and Intention' Category

Is it Possible to Check Intention?

249.02Question: Is it possible to check the intention so as no to make a mistake?

Answer: Of course, you need to check in order to see why you have certain intentions and how much you are working on this together with the group. You need to be more connected with others, which will allow you to clarify all questions on the spiritual path more quickly.

Question: How exactly can one check the intention?

Answer: You can discuss this within the group or with the Creator. Simply examine: for what, why, for what reason, for what purpose I did something, am I doing it, or plan to do something in the future? When I lay out my plans in this way, I can determine why I am doing it, what it gives me, or what I hope for.

Question: How can you maintain the right balance between explicit actions and internal work on intention?

Answer: First of all take care of the intention and then action. Then everything will be fine.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/21/24, Writings of Rabash “The Concealed Things Belong to the Lord Our God”

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Quality of Prayer and Spiritual Advancement

938.05Question: In a prayer is it possible to ask for us to be able to unite with each other and pass the full measure of light that the Creator wants to transmit through us to the peoples of the world?

Answer: Yes, it is possible.

Comment: What is the relationship between the quality of a collective prayer and the readiness of each ten? And vice versa, how does each ten depend on the collective prayer for its advancement?

My Response: It is a very close relationship. Therefore, we need to take care of one another and be critical of how each ten reveals itself in relation to others in order to provide the correct understanding of moving forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Run My Beloved”

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Preparation of the Desire for Connection

275Question: What is preparation of the desire for a new connection?

Answer: Preparation of the desire for a new connection means that I identify my desire that I deeply want to correct so that it becomes more pronounced and clear. With this desire, I turn to the Creator and ask Him to correct it, because I want to come to connection with my fellow friends through this desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Here Today – 1”

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What Do Kabbalists Strive for?

212Question: It is said that one should feel the taste of life in the Torah and commandments.
Is there an image of a Kabbalist or a group of Kabbalists striving for?

Answer: Kabbalists strive to feel within themselves what is said in the Torah, the commandments, and, overall, in spiritual life.

Question: I do not know if we can reach such heights as you have, but can we at least ask the Creator for the ability to write and disseminate?

Answer: Ask the Creator for everything that relates to your correction, and you will receive everything. Just keep asking, if possible, non-stop.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/15/24, Writings of Rabash “What to Ask of the Creator—to Be His Servant”

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Two Types of Fear

276.01Question: What is the difference between religious people’s fear of the Creator and the Kabbalists’ fear of Him ?

Answer: The fear that religious people experience stems from the fear of punishment. On the other hand, Kabbalists do not have this type of fear. Instead, their fear is focused on the concern that they might not fulfill the will of the Creator.

A serious prayer is required to transition from the one type of fear to the other.

Question: From time to time, we feel fear of the Creator. How can we maintain this state consistently?

Answer: It depends on your environment, on your friends. If you all think about this together, it is as if you are keeping a ball in the air. Just as a team can keep a ball in the air when playing together, it is the same here.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Anyone in Whom There Is Fear of Heaven – 1”

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Waiting for the Light of the Creator

937Question: What do we need to do together so that we can build the Third Temple beyond what reality shows us?

Answer: We must regret that we are shattered, that there is no connection between us in our hearts and minds, and that we do not feel like one whole. Therefore, our condition is still far from being corrected.

But despite this, we must still move forward and hope that the Creator will gather us together and shine upon us, and then we will be corrected.

Question: On what basis does the holy community unite in order to become one whole and raise a perfect prayer?

Answer: On the basis that it desires to reach the Creator, to be close to Him, to influence Him, to receive from Him, and thus move forward toward the purpose of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Cast Their Seed Among the Nations”

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The Temple—Glow of Holiness

935When a person is rewarded with a temporary illumination of Kedusha [holiness], it is considered that he has entered the Temple.

The ruin of the Temple is when the illumination is taken away from him. (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 566, “Cast Their Seed Among the Nations”).

Correctly using the glow of holiness means thinking only about the correction of the common Kli, the common soul, which is called Beit HaMikdash (Temple).

This is not a building that can be built in Jerusalem, but our common soul, which we create from all individual souls through unification, and inside it, in every heart, we prepare a place for the Creator.

You can sustain the glow with the help of prayer for correction, for merging of the hearts. We must unite all our individual desires into one desire, and the Creator will fill it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Cast Their Seed Among the Nations”

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The Work of the Light

572.02Question: Why does the body surrender and allow a person to work for the Creator only when there is true love for Him?

Answer: This is the effect of the light. Sometimes the Creator allows people to feel such an attitude toward Him. This is done so that a person can understand what it means to be closer to the Creator or further away from Him.

Question: You said that peace is correction through love. Is it appropriate to ask the Creator to send peace to the world? Or is that too much?

Answer: No, it is not too much. However, it is best if this is tied to you and your ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/24, Writings of Rabash “A Near Road and a Faraway Road”

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Pray for All Souls

255Question: In order to pray for society, one must first join it and feel the Hisaronot (deficiencies) of others. But now we are discussing the need to pray for the Shechina (Divinity) to raise it from the dust. In this case, does a person not feel one’s neighbor’s Hisaron?

Answer: He does. The Shechina in the dust is a state in which a person feels suffering for everyone, for the entire Kli. One feels like he is part of the broken Shechina.

Question: I thought that the Shechina in the dust is when we are self-centered and feel separated from each other.

Answer: It doesn’t matter. Even in egoism, we still feel that we are together. Egoism does not connect us, but we are as if in one egoistic hole.

Question: What do you still need to ask for? To feel the Shechina? It is said that you cannot ask for yourself, but if you do not feel the desires of others, then the prayer will not work.

Answer: A person should imagine what “Divinity in the dust” means. Even if he is not particularly successful at this, he must still try to imagine that all souls are far from the Creator in the pit of egoism.

Question: But we are trying, on the contrary, to raise society higher and imagine that everyone is corrected except me. Does it turn out that I should only pray for myself?

Answer: No, we must pray for all souls so that they unite and the Creator can shine in them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Cast Their Seed Among the Nations”

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Without Personal Gain

608.02Question: I want to follow your advice and love my friend. But my egoistic nature causes repulsion, and I must rise to the level of love for him. So what is my prayer for the other?

Answer: When you try to rise above hatred to love and you make serious efforts to do so, such great egoism is revealed in you that shows you cannot do this. Then you begin to realize that only the Creator can help you, and you seek contact with Him. It is in this search that one can find the Creator.

Question: So what do I ask Him at this moment?

Answer: Ask Him to help you be in love above hatred.

Question: But it sounds like I am asking for help for myself?

Answer: Why is it for yourself? You want to show love for others! It appears above hatred, above egoism. We do not understand what the manifestation of the quality of bestowal is. It seems to us that I bestow and this is my gain. No, this is not my gain.

The spiritual property requires us to absolutely renounce and rise above egoism. You are making a restriction. We do not feel what the first restriction, the screen, or the reflected light are when you completely start working for bestowal. Then you want to connect to the Creator so He can help you with this. There is no personal gain here; it has long been left behind.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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