Entries in the 'Prayer and Intention' Category

Ask for Someone Else

562.01Question: How does prayer help build a screen if we do not ask for it directly or we do not explicitly say in the prayer: “We ask to build a screen”?

Answer: You are asking for it because you are praying for someone else. By doing this, you build the screen.

Asking for someone else is the most reliable way to change yourself and your position regarding the entire Kli.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/11/24, Writings of Rabash “Laboring and Finding”

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A Prayer from a Person who Feels Deprived

562.02Before one is answered for this prayer of the poor, how can it be said that He will answer him the prayer of Moses, which is the Torah (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 436, “Three Prayers”).

Question: What does it mean that the Creator answers the prayer of the poor?

Answer: The poor means someone who has nothing. Therefore, the prayer of the poor is a specific prayer coming from a person who feels deprived. And if his prayer is based on this, then the Creator answers him due to his huge deficiency (Hissaron).

Question: How should the Creator answer the prayer of the poor?

Answer: You will see how He does it gradually, in different ways.

Question: Is it possible to find examples of such a prayer somewhere?

Answer: There are books called Siddur. You can find many different prayers in them. So take these prayer books, read them, and you will see how the Creator answers you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Three Prayers”

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Empathize with Others

568.01Question: If the Creator shows us the suffering of ordinary people and we are directly related to it, is there any work of ours here, correction as tens?

Answer: Of course there is. Empathizing with someone’s suffering allows us to take away a piece of that suffering and make it easier for them.

Question: What should we do in this case? Gather for common prayer? What should our actions be?

Answer: You just have to ask for the best for everyone. That’s all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/11/24, Writings of Rabash “Laboring and Finding”

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Turn on Your Imagination

237Question: You teach us that ultimately everything depends on the correct request to the Creator. How can we ask correctly from the heart of the ten?

Answer: Try to imagine the pain the Creator feels when we are distant from Him and how much pleasure we can bring Him if we ask to draw closer to Him and to be included in Him. That is very important.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Ruin of Kedusha [Holiness]”

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Unflattering Mirror

938.01Question: If I see flaws in others, it is as if I am looking at myself in a mirror. Is the right action to immediately turn to the Creator to correct myself? How can I make this action automatic, or would making it automatic be a detriment?

Answer: It depends on what you ask for. If you ask for the correction of this quality in yourself, naturally, you should expect yourself to change in some way. If you are asking for friends, you should see how much they are changing. But in any case, there will be changes.

Question: If the transgression I see is mine, do I need to say automatically, “This is me? Do I need to be corrected?”

Answer: Yes.

Question: Does this mean that any request is about correcting yourself?

Answer: This is how it is. Do not worry. The main thing is to ask.

Question: And if I ask for correction of a friend without seeing specific flaws in him, does it mean I do not have them either?

Answer: This also happens.

Question: So you do not always need to instantly attribute any flaw to yourself, right?

Answer: No, but when I ask for the correction of some flaw, I can ask for myself at the same time.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/11/24, Writings of Rabash “Laboring and Finding”

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Soften the Hearts

938.05Question: If the ten pray together and receive a response from the Creator, should we say that the ten did the work or that the Creator did a good deed for the ten?

Answer: No, the request comes from below, from the person or the ten, and the Creator responds from above through the ten and perhaps directly to each individual.

Question: In our harsh world, there is a feeling that all of us have hearts of stone.

But we so deeply want to ask the Creator to make these hearts soft, like clay, from which we could sculpt a vessel and connect. What can make our hearts soft, collective, and unified?

Answer: The light of the Creator; if He influences us with His light, we will instantly turn into very soft lumps of clay that are able to unite with one another and we will feel Him within us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Ruin of Kedusha [Holiness]”

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How Can We Attract the Force of the Ten into the Prayer?

528.03Question: We learn that the most powerful prayer is in the ten. How can I draw the power of the ten into my prayer when I ask for them?

Answer: When you invest in your friends in the ten, they can help you to the same extent. But if you don’t, in a way you separate yourself from them. Then what can you demand?

When you ask for them, you can draw the power of the ten into your prayer only if you have a certain preparation and connection with each other.
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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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Delight the Creator

239Question: When a person prays for their friends and feels pleasure from this process, what is this state? And how can this pleasure be conveyed to the Creator and to others?

Answer: You should thank the Creator for giving you such responses in the form of pleasure and try to learn from Him how to ensure that your actions also bring Him delight.

Question: How can one learn to do this?

Answer: Observe what the Creator does to bring you pleasure, then do the same for Him with the hope that He will be delighted.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/11/24, Writings of Rabash “Laboring and Finding”

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What Should a Newbie Pray for?

281.01Question: What can you advise a person who has just joined our system? What should he pray for?

Answer: He still cannot pray. He does not feel what, why, and to whom. One does not have any components of genuine prayer.

Therefore, there is no need to demand anything from him. Let him listen. Let him be present. The surrounding light will gradually affect him, and he will improve. Therefore, the only advice is to develop an awareness of the importance of the environment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Ruin of Kedusha [Holiness]”

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Raise a Prayer

239Question: What change should I feel when I raise my prayer?

Answer: You should feel that the Creator responds to your prayer, lifts you a little toward Him, and you understand more where you are, with whom you are connected, and how you can take part in the general correction.

Question: But at the same time am I asking not for myself, but for the entire soul?

Answer: Yes, but you are involved in it; it comes from you, so everything is credited to your account.

Question: We mainly work in the ten, and I first focus on my friends. How can I switch from my friends in the ten to the entire soul?

Answer: We do not quite understand how this is done yet, but we will get there. We only need to master this path when a person, based on his small egoistic desire, receives an impetus, rises closer to the Creator, tries to contact Him, and asks to use all his spiritual desires, his entire soul in this connection.

Question: Are all my spiritual desires something that also applies to my friends?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/24, Writings of Rabash “The Ruin of Kedusha [Holiness]”

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