Entries in the 'Prayer and Intention' Category

How Can We Want to Bestow?

534Question: Creation is just the desire to receive. Did the Creator instill in us the ability to bestow, or do we need to ask Him for this?

Answer: We need to ask. We have no abilities or desires to bestow. Only if the Creator influences us with His light can our egoistic desires become altruistic.

Question: How can we move from all our desires to one that is not present in us? How can we want something we cannot even imagine?

Answer: First, desire, not for yourself, but for the Creator and strive not to receive, but to bestow.

From this, you will see that your desires to receive are opposite to those to bestow, so one cannot simply replace the other. There must be a transformation within a person. That is how it happens.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/5/24, Writings of Rabash “He Is One and His Name, One”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—161

281.02Question: What should replace shame?

Answer: Gratitude.

Question: Is the awe before the teacher similar to the awe before the Creator?

Answer: No, there is no awe before the teacher, before the Creator yes, because everything is in His hands.

Question: How can we check if we are approaching the purification of our collective Hisaron from impurities toward a pure desire to bring contentment to the Creator?

Answer: To the extent that you invest such feelings in your prayer, that is how it happens.

Question: It seems the Creator is cultivating beings similar to Himself here on earth. Can we say that we all must become creators according to the upper plan?

Answer: No, that is incorrect. We simply need to reach a state where we understand and feel Him as one person understands and feels another.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/24, Writings of Rabash “By Your Actions, We Know You”

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Ask the Creator

936Question: How did the sages come to the conclusion based on the actions of the Creator that He wants to delight the creation? After all, we do not see this in the world.

How did they know that it is necessary to unite in order to feel it like a radio wave?

Answer: They received this from the Creator when they raised a prayer to Him and asked what they should do to be closer to Him so that He would be pleased with them. And He answered them. Try to connect with each other in the same way and ask Him, and He will answer you.

Think about your friends, connect them together and raise MAN from them to the Creator. In this MAN (request, prayer) include a request that He gathers you and gives you the opportunity to receive the answer from Him.

Question: What does our ability to catch this wave give to the world?

Answer: It brings our world closer to the Creator who wants to see you fully corrected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/24, Writings of Rabash “By Your Actions, We Know You”

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From the Common Desire

935Question: How can we connect with the Creator through the connection between us so that we can turn to Him?

Answer: Unite among you. And when you feel that there is something common between you, elevate that common desire so that the Creator feels your collective desire and wants to fill it.

Question: Where is the Creator in this collective desire?

Answer: Above it.

Question: What does it mean that the Creator is above our desires?

Answer: He feels all desires from top to bottom.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/24, Writings of Rabash “By Your Actions, We Know You”

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How Can You Get Rid of Grievances against the Creator?

514.02Question: How can you get rid of grievances against the Creator?

Answer: What hurts you is what you need to pray about.

Let a person write down what he wants to address to the Creator, and then at different times of the day check whether what he wrote is correct. And if he feels that he wants to change his prayer, then this is a step forward.

Therefore, continue your work and try to constantly adjust the prayer slightly. Then you will see how the Creator responds to you accordingly. And if necessary, He will correct you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Three Prayers”

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The Prayer that is Accepted First

239Question: How does prayer affect us?

Answer: It acts on us through the Creator in such a way that later we can see what we are changing for.

Question: How do we achieve the prayer of the poor? Can we condition ourselves so this prayer is the one that is accepted first?

Answer: We can. That is why it is written that the most important prayer is the prayer of the poor who feels he has nothing and asks the Creator.

Question: What is the difference between prayer and plea?

Answer: A plea is probably much harder than prayer because it is an urgent request coming from the heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Three Prayers”

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If We Want to Draw Near the Creator

947Question: When I see my ten’s corporeal Hisarons (deficiencies), do I need to ask for their fulfillment for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: As for corporeal Hisarons, I do not know; you decide on this issue yourselves. In general we should feel what we lack from what we want to express in prayer to the Creator.

We need to understand that if we want to get closer to Him, we must strive for the property of bestowal. Therefore, asking for the property of bestowal so that you can be closer to the Creator, understand Him more, and thus bestow to Him is a serious prayer.

Question: I want to feel not only the Hisarons of the ten, but also that of the world Kli. How can I do this?

Answer: This is slowly forming in each of us. What the whole world Kli wants, in general, is in each of us; only it manifests gradually. So do not worry, this will happen soon.

Once you direct your feelings through the ten to the Creator, you will feel how your intentions become realized.

Question: As we unite in the group, we all work for the sake of bestowal. How can we increase our Kelim of bestowal and expand our Kli?

Answer: The more we think about how to turn to the Creator, the stronger our friends will be, and the more we will feel the desire to receive what we ask the Creator for.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Three Prayers”

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Integrate into Friends’ Prayers

938.04Question: I see how my friends in the group are trying to create a collective prayer. How can I strengthen and support it?

Answer: Join them.

Question: What is the mechanism of this process?

Answer: Pay attention to what they are asking for. You can hear it. And you will see if you can join their requests. It is advisable to find reasons to join their prayer. It is very beneficial.

Question: To attune oneself to the Creator, do you need to pray for several hours? How can you shorten this time to always stay connected with the group and with the Creator?

Answer: It is not necessary to pray for a long time. The main thing is that you try to do it from the depth of your heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/24, Writings of Rabash “By Your Actions, We Know You”

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The Essence of Gratitude to the Creator

237Question: What is the spiritual essence of gratitude to the Creator?

Answer: We must thank the Creator for creating us and for bringing us to the method of Kabbalah through which we can enter a two-way connection with Him and reach certain degrees of connection. As it is said: “I am for the Creator, and the Creator is for me.”

Question: What does gratitude to the Creator mean as a spiritual action?

Answer: Speak about the feelings you have toward Him, about your hope to achieve a connection with Him through your friends. Ask both for your friends and for yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/24, Writings of Rabash “Prayer”

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Never Ask for Yourself

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This is the meaning of a prayer in public, that one must not exclude oneself from the public and ask for oneself, not even to bring contentment to one’s maker, but only for the entire public. It is so because one cannot extend one’s boundary while the boundaries of the rest of the buds of the flower remain where they are, for as smallness blemishes the beauty, so does greatness, since the boundaries of all the lines and circles of the flower must be related.

This is the meaning of (Psalms 22:21) “Save my soul from the sword, my only one from the dog.” One who departs from the public to ask specifically for one’s own soul does not build. On the contrary, he inflicts ruin upon his soul, as in (Midrash Rabbah, Chapter 7, Item 6) “All who is proud,” etc., for there cannot be one who retires from the public unless with an attire of pride. Woe unto him, for he inflicts ruin on his soul, for one who takes from the flower, not only does he condemn the beauty of the flower in general, that there is a flaw in their value, but even that specific part has no glory or beauty whatsoever, and no color in the eye will regard him (Baal HaSulam, “Not The Time For The Livestock To Be Gathered“).

Imagine how many useless or even spiritually harmful actions we perform when we ask the Creator for ourselves: “Give me. Help me. Do this for me,” and so on.

There is nothing more harmful to the spiritual elevation of a person, because in this way he asks for himself and not for the common soul. By doing so, he completely separates himself from it without understanding what he is doing.

Therefore, the most important thing is to clearly include several very serious, cornerstone, fundamental rules. The first rule: Never ask for yourself.

The second rule: Ask only for the Creator to gather the group. That is, ask not for each of the friends individually, but for the whole group, the assembly, the Kli, in which the Creator can be revealed, in order to bring Him contentment. This is bestowal on our part opposite the bestowal on His part. Thus, to the extent that these intentions coincide, we will reveal Him.

As an individual, one cannot leave society and ask for anything for oneself: to bring contentment to the Creator, to correct the world. This is all nonsense, which is only intended to distract us. Do not do this under any circumstances. Always ask only for unification into a group. Then, through this, everything will go right.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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