Entries in the 'Prayer and Intention' Category

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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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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