Entries in the 'Prayer and Intention' Category

Engage the Creator in a Dialogue

624.07 Wherever I mention My name, meaning that you will give me the possibility to attribute My name to your actions (Rabash, “The Path of Truth“).

Question: How can we incorporate this into our lives so that we always give the Creator this possibility?

Answer: By desiring for the Creator to start working with you, addressing Him from all states, and always trying to engage Him in a dialogue, meaning, attempting to speak with the Creator and waiting for His response.

Question: In what form does a Kabbalist receive the Creator’s answer?

Answer: Most often in the form of what happens to him.

Question: Does it mean that we feel something as a reaction of the Creator in events and sensations?

Answer: Yes, the correct reaction is that we accept everything from the Creator: both good and seemingly bad. We only want to come closer to Him through our appeal to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “The Path of Truth”

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Preparation Is in the Intention

528.01Question: Can we say that our action of bestowal consists of active connection; for example, during a lesson, preparing for a lesson, studying and working in the ten are the desire, the passive vessel for work in active connection, and the work is the request for correction of the vessel, its fulfillment, and transmitting the light to the entire world?

Answer: Yes, this should be our intention. Therefore, before we open the computer and connect with our friends, we need to think about why we are doing this: to be connected together in one single vessel, to direct it to the Creator, and to reveal the Creator within it.

If we direct ourselves toward connection with friends, toward reading articles, and each time overcome various obstacles with an effort, we naturally receive much greater benefit from this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/24, Writings of Rabash “Affliction Precedes Mercy”

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Both on My Behalf and According to the Prayer Book

525Question: Should a person feel ashamed that he cannot pray? He feels that his heart is not opening and experiences some kind of shame.

Answer: The person should still try to pray and read from the prayer book. Gradually, it will become clear to him what is written in these texts and how to turn to the Creator to learn something from such correct treatment.

Question: Should everyone pray according to the prayer book, or can they do it on their own if they feel that the Creator hears them?

Answer: You can do it on your own, but you still need to read the prayer book.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “The Path of Truth”

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How Can You Understand the Answer of the Creator?

936Question: When we correctly raise MAN, the response from the Creator comes to us in the form of MAD. Is it possible to understand whether our MAN was accepted or not?

Answer: Of course, this can be understood through the attitude of the Creator toward me: I am for the Creator and the Creator is for me.

Question: We act in the center of the connection of the ten. How can we discern the attitude of the Creator toward us through our prayer?

Answer: Treat Him as correctly as possible, and after that begin to read His response in the relationships between you.

Question: What changes? Is it some level of unity between us?

Answer: Everything changes. Absolutely everything.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/24/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 8

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Intention for Action

281.01Question: If we receive blessings in intention, does it mean that the specific action we perform does not matter?

Answer: If this action leads to the dissemination of Kabbalah and correction of the world, then this action is of course desirable and higher than others. We work on the intention for the action. Intention alone, without action, has no right to exist.

Question: There is the intention we create before the action. And there is the true intention that we receive as a result of our efforts in the actions. How can I understand if I am feeling the true intention or if I am deceiving myself?

Answer: Deceive yourself, it does not matter. The main thing is that you are engaged in the work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Action and Thought”

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Prayer—Impact on The General System

595.03When a person does some corporeal lust, the lust is not regarded as a construction because it is only temporary. When the lust passes away, nothing is left of it, such as eating and drinking, and so forth. But when one learns or prays, this exists after the action, too (Rabash, Notes 690 “This World and the Future”).

Question: What remains after our spiritual action, study, and prayer?

Answer: The overall impact on our relationship system remains. After all, the fact that we were in prayer for unification and uplift is all the impact on the system.

Question: How can we build the right intention so that the system really changes and we correct something in our prayer, in our studies?

Answer: This is what Rabash writes about. If a person means that through his actions and prayers he wants to rise, then gradually this affects the system, and it lifts him up.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/11/24, Writings of Rabash “This World and the Future”

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How to Approach the Ultimate Truth

507.04Question: You often say that spiritual sensations cannot be conveyed and can only be felt. In our world, we understand everything only in relation to its opposite, but in the spiritual world a completely different logic includes everything and all opposites are united.

The problem is that it is impossible to understand or talk about. What should we do with it?

Answer: Just do what you can and ask the Creator to open your heart.

Question: If I have some sense of what truth is, how can this influence my friends to get closer to it too?

Answer: You should pray for everyone, at least for your friends.

Question: If I do this, it would still correct me; then when I am corrected, would I be able to influence my friends correctly?

Answer: Yes, the whole world.

Question: Can there be influence coming from me, even without words, just through my prayer? How does this happen?

Answer: I cannot say how it happens, but it happens even without words, only by virtue of your desire. But it is best with words. We are made so that the more we express our feelings, the more effective they are.

Question: When I express my feelings, they often seem corrupt and impure and bring only harm. I do not know what to do about it. Should I stay quiet?

Answer: Do not worry; the Creator knows what is happening to us and who we are. So do what works best for you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/24, Writings of Rabash “Affliction Precedes Mercy”

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Act Together

938.07Question: How can we recognize when to act and when to annul ourselves and accept?

Answer: It depends on you. Discuss these topics among yourselves, decide, and pray.

The most important thing is to ask for the force of connection from the Creator. Then everything should work out for you.

Ask the Creator how to use your desires correctly and whether you can direct your feelings and intentions to Him in these desires.

When you think about this together and want to relate everything to the Creator, that is the prayer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reward for Work in Spirituality”

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What Needs To Be Expressed in a Prayer?

522.01Question: If I have a specific intention and effort in my work to bring contentment to the Creator and no other desires, is this a mistake? Am I deluded or on the right path?

Answer: I think these are still your small egoistic definitions. Does the Creator feel good because you are in this state?

Comment: I do not know. All my work is only for Him, so I hope He feels good.

My Response: Does He want to see you in this state?

Comment: No, He wants me to work even more.

My Response: What do you need for this?

Comment: To study the sources, unite in a group, and correct my desires towards bestowal.

My Response: Exactly. All this needs to be expressed in prayer, and try to convey this prayer to the Creator. I feel that you will succeed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reward for Work in Spirituality”

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Feel Free to Contact the Creator

549.02Question: If we only have the desire to receive, where does the impulse of the desire to give to the Creator and nullify come from? Due to what forces? And how can we capture and use these forces?

Answer: We have these forces in the required quantities. Don’t think about where they come from. Or you can ask the Creator or even without asking, tell Him that you want to do this and that for Him.

Comment: My desire is very selfish.

My Response: So what? It is ok. The main thing is to calmly and freely turn to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reward for Work in Spirituality”

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