Question: What should the prayer be like so that a person receives mercy from the Creator?

Answer: Prayer should come from the heart.

Comment: But we always pray from the heart.

My Response: Precisely this “always” kills everything. The quality of prayer depends only on your heart, on whether you are thinking about how to turn to the Creator.

Prayer is an effort. But it depends on when and in what.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Completing the abor”

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Even [stone] is called “faith” (stones to weigh with) (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 170, “You Shall Not Have in Your Pocket a Big Stone”).

Question: It is said: “Let there not be in your pocket a great stone or a small stone.” Does this mean that there is a preferable level of working with faith: above it or without it?

Answer: You do not need to pay attention to whether the stone is light or heavy. You need to learn to handle any load with faith above reason.

A person should always be prepared to have a stone with which he can weigh his wrong thoughts. And it does not matter what it is: big or small.

Question: Does this mean that we take these stones from the outside and not from our acquisitions?

Answer: We take these stones from our egoism.

Question: What does it mean that faith must correspond to the will to receive?

Answer: The point is that you answer any questions that arise in your mind based on faith, faith above reason. Therefore, you should ask the Creator to shine His light upon you, your egoism, and your desire, and then you will be able to be in faith above reason.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “You Shall Not Have in Your Pocket a Big Stone”

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Question: You say the upper light affects us and expands our Kelim, vessels.

But my vessels are in my friends, so it turns out that I can only ask for mutual inclusion through self-nullification. Is this how one can think of expanding the vessels?

Answer: Think in whatever way is more convenient for you, and the Creator will arrange everything. The upper light performs thousands of actions every moment, so focus not on how it is done, but on the fact that you want to attract the light.

Question: What does the ten gain from praying for other tens, all of Bnei Baruch, and the whole world? Is this the formation of vessels of bestowal?

Answer: Yes, this expands the vessels of bestowal. Through praying for everyone, you primarily help yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Rewarded—I Will Hasten It”

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Thus, the correction depends entirely on the connection of the letters ELEH the MI through MAN. This is why this correction is called “the holy tongue,” (Rashbi, Zohar for All, “Heaven and Earth”).

MAN is our desires. In rising to the upper world, they get included in its system and prompt parts of the upper world to connect with each other.

In this way, the nature of all worlds will start uniting and pulling toward each other. Then humanity will realize that it is included in the general nature of the world. Then it will begin to act logically and directly, in accordance with this system.

MAN is the raising of a prayer, a desire. The connection of any part occurs when raising MAN, a prayer occurs. If you want to connect with someone, you have to ask the upper force to do it.

Question: Why didn’t nature give us the strength to do this ourselves?

Answer: It will give that to you to the extent that you can use it for the benefit of everyone.

Question: But why should I ask for this? Let us say I made an effort and was given that, but no, I have to make an effort, ask, and pray.

Answer: This happens so that you really understand whether or not you are able to interact correctly in the world with all its parts.

Question: It is still not clear why the upper force shouldn’t give a person, after his efforts, the opportunity to connect with another part?

Answer: That is what it gives him.

Comment: But it says here that we need to raise a prayer.

My Response: So, this is effort. The effort itself is prayer.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 1/21/24

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Question: What is the difference between a desire of the  Creator and a quality of the Creator?

Answer: The Creator has only one quality—to bestow, to fulfill, to saturate. His desire is to see a person who does what He has directed him to do to receive the upper light from this and be fulfilled with it.

Question: We come to the group with a point in the heart. At what moment can we assume that we have some kind of soul?

Answer: From the moment you start thinking about it.

Question: Is there a difference between mind and knowledge?

Answer: Of course. The mind is the ability of our brain to process data, and knowledge is what we accumulate in ourselves as a result of processing data.

Question: When you feel negative about the actions of another person, suddenly the thought comes to you about what would you do if you really loved him? Is this the voice of the Creator?

Answer: That is the voice of the Creator. This is the opportunity to fulfill the commandment.

Question: Do all the commandments have to be fulfilled only within the ten or beyond it as well?

Answer: We study the commandments inside the ten, and we fulfill them both inside and outside the ten in everyday life.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And You Shall Keep Your Souls”

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Question: Let’s say you come to the lesson and only read the text with everyone, or you come to the lesson, read the text, and pray for your friends, or you come to a lesson and see that you have no strength, and you ask the Creator to give you the strength to pray for your friends and to be in the intention. Do these options attract the light of the Torah differently?

Answer: Certainly, the preferred option is the one that most awakens the prayer to the Creator. It depends on what you want from the reforming light that returns to the source.

Ideal is the desire to awaken all the friends, the ten, the group, and to rise together with them to the Creator and provide Him with a common Kli so He can fill it up to the final correction.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/14/24, Writings of Rabash “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

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The garden of Eden means the ascent of Malchut into Bina where she receives Hochma, as Eden means Hochma. And then Malchut, called “garden,” receives Hochma in the form of “Eden,” and this is “the garden of Eden” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 84, “What Is “He Drove the Man Out of the Garden of Eden so He Would Not Take from the Tree of Life”?”)

Malchut is the lowest degree. Raising Malchut into Bina means correcting Malchut when it rises to the level of Bina with the help of prayer (MAN), receives light, and corrects itself so that it can use its desire for the sake of bestowal.

Question: Is the lowest degree our connection in the ten or my personal work?

Answer: This is the initial work of any person, it is one’s connection with the ten. If a person does not have connection with the ten, one does not go anywhere.

As a result of connection, you gain strength and confidence that you are acting correctly, and then go down and raise MAN.

With this MAN, prayer, you turn to the Creator, and He lifts and corrects you. And you, based on your corrected state, begin to correct all ten Sefirot in the place from which you ascended.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is ‘He Drove the Man Out of the Garden of Eden so He Would Not Take from the Tree of Life’?”

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Question: How and in what ways can we bless the Creator?

Answer: We give the Creator all our intentions and desires and bless Him so that He can use them, unite us, and, through our desires bring His light to the whole world.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/14/24, Writings of Rabash “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

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The thing is that one should do all of one’s work by way of “If I am not for me, who is for me,” that no one can save him, but “by your mouth, and by your heart to do it,” that is, a discernment of reward and punishment (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 217, “If I Am not for Me, Who Is for Me?”).

Question: What is the heart, and what is doing it with the mouth?

Answer: This means addressing the Creator both out loud and internally. It means expressing it internally and with our lips in all our opportunities to talk with Him.

Question: What is goodness for the Creator? What must we constantly think about to be His sons?

Answer: The main thing for the Creator is whether we are getting closer to Him. The ultimate goal of spiritual work is the revelation of the Creator to all of us. We must constantly think about this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/2/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “If I Am Not for Me, Who Is for Me?”

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“Israel provide for their Father in heaven.” What provision do they give Him by which He is sustained? (Rabash. Article 34, 1990, “What Are ‘A Layperson’s Vessels,’ in the Work?”).

Question: Usually the Creator sets the table, i.e., the host invites the person. But here, on the contrary, a person prepares a meal; he is like a host. Why is it the other way around? Does it mean something?

Answer: It all depends on what you are doing it for—either for the sake of receiving or for the sake of bestowing. If for the sake of bestowing, then you feed the King. But if it is for the sake of receiving, then you are being fed.

The actions are different, but everything determines the intention. It reverses the actions.

Question: How can we control the intention? Is it through a request, or in some other way?

Answer: Only through requesting.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/24, Writings of Rabash ‘What Are “A Layperson’s Vessels,” in the Work?’

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