Question: When does bestowing to the Creator come from inner resistance and when out of gratitude? What is the difference in these forms for the Creator and for a person?

Answer: The difference is very significant. Bestowing can come from internal resistance or above internal resistance, meaning, without it, or out of gratitude. These are three different states of a person in relation to the Creator.

What is preferable? It is preferable if a person feels that as if he has no connection with the Creator at all.

He needs to overcome himself in order to start feeling a connection with the Creator, and then draw closer to Him, check, think about what he can do for the Creator. And then ask the Creator to help him pull himself out of this state, lift himself up in order to turn to the Creator with a request, and thus move forward.
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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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Comment: We conducted a workshop on the topic “Why do prayers fail?” But if my prayer is for my friends to reveal the Creator, I won’t know if they have revealed Him or not.

My Response: You’ll be the first to know about it. That is what it says in Rabash’s article: “The one who prays for his friend is the first to receive.”

You should know the first twenty articles of Rabash by heart! There are also other articles.

Question: I know that. The question is something else. You said I should forcibly think about the good of the friends, imagine the most ideal state, and ask the Creator for it for my friends. If I pray for the Creator to unite all my friends constantly and return to this thought many times during the day, what is wrong with my prayer?

Answer: Who said it is wrong?

Comment: If it is not answered, it is incorrect.

My Response: That is what is wrong, you are waiting for an answer to it. So you are working for a reward.

If you repeat the same prayer all the time and clarify what else you can add or remove from it so it comes as much as possible from the depths of your heart, this is your reward.

Question: So the reward is that the Creator gives me the opportunity to ask and constantly returning to this request during the day?

Answer: That is why it is said: “Schar HaMitzvah–Mitzvah“—”The reward for good deed is a good deed.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: If a friend reveals his desire, does that give me something to work on to fulfill it?

Answer: That is incorrect. That is not how it works. The fulfillment of a friend’s desire is the work of the Creator.

Question: Then how should we work? For example, we have a great friend. We met with him before the gathering of friends, exchanged opinions, and united. He somehow drew me closer to himself, and I felt his desire. During the gathering of friends, I felt him as I did not feel myself; I was like him.

Answer: This is not a good action, because in this way he attaches you to himself and deprives you of freewill.

Question: Then I am sure that this problem exists for everyone. It exists in families and couples. In families, usually the stronger one kind of attaches the other to themselves. Should it be the same with a friend?

Answer: No, family is a completely different matter. Leave earthly sensations aside. This is incorrect.

There are people who can give another person a sense of a small upper illumination and thus attach him to themselves. This is wrong. By doing this, they deprive the person of freedom, the realization of action. This should not be done.

For a while, I had a teacher who liked to play with this. But when I moved to Rabash, this completely stopped. Rabash never used this.

Showing a person upper actions, the quality of bestowal, the spiritual world, before he can perceive and exist in it himself is not allowed because you deprive a person of the freedom of development. It is like giving a child the solutions to the tasks set before him, which harms him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: How can the Creator help me see my friends more connected?

Answer: It is very simple! Ask for it and that is all.

With everything you have, turn only to the Creator. Not to me, not to your friends—only to Him. This is the most reliable way. You will see that the answers, salvation, everything comes to you from there.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: It is said that a person must use his strength to make a choice, after which the Creator gives him everything that was in the Creator’s plan.

What is this human strength, and what kind of choice does one make?

Answer: The Creator gives man an anti-egoistic force with which he rises, becomes closer to the Creator, even reaches adhesion with Him, and thus masters this degree the Creator turned to him with.

Then the Creator gives him another task, an even greater degree. Again, one must turn to the Creator, ask Him for the desire to bestow, and with the help of this desire, rise to the next stage where he will balance a new manifestation of the Creator.

It turns out that the Creator is constantly developing egoism in us, gradually, step by step, and we ask Him for strength so the new egoistic desires that arise in us do not confuse us, do not throw us from side to side, but allow us to advance. This way every desire given to us is to let us get closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/12/24, Writings of Rabash “Man’s Greatness Is According to His Work”

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Question: I try to love my friends and see their good qualities. And when I cannot, I try to ask the Creator to cover it. Should I expect any results from this work? Or is it enough for me to sit and wait for the Creator to answer me? What conclusion can I draw from this if I do not get an answer?

Answer: First of all, even though you are asking the Creator a question, don’t wait for the answer. Keep asking more new questions, because unlike you and me, the Creator does not need time to understand what you said to Him, to think of an answer, and somehow react to it. This only happens on the material level.

With the Creator none of this is needed! He is within you. As soon as you ask, the answer is immediately given to you. Whether you feel it or not is a different question. Therefore, you can keep asking without waiting for the answer, as the moment you ask, the answer is already there.

Don’t wait for the answer. Remember at least this.

Question: Okay. Should there be some kind of result?

Answer: No result, if there is one, there is one, if not, not. But you continue.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the convention”

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Question: In Rabash’s Letter 77, it is written that every moment clarified, analyzed, and added to holiness enters the domain of holiness. How can we correctly identify, analyze, and connect each moment to holiness?

Answer: To do this, you need to be in constant prayer, in connection with your friends, and in understanding that your entire existence consists of moments your friends go through. In this way, you protect yourself so as not to fall.

Question: What is this constant prayer?

Answer: It is to hold on to your friends.

Question: How can I be sensitive enough and direct myself to exactly what my friends are going through and not myself?

Answer: You are going through the same thing they are going through. In addition, you have your moments, but the most important thing is that you are connected with them and go through all states together. You just need to feel dependent on them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/11/24, Writings of Rabash “A Request for Help”

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Question: How can we work so that all our actions and feelings become spiritual? How can we transform material pleasures into spiritual enjoyment?

Answer: Transforming material pleasures into spiritual ones is possible only if you think about what to do with the pleasure you receive. Suppose you experience some pleasure. First, consider from whom, why, and for what purpose.

In this way, you can somehow direct it, focus on something, and then you will understand what you are doing with that pleasure. It is not about the pleasure itself, but how we use it.

Question: How can we transition from enjoying false things to true, genuine fulfillment?

Answer: It is by connecting with our friends and helping each other understand what true enjoyment is, which we can receive from the Creator and then give back to Him.

Every moment we can examine ourselves and sharpen our focus on the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/9/24, Writings of Rabash “Man and His Role”

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Question: It is said connection with the Creator as a result of prayer due to suffering is a greater correction than suffering itself, which is also a correction. What kind of connection should there be with the Creator to overcome suffering?

Answer: You should feel this, attract the Creator to yourself, unite with your friends, and do everything possible to be in the same desire, in the same connection with your friends and with the Creator.

Thus, you gradually form an instrument of influence upon the Creator and draw closer to Him.

Question: The whole world is suffering. We see this as a patent giving us a remedy for suffering. Is it possible to explain to people, including beginners, that they can overcome suffering by connecting with the Creator?

Answer: Of course, you can if only they would listen. There are no secrets here.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/30/24, Writings of Rabash “A Request for Help

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Question: We want to reveal the Creator in the degree that we can bestow to Him. What does this degree depend on? How can I know that I gave Him everything that I have received?

Answer: How can I measure it? We ask the Creator to reveal Himself to us in the degree that we can raise His greatness and bestow to Him. Then we will be able to do that.

Question: What is this desire that we have to present to Him so He would be revealed within it?

Answer: This is our desire to receive everything that He wishes to give us with the intention to give contentment to Him.

For now, we have to be ready to reveal the Creator in the degree of our understanding of how to do that. Gradually we will learn how to receive not for my own sake, but only for Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/2/24, Writings of Rabash “The Whole Earth Is Full of His Glory”

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