Question: I have discovered that before prayer, getting closer to the Creator always proceeds from suffering, following the example of King David. How can I overcome this problem?

Answer: Do not pay special attention to suffering, but aim only for connection, and you will see the suffering fall and disappear.

Comment: But sometimes it hinders.

My Response: Of course, this is done especially to hinder you so you can weigh how much you prefer connection over suffering.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/23, “Conduct War Like King David”

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Question: What is common prayer?

Answer: Common prayer is the connection of all your private prayers into one prayer, which is assembled by the Creator. He assembles all the prayers from your hearts and connects them into one prayer, into one heart.

Question: Why does the Creator do this work?

Answer: How can we do this work? He connects, He sorts, He does it all, it is all Him.

What are we doing? We only see our helplessness and ask Him to gather us together, connect us, raise us, and fill us.

Question: What conditions must be met for this to happen on the part of the Creator? Do our relationships, fulfilling the principles of Rabash, and nullifying ourselves before each other affect the quality of common prayer?

Answer: Of course they do. We influence each other a lot and we cannot even imagine how much.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/29/2023, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Lishma” [for Her sake]

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Rather, they should calculate how many corrections they must do in order to have ransom for their souls to the Creator, meaning that they will not look at the deficiencies, but at the correction of the deficiencies, by which their soul, which was in the Klipot, will emerge from them and cling to the Creator (Rabash, Article No. 18, 1989. What Is, “There Is No Blessing in That Which Is Counted,” in the Work?).

Question: Is it necessary to make calculations from the states of our path?

Answer: How will we know what we are asking for otherwise?

Question: But we have never summed up in the ten how well we are advancing. What are we missing?

Answer: A person should feel himself where he is, where he is being pulled, and in which direction he is moving.

Question: Before I do this kind of work, I have to adjust myself correctly. The article says that the blessing should be before and after. How can we bless in order to perform this calculation correctly?

Answer: It means that you bless the Creator for allowing you to see your uncorrected desires, and then you bless Him for correcting them.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/29/23, Writings of Rabash ‘What Is, “There Is No Blessing in That Which Is Counted,” in the Work?’

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All that your hand and strength can do, do.

Question: How can we reach a state where we feel we have already done everything in our power and come to a prayer? How can we grab it and hold on to it?

Answer: To do this, you have a group that you need to connect with and bring to a state of equivalence to the Creator where it is completely and correctly connected. Then you can begin to work with the Creator through this group.

In a correctly connected group, everyone will participate and aim for a common goal—to unite in the center of the group, as in one heart.

Question: Is this within my power?

Answer: Everyone can and should do this.

Question: What does it mean that a strong desire does not allow other desires to enter?

Answer: If you have any desires that are not aimed at reaching the goal of creation, they prevent you from reaching it. They must be neutralized, and then you can work with the desire for the purpose of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/23, “Conduct War Like King David”

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Hence, when one has accustomed oneself to walk in ways of bestowal, one has no vessels of reception anyhow. When one walks in ways of reception, he has no vessels of bestowal (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 15 “What Is Other Gods in the Work?”).

Question: What are the stones to weigh with? Are they just our internal thoughts, scrutinies, or actions in the group?

Answer: It is both thoughts and feelings, as well as the relationships between us and between us and the Creator—all together.

Question: It is unclear how both the Kelim of bestowal and the Kelim of reception are acquired with the help of weighing stones?

Answer: It depends solely on the intention. It does not matter whether I am receiving or giving. What matters most is my intention: for the sake of the Creator or for my own sake.

Question: And how are the stones to weigh with helping here? For example, I want to be in the quality of bestowal, in connection with friends, but then some disturbances arise, and this is what pushes me away.

Answer: It is good that there are disturbances. If you resist them and go against them, you will definitely come to the quality of bestowal. By resisting disturbances, you are already acquiring Kelim of bestowal.

To resist disturbances means to justify the Creator. When external thoughts come to you, the questions “who” and “what,” the Creator observes how you respond to them.

Question: But these thoughts are about friends. Does that mean that I have to justify my friends first?

Answer: It does not matter. Even if there are several actions, ultimately, one specific thought is being pursued.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/26/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is Other Gods in the Work?“

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Question: What helps us to strengthen our faith and not fall into doubts? How can we support each other in this in the ten?

Answer: First of all, we must unite in the ten. Moreover, we must unite in such a way that we do not have any questions as to whether we are connected to each other or not, or whether we help each other or not. All these issues must be resolved.

We are absolutely sure that we are connected to each other and therefore connected to the Creator.

Question: Do I understand correctly that only to the extent of my faith, without any doubt, can the Creator honor me with the quality of bestowal?

Answer: This is first. And second, the first is not even as important as the fact that you want to have a sense of faith. Meaning, you want to fully relate to the Creator the way He relates to you. That is the most important thing. I want to bestow to the Creator everything that is in me, and in this case it does not matter to me how much I receive and what He gives me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/27/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Most Important Is to Want Only to Bestow“

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Question: Praying for friends is one of the closest states to Lishma (not for my own sake). But if I pray for a friend who is sick, where is the joy here?

Answer: It goes without saying that we pray for a friend because by doing it we want to transfer our strength to him.

Such a prayer does not necessarily have to be in joy, although prayer for a sick person still includes some joy because you rejoice that you want to give part of your health and strength to your sick friend.

Question: How do we check that the whole body agrees to this prayer?

Answer: It is impossible to check by the clock. Gradually, you will have an inner need, such as Kelim (Vessels), in which you will understand what state you are in, whether you are closer or further from the Creator.

Comment: After the fact, I already see that for some time, I was in other thoughts and not in the thoughts about a friend.

My Response: In that case, you should regret that the Creator pulled you out of connection with Him, gave you some pleasures in other thoughts, and thus, you distanced you from the Creator. Now, you begin to understand this and want to be closer to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/29/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Lishma [for Her sake]“

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Question: What helps us polish the desire to receive so that it is subtle and we feel who we are fighting with?

Answer: Only our relationships in the group help. The more subtle we are in our relationship with each other, the more subtle our relationship with the Creator will be, and we will succeed in this rapprochement.

Question: What intention should you set before reading Psalms? How can we prepare for this?

Answer: Before reading Psalms, we only strive to get closer to each other. We do not need anything more.

With the help of the Psalms, we wish to connect with each other even more. And in the Psalms themselves, there are already such wishes and prayers that will definitely provide us with all the best.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/28/23, “Conduct War Like King David”

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Question: Should we pray more about peace and direct our thoughts and desires there, or should we pray more for connection?

Answer: Mainly, we direct ourselves to connection because it is above everything. Connection is when each of us wants to annul oneself and unite with the rest of the friends. This is the most important thing for us.

Question: When I hear a friend pronounce the words of prayer, how do I properly integrate in these words, in his feelings?

Answer: Try to join in, get closer to him internally, merge with his intention, and with his feeling so you will feel him closer.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/27/23, Writings of Rabash “Man Is Rewarded with Righteousness and Peace through the Torah“

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Question: Does it make sense to ask the Creator in prayer to transfer all the wars and external work inside the heart, inside the tens?

Answer: We must achieve victory over our egoism by any means and connect with the Creator within the connection between us, in the ten, in the group. Practically, this is our job.

Question: How do we achieve this connection without falling into egoism?

Answer: Only by prayer.

Question: External actions push us to a strong prayer, to a cry. Does it make sense to move all this work inside?

Answer: Of course, this is our duty.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/27/23, Writings of Rabash “Man Is Rewarded with Righteousness and Peace through the Torah“

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