Question: Our only weapon is prayer. Honestly, I don’t know how to pray. It seems to me that even in a ten, we don’t pray as we should. Yet, if this is our foundation, it should be formed as the Kabbalists ideally did.
Answer: It’s not that simple. The most important thing is prayer. After all your efforts toward the Creator, He is reached only through prayer, what you raise to Him.
Just like, for example, your future depends on your boss at work, and you submit a request to him, stating what you want, why, and how. You should articulate this request in prayer.
Try it together with your friends, and the Creator, as the ruler of the entire world, will take that prayer and decide what to do with it. He might say that these folks need to struggle a bit more, find themselves, mutually annul themselves, and so on. And that’s how you will make progress.
It is said, “May God grant that one prays all day,” because during prayer, you examine yourself, correct yourself, raise one question, then another, a third, a fourth, and gradually, they all come into one. This is what you need to reveal. But it should come not from books or others, but from the depth of your heart.
Question: What would Rabash and Baal HaSulam tell us now? What advice would they give?
Answer: They would say only one thing: “Where is your prayer? You have a manager, where is your request?” And we don’t do this.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘Calamity that Comes Upon the Wicked Begins with the Righteous,’ in the Work?”
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