Question: The Creator does not give charity (alms), He gives a gift. How and what should we ask for?

Answer: I cannot advise you about what to ask. It should come from the heart. But, between us, there is nothing more to ask from the Creator except love. He gives us everything, and love only upon request.
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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I pray that all soldiers at the frontline return home in peace, that the war will end, and that all the people in the world will understand that war is the greatest evil that can be, and that we will live in a world in which there will be no more wars; there will be no more hatred but only connection.

Today, in our state, with such enemies and haters, it seems like a perfect utopia. And yet, we want peace to reign over the whole earth so that the revelation of the Creator appears above us and covers and protects us like a dome of peace.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/13/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: I feel the hearts of my friends, but my heart is torn into pieces. I keep bumping into the wall of egoism when I try to open it. I feel terrible shame from the thought that if I open my heart, everyone will see that there is criticism, judgements, and all sorts of nonsense.

Answer: So what’s the big deal? First, the usual answer to this is: “Go to the Creator who created my heart this way, complain to Him.” Therefore, when a person reveals his bad heart, he should not be ashamed and hide.

He must try to rise up and ask the Creator to correct, in general, what the Creator Himself did. We have every right to turn to Him and demand that He correct our hearts.

The science of Kabbalah is built on the fact that we unite in asking and demanding correction. And the Creator initially says: “I created the evil inclination and gave the Torah to correct it.”

What does “the Torah to correct it” mean? This is the highest light that we can attract, and it will correct us; only it can do this. And our task is to discover our faults and evil, and ask the Creator for help. He specifically waits for us to beg Him because in this case we will draw closer to Him.

Everyone can ask the Creator, and He hears everyone, but we must push Him to action only from the group. There are thousands of people at the convention, and therefore, when you ask and speak, you connect with each other and unite in a common heart.

In ordinary life, we act in tens. And if the ten is united, it can influence the Creator so that He changes each of its friends. Good luck to you!
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From the 1^st part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 1 “The Work Is Mainly in the Heart”

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Question: There is the force of the group. We know that if the friends do not pray for me, I will not rise. My spirit is lifted only by them thinking about me. That is how I use it. But what for?

Answer: In order to rise and pull them along with you; just like today maybe they are pulling you along with them. After all, everyone helps the other and thus we achieve the goal.

We must unite into one single system called Adam from which we all scattered by our egoism and return again to this single desire where everyone supports everyone, holds on and clings to each other, and thus unite in one heart. Then we will begin to feel only one force between us and around us—the Creator.
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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Question: My inner ten is in my heart, and I also want to bring everyone I meet at the convention into my heart and to keep them there. With what prayer for the group should I combine my inner work?

Answer: To unite all in one group as much as possible. No matter how many of you there are, five, ten, fifty, or a hundred people, no matter how many, you should not limit yourself in this. Everyone who wants to join each other during the convention can be together.

Question: What should we ask for the group at this time?

Answer: Connection of everyone into one single heart without any differences between us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: You said that it is beneficial to say a prayer out loud both in the ten and in person. Why is it important to pronounce, and when is it better to pray in silence?

Answer: When you speak your prayer, you connect with your friends, and there is nothing closer than that.

On the other hand if you are not in connection with them, it is better not to speak aloud. That is, a person who speaks reveals his soul so to say, and this can harm him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/18/23, “On the Merits of Silence”

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Question: I myself feel and I see on my friends that in the lesson we are being totally knocked out, especially when we read some article.

If I try to connect and pray, my strength—of which there is little left anyway—is immediately taken away from me. When I try to ask not for myself, I immediately switch off and fall asleep. How can we help each other be in thoughts and in prayer?

Answer: This is the correct state. Because you do not have the feelings to ask and pray for others yet. But if you constantly, despite any difficulties, ask, you will find that it is possible, and you will receive an answer.

If you connect with each other and embrace each other, you will see how much a common spiritual universe opens up before you. You will not be afraid, you will not get confused about anything, and everything will be open and clear.

The main thing is only to be open to each other, to open our hearts. This, of course, requires training, but all this is close to us.
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From the 2^nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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We live in a time of war with the hope that every day will be the last day of the war. We have to strengthen the connection between us because only through our unification can we bring the Creator closer to us so that His power will protect us and bring peace to everyone.

We pray for our friends at the front, for other soldiers, and for those who were captured, and we hope that everyone will quickly return home in peace, in safety, and in good health. Let us continue to study Kabbalistic articles that help us turn to the Creator and ask for His help.

We must believe that everything that is happening comes only from the Creator, and He does everything in the most optimal way to bring us closer to Him. And if it seems to us that the Creator’s influence is not very good, then we are not ready for a different path.  We have the only way—to connect with each other and contact the Creator on the conditions that He now provides us.

Let’s ask the Creator to help us adhere to Him as quickly as possible so that we all feel the power of the upper governance over us and over the whole world and so we will understand that “There is none else besides Him” who is good and does good. Only because He wishes for our good does He perform such actions on us.. And if we unite even more, we will feel that the Creator is close and is leading us on the path of correction.

Behind every friend stands the Creator, the single upper force, beside which there is nothing. This force controls us and the whole world in general, including our haters and enemies. Therefore we need to understand the influence of the Creator and do everything so that His attitude toward us changes to goodness.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/23, “Growing Stronger in There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Comment: The Day Of Atonement is coming, Yom Kippur. I would like to talk about it precisely this year when we see what is happening in the world.

My Response: I think the world should already at least feel the need for this.

Question: So is the Day of Atonement in some way special this year? It is considered one of the most important holidays in Judaism when people read prayers of repentance, ask for forgiveness, and generally prepare for the fact that the inscription will be made in the Book of Life. As I understand, you are now going to say that this is so for the world too, right?

Answer: For everyone.

Comment: This holiday is always perceived with some awe. At least here in Israel everything stops.

There is silence, and both believers and non–believers, everyone is somehow afraid, and even trembling before this day. Tell us a little about this holiday.

My Response: Actually, it is hard to call it a holiday, because a holiday is something fun, light, and bright. I think this is actually Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when we can really rejoice that we are able to redeem ourselves.

Question: So, is there still joy?

Answer: Yes, this is a day of joy. But then, I do not know how people actually celebrate this day. It seems to me that they should, of course, be aware. It is said that a person should think about the way he lived this year, the way he tried to be kind, to do good, to be a conduit of the good Creator in the world.

Question: Is this what a person should think about on this holiday?

Answer: He should, yes. I think that ordinary people, in principle, are not so immersed in evil and therefore there is nothing to fear for the Day of Atonement. What can they be judged for? Evil was born before a person, evil, envy, and other negative properties. So a person is just human. What else can be said about him?

Question: What is this holiday for?

Answer: I think that this holiday is most likely for a person to think about why he was created this way. How he would like to correct himself a little. Although creation is the creation of the Creator, let us assume that a person has the opportunity to correct himself a little. How would he do it, in which way?

Question: Is his intention one way or another for good, for warmth, and for love?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then why does he ask for forgiveness? There are many prayers, called Slichot. He says, “I am sorry! I am sorry!” All the time “I am sorry!” What is there to forgive if he was created this way?

Answer: I am sorry that You made me so nasty, mean, insignificant, harmful, bringing only evil and misfortune to everyone. I ask You very much, to help me straighten up, improve, and be at least a little better.

Question: Are the aspirations of a person not to ruin another, but on the contrary, to become better?

Answer: I think that if a person seriously thought about everything that happens to him, how he was created, and what he could be at all, then he would ask for correction of what the Creator created in him.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/18/23

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Question: When we pray together with friends, we can hear each other’s aspirations. But how can I hear my friends when in silent prayer?

Answer: Listen to the heart of your friends, and in this silence you will hear what the heart wants to express.

When there is silence, when we are not pronouncing words, then you can hear the heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/18/23, “On the Merits of Silence”

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