Question: Let’s say a person has some material problems and he asks the Creator to sort them out somehow. Is this normal?

Answer: Do you see that it helps?

Comment: It probably helps someone, but not someone else.

My Response: In principle, no.

Question: In Kabbalistic literature it is written more strongly that you harm yourself with this. In what way exactly?

Answer: By asking for yourself, you are asking to fill up or at least calm your egoism.

Comment: Then this information should be known to everyone because people usually ask for themselves.

My Response: Let them come and study Kabbalah. In many sources it is clearly written that if a person asks for himself, then he harms his soul.

Therefore people should come and learn how to properly address the upper force and thereby direct themselves to the right goal, to good.
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There is no happier state in man’s world than when he finds himself despaired with his own strength (Baal HaSulam, Letter 57).

Question: How long do you think it takes a person to despair that he cannot correct himself and so he has to ask for help from above?

Answer: All his life except for the last moment when he is so desperate that he cries out to the Creator and the Creator hears him and corrects him.

Question: Does my prayer for others have any healing effect on me? Let’s say I ask for others does it work for me too?

Answer: Of course, that is what the prayer says: I ask for absolutely everyone and for myself last.

Question: Today scientists have come to the conclusion that if a person does some kind, altruistic deeds, it has a good effect on his mental state. Is this also praised in Kabbalah?

Answer: Of course. It works on all levels. The less a person thinks about himself and more about others, the better it is for him.
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There are three conditions in prayer:

1. Believing that He can save him. Although he has the worst conditions of all his contemporaries, still, “Will the Lord’s hand be too short to save him?” If it is not so, then “the Landlord cannot save His vessels” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati, “Three Conditions in Prayer”).

Question: What does it mean to “believe”?

Answer: A person consists of all kinds of qualities and desires. Therefore, our studies attune us to select from all our desires, qualities, and intentions the ones that will direct all of humanity to good.

To believe means to be sure that if I do this, then eventually I invite upon myself the correct influence of the upper force and gradually correct myself. Thus, the first condition is that I must be sure that the Creator can help me.

2: He no longer has any choice for he has already done all that he could but saw no cure to his plight.

It means that he did not do everything. There is no other solution but to ask. Constantly address your request to the Creator. This is a single internal force of nature, which is able to correct us all. Therefore, there is practically nothing except for a prayer or request for correction.

3: If He does not help him, he will be better off dead than alive.

We need to come to the next state in which I want to correct myself and be similar to the Creator so much that if I do not achieve this, then it is not worth living for the sake of something else.
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Comment: It is very difficult to imagine that a person walks around and thinks from morning to night: “How can I love all my neighbors?! If I cannot love them, it is better not to live. I do not want to live like that!”

My Response: If we start to think about it and understand that the meaning of our life is to correct ourselves from egoism to altruism, then, in general, this is what we do.

Comment: Imagine if eight billion people would sit and think: “How can we love each other”? This would be utopia.

My Response: If they imagined themselves like that for a second, it would be a prayer of eight billion! It would be fulfilled right away.

Question: Do you believe that someday this will happen?

Answer: Yes. Gradually, all kinds of negative emotions, rejections, and disappointments are accumulating in humanity. In the end, everyone will come to this.
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Question: Your teacher Rabash wrote that one should pray to the Creator to help him go above reason. And this work should be in joy, as if he had already been awarded spiritual knowledge.

How can you ask for such a thing? What should we do with regular requests that automatically arise within us?

Answer: If a person aims himself toward connecting with others, to love others, if he turns to the Creator in order to rise above his egoistic nature, he gradually succeeds.

Comment: But it is against our nature.

My Response: Yes. That is why I said gradually succeeds.

Question: Your teacher also wrote that man’s sin is not asking the Creator for help. Had he asked, he would certainly have received it.

It turns out that the only sin is not in doing some unworthy actions, but in not asking the Creator for help.

Answer: Yes. “Why didn’t you ask?”

Question: Isn’t it considered a sin if you have done something against humanity?

Answer: You should have asked not to do such actions or have such thoughts or motives.

Question: So if something has already been done, it is not a sin?

Answer: There is an opportunity to correct everything.
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Question: On one hand there are a huge number of different prayers: for certain days of the year, certain seasons, and holidays. On the other hand, Kabbalah says that you should ask only one thing, for the Creator to give you His own property, the property of bestowal. Why is there so much writing about this?

Answer: In principle, we do not need anything else, only to master the properties that the Creator possesses.

Comment: So, there would be one line: “I ask You to give me the property of bestowal and love,” and that is it.

My Response: Indeed. But in order for a person to understand what he is really asking for, that he is in this prayer, he needs a lot of words.

Therefore, all thick books with prayers are designed to properly set a person up for a request.
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Question: It is written in Kabbalah that if you ask for yourself, you harm your soul. How can I understand this? What does it mean “not to ask for myself”?

Answer: The goal of all our prayers has to be to correct myself and to come closer to the Creator. The Creator is the property of absolute bestowal, absolute love, and absolute connection between all. Therefore, if we are attuning to address Him correctly, we first must attune ourselves to these properties.

Question: If I am asking to have the property of bestowal, do I harm myself?

Answer: No, you do not harm yourself because you attune yourself to bestowal. You already want to be similar to the Creator.

Question: But I am still asking for myself to have this property.

Answer: But what for? It is for bestowal, meaning, in essence, you are asking not for yourself but for the ability in some way to bestow and serve others.

Question: If a person is asking for his health or wellbeing of his family, is it harmful?

Answer: Yes. It will not be harmful only if he asks for the entire world and for himself within this world.

Question: What if I am asking: “give me health” but with the intent to receive the property of bestowal after that?

Answer: It is also possible. Also it is generally possible if you ask for everyone including yourself. In this case, your prayer is effective.
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Question: Your teacher Rabash wrote that prayer is a work of the heart and the heart is all the desires of a person. How can a person work with his desires if they are not under his power? How can he control them?

Answer: Prayer is an appeal to the upper force, i.e., to the general force of nature, which we call the Creator. The wisdom of Kabbalah explains how we need to tune in to nature in order to receive the correct response from it, and then nature will be revealed to us.

Therefore, we must change our desires in such a way that they direct us to bestowal.

Comment: It turns out that if I open some prayer book and it says what I have to ask, but I come to some place of the prayer and have other desires, other problems in my heart, then there is dissonance.

My Response: Prayer is what your heart feels. Therefore, it is necessary to tune in to feel: “What does my heart desire now?”

Those prayers that the great sages wrote are what you have to come to. They described desirable sensations, desirable impulses in the heart that you should feel.
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Question: What is the difference between group prayer and individual prayer?

Answer: It is an entire system. The fact is that if we turn to the Creator, then it is very important for us that our prayer be collective and mutual, and that it comes from many people, not from one person.

When a person connects with other people, he tunes himself in such a way that the Creator can hear him. If he asks alone, then his prayer is ineffective.

Question: Do you mean being with other people physically?

Answer: Not necessarily physically. The main thing is for a person to feel that he is connected with the others and wants to combine his request with the request of many people.

Question: There is even a prayer called “The Prayer of Many.” Explain what this means. That is, should I pray for many and not for myself?

Answer: Yes. When a person asks for many, this is the most effective prayer.

Question: What do you need to ask?

Answer: For goodness, correction, coming closer to the Creator, and so on.
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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself (George Bernard Shaw).

My Response: This is not an easy task.

Question: Let’s say “finding yourself” is more or less clear: finding yourself in a profession… What do you mean by the words “creating yourself “?

Answer: Creating ourselves is what we are facing. In fact, this is not such a sky-high thing. This is the requirement that is imposed on us from our life, to make ourselves similar to the Creator.

Comment: I do not know what the Creator is, I do not know who He is…

My Response: This will be explained to you in detail. Write down: “The first condition is to love everyone.”

Question: So the first point is: Should I learn to love everyone? Does this mean to be similar to the Creator by and large?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it a prayer if I write it down and look at it all the time?

Answer: Yes, that is a prayer. Imagine that you are like a parent, maybe strict, maybe kind, no matter which, but loving. The way such a parent treats his children, so you should treat people.

Question: At the moment when I read this daily and realize that I cannot, is this a prayer: “I cannot!”?

Answer: This is not a prayer, but a state when you check yourself and see how much you need to be corrected. Then you have already prepared some claims or requests for correction. So you wait for the day of atonement and present them.

Question: Is this the real prayer of Yom Kippur?

Answer: Yes. You judge yourself, you come and demand the Creator to correct you because you cannot correct yourself. The only one who can is Him. But only in accordance with your demands, requests, and pleas. So hurry up!

Question: You started from loving everyone. Is this, in principle, the basis of Yom Kippur?

Answer: Yes, it is called “Ahavat olam“—love of the world.

Question: Is this what I want to come to and I cannot, and I ask?

Answer: Absolutely! So get ready.
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