In our connection with our friends, we are looking for and want to grasp the Creator like radar captures the right wave. Therefore, we need to create such a connection that will have the qualities of the Creator, that is, mutual bestowal between us. If we have all achieved mutual bestowal, then we are definitely aimed at the Creator.

Everyone has seen how a radar spins in search of the desired wave; that is how we need to set up our connection. We ourselves do not know how to do this, but we ask the Creator to change us so that all of us together turn out to be a dish, an antenna, directed at the Creator according to the equivalence of our qualities. In accordance with this, everyone changes himself and adjusts to his friends so that everyone together matches the Creator.

Through such work, we unite into one soul and begin to receive instructions from the Creator inside our locator inside the ten about how we can change ourselves in order to catch the ray of light sent by Him even better and more correctly. And this ray, through its impact, begins to change us, turn us, and correct us so as to connect us with the Creator.

And at all the next degrees where we build a connection with the Creator, we tune in to Him more precisely and connect with Him at higher and higher frequencies with greater force.

For a perfect prayer from the ten, it is necessary to understand what each of the friends wants. And therefore, when reading Rabash’s articles about the group, we try to connect so that each passage connects us with the Creator.

In this way, we are getting closer and closer by building all kinds of forms of connection until we begin to feel the source influencing us and our responses to this influence, this means being connected to the Creator through direct light and reforming light, and building a spiritual Kli out of ourselves.

Then we reveal the Reshimot, spiritual actions, the entry and exit of light, the rise of the screen from degree to degree within the connection between us. We will study all the phenomena in the spiritual Partzuf described in Kabbalistic books on ourselves, as taught by Baal HaSulam, Ari, and other Kabbalists.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/3/22, “Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)”

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A person must reach a state where the very act of prayer fulfills him so that he does not need any reaction to it.

If I have a connection with the Creator and I pray to Him, pour out my heart and my entire soul to Him, and give Him all my hopes and aspirations, then I am so fulfilled with this that I no longer need any answer.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/03/22, “Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)”

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If I annul myself before the friends, it already indicates that I have faith in the Creator. Therefore, by annulling ourselves before the friends, we can come closer to the Creator. After all, the Creator does not exist without created beings. If we connect, then our connection is called the Creator. We create Him ourselves and work with Him.

The united group is like a radio telescope that captures influence from the higher degree. An ordinary person cannot feel it, but a united ten receives this special, unattainable force from above. This force is revealed inside the ten, which acts like a radar, a satellite dish, that detects this upper quality.

Without such a group, we will not be able to reach the revelation of the Creator. Only by connecting with each other in a certain way do we create, rotate and adjust this radar dish, our common desire, so as to catch inside it what is called the Creator, that is, “come and see” (Bo-Reh).

The Creator Himself is above our attainment and the only way to reveal Him is to connect with each other and tune ourselves to Him, similar to the way any radio receiver can only receive the incoming wave but not the transmitter itself. Therefore, there is nothing more important than our connection because it leads us to connection with the Creator.

No matter how much I try to adjust my desires alone, in the end I realize that I will not be able to reach connection with the Creator and I need a connection with the friends. After all, only through them will I be able to come to connection with the Creator. I myself am the last Sefira, Malchut, and my friends are the first nine Sefirot, which through this address, the Creator reaches me.

A necessary condition for prayer is to become so integrated into the friends that we feel that within our connection we can receive a message from the Creator. When I catch this message, I want to answer it together with my friends. Through it we can rise and reach real contact with the Creator.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/3/22, “Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)”

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 10/4/22

The Day of Atonement is a time for reflection. On this day, it is customary for Jews to reflect not only on their personal sins, primarily against each other, but for the entire Jewish nation to reflect on what it did not do, or should have done better as a nation toward the rest of the world. Most people who write posts about this day focus on the personal; I would like to focus on the forgiveness we should ask as a nation.

The Day of Atonement is a great opportunity to remind ourselves that we are unlike any other nation. We are the only nation that has the mission to be an example of unity, to cultivate love of others, solidarity, and mutual responsibility, and in this way become an example for the world.

To see that we do not forget our obligation to the world, the closing prayer on the Day of Atonement includes the entire Book of Jonah, who was a Jewish prophet who tried to avoid his obligation to save the gentile city of Nineveh. The story reminds us that we cannot escape our calling, that we will be found even deep inside a merchant ship whose sailors do not know our identity.

The very reason we should foster unity is to be an example, and not for our own sake. Accordingly, the prayers on the Day of Atonement are structured so that after we have asked forgiveness for our mistreatment of each other and reinforced our unity, the final part of the closing prayer reminds us of the purpose of all our efforts: to be a light to the nations, a nation that displays exemplary unity.

The Creator that our sages talk about is not a celestial entity of some sort; it is a force of bestowal, a desire to give. The Israeli people are those who strive to acquire this quality, the desire to give. This is why the people of Israel cherish charity, caring for others, solidarity, and all those other customs and traits that bind people’s hearts together.

Therefore, being “a light to the nations” means showing the nations of the world how they, too, can unite among themselves and with each other. However, the only way for Israel to help the world unite is by example. Israel cannot teach the nations; they do not need our instruction. All they need is to see our unity, and they will know what to do.

Because we are divided, we set the opposite example of what we must give to the world. This is why the nations hate us and blame us for their conflicts. Without our example, they, too, will not be able to unite, and they will blame us for their conflicts. If we unite, we will see how all the nations welcome us and gladly follow our example.

May this Day of Atonement be the last one in which we are divided and set a bad example to the world. May we be able to reflect on our actions on the next Day of Atonement and say, “We have united; we have become a light to the nations.”

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Jewish worshippers take part in Slichot, a prayer in which Jews offer repentance and ask God to forgive their sins, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement and the holiest day in the Jewish calendar at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City in Jerusalem’s Old City, October 3, 2022. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

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The anti-egoistic screen is first of all the force of connection between the friends in the ten and then between us and the Creator. It is built upon the fact that we want to rise above our egoism and unite. If we invest efforts in connection, then in this way, we begin to build a screen.

This connection is not just in thoughts but in the hearts, the cordial connection of one with another. We want to connect our hearts because the Creator is one for all, and He reveals Himself within the connection between all of us.

I make an effort in my heart that I want to direct it to a certain quality and begin to approach it. The main thing is the effort in the heart as there is nothing spiritual in the physical action. After all, I strive with my heart to the one I love, I want to be closer to him so that he feels this heartfelt closeness. This is called connection of hearts.

We want to give to each other. And of course, giving can be in an external form, in the form of a material gift, but by this I express my heartfelt feelings.

How can you direct your heart in the right direction? With the help of a thought. The heart is a desire, and I direct this desire with the help of a thought. Through the thought, it is possible to control the desire like a steering wheel if I rise in my thoughts to a prayer in which my desire is combined with my thought and with my goal. So, I find myself as if driving a car.

The thought comes to us from the Creator, but I can influence and change my thoughts with the help of actions of connection. We connect with our hearts but under the influence of thoughts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/22/22, Baal HaSulam, Shamati 42

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When reading The Zohar, it is essential by all possible means and most importantly in your thoughts, to clarify for yourself that now you are entering the office where you will ask and you will receive, but on condition that your request is correct.

It is desirable for a person to perceive that he is given the opportunity to enter and say only one phrase. And if with this phrase you fail to awaken the one in this office, on whom your whole fate depends, then you lose this opportunity and you will not get another one.

If a person stays in such a sensation, even if he gets opportunities again and again, it can somehow help him.

That is why, it is necessary to know:

1. All the changes that we should first of all desire are the changes in the direction of bestowal and love for your neighbor and from them to love for the Creator.
2. These changes are realized in us only by an upper force that can influence us and make them; only on condition that we desire them, as much as we can desire, from the lowest level toward the highest. After all, we do not yet understand these changes and do not want them one hundred percent because these changes are toward bestowal and love for your neighbor. But as much as I am given and with all my might I strive. I must believe that if my request will be correct, immediately these changes will come true and will be realized in me.

Therefore, we must form such a picture for ourselves in which we are constantly present, and while reading The Book of Zohar we should stay on the edge of the request, prayer, worship, or plea so that even if we do not reach the true request, then due to this plea, as in the prayer before the prayer, we hope that our request will take the right form; meaning, I do not know how to ask Him, so I ask Him to help me to know how to ask.

I can’t tell Him, “I am asking, but I don’t know how and You do it!” No, it will not work that way. He cannot do this, my request must be correct in any case, because otherwise I have nowhere to receive a correction.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/4/12, The Book of Zohar “Bereshit”

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Before reading The Book of Zohar, we must attune ourselves so that this reading will benefit us. The Zohar speaks about the correction of the soul, i.e., about the correction of the connection between us, and that is why, while reading it we must try to make the corrected states described in it come true in us. This means that we desire to reveal what The Zohar is talking about.

Revelation is not understanding in the mind. How can I understand at all what I’ve never seen? It is possible to see only on condition that new modes of sensation are formed in me; vision is a sensation in our desires, our vessels of perception. And the sensation can arise only according to my special inner state when it will correspond to what is described in The Zohar.

This can be achieved only if I rise to the level of the bestower as The Zohar requires. How is this possible? If I connect with the environment, I can express the measure of my bestowal with regard to it.

Therefore, even before we open The Book of Zohar, we should strive to connect together in such a state, at such a level, and with such power that will be suitable for the revelation of The Zohar in the connection between us.

To the extent that everyone annuls themselves and we unite together in mutual bestowal and guarantee, to this extent we can reach a state in which we already feel what The Zohar is talking about, at least to a minimal degree. And all this depends only on the strength of the unity between us that must be at the height of the first spiritual degree. Then we will feel what The Zohar is talking about.

Baal HaSulam talks about this in the Introduction To The Study Of The Ten Sefirot, “Through the yearning and the great desire to understand what they are learning, they awaken upon themselves the Lights that surround their souls.” In fact, all our work is to strive to be in this state, to feel it. Therefore, all that is required of us is a desire to feel the need for the revelation.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/24/11, The Book of Zohar “Mishpatim”

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Elokim [God] in the Bible. “In the beginning God created” is the Bina that emanates to the Nukva de ZA. He elicited thirteen words: THE, HEAVEN, AND-THE, EARTH, AND-THE EARTH, WAS, EMPTY, AND-CHAOTIC, AND-THE-DARKNESS, OVER, THE-FACE, OF-THE-ABYSS, AND-THE-SPIRIT…

These thirteen words imply to the same thirteen petals of the rose among the thorns, the sea that stands over the twelve oxen, which are preparation and qualification for the Assembly of Israel to receive the thirteen qualities of Rachamim (Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Zohar for All, Vol. 1, “The Rose“, Item 1).

There are upper systems that filter and restrict the light so the lower ones can receive it. Similarly, Malchut tries to ensure that only the lights that can be received for the benefit of the lower descend from the first nine Sefirot above it.

How does Malchut know exactly what it can receive for the benefit of the lower? Everything is determined by the need of the lower, the desire they raise to it. Therefore, according to the awakening from below (Itaruta de Letata), that is, a prayer (MAN) on our part, an answer (MAD) comes to us from above.

Therefore, a person cannot complain that he does not receive. If he doesn’t ask, he doesn’t receive. If he asks, he will receive. But the request must be such that it raises the right desire, a spiritual vessel, Kli. Then there will be no problems and of course, you will get light into it. The request itself, in essence, is a vessel. If it is correct, the light comes.

The right request means that you feel a genuine need, a desire, for something. In essence, you always get what you ask for. So if you say the Creator causes you suffering, you asked for it. And if you claim He brings you goodness, you asked for it. You always receive according to your request.

If so, how can it be that we are asking for something bad?! Yes, we are asking for bad things. If I want to receive fulfillment in my desire to enjoy, then receive it I shall! And why do I feel bad? This already depends on the whole system. But effectively, you got what you asked for.

We do not understand how unimpeachably the Good That Does Good works; “Please, receive!” is how parents raise their children: “Do you want this? Go ahead!” And then what? “Oh, no!” “But this is what you wanted.”

This is how the Creator acts toward us also.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/8/11, The Book of Zohar — Introduction, “The Rose”

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Prayer is an appeal to the Creator, which is called raising MAN, (female waters), that is, the burning desire of a person, which he raises from himself to the Creator. Of course, then the Creator will be able to answer his request.

Prayer is a genuine request of a person to the Creator, the Creator waits for it and answers. Prayer is a person’s connection with the Creator.

Do not think that prayer is inherent only to man. The still, vegetative, and animate nature in their existence are constantly in prayer. But their prayers are organically part of nature because it is known in advance what a stone, plant, or some animal will want. Therefore, their desire does not need a special expression; it acts automatically.

Whereas a person is obliged to work on his prayer, and therefore he is given free will. To the extent that a person organizes his prayer in accordance with what the Creator wants to give him, to that extent he will succeed and establish a mutual connection with the Creator: “I am for my Beloved, and my Beloved is for me.”

The Creator prepares an answer for a person in advance and thereby awakens him to prayer. The person must search and find with which prayer to appeal in order to give the Creator the opportunity to answer and help him. Then there is a mutual connection between them in the form of: “I am for my Beloved, and my Beloved is for me.”

The moment we ask, the Creator is already helping us, and even earlier because when He awakens us to turn to Him, He already helps us with this, as it is said: “Just call, and I will answer.”
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/22, “Purifying the Heart” 

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Question: In what prayer should those who are physically gathered in the Arava and the entire world Kli be? Is it to dissolve not in this beauty surrounding us, but in another beauty—in a friend.

Answer: The most important thing is to annul yourself after all. Annul and throw yourself into the arms of your friends so to speak. And everyone should do so. It may sound incorrect, but when a person annuls himself, he wants to feel not himself, but only others.

He wants to apply his strength to them. That’s what they want, and that’s what I’m going to do, as if I don’t have my “I,” there’s nothing, just strength, like a machine. I am ready to work for others. They want to connect, I will connect them. What they want, I will do, and I myself have no desires of my own, no goals of my own.

This is what we should, in principle, make of ourselves. We will reach our goal very quickly when we are all united and discover the Creator in connection with each other.

It’s in front of us, and it’s close.
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From lesson 1 “Arava” Convention in Europe – Lithuania 2022, 7/22/22

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