Question: Can we come to a mutual prayer before each Zohar lesson?

Answer: We are learning how to tune ourselves. In reality, the only thing that exists is a person’s desire and how he tunes that desire toward correction, that is, the Light that Reforms.

In order to come closer to the Light, we must unite with each other. Also, if we understand that we must unite despite our egoism, then we ask that the Light unite us. Therein lies the entire method.

The most important thing is to keep the intention. Your appeal to the Light is for the Light to affect you, and that’s the only true prayer. If you study and carry out all actions with only one goal, which is to come to a true prayer, then these will be the most effective actions.

This will mean that either you already possess the correct intention or that you’re preparing yourself for this prayer or appeal. The only formula by which we should act is to ask for the Light that Reforms, which will help us obtain the quality of bestowal and give pleasure to the Creator.

Each person must strive to make a single, homogenous body out of the group, without any distinctions between its parts, and try to feel the friends as a single organism. This will be one’s personal prayer. When these individual prayers connect, they will be on a higher level, a level of connected intentions where a mutual prayer is formed.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/12, The Zohar

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Question: How does the “point in the heart” grow? What is it composed of? What is the man in a person composed of?

Answer: The “point in the heart” is our launching point from which begins the birth of the Human Being, like from a drop of semen. All the rest, which he takes from his environment, from his friends, joins this point in the heart.

Question: What do we take from the environment?

Answer: One only needs to take the positive attributes. Since Arvut (Mutual Guarantee) was created in order to take from the environment all that is positive within it.

Question: How can a person measure his point and measure that he already has a microscopic man within him and that he is growing?

Answer: It’s according to how much he connects with the group and works with them for connection and unity. In the end, all that happens in the connection joins his point in the heart.

Question: You said that the Creator gives forces, He takes forces, and the man feels like a rag that waves in the wind.

Answer: The Light gives and takes forces according to the man’s actions. If a man feels like a rag, then that’s already good; It’s a sign that from this moment on, he’s able to be something other than a rag.

At first there’s the recognition of evil, meaning that his ego directs him. Later another stage of recognition of evil occurs when he understands that if he is an egoist, then he is played with from Above and is shaken until all the rubbish in the rag is released. And afterward he begins to understand what belongs to what, and then he acquires free choice and tries together with the society to solve this problem.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/19/12, Lesson 7

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Question: What does it mean that the upper one lowers Himself with regard to the lower one?

Answer: It means that the lower one doesn’t feel it as the upper any more. Now he has a choice: either to remain under the impression that the upper one has lost all meaning for him or to work in faith above reason in order to reinforce the greatness of the upper one in his eyes. This is where our freewill is.

Freewill is only when there is concealment. This is how the Creator treats us, and this is how we have to see all the friends by understanding that they are under concealment with regard to us. It’s only me who sees the deficiencies in them, since “one judges according to his own flaws.”

So I have freewill here: Do I treat them as the greatest in our generation? If I do, I fulfill my free will. If I acknowledge them as great, the upper one will raise His AHP and me together with them. Thus I will ascend!
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/12, Writings of Rabash

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Question: What is joy? How can I constantly work in joy?

Answer: We talked about a sense of confidence and security that should be achieved, when one loses track of time because at that time he feels that he is within the Creator. This permanence that he feels allows him to be beyond time, that is, to begin to feel the upper world that has no flaws, no changes, and so this feeling is constant. It comes gradually.

A person’s confidence that he is moving toward the goal should be the cause of such feelings of joy because I cannot feel that I can solve some of my problems, succeed in something, aim clearly in my aspiration and worry at the same time. It means that something is wrong. Joy is the result of my correct action.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/19/12, Lesson 7

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Question: In the process of studying, everything is changing: There are both physical and virtual workshops. At what point is the individual work with oneself, with a book, with the source?

Answer: What for? Where do I solve the problem of creating within me a sense of the spiritual world? It’s only in the group! What is the use if I sit down and study on my own?

Sometimes, it is necessary to better understand what happens to me in the end. In such cases, I must admit that I need to study on my own, reread at home, not only such serious materials as The Study of the Ten Sefirot diagrams, but also the articles, the letters of Rabash and Baal HaSulam.

If individual studies are needed to better understand correctly what you have to do for the group, then study and if not, then why do you need other studies? They may even discourage you.

You will begin to understand a lot, to think that you are a wise person and that you don’t need anything else. As a result, you get the poison of death instead of the elixir of life. There is a symbol in medicine, a bowl with snake venom that can be a poison and can be the basis for drugs. So here; you need to be very careful when it comes to studying. The main thing is intention!
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/19/12, Lesson 7

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Question: There is a certain discrepancy: on one hand, when I get a disturbance, I am not supposed to ask the Creator to remove it. However, on the other hand, on this material plane, I have to apply every possible effort to resolve it. Why is it so?

Answer: It’s not easy to understand. There is internal work that corrects a person; it refers to one’s inner sensations. At the same time, one is obligated to act externally to fix his problems should they emerge in the external world.

Because of this it does external correction. And because the world at large doesn’t exist, it is all one’s own desires. A person has to realize that if difficulties unfold in externality, one is supposed to take care of them to the best of one’s ability. At the same time, he should work internally and continue to correct his relationships with the Creator.

As to the influence of external obstacles on a person, one has to rise above them by applying “faith above reason.” Although, since it comes to one through the outer world and causes some damage, one is obligated to fix the material problems by applying earthly methods that are available to him or her.
So, one has to concurrently act in both planes, internally and externally. This is called “perfect work.”
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/12, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: Why do the great Kabbalists write their articles “According to my humble opinion”?

Answer: That is what is said until we attain Gmar Tikkun (the end of correction). It’s said, “Don’t believe in yourself until your dying day.” This means that until all his egoistic desire has finally died, it’s forbidden to believe in yourself.

It’s impossible to know what tomorrow will bring. This is what the entire spiritual process is like. Each time an entirely new world is revealed to you. And everything that you previously saw within your desire to receive, even though it’s partially corrected, can transform the next day into something completely different, and thus we discover new and different connections and horizons.

Therefore, each new level is revealed only in “faith above reason,” in bestowal. A person needs to annul himself and be included into the upper level like an embryo in the mother’s water. It’s only in this way that he is able to discover it. This means to be ready for anything by completely annulling himself.

Thus the Kabbalists write, “As it seems to me,” or “according to my humble opinion.” After all, no created being has attained complete Gmar Tikkun, when for him the whole world needs to be corrected. And even if a person attains his private Gmar Tikkun, it still doesn’t determine the general level and no one knows what can be revealed in it.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/26/12, “600,000 Souls”

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Question: Do I act correctly by praying for everybody and wanting that each of us will also ask the Creator for the Light for all? I want that everyone will find themselves in this society, in this Light, and that the Creator will help each of us to acquire it.

Answer: Why for “each of us” and not all of us? Isn’t it better if it’s everybody together?

Why do we talk about unification, about aspiring towards unity? It’s because in spirituality there is no such state like “I,” “he,” “you,” and so on. It’s better to ask in the name of “we.”

Try and you will see that life will instantly become clearer, better for everybody. In this “we,” you will discover the only state that exists. And the current state will gradually move away from you and will indeed be felt as illusory—it’s just that we had been aimed like that before.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/18/12, Lesson 5 

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Question: If I suddenly feel the desires of everyone else, what should I do with them? Should I fill them?

Answer: If you don’t just feel extraneous desires but the yearnings of your friends, their desires for the goal, then you identify with these desires and don’t divide them into “theirs” and “yours” anymore.

If you are yearning for the right thing, you turn into “there is none else besides Him,” into an integral part, so there is no division anymore. It should be like a test, a control for the right yearning.

You feel your friends’ desires as your own. You simply connect with them and so there is no “you” and “them.”

A person is a desire; each of us is a desire. If we want to feel others we perceive them as ours.

If a mother is filled with her child’s desires, her desires and his desires are still separate, but if we want to attain the revelation of the Creator by yearning for Him for “there is none else besides Him,” we feel our desires as absolutely identical; I don’t feel a difference between my desires and the desires of others.

Imagine that you have just connected with someone, that you spoke to him, felt that you think alike, and that you want the same thing, you become as one man. The external division of the bodies disappears, and there is only one, internal—not two connected but one.
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From the Kharkov Convention “Uniting to Ascend” 8/18/12, Lesson 5

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