Question: How is a true prayer connected with love for one’s friends?

Answer: A true prayer can exist only through the aspiration to connect with one’s friends. There is no other way.

So let us define this state in which we are completely united with one another and with the Creator.
When we build this state within us and direct it toward the Creator, we will feel how much closer it brings us to Him. At that point, we can pause and examine whether we have truly come closer to Him or not.

If we have drawn nearer in some measure, what do we do next? Once again, we raise our desire to the Creator in yearning to be together with Him. In this way, we constantly move forward in relation to the Creator, drawing ever nearer to Him.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 10/9/25, “In One Prayer,” Lesson 1

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Question: How does the study of primary sources tune our inner instruments and form a prayer from the depth of the heart?

Answer: The fact is that within the primary sources, just as within your heart, the Creator is present.

If you attune yourself to the primary sources and to the voice of your heart, you practically connect with the Creator. You simply need to ask Him for it. And you must ask so that from within your own feelings, you can form this connection with Him.

Everything is open before you. Ask.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 10/10/25, “In One Prayer” Lesson 3

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Question: It feels like we lack the words for prayer. Does prayer express itself through words or through feelings?

Answer: The prayer is revealed in the process of searching for those feelings within me that can connect with the Creator and how I turn to Him.

Those states, those requests are the very desires I want to uncover in order to attain the Creator.

Question: So this happens only within me?

Answer: Yes, only within you.

Question: How can I feel that not only my life but also the lives of my friends depend on my prayer?

Answer: You simply need to deepen your thoughts about how connected you must be with all your friends, at least during the congress. Then you will begin to sense, to some extent, the force of connection you wish to attain.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 10/10/2025, “In One Prayer” Lesson №3

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Question: During prayer, you reach a certain point that is very difficult to overcome. What should you do to feel that you are in contact with the Creator?

Answer: The easiest way to attain contact with the Creator is through connection with your friends. In other words, it is enough to be included in your ten, and then from within the ten, direct your combined strength toward the Creator so that He will draw you all to Himself.

You will feel how He literally pulls you in and does not let you go.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 10/10/25, “In One Prayer” Lesson 3

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Question: What is the perfection of our prayer?

Answer: It lies in the certainty that if we reach the right kind of prayer, the Creator will surely answer it. In this way, we attain the goal. We will understand this through the states we go through as each one leads us closer to adhesion with the Creator.

Question: How is this different from our current states?

Answer: The point is that we still have no true connection with the Creator. Feeling that some force governs us does not mean we are connected with it.

We call out to it, we feel that we lack it, that without it we are completely abandoned, but if we persistently strike at one point, we will certainly achieve adhesion with the Creator.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 10/9/2025, “In One Prayer” Lesson №1

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Question: Is there good and evil regardless of our perception?

Answer: There is no good and evil at all. These sensations manifest only in relation to a person until one corrects them toward the right direction, toward the correct perception of the Creator.

Our world is absolutely subjective. What is good for you may be bad for me. That is why we are always in disagreement with each other.

Question: How can you come to common agreement?

Answer: By rising above yourself! And there, we have a single measurement system—the ten. There, everyone has one perception. It is on different levels, but it is the same.

Question: That is, when you and I rise above our egoism, then we both will say that this is good?

Answer: Yes, we will say the same thing, but it will manifest in us to different degrees, depending on our level.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 6/4/17

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Once upon a time, people desiring to attain spirituality had to subject their bodies to restrictions and suffering in order to break their egoistic desire and acquire a new, bestowing nature. This was the way in the times of the patriarchs and the sages of the Mishnah.

But then came the era of the Talmud, and its sages, the Kabbalists of that time, through their spiritual work, changed the condition of transforming our nature from receiving to bestowing.

Each period contributed its corrected part to the common system of souls. As a result, the system became partially corrected, and all the others within it, the still uncorrected souls, can receive help from the corrected part. We no longer need to torment and limit our body, nor are we capable of it with our enormous egoism.

But the sages of the Talmud made our path easier, and that portion of egoistic desire, which otherwise would have to be broken through tormenting the body with a harsh life, we can now correct through the reforming light.

The patriarchs and the sages of the Mishnah corrected themselves with two actions: the suffering of the body and drawing the light of the Torah. But the sages of the Talmud corrected the system so that instead of bodily suffering, we can correct it with the same light of the Torah.

For our time this is very important, for who today could renounce all the achievements of modern civilization? The Kabbalists of the Talmud corrected themselves, their inclusion in the common system, and its corrected part became great.

Though I may be born uncorrected and wicked, I find myself within a system that includes many corrected parts which sustain it, and if I wish to be corrected, I have somewhere to turn for help and with whom to join!

Now it is only up to me!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/26/10, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Besides uniting at congresses, raising a common prayer, working in tens and dissemination, attending lessons, and reading the sources, what else can we as a community and as individuals do to bring Israel to correction and become an example for the whole world?

Answer: We must ask the Creator for unity, to show us the unified point of connection among us so that we always have such a center of connection, and that only this would be important to us.

Question: How can we now make our hearts similar to the Creator’s so that He may dwell in our shared heart?

Answer: We need to imagine the connection between our hearts, and from this collective heart, raise a prayer.

In principle, it is not so far from us. Let’s try to do it together and discover where else we can draw closer to one another.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 10/9/2025, “In One Prayer” Lesson №1

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Question: When a person faces utterly ugly situations that cause great pain, he can understand that this pain gives him the conditions to work with the heart for the right kind of prayer. But when he keeps striking through this pain in prayer, he realizes he has no strength left. How can he remove himself from this pain and use it as a condition for the proper prayer for everyone?

Answer: A person must realize where this feeling of pain comes from—from the Creator. Why? Because despite his thoughts, the person is actually close to the Creator.

Therefore, we must strive toward the point of connection with the Creator. And when we reach it, we must leave ourselves behind and envision ourselves fused with the Creator.

That is the purpose of our prayer.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 10/10/2025, “In One Prayer” Lesson №3

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Question: We try so hard to unite our desires that we often get confused. Should we somehow soften our hearts so that they can unite or should we make our common aspiration so strong that it breaks through the boundary between us?

Answer: At one time I used to write down the demands that arose in me while reading the articles without yet knowing how it would be possible to unite all these desires, directions, and intentions together with the friends and become included in them, until I felt that it is precisely our common desire that can unite us with one another and with the Creator.

You now have all the opportunities for this. Nothing else is needed except to imagine that you are connected with one another and with the Creator.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/7/25, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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