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The Creator Is Always Open

962.3Question: How can one speak with the Creator so that this conversation becomes constant like communication between people?

Answer: That depends on you. The Creator is always open. He has no schedule divided into morning or evening, night or day. He is always open and in an active state.

The more often you engage in exercises aimed at uniting with one another and within that unity direct yourselves toward the Creator with a desire to feel His state and how He perceives you, the faster you will establish a close and direct connection with Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/25, “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”

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Knowledge of the Creator

237Question: Baal HaSulam writes that only knowledge is added to a worker of the Creator who merits contact with Him. What kind of knowledge is this?

Answer: A person who is worthy of contact with the Creator comprehends that everything is revealed in one Kli, in one desire, through connection and love. Therefore, our understanding of the Creator comes down to feeling Him as the only source of everything that exists. Then we will have no questions.

Genuine contact with the Creator occurs when a person realizes his inner connection with Him through all his friends. This is the goal of the development of our world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/25, “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”

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An Exercise in Reflection

530Question: You said that true contact with the Creator occurs when a person attains one’s inner connection with the Creator through one’s friends.

What exercise can we do in the ten to build such an attainment among us?

Answer: To achieve this, you must strive to attain connection between yourselves and connection between each of you through the Creator. Divide one by the other and you will discover the specific strength that acts within you from the Creator. This will already be a significant accomplishment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/25, “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”

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The Gift We Expect from the Creator

935The only gift we expect from the Creator is the ability to reach bestowal Lishma. Maybe I don’t even know what this truly is because I have never experienced such qualities within myself. But I expect to receive this gift that I currently have no real understanding of.

Lishma is a gift that comes to me from the Creator, a gift that grants me the ability to bestow upon a friend or the Creator without expecting any compensation in return.

While I have not yet received this gift, I want to strengthen my connection with the Creator, i.e., to draw Him closer to me or conversely push myself closer to Him through prayer. I seek to establish a strong bond with Him, one that cannot be broken.

We were born to unite with the Creator, to receive delight from Him through this connection, to be filled by it, and ultimately to achieve similarity of qualities with the Creator.

First  I should try to connect with Him on the same wavelength that came to me as a result of His response. Once I feel that I have established this feedback loop with the Creator, I want to convey my most pressing desire to Him and embed my prayer within the thread that links us. I hope that in response the Creator will establish an unbreakable connection between us.

Thus, I continuously exchange messages with Him. I reach out to the Creator, and the Creator responds to me, and I am getting closer and closer to Him. I am constantly trying to understand what the Creator wants from me, how He wants us to unite with our friends so that through this unity we can turn to Him together.

Through this process we will discern what kind of relationship or wavelength evokes a response from Him, and in doing so, we will build our connection with the Creator.

I must exert effort to extend a thread from myself to the Creator and in turn to draw a thread from the Creator back to myself. When this reciprocal connection is established, I can be certain of a two-way bond.

The essence of the science of Kabbalah is precisely in establishing this mutual connection between a person and the Creator. This connection, known as Lishma, is a gift from the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/13/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]”

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Working Together to Manifest the Light of Life

939.02Comment: Sometimes, a friend in the ten suggests some course of action. Everyone agrees, they carry it out, and the result is excellent. For example, someone proposes fixing the electrical system in the center, and they manage it perfectly.

Joint work is wonderful. However, there is a distinction between group tasks and interpersonal connections. Often, these areas overlap where group interaction becomes intertwined with work on dissemination.

My Response: There are countless small matters that cannot all be brought to a common denominator.

Each case needs to be addressed individually. What is essential is to always prioritize our inner aspiration to unite with one another to reveal the Creator within that unity.

Everything else are external actions on the level of our world. These may vary in effectiveness and significance, but they are secondary.

I would separate these aspects. There are situations where people cannot actively participate in dissemination. For example, some of my students live in Alaska, northern Canada, Patagonia, or New Zealand. Should they go outside to hand out our flyers? No one would even look at them, it is simply not done in those places. The primary focus is their internal connection, which fosters their spiritual advancement.

However, if there is even a minimal opportunity to engage in dissemination as part of the collective effort, one should immediately participate. Life, as part of the greater body, involves each “cell” connecting with the others and transmitting to them all it can.

Through this connection, the life-giving light, the light of life flows. Therefore, one should seek ways to connect with others and engage in dissemination, but only with the purpose of revealing the Creator’s light within us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Inner Connection” 4/17/10

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How Can You Accelerate the Development of Creation?

938.03Question: In this lesson, you revealed something interesting for me: All the manifestations of the Creator that I observe externally, it turns out, are within me. You said that through myself, I can reveal the Creator to all creations. How can this be done?

Answer: By attaining the Creator, we unite in His desire to fill all creations. This fulfillment depends on our development. It turns out that the more we develop, connect with one another, and feel the inner force of creation, the more we attain what the Creator manifests within us.

Question: Can we, through our unity, accelerate the development of all of creation with the purpose of revealing the Creator?

Answer: Of course. In doing so, we not only accelerate, but also reveal creation in a different way. It is one thing when we are unwilling to advance creation through our development, and another when the Creator does not need to lead us through various problems. Instead, we ourselves wish to uncover, study, correct, and fulfill these problems.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/25, “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”

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The Creator—Unity of Nature

436Question: What happens in the universe when a person discovers the Creator in every element of creation?

Answer: If a person discovers the Creator in every element of creation, they thereby reveal the Creator. Gradually, for them, the Creator becomes the only manifesting force of all nature.

This is what a person is given to reveal. In this, they begin to feel the unity of all that exists within the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/25, “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”

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Expand the Boundaries of Our Senses

276.02Question: You said that the feeling of the Creator comes to us after knowledge, attainment, and adhesion, and then we naturally reveal this force that is connected to us. What kind of work must we do to achieve this feeling?

Answer: We try to expand the boundaries of our perception so that they become filled with a greater feeling of the Creator. This is what we can achieve, and the Creator helps us in this process.

Question: How can one expand the boundaries of feeling the Creator?

Answer: Try. Just like in our world when you strive to understand, hear, or see something using all your senses, you gradually begin to perceive the manifestation of the Creator within yourself more broadly each time.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/25, “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”

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Point of Contact with the Truth

527.03How can one come to a genuine prayer that arises from a true desire? It is said: “A person is where their thoughts are.” Therefore, one must begin by examining where their thoughts dwell: restricting oneself and one’s desires to a single point, and with that point, clinging to the Creator.

Then I will begin to sense the states passing within me, and in each of them I will return myself to a state of adhesion with the Creator. Even if I don’t know exactly how to achieve this restriction to a single point, I will try, like a child who wants to be an adult.

In this way, I begin to build my spiritual Partzuf and clarify the obstacles that the Creator constantly sends my way from all directions that frighten me, confuse me, and disturb my mind and heart. And every time, I return myself to the point of connection. Nothing more is required of me; through this, I am already creating my spiritual space.

If I nullify myself above all disturbances and once again cling to the Creator, then each disturbance in my mind and heart is corrected and incorporated into holiness. As a result, I will always remain in a true desire and a genuine prayer, constantly striving to return to unity while realizing that I cannot achieve it without the Creator’s help. I will continuously uncover challenges and make efforts to ask for unity with the Creator.

My initial point of unity must be genuine, one where I do not exist, but only my aspiration to cleave to the Creator does. Then I will begin to study the Creator, learn from His actions upon me to understand His attitude, character, and behavior, and to grasp what He wants to convey to me. Essentially this is what is called the science of Kabbalah.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/18, Writings of Rabash “A Real Prayer Is over a Real Deficiency”

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Where Does the Awakening from Below Come From?

232.08Question: Where does the awakening from below come from?

Answer: The awakening from below comes from the Kli, from the same system that gradually awakens from its shattered state. That is why increasingly shattered states are revealed in us; they progress from minor to major so that we may correct them.

All the awakened states reveal our shattering to us, our separation from each other and the Creator. Above these states, we must create a connection between us, not by erasing or leveling them, but by building bridges of connection between us despite them. That is the essence of correction.

In this process, we will have the left line (states awakened from above), the right line (corrections awakened by us with the help of the upper light), and the middle line where these two lines merge and produce a common result, that is, our adhesion with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”

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