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Similar to the Deeds of the Holy Forefathers

237Question: What can we add to the merits of the holy forefathers in our generation?

Answer: Whatever we feel, our questions.

Question: What must our generation prepare for the next so they can complete the correction?

Answer: We must address what is revealed to us as deficiencies in our state or in our vessels, strive to correct them, and leave them for the next generation. To properly utilize the achievements of our forefathers, we must pray that our deeds align with theirs.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/24/24, Writings of Rabash “Abraham Begot Isaac”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—205

591Question: We often hear a friend say: “I cannot give any more.” How should we work with this “I cannot”?

Answer: Offer your help. By helping them, you help yourself. So there is no need for either of you to think that you are taking away part of their work or pushing them forward. All of this comes purely from the attribute of bestowal.

Question: In the Psalms of David, the phrase “Seek My face” is often repeated. Does seeking the face of the Creator mean seeking joy?

Answer: Seeking the face of the Creator means seeking His revelation. It is more than joy.

Question: When we are in a state of descent, we most often feel bitterness. How can one find joy in such a state?

Answer: Think about the proper state: the Creator lifts you up, you connect with Him, you feel how He embraces you and holds you like an infant, and you cling to Him and find joy in that.

Question: All sources say that in the multitude of people the greatness of the Creator increases. How can each ten include the global group in its prayer to increase the joy of the Creator?

Answer: In your intentions and nothing more.

Question: We speak of the need to feel joy and love for the Creator. What should we do to bridge the gap between hearing about it and actually experiencing it?

Answer: You need to lift your mood automatically, both for yourself and for others, through yourself. Try it and you will see what it brings.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Joy that Comes from Dancing”

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Develop the Desire to Bestow

283.02Question: What can a person do if he has no desire (Hissaron)? How can he listen to two other voices: bestowal for the sake of bestowal and reception for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: If a person has no desire, no Hissaron, he will not listen to anything.

The most important thing is to develop a desire to hear the Creator, to feel Him. If such a desire does not exist, we cannot do anything except pray for the Creator to grant us this desire in which we can discover what He wants to give us.

We must strive to receive from the Creator, not because we want to receive for ourselves, but because He desires it.

Question: How can one receive what the Creator wants?

Answer: It is said that a person can reveal his desires to receive from the Creator only if his intention is to use this reception to bestow to the Creator. That is what is called receiving for the sake of bestowal. That is the mindset we need to cultivate.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/24, Writings of Rabash “The Discernment of “In Everything”

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Blessing in Everything

938.04Question: What does it mean to receive blessings from all sides?

Answer: From women, from men, from those who are distant and those who are close, from friends, and the Creator, a person must strive to restore and maintain his connection with all these sources. Gradually he will begin to sense that he can receive fulfillment through these connections.

Question: What does it mean to receive a blessing in the ten?

Answer: It means that within the ten, there is a feeling of the Creator addressing them. In this case, they can connect and direct the connection emerging between them toward the Creator. In this way, they establish contact with Him.

Question: How can perfection in the ten be achieved?

Answer: By each person desiring to receive with the intention to bestow to the other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/24, Writings of Rabash “The Discernment of “In Everything”

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When Will We Know the Truth?

626Question: How can one rejoice in the past when they realize that they lived like an animal and manipulated the lives of others?

On one hand you understand that it all came from the Creator, and it was the Creator who plunged you into the abyss. But this is not an excuse because even then you could have made the right choice, but did not.

Answer: You could not have made it. When we come to the future world, then we will know the whole truth. For now we must continue to act and attribute more and more of everything that happens within us to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/21/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning Joy”

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Dance of the Soul

938.02Question: What is the inner dance of the ten that gives unceasing joy?

Answer: If we are constantly looking for an ascent, then we will naturally begin to descend and rise from it. Such ascents and descents are called a dance that we must remain in; that is, we need to constantly seek how to rise to spirituality and beware of being lowered.

Our egoism will always work to lower us, and we must be grateful to it for the opportunity for another ascent. This is the correct work with our egoism.

Question: Is this ascent of the soul, the dance of the soul, and love for the Creator a support within knowledge?

Answer: No, all this is above knowledge. Within reason we do not see, feel, or sense any taste.

Question: How can you make the ascents and the descents happen at a fast pace so that the joy never stops?

Answer: You must be responsible for the state of spirit in your ten, and then you will achieve a lot.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Joy that Comes from Dancing”

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Care for the World

254.02We need to tell people about the causes of the multifaceted, multilateral global crises: political, economic, spiritual, moral, climatic, etc. because it is practically one crisis.

We must explain to everyone what state we are in. Until there was a global crisis, we were silent. We spoke about ecology and economics and how they were heading toward collapse, but these were empty conversations. Now that we see with our own eyes what is happening in the world, in society, in everything, and everywhere, it has become easier for us to explain this.

We, as the last generation, as representatives of the Creator, can truly do everything possible for people to understand this.

Each of you is unique in that you have received such a desire, aspiration, and connection with the next level of humanity, to which it has yet to ascend. You already have some kind of contact with this level; therefore, you must explain how to master it, how to transition to the next level, and what to do with it.

This is your mandatory mission. This is why you are living. You do not exist for yourself. And thank God, we understand that a person cannot exist for his own sake; after all, the upper world is entirely about bestowal.

Therefore you should constantly use every opportunity to post your notes and articles, to reprint what we write, and to adapt it to the reader you are addressing. This is permanent, mandatory work, and there can be no excuses here. You have no idea how this benefits you.

You will feel that your mind and feelings, your heart and head, will open up as a result of your care for the correction of the world. After all, we are like a guiding group, like a head. By itself it cannot exist if the body does not exist. Therefore we must think about how to disseminate.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Dissemination for Everyone

560Question: Should we engage in dissemination for elderly people?

Answer: An elderly person is still a part of the global soul! What difference does it make that they are elderly?! The important thing is that they can hear.

Let us say they have five years left to live, these are incredibly significant years! They will think about it because physical death is approaching and possibly some kind of connection with an eternal state.

The elderly are more fertile ground than the youth. Do not neglect them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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The Cumulative Process Over the Years

528.04Question: When we study the Torah in the ten, we read it first as a text. What happens to us when we suddenly begin to see, as Baal HaSulam writes, the upper worlds: Yetzira, Beria, and Atzilut?

Answer: These are levels of attainment, levels of connection, and levels of mutual influence between you and the Creator. At some point, you or the ten begin to feel these levels and everything that happens in a different key, like a child who has grown up and now feels the world and others differently.

Question: How does this happen with a Kabbalist? Does he come to the lesson, read the text as it is, and can rise to the sensation of the upper worlds? Or is it some kind of cumulative process over the years?

Answer: For a Kabbalist, this is a cumulative process. In addition, he is at a certain level to begin with.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/21/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Why Does the Creator Punish Humanity?

294.2Victor asks:

Your Moses led the people to the land of Israel, he did everything that the Creator told him. And then, when they had already approached the border, the Creator suddenly said to Moses: “Turn over your duties—you will not enter this land. You will die here on this mountain.”

How is this possible? It is clear that people committed all sorts of sins before the Creator, but Moses was His devoted servant. Let him enter, he was waiting for this moment so much!

Comment: Indeed, in the Midrash Rabba it is written even more coolly. There are even thoughts of Moses, who says: “I have walked so much, let me at least touch this land! After all, I was walking and dreaming of entering this land.”

My Response: You walked and dreamed of fulfilling the desire of the Creator every day, every minute, with every step.

Question: Is this the main thing? Was it my goal to come to this, in fact? Is this my final test, then, which I have to pass?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this not cruel?

Answer: It may seem cruel to us.

Question: Is it necessary that I deserve to enter there? Or do I have to, as you say, annul myself and work as He guides me every moment, and that is it?

Answer: You must devote yourself to the Creator every moment.

Question: Then there is a question. It is written there that there were sins of the people, and there was the sin of Moses. Can it be said in relation to the sins “Because of your sins you will not enter.” Can this happen?

Answer: In general, yes. It is written this way.

Question: Is not to sin a possible option, or will we sin in any case?

Answer: It is impossible.

Question: So, we sin?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can we say that today humanity is being punished by the Creator for not entering a land?

Answer: In general, yes. Of course, judging by our daily states, we are undergoing punishment. But on the other hand, this punishment is still purifying us, changing us, and bringing us closer to the Creator.

Question: Can I come to terms with what is happening while I am living with this thought?

Answer: What else can you do?

Question: Does it mean that I am going through purgatory?

Answer: Yes, You need to grasp the fact that you must adhere to the Creator every moment and stick to Him as much as possible.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/24

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