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The Creator is the Power of Correction and Fulfillment

264.01There were times when Kabbalists entered the spiritual world alone on their own. But that time has long passed. Starting with Abraham onward we see that a group has emerged.

All Kabbalistic laws and conditions for the development of the soul are built on “loving thy neighbor as thyself,” that is, on correcting egoism to the point of uniting with others into one common spiritual whole, one network.

The spiritual system called Adam (which means “similar to the Creator”) was broken on purpose. From its pieces we now must assemble, like a mosaic, the same system, only by ourselves, with our desires, our searches, to get closer to each other in order to unite. For this, we need the power of the Creator. This is our method.

Do you want to collect your soul? Then you need a force against your egoistic nature, which will glue you to others. Therefore, you must attract it. Thus, by collecting your soul, you are obliged to attract the Creator, and therefore you inevitably need Him.

It turns out that by collecting the fragments of the mosaic into a single whole, you come closer to the others, and then glue them together with the force of the Creator. The Creator is like glue, the force of correction. He fills the connecting parts together, because the circulation of His power becomes possible in them, the power of love, the power of light. This is how the manifestation of the Creator occurs. He acts as the power of correction and the power of fulfillment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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How Can I Cancel My “I” at the Congress?

945Question: The congress is approaching. This is my first experience, my first congress. Please tell me an effective, practical way to cancel my ego, my “I,”  at the congress?

Answer: Indeed, there is nothing more important. I would say that this is the only thing we need since the congress represents the power of unification of thousands and thousands of people around the world.

And everyone who flies, arrives, comes, or crawls to the congress must prepare to enter it. A person must know in advance that he or she is taking part in the congress with the purpose of canceling oneself, can not removing one’s ego as if it does not exist. This cannot be achieved; it is a lie. It is our nature, and the more we go forward, the more our egoism will develop in us.

We need to know how to rise above the ego, and at the same time begin to feel the opposite property in ourselves. That is, I am an egoist, I want this, I would like that. We need to reduce the action of egoism, its implementation, but in no case should we think that we should annihilate or destroy it.

On the contrary, it comes from the Creator. Egoism is a higher power. It is the only thing that we have. We cannot refuse it, because then we would refuse our nature. We need to create another layer over egoism, like a sandwich, which would turn it into its opposite property, altruism, into a connection between us.
Moreover, we are creating this connection only between world Bnei Baruch members, and not in relation to other people in the world. We are not ready for this yet.

Therefore, let us tune in and stop thinking about our egoism, it does not interest us now. Everyone is interested in how one receives such an impact from thousands of people to feel that one rises above one’s ego and consists of two layers: egoism and altruism, the property of receiving and the property of giving.

This is exactly how we need to prepare for the congress. And at the congress you will feel the force that exists between everyone. How to use it depends on your preparedness.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Stabilizer of the Common Heart

243.04Question: We try to work in one desire, to bestow. How can we keep the feeling of the group in the right intention when there are constant changes of sensations and reactions that come from the difference in our friends’ properties?

Answer: Try to keep them in your common heart all the time so that it feels where it can lead, and you stabilize it.

You need this stabilizer that will keep you in the right state between you and with the Creator. I am sure you will succeed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Discernments in States”

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The Intensity of Desire

947Question: What is the repentance of the ten that leads us out of exile and brings us to deliverance from egoistic desire?

Answer: If the friends in the ten feel that they have fallen into their egoism and do not have the strength to rise from it on their own, then they have no choice but to turn to the Creator, to cry, and to pull themselves out of this state with all their might.

Question: How important is it to expect salvation every day, and what does this add to the ten?

Answer: This adds urgency that with each question, with each appeal, you increasingly desire that the Creator stays in your sensations.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Rabash “And Isaac Was Forty Years Old”

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The Benefits of Physical Meetings

632.3Question: Our ten experienced a very strong descent, and now we have risen. We decided to meet physically. What advice would you give us?

Answer: By all means, it is good. Physical actions give something, but, in principle, they do not symbolize anything.

Just pick a couple of good articles that talk about unity between you, and discuss them when you meet; you will feel how much you are already internally connected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Discernments in States”

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Under the Force of the Creator

232.08Question: What does it mean to subordinate the force of receiving to the force of bestowal since there is no coercion in spirituality?

Answer: Yes, but you want the force of bestowal in you to be above the force of receiving.

Question: What makes it submit? Love?

Answer: The Creator does. A person can cause the beginning of the Zivug (combining the force of receiving with the force of bestowal), but it happens only under the force of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Discernments in States”

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How Not to Blindly Follow Your Nature

235Question: Often we follow the instinctive impulses of our nature and only later realize that something is wrong. If I am unable to change anything, I ask the Creator to correct me. How do you learn not to blindly follow your nature?

Answer: To do this, we need to understand what the Creator requires of us and with the help of what actions we can satisfy Him. And then everything will be fine.

Question: There is a material world and the upper world. The upper world is felt nearby, among friends. How do we learn to feel the upper world in a multidimensional, sensory, and conscious way within yourself, and not somewhere nearby?

Answer: Try to feel it, and you will see that you are gradually approaching it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/5/24, Writings of Rabash “The Meal of a Wicked One”

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Do Good in the Ten

528.02Question: What needs to be done to be given a soul?

Answer: Unite the desires of the people in the ten into one great desire to bestow so that it resembles the Creator in some way.

It is the common soul of the ten. It may be that some feel it and can already use it, and others still cannot.

Question: What does it mean to do good in the ten?

Answer: To do my best to help each friend with whatever he needs to advance.

Question: But this is not enough. We do not have many needs for the ten to grow.

Answer: Try to do what your friend wants so your forces join his forces, and he would achieve what he wants.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Discernments in States”

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Folly Transformed into Holiness

567.04This is the meaning of “‘Folly of follies,’ said Kohelet,” meaning that he assembled all those follies into Kedusha, and from them come great unifications (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 560, “Generations“).

Question: How can we transform “folly of follies” into holiness?

Answer: This is something we accomplish gradually.

Even if we do not clearly understand what we are doing, the Creator continually distances us from one another and from spirituality each day. Yet we persist in striving to draw closer to Him. Thus no matter what, we are engaged in this work.

Question: How exactly can this be brought into holiness? For instance, if we are working in the ten and the Creator disconnects us, do we then reunite?

Answer: This process naturally shifts to another degree. As soon as you complete what you were required to do on your current degree, you transition to a different degree, even if you do not feel it and do not think about it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Generations”

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How to Delve Deeper into Intention

276.01Question: If the intention is hidden from me and I am always inclined to justify myself, how can I delve deeper into my intention?

Answer: If you always want to justify yourself, you will not be able to delve deeper into the intention. To achieve this, a great power from above is needed that would tear you away from your egoism, and then in a neutral state you will be able to understand what the Creator requires of you.

Question: How can we do it? After all, if the intention is hidden from me, I do not know what I am delving into. Maybe I am going in the wrong direction.

Answer: This can only be done by the power of prayer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar

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