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The Common Power of Unity

942There is a special power in the adhesion of friends. Since the views and thoughts pass from one to the other through the adhesion between them, each is incorporated with the powers of the other, and by that, each one has the power of the whole society.

Therefore, although each person is an individual, he has the power of the whole society (Rabash, “The Need for Love of Friends”).

The power of all is our common power with which we all come closer together and with the Creator.

If we unite with our friends, feel their desires, their path, their goal, and want to move forward with them, then in the end this happens to us.

Question: When friends ask questions, I try to feel their hearts. I do not feel it yet, but I really want to. We all try to feel each other’s hearts and keep going. What is next?

Answer: Continue until we unite, until we perceive in our feelings, desires, and intentions that we want an internal connection between ourselves and the friends. Only the Creator can give such a connection. And He gives it to us.

But we do not just wait for it to happen. We ask the Creator; we persistently demand it from Him.

Question: Can I do this at the same time: to try to unite, and—for each internal in-and-out—to demand the connection of our hearts?

Answer: Yes.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention “Strengthening the Ten” 9/12/24, “Growing Stronger in the Ten,” Lesson 2

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Become a Synchronized Mechanism

75.01Each and every individual in society is like a wheel that is linked to several other wheels placed in a machine (Baal HaSulam, “Peace in the World”).

Question: When the Creator brings us into a group, we have a certain role to start functioning like a cogwheel in a machine. But sometimes it takes years before I begin to understand that I depend on my friends.

We are just beginning to study the mechanism, but are not yet working like a machine. Could it be that some cogwheels work faster in their internal development than others?

Answer: That is not our concern, but the Creator’s. He sets the entire machine in motion and ensures the correct combination between all its parts, as there are millions of them, and each one performs its unique role, different from the others. Therefore only a force outside of us can do this.

Question: Until we start functioning as one mechanism, how can we help each friend find his or her place so they becomes part of the mechanism?

Answer: In the machine’s operation, there is a state where all its parts work together and move the mechanism as a whole. And there is a state where these parts start up individually, depending on how much they understand the launching of the machine and its operation.

Therefore we need to study this system, stay connected with each other, and eventually we will begin to understand and sense its proper functioning and our place in it.

A person in their development in this world reaches a point where they must know why they were created. When they start asking, “What was I created for, and what is the purpose of my life?” they gradually come closer to entering the system of our world, reveals it, and thus begin to understand their role.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention “Strengthening the Ten” 9/13/24, “Discovering the Power of Connection,” Lesson 4

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Restore Your Part of the Common Soul

945Question: We must become faithful helpers of the Creator. Is the calculation done with each individual or only with the ten?

Answer: The calculation is done both with each individual and with the ten.

To bring the ten closer to this work, we must talk about it, discuss it, and constantly stay focused on it. This is not too difficult because we are all interconnected and have no other choice.

We truly exist within a single system. If this system is correctly activated, with our proper participation, everyone will benefit, and we will reach the goal of creation more quickly without wandering into unnecessary decisions and actions.

We must engage in a common goal, and in order to achieve it, we will connect with each other in various unities. In this way, we will more quickly restore our part, our block, our portion of the common soul.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention “Strengthening the Ten” 9/13/24, “Discovering the Power of Connection”, Lesson 4

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Similarity Is Defined by the Goal

942Comment: We all have different qualities. According to what do we rise above them?

Answer: While in the group, I want to unite with my friends, to be like them, accepted by them. We do certain exercises together, and through this, we come to understand each other more.

Even if I do not hear them, as a result of going through certain states together, each one becomes similar to the other and resembles the other.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention “Strengthening the Ten” 9/12/24, “Growing Stronger in the Ten”, Lesson 2

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On the Basis of Kabbalistic Methodology

294.1They are all savages, and there is no tactic they will accept unless through religion (Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation).

Question: Baal HaSulam calls egoists (people who think only of themselves) savages. How can the Kabbalistic methodology change egoists into altruists?

Answer: This is only possible if we start to attract people to us with all sorts of enticements. Otherwise, I can not imagine what else could be done to make every person feel that by approaching an altruistic society, they are entering a zone of absolute confidence, peace, calm, and can live no matter the conditions because everything will be balanced for them.

Question: And yet, what is the unique feature in the Kabbalistic methodology such that it can lead to an ideal society?

Answer: It must be understood that attracting people to the society of the last generation means attracting them to the correct similarity to nature. Therefore a person will feel that he has suddenly entered a state where he is in harmony with the surrounding world, with problems of weather, health, and everything. All of this will begin to approach a normal state.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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Question Your Perceptions

528.04Question: You said that we need to question our feelings, our perception, and to enter the ten. Does this mean that we should subject our perception to the criticism of the group?

Answer: I think this is necessary.

Question: In such moments, I feel the urge to escape from the unbearable state. There is no sense that the group is helping. What should I hold onto to not run away?

Answer: Hold onto your friends.

Question: Is this the process of the recognition of evil?

Answer: The recognition of evil happens gradually.

Question: What is needed for this to become a correction?

Answer: The desire.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention “Strengthening the Ten” 9/12/24, “Devotion to the Spiritual Goal”, Lesson 1

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The Teacher’s Request to the Students

231.04Question: What is your request to us in order to see us as your students?

Answer: I ask only one thing of you: hold onto each other and all together hold onto the Creator. This will lead you to final correction, liberation from all the evils of this world, and to the attainment of the highest degrees of the spiritual world.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention “Strengthening the Ten” 9/13/24, “Walking in the Footsteps of the Kabbalists”, Lesson 3

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Go Through All the Stages of Correction

934Question: Is there room for mistakes in each person’s spiritual work in the ten that could negatively affect others? Or are all mistakes also a part of correction?

Answer: They are a part of correction, but mistakes do happen.

Question: Can they affect the work of the entire ten?

Answer: Even more than just the ten.

Question: How can we avoid making mistakes?

Answer: You should be afraid of distancing yourself from your friends. The closer you are to each other, the fewer chances you have to make a mistake.

For every member of the ten to take their proper place, the ten must be ready to go through all the stages of correction. It is not that difficult. But the friends need to know this and be prepared for it.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention “Strengthening the Ten” 9/13/24, “Discovering the Power of Connection”, Lesson 4

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Learn From the Attainment of Kabbalists

528.01Question: Each Kabbalist acts in his generation according to the power of the light. Is the light getting stronger, and what can we do to increase it?

Answer: Day by day we must test ourselves to what extent we can carry out what the Kabbalists said, each person at his level and degree, based on his reasons, each tries to do what they said.

Then we will feel we are climbing the steps of the spiritual ladder and so are ascending to the highest state.

All Kabbalists who attained the upper world, the Creator, can explain our path to the Creator to us, and can explain how we are interconnected with each other and with them. After all, altogether we represent one unified system in which everyone helps another attain the Creator, connect with Him, and pass this connection over to others.

We must try to learn from our teachers to pass on our methodology.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention “Strengthening the Ten” 9/13/24, “Walking in the Footsteps of the Kabbalists”, Lesson 3

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Develop the Importance of the Goal

270Question: The Creator gave us the evil inclination and the Torah as a spice. Can we say that we are stuck in the evil inclination and not using the Torah as a spice?

Answer: Yes, and that is why we must ask. If we try to replace our egoistic, evil heart with a good one, we will need the Torah, which will act on us, and our heart will become good.

You need to develop the importance of the goal. Only the importance of the goal will keep you moving toward a state where, no matter how many of your uncorrected qualities are shown to you, you will still keep moving forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/8/24, Writings of Rabash, “One Learns Only Where One’s Heart Desires”

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