Question: Let’s say I am in bestowal, seemingly without any calculation, above knowledge. But at the same time, there is a calculation of “what’s mine is mine,” and “what’s yours is yours.” How do we transition from this to “what is yours is yours” and “what is mine is yours?” How does it fit together?

Answer: “What’s mine is yours” and “what’s yours is yours” is complete bestowal, the highest attitude one person has toward another. “What’s mine is mine” and “what’s yours is yours” is complete reception. Between them, there is “what’s mine is mine” and “what’s yours is mine”—this is sheer egoism.

How can I connect these states? Everything that I can give, I give. I also receive everything I can receive for the sake of another because, in this case, my receiving is like giving. It turns out that I give everything I can, and everything I receive is also equivalent to giving. That is how we act.

If all our thoughts are only for the sake of giving, then we are completely righteous. If we want everything for ourselves, then we are absolute villains, sinners. This is where the dilemma arises, how do we divide our states into sinful and righteous ones.

Therefore, Kabbalists advise us to divide our desires into giving and receiving. Those who work for the sake of bestowal will be called righteous, and those who work for the sake of receiving will be called sinners.
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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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Question: The more we study, the bigger our ego becomes. Should we have control over the ego and recognition of it?

Answer: No, we don’t have control over the ego, but we can have recognition of it.

What should we do? Keep moving forward, always asking the Creator for unity and connection with our friends. In this way, through our unity, we will reveal our collective ego and finally ask the Creator correctly to correct it.

Question: How can we avoid fearing the loss of what we already have? By understanding the voice of egoism, how can we still serve the Creator?

Answer: You should tell everything to the Creator, and then you will receive answers from Him. Based on these answers, you will gradually change, and everything will fall into place.

Question: So, should we hold on to the Creator and try to detach from egoism?

Answer: You can try to detach on your own, but it won’t really help. The Creator does this as well. The most important thing is to annul yourself before the Creator. And to annul yourself before Him, you must first annul yourself before your friends. Then everything will work out.

When you ask the Creator to connect you, to the extent He does so, you will feel how close you are to each other, and this is how you will move forward.
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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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Question: I know that a friend does not pay maaser and does not follow the group’s rules. How should I relate to him, annul myself, and unite with him?

Answer: It depends on the mutual agreement between you. If you join a group where there are minimal Kabbalistic rules, you must follow them.

Therefore, your attitude toward the friend should be based on how he fulfills the conditions the group has committed to uphold.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/24, Writings of Rabash “According to What Is Explained Concerning “Love Thy Friend as Thyself”

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Question: What is a mutual guarantee in a person’s internal perception on a sensory level?

Answer: It means that you pray to attain mutual guarantee together with your friends, and in response, you receive the revelation of this quality from the Creator.

Question: I feel that I want to connect with the friends, but it may harm them. I realize I will not unite with them because I fear my egoistic influence on them. Is that part of the calculation and part of the mutual guarantee?

Answer: Partially, yes.

Question: How can I progress from this state?

Answer: Ask the Creator for the feeling of how you might harm your friend, and then you will see what to do next.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Here Today – 1”

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Question: What gifts can I give the Creator to buy His love?

Answer: Don’t pull the upper light to yourself with your ego, but want to bring it through yourself to your friends.

On one hand you are connected with the Creator and on the other hand with your friend, with one or many, or with all, bringing light from the Creator to them.

Question: Does this happen only through prayer?

Answer: In every way of this world. It can be with the help of a prayer, desire, or even without words, with actions.

Question: How do I make sure that I gave Him a gift?

Answer: You have to feel it. Ask the Creator to allow you to feel if you are acting correctly.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/10/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 40

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Question: You said prayer is needed to break through the bubble of illusion where we are separated. What kind of prayer is this?

Answer: We should not think about ourselves, but about our common desire, intention, and goal, of how we unite our desires into one perfect desire. We need to understand this well.

Question: What do we give to the Creator if He is perfection?

Answer: Our desire to be connected to Him, to adhere to Him.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash “A Congregation Is No Less than Ten”

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Question: What do you do when a person wants to nullify himself, performs this action, but then becomes passive and indifferent? What is the mistake here?

Answer: The ten should hold him in its arms, let him try, and you will help him.

Question: Let us say his opinion differs from the others, and the others do not accept his opinion. Then, the friend seemingly annuls himself, but at the same time, he loses strength and cannot do anything. What should he do?

Answer: It is true that he has no strength because he does not yet have real, correct desires. It is impossible to receive strength from egoism.

In principle, the main thing is to pray, to ask the Creator for strength, and to understand where he was thrown and in what state. From all this, he will receive the right feelings, from which he will slowly rise to the Creator. He will see that he needs to ask.

Question: How should the group act? You said that it should hold him in its arms. What kind of support is that? Should we say that you have a different opinion, but we still love you? Or should we listen to what he says?

Answer: No, it is not necessary to listen. If you hold him, he would understand this and want to gradually free himself from your help and learn to hold himself.

That is, he should gradually become independent. That means that in any circumstances, he will orient himself toward connection with the Creator through his friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Internality and Externality”

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Question: Why is it important to maintain the understanding that everything we ask for and include in our prayer is what the Creator has awakened within us?

Answer: How could it be otherwise? Everything comes from the Creator. That is stated at the beginning of our prayer: “I am the First, and I am the Last,” and “There is none else besides Me.” By this, we strengthen ourselves and place ourselves in the position that the Creator has affirmed as our true state.

Question: And if we miss this moment, are we essentially missing the connection with Him?

Answer: Of course.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/6/24, Writings of Rabash “He Who Prays for His Friend”

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The person received an inheritance from his teachers not to let anything be built on this dust, except for the Temple (Rabash, Notes 804 “Raises the Poor from the Dust – 2”).

Dust is not soil, stone, or sand, but specifically, dust, meaning a part of the earth that is useless for anything.

When a person sees that they stand on dust, it indicates that there is no future, and they still do not have the foundation on which to build the Temple, a house of sanctity.

Question: To build the Temple, on our part, we need agreement with the Creator, patience, lowliness, and prayer. What does it mean to agree with the Creator?

Answer: It means agreeing that we are low in our desires and must unite with one another in prayer to the Creator to reach correction. That must be clearly understood both emotionally and intellectually. It is a good degree.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Raises the Poor from the Dust – 2”

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It may seem that love for one’s neighbor is something simple and insignificant, like advising a child to be friends with others instead of fighting. But in fact, it is the borderline that separates our corporeal world, where we live in love for ourselves, from the upper reality where only those who have attained love for others exist.

We need to understand that this border above the corporeal world is very clear and strictly guarded from the spiritual world. Standing guard at this border are immense forces, stern and highly demanding, which precisely determine who must remain in our lower reality and who is worthy of existence in the upper reality, in the future, spiritual world.

Therefore our entire work consists of exiting the lower reality that we perceive now. Moreover, we do not even realize how low and limited it is, because it is just our life and our world; it is us.

In fact, Kabbalists explain that the main thing is to cross the border and enter the upper world, and from there continue to ascend higher and higher. We must not let the forces of nature influence us and confuse us, which pulls us back under the control of the egoistic laws of this world.

This is the main purpose of the wisdom of Kabbalah: to teach us how to cross this border, to familiarize us with the laws of the upper world, and to begin using them. In other words, Kabbalah’s task is to save us and prepare us for existence in the world of the Creator who dwells on the highest degree of the spiritual world.

That is why Kabbalah does not deal with this world or anything below the border with the upper world. Only those who transition into the upper spiritual world begin to study its laws, to reveal these laws within themselves, and to learn how to use them correctly.

Before a person crosses into the spiritual world, they can understand little from the wisdom of Kabbalah, because it is entirely devoted to the laws of the upper world. Therefore all our efforts should be focused on this transition from our world to the upper world—in our feelings, perceptions, understanding, and awareness.

Everything that relates solely to this world does not pertain to the reality where we should remain. The soul, which is present in each of us, is a divine particle from above, and it strives to return to the same state, the same reality where the Creator is, meaning to the upper world. Only in relation to this upper world do we assess ourselves, not in relation to anything below the border between worlds.

Everything worth doing in this life should only be for the sake of rising from this world to the upper world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/24, Writings of Rabash “According to What Is Explained Concerning “Love Thy Friend as Thyself””,

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