Question: Usually, the recognition of evil is sudden and surprising. Can it be balanced, anticipated, or desired?

Answer: Sure, it depends on how much a person wants to receive the upper light, see himself and the world in this light, and continue his correction.

Question: But this happens extremely rarely. Can this be taught? How can we bring the recognition of evil closer?

Answer: Only through your desire for correction and, of course, together with friends. There is nothing more to say.

Question: Is any particular process required for us to be worthy of receiving correction?

Answer: Yes, you must recognize how you differ from the Creator, why you are receivers and not givers, and ask to be corrected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/30/24, Writings of Rabash “A Cure before the Blow”

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God created us in His image and likeness. But where does the certainty come from that He worked in a realistic manner? (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)

Comment: A person’s understanding of the phrase “created in His image and likeness” is exactly that, according to His image and likeness. You know, like how Shishkin painted, Peredvizhniki…

My Response: That is incorrect. What within us resembles the Creator? Besides our desires and intentions, which we can correct and bring to similarity with the Creator, nothing else within us can be similar to the Creator.

Question: Please tell me, if He created us in His image and likeness, should we still strive to reach this after all?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And He laid out a long road for us, for millennia humanity has been traveling it.

My Response: It seems to us that it is a long road. But in reality, it is not long. No. Man was created to understand, accept, and then actualize.

Question: To become like the Creator?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If it were possible to ask from the Creator’s perspective, are we already in that state or not?

Answer: Time does not exist for the Creator. Past, present, and future are one.

Question: If it could be said that He sees, what does He see?

Answer: He sees everything in the state we should be in.

Question: Already in the completed state?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: We speak of the “united soul,” is this Him and the united soul of humanity?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And we, from our side.

My Response: And we, from our side, must move toward this from below upward. And that is why our path is long.

Question: With all these descents, ascents, and so on, but is it necessary for there to be falls and rises? Is all this necessary?

Answer: It is for the realization of the path.

Question: So, the entire purification process is exactly along this path?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And if the path were smooth?

Answer: We would not have formed into what we are supposed to become. We must fully desire to become like the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/15/24

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Question: Is temple of ten people where the Creator resides the ultimate perfection?

Answer: This is a whole Kli. It cannot be said that it is perfection, but it is a whole Kli.

If you ask the Creator to unite you into one whole when you are striving to connect with each other, then He performs this action upon you, and then in the connection between you, you begin to feel spiritual forces.

This is what we must achieve in the process of our correction and unification.

Everything we do (study and other actions) are only needed in order to achieve complete unification among us, because in accordance with its quantity and quality, we will reveal the spiritual world in our unity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash “The Point in the Heart”

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Question: If someone in the ten is unable to annul to the Creator, does this affect the ten?

Answer: It absolutely does. If someone in the ten is lagging behind everyone else, the whole ten should help him be with everyone. Alone, one cannot advance to the Creator, to the goal of creation. The main thing is that you want spirituality, this is fine, but only on the condition that you will give everything over to others.

Question: But there are those whom the Creator does not give the opportunity to invest. How can we balance it?

Answer: We must continue. And then you will gradually reveal the entire system you are in and see how to act best. You will learn on your own.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash, “The Point in the Heart”

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Question: Baal HaSulam attained all levels and wrote many melodies. Can we say that the melodies of the spiritual worlds are unchangeable, and everyone who attains spirituality can reproduce these melodies unconsciously as if from internal spiritual memory?

Answer: It is a very high level when a person who reaches a certain spiritual level begins to hear a melody that comes from this level.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, “Music, Melody, and Song in the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Question: What is love of friends? What is spiritual love?

Answer: Spiritual love between friends is a relationship between two people who want to rise and help each other in their ascent.

When uniting with another person, you think about what you can give and receive from them. These mutual and simultaneously opposite movements concerning each other oblige you to act.

If a friend offers you to receive something, then receive it; or if he wants you to give something, give it.

And he acts precisely the same toward you. Only in such mutual work with each other will you be able to advance together.
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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: Is the goal of the convention to reveal Malchut in our unity?

Answer: Yes, this will give us the beginning of the revelation of the common Kli. It does not matter what the action is: reception for the sake of bestowal or bestowal for the sake of bestowal. In both cases, we work with the full Malchut but at different levels of intensity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash “A Congregation Is No Less than Ten”

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Question: It seems to me that there are states that are close to the truth, when dissatisfaction and anger arise because my friends do not care about my participation, my needs, or my efforts, to the point of despair, and I feel the group does not need me, that I only bring harm, and it would be better for me to leave and not get in the way. What counterarguments can I prepare in such states?

Answer: No counterarguments are necessary. You should say that you understand that you are the lowest and most worthless, but you still want the Creator to help you, and you want to rise toward connection with Him.

And the fact that you are low and worthless, unable to do or achieve anything, is something you know yourself. That is exactly what is meant by “Raise me from the dust.” It is the person who feels this way about their state that the Creator raises.

Question: While being in the lowest state, can I ask for love from my group? At the same time, I also want to love them even more than they love me.

Answer: That is how you are praying for them. This is a very good prayer when you ask for others and yourself as well.
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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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Question: What gives the feeling of being before the Giver?

Answer: From the fact that you bestow to Him and He bestows to you.

Question: What is the difference between spiritual and corporeal shame?

Answer: Spiritual shame is not based on egoism, while corporeal shame is based precisely on it.

Question: Does shame help me not to ask for myself?

Answer: Yes, correction for myself is the very last thing. Look what is written in the prayer book (Siddur): “for the righteous, for others, and then for us.” Requests for ourselves are made last.

Question: How does praying for a friend reveal the importance of the Creator?

Answer: Very simply, because it is all part of one system.

Question: Should spiritual shame before the Giver be present at every degree, or is it a one-time, complete restriction when a sufficient measure of correction is reached?

Answer: There is no sufficient measure of correction. It increases more and more.

Question: What is the difference between shame and fear before the Creator?

Answer: It is a very small difference. You could say they are practically the same.
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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 one who prays for a friend receives an answer first (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 454, “He Who Prays for His Friend“).

Praying for a friend from the depths of the heart comes when you feel him with all your heart, sense his problem, and turn to the Creator. And although the prayer comes from your heart, it is as if it rises from the heart of a friend.

But if you have not connected with his Kelim, with his desires and feelings as if they were in you, you cannot pray for him. This is natural.

Question: What is the punishment for not asking for a friend?

Answer: Even if there is no punishment, the fact that you do not ask for him is already a punishment.

Question: What is the connection between shame and prayer for a friend?

Answer: Prayer can be without shame and the opposite can happen. But for us, the most important thing is if a shortcoming in someone in something is revealed to us, and we can help him. This should be our very first task.
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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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